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On the cover Guelph's agriculture graduates have played key roles III the development of Canada's agri-food industry for nearly 150 years, but 1966 alumnus Lyle Vanclief is the first to serve as federal minister of agriculture. On page 9 he t<:llks about his love of farming and hi s role in cahinet.

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Read all about us U of G's 'learner-centred' focus pays off

by Mordechai Rozanski As alumni of the University of Guelph , yo u don 't need to be convinced of its rich hi story of excellence in teac hin g and research. We are pro ud of our past and, desp ite th e c hallenge s facing postsecondary in stitutions in Ontario, we are exc ited about o ur future .

U of G's scrapbook has been growi ng of late with magazine and ne wspaper c lippin gs that indicate our pursuit of exce llence is paying off.

Last fa ll , U of G experienced a dramatic increase in no t only the tota l num ber of appl icants to o ur Unive rsity, but a lso the to ta l number of first-choice applica nt s . U of G's grow in g rep utati on as a des tination of c hoice ca me at a time when most Ontario universiti es ex perienced a decrea se in the number of applicant s to their in st irutivns. In Nov ember, Maclean 's maga z ine rank ed U of G seco nd among compre he nsive univ e rsities across Can ada . At the sa me time, our internati onal recruiti ng efforts we re be in g profiled in several prom inent U.S. newspapers , in cl ud ing the Chicago Tri/)ul1e, Wall Street J ournal and Chro nicle 0/ High er 贈ducOIion.

It's nic e to be recognized , but the rea l s ignific anc e of th ese stories goes m uch deeper than headlines.

A pplica tio ns to U of G con tinue to in c rease beca use, in s pite of decreasing resources, we have made it a n in stituti ona l priority to focus on learni ng.

The jump fro m fou rth to second p lace in the Maclean's rankin g m ust be cred ited to the ta lent and dedi ca ti on of ou r peop le - 足 fac ulty, staff, admini strators, stud ents and alum ni. A nother fa ctor in o ur s uccess is the inte nsive planning process und e rtaken at the Univers ity of Gu e lph. This process has resulted in some painfu l de cisio ns on the a llocation of limited resourc es to prese rv e and enhance th e qua lit y o f the University. In a cross-co untry survey by Maclean's of 3,500 high sc hool guidance counse llors an d acade mi c and indu stry leaders, U of G pl aced second among comprehensiv e universities in terms of produc in g the leaders of to mor row and overall re putation. We are proud that Guelph continues to be so hi g hl y reg arded across Canada and recog ni ze tha t o ur alumni ha ve helped us earn th at statu s.

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cent in 1997 - a declin e that can be traced to legislated visa s tud e nt tuition fees that ca n be as mu ch as three times th e amo unt of domes tic fe es .

Our efforts bega n in ea rnest last year when I tra ve ll ed to As ia a lo ng with o ur regi strar, Chu ck Cunningham, to meet al umni in H o ng Kong a nd Th ailand a nd to help recrui t students. U of G wil l continue to participate in education fairs in the Fa r East, and we a re fortunate to have alumnus Kalli sta Wong , BA '92, working wit h us as a vol untee r re cruitme nt ambassador in Hong Kong.

The mo st visible va ng uard of the Uni vers ity's U. S. effo rts has been a brochure tha t was mai led last summe r to 50 ,000 U.S. stude nt s in grades 10 and II in I J U.S. states with in one day' s driving time of Guelph. We have received 5,000 rep lies - by all stand a rd s, this is con s ide red a high response rate 足 and we w i \I be communicating with those students as they progress throug h high sc hool.

Thi s good new s co mes at a ti m e wh en the financia l ou tlook for Ontar io universities continues to be bl eak.

On D ec. 15, 1997 , Ontario Fin ance iVlini ste r Erni e E ves announced a t wo-year [und ing a ll ocat ion for pos tseco ndary in stitutions. [n the yea r leading up to thi s anno unc ement, th e Pres idents of Ontario Uni ve rs ities work ed ve ry ha rd with th e Council of Ontario Universities to make it c lea r to th e government that th e restorati o n of adequate pub lic funding for univ e rsitie s was c riti ca l to ensure bo th access ibility and quality of edu ca ti o n .

Alth ough the finance minister announ ced a budgeta ry increase of $30 mill ion in 1998/99 anel $50 miJJi on in 1999/2000, much of this extra funding may be needed to cove r the in creased costs of ever足 escalating student loans in the On tario Stude nt Ass istan ce Program - cos ts th at may now be borne directly from uni vers ity o peratin g budgets. This raise s th e possib ilit y that we will not ac hie ve eve n stabl e fu nding.

Over the past four yea rs, fu ndi ng for postsecondary eclucari on has dec lined by a lm os t 25 pe r ce nt, with the largest c ut - 15 pe r cent co min g in the past year. The CUITen t level of Mini stry of Education and Training gra nt fundi ng ha s fo r the first tim e dipped be low h alf of U of G 's tota l operating budget. Ontario has fo r some time ranked 10th out of 10 provinces in govemment fundin g.

Unfortunate ly, as a con sequ ence of thi s lates t all oca ti o n , th at is w here we will rema in , at lea st for the next two years - some $490 million behind the other nine provinces' average level of funding per capita.

We hope to ex pand that rep utati o n we ll beyond the borde rs of this count ry to att rac t g rea ter numb ers of international stud en ts to our camp us . In ternati onal is m is another of Guelph' s institutional prioriti es. As many of you kn ow from your own experiences, bri ght mind s from the fOllr co rners of the globe co ntribute immeas urably to the quality and diversity of this instituti on .

Although 1 am deeply co ncern ed abo ut th e consequ ences of this funding s itu ation for o ur student s in term s of accessibility, ri s in g deb t load and quality of educa t ion, J rem ai n op timi stic that o ur c urrent predicament will be reversed over the next few years. We wi ll continue to look for inn ovative ways to increase revenu es, to focus our resources a nd to promo te collaboration. We will co nt inue to protect and preserve the best of o ur instituti on. I kn ow I can count on yo ur s upport.

We are enhancing our recru itment efforts in the United States and o verseas to reverse a nationwide dec line in inte rnatio nal student enrolment - from 10 p er cent of undergrad uates in 1982 to 2.5 per

Your comments are we/come. Writ e 10 the presidenl a/Guelph, Guelph, 011/ N IG 2W I , arlox 10 519-767-/ 693.

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Getting in on the ground floor Lyle Vanclief, B.Sc.(Agr.) '66, federal minister of agriculture and agri-food , and Noble Vill ene uve, Ontari o minister of agri culture, food and rural affairs. att ended a c~mpus ceremony in November to announce that U of G will re ce ive Canada/Ontario Infrastructure Works funding ot· more than $2.6 million to rcstore the first floor of the 75-yem-old Fooel Science Building .

The Department of Food Science has been without a perm anent hom e since 1995, when structura l crach di scovered at the re ~r of th e building forc cd an ea rlier­ than -planned evac uation. U of G president Mordechai Roz,lIlski prai sed ac ting food sc ience chair Ri ck Yad a and all other members of the department for puttin g up with the prolonged disloca tion.

Vanclief and Vill eneuve both noted the growing and centra l role th e comm unity and U of G are playing in the food industry. The renovati ons are ex pected to be completed by Septembe r 1998.

Guelph rules the waves U 0 1: G is ridin g a riptide of ac hie vement.

First it was the open ing of the new stale­ of-the-aI1 Hagen Aqua lab. Now the University has landed one of the worler s

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lead ing aquatic journals, the Canadian J o urna! of Fishnics alld AqlfUlic Sci ellces.

Profs. John Roff and Moira Ferguson, B.Sc. '79 and M.Sc. '82. Zoology, have been appo inted editors of the monthl y journal, with a fi ve-year operating budget of c lose to $700,000.

"This is one of the most prestigious aquatic sciences journal s in the wo rld." says Roff. "The National Research Counci l's decision to award the journal to Guelph is a recognition of our very considerab le stren gt hs in aquatic sciences and fi she ries."

Small-animal ICU sets up shop in new home at OVC

Convocation honors During fall convocation ce remonies in October, U of G bestowed two honorary degl·ees and a Univ ers it y professor em eritus. Bengt Saltin, head of th e Copenhagen Musc le Researcl1 Centre. received an honorary doct lll"ate of sc ience.

Olive Dickason. professor emerita at the Uni ve rsity of Alberta, I·eceived an honorary doctorate of letters. Retired fam il y stud ies professor Claude Guldner. foun cling director of the Couple and Famil y ThCl"apy Cent re. was named University prot'essor emeritus.

Bacterial network gets long-term support Ground-breaklng of G research on infectious disease has rece ived a long-term co mmi tment from the federal Network s of Ce ntres of Excellence ( CE) progra m.

The NCE sel.ection commillee announced that it wi ll awa rd $3.X million a year to th e Canadian Bacterial Di seases Network (CBD N) to help continue its research efforts for the nex t seve n years.

The CBD N, an acco mpli shed national organizat ion with a strong G ue lph presence , W8S founded in 1990 as part of tlie NC E program. [t main tains an advanced know ledge ba se throu gh nationwide co llaboration wi th "cie nti t ~ 8nc! indust ry; researc h fo cuses 011 vacc ines. diagllostics and therapcutics.

T he G ue lph br~lI1ch of tili , net work con sist> of Gu Iph CHDN co-ordina tor Prof. C hris Whit fie ld ,\l Id Prol\ . Tc rry Beve ridge. Ant ho n)' lar"e. Jos..: ph La m and Lu 'Vlut i1aria . all of the DC pal'llllc llt of rviicrobio lof :. Pro f. LJ IT) .\1 illi gal1, vice- president (rc,earc h). IS :;1 L. nivers ity member on CB D:\,', bnard o( di re ·tors.

Small animal ICU at OVC OVC's sma ll-animal intensive-care unit, the first ot· it s kind in Canada, has a new hom e that will expand its tradition of providing round-the-clock care to animals req uiring specialized medical allention.

Animal cases (rom across North America are reCCI"red to th e ICU , whic h pioneered kidney lI·ansplanrs in dogs.

The new rc , more than double th e original space with separate area s for emerge ncy care. criti ca l care and c hemotherapy. was o ffi c ially opened Sept.

27 by avc dean Alan Mee k, DVM '7 1 and M.Sc . '74: Veterinary Teac hing l-lospital inte rim director Mimi Arighi. GD '82 and M.Sc. ' 86: ICU co-ordinator Prof.

Kmol Mathew,>, DVM '80, G D '~2 and D.VSc. '~ 7: and D'Arey Reade, DVM '7-1-. of Sydenham Ve terinary SCI·vice,>. who spearheaded a campaign that raiscd $ 250.0()() for tile new unit from public and corporate sec lors.

The new IC U wi ll allow "t all to keep U[l with increasing de mands for se rvi ce . The unit 's ca,c load h ~ l s ljuadrupled in the I I years , inee it " :1 , ope ned . It now l11ana gc ~ ;J bo UI 160 L ise, a month. ranging from [K)\l -opc l·ati v(' and trauma c:lre t() ,lI1illla h in for oq;a n tcan splanlS or \ pec iali/\:d can ': 1· I.l1napy.

Ove r the year<; . the unit has ,>ervcd dogs. cat s. rabbitS . bird s :md ve n [lot- be llied pi g ·. PUli.:n is '>I ~I V anyw h..: rc fmm IW O days to three II c:d. S. dc p ·ndi n!,!. 0 11 lrea tmenl.

appo intm ent to the visual arts adv isory committee o f the Ca nada Coun ci l.

Faculty in the news

Visual arts - Pl'O f. Su zy Lake, Fine Art and Music, is the 1997 rec ipient of the Arts Foun dat ion of Grea ter Toronto's Vi sual Art s Award. Se lected for the award by a jury of arti sts, cr itics and c urators, Lake rece ived tile awa rd, whi ch incl udes a cash amo unt with whi ch to commissi on a wo rk from an emerging arti st, at a ce l'cmo ny in Toronto Nov. 6.

Prof. Jace k Lipkowski Chemistry - Chem istry professor Jacek Lip kows ki will be honored th is sp ring for his ground-breaking work in the fiel d of e lec troc hemistry when he receives the Chemi ca l Soc iety of Canada's 1998 AJca n Lecture Award. In 1996, he rece ived the Internationa l Socie ty of Electroc hemi stry's Jacques Tac ussel Prize , whi ch recognize s an important contribution to an ex.perimental e lectrochemic:.d tec hnique.

Li pkowski 's wo rk has a lso received accolades thro ugh a broad range of indu stri al application s. In the late 198 0s, he de ve loped a new c lea nin g compound to rid the Bru ce Nuc lear Power Pl ant coo lin g system of radi at ion with ou t co rroding its c irc uit parts, an d more rece ntly used hi s surface -spec ific analyti c tec hniqu es to op timize nicke l and coppe r refi ning processes fo r INCO and me tal refine ries in Ontari o anel Manitoba.

Botany - Co ll ege of Bi o log ica l Scien ce dean Bob Sheath rece ived th is yea r's D<lrbaker Pri ze, an award gi ven by the Botanical Society of Ameri ca for meritori ous work in th e microscopi c study of algae, based on pape rs publ is hed d uring the past two ye ars. Sheath was ci ted for his ex tensive pu blica tion record on fres hwater Rhodophy ra, hi s ecolog ical work in tund ra st reams, and hi s se rvice with the Phycological Soc iety of America and the edi to ri al board s of variou s journals.

PhYsics - Prof. Eli sa beth Nicol, Ph y;ics, is a 1997 rec ipient of a Cottre ll Scholarship from the U.S .-based Re sea rch

Co rporation. The $50,000 awa rd he lps fund teaching and researc h ac ti viti es fo r fa culty who excel in both. The onl y sci entist at Gue lph do in g I'esea rch on supercond uctivit y, Ni co l is part of a gl oba l network of sc ien ti sts workin g in the fi e lci.

The Research Foundation I'ece ived more tha n no appli cati ons for th e 1997 schola rshi p ancl awarded it to 22 scien ti sts.

In Can ada, Nicol is one o f onl y two rec ipie nt s.

Creative writing - Reno wned auth or Austin Clarke, a pre-emi ne nt vo ice in C<l nad iao li te rature for the past 3S ye ars, was 00 campu s last semeste r as wri ter- in足 res idence. C larke's lates t novel , The Origin uf Wm'es. wns published thi s year a lo ng with The Au st in Cl arke Reader, a career-spanning se lec tion of wo rks.

Recent ly, he ha s bee n touri ng with fell ow write rs to promote Canadi an litera ture fro m the Amer ica n east coas t to Cu ba.

Prof. Suzy Lake Animal science - At the annu al meetin g of the Canadia n Soc iety of Anim al Sc ience. Profs. Brian McBride, B .Sc. '7f!, and M.Sc.( Agr. ) 'RO, and Jock Buc hanan-S m ith, Ani mal and Po ulll'y Sc ience , won the Shur-Gain Awa rd for Excellence in Nutriti on and Me at Science ancl the All-Tech Award of Merit , res pect ively.

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Au stin Clarke Fine Art - Pro f. Ron Shuebrook, Fine Art and Mu sic, wa s elected presiden t of the Uni ve rsities Art Assoc iati on of Canada at its ann ual conference in Vancouve r. The ejecti on fo llows Shue brook's recent

Food sci ence 足 Pro t'. Rick Ya d<l, ac tin g chair of the Departm ent o f Food Science, has bee n named a fell ow of the Ca nadian Institu te for Food Scienc e and Tec hno logy.

The fe llo ws hip recog ni zes cl is tingui shed acco mpli shmen t as measured by outstanding perform ance In the fi e ld of food sc ience and tec hno logy.

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A hat-trick of Canadian firsts Food engineering - Karen Conrad , a co-op student in the food engineering program, is the first Canadian to rece ive th e Food Engineerin g Scholarship of the Foundation of Dairy Food Indu stri es Supply Assoc iation. Conrad 's award included a travel g rant to attend the World w ide Food Expo in Chicago, wh ere th e scho larship wa s presemed this fall.

Horticultural science - Gue lph alumnu s Da vid PercivaL B.S c .(Agr. l '90 and M.Sc. '92 and PhD '96, and Profs.

John Proctor and Jim Tsujit a, Horticultural Science, are th e first Canadi ans to rece ive tlIe Fruit Publication Award from th e Ameri ca n Societ y for Horticultural Science. for the ir paper on whol -plant C02 exchange of ra ~p h e rry. Prese nt d ,11 th e ,ociety"s annua l confcrcnce in Utah thi s ~ umm er. the a\\ ard hOllOI', th e best paper 011 fru it crops publi shed in the society's three journals.

Textiles - Prof. Keith Slater.

Engineerin g and Consum er Stud ies, won th e 1997 Wamer Me' morial MedaL widel y re garded as th e most prestigiou s award for published te xtil c science re search. [t is awarded by th e Te xtile Institute, an intemational o rgani zati on fo r some 10,000 textile industry profess ionals. Slater, who was the in stitute's world vice-presid ent fmm 1974 to 1978 , is the first Canadian to receive the award, which was establi shed in 1930.

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Ujimoto believes that airlines don't pay as much attention as th ey should to th e human as pects o f fl ying a jetliner. By attend ing crew brie fin gs before takeo ff, th en sitting in th e coc kpit for the actual fli ghts, Ujimoto studies airline crews to gather teaching material th at helps thos e same crews fl y more safe ly.

Initially, his research was funded by th e Socia l Sciences and Hum anities Rese arch Coun cil. Today, he has other sources, inc l.lIding the airline indu stry itse lf.

Air Canada became involved w ith Ujimoto's research bccau se its director of training was keen to scc a greater cmph as is 0 11 C RM . Air Canada now has a threc-day CRM course fo r all ne w pil ots.

Pilot proficienc y is al!.. o ('egularl y chec ked dU('ing retraining courses .

He has recelltly ex panded th e notion of coc kpit resources man agc ment to corporate resou rces manage ment, arguin g that tli ght sa fety is b,l sed not solely on the pilots, hut al so on th e ent ire corporate s tr ll c tu n~. In additi on to th is ne w wo rk, Ujill1 olO is in ve. tiÂŁ'ati ng how increas in g computerization affec t<; fli g ht ., afe ty.

The friendly skies?

Once a month for th e pa st six years, Pro f.

Vi ctor Ujimoto, Socio logy and Anthropology, ha s boarded a plane to superimpose an impromptu U of G researc h lab in an airliner COCkpit 35,000 feet up. He is one of a handful o f international experts on cockpit resources management (CRM).

"This is applied sociology, monitorin g the soc ial and cultura l aspects of mod ern ' gl ass -cockpit' aircra ft," says Ujimoto.

"Most disasters in the air are the res ult of an alteration of beha vioral pre-conditions

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Representin g GFTC partn ers at its grand opening were: left to right , Bill Allen, assistant deputy minister of the Ontario Ministrj' of Agri culture , Food and Rural Affairs; Larry Milligan , U of G vi ce -president (research); Sandy Bibby, UFL Foods; Don Murray, GFTC past-president, and Terry Maurice, current GFTC president and CEO .

Psychology centre fills gap

Open learning wins on the Web The U o f G Web-based distance edu cation co urse "Forest Eco logy 2" won first pri ze in a Web cou rse des ign competiti on at the orth America n Web Conference at the Uni versit y o f New Brunswick in October.

The interac ti ve course was des igned by Bob Carley and Aldo Caputo of Open Lea rn ing, Prof. Andre w Gordon, Envil'Onmental Bi o logy, and graduate student Rob McCart, B. Sc. '93

American Institute of Baking . Product developm ent and applied rese arch labs, a lecture th eatre and a semin ar room are located on the new additio n's second fl oor.

GITC , a unique partnership among the food industry, gove rnment, the Uni ve rsity and labor, ha s a prov en track record in providing research and techno logical ex perti se to th e food industry. Since th e centre opened in 1995 , m ore than 370 contracts have been signed with 250 companies .

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G FTC doubles capacity When the Guelph Food Tec hnology Centre opened its main pilot plant and produ ct developme nt laboratories las t Augu st, it more th an doubled it s ability to provide ded icated food research fo r the agri-food indu stry.

The new fac ilities provide 6,000 square feet of sp ace for research and de ve lopment. Attached to the main pl ant are a cold preparati on room , a hot pre paration room and a ne w lab for bakery rese arch and bakery courses run by the

Launched thi s summer by the Departme nt o f Psychology. U of G 's Centre for Ps ychological Serv ices will help fill a gap in community assessme nt services avai lable for chi Idren with learning , behavi oral and emoti ona l pro blems. The ce ntre is directed by registered psychologist Brend a Kenyon, MA '89, a sc hool psychol ogis t, pri vate practiti oner and psychology instructor at Guelph and Waterloo .

Kenyon says the need was there for a hi g h-qualit y asse ss ment and consultati on service that would be accessible and affordable. The U o f G campu s offers a wJde range o f ex perti se am ong De partment of Psychology fac ulty and graduate stud ents.

Loc ated in Blackwood Hall , the centre is staffed by Ken yon and clinical assoc iate Eil ee n Gross, an in stru ctor in th e Department of Famil y Studies since 1981 and an assessment counsellor in Wellington County for more th an 15 years.

They will do assessments of chi Idren and adult cli ents , provide school and community consultation s and offer clinical opportunities for several graduate stud ents eac h semester.

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Lii{e his industry, -t his cabinet

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The Honourable Lyle Vanclief says his rou te to Canada's top pos t in agriculture and agri~food gives him an understanding of rural life and agricultural issues across the country. anacia', ne w federal minister of agriculture is a fnrmer.

Ly le Vanclief's first love is fanning. He like s to talk abo ut farming and hopes that when he retire s from politics, he'll be able to spend time he lping his son, Kurt, work the land that was o nce his and hi s fat her's before him.

When I met Vancli ef in his Parliament Hill office , he talked abou t hi s own years in farming with obvious pride and said th e ex perience has helped him und erstand the iss ues facing farmers right acro ss Canada.

Untjl 1988, Vanclief and hi s wife , Sharon , operated one of the most dive rsified farming ope ration s in Canada - a 1.600-acre fruit. vege table and livestock operation near Be ll eville, Ont., in Prince Edward County. Most of th e co unty is an is land in Lake Ontario and e nj oys a tempered climate tbat nurtures a wide variet y of crops from tom atoes and strawberries to muck vegetables. cole crops, corn, soybeans , grain, pumpkin s and apples. Vanclie f's Willowl ee Farms also ran a beef fee dlot and a farrow -to - fini s h hog opera tio n.

"With that background, it does n't matter wh ether I go to a potato farm in Prince Edward Island, to th e prairies or to the Okanagan Valley, 1've bee n there," he says . "] 've run an air-blast spra yer. I've run a tomato harveste r.

And I've co mbined wheat and milked cows.

I've been there w hen it doesn't rain enough and when jt rains too much. I've been there whe n tbe prices were high and whe n they were low, and I've stood in the middle of the fi eld and cried my eyes out becau se [ couldn't ge t a harvest."

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\ 11 agl'icullul'f" I)UIiI ician Vanclief may still get tea ry-eyed thinking about hi s first love, but he's all smil es when talking about hi s second politics. The newly appointed c abinet ministe r admits th at the 10 years he's been in Parli ame nt have been just as challe nging and just as much fun as farming e ver was. "I absolutel y love the process of negotiation," he says, " and that's what politics is all about."

Today he's negotiating, not just for tomato farmer, w ho want a bener pri ce from Campbe ll Soup, but for all parr ners in Canadi a n agriculture. Farming, he remi nds us , is just o ne pal1 足 albeit the starrin g po int - of that industry. And he assures us th at he's not afraid to stand on the s ide of food proces sors and retail ers or to coa lesce w ith the viewpoint of a fo reign trading partner if he thinks it's ultimately in th e best interest of the whole of Cnnada's agriculture industry.

Vancl ief has been prep aring for thi s Job all his Iire. He's done just about every thing n i'ann boy s hou ld do if he wants to lead tb e count ry's agri c ulture industry. He sta rted in 4 -H and Juni or Farmers in Prince Ed wa rd County and earned an agriculture degree at the University o f Guelph, where he was a leader in student governme nt. He took over the family farm wh e n he grad uated in 1966 and jumped into co mmunity sel'vice, se rving on the board of his loca l ch urch, the towns hip plannin g board and several Ontario farm o rgan ization ~ . He a nd Sharon received an Outstanding Youn g Fanners of Canada Award in 1983, which they sa y has to be shared with Kurt, their daughte r, Vanessa, and severa l dozen Willowlee empl oyees.

Lyle Vanclie f honed hi s political skills as a school board trust ee and a municipal counci ll or, directed th e e mployee re training program at Loyalist Co ll ege for five yea rs and sat on the 1980s Ontario Task Force on Hea Ith and Safety in Agri c ulture.

After being e lected to Parliament in November 1988, he served as co-critic for ngriculture and associate critic for public works. H e wns parliame ntary secretary to his preciecesso r, Ralph Goodale, in his second term and chaired th e stnlldin g committee on agriculture and agri-food until the 1996 election was ca ll e d. Prime Minister Jean Chretien handed him the agricu lture portfolio June I I. 1997.

Vanclief is probabl y the only agriculture minister 10 have covered so much ground on his way to the cabinet and likely the only sitting MP with an aerial farm photo hanging on an offic e wall in the Con federation Building.

The Vanclief family shut down the Will ow lee operation in spring 1988, and Kurt bought the hom e farm. By fall, Lyle had thrown his peaked cap into federal politics.

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" ~ I never belonged to a federal political pany until Jul y 1988;' he says, "butl was always a believerthat if one door closed, there would be another one rhat would open, I jusr didn 'r know ['d be knocking on 17,000 of them ro get it open,"

information rran sfer. He says Ca nada's new knowledge industry will make the or hers even more success ful.

Van cli ef's srrategy t'or he lpin g Canacia's agri-food indu stry mov e ahead is as simple 8S rhe kitchen-tabl e cont'erences he used on rh e fa rm, "I'm ~ firm believer rhar whatever the organizarion or rh e issues, all of the players invo lved need ro sir down as ofren as they can wi th a cup o f co ffee and ta.lk about whar rh ey can do separar e ly, what rh ey can do separarely but rogether, and what they can do together. If we do rhose things , we' ll be srronger and more apr to succeed,"

SIII'I'OI'1 1'01' l'e8(".II'('11 Vanclief says he secs rhis th e happe ning around Universit y of Gue lph, whe re Left: U of Gpresident Mordechai Rozanski shakes the hand sporti ng a duplicate OAC '66 class ring partners in the agri-fo od presented to agriculture minister Lyle Vanclief to replace his origi nal, which was stolen fro m his industry are mov ing in nex r home several years ago, door' to each othe r.

Right: Vanclief gets down to the nitty-gritty with Larry Hoy, head of U of G's planning department " It 's absolutely fantastic, during a tour of renovations to the Food Science Building, With cve rybody th e re 足 priva re enterpri se, acadcmia, there will be so mu cll ,ha ['ing o f The fi['st Liberal MP eJec red in th e Prince Edward足 gove rnment Hastin gs riding sin ce 1908, he appreciat es that many of hi s inform ation, Ir Just makes incredible sense," Whcn Vanc Iiet' was in Guelph Nov, 28 to announce longtim e conservativ e ne ighbors hav e supported him fundin g for the Unive['s iry's Food Sci ence Building, he through rhree elections, With his characteris tic sense o f humOl', he say s his ne w commcnred on the viral role thar food sc ience resea rch and role in fed era l polirics ['emind s him of hi s fi rsr rerm as a tcach ing pla y in Clna cla's national eco nomy, He and mem ber of the loca l sc hoo l board, " I'd kn ow n all of th e Ontario's ministe r of agriculture , rood and rural affairs, members of rhe school board for years and admired many of No ble Villencuvc, announced that Guelph will ['ece ive $2.6 them , but I l'ould neve r undcrstand why they made such million to up g rade food scic nce I'a cil iti es under' th e Canada/Ontario Infrastru cture Works program, U of G's stupi d decisions," Wh en he wo n hi ~ own seat on rh e boa['d, he discove red that the iss ues facing school trustees we re rar Food Scie nce Departm enr is recogni zed inte mationall y ror its innovative wo rk in t'ood produc ti on and health safe ty , more complicated than he'd th ought. And now that he's "Nearly half o r Canad a's fo od -process ing indu stry is silting at the Chre tien cabinet t8 ble, hc says the view 1'l'Om based here in Ontario, Wi Ih Guelph th e focal point for rh e Hill isn't always as c lear 8S it was from th c t['actor seal. co llaboration .lIld partnerships rhat will lead food science \gl'ifuHun" in '''Htilltion research in Canada into the nex t ce ntUl'y," said Vanclief.

Wil at Vandief sees most clea rl y now is the speed with Yet anothe r opponunity lies in wait 1'01' U of G ,c ienri .s ts whi ch agriculture is evo lving, All sectors of the indu stry are who will be appl ying to th e ne w C.lnJda Foundation for Innovari on (CI ;I), Announced i[l the last federul budge t. the fee lin g the impac t of rapid changes in techn o logy, CFI w dl provide $XOO miliio[l over thc nex t five year's to inrernational trad e and marketing, "Technology is hitting us li"L' a fi re storm :' he say" "If I support ['c seareh inrrastru ctu[T acmss Canada , Und er ' [71. had closed my eye s when we put OU[' last crop in in J987 guid e lines, Ollaw~1 will pmvide 4() pel' ccn t of fundi ng 1'0[' infraSlruclLlre upgr:ltics, unci opened th cm now to sec how Kurt is doing the su n1C tiling, I wou ld not beli eve that onl y 10 years had gone by," Cuupled with a si milar 1i SO -million program (the Ontario The stor m is Just as fi erce in othc r sectors of the industr y, Research <lnd Developmen t Ch,dlc:nge) til;)t wa,s Jnnounced in th e la,t rro v incial budg et, th ' initi at ive o tfers suc h as proce " inS, prociuct deve lop me nt. plant and li vcSlOd breeci ing and food safe ty, whi ch Va ncli ef s:[ys is unpr ceclel1led Ic ve ls of govcrnm ent funding for rese arch i[l frast ru eture . one o f the most important parts of his portfo lio, H e'~ not worried about movi ng too fast wi th techn o log ics like In recent ),e:lrs, the f..:dcral ag ricult ure dCr:lrt nH'll t Ins gt: [lc tic ngin cc ring bCC lll ,t; Il e\ co nfi de nt thu t th e moved to cen lra liLe irs own !\:,e:lrch effort :.; in IXce n!r ... or rcgul,lt o[,)' l'ra lllcwnr k is ill pl,lcc, exce llence and to o lfc r I1l<l rch ing rcsea['ch grants tha t Vane Iiet' scCs t~c I1l1 (llo g y as a wuy to llIa"c C mada".; cn 'o llr:lgc panm:rshi r illit iati VL' s, primary in du~tr iL"; mon.: c[Ji cicnt :ll1d mol" competi tive un a "\ c've rou nd that \\ e no\\' ha \'c II Hl rc [leorle in\'o lv..:d in ,l!lobal ,calc , Ami hc', ready to concede that our tra dit ion,t1 rescarch than we did bc h re:' says V,meli ei', "A nd lIl11rCpeople we a lt h-generat in g inci ll str i' s ag riculture, minin g , ou ts ide govcrnmcnt <lIld academia now " [lO W wh;)t"" going on have becn Joined by a fift h, in , ide ," lIe ''') ' rhe rri vate , ectelf h:[s :1 he th: [- uppreci atillil of lorestry and fi shing -

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what uni versit y researchers do. and acade mics have a better understanding of private sec tor needs.

We 're back to the ministe r's kit chen-table stl"ategy to ge t eve rybody workin g togeth er. Acad emi cs, farme rs, commodity groups , processors, retilil ers , n'ading pa rtners and even his fell ow MPs have all heard Vanclief 's sepilrilt e-but-together philosophy and will no dou bt hear it again and again as his mandate continues. He wants to encou rage input from all pans of the indu stry - from individual farm ers to big business.

"There arc an awful lot of lin ks in the cha in ," he says, "an d one of the challenges is to kee p the links the same ga uge of stee l all th e way th roug h. The chain can ' t pull unl ess there 's some econom ic viabil ity in eve l'y one of them."

Part of the Agriculture and Agri- Food Ca nada (AAFC) stl'ategy is to ex pilnd tracie in those mar kets that a lread y acco unt for 85 per cent of our agricultural export - the United States , Mexico, Brazil, Japan, Korea. Taiwan, China and the Eu ropean Union - count l'ies th at are a lso ea ger to se ll more of their own prod ucts in Canada. " it 's not as simple as just shutting the border on a tracle issu e and say ing tha t Ca nada will not permit th e importation o f certain proclucts from anot her country:' says Vanelief. " It's likc a tube of toothpastc If you sq ueeze it in one place, it 's going to pop out ~o J11 e pJac e

Sl ral('Ai('s for ArC)\\ I II Fo r the most part, Canada's agri-food chain seems to be holding pretty we ll. In 199 6, Canada exporled an all-time reco rd of nea rl y $20 bi llion wort h of agri-food products , an increa se of more than 50 per cent in onl y thl'ee years.

Canada 's domesti c marke t is al so gro wing, with expend itures fo r foo d and be vcrilges growing by more than $2 billi on a year.

"Across the board in Canad a right now, I don't think \\C\ 'l' ever bee n in a bene r time," says Vanc li ef. " But I clon't want a nybody sayin g that th e mini ster of ag ri cu ltul'e says agriculture is a becl of roses, bec ause it isn' t. We're still dea ling with the weath er and tile mUI'kets ancl with internati onal tracle. And we' re dealin g with more scrutiny across borders than ever before. That 's not unique to Zlgri cu lture in Can ada ; that is agri culture the world ove r."

Vanclief acknowled ges that marketing i ~s ues will be one of his tou ghest chall enges. He says he's a longtim e supporter of supply management and orderl y marketing , but recogni zes that Canacla 's marketi ng sy ste ms mu st ada pt to the globa l marketp lace . " We're dealing with a number of contrachctions as we prepa re for th e Worlel Trade Orga ni zation ta lks in 1999.

We've got suppl y-m anaged sectors th at believe in and dese rve protect ion . We've got the grain s and red-meat lil dustri es tlla t want free trade ancl open markets. Ancl we 've got Ca nadi an proc esso rs saying they can 't surv ive unless they can buy mOI'e raw prod uct at lower prices."

It's go ing to be to ugh to be all thi ngs to all people.

Federal ag ri culture minister Lyle Vanclief and OAC dean Rob McLaughlin, centre, share the fun of an Aggie prank with members of the OAC Class of '98.

Vanclief happened to be on campus the day these fourth-year Aggies turned the dean's Johnston 'Hall office into a stable complete with livestock.

Five Guelph graduate students who captured awards in a new federal

scholarship program share the moment \Nith Vanclief. From left are

M.Sc. student Durda Slavic, PhD students Sandi Bowland and Heather

Cromar, Vanclief and PhD students Gregory Simpson and Denise

Goens . Scholarships also went to Guelph students Patrick Crampton ,

Gregory De Vos and Geoffrey Cloutier.

e lse. You ha ve to be careful how you cl o it."

In Oc tober, Vancli et" vis iteel U ot' G to award ne wly cre ated AAFC sc ho larships. Se ve n Gu elph graduate stuclents we re am ong the fil's t 29 winne rs in the t wo-yea l' program , which is part of the CUllaclian gove rnm ent 's com mit ment to yo uth empl oy men t. Equally important足 and perhaps mo re im porta nt. in Vanclief \ vie w - is the col1tribution the sch olarships make to ag ricul ture by mee ting the in dustry 's future needs for ne w sc ienti sts, engineers and econ omists and o ther professionals.

"The fede ral governm e nt re cog ni zes fu lly th at know ledge, innov,ll ion and creativity are key to economic success," he says . "And one of the challenges we face in agricultme is to ge t the message out lo young peopl e that tllere are rewa rdin g careers ava ilable in the agri-food sec to r and tlla t rural Canada is a gooci place to do business."

Rural Canada - a good place to do business. That's a message Vanclief will continue to clel.iver, both on home soil and in international for ums throughout hi s mandate as minister of agriculture and ag ri- food. And he hopes the effort will con tinue throu gh a fourth e lecti on to Parliament. The agri culture politici,1Il says he will co ntinue as long as he can "to contribute to tl1e stre ngth o f the industry that I've lived and brea thed and have a pass ion for."

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Geraniums are turning a new leaf in the fight against environmental contamination

by Margaret Boyd nivers ity 0[' Guelph researchers rece ntly di scove red that le mon-scented geraniums (PelarRoniull1 sp. 'Frensham ' ) can absorb and accumulate large amounts of he av y metal s from soil. This is good news for remediation and ag ricultural industries strugg ling to find economical and environme ntally friendly ways to rehabilitate contaminatcd soils. The resea rchers wh o made the discove ry are U of G horticultural science professor Praveen Saxena, research scienti st Sankaran KrishnaRaj , postd oc toral associate Miche l Perras and g raduate stude nt Te reza Dan. The lemon-sce nted geranium is a newl y discovered phytoremediator - a plant that can remove pollutants from me tal-contaminate d soils posing a threat to human and animal health. It is more specifically called a hyperaccumulator because of its abilit y to take up and acc umulate me ta l ion s in its shoot ti ss ues in very hi g h concentrations.

In grcenhouse e xperiments, whe n well-rooted uniform cuttings of lemon-sce nted ge ranium were wate red with

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vari o us metal solutions, they acc umul ate d up to 3,200 milligrams of cadmium, I tl,700 mg of lead, 6,400 mg of nickel and 650 mg of co ppe r in o ne kilogram dry wei ght of plant tiss ue within two wee ks. The plants e xhibited no signs of toxic ity or stress and appe ared to be tol e rant of a wid e range of toxic metals .

There are other ide nti fie d hypcraccumulators, such as Indian mustard , but le mon-scented geranium has seve ral ad vantagcs in addition to th e amo unt and variety of heavy meta ls it can accumulate. It has a good growth ha bit and re presents a value-addcd crop becau se essential aromatic oils can be safe ly extracted , and the heavy metal s can be retrieved from the plant biomass . " The plant could be of importance in agri c ulture because it will take up unhealthy leve ls of me tals that may be in the soil due to indu strial and intensive farming prac tices," says Saxe na . "It also has marke t valu e as a crop."

In addition, many conventional remediation me thods such as soil flu shing or excavation are costly and ofte n leave the soil steril e and unfit for subseque nt agricultura l practices, but phytoremediation using scented ge ra nium plants ac tua lly conditions th e soil.

The time required to phytoremediate a particula r site would depend o n the le ve ls of heavy metals in the soil.

The rese arc he rs have also tested the ability of scented geraniums to reme diate soil conta minated with a mixture of metals and organic contaminants unde r gree nhouse c onditions. The scented geraniums were not o nly able to uptake metals from the lanel-farm soils, but we re also able

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to tolerate nea rly 29,000 parts per million of hydroca rbon co ntaminants present in those so ils. The ne xt step is to test the plants in pilot-test plots in the fi e ld.

The University of Guelph recently fi led a U.S. patent application to sec ure the ri ghts for the use of plants belonging to the Pe largoniul11 sp. to remediate meld .l-co ntaminated soil s.

This stud y was funded by the Environmenta l Science and Technology Alliance of Canada, a con so rtium of Ca nadian com pani es.

Th e leaves dominate the sce nted varieties of geraniums , shown here with U of G investigato rs, lett to right , postdoctoral associate Michel Perras, horticultural sc ience professor Praveen Saxena, graduate stude nt Tereza Dan and research scientist Sankaran Krishn aRaj.

Research

Putting new bounce in sports fields Football players usually run practice drill s throu gh old tires. In future , they may be playing e ntire games on the discarded rubbe r from tires. An innovation by fo rmer U of G graduate st udent Paul Griinthal add s crumb rubbe r to s po rts field s, reducing the ri sk or injuries, saving on m a intenance costs and he lping to e liminate an e nviron mental eyesore.

"About 10,000 tires are recycled into an average football fi e ld ," says Griinthal, who is on an industrial fellowship sponsored by Materials and Manufacturing Ontario. He is c urrently working on commercialization or the product for NRI Industries o f Toron to, the larges t rubbe r recycle r in North America. N R I sponsored Griinthal's graduate research unde r the supervision of land reso urce science professo r Pieter Groeneve lt.

The process in vo lves workin g three to four centimetres of crumb rubber into the top soil before seedin g. In two years of fie ld trials, crumb rubber was found to significantly decrease com paction and improve drainage as well as prevent winter kill on perennial rye grass, a popular grass variety. This means that mainte nance costs for aerati on, deco mpaction , fertili zation and irriga tion are significantly reduced.

In addition, effl uents collec ted from the soil had no s ignifi ca nt increases in heavy me tals , volatile organic compound s or ex trac table organic compounds. Concentrations of the compounds were found to be well below safety-standard limits set for Ontario drinking water and th e U.S. Environmental Protec tion Agency.

Looking for nature's medicine

Sold in the herb departm e nt of many nurse ri es . scented ge raniums are popular as potted patio plants because of their aromatic folia gc. The small delicate flow e rs go almost unno ti ced when you rub the leaves gently to release the plant 's fragrant oils.

A tender pe rennial originating from Africa, these scented fe/argollium offcr many diffe rent sce nts: le mon , orange, grapefruit and mint - used to flavor teas and sugar- and nutmeg, roses, pine and balsam - popular in potpourri. The c itrus-sccnted ge raniums have stiff. tiny leaves, although other varieties have Illore rounded, velvety leaves .

Many people believe that citronella-scented geraniums repe l mosquitoes, but you 'd need lots of plants and lots or time to rub th e leaves to have a noti cea ble effec t on the ap petite of most Ontario mosquitoes. However, that might be one advantage of working near a large acreage of lemon-see med geraniums grown to rejuve nate contaminated soil.

Like their showy cousins, scented geraniums like full sun and will thrive until mid-autumn in the Ontario climate, but you can take stem cuttings and grow new plants indoors for the next season.

"Functional roods" such as ga rli c , g inscng and soybeans are under sc rutiny at a new research ancl analytical ce ntre at the Universi ty of Guelph.

The Guelph Centre for Functional Foods (GCFF) - part or the Unive rs it y's Laboratory Services 足 - is he lpin g identify the validity of " fun ctio nal foods " or nutraceutieals. They're be ing gohbledup by health-c o nsc io us cons umers fo r their therapeutic effects, but many or their reported benefits have gone unc halle nged by sc ience.

"The GCFF u se~ analytical methods that det ect and measure the active nutrients in functional foods," says Arlene Yee, manage r or anal yti ca l services at Laboratory Services. "Onl y throug h a co mmitme nt to thi s research will we be abl e to validate the hea lth benefits o r nutrace uti ca ls."

TestinQ is currently be ing done on garli c in collaboration with U of G ~1utritional scientist Bruce Ho lub. Rece ntly, his group published the res ults of a clinical trial showing th at processed Qarlic, mi xed with fi sh oil, lowered hlood c holestero l leve ls. ~ lsoflavo nes (phytoestrogens) - substances found in soybeans - are also being tes ted. They are believed to be active agents in the prev ention of breast, col on and prostate cance r, os teoporosis and atherosclerosis.

The GCFF works in conjunction with the de partments of Food Science and Human Biology and Nutritional Sciences. It also collaborates wi th scientists at the unive rs ities of Toronto and Western Ontario.

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Tony and Connie Leung

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eronimo Castillo is om: of the higgest SUCCI!~S ~tories at the Florida farm ,md wholesale compmly owned by Guelph graduates Tony ;md Connie (Cheng) Leung.

He was hired by the Leungs as a veget<lbk picker back in 1981 when they were just starting their U.S. famling enterprise. A 24-year-old Mexican immigrant who couldn' t speak Engli"h , asti llo was one of several thousand migrant workers who had fo llowed the sun from Texas and expe ted to move north whe n the summer heat dried up th Florida harvest. With three youn g children to care for by hi msel f. he needed work, but probably did n't expect to spend more than a few mo nths in the farming commu nity of Ruskin .

The Lungs, howeve r, had decided to do things di ffe rently at Sanwa Growers Inc. Sixteen years have passed and Castillo still works for the company -- not pickin g vegetables, but managing the I,OOO-acre farming operation that produces more than $3 million worth of oriental vegetables and herbs each year.

That's about one tenth of Sanwa 's 1997 scl les total. Who lesaling and di stribution now dominate the business. but the Le un gs still consider employees to be thei r most important resource. Training and cross-tra ining are constants for Sanwa 's 220 em ployees , and most promotions come from within the company. The co uple has built a loyal and effic ie nt workforce in a lie ld renown ed I'o r hi gh turnove r.

Sanwa and its four subsidiaries form a vertica ll y integrated com pany that builds its own greenhouses and grows and se ll ~ nursery stock . specialty herbs alld a va ri ety of trad itional and oriental prod uce .

In the ear ly 1990s, the company branched out into packing, receiving, importing and

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Sanwa Produce Center in Tampa whol esa ling. S81l Wa no w imports vegeta bles, o ['i e ntal vegetables and spec ialty fruit s from th e west coast.

Central America, New York State, Ontario and Qu ebec. They are the largest U.S. importe r of ginger from Bra Lil. Corporate headqu a rters a['e loca ted in Wim au ma, but pac king , rece iving a nd shipping faciliti es for both produce a nd meat products are located in Ru skin , Mi ami and Tampa , as we ll as in Atlanta , Georgia. A n eet of 50 trucks s uppl ies all the maj o r s uperm a rket chains in Florida and neighboring states and " g ives us that littl e edge ove r our competitors," says To ny Leung.

In 1996. Sanwa Growers Inc , was chosen from a fi e ld o f 600 appli cants to receive the p['estigious Blue C hip Entel1Jrlse Initiative from th e U.S. Ch amber of Comme rce for th e s uccess ful use of resources to m ee t business cha lJenges an d pros per. Eadier thi s fall. tile company was ho no red by the Univers it y of Florid a with its 1997 Harves t Award as o utstanding ag ri business of the yea r.

What those award s clon't revea l, says San wa ge ne ral m anage r Sue Grier, is th at Tony ancl Connie have giv en hope an cl stability to scores of mi gra nt familie s by offering them ste ad y empl oy ment. fair wages and on- tile-Job tra ining.

"In our a rea , it is very rare in th e farming co mmunity to find a co mpany w ith s uc h it large core of year-ro und workers." sa ys Gri e r. " The Leungs have de libe rately sou g ht O Ul new endeavors - some at gre at fin anc ial risk - to ens ure the con s is te ncy

of earnings fo r their emp loyees."

In additi o n, "those e mployed at Sanwa Gro wers a nd its s ub s idiarie ~ have an opportunity for adva ncement limited on ly by their own ab ilities," s he sa ys.

The same thing co uld be sai d for th e Leungs. w ho Grier describes as shirt足 slee ve o w ne rs w ho aren' t afraid to try so mething new. " Connie anc! To ny are care ful planners, bu t when th ey see a marke t and customers tell us it 's a good idea , we go for [t. " The Le ungs' business pl a n started at th e Uni ve rsit y of Guelph. where th ey met as stud e nts . To ny, a nativ e of Hong Kong, was edu cated in Toro nto and came to Guelph in 1972 to stud y enviro nmental horti c ulture. Conni e's famil y had fled Communi s t China for Hong Kong. whe re her fa ther worked as an ed ucator and hea rd about U of G 's re putation. On the ad vice of fri ends, she came to Gu e lpll to stuclyecono mi cs.

To ny and Co nnie bo th graduated in 1977 , w ith their s ights se t o n growing o riental vegetables for th e Toronto marke t. Th ey began their bu siness as m a rke t gardene rs in Whitby, but ex panded to Florida in 1. 98 1 to balan ce the Omar io growing season. They chose ce ntral Florid a o n the ad vice of fo nner Gu e lph professo r Richard Barrett. who Hill S a business ca lled Plant s of Ru s kin in Hill s borough Co unty. He introduced them to local business people, w ho we re impressed by th e co upl e 's ambition and offered them a plant-now, pay-later deal o n 160 ac res of farmland.

The Leun gs follow ed the sLln th e m se lves

for six years - s pending holf the yea r in Whitby. h a lf in Ru s kin - but m oved pe rman en tly to Flonda in 1987 when th e ir daughte r, Emil y. wa s read y to start schoo l.

"We no lo nger commute," 18ughs Ton y.

Instead, they re ly o n U of G friends Be nso n , B.Sc. ' 76, and Jea n Lee , B.A.Sc. '77, who handl e Canadi an di stributi o n for S8nwa Growe rs throu g h the Toro nto-ba sed affiliate , Samson Prod uce Ltd. With Emil y and th e ir son s, Stanley and Wesle y, the Leungs now enjoy the sam e kind of se ttled lifes ty le th ey've pro v ided for th eir employees . Both are activ e in vo luntee r work and en co urage worke rs to do the same. " The communit y gave us a lot of he lp when we were start in g," says Co nnie. " We both e nj oy ve ry mu c h givin g back to the communit y. We not only Iletp o ursel ves. but th e compan y image . And our e mpl oyees, I think, wa nt to wo rk for a company th at does go od deed s."

Those good deed s include fin anc ia l support and fund ra is ing ['or a migrant child-care ce ntre, til e local s heriff's program for chi Idre n and a sll e lter fo['

Aerial view of Sanwa Growers Inc. corporate offices and packing house in Wimauma , Fla.

In the midst of Sonwa's growing operation, hoth Connie and Tony Leung say they'd like to lind more time to devote to their community interests and to Tony's passion for horticulture. He's developing {[ 65-acre growth of tropical af?ricultural plants and exotic fruit and a collection of hamhoo and hanana. He currently has 35 of the 147 varieties of hamhoo that can he grown in Florida.

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San wa e mployees sha re a pos iti ve team spirit, whe the r th ey 're pulling toge the r for the go od o f the co mmunity or pla y ing to w in in bu siness . The ga me has n ' t always been easy, but unlik e oth e r Fl o rida growers, th e Leun gs recog nized th e need to diversify ri g ht fro m the s tarr. Of course, when Tony fir st began to marke t produce directly to chain stores , he didn ' t know that distribution wou Id eve ntu a lly ove rtake the farming ope rati o n that be loved. Th e 160 acres he and Castill o worked themselves in the fir st yea I' e v e ntu ~ ll y grew to more th an 2,000 acres, pm C\u cin g a wide viJri ety o f c rops - in c luding bok cho y, napa bo k c hoy. da iko n radis hes and snow pea tip s . S ince 199 I , howeve r. they'v e cut th e farm o pe ration in hal f to concentr~te o n mo re pro fit a bl e a nd less risk y produce endea vo rs.

The distribution ce ntre Il1 Mia m i has tripled since ope ning in 1990, and the Atlanta centre, w hi c h was a new ve nture into wholes~ling meat produ cts, has grow n to five times its ori g in a l s i7.e in two yea rs .

Sanwa is now th e largest cli S!i'ibuto r o f Connie and To ny Leung re ceive a gift from Yuriy Zakharov, deputy chief of the Ministry of poultry and egg products in th e Georgia Agriculture and Food of the Russian Federation, during a tour of Sam-va operations in Florida. capital.

A second Tampa facility that o pe ne d just abused wom e n and c hildre n. A me mber of program for third-grad e s tud ents that g ive s a year ~go has becom e ~ o ne -stop the Sanwa management tea m s its on the them hands-on experi e nc e with destination for the food -se rvi ce trade, shelter's boarcl of direc to rs. and many agriculture. " We need to ed uca te o ur offering poultry, bee f and pork produ cts ~s other employees Jre invo lved in children about ag riculture a nd how o ur well as produce. Tt is already ex pandi ng into dry goods at th e requ es t of res taurant community deve lopm e nt prog rams . Who food is produced," says Tony. Whe n th e wouldn't want to ge t in vo lved in voluntee r and s uperm arket cu stom e rs . And To ny is children vi sited Sanwa this fall. th ey work, as ks Grie r, w he n yo ur e mpl oye r participated in an inte rac ti ve pl ~y that took c urrentl y lookin g at ye t a no th e r area o f Florida for a fi fth di s tribution ce ntre . encourages you to bring those inte res ts them from seed to tabl e . " Now th ese into the workplace路) S he rece ntly followe d Grie r says the compa ny has bee n children know that to matoes do n ' t ju st g row ing so quickl y in th e pas t few yea rs.

Ton y as a me mbe r o f th e local Chamber of come from the A&P," he says. " we don ' t really kn o w whe re we' re he ad ed Commerce and the board of the S un coast The San wa farm operation is ju st as Community Hea lth Ce ntre , whic h provides likely to host a group o f ag ri c ulture nex t." When one Florida c hain wanted to service s for lo w -inco me and mi g rant stock a line of prepackaged fres h he rbs, s tude nts from Florid a Southe rn Co llege as Sanwa Greenhouses came up with a families. a Ru ssian delegation led by th e U .S. concept, package and mark e ting plan in The Leun gs have a spec ia l. interes t in Depaltment of Agriculture . Tony a l.so education. "Edu c ation is ve ry impo rtant to only three weeks. serves on the agriculture advi so ry boa rd o f Tony says diversification is fu e llin g th e us, so we do give a lot of tim e and mo ney the University of South Florid a Exten sio n Service. Connie is involved with th e company's rapid growth. Connie sees and effort to improve edu cati o n," say s Connie. She's proud of th e fac t th a t Florida Jobs and Education Partn e rShip ve rtical integration as the key to Board , a regional effort to redu ce several Sanwa employees went bac k to th e controlling quality, price and de livery.

Both strategies have contributed to the classroom in Novembe r to parti c ipate in unemployment through trainin g prog rams company's 2S-per-cent in c rease in sa les the Great American Te ach-T n. They talked and summer opportunities for youth. She ove r the past three y e~rs and gi ve the to elementary stude nts abo ut th e ir jo bs and recently accepted a position with the the kind of training the y 've rece ived in an Le un gs confidence in the fa ce of a ge ne ra l Hillsborough County Asian-Am e ri can Advisory Council, whi c h aim s to support downturn in the fortune s of othe r Fl orid a effort to encourage kid s to stay in sc hoo l. th e As ian community in bus iness and farme rs who are more s usceptible to Most of the childre n in tb e local offshore competition. Althou gh man y of Hillsborough Count y sc hoo ls a re ne ig hborhood relations .

Hispanic, and many drop o ut of school Making San wa a community-minded their neig hbors feel threatened by Mex ican ea rl y to follow the ir pare nts into the fie lds. produce rs, for ex ample , the Leungs corporation has al so bee n a good business decis ion , says Tony. " Our bus iness be l ieve that less-restrictive trad e rules Connie says the childre n need His pani c de pe nd s o n our workers ," and the re's no impl e me nted by the North Am e ri can Free role models who have take n ad va ntage o f Trad e Ag ree ment will be beneficial in th e training opportunities and used their do ubt that the employees who spe nt th e morning talking to nine-y ear-old s at th e long run to U.S. farmers willing to change. talents to achieve success ful ca reers.

Sanwa Growers also hosts an annu a l Nov e mber Teach-In came back to work teachers' appreciation lun ch at th e loc al with a renewed enthusiasm for th e ir jo bs . school and participates in an edu ca ti o na l The Leungs think it's important that

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UOF G HAS

PROSPERED WIm A LI'I-I路LE HELP

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ince the early 1970s, Chicago has been home to a charitable foundation that has maintained a strong association between the University of Guelph and alumni living in the United States. Recognized by the U.S. government in 1975, Friends of University of Guelph Inc. has remained a vibrant organization although its original tax function was reduced years ago. Alumni residing in the United States can now receive income tax credit for donations sent directly to Guelph.

Today, the Friends foundation is truly that - a foundation for the continuing friendship between the University and an increasingly diverse group of people.

The last annual meeting in November was attended by some recent graduates , as well as several longtime members, including Bill Barnes, DVM '59, who was one of the founders and still serves as treasurer.

Barnes signed the petition for Friends of University of Guelph along with Gerry Peck, DVM '50, and Grant Misener, ADA '32, BSA '34 and DVM '38, who was the inspiration for the foundation and served as its first president. The corporation has served alumni from across the country and has generated almost $11 million in giving to the Alma Mater Fund, gifts-in-kind, alumni memorials , scholarship endowments and special projects.

The current Friends executive also includes Rene Zajner, MA '88, president; Rod Jendrysik, B.Sc. '91, vice-president; and Debra Nash-Chambers, BA '77 , MA '81 and PhD '88, secretary. They represent a new generation of U.S. alumni who hope to see the organization's intluence expand beyond a fund-raising function.

Clockwise from right, Bill Barnes, Rene Zajner and Debra Nash-Chambers with Connie Rooke, U of G vice-president (academic), and Rod Jendrysik.

Meet some of our Friends Rene Zajner, MA '88, is living in Chicago as the result of a transfer from Reuters Canada when it merged with Reuters America five years ago. The company is best known as a news organization, but Zajner works in the customer-service area that provides primarily financial data to clients. That includes reporting prices on equities, commodities, options and other derivatives, market indices, foreign exchange and other money markets. The range of clients served by this Reuters division is both diverse and international in scope.

Zajner's first involvement with Friends came in 1994 in the form of a dinner invitation. Until then, he didn't know there was a U of G alumni group based in Chicago, but he says it has given him the opportunity to meet other people from Ontario and to contribute to the University.

Now in his second year as president, Zajner says he got involved becau. e he . , 路ctW an opportunity to make a good thing better." He says the group is now better informed about what's happening on campus, and hc looks forward this ycar to a closer relationship with the U of G AluITlni Association and participation via electronic communication modes in some of its activities.

Although Friends serves a valuable financial function , Zajner bclieves there are other ways the group can benefit the University - such as recruitment. He points to the efforts of Friends vice颅 president Rod Jendrysik , who hooked up with a group of Illinois high school students, gave them a tour of his workplace and told the m abollt his own expe riences at U of G. Jcndrysik is a "Cnior analytical technician at the Quaker Oats Company in Burrington , Ill.

Bill Barnes, DVM '59, says that during his 26-year veterinary practice in the United States, his American colleagues often joked about being outnumbered by Canadians. "In many ways, it was true," he says. Many ove graduates were practising in Illinois and Michigan, recruited by local clinics because of Guelph's reputation for producing good practitioners. The veterinary college at the University of IIlinnis, he notes, didn't graduate its first class until 1950.

Barnes moved south at graduation to join the practice of Ken Bone, DVM ':18, who had been recruited 20 years earlier

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along with his classmate Grant Misener. It wasn't that far from home, S(lYs Barnes, who grew up on a faml in the Niagara area.

The Canadian vets also beca me active in local and national veterinary associations.

Bames, who served on both the Chicago and Illinois associations, was a driving force in the American Vete rinary Medica l Assoc iation. His most recent role was serving six years as chair of the AVMA political action committee.

Now retired , Bames maintains his involvement in Friends of Univcrsity of Guelph . He was one of the organization 's fo unding membe rs and still serves as its treas urer.

is primarily an e xecutive search firm , but with L ic is's he lp, it has carved an interesting ni che in merge rs and acq uisitions, leveraged by its relationships with corporations looking to expand.

Now facing his first Chicago winter, Lic is says he 's zipping back into jac ket s and coats the winter linings he 7.ipped out in 1992. "As llook bac k now, I reali ze that the farther I travel down the road , the more important my Guelph education becomes."

He says he's also impressed by how far the University of Guelph ha s come , e xpa nding it s ro le in th e biotech indu stry and increas in g its status among Canadian un ive rsiti es.

Maris licis

Mildred and Grant Misener Not o nly was GRANT MISENER one of the founders of Friends of University of Guelph , but he and his wife, MILDRED (Taylor), DHE '36, have also becn among the most generous donors to c hanne l their gifts throu gh the corporation. They es tablished a bursary e ndow me nt in the 1980s, and more th an 50 Guelph students have a lrcady benefited from it. They increased the e ndowment during the recent ACCESS campaign in support of student financial aid.

Grant Misener spen t his caree r as a partner in th e Holley Animal Hospi tal in his native Illinois. He was an active member and president o f the C hicago, Illinois an d American vete rinary medi cal assoc iatio ns, and was subsequ enrly hon ored by a ll three . The OVC Alumni Association recog ni zed his co ntributions to the veterinary profession in 1979 by naming him its Distinguished Alumnus.

Misener se rved his alma mater as a volunteer direc tor of the OVC association for 10 years and, in 1984, was named a fe llow of the University of Guelph.

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MARIS LlCIS, BA '92, found hi s way to the 1997 Friends meeting via the Inte rn et.

When he g raduated from th e Un iversit y of San Francisco last May with an MBA. he became involved with the alumni associ ation in Ca liforni a and decided it was a lso a good idea to reCl nnect with Gue lph. So , he looked up the U of G We b site on the Inte ll1e t ane! got hi s name back on the mailing list for the Gue lph Alumnus. On the magazine's ca lenda r page, Lic is noti ced that an alumni event was bei ng planned for Chicago, so he made thc effort to attend. He says it was great to mcet other Guel p h g raduate s and hea r Aggie stories agai n.

Licis grew up in Toronto, but spent his first two years at Guelph living with Aggies in Johnston Hall. At that time, it was still an all-male res idence and , according to Lici s, was a g reat place to make good fri ends .

After grad uation, he decided to see Canada on a one -way ti cke t to Vancouver.

Within a few months , he was working his way up from the mailroom at the Royal Bank and spent more than a year in the ba nk 's manage ment training program. ex t ca me marri age and a move to San Francisco - partly becausc of its act ive Latvian community - where he worked for We lls Fargo Bank, the n e nrolled full tim e at the nive rs ity of San Francisco to build on his Gu Iph economics degree.

It was a summer job th at introduccd Lici s to me rge rs and acqui sitions consulting in a bi otec h start-up firm. He was exc ited by the entrepreneurial spirit of hi s employer and the bright ideas of his c lients, so he jumped at the chance to he lp launch a new start-up ope ratio n at Chicago's Cook Associates. The company

Ted Valli TED VALLI, DVM '62, M.Sc. '66 and PhD '70, knows that when he mee ts Grant M ise ner at the Illinois Vete rinary Medi cal Association meeting ne xt month , they ' ll bo th be we aring the same ti e pin - a sma ll s il ver hand of fri e nd ship that bo th rec e ived as a gi ft from Ken Bone, DVM '3R .

There is a fellowship amon g veterinarians that is quite re m arkab le, says Valli, who fee ls he is p' rt of " a frate rnity within a profession" that crosses both genera ti o nal and int ernati onal boundaries.

Valli spent 25 years teaching at OV be fore m ov in g to the nive rsity o f Illino is in 1990 as dean o f it. Faculty of Veterin ary Med icine . He still mainta ins c lose personal anel profe ss iona l relationships with facul!"y colleag ues at OVC and many o f the G ue lph students he tau g ht. as well as with other OVC graduates - suc h as Bonc. Misener and Ken Barnes - who hav e practised

veterinary medicine in northe rn Illinois.

Guelph veterinary graduates we re drawn to the Chicago area long before the Illinois ve te rinary college opened in 1952, says Valli, and they establi shed the mselves as reliabl e and tale nted people.

Now in his second te rm as dean at Illin o is, Valli says the college is virtually the same size as OVC, but is still deve loping its facilities. One of the things he mi sses is the isolation unit in Guelph 's Departme nt of Pathobiology. " We 've just completed a proposal for that type of facility he re," he says.

One of the things he's excited about at Illino is is the school's deve lopme nt of experti se in clinical imaging. An oncology service now drives the sm all-animal admi ss ions area in a veterinary hospital that ge nerates $5 III i11 ion a year.

"We ' re very e ntrepreneurial he re." says Valli . " Our hospital hCls S 1.6 million in e mpl oyee sa laries based on generat ed funds. It 's a precarious situation that keeps relations with our clie nte le and area vets well o iled."

The vet· college is also invo lved in a $22­ million fund-raising campaign. part of the Uni vers it y 's overaJJ $ l-billion goal. To date, the coll ege has raised $ 14 million Clnd th e unive rs ity has rai sed $900 million.

What's mi ssi ng from the campa ig n, however, is an endowed chair in animal behavior that Valli wants to establi sh before he re tires as dean in 2000. "One of the things that has really impressed me as a veterinarian is the tre mend o us depth of feeling that people have for their anima ls.

The human/animal bond is a living, viable thin g." He notcs that in lilino is, as in Ontario, many of the gifts that suppo rt vcte rinary medic ine co me from gra teful clicnts who want to ensure that th ose services re main available.

Valli 's so-called retireme nt plans sOllnd more like a third career. He plans to finally write th e book he's been building for almost 40 years, a resource on di seases of the lymph nodes, spleen, bone marrow and th ymus in domesti c animals. And he says hc ' lI be back to Guelph to take advantage of the " biggest and best library of hematology and cy tology cases at any vcterinary school in Canada and the Unit ed States."

The dean has maintained a researc h prog ram in his fi e ld of pathology and has published 48 papers since movin g to JIIinois, mostl y with former colleagues and g raduate students at OVe. In addition, he hopes to spend some time working as a surgical patholog ist and to stay involved in teac hing th e " ve terinary fraternit y's nex t generati o n."

A room full o f strange rs does n't stay that way very long after PAT, (Bridges) B.H .Sc. '68, and DON WATT, B .Sc.(Eng. ) '68, arrive. Both e njoy th e excitement of meeting new people and tuming th e m into fri e nds.

That 's exactly what happe ned when they attended the ir first meeting with th e Friends of University of Gue lph 16 years ago, and they still value those friendships e noug h to travel from Davenport, Iowa, to C hicago each year to attend the annual meeting. Pat se rved as secretary of the g ro up for several years whil e living in the Chicago area. Don is still a member of thc no minating co mmittee.

Don Watt " We think it 's important to m a intain th ose contacts and to show our c hildre n th at friends are imponant , no matte r how far away they are:' says Pat. They a lso sta y in tou ch with their Guelph c lass mates. " I know people from coast to coast in both Ca nad a and the United States , and we work at keepi ng lip with those relationships." She says he r Guelph classmates are still important to her because so many of the m were fri e nds throu g h four c ritical und e rg raduate years.

Pat and Don met in the ir se ni or year at Guelph, while each was se rvin g as preside nt of their res pective college student groups. He started his career in design e ng ineering at Inte rn ati o nal Harvester in Ham ilton , Ont. , whil e she taught hi gh school. They moved with their three c hildren to Chicago in 198 1 and to Iowa in 1994.

Don is now in crop harv es tin g e ng ineering m anage me nt at Case Corporati o n.

They've met several othe r Guelph grads living in Davenport and hope to have company thi .. November for Pat Watt the three-ho ur drive to Chicago for the Fri ends annual mee ting.

More help from our Friends D irec tors of the Fri ends of Univers it y of Guelph each received a co py of Guelph 's U.S. rec ruitment broc hu re, and their commen ts were just as posit ive as the response

from th e 5,000 Grade to stud en ts who wrote back to Guelph for more in for matio n.

Don and Pa tricin Watt promptly gave their broc hu re to nephe w Bruce Watt , DVM

'89 , who took it so show fe llow stud en ts at the Illinois Eq uine Hospital a nd Clinic,

whe re he 's doin g g rad uate work in equin e surge ry. Frie nd s president Re ne Zaj ne r says

the brochure was a good lVay to le t Americ ans living near the border kn ow about

ed ucati o nal opportunities in Can ada.

The 5,000 repli es represent a lO-per-cent response rate - by all standard s, a hi g h

rate of re turn . The color brochure - '"So You Think Yo u Know Canada, Eh?" ­

fea tured the face of a chill ed, tee th- chatte rin g parka­

c lad student on th e cover. It seemed to ca pture the

im ag in ati o n of editors and reporte rs as well. T he

artwork hn s accompani ed se veral stori es in U.S.

papers, including th e Chronicle of Higher £duca/io/J ,

Chicago Trihune. Wall St,.ee t Journal and Cincinnati

Post.

Other Ontari o universitie s are following Guelph's lead in trying to allrac t U.S . stud en ts. At Gue lph , it's part of an in stituti ona l goa l to increase th e number of intemational students from aro und the g lobe. T hei r attendance adds to the value of the Guelph ex peri ence for Canadian slUden ts by increasing its international focus and g iving stu den ts a broader perspective on the global environment th at wi JJ we lcome them after grad uati on .

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Shadows

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Full Moon

by John Fraser

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am not finished with the He int zma n building. Too bad.

They to re It down 3S years ago.

In its prime, the He int zman Company, proud and prosperous, had produced th ousa nds of pianos in its factory in th e Junction area of Toronto . Pi anos, once common in homes throu g hout North Am e ric a, were by the 1950s being replaced by record players and telev is ions. A new wor/d, new interests. Like a rock, the company fell into financial oblivion. In 1960, the old factory was closed. Wh e n I fi rst e ntered the building, it had been deserted for almost two years.

If it had not been for ph ys ics, I would never ha ve en te red that old ca rcass of a building . r was good at physics; Brandy was not.

We knew each other in that we had taken several c lasses togeth er, but at no time had we ever said more than a few casual. words to each other. However, s he did know that I was a star in physics; it 's hard to hid e so me things.

The spring phy sics exam was on Monday coming. It was Friday afternoon, andl was at m y locker innocently ge tting ready to go home. Brandy came up to me. "Are you going Lo be studying for phy sic s over the weekend?"

I was awkwardly unprepa red. " Yes, probably." I stammered a l.I

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over those two worcls. It's not that [ was co mpletel y inex perienced with girts - after all, I had two older s isters and my mother used to be a girl. I thought. In truth, I wasn't w hat you'd call a smoo th operator with females. I wasn't any kind of an operator.

"A few of us are getting togethe r tonight to stud y for the exam. need all the help I can get. Would you Jike to co me alon g'l Tt ' ll be at my place ." She was about average he ight (fo r a girl), had ave rage-length brown hair, wore an average windbreaker and an average skirt. She was average - except for her face, which was rather pre tty, and her voice was pleasantly bubbly. He r sm ile was really prelly. Her legs weren't bad, either. " [ guess so. When and w he re?" I was proud of myself, the way I respo nded , so cool. Later in life , I would come to realize that it would also have been coo l to ask who else, exactly, was going to be there. But you can'r think of eve rythin g when you ' re playing a new game.

So there I was, about eight 0 'clock that evening, walking up Keele Street in the darkness and tbe dampn ess and the cold that are Toronto in late March . The full moon sho ne off and on throu gh passing cloud s. He r house was about a mile north of mine, north of Dundas Street, right across from the south end of th e Ontario Stock Yards and atop a steep slope overlooking the stree t. Even at age J5, it was a workout climbing th e steps [0 the verandah of the se mi-detached hou se. Things were dark; only a slight glow of light came from behind the curtained front window.

John Fraser presents his own work on the Internet, but says this is the first of his stories to be published off line. He is a teacher in Alliston, Onto

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th e doo r. Afte r a few seco nds, I co ul d hear a bouncing so un d ins ide and she ope ned the door. " Hi l Come in ." The door led immedil1tely into a sm a ll li v in g roo m, be hind w hi c h was a kitche n, the source o f the light , w ith a s hiny c hro me ta bl e in th e mid dl e of it. S he see me d ge nuine ly happy to see me. I was led into the kitche n and I put my textbook and no tes down on the ta ble bes id e hers . I loo ked a ro und , tryi ng to fi g ure o ut w he re the "othe rs" we re . " Is a nyo ne else here yet?" " Th e o the rs c an't com e - d ropped out at the las t minute. Nobody 's he re . M y pare nts even left [or the weekend - that 's a ll rig ht, isn ' t it? " I was naively st upid. It seemed all r ight to me. The inn oce nce, whi c h stil l possessed m y SO LI!, tho ug ht it w as q uite nat Lll"al for an attrac ti ve g irl to have me ove r to study phys ics , even if he r pa re nt s we re away a nd no o ne e lse wa s com in g . W ha t e lse was the re to do o n a Friday night ? Of co urse I was ri g ht - I ju st d idn't full y unde rst"ancl th e w o rd "natu ra l."

We the n proceeded to stud y. Wei !, first , we had a Co ke (I had o ne to be soc iable - I di dn' t like the st u Ff, it w as too swee t).

And we had to do a b it of talkin g a bo ut peopl e - th e teac he r~ : " Isn't th at Mr. Ba rrow a rea l sq uir re l face" and Mrs. Sprag ue. "s he m ust be so lo ne ly to think an yo ne rea lly ca res ab o ut Latin." And, of course, o ur cl ass mates: R o n C ra me r "is s uc h a pe rvert. I w is h he'd kee p hi s hand s to him se lf '; A nn a - "So me time s I thin k two w hales are o n th e loose whe n I see he r bo uncing dow n the ha l!." I m ostly lis te ned and la ug hed ag reeabl y. Pal1 o f me started to won de r if Ron C mmer wa s gett in g mo re o ut of life than I was. r wo u ld also look at Ann a wi th a sha rpe ned interes t. Brand y had so m e th ing negat ive to say a bout everyone (exce pt me; s he admired sm art peop le , they have s uc h depth ). Bu t she had a pe rm a ne nt sm ile o n he r face. The fac t that mo st people were jerks wasn ' t to be held aga inst" th em.

Brand y sme lled nice. I noticed thi s beca use she was eas in g he r c hair qu ite close to mine. J hinted at the need to start stud y ing by arra ng ing my note s in front o f us . " Yo u mea n yo u make note s abo ut your notes?" s he as ked. I tri ed to ex pl a in that yo u needed orde r, a system, if yo u were go ing to stud y effec ti ve ly. He r hand was ca ress ing m y arm every now and the n as tho ug h she was ag ree in g w ith eac h po int I made. He r hand, r no ticed , was soft an d wa rm. I m ade a noble atte mpt to m a intain, or rathe r initiate , some foc us o n the physics no tes. It w as di ffic ult , w hat w ith her leg brushing aga in st mine (he r leg was

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Uof Galumni shine as poets and storytellers An elementary school teacher and three U of G alumni with degrees in chemistry, philosophy and marine biology have won top honors in the 1997 Guelph AlumnusiScotiaMcLeod Writing Competition.

John Fraser, a teacher in Alliston , Ont , received the $350 first prize in the short-story category ; first prize in poetry went to Giovanni "John" MaHto, M.Sc. '87 and PhD '89 , who teaches chemistry at a technological college in Cork, Ireland .

The second-prize winner in poetry was philosophy graduate Jane Lewis, BA '95, who works on the Guelph campus in the Co-op Bookstore and received $250 for her entry. Jill Khashmanian , B.Sc. '91 , a graduate of the marine biology program who now lives in Richmond , B.C ., won second prize in the short­ story category.

Look up the alumni winners in the Grad News section beginning on page 27 to find out w,hat they've been doing since graduation.

There were more than 350 entries in the competition, with prize money provided by ScotiaMcLeod Inc. The judges were Iris Tupholme , SA '79, chief editor at HarperCollins Publishers in Toronto, and University of Guelph professor emeriti Elizabeth Waterston and James Harrison, both retired from the English department. also soft and wa rm ) and her bare fe et interloc king with mine un de r the tab le.

S he seemed more interested in applied b io logy than in abstrac t phys ics. " Let's take a brea k," s he s uggested . [ was a bit exaspe rated . H owever, the exa m was he r proble m , not m ine . Maybe biology had its pl ace .

I fo ll owed her out to the li ving room, w hich wo uld have bee n in co mplete dark ness had it not bee n for th e li g ht from the kitc hen . S he sa t o n the couc h, above

w hi c h hun g a large, c hea p pa inting of wo lf in w inte r snow. I sa t in th e uphol ste red c hair ac ross fro m her. "W hy don ' t you sit o ve r here w ith me so we can hea r eac h o ther?" I went ove r a wkwardly and sa t at the end of th e couc h farth es t from her. S he sli d over to th e middl e of the co uc h, tu c ked her legs und er her and faced me.

Her knees stuck out below the hem o f h er sk irt. I re me m be r how w h ite the y were in that darke ned room. "r g ues s m y pro blem w ith ph ys ics is th at it 's not very ph ys ical .

It 's just a lot of inv is ib le laws dea lin g wi th inv is ib le thi ngs. r ' m m ore into thin gs yo u ca n see and touch." He r hand see med to be sha rkin g. tow ard m e a lo ng the back of th e couc h.

W he n you 're in awk w a rd s ituati o ns, si tuation s yo u can 't co pe with , yo u 're likely to say any thin g. " I don ' t like ph ys ica l things," I sa id . "Phys ica l thi ngs are o nl y tem porary. They tend to fall ap art or rot o r go away. A bstrac t Ideas are th e o n ly pe rma ne nt thin gs. [li ke a bstract stu ff because r know it' ll still be the sa me tom o rl"Ow. Yo u can co unt on it. if yo u kn ow what r mean ." 1 believe s he d id kn ow wh at I m ea nt; s he put both hand s in he r la p . " Wo ul d yo u like to see som et hing reall y neat?" she as ked out of the b lu e.

"S ure. What')" " The old HeinlLlna n fac tory, ju st up th e stree t. The re's so met hing abou t it. It 's so bi g, so old . It 's the nea te st place I 've eve r been . I know how to ge t in. Do yo u w ant to go?'"

N ow, th e He intzman fa c tory, that was in teres ting. Vac an t, hau nting , it loomed over th e ne ig hbo rhood with , w hat see mecl at [he time, a dreary, cl irty beau ty. " Wh en wo uld you li ke to go?" " How abo ut ri ght now?" S he was im pUl s ive. " B ut it's dark." ''A ll the more fun . I'll bri ng a fla shl ig ht."

So , there we we re, five minutes la te r, wa lking clown Kee le Street. First, we we re ho ldin g hand s as we w al ked . Tbe n , I'm not s ure how, he r ri g ht ha nd a nd m y left ha nd we re bo th in th e le ft fro nt pocket of m y trouse rs , " to keep our ha nd s w arm ." It ce rt ainl y did kee p m y hand wa rm and it also made fo r awkwa rd walkin g. Eve ry tim e J turned towa rd her, long, soft hair fluttered aga inst m y face , tic k lin g my nose, pleasa ntl y. Wh at w ith my itc hy nose and m y warm hand, I almost forg ot the fac Lory. " Let 's deke dow n here," s he said , releas ing m y ha nd a nd he adin g dow n a muddy laneway betwee n two sto res . The la ne led to anot he r da rker lane th at ran be hind the sto re s. Abo ut 4 0 fee t to the left, this la ne e nde d at a w ire- mes h fe nce, eight

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Backed up to the fence and facin g us down the lane was a black 1949 Ford Mercury coupe. It looked like it had been sitting there, rusting, headlights smashed, since 1950. Tt also looked like a tank (correction: '49 Meres were tanks), a tank that had done battle and now stood, blindly, in bizarre guard to the massive dead factory behind It. On the other side of the fence. across an empty yard , which had likely been used for storage. sprawled the three- storey brick, L-shaped factory.

Brandy wedged herse lf behind the ca r and slid under <In opening in the fence. I followed, getting a thin layer of cold mud Oil my clean pants. The whole yard was half-frozen mud. We walked carefully up to the west wall of the factory. The yard was framed on two sides by the factory, on one side (the nOI1h) by the rai Iway tracks and on the fourth side by the backs of shabby stores, closed now for the night.

Although we were only a hundred feet from the traffic of Keele Street, there was a compelling quiet and isolation. The many windows of the factory were boarded over and several se ts of metal stairs came down th e outside of the walls, ending about 12 feet shorr of the ground.

At the crux of th e " L," there was a triangl e of s mall leafless bu shes.

Brandy mad e for a ground- floor window about halfway along the west wall. She used one hand to pry back two boards from a decaying wooden frame. With a few grunts and g roans , both of us were able to climb through the window and enter the building.

What first startled me was the smell of the place. The fresh acid odor you get from decaying sawdust was undersco red by the mustiness of disuse. Grit on the floors sc raped against our shoes, the only sound in otherwi se complete sile nc e.

Brandy 's fla shlight cast a beam speckled by dots of du st that see med timelessly suspended in the air. Bright grey and carbon black everywhere.

Considering the cool , damp March air outside, the temperature was pleasantly warm. A seductive calm wrapped around us. We wandered aimlessly, holding hand s, about the main floor. There was the odd small office or washroom off to the sides; otherwise, only large pillars, every 30 feet or so, erectly supporting the floors above us, broke the open expanse. For the nex t half-hour, we explored all three floors, soak ing in the atmosphere. Her hand, cat足 like, eased across my back, co ming to a gripping rest on my s ide . My hand tentative ly rested on her shoulder.

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vividly, with me over the years. The first happened on the roof. From the third floor, through a doorway in one corner, a s piral staircase led to a trapdoor that gave easy access to the Oat stone and tar roof of the factory. The view was mesmerizing. With the complete darkne ss of the building, its roof seemed to step off imperceptibly into the city night - the flicker of lights, the impossibly orange glow of the moon behind the arterial outline of still bare maples, the Spam-like smell of the stockyard s, the screech of a brake. T felt like a detached, floating observer as I walked around the roof, looking in all direction s .

Do you ever wake up in the middle of the night, swea ting with the fear of what might have been ? Suddenly, my strolling left foot went out into nothingness, and some primitive IIlstinc t told me to fall back. I did, painfully, on my rear end.

Brandy, a couple of sleps behind me, shone her flashlight around me to see what had happened. I had co me within a hair of steppin g right off the roof and falling on to the asphalt of Hein ztman Avenue, 40 feet below me. The stupidity of youth, perhaps, did not aJJow the dread of what had almost happen ed to sink in , then. It did sink in , however, over the years. The older I get, the more 1 fee l the mo ment as though I am there again. as though I had not properly lived the near horror of the moment the first time, as though 1 must relive it over and over again until r recogni ze the random luck that saved me from the three足 seco nd faJJ to obliv ion.

However, at 15, I still had tl1e virgin ability to get up, to du st the pebbles from my backside and to carryon with the enjoyment of the moment. [ had not yet acquired the clutter of past di sas ters that haunts an adult. " Let's go back downstairs," 1 suggested.

"Yeah , let's. There's one neat place you've got to see." Brandy took my hand, and following the beam of her tlashlight, we worked our way back down toward the first floor. As she held my hand , her middle finger started to do interesting thin gs to the palm of my hand - rubbing it, probing it, circling around it. Her hand was starring to fee l more than ju st warm.

On the fIrst floor, she led the way to the east s ide of the building, opposite where we had e ntered. We passed through a door into what had apparently been the reception area for the factory. An open area about 30 feet squa re had probably once contained desks for various clerks . A wooden counter, perhaps 15 feet long, three feet high, separated the area from a small foyer, beyond which were the front door and windows of the building - now

all boarded. Surpri s ingly, pieces of paper and old file folders s till lay sc attered aU about. Whoeve r had cleaned out this area had seen no need to be meticulous.

We picked up so me of th e papers and looked at them under the flashlight 足 mostly invoices, boring. She sw ung the light around, revealing an empty bulletin board. On a s helf under the counter, a ret1ected shimmer caught our eyes. It was a photogra ph, the type that would be hung on a wall. Its frame was missing. Looking back at us, through the years, through a layer of dust and through some careless wrinkles, was an ancient baseball team: The Heintzman Nine - 1898. Actually, there were 12, stiff, stalue-like ballplayers in striped unifonns. Each had a long curvaceou s moustache. The ir bodies were lifeless ly fro z.en in lime, but their eyes looked inscrutably alive , knowing, observing us with 11llmor.

"A ren 't moustaches so sexy !" She took the forefinger of her right h<lnd and tingled it under my lip. " I hadn ' t really thought abou tit."

Her mouth came to mine. I didn ' t know what to do. We kissed. A long kiss. Until then, I had been unaware of the role of the tongue in executing a proper kiss. Her tongue penetrated my mouth , first caressing my tongue, then working it s way around my teeth, over my gums, and finally stroking the roof of my mouth.

Amateur that I was, T tried to follow her exa mple. We sto pped for air and our faces parted a few inches. She took a step back and through the near total dark looked at me shyly - at least it seemed shyly. She spun around, arms outstretched, with spontaneou s joy. "Don't you love this place')" " Yes , I do." Part of me was relieved that she had ste pped back, allowing me to recl ai m my personal space and my compos ure; part , di sappo inted that we had stopped kissing.

Brandy was great at throwing out random lines. "How far have you gone with a gir['7 " She picked up a folder from the floor, moved over to the counter, brushed away the dust and sat on the counter, hands at her sides, head tilted quizz ically, looking at me.

"Well , I 've gone all th e way with you, right up to the roof and bac k." Thi s is probably th e wittiest thing r have ever said. The mere thought of it, now, refreshe s my mind with the inspiration that I hav e not always been dull.

"Silly, that's not what I meant." She said "silly" in a sensuous, drawn-out way.

"Well, gee, that 's kind of personal stuff."

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"Do you like girl s?"

"Sure. I like you ." " What do you like about me?" I was standing next to her by the counte r. For some reason , my eyes focused on the vague outline of Iler bre ast as it rose and fell. " I don't know ... I guess you 're fun to be with. I like talking to you." This wa s true , as far as it went. Of course , I was leaving out a bit - the warm hand, the probing middle finger, the flowing hair, the ni ce smell, the shapely legs, the slithering tongu e , the rising breast. Then again , a part of me (deep inside) ,vanted nothing to do with the hand , th e fin ge r, the hair, the sm e ll, the legs, th e tongue and , least of all , the breast. Part of me wanted to run like hell. Then an inspiration . " Do you like me?"

"Of course I do . . . s illy." The same "silly" as before.

"Why ') " HI g uess you're good-looking and you 're not like other boys . You 're not always pawing ove r me. It's almost like you think I'm a pe rson, not just a body.

And you're sm art - - I like th at."

1 did think she was a person. I also wonde red how many "other boys" had been pawing ove r her. She leaned bac k as she said thi s, her hand s backing on to the far edge of the counter. Her thigh s gave a subtle curve to her dress .

Now, an orgy of thoughts and fe e lings were colliding inside me all at once.

Pawing wa sn ' t th e only thing you could do with girls, was it? A part of me wanted to believe that. But I was becoming aware of another part of me - a part that was tantali zed by the thought of pawing.

Confu sion so metimes lead s to confess ion. ''I'm not sure I'm ready for you, Brandy. You like me beca use I ' m not pawing over you, but yo u' ve spent the whole evening trying to get me to do ju st that. If [do, I ' ll di sappoint you; if not, I'll still di sa ppoint you."

She sat up , Indian -s tyle, on the counte r. For the longest time, we were both quiet , she I.ooking blankly off into the distance , 1 looking at he r. "1 fee l creepy and dirty - is that what you wanted me to fe e l? " Her voice was completely changed - no longer smooth and silky and confident - now throaty and halting and unsure . 'I had not intended to hun he r, nor had r even thought that I could, but cl earl y I had.

I did a littl e semi -circular walk in front of where she sat on the counter. I ki c ked at a few of the papers on the !'loor a nd eventually made my way back to the

counter on the other side of her. The photograph of the ba se ball team was there on the counter. I stupidly picked it up and looked at it s dark vague ness for a few seconds , the n pl aced it , face down, on the counter. ''I'm sorry. r reall y do like you. You ' re not dirty and you're definitely not creepy. It's ju st that I'm really not good with girl s."

The next part is the part I still don't und erstand , fully. She sat looking at me for what must have bee n 30 second s (at the time it fe lt like 30 minutes). In the washy darkne ss. she see med to look at me intently. Impulsively, she sprang to he r feet on the counter and walked three or four steps away from me along the counter, then camc back and looked clown at me. ''I'm going to do three things and you're going to do three things . First, you're going to go out the door and wait; I'm going to take off all my clothes. Secondly, you're going to come bac k and look at me , then leave whil e I put my clothes back on. Then I'm goin g home, and you ' ll walk me to m y house."

T am not sllre that I fully absorbed all of that al th e time, I did, however, blurt out something about how I couldn ' t possibly look at her if she had no clothes on.

"Whether you can do it or not. it's what you 're going to do." She said this with a firmn e's that carried its own logic. Since she put it that way, I had to do it , didn't I'? She stood up there looking down at me, legs slightly apart , hands on he r hips . Judging by the rise and fall of her chest, she was breathing dee ply and rapidly. Then she pointed at the door, the one we had come through from the main fac tory. " Go. Count to n hundred s lowly and th e n come bac k." r went.

On the ot her s ide of the door, I underwent one of those span s of comple te unre ality tha t only rare ly com es to a person. Had she really said that ? Am I really here waiting') That deep p art of me was saying : " G et o ut of here. Run." r did not. r started counting, slowly, to a hundred. I am not sure how accurate my co unting was. Other thoughts kept entering my mind . What would be on the other s ide of that door:' Would she really be starkel'S? Mayb e s he was just pl aying a joke on me. Too soon , like one condemned, I reac hed a hundred.

I went back through the door.

One can only see something once, for the first time . Even now, a fter years, after many attempts, [ am not plea sed

with the accuracy of m y recollection of what I saw. However I describe it, 1 see m to mi ss something e sse ntial.

Brandy stood much as 1 had left her足 legs s lightl y apart, hand s on hips - one hip s lightly higher than the other as though it were pointing, provocativel y, at me. She was, however, quite naked , her clothes and s hoes in a has ty pile beside he r. From a di stanc e of 20 feet, her outline was starkly cri sp, effervescently white in the still darkness. [ s tood awkwardly still , wid e -eyed, open-mouthed .

"Come closer." There was no e moti on in he r voi ce , but s he shifted slightly so that her other hip cante l'ed up, pointing at me, beckoning. I went c loser, to about 10 feet. " Closer." I edged forwal'd, fi ve feet. My neck had to strain slightly so that I co uld see her up there on the counter. She stretched he r anns out horizontally, cross -like , as speckled moonli g ht filtered thro ugh the impe rfec tly boa l'deli wind ows. A nimbus of radiance enveloped hel'. She pivoted arouncll)nce, slowly, arms still outstretched. My eye s, my mind, werc bombarded by a caco phony of white 足 her skin - broken by quiet tri angles of dark between he r legs, und er hCI' arms - delineated by knolls and vall eys and crevices - hel' bre asts, he r buttocks , he r back. She stopped still a nd ga zed down at me, I think she wa s smiling 足 eve rything about he r seemed to be smiling. flirting with m y pounding heart. My mouth , 1 recall vividly, was dry, and my legs wel'e quiv e ring , slightl y. involunt<1fily, "Wait f'or me on the other s ide of the door. I'll be out in a minute." r went.

After a couple of minutes, she emerge d throu g h the door, full y dressed. We left the factory, crossed th e yard . went under the fence and made our way back to Keel e Street. We walked back to hcr hous e holding hand s casually. We saiel nothin g. I walk e d her up to her front door. " Goodbye." She kis sed me shortl y. softl y, on the chee k. I said go oclbye .

Wh en 1 got to the bottom of her ste ps, I turned to wav e goodnight. She was gone. r sa w her again occas ionally at schoo l.

We said hellos, but neither of us tried to go beyond th at. The physi cs exam Jnd other exam s were not kind to Brandy.

She quit school in June . I nevcr saw her agClin, yet 1 see hel' every night. They tore down the Heintzman building in

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Alumni association reaches out The University of Guelph Alumni Association has created a new alumni outreach committee that will use Internet technologies to include members from around the world. Chaired by Lori Walker, B.Sc. '91, the outreach committee will work to promote awareness of the University's alumni associations and to encourage alumni volunteer involvement at the local, national and international levels.

Association president Dale Downey, B.Sc.(Eng.) '77, is excited about the opportunity to add international diversity to UGAA activities. "More than 90 per cent of our alumni live and work in Canada - in southwest Ontario alone there are about 54,000 足

but U of G alumni can be found in more than 115 countries," says Downey, who wants alumni worldwide to feel more connected and to be more involved in the life of the University.

New volunteers would also be welcomed to the association's communications committee, which is spearheading improvements to the alumni Web site; to the revenue projects committee, which is looking for new ways to support student and alumni programs; and to the nominating committee, which recruits volunteers to represent alumni on U of G's Senate, on committees and in executive positions.

Wherever you are in the wodd, check out the possibilities on the UGAA Web site at http://www.ugalumni.uoguelph.ca. or by e足 mail at either alumni@uoguelph.ca or downeyh20@sympatico.ca.

Warm weather and sunny skies drew almost 8,000 people to campus last October for Homecoming. Alumni families enjoyed a carnival arcade on Branion Plaza, a pep rally hosted by U of Gpresident Mordechai Rozanski and UGAA president Dale Downey, and a wagon ride to the football game with Gryphon cheerleaders. Student spirit took over Alumni Stadium as the Gryphon squad defeated the York Yeomen.

Development and Public Affairs took advantage of the day to honor some of Guelph's longtime donors and to unveil a photo display of alumni achievers that later travelledlto convocation and the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair in Toronto.

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Ottawa grads meet at the rink The Ottawa-Carleton Alumni Chapte r held its annual curling bonspiel at the Richmond Curling Club in Richmond , Ont., on Feb. 8. The winning rink was skipped by Ross Goodman, B.Sc.(Agr.) '85 and DVM '89. His teammates were Larry Caven , DVM '79, John Bongers. ADA '83 , and Don Chant. Organizers Marg, B.H.Sc. '54 , and John McGowan, DVM '54, and Alan Bentl ey, BSA '61, recruited 16 rinks for the bon spiel, but they are always looking for more curlers . Alumni in the Ottawa area who would like to partic ipate in future bonspiels, are invited to call the MeGowan s at 613-828 -7038.

The Univers ity of Guelph Alumni Association invit 's nominations for:

Alumni and students talk careers

Alumnus of Honour

The Mae-FACS , CBS and HAFA Alumni Associations held career nights on campu s during January and Fe bruary. A number of alumni from each college attended the events to share their own career path s and experiences wi.th stud ents. The OAC Alumni Association helped tile OAC Student Federation with a week of activities, including it financial planning seminal for students and the annual Agg ie Good-Times Banquet he ld Jan. 30 .

An annual awarcl celebrating the ac hiev eme nts 0[' alumni who have brought great honor to their alma mater through professionaL community and personal endcavours.

Alumni Medal of Achieve mcnt A convocation award thaL recognizes a graduate of the last 15 years who has achieved excellence throu gh contributions to country, community, profe ssion or the world of' art s and lettcrs.

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Of Excellence

Guelph grads earn Canadian honors Top writer - Author Jane Urquhart , BA ' 71 , won this year's Gov e rnor Gen eral 's Award for Fic tion for he r founh novel, The Underpuinter.

Order of Canada - World-renowned Harvard economist John Kenneth Gal.braith, ADA ' 29 and BSA ' 31, received an Order of Canada Nov. 5 in Ottawa. Cited as "one of the great liberal thinkers of our age ," he was commended for hi s contributions to th e di scussion of westem economics and politics for the last 50 years and hi s talent for communica ting with the public.

Pre sident Mordechai Rozans ki and OAC dean Rob McLaughlin , B.Sc.(Agr.) '69 and PhD '77 , atte nded the investiture.

Galbraith rece ived an honorary degree from Gu elph in 1965.

Alumni Volunteer Award An annual award to honor alumni who have demonstrated 10Y', lty and commitment to th e ir alma mate r by supporting the Unive rsity of Guelph throu g h their voluntee r work.

Nomination deadline: Feb. 27, 1998 Submit nominutions to: John Watson, Chair, UGAA Honors and Awards Committee, c/o Alumni House , niversityof Guelph , Guelph, Ont. N I G 2W I.

For more in/orll1ution, contact Car/a Bradshaw at A/umni House. Ext. 6533.

Nominations are also being accepted for:

OVC Distinguished Alumnus An annual award presented by the OVC Alumni Association to recognize a graduate who has brought honor to the college and fellow alumni through leadership and service to country, science, education, profess ion or alma mater.

Nomination deadline: Feb. 28, 1998

News from Mac-FACS The Mac-FACS Alumni Association publis hed an inaugural alumni resource directory last fall that can be used to make alumni connections around the world. Alumni listed in th e directory have agreed to se rve as s peakers, advisers and resources for Gue lph students, faculty and other alumni. Plans are to update the directory annually and to produce both printed and el ectronic versions in 1998.

The association is also asking graduates o f Macdonald Tnstitute and the College of Fa mily and Consumer Studies to share th eir me mories of Guelph For a book of personal refl ections thar will be published later this year. The book will he lp document the history of the college - as remembered by its graduates - as FACS prepares to amalgamate with the College of Social Sc ience.

Plans are under way at Guelph to form a new c ollege that will focus on their combined stre ngths in the human sciences.

If you'd like to know more about the alumni resource directory or would like to contribute to the book of personal reflections, contact Mac-FACS education director Jeann e (Kellam) Bank, B.A.Sc. '74 , at 416-747-2624, fax: 416-747 -2473 , e -mail: bankj@csa.ca.

A nomination form was included in the December issue of The Crest or can be requested by contacting Alumni Hou se, Ext. 6533.

George Bedell Award of Excellence This award is presented to a graduate of the School of Hotel and Food Administration who best represents the school in professionalism, ac hievement and contributions to the hospitality industry.

Nomination deadline: Feb. 27 , 1998.

For more information, contact Laurie Malleau at Alumni House, Ext. 2J02.

Award commitlees f or the abo ve can be reached through A/llmni House at the Unil'ersity o/Cuelph, Cue/ph, 0111.

NIC 2WI, 519-824-4120;fax.路 5/9-822-2670; e-nwi/: car/ab@a/umni.uogue/ph.ca.

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On now to July 26 - The M ac doJlald Stewart Art Centre prese nts "A Sense of Tim e and Place:' un ex hibition tha t include s historical views of Guelph and the U of G ca mpus ; open Tu es day Lo Sunday from noon to 5 p. m., Thursdays to 9 p. m.

Feb. 22 - Snow birds and Florida alumni are invited to an all­ Canadian uni vers ities bru nc h in T<lmp a, Fla. , hosted by the Un ive rsity of Wes tern Ont ari o. Meet at noo n al the M an'io tl Westshore Hotel. For inform at ion. call Ext. 6533.

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Deadline ror nOIllinations for UG AA uluIllni awards.

Feb. 28 - D ea dline for nominati ons fo r OYC Di stin gui shed Alumnus <t wu I·d.

March 4 - Fl orida alumni reunion. M apJe Leaf Estates in Port Chudotle. for informmi on, ca ll Ext. 6533 or se nd e-m ai l to <Ilumni@uoguelph.ca.

March 7 - !\ Sy mpos iulll on Ru ss ian Musi c nnd Culture, sponsored by til e School or Fin e AI·t nnd Music, w ith guest !'>cholars and mu sico logists. 9:45 a.m. in Music Room 107 or the MacKinn on B uilding. T he day-long program of lec tures and demonstrati ons co ncludes w ith a 3 p.m. rec ital. All events are ope n to th e pub li c at no charge.

March 7 to AprilS - Ma ple Sy rup Da ys at the A rboretum.

Demonstration s on how to tap trees and make maple syrup makin g w ill be held each Satu rday and Sun day rro m II a.m . 10 5 p.m . at the J.c. Tay lor Nature Centre. Syrup-mak ing wi ll al so be featured during March Break , M arch 17 to 20, I I a.m. to 5 p.m . clail y.

March 12 & 19 - " A Natu ral Ap proach to Home GUI'cl ening:' a two-clay co urse at th e Aboretum , fee $64 . Call Ext. 4 110 to reg ister.

March 14 & 15 -

Co llege Roya l Wee kend.

March 20 & 2 1 - OAC Alumni A ssoc iati on 40th unnu al curling bonspi el at the Guelph Curlin g Club and Guelph Country Club.

Regis ter earl y by callin g A lumni Hou se at Ext . 6657.

April 15 -In Chi cago . an A ll-Ca nadian U ni ve rsities dinner w ill be hos ted by the U ni ve rsit y of Toronto. Detail s are unconfirmed. C~ II Ext. 6533 or e-rn Jil ea l'lab@alu mni .uog uelph. ea f or more informat ion.

Ap ril 25 - I n Washin gton, D .C. , an A ll-Ca nadian Uni ve rsities recepti on and dinner w ill be held at Phi llip 's Fla gs hip Reslaurant ut 6:30 p.m. For details, cu ll Ex t. 65 33.

May 6 - OAC A lumni Foundati on annu ul gener al meeting, 7:30 p.m .. Arboretum Centre.

May 13 - Alumni-in- Acti on annual general mee tin g and sp rin g luncheon, I I :30 a. m. at the Arboretu m Centre. G ues t spe ak er i s Dan N eed les. Ca ll Alu m ni I-louse at Ext. 6657 for ti ckets.

June 8 to 17 - 20 th annua l Guelph Confe rence & Tnii nll1g Institute on Sex ual i ty. For information , call Ex l. 3956 .

June 12 to 14 - T he Class of OAC ' 83 ce lebrates its 15th anniversary at th e Bl ue Moun ta in Resort, RR 3 Co lling wood, On t.

CaU Arlene Roberts on fo r details at 1-8 00-465-99 12, ra x to 519- 826-3535 or send e-n13il to arobe rt s@om afra.gov.on.ca.

Grads ca n also call Sandra Pitts at 51 9-836 -544 6 or send e-mail to sp ilts@uogueJph .co.

June 19 to 21- A lumni Weeke ncl1 998.

For mor e injiJnnaril!11 a /Jo ur calendar (' l'('nls, C!I // rh e !'lumber li sred o r [he Unil'l'Is ily of Cu('/ph eXl ellsio n !l l 5 19-824-4120.

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Friday night welcome barbecue President's Luncheon on Saturday Golden Anniversary Dinner 25th Reunion Silver Anniversary Dinner Anniversary events for 5- , 10- , 15- and 20-year grads Alumni association meetings

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Mac '38 Maryon Brechin , phone or fax 905-335-1529 Helen Fleming , 905-278-4949

Mac '48 Betty Arcangeli, 905-881-0870

Mac '53 Alli son Milburn , 416-447-1588

FAGS '73 Marilyn Forster-Lo Turco, 519 -853-2112

FAGS 78 Mariette Denis, 519-821-8246 or e-mail rdenis@golden.net

OAG '33 Gordon Wright, 705-435-4242

OAG '38 and friend s Lloyd Min shall , 705-652-8609

Lawren ce Jefferson, 519-822-9789

OAG '43 Jim Jewson , 416-231-6355

OAG '48 Bruce Knox, 519-843-2035

Wally Knapp , 519-766-9693

OAG '53 Murray Miller, 519-824-8868 or

e-mail mmiller@lrs .uoguelph.ca

Bill Gregg , 519-853-2776

OAG '53A Robert Taylor, 519-448-1377 or fax 519-756-3541

David Barrie , 519-396-6187 after April 1 OAG '63 Roy McMillan , 519-824-6987

Mike Jenkinson , 519-821-3415 or

e-mail jenkinso@oac.Lloguelph.ca

OVG '38 Herbert Wright , 905-627-0614

OVG '43 George Fisher, 613-258-5811

OVG '48 Bob Williams, 905-857-1855

OVC '58 Rod Davis , 416-239-6567 or fax 416-247-8923 Class of 1973 and other anniversary grads w ho want to organize a reunion gathering for Alumni Weekend , please call June O'Grady at Alumni House, 519-824-4120, Ext. 6657 .

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1930s

Dorothy (Davis) Taylor, Harriet (Taylor) Epperson and Elizabeth (Drury) Partridge, ADA '31 , held a

"mini-reunion" at Trillium House on Gull Lake in Haliburton, Ont. The Trillium Hou se nam e sterns from Taylor's uncle MP William Gardhou se, who introd uced the bill to make the trillium Ontario 's flow er. Helen (Evans) Orr-Ewing, ADA '3 1, called from Victoria, B.C., wit h best wishes, and all toasted the memory of classmate Margaret (McMillan) Whyte . "Ma ny hours sli pped by reliving the wonderful times enjoyed in Guelph," says Taylor. "A lthou gh 66 yea rs have passed and li fe time s lived , memories made ollr laughter yo ung again ."

Jim Ross, ADA '56, received one of five Aw a rd s of Exce llen ce presented by the Ontari o Chamber o f" Commerce at th e 15th annual Outstanding Business Achievement Awards dinner in September. Incorpo rate d in 1960, Grand Vall ey Fortifiers, Ltd. offe rs food producers qu a lity nutrient supplements and feeding prog rams for li ves tock . Since 1990, the compa ny' s ove rall sales hav e grown 70 pe r cen t; in two years, U.S. expol1 ,ales topped $ 1.2 millio n .

Gail Kellar, BA '68 , spe nt a decade

1960s

trave lling and li vin g ove rseas before sett ling in Calgary to rai se he r daughter, Kerri, and com pl ete her MBA. For eig ht years, s he has been all agen t with Sta te Farm In s uran ce and recently joined the company's prestig ious President 's Club. She spend s wee kend s on her ranch in the foothill s.

Radhey Lal Kushwaha, MSA '64, lecently became a fe llow of the American Society of AgriCLlitural Eng ineer, (ASAE ). H e was cited as an extraordin arily accomplished teacher and researcher in th e fields of so il dynamics, ergon omi cs and trib o logy. Ku s hwaha , a member of ASAE for 30 years, is a professor of agricultural engineering at the Univ ers ity of Saskatchewan.

Sue (Joiner) , BA '77 , and Don Adam, BA 'n, ha ve t[lree c hlldren (ages 12, nine and fi ve) and li ve in Kitchener, Ont. They would like to hear from lost friend s from Mill s Hall , Lambron Hall, Eas t Res idences, e tc. Th ey can be reached at adamfamily@golden.net. Sue writes: "We always recomm e nd Guelph to a ny we mee t who are entering university, it's th e best l "

1910s

Getting together in Haliburton are, left to right: Beth Partridge , Harriet Epperson , and Dorothy Taylor Johan Dormaar, BSA '57, MSA '58, re tired last May from the Agricu lture a nd Agri-Food Canada Researdl Centre in Lethbridge, Alta., as eme ritus re sea rc h sc ientis t. He will con tinue with so me of hi s rangeland soils work, but a lso plan s to branch more into unders tandin g pre-settlement people and landscape interactions by s tud ying ethnobotany, geopha gy and geospirituality. He is still an adjunct professor at th e University of Lethbridge , where he received an honorary degree in 1991.

1950s

Cuthbert "Cup" Gunning, BSA '51, MSA '53, received a letter of tbanks from PI'ince Philip, via th e prince's te mporary eq uerry, acknowledging receipt of Gunning's book HMCS Nouh Bay. OI1 !! Ship's Role in War and Peace /943-/992. Gunn ing "added a nother piece of Canadiana to the library of Buckingham Palace " last Apr il. anticipating the royal visit , w hose Itinerary included NOl1h Bay, Ont. H e also donated a cop y of HMCS No rth Bar and four other books he has w ritt en on the history of North Bay to th e of G Library, whe re they are avai lable to st ud ents ami alumni. Gunning's literary career began after he retired from 20 years as refercnc e librarian at N ip issi ng University. And he s uggests ot her retired Guelph gradu a tes could write si milar hi stor ies on their hom e towns.

Andre Bordeleau, BA '79 and MA '85, is a lec turer at the Planetarium de Montrea l and ha s a spec ial inte res t in the li g ht pollution, which he describes as a mi s understood environmental problem. Durin g his years a t U of G and since , Bord e lea u distinguished himse lf as a national athl e te in runnin g game target shoo ting. A member of the Canadian team fo r 10 years, he se t se veral national records and compe ted in world cup championships and Commonwealth Game and Olympic trials.

Mary Ellen (Mitten), BA '74, and Gary Ball, B.Sc.( Ag r. ) '76 , have moved to Charlotte, North Carolina. M a ry Ellen so ld her training/consulting business to "temporarily retire" ; Gary is vic e足 pres ident of ABT Co.'s plasti cs division. Their oldest daughter, Alyson , atte nd s U of Gu e lph, continuing the family tradition.

Their younger daughters, Heather and Jenny, attend high sc hoo l in North Carolina. The BaUs ca n be reac hed throug h e-mail at gba ll@be1Jso uth .net.

Jan (Gillin) Buley, BA '79, and her hu sband, David, are tempo rarily " aliens" in the United Stat es. While David finishes a PhD in sacred mu sic at Dre w Uni ve rsity in Princeton, N. J., Jan directs c hild care at Princeto n Day Sc hoo l and is an adjunct professor of e lernentar y language al"l"s a t Rider Un ive rsity. They hope to rl'(UJl1 to Canada soon.

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Richard Cunjak Rosemary Fleming­ Featherstone, BA '79, li ves in Bracebridge, Ont., wi th her husband, Paul , and the ir children , Anne and Katie. She works wi th Community and Social Services in Muskoka.

Richard Higgin, BA '79, received it 1997 Emmy Award fo r the technica I excellence he demonstrated with NBC at the Summer Olympics ill Atlanta.

Richard is a project manager wi th IMMAD Broadcast Services. "We are very proud of Richard.

Richard Higgin and our ent ire Olympic team for the recognition of the outstanding wo rk they did in Atlanta ," says IMMAD pre sident Stephen Pumpl e.

Noreen (Marshman) Lanning, B.A .Sc. '72, worked with developmentally delayed adults and children, spent seven years farming, wo rked for the Easter Seal Society and now teaches kindergarten. She

and her husband , Richard, have two chi ldren: Tom, 22, who works with the Elgin MiJitiCl, and Catherine, 21 , who married in August. Noreen is trying to learn the bagpipes and has taken lip weaving ta rt ans and other textiles.

Patrick Luciani , BA '73, has been appointed exec Lit ive director of the Donner Canadian Foundation, one of Canada's oldest and largest private foundations, which supports rese arch in educati on and public policy and innovative civil projects. Luciani , who ea rned a maste r's degree in public admin istration from Harvard, was former! y the founda ti on's director of research.

Harley Nicholson, B.Sc.(Agr.) '72 anei M.Sc. ' 74, was named gene ral manager of BCAI Centre las t su mmer. He '>tarted his career as a .Icclurcr and research (lssistant (It U of G, then Joined the Centre d ' insemination artificiell e eiu Quebec Inc. (CIAQ) as a sire ana lyst in 1975.

He was later head of dairy ca ttl e selection and director of genetic programs at CI AQ. In 1986, he was appointed ge ne ra l manger of Eastem Breeders Inc. More recently, he has been with the Cnnadian Dairy Network as an industry specialist and with the Canad ian Milk Recording Board as secretary-trea surer.

Rimas "Ray" Panavas, BA '72, has been an Etobi.coke, Ont., journa list for 20 years; his co lumn appenrs in Etobicoke Life. Hi s wife.

KelTY (Corrigan), BA '77, is theatre critic for the Etobicoke Guardian and run s Terrapin Ti e Dyes , Inc. They have th ree child ren: Sally, 15; Ju stine, 13; anei Skyler, 10. Ray has taken his family to more thnn two dozen Grateful Dead concel1S (lnd ex hibits his re novated schoolbus Cit locn l shows.

Fawnda (King), B.Sc. '75, and Robin Pellett , B.Sc.(Agr.) '75, celebrate two 22nd anniversaries this year - their wedding and the founding of Robin's company, PELLETECH, Inc. , which helps update production mechanisms for food-processing operat ion s. Six years with the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture , Food and Ru ral Affairs and recent provincial cutbacks prompted Robin to achieve hi s seJ f­ e mployment dream. He remains a vol unteer and consultant for the

Guelph Food Techn ology Ce ntre. The Pelle tts hav e three childre n and live in Etobicoke, Ont. E -ma il them at < bf302@freene Ltoronto.on.c a> .

Sabine (Vahlenkamp) Schleese, B.Sc. ' 77, is manag ing directo r of Schleese Saddl e ry Serv ice , Ltd. , in Stouffville, Onl. The bus iness, which s he opera tes with he r hu sband, received o ne of three Awards o f Merit at the Ontario Chamber of Comme rce 15th annual Outstandi ng Business Ac hiev eme nt Awards dinner in Septembe r.

Jane (Stewart) Siberry, B.Sc. '79, taught a n introd uctory scie nce course at a recent workshop at the Ho llyhock Lea rnin g Cen tre in Bri ti sh Co lumbia. This fall , S iberry rel eased her 10th a lbum (the third with SH EE BA , her own ye ar-old reco rd company). Child: Musi c /rll' fhe Chrisfmas Seosol1 is the first in a pmJ ec ted tri logy of live albums reco['ded at e w York Ci ty 's Bottom Line Club.

Sue Ellen Fast, B.Sc . '8 1, 11as been developing nature progra ms for more than a decad e in variou s ce ntres ac ross Alberta and British Columbia. She no w ho sts Na lll!'e Walk, a week ly tel evision program o n th e L ife Netw ork.

Heather Grief Vickar,

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B.A .Sc. '8 1. lives with her husband a nd tw o yo un g chi ldre n in Edmonton. She is a fu ll ­ time mo m w ho does accounting and ta x work fro m home. Sh e still has f'ond [Tle mori es of Mountain Res idence and th e Keg.

Amreek Singh, M.Sc. '68 , PhD

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'71, a pmf . so r of microscopic anatomy at tlantic Veterinary Coll ege in Charlottetown , is thc 1996ÂŤ)7 winner of th e Pfiz.c r Carl J. I o rden Di stin guished Teaching Awa rd. Singh won th e re nown ed North A me rican veterinary award for' "supe rb mastery of traditi onal teaching metbod s, willingness 10 incorporate new tec hn ologies into the teacbing and ... un common Amreek Singh dedication and commitment to ass isting student s to lea rn." Singh has won several teachi ng award s, inc ludin g a 1984 award from th e U of G Fac ulty Association.

' 85, has been in Bo nn, Germany, for the past six years, se rvin g as deput y exec utive sec re tary for th e Secretariat of th e UN Conventi on o n Mi g ratory Species. He'd be glad to hear from a ny CBS ' 84 or ' 85 c lass mates o r profess ors who mi g ht be co min g to Germany.

Greg Tarry, BA '7 6 M.S c . '77 , is director of ed ucation in Tak la Regio nal School D istrict, Tak la, B. C. Tarry rec e ntl y hosted a gathe ring with U of G c lass mates Sea mu s "Jimmy" Keane, BA ' 76, Grant Duffy, BA '75, and Peter Link, BA '76, fo r a we eke nd of fish ing and campi ng in the B .C. interior.

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so ns : Patrick, 3; an d Andrew, 2. The famil y bas ju st bought its fir st home in Burlin gton , Ont. , where Pat teaches Grade 4 for the Halton Roman Cat holic School Board.

1980s

Ace Bailey, B.Comm. '84,

recen tl y acq uired the King Ed wa rd Hote l in Banff. Alt a. He is m anag ing the bote l, which was first established in 1904 and has become a fa vourit e resort for skiers, incl udin g Bailey.

Marguerite Ceschi-Smith, M.S c . '81, is th e associa te exec utive direc tor of the Canadian Counc il for Human Resources in the En vironme nt Ind us try, where s he is invo lved in es tablish in g a nationa l certifI ca tion program for environmental prac tition e rs. She wa s also rece ntly elected for a second term as city co un c ill or in Bran tford , Ont. , and wel comes conta ct fro m U of G fri ends at mceschi@sy mpatico.ca .

Patrick Dowds, BA '88, would love to hear from other

Brenda (Carolan) Jarvis, BA '86, rece ntly

An ne Mullens, B.Sc. 'SO , rig ht, recently recieved a Wilfred Laurier University writing award for creative non-fiction. Presenting the $3,000 prize is journalist Edna Staebler, fo r whom the award is named . Mullen's book Timely Death: Considering Our Last Rights is based on her 1994 series in the Toronto Star. Timely Death is a journalistic account of the debate over euthanasia.

Mullens lives in Vancouver wHh her husband and two children, and is now working on her third book, Staebler, who is known for a lifetime of journalistic work and several novels, has pictured the lives of Canadians in many parts of the country through her writing.

In 1995 she donated her journals and papers to the U of G library achives.

mo ved to Johann esburg, South Africa, wh e n her bu sba nd, Jim , transferred th ere with Hatc h Associates. Afte r seven years in the S udbury, Ont., area, where Brenda left tea c hing to run her own baby-needs business, the Jat'V ise s and their c hildren - Emily, 8, Olivia, 5, and Jo hn , 18 months - are e mbarkin g on a two-yea r adv entu re and we lcome e-mail at <j a['Vis@iafrica.com >.

Manuela Kohler-Burge, BA ' 81, moved with he r famil y to O a kd ale, Minn. , just over a year ago and is now enjoying some time to he rse lf with her yo un ges t c hild in kindergarten. She wou ld like to meet other U of G grad s I iving in the area.

Max Langton, B.Se. '84, h as bee n nam ed vice-pres id e nt o f sa les with Baye r Pharm aceut icals. He lives in Burlington, Ont. , with his wire, Catherine , and c hildren, And y and Stephanie.

1988 geography g rad s. He and his wife , Vic ki , have tw o

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Giovanni Malito, B.Sc. ' 87 anci Ph D '89, is the first-prize winner in poetry in the I Y97 Cltc/ph A lltllll1l1s/Sc otiaMcLeod Writing Com pe ti tio n. He says hi s first poem was a val entine wri tte n while he was co mple ting an undergraduate degree in chem istry at the Unive l's ity of Toronto , but it was at U of G as a graduate student that he was tlrst published. Hi s poe try appea red in the Chin ese Student Associa tion publicati on Blosso/'ll, in the Ollfilrioll and in the iJ lL' rary journal Cumlls!! l.

Malito is married to an Irish medical student and teach es c hemi stry at Co rk Regi onal Technological College in II·eland. He also writes il wee kl y newspape r column and cloes theatre re v i~ w s for the Cork Leoder and has had severa l poems published by the Iri~h pres,. T he poems fe<Jtllrt:-d on page .IX :.Ire part of a s('ries called "Con necting the Dots in Italy."

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Raymond Massie,. DA ' 89 , and Sherry (Show) Massie, B.Sc. '92, v"e re married OC I. ), 1996, and arc ex pecting thei r firs t ch ild in May. Raymond is ass iSlant me,)t manager at the Enni Slllore IGA; She t-ry is a develop ment che mist for Du Pont Canada. In addi ti on to Raymond 's full­ ti me pos ition. he maintains a pureb red Hereford opera tion .

Dione McDougall. B.A.Sc. '86, srent last su mmer at home in lpperwas h. On l. , with Roger Reed an d their son, Morgan . bo rn in May. This fall. she returneci to her job as a probation officer in Forest.

Elaine Pilgrim-Susi. B.A .Sc. ' 8Y, recent ly completed her M.Ed. at Brock Universit y and now teaches Engl ish for the Hamilt on Board of Education. She is taking principal qualificati on cour~e s at York Universi ty and aspires to Join her school board 's administrati on. She and her husband , John Susi , have a three-year-old son, Mic hael.

Holly Prus, B.Sc. 'X ), was a wildlife bio logi st for vari ous Western Canada govern ment agenci es and pr ivate illstitu tions before entering law sch oo l in \988. She practised law in Ca lgary, married a fe ll ow bio logist in 1992 ami moved to Yukon in I Y93. She has a three-year-old daughter, l\1cagall , and p ractises aborig ina l and environm ental law wit h Justice Ca nada in Whiteho rs e.

Jeff Reid , B.Sc.U\gL) '89, an agronomist with C&M Seeds, joined lei low Guelph alumni Tom Sawyer, B.Sc .(Ag!'.) '64, execu tive vice -president of the Fert il ize r Institute of Ontiil'io; Ken Hough, B.Sc.(Agr.) '76. ciirec tor of re,c:rrch and market developmen t for the Ontario Corn Producers ' Associat ion: U of G environmental biology professor Gordon Surgeoner, B. Sc.(Agr.) '7 I and M.Sc . '73; and crop science pro fess or Jock Tonner, B. Sc.(Agr.) '57 and M.Sc. '59, to speak at it li ve two- way video conference on On ta rio fie ld crop prod ucti on in No ve mber. The con fe rence was hosted and broadcast simultaneo usl y by te leconferen ce faciliti es in Gue lph, Ri c!ge town anc!

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Mark Spurr, B.Sc. '82, was named v ice -pres ident. ad ve rti sing and graphic desig n, of NATION AL Public Relations in Toronto in Ocwber. Prio r to jo ining NATlONAL, he worked for mo re than a decade in sales , marke ting and ad ve rti sing with pharmace utical companies and ad ve rti s ing agencies.

Robert Stevens, B.Sc. (H.K. ) 'R5, has bee n appo inted vice -pres ide nt of the Merrill-Lynch Loan Syndicate Gro up in New York.

Cheryl Taylor, B.Se. '89, graduated with honors from

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Sheridan College's nursing program in 1994 and is now an eme rge ncy nurse at Wayne Memorial Hospital in Go ld sboro, Nonh Carolina. The first Canadian hired at the hos pital, Taylor paved the way for the an'ival of 10 more nurses from Canada.

Wa yne Vanderlaan, B.Comm. '86, is a constabl e with the Pee l Region Police. He enjoyed his 15 minut es of fame on the cove r of the June 16, 1997, Tom1710 Slur fo r hero ica ll y escorting seven geese and 34 goslings off Hig hway 403 to the Credit Ri ver in Missi " au ga.

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Brenda Allen , B.Sc . '93. completed her D.Phil. in math s at Oxford Uni versity and is now wo rk ing for the Mini stry of Defen ce of the British Ci vi I Se rv ice.

Don Bradford, BA '92, is a prog ram deve loper for VON Oxfo rd in Woodstock, Ont o He was prev iou sly a co mmunit y deve lo pme nt pl anner for seve ral human services pl anning committees in south wes te m Ontari o. He also wo rk s With local organi zat ions such as the Woodstoc k Enviro nme nt al Advisory Committee. He enjoys tra ve lling thro ugh Can ada and ~ p e n d in g time with his partner, Mi che ll e. ~I n d hi s cat, Ti gge r.

Ben Cooperman , BA '95. has spent the past few yean; trave ll ing anclteac hin g Eng li sh in schools in Korca and Taiw an. He has " learn ed cnou gh Chinese to get through a meagre (o nve l'sati on:' He hopes to meet with other itincl'ant G ue lph alumni in Thailand.

He tutors undergraduates at Oxford 's Pembroo ke Co llege .

He invites inquiries from visitors or applicants to Oxford at c hristo phe Lgarner@ nuffie ld.ox ford.a c. uk.

Bonnie (Dunnett) . BA "ii7 , MA ' 9 1 and PhD '9 7, and Barry Hillma n, MA '9 1. il nd the ir son, Andrew. have moved to Chi co, Ca lif, where Bonnie has taken a position as as sistant profes sor in geography and planning at

Their international experience takes root at home The ice looked ten times th icker than the branches trying to bear its weight, says Marga ret Dickenson, B.H.Sc. '68, when describing the scene outside her Ottawa home in early January. The ice storm of 1998 left its mark on eastern Ontario and Quebec and left the Dickensons feeling that Canadians are as vulnerable to natural disasters as people around the globe.

During Larry's, B.S.c.(Agr.) '68, 28-year career in Canada's foreign service, they have witnessed both the power of Mother Nature and the tragic misuse of human power. In 1969 the Canadian embassy was bombed ,in Vienna on the first day of Larry's very first diplomatic post.

One of his last ,positions overseas was marred by the Au gust 1990 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. The Canadian ambassador escorted their youngest daughter, Tonya, out of Kuwait on the last plane to leave before Iraqi forces stormed and captured the airport.

Larry went on to serve as ambassador ,to Indonesia, returning to Onawa in 1996. Last year, he was appOinted deputy minister at the Privy Council and executive director of Canada's millennium task force.

Margaret ,recently published an entertaining guide, From the Ambassador's Table, that draws on both her experience as an international hostess and a Guelph-trained nutritionist. The book offers tips on how to elegantly present meals that she says are easily prepared. When the book was launched by Random House publishers in November, the whole Dickenson family arrived in Ottawa to celebrate, including four-day-o'ld grandson, Nicholas.

The new baby has an older sister, Catherine, and both are the children of Larry and Margaret's youngest daughter, Tonya, and her husband, Max Tessier. Christa Dickenson Camp also attended the book launch to applaud her mother's new venture.

Martin Dunn. B.Sc. (Agr.) '90. M.Sc. '92, has worked in Southeast Asia since 1992 as a volunteel' on food research projec ts and in ad mini strati on with NGOs in the area. He i~ eunelltly deputy direc tor o f Save the Children U.S.A., in Vi enti ane. Lao PD R.

Elizabeth (Smeltzer) Durnin. B.Sc.(Agr. ) '92. recei ved hc r H.Ed . fro m the Un ive rsi ty o f Wc<;( crn Ont ario in 1994 and h a ~ becli teac hi ng a lte rn at ive ed uca ti on for adults and you ng hig h schoo l dro pouts in Winghaill . Onl. Shc ma rr ied fored Durn in Ju ly 5.1 997 . â&#x20AC;˘wd they li ve on a LInn n.:ar Goderi eh.

Michael Foulds, 1\ '97 . IS a Ieg i, lati ve intern with Bi ll G ril1 1111etl. MPP fo r l uskoka- .t:org ian Bay. Ori g in all y from Thunder Bay. Fould , h a ~ trave lled ' \tc ils ive ly in RLI ~~i a and Eastern Europe and hopes to alle nd la w ~ e hoo l II C.\t yea r.

Christopher Garner. BI\ '94. rece ived hi , MA fro lll Mc M u~te r IJl1i\'c r. it )' ill I(N6 and is 1I0W re<lcl ing I'm a D.Ph il. ill poli tics at Nullicl d Co llege . Ox fo rd Univers ity.

Family and friends gathered for the launch of Margaret Dickenson's new book. From left, Christa Dickenson Camp and Tonya Tessier, Catherine Tessier, Margaret and Larry Dickenson (holding Nicholas) , Aline Chretien , and Max Tessier.

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California State Univers ity, Ch ico. They inv ite friends and c lassma te s to e-ma il them at <bhallman@ o avax.csuc hico.edu>.

Stefan, B.Sc. '91, and Janis (Caulfeild) Kremer, BA '91 , bec<l me proud pare nts when Lauren Judith was born May 7,1 997. They were married in 199 1 and li ved in Edmonton, Alta ., while he fini shed a PhD and she worked as a counsellor for e motionall y di sturbed chi Idren . Then ca me a move to Kan a ta, Om., and now Gue lph where Stefa n is teac hin g in U of G's Department of Computing and fnformation S cie nce (t he sam e MPC2 cou rse he too k 10 years ea rlier).

Jane Lewis, BA '9 5, came to

Gintarius "Ginty" Jocius, B.Sc.(Agr.) '70, left, presented a $25,000 cheque to OAC dean Rob McLaughlin, B.Sc. (Agr.) '69 and PhD '77, second from the right, at Canada's Outdoor Farm Show in September. Helping support the effort are Noble Villeneuve, Ontario minister of agriculture,food and rural affairs; John Findlay, MP for Oxford; and Doug Wagner, ADA '74, show co-ordinator. Jocius is president and founder of the annual Outdoor Farm Show, which has moved to a new permanent home at the U of G Research Station in Woodstock, Ont. The donation will contribute to the University's Access Fund, providing financial assistance to agricultural.students.

Stephen Hare , BA ' 90, MA '92, e arned a PhD in philosoph y from the University of Ottawa in M arch 1997 anel is now se lf-emp loyed as a philosophical coun se llor and ethi cs consultant in Otlawa. He has a I O-year-old son, Malcolm. Hare's e -mail address is <duS II@free ne t.carJ e ton. ca>.

Jill Khashmanian , B.Sc. '91 , says life is funny. She's a marine biology graduate workin g as a freelan ce writer; he r husba nd, Robert, BA '95, has a degree in soc iology and works as a harbor manager in Vanco uve r. Wh en their so n, Jaco b, was born two years ago , Jill se ttl ed down at home to be a full -time mom and write r.

Winnin g second pri ze in the 1997 Gllelph Alumnus/ScotiaMcLeod Writ ing Compet ition will be Jill Khashmanian

remembered as one of her

earliest successes . Kha shmanian has had a children's story,

"The Mou se th at Fe ll from the Sky," published by the U.S.

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Gu elph to study psycho logy, then applied nutrition , and finall y philosophy. Along the way, s he took a cre ative writing course , which she says enco uraged he r to continue writing poe try. She was a second -place winne r in the 1997 GII !!lph Alllml1l1.I/Sco ti aMcI .cod Writin g Competition. Originall y from SI. Catharines , Ont., Lewis has Jane Lewis been workin g at the C<lmpu s Co-Op Boo kstore in Gue lph when not trave lli ng. She is c urre ntly repeati ng a post-graduation trip to nonhern Indi a and Tha iland. She and her companion, Mark Vcisll , MA '97, have bee n tCClclling En g li sh in a village of Tibetan re fug ees and at a sm all nunn e ry. Vcisll also atten ded classes in philosop hy at a Tibetan library. They are now in Bangkok and hope to work th e re for seve ral months be fore movin g on to Ta iwan , then home to Canada .

Brian Lichty , B.Sc. '92, a nd Kelly St. Denis. B.Sc . ' 92, me t at U of G and man-ied in Au g ust at th e home of Brian's parents in Elmira, Ont. Lic hty is completing a PhD in can ce r research at the Unive rs ity of Toronto ; Sr. Deni s is entering her third yeClr at OV e.

Kim Logie , BA ' 91. ea rn ed her B.H.Sc. in occ upational therapy at McMaster University in 1':)95. She cu rrentl.y works for th e Hamilto n Hea lth Sciences Corp., but plan s to move to th e United State s next summer to practise. She ma rri ed Jim Birc henough in June 1996.

Rebecca (Miller) Madill, B.A.Sc. '95 , ma rried Dave Mad ill Au g . 23 , 1997. Gu e lph Cl lumni in attendance we re Janine Byers , Nancy (Cotter) , and Colleen Posthumus , B.A.Sc. '9 5; and Greg Kuhl , B.Sc.(Agr. ) '95. The Madills live in Listowel , Ont ., where Rebecca occasionally teaches.

Ahmad Mahdavi, PhD '90, is ass istant professor of e ntomo logy/toxi cology in th e Coll ege of Agricul ture at the Univers ity of Ma zand a ran. Sari. Iran, and say s he wou ld love to vi sit U of G again some day.

Mark McCutcheon , BA '95, received hi s M A in Engli sh from 路 th e Universi ty of Toronto in N ovember. He looks forw ard to Nels o n Canad a's publication in January of Th e Writer 's Path , a major fiction anthol ogy he worked on with editors Leon Rooke and Prof. Constance Rooke, Gu elph 's associate vice-president (academic).

Nancy lee Milton, BA ' 94, ha s succes sfully completed three hal f-marathon s and one full marathon since gradua ti on. A national client manage r wi th a fi eld marketing firm in Mi ssissau ga, Ont., she is taking a leave of absenc e thi s year to travel to Australia, New ZeaJand and Fiji.

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Diane (Morin) Morgan, B.A. Sc. '92, marrie d James Morgan, Aug. 1 1, 1997. They reside in Kitchener, Ont. Tanya Moxley, B.Sc. '95, is now working full time at No va Scotia Power afte r a year and a hal f of cont ract work. Sile spen t three weeks on vacation in Great BI'itain this fall and hopes to start work on a master's degree in engineering in Septem ber. She we lcomes e -mai l at <tmox ley@chebucto.ns.ca>. ~ ~. \ ~ w', ' w

Dan Nuttall at the Metro Toronto Zoo Dan Nuttall, MLA '93 , is now pursuing doctoral studies at th e U of G. He travell ed to Mo zambque in September to study the o live- head wea ver, a bird spec ies dec lared "threatened" by the Endangered Wildli Fe Tru st. The study is part of a proposal to deve lop " ecotourism " in Mozamb ique , a predominantly forested ilnd rurally populated country, and one of the poorest in the world.

Threatened bird species are indicators of large r threats to the ecosystem, says Nuttall, a zoolological des ign expert who planned th e African Sa vannah Project now under construction at the Metro Toronto Zoo. In addition to his bioogical study, he is ta ppi ng loc a l com m un ities for their knowledge. He says "we have to ta ke a complex sysytems approac h to savi ng environments," including a social approach, because the people's relationship with th e land is so profound.

Allan MurCia, B.Comm. '95, lives in Kitchener, Ont., and is a fie ld ope rations co nsu ltant for M&M Meat Shops,

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Joan (Dodds) Prewitt, B.Comm. '92, was recently married and lives in Ni agara-on-t he-Lake, Ont. She and her husband d irect a girls' camp and a boys' trippi ng camp in A lgo nqui n National Park.

Shyam Ranganathan, BA '96, earned hi s MA in philosoph y from th e Univ ersity of Toronto and is now

Soon after being hired to run the new megacity of Toronto, Mike Garren, B.Sc.(Eng.) '69, told Toronto Star reporter John Spears that he wanted the job to help create "exceptional public service." His new position makes him responsible for managing a civil-service force of some 50,000 workers serving more than two million people.

Garrett tol d the Star: "I'm finding out now, two weeks into the job, how much there is to do - to bring everybody together, united with a common vision and values; working with a brand-new council; serving the public well; and doing what we have to do to make Toronto continue to be number one in everybody's hearts and minds."

When he accepted the position as chief administrative officer of the new unified City of Toronto, Garrett left a similar post in Peel Region , a job he'd held since 1989.

Garrett's decision has been seen as controversial. As chief administrator for Peel, he won the support of many suburban politicians in launching a highly informed campaign against the provincial government's redistribution 01 Toronto social-service costs between the city and the suburbs . But moving to the megacity office has mad e Garrett awa re of the "serious cost conseq uences that have to be dealt with" as more provincial responsib ilities are transferred to the mun icipal level.

One of Garrett's most fo rmidable tasks will be to consolid ate seven discrete city service units as one. This process will involve a massive briefing for city employees concerning their opportunities and expectations.

"You can 't just measure the number of staff people you've got per 100,000 population," Garrett said. "You have to look at what the demands are, especially in areas like human services."

Now living in Brampton , Garrett is originally from Ottawa . After studying at Guelph and Queen 's University, he worked as a water resources engineer with the Metro Toronto and Region Conservation Authority. He was assistant deputy minister of Ontario's Ministry of Natural Resources before moving into chief administration for Peel.

His wife, Margaret (Smyth), BA '68, is a teacher in her home-town area of Scarborough. doing a master's degree there in South Asian studies. He live s in Toronto, where he al so prod uces an d performs many styles of music.

Raymond Saumure, B.se. '93, earned hi s M.Sc. at McGill University in 1997, and continu es to study the ecology and conservation of Canadian freshwater tu rtles as a P hD student at McGill. He also began a new position in December as an animal keeper at the Montreal Bi6dome, a high-tech zoological park comprised of five re-created ecosystems and con tainin g 15,000 an imals. He invites classma tes to vi si t the Bi6dome's website at http://www.ville.montreal.qc.ea/biodomelbclm.html. He and his wife, Cathy (Van Velzer), B .Sc. ' 91. can be reached via e-mai l atclemmys@total.net.

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Charlie Greg Sark, Jr., M.Se. '96, joined the Coady International In stitute's International Youth Internship Program last summer. Since Augu st, he h<ls been appl ying the knowledge he gained in U of G 's ru ral planning and development program in Kathmandu , Nepal , where he will work with the Samuhik Abhiyan deve lopment organi zation Charlie Greg Sark to research and stre ngthen the organization's fundin g base, and to deve lop case studies of its adult training and education.

Erin (Smith) , B Sc.(H. K. ) ' 92, and Brad Scott.

B.Se.(Agr.) '91 , celebrat e their fourth wedding annive rsary this year. They li ve in Lucan, Ontario.

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Darin Tessier, BA '94. graduilted from Western Illin oi s Uni versity wi th his M.Ed. in Ma y 1996 and married Cheryl Van Daalwyk a year later. They live in Madison, Wi se .. where Tessier is hall director at a private residence.

Karen (Yielding) Vernau, DVM '9 1, comple ted a resid ency in neuro logy/neurosu['gery at the University of California , Davis. in 1997 and is now a lect urer at Davi s.

She married Bill Vernau in 1992.

Peter Verhoog . B.Sc.(Eng.) '90, and Andree (Leblanc) Verhoog, B,Sc .(Eng.) '89, recently moved ['["Om Merlin , Ont ., to Darp, Alta. Peter is plant operation s manage r for Albe l1a AG Industries in Westloek.

Tracey Voorberg . B.Se. '93 . and her hu sband, Sylvain Heroux, celebrated their seco nd wedd ing 'll1nivers ary Aug. 5. Voorberg is senior manager' of Ath lete 's World and Nike Shop in eastern Ontar-io ,md is "l ov ll1 ' it[" She and her husband recen tl y bough t a house in G loucester. They invi te visits or lette['s from friend s and I"ormer teammates on the wo me n \ varsit y basketball team.

Ian Welch, B.Sc . '94. is pursu ing a master\ degree at th e Uni versity o f Waterloo Biote lemetry In stitute. He is studying [he effect s of' the Ontario Mini stry of Natural Resources' timber' management guidelines on calvi ng site se lection and habitat w;e by moosc in no['thwestern Onta['io,

Donald Welsh. PhD '94. is completing a four-year fe llow ship at Yale University, 1[1 Jan uary, he and his wife, Suzan ne <8r<.: II ). M.Sc. '96. are moving to Burlington. Vt .. to tuk<.: posit ion ., on Ihe medlcal faculty at the Unl ver., iry 01' Verm ont,

Rob White. BSe. '<,)7 . hcg::l11 a three-year M<.: nnon ite Cent ral Committee assign ment thi s fa ll in Bari e. Burkina Fa"l o. where he is work ing on wate r rc~ o urces and commun it y deve lopment. W hite is on e of 29 peor le wllo joinecl the MCCs ove rsea, a ~., i g n m c n ts thi, year. He is arti liated wit h Gue lph 's Kortrig hr Presbyt cn an C hu rc h and w a ~ p rev iou ~ l y emp loyed as a fi el d technician in S<1rn ia . Dnl.

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Hockey star shines in defence of Canada A new documentary airs next spring on CBC about Canada's national women's hockey team - featuring U of G graduate and team defence player Cassie Campbell , BA '97.

National Film Board director Lynne Wright and her camera crew followed a group of players for several months, with Campbell taking a starring role, "They filmed me being both a hockey player and a student," she says. "They filmed me in class - that was embanrassing because here was this camera crew surrounding me in this lecture hall, and everyone around was asking: 'Who is she, why are they filming her?'"

Wright says the one-hour film will strike a chord with those who recall a time when individual skills and finesse were at the forefront of Canada's most popular sport. But more ,than that, she believes this particular team is stocked with excellent ambassadors for bolh hockey and the country. "I think the film will open eyes," she says, crediting NFB producer Silva Basmajian with the concept for the project.

Cam pbell's photograph was also feature d on the cove r of the February issue of Chatelaine magazine , introducing a pre-Olymp ic story about Canada's hockey heroines . The team went on 10 wi n a Si lver Medal at the Winter Olympics in Japan and thousands of new fans for women 's hockey Campbe ll took up hockey at ag e six, "I love it because it's a team sport where you meel a 101 of great people , and the game's unpredictability allows you to be creative."

As a U of Gundergraduate, she was captain of the varsity women's hockey team, leading it to the OWIAA championship in 1994/95.

Todd Cox, U of G's women 's hockey coach , says Campbell shines because she combines immense skill with a team ethic. "She's the Bobby Orr of women's hockey."When the 1998 Olympics are behind her, Campbell plans to return to U of Gto earn a degree in nutrition .

She says her ultimate goal is to either become a dietitian or get into broadcasting.

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Hector Aitchison , BS A '31. Feb. 6, 1997 Raymond Anderson , BS A '49, Nov. 2,1 997 Howard Armstrong , DVM '49, Se pt. 17, 1997 Michael Baumber, BA '8 8, May 13, J997 Leonard Beaupre, BSA '39, Nov. 14, 1997 Therese Beck , OD H '86, June 1997 Roy Bonner, BSA '43 , Sept. 16, 1997 Terrance Burke, DVM '3 1, Marc h 28, J 997 Laurianne Carlson, B.Sc. '83, April 20, 1997 Mary Helen Ching, DHE '58 , Dec. 21 , 1996 Margaret Cray, BA '76 , Jul y 1997 John Ditchfield . DVM '56, Sept. 6, 1997 Elinor (Kohler) Downs, DHE '50, Nov. 20, 1997 Elizabeth Drake, DHE '27, Nov . 28 , 1998 Kathryn Dunlop. B.Sc. '80, June 23 , 1997 Lisa (King) Fenlon, BA ' 79, Aug. 13, 1996

Juergen Franke, DVM ' 66, Sept. 10, 1997

Mary (Herlihy) Gibbs, BA '70,

John Graham, BSA '35, date unk no wn

James Ham , H. D.Sc. '92, Sept. 16, 1997

Harry Hamilton, DVM '37, Ju ly 3, 1997

Jerzy Harner, ODH ·... 7. ov. 23 . 1994

William Harrison, BSA '64 , Dec. I I , 1996 Joseph Hills, BA '80, Nov. 20, 1997 William Humphrys, ADA '53, Nov. 24, 1997 William Hunter, BA '69, date unknow n David Idler, H.D.Sc. ' 87 , Dec. 2 1,1996 Frances Innes, DHE '27 , Nov. 19, 1997 Shu-Fen Jiang, M.Sc . '8 3 and PhD '88, Aug . 14, 1997

Louise (Skelton) Jeffs, DH E '33, Sept. 22 , 1997 Earl Johnson, BSA '46, Oct. 27, 1997 Thomas Johnston , DVM ' 50, Oct. 25, 1997

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Una (Lewis) Kilgour, ODH '69, date unk now n David Longstaff, ODH '8 3, Janua ry 1997 Brian Loyer, DVM '80, Dec . 29, 1997 Marion (Esdale) Mac Kinney, DH E ' 26 , dale unk now n Victor MaHhews, BS A '63, June 27, 1997 John McGavin , BSA '58 , Jul y 29, 1997 Alan McKay, DVM '49, Au g. 7, 1997 Emerson McKinney, ADA ' 34, Sept. 29 ,1997 Mary McLean, DI-I E '38. Nov. 22, J 997 Elizabeth (Sauder) McLennan, DI-IE ' 37, Oct. 24. 1997

Ernest McWilliam, BSA '40, June 30, 1997 Robert Mighton , B.Sc. '73. Oct. 16, 1998 Ralph Mohr, ADA '77 , 1997 Jean (Morgan) Murray, DVM '46, 1995 Allan Olmstead , DVM '63, Oc t. 23, 1997 Edgar Rae , BSA '35, Oc t. 8, 1997 Glenn Read , BSA '4 1. July 18 , 1997 Michelle Regehr, B.Sc( H.K.) '94, May 28, 1995 Willson Richmond , A DA '3 1 and BSA '33, Oc t.

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John Rutledge , ADA '77. April 15, 1997 Alexander Skljarevski, DVM '59 , Nov. 9, 1997 Beverley (Robson) Small , Df-l E '35, Sep t. 17 , 1997

Esmond Smith , ADA '32 and BSA '3 6, Oct. J 9,

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Guy Smith, DVM '79, Dec. 22, 1995 Brian Sorrell, DVM '57, Oct. 23, 1997 Homer Townsend, BS A '29, Oct. 17, 1997 Benjamin Van Toledo, DVM '66 , Dec. 6, 1997 Ray Waechter, DVM '45 , Sep tember 1997 BeHy (Bawden) Wilson , DH E '48, Dec. 19, 1997 Frank Zavitz, BSA '52, Sept. 12. 1997 Delmar Biggs, MSA ' 52 , a professor of food science at Gue lph from 1948 to 1979, di ed Dec. 5, 1997. He is surv ived by his wife, Jean; four child ren, Pat ricia Brown, Paul and Judd o f Gue lph and Donn a of Nanaimo, B.C.; seven grandchil dren; and two great-grandc hi ldre n.

Bruce Clark , B.Sc.(Agr. ) '84, of Uxbridge , Ont. , died Nov. 13, 1997, as the resu lt of a car accide nt. A forme r golf course superinte nden t, he was most recen t Iy employed in the industrial prope rt y landscape industry. He is survived by hi s wife, Julie (Lyons), B. Comm. '83, and two children, Jamie, 5, and Kate, 3.

Jack Clark, BSA'50 and MSA ' 53, died O c t. 16, 1997. He spent most o f hi s working life as a professo r in U of G 's Departm ent o f Ag ricultura l Economics and Business . Hi s career led to co nsulting and wo rking on many projects in th e deve lopin g co untri es of Somalia , Malaysia and Arabia and a te aching ass ignm e nt in Chin a . He is surv ived by his wi fe, Vi o le t, and three child re n, Lorraine, BA '78 , Ste phe n, BA '76. and Ross.

of the Royal Socie ty of Healtll and th e Roy al College o f Ve te rin a ry Surgeo ns. He was al so a permanent C a nadian delegate to th e Office inte m ational des e pi zooties and a corresponding me mber of th e F re ncl, Acade my o f Veterinary M edi c ine. He was named to th e Canadian Agri c ulture Hall 0 1' Famc in 19XO and was ho nored as OVC Di stin g ui s hed Alumnus in 1990. He is surVived

by Ilis w ile, Doris, and three cl,iJdren.

Margaret (Beardmore) Larkin , BSA '47 , died No v. 16, 1997.

The only fe mal e membe r of her OAC cla ss. sh e majored in animal sc ie nc e and worked as an agri c ulturi st for the pro v inc ial agric ulture ministry. S he is survived by be l' hu sband , M ontague , si x c hildre n and si x grandchildren.

Robert Walker, BA '8 5, of Aurora , Ont. , died Au g. 19, 1997.

He "vas e mploye d witl, RBC Domini o n Secmiti es as an inves tment ad v ise r and was purs uin g an MBA. Hi s w ife , C hristine (To main o), B.Sc. ' 88 , and their two c hildren have pl a nted a tree in his mem o l'Y in th e Wall-Cu stanc e Me mo rial Fores t at th e Arboretum .

Jean (Mack) Livingstone, DHE '3 8, of Don Mills, Ont. , di ed May 10, 1997 . She is survived by he r hu sband, Hugh. and daughter Joan. BA '7 5 ; dau g hte r Julie Hamm ond. BA '7 6. and her hu sband, Dean , B.Sc.(Ag r. ) '76: alld da ug hter Suc Mc Ru er, BA '7 1, and her husb and , Je ffrey , B.Sc . '72.

Keith Moon, BS A '5 9 . of Richm ond Hill, Ont. . di ed Aug. 25, 1997 . I-Ie was direc tOl' of scientifi c a ffairs for Lyph omed Canada Inc . in Markham . He is surviv ed by his wife . M arga re t. an.d two c hildren. Hea ther and Paul.

John Stuart . BSA '35. died Jul y 4.19 97. at hi s home in Valen.cia. VC lle/uela. lie started his cat"ce r as an agron o m y chemist fo r the nited Fruit 'ompany in Honduras an d later worked as product ion mana ger fo r terling D ru g in Mex ico and Ve nez ue la, for Coca Cola in Col o mbia and Vc neLuc la alld for the isneros g roup. After re tiring in 1967, he ran hi s own manage me nt co mpany until 1996 . He is surv ived by his wi fe, Rita . two childre n and si x grandchildren .

Barbara (Morwick) Tate. B.H.Sc . '56. o f Bancroft , Onl. , died Dec . 6, 1997, in K in gston. Formerl y de partment heac! of famil y stud IC. at North Hastin gs High School . she is s urv ived by her hU 'i band , B ill , and three children - De borah . Eri c and Dougl as.

CB S 'gO A.D, "Archie" Thomas . B SA '37, died OCI. 2 1,1997 . Afte r g raduation. he fann ed in G ue lph Tow nship until 1967 in a fa mil y bu siness with his uncl e , Campbell Lamont. BSA '33 , th e n In Wate rl oo Township until 197 2 , wh e n he re tired to Gu elph. He volu n tee red in the U of G Library arc hives for ma ny yea rs as a me mb er of the Alumni-in-Action gro up and faitl,full y attend ed Univ e rsity and a lumni functi ons, inc ludin g th e 60th anni ve rsa ry of his class. He was pal1i c ul ar ly proud that some of his childre n and g rand children al so atte nd ed U of G. Mr. Th omas is surv ived by hi s wife, Mary; childre n, Willa Hopkin so n. BA '92. David , DVM '67, and Arch; an d g randdau g hters . Roxanne, Dian a, Val e ri e , B.Sc.(Eng) .' 96, and Patti Tho m as . B.Sc. (En v) '97, and Sara, BA '93, and Janine Hopkin son.

Marshall Thomson , BSA '36 , di ecJ No v. 18, 1997 , in Wind so r, Ont. He was predeceased by his wife. Dori s, DHE '37. and is survi ved by two sons, Da vid and John, and fo ur g randd aug ht e rs .

Ken Wells, DVM '38 and H.D.Sc . '7 5 , C anada's ve terina ry direc to r ge neral for 19 ycars, died Se pt. 25 , 1997, in Ottawa, wh e re he lived m os t of hi s life. Inte rn a tionall y ren own ed for hi s success in animal di sease contro l, Dr. Well s s pe nt 36 years with Agriculture C an ada helping to e radi c ate foot -and-mouth disea se and cattle brucellosis, to contro l cattle tuberc ul os is and to d evclop a world-class quarantin e system. He also he lped Canadian ca ttle produce rs ex pand th e ir breeds and increase sales, and was th e moving force behind e stablishing th e Wcstcrn College of Vete rinary Medicin e at the Uni vers ity o f Saskatchewan in 1965.

By the end of hi s ca reer, Dr. We ll s had earned 18 le tt ers after hi s name, including two honorary degrees and di stinction as a fell ow

Scott Wilkinson . BSA ' 50, o f Portage la Prairie. Man ., di ed Aug . 28 , 1997. O riginally from Ux briclge . Onto he .Jo ined the Campbe ll Soup Co mpany right afte r gra d uation and wo rked th ere fo r 37 years until his 19S7 retire ment as manage r o f qualit y ass ur8nce. He moved !.everal times with th e co mpany. settlin g in Portage La Pra irie. whe re he an d his late w ifc , Be rnice, wer e active in community affairs. A longtimc Rotarian . he a lso served on vari o us school boards and was a direc tor of A RC Ind ustri e s.

He is survi ved by fi ve c hildren.

Faculty Miriam Adelstein . retired pro fessol' 0 1 S pa ni s h lan g ua gc ancl lite rature. di ed in G uelph Dec . 20. 1997 . S he is sur vived by he r husband. A nsc hel, and dau gh te rs. na and Ric路!;:y.

Ralph Kidd . form e r p ro re s~ or of Illu sic and foundin g he ad of Guelph 's music di vis io n in 1965 , di ed in G uelph Oct. 16.1997.

He was predeceased by hi :-- w i fe . Fdith, U of G's first concert manage r. in Jul y 1997 and is sur vived by on e ..,o n and two grandchildre n.

Arthur Kwei, a form c r G ue lph professo r in mathemati cs Cl nd stati sti c s. di ed Oct. 24. 1997. in Guelph. He i ~ ~ lIrviv ec l by hi s wife, Lya nnH.

Degree codes ADA = Associate diploma in agri c ultllre BA = Bachelor of arts B.A .Sc. = Bachelor of applied science B .Comlll. = Bachelor of commerce B.H.Sc. = Bachelor of household scie nce BLA = Bachelor of landscape architecture BSA = Bache lor of science in agriculture (pre 19(5) B.Sc.(Agr.) = Bachelor of science in agriculture B.Sc. = Bachelor of science B.Sc.(Eng.) = Bachelor of science in engineering B.Sc.(Env.) = Bachelor of science in cnvironmental scie nces B.Sc.(H.K.) = Bachelor of science in human kinetics B.Sc.(P.E.) = Bachelor of sciencc in physical cduc,llion DHE = Diploma in home economics DVM = Doctor of vetcrinary medicine GO = Graduate diploma MA = Master of arts M .Agr. = Master of agriculture MFA = Master of tine art MLA = Master of landscape architecture M.Sc. = Master of science ODA = Ontario diploma in agriculture ODH = Ontario diploma in horticulture PhD = Doctor of philosophy

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Castella de Casa Nuova, Then and Now We were significant, at least once.

Our car broke down and we wrote history

in Castella de Casa Nuova, a hamlet

buried deep within twisting Bolognese hills.

We passed days waiting for the new car part,

hiking and talking and defending ourselves

against the scorpions. I was your champion .

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On the Beach at Rimini

Sono Qui in Acquafredda

I th ought I would walk here to be inspired by the Adriatic.

I have come prepared to write a poem, or some imagistic prose of this famous sea, but I feel nothing, only peace.

In this two-track train station where few trains stop , we wait in the Italian sun, the hills and I, as the one employee shuffles in tune to static from his radio .

It is the off-season, barren , and I am alone on this beach .

This is a part of our life, the self we created , Cabana doors flap open and shut apart from the us and the now, hidden away in the whine of a lonely wind. like time that rolls like those hills, reaching

This is my sale conversation toward the horizon. This much I do know.

where I see no footp rints but my own .

I have a record on file , a photo album of sorts.

I am sinking in this damp sand And often I suffer sentiment, that most false and I am thinking hard, so hard of emotions, as I try to re live past moments. nothing can come to my mind but the horizon and how I feel

Did I ever tell you about a man I know

disappointed. Why?

who was struck twice by lightning?

I am here and I have no peace.

Napoli You come out of the maze, alleys and side streets by the sea, where they can steal your socks without taking your shoes off first.

The street vendors offer tipa sprinkled with lemon and salt.

You ask the time, finding out later when you miss the bus that they lied. You get a later bus back to your pensione, where the family is seated, ready to eat. the five ugly sisters leaning on their elbows fluttering their eyelashes at you , the father staring at you and the mother talking as she serves up pasta with beans.

II Nonno tells his dirty jokes while la Nonna calls Mussolini a bastard.

You have some trouble with the dialect and you think someone is saying someone is spitting out a rotten tooth .

The cat jumps on to the table while you mop up a bit of bread, la salsanapoletana - so delicious.

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We wait for the scaffolding on the church to come down, for the pears and peaches to ripen and fall, for the next slow train to quickly pass through this town.

And we bide our time, here where my head itches and my ears burn .

But whoever is thinking of me now can never know that I am here, in Acquafredda, where I will always be.

Tomorrow I will try another place .

I will board the rickety bus that chugs

and winds slowly up the hills

that support San Marino.

There I will not see the sea

and I will think of a different nothing.

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In the Dolomites Cima della Madonna clasps the Sass Maon and two lovers embrace, their limestone heads never turning to see the scraping climbers who can see nothing but the details . . . mere details.

Gim'anlli Malilo, B.S(' . '87 alld PhD '89 , wrole IIis firsl poem 10 {f I'alenline. IJIII 1101 lIis daughll'/', Sarah . The work presellIed lIere is part of a series coiled "CO lilledillg Ille DolS ill / /(//y. " Malitu ILOW !h'es ill ork , /relalld .

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