Guelph Alumnus Magazine, May 1970

UNIVERSITY O F GUELPH

GUELPH ALUMNUS Tripping the universe with Buckminster Fuller

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

May, 1970, Val. 3, NO.2

GUELPH ALUMNUS

INDEX THE WORLD OF FULLER MRS. NUNAN / David Bates DANGER AND HOPE /' Dr. B. C. Matthews ALMA MATER REPORT CAMPUS HIGHLIGHTS

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ALUMNI NEWS

Photography: Cover, p. 5, 7, 8, 12, 13, 15, J. Bates; p. 2, 3, 9, 10, 11, 16, D. Bates; p. 14, Rothman's of Pall Mall Canada Ltd.

LETTERS

Breakout on campus

Springtime makes one do all sorts of things which otherwise would never happen. But it's often embarrassing when the episode is over, and your friends and neighbours look at you with that slightly disparaging expression.

Take the case of this disgruntled young bull. A sunny day, a faint whiff of flowers and sunshine in the breeze, and he was off across the campus, destination unknown. but who cares about that? Out of the pen, across the grassy lawns, past the library, down towards Highway 6, and it's good t o be alive and free!

But with the thud of many feet, a hastily organized posse is in hot pursuit.

Man and animal are born to responsibility, and the Garden of Eden has snakes and fences.

But the worst part is the trip back t o reality. Imagine, if you will, the feelings of shame and frustration our bull is feeling as he is led past the startled faces of diligent students, conscientiously treading their ordered paths of lecture and study.

Is he. in fact, amazed at himself for a whimsical bolt for freedom, and what would he have done if he had made it?

Never mind your IearnM tomes, your discourses on the number of angels on the head of a pin. A lowly bull, with a fairly certain life span, has, for a moment, confronted the facts of existence and the order of nature.

There may have been some ostentatious snickering in the pen about this episode, but I'm sure I caught a look of awe and envy as our hero was returned t o his proper place.

uckminster Fuller, as almost everyone Bknows, is the mathematician-scientistarchitect-geographer-philosopher whose most famous accomplishment is the geodesic dome, the structure which housed the United States exhibition at Expo '67 in Montreal. But, while Fuller has been influential in scientific fields, to the public he is, like Marshall McCluhan, merely ..famousw. Like McCluhan, he is greeted with a considerable amount of derision, particularly in the media. His lectures are reported with an odd mixture of sarcasm and uneasiness. His words are often quoted sneeringly, t o document the reporter's contention that Fuller uses jargon and advances grand, wooly-headed schemes really intended to make a fool of his "practical" listener. But at the same

time, a note of awe intrudes on the most single-minded of critical articles.

This same schizophrenic reaction was in evidence everywhere on campus following Fuller's appearance here for Look-In '70, last February. Look-In, in its second year, was a two-day program of panel discussions and seminars designed t o examine "The university in the brave new world."

Mr. Fuller opened the event with an evening key-note address before an audience of nearly 3,000. The following morning, he joined four well-qualified Canadians in a discussion moderated by Dr. John Melby, chairman of the Department of Political Studies at Guelph. The four were: David Slater, Dean of Graduate Studies at Queen's University; Dr. Vivian Rakoff, Director of Graduate Studies in Psychiatry at the Clarke Institute in Toronto; Arthur Porter, Special Assistant to the President at the University of Western Ontario; and Zenon Sametz, Deputy Minister of Social Planning and Redevelopment of the Province of Newfoundland.

That afternoon, there were no fewer than 20 group discussions in small lecture rooms in the Arts Building, on subjects ranging from "research and its funding" to "the changing role of women, a new emancipation." Some of the discussions were well attended, many were not.

But the star of the show was clearly Buckminster Fuller. And the idea of a

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"show" was what bothered some observers after the last intellectual pronouncement had echoed past the bleachers in the concrete block gymnasium of the Physical Education building. A student writing in the Ontarion. Guelph's student newspaper, said: "Bucky is a leader in the new group of intellectual freak-out enterIf you're a student, you go tainments. . and groove on the Stones the more contemptuous they are towards your draggy life style the better. If you're a professor or university administrator, you pay to see someone like Bucky or McLuhan -the same flaggelation scene with a more conventional scenario."

Now. there's no denying that this comment is perceptive and at least partly true. Just the same, a more common reaction was that of another student writing in the same issue: "Probably all of us in the room were more flabbergasted than educated."

But neither comment is, of course, the whole truth. For there is still the fact of Buckminster Fuller to confront. He spoke, extemporaneously, for nearly two hours.

It was a tour de force, an incredible display of explanation, argumentation, and cajolery, an encompassment of the history of man on earth, a mixture of metaphor, anecdote, and humour that alternately amazed and bored the audience. Eyes blinking behind thick lenses, arms uplifted for emphasis, a sly wink as the audience howled with laughter, Fuller belied his 75 years.

But what did it all mean? There was a grand design t o the seemingly disjointed and unorganized discourse, but not everyone was sure what it was.

On the next five pages, we present excerpts from Buckminster Fuller's 261st university lecture. They are in sequence, but aside from that, these excerpts are almost randomly chosen threads from a huge tapestry: they are a tiny portion of hundreds of thousands of words. They are as little altered as possible, aside from the insertion of prepositions and connectives, because Fuller in mid-flight leaves them all out. Words in square brackets take the place, usually, of the searching for words inevitable in a "top-of-the-head" lecture, while a series of dots indicates the omission of what was usually a long side-tracking metaphor for illustration of the point. Humour played a large part in the lecture, and the audience's reaction is noted when audible on our tapes.

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EN, up to the time when I was born, had in their total lifetime. seen only about a millionth of the total surface of the planet. And, seeing such a small fraction, it is very reasonable to realize that men tended to think of their experience as a planar experience . they tended t o think of a flat earth. .

There is a very great difference between a planar world and a spherical, because one is an open system and the other is a closed system. If we have an infinite plane, than anything we develop and accumulate locally that we don't want -there seems t o be infinite room to get rid of it. Our pollution has really accrued because of the fact that we have thought that there is an infinite plane-we're still operating that way. Just a drop of water in the ocean, what is it?Nothing! So that the seeming infinlty could absorb all our ignorance. Furthermore, we say historically that we've exhausted resources and always found more, so that, again, if the plane goes t o infinity, there's an infinite number of variables that could answer our problems.

But when you discover it's a closed system, you can't think that way any more. Because, in the long-held planar concept of an infinite number of chances, there would be some good solution to your problem, i f you could only find the right God. So, all the many Gods were the result of the search for one of those infinite outs for each individual. So everybody had hope. Even though one might not realize it all the time, there was a fundamental hope. But in a closed system, you find that that's all there is, there isn't any more. Then you don't have that kind of open hope.

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flights] have been accomplished by virtue of lightseeking instruments [trained] on various stars, and the organization of that, in terms of the computer. . It was an extraordinary victory for the precise exploitation of what we have learned in electronics.

Electromagnets did guide men there, but we really went there as children . . it's still a game, playing a game with something very much greater. Now, I will simply point out t o you something that I'm sure you do not really say about yourselves. You are all astronauts, you have never been anything else! I think it's still very hard for you t o say "I'm an astronaut" but you are, on a very small space vehicle realistically 8,000 miles in diameter. . . . In the vastness of space, that 8.000 mile diameter is nothing, what a tiny little vehicle we have. And it's superbly designed to support life, and t o our knowledge, man has been on board of this for at least two million years, and has had the capability of looking after himself and regenerating, despite his ignorance, never even knowing that he's aboard a ship, which is a closed system. The fact that this design was able to accommodate his ignorance I find something very important for us t o think about. How did i t happen?

I don't find it derogatory t o man to recognize his fundamental ignorance and innocence. Every child is born utterly helpless and utterly ignorant of experience, but beautifully equipped. That doesn't mean that the child is not a superb potential . . I feel the same thing about humanity in general, how little we really know about what is going on! .

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to understand how it happens that [man] is not doing too well so far, and see what his potential for doing much better may be.

There is a good possibility that man [will understand] much more and become much more responsible in the universe.

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the word "synergy" . I'd like to see hands. [PAUSE] Relatively few hands. I have asked this of -this is my two hundred and sixty-first university or college that I've visited and I've asked audiences around the world, and the college audiences run certainly not over three percent, and in the public gathering it'll be certainly well under one percent. I spoke to a group of politicians recently, and there were no hands.

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Asking the question around the world makes it clear that the word is not a popular word. Now, the word "synergy" is the only word that means what i t does mean. And what it means is: the behaviour of whole systems unpredicted by any parts of the system. Inasmuch as it is the only word that means that, and is not popular, is a clear indication that society in general does not think there are behaviours of whole systems unpredicted by the parts. So, if there is such a phenomenon, and society is not thinking that way, this is onergood reason why we are fairly remote from a comprehensively tapable way of adjusting our senses to the fundamental information, of the data, of experience.

[For instance], we have science discovering mass attraction, and this is the explanation of the pull of the sun on the earth and the behaviour of our whole universe, atomically, macrocosmically and microcosmically. Yet, the scientists who have found this and measured the behaviours, none of them have the slightest idea what mass attraction is. In other words, no sooner have you found this extraordinary phenomenon, which is not a popularly comprehended affair, than you find that it's an absolute mystery. We have the universe confronting us with fundamental mystery. We know very, very little. And the whole integrity of our universe depends on this.

[And so] this becomes very important as a starting point [for questioning] how we think.

If there are behaviours of wholes unpredicted by the parts, (which we find ruling the whole of our universe), then, unless we think in the terms of synergy, we're not really going to understand very much about what's going on in our day.

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OES MAN have a function in the universe ?

If he does have a function. if he's necessary to the universe, and he really has an integral function in the universe, then we would know a lot more about what we are doing what's going on with us, and how to accommodate that functioning. Because, I find most people thinking in a Shakespearian way about being a playgoer: t o be pleased or displeased, but not necessarily belonging. I think one of the greatest challenges of society has always been, (and it's felt very clearly and wellarticulated by the young world today), really wondering why, why am I here, do I belong? So. if we find out that man has a function in the universe, i t can be of very great importance to us.

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Why? Because [neurologists] have found that there are conversations going on over the communications system [of a man] that cannot be explained as feedback of the system.

Now the neurologists tend to agree with me when I say that the difference between brain and mind is that the brain always deals with special cases . . mind is able to review all these special cases and find there is something running through the whole of it. This is an absolutely weightless phenomenon, this mind review. . . [There are] extraordinary generalizations, and there are not many of them. The human mind, then, does from time to time make one of the extraordinary discoveries none of them has ever contradicted of generalizations . another, they are all inter-accommodative.

As we begin t o get into synergy, looking at wholes instead . we have man, a specialist. finding his own area, of parts, and not really realizing how it related to others. And that's one of the evils of our day, that we do not tend to think comprehensively enough to see the inter-relatedness of these various generalizations which are discovered.

I am personally quite convinced that until our society really begins to educte itself about its experiences, to discover some of the generalized principles that are operating, we will persist in our very great ignorance, and we may not have enough cushion to make much more error. We've been polluting, doing all these things: apparently, we are permitted to do a certain amount, because here we are, still surviving, despite many, many errors. But, my suspicion is that we're supposed t o be learning a great deal more, and there is built into the system the capability of being comprehended, through taking enough experiences and finding out through these generalizations.

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A PARABLE OW DID it happen that [man, since] he seems to have been born to be comprehensive instead of specialized how did he get specialized?

And you discover very quickly how that really happened in our history. Because we find humanity born onto this spaceship, with its beautiful biosphere, and apparently, in order to be sure that he's going t o regenerate himself in his ignorance (because you have to make allowance for him being very, very ignorant), you give him built-in hunger, so he'll take on fuel.

Otherwise he might not take it on. And you give him thirst. And you give him the procreative urge, because he's probably going to make a mess of it for a long time, and you'll have some more to take his place. [LAUGHTER].

Now, with his built-in hunger, and absolute ignorance, he's just walking around, and he sees somebody eat some of those berries, so he says, "I don't want any of those berries."

Intuitively, men realized that the sun is the source of energy to regenerate us, but you and I can't take enough in through our skins to keep us going. But the vegetation takes it in for us.

You and I can't eat the bark and roots, but we find there are creatures that can, and this can be relayed t o us through the animal.

So there was then the big tough guy, who said, "Those animals are just what we want, and I and my henchmen,

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everybody here, I want you to understand, I and my henchman own all the animals, you all eat roots, do you understand that?

Anybody says no?" [LAUGHTER]. And, up to 1810 or so. only 150 years ago in England, a commoner caught killing a rabbit could be hung on the site without a trial. This is how strong here we have the ~lliteratehungry man, just the strong-man taking dominance, to make up for his ignorance of how things really worked.

So, in that long big pattern, we have the strong, illiterate man winning, and you have this pecking order showing up in nature, with bulls fighting bulls, seeing who's going t o be the head.

If you get to be head "tough man", you want to sleep once in a while. So you've got to use your head a little. So you say, "I've licked you a couple of times, haven't I, remember that?

And I've licked you a couple of times, you're pretty good and big. Now, I like you very much. I want you to understand that there's nothing so noble as loyalty, absolutely the most beautiful trait in society is loyalty. I'm going to give you a medal, because you're so loyal t o me." [LAUGHTER]. "And I'm going to give you a medal for loyalty." And now you can go and sleep for a while, because these tough men around you are so loyal.

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Then you say, "I see that character over there, a little character over there who can't even fight, but this character's always catching on to what I'm doing, and making my life very uncomfortable, he seems to be stealing things from me. Hey tough men, go and get that character and bring him in here."

And you say t o him, "I'm going to have t o cut your head off."

And he says, "Why?" You say. "You're too smart, and you're making a lot of trouble." He says, "Sir, you better not cut my head off." You say. "Why?" He says, "Well, because I know what your enemy is saying, he talks a different language from you. He's over the hill there, and I talk his language, and I can tell you what he's saying." You say, "Okay, if you go every day and tell me what my enemy is saying over there, and come back to me, I'll see that you eat and keep your head on."

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So then you say, "I'm going t o cut your head off. you're much too smart." He says, "Sir, you better not I know metallurgy, and 1 can make you a better sword than anybody else." You say, "Prove it t o me." So he makes a sword, and you try it out. And sure enough. it's the best sword. "You make swords, you understand? All the time, you just keep right at it." [LAUGHTER]. And so it goes.

And gradually . what you might call the illiterate power man [has instinctively applied the principle of] divide and conquer. Obviously, he can handle one man at a time beautifully, but he can't if they gang up on him. Therefore, what we call anticipatory divide and conquer is much more effective than tardy divide and conquer. So, what he's doing is an anticipatory divide and conquer. These are the people who make trouble for him, so what he does is make each one a specialist.

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And he says [to them]. "Now I want you to mind your own business, you understand that! [LAUGHTER]. You mind your own business, I'm the only one that minds everybody's business.

Is that clear?" [LAUGHTER!.

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Now, he gets so successful this way, with his enemy over the hill, (and he takes over many enemies over the hill), that he says. "Now, you characters are getting pretty old, and I still want that informat~on.I want my son to have that information. So, I'd like you to teach somebody that language, and I'd like you to teach about sword-making."

I'm now giving you the foundations of Oxford University.

[LAUGHTER]. I said this at Oxford University about two months ago, and they applauded very heavily. [LAUGHTER].

At any rate, this is where our specialization came from.

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HAT IS unique about man is his mind, discovering those general principles and employing them.

And what is [also] unique about man is his general adaptability. . .

[Anthropologists have found that] extinction is a consequence of overspecialization. As we specialize, we do so by inbreeding. we lose general adaptability. When you lose general adaptability, you get on very nicely quite a long t~me,because there is nothing very big [happening], but if suddenly one of those infrequent but enormous requirements of your general adaptability comes along, you no longer have it, and you become extinct.

I find our society having become completely specialized.

And this was really organized by yesterday's great masters.

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But with World War I, we went from what we call the reality of the senses into the reality of the great electromagnetic spectrum. I find that society is still thinking in the reality of the senses, not in the reality of the great electromagnetic spectrum. . . Man doesn't see what is going on. . . . With World War I. and the masters saying t o their scientists, alright, you get going, they unleashed the Pandora's box of invisibility. And when the war was over, because men operated in terms of their senses, they didn't know what was going on. The great crash of 1929 was the end of the old masters of the earth because they were non compos, they did not know what was going on.

We have, then, a whole world all specialized, and nobody What is really going t o give us the great pull to coordinate. out of it is the development of the computer the great antibody has come along.

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HE COMPUTER is a tool, and I'd like to point out t o you that the tools that we have are extensions of our original integral functions . . . they multiply our advantage, anything but technology being our enemy.

The computer is simply The computer and the extera magnification of our brain. nalized automation of tools are about t o make man obsolete as a machine, where you just use him as a machine, just an illiterate machine, based on his muscle. We are discovering

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that what his real function is, is the mind.

As we begin then, to let automation take over the production of wealth: (we have to realize, of course, that our wealth is the way in which we rearrange the scenery so it works for us.)

So, we find that all man has done is, not put anything in the universe, he hasn't taken anything out of the universe, but he's rearranged the local scenery to complement the needs of that's what we mean by the lives of more of the people wealth, and the computer and automation will go ahead and do that much more rapidly.

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So, we find the metaphysical as the cohering force of the universe, and we find every great scientist begins to see the comprehensive interaccommodative orderliness of the universe, absolutely abstract and metaphysical. We find here, then, man's function in the univene is [as an] anti-entropic [force], and he seems to be by far the most powerful of all of them. He is essential to the univene. The coherency, the integrity of the universe is involved in the intellectual apprehending of these only intellectually understandable orderly principles.

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E FIND THAT, when nature has an essential function, as Wfor instance when she wants to regenerate life on board our planet she has to depend on randomness, and she makes many starts to be sure that some of them will be successful, and be adequate. I say, that man seems to be so essential to the universe. I would assume that nature would not have just planted this particular team on board this little planet. For the integrity of the universe, as Hoyle assumes. there are [likely] hundreds of millions of planets with human teams on board. The probability of this little team that we have on this particular planet making good, is really very poor.

But it was given enough cushion to make so many experiments that it could learn by trial and error that its significance was And if we find this out in its mind and not its muscle. time, and begin to organize ourselves that way, there's no question about it, this team will persist on earth and we'll begin to find ourselves a space platform for further space exploration -we always were in space, it's really nothing new.

We're born in the womb of an entirely new kind of experience of man in the universe. And It becomes a very, very thrilling and exciting matter to realize, and I think it's very touch and go whether we will coordinate ourselves rapidly enough.

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HAVE a physical universe that is everywhere increasingly disorderly, and taking up more room -this is the expanding universe. But we have, as we have said, complementality [as one of the great laws of the universe], therefore, there must be some place in the universe, where the universe We, [on earth] are is contracting and increasingly orderly. part of the universe where energy is being impounded and not only being impounded, but impounded in an orderly way. You and I have found that we couldn't take this radiation through our skin adequately enough to regenerate life, so all and [there are] the vegetation is designed to do it here is produced beautiful and orderly molecular structures complete anti-entropy. We find here our earth, then, is antientropic, where things are getting more orderly, we're contracting and getting more orderly.

Beyond that, we have the biologicals. They grow really very rapidly. their anti-entropy is very extraordinary you see Now, the human being a little child born and get bigger. has this extraordinary phenomenon, mind. And mind, by virtue is the complete balance, the of its capabilities t o generalize Intellect, the metametaphysical balancing the physical. physical, takes the measure of the physical, and nothing suggests that the physical will ever measure the metaphysical.

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All the young world being born today, each child is born in the presence of less misinformation and a little more reliable information. . We have the young generation now: the first Berkley insurgents were the first generation to be born with television in the home- here is a voice in the home. Here's an authority. Very frequently it speaks better English, has a better vocabulary, more information than the parents. It is listened to by the children. The parents tell them about what they did in the shoe store today, but the third parent tells about the whole world, on the hour.

We have the young world being born in the presence of information about the whole world. The fundamental compassion . of young life for life is valid for all of humanity, not just for one side. He has his good information, and truth is spontaneous. I find this very extraordinarily exciting: the difference between the young world and the older world is that the older world had, really in great love, been taught to tell lies. And the young world just abhors the lie, they abhor hypocrisy. I think this abhorrence is a spontaneous hunger for the truth, and to know it right. And the discovering of our function tells me that we do have a very good chance of breaking through. But it's going to have to really come out of the young world.

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It's a 105-year-old family book-binding shop, located on Wyndham St. in Guelph, which looks and functions much the same way as it did years ago. Modern technology and progress have tainted it only slightly.

She has operated the shop alone since the death of her husband, Harry, two vears ago. Althouah i t has seen better days, the one-woman operation still flourishes by binding Guelph graduate student theses and professor's journals.

It's fairly heavy work for the diminutive Mrs. Numan, 61, but she delights in her relatively new role as entrepreneur. She claims to be a 100-percent, hard-nosed businesswoman, but her cheerful, easygoing, often sentimental attitude melts away that profit-oriented front.

"After Harry died all sorts of people were after me to sell out", she said, "but I'm not sure if I want to or not. 1 get to meet a lot of interesting people and I'd hate like the dickens to get rid of itit's family you know. It's one of the last places where people will drop in just to talk."

A typical day starts with a cup of coffee and a glance at the morning newspaper before turning to what she describes as her main "hobby", binding books.

Using the most modern machine in the shop, a 10-year-old German binder, she carefully lines up the loose pages and coats the backing with a generous portion of super-hold imported glue. After applying a piece of binders linen, she places the book in a stand-up press which dwarfs her as she cranks it tight.

When the pages are ready for a cover, she gets the glue pot out again and wraps the canvas-covered, heavy duty cardboard front and back around the pages. A little gold-foil lettering done on an old letterpress supplies the title, and the book is ready for the library shelf.

To "Torchy" Nunan, the former redheaded softball star, this IS all In a day's work. Watching her dip and dive between piles of books and monstrous old machines, one almost forgets that Nunan's way is "inefficient". Modern binding techniques could turn out in a matter of days what is a year's work at Nunan's.

The old shop was founded before Confederation and came into the family in 1880 when Mrs. Nunan's father-in-law.

Frank, bought out the original owners.

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The shop hasn't changed much since the day Frank Nunan bought it, except for the inevitable signs of aging.

The machines, which were once the latest in binding equipment, have now been relegated to handy counter tops, competing for space with stacks of books.

Even the pot-belly stove, the scene of many political debates and tall-tale telling, has met the same fate. The wallpaper is yellowed and torn, patched together by safety posters, calendars, and a picture of the 1924 Guelph Maple Leaf baseball team. And in the back corner of the shop stands an old bookshelf, loaded with books and newspapers, some 50 and 60 years old, covered with dust, waiting for their owners to claim them.

Progress hasn't bypassed Nunan's entirely though. That German binder replaced the hand-sew~ngmachine method used for years, and while Mrs. Nunan is happy with the simpler system, she still devotes the same tender loving care t o every book.

As wrth most craftsmen, she makes the work look easy. She started helping out when her husband "roped" her into coming down to the shop for the occasional afternoon. Part-time afternoons stretched into days and finally full-t~me.She readily admits to a slight uncertainty about her technique when a really difficult job comes in, but she prefers book-binding to bookkeeping. "I'd have gone crazy looking at ledgers all day long", she sard, "and besides, here I'm my own boss. Anyone can type letters." W

Danger and hope for the Colleges of Agriculture

by DR. 6. C. MATTHEWS

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BOWDEN, writing in The New Scientist in 1962. stated (rightly. I believe) that Colleges of Agriculture from the outset have "accepted the responsibility to serve the community by solving the problems which perplexed it".

It is my opinion that our modern Colleges of Agriculture are failing to accommodate fully to the fact that the community which they serve has changed and, more important perhaps, the problems "which perplex it" have markedly changed.

Admittedly, Colleges of Agriculture have changed in many ways since they were established a century ago. But they have not expanded their accepted mission. The implications of the term "cow" college may have been accurately descriptive in the early years but it was not long befare the sciences were introduced into the agricultural colleges. Research into the problems of crop and animal production and farm mechanization carried oyt largely in colleges of agriculture provided the technology that has made agriculture one of "the three industries that together , with steel and automobiles have powered the tremendous growth of the dsvet-. oped economies of the West (anp nf Japan) in the last twenty years" (Peter Drucker in The Age of Discontinuity).

The advances in agricultural science and technology (in which colleges of agricutture played a major rote) have resulted in a success story unparalleled in history.

Production per acre has been increased, production per worker on the farm has been increased dramatically, releasing large numbers of ~ e o ~for l em r e Droduct

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One danger of success, however, is that "agriculture" really means &'thescience o f . land" and one definitlon of the wocd it may lead to complacency. The success land is "any ground, soil or earth whatof agriculture, and indirectly of colleges soever'regarded as a subject d ow-$ of agriculture, in the past in applying as meqdows, pasture, woods and wryscience and technology to production is not sufficient justification for the continu- thing annexed to it whether by n&we (trees, water) or 4 y man (as buildings. ing existence of colleges of agriculture. fences) extending indefinitely verhicalky Within many agricultural faculties in upwards and downwards". (Webster's universities today, there is canc~rnabout Third New Intematiyal Dicfloaary). "the image of agriculture". This concern Many of the proMams which perplex is justified. If one were t o ask any faculty society today are related in some way to of agricutture what new, really new progland (as broadly d@fined)-land not just rams they have introduced in the last .for production of food but land Par =Teathirty years, they would be hard put to tion; land for tmsport$tion and communcome up with one. Yet, there .are plenty of new probtems. H faculties of agriculture, cation, f a c i l i t i , Jand (space) for:horises. ' factories, schoob and cities. Q u m o n s of continue to- act as traditisnalists who react to criticism by .pointing out the great allocation of lan accompliihmentsof the past in increasing and (aftar allow R effectively for t food production, and fail to see new, .and perhaps more pressing. problems b solue,:, pro,blems of how. or missions to ,=we, then .lahd-(sdl, Water, leges of a@cultuts d e m e their image. ' pOSal oftfie *'emu Certainly, t h y witl.n,& be fulfilling the'..: soc/e4y" are que~$io total k l a of which trey ru'p,&pable..aird:- . . jnd. releyance., KeElpgg has stat which this generation has a ri&t.ti, &p,f@ them to perform.

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ALMA MATER FUND REPORT

1969 Fund Tops $70,000 The annual Alma Mater Fund, in its first year of operation, has scored a resounding success. With results complete for the 1969 drive, the total collected of over $70,000 easily exceeds the $60,000 goal set by the Campaign Management Committee.

"It was important that the Fund do well in its first year," said John Lindley, OAC '53 Campaign Chairman, "and we are all delighted with the support that alumni have given their alma mater." Mr. Lindley pointed out that the Fund's success is even more gratifying when account is taken of payments on outstanding pledges t o the University's three-year-old Development Fund.

Dr. W. C. Winegard, President of the University, expressed the thanks of the University community, and discussed the implications of the Fund's success with the directors of the University of Guelph Alumni Association. "Your support of the Alma Mater Fund means that we will be able t o proceed with projects which would otherwise have been held in abeyance.

My sincere thanks goes t o John Lindley, the Campaign Chairman, his hard working management committee and alumni volunteers, and t o the thousands of donors whose support made the whole effort worthwhile."

In addition t o the annual gifts of $70,019, the 1969 Alrna Mater Fund received $11,706 for endowment purposes.

The total is reported separately as the total of special gifts of this nature is likely t o fluctuate widely from year t o year.

Dr. C. Thibeault, OVC '29 of Ipswich, Massachusetts, has given an amount t o endow our new scholarships in Veterinary Medicine. In making the gift, Dr. Thibeault said "I believe that those in my generation who received their education from O.V.C. for 'peanuts' should do something for the present generation who are under such terrific educational costs."

The other endowment gift received was contributed by an alumnus on faculty who is establishing a fund whose income is t o be used for the purchase of works of traditional art by Canadian artists.

Mr. Lindley, paying tribute t o campaign workers, said: "I was particularly fortunate in having capable division chairmen to help plan-the~campaignand guide it t o a successful conclusion. Much credit

goes t o Vice-Chairman Herb Schneider, OAC '48; Campus Chairman Dr. John Robinson, OAC '50; Direct Mail Chairman Ev Doherty, OAC '54; Special Names Chairman Dr. Alan Secord OVC '29; and Telefund Chairman Bill Christner. OAC '49.

A special word of thanks goes t o Rosemary Clark, Mac '59, who organized the Class Agent Division, assisted by College Chairmen Professor George Raithby, OAC '22; Mrs. Jean (Kellough) King, Mac '52; Dr. Don Harlow. OVC '48; and Miss Gerry Ludwig, Well '68.The Class Agent Division raised over $26,000 of the annual fund total with the Special Names Division running a close second bringing in some $22,000. It was particularly encouraging to receive a gift of $500 from Wellington Class '68 showing the wholehearted support of the new arts and science graduates. Bob Smallfield, OAC '52 and his Information Committee deserve a great deal of credit for their work in designing campaign materials and in presenting the needs of the University in the Alma Mater Issue of the Guelph Alumnus."

Mr. Lindley went on: "Many thanks also go t o the 250 alumni volunteers who assisted in the various phases of the campaign, the class agents, telefund team captains and callers, and the special names and campus voluteers who made

personal calls on their fellow alumni on behalf of the Alma Mater Fund. A large share of the credit for the success of this campaign also belongs to John Babcock, OAC '54 and his staff at Alumni House without whose concerted efforts the campaign would never have taken place.

The pattern of success achieved by this campaign should lead t o greater successes in the future. I extend to incoming Chairman, Herb Schneider and his committee best wishes for the 1970 Alrna Mater Fund. They deserve the support of us all."

Judy Nasby, Curator of Art Exhibitions, with a piece in the University's present collection, The Old Willow, by A. SuzorCot&, 1924.

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Alumni Stadium, the most visible and immediate result of the success of the 1969 Alma Mater Fund, has been taking shape for the past few months, rising from the mild and snow of the off-season football field. Target date for completion is now June 15. "Barring hold-ups and catastrophes, we'll make that date," says W. A. Brown, Director of Physical Resources.

Now that the money has been collected, the Alma Mater Fund Advisory Council has been carefully deliberating the allocation of the funds between the projects t o be helped by the 1969 Fund. Council Chairman, Mr. F. T. Cowan, OAC '65,i n i n announcing the allocations, said, "I am particularly pleased that we are able to contribute some $20,000 t o Alumni Stadium." The stadium will seat 4,000 spectators, and will have facilities for washrooms, team change and locker rooms and

up-to-date press coverage of games.

But Scholarships were the top priority for funds collected by the Alma Mater Fund, and Mr. Cowan announced that a total of $23,000 has been earmarked for scholarships and awards. Thirty-three "Alma Mater Scholar" Spring Entrance Awards of $150 each will finally ease what has been a difficult situation for deserving students entering Guelph i n the spring semester. These awards have already been given t o students enrolled i n the current semester. Also, the O.A.C. Alumni Foundation, which suspended its annual appeal in deference t o the Fund, has received $8,000 t o continue its awards program. The Macdonald.lnstitute Alumnae Association is using an allocation of $1,000 t o establish a Dr. Margaret McCready Scholarship, while Veterinary Travel Bursaries are being established with the $1,000 allocated t o the O.V.C.

Alumni Association. A total of $8,000 has been donated for entrance bursaries and in-course awards by Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Stewart, OAC '33 and Mac '32. A prize i n the name of Dr. W. H. Minshall, OAC '33 rounds out the list of annual awards and scholarships donated by alumni.

Plans for the long-awaited arboretum are progressing, and the Fund has been able t o contribute $10,000 this year. Dr. R. J. Hilton, former Chairman of the Department of Horticulture, has returned from sabbatical leave i n the West lndies t o assume directorship of the Arboretum.

"We're not sure yet how the Alma Mater Fund money will be used," Dr. Hilton says, "but we are determined that it will be used t o finance something tangible, such as a physical facility or some of the 50 plant collections planned." The Arboretum Centre and demonstration gardens are i n the planning stages, with the site already chosen.

A similar amount of $10,000 has been allocated to the badly needed renovations of Memorial Hall. Physical Resources Director W. A. Brown reports that tenders have been called t o replace the broken down seating i n the balcony area. "We may be able t o do this for less than the full $10,000," says Mr. Brown, "in which case the rest will go toward renewing worn carpeting." This will bring the balcony seating up t o the standard of the main floor seating.

Contributions t o cultural affairs on campus will total $4,500. Of this, $1,500 will be used t o buy art. Mrs. Judith Nasby, Curator of Art Exhibitions, reports that the University Committee on Art Acquisitions is surveying the Canadian art scene i n an attempt t o bolster the University's fine collection of Canadian art. "We are planning on a careful study," Mrs. Nasby says, "to make sure that this money will be used for an acquisition that will match the quality of the collection we have."

A further $1,000 will be used by the University library for acquisition of rare books or artifacts. Besides this, a collection of agricultural books of historical interest valued at $1,000 was donated t o the Alma Mater Fund for the library by Mr. H. C. Mason, OAC '20, of Brampton.

Professor Michael Booth, Director of Drama, plans t o use the allocation of

ALMA MATER FUND REPORT $1,000 for drama to help finance the major Fall production by students in November of this year. A further $100 has been set aside to be used towards development of the proposed Massey Hall Theatre if further funds can be found for this purpose.

And finally, a total of $2,825 will be used by the University to buy various items of academic equipment, things which can be particularly useful in research and for which financing is not available.

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SCHNEIDER HEADS '70 AMF Herb khneider, OAC '48 has been named campaign chairman of the 1970 Alma Mater Fund sponsored by the University of Guelph Alumni Association. The Fund, which will initiate its second annual drive for funds in September, will raise money for projects for which financing is not available.

Mr. Schneider is Vice-President and Director of Operations of J. M. Schneider Limited, Kitchener.

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Mrs. Dorothy James, MAC '34, President of the University of Guelph Alumni Association, announced Mr. Schneider's appointment. She said that the projects supported in the Fund's first year would be continued this year: the Alumni Stadium, arboretum, scholarships and awards. renovations to Memorial Hall, cultural acquisitions and special activities.

Mrs. James also announced that Bill Christner. OAC '49, has been named Vice-Chairman of the Fund. Mr. Christner is Vice-President of Operations, Thomas J. Lipton Ltd.. Toronto.

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Campus Highlights Exhibitions on campus Two important art exhibitions, one of them organized especially for the University of Guelph by the National Library of Austria, have appeared at the University during May. Dr. Franz Grasberger, Director of the Music Department of the National Library of Austria, organized an exhibit of 192 facsimiles of manuscripts, photographs and engravings depicting the life of the composer Beethoven. The exhibit was one of the highlights of the Guelph Spring Festival, a week-long program commemorating the 200th anniversary of Beethovens' birth.

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and his Contemporaries", showed 43 bronze sculptures by the French sculptor Auguste Rodin and others including Bourdelle. Despiau, Maillol, Renoir and Picasso. The exhibit was sponsored by Rothman's, and has been seen by some 1,000,000 viewers in Africa and the Far East. It is beginning a tour which will take it to major Canadian galleries in the next two years. After the Guelph showing it will go to the Rothmans Art Gallery in Stratford for the summer.

After May 31, the Beethoven exhibition will appear at seven Canadian universities and institutions during the summer and fall. I t will be permanently housed in the University's McLaughlin Library after the tour ends.

Dr. Eduard Schiller, the Austrian Ambassador to Canada, officiated at the opening of the Beethoven exhibition on Sunday, May 3 in the Exhibition Corridor of the Arts Building.

Ontario budget t o Universities: fair but tough "In light of the present economic situation, the Ontario universities were treated fairly." This was President Winegard's reaction to the budget recently brought down by the Government of Ontario. The budget provided an increase of six percent in the basic income unit on which a university's operating grant is based. I t also announced a 1970-71 capital allocation to universities of $105 million, up slightly from last year, and a new grant to aid municipalities in which universities are situated.

"At Guelph, our operating budget will be balanced without having to make many more cutbacks than already planned," Dr. Wineaard said. "since substantial amounts had been.trimmed from departmental estimates in anticipation of a relatively low operating grant increase.

This was necessary to meet salary commitments to attract and hold qualified faculty and staff. Renovations, equipment purchases, and arboretum development were hardest hit," he added.

Under formula financing for operating costs, the annual grant to each university is determined by the value of the basic income unit, multiplied by the total enrolment. The enrolment figure is weighted according to the relative costs of various academic programs, with a range from one unit for general B.A. students to a high of six units for Ph.D. students.

For the first time the budget also included a commitment for the succeeding fiscal year to enable universities to plan farther ahead. In the 1971-72 fiscal year, there IS to be only a 4.8 percent increase in the basic income unit, from $1,650 to $1,730, pointing to further stringent budgeting by universities.

While the 1970-71 capital allocations to un~versltleshave been calculated on the restrictive basis of space entitlement Introduced last year, it has been announced that after April 1, 1970, support for approved capital projects will be made on the basis of a $55 allowance per net assignable square foot of entitlement, rather than 9 5 percent of approved costs. "While some buildings can be built for less than this, the costs of science buildings run significantly higher," Dr. Winegard said. "This allowance is

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based on net assignable rather than gross square footage and is expected to cover equipment, fixtures, furnishings, consulting and architectural fees, and site development costs, as well as construction of the building. This means we must still depend on our Development Fund". That is, the universities will require private support to meet costs not covered in the formulae of grant use and space entitlement.

Under the interim capital grants formula announced a year ago, any new space entitlement for Guelph would have been delayed some years since no allowance had been made for the space devoted to contract research and extension functions for the Ontario Department of Agriculture and Food. However, the University made a special presentation to the Department of University Affairs pointing out that space available for teaching was reduced by these special needs. I t was claimed that facilities needed for this purpose should be in add~tlonto the statutory 130 square feet per student provided for in the interim formula. This request has now been granted very much as originally proposed thereby brlnglng closer the date of a capital allotment.

"By 1973-74 we will have a space entitlement," says Dr. Winegard. "In 1971-72 we will be at the final stages of design for the University Centre and ready to go to tender. The University Centre should be completed by the summer of 1973 and ready for fall opening."

The University of Guelph is to receive a mrllion dollars in the current budget, plus an unspecified amount the next year, for non-formula projects such as replace-

ment of obsolete facilities and construction of certain utility services, Dr. Winegard reported. Though the indicated grant falls considerably short of the $4.5 million required for non-formula projects over the next two years, i t will enable the University to proceed in renovating the old physics building for the Institute of Computer Science, to re-roof Macdonald Institute, to build the second instalment of the north-west storm sewer which will service the campus west of Highway No. 6, to air-condition the Soil Science Building, and to bring utilities to the sites for single student housing C1 and married student housing. The University did not get the money required to replace the obsolete Engineering Building, nor funds to replace the antiquated wooden animal holding facilities at OVC. The financ~alawards announced by the Department of University Affairs also included provision of $43.5 million for student assistance and fellowships during 1970-71. This is up from just over $40 million in the previous year. The increase makes provision for the increasing number of students attending.post secondary institutions in Ontario and also takes into account increases in the cost of living.

Almost all of the increase has been allocated to the Ontario Student Awards Program.

A new provision in the university grant structure announced will give some tax relief to municipalities in which universlties are situated. University property has been tax-exempt but special grants totalling $2.5 million will provide $25 per full-time student to the municipalities concerned in the coming year. The City of Guelph is to receive $148,050.

NEW RESIDENCE GOES UP Construction on the University of Guelph's newest residence, code named A2, is on schedule and it should be ready for occupancy in September. However, at press time, a labor strike seemed imminent which could mean a later completion date.

Housing A2, or North Residence, as it will officially be called, is located immediately behind Lambton and Macdonald residence halls on the north end of the Guelph campus. With a cost of $3,300,000, the project is being financed by a 50-year mortgage from Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation through the Ontario Student Housing Corporation.

Accommodating 550 students, the new residence consists of three sections connected by a common corridor housing study and typing rooms, laundries, recreation rooms, TV rooms and music listening lounges. A dining room accommodating 200 persons, has been incorporater into the building, and will feature short-order items and snacks. Residence lounges will include kitchenettes with hotplates. refrigerators and sinks.

The residence is being constructed with both high-rise and low-rise features. One section 10 stories high will house 250 students, while a four-storey, zig-zag section will accommodate 250 students.

Also included is an experimental wing accommodating 50 students. all in single rooms. This wing will be used by students

having similar interests, such as language or drama groups.

The new residence complex will house 62 percent of its students in double

rooms.

Contractor for the project is StewartHinan Construction Limited of St. Catharines.

A group of 12 students, demanding that the University of Guelph Senate's Executive Committee present a report concerning a dispute in the University's sociology ~epartment,disrupted the Senate's April 14th meeting, forcing adjournment after only 40 minutes of debate.

The students, the nucleus of a group which has battled the University administration for the past three months over certain events occurring in the Sociology Department, rose on an initial point of order to question acting Senate Chairman, B. C. Matthews, Vice-president (Academic), why the Executive Committee had not prepared a report for presentation to Senate.

The demonstration concerned the case of Sociology instructor, Miss L. E. Evans, who earlier in the semester brought certain charges against Sociology Department Acting Chairman, C. T. M. Hadwen.

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The student-administration confrontatlon began In January when some students rallied around Assistant Professor of Sociology without tenure, Don Grady, whose teachlng contract was not renewed by the University.

A serles of mass meetlngs ensued, attended by both students and faculty.

One of the meetlngs was In support of the admInlstrationrs position. Orderly student occupat~onsof adm~nlstratlveoffices followed two of the other meetings.

At the first, approximately 160 students w a l t e ~30 minutes for D ~ winegard . to return from a meetlng. ~ f presentlng t ~ ~ leaders quickly their demands, ushered the group out of the reception area. on the second occasion, approxl. mate,y 40 students discussed the case wlth President Winegard for about 45 minutes in his office.when the president then requested that they leave,however, were called. l-he refused and leftquietlyas officers entered the office.

A few days after the last mass meeting, Dr. Wlnegard addressed the faculty in War Memorlal Hall. D~scuss~ng the Grady case he sald, "1 have trred to be fair."

He added that he considered the case closed. Cltlng a B. A, Board of Review Evans, charges of report, he called mark-f1x1ng and rescheduling Of examination dates without her consent "incorrect and m'sleading" and that C' T. M' Hadwen Department had acted responsibly In the matter.

He appealed for peace on campus.

At the disrupted Senate meeting, Actlng Chairman B. C. Matthews answered the student's demands (for presentation Of a report from the Executive Comm~ttee, whlch had met a few days earher), by saying that "the Item that appears to be the concern (d~scuss~on of the Evans charges) was not dealtwith (by the mittee) ~n any formal way."

Following an hour, a motlon to place the item on the agenda of Senate was proposed, but defeated.

The students then continued thelr demands, often shouting down senators who had jorned ~n the verbal free-for-all.

A motion to adjourn passed easily.

Appointments The University of Guelph has a new Chief Librarian. Florence G. Partridge, Mac '26, was appointed to the positlon following the resignation of the former Chief Librarian, Lachlan MacRae. Mr. MacRae left Guelph to accept the post of Associate Chlef Librarian at the National Library in Ottawa.

Miss Partridge is no newcomer to the campus. Indeed, not only d ~ dshe play an active role as a member of the team whlch planned and developed McLaughlin Library, but she has long been a familiar figure to students as Librarian in the old Massey Library.

After graduating from Macdonald Institute, MISS Partridge studled Library Science at the University of Toronto, and ~n 1932 Was appointed Assistant Librarian in Massey Library, OAC. In 1944 she was named Head Llbrarian. With the formation of the Federated Colleges in 1962, Miss was named Head Federated Colleges, and in 1965 became Associate Chief Librarian, University of Guelph.

During her years as Head Llbrarian in Massey Library, Miss Partridge organized many art exhibits and also fostered the development of the Library's collection of paintings by Canadian artists. This now forms a substantial part of the permanent collection of the University of Guelph.

Active in a number Of professional organizations, Miss Partridge has served o n t h e executive of the Reference Section, Ontario Library Association, and on the Council of the Ontario Llbrary Association.

Dr. Donald A. Barnum, OVC '41, has been appointed chairman of the Department of Veterinary Microbiology, Ontarlo Veterinary College. He had been acting chairman since the reorganizatron of OVC last year.

-rhe new chairman has a wealth of experience in the veterinary research field.

He held the position of chairman of the Department of Bacteriology from 1964 untll the department was replaced in the reorganl,ation.

A Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, and a Government of Canada Centennial Medal reclprent, Dr. Barnum came to OVC in 1945 as lecturer In the Department of Bacteriology and was promoted to professor in 1958. Before coming to Guelph, he was a bacteriologist w ~ t hthe Ontario Department of Health, and during the war years, was posted to Canadian military hospitals and the Chemical Warfare Branch of the Royal

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In 1952 he was granted a Doctor of Veterinary Science degree, specializing in microbiology, from the University of Toronto.

Dr. Barnum is associated with a number of professional organizations and has been actrve in University of Guelph Senate committees. He is presently a member of the National Research Council Grant Selection Committee in cell biology and genetics.

A resident of Guelph for many years, Dr. Barnum is married and has three children.

Dr. Richard E. Vosburgh has been appointed chairman of the Consumer Studies Department of the College of Family and Consumer Studies. effective July 1, 1970.

Dr. Vosburgh, who held a Ford Foundation Fellowship during doctoral studies, graduated from the School of Business, Miami University, Ohio, with a B.Sc. degree. Following studies at lndiana Unlversity, Dr. Vosburgh was granted an M.A. degree in business administration and later a Doctor of Business Administration.

As assistant to the Dean of Students at lndiana University, he was engaged in student counsellrng and administration of student personnel activity. Prior to his appointment to the Guelph faculty, he held the posltion of Lecturer in Marketing at the University of Toronto; Assistant Professor and Placement Officer at the University's School of Business; and was later promoted to Associate Professor and Placement Officer, positions which he held untll coming to Guelph.

Dr. Vosburgh comes to Guelph with wide experience in marketing and marketing research, having acted as a consultant and author in these fields. He is presently a member of the Canadian Advertising Research Foundation Technical Committee.

Dr. Peter Egelstaff, a physicist who is a world renowned expert on the characteristics of liquids, has been named professor and chalrman of the Department of Physics at the University of Guelph. His appointment becomes effective July 1.

Dr. Egelstaff is a truly self-educated man, in that he holds both Bachelor of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees earned from the University of London, wlthout formally attending university.

He earned a B.Sc. degree in mathematics by correspondence while serving in the armed forces. Later, he joined an industrial flrm as a research assistant, and in 1947 went to the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell, Eng-

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land, where he worked in experimental reactor physrcs. I t was here that he developed an interest in the study of matter by neutron scattering, and for a thesis on this subject was awarded a Ph.D. by the University of London in 1954.

Dr. Egelstaff has made very significant contributions to the theory, evaluation and analysis of neutron scattering experiments in solids and liquids. In collaboration with colleagues he has published 90 scientific papers and three books.

He directed for a decade an international program on the neutron spectrum in moderators for thermal neutron reactors. This project, which was closely related t o his fundamental studies, has had a profound influence on the evolution of efficient nuclear power reactors in many countries.

From 1957 to 1959, Dr. Egelstaff was employed as a research scientist at the Chalk River Research Centre of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited. In 1967-68 he spent a year as visiting professor of physics at Cornell University and at Catholic Un~versityof America in Washington.

Dr. Egelstaff is married with five children and will soon make his home in Guelph.

Dr. Kathryn E. Kopf has been appointed chairman of the Department of Family Studies. She has been an Assistant Professor in the Department since the fall of 1969.

Prior to her appointment to the Guelph faculty. Dr. Kopf had held the post of Research Assistant, Preventive Psychiatry Program, lnstitute of Child Behaviour and Development at the University of lowa.

During that time she was also an instructor of Family Development, Department of Home Economics and College of Education, and from 1967 to 1969 was Assistant Professor of the College and Head of the Family Development Area at lowa.

She had been at lowa since 1962.

An experienced and adept speaker, Dr. Kopf has conducted a number of workshops and has had a variety of speaking engagements both in Canada and the United States.

A native of London, Ontario, Dr. Kopf graduated from the University of California at Los Angeles with a Bachelor of Science degree. Following a number of years of employment in the home economics and teaching fields, Dr. Kopf resumed her studies, this time at the University of lowa, where she was granted an M.A. in family development and her doctorate in educational psychology.

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Alumni News KOREA HONOURS SCHOFIELD Dr. Francis William Schofield, OVC '10, has been named a distinguished Member of the American College of Veterinary Pathologists. He was honoured in recognition of his world-wide contributions as humanitarian, missionary, and teacher and for his participation in the discovery of a widely used medicinal Coumarin compound.

After immigrating from England in 1903, Dr. Schofield attended the University of Toronto, obtaining his B.V.Sc. and doctoral degree. He taught at OVC for 5 years before going to Korea in 1916 under the auspices of the Presbyterian Church of Canada, to teach bacteriology and hygiene at Seoul University.

He returned t o Canada in 1920 following his participation in the 1919 Korean Independence Movement, which had attempted t o oust the ruling Japanese government. For his support of the movement he is considered t o be the 34th Korean Patriot by the Korean people.

Dr. Schofield worked at OVC for the next 3 5 years until his retirement in 1955, as the Director of Veterinary Hygiene and Research and later the Chairman of the Pathology Department.

The author of 131 papers, Dr. Schofield has been honoured several times for his research. He received honorary degrees from the University of Toronto and Maximilian University, Munich; the 12th International Veterinary Congress Prize (1954) and the St. Eloi Medal from the College of Veterinary Surgeons (1954).

For his work in Korea, where he returned after his retirement, he received the Order of Merit from the M e a n People in 1962 and 1968. Seoul University will confer an honourary doctorate degree later this year.

The Alumnus has learned of the death of Dr. Schofield i n Seoul, Korea, April 13, 1970.

Dr. Schofield had been in hospital since February with a stomach disorder.

He died shortly after the Korean Government announced the establishment of a $100,000 Schofield Scholarship in honour of his socio-political and academic work in Korea.

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PRETTY HEADS O.I.A. Dr. Ken Pretty, OAC '51, has been elected President of the Ontario lnstitute of Agrologists, succeeding Don Rutherford, OAC '51, and Dr. W. S. Young, OAC '49,

has become President-Elect.

Dr. Pretty is the Canadian Director of the International Foundation for Potash Research, with offices in Port Credit.

After graduating from OAC, he received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. from Michigan State.

He taught in the Department of Soil Science at Michigan State for several years before becoming the Canadian Director of the Potash lnstitute in 1959.

Dr. Young will succeed Dr. Pretty one year from now as President of the O.I.A. Dr. Young is the Director of the Diploma Program in Agriculture and Co-ordinator of Agricultural Extension at the University of Guelph. He recently completed a term as a member of the National Council of the Agricultural lnstitute of Canada, representing the province of Ontario.

Dr. Rutherford is Technical Director of the Plant Food Council of Ontario, 100 Dixie Road Plaza, Port Credit.

The O.I.A. represents professional workers in agriculture in Ontario. It is responsible for providing continuity in ethical standards in the profession, and co-ordinates the activities of local branches with a total membership of about 1300 agrologists.

ALUMNI GOVERNORS NAMED Mrs. Christine (Robb) Hindson, Mac '54, and Mr. DavM Adams, OAC '49, have been appointed t o the Board of Governors of the University, Chairman Ronald S. Ritchie has announced. They have both been appointed for three year terms which end January 15, 1973.

Mrs. Hindson, of Markham. said, "I intend t o work hard on this position, it's a great honor t o have been appointed."

She was President of the Macdonald lnst~tuteAlumnae Associationsin 1968-69, and sewed on the Board of Directors of the University of Guelph Alumni Association during the same period.

From 1954 to 1965, she was a member of the Toronto Home Economics Association, and she is currently associated with the University's Women's Club, the Canad~anHome Economics Association and the Toronto Women's Advertising Club.

For five years after graduation from Macdonald Institute, she was a "Martha Logan" Home Economist for the Swift Canadian Company. She has taught home economics at the Markham District High School and since 1965, has conducted a night class in "Hostess Cookery" at Cedarbrae Collegiate in Scarborough. She is married to lawyer Donald C. Hindson. They have two children.

Mr. Adams, who is Secretary-Treasurer of the Meat Packers Council of Canada,

Letters said "I am encouraged that alumni have been asked to accept posts on the Board of Governors of our University." Mr. Adams is Vice-Chairman of the O.A.C. Alumni Foundation. He is a Past President of the University of Guelph Alumni Association and the O.A.C. Alumni Association.

He is Chairman of the Market Livestock Committee of the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair, a Director of the Canadian Council on 4-H Clubs, and a member of the Ontario lnstitute of Agrologists, the Agricultural lnstitute of Canada, the Canadian Society of Rural Extension, the Canadian Society of Animal Production and the Canadian Farm Writer's Federation.

After graduation, Mr. Adams worked two years with the Ontario Department of Agriculture, and then moved to Truro, Nova Scotia. There, he held joint responsibilities as Lecturer in Animal Husbandry at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College and Animal Husbandman for the Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture and Marketing.

Returning to Ontario in 1955, Mr. Adams joined the Meat Packers Council as a Field Representative. He became Secretary-Treasurer in 1960. Mr. Adams, his wife and four children live in Erindale.

Alumnus is asinine I would like t o recommend that Dr. Kevin Burley, Acting Chairman of the Department of Economics in the University of Western Ontario, spend some of his leisure time reading Voltaire's Candide.

With a little research, he will find that this great work was intended as a refutation of the Liebnitzian contention that we live in "the best of all possible", divinelyordered worlds.

I might also add that the tenor of Dr. Burley's article - indeed, the tenor of the whole of the March issue of Guelph Alumnus, was anything but pleasing. Your statement that the "graduate schools at Canadian universities are producing a flood of advanced degree holders" is unfounded in fact and an outstanding example of the lowest order of irresponsible journalism imaginable. May I remind you that you are producing a publication that is intended for university graduates who, one would hope, are

capable of exercising a greater degree of critical acumen and judgment than, for example, the general public?

When one considers that there are little more than 8,000Ph.D1s in the whole of Canada (while, at the same time, there are some 200,000 Canadians with the same intellectual capacity as the average Ph.D.) the dominating theme of this issue, that we should curtail the development of doctoral programs, is nothing short of absurd. The large numbers of British and American academics, who hold professorships in our own university and other Canadian universities, for example, and whose academic qualifications - in my opinion -are vastly overrated by subservient, fawning Canadians, is another argument in favour of ignoring the presumptuous and asinine claims that you and your contributors have seen fit to make in this particular issue of Guelph Alumnus. That the Dean of Graduate Studies of this university could seriously share these views, is simply incredible.

The problem of an excess of Ph.D1s may exist in the United States but there is certainly no cause for alarm in this country.

Kenneth M. Brown Wellington '69 Alliston, Ont.

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH ALUMNI ASSOCIATION HONORARY PRESIDENT: Dr. W. C. Wlnegard.

PRESIDENT: Mrs. W. A. (Dorothy Anderson) James, Mac '34.

SENIOR VICE-PRESIDENT: P. W. Couse, OAC '46.

VICE-PRESIDENTS: Mrs. F. R. (Jean Keeler) Chapple, Mac '55; P. D. Ferguson, Well '68; P. M. Lindley, OAC '57; Dr. V. C. R. Walker, OVC '47.

SECRETARY: Dr. M. D. Harlow, OVC '48.

TREASURER: J. J. Elmslle, Development Officer, Unlverslty of Guelph.

DIRECTORS: R. G. Bennett, OAC '43; Dr. Joan Budd, OVC '50; Mrs. B. W. (Eleanor Rose) Chambers, Mac '57: F. T. Cowan, OAC '65: T. R. Hllllard, OAC '40; Mrs. M. S. (Llnda Sully)

The Guelph Alumnus IS published by the Department of Alurnnl Affalrs and Development, University of Guelph.

The Edrtorlal Cornmlttee IS comprlsed of Edltor--J. E. Bates, 0AC "60,Alumnl Ofilcer; Art D~rector-Prof. K. E. Chamberlain; J. K. Babcock, OAC '54, Dlrector of Alumni Affalrs and Development; D. L. Waterston, Dlrector of Information; D. W. Jose, OAC '49, Assistant Dlrector of Informatton; Edltorlal Ass~stant-D. A. Bates, OAC '69. Assistant Alumnl Offlcer.

Keith, Well '67; Mrs. D. J. (Jean Kellough) Klng. Mac '52; Dr. D. S. Macdonald. OVC '57; Helen M. McKercher, Mac '30; Julle A. Whelan, Well '68; Catherlne G. M. Woodburn, Well '68.

EX-OFFICIO DIRECTORS: Dr. T. L. Jones, OVC '34, President.

OVC Alumni Association; P. C. Matthews, Well '68, President, Wellington College Alumni Association; Dr. W. H. Mlnshall, OAC '33, President, OAC Alumni Association; David Slmpson. President. University of Guelph Students' Union; Miss Annette Yeager, Mac '62, President, Macdonald lnstitute Alumnae Association; J. K. Babcock. OAC '54, Director, Alumni Affairs and Development.

The Edltorlal Advlsory Board of the Unlverslty of Guelph Alumni Assoclatlon: Glenn Powell, OAC '62, Chairman; Dr. A. E. Austln, Dept. of Engllsh; J. Ferrls. Student; A. R. J. Marr, We11 '68. Ex-Ott~cio:I. K. Babcock, OAC '54 and Mrs. W. A. James. Mac '34.

Undellvered copies should be returned to Alumni House, Unlverslty of Guelph. Guelph, Ontarlo, Canada.

Coming Events --

II

June 7 -July 5

ART EXHIBITION, Arts Building Corridor Treasures from Guelph homes

June 1 9 - 21

OAC-MAC ALUMNI WEEKEND AND ANNUAL MEETINGS Featuring Physical Sciences Building opening

June 26 - August 3 0

ART EXHIBITION, McLaughlin Library George Wallace, welded steel sculpture

October 17

HOMECOMING 1970