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ALUMNUS Spring 1992
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Three-year~bldSashaV an Katwyk probably won[ re~mber how hardhi~ parents worked for university education - theirs andhjs But hard work alone wontensure middot that Sashas generation has the same opportunity to attend universitYIn thSissLie ()f
the GUflph Alumliuswelookat the financial crisis faciJiguniversities~
VoIiSNo2 joACS 85 and MSc 88 Editor Mary Diekieson
The GlIetpliAliltnlllH is p~blished in May SepteITlber and Jltlwary by theExecutiv~ Editor Sldra Webster C5S 7S
Uniyersiiy of Gldph in co-operation with the UniversityofGucJph Alum Cooiribulors Burbara Chance e55 74 Roberta FranchUkMartha Association Copyriglit 1992 Ideas andopii)ions expressed do not Ta~(ock Herb Rauscher Owe~ RobertsMartinSd~walbe necessarilyreflectthose ofllie VGAAor the Univers ity Copies of-the DesignProduction Chris Boyadjian Art gt SI )aTletCaldwcll Art~S6 Gllifpli AI(IIiUsedilOliaJ pollcy are available onrequestArticleslilay he
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matical functions should be performed in order moving from left to righ t making the answer 45
Weiner asks us to apply
I have just read an article in the winter Guelph Alumnus by Roberta Franchuk on the subject of math anxiety The arshyticle includes a skill-testing question and gives the answer as 49195
Because the problem is posed incorshyrectly readers of the article must certainshyly have suffered considerable math anxiety trying to solve it
The answer to the problem should be 597A The answer of 49195 would solve the problem if the equation were enclosed in brackets The square brackshyets are the key
Math anxiety indeed
Joe Hagge GeorgetownOnt
Please note that the answer given to the skill-testing question on page 17 of the winter Alumnus is incorrect The correct and only solution is 597 A
Its no wonder students suffer math anxiety I do too every time I see skillshytesting questions with wrong anSwers
Don Hamilton MarkhamOnt
I would like to commend you on the exshycellent winter issue of the Alumnus Inshystead of my usual quick skim through I found myself actually reading it cover to cover
Many of the articles focused on reshysearch and teaching the two things I remember Guelph most fondly for and the two things that may convince many prospective students that Guelph is the right choice Such a refreshing change from the usual dull material on picnics conferences awards etc
I hope youll decide to continue in this vein
Christine (Paquette) Reissmann OAC 77
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I am writing in response to your letter from a former resident assistant I agree that being on the residence life staff can be a valuable experience but so can belonging to I nterhall Council
I am a fOlmer president of both Maritime Hall and Prairie Hall and a former Interhall Council chair The leadership and skills that I learned have been invaluable to me They enabled me
to enter the pharmaceutical industry as a sales representative Today I am a disshytrict sales manager for Rhone-Poulenc Rorer one of Canada s top 10 pharshymaceutical companies
When I was an undergraduate Intershyhall Council was underrated Students failed to realize that it was our members who represented the thousands of undershygraduates in residence on various adshyministrative committees We were the ones who negotiated for improvements in the residences and cafeterias
Interhall Council spearheaded the
We made a mistake In the last issue of the Guelph Alumnus we printed Roberta Franchuk s humorous look at math anxiety but the joke was on us In our illustration for the story we presented this sk ill-testshying math problem shy
Whats 5 of (52 - 14) x
216 - Jamp- + (256 - 133)
- but gave the wrong answer for it The correct answer is 597A Our answer of 49195 was wrong because we failed to observe the order of operations rules
Many readers noticed the error inshyclud ing everyone in the Univers ity s Department of Mathematics and Stati sshytics And several told us stories about the other people theyve caught abusshying the rules of BEDMAS (brackets exponents division multiplication adshydition subtraction) Our mistake has placed us in the company of several of Canadas largest corporations
Guelph professor Jack Weiner and Gary Flewelling math consultant for the Wellington County Board of Education recently argued the case of a high school student who was denied $200 worth of compact discs in an auto manufacturers contest because hi s answer to this skill-testing quesshytion- 22+ 14dx4 -3= -did not match the auto makers answer The student s answer was 37 213 The auto maker contends that all matheshy
campaign against the closing of Maritime cafeteria And lets not forget orientation Without the help of the residence hall presidents and their counshycil of volunteers orientation would not be the annual success that it is
So yes being a residence life staff may provide some opportunity and skills to deal with the future but I know that without my experience as a member of InterhaU Council I wouldnt be where I am today
Dean Demilio CBS 87 MississaugaOnt
the auto makers reasoning to a bankshying problem You have $100 in your savings account when you begin adshyding $10 a week for 20 weeks How much money do you have at the end of the 20 weeks If you write out the expression it looks like thi s 100 + 10 x 20 The correct answer of course is $300 but by the auto manufacturer s calculation youd have $2200 Is that how they price their cars) asks We iner
This is a good example of why we cant Jet mathematical errors go uncorshyrected Meanwhile the high school student still hasnt received his comshypact discs The company is now argushying that both answers are right Go figure l
Those of us working on the Guelph Alumnus have learned our lesson Our apologies to those readers who -deve loped math anxiety trying to figshyure out how we got our answer and to those reade rs who gor the same answer we did because now you know that youre not a mathematical whiz after all
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Food research gets boost U of G received a $ I-million Christmas gift from the W Garfield Weston Founshydation the charitable organization asshysoc iated with George Weston Limited one of the largest Canadian-owned food conglomerates The money will fund a research position in food-packaging technology in the Department of Food Science
A competition is being held to fill the position which will investigate ways to balance the consumer demand for less processing of food products with the need to maintain safety
Campus research in food process ing received another boost with the appointshyment of Prof Douglas Dalgleish to a reshysearch posi tion in dairy technology that is supported by the Ontario Dairy Counshycil and the Natural Sc iences and Enshygineering Research Council Dalgleish works closely with Prof Mansel Grifshyfiths who holds a research chair in microbiology that is sponsored by the Ontario Milk Marketing Board and NSERC
Dalgleishs research concentrates on milk and milk ingredients leading to practical applications in the developshyment of new dairy products Griffiths s work also focuses on new products as well as food safety and the development of rapid detection of micro-organisms in milk and other foods
Griffiths is one of six researchers who recently received funding as part of the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food s $S-million program to help keep the Ontario food-processing industry globally competitive
Other recipients include Profs Howard Swatland Animal and Poultry Science and Ralph Brown School of Engineering who will examine the use of fibre optics and ultrasound techshyniques to measure meat quality and yield in beef carcasses and live cattle Prof Gauri Mittal Engineering and Arthur Hill Food Science will further their work in pasteurization of milk and other liquid foods while looking for alshyternatives in food preservation And Prof Les Ferrier Animal and Poultry Science will study the effect of high linolenic acid eggs on blood lipids in humans Linolenic acid is an omega-3 fatty acid that is essential to lowering blood cholesterol levels
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Child-care survey reports
The largest and most comprehensive surshyvey on child care in Canadian history shythe Canadian National Child-Care Study -launched its introductory report in February Directed by family studies professor Donna Lero the $3-million study profiles the needs and arrangeshyments of more than 24000 Canadian families with at least one child under 13
It is based on data collected from Statistics Canada interviews with parents in 1988 One in every 90 Canadian households was included
Co-director of the study is Alan Pence of the University of Victoria Principal investigators are Hillel Goelman of the
University of British Columbia and Lois Brockman of the University of Manitoba What theyve found is that most Canadian parents share common concerns about child care - its quality affordability availability and stability
The federal governments recent anshynouncement that it has sc rapped plans for a national child-care program does not mean the issue is no longer imporshytant says Lero It means the governshyment sees the need but has chosen not to res pond to it
The study findings will be presented in IS subsequent reports and a set of 12 provincial and territorial summaries
Creative writing
U of G Senate has approved a proposal for a master of fine arts (MFA) program in creative writing Concentrating on prose poetry drama or a combination students would take courses do indeshypendent reading and produce a creative shythesis
English chair Connie Rooke says the Guelph program would differ from creashytive-writing degree programs at other Canadian universities The already hired core faculty - poet Dionne Brand novelist and poet Janice Kulyk Keefer
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and playwright Judith Thompson - are to reduce the drop-out rate in French distinguished Canadian writers rather studies More than 50 per cent of the stushythan career academics dents who complete the beginners level
Another unique feature is that in French do not continue Canadian writers would be invited to give lectures workshops and seminars offering students a writers perspective Convocation honors Visiting writers would also serve as
At winter conshymentors to individual students
vocation A starting date of fall 1993 is ceremonies in
proposed but is dependent on the February Jeavailability of funding Clare
RennieOAC 47 former asshy
Multimedia French sistant deputy minister of
What do French-language students at agriculture and Clare Renniethe universities of Guelph and Calgary food for On-have in common They can improve tario was named an honorary fellow of their language skills with the aid of mulshy the University He was honored for his timedia computer equipment that comshy contributions to U ofGs agricultural reshybines sound images and text These are search program Rennie was on facultythe only two Canadian universities parshy from 1952 to 1971 then moved toticipating in an IBM-sponsored North OMAF where he was responsible forAmerican program to explore new techshy the ministryS education and researchnology in teaching French as a second programs including the contract with Ulanguage of G Since 1974 the contract has
U of G is making the French connecshy grown to $34 million a year In additiontion thanks to $45000 worth of multishy Guelph has named its research chair in media equipment donated by IBM One animal-breeding strategies in his honor of the goals of the program at Guelph is
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The University also honored Canadian engineer Claudette MacKayshyLassonde by awarding her an honorary degree for her contributions to the enshygineering profession An expert on nuclear safety issues she developed the first site-selection criteria for nuclear power stations She has served as presishydent of the Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario and founded the group Women in Science and Engineershying
A boost for animal welfare OVC has established an academic position in animal welfare with a gift from the estate of Col KL Campbell His widow Mona has contributed $500000 to start an endowshy
Ron Downeyment fund to support the position
Prof Ron Downey assistant dean of OVC will assume the position July I to explore alternative methods that would reduce the use of animals in research Part of his job will be to promote the inshyterests of the Centre for the Study of Animal Welfare which was established at U ofG in 1990
KL Campbell was a notable horse breeder and showman who shared with his wife an interest and compassion for all animals The Campbells were among the earliest contributors to OVCs Pet Trust Fund which supports research on common problems of companion animals
Land and water stewardship
U of Gs Centre for Soil and Water Conshyservation has been renamed the Centre for Land and Water Stewardship to reflect a more holistic approach to susshytainability Accordingly its focus has expanded to include sectors other than agriculture that affect water quality The centres new director is Prof Stewart Hilts a 13-year faculty member who is cross-appointed to the Department of Land Resource Science and the Univershysity School of Rural Planning and Development
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Rewriting art history
In the 1480s the Duke of Milan comshymissioned Leonardo da Vinci to produce a 93-metre-high bronze monushyment of a horse and rider But political upheava l in Italy prevented the artist from seeing II Cavallo past the planning stage
Centuries later Guelph fine art profes shysor Chandler Kirwin hi s student Peter Rush and international art historians have begun a project to cast the monushyment in two-thirds scale It will be built in New York State at a cost of more than $2 million US and donated to the city of Milan in celebration of da Vincis achievements and the SOOth anniversary of Columbuss arrival in America
Rush is a mature student with 30 years experience as a metallurgist and foundry worker His technological know-how and Kirwin s knowledge of the artistic soc ial political and cultural climate of the Renaissance has led to a revised vision of II Cavallo They are proposing to the international art comshymunity that the altist had intended to cast the 60000-kilogram monument in one piece - an easy task with current industrial practices but a daring proposal in the 15th century
The project has revealed da Vincis genius as an engineer and has caused art historians to rethink their assessment of his place in Renaissance art history
News in brief
During Christmas break U of G inshystalled an automated direct-d ial telephone system that means faster sershyvice for callers who know the extension number theyre trying to reach Within three weeks of use the system was hanshydling half of the 13000 daily incoming caUs without operator assistance
The six top students who participated in U ofGs first Krakow semes ter were recently awarded certificates of merit from the Polonia Institute of Krakow where they studied
Five years ago U of G sent 3788 tonshynes of waste to the city landfill in one year Last year the figure was 1900 tonshynes thanks to the campus recycling proshygram About 25 tonnes of glass and tin
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Prof Chandler Kirwin lefl and Peter Rush pose with a model ofdo Vincis monument 11 Cavallo Photo by Roberta Franchuk
and more than half a tonne of fine paper portunities Teamed up with a group of are hauled away each week Guelph students they will study the
creative arts in Canada Canadian
Ample snowbanks this winter helped society and the political economy of the
protect the Arboretums gene banks Canada-US free trade agreement
which contain plantings of more than nine species of woody plants native to The planned widening of Gordon Street the Carolinian forest region of southshy - the route from campus to downtown western Ontario The gene banks will Guelph - has been delayed until 1993 eventually be used to help rebuild the while city council considers a proposal provinces heritage forest system by the U of G Cycling Club to include
bicyc le lanes as part of the project
This summer U of G begins an exshychange program that will bring 28 The first Ontario turfgrass symposium Pennsylvania students to Guelph for six was held on campus last January bringshyweeks in an effort to introduce them to ing together all sectors of the industry to Canadian educational and cultural op- discuss environmental responsibility
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Predicting food production capabilities
A new research technique developed by an interdisciplinary U of G group is the first of its kind in the world to quantitashytively measure the capacity or shortfall of food production in a specific geoshygraphic area
Applying the technique to Ontario inshyvolves a complex computer database that uses production figures from the 1980s and takes into account 18 major crops 10 livestock categories seven soil classes seven climate zones six economic regions and a number of production constraints
The computer then considers different aJlocations and trends as well as condishytions that might influence future demands and productive potential
We found the current agricultural base has the capacity to produce at least 30 per cent more of each product in Onshytario says geography professor Barry Smit who has co-ordinated the program since it began in the early 1980s But the 30-per-cent surplus capacity would not be sufficient to meet even relatively
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conservative demand projections through to the year 2000 he says
The program has been used to look at food projections and to study the effects of urban growth acid rain soil erosion global warming climatic variations on food production and to identify regions of the globe where food shortages reflect limits in production capacity
Campus safety
Students walking alone on campus at night can call the Central Student Associations Campus Safe Walk proshygram and a team of volunteers will esshycort them to their destination If they live off campus but need to work late at the University library students can take the Magic Bus a service provided by the CSS Student Government after city buses close down for the night And anyone who is hurt or injured on camshypus can get help from the First Aid Response Program run by the CSA and Security Services
Each of these programs will get a financial boost thanks to a provincial government grant aimed at improving campus safety In addition U of G will
use part of the grant to install more emergency telephones on campus add lighting and rearrange foliage that imshypedes vision in some areas Also being considered is a campu s safe house that would bring together 24-hour services for students
Preserving beauty
U of G landscape architect Nate Perkins is using a computer a scanner and a digitizing board to show the effects of development on sensitive rural landscapes He is working with the Onshytario Heritage Foundation to identify and protect the esthetic landscape feashytures of the entire Niagara Escarpment
The first step is to create an inventory of existing visual landscapes and how they are currently protected in Ontario Based on this selected landscape scenes will be sampled to illustrate what might happen under different scenariosshywith no regulation under current local and provincial regulatory programs and under Perkins s proposals With comshyputer technology he will be able to creshyate a picture of what the scene would look like in each case
People make a difference on and off canlpus
U of G has recruited Powell moved to Goldschmidt HDMus 84 many talented faculshy Guelph in 1965 to estabshy launched the festival which has
ty and staff who have lish the UniversityS proshy flourished to become one of N0I1h also become leaders in gram in human kinetics Americas most respected small music the community Two and the School of Human festivals MacKinnon was president of names come to mind shy Biology He designed 10 its board of directors for 15 years and John Powell and Murdo courses and was a driving is still one of its most active volun-MacKinnon - because force behind construction teers both are being recogshy of the building that The Guelph Spring Festival was one nized this spring for their houses the school example of MacKinnon s eff0l1s to ci vic contributions During his tenure the create closer ties between the Univershy
Retired human biology John Powell University hosted eight s ity and the community He and conshyprofessor John Powell Canadian national track cert manager Edith Kidd introduced was inducted April II into the and field coaching courses sponsored the idea of regular noon-hour conshyCanadian Amateur Sports Hall of by the Royal Canadian certs still held on camshy
Fame because of his lifelong work in Legion with more than pus each Thursday
amateur Sp0l1 3000 participants He also MacKinnon was founded a cardiovascular founding dean of WelshyAn Olympic-calibre sprinter in hi s exercise group which he lington College of Artsnative Great Britain Powell turned to led daily for 26 years and Sciences in 1964
coaching after being wounded in the Retired English professhy And he became the first
Second World War A three-time sor Murdo MacKinnon dean of the College of
Olympic coach he helped 19 athletes will be the centre of attenshy Arts in 1970 He is an
earn Olympic medals And for the last tion May 2 at the Guelph honorary fellow of the 21 years he has been a regular lecshy Spring Festivals 25thshy University and the Macshyturer at the International Olympic anniversary dinner He and Kinnon building is Academy in Greece artistic director Nicholas Murdo MacKinn on named in his honor
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University Families Fight the Odds
hy Mary Dickiesol1
The Van Katwyks and the
University ofGuelph are saving to educate
the next generation
Guelph Alumnus
university education in Canada At current levels of government funding decreased
enrolments will limit university attendance to one in five within a few years
Paul and Christine Van Katwyk dont like the odds Theyre committed to univershy
s ity education - their own and Sasha s - and theyve been sav ing for hi s educashy -tion since he was s ix months old But what they hear about the continuing decline
in government funding makes them worry that the doors to Canada s universities
may not be open to Sasha when he s ready to enrol in 2007
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T heee good eoo to won) That s the message we ve been getting from universiti es and colleges in Canada for several years Many univershysity administrators including U of G president Brian Segal say they too are worried about the future of postseconshydary education
On the political agenda universities have taken a back seat to hospitals soshycial serv ices and schools despite the fact that they are part of the solution to problems facing the other sectors
In Ontario the universities share of the public purse has been declining since 1978 even though theyve added more than 160000 students to their enshyrolments Universities are actually spending 14 per cent less per full-time
Education makes a difference
Chris and I know from ou r own experience that a university educashytion can make a big di fference in one s life say Paul Van Ktttwyk
Paul grew up in a university family - hi fa ther is a professor at Wilfrid Laurier Univer ily in Waterloo He came to U of G after high school but quit before comshypleting a BA After two years o f making tire he was back on camshypus and is now finishing an MA in industrial organizational psycholshyogy U of G is one of the few uni versities in Canada that offer graduate work in this fie ld So Paul is heading off to the Uni versity of South Florida th is fall to do a PhD then will return to Canada to help expand his disc ipline to other Canadian universi tie
Chris is the first member of her family to atrend university She graduates this spring with a BASc in con umer studies With other members of her family out of work because their manufact uring jobs have disappeared Chris think a un iversi ty educashytion was the right choi e for her She would like to get involved in consumerenvironmental i sues and eventually open her own small business
student than they did 15 years ago
At the same time demand for university graduates is growing The Council of Ontario Universities (COU) esshytimates that half of the new jobs that will be created over the next decade will require L1ni versi ty-level training
At a time when unshyemployment plagues the province when health care and soc ial ass istance costs are rising when inshydustry needs to improve competitiveness when we need to boost investshyment in research and deve lopment one begins to wonder why postsecshyondary education is not a greater priority
Public opinion seems to support universities A 1990 Decima poll found that 80 per cent of Ontarians believe a lack of funding is affecting university quality and 83 per cent believe that
Universities are spending 14 per cent less for each student than they did 15 years ago
university fundin g is not keeping pace with funding for other services
But the university system needs more than quiet believers It needs strong vocal support Good intentions aren t enough to ensure survival in the politishycal arena or the global economy
Financial problems
Every year COU prepares a report on the financial position of Ontario univershysities The 1991 report reveals a steady decline in the priority that three successhysive provincial governments have gi ven to universi ties Collectively theyve igshynored the advice of their own advisory body on universities for 15 years allowshy
ing university funding to drop from 59 to 409 per cent of total government spending
This decline coincides with the federal governments introduction of Esshytablished Program Financing (EPF) which supplies a large part of the fundshying that is eventually allocated to postsecondary education
Prior to EPF federal and provincial governments shared the operating costs of postsecondary education on a 5050 basis Under EPF which was supposed to equalize payments to the provinces through a complicated system of cash transfers and tax points some provincial governments have been unable or unshywilling to maintain that 5050 balance In Ontario federal doll ars now account for a much higher percentage of the funding that is eventually transferred to universities
Many Ontario institutions believe the provincial government added insult to injury last October when it cut an addishytional $9 million from promised transfer payments for 1991 92 Before the c1awshyback COU had advised the government that universities would need a seven-pershycent increase in 199293 just to maintai n current level s of serv ice but the January budget gave them one per cent thi s year and promised no more than two per cen t in each of the ne xt two years
During this same J5-year period Ontario s universities have demonshystrated an increase in productivity unshymatched in almost any other sector by finding ways to educate 40 per cent more students with less money
The January budget brought bad news at a time when universities were also facing further cuts in provincial gove rnshyment grants for capital renovations inshycreased operating costs for utilities the federal government s 30-per-cent jump in UIC premiums a lO-per-cent in shyc rease in CPP payments and a loss of tuition revenue because of planned reductions in first-year enrolments
Ontarios Employer Health Tax and pay equity costs have also affected operating budgets at universities where more than 80 per cent of expenditures are dictated by salaries and benefits
Deficit financing is not the norm for U ofG but in 199192 costs exceeded Ministry of Colleges and Universities (MCU) operating revenue ($160 milshyli on) by almos t $46 million The defic it reflects both these unexpected increases and the planned expense of restructuring non-academic units
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Creative solutions
Like the business community Guelph has begun the ongoing process of selfshyappraisal The $69-million cost of the recent non-academic review left red ink in this fiscal year but the exercise has cut operating costs by an estimated $57 million a year Within the five-year payshyback period the University will have saved or in reality reallocated more than $28 million Segal says
The internal review removed 125 jobs simplified processes and improved efficiency A similar assessment of the non-teaching activities within the colshyleges is being completed and will be folshylowed by a look at academic functions
Guelph is one of the first universities in Ontario to undertake such a strucshytured review of its operations says Segal and it wont be the last Every university will be looking at ways to reduce the amount of work required to operate the institution he says
Were walking a tightrope trying to balance strategic goal s and fiscal management in a way that causes the least harm to students Nevertheless universities are prepared to be key players in the process of looking for creative ways of doing more with less
Segal predicts an increase in intershyuniversity and joint university-college programs that share resources more efshyfective use of automation more homeshystudy programs and co-operative purchasing arrangements
Unfortunately well al so see further staff cuts a loss of services some course cancellations and limits to stushydent enrolment
Last fall U of G decreased first-year enrolment by 686 to help ease overshycrowding on campus although total en-
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Charls reprinredjrom COU 1991 Report Oil rhe Financial Position laquo( Ontario Universities
rolment was a high of 13390 students The University plans to decrease enrolshyment to fewer than 12000 by 1994
There will al so be reductions in faculshyty positions estimates are that at least a third of the 60 current vacancies will not be filled in the next fi scal year
In addition to cos t-cutting measures universities will be looking at ways to generate new revenue More than 80 per cent of university revenue is controlled by government - transfer payments and tuition fees - but short-term operat shying fund s can benefit from increased revenues from food retail parking operations and non-tuition fee hikes
Segal says long-term endowment funds like Guelph s Heritage Fund will become a system-wide priority as will revenue sources from planned giving and alumni contributions real estate
development - like Guelphs Research Park - and capital accumulation
COU which Segal chairs will conshytinue to pressure government to increase tuition fees Ontario fees have not kept up with inflation In rel ative terms they are lower now than theyve been for 40 years representing less than 19 per cent of university operating revenue In comshyparison tuition revenues at public universities in the United States are 70 to 80 per cent higher and students at private US universities pay si x times as much as Ontario s undergraduates
COU is on record as favoring an inshycome-contingent repayment plan that would allow students to repay loans based on the level of their future inshycome But a COU proposal - even if it is accepted by MCU - is at least a year away from implementation
-Last f all the universities ofGuelph and Waterloo launched North America sfirst longshydistan ce interactive classroom project that links students at both institutions via two-way audio video and data lines Unlike other video systems that offer only televisiolltransmission the new Electrohome classroom system leIs studel1ls both see and hear each other as well as the professor It s j us t like being there - and it s aile example ofhow universities are sharing resources to improve academic programs and CUI costs Photo by Roberta Franc huk
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University benefits
Time and time again our alumni tell us that the total university experience is more valuable than the degree they received
Breadth of knowledge new insights personal satisfaction - these are things that cant be measured
The 966000 university graduates in Ontario do however share economic benefits that can be measured -like an unemployment rate that is one-third what it is for the general workforce and salaries that are on average 63 per cent higher than industrial workers
In addition university graduates share with the rest of the population even greater cultural social and economic benefits
T hrough the percolator effect Ontario universi ties generate $62 billion (1989 estimate) worth of economic activity each year and more than 138000 jobs
All Canadians share in the benefits of an academic system that acc umulates knowledge trains leaders and conducts much of the research that gives us a progress ive society
University laboratories have yielded medical breakthroughs in diabetes canshycer cystic fibrosis Alzheimer s disease and AIDS They have tackled environshymental research on the causes of water pollution and soil erosion University soshycial scientists study issues as vari ed as demographic trends cross-border shopshyping adoption and economic developshyment in native communities
On a more personal level each univershysity in Canada is a contributing member of its local community Says Guelph
Mayor John Counse ll The inshytangible benefits of having a university within our municipality inshyclude the injection into the comshymunity of intellecshytual standards talents and sershyvices
Almost every orshyganization in the city counts U of G faculty staff and students among its members and volunteers In fac t more than 30 U oG s campus wecomes almosl 150000 visitors every year
university employees were recently given special awards and commendations from both the provincial Ministry of Culture and Communications and Ministry of Citizenship
Guelph is also enriched financially by the Univers itys presence - 4 100 jobs $195 million in annual economic acshytivity The University is an attraction for many smaller companies and organizashytions and branches of provincial governshyment ministries that deal frequently with the campus In a way it has he lped to inshysulate the city of Guelph aga inst the reshycession says Counsell Last year Guelph enjoyed a net increase of three jobs in comparison with other cities where thousands of industrial jobs were lost
Equally important are the educational opportunities offered by the University
for local re sidents The number of people enrol led in distance education inshydependent study and non-degree courses at the University is almost twice the dayshytime student body Last year 500 senior citizens attended courses held on camshypus and 10000 schoolchildren parshyticipated in environmental education programs at the Arboretum People also brought 12000 animals and 500 wild birds to OVC clinics for treatment
Visitors to campus outnumber stushydents 10 to one They come for convocashytion College Royal Homecoming and Alumni Weekend to tour the Arshyboretum and the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre to attend workshops conferenshyces and lectures and to enjoy athletic events music and drama productions They also come for Sunday afternoon walks and sometimes to take wedding photos on Johnston Green
Education is everyones concern
With their Universi ty of Guelph degrees in hand Paul and
Christine Van Katwyk have joined the ranks of Ontario and Canadian univershysity graduates who recognize that the
funding of universities is not just a famishyly matter
Education is everyone s concern and should be a matter of government priority rather than rhetoric The probshylem is how to change that
Two years ago Ontario MPP Sean Conway told a group of university board members that they needed troops
When you ask us to do something and we don t do it nothing happens he said When the hospitals ask us to do something and we dont do it all hell breaks loose
Today universities are recruiting those troops and are turning to their alumni to help build a strong constituenshy
cy of support Who better to promote the value of higher education
Tell your family your friend s and your co-workers how important you think universities are Write to your local paper to let others know that a strong economy and a high standard of living depend on an educated workshyforce Call your MP and MPP and tell them that denying adequate funding to higher education is short-sighted in the extreme and that voters are expecting government action based on long-term priorities
Sasha Van Katwyk s generation is depending on it
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Marshalling the forces to fight for universities
There is a tribute $5000 to help revolution launch FOU and
taking place in Seymour hopes inshyeducation And dividual alumni will when the dust setshy keep the momentum tles we will see building The orshyprofound changes ganization needs in the way we imshy more than 100 inshypart knowledge dividual volunteers in the way we think each of Ontarios 130 about education electoral districts and the way we These friends will pay for it Some lobby MPPs on a of us will sit back regular basis in supshyand watch port of universities Others like Its a grassroots Harry Seymour Harry Seymour
OAC 61 will help influence the changes taking place
Seymour spent 22 years of his career on Torontos Bay Street then opted for a change that led to the forshymation of Pathfinder Learning Sysshytems As president he champions the Pathfinder program of computershymanaged learning as a way for classshyroom teachers to maximize their time and their students potential
Seymour maintains his interest in the investment business with several other companies including a 93-acre shoreline development project in Midshyland Ont But most of his time is devoted to education and university education is a significant part of that effort
If we can marshal the forces of university alumni we can have a profound effect on how government prioritizes education he says Those of us who have graduated from a university are in the best position to evaluate the importance of a university education We can sit back and look at the benefits we ve received and the kind of impact it has had on our lives
Seymour represents U of G alumni on the Friends of Ontario Universities (FOU) a provincial lobby group whose strategy is to organize Ontarios university alumni into a political constituency FOU members sayan unorganized constituency is part of the reason government has folshylowed a pattern of financial neglect
The University of Guelph Alumni Association was one of the first to con-
movement that has the potential to build long-term support
among decision makers and future generations of university graduates he says
If youd like to get involved call Trish Walker U of G s director of alumni affairs at 519-824-4120 Ex t 2122
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describes himself as a concerned citizen of Guelph who is committed to education Thats an undershystatement for a man who spent most of his career in educashytion including 16 years as senior academic officer at Conestoga College
He also cares deeply about the University of Guelph He worked hard in the early 1960s to help bring it to life serves on a presidential committee to promote a healthy town-and-gown relationship and is now working to increase local pride in the campus
It distresses me that we are not seeing our universities as intellectual leaders in the community in the province and throughout the country says Hagar who believes there is a need to increase public awareness about the role universities play in
Aubrey HORar
society Hes offered his vocal support to this venture as a volunteer for the Alliance for Ontario Universities
Who says talk is cheap
Your verbal support
of universities
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the most valuable gift
you could give
to the generations
of students
yet to teach
Independent of universities the alshyliance is building province-wide supshyport among communities organishyzations businesses and individuals like Hagar who are willing to expand that support on a local level
In each univershysity town there will be an alliance comshymittee that works to build community pride in the institushytion and to raise the profile of its scholars The Guelph group for example may inshyitiate an elementary school program that bui Ids rapport with the University or it might encourage med ia coverage of Guelphs environshymental work
Too often we downplay the conshytributions of our universities says Hagar but if we can instil these atshytitudes in people then financial supshyport through the political process will be there
The aJiiance is unique in Canada It shybegan in 1990 with seed money from the Council of Ontario Universities and gains financial independence this summer And its looking for more volunteers To learn more about the group call director Janet Napper at 416-979-0984
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Genetic engineering bull bull bull
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This is the second part of a report on the use of biotechno]ogy in University of Guelph research
by Mary Dickieson
String art Biotechnology research reminds me of string art the 1960s craft
that had us weaving colored strings back and forth around a pattern made by driving nails halfway into a board
Under skilful hands it became a piece of sculpture an optical illusion that prevented your eye from following any single thread across the board in a straight line
Biotechnology tools are like that Every time you think you understand what one biotechnique can do in one particular dis shycipline you find it reappearing somewhere else as someone in a laboratory across camshypus or on the other side of the world thinks of yet another way to use it
In Part 1 of our biotechnology report we sk immed the surface of how these tools are being used at U of G to benefit plant reshysearch In this story well see many of the same techniques applied in other organisms primaril y animals The secret of our success in animal biotechnology lies in the fact that Guelph has the expertise and the facilities to take any project from lab to barn and back again
Throughout this report youll read about animal scientists and clinical veterinarians teamed up with molecular biologists imshymunologists chemists and microbiologists and often food scientists toxicologists and environmental biologists Their efforts benefit not only livestock production but also human medicine pharmacology food processing waste disposal and the environshyment
Embryo transfer
A major thrust of the animal biotechnolshyogy research at Guelph is in the area of
embryo transfer In fact there are three reshysearch positions funded by government and industry that deal directly with embryo manipul ation as a way to improve the comshypetitive position of Canadas beef and dairy industries
Biomedical scientist Keith Betteridge OVC MSc 60 heads an embryo research lab molecular biologist Alan Wildeman CBS PhD 83 holds a research chair devoted to the mammalian embryo and animal scientist Charles Smith concentrates on industrial research in animal-breeding strategies
Their work is supported by both federal and provincial granting agencies animal breeders and Semex Canada the major marketing arm of Canadas attificial breedshying industry Semex records annual export sales of more than $25 million and is leadshying the industry to the nex t plateau shymarketing sexed frozen or cloned embryos
One route to increasi ng the efficiency of animal production is by improving animal reproduction says Betteridge And that in shyvolves many new biotechniques associated with embryo transfer Conventional embryo transfer means collecting multiple embryos from selected cows and transferring them to properly synchronized recipients It is now almost equally conventional however to freeze or bisect the embryo as part of the procedure
Initially the selected cow was treated with hormones to produce more eggs which were fertilized through artificial inseminashytion (AI) with the semen of a top-rated bull A large number of embryos could then be recovered surgically from the cow for imshyplantation in surrogate cows of lesser genetic worth
These techniques are widely used for the production of purebred bulls More than half the dairy bulls currently at stud in Canadas major AI centres have been produced this way There is also keen interest in using the technology to produce genetically superior breeds and provide competitively priced volumes of commercial cattle embryos
From lOp Bisecting a bovine embryo to produce identical twin calves a chimeric chick created by mixing cells from two embryos microinjecting the egg ofa fruit fly with DNA from bacterial genes that can confer insecticide resistance and a Hereford heifer protected from shipping fever by a vaccine developed a f U of G
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and more Test-tube calves and lambs
In 1988 Semex research co-ordinator Robert Stubbings OVC 76 MSc 84 PhD 89 produced Guelph s first test-tube calf during his graduate studies with Prof PK Basrur in the Departshyment of Biomedical Sciences It was not the first test-tube calf in Canada but it was the first developed from an egg that was matured as well as fertilized in a test tube
The resulting zygotes (fertili zed eggs) were placed in the oviduct of a rabbit for their early development then moved after seven days to the uterus of a recipient cow
Just a few months later other memshybers of the Guelph team took the process one step further eliminating the need to use a temporary host oviduct Postdoctoral fellow Kang Pu Xu and PhD student John Pollard were able to extend development in vitro to the point where the embryo was mature enough to survive when transplanted directly into a recipient cow s uterus
The early embryos were cultured in a medium containing luminal cells exshytracted from the oviducts of slaughtered cows Two baby bulls were born the first in Canada using this method and only the second in North America
Last year gradu ate student Dawn Kelk CBS 89 and Prof Allan King 73 and MSc 75 of the Department of Biomedical Sciences produced North America s first in vitro fertilization (lVF) lambs using these techniques
These achievements were important for several reasons The Animal Biotechshynology Embryo Laboratory can now
Authors note
One of the things Ive learned while writing this story is that biotechnolshyogy is a word seldom used by scienshytisrs For inost of us it conjures up images of people in lab coats bent over microscopes using precision inshystruments to manipulate the cells of living organisms But for scien~ists that s too vague The word may have
meaning but it d6eslJt really
produce its own IVF embryos from oocytes recovered from slaughtershyhouse cows bypassing the more expensive route of sushyperovulation and surgical withdrawal
In addition scientists have gained knowledge about early embryo development that is important for improveshyments in embryo viability and vital for developments in cloning techniques and controlled transgenesis in livestock
In a more immediate and practical context the work has led to the first clinical
Prof Keith Belleridge left and Prof Stanley Leibo watch as research technician Cindy Christian prepares an embryo f or cryopreservation Photo by Mary Dic kieson
use of IVF in cattle in colshylaboration with Brian Hill OVC 80 of Western Ontario Breeders
Bisected embryos
Meanwhile yet another part of the team based in the Department of Populashytion Medicine was perfecting techniques to microsurgicall y bisect fertilized embryos to produce genetically identi shycal animals
Professors Brian Buckrell OVC 68 MSc 84 and Cathy Gartley OVC 82 DVSc 89 and postdoctoral fel shylow Rick Rorie bisected six-day-old sheep embryos - visible only through magnification - and surgically imshyplanted them into recipient ewes Five months later nine lambs were the first animals born at Guelph from bisected embryos
Prof Walter Johnson and postdoctoral
describe anything They talk instead about cell fusion enzyme systems i ermentation or genetic engineering
The fact that biotechnology didnt appear as a popular buzzword until the 1980s suggests that we are using ilto define something neW yet none of these disciplines is really new Human beings have been using other organisms to create new procucts for centuries Thats why We have yeast yogurt and beer as well as anti-
fellow Naida Loskutoff have now exshytended this work in cattle by producing identical twins from IVF embryos divided into quarters at earlier stages of development
These projects maximize embryo use and highlight the potential for creating significant numbers of genetically identishycal animals which can be vital for conshysistent research results Tests conducted on genetically identical animals can reduce the variables caused by genetic differences and ultimately the number of animals needed for experiments
Frozen sexed embryos
The development of in vitro technishyques has also made possible further studies in cryopreservation (freezing) and embryo sexing
It s been possible to freeze and thaw
biotics growth hormones and vacshycine ~ Even genetic engineering is not new although many of us think it is
Through selective breeding practices fanners have been engineering the genetic makeup of domestic animals -for centuries What is new is the speed and accuracy with which we can implement genetic changes the ability to cross the species barrier and a much greater understanding of life processes
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At the eight-cell stage ofdevelopment in a bovine embryo each cell is removed and placed in the shell ofa discarded embryo Afler three days the blastocysts are transferred into recipient cows and the pregnancies allowed to col1linue Eight identical calves will be born and will proshyvide a valuable tool for research
cattle embryos since 1973 and most of the 60000 or so embryo-transfer calves born annually in North America are now obtained from embryos that have been stored in liquid nitrogen But there are still many problems to overcome in freezing unfertilized eggs embryos at varying stages of development and embryos produced in vitro or subjected to micromanipulation
Biomedical science professor Stanley Leibo is a specialist in cryobiology Before coming to Guelph he was part of an industry team that produced the worlds first live young (mice) from frozen embryos and later invented the patented one-step method of freezing cattle embryos Other biomedical scienshytists - King and Don Rieger - and molecular biologists Wildeman and Stan Blecher are investigating various ways of sexing embryos
Some of these involve the use of micromanipulation to remove a small number of cells from an early-stage embryo The sex can be identified by locating X and Y chromosomes detectshying male-specific DNA or perhaps by studying the proteins produced by the DNA segments In embryonic life the activity of X-linked enzymes in female embryos is twice that in males
Detecting differences in the energy metabolism of male and female embryos may also become a method of sexing In studies on early embryos generated in vitro Guelph scientists disshycovered that male and female embryos develop at different rates In addition to its value in sexing embryos this knowledge poses another question If the team can one day learn to control the rate of embryo development will it be possible to control the sex of an embryo independent of its genetic comshyplement
Photo courtesy of the Animal Biotechnology Embryo Lab
Transgenic animals
Since the mid 1980s Wildeman and fellow molecular biologist John Phillips have been producing transgenic mice for studies in human disease
This involves recovering one-cell embryos microsurgicalty from an imshypregnated mouse With a finely drawn glass needle a piece of DNA is inserted into the nucleus of the embryo which is then placed in a surrogate female to complete the pregnancy The offspring carries the foreign gene
One line of research using transgenic mice involves the study of a virus known to affect the transformation of normal cells into tumorous cancer cells Wildeman performs this work using transgenic mice in studies of cancer and metastasis
Transgenic mice are also used in Phillipss ongoing study of the causes of insulin-dependent juvenile diabetes He borrowed a gene from the fruit fly and spliced it into the chromosomes of the mouse so that it is expressed in the beta cells of the pancreas
Observations from the research conshyfirm the long-standing hypothesis that one cause of juvenile diabetes arises from the action of oxygen radicals in the pancreas
The fruit fly itself is used in studies aimed at producing insecticide-resistant insects Working with a team of scienshytists in Texas Phillips is perfecting techshyniques to transfer organophosphate insecticide-resistant genes to the fruit fly and ultimately to agriculturally beneficial insects
Studies have shown that the use of inshysecticides could be reduced if beneficial insects were not also killed by the spray In addition this research may provide the solution needed by North American
honey producers who are suffering great losses in their beehives due to parasitic mites Currently there is no effective control of the mites
From mice to pigs and chickens
Transgenic mice are also playing a role in a project that may eventually imshyprove forage use in domestic animals
Ruminant animals like cows and sheep have friendly bacteria in their inshytestinal tract that enable them to digest the cellulose fibre in forage crops If other animals such as pigs or chickens had the same ability they could be reared on lower-quality cheaper feed than the cereal grains now used
A research team that includes Phillips microbiologists Cecil Forsberg and Peter Krell and environmental biologist David Collins-Thompson has isolated the effective gene from a microshyorganism present in ruminant animals and is transferring it into the mouse which is also a monogastric animal Studies with transgenic mice will enable the team to fine-tune its ability to manipulate expression of the gene
This is just the beginning of a longshyterm project says Phillips but it may one day connect with the work of Profs Rob Etches and Jim Squires in the Department of Animal and Poultry Science who are following separate paths to reach the same goal- transshygenic chickens
Blotchy chicks
Etchess lab opened the door for transshygenic poultry in 1988 when postdoctoral fellow Jim Petitte OAC PhD 86 sucshycessfully moved cells from one chick embryo to another creating chimeric chicks Until this breakthrough
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researchers had been unable to manipulate the avian embryo in the early stages of development
Petitte extracted embryonic cells from the yo lk of a newly laid egg from a barred Plymouth Rock hen and microinjected them into a rec ipient embryo in a dwarf white l eghorn egg through a tiny 05-censhytimetre window cut in the shell When incubated the egg went on to produce a chimeric chick Embryonic cells from the black Plymouth Rock donor were expressed as blotches of black in the chicks down
Since then Etchess research team has been able to do the procedure more successfully get better gene exshypression in the donor cells and keep the embryonic cells in culture for 24 to 48 hours befo re transplanting them into the recipient egg
The chimeric chick itself is not transgenic genetic information from the donor embryo is expressed in a limited number of cells in the chick A second-generation chimera howshyever would be transgenic if the donor cells contained a foreign gene
Thats the focu s of a collaborat ive
Animal scienlisl Jim Squirev has developed a chemic(li recipe Ih(l causes DNA-I(lced liposomes 10 fuse wilil sperm cells When pershyjeered the technique will allow him to use the natural veeror ofsperm cells 10 lransmit foreign
project between the labs of Etches and colleague Prof Ann Gibbins OAC MSc 71 PhD 80 who is intershyested in modifying the donor cells through genetic manipulation When her lab team is able to target a specific gene and change it - and only it - they will insert that gene into the donor cells to produce a chimeric chick and in the second generation a transgenic chick
Transgenic sperm
Squires is taking a more obvious but no less perilous route to the transgenic chicken by using sperm cells to carry the foreign DNA Just as the hen s embryo is difficul t to manipulate the rooster s sperm has barriers of its own Prevail ing thought is that any invas ion of the sperm cell will kill its potency
Although Itali an and Israeli reshysearchers claim to have inserted DNA into the sperm cells of mice through abshysorption no one else has been able to get this to work so the prevailing thought prevail s
Squires s approach is to power DNA into the cells He s de veloped a chemishycal recipe that causes DNA-laced liposomes (fat globules) to fuse with sperm cells
Squires says his team has overcome
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DNA Photo by Ma ry Dickieson
the three main obstacles encapsulating DNA in the liposomes fu sing the liposomes to sperm cells which affects the transfer of 0 TA and retaining the fertility of the sperm
What they have yet to demonstrate is that the process produces a transgenic animal Trials are under way using a radioactive marker ge ne that can be easi shyly detected in a developing transgenic chicken Squires will be eager for peer rev iew to document the results this fall
If successful the sperm cell technique can be adapted for use with all species of commercial animals Sperm cells are the perfect vector because their ultimate function is to insert DNA into an egg says Squires We ll just be supplying the DNA The method is easy economical and safe to periorm and does not inshyvolve expensive equipment
Disease diagnosis
The international race to identify a mutation assoc iated with a costly swine disease was won by Guelph pathologist Peter OBrien OVC 88 and Univershysity of Toronto professor David Maclennan
The mutation associated with maligshy
nant hyperthermia was identifi ed in Maclennan s laboratory by sequenc ing the gene in normal and abnormal swine A I OO-per-cent correlation was fo und between DNA-based tests in Maclennan s laboratory and phys iologishycalbiochemical tests used in 0 Brien s research for diagnosing the condition
From these findings the scienti sts developed a test using modem molecular biology techniques to identify the mutation in the blood cells of inshydividual swine
Malignant hyperthermia is seldom fatal in pigs but it results in poorshyquality pork Pork producers suffer major economic losses from what is known as PSE - pale soft exudative (watery) meat - in affected animals
Other research at U of G cou ld help eliminate a potentially lethal blood coagulation disorder in dairy cows Facshytor XI a genetic disorder associated with a lack of c lotting protein in the bl ood causes hemorrhag ing in Holstein cows
Researchers believe the problem can be eliminated by ensuring that breeding stocks are free of the disease Testing for all of Canada is conducted by U of G biomed ica l sc ienti st Patricia Gentry and research technician Michelle Ross
Vaccine development
Vaccination is the cheapest most efshyfecti ve way of dealing with infec tions and the most poweriul way of preventshying di sease Advanced immunization programs using new biotechniques are under way in many Guelph labs last fa ll the Natural Sc iences and Engineershying Research Council announced strategic grants for advanced techshynologies that included four vacci ne development projects at U of G
Profs Brian Derbyshire and Eva Nagy of the Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Immunology (VMI) recei ved a three-year grant of $295000 to perfect gene-cloning techniques for the de velopment of a vaccine for porshycine gas troenteritis
In the same department Profs Janet Maclnnes Soren Rosendal and Bonnie -Mallard OAC 79 MSc 82 PhD 88 were awarded $250000 over three years to work on a recombinant vaccine effecshytive against the bacterial organism that causes severe pneumonia in pigs
Also in VMI Prof Patricia SheweD 75 MSc 79 PhD 82 received a three-year grant of $408 000 with Prof
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Reggie Lo Microbiology to continue work on an improved vaccine for shipshyping fever Lo and Prof Alan Mellors Chemistry and Biochemistry received a $54000 grant to develop clinical and com mercial applications of a technique used in bone marrow transplantation and vaccine development
These projects follow in the footsteps of earlier developments like the bov ine shipping fever vaccine created by Shewen and VMI chair Bruce Wilkie OVC 65 It was like finding a way to control the common cold in humans
Although the bacterium Pasteurella haemolytica occurs normally in the noses of cattle its numbers increase during periods of high stress and present an insurmountable problem for the animals immune system
Wilkie and Shewen di scovered that during its most active stage of growth the bacterium produces a toxin that imshypairs the ability of clearing cells to eliminate the bacterium They grew the bacterium in a culture monitored toxin production and developed processes for vaccine production
The technology was licensed to Langford Inc of Guelph which man ufac tures and markets Presponse shipping fever vaccine in both Canada and the United States
Lab work by Lo and former student Craig Strathdee CBS 85 PhD 89 that contributed to the shipping fever vaccine project also led to a patent apshyplication - for the plasmid coding for Pasteurella haemolytic leucotoxin which has been implicated as a major virulence factor in the impairment of primary lung defence in cattle
Animal health
Wilkie and Mallard are also working with Prof Brian Kennedy in Guelph s Centre for the Genetic Improvement of Livestock to develop a selective breedshying program that uses knowledge acshyquired through genetic studies and stretches the definition of biotechnology
To stay hea lthy an individual animal must have the genetic ability to produce resi stance to infection says Wilkie That ability is not dependent on a sing le gene but on the expression of many difshyferent genes Neve rtheless these genetic traits are heritable and amenable to selection
This team has identified traits in pigs that are important in maintaining health has characterized individual animals
Biotechnology ofa different sort in volves the use of traditional selected breeding and a computer database to produce diseaseshyresistant pigs
through the expression of these genetic traits and has associated these traits with high productivity If these high producers are mated to produce a disshyease-resistant strain of pigs is that biotechnology
If foreign DNA had been introduced into the embryo of a pig to give it the characteristic of disease resistance that would be an obvious example of bioshytechnology But how do we catalogue the technology if it uses tradi tional selecshytive breeding and a computer to produce a piglet with the same resistance to disshyease
More biotechniques in action
Guelph food scientist Cyriel Duitschaever OAC MSc 66 PhD 75 has developed new fermented milk products that will benefit people suffershying from gastrointestinal illnesses
He and research associate Carole Buteau OAC MSc 78 PhD 83 isoshylated two naturally occurring intestinal bac teri a and propagated a pure culture in the laboratory to develop both liquid and yogurt-like milk products that can be used to stimulate digestion in the inshytestinal tracts of people who are on anshytibiotics who are lactose-intolerant or who suffer gas trointestinal disorders
Clinica l trials at the Children s Hospishytal of Buffalo have been promis ing giv ing rise to another potential use in the treatment of acute diarrhea l di seases affec ting people in the Third World
Microbiology professor Joseph Lam heads a research team that has develshyoped a diagnostic kit to quickly identify a bacteria group known to cause fat al inshy
fections in some hospital patients Pseushydomonas aeruginosa is the principal cause of death in cystic fibrosis sufshyferers and is a serious threat to burn vi cshytims cancer patients and those undergo ing transplants
Because the bacterium does not respond to conventional antibiotic treatshyments quick de tection is central to preventing spread of the infection Lam s kit can cut the test period from 12 hours to five minutes
His current research illustrates the cross-over effect of biotechnology He identified an antigen that is common to about 75 per cent of P aeruginosa strains and a monoclonal antibody against the antigen This has allowed him to iso late spec ia l bacteria that will produce the antigen in large quantities for further s tud y His work should evenshytually lead to a human monoclonal anshytibody that cou ld be used to protect cystic fibrosis patients
In 1989 when the federal governshyment decided it was time to put some money behind its verbal thrust in science and technology it allocated $240 million to estab li sh 14 centres of excellence that would integrate the reshysearch efforts of Canadian uni versi ties industry and government
Several U of G researchers received funding including microbiologists Chris Whitfield Anthony Clarke Joseph Lam Reggie Lo Roselynn Stevenson and Terry Beveridge who beshycame part of the network looking into bacterial di sease Their expertise will aid the search for the causative agents of bacterial diseases such as whooping cough gonorrhea toxic shock synshydrome lung infections and me ningitis
In 1988 biochemist Janet Wood and crop scientist Peter Paul s achieved a breakthrough in understanding how subshystances like sugars and amino ac ids are transported from outside to inside a living cell wall They found that minute protein molecules in the wall surroundshying a cell act like miniature pumps capshyturing the substance and powering it through the cell wall -They are now trying to determine how the protein molec ules choose subshystances for uptake or release S uch celshylular behavior plays a critical role in determining a plants reaction to soi l sa linity or explaining why cells fai l to transport glucose from the blood in diabetics
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Behind every how theres a why While we stand in awe of what sc ienshytists are accomplishing in the biological sciences we shouldnt lose sight of the reasons why they are manipulating cell structure and decoding genetic blueprints
To some extent scientific exploration is driven by human nature - our desire to understand and control the natural world Advances in biotechniques and genetic engineering promise to give us more of both
Reports on the Human Genome Project say that within 15 years well know the code of almost every gene in the human body This work and current explorations in animal genetics are harshymonized by the fact that many of the genes that control development are similar among species
The chicken for example is a familiar model for studies in developshymental biology Supported by 60 to 70 years of data todays embryologists like Prof Rob Etches are learning how to modify the genes that control developshyment of a chick embryo while giving us a better understanding of how genes efshyfect development in all vertebrates
Nothing could be more fund amental than understanding that process says Prof Keith Betteridge who heads the Guelph team working with bovine embryos In all areas of reproductive and genetic research the big payoff is that we will understand more about how two gametes can unite to fonn a single cell and develop into Northern Dancer or Albert Einstein he says
Everyone has a role to play in decidshying how to use this knowledge says Betteridge but the researcher has the triple responsibility of thinking through the implications of new technologies exshyplaining those implications to a skeptishycal and concerned public and safeshyguarding the welfare of animals used
Whether manipulating an entire animal or one of its reproductive cells the scientist is guided by the same set of moral standards If the technology inshyduces pain or suffering causes changes in behavior or affects the animals abilshyity to eat and survive then it shouldnt be done says Prof Bruce Wilkie chair of the Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Immunology
He and other Guelph scientists inshyvolved in animal research are subject to
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peer rev iew through the U of G s animal care committee which is also charged with ensuring that research and teaching programs are in compliance with the Animals for Research Act of Ontario
Reporting to the University s Reshysearch Board the committee is comshyposed offaculty student community and non-user representatives It estabshyli shes animal-care policies on campus and evaluates all protocols submitted by researchers and teachers After granting initial approval the committee reviews each project annually and inspects reshysearch facilities each semester A provinshycially appointed inspector also visits campus frequently and the Canadian Council on Animal Care makes an inshyspection every three years to assess the level of animal care
In addition to safeguarding animal care scienti sts al so need to provide evidence that the products of biotechnolshyogy are safe for human consumption or medical use The public needs to know that the pharmaceutical protein cloned and produced in a chicken s egg is no different than the same protein cultured from human cells and produced in a large bioreactor
The big payoff is that we will understand more about how two gametes can unite to form a single cell and develop into Northern Dancer or Albert Einstein
One of the most talked-about benefits of transgenic technologies is the potenshytial for producing enzymes prote ins and antibodies for pharmaceutical and inshydustrial uses Molecular farming would take advantage of the expression system in higher animals to produce a therashypeutic protein that is difficult or expenshysive to make in a lab
The potential seems enormous but the prac tice will be quite simple A typishycal Ontario dairy herd could probably produce enough human insulin or bloodshyclotting factor to satisfy the world
demand It s easy to see why these techshyniques are already presenting problems for patent offices
The past decade of work in transshygenesis has been a learning process for all of us Early research efforts that produced pigs in the United States with arthritic deformities and sheep in Australia with ulcers have taught us th at even science must learn to walk befo re it can run That means perfecting genetic transfer in animals where the techniques are easily controlled - such as mice and fruit flies - before applyshying them to domestic animals
One of the advantages of gene transshyfer technology is the control it offers geneticists who are able to manipulate expression of a single gene during development One of the limitations may be the re lative ly minor change that gene can make in one generation when compared with the changes induced through the countless generations of selection since domestication
These limitations may alleviate some of our fears about the use of gene transshyfer but it also makes us question its value at least in terms of breed improveshyment in domestic livestock Prof Charshyles Smith holds a research chair at Guelph in animal-breeding strategies and is often called on to assess the value of the new biotec hnologies in the genetic improvement of farm livestock
Economic traits are already being imshyproved through traditional selective breeding methods he says It would take quite large beneficial transgenic efshyfects (at least 10 per cent of the mean) on economic merit to make their incorshyporation worthwhile
Despite our e thical concerns the legal entanglements created by the use of biotechniques and the problem of turnshying new technologies into cost-effective procedures most scientists agree that these technolog ies are too powerfu I not to use They have the pote ntial to help allev iate some of the most serious problems facing the world - food production overpopulation disease and shyenvironmental degradation
Statisticians teU us that 50 years from now we will be trying to feed twice the current world s population on a smaller land base in a more fragile environshyment This is the why behind current research in genetic engineering
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OUD TH Annual giving in 1991 reached $14 million The value of the Annual Fund becomes more apparent each year as the University of
Scholarships amp BursariesGuelph faces continued financial $320127
AMF Priority Athletics ~ ---------- (Scholarships$38326
pressure The 1991 Annual Fund Pet Trust raised $14 million to help $261224 maintain scholarships and provide academic and library programs AMF OAC Alumni Scholarships Foundation ______ grew by $9245 25 per cent
$228494
Memorial Funds $56997
Arboretum $77441
Class Projects ResearchBuildings$86658
Matching gifts grew 31 per cent in 1991 More and more Canadian companies are g iving financial support to the institushytions that educated their employees A total of 44 companies matched 92 inshydividual gifts for a record $11120 in Annual Fund contributions to the University of Guelph in 1991
If you work for a matching-g ift employer every doll ar you donate is matched - doubled or even tripled shyby a company gift Its as easy as it sounds so check with your employer on how to multiply the value of your gift to the University
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Academic Enrichment $87246
3M Canada Incorporated Akzo America Foundation Alcan Aluminum Limited A lean Canada Products Ltd Amdahl Canada Limited American Home Products Corp American International Group Inc BASF Corporation Bell Canada Boise Cascade Canada Limited Campbell Soup Co Ltd Chevron Canada Resources Ltd F alconbridge Ltd Ford Motor Company of Canada Ltd Gelleral Electric Canada Inc Hoechst Canada Incorporated IBM Canada Limited ICI Canada Incorporated Insurance Bureau of Canada
$134893Library $103050
John Laball Limited Kraft General Foods Canada McGraw-H ill Ryerson Limited Nabisco Brands Canada Ltd Northern Telecom Limited Paul Revere Life Insurance Co Pfizer Canada Inc Pioneer Hi-Bred Limited Pitman-Moore Inc Sara Lee Corp ofCanada Ltd Square D Canada The Bank of Montreal The Coca-Cola Company The Toronto Star The UPS Foundation TransCanada Pipelines Warner-Lambert Canada Inc Westeel
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ADIT ON With thanks to Donors Class agents College representatives Alma Mater Fund Advisory Council
Alumni and others who give to the University of Guelph through the Annual Fund are helping to maintain quality at a time when governments are funding for mediocrity Because of the dedication and commitment of our donors and volunshyteers the 1991 Annual Fund surpassed last year s total by $100000 We did not achieve our goal - perhaps $1 6 million was overly ambitious in light of current economic conditions - but we were able to maintain last years 25-per-cent inshycrease in scholarship support
Through the Alma Mater Fund we raised more than $540000 and achieved Tom Sawyer
the target of 12-per-cent participation among graduates of the three founding colleges Arts CBS and CSS alumni substantially increased their donations and participation over last year Campus participation grew from 145 per cent in 1990 to 171 per cent this year And our parents program pushed contributions from parents to $84188 compared with $31500 in 1990
For the first time since 1984 the Alma Mater Fund Advisory Council was able to go beyond its commitments to fund eight additional projects - a total of $86000
Looking ahead our flagship project for 1992 will be War Memorial Hall renovations During Alumni Weekend in June you ll have a chance to see the work that has been done upstairs and the work still needed in the downstairs hall It s a project well worth the interest and support of alumni
For your past and future support of the Alma Mater Fund my sincere thanks
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Tom Sawyer OAC 59A and 6 Corporations Chair AMF Advisory Council Associations Foundations $2874947 Annual giving contribution s
III Annual IGiving Alumni
$1403701 Major Gifts $1236622
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were 22 per cent of the o
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$6239707 given t U of G as donation
in 1991
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Annual Giving Report
1991 Annual Fund Results $1 A niillion wasraised overallmiddot ariinceaSe of
76 per ceI1tThisyear alumrii in the Arts and CBS groups doubled theirparticipation alld conshytributions And the parents recotded a 46-pershy
cent participation rate
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The group of eight
Eight campus projects were selected to share $86000 in highest-priority funds from the 1990 Alma Mater Fund Among them are the OvC Wild Bird Clinics education program a CSS academic medal in memory of the late dean John vanderkamp a soc ial sc ience citation index for the library framshying for the fine art print study collection a computer design laboratory for the School of Engineering seed money for a history graduate scholarship a conshytinuing education survey for the Mac-FACS Alumni Association and a HAFA-sponsored executive-inshyresidence
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Of cattle cash and Colvil e Alumni gifts to the University of Guelph come in some pretty interesting packages Over the years alumni have given livestock concrete paintings shythere are two by Canadian painter Alex Colville - furniture land books inshysurance policies and a host of artifacts and antiques And money - a lot of money Almost every building on camshypus has some bricks and mortar paid for by alumni And hundreds of students are helped along the way each year by alumshyni-sponsored scholarships
The Annual Giving Report on the preceding pages shows once again how important alumni gifts are to the Univershysity and provides us with an opportunity to say thank you to those alumni who continue to give on a yearly basis Anshynual giving is however only one of three avenues through which alumni proshyvide financial support to the University The others are major gifts and promoshytional programs
Annual giving
The Alma Mater Fund established in 1969 is the route chosen by most alumshyni faculty and staff who make annual gifts to the University
AMF solicitation and management are handled by a volunteer advisory council On the preceding page chair Tom Sawyer OAC 59A and 64 talks about the funds success over the last two years with AMF scholarships inshycreasing by 25 per cent This year the AMF begins a three-year commitment to funding renovations to War Memorial Hall
In addition to its flagship project AMF provides regular support to athshyletics through Gryphon Club contribushytions to college advancement funds and scholarships and to individual class projects
The AMF supports the camaraderie of university days as alumni work together to plan and complete a project whether its funding a scholarship a painting a tree weight-lifting equipshyment or furniture for Alumni House AMF contributions also ensure that fushyture Guelph students will remember those who have gone before
In addition to AMF donations the anshynual giving program includes gifts to
the OVC Pet Trust Fund the OAC Alumni Foundation the Arboretum the paren ts program and the Li brary Other gifts made directly to the University supshyport memorial funds scholarships musishycal activities and research and academic programs
Major gifts
Major gifts to the University are adshyministered by the Deve lopment Office under the direction of Marilyn Robinson Mac 55 These include beshyquests or life insurance policies shortshyterm pledges (often made during a capital campaign) large donations that might establish an endowment fund or contributions to special University projects like the Heritage Fund or the proposed FACS Building addition
Gifts- in-kind - such as library materials art objects or estate properties - also fall within thi s category Last year alumni gave more than $12 milshylion in such tax-deductible gifts
Promotions
Every Guelph graduate is a member of the University of Guelph Alumni Asshysociation and receives the Guelph Alumshy
nus magazine and many other privishyleges There are no UGAA membership fees but the association does raise money through promotional programs like MasterCard travel packages and the North American Life Assurance proshygram
The UGAA provides serv ices to alumshyni and students - such as the careershyplanning workshop planned for Juneshyand returns many dollars directly to the campus Last year it gave $20000 to the library
In addition to direct financial support through annual giving and major gifts alumni also support the University inshydirectly through membership fees to individual college and program associashytions The fees pay for association acshytivities that help maintain ties between their members and the University
Questions
If you have questions or would like 10
know more about the tax advantages of giving to U of G write to Paulette Samson associate director of annual giving and support services at Alumni House University of Guelph Guelph Ont NIG 2Wl or call 519-824-4120 Ext 6183
When yo~bearrom US
If you think youre hearing from us moreoften lhanY9u elida few years ago you reright But checkyour mail and you ll 110tiqe that you~re also hearing
more frequemly from othernon-jgtrofit)rganizations and charities We v~ all stepped lip oui- fUQdIaising efforts
U QfGappreciates your support and needs your help butyou wont know that if we donr teflyou Aildeyen if you cant afford to make a fjnancialcon~
tributiori we hop~ to wjn yoUfverbaJ sliPPOJ-tJt will take many voices to coii- ylnce governmeritthal universities should beagreater public priority
When we contacenttyou on behalf of iheUriivetsity we lly to give more thiin we ask So tak~advantage ofthe p~1one call o(letter to findoutwhais happenc ing OJrcarnp~s U ofG hasmuchto offer llufnrii professionaldevelcipment courses library privileges travel programs recreation and a link Igt friends and
classmates
We Jik~to keep in roucharidYcwarit yO~1 to know the progress were rilaking Ast~e Uriiversity $ prestige grows so does the value ofyour degree
~0~ MarilynR~binson Trish Walker Mac55 DiJectoJ ofDevelopment CSSTl Director ofAJurhni Affairs
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Get your career on track
Responding to alumni requests the University of Guelph Alumni Associashytion will sponsor a career-planning workshop on campus June 26 to 28 The weekend program will be led by Sharon Crozier of the University of Calgary counselling service Each participant will receive a careerlifestyle analysis and will develop a personal action plan
The $225 fee includes the StrongshyCampbell Interest Inventory and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator which will be administered and tabulated prior to the weekend Testing dates have been set in Toronto for May 27 and in Guelph for June 4
Sponsored by the UGAA and coshyordinated by Continuing Education and Alumni Affairs the workshop will also draw on the Universitys Counselling and Student Resource Centre
Enrolment is limited to 20 For registration information see page 26 or call Continuing Education at 519-767shy5000
UGAA board report
by Grant Lee CSS 73 MA 80
The UGAA will present a convocation package to each graduate this spring imshymediately following presentation of the degree or diploma Developed by Alumshyni Affairs staff the package is designed to increase awareness of the UGAA and the collegeschool alumni associations encourage membership introduce the Guelph Alumnus and provide an opporshytunity for board members to congratushylate our new alumni
Approval of the new UGAA bylaw is on schedule It will be presented to members at the annual general meeting in June along with an amendment to the
i I UGAA Letters Patent
In addition the UGAA board bull has approved a $400 donation to help
cover costs for two students to represhysent Guelph at the 1992 World Debatshying Championships in Dublin Ireland
bull is looking at a proposal to help alumDl with financial planning There will be more to come on this subject later
bull received thanks from president Brian Segal on behalf of those alumni who attended the October symposium
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Canada Break Up or Restructure The association was a patron of the event
bull is responding to requests from alumni for more social events Aside from the travel program the UGAA sponsored a ski day at Horseshoe Valley in March
bull approved a proposal from the School of Landscape Architecture to research places of historical value on campus Financial support has yet to be resolved
bull accepted an offer to help sponsor the University Centres annual lecture series which invites Canadian and inshyternational public figures to speak on current issues All events in the winter 92 series were free to alumni
bull donated U of G sweatshirts to Canadian Guidance and Counselling for a conference in Ottawa this sumshymer
bull approved the purpose and terms of refshyerence for the new Alumni House Adshyvisory Committee which is charged with overseeing maintenance of the
facility adopted the 199192 budget and finanshycial plan drafted last November This year we expect to generate some $44000 and spend $33000 It has been suggested that we set the 199293 budget and plan in April of this year so the new board wi II start in September with a sound financial program and budget that will only reshyquire adoption or revision
Chapter news
Calgary - About 40 alumni and guests met at the Delta Bow Valley Hotel Feb 3 to view a U of G video and hear a talk by admissions counsellor C hr is tine Toews FACS 87 Co-ordinator of the event was Janet Hutchinson CBS 79
Edmonton - Paul OAC 67 and Anne Valentine CBS 69 hosted a group of 30 alumni and guests at the Ramada Renaissance Hotel
Montreal - U of G welcomed students and their parents - including many
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alumni - to its first Montreal informashytion night for prospective students The event was modelled after a successful program in Toronto that draws more than 800 students each spring
Vancouver - U of G president Brian Segal met with alumni March 5 at the Pan Pacific Hotel Jim Dodds OVC 63 and Sarah Bloom FACS 86 orshyganized the event which attracted about 70 alumni and guests
Halifax- U ofG alumni in Halifax met with Gryphon basketball players during the March 26 to 28 CIAU chamshypionships Despite losing the OUAA west division title to Brock University the Gryphons qualified for a wi ld card spot at the CIAU championships Alumshyni received free tickets to the game that pitted Guelph against Brandon in the consolation final Fan support was enshythusiastic but the Gryphons lost 72 to 64 finishing third overall
Homecoming 1992 Plans are well under way for Homecoming weekend Sept 25 and 26 In addition to the annual Gryphon Hall of Fame dinner and award s ceremony the weekend will feat ure a beach volshyleyball tou rnamen t --~4~=iiiiikshyconcert alumni brunch walk-a-thon pep rally reunions and the traditional homecoming dance following the Saturday afternoon footshyball game This year the Gryphons will play Wil frid Laurier University A complete schedule will appear in the next Guelph Alumnus but you can get
Winners of Ihe Ju SI fo r Fun square dance compelition 01 College Royal were left 10 right Ann Joselin Kelley Allen Joanne Hewirson Brenl McFadden caller Sue MacKinnon Richard Presley Trish Henderson Jason Thompson and Kelly Lillie
in the Homecoming spirit now by helpshying to plan your class reunion or signing up as a scorekeeper for the vo lleyball tournament For infOlmation call alumshyni officer Laurie Malleau HAFA 83 at 519-824-4120 Ext 2102
Swing your partner
Eight squares of alumni took part in the College Royal square dance competition in March Winners of the UGAA alumni square dance plaque were the Crazy 8s Joanne Hewitson Arts 91 Lloyd Hutchinson CBS 87 Sonya Jones CPS 90 Ed Ketchabaw OAC 88 and MSc 91 Carol)n OAC 90 and Brad MacNeil CPS 87 Mike Relf OAC 91 and student Sherry MacNeil Wayne Lowden was the caller
Winners in the Just for Fun category were Junior Farmer alumni who included Hewitson Ann Joselin OAC 90 Brent McFadden CSS 90 Richard Presley OAC 86 and soonshyto-be-alumni Kelley Allen Trish
Henderson Kelly Little and Jason Thompson The caller was Sue MacKinnon OVC 9 1
Florida picnic
The North Port Yacht Club hosted 199 alumni for the annual Florida picnic March 4 On hand to meet them was Trish Walker CSS 77 and MSc 90 director of alumni affairs Judy Phillips of the University s Real Estate Division also attended to talk about the Village by the Arboretum retirement deve lopshyment
Attendance prizes went to Gertrude Stewart Mac 30 and Morley Funston OAC 32 The picnic was sponsored by the UGAA Alumni-In shyAction Committee represented by Ken Gartley OAC 42 and the Florida reunion committee consisting of Mary and Ted Brent OAC 48 Helen and Don Moffatt OAC 46 Stella and Bob Moore OAC 48 and Retis and Bill HasenptlugOAC 39
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A new kind of class reunion
Its the latest fad in alumni circles shymeeting your classmates at the anshynual University of Guelph alumni hockey tournament Twenty-two teams played in the fifth annual tourshynament in December
For most teams tournament standshyings are secondary to the socializing with classmates that they may not see otherwise says Bill Seegmiller OAC 83 who worked with Brian TapscottOAC 8 1 to organize the event We promote the social aspect through two divisions - social and more social - and include family skating and a Saturday evening wine and cheese party he says Trish Walker director ofalumni affairs presents fhe social division lrophy 10 Ihe OAC 79
Dipper Oldies (II the U ofG alumni hockey tournamenl The OAC 79A team defeated the Grey Gryphons to win the more soshycial division The OAC 80 team won the consolation final and the spirit award went to OAC 7778
In the social (a little more competishytive) division it was the Faceoffs in first place over OAC 88 OAC 90 won the consolation trophy and the Valley Vikings took home the spirit award
Organizers plan to add womens exshyhibition games to the 1992 tournament which is scheduled for Dec 5 and 6 For more information call Seegmiller at 519-836-3807 or Rudy Diemer OAC 85 at 519-763-2250
A night at the races
The UGAA Alumni-in-Action group will host a night at Mohawk Raceway May 26 The $30 admission includes a 6 pm buffet parking program taxes and gratuities For detail s call Laurie
~ Malleau at 519-824-4120 Ext 2102
I Alumni directory
A new alumni directory will be ready for delivery in May The deadline for alumni updates has passed but you can still order a copy of the directory at a cost of $40 plus tax Return the order form you received with the special U of G wristwatch offer or write to Rosemary Clark Mac 59 at Alumni House University of Guelph Guelph Ont NIG 2Wl
Guelph Alumnus
Ottawa chapter 50 years young
There was a nostalgic gathering of Guelph alumni in Ottawa last winter to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the city s alumni chapter
Donald Fletcher OAC 36A and 39 who was president of the group in 1953 sent us a historical account of the chapters activities
A small organizing committee first met in February 1941 at Madame Burgers restaurant to plan the chapters first fun ction a skating party at the Ottawa Experimental Farm It attracted 75 people
Over the years the group held an anshynual picnic and a banquet and dance that gave them a chance to invite faculty from Guelph to speak about happenings at the colleges - and later the Univershysi ty Every president from George I Christie to Bill Winegard paid a vi sit
In 1951 alumni from OVC and Macshydonald Institute who had been meeting since 1936 joined the OAC group A crowd of almost 200 celebrated the chapter s 10th anniversary at a picnic at the farm of the late John Bracken OAC 06 During the 1950s they added a get-together at the annual Ottawa-area plowing match which gave way to a curling bon spiel in the 1960s
There have been many special funcshytions - entertaining the Gryphon footshyball teams square dances car rallies golf tournaments theatre parties and raceway evenings - but the event that stands out in Fletchers memory ocshycurred in 1966 when five members of Parliament hosted the group in the parshyliamentary ballroom
The chapter also includes a couples bridge club which has been meeting for 25 years in the homes of its members
Fletcher thanks the 30 people who have served as president of the Ottawa alumni chapter and the dozens more who have helped on committees devot shying years to the executive to promote the institution
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ALUMNI CAREER PLANNING WEEKEND WORKSHOP
JUNE 26 27 amp 28 ~ The Program This highly successful workshop developed by Sharon Crozier PhD University Counselling Services University of calgary is the first step for an alumnus who is considering a career move The weekend (Friday evening through Sunday afternoon) will consist of group presentations conducted by Dr Crozier with smaller working groups facilitated by profeSSional counsellors from the University of Guelph Counselling and Student Resource Centre
Discussion structured exercises and experiential activities will lead alumni to gain insight into a personal careerllifestyle analYSis and assessment career information resources networking skills and much more
No matter what their age career stage or reason for transition each participant will find this workshop to be an excellent opportunity to develop a personal action plan - and chart their next move
~ Pre-1esting In order to provide individualized career information registrants are required to attend one of two pre-testing sessions The Strongshycampbell Interest Inventory and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator will be administered and results tabulated prior to the workshop Pre-testing dates are as follows
Toronto Wednesday May 27 1992 700 pm - 8 30 pm Holiday Inn Yorkdale
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May 2 - The Guelph Spring Festival begins with a 25th-anniversary gala dinshyner in Creelman Hall that will honor founding president Murdo MacKinnon Other festival events run until May 23 For more information call 519-821-7570
May 2 shy An All-Canadian University Asshysociation d inne r w il l be held in Washington DC at the Embassy of Canada Guest speaker is Robert Lanni president of the University of Windsor Entertainment will be provided by Windsors music department For inforshymation call T Chan at 202-543-9111
May 3 - Arboretum Day celebrates spring with family nature walks at 1 and 330 pm and an electrical keyboard concert at 230 pm featuring Canadian comshyposer Carole Anne Burris
May 10 to Aug 30 - Guided nature walks run every Sunday at 230 pm in the Arboretum Topics include wildflowers birds turtles snakes and insects The nature centre is open from 1230 to 430 pm
May 13 - Chancellor Lincoln Alexander is the guest speaker at the Alumni-inmiddotAction annual general meeting which begins at noon in the Arboretum Centre For details call Alumni Affairs 519-824middot 4120 Ext 2102
May 13 - The Human KineticsHuman Biology Alumni Association will hold its inaugural meeting at730 pm at Alumni House with a coffee and dessert social RSVP to 519-824-4120 Ext 6963
May 23 shy FACS 82 is sponsoring a colshylection of Bob Munsch plays performed by the Carousel Players at3 pm at War Memorial Hall Tickets are $8 plus tax and handling To order call the UC box off ice at 519-824-4120 Ext 3940
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May 30 - An Arboretum sale of rare native trees and shrubs at the RJ Hi lton Centre on College Avenue East runs from 9 am to 1 pm For information call 519-824shy4120 Ext 2113
May 30 shy The sixth annual All-Canadian University Dinner in Chicago will be held
in the Henry Crown Space Centre at the Museum of Science and Industry and will include a reception buffet dinner and an Omnivax movie beginning at 6 pm Guest speaker is George Pedersen president of the University of Western Ontario For information call David Cole at 312-372-4404 or Hugh Mackenzie at 708-369-3688
June 2 to 5 shy Spring convocation June 13 - Beginning at 7 am the Arshy
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June 15 to 17 shy U of G will host the 15th annual Guelph Conference on Sexuality With the theme Sexuality New Visions the conference will examine current isshysues in human sexuality counselling strategies for sexual problems and teaching approaches in sexuality educashytion For information call the Office of Continuing Education at 519-767-5000 or fax 519-767-0758
June 19 to 21 - ALUMNI WEEKEND See page 39 for a complete schedule of events and alumni association meetings The UGAA annual meeting is June 21 at 10 am in Macdonald Hall 149
June 26 to 28 shy The UGAA-sponsored alumni career-planning workshop will be held on campus See page 26 for details
July 31 amp Aug 4 shy The National Youth Orchestra will perform in War Memorial Hall at 8 pm as part of its summer program at U of G Tickets at $8 general $6 for stUdents and seniors will be availshyable at the door
Sept 26 - HOMECOMING Rise early for the second ann ual Homecoming charity walkathon At 930 am the Human Kinetics Alumni Association will hold its annual general meeting in the School of Human Biology lounge
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John Boros 88 of Wei land Ont writes that he is impressed by the way U of G keeps records after graduation Thi s gives the graduate a sense of belonging a connection to an important period in hi s or her life he says
Jane Buzza 88 is working as records co-ordinatorarchivist for the Ontario Medishycal Association in Toronto
Jacqueline (Sullivan) DeClerck 86 is a public relations officer at the Canada Trust head office in London Onto
Richard Ely 70 works at the Crown attorneys office in WeIland Ont He has an LLB from the University of Western Ontario in addition to his Guelph degree He says he often talks about U of G to young students trying to decide which university to attend
Paul Genest 81 finished graduate studies at Johns Hopkins Universi ty in Maryland and is now assistant professor of philosophy at Union College in Schenectady NY He is man-ied to Barbara Jessup 8 1
Brian Hogarth 78 is head of interpretashytion at the G1enbow Museum in Calgary
Martha Hooper 9 1 was married last Ocshytober to David Perry They live in Calgary where she is a sw itchboard operator at the Delta Bow Valley Inn
Rene van der Meijden 87 has put his degree in geogshyraphy and internationshyal development to good use with the Christian Reformed World Relief Comshymittce Originally from the Netherlands he is now in Uganda on a three-year asshy Rene van der signment as a rural Meijden development adv iser He sends greetings to his many friend s in Canada and to Guelph grads Stan and Kitty in Bolivia in particular and reminds us that visitors are always welshycome in Uganda
Edward Milliner 85 will graduate this spring from the faculty of education at the University of Windsor
Mark Moore 85 is doing postgraduate work in history at the University of Bristol in England He plans to teach high school
fn response to a letter from Dawn Monroe 69 that appeared in the winter 1992 issue of the Guelph Alumnus Doug Moynihan 69 of Fort McMurray Alta writes Be disapshypointed no more Dawn l I too graduated in 1969 from (the College of) Arts or as it was then called Wellington College and I havent heard from anyone either And I too think it is time to contribute my news
After graduation f headed out to disshycover and sol ve the problems of the world travelling overseas for about three years Since then Ive been working in human resources in a variety of organizations in many different locations in Canada Cun-entshyIy I am the manager of human resources in Fort McMurray
PS Do you remember me Dawn I was the bartender in Creelman Hall I
John Teskey 7 1 began new duties last summer as director of libraries at the University of New Brunsw ick in Fredericton He was head of adshyministrative sershyvices at the University of Albershyta before moving John Teskey across Canada to acshycept the UNB posishytion but had earlier served as chief librarian and was library personnel officer at both Alshyberta and the University of Saskatchewan
Teskey says his biggest challenge is to regain the lost purchasing power that univershysity libraries have suffered as a result of static budge ts and ri sing material costs He is encouraging increased resource-sharing among universities and interlibrary loan programs with shortened turnaround
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Elizabeth (Baxter) Willson 77 a real esshytate agent in Chatham Ont writes to voice a common feeling that the universi ty exshyperience itself is often more important than the degree or diploma received I am really glad I graduated from Guelph she says
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Michelle Bombadier and Mike Caldwell both 92 are two of 50 Canad ian youth selected to work in Guyana for three months with Youth Challenge International (YCI) a non-governmental organization that provides Third-world experience for Canadians They may spend the summer building a school teaching safety or clearing land for Gu ytna s first national park but they need some private support to he lp cover transportation costs Anyone able to help should write to YCI at I I Soho St Toronto M5T IZ6
Jane Coventry 86 writes with accolades for the Guelph Alumnus grad news section and an update on what she and her husband Jaydee Smith 84 and MSc 89 are doing They were married in 1989 while working at U of G - he in the Department of Animal and Poultry Science and she in the Departshyment of Crop Science In February 1991 they moved to England where Smith is doing a PhD at the University of Bristol and working as a research assistant Coventry
works in the technology transfer unit of Nickshyerson Seeds Ltd in Cambridge
Jeffrey Crawford 88 and Leslie Thompson 86 were malTied last October He is an elementary schoolteacher in Mount Forest Ont
Craig Emerson 83 earned a PhD at Dalshyhousie University in Halifax in 1990 and is now a research associate in oceanography
Paul Fleming 85 is a pharmaceutical sales representative for Hoechst Canada Inc and lives in Nepean Ont
David Forsey 80 is an assistant professor of computer science at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver He is marshyried to Lyn Bartram
Michael Gangl 89 is in his third year at the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College
Astrid Harms 87 is a registered nurse in London Ont
Andrew Holmes 85 worked for the Onshytario government as a wildlife biologist for three years but is now back at school in his second year at Northwestern Chiropractic College in Minneapolis
Timothy Johnson 86 works at the Centre for Limnology at the University of Wisconshys in in Madison
Karen Lennard 77 (HK) and her hu sshyband Paul Jackson 79 (HK ) and MSc
82 both went 011 to earn medical degrees from McMaster University in HalTilton Ont Jackson also has a master s in physiology from the University of Virginia and is comshypleting an anesthesiology residency in Hamilshyton Lennard has a part-time family medical practice allowing her to spend more time with the couples two children Matthew and Nicola
Wendy Maltby 74 is an elementary schoolteacher for the Metropolitan Toronto School Board
Sandra OConnor 84 earned a medical degree from the University of Western Onshytario and is now practi sing in Burlington Ont
Linda Owen 81 runs her own business as a consulting exercise physiologist and fitness supervisor in Campbell River BC
Sheryle Tetley 86 is regional sales manager for Glaxo Canada Inc in Mi ss isshysauga Ont where she lives with her husshyband Ian
Rob Tonus 87 is manager of the Black Creek Rehabilitation Project a grassroots enshyvironment program to improve a degraded urban stream in Toronto His office is with the Metropolitan Toronto and Region Conshyservation Authority and he lives in Oakville with his wife Wanda (Knul) 88 (HK) a public health inspector in Hamilton
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Richard Woods 81 is an instructor of xshyray technology at the Easte rn Ontario School of X-ray Technology at Kingston Ge neral Hospital He would like to hear from other members of the 1981 U of G choir wi th whom he travelled to Scandinav ia Write to him at RRI Od essa Ont KOH 2HO
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James Dy nes 84 has comp le ted g raduate studies in chemistry and so il sc ience at the Univers ity of Sas katchewan in Saskatoon
Catherine (McVittie) Clark 88 is a nuclear medica l tech nici an at Howard Counshyty General Hospita l in Columbia Md She and her husband Michae l li ve in Elkridge Md
David Holmes 85 is a systems analyst at Sun Life Assurance Company
RolfKierdorf 84 lives in Guelph with his wife Janet He is se lf-employed as a systems consultant
Donald McFadde n 71 and his wife Carol li ve in A lbany Ga where he pracshyti ses medicine
Donald Ridley 69 and PhD 73 has been appoin ted seni or v ice-presiden t of CibashyGeigy Canada Ltd in Oakvi lle Ont and is responsib le for a ll corpora te serv ices includshy
ing finance human resources safe ty health and the environment He a lso se rves on the board of the Canadian Agricu ltura l Research Council and is a member of the Great Lakes Action Plan Strategi c Advi sory Committee
Kathryn Root Parr is an assoc iate minister at Lorne Park Bapti st Church in Mississhysa uga Ont She was married las t fa ll to Vicshytor Parr
Peter Simpson 85 is dis tric t manager for McNeil Pharmaceutical Ltd in Stouffville Ont He is married to Cynthia (Hamilton) 85 (HK)
Keith Stemshorn 83 is in the Canadian Armed Forces stationed in Calgary
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Nikki Dignard 86 moved to Ottawa last year where her husband Ted Henike pracshyti ses denti stry Dignard is working on an M BA and says she d love to hear from CSS classmates Tom Cam and Kathryn
Bonnie Dunnett 87 and MA 91 works on campus at the Gerontology Research Centre S he and Barry Hallman 9 1 li ve in Guelph
Kathryn Faulkner 80 is a registered nurse in Burling ton Ont where she li ves wi th he r husband John
Ruth Fox 84 is a sta ffing assistant for
Transport Canad a and lives in Toronto w ith her husband Christopher
Shonna Giles 88 is an admiss ions officer at Simon Fraser Unive rs ity in Burnaby BC
Gina Grieco 75 is a hi gh school guidance counsellor in North York Onto
John Harris 82 is manager of financial planning and budgets for th e City of Brampton Ont
Paulette Heppner 76 is a teache r in Vanshycouver
John Johnston 7 1 has been appointed exshyec uti ve vice-pres ident o f Ve rsacold Canada Corp and pres ident of QF Foods Distribushytion Services Versacold Canada is the largest public refri gera ted ware hou sing orshygani za tion in Western Canada
Michael Kral 79 has moved from the Univers ity of Manitoba to the University of Wind sor where he is an assistant professor of psychology
Jeffrey Lozon 76 and his family recently returned to Toronto after 15 years in Western Canada He is executive vice-president and ch ief operat ing officer at St Michael s Hos pital and li ves in Oakville wi th hi s wife Donna and two daughters
Bria n Martin 79 is a real estate appraiser in Portland Ont whe re he li ves w ith hi s wife Margaret (Sheffield) Arts 79
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Leith Mason 90 works in Toronto in the Canadian office of the State of Illinois as a special assistant to the Illinois Department of Food and Agricul ture
Michael McKean 74 of Don Mills Ont was recently appointed president of Wrigley Canada Inc Before joining Wrigley as execushytive v ice-pres ident in 1990 he he ld senior positions in Hong Kong Brazil and the United States
Rick 74 and Vicki (Collard) McTaggart FACS 74 are working in Ottawa He is director of overseas operations for the Unitarian Service Committee a charitable non-governmental organization that supports commun it y and human resou rce developshyment activities in Africa and Asia She is sec tion head of consumer analysis in the agr ifood development branch of Agriculture Canada
Sandra Morrison 86 is an ass istant professhysor in the department of psychiatry at the University of Western Ontario
Stephen Naylor 85 is director of planning and development for the amalgamated municipalities of Alliston Beeton Tecumshyseth and Tottenham
Brian ONeill 68 MA lives in SUITey England where he is managing director of Innovation Management Consultant s
Jodi Parisi 89 is a sales representative for Gillette who says U of Goo was the greatest
Moira Skikavich 81 is completing a PhD in c inematelevision at the University of Southern California
Virginia Sutherland 78 is an air traffic controller at the Toronto Island Airport
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Peggy Bates 88 was recently promoted to sales manager with Sears Canada Inc She lives in Owen Sound Ont
Caroline Begin 86 is working in Singshyapore as a dietitian
Diana Close 87 is a c linical nutri ti onis t at Chedoke McMaster Hospital in Hamilton Ont
Sarah Davenport 90 is a case worker with the Wellington County Social Services office in Guelph She is malTied to Matthew Harvey CBS 90
Timothy Dyck 8 1 is national sales manager for Black amp Decker Canada workshying out of the Corbin Division in Richmond HillOnt
Sharon (Muir) 84 and Richard Ernst CBS 83 are the proud parents of a future Guelph grad uate one-year-old Andrew Graham
Patricia Edwards 78 is food servi ce sushypervisor fo r St Peter s Hospita l in Hamilton Ont
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For the love ofteaching Since she
middot graduated bull from Macshydonald Inshymiddot stitute in
J 963 Nancy Kerr has built a career on teaching and research in telttles The middotheidofthe Uriiveisityof
Albertas department of Clothing and texiiles pursues a middotscientific interest inthepreservashylion of hi stori~lfabricsarid in developing pesticide-proofc1otl1ing But Jler fitstlove i ~ teaching
In 199b shewonone ofU of As four Rutherford AWljrds for excellence ill unshy
dergraduate teat-hing The first member of the faculty middotofliomemiddoteconornicsto receive the award slie was the rcentcipient6f the facultys own underglltiduate teaching award three years earlier
Winning the Rutherford was a gteat honor says Ken who has been on
faculty at Alberta since 1967 She oiscovered she had an aptitude for
middot teaching as a graduate student at the University of California Davis in
196566 After earning her MSc she casr about for afaculty position in Canada and round U of A was the 0111y place I could teach ju t textiles plus have a chance to develop new cQurses and research labs
middot Kerr sa)s she gets a tremelldous sense of satisfaction from teaching and the learning he must do to stay cUlTent She attributes her succe s as a teaCher to middotIec-middot
middot tures that are well organized and clear and to creltting a positive classroom climate
~Thcomfort level of students is reaUy middot ililportanL ~ Kerr eamedherPhD in fibre lnd
polymer science from North Carolina bull Staie University in 1982 Her doctoral work concentrated oil deacidification
techniques to preserve historicatcottOnln 1988 she spent a sabbatical ye~r doing research at the Caliadian Conservation
middot In tirute in OnflW1 middot Originalmiddotly from Ottawa Kerr is a
trarisphlnted -vesterner who enjoys middot hiking anlt sk1ing
From left Diane Ellison Lisa Wilson Lori Davis and Pippa Hobbes
Diane Ellison 84 is liv ing in Osaka Japan where she teaches English to Japanese busishyness people Last October she welcomed three U of G friends for a visit Lori Davis CSS 85 manager of Jumbo Video Inc in Oakville Ont Pippa Hobbes 84 accountshying manager for Paramount Holidays in Willowda le Ont and Lisa Wilson 84 co-ord inator of membership serv ices for the Metropolitan Toronto Board of Trade
Monica Hrybko HAFA 88 is director of sales for the Ramada Hotel Old Town in San Diego Calif
David Jones HAFA 88 is a con troller at the Holiday Inn Montreal Centre-Ville
Kathleen McLachlin 83 is operating an insurance agency in Kitchener OnL She opened the State Farm Insurance office in March 1988 and says she loves her job
Susan (Goettler) Parker 80 is working in Toronto as benefits administrator for Imshyperial Oil Limited She is married to Donald Parker OAC 79
Mary Jean (Sinnott) Price Mac 7 1 has returned to sc hool at the University of Otshytawa to earn a bachelor of education
Margaret (Richardson) Rankin 75 has been living in Halifax since 1990 and is an account analyst for Central Guaranty Trust
Janet (Wanless) Sutherland 77 is in private practice as a marriage and family therapist in East Kelowna BC
Jean Thomson Mac 37 says 1937 was a long time ago but shes delighted with all the changes that have gone at the college A former hospita l nutritionist she is retired and living in London Ont -
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Olayiwola Layi Adeola MSc 86 and PhD 89 and his wife Mope are living in West Lafayette Indiana where he is an assisshytant professor of pig nutrition at Purdue University
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Bruce Barrie 79 (Eng) graduated last June with an MBA from City Uni ve rsi ty in Washington State and is now a senior adshyviser in strategic planning with Petro-Canada Resources in Calgary He is a professional eng ineer with APEGGA and an ac tive memshyber of the Planning Forum an international society for planning and strategic manageshyment
Barbara Bryce 83 and her husband Ricardo Ramirez 82 are living in Rome Italy She is a landscape architect and he is a communications officer with the Food and Agriculture Organizat ion
Daniel Campbell 81 and his wife SharonshyMarianne are farmin g near Petrolia Onto
Carolyn Closs 82 and her husband Harold operate a beef cowca lf operation in Shawville Que
Luc Cote 83 is an agricullural account manager for the Royal Bank of Canada in Joliette Que
Kerrie Lea Curran 85 plans to graduate this fall from the master of architecture proshygram at McGi ll University
Bruce Dodson 74A is course superinshytendent at Hawd Ridge Golf and Curling Club in Orillia Ont
Richard Donkin OAC 85A originalshyly from Zimbabwe is the manager of Venida Packing Inc in Exeter Calif Situated in central Californias San Joashyquin Valley Venida Packing ships tree fruit throughout the Richard Donkin United States Canada the Pacific Rim and the Far East Products under the brand names Ruby River and Venida include peaches plums nectarines kiwi grapes persimmons and pomegranates In 1988 Donkin married California native Lisa Kolander and they live in Lemon Cove a community in the Sierra foothill s
Brendan Elder 8S A lives in Kelowna BC and works for Dogwood Nursery He plans to be married thi s summer to Rosemary Powell
Robert Fessenden OAC MSc 67 was recently appointed vice-president of devel opshyment and planning at the Alberta Research Council He is responsible for tec hnology management and corporate marketing
John Fitzgerald 86 was married last November to Susan Given a ] 991 indeshypendent study graduate in animal producshytion He is a lecturer at Ridgetown College she works at Centralia College and is work shying on a psychology degree at the University of Waterloo They live in Strathroy Ont
Glenn Helstern 79A is a driver for the Calgary division of Greyhound Bus Lines of Canada Ltd
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She tells a princely tale
For seven miniJtes on Oct 24 199 L Ellen Het1eOAC 76~U1d MSc 80
(ltllked with PIince Charles Invited toopert a newfumaceat
inco Lilniteds Copper Cliff smelter iri Sudbury Ont the Princemiddot of Wales was easy to talk with says Heale ftwasverycxciting
As eiwironmental co-ordinator Of land reclamation andrevegetation at Copper Cliff Healetold theprince middot about Tnc(secosystem rehabilitation
projects Theroyalvisitor was parshyticulatfyiilterestedin the treegrow- ing project in abandoned inines flld in tlpoundrevegetation ()f acres of tailings
and barren rock Planrilig vegetation on the tailings
hasattrlttcled wildlifeto a protected habitat says Beale who has wqrked forIncosincc she graduated in 1976
Ninety~iwo species ofbirds as weil asrodems hares foxes wolves bears andinoQse have been sighted on the 2500 acres of rehabilitated ore waste
One thing about this job is you middot can s~e where youve been effective she says
While an undergraduate student in Prill(e Charles with EIen Heale horticultural science Healea native ofSiidbury worked at Ineo during the sumniers She wasthi tirst woman to
work inrhemining companys agriculture middot department After shegraduated the niekshy el inine hired her full time tcido horticul- turaLfleld research ~ Ineo later granted heT a two-semester leave of absente t6 work
Theodore Jacobs 78 (Eng) is engineering supervisor at Standard Tube in Woodstock Ont
Greg Keast 85 (Eng) is li ving in Mozamshybique in East Africa where he works as a project officer for UNICEF rural water supshyply project s
Richard Kline 74 was appointed partner of the Toronto accounting firm Schwartz Levitsky Feldman Inc last faiL He is presishydent of the film s bankruptcy division a member of the Chartered Accountants of Onshytario and first vice- president of the Ontario Insolvency Association
Christopher Laforest MSc 91 (USRPD) works in planning and economic developshyment for Bruce County Ont
Jean-Paul PhD 90 and Lynn (Hammell) Laforest 82 and MSc 85 are both employed at Laval University in Sainte-Foy Que He is a professor and s he is a research associate
Kenneth Lawless 63 earned a Guelph deshygree in agricultural economics then went on to stud y dentistry at the Uni versity of Toronshyto He is now an oral and manilo-fac ial surshygeon in Kingston Ont
oil her masters at OAC~ In her current PdStion Heale has rnore
administrative and public relations responshyibilities On her own time she sits on the
board of management for the tocal Red Cross and isalllember ofthe Sudbury
Business and Professional Womens Club
Margie Luffman 77 writes that she has happily returned to Ontario after 10 years in New Brunswick to work at the Smithfield Experimental Farm in Trenton She is curator of the Plant Gene Resources of Canada clonal gene bank
Brian MacCulloch MAg 89 is a sa les representative for Springva le Nurseries Ltd in Berwick NS
Daniel Mansell 64 and MSc 68 is Onshytario manager of the eastern habitat joint venture in the wildlife policy branch of the Ministry of Natural Resources He is stashytioned in Midhurst Ont
Peter McEntire 77A writes from County Langford in Ireland to keep in touch with U of G He is farming and work s as an AI techshynician with Bova Genetics Ltd
Darryl Mitchell 78 works at Pioneer HishyBred Limited in Chatham Ont
Hugh ONeil 88 is manager of customer financial services for Ral ston Purina Canada Inc
Umed Panu MSc 72 (Eng) has done a lot of travelling during his career After Guelph he earned a PhD in civil engineering
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David Nedelko OAC 86 and Ljrlda ArmsJrollg CBS 89 (Jurk 011 cemre) were marriediasl SeplemiJer in Bari ~ie OnlTluir weddiIg iiarly illcilldedfiom leli Katy KusmiliskiOA C 88Paul Allgusline GAG 86 Roh Reed OAC 87Carv Belfral1l oAC 8RJIuJ Sa ndimiddoto (CollinI) BerlrCIlII CBS RR Also 1I111ie wedding w(lS Arlllslong s Veal ullcleClarence Fleming OVC 34 The couple (Ire living in
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at the Universit y of Waterloo taught in India and at Mi ss iss ippi State Uni vers ity and worked with Briti sh Columbia Hydro and the Government of Newfoundland In 1986 he jo ined the faculty of c ivil engi neering at Lakehead Uni ve rsity in Thunder Bay Ont and was promoted to full professor in 199 1 He and hi s wife Kashna and the ir children Neeti and Anukud enjoy the outdoor recreashytion ac ti viti es available in Northwestern Onshytario and look forward to visits from U of G alumni trave lling to Thunder Bay
Lyle Pettigrew 61 is a marketin g consulshytant with Harris Kovacs Alderman in Atlanshyta Ga
Helen Prior 88 joined Sheridan Nurseries after graduation then worked for a year as a research tech nic ian in Guelph s Department of Crop Scie nce She is now in her th ird year at Emmanuel College at Victoria University and hopes to be ordained as a United Church min is ter in May
Gregory Scott 83 (Eng) is operations manager for Accuform Gol f Limited in Toronto
Ba rbara (Coordes) Skrypetz 87 is a fi e ld supervisor for the Ontario Dairy Herd Imshyprovement Corporation working out of Guelph He r husband Stephen 88 operates a bulldozing and excavating busi shyness in the Woodstock area
Victor Skidra 6 is re tired f rom his job as a sc ientific evaluator with Hea lth and Welshyfare Canada He and hi s wife Konstance live in Nepean Ont
William Slusarchuk 63 (Eng) and MSc
The way we were in 1902 OAC alumnus Douglas Campbell 60 passes on a bit of col lege hi sto ry that shou ld make us think twice about our con stitutional squabbles in C anad a
Campbell is director of the Latin America and Caribbea n Trade Divis ion of Canada s Department of External Affa irs Last summer he hosted a vi s it by the president of Uruguay Luis Alberto Lacalle Herre ra whose grand fa the r made a simil a r vis it to Canada in 1902
This is what the elde r Herrera reported to his government Gue lph agricultural college enjoys a worldwide reputation and is con shys idered one of the grea t loca l attracshytions
More than 200 young Canadians a long with many foreign youths come together in its lecture rooms There are bursary ho lde rs from Norway and as far away as Mauritius C loser to us
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67 was recently appo inted pres ident of AGRA Eanh and Environmental Group an envi ronme ntal and geotechnica l firm that is a division of AGRA Indu stries Limited
Michael Sullivan 87 A is a pol ice officer with the Wate rloo Regional Police in Cambridge Ont
Argentina has 12 students there We ll then couldnt Uruguay imshy
itate those good exa mples and also se nd a number of worthy youths to Guelph to acquire the professional knowledge which is becoming m ore necessary each day for the deve lopshyment of our agric ulture~
In addition to the sc ienti fic benefits that our compatriots woul d deri ve from entering sLlch a Canadian techni cal in shystitution there would be the inca lcushylable benefit of becoming familiar with the stric t manly and sound habits of these people who are admirable in e ve ry respect
Afte r they have stee ped themse lves in this atmos phere of dem ocracy which fosters the development of all rights and is alien to intolerance thi s legati on w ill have the great honor of sending home not only sc ientists but a lso mode l citizens
Brenda Trask 80 operates he r own comshymunica tion s consulting company in Osshygoode Ont She is marri ed to Ron Ferguso n
Dave Vanden Bosch 89 is manager of operator services and plann ing for Bell Canada in London Ont
J Stallard Skip Waterhouse 54 and hi s wife Li sa are ce lebrating the birth of a daughter Samantha Elizabe th on New Years Day 1992 They live in New York State where Wate rhouse is iI pro fe ssor of bio logical science at the Plattsburgh Sta te Uni versity College of Arts and Science
Jeff 88 and Karen (Burrows) W h ite 87 live in Strathroy Ont Jeff work s for Bell Canada and Kare n is a Lambton County rural orga ni za tion spec ialist with the Ontar io Mini stry of Agriculture and Food
Harold Wright 86 is a development repre shysenta tive for Ci ba-Ge igy Canada Ltd in Mi sshysissauga Ont He and Lori Krieg 84 plan to marry thi s sprin g
Donald Ziraldo 7 I received doubl e honors last winter fro m the Ontario grape and wine industry Preside nt of Inniskillin W ines of Niagara-on -the-Lake Ont he was named to the Royal Order of the Grape for hi s leadership in enhancing the prod uct and its image
In addition Z ira ldo and his partner Karl Kai se r were named 1991 Men of the Year by FoodsCIvice and Hospitalily magazine During the ir 17-year partnership at Inn isk ilshylin the two have been instrumental in shapshying Canada s wine industry the magazine sa id
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ave Barry Burtis 69 was named president of the Ontario Veterinary Medical Association in January after working with the voluntary organization for four years as a director member of its editorial board and chair of its public relations committee Burtis lives in Burlington Ont and practises at the Bay Cities Animal Hospital He also appears on a local cable television program called Pel Tales
William Medway 54 of Blackwood NJ has been named an honorary life member of the International Association for Aquatic Animal Medicine for his contributions on beshyhalf of the association and the field of aquatic medicine He is both a founding member and past president of the associa shytion A professor emeritus of clinical laboratory medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine Medway is a member of the Marine Mammal Commissions committee of scientific advisers
Diane Pickering-Forster 86 is practising at Vander Kraan Veterinary Services in Huntsville Ont She is malTied to Chris Forster and they have one daughter Julia
Julien Proulx 67 has moved from Kapusshykasing Ont to La Pocatiere Que where he is superintendent of Agriculture Canada s Experimental Farm Last year he was feashytured on TVOntarios French network series Personalire Ontarienne for his work as a veterinarian his participation in municipal politics and his support of regional developshyment in Northern Ontario He was also awarded Agriculture Canadas research branch prize Agcellence for extraordinary management during his direction of the reshysearch program at the Kapuskasing Exshyperimental Farm
A North America-wide
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has been started (in spring 1991) for science professionalsacademics
and others interested in science or nature
Write or phone for information
Science Connection PO Box 389 Port Dover Ontario
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Twoc~ireers middot on the samepat~ OVCaruninus Geoffrey Lord 49 felt a thopedic
middot enseofdejavuwhen he read theslory gastrointesshyabout Bill Naray~i1 OVe 63 il1la~t tinal and carc
springs issue ofthe Guelph Altimnus diovascular
There are amazing simi laritiesbetween surgery the c~reersof t~e two Guyanese wh6b6th says Lord If earnedvefetinary degrees atGueiph someone worked in c1ini(ai practice in)Yestem were to ask Canada then moved to the United States me ioday to work in human medic~lresearch what Tcon~
Narayan heads an AlDSresearchteamsider to be atJohns HopkiflS l1)iversilySchool of my expertise MediCirieinBaltimoreMatyland Lord is I would have retired directorofthdohnsonamp Johnson to saymecli- Geofrey Lord
middot Resear~h Foundalion ill NewJersey cal device lordsays he was influenced by OVC andbioshy
proJessDfs Anthony Kings(Qte and Frank Inaterials evaluation middot SchofieJd~ndwcentnton from GiJelphto pur- lt In the I 950s Lordwaspalt of ale-
sue graduate studies in parasitology auhe se~rch team that pioneered the use of University oJWiscollsin Sevenmorithsin animal tissue tOTeconstructdamagedjr
amixed practice in Drumheller Alta con blocked al1eries in hUl11ansTwenty years vinced him thaldinical medicine wasn6t middot later he drafted the first systematicap-
middot whati w~ted6 do He returned to Wis pr()ach to the safety evaluation of medica con5il110 eanla PhDlll pathologyano devices joined Johnson amp JohnsQri as asenior middot Allsubsequeill guidelines inCiLlding patilol()gistiriI953 those of the Foodaj)q Diug Admlnistrashy
Research at Johnson amp JohDson tiOnand the Canadian Regulatory ~teeredmeinto many interesting and chal- Authority hayeadopteoihis approach he
Jenging fieldsofbio-research includirig says derniiltoi9gy toxicologic pathology Lordand his wife Helen ltIividetheir wound healing surgical pathology iiinebetweel)Ciipe CodandBonita genera toxkology ofi~w drugs andor~ Springs FloriQa
Shane Renwick 77 and MSc 91 works in veterinary services at Agriculture Canada offices in Guelph
Ruth Reuter 61 is a veterinary pathologist in Plympton Australia
Tom Sanderson 6 1 was selected by the Ontario Veterinary Medical Association as Ontario Veterinarian of 1991 CUlTently OVCs co-ordinator of off-campus work terms he spent 20 years in private practice in Listowe1 and Mount Forest before returning to the coll ege in 1982 to manage the veterishynary research stations Sanderson s contribushytions to the profess ion have included many hours of volunteer work in the advancement
of the profession and in the development of veterinary inshysurance programs He is a past pres ident of both the Ontario and Canadian Veterishynary Medical associashytions
Jennifer Troughton 86 is practising in OronoOnt
Simone Woltner 86 is a veterinarian at the Chester Basin Animal Hospital in Chester Basin NS
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by her hu sband William and two sons The fo llowing dea ths have been reported since the las t issue of the Guelph Alumnus Full notices which are usu ally submitted by family or classmates may appear in thi s iss ue or in a later one
James Clement Arts 73 Feb 2 1992
Marilyn (Dyment) Farnan Mac 530 Feb 27 1992
David Fisher OAC 80A in October 1990
Elizabeth (C hristie) Glass Mac 3I D June 2l99 1
Peter Heskey OAC 54A Dec 6 199 1
Richard Ketchell OVC 51 Nov 23 199 1
Edward Kowalski Arts 79 in August 199 1
Pauline (Dixon) MacMillan Mac 240 Jan 2 1992
Catherine MacPherson Arts 83 Dec 11 1990
Marguerite (White) Maybury Mac 3 10 in June 1990
Donald McLeOd CSS 80 Jan 9 1992
Albert Meilus OAC 51 in 1991
Ann (Biggs) Ostler Mac 3 10 in April 1991
Robert Race Arts 73 in 1989
Ralph Sampson OAC 40 in December 1989
Mor ris Sanderson OAC 42 Nov 17 1991
Sir Peter Scott HDSc 8 1 in Au gust 1989
William Setterington OAC 40 Oct 22 1991
George Shoniker OAC 50A in March 199 1
John Somerset OAC 34 Dec 27 199 1
Gregory Van Patter OAC 7 1 in 1990
Frederich Weiland OAC 20A in 1990
Arts
Riccardo Rich Incitti 88 died Jan 5 1992 as the result of an accident near Hami lshyton Ont He was assistant manager at the Toronto-Dominion Bank in St Cathari nes and is survived by his parents Gu igi and Lucia of Cambridge and two sisters Laura and Andrea
Larry McNenly 73 died in October 1991 in Owen Sound Ont He is survived by his wife Marnie CSS 73
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CBS
Robert Everett HK 74 died in May 1991 in Burlington Ont A teac her at White Oaks Secondary Schoo l in Oakv ille he is survived by his wife Miche le and brother William CBS 74
James Sandy Fear 75 died Oct I I 199 1 in Toronto He is survi ved by his wi fe Sally (Firth) OAC 75 and hi s children Caitlin Alli son and Mered ith
CSS
Lynn (Dalys) Corby 84 died in Toron to May 6 1990 after a long battIe with cancer
Nancy (Birbeck) Gordon 77 died Oct 20 1991 in Ottawa after a short illness She worked at the Kitchener-Waterl oo Hospital and had previously been plan t accountant at Foseco Canada Incorporated in Guelph
Mac-FACS
Jean (Williams) Forward 280 Oct 28 1991 in Calgary She was the widow of Bower Forward OAC 25 and is survived by two sons
Catharine (Bechtel) Fromm 270 died Nov I 199 1 in Cambridge Ont She is surshyvived by three dau ghters Ellen Moore Mac 63 Nancy and Caro l
Alice (Rivaz) Garrard 28 di ed Dec 2 199 1 in Guelph She was an active member of the Mac-FACS Alumni Assoc iat ion and was the Mac 28 class agent for the Alma Mater Fund She is survived by her husband retired professor Edward Garrard OAC 27 and a daughter Betty Nelson
Della Marie (Diamond) Honey 300 of Warkworth Ont died June 29 1991 One ofWarkworths oldest and most respected citizens she served as local li brarian fo r 25 years She is survived by her son John OAC 52A his wife Patric ia and four grandchildren James OAC 84A William OAC 76A Thomas OvC 89 and Patricia Lonergan CSS 68
Barbara (Banigan) Martin 380 died Jan I 1992 in Don Mill s Ont A retired teacher wit h the North York Board of Education she is survived by a son Ted a sister and two brothers
Elizabeth (Burt) Perry 340 died June 28 1991 in Sidney BC and is surv ived by her husband Gordon and son Paul Nartel OAC 62
Jacqueline (Roy) Pote 34D died Dec 2 1 1991 in Willowdale Ont and is is survived
Merrill and Bill
Doroth y (MacFeeters) Scott 260 died Jan 14 1992 in Toronto She is su rvived by two daughters Anne Donaldson and Cynthia Scott
Florence (French) Snyder 370 died May 6 199 1 in Calgary and is survived by her husband Robert and two sons John and William
Katherine (Sweet) Watt Mac 220 died Feb 23 1992 She is survived by her husshyband Leslie a son David and a dau ghter Carol Gi llanders
Mattie (Newman) Widdicombe 240 died Dec 11 1991 in St Catharines Ont Preshydeceased by her husband John she is surshyvived by a bro ther and several nieces and nephews including Virginia Rigby Arts 76
OAC
George Grey Arnup 38 died Feb 2 1992 in Toronto He spent most of his career with the plant protection branch of Agriculture Canada He is survived by his wife Aileen three chi ldren Nancy Jim and Mary Ellen Vincent CBS 79 and four grandchi ldren
Herbert Boyce 28 and MSA 43 died Sept 2 1991 in Amherstburg Onto He is survi ved by his wife Norah a daughter Beverley Med lock and a brother James OAC 32
Jack Reddy Brethet 56 died Nov 4 199 1 in Burlington Ont President of Brethet Barnum Assoc iates Inc he is surshyv ived by his wife Caro l and two daughters Lyn n and Anne
Bruce Foster 28 died Feb 6 1992 in Ridgetown Ont and is survi ved by his daughter Gayle Anderson and son David CBS 69
Allison Gardhouse 49 died Sept 21 1991 in Midland Ont He was re tired supe rshyintendent of schoo ls for the Simcoe County Board of Education and is survi ved by his wife Merle
Kenneth Harrison 24 died Nov 5 199 1 in Kentville NS A distinguished plant patho logist military officer and mycologist he began hi s career in 1926 as assistant plant pathologis t at the Kentvi lle Experimental Farm He worked there until retirement in 1966 wi th the exception of mi litary servi ce du ring the Second World War
Dr Harrison had a lifelong interes t in the study of mushrooms and publ ished numerou s technica l papers on the mu shroom flora of Nova Scotia In addition he enshy
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couraged interested amateurs and led field trips for student s at Acadia University and the general public from 1929 until 1987 In 1979 he was honored by Acadia wi th the dedication of the Kenneth A Harri son Laboratory of Mycology
During his career he was a member of many professional organizations a charter member of the Mycological Society of America and fe llow of the American Associashytion for the Advancement of Science
He is survived by hi s wife Margaret two brothers Maynard OAC 30 and Arthur OAC 29 two son s Ashley and Kenneth and a daughter Jennie Sheito
William Kellam 4 1 died Oct 19 1991 in Brockville Ont He was retired from the Curb and Gate Co of-Brock ville where he had worked as a lab technician fo r 28 years He is survived by his wife Kathleen a son George and a daughter Mary
William M acMillan 48 died in February 1992 in Winnipeg He was supervisor of Fertilizer marketing for the Manitoba Pool Elevators and is surv ived by hi s wife Edna Jean and brother Harry OAC 5 1 A
Cameron McTaggart 35 died Feb 4 1992 in Aurora Ont After graduating from OAC he became manager of Don Head Farms in Richmond Hill He established the first agricul tural consulting business in Canada in 1947 and later ran an Angus cattle
sales management business from the family farm A life member of the OAC Alumni As shysociat ion and the Class of 35 executive he is survived by his wife Margaret Mac 35 and two sons John OAC 62 of Regina and David of Largo Fla
Douglas Miller 48 of Victoria BC died Nov 24 1991 in Toronto He is survived by hi s wife Ruth and five children
Gregory More 76 was killed Feb 3 1992 in Kitchener Ont at the Ontario Glove Manufacturing Co where he was co-owner and vice-president Following graduation he worked for the Rohrer Drug Co and the Stershyling Drug Co then returned to school ea rnshying an MBA at McMaster University in 1981 More was an avid squash player and golfer Court A at the Northfield Racquet Club in Waterloo was dedicated to his memory in March He is survived by his parents Noreen and Ken a brother Randy and a sister Katherine Keeler
John Jack Pawley 33 died March I 1992 in Guelph He is survived by his wife Ruth son John OAC 62 and daughter-inshylaw Carolyn He was a former director of the Ontario Milk Marketing Board and a past member of the Royal City Lodge of Perfecshytion
Harold Reid 20A died in December 1991 in Burlington Ont During the First World W ar he was one of Canadas premier rad io
experts work ing at the Roya l Canadian Navy shore transmitter in Sydney NS After the war he came to OAC to earn a diploma then went on to QueenS University to comshyplete an arts and theology degree His mini sshytry was mainly in St And rews and Montreal although he spent 13 years teaching Hebrew at the Presbyterian Coll ege before retiring in 1968
Donald Robertson 3 1 died Nov 4 1991 in Iroquois Ont He is survived by hi s wife Caroline (Grisdale) Mac 38 his two son s ScottOAC 65A and Guy and a daughter Sandra McNeil
Thomas Rokeby 48 and MSA 50 died Jan 29 1992 in Fayetteville Ark He was a professional engineer and tau ght for 30 years in the Univers ity of Arkansas engineering department Born in Port Rowan Ont he was a member of the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War the American Society of Agricultural Engineers and the agricultural honor societies of Gamma Sigma Delta and Alpha Epsilon He is surv ived by his wife Helen two sons Robert and Richard a daughter Penny and three brothers Michael Noel and Richard OAC 54
Francis Sweeney OAC 45 died Nov 17 1991 in Oakville Ont He was a longtime employee of Shell Canada and [nternational Shell working in Great Britain Europe and
WALL CUSTANCE MEMORIAL FOREST
The Wall-Custance Memorial Forest located at the Universi ty of Guelphs Arboretum was established in recognition of the severe depletion of our forests It is never too late to be a vital part of the effort to save and improve our air and water for the future of our children by planting trees This program is our small part of the major endeavor to reforest and to reduce the greenhouse effect improve air quality and provide food and cover for wildlife The Memorial Forest Proshygram not only pays a Significant tribute to a loved one but also assures a better environment for generations to come
The purpose of this program is to provide an opporshytuni ty to commemorate the life of a loved one by plantshy
Home of the WALL-CUSTANCE
MEMORIAL FOREST
ing a tree We envision that the Memorial Forest Program will continue for many years to come and our hope is that the solace that nature offers particularly in the depths of a living forest will be of comfort and benefi t to all
For more information or for a brochure call or write to
WALL-CUSTANCE Funeral Home and Chapel 206 Norfolk Street Guelph Ontario N1 H 4K3 (519) 822-0051
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Berna rd Weeks 35 died Oct 16 199 1 After graduation he re turned to his roots in
ew York and Pennsylvannia and worked in 4-H and you th organi zations for a few years He then took over the family farm at Troupsburg NY and built up a dairy operashytion with a sideline of sheep He is surv ived by his wife Ruth and four children
Glenn White 43 of Belleville Onl died Nov 24 199 1 in Florida and is surv ived by hi s wife Marjorie
ave Norman Anderson 39 of Wi nn ipeg died Dec 18 1991 in Arizona He had practised veterinary medicine in Norwood Man and was a member of the American Equine Pracshytitioners Association director of the Canadian Thoroughbred Society and track veterinarian at Assin iboia Downs for 50 years He is survived by his wi fe Peggy and two sons Laurie and James
George Beatty 5 I died Nov 22 1991 in Inverness III He practised in Palatine fo r 36 years and founded the Palatine Animal Hospi tal He was an active member of the American Animal Hospital Assoc iati on and the Chicago Veterinary Association and was a director of the Friends of the University of Guelph He is survived by his wife Mary and fo ur children - Suzanne Patricia Margaret and Tim
John Hamilton 5 L died Dec 15 1991 He had lived in Roslin On where he owned the Bay Regional Veterinary Hospital He is survived by hi s niece Ann Bongard
Nicholas Labzoffsky 39 died Dec 25 1991 in Largo Fla Fonnerly of Toronto he had li ved most recen tl y in Dorse t Ont and is survived by hi s wife Jane
Edgar Langford 49 died March 41992 in Monarch Alta A former research scienshytist with ADRI (Western) he is survived by his wife Norma and two daughters includshying Carolyn OVC 76
Stuart Maude 4 1 died Jan 14 1992 in Rosemead Calif A former Rosemead counshycillor and four-time mayor he operated the Rosemead Animal Hospital with his brother Arthur 52 from 1953 to 1980 He was a trustee for Ingles ide Hospital a past grand patron of both the Rosemead and the Califorshynia Order of Eastern Star and past-president of the local Kiwanis Club and Chamber of Commerce He is survived by his wife Vera two daughters Patricia and Susan Bezner a son Stuart and three brothers
Walter Morley 42 o f Mildmay On died Nov 28 199 1 He ran a large animal pracshytice in the Mild may area for 39 years raised cat tle and raced standardbred horses He was also a pu blic school board trustee and direcshytor of a local te lephone company for more
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than 30 years He is survived by his wife Joyce five sons - two of whom are OVC alumni Dave 68 and Randy 74 - and 10 grandchildren
Lloyd Neily 52 died Jan 3 1992 in Hantsport NS A retired meat inspector w ith the federal Department of Agriculture he had a private veterinary practice in Wind sor NS He is surv ived by hi s wife Mary
Elford Nundal 43 died Jan 7 1992 in Langley BC after a long battle with canshycer He operated a veterinary practice in Langley for 36 years and served as a di strict aldennan for 10 years before being elected mayor in 1982 Last year he received the BC Veterinarian Association s award of merit for a lifetime of veterinary work
Humphrey Rees 55 died Sepl 30 1991 in Amman Jordan while on ass ignment for the Overseas Development Ad ministrat ion as veterinary and animal hu sbandry adviser to the Jordani an government His contemshyporaries at Guelph will remember him as a singer debater raconteur rugby player and bon vivant He is surv ived by his wife Alice of POlt Eynon Wales
William Stinson 40 died Feb 15 1992 in Norwood Ont He is survi ved by his wife Rita a son John OVC 67 a brother Ford OAC 34 and a grandson John CSS 87
Faculty
Patric ia Harney died Dec 191991 in Yarshymouth NS A professor in the Department of Horticultural Science from 1962 to 1988 she developed severa l new variet ies of geraniums and was instru mental in es tabshylishing the Frances Ball rose collection at the Arboretum
Anthony Marston died Feb 3 1992 in Fershygu s ant Retired from the School of Hotel and Food Administration he was an acshycomplished competition chef who received his training in Switzerland and England He then spent severa l years working in the Caribbean before coming to Guelph in 1970 A member of the Canadian Olympic culinary team he held a number of positions in the
Donations given in memory ofGuelph alumni will help support University scholarships ifdirected to the Alumni M emorial Fund In 1991 donations were made in memory of the following alumni
Frank MacDonald OAC 37
Frank King OAC 33 -Robert Allen OAC 56A
Alice (Rivaz) Garrard Mac 28
Stan Vesselinovitch OVC 57
For more infonnation call the Office of Annual Giving at 519-824-4120 Ext 6 183
hote l and food industry until retiring in 1982 He is survived by hi s wife Di ana
Gordon McNally dled Jan 12 1992 in Guelph A professor in the Department of Zoo logy from 1934 to 1971 he served as academic assistant to the dean of CBS until retiring in 1979 While at Guelph he was honorary pres id ent of the classes of OAC 54 58 and 67 He is survived by his daughter Jean two siste rs and two grandchildren Prof McNallys family has established the A Gordon Mc a lly Memorial Fund to support a sc holarship or bursary Contributions may be sent care of the Alma Mater Fund Alumni Hou se University of Guelph Guelph ant N I G 2WI
Friends
Jean (Young) Branion died March 3 1992 in Guelph She was the wife of the late Hugh Branion a physiology professor at U of G and assistant to presidents Bill Winegard and Don Forster Jean Branion was an act ive volunteer on campus for many years and one of the firs t presidents of the College Womens Club She is survived by a son Richard and his wife Marga re t of Vanshycouve r and five grandchi ldren Donati ons may be made to the Hugh D Branion Memorial Scholarship through Alumni House
Davy Alexander Hamilton-Williamson died Feb 4 1992 in Guelph A painter and author of childrens stories he had been a member of the University s Presidents Council s ince it began in 1 985
Marjorie Pinkney wife of J ames Pinkney OVC 3 7 died Dec 151 99 [ at her home in Milton ant
Samuel Wyal died March 15 1992 in Brantford ant He was a partner in the law firm Wyatt Purce ll Will Stillman and Scott He is surv ived by his wife M a bel Mac 39 four sons Peter Michael William and John and two daughters Mary Alderson and Sarah Nadalin Arts 82
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INVmiddotESTMENTS amp
DIVIDENDS
Facts about university education in Canada and how we pay for it
By 2000 half of all new jobs in Canada will require a university degree
But at the current rate of government funding only one in five children
will have a chance to go to university
In the seven years from 1982 to 1989 per-student grants to universities in
Ontario barely kept pace with intlation at five per cent
per-student funding at American public univers ities jumped an average
of 23 per cent in the same period
Those US universities also receive twice the federal research dollars per student as do Ontario universities
In 1987 the average salary of a full-time professor at an Ontario univers ity was $55500
compared with $68200 for a private-sector position of similar education and experience
Lawyers economists and engineers made an average of $71 000
Ontario ranks ninth out of the to provinces in terms of grants to universities
Between 1978 and 1991 enrolment at Ontario univers ities grew by 40 per cent while funding dropped
from 59 to 409 per cent of total government spending
Universities were spending 14 per cent less per student between 1977 and 1988 hospital expenditures
rose 38 per cent per patient in the same period
Ontario universities generate $3 of economic activity for every
$1 invested by government funding
And the number of jobs generated by university activities in
Ontario is greater than the employment impact of the textile
industry the entire paper and pulp industry or utilities
University graduates can look forward to earning 63 per cent more than the average industrial worker
A 1990 survey of U of G alumni found that two years after graduation 97 per cent of Guelph grads
looking for work were employed 62 per cent were earning $25000 or more and 10 per cent were
earning $40000 or more
Unemployment rates in 1990 for those with a university degree was about one-third what it was
for those with only a high school diploma
Every year from 1978 to 1987 Ontario university inves tments in renovating or replacing
aging buildings could not keep pace with the rate at which the buildings depreciated
Graphics by Debbie Thompson Wilson Statistics supplied by th~ Council 01 Ontario UniverSities Statistics Canada and the U01 G Student EnVifonment Study Group
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A salute to sport Alumni Weekend June 19-21 9am Sio-pitch tournament
The tradition Jives on at the south quad diamond s Cooed teams of 12 or more players are encourshyaged to join in the fun
FRIDAY 10 am to 9 pm Registration Lambton Hall
6 pm Kick-off dinner and half-time show
get set and join In the Olympic spirit one of Alumni Creelman Hall will Weekends host the Wonderful most popular World of Sports with events Tours a half-time slide show start from to entertain alumni of Alumni House all ages and are sponshy9 pmshy sored by the Observatory tours CBS Alumni
Association
10 am and 2 pm
SATURDAY 8 am to 5 pm Guided Registration walking tours Lambton Hall
Remember 9 am to 5 pm making s now Alumni House tours sc ulptures on Students will host tours of Alumni House throughshyout the weekend Come and see what the generosity of alumni has accomplished
9 am to noon Alumni association annual meetings
This is the official notice for the annual general meetings of the following alumni associations
CBS - Alumni House starts at 830 am before guided walk MacFACS - HAFA Building Room 209
OVC - OvC Room 1438
OAC - Macdonald Hall Room 149
CSS - MacKinnon Building Room 305
HAFA - Alumni Hou se boardroom
Gryphs Lounge will be open for lunch and afLer the game
930 am Guided nature walk at the Arboretum
On your mark
Noon - OVC luncheon
The OvC Alumni Association will host a luncheon open to all OvC alumni and their guests
2 pm - Campus Showcase 92
Following on the heels of last year s success Campus Showshycase 92 will be bigger and better Come to the University Centre to see exhibits representing all areas on campus The Campus Junction store will also be open
2 pm - Zavitz Hall tour
Alumni are invited to browse through the newly renovated Za vitz Hall and attend a recep shytion sponsored by the Colshylege of Arts Alumni Asshysoc iation
5 pm Golden anniversary dinner
The OAC OvC and MacshyFACS alumni associations will provide complimenshytary tickets for alumni celebrating 50 years or more Additiona l tickets can be purchased Classes
Johnston Green or playing intramural hockey in the old Quonset arena Relive some of the memories by taking a walking tour of campus Tours begin from the lobby ofLambton Hall
Noon - Alumni picnic
This apopular event has new location - the sculpshyture garden beside the Macshydonald Stewart Art Centre Come on your own or reshyserve a group of tables for friends and classmates
Noon - Class reunion lunches
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SUNDAY 9am Church service and War Memorial Hall rededication
Thanks to a commitment from the Alma Mater Fund renovashytion of the upstairs of War Memorial Hall has been comshypleted Join us for the rededicashytion ceremony commemorating the 1924 opening and the 1952 dedication of an OAC memorial plaque
being honored are OAC 22 OAC 47 OvC 22 Mac 22 OAC 27 OvC 27 Mac 27 OAC 32 OvC 32 Mac 32 OAC 37 OvC 37 Mac 37 OAC 42 OvC 42 Mac 42
6 pm Class reunion dinners
Special dinn e r reunions are planned for OAC 47 OAC 52 OAC 52A OvC 52 Mac 57 OAC 57 OAC 62 Mac 67
10am UGAA annual meeting
All alumni are encouraged to atshytend the UGAA annual meeting in Macdonald Hall Room 149 An amendment to the UGAA Letters Patent and a revised bylaw will be presented for ap shyproval Copies of both are availshyable on request from Alumni House Call 519-824-4120 Ext 6544
11 am - Farewell brunch
The final event of Alumni Weekend will be held in Creelshyman Hall Come and meet the Univers ity S president Brian Segal The Alumnus of Honour medal will be presented at noon
To receive an Alumni Weekshyend brochure or to register for events call Alumni House at 59-824-4120 Ext 6963
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The GlIetpliAliltnlllH is p~blished in May SepteITlber and Jltlwary by theExecutiv~ Editor Sldra Webster C5S 7S
Uniyersiiy of Gldph in co-operation with the UniversityofGucJph Alum Cooiribulors Burbara Chance e55 74 Roberta FranchUkMartha Association Copyriglit 1992 Ideas andopii)ions expressed do not Ta~(ock Herb Rauscher Owe~ RobertsMartinSd~walbe necessarilyreflectthose ofllie VGAAor the Univers ity Copies of-the DesignProduction Chris Boyadjian Art gt SI )aTletCaldwcll Art~S6 Gllifpli AI(IIiUsedilOliaJ pollcy are available onrequestArticleslilay he
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matical functions should be performed in order moving from left to righ t making the answer 45
Weiner asks us to apply
I have just read an article in the winter Guelph Alumnus by Roberta Franchuk on the subject of math anxiety The arshyticle includes a skill-testing question and gives the answer as 49195
Because the problem is posed incorshyrectly readers of the article must certainshyly have suffered considerable math anxiety trying to solve it
The answer to the problem should be 597A The answer of 49195 would solve the problem if the equation were enclosed in brackets The square brackshyets are the key
Math anxiety indeed
Joe Hagge GeorgetownOnt
Please note that the answer given to the skill-testing question on page 17 of the winter Alumnus is incorrect The correct and only solution is 597 A
Its no wonder students suffer math anxiety I do too every time I see skillshytesting questions with wrong anSwers
Don Hamilton MarkhamOnt
I would like to commend you on the exshycellent winter issue of the Alumnus Inshystead of my usual quick skim through I found myself actually reading it cover to cover
Many of the articles focused on reshysearch and teaching the two things I remember Guelph most fondly for and the two things that may convince many prospective students that Guelph is the right choice Such a refreshing change from the usual dull material on picnics conferences awards etc
I hope youll decide to continue in this vein
Christine (Paquette) Reissmann OAC 77
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I am writing in response to your letter from a former resident assistant I agree that being on the residence life staff can be a valuable experience but so can belonging to I nterhall Council
I am a fOlmer president of both Maritime Hall and Prairie Hall and a former Interhall Council chair The leadership and skills that I learned have been invaluable to me They enabled me
to enter the pharmaceutical industry as a sales representative Today I am a disshytrict sales manager for Rhone-Poulenc Rorer one of Canada s top 10 pharshymaceutical companies
When I was an undergraduate Intershyhall Council was underrated Students failed to realize that it was our members who represented the thousands of undershygraduates in residence on various adshyministrative committees We were the ones who negotiated for improvements in the residences and cafeterias
Interhall Council spearheaded the
We made a mistake In the last issue of the Guelph Alumnus we printed Roberta Franchuk s humorous look at math anxiety but the joke was on us In our illustration for the story we presented this sk ill-testshying math problem shy
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- but gave the wrong answer for it The correct answer is 597A Our answer of 49195 was wrong because we failed to observe the order of operations rules
Many readers noticed the error inshyclud ing everyone in the Univers ity s Department of Mathematics and Stati sshytics And several told us stories about the other people theyve caught abusshying the rules of BEDMAS (brackets exponents division multiplication adshydition subtraction) Our mistake has placed us in the company of several of Canadas largest corporations
Guelph professor Jack Weiner and Gary Flewelling math consultant for the Wellington County Board of Education recently argued the case of a high school student who was denied $200 worth of compact discs in an auto manufacturers contest because hi s answer to this skill-testing quesshytion- 22+ 14dx4 -3= -did not match the auto makers answer The student s answer was 37 213 The auto maker contends that all matheshy
campaign against the closing of Maritime cafeteria And lets not forget orientation Without the help of the residence hall presidents and their counshycil of volunteers orientation would not be the annual success that it is
So yes being a residence life staff may provide some opportunity and skills to deal with the future but I know that without my experience as a member of InterhaU Council I wouldnt be where I am today
Dean Demilio CBS 87 MississaugaOnt
the auto makers reasoning to a bankshying problem You have $100 in your savings account when you begin adshyding $10 a week for 20 weeks How much money do you have at the end of the 20 weeks If you write out the expression it looks like thi s 100 + 10 x 20 The correct answer of course is $300 but by the auto manufacturer s calculation youd have $2200 Is that how they price their cars) asks We iner
This is a good example of why we cant Jet mathematical errors go uncorshyrected Meanwhile the high school student still hasnt received his comshypact discs The company is now argushying that both answers are right Go figure l
Those of us working on the Guelph Alumnus have learned our lesson Our apologies to those readers who -deve loped math anxiety trying to figshyure out how we got our answer and to those reade rs who gor the same answer we did because now you know that youre not a mathematical whiz after all
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Food research gets boost U of G received a $ I-million Christmas gift from the W Garfield Weston Founshydation the charitable organization asshysoc iated with George Weston Limited one of the largest Canadian-owned food conglomerates The money will fund a research position in food-packaging technology in the Department of Food Science
A competition is being held to fill the position which will investigate ways to balance the consumer demand for less processing of food products with the need to maintain safety
Campus research in food process ing received another boost with the appointshyment of Prof Douglas Dalgleish to a reshysearch posi tion in dairy technology that is supported by the Ontario Dairy Counshycil and the Natural Sc iences and Enshygineering Research Council Dalgleish works closely with Prof Mansel Grifshyfiths who holds a research chair in microbiology that is sponsored by the Ontario Milk Marketing Board and NSERC
Dalgleishs research concentrates on milk and milk ingredients leading to practical applications in the developshyment of new dairy products Griffiths s work also focuses on new products as well as food safety and the development of rapid detection of micro-organisms in milk and other foods
Griffiths is one of six researchers who recently received funding as part of the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food s $S-million program to help keep the Ontario food-processing industry globally competitive
Other recipients include Profs Howard Swatland Animal and Poultry Science and Ralph Brown School of Engineering who will examine the use of fibre optics and ultrasound techshyniques to measure meat quality and yield in beef carcasses and live cattle Prof Gauri Mittal Engineering and Arthur Hill Food Science will further their work in pasteurization of milk and other liquid foods while looking for alshyternatives in food preservation And Prof Les Ferrier Animal and Poultry Science will study the effect of high linolenic acid eggs on blood lipids in humans Linolenic acid is an omega-3 fatty acid that is essential to lowering blood cholesterol levels
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Child-care survey reports
The largest and most comprehensive surshyvey on child care in Canadian history shythe Canadian National Child-Care Study -launched its introductory report in February Directed by family studies professor Donna Lero the $3-million study profiles the needs and arrangeshyments of more than 24000 Canadian families with at least one child under 13
It is based on data collected from Statistics Canada interviews with parents in 1988 One in every 90 Canadian households was included
Co-director of the study is Alan Pence of the University of Victoria Principal investigators are Hillel Goelman of the
University of British Columbia and Lois Brockman of the University of Manitoba What theyve found is that most Canadian parents share common concerns about child care - its quality affordability availability and stability
The federal governments recent anshynouncement that it has sc rapped plans for a national child-care program does not mean the issue is no longer imporshytant says Lero It means the governshyment sees the need but has chosen not to res pond to it
The study findings will be presented in IS subsequent reports and a set of 12 provincial and territorial summaries
Creative writing
U of G Senate has approved a proposal for a master of fine arts (MFA) program in creative writing Concentrating on prose poetry drama or a combination students would take courses do indeshypendent reading and produce a creative shythesis
English chair Connie Rooke says the Guelph program would differ from creashytive-writing degree programs at other Canadian universities The already hired core faculty - poet Dionne Brand novelist and poet Janice Kulyk Keefer
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and playwright Judith Thompson - are to reduce the drop-out rate in French distinguished Canadian writers rather studies More than 50 per cent of the stushythan career academics dents who complete the beginners level
Another unique feature is that in French do not continue Canadian writers would be invited to give lectures workshops and seminars offering students a writers perspective Convocation honors Visiting writers would also serve as
At winter conshymentors to individual students
vocation A starting date of fall 1993 is ceremonies in
proposed but is dependent on the February Jeavailability of funding Clare
RennieOAC 47 former asshy
Multimedia French sistant deputy minister of
What do French-language students at agriculture and Clare Renniethe universities of Guelph and Calgary food for On-have in common They can improve tario was named an honorary fellow of their language skills with the aid of mulshy the University He was honored for his timedia computer equipment that comshy contributions to U ofGs agricultural reshybines sound images and text These are search program Rennie was on facultythe only two Canadian universities parshy from 1952 to 1971 then moved toticipating in an IBM-sponsored North OMAF where he was responsible forAmerican program to explore new techshy the ministryS education and researchnology in teaching French as a second programs including the contract with Ulanguage of G Since 1974 the contract has
U of G is making the French connecshy grown to $34 million a year In additiontion thanks to $45000 worth of multishy Guelph has named its research chair in media equipment donated by IBM One animal-breeding strategies in his honor of the goals of the program at Guelph is
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The University also honored Canadian engineer Claudette MacKayshyLassonde by awarding her an honorary degree for her contributions to the enshygineering profession An expert on nuclear safety issues she developed the first site-selection criteria for nuclear power stations She has served as presishydent of the Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario and founded the group Women in Science and Engineershying
A boost for animal welfare OVC has established an academic position in animal welfare with a gift from the estate of Col KL Campbell His widow Mona has contributed $500000 to start an endowshy
Ron Downeyment fund to support the position
Prof Ron Downey assistant dean of OVC will assume the position July I to explore alternative methods that would reduce the use of animals in research Part of his job will be to promote the inshyterests of the Centre for the Study of Animal Welfare which was established at U ofG in 1990
KL Campbell was a notable horse breeder and showman who shared with his wife an interest and compassion for all animals The Campbells were among the earliest contributors to OVCs Pet Trust Fund which supports research on common problems of companion animals
Land and water stewardship
U of Gs Centre for Soil and Water Conshyservation has been renamed the Centre for Land and Water Stewardship to reflect a more holistic approach to susshytainability Accordingly its focus has expanded to include sectors other than agriculture that affect water quality The centres new director is Prof Stewart Hilts a 13-year faculty member who is cross-appointed to the Department of Land Resource Science and the Univershysity School of Rural Planning and Development
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Rewriting art history
In the 1480s the Duke of Milan comshymissioned Leonardo da Vinci to produce a 93-metre-high bronze monushyment of a horse and rider But political upheava l in Italy prevented the artist from seeing II Cavallo past the planning stage
Centuries later Guelph fine art profes shysor Chandler Kirwin hi s student Peter Rush and international art historians have begun a project to cast the monushyment in two-thirds scale It will be built in New York State at a cost of more than $2 million US and donated to the city of Milan in celebration of da Vincis achievements and the SOOth anniversary of Columbuss arrival in America
Rush is a mature student with 30 years experience as a metallurgist and foundry worker His technological know-how and Kirwin s knowledge of the artistic soc ial political and cultural climate of the Renaissance has led to a revised vision of II Cavallo They are proposing to the international art comshymunity that the altist had intended to cast the 60000-kilogram monument in one piece - an easy task with current industrial practices but a daring proposal in the 15th century
The project has revealed da Vincis genius as an engineer and has caused art historians to rethink their assessment of his place in Renaissance art history
News in brief
During Christmas break U of G inshystalled an automated direct-d ial telephone system that means faster sershyvice for callers who know the extension number theyre trying to reach Within three weeks of use the system was hanshydling half of the 13000 daily incoming caUs without operator assistance
The six top students who participated in U ofGs first Krakow semes ter were recently awarded certificates of merit from the Polonia Institute of Krakow where they studied
Five years ago U of G sent 3788 tonshynes of waste to the city landfill in one year Last year the figure was 1900 tonshynes thanks to the campus recycling proshygram About 25 tonnes of glass and tin
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Prof Chandler Kirwin lefl and Peter Rush pose with a model ofdo Vincis monument 11 Cavallo Photo by Roberta Franchuk
and more than half a tonne of fine paper portunities Teamed up with a group of are hauled away each week Guelph students they will study the
creative arts in Canada Canadian
Ample snowbanks this winter helped society and the political economy of the
protect the Arboretums gene banks Canada-US free trade agreement
which contain plantings of more than nine species of woody plants native to The planned widening of Gordon Street the Carolinian forest region of southshy - the route from campus to downtown western Ontario The gene banks will Guelph - has been delayed until 1993 eventually be used to help rebuild the while city council considers a proposal provinces heritage forest system by the U of G Cycling Club to include
bicyc le lanes as part of the project
This summer U of G begins an exshychange program that will bring 28 The first Ontario turfgrass symposium Pennsylvania students to Guelph for six was held on campus last January bringshyweeks in an effort to introduce them to ing together all sectors of the industry to Canadian educational and cultural op- discuss environmental responsibility
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Predicting food production capabilities
A new research technique developed by an interdisciplinary U of G group is the first of its kind in the world to quantitashytively measure the capacity or shortfall of food production in a specific geoshygraphic area
Applying the technique to Ontario inshyvolves a complex computer database that uses production figures from the 1980s and takes into account 18 major crops 10 livestock categories seven soil classes seven climate zones six economic regions and a number of production constraints
The computer then considers different aJlocations and trends as well as condishytions that might influence future demands and productive potential
We found the current agricultural base has the capacity to produce at least 30 per cent more of each product in Onshytario says geography professor Barry Smit who has co-ordinated the program since it began in the early 1980s But the 30-per-cent surplus capacity would not be sufficient to meet even relatively
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conservative demand projections through to the year 2000 he says
The program has been used to look at food projections and to study the effects of urban growth acid rain soil erosion global warming climatic variations on food production and to identify regions of the globe where food shortages reflect limits in production capacity
Campus safety
Students walking alone on campus at night can call the Central Student Associations Campus Safe Walk proshygram and a team of volunteers will esshycort them to their destination If they live off campus but need to work late at the University library students can take the Magic Bus a service provided by the CSS Student Government after city buses close down for the night And anyone who is hurt or injured on camshypus can get help from the First Aid Response Program run by the CSA and Security Services
Each of these programs will get a financial boost thanks to a provincial government grant aimed at improving campus safety In addition U of G will
use part of the grant to install more emergency telephones on campus add lighting and rearrange foliage that imshypedes vision in some areas Also being considered is a campu s safe house that would bring together 24-hour services for students
Preserving beauty
U of G landscape architect Nate Perkins is using a computer a scanner and a digitizing board to show the effects of development on sensitive rural landscapes He is working with the Onshytario Heritage Foundation to identify and protect the esthetic landscape feashytures of the entire Niagara Escarpment
The first step is to create an inventory of existing visual landscapes and how they are currently protected in Ontario Based on this selected landscape scenes will be sampled to illustrate what might happen under different scenariosshywith no regulation under current local and provincial regulatory programs and under Perkins s proposals With comshyputer technology he will be able to creshyate a picture of what the scene would look like in each case
People make a difference on and off canlpus
U of G has recruited Powell moved to Goldschmidt HDMus 84 many talented faculshy Guelph in 1965 to estabshy launched the festival which has
ty and staff who have lish the UniversityS proshy flourished to become one of N0I1h also become leaders in gram in human kinetics Americas most respected small music the community Two and the School of Human festivals MacKinnon was president of names come to mind shy Biology He designed 10 its board of directors for 15 years and John Powell and Murdo courses and was a driving is still one of its most active volun-MacKinnon - because force behind construction teers both are being recogshy of the building that The Guelph Spring Festival was one nized this spring for their houses the school example of MacKinnon s eff0l1s to ci vic contributions During his tenure the create closer ties between the Univershy
Retired human biology John Powell University hosted eight s ity and the community He and conshyprofessor John Powell Canadian national track cert manager Edith Kidd introduced was inducted April II into the and field coaching courses sponsored the idea of regular noon-hour conshyCanadian Amateur Sports Hall of by the Royal Canadian certs still held on camshy
Fame because of his lifelong work in Legion with more than pus each Thursday
amateur Sp0l1 3000 participants He also MacKinnon was founded a cardiovascular founding dean of WelshyAn Olympic-calibre sprinter in hi s exercise group which he lington College of Artsnative Great Britain Powell turned to led daily for 26 years and Sciences in 1964
coaching after being wounded in the Retired English professhy And he became the first
Second World War A three-time sor Murdo MacKinnon dean of the College of
Olympic coach he helped 19 athletes will be the centre of attenshy Arts in 1970 He is an
earn Olympic medals And for the last tion May 2 at the Guelph honorary fellow of the 21 years he has been a regular lecshy Spring Festivals 25thshy University and the Macshyturer at the International Olympic anniversary dinner He and Kinnon building is Academy in Greece artistic director Nicholas Murdo MacKinn on named in his honor
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University Families Fight the Odds
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The Van Katwyks and the
University ofGuelph are saving to educate
the next generation
Guelph Alumnus
university education in Canada At current levels of government funding decreased
enrolments will limit university attendance to one in five within a few years
Paul and Christine Van Katwyk dont like the odds Theyre committed to univershy
s ity education - their own and Sasha s - and theyve been sav ing for hi s educashy -tion since he was s ix months old But what they hear about the continuing decline
in government funding makes them worry that the doors to Canada s universities
may not be open to Sasha when he s ready to enrol in 2007
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T heee good eoo to won) That s the message we ve been getting from universiti es and colleges in Canada for several years Many univershysity administrators including U of G president Brian Segal say they too are worried about the future of postseconshydary education
On the political agenda universities have taken a back seat to hospitals soshycial serv ices and schools despite the fact that they are part of the solution to problems facing the other sectors
In Ontario the universities share of the public purse has been declining since 1978 even though theyve added more than 160000 students to their enshyrolments Universities are actually spending 14 per cent less per full-time
Education makes a difference
Chris and I know from ou r own experience that a university educashytion can make a big di fference in one s life say Paul Van Ktttwyk
Paul grew up in a university family - hi fa ther is a professor at Wilfrid Laurier Univer ily in Waterloo He came to U of G after high school but quit before comshypleting a BA After two years o f making tire he was back on camshypus and is now finishing an MA in industrial organizational psycholshyogy U of G is one of the few uni versities in Canada that offer graduate work in this fie ld So Paul is heading off to the Uni versity of South Florida th is fall to do a PhD then will return to Canada to help expand his disc ipline to other Canadian universi tie
Chris is the first member of her family to atrend university She graduates this spring with a BASc in con umer studies With other members of her family out of work because their manufact uring jobs have disappeared Chris think a un iversi ty educashytion was the right choi e for her She would like to get involved in consumerenvironmental i sues and eventually open her own small business
student than they did 15 years ago
At the same time demand for university graduates is growing The Council of Ontario Universities (COU) esshytimates that half of the new jobs that will be created over the next decade will require L1ni versi ty-level training
At a time when unshyemployment plagues the province when health care and soc ial ass istance costs are rising when inshydustry needs to improve competitiveness when we need to boost investshyment in research and deve lopment one begins to wonder why postsecshyondary education is not a greater priority
Public opinion seems to support universities A 1990 Decima poll found that 80 per cent of Ontarians believe a lack of funding is affecting university quality and 83 per cent believe that
Universities are spending 14 per cent less for each student than they did 15 years ago
university fundin g is not keeping pace with funding for other services
But the university system needs more than quiet believers It needs strong vocal support Good intentions aren t enough to ensure survival in the politishycal arena or the global economy
Financial problems
Every year COU prepares a report on the financial position of Ontario univershysities The 1991 report reveals a steady decline in the priority that three successhysive provincial governments have gi ven to universi ties Collectively theyve igshynored the advice of their own advisory body on universities for 15 years allowshy
ing university funding to drop from 59 to 409 per cent of total government spending
This decline coincides with the federal governments introduction of Esshytablished Program Financing (EPF) which supplies a large part of the fundshying that is eventually allocated to postsecondary education
Prior to EPF federal and provincial governments shared the operating costs of postsecondary education on a 5050 basis Under EPF which was supposed to equalize payments to the provinces through a complicated system of cash transfers and tax points some provincial governments have been unable or unshywilling to maintain that 5050 balance In Ontario federal doll ars now account for a much higher percentage of the funding that is eventually transferred to universities
Many Ontario institutions believe the provincial government added insult to injury last October when it cut an addishytional $9 million from promised transfer payments for 1991 92 Before the c1awshyback COU had advised the government that universities would need a seven-pershycent increase in 199293 just to maintai n current level s of serv ice but the January budget gave them one per cent thi s year and promised no more than two per cen t in each of the ne xt two years
During this same J5-year period Ontario s universities have demonshystrated an increase in productivity unshymatched in almost any other sector by finding ways to educate 40 per cent more students with less money
The January budget brought bad news at a time when universities were also facing further cuts in provincial gove rnshyment grants for capital renovations inshycreased operating costs for utilities the federal government s 30-per-cent jump in UIC premiums a lO-per-cent in shyc rease in CPP payments and a loss of tuition revenue because of planned reductions in first-year enrolments
Ontarios Employer Health Tax and pay equity costs have also affected operating budgets at universities where more than 80 per cent of expenditures are dictated by salaries and benefits
Deficit financing is not the norm for U ofG but in 199192 costs exceeded Ministry of Colleges and Universities (MCU) operating revenue ($160 milshyli on) by almos t $46 million The defic it reflects both these unexpected increases and the planned expense of restructuring non-academic units
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Creative solutions
Like the business community Guelph has begun the ongoing process of selfshyappraisal The $69-million cost of the recent non-academic review left red ink in this fiscal year but the exercise has cut operating costs by an estimated $57 million a year Within the five-year payshyback period the University will have saved or in reality reallocated more than $28 million Segal says
The internal review removed 125 jobs simplified processes and improved efficiency A similar assessment of the non-teaching activities within the colshyleges is being completed and will be folshylowed by a look at academic functions
Guelph is one of the first universities in Ontario to undertake such a strucshytured review of its operations says Segal and it wont be the last Every university will be looking at ways to reduce the amount of work required to operate the institution he says
Were walking a tightrope trying to balance strategic goal s and fiscal management in a way that causes the least harm to students Nevertheless universities are prepared to be key players in the process of looking for creative ways of doing more with less
Segal predicts an increase in intershyuniversity and joint university-college programs that share resources more efshyfective use of automation more homeshystudy programs and co-operative purchasing arrangements
Unfortunately well al so see further staff cuts a loss of services some course cancellations and limits to stushydent enrolment
Last fall U of G decreased first-year enrolment by 686 to help ease overshycrowding on campus although total en-
Guelph Alumnus
Charls reprinredjrom COU 1991 Report Oil rhe Financial Position laquo( Ontario Universities
rolment was a high of 13390 students The University plans to decrease enrolshyment to fewer than 12000 by 1994
There will al so be reductions in faculshyty positions estimates are that at least a third of the 60 current vacancies will not be filled in the next fi scal year
In addition to cos t-cutting measures universities will be looking at ways to generate new revenue More than 80 per cent of university revenue is controlled by government - transfer payments and tuition fees - but short-term operat shying fund s can benefit from increased revenues from food retail parking operations and non-tuition fee hikes
Segal says long-term endowment funds like Guelph s Heritage Fund will become a system-wide priority as will revenue sources from planned giving and alumni contributions real estate
development - like Guelphs Research Park - and capital accumulation
COU which Segal chairs will conshytinue to pressure government to increase tuition fees Ontario fees have not kept up with inflation In rel ative terms they are lower now than theyve been for 40 years representing less than 19 per cent of university operating revenue In comshyparison tuition revenues at public universities in the United States are 70 to 80 per cent higher and students at private US universities pay si x times as much as Ontario s undergraduates
COU is on record as favoring an inshycome-contingent repayment plan that would allow students to repay loans based on the level of their future inshycome But a COU proposal - even if it is accepted by MCU - is at least a year away from implementation
-Last f all the universities ofGuelph and Waterloo launched North America sfirst longshydistan ce interactive classroom project that links students at both institutions via two-way audio video and data lines Unlike other video systems that offer only televisiolltransmission the new Electrohome classroom system leIs studel1ls both see and hear each other as well as the professor It s j us t like being there - and it s aile example ofhow universities are sharing resources to improve academic programs and CUI costs Photo by Roberta Franc huk
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University benefits
Time and time again our alumni tell us that the total university experience is more valuable than the degree they received
Breadth of knowledge new insights personal satisfaction - these are things that cant be measured
The 966000 university graduates in Ontario do however share economic benefits that can be measured -like an unemployment rate that is one-third what it is for the general workforce and salaries that are on average 63 per cent higher than industrial workers
In addition university graduates share with the rest of the population even greater cultural social and economic benefits
T hrough the percolator effect Ontario universi ties generate $62 billion (1989 estimate) worth of economic activity each year and more than 138000 jobs
All Canadians share in the benefits of an academic system that acc umulates knowledge trains leaders and conducts much of the research that gives us a progress ive society
University laboratories have yielded medical breakthroughs in diabetes canshycer cystic fibrosis Alzheimer s disease and AIDS They have tackled environshymental research on the causes of water pollution and soil erosion University soshycial scientists study issues as vari ed as demographic trends cross-border shopshyping adoption and economic developshyment in native communities
On a more personal level each univershysity in Canada is a contributing member of its local community Says Guelph
Mayor John Counse ll The inshytangible benefits of having a university within our municipality inshyclude the injection into the comshymunity of intellecshytual standards talents and sershyvices
Almost every orshyganization in the city counts U of G faculty staff and students among its members and volunteers In fac t more than 30 U oG s campus wecomes almosl 150000 visitors every year
university employees were recently given special awards and commendations from both the provincial Ministry of Culture and Communications and Ministry of Citizenship
Guelph is also enriched financially by the Univers itys presence - 4 100 jobs $195 million in annual economic acshytivity The University is an attraction for many smaller companies and organizashytions and branches of provincial governshyment ministries that deal frequently with the campus In a way it has he lped to inshysulate the city of Guelph aga inst the reshycession says Counsell Last year Guelph enjoyed a net increase of three jobs in comparison with other cities where thousands of industrial jobs were lost
Equally important are the educational opportunities offered by the University
for local re sidents The number of people enrol led in distance education inshydependent study and non-degree courses at the University is almost twice the dayshytime student body Last year 500 senior citizens attended courses held on camshypus and 10000 schoolchildren parshyticipated in environmental education programs at the Arboretum People also brought 12000 animals and 500 wild birds to OVC clinics for treatment
Visitors to campus outnumber stushydents 10 to one They come for convocashytion College Royal Homecoming and Alumni Weekend to tour the Arshyboretum and the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre to attend workshops conferenshyces and lectures and to enjoy athletic events music and drama productions They also come for Sunday afternoon walks and sometimes to take wedding photos on Johnston Green
Education is everyones concern
With their Universi ty of Guelph degrees in hand Paul and
Christine Van Katwyk have joined the ranks of Ontario and Canadian univershysity graduates who recognize that the
funding of universities is not just a famishyly matter
Education is everyone s concern and should be a matter of government priority rather than rhetoric The probshylem is how to change that
Two years ago Ontario MPP Sean Conway told a group of university board members that they needed troops
When you ask us to do something and we don t do it nothing happens he said When the hospitals ask us to do something and we dont do it all hell breaks loose
Today universities are recruiting those troops and are turning to their alumni to help build a strong constituenshy
cy of support Who better to promote the value of higher education
Tell your family your friend s and your co-workers how important you think universities are Write to your local paper to let others know that a strong economy and a high standard of living depend on an educated workshyforce Call your MP and MPP and tell them that denying adequate funding to higher education is short-sighted in the extreme and that voters are expecting government action based on long-term priorities
Sasha Van Katwyk s generation is depending on it
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Marshalling the forces to fight for universities
There is a tribute $5000 to help revolution launch FOU and
taking place in Seymour hopes inshyeducation And dividual alumni will when the dust setshy keep the momentum tles we will see building The orshyprofound changes ganization needs in the way we imshy more than 100 inshypart knowledge dividual volunteers in the way we think each of Ontarios 130 about education electoral districts and the way we These friends will pay for it Some lobby MPPs on a of us will sit back regular basis in supshyand watch port of universities Others like Its a grassroots Harry Seymour Harry Seymour
OAC 61 will help influence the changes taking place
Seymour spent 22 years of his career on Torontos Bay Street then opted for a change that led to the forshymation of Pathfinder Learning Sysshytems As president he champions the Pathfinder program of computershymanaged learning as a way for classshyroom teachers to maximize their time and their students potential
Seymour maintains his interest in the investment business with several other companies including a 93-acre shoreline development project in Midshyland Ont But most of his time is devoted to education and university education is a significant part of that effort
If we can marshal the forces of university alumni we can have a profound effect on how government prioritizes education he says Those of us who have graduated from a university are in the best position to evaluate the importance of a university education We can sit back and look at the benefits we ve received and the kind of impact it has had on our lives
Seymour represents U of G alumni on the Friends of Ontario Universities (FOU) a provincial lobby group whose strategy is to organize Ontarios university alumni into a political constituency FOU members sayan unorganized constituency is part of the reason government has folshylowed a pattern of financial neglect
The University of Guelph Alumni Association was one of the first to con-
movement that has the potential to build long-term support
among decision makers and future generations of university graduates he says
If youd like to get involved call Trish Walker U of G s director of alumni affairs at 519-824-4120 Ex t 2122
Aubrey Hagar OAC 45
describes himself as a concerned citizen of Guelph who is committed to education Thats an undershystatement for a man who spent most of his career in educashytion including 16 years as senior academic officer at Conestoga College
He also cares deeply about the University of Guelph He worked hard in the early 1960s to help bring it to life serves on a presidential committee to promote a healthy town-and-gown relationship and is now working to increase local pride in the campus
It distresses me that we are not seeing our universities as intellectual leaders in the community in the province and throughout the country says Hagar who believes there is a need to increase public awareness about the role universities play in
Aubrey HORar
society Hes offered his vocal support to this venture as a volunteer for the Alliance for Ontario Universities
Who says talk is cheap
Your verbal support
of universities
could he
the most valuable gift
you could give
to the generations
of students
yet to teach
Independent of universities the alshyliance is building province-wide supshyport among communities organishyzations businesses and individuals like Hagar who are willing to expand that support on a local level
In each univershysity town there will be an alliance comshymittee that works to build community pride in the institushytion and to raise the profile of its scholars The Guelph group for example may inshyitiate an elementary school program that bui Ids rapport with the University or it might encourage med ia coverage of Guelphs environshymental work
Too often we downplay the conshytributions of our universities says Hagar but if we can instil these atshytitudes in people then financial supshyport through the political process will be there
The aJiiance is unique in Canada It shybegan in 1990 with seed money from the Council of Ontario Universities and gains financial independence this summer And its looking for more volunteers To learn more about the group call director Janet Napper at 416-979-0984
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Genetic engineering bull bull bull
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This is the second part of a report on the use of biotechno]ogy in University of Guelph research
by Mary Dickieson
String art Biotechnology research reminds me of string art the 1960s craft
that had us weaving colored strings back and forth around a pattern made by driving nails halfway into a board
Under skilful hands it became a piece of sculpture an optical illusion that prevented your eye from following any single thread across the board in a straight line
Biotechnology tools are like that Every time you think you understand what one biotechnique can do in one particular dis shycipline you find it reappearing somewhere else as someone in a laboratory across camshypus or on the other side of the world thinks of yet another way to use it
In Part 1 of our biotechnology report we sk immed the surface of how these tools are being used at U of G to benefit plant reshysearch In this story well see many of the same techniques applied in other organisms primaril y animals The secret of our success in animal biotechnology lies in the fact that Guelph has the expertise and the facilities to take any project from lab to barn and back again
Throughout this report youll read about animal scientists and clinical veterinarians teamed up with molecular biologists imshymunologists chemists and microbiologists and often food scientists toxicologists and environmental biologists Their efforts benefit not only livestock production but also human medicine pharmacology food processing waste disposal and the environshyment
Embryo transfer
A major thrust of the animal biotechnolshyogy research at Guelph is in the area of
embryo transfer In fact there are three reshysearch positions funded by government and industry that deal directly with embryo manipul ation as a way to improve the comshypetitive position of Canadas beef and dairy industries
Biomedical scientist Keith Betteridge OVC MSc 60 heads an embryo research lab molecular biologist Alan Wildeman CBS PhD 83 holds a research chair devoted to the mammalian embryo and animal scientist Charles Smith concentrates on industrial research in animal-breeding strategies
Their work is supported by both federal and provincial granting agencies animal breeders and Semex Canada the major marketing arm of Canadas attificial breedshying industry Semex records annual export sales of more than $25 million and is leadshying the industry to the nex t plateau shymarketing sexed frozen or cloned embryos
One route to increasi ng the efficiency of animal production is by improving animal reproduction says Betteridge And that in shyvolves many new biotechniques associated with embryo transfer Conventional embryo transfer means collecting multiple embryos from selected cows and transferring them to properly synchronized recipients It is now almost equally conventional however to freeze or bisect the embryo as part of the procedure
Initially the selected cow was treated with hormones to produce more eggs which were fertilized through artificial inseminashytion (AI) with the semen of a top-rated bull A large number of embryos could then be recovered surgically from the cow for imshyplantation in surrogate cows of lesser genetic worth
These techniques are widely used for the production of purebred bulls More than half the dairy bulls currently at stud in Canadas major AI centres have been produced this way There is also keen interest in using the technology to produce genetically superior breeds and provide competitively priced volumes of commercial cattle embryos
From lOp Bisecting a bovine embryo to produce identical twin calves a chimeric chick created by mixing cells from two embryos microinjecting the egg ofa fruit fly with DNA from bacterial genes that can confer insecticide resistance and a Hereford heifer protected from shipping fever by a vaccine developed a f U of G
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and more Test-tube calves and lambs
In 1988 Semex research co-ordinator Robert Stubbings OVC 76 MSc 84 PhD 89 produced Guelph s first test-tube calf during his graduate studies with Prof PK Basrur in the Departshyment of Biomedical Sciences It was not the first test-tube calf in Canada but it was the first developed from an egg that was matured as well as fertilized in a test tube
The resulting zygotes (fertili zed eggs) were placed in the oviduct of a rabbit for their early development then moved after seven days to the uterus of a recipient cow
Just a few months later other memshybers of the Guelph team took the process one step further eliminating the need to use a temporary host oviduct Postdoctoral fellow Kang Pu Xu and PhD student John Pollard were able to extend development in vitro to the point where the embryo was mature enough to survive when transplanted directly into a recipient cow s uterus
The early embryos were cultured in a medium containing luminal cells exshytracted from the oviducts of slaughtered cows Two baby bulls were born the first in Canada using this method and only the second in North America
Last year gradu ate student Dawn Kelk CBS 89 and Prof Allan King 73 and MSc 75 of the Department of Biomedical Sciences produced North America s first in vitro fertilization (lVF) lambs using these techniques
These achievements were important for several reasons The Animal Biotechshynology Embryo Laboratory can now
Authors note
One of the things Ive learned while writing this story is that biotechnolshyogy is a word seldom used by scienshytisrs For inost of us it conjures up images of people in lab coats bent over microscopes using precision inshystruments to manipulate the cells of living organisms But for scien~ists that s too vague The word may have
meaning but it d6eslJt really
produce its own IVF embryos from oocytes recovered from slaughtershyhouse cows bypassing the more expensive route of sushyperovulation and surgical withdrawal
In addition scientists have gained knowledge about early embryo development that is important for improveshyments in embryo viability and vital for developments in cloning techniques and controlled transgenesis in livestock
In a more immediate and practical context the work has led to the first clinical
Prof Keith Belleridge left and Prof Stanley Leibo watch as research technician Cindy Christian prepares an embryo f or cryopreservation Photo by Mary Dic kieson
use of IVF in cattle in colshylaboration with Brian Hill OVC 80 of Western Ontario Breeders
Bisected embryos
Meanwhile yet another part of the team based in the Department of Populashytion Medicine was perfecting techniques to microsurgicall y bisect fertilized embryos to produce genetically identi shycal animals
Professors Brian Buckrell OVC 68 MSc 84 and Cathy Gartley OVC 82 DVSc 89 and postdoctoral fel shylow Rick Rorie bisected six-day-old sheep embryos - visible only through magnification - and surgically imshyplanted them into recipient ewes Five months later nine lambs were the first animals born at Guelph from bisected embryos
Prof Walter Johnson and postdoctoral
describe anything They talk instead about cell fusion enzyme systems i ermentation or genetic engineering
The fact that biotechnology didnt appear as a popular buzzword until the 1980s suggests that we are using ilto define something neW yet none of these disciplines is really new Human beings have been using other organisms to create new procucts for centuries Thats why We have yeast yogurt and beer as well as anti-
fellow Naida Loskutoff have now exshytended this work in cattle by producing identical twins from IVF embryos divided into quarters at earlier stages of development
These projects maximize embryo use and highlight the potential for creating significant numbers of genetically identishycal animals which can be vital for conshysistent research results Tests conducted on genetically identical animals can reduce the variables caused by genetic differences and ultimately the number of animals needed for experiments
Frozen sexed embryos
The development of in vitro technishyques has also made possible further studies in cryopreservation (freezing) and embryo sexing
It s been possible to freeze and thaw
biotics growth hormones and vacshycine ~ Even genetic engineering is not new although many of us think it is
Through selective breeding practices fanners have been engineering the genetic makeup of domestic animals -for centuries What is new is the speed and accuracy with which we can implement genetic changes the ability to cross the species barrier and a much greater understanding of life processes
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At the eight-cell stage ofdevelopment in a bovine embryo each cell is removed and placed in the shell ofa discarded embryo Afler three days the blastocysts are transferred into recipient cows and the pregnancies allowed to col1linue Eight identical calves will be born and will proshyvide a valuable tool for research
cattle embryos since 1973 and most of the 60000 or so embryo-transfer calves born annually in North America are now obtained from embryos that have been stored in liquid nitrogen But there are still many problems to overcome in freezing unfertilized eggs embryos at varying stages of development and embryos produced in vitro or subjected to micromanipulation
Biomedical science professor Stanley Leibo is a specialist in cryobiology Before coming to Guelph he was part of an industry team that produced the worlds first live young (mice) from frozen embryos and later invented the patented one-step method of freezing cattle embryos Other biomedical scienshytists - King and Don Rieger - and molecular biologists Wildeman and Stan Blecher are investigating various ways of sexing embryos
Some of these involve the use of micromanipulation to remove a small number of cells from an early-stage embryo The sex can be identified by locating X and Y chromosomes detectshying male-specific DNA or perhaps by studying the proteins produced by the DNA segments In embryonic life the activity of X-linked enzymes in female embryos is twice that in males
Detecting differences in the energy metabolism of male and female embryos may also become a method of sexing In studies on early embryos generated in vitro Guelph scientists disshycovered that male and female embryos develop at different rates In addition to its value in sexing embryos this knowledge poses another question If the team can one day learn to control the rate of embryo development will it be possible to control the sex of an embryo independent of its genetic comshyplement
Photo courtesy of the Animal Biotechnology Embryo Lab
Transgenic animals
Since the mid 1980s Wildeman and fellow molecular biologist John Phillips have been producing transgenic mice for studies in human disease
This involves recovering one-cell embryos microsurgicalty from an imshypregnated mouse With a finely drawn glass needle a piece of DNA is inserted into the nucleus of the embryo which is then placed in a surrogate female to complete the pregnancy The offspring carries the foreign gene
One line of research using transgenic mice involves the study of a virus known to affect the transformation of normal cells into tumorous cancer cells Wildeman performs this work using transgenic mice in studies of cancer and metastasis
Transgenic mice are also used in Phillipss ongoing study of the causes of insulin-dependent juvenile diabetes He borrowed a gene from the fruit fly and spliced it into the chromosomes of the mouse so that it is expressed in the beta cells of the pancreas
Observations from the research conshyfirm the long-standing hypothesis that one cause of juvenile diabetes arises from the action of oxygen radicals in the pancreas
The fruit fly itself is used in studies aimed at producing insecticide-resistant insects Working with a team of scienshytists in Texas Phillips is perfecting techshyniques to transfer organophosphate insecticide-resistant genes to the fruit fly and ultimately to agriculturally beneficial insects
Studies have shown that the use of inshysecticides could be reduced if beneficial insects were not also killed by the spray In addition this research may provide the solution needed by North American
honey producers who are suffering great losses in their beehives due to parasitic mites Currently there is no effective control of the mites
From mice to pigs and chickens
Transgenic mice are also playing a role in a project that may eventually imshyprove forage use in domestic animals
Ruminant animals like cows and sheep have friendly bacteria in their inshytestinal tract that enable them to digest the cellulose fibre in forage crops If other animals such as pigs or chickens had the same ability they could be reared on lower-quality cheaper feed than the cereal grains now used
A research team that includes Phillips microbiologists Cecil Forsberg and Peter Krell and environmental biologist David Collins-Thompson has isolated the effective gene from a microshyorganism present in ruminant animals and is transferring it into the mouse which is also a monogastric animal Studies with transgenic mice will enable the team to fine-tune its ability to manipulate expression of the gene
This is just the beginning of a longshyterm project says Phillips but it may one day connect with the work of Profs Rob Etches and Jim Squires in the Department of Animal and Poultry Science who are following separate paths to reach the same goal- transshygenic chickens
Blotchy chicks
Etchess lab opened the door for transshygenic poultry in 1988 when postdoctoral fellow Jim Petitte OAC PhD 86 sucshycessfully moved cells from one chick embryo to another creating chimeric chicks Until this breakthrough
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researchers had been unable to manipulate the avian embryo in the early stages of development
Petitte extracted embryonic cells from the yo lk of a newly laid egg from a barred Plymouth Rock hen and microinjected them into a rec ipient embryo in a dwarf white l eghorn egg through a tiny 05-censhytimetre window cut in the shell When incubated the egg went on to produce a chimeric chick Embryonic cells from the black Plymouth Rock donor were expressed as blotches of black in the chicks down
Since then Etchess research team has been able to do the procedure more successfully get better gene exshypression in the donor cells and keep the embryonic cells in culture for 24 to 48 hours befo re transplanting them into the recipient egg
The chimeric chick itself is not transgenic genetic information from the donor embryo is expressed in a limited number of cells in the chick A second-generation chimera howshyever would be transgenic if the donor cells contained a foreign gene
Thats the focu s of a collaborat ive
Animal scienlisl Jim Squirev has developed a chemic(li recipe Ih(l causes DNA-I(lced liposomes 10 fuse wilil sperm cells When pershyjeered the technique will allow him to use the natural veeror ofsperm cells 10 lransmit foreign
project between the labs of Etches and colleague Prof Ann Gibbins OAC MSc 71 PhD 80 who is intershyested in modifying the donor cells through genetic manipulation When her lab team is able to target a specific gene and change it - and only it - they will insert that gene into the donor cells to produce a chimeric chick and in the second generation a transgenic chick
Transgenic sperm
Squires is taking a more obvious but no less perilous route to the transgenic chicken by using sperm cells to carry the foreign DNA Just as the hen s embryo is difficul t to manipulate the rooster s sperm has barriers of its own Prevail ing thought is that any invas ion of the sperm cell will kill its potency
Although Itali an and Israeli reshysearchers claim to have inserted DNA into the sperm cells of mice through abshysorption no one else has been able to get this to work so the prevailing thought prevail s
Squires s approach is to power DNA into the cells He s de veloped a chemishycal recipe that causes DNA-laced liposomes (fat globules) to fuse with sperm cells
Squires says his team has overcome
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DNA Photo by Ma ry Dickieson
the three main obstacles encapsulating DNA in the liposomes fu sing the liposomes to sperm cells which affects the transfer of 0 TA and retaining the fertility of the sperm
What they have yet to demonstrate is that the process produces a transgenic animal Trials are under way using a radioactive marker ge ne that can be easi shyly detected in a developing transgenic chicken Squires will be eager for peer rev iew to document the results this fall
If successful the sperm cell technique can be adapted for use with all species of commercial animals Sperm cells are the perfect vector because their ultimate function is to insert DNA into an egg says Squires We ll just be supplying the DNA The method is easy economical and safe to periorm and does not inshyvolve expensive equipment
Disease diagnosis
The international race to identify a mutation assoc iated with a costly swine disease was won by Guelph pathologist Peter OBrien OVC 88 and Univershysity of Toronto professor David Maclennan
The mutation associated with maligshy
nant hyperthermia was identifi ed in Maclennan s laboratory by sequenc ing the gene in normal and abnormal swine A I OO-per-cent correlation was fo und between DNA-based tests in Maclennan s laboratory and phys iologishycalbiochemical tests used in 0 Brien s research for diagnosing the condition
From these findings the scienti sts developed a test using modem molecular biology techniques to identify the mutation in the blood cells of inshydividual swine
Malignant hyperthermia is seldom fatal in pigs but it results in poorshyquality pork Pork producers suffer major economic losses from what is known as PSE - pale soft exudative (watery) meat - in affected animals
Other research at U of G cou ld help eliminate a potentially lethal blood coagulation disorder in dairy cows Facshytor XI a genetic disorder associated with a lack of c lotting protein in the bl ood causes hemorrhag ing in Holstein cows
Researchers believe the problem can be eliminated by ensuring that breeding stocks are free of the disease Testing for all of Canada is conducted by U of G biomed ica l sc ienti st Patricia Gentry and research technician Michelle Ross
Vaccine development
Vaccination is the cheapest most efshyfecti ve way of dealing with infec tions and the most poweriul way of preventshying di sease Advanced immunization programs using new biotechniques are under way in many Guelph labs last fa ll the Natural Sc iences and Engineershying Research Council announced strategic grants for advanced techshynologies that included four vacci ne development projects at U of G
Profs Brian Derbyshire and Eva Nagy of the Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Immunology (VMI) recei ved a three-year grant of $295000 to perfect gene-cloning techniques for the de velopment of a vaccine for porshycine gas troenteritis
In the same department Profs Janet Maclnnes Soren Rosendal and Bonnie -Mallard OAC 79 MSc 82 PhD 88 were awarded $250000 over three years to work on a recombinant vaccine effecshytive against the bacterial organism that causes severe pneumonia in pigs
Also in VMI Prof Patricia SheweD 75 MSc 79 PhD 82 received a three-year grant of $408 000 with Prof
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Reggie Lo Microbiology to continue work on an improved vaccine for shipshyping fever Lo and Prof Alan Mellors Chemistry and Biochemistry received a $54000 grant to develop clinical and com mercial applications of a technique used in bone marrow transplantation and vaccine development
These projects follow in the footsteps of earlier developments like the bov ine shipping fever vaccine created by Shewen and VMI chair Bruce Wilkie OVC 65 It was like finding a way to control the common cold in humans
Although the bacterium Pasteurella haemolytica occurs normally in the noses of cattle its numbers increase during periods of high stress and present an insurmountable problem for the animals immune system
Wilkie and Shewen di scovered that during its most active stage of growth the bacterium produces a toxin that imshypairs the ability of clearing cells to eliminate the bacterium They grew the bacterium in a culture monitored toxin production and developed processes for vaccine production
The technology was licensed to Langford Inc of Guelph which man ufac tures and markets Presponse shipping fever vaccine in both Canada and the United States
Lab work by Lo and former student Craig Strathdee CBS 85 PhD 89 that contributed to the shipping fever vaccine project also led to a patent apshyplication - for the plasmid coding for Pasteurella haemolytic leucotoxin which has been implicated as a major virulence factor in the impairment of primary lung defence in cattle
Animal health
Wilkie and Mallard are also working with Prof Brian Kennedy in Guelph s Centre for the Genetic Improvement of Livestock to develop a selective breedshying program that uses knowledge acshyquired through genetic studies and stretches the definition of biotechnology
To stay hea lthy an individual animal must have the genetic ability to produce resi stance to infection says Wilkie That ability is not dependent on a sing le gene but on the expression of many difshyferent genes Neve rtheless these genetic traits are heritable and amenable to selection
This team has identified traits in pigs that are important in maintaining health has characterized individual animals
Biotechnology ofa different sort in volves the use of traditional selected breeding and a computer database to produce diseaseshyresistant pigs
through the expression of these genetic traits and has associated these traits with high productivity If these high producers are mated to produce a disshyease-resistant strain of pigs is that biotechnology
If foreign DNA had been introduced into the embryo of a pig to give it the characteristic of disease resistance that would be an obvious example of bioshytechnology But how do we catalogue the technology if it uses tradi tional selecshytive breeding and a computer to produce a piglet with the same resistance to disshyease
More biotechniques in action
Guelph food scientist Cyriel Duitschaever OAC MSc 66 PhD 75 has developed new fermented milk products that will benefit people suffershying from gastrointestinal illnesses
He and research associate Carole Buteau OAC MSc 78 PhD 83 isoshylated two naturally occurring intestinal bac teri a and propagated a pure culture in the laboratory to develop both liquid and yogurt-like milk products that can be used to stimulate digestion in the inshytestinal tracts of people who are on anshytibiotics who are lactose-intolerant or who suffer gas trointestinal disorders
Clinica l trials at the Children s Hospishytal of Buffalo have been promis ing giv ing rise to another potential use in the treatment of acute diarrhea l di seases affec ting people in the Third World
Microbiology professor Joseph Lam heads a research team that has develshyoped a diagnostic kit to quickly identify a bacteria group known to cause fat al inshy
fections in some hospital patients Pseushydomonas aeruginosa is the principal cause of death in cystic fibrosis sufshyferers and is a serious threat to burn vi cshytims cancer patients and those undergo ing transplants
Because the bacterium does not respond to conventional antibiotic treatshyments quick de tection is central to preventing spread of the infection Lam s kit can cut the test period from 12 hours to five minutes
His current research illustrates the cross-over effect of biotechnology He identified an antigen that is common to about 75 per cent of P aeruginosa strains and a monoclonal antibody against the antigen This has allowed him to iso late spec ia l bacteria that will produce the antigen in large quantities for further s tud y His work should evenshytually lead to a human monoclonal anshytibody that cou ld be used to protect cystic fibrosis patients
In 1989 when the federal governshyment decided it was time to put some money behind its verbal thrust in science and technology it allocated $240 million to estab li sh 14 centres of excellence that would integrate the reshysearch efforts of Canadian uni versi ties industry and government
Several U of G researchers received funding including microbiologists Chris Whitfield Anthony Clarke Joseph Lam Reggie Lo Roselynn Stevenson and Terry Beveridge who beshycame part of the network looking into bacterial di sease Their expertise will aid the search for the causative agents of bacterial diseases such as whooping cough gonorrhea toxic shock synshydrome lung infections and me ningitis
In 1988 biochemist Janet Wood and crop scientist Peter Paul s achieved a breakthrough in understanding how subshystances like sugars and amino ac ids are transported from outside to inside a living cell wall They found that minute protein molecules in the wall surroundshying a cell act like miniature pumps capshyturing the substance and powering it through the cell wall -They are now trying to determine how the protein molec ules choose subshystances for uptake or release S uch celshylular behavior plays a critical role in determining a plants reaction to soi l sa linity or explaining why cells fai l to transport glucose from the blood in diabetics
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Behind every how theres a why While we stand in awe of what sc ienshytists are accomplishing in the biological sciences we shouldnt lose sight of the reasons why they are manipulating cell structure and decoding genetic blueprints
To some extent scientific exploration is driven by human nature - our desire to understand and control the natural world Advances in biotechniques and genetic engineering promise to give us more of both
Reports on the Human Genome Project say that within 15 years well know the code of almost every gene in the human body This work and current explorations in animal genetics are harshymonized by the fact that many of the genes that control development are similar among species
The chicken for example is a familiar model for studies in developshymental biology Supported by 60 to 70 years of data todays embryologists like Prof Rob Etches are learning how to modify the genes that control developshyment of a chick embryo while giving us a better understanding of how genes efshyfect development in all vertebrates
Nothing could be more fund amental than understanding that process says Prof Keith Betteridge who heads the Guelph team working with bovine embryos In all areas of reproductive and genetic research the big payoff is that we will understand more about how two gametes can unite to fonn a single cell and develop into Northern Dancer or Albert Einstein he says
Everyone has a role to play in decidshying how to use this knowledge says Betteridge but the researcher has the triple responsibility of thinking through the implications of new technologies exshyplaining those implications to a skeptishycal and concerned public and safeshyguarding the welfare of animals used
Whether manipulating an entire animal or one of its reproductive cells the scientist is guided by the same set of moral standards If the technology inshyduces pain or suffering causes changes in behavior or affects the animals abilshyity to eat and survive then it shouldnt be done says Prof Bruce Wilkie chair of the Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Immunology
He and other Guelph scientists inshyvolved in animal research are subject to
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peer rev iew through the U of G s animal care committee which is also charged with ensuring that research and teaching programs are in compliance with the Animals for Research Act of Ontario
Reporting to the University s Reshysearch Board the committee is comshyposed offaculty student community and non-user representatives It estabshyli shes animal-care policies on campus and evaluates all protocols submitted by researchers and teachers After granting initial approval the committee reviews each project annually and inspects reshysearch facilities each semester A provinshycially appointed inspector also visits campus frequently and the Canadian Council on Animal Care makes an inshyspection every three years to assess the level of animal care
In addition to safeguarding animal care scienti sts al so need to provide evidence that the products of biotechnolshyogy are safe for human consumption or medical use The public needs to know that the pharmaceutical protein cloned and produced in a chicken s egg is no different than the same protein cultured from human cells and produced in a large bioreactor
The big payoff is that we will understand more about how two gametes can unite to form a single cell and develop into Northern Dancer or Albert Einstein
One of the most talked-about benefits of transgenic technologies is the potenshytial for producing enzymes prote ins and antibodies for pharmaceutical and inshydustrial uses Molecular farming would take advantage of the expression system in higher animals to produce a therashypeutic protein that is difficult or expenshysive to make in a lab
The potential seems enormous but the prac tice will be quite simple A typishycal Ontario dairy herd could probably produce enough human insulin or bloodshyclotting factor to satisfy the world
demand It s easy to see why these techshyniques are already presenting problems for patent offices
The past decade of work in transshygenesis has been a learning process for all of us Early research efforts that produced pigs in the United States with arthritic deformities and sheep in Australia with ulcers have taught us th at even science must learn to walk befo re it can run That means perfecting genetic transfer in animals where the techniques are easily controlled - such as mice and fruit flies - before applyshying them to domestic animals
One of the advantages of gene transshyfer technology is the control it offers geneticists who are able to manipulate expression of a single gene during development One of the limitations may be the re lative ly minor change that gene can make in one generation when compared with the changes induced through the countless generations of selection since domestication
These limitations may alleviate some of our fears about the use of gene transshyfer but it also makes us question its value at least in terms of breed improveshyment in domestic livestock Prof Charshyles Smith holds a research chair at Guelph in animal-breeding strategies and is often called on to assess the value of the new biotec hnologies in the genetic improvement of farm livestock
Economic traits are already being imshyproved through traditional selective breeding methods he says It would take quite large beneficial transgenic efshyfects (at least 10 per cent of the mean) on economic merit to make their incorshyporation worthwhile
Despite our e thical concerns the legal entanglements created by the use of biotechniques and the problem of turnshying new technologies into cost-effective procedures most scientists agree that these technolog ies are too powerfu I not to use They have the pote ntial to help allev iate some of the most serious problems facing the world - food production overpopulation disease and shyenvironmental degradation
Statisticians teU us that 50 years from now we will be trying to feed twice the current world s population on a smaller land base in a more fragile environshyment This is the why behind current research in genetic engineering
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OUD TH Annual giving in 1991 reached $14 million The value of the Annual Fund becomes more apparent each year as the University of
Scholarships amp BursariesGuelph faces continued financial $320127
AMF Priority Athletics ~ ---------- (Scholarships$38326
pressure The 1991 Annual Fund Pet Trust raised $14 million to help $261224 maintain scholarships and provide academic and library programs AMF OAC Alumni Scholarships Foundation ______ grew by $9245 25 per cent
$228494
Memorial Funds $56997
Arboretum $77441
Class Projects ResearchBuildings$86658
Matching gifts grew 31 per cent in 1991 More and more Canadian companies are g iving financial support to the institushytions that educated their employees A total of 44 companies matched 92 inshydividual gifts for a record $11120 in Annual Fund contributions to the University of Guelph in 1991
If you work for a matching-g ift employer every doll ar you donate is matched - doubled or even tripled shyby a company gift Its as easy as it sounds so check with your employer on how to multiply the value of your gift to the University
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Academic Enrichment $87246
3M Canada Incorporated Akzo America Foundation Alcan Aluminum Limited A lean Canada Products Ltd Amdahl Canada Limited American Home Products Corp American International Group Inc BASF Corporation Bell Canada Boise Cascade Canada Limited Campbell Soup Co Ltd Chevron Canada Resources Ltd F alconbridge Ltd Ford Motor Company of Canada Ltd Gelleral Electric Canada Inc Hoechst Canada Incorporated IBM Canada Limited ICI Canada Incorporated Insurance Bureau of Canada
$134893Library $103050
John Laball Limited Kraft General Foods Canada McGraw-H ill Ryerson Limited Nabisco Brands Canada Ltd Northern Telecom Limited Paul Revere Life Insurance Co Pfizer Canada Inc Pioneer Hi-Bred Limited Pitman-Moore Inc Sara Lee Corp ofCanada Ltd Square D Canada The Bank of Montreal The Coca-Cola Company The Toronto Star The UPS Foundation TransCanada Pipelines Warner-Lambert Canada Inc Westeel
Guelph Alumnus
ADIT ON With thanks to Donors Class agents College representatives Alma Mater Fund Advisory Council
Alumni and others who give to the University of Guelph through the Annual Fund are helping to maintain quality at a time when governments are funding for mediocrity Because of the dedication and commitment of our donors and volunshyteers the 1991 Annual Fund surpassed last year s total by $100000 We did not achieve our goal - perhaps $1 6 million was overly ambitious in light of current economic conditions - but we were able to maintain last years 25-per-cent inshycrease in scholarship support
Through the Alma Mater Fund we raised more than $540000 and achieved Tom Sawyer
the target of 12-per-cent participation among graduates of the three founding colleges Arts CBS and CSS alumni substantially increased their donations and participation over last year Campus participation grew from 145 per cent in 1990 to 171 per cent this year And our parents program pushed contributions from parents to $84188 compared with $31500 in 1990
For the first time since 1984 the Alma Mater Fund Advisory Council was able to go beyond its commitments to fund eight additional projects - a total of $86000
Looking ahead our flagship project for 1992 will be War Memorial Hall renovations During Alumni Weekend in June you ll have a chance to see the work that has been done upstairs and the work still needed in the downstairs hall It s a project well worth the interest and support of alumni
For your past and future support of the Alma Mater Fund my sincere thanks
s
Tom Sawyer OAC 59A and 6 Corporations Chair AMF Advisory Council Associations Foundations $2874947 Annual giving contribution s
III Annual IGiving Alumni
$1403701 Major Gifts $1236622
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were 22 per cent of the o
Other $687687
$6239707 given t U of G as donation
in 1991
Government (Donations only
$36750
Annual Giving Report
1991 Annual Fund Results $1 A niillion wasraised overallmiddot ariinceaSe of
76 per ceI1tThisyear alumrii in the Arts and CBS groups doubled theirparticipation alld conshytributions And the parents recotded a 46-pershy
cent participation rate
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The group of eight
Eight campus projects were selected to share $86000 in highest-priority funds from the 1990 Alma Mater Fund Among them are the OvC Wild Bird Clinics education program a CSS academic medal in memory of the late dean John vanderkamp a soc ial sc ience citation index for the library framshying for the fine art print study collection a computer design laboratory for the School of Engineering seed money for a history graduate scholarship a conshytinuing education survey for the Mac-FACS Alumni Association and a HAFA-sponsored executive-inshyresidence
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Of cattle cash and Colvil e Alumni gifts to the University of Guelph come in some pretty interesting packages Over the years alumni have given livestock concrete paintings shythere are two by Canadian painter Alex Colville - furniture land books inshysurance policies and a host of artifacts and antiques And money - a lot of money Almost every building on camshypus has some bricks and mortar paid for by alumni And hundreds of students are helped along the way each year by alumshyni-sponsored scholarships
The Annual Giving Report on the preceding pages shows once again how important alumni gifts are to the Univershysity and provides us with an opportunity to say thank you to those alumni who continue to give on a yearly basis Anshynual giving is however only one of three avenues through which alumni proshyvide financial support to the University The others are major gifts and promoshytional programs
Annual giving
The Alma Mater Fund established in 1969 is the route chosen by most alumshyni faculty and staff who make annual gifts to the University
AMF solicitation and management are handled by a volunteer advisory council On the preceding page chair Tom Sawyer OAC 59A and 64 talks about the funds success over the last two years with AMF scholarships inshycreasing by 25 per cent This year the AMF begins a three-year commitment to funding renovations to War Memorial Hall
In addition to its flagship project AMF provides regular support to athshyletics through Gryphon Club contribushytions to college advancement funds and scholarships and to individual class projects
The AMF supports the camaraderie of university days as alumni work together to plan and complete a project whether its funding a scholarship a painting a tree weight-lifting equipshyment or furniture for Alumni House AMF contributions also ensure that fushyture Guelph students will remember those who have gone before
In addition to AMF donations the anshynual giving program includes gifts to
the OVC Pet Trust Fund the OAC Alumni Foundation the Arboretum the paren ts program and the Li brary Other gifts made directly to the University supshyport memorial funds scholarships musishycal activities and research and academic programs
Major gifts
Major gifts to the University are adshyministered by the Deve lopment Office under the direction of Marilyn Robinson Mac 55 These include beshyquests or life insurance policies shortshyterm pledges (often made during a capital campaign) large donations that might establish an endowment fund or contributions to special University projects like the Heritage Fund or the proposed FACS Building addition
Gifts- in-kind - such as library materials art objects or estate properties - also fall within thi s category Last year alumni gave more than $12 milshylion in such tax-deductible gifts
Promotions
Every Guelph graduate is a member of the University of Guelph Alumni Asshysociation and receives the Guelph Alumshy
nus magazine and many other privishyleges There are no UGAA membership fees but the association does raise money through promotional programs like MasterCard travel packages and the North American Life Assurance proshygram
The UGAA provides serv ices to alumshyni and students - such as the careershyplanning workshop planned for Juneshyand returns many dollars directly to the campus Last year it gave $20000 to the library
In addition to direct financial support through annual giving and major gifts alumni also support the University inshydirectly through membership fees to individual college and program associashytions The fees pay for association acshytivities that help maintain ties between their members and the University
Questions
If you have questions or would like 10
know more about the tax advantages of giving to U of G write to Paulette Samson associate director of annual giving and support services at Alumni House University of Guelph Guelph Ont NIG 2Wl or call 519-824-4120 Ext 6183
When yo~bearrom US
If you think youre hearing from us moreoften lhanY9u elida few years ago you reright But checkyour mail and you ll 110tiqe that you~re also hearing
more frequemly from othernon-jgtrofit)rganizations and charities We v~ all stepped lip oui- fUQdIaising efforts
U QfGappreciates your support and needs your help butyou wont know that if we donr teflyou Aildeyen if you cant afford to make a fjnancialcon~
tributiori we hop~ to wjn yoUfverbaJ sliPPOJ-tJt will take many voices to coii- ylnce governmeritthal universities should beagreater public priority
When we contacenttyou on behalf of iheUriivetsity we lly to give more thiin we ask So tak~advantage ofthe p~1one call o(letter to findoutwhais happenc ing OJrcarnp~s U ofG hasmuchto offer llufnrii professionaldevelcipment courses library privileges travel programs recreation and a link Igt friends and
classmates
We Jik~to keep in roucharidYcwarit yO~1 to know the progress were rilaking Ast~e Uriiversity $ prestige grows so does the value ofyour degree
~0~ MarilynR~binson Trish Walker Mac55 DiJectoJ ofDevelopment CSSTl Director ofAJurhni Affairs
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Get your career on track
Responding to alumni requests the University of Guelph Alumni Associashytion will sponsor a career-planning workshop on campus June 26 to 28 The weekend program will be led by Sharon Crozier of the University of Calgary counselling service Each participant will receive a careerlifestyle analysis and will develop a personal action plan
The $225 fee includes the StrongshyCampbell Interest Inventory and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator which will be administered and tabulated prior to the weekend Testing dates have been set in Toronto for May 27 and in Guelph for June 4
Sponsored by the UGAA and coshyordinated by Continuing Education and Alumni Affairs the workshop will also draw on the Universitys Counselling and Student Resource Centre
Enrolment is limited to 20 For registration information see page 26 or call Continuing Education at 519-767shy5000
UGAA board report
by Grant Lee CSS 73 MA 80
The UGAA will present a convocation package to each graduate this spring imshymediately following presentation of the degree or diploma Developed by Alumshyni Affairs staff the package is designed to increase awareness of the UGAA and the collegeschool alumni associations encourage membership introduce the Guelph Alumnus and provide an opporshytunity for board members to congratushylate our new alumni
Approval of the new UGAA bylaw is on schedule It will be presented to members at the annual general meeting in June along with an amendment to the
i I UGAA Letters Patent
In addition the UGAA board bull has approved a $400 donation to help
cover costs for two students to represhysent Guelph at the 1992 World Debatshying Championships in Dublin Ireland
bull is looking at a proposal to help alumDl with financial planning There will be more to come on this subject later
bull received thanks from president Brian Segal on behalf of those alumni who attended the October symposium
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Canada Break Up or Restructure The association was a patron of the event
bull is responding to requests from alumni for more social events Aside from the travel program the UGAA sponsored a ski day at Horseshoe Valley in March
bull approved a proposal from the School of Landscape Architecture to research places of historical value on campus Financial support has yet to be resolved
bull accepted an offer to help sponsor the University Centres annual lecture series which invites Canadian and inshyternational public figures to speak on current issues All events in the winter 92 series were free to alumni
bull donated U of G sweatshirts to Canadian Guidance and Counselling for a conference in Ottawa this sumshymer
bull approved the purpose and terms of refshyerence for the new Alumni House Adshyvisory Committee which is charged with overseeing maintenance of the
facility adopted the 199192 budget and finanshycial plan drafted last November This year we expect to generate some $44000 and spend $33000 It has been suggested that we set the 199293 budget and plan in April of this year so the new board wi II start in September with a sound financial program and budget that will only reshyquire adoption or revision
Chapter news
Calgary - About 40 alumni and guests met at the Delta Bow Valley Hotel Feb 3 to view a U of G video and hear a talk by admissions counsellor C hr is tine Toews FACS 87 Co-ordinator of the event was Janet Hutchinson CBS 79
Edmonton - Paul OAC 67 and Anne Valentine CBS 69 hosted a group of 30 alumni and guests at the Ramada Renaissance Hotel
Montreal - U of G welcomed students and their parents - including many
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alumni - to its first Montreal informashytion night for prospective students The event was modelled after a successful program in Toronto that draws more than 800 students each spring
Vancouver - U of G president Brian Segal met with alumni March 5 at the Pan Pacific Hotel Jim Dodds OVC 63 and Sarah Bloom FACS 86 orshyganized the event which attracted about 70 alumni and guests
Halifax- U ofG alumni in Halifax met with Gryphon basketball players during the March 26 to 28 CIAU chamshypionships Despite losing the OUAA west division title to Brock University the Gryphons qualified for a wi ld card spot at the CIAU championships Alumshyni received free tickets to the game that pitted Guelph against Brandon in the consolation final Fan support was enshythusiastic but the Gryphons lost 72 to 64 finishing third overall
Homecoming 1992 Plans are well under way for Homecoming weekend Sept 25 and 26 In addition to the annual Gryphon Hall of Fame dinner and award s ceremony the weekend will feat ure a beach volshyleyball tou rnamen t --~4~=iiiiikshyconcert alumni brunch walk-a-thon pep rally reunions and the traditional homecoming dance following the Saturday afternoon footshyball game This year the Gryphons will play Wil frid Laurier University A complete schedule will appear in the next Guelph Alumnus but you can get
Winners of Ihe Ju SI fo r Fun square dance compelition 01 College Royal were left 10 right Ann Joselin Kelley Allen Joanne Hewirson Brenl McFadden caller Sue MacKinnon Richard Presley Trish Henderson Jason Thompson and Kelly Lillie
in the Homecoming spirit now by helpshying to plan your class reunion or signing up as a scorekeeper for the vo lleyball tournament For infOlmation call alumshyni officer Laurie Malleau HAFA 83 at 519-824-4120 Ext 2102
Swing your partner
Eight squares of alumni took part in the College Royal square dance competition in March Winners of the UGAA alumni square dance plaque were the Crazy 8s Joanne Hewitson Arts 91 Lloyd Hutchinson CBS 87 Sonya Jones CPS 90 Ed Ketchabaw OAC 88 and MSc 91 Carol)n OAC 90 and Brad MacNeil CPS 87 Mike Relf OAC 91 and student Sherry MacNeil Wayne Lowden was the caller
Winners in the Just for Fun category were Junior Farmer alumni who included Hewitson Ann Joselin OAC 90 Brent McFadden CSS 90 Richard Presley OAC 86 and soonshyto-be-alumni Kelley Allen Trish
Henderson Kelly Little and Jason Thompson The caller was Sue MacKinnon OVC 9 1
Florida picnic
The North Port Yacht Club hosted 199 alumni for the annual Florida picnic March 4 On hand to meet them was Trish Walker CSS 77 and MSc 90 director of alumni affairs Judy Phillips of the University s Real Estate Division also attended to talk about the Village by the Arboretum retirement deve lopshyment
Attendance prizes went to Gertrude Stewart Mac 30 and Morley Funston OAC 32 The picnic was sponsored by the UGAA Alumni-In shyAction Committee represented by Ken Gartley OAC 42 and the Florida reunion committee consisting of Mary and Ted Brent OAC 48 Helen and Don Moffatt OAC 46 Stella and Bob Moore OAC 48 and Retis and Bill HasenptlugOAC 39
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A new kind of class reunion
Its the latest fad in alumni circles shymeeting your classmates at the anshynual University of Guelph alumni hockey tournament Twenty-two teams played in the fifth annual tourshynament in December
For most teams tournament standshyings are secondary to the socializing with classmates that they may not see otherwise says Bill Seegmiller OAC 83 who worked with Brian TapscottOAC 8 1 to organize the event We promote the social aspect through two divisions - social and more social - and include family skating and a Saturday evening wine and cheese party he says Trish Walker director ofalumni affairs presents fhe social division lrophy 10 Ihe OAC 79
Dipper Oldies (II the U ofG alumni hockey tournamenl The OAC 79A team defeated the Grey Gryphons to win the more soshycial division The OAC 80 team won the consolation final and the spirit award went to OAC 7778
In the social (a little more competishytive) division it was the Faceoffs in first place over OAC 88 OAC 90 won the consolation trophy and the Valley Vikings took home the spirit award
Organizers plan to add womens exshyhibition games to the 1992 tournament which is scheduled for Dec 5 and 6 For more information call Seegmiller at 519-836-3807 or Rudy Diemer OAC 85 at 519-763-2250
A night at the races
The UGAA Alumni-in-Action group will host a night at Mohawk Raceway May 26 The $30 admission includes a 6 pm buffet parking program taxes and gratuities For detail s call Laurie
~ Malleau at 519-824-4120 Ext 2102
I Alumni directory
A new alumni directory will be ready for delivery in May The deadline for alumni updates has passed but you can still order a copy of the directory at a cost of $40 plus tax Return the order form you received with the special U of G wristwatch offer or write to Rosemary Clark Mac 59 at Alumni House University of Guelph Guelph Ont NIG 2Wl
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Ottawa chapter 50 years young
There was a nostalgic gathering of Guelph alumni in Ottawa last winter to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the city s alumni chapter
Donald Fletcher OAC 36A and 39 who was president of the group in 1953 sent us a historical account of the chapters activities
A small organizing committee first met in February 1941 at Madame Burgers restaurant to plan the chapters first fun ction a skating party at the Ottawa Experimental Farm It attracted 75 people
Over the years the group held an anshynual picnic and a banquet and dance that gave them a chance to invite faculty from Guelph to speak about happenings at the colleges - and later the Univershysi ty Every president from George I Christie to Bill Winegard paid a vi sit
In 1951 alumni from OVC and Macshydonald Institute who had been meeting since 1936 joined the OAC group A crowd of almost 200 celebrated the chapter s 10th anniversary at a picnic at the farm of the late John Bracken OAC 06 During the 1950s they added a get-together at the annual Ottawa-area plowing match which gave way to a curling bon spiel in the 1960s
There have been many special funcshytions - entertaining the Gryphon footshyball teams square dances car rallies golf tournaments theatre parties and raceway evenings - but the event that stands out in Fletchers memory ocshycurred in 1966 when five members of Parliament hosted the group in the parshyliamentary ballroom
The chapter also includes a couples bridge club which has been meeting for 25 years in the homes of its members
Fletcher thanks the 30 people who have served as president of the Ottawa alumni chapter and the dozens more who have helped on committees devot shying years to the executive to promote the institution
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JUNE 26 27 amp 28 ~ The Program This highly successful workshop developed by Sharon Crozier PhD University Counselling Services University of calgary is the first step for an alumnus who is considering a career move The weekend (Friday evening through Sunday afternoon) will consist of group presentations conducted by Dr Crozier with smaller working groups facilitated by profeSSional counsellors from the University of Guelph Counselling and Student Resource Centre
Discussion structured exercises and experiential activities will lead alumni to gain insight into a personal careerllifestyle analYSis and assessment career information resources networking skills and much more
No matter what their age career stage or reason for transition each participant will find this workshop to be an excellent opportunity to develop a personal action plan - and chart their next move
~ Pre-1esting In order to provide individualized career information registrants are required to attend one of two pre-testing sessions The Strongshycampbell Interest Inventory and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator will be administered and results tabulated prior to the workshop Pre-testing dates are as follows
Toronto Wednesday May 27 1992 700 pm - 8 30 pm Holiday Inn Yorkdale
Guelph Thursday June 4 1992 700 pm - 8 30 pm University Centre
~ Fee The registration fee of $225 includes administration and tabulation of the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator materials two lunches and refreshment breaks
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May 2 - The Guelph Spring Festival begins with a 25th-anniversary gala dinshyner in Creelman Hall that will honor founding president Murdo MacKinnon Other festival events run until May 23 For more information call 519-821-7570
May 2 shy An All-Canadian University Asshysociation d inne r w il l be held in Washington DC at the Embassy of Canada Guest speaker is Robert Lanni president of the University of Windsor Entertainment will be provided by Windsors music department For inforshymation call T Chan at 202-543-9111
May 3 - Arboretum Day celebrates spring with family nature walks at 1 and 330 pm and an electrical keyboard concert at 230 pm featuring Canadian comshyposer Carole Anne Burris
May 10 to Aug 30 - Guided nature walks run every Sunday at 230 pm in the Arboretum Topics include wildflowers birds turtles snakes and insects The nature centre is open from 1230 to 430 pm
May 13 - Chancellor Lincoln Alexander is the guest speaker at the Alumni-inmiddotAction annual general meeting which begins at noon in the Arboretum Centre For details call Alumni Affairs 519-824middot 4120 Ext 2102
May 13 - The Human KineticsHuman Biology Alumni Association will hold its inaugural meeting at730 pm at Alumni House with a coffee and dessert social RSVP to 519-824-4120 Ext 6963
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May 30 - An Arboretum sale of rare native trees and shrubs at the RJ Hi lton Centre on College Avenue East runs from 9 am to 1 pm For information call 519-824shy4120 Ext 2113
May 30 shy The sixth annual All-Canadian University Dinner in Chicago will be held
in the Henry Crown Space Centre at the Museum of Science and Industry and will include a reception buffet dinner and an Omnivax movie beginning at 6 pm Guest speaker is George Pedersen president of the University of Western Ontario For information call David Cole at 312-372-4404 or Hugh Mackenzie at 708-369-3688
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June 15 to 17 shy U of G will host the 15th annual Guelph Conference on Sexuality With the theme Sexuality New Visions the conference will examine current isshysues in human sexuality counselling strategies for sexual problems and teaching approaches in sexuality educashytion For information call the Office of Continuing Education at 519-767-5000 or fax 519-767-0758
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July 31 amp Aug 4 shy The National Youth Orchestra will perform in War Memorial Hall at 8 pm as part of its summer program at U of G Tickets at $8 general $6 for stUdents and seniors will be availshyable at the door
Sept 26 - HOMECOMING Rise early for the second ann ual Homecoming charity walkathon At 930 am the Human Kinetics Alumni Association will hold its annual general meeting in the School of Human Biology lounge
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John Boros 88 of Wei land Ont writes that he is impressed by the way U of G keeps records after graduation Thi s gives the graduate a sense of belonging a connection to an important period in hi s or her life he says
Jane Buzza 88 is working as records co-ordinatorarchivist for the Ontario Medishycal Association in Toronto
Jacqueline (Sullivan) DeClerck 86 is a public relations officer at the Canada Trust head office in London Onto
Richard Ely 70 works at the Crown attorneys office in WeIland Ont He has an LLB from the University of Western Ontario in addition to his Guelph degree He says he often talks about U of G to young students trying to decide which university to attend
Paul Genest 81 finished graduate studies at Johns Hopkins Universi ty in Maryland and is now assistant professor of philosophy at Union College in Schenectady NY He is man-ied to Barbara Jessup 8 1
Brian Hogarth 78 is head of interpretashytion at the G1enbow Museum in Calgary
Martha Hooper 9 1 was married last Ocshytober to David Perry They live in Calgary where she is a sw itchboard operator at the Delta Bow Valley Inn
Rene van der Meijden 87 has put his degree in geogshyraphy and internationshyal development to good use with the Christian Reformed World Relief Comshymittce Originally from the Netherlands he is now in Uganda on a three-year asshy Rene van der signment as a rural Meijden development adv iser He sends greetings to his many friend s in Canada and to Guelph grads Stan and Kitty in Bolivia in particular and reminds us that visitors are always welshycome in Uganda
Edward Milliner 85 will graduate this spring from the faculty of education at the University of Windsor
Mark Moore 85 is doing postgraduate work in history at the University of Bristol in England He plans to teach high school
fn response to a letter from Dawn Monroe 69 that appeared in the winter 1992 issue of the Guelph Alumnus Doug Moynihan 69 of Fort McMurray Alta writes Be disapshypointed no more Dawn l I too graduated in 1969 from (the College of) Arts or as it was then called Wellington College and I havent heard from anyone either And I too think it is time to contribute my news
After graduation f headed out to disshycover and sol ve the problems of the world travelling overseas for about three years Since then Ive been working in human resources in a variety of organizations in many different locations in Canada Cun-entshyIy I am the manager of human resources in Fort McMurray
PS Do you remember me Dawn I was the bartender in Creelman Hall I
John Teskey 7 1 began new duties last summer as director of libraries at the University of New Brunsw ick in Fredericton He was head of adshyministrative sershyvices at the University of Albershyta before moving John Teskey across Canada to acshycept the UNB posishytion but had earlier served as chief librarian and was library personnel officer at both Alshyberta and the University of Saskatchewan
Teskey says his biggest challenge is to regain the lost purchasing power that univershysity libraries have suffered as a result of static budge ts and ri sing material costs He is encouraging increased resource-sharing among universities and interlibrary loan programs with shortened turnaround
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Elizabeth (Baxter) Willson 77 a real esshytate agent in Chatham Ont writes to voice a common feeling that the universi ty exshyperience itself is often more important than the degree or diploma received I am really glad I graduated from Guelph she says
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Michelle Bombadier and Mike Caldwell both 92 are two of 50 Canad ian youth selected to work in Guyana for three months with Youth Challenge International (YCI) a non-governmental organization that provides Third-world experience for Canadians They may spend the summer building a school teaching safety or clearing land for Gu ytna s first national park but they need some private support to he lp cover transportation costs Anyone able to help should write to YCI at I I Soho St Toronto M5T IZ6
Jane Coventry 86 writes with accolades for the Guelph Alumnus grad news section and an update on what she and her husband Jaydee Smith 84 and MSc 89 are doing They were married in 1989 while working at U of G - he in the Department of Animal and Poultry Science and she in the Departshyment of Crop Science In February 1991 they moved to England where Smith is doing a PhD at the University of Bristol and working as a research assistant Coventry
works in the technology transfer unit of Nickshyerson Seeds Ltd in Cambridge
Jeffrey Crawford 88 and Leslie Thompson 86 were malTied last October He is an elementary schoolteacher in Mount Forest Ont
Craig Emerson 83 earned a PhD at Dalshyhousie University in Halifax in 1990 and is now a research associate in oceanography
Paul Fleming 85 is a pharmaceutical sales representative for Hoechst Canada Inc and lives in Nepean Ont
David Forsey 80 is an assistant professor of computer science at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver He is marshyried to Lyn Bartram
Michael Gangl 89 is in his third year at the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College
Astrid Harms 87 is a registered nurse in London Ont
Andrew Holmes 85 worked for the Onshytario government as a wildlife biologist for three years but is now back at school in his second year at Northwestern Chiropractic College in Minneapolis
Timothy Johnson 86 works at the Centre for Limnology at the University of Wisconshys in in Madison
Karen Lennard 77 (HK) and her hu sshyband Paul Jackson 79 (HK ) and MSc
82 both went 011 to earn medical degrees from McMaster University in HalTilton Ont Jackson also has a master s in physiology from the University of Virginia and is comshypleting an anesthesiology residency in Hamilshyton Lennard has a part-time family medical practice allowing her to spend more time with the couples two children Matthew and Nicola
Wendy Maltby 74 is an elementary schoolteacher for the Metropolitan Toronto School Board
Sandra OConnor 84 earned a medical degree from the University of Western Onshytario and is now practi sing in Burlington Ont
Linda Owen 81 runs her own business as a consulting exercise physiologist and fitness supervisor in Campbell River BC
Sheryle Tetley 86 is regional sales manager for Glaxo Canada Inc in Mi ss isshysauga Ont where she lives with her husshyband Ian
Rob Tonus 87 is manager of the Black Creek Rehabilitation Project a grassroots enshyvironment program to improve a degraded urban stream in Toronto His office is with the Metropolitan Toronto and Region Conshyservation Authority and he lives in Oakville with his wife Wanda (Knul) 88 (HK) a public health inspector in Hamilton
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Richard Woods 81 is an instructor of xshyray technology at the Easte rn Ontario School of X-ray Technology at Kingston Ge neral Hospital He would like to hear from other members of the 1981 U of G choir wi th whom he travelled to Scandinav ia Write to him at RRI Od essa Ont KOH 2HO
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James Dy nes 84 has comp le ted g raduate studies in chemistry and so il sc ience at the Univers ity of Sas katchewan in Saskatoon
Catherine (McVittie) Clark 88 is a nuclear medica l tech nici an at Howard Counshyty General Hospita l in Columbia Md She and her husband Michae l li ve in Elkridge Md
David Holmes 85 is a systems analyst at Sun Life Assurance Company
RolfKierdorf 84 lives in Guelph with his wife Janet He is se lf-employed as a systems consultant
Donald McFadde n 71 and his wife Carol li ve in A lbany Ga where he pracshyti ses medicine
Donald Ridley 69 and PhD 73 has been appoin ted seni or v ice-presiden t of CibashyGeigy Canada Ltd in Oakvi lle Ont and is responsib le for a ll corpora te serv ices includshy
ing finance human resources safe ty health and the environment He a lso se rves on the board of the Canadian Agricu ltura l Research Council and is a member of the Great Lakes Action Plan Strategi c Advi sory Committee
Kathryn Root Parr is an assoc iate minister at Lorne Park Bapti st Church in Mississhysa uga Ont She was married las t fa ll to Vicshytor Parr
Peter Simpson 85 is dis tric t manager for McNeil Pharmaceutical Ltd in Stouffville Ont He is married to Cynthia (Hamilton) 85 (HK)
Keith Stemshorn 83 is in the Canadian Armed Forces stationed in Calgary
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Nikki Dignard 86 moved to Ottawa last year where her husband Ted Henike pracshyti ses denti stry Dignard is working on an M BA and says she d love to hear from CSS classmates Tom Cam and Kathryn
Bonnie Dunnett 87 and MA 91 works on campus at the Gerontology Research Centre S he and Barry Hallman 9 1 li ve in Guelph
Kathryn Faulkner 80 is a registered nurse in Burling ton Ont where she li ves wi th he r husband John
Ruth Fox 84 is a sta ffing assistant for
Transport Canad a and lives in Toronto w ith her husband Christopher
Shonna Giles 88 is an admiss ions officer at Simon Fraser Unive rs ity in Burnaby BC
Gina Grieco 75 is a hi gh school guidance counsellor in North York Onto
John Harris 82 is manager of financial planning and budgets for th e City of Brampton Ont
Paulette Heppner 76 is a teache r in Vanshycouver
John Johnston 7 1 has been appointed exshyec uti ve vice-pres ident o f Ve rsacold Canada Corp and pres ident of QF Foods Distribushytion Services Versacold Canada is the largest public refri gera ted ware hou sing orshygani za tion in Western Canada
Michael Kral 79 has moved from the Univers ity of Manitoba to the University of Wind sor where he is an assistant professor of psychology
Jeffrey Lozon 76 and his family recently returned to Toronto after 15 years in Western Canada He is executive vice-president and ch ief operat ing officer at St Michael s Hos pital and li ves in Oakville wi th hi s wife Donna and two daughters
Bria n Martin 79 is a real estate appraiser in Portland Ont whe re he li ves w ith hi s wife Margaret (Sheffield) Arts 79
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Leith Mason 90 works in Toronto in the Canadian office of the State of Illinois as a special assistant to the Illinois Department of Food and Agricul ture
Michael McKean 74 of Don Mills Ont was recently appointed president of Wrigley Canada Inc Before joining Wrigley as execushytive v ice-pres ident in 1990 he he ld senior positions in Hong Kong Brazil and the United States
Rick 74 and Vicki (Collard) McTaggart FACS 74 are working in Ottawa He is director of overseas operations for the Unitarian Service Committee a charitable non-governmental organization that supports commun it y and human resou rce developshyment activities in Africa and Asia She is sec tion head of consumer analysis in the agr ifood development branch of Agriculture Canada
Sandra Morrison 86 is an ass istant professhysor in the department of psychiatry at the University of Western Ontario
Stephen Naylor 85 is director of planning and development for the amalgamated municipalities of Alliston Beeton Tecumshyseth and Tottenham
Brian ONeill 68 MA lives in SUITey England where he is managing director of Innovation Management Consultant s
Jodi Parisi 89 is a sales representative for Gillette who says U of Goo was the greatest
Moira Skikavich 81 is completing a PhD in c inematelevision at the University of Southern California
Virginia Sutherland 78 is an air traffic controller at the Toronto Island Airport
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Peggy Bates 88 was recently promoted to sales manager with Sears Canada Inc She lives in Owen Sound Ont
Caroline Begin 86 is working in Singshyapore as a dietitian
Diana Close 87 is a c linical nutri ti onis t at Chedoke McMaster Hospital in Hamilton Ont
Sarah Davenport 90 is a case worker with the Wellington County Social Services office in Guelph She is malTied to Matthew Harvey CBS 90
Timothy Dyck 8 1 is national sales manager for Black amp Decker Canada workshying out of the Corbin Division in Richmond HillOnt
Sharon (Muir) 84 and Richard Ernst CBS 83 are the proud parents of a future Guelph grad uate one-year-old Andrew Graham
Patricia Edwards 78 is food servi ce sushypervisor fo r St Peter s Hospita l in Hamilton Ont
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For the love ofteaching Since she
middot graduated bull from Macshydonald Inshymiddot stitute in
J 963 Nancy Kerr has built a career on teaching and research in telttles The middotheidofthe Uriiveisityof
Albertas department of Clothing and texiiles pursues a middotscientific interest inthepreservashylion of hi stori~lfabricsarid in developing pesticide-proofc1otl1ing But Jler fitstlove i ~ teaching
In 199b shewonone ofU of As four Rutherford AWljrds for excellence ill unshy
dergraduate teat-hing The first member of the faculty middotofliomemiddoteconornicsto receive the award slie was the rcentcipient6f the facultys own underglltiduate teaching award three years earlier
Winning the Rutherford was a gteat honor says Ken who has been on
faculty at Alberta since 1967 She oiscovered she had an aptitude for
middot teaching as a graduate student at the University of California Davis in
196566 After earning her MSc she casr about for afaculty position in Canada and round U of A was the 0111y place I could teach ju t textiles plus have a chance to develop new cQurses and research labs
middot Kerr sa)s she gets a tremelldous sense of satisfaction from teaching and the learning he must do to stay cUlTent She attributes her succe s as a teaCher to middotIec-middot
middot tures that are well organized and clear and to creltting a positive classroom climate
~Thcomfort level of students is reaUy middot ililportanL ~ Kerr eamedherPhD in fibre lnd
polymer science from North Carolina bull Staie University in 1982 Her doctoral work concentrated oil deacidification
techniques to preserve historicatcottOnln 1988 she spent a sabbatical ye~r doing research at the Caliadian Conservation
middot In tirute in OnflW1 middot Originalmiddotly from Ottawa Kerr is a
trarisphlnted -vesterner who enjoys middot hiking anlt sk1ing
From left Diane Ellison Lisa Wilson Lori Davis and Pippa Hobbes
Diane Ellison 84 is liv ing in Osaka Japan where she teaches English to Japanese busishyness people Last October she welcomed three U of G friends for a visit Lori Davis CSS 85 manager of Jumbo Video Inc in Oakville Ont Pippa Hobbes 84 accountshying manager for Paramount Holidays in Willowda le Ont and Lisa Wilson 84 co-ord inator of membership serv ices for the Metropolitan Toronto Board of Trade
Monica Hrybko HAFA 88 is director of sales for the Ramada Hotel Old Town in San Diego Calif
David Jones HAFA 88 is a con troller at the Holiday Inn Montreal Centre-Ville
Kathleen McLachlin 83 is operating an insurance agency in Kitchener OnL She opened the State Farm Insurance office in March 1988 and says she loves her job
Susan (Goettler) Parker 80 is working in Toronto as benefits administrator for Imshyperial Oil Limited She is married to Donald Parker OAC 79
Mary Jean (Sinnott) Price Mac 7 1 has returned to sc hool at the University of Otshytawa to earn a bachelor of education
Margaret (Richardson) Rankin 75 has been living in Halifax since 1990 and is an account analyst for Central Guaranty Trust
Janet (Wanless) Sutherland 77 is in private practice as a marriage and family therapist in East Kelowna BC
Jean Thomson Mac 37 says 1937 was a long time ago but shes delighted with all the changes that have gone at the college A former hospita l nutritionist she is retired and living in London Ont -
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Olayiwola Layi Adeola MSc 86 and PhD 89 and his wife Mope are living in West Lafayette Indiana where he is an assisshytant professor of pig nutrition at Purdue University
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Bruce Barrie 79 (Eng) graduated last June with an MBA from City Uni ve rsi ty in Washington State and is now a senior adshyviser in strategic planning with Petro-Canada Resources in Calgary He is a professional eng ineer with APEGGA and an ac tive memshyber of the Planning Forum an international society for planning and strategic manageshyment
Barbara Bryce 83 and her husband Ricardo Ramirez 82 are living in Rome Italy She is a landscape architect and he is a communications officer with the Food and Agriculture Organizat ion
Daniel Campbell 81 and his wife SharonshyMarianne are farmin g near Petrolia Onto
Carolyn Closs 82 and her husband Harold operate a beef cowca lf operation in Shawville Que
Luc Cote 83 is an agricullural account manager for the Royal Bank of Canada in Joliette Que
Kerrie Lea Curran 85 plans to graduate this fall from the master of architecture proshygram at McGi ll University
Bruce Dodson 74A is course superinshytendent at Hawd Ridge Golf and Curling Club in Orillia Ont
Richard Donkin OAC 85A originalshyly from Zimbabwe is the manager of Venida Packing Inc in Exeter Calif Situated in central Californias San Joashyquin Valley Venida Packing ships tree fruit throughout the Richard Donkin United States Canada the Pacific Rim and the Far East Products under the brand names Ruby River and Venida include peaches plums nectarines kiwi grapes persimmons and pomegranates In 1988 Donkin married California native Lisa Kolander and they live in Lemon Cove a community in the Sierra foothill s
Brendan Elder 8S A lives in Kelowna BC and works for Dogwood Nursery He plans to be married thi s summer to Rosemary Powell
Robert Fessenden OAC MSc 67 was recently appointed vice-president of devel opshyment and planning at the Alberta Research Council He is responsible for tec hnology management and corporate marketing
John Fitzgerald 86 was married last November to Susan Given a ] 991 indeshypendent study graduate in animal producshytion He is a lecturer at Ridgetown College she works at Centralia College and is work shying on a psychology degree at the University of Waterloo They live in Strathroy Ont
Glenn Helstern 79A is a driver for the Calgary division of Greyhound Bus Lines of Canada Ltd
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She tells a princely tale
For seven miniJtes on Oct 24 199 L Ellen Het1eOAC 76~U1d MSc 80
(ltllked with PIince Charles Invited toopert a newfumaceat
inco Lilniteds Copper Cliff smelter iri Sudbury Ont the Princemiddot of Wales was easy to talk with says Heale ftwasverycxciting
As eiwironmental co-ordinator Of land reclamation andrevegetation at Copper Cliff Healetold theprince middot about Tnc(secosystem rehabilitation
projects Theroyalvisitor was parshyticulatfyiilterestedin the treegrow- ing project in abandoned inines flld in tlpoundrevegetation ()f acres of tailings
and barren rock Planrilig vegetation on the tailings
hasattrlttcled wildlifeto a protected habitat says Beale who has wqrked forIncosincc she graduated in 1976
Ninety~iwo species ofbirds as weil asrodems hares foxes wolves bears andinoQse have been sighted on the 2500 acres of rehabilitated ore waste
One thing about this job is you middot can s~e where youve been effective she says
While an undergraduate student in Prill(e Charles with EIen Heale horticultural science Healea native ofSiidbury worked at Ineo during the sumniers She wasthi tirst woman to
work inrhemining companys agriculture middot department After shegraduated the niekshy el inine hired her full time tcido horticul- turaLfleld research ~ Ineo later granted heT a two-semester leave of absente t6 work
Theodore Jacobs 78 (Eng) is engineering supervisor at Standard Tube in Woodstock Ont
Greg Keast 85 (Eng) is li ving in Mozamshybique in East Africa where he works as a project officer for UNICEF rural water supshyply project s
Richard Kline 74 was appointed partner of the Toronto accounting firm Schwartz Levitsky Feldman Inc last faiL He is presishydent of the film s bankruptcy division a member of the Chartered Accountants of Onshytario and first vice- president of the Ontario Insolvency Association
Christopher Laforest MSc 91 (USRPD) works in planning and economic developshyment for Bruce County Ont
Jean-Paul PhD 90 and Lynn (Hammell) Laforest 82 and MSc 85 are both employed at Laval University in Sainte-Foy Que He is a professor and s he is a research associate
Kenneth Lawless 63 earned a Guelph deshygree in agricultural economics then went on to stud y dentistry at the Uni versity of Toronshyto He is now an oral and manilo-fac ial surshygeon in Kingston Ont
oil her masters at OAC~ In her current PdStion Heale has rnore
administrative and public relations responshyibilities On her own time she sits on the
board of management for the tocal Red Cross and isalllember ofthe Sudbury
Business and Professional Womens Club
Margie Luffman 77 writes that she has happily returned to Ontario after 10 years in New Brunswick to work at the Smithfield Experimental Farm in Trenton She is curator of the Plant Gene Resources of Canada clonal gene bank
Brian MacCulloch MAg 89 is a sa les representative for Springva le Nurseries Ltd in Berwick NS
Daniel Mansell 64 and MSc 68 is Onshytario manager of the eastern habitat joint venture in the wildlife policy branch of the Ministry of Natural Resources He is stashytioned in Midhurst Ont
Peter McEntire 77A writes from County Langford in Ireland to keep in touch with U of G He is farming and work s as an AI techshynician with Bova Genetics Ltd
Darryl Mitchell 78 works at Pioneer HishyBred Limited in Chatham Ont
Hugh ONeil 88 is manager of customer financial services for Ral ston Purina Canada Inc
Umed Panu MSc 72 (Eng) has done a lot of travelling during his career After Guelph he earned a PhD in civil engineering
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David Nedelko OAC 86 and Ljrlda ArmsJrollg CBS 89 (Jurk 011 cemre) were marriediasl SeplemiJer in Bari ~ie OnlTluir weddiIg iiarly illcilldedfiom leli Katy KusmiliskiOA C 88Paul Allgusline GAG 86 Roh Reed OAC 87Carv Belfral1l oAC 8RJIuJ Sa ndimiddoto (CollinI) BerlrCIlII CBS RR Also 1I111ie wedding w(lS Arlllslong s Veal ullcleClarence Fleming OVC 34 The couple (Ire living in
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at the Universit y of Waterloo taught in India and at Mi ss iss ippi State Uni vers ity and worked with Briti sh Columbia Hydro and the Government of Newfoundland In 1986 he jo ined the faculty of c ivil engi neering at Lakehead Uni ve rsity in Thunder Bay Ont and was promoted to full professor in 199 1 He and hi s wife Kashna and the ir children Neeti and Anukud enjoy the outdoor recreashytion ac ti viti es available in Northwestern Onshytario and look forward to visits from U of G alumni trave lling to Thunder Bay
Lyle Pettigrew 61 is a marketin g consulshytant with Harris Kovacs Alderman in Atlanshyta Ga
Helen Prior 88 joined Sheridan Nurseries after graduation then worked for a year as a research tech nic ian in Guelph s Department of Crop Scie nce She is now in her th ird year at Emmanuel College at Victoria University and hopes to be ordained as a United Church min is ter in May
Gregory Scott 83 (Eng) is operations manager for Accuform Gol f Limited in Toronto
Ba rbara (Coordes) Skrypetz 87 is a fi e ld supervisor for the Ontario Dairy Herd Imshyprovement Corporation working out of Guelph He r husband Stephen 88 operates a bulldozing and excavating busi shyness in the Woodstock area
Victor Skidra 6 is re tired f rom his job as a sc ientific evaluator with Hea lth and Welshyfare Canada He and hi s wife Konstance live in Nepean Ont
William Slusarchuk 63 (Eng) and MSc
The way we were in 1902 OAC alumnus Douglas Campbell 60 passes on a bit of col lege hi sto ry that shou ld make us think twice about our con stitutional squabbles in C anad a
Campbell is director of the Latin America and Caribbea n Trade Divis ion of Canada s Department of External Affa irs Last summer he hosted a vi s it by the president of Uruguay Luis Alberto Lacalle Herre ra whose grand fa the r made a simil a r vis it to Canada in 1902
This is what the elde r Herrera reported to his government Gue lph agricultural college enjoys a worldwide reputation and is con shys idered one of the grea t loca l attracshytions
More than 200 young Canadians a long with many foreign youths come together in its lecture rooms There are bursary ho lde rs from Norway and as far away as Mauritius C loser to us
Guelph Alumnus
67 was recently appo inted pres ident of AGRA Eanh and Environmental Group an envi ronme ntal and geotechnica l firm that is a division of AGRA Indu stries Limited
Michael Sullivan 87 A is a pol ice officer with the Wate rloo Regional Police in Cambridge Ont
Argentina has 12 students there We ll then couldnt Uruguay imshy
itate those good exa mples and also se nd a number of worthy youths to Guelph to acquire the professional knowledge which is becoming m ore necessary each day for the deve lopshyment of our agric ulture~
In addition to the sc ienti fic benefits that our compatriots woul d deri ve from entering sLlch a Canadian techni cal in shystitution there would be the inca lcushylable benefit of becoming familiar with the stric t manly and sound habits of these people who are admirable in e ve ry respect
Afte r they have stee ped themse lves in this atmos phere of dem ocracy which fosters the development of all rights and is alien to intolerance thi s legati on w ill have the great honor of sending home not only sc ientists but a lso mode l citizens
Brenda Trask 80 operates he r own comshymunica tion s consulting company in Osshygoode Ont She is marri ed to Ron Ferguso n
Dave Vanden Bosch 89 is manager of operator services and plann ing for Bell Canada in London Ont
J Stallard Skip Waterhouse 54 and hi s wife Li sa are ce lebrating the birth of a daughter Samantha Elizabe th on New Years Day 1992 They live in New York State where Wate rhouse is iI pro fe ssor of bio logical science at the Plattsburgh Sta te Uni versity College of Arts and Science
Jeff 88 and Karen (Burrows) W h ite 87 live in Strathroy Ont Jeff work s for Bell Canada and Kare n is a Lambton County rural orga ni za tion spec ialist with the Ontar io Mini stry of Agriculture and Food
Harold Wright 86 is a development repre shysenta tive for Ci ba-Ge igy Canada Ltd in Mi sshysissauga Ont He and Lori Krieg 84 plan to marry thi s sprin g
Donald Ziraldo 7 I received doubl e honors last winter fro m the Ontario grape and wine industry Preside nt of Inniskillin W ines of Niagara-on -the-Lake Ont he was named to the Royal Order of the Grape for hi s leadership in enhancing the prod uct and its image
In addition Z ira ldo and his partner Karl Kai se r were named 1991 Men of the Year by FoodsCIvice and Hospitalily magazine During the ir 17-year partnership at Inn isk ilshylin the two have been instrumental in shapshying Canada s wine industry the magazine sa id
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ave Barry Burtis 69 was named president of the Ontario Veterinary Medical Association in January after working with the voluntary organization for four years as a director member of its editorial board and chair of its public relations committee Burtis lives in Burlington Ont and practises at the Bay Cities Animal Hospital He also appears on a local cable television program called Pel Tales
William Medway 54 of Blackwood NJ has been named an honorary life member of the International Association for Aquatic Animal Medicine for his contributions on beshyhalf of the association and the field of aquatic medicine He is both a founding member and past president of the associa shytion A professor emeritus of clinical laboratory medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine Medway is a member of the Marine Mammal Commissions committee of scientific advisers
Diane Pickering-Forster 86 is practising at Vander Kraan Veterinary Services in Huntsville Ont She is malTied to Chris Forster and they have one daughter Julia
Julien Proulx 67 has moved from Kapusshykasing Ont to La Pocatiere Que where he is superintendent of Agriculture Canada s Experimental Farm Last year he was feashytured on TVOntarios French network series Personalire Ontarienne for his work as a veterinarian his participation in municipal politics and his support of regional developshyment in Northern Ontario He was also awarded Agriculture Canadas research branch prize Agcellence for extraordinary management during his direction of the reshysearch program at the Kapuskasing Exshyperimental Farm
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Twoc~ireers middot on the samepat~ OVCaruninus Geoffrey Lord 49 felt a thopedic
middot enseofdejavuwhen he read theslory gastrointesshyabout Bill Naray~i1 OVe 63 il1la~t tinal and carc
springs issue ofthe Guelph Altimnus diovascular
There are amazing simi laritiesbetween surgery the c~reersof t~e two Guyanese wh6b6th says Lord If earnedvefetinary degrees atGueiph someone worked in c1ini(ai practice in)Yestem were to ask Canada then moved to the United States me ioday to work in human medic~lresearch what Tcon~
Narayan heads an AlDSresearchteamsider to be atJohns HopkiflS l1)iversilySchool of my expertise MediCirieinBaltimoreMatyland Lord is I would have retired directorofthdohnsonamp Johnson to saymecli- Geofrey Lord
middot Resear~h Foundalion ill NewJersey cal device lordsays he was influenced by OVC andbioshy
proJessDfs Anthony Kings(Qte and Frank Inaterials evaluation middot SchofieJd~ndwcentnton from GiJelphto pur- lt In the I 950s Lordwaspalt of ale-
sue graduate studies in parasitology auhe se~rch team that pioneered the use of University oJWiscollsin Sevenmorithsin animal tissue tOTeconstructdamagedjr
amixed practice in Drumheller Alta con blocked al1eries in hUl11ansTwenty years vinced him thaldinical medicine wasn6t middot later he drafted the first systematicap-
middot whati w~ted6 do He returned to Wis pr()ach to the safety evaluation of medica con5il110 eanla PhDlll pathologyano devices joined Johnson amp JohnsQri as asenior middot Allsubsequeill guidelines inCiLlding patilol()gistiriI953 those of the Foodaj)q Diug Admlnistrashy
Research at Johnson amp JohDson tiOnand the Canadian Regulatory ~teeredmeinto many interesting and chal- Authority hayeadopteoihis approach he
Jenging fieldsofbio-research includirig says derniiltoi9gy toxicologic pathology Lordand his wife Helen ltIividetheir wound healing surgical pathology iiinebetweel)Ciipe CodandBonita genera toxkology ofi~w drugs andor~ Springs FloriQa
Shane Renwick 77 and MSc 91 works in veterinary services at Agriculture Canada offices in Guelph
Ruth Reuter 61 is a veterinary pathologist in Plympton Australia
Tom Sanderson 6 1 was selected by the Ontario Veterinary Medical Association as Ontario Veterinarian of 1991 CUlTently OVCs co-ordinator of off-campus work terms he spent 20 years in private practice in Listowe1 and Mount Forest before returning to the coll ege in 1982 to manage the veterishynary research stations Sanderson s contribushytions to the profess ion have included many hours of volunteer work in the advancement
of the profession and in the development of veterinary inshysurance programs He is a past pres ident of both the Ontario and Canadian Veterishynary Medical associashytions
Jennifer Troughton 86 is practising in OronoOnt
Simone Woltner 86 is a veterinarian at the Chester Basin Animal Hospital in Chester Basin NS
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by her hu sband William and two sons The fo llowing dea ths have been reported since the las t issue of the Guelph Alumnus Full notices which are usu ally submitted by family or classmates may appear in thi s iss ue or in a later one
James Clement Arts 73 Feb 2 1992
Marilyn (Dyment) Farnan Mac 530 Feb 27 1992
David Fisher OAC 80A in October 1990
Elizabeth (C hristie) Glass Mac 3I D June 2l99 1
Peter Heskey OAC 54A Dec 6 199 1
Richard Ketchell OVC 51 Nov 23 199 1
Edward Kowalski Arts 79 in August 199 1
Pauline (Dixon) MacMillan Mac 240 Jan 2 1992
Catherine MacPherson Arts 83 Dec 11 1990
Marguerite (White) Maybury Mac 3 10 in June 1990
Donald McLeOd CSS 80 Jan 9 1992
Albert Meilus OAC 51 in 1991
Ann (Biggs) Ostler Mac 3 10 in April 1991
Robert Race Arts 73 in 1989
Ralph Sampson OAC 40 in December 1989
Mor ris Sanderson OAC 42 Nov 17 1991
Sir Peter Scott HDSc 8 1 in Au gust 1989
William Setterington OAC 40 Oct 22 1991
George Shoniker OAC 50A in March 199 1
John Somerset OAC 34 Dec 27 199 1
Gregory Van Patter OAC 7 1 in 1990
Frederich Weiland OAC 20A in 1990
Arts
Riccardo Rich Incitti 88 died Jan 5 1992 as the result of an accident near Hami lshyton Ont He was assistant manager at the Toronto-Dominion Bank in St Cathari nes and is survived by his parents Gu igi and Lucia of Cambridge and two sisters Laura and Andrea
Larry McNenly 73 died in October 1991 in Owen Sound Ont He is survived by his wife Marnie CSS 73
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Robert Everett HK 74 died in May 1991 in Burlington Ont A teac her at White Oaks Secondary Schoo l in Oakv ille he is survived by his wife Miche le and brother William CBS 74
James Sandy Fear 75 died Oct I I 199 1 in Toronto He is survi ved by his wi fe Sally (Firth) OAC 75 and hi s children Caitlin Alli son and Mered ith
CSS
Lynn (Dalys) Corby 84 died in Toron to May 6 1990 after a long battIe with cancer
Nancy (Birbeck) Gordon 77 died Oct 20 1991 in Ottawa after a short illness She worked at the Kitchener-Waterl oo Hospital and had previously been plan t accountant at Foseco Canada Incorporated in Guelph
Mac-FACS
Jean (Williams) Forward 280 Oct 28 1991 in Calgary She was the widow of Bower Forward OAC 25 and is survived by two sons
Catharine (Bechtel) Fromm 270 died Nov I 199 1 in Cambridge Ont She is surshyvived by three dau ghters Ellen Moore Mac 63 Nancy and Caro l
Alice (Rivaz) Garrard 28 di ed Dec 2 199 1 in Guelph She was an active member of the Mac-FACS Alumni Assoc iat ion and was the Mac 28 class agent for the Alma Mater Fund She is survived by her husband retired professor Edward Garrard OAC 27 and a daughter Betty Nelson
Della Marie (Diamond) Honey 300 of Warkworth Ont died June 29 1991 One ofWarkworths oldest and most respected citizens she served as local li brarian fo r 25 years She is survived by her son John OAC 52A his wife Patric ia and four grandchildren James OAC 84A William OAC 76A Thomas OvC 89 and Patricia Lonergan CSS 68
Barbara (Banigan) Martin 380 died Jan I 1992 in Don Mill s Ont A retired teacher wit h the North York Board of Education she is survived by a son Ted a sister and two brothers
Elizabeth (Burt) Perry 340 died June 28 1991 in Sidney BC and is surv ived by her husband Gordon and son Paul Nartel OAC 62
Jacqueline (Roy) Pote 34D died Dec 2 1 1991 in Willowdale Ont and is is survived
Merrill and Bill
Doroth y (MacFeeters) Scott 260 died Jan 14 1992 in Toronto She is su rvived by two daughters Anne Donaldson and Cynthia Scott
Florence (French) Snyder 370 died May 6 199 1 in Calgary and is survived by her husband Robert and two sons John and William
Katherine (Sweet) Watt Mac 220 died Feb 23 1992 She is survived by her husshyband Leslie a son David and a dau ghter Carol Gi llanders
Mattie (Newman) Widdicombe 240 died Dec 11 1991 in St Catharines Ont Preshydeceased by her husband John she is surshyvived by a bro ther and several nieces and nephews including Virginia Rigby Arts 76
OAC
George Grey Arnup 38 died Feb 2 1992 in Toronto He spent most of his career with the plant protection branch of Agriculture Canada He is survived by his wife Aileen three chi ldren Nancy Jim and Mary Ellen Vincent CBS 79 and four grandchi ldren
Herbert Boyce 28 and MSA 43 died Sept 2 1991 in Amherstburg Onto He is survi ved by his wife Norah a daughter Beverley Med lock and a brother James OAC 32
Jack Reddy Brethet 56 died Nov 4 199 1 in Burlington Ont President of Brethet Barnum Assoc iates Inc he is surshyv ived by his wife Caro l and two daughters Lyn n and Anne
Bruce Foster 28 died Feb 6 1992 in Ridgetown Ont and is survi ved by his daughter Gayle Anderson and son David CBS 69
Allison Gardhouse 49 died Sept 21 1991 in Midland Ont He was re tired supe rshyintendent of schoo ls for the Simcoe County Board of Education and is survi ved by his wife Merle
Kenneth Harrison 24 died Nov 5 199 1 in Kentville NS A distinguished plant patho logist military officer and mycologist he began hi s career in 1926 as assistant plant pathologis t at the Kentvi lle Experimental Farm He worked there until retirement in 1966 wi th the exception of mi litary servi ce du ring the Second World War
Dr Harrison had a lifelong interes t in the study of mushrooms and publ ished numerou s technica l papers on the mu shroom flora of Nova Scotia In addition he enshy
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couraged interested amateurs and led field trips for student s at Acadia University and the general public from 1929 until 1987 In 1979 he was honored by Acadia wi th the dedication of the Kenneth A Harri son Laboratory of Mycology
During his career he was a member of many professional organizations a charter member of the Mycological Society of America and fe llow of the American Associashytion for the Advancement of Science
He is survived by hi s wife Margaret two brothers Maynard OAC 30 and Arthur OAC 29 two son s Ashley and Kenneth and a daughter Jennie Sheito
William Kellam 4 1 died Oct 19 1991 in Brockville Ont He was retired from the Curb and Gate Co of-Brock ville where he had worked as a lab technician fo r 28 years He is survived by his wife Kathleen a son George and a daughter Mary
William M acMillan 48 died in February 1992 in Winnipeg He was supervisor of Fertilizer marketing for the Manitoba Pool Elevators and is surv ived by hi s wife Edna Jean and brother Harry OAC 5 1 A
Cameron McTaggart 35 died Feb 4 1992 in Aurora Ont After graduating from OAC he became manager of Don Head Farms in Richmond Hill He established the first agricul tural consulting business in Canada in 1947 and later ran an Angus cattle
sales management business from the family farm A life member of the OAC Alumni As shysociat ion and the Class of 35 executive he is survived by his wife Margaret Mac 35 and two sons John OAC 62 of Regina and David of Largo Fla
Douglas Miller 48 of Victoria BC died Nov 24 1991 in Toronto He is survived by hi s wife Ruth and five children
Gregory More 76 was killed Feb 3 1992 in Kitchener Ont at the Ontario Glove Manufacturing Co where he was co-owner and vice-president Following graduation he worked for the Rohrer Drug Co and the Stershyling Drug Co then returned to school ea rnshying an MBA at McMaster University in 1981 More was an avid squash player and golfer Court A at the Northfield Racquet Club in Waterloo was dedicated to his memory in March He is survived by his parents Noreen and Ken a brother Randy and a sister Katherine Keeler
John Jack Pawley 33 died March I 1992 in Guelph He is survived by his wife Ruth son John OAC 62 and daughter-inshylaw Carolyn He was a former director of the Ontario Milk Marketing Board and a past member of the Royal City Lodge of Perfecshytion
Harold Reid 20A died in December 1991 in Burlington Ont During the First World W ar he was one of Canadas premier rad io
experts work ing at the Roya l Canadian Navy shore transmitter in Sydney NS After the war he came to OAC to earn a diploma then went on to QueenS University to comshyplete an arts and theology degree His mini sshytry was mainly in St And rews and Montreal although he spent 13 years teaching Hebrew at the Presbyterian Coll ege before retiring in 1968
Donald Robertson 3 1 died Nov 4 1991 in Iroquois Ont He is survived by hi s wife Caroline (Grisdale) Mac 38 his two son s ScottOAC 65A and Guy and a daughter Sandra McNeil
Thomas Rokeby 48 and MSA 50 died Jan 29 1992 in Fayetteville Ark He was a professional engineer and tau ght for 30 years in the Univers ity of Arkansas engineering department Born in Port Rowan Ont he was a member of the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War the American Society of Agricultural Engineers and the agricultural honor societies of Gamma Sigma Delta and Alpha Epsilon He is surv ived by his wife Helen two sons Robert and Richard a daughter Penny and three brothers Michael Noel and Richard OAC 54
Francis Sweeney OAC 45 died Nov 17 1991 in Oakville Ont He was a longtime employee of Shell Canada and [nternational Shell working in Great Britain Europe and
WALL CUSTANCE MEMORIAL FOREST
The Wall-Custance Memorial Forest located at the Universi ty of Guelphs Arboretum was established in recognition of the severe depletion of our forests It is never too late to be a vital part of the effort to save and improve our air and water for the future of our children by planting trees This program is our small part of the major endeavor to reforest and to reduce the greenhouse effect improve air quality and provide food and cover for wildlife The Memorial Forest Proshygram not only pays a Significant tribute to a loved one but also assures a better environment for generations to come
The purpose of this program is to provide an opporshytuni ty to commemorate the life of a loved one by plantshy
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Berna rd Weeks 35 died Oct 16 199 1 After graduation he re turned to his roots in
ew York and Pennsylvannia and worked in 4-H and you th organi zations for a few years He then took over the family farm at Troupsburg NY and built up a dairy operashytion with a sideline of sheep He is surv ived by his wife Ruth and four children
Glenn White 43 of Belleville Onl died Nov 24 199 1 in Florida and is surv ived by hi s wife Marjorie
ave Norman Anderson 39 of Wi nn ipeg died Dec 18 1991 in Arizona He had practised veterinary medicine in Norwood Man and was a member of the American Equine Pracshytitioners Association director of the Canadian Thoroughbred Society and track veterinarian at Assin iboia Downs for 50 years He is survived by his wi fe Peggy and two sons Laurie and James
George Beatty 5 I died Nov 22 1991 in Inverness III He practised in Palatine fo r 36 years and founded the Palatine Animal Hospi tal He was an active member of the American Animal Hospital Assoc iati on and the Chicago Veterinary Association and was a director of the Friends of the University of Guelph He is survived by his wife Mary and fo ur children - Suzanne Patricia Margaret and Tim
John Hamilton 5 L died Dec 15 1991 He had lived in Roslin On where he owned the Bay Regional Veterinary Hospital He is survived by hi s niece Ann Bongard
Nicholas Labzoffsky 39 died Dec 25 1991 in Largo Fla Fonnerly of Toronto he had li ved most recen tl y in Dorse t Ont and is survived by hi s wife Jane
Edgar Langford 49 died March 41992 in Monarch Alta A former research scienshytist with ADRI (Western) he is survived by his wife Norma and two daughters includshying Carolyn OVC 76
Stuart Maude 4 1 died Jan 14 1992 in Rosemead Calif A former Rosemead counshycillor and four-time mayor he operated the Rosemead Animal Hospital with his brother Arthur 52 from 1953 to 1980 He was a trustee for Ingles ide Hospital a past grand patron of both the Rosemead and the Califorshynia Order of Eastern Star and past-president of the local Kiwanis Club and Chamber of Commerce He is survived by his wife Vera two daughters Patricia and Susan Bezner a son Stuart and three brothers
Walter Morley 42 o f Mildmay On died Nov 28 199 1 He ran a large animal pracshytice in the Mild may area for 39 years raised cat tle and raced standardbred horses He was also a pu blic school board trustee and direcshytor of a local te lephone company for more
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than 30 years He is survived by his wife Joyce five sons - two of whom are OVC alumni Dave 68 and Randy 74 - and 10 grandchildren
Lloyd Neily 52 died Jan 3 1992 in Hantsport NS A retired meat inspector w ith the federal Department of Agriculture he had a private veterinary practice in Wind sor NS He is surv ived by hi s wife Mary
Elford Nundal 43 died Jan 7 1992 in Langley BC after a long battle with canshycer He operated a veterinary practice in Langley for 36 years and served as a di strict aldennan for 10 years before being elected mayor in 1982 Last year he received the BC Veterinarian Association s award of merit for a lifetime of veterinary work
Humphrey Rees 55 died Sepl 30 1991 in Amman Jordan while on ass ignment for the Overseas Development Ad ministrat ion as veterinary and animal hu sbandry adviser to the Jordani an government His contemshyporaries at Guelph will remember him as a singer debater raconteur rugby player and bon vivant He is surv ived by his wife Alice of POlt Eynon Wales
William Stinson 40 died Feb 15 1992 in Norwood Ont He is survi ved by his wife Rita a son John OVC 67 a brother Ford OAC 34 and a grandson John CSS 87
Faculty
Patric ia Harney died Dec 191991 in Yarshymouth NS A professor in the Department of Horticultural Science from 1962 to 1988 she developed severa l new variet ies of geraniums and was instru mental in es tabshylishing the Frances Ball rose collection at the Arboretum
Anthony Marston died Feb 3 1992 in Fershygu s ant Retired from the School of Hotel and Food Administration he was an acshycomplished competition chef who received his training in Switzerland and England He then spent severa l years working in the Caribbean before coming to Guelph in 1970 A member of the Canadian Olympic culinary team he held a number of positions in the
Donations given in memory ofGuelph alumni will help support University scholarships ifdirected to the Alumni M emorial Fund In 1991 donations were made in memory of the following alumni
Frank MacDonald OAC 37
Frank King OAC 33 -Robert Allen OAC 56A
Alice (Rivaz) Garrard Mac 28
Stan Vesselinovitch OVC 57
For more infonnation call the Office of Annual Giving at 519-824-4120 Ext 6 183
hote l and food industry until retiring in 1982 He is survived by hi s wife Di ana
Gordon McNally dled Jan 12 1992 in Guelph A professor in the Department of Zoo logy from 1934 to 1971 he served as academic assistant to the dean of CBS until retiring in 1979 While at Guelph he was honorary pres id ent of the classes of OAC 54 58 and 67 He is survived by his daughter Jean two siste rs and two grandchildren Prof McNallys family has established the A Gordon Mc a lly Memorial Fund to support a sc holarship or bursary Contributions may be sent care of the Alma Mater Fund Alumni Hou se University of Guelph Guelph ant N I G 2WI
Friends
Jean (Young) Branion died March 3 1992 in Guelph She was the wife of the late Hugh Branion a physiology professor at U of G and assistant to presidents Bill Winegard and Don Forster Jean Branion was an act ive volunteer on campus for many years and one of the firs t presidents of the College Womens Club She is survived by a son Richard and his wife Marga re t of Vanshycouve r and five grandchi ldren Donati ons may be made to the Hugh D Branion Memorial Scholarship through Alumni House
Davy Alexander Hamilton-Williamson died Feb 4 1992 in Guelph A painter and author of childrens stories he had been a member of the University s Presidents Council s ince it began in 1 985
Marjorie Pinkney wife of J ames Pinkney OVC 3 7 died Dec 151 99 [ at her home in Milton ant
Samuel Wyal died March 15 1992 in Brantford ant He was a partner in the law firm Wyatt Purce ll Will Stillman and Scott He is surv ived by his wife M a bel Mac 39 four sons Peter Michael William and John and two daughters Mary Alderson and Sarah Nadalin Arts 82
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INVmiddotESTMENTS amp
DIVIDENDS
Facts about university education in Canada and how we pay for it
By 2000 half of all new jobs in Canada will require a university degree
But at the current rate of government funding only one in five children
will have a chance to go to university
In the seven years from 1982 to 1989 per-student grants to universities in
Ontario barely kept pace with intlation at five per cent
per-student funding at American public univers ities jumped an average
of 23 per cent in the same period
Those US universities also receive twice the federal research dollars per student as do Ontario universities
In 1987 the average salary of a full-time professor at an Ontario univers ity was $55500
compared with $68200 for a private-sector position of similar education and experience
Lawyers economists and engineers made an average of $71 000
Ontario ranks ninth out of the to provinces in terms of grants to universities
Between 1978 and 1991 enrolment at Ontario univers ities grew by 40 per cent while funding dropped
from 59 to 409 per cent of total government spending
Universities were spending 14 per cent less per student between 1977 and 1988 hospital expenditures
rose 38 per cent per patient in the same period
Ontario universities generate $3 of economic activity for every
$1 invested by government funding
And the number of jobs generated by university activities in
Ontario is greater than the employment impact of the textile
industry the entire paper and pulp industry or utilities
University graduates can look forward to earning 63 per cent more than the average industrial worker
A 1990 survey of U of G alumni found that two years after graduation 97 per cent of Guelph grads
looking for work were employed 62 per cent were earning $25000 or more and 10 per cent were
earning $40000 or more
Unemployment rates in 1990 for those with a university degree was about one-third what it was
for those with only a high school diploma
Every year from 1978 to 1987 Ontario university inves tments in renovating or replacing
aging buildings could not keep pace with the rate at which the buildings depreciated
Graphics by Debbie Thompson Wilson Statistics supplied by th~ Council 01 Ontario UniverSities Statistics Canada and the U01 G Student EnVifonment Study Group
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A salute to sport Alumni Weekend June 19-21 9am Sio-pitch tournament
The tradition Jives on at the south quad diamond s Cooed teams of 12 or more players are encourshyaged to join in the fun
FRIDAY 10 am to 9 pm Registration Lambton Hall
6 pm Kick-off dinner and half-time show
get set and join In the Olympic spirit one of Alumni Creelman Hall will Weekends host the Wonderful most popular World of Sports with events Tours a half-time slide show start from to entertain alumni of Alumni House all ages and are sponshy9 pmshy sored by the Observatory tours CBS Alumni
Association
10 am and 2 pm
SATURDAY 8 am to 5 pm Guided Registration walking tours Lambton Hall
Remember 9 am to 5 pm making s now Alumni House tours sc ulptures on Students will host tours of Alumni House throughshyout the weekend Come and see what the generosity of alumni has accomplished
9 am to noon Alumni association annual meetings
This is the official notice for the annual general meetings of the following alumni associations
CBS - Alumni House starts at 830 am before guided walk MacFACS - HAFA Building Room 209
OVC - OvC Room 1438
OAC - Macdonald Hall Room 149
CSS - MacKinnon Building Room 305
HAFA - Alumni Hou se boardroom
Gryphs Lounge will be open for lunch and afLer the game
930 am Guided nature walk at the Arboretum
On your mark
Noon - OVC luncheon
The OvC Alumni Association will host a luncheon open to all OvC alumni and their guests
2 pm - Campus Showcase 92
Following on the heels of last year s success Campus Showshycase 92 will be bigger and better Come to the University Centre to see exhibits representing all areas on campus The Campus Junction store will also be open
2 pm - Zavitz Hall tour
Alumni are invited to browse through the newly renovated Za vitz Hall and attend a recep shytion sponsored by the Colshylege of Arts Alumni Asshysoc iation
5 pm Golden anniversary dinner
The OAC OvC and MacshyFACS alumni associations will provide complimenshytary tickets for alumni celebrating 50 years or more Additiona l tickets can be purchased Classes
Johnston Green or playing intramural hockey in the old Quonset arena Relive some of the memories by taking a walking tour of campus Tours begin from the lobby ofLambton Hall
Noon - Alumni picnic
This apopular event has new location - the sculpshyture garden beside the Macshydonald Stewart Art Centre Come on your own or reshyserve a group of tables for friends and classmates
Noon - Class reunion lunches
OAC 37 Mac 37 OAC 42 Mac 42 OAC 47 Mac 52 Mac57 Mac 67 FACS 72 FACS 77 FACS 87
OAC 67 FACS 82 OAC 82 OAC 82A CBS 82 FACS 87 OAC 87
SUNDAY 9am Church service and War Memorial Hall rededication
Thanks to a commitment from the Alma Mater Fund renovashytion of the upstairs of War Memorial Hall has been comshypleted Join us for the rededicashytion ceremony commemorating the 1924 opening and the 1952 dedication of an OAC memorial plaque
being honored are OAC 22 OAC 47 OvC 22 Mac 22 OAC 27 OvC 27 Mac 27 OAC 32 OvC 32 Mac 32 OAC 37 OvC 37 Mac 37 OAC 42 OvC 42 Mac 42
6 pm Class reunion dinners
Special dinn e r reunions are planned for OAC 47 OAC 52 OAC 52A OvC 52 Mac 57 OAC 57 OAC 62 Mac 67
10am UGAA annual meeting
All alumni are encouraged to atshytend the UGAA annual meeting in Macdonald Hall Room 149 An amendment to the UGAA Letters Patent and a revised bylaw will be presented for ap shyproval Copies of both are availshyable on request from Alumni House Call 519-824-4120 Ext 6544
11 am - Farewell brunch
The final event of Alumni Weekend will be held in Creelshyman Hall Come and meet the Univers ity S president Brian Segal The Alumnus of Honour medal will be presented at noon
To receive an Alumni Weekshyend brochure or to register for events call Alumni House at 59-824-4120 Ext 6963
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Uniyersiiy of Gldph in co-operation with the UniversityofGucJph Alum Cooiribulors Burbara Chance e55 74 Roberta FranchUkMartha Association Copyriglit 1992 Ideas andopii)ions expressed do not Ta~(ock Herb Rauscher Owe~ RobertsMartinSd~walbe necessarilyreflectthose ofllie VGAAor the Univers ity Copies of-the DesignProduction Chris Boyadjian Art gt SI )aTletCaldwcll Art~S6 Gllifpli AI(IIiUsedilOliaJ pollcy are available onrequestArticleslilay he
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matical functions should be performed in order moving from left to righ t making the answer 45
Weiner asks us to apply
I have just read an article in the winter Guelph Alumnus by Roberta Franchuk on the subject of math anxiety The arshyticle includes a skill-testing question and gives the answer as 49195
Because the problem is posed incorshyrectly readers of the article must certainshyly have suffered considerable math anxiety trying to solve it
The answer to the problem should be 597A The answer of 49195 would solve the problem if the equation were enclosed in brackets The square brackshyets are the key
Math anxiety indeed
Joe Hagge GeorgetownOnt
Please note that the answer given to the skill-testing question on page 17 of the winter Alumnus is incorrect The correct and only solution is 597 A
Its no wonder students suffer math anxiety I do too every time I see skillshytesting questions with wrong anSwers
Don Hamilton MarkhamOnt
I would like to commend you on the exshycellent winter issue of the Alumnus Inshystead of my usual quick skim through I found myself actually reading it cover to cover
Many of the articles focused on reshysearch and teaching the two things I remember Guelph most fondly for and the two things that may convince many prospective students that Guelph is the right choice Such a refreshing change from the usual dull material on picnics conferences awards etc
I hope youll decide to continue in this vein
Christine (Paquette) Reissmann OAC 77
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I am writing in response to your letter from a former resident assistant I agree that being on the residence life staff can be a valuable experience but so can belonging to I nterhall Council
I am a fOlmer president of both Maritime Hall and Prairie Hall and a former Interhall Council chair The leadership and skills that I learned have been invaluable to me They enabled me
to enter the pharmaceutical industry as a sales representative Today I am a disshytrict sales manager for Rhone-Poulenc Rorer one of Canada s top 10 pharshymaceutical companies
When I was an undergraduate Intershyhall Council was underrated Students failed to realize that it was our members who represented the thousands of undershygraduates in residence on various adshyministrative committees We were the ones who negotiated for improvements in the residences and cafeterias
Interhall Council spearheaded the
We made a mistake In the last issue of the Guelph Alumnus we printed Roberta Franchuk s humorous look at math anxiety but the joke was on us In our illustration for the story we presented this sk ill-testshying math problem shy
Whats 5 of (52 - 14) x
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- but gave the wrong answer for it The correct answer is 597A Our answer of 49195 was wrong because we failed to observe the order of operations rules
Many readers noticed the error inshyclud ing everyone in the Univers ity s Department of Mathematics and Stati sshytics And several told us stories about the other people theyve caught abusshying the rules of BEDMAS (brackets exponents division multiplication adshydition subtraction) Our mistake has placed us in the company of several of Canadas largest corporations
Guelph professor Jack Weiner and Gary Flewelling math consultant for the Wellington County Board of Education recently argued the case of a high school student who was denied $200 worth of compact discs in an auto manufacturers contest because hi s answer to this skill-testing quesshytion- 22+ 14dx4 -3= -did not match the auto makers answer The student s answer was 37 213 The auto maker contends that all matheshy
campaign against the closing of Maritime cafeteria And lets not forget orientation Without the help of the residence hall presidents and their counshycil of volunteers orientation would not be the annual success that it is
So yes being a residence life staff may provide some opportunity and skills to deal with the future but I know that without my experience as a member of InterhaU Council I wouldnt be where I am today
Dean Demilio CBS 87 MississaugaOnt
the auto makers reasoning to a bankshying problem You have $100 in your savings account when you begin adshyding $10 a week for 20 weeks How much money do you have at the end of the 20 weeks If you write out the expression it looks like thi s 100 + 10 x 20 The correct answer of course is $300 but by the auto manufacturer s calculation youd have $2200 Is that how they price their cars) asks We iner
This is a good example of why we cant Jet mathematical errors go uncorshyrected Meanwhile the high school student still hasnt received his comshypact discs The company is now argushying that both answers are right Go figure l
Those of us working on the Guelph Alumnus have learned our lesson Our apologies to those readers who -deve loped math anxiety trying to figshyure out how we got our answer and to those reade rs who gor the same answer we did because now you know that youre not a mathematical whiz after all
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Food research gets boost U of G received a $ I-million Christmas gift from the W Garfield Weston Founshydation the charitable organization asshysoc iated with George Weston Limited one of the largest Canadian-owned food conglomerates The money will fund a research position in food-packaging technology in the Department of Food Science
A competition is being held to fill the position which will investigate ways to balance the consumer demand for less processing of food products with the need to maintain safety
Campus research in food process ing received another boost with the appointshyment of Prof Douglas Dalgleish to a reshysearch posi tion in dairy technology that is supported by the Ontario Dairy Counshycil and the Natural Sc iences and Enshygineering Research Council Dalgleish works closely with Prof Mansel Grifshyfiths who holds a research chair in microbiology that is sponsored by the Ontario Milk Marketing Board and NSERC
Dalgleishs research concentrates on milk and milk ingredients leading to practical applications in the developshyment of new dairy products Griffiths s work also focuses on new products as well as food safety and the development of rapid detection of micro-organisms in milk and other foods
Griffiths is one of six researchers who recently received funding as part of the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food s $S-million program to help keep the Ontario food-processing industry globally competitive
Other recipients include Profs Howard Swatland Animal and Poultry Science and Ralph Brown School of Engineering who will examine the use of fibre optics and ultrasound techshyniques to measure meat quality and yield in beef carcasses and live cattle Prof Gauri Mittal Engineering and Arthur Hill Food Science will further their work in pasteurization of milk and other liquid foods while looking for alshyternatives in food preservation And Prof Les Ferrier Animal and Poultry Science will study the effect of high linolenic acid eggs on blood lipids in humans Linolenic acid is an omega-3 fatty acid that is essential to lowering blood cholesterol levels
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Child-care survey reports
The largest and most comprehensive surshyvey on child care in Canadian history shythe Canadian National Child-Care Study -launched its introductory report in February Directed by family studies professor Donna Lero the $3-million study profiles the needs and arrangeshyments of more than 24000 Canadian families with at least one child under 13
It is based on data collected from Statistics Canada interviews with parents in 1988 One in every 90 Canadian households was included
Co-director of the study is Alan Pence of the University of Victoria Principal investigators are Hillel Goelman of the
University of British Columbia and Lois Brockman of the University of Manitoba What theyve found is that most Canadian parents share common concerns about child care - its quality affordability availability and stability
The federal governments recent anshynouncement that it has sc rapped plans for a national child-care program does not mean the issue is no longer imporshytant says Lero It means the governshyment sees the need but has chosen not to res pond to it
The study findings will be presented in IS subsequent reports and a set of 12 provincial and territorial summaries
Creative writing
U of G Senate has approved a proposal for a master of fine arts (MFA) program in creative writing Concentrating on prose poetry drama or a combination students would take courses do indeshypendent reading and produce a creative shythesis
English chair Connie Rooke says the Guelph program would differ from creashytive-writing degree programs at other Canadian universities The already hired core faculty - poet Dionne Brand novelist and poet Janice Kulyk Keefer
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and playwright Judith Thompson - are to reduce the drop-out rate in French distinguished Canadian writers rather studies More than 50 per cent of the stushythan career academics dents who complete the beginners level
Another unique feature is that in French do not continue Canadian writers would be invited to give lectures workshops and seminars offering students a writers perspective Convocation honors Visiting writers would also serve as
At winter conshymentors to individual students
vocation A starting date of fall 1993 is ceremonies in
proposed but is dependent on the February Jeavailability of funding Clare
RennieOAC 47 former asshy
Multimedia French sistant deputy minister of
What do French-language students at agriculture and Clare Renniethe universities of Guelph and Calgary food for On-have in common They can improve tario was named an honorary fellow of their language skills with the aid of mulshy the University He was honored for his timedia computer equipment that comshy contributions to U ofGs agricultural reshybines sound images and text These are search program Rennie was on facultythe only two Canadian universities parshy from 1952 to 1971 then moved toticipating in an IBM-sponsored North OMAF where he was responsible forAmerican program to explore new techshy the ministryS education and researchnology in teaching French as a second programs including the contract with Ulanguage of G Since 1974 the contract has
U of G is making the French connecshy grown to $34 million a year In additiontion thanks to $45000 worth of multishy Guelph has named its research chair in media equipment donated by IBM One animal-breeding strategies in his honor of the goals of the program at Guelph is
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The University also honored Canadian engineer Claudette MacKayshyLassonde by awarding her an honorary degree for her contributions to the enshygineering profession An expert on nuclear safety issues she developed the first site-selection criteria for nuclear power stations She has served as presishydent of the Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario and founded the group Women in Science and Engineershying
A boost for animal welfare OVC has established an academic position in animal welfare with a gift from the estate of Col KL Campbell His widow Mona has contributed $500000 to start an endowshy
Ron Downeyment fund to support the position
Prof Ron Downey assistant dean of OVC will assume the position July I to explore alternative methods that would reduce the use of animals in research Part of his job will be to promote the inshyterests of the Centre for the Study of Animal Welfare which was established at U ofG in 1990
KL Campbell was a notable horse breeder and showman who shared with his wife an interest and compassion for all animals The Campbells were among the earliest contributors to OVCs Pet Trust Fund which supports research on common problems of companion animals
Land and water stewardship
U of Gs Centre for Soil and Water Conshyservation has been renamed the Centre for Land and Water Stewardship to reflect a more holistic approach to susshytainability Accordingly its focus has expanded to include sectors other than agriculture that affect water quality The centres new director is Prof Stewart Hilts a 13-year faculty member who is cross-appointed to the Department of Land Resource Science and the Univershysity School of Rural Planning and Development
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Rewriting art history
In the 1480s the Duke of Milan comshymissioned Leonardo da Vinci to produce a 93-metre-high bronze monushyment of a horse and rider But political upheava l in Italy prevented the artist from seeing II Cavallo past the planning stage
Centuries later Guelph fine art profes shysor Chandler Kirwin hi s student Peter Rush and international art historians have begun a project to cast the monushyment in two-thirds scale It will be built in New York State at a cost of more than $2 million US and donated to the city of Milan in celebration of da Vincis achievements and the SOOth anniversary of Columbuss arrival in America
Rush is a mature student with 30 years experience as a metallurgist and foundry worker His technological know-how and Kirwin s knowledge of the artistic soc ial political and cultural climate of the Renaissance has led to a revised vision of II Cavallo They are proposing to the international art comshymunity that the altist had intended to cast the 60000-kilogram monument in one piece - an easy task with current industrial practices but a daring proposal in the 15th century
The project has revealed da Vincis genius as an engineer and has caused art historians to rethink their assessment of his place in Renaissance art history
News in brief
During Christmas break U of G inshystalled an automated direct-d ial telephone system that means faster sershyvice for callers who know the extension number theyre trying to reach Within three weeks of use the system was hanshydling half of the 13000 daily incoming caUs without operator assistance
The six top students who participated in U ofGs first Krakow semes ter were recently awarded certificates of merit from the Polonia Institute of Krakow where they studied
Five years ago U of G sent 3788 tonshynes of waste to the city landfill in one year Last year the figure was 1900 tonshynes thanks to the campus recycling proshygram About 25 tonnes of glass and tin
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Prof Chandler Kirwin lefl and Peter Rush pose with a model ofdo Vincis monument 11 Cavallo Photo by Roberta Franchuk
and more than half a tonne of fine paper portunities Teamed up with a group of are hauled away each week Guelph students they will study the
creative arts in Canada Canadian
Ample snowbanks this winter helped society and the political economy of the
protect the Arboretums gene banks Canada-US free trade agreement
which contain plantings of more than nine species of woody plants native to The planned widening of Gordon Street the Carolinian forest region of southshy - the route from campus to downtown western Ontario The gene banks will Guelph - has been delayed until 1993 eventually be used to help rebuild the while city council considers a proposal provinces heritage forest system by the U of G Cycling Club to include
bicyc le lanes as part of the project
This summer U of G begins an exshychange program that will bring 28 The first Ontario turfgrass symposium Pennsylvania students to Guelph for six was held on campus last January bringshyweeks in an effort to introduce them to ing together all sectors of the industry to Canadian educational and cultural op- discuss environmental responsibility
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Predicting food production capabilities
A new research technique developed by an interdisciplinary U of G group is the first of its kind in the world to quantitashytively measure the capacity or shortfall of food production in a specific geoshygraphic area
Applying the technique to Ontario inshyvolves a complex computer database that uses production figures from the 1980s and takes into account 18 major crops 10 livestock categories seven soil classes seven climate zones six economic regions and a number of production constraints
The computer then considers different aJlocations and trends as well as condishytions that might influence future demands and productive potential
We found the current agricultural base has the capacity to produce at least 30 per cent more of each product in Onshytario says geography professor Barry Smit who has co-ordinated the program since it began in the early 1980s But the 30-per-cent surplus capacity would not be sufficient to meet even relatively
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conservative demand projections through to the year 2000 he says
The program has been used to look at food projections and to study the effects of urban growth acid rain soil erosion global warming climatic variations on food production and to identify regions of the globe where food shortages reflect limits in production capacity
Campus safety
Students walking alone on campus at night can call the Central Student Associations Campus Safe Walk proshygram and a team of volunteers will esshycort them to their destination If they live off campus but need to work late at the University library students can take the Magic Bus a service provided by the CSS Student Government after city buses close down for the night And anyone who is hurt or injured on camshypus can get help from the First Aid Response Program run by the CSA and Security Services
Each of these programs will get a financial boost thanks to a provincial government grant aimed at improving campus safety In addition U of G will
use part of the grant to install more emergency telephones on campus add lighting and rearrange foliage that imshypedes vision in some areas Also being considered is a campu s safe house that would bring together 24-hour services for students
Preserving beauty
U of G landscape architect Nate Perkins is using a computer a scanner and a digitizing board to show the effects of development on sensitive rural landscapes He is working with the Onshytario Heritage Foundation to identify and protect the esthetic landscape feashytures of the entire Niagara Escarpment
The first step is to create an inventory of existing visual landscapes and how they are currently protected in Ontario Based on this selected landscape scenes will be sampled to illustrate what might happen under different scenariosshywith no regulation under current local and provincial regulatory programs and under Perkins s proposals With comshyputer technology he will be able to creshyate a picture of what the scene would look like in each case
People make a difference on and off canlpus
U of G has recruited Powell moved to Goldschmidt HDMus 84 many talented faculshy Guelph in 1965 to estabshy launched the festival which has
ty and staff who have lish the UniversityS proshy flourished to become one of N0I1h also become leaders in gram in human kinetics Americas most respected small music the community Two and the School of Human festivals MacKinnon was president of names come to mind shy Biology He designed 10 its board of directors for 15 years and John Powell and Murdo courses and was a driving is still one of its most active volun-MacKinnon - because force behind construction teers both are being recogshy of the building that The Guelph Spring Festival was one nized this spring for their houses the school example of MacKinnon s eff0l1s to ci vic contributions During his tenure the create closer ties between the Univershy
Retired human biology John Powell University hosted eight s ity and the community He and conshyprofessor John Powell Canadian national track cert manager Edith Kidd introduced was inducted April II into the and field coaching courses sponsored the idea of regular noon-hour conshyCanadian Amateur Sports Hall of by the Royal Canadian certs still held on camshy
Fame because of his lifelong work in Legion with more than pus each Thursday
amateur Sp0l1 3000 participants He also MacKinnon was founded a cardiovascular founding dean of WelshyAn Olympic-calibre sprinter in hi s exercise group which he lington College of Artsnative Great Britain Powell turned to led daily for 26 years and Sciences in 1964
coaching after being wounded in the Retired English professhy And he became the first
Second World War A three-time sor Murdo MacKinnon dean of the College of
Olympic coach he helped 19 athletes will be the centre of attenshy Arts in 1970 He is an
earn Olympic medals And for the last tion May 2 at the Guelph honorary fellow of the 21 years he has been a regular lecshy Spring Festivals 25thshy University and the Macshyturer at the International Olympic anniversary dinner He and Kinnon building is Academy in Greece artistic director Nicholas Murdo MacKinn on named in his honor
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University Families Fight the Odds
hy Mary Dickiesol1
The Van Katwyks and the
University ofGuelph are saving to educate
the next generation
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university education in Canada At current levels of government funding decreased
enrolments will limit university attendance to one in five within a few years
Paul and Christine Van Katwyk dont like the odds Theyre committed to univershy
s ity education - their own and Sasha s - and theyve been sav ing for hi s educashy -tion since he was s ix months old But what they hear about the continuing decline
in government funding makes them worry that the doors to Canada s universities
may not be open to Sasha when he s ready to enrol in 2007
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T heee good eoo to won) That s the message we ve been getting from universiti es and colleges in Canada for several years Many univershysity administrators including U of G president Brian Segal say they too are worried about the future of postseconshydary education
On the political agenda universities have taken a back seat to hospitals soshycial serv ices and schools despite the fact that they are part of the solution to problems facing the other sectors
In Ontario the universities share of the public purse has been declining since 1978 even though theyve added more than 160000 students to their enshyrolments Universities are actually spending 14 per cent less per full-time
Education makes a difference
Chris and I know from ou r own experience that a university educashytion can make a big di fference in one s life say Paul Van Ktttwyk
Paul grew up in a university family - hi fa ther is a professor at Wilfrid Laurier Univer ily in Waterloo He came to U of G after high school but quit before comshypleting a BA After two years o f making tire he was back on camshypus and is now finishing an MA in industrial organizational psycholshyogy U of G is one of the few uni versities in Canada that offer graduate work in this fie ld So Paul is heading off to the Uni versity of South Florida th is fall to do a PhD then will return to Canada to help expand his disc ipline to other Canadian universi tie
Chris is the first member of her family to atrend university She graduates this spring with a BASc in con umer studies With other members of her family out of work because their manufact uring jobs have disappeared Chris think a un iversi ty educashytion was the right choi e for her She would like to get involved in consumerenvironmental i sues and eventually open her own small business
student than they did 15 years ago
At the same time demand for university graduates is growing The Council of Ontario Universities (COU) esshytimates that half of the new jobs that will be created over the next decade will require L1ni versi ty-level training
At a time when unshyemployment plagues the province when health care and soc ial ass istance costs are rising when inshydustry needs to improve competitiveness when we need to boost investshyment in research and deve lopment one begins to wonder why postsecshyondary education is not a greater priority
Public opinion seems to support universities A 1990 Decima poll found that 80 per cent of Ontarians believe a lack of funding is affecting university quality and 83 per cent believe that
Universities are spending 14 per cent less for each student than they did 15 years ago
university fundin g is not keeping pace with funding for other services
But the university system needs more than quiet believers It needs strong vocal support Good intentions aren t enough to ensure survival in the politishycal arena or the global economy
Financial problems
Every year COU prepares a report on the financial position of Ontario univershysities The 1991 report reveals a steady decline in the priority that three successhysive provincial governments have gi ven to universi ties Collectively theyve igshynored the advice of their own advisory body on universities for 15 years allowshy
ing university funding to drop from 59 to 409 per cent of total government spending
This decline coincides with the federal governments introduction of Esshytablished Program Financing (EPF) which supplies a large part of the fundshying that is eventually allocated to postsecondary education
Prior to EPF federal and provincial governments shared the operating costs of postsecondary education on a 5050 basis Under EPF which was supposed to equalize payments to the provinces through a complicated system of cash transfers and tax points some provincial governments have been unable or unshywilling to maintain that 5050 balance In Ontario federal doll ars now account for a much higher percentage of the funding that is eventually transferred to universities
Many Ontario institutions believe the provincial government added insult to injury last October when it cut an addishytional $9 million from promised transfer payments for 1991 92 Before the c1awshyback COU had advised the government that universities would need a seven-pershycent increase in 199293 just to maintai n current level s of serv ice but the January budget gave them one per cent thi s year and promised no more than two per cen t in each of the ne xt two years
During this same J5-year period Ontario s universities have demonshystrated an increase in productivity unshymatched in almost any other sector by finding ways to educate 40 per cent more students with less money
The January budget brought bad news at a time when universities were also facing further cuts in provincial gove rnshyment grants for capital renovations inshycreased operating costs for utilities the federal government s 30-per-cent jump in UIC premiums a lO-per-cent in shyc rease in CPP payments and a loss of tuition revenue because of planned reductions in first-year enrolments
Ontarios Employer Health Tax and pay equity costs have also affected operating budgets at universities where more than 80 per cent of expenditures are dictated by salaries and benefits
Deficit financing is not the norm for U ofG but in 199192 costs exceeded Ministry of Colleges and Universities (MCU) operating revenue ($160 milshyli on) by almos t $46 million The defic it reflects both these unexpected increases and the planned expense of restructuring non-academic units
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Creative solutions
Like the business community Guelph has begun the ongoing process of selfshyappraisal The $69-million cost of the recent non-academic review left red ink in this fiscal year but the exercise has cut operating costs by an estimated $57 million a year Within the five-year payshyback period the University will have saved or in reality reallocated more than $28 million Segal says
The internal review removed 125 jobs simplified processes and improved efficiency A similar assessment of the non-teaching activities within the colshyleges is being completed and will be folshylowed by a look at academic functions
Guelph is one of the first universities in Ontario to undertake such a strucshytured review of its operations says Segal and it wont be the last Every university will be looking at ways to reduce the amount of work required to operate the institution he says
Were walking a tightrope trying to balance strategic goal s and fiscal management in a way that causes the least harm to students Nevertheless universities are prepared to be key players in the process of looking for creative ways of doing more with less
Segal predicts an increase in intershyuniversity and joint university-college programs that share resources more efshyfective use of automation more homeshystudy programs and co-operative purchasing arrangements
Unfortunately well al so see further staff cuts a loss of services some course cancellations and limits to stushydent enrolment
Last fall U of G decreased first-year enrolment by 686 to help ease overshycrowding on campus although total en-
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Charls reprinredjrom COU 1991 Report Oil rhe Financial Position laquo( Ontario Universities
rolment was a high of 13390 students The University plans to decrease enrolshyment to fewer than 12000 by 1994
There will al so be reductions in faculshyty positions estimates are that at least a third of the 60 current vacancies will not be filled in the next fi scal year
In addition to cos t-cutting measures universities will be looking at ways to generate new revenue More than 80 per cent of university revenue is controlled by government - transfer payments and tuition fees - but short-term operat shying fund s can benefit from increased revenues from food retail parking operations and non-tuition fee hikes
Segal says long-term endowment funds like Guelph s Heritage Fund will become a system-wide priority as will revenue sources from planned giving and alumni contributions real estate
development - like Guelphs Research Park - and capital accumulation
COU which Segal chairs will conshytinue to pressure government to increase tuition fees Ontario fees have not kept up with inflation In rel ative terms they are lower now than theyve been for 40 years representing less than 19 per cent of university operating revenue In comshyparison tuition revenues at public universities in the United States are 70 to 80 per cent higher and students at private US universities pay si x times as much as Ontario s undergraduates
COU is on record as favoring an inshycome-contingent repayment plan that would allow students to repay loans based on the level of their future inshycome But a COU proposal - even if it is accepted by MCU - is at least a year away from implementation
-Last f all the universities ofGuelph and Waterloo launched North America sfirst longshydistan ce interactive classroom project that links students at both institutions via two-way audio video and data lines Unlike other video systems that offer only televisiolltransmission the new Electrohome classroom system leIs studel1ls both see and hear each other as well as the professor It s j us t like being there - and it s aile example ofhow universities are sharing resources to improve academic programs and CUI costs Photo by Roberta Franc huk
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University benefits
Time and time again our alumni tell us that the total university experience is more valuable than the degree they received
Breadth of knowledge new insights personal satisfaction - these are things that cant be measured
The 966000 university graduates in Ontario do however share economic benefits that can be measured -like an unemployment rate that is one-third what it is for the general workforce and salaries that are on average 63 per cent higher than industrial workers
In addition university graduates share with the rest of the population even greater cultural social and economic benefits
T hrough the percolator effect Ontario universi ties generate $62 billion (1989 estimate) worth of economic activity each year and more than 138000 jobs
All Canadians share in the benefits of an academic system that acc umulates knowledge trains leaders and conducts much of the research that gives us a progress ive society
University laboratories have yielded medical breakthroughs in diabetes canshycer cystic fibrosis Alzheimer s disease and AIDS They have tackled environshymental research on the causes of water pollution and soil erosion University soshycial scientists study issues as vari ed as demographic trends cross-border shopshyping adoption and economic developshyment in native communities
On a more personal level each univershysity in Canada is a contributing member of its local community Says Guelph
Mayor John Counse ll The inshytangible benefits of having a university within our municipality inshyclude the injection into the comshymunity of intellecshytual standards talents and sershyvices
Almost every orshyganization in the city counts U of G faculty staff and students among its members and volunteers In fac t more than 30 U oG s campus wecomes almosl 150000 visitors every year
university employees were recently given special awards and commendations from both the provincial Ministry of Culture and Communications and Ministry of Citizenship
Guelph is also enriched financially by the Univers itys presence - 4 100 jobs $195 million in annual economic acshytivity The University is an attraction for many smaller companies and organizashytions and branches of provincial governshyment ministries that deal frequently with the campus In a way it has he lped to inshysulate the city of Guelph aga inst the reshycession says Counsell Last year Guelph enjoyed a net increase of three jobs in comparison with other cities where thousands of industrial jobs were lost
Equally important are the educational opportunities offered by the University
for local re sidents The number of people enrol led in distance education inshydependent study and non-degree courses at the University is almost twice the dayshytime student body Last year 500 senior citizens attended courses held on camshypus and 10000 schoolchildren parshyticipated in environmental education programs at the Arboretum People also brought 12000 animals and 500 wild birds to OVC clinics for treatment
Visitors to campus outnumber stushydents 10 to one They come for convocashytion College Royal Homecoming and Alumni Weekend to tour the Arshyboretum and the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre to attend workshops conferenshyces and lectures and to enjoy athletic events music and drama productions They also come for Sunday afternoon walks and sometimes to take wedding photos on Johnston Green
Education is everyones concern
With their Universi ty of Guelph degrees in hand Paul and
Christine Van Katwyk have joined the ranks of Ontario and Canadian univershysity graduates who recognize that the
funding of universities is not just a famishyly matter
Education is everyone s concern and should be a matter of government priority rather than rhetoric The probshylem is how to change that
Two years ago Ontario MPP Sean Conway told a group of university board members that they needed troops
When you ask us to do something and we don t do it nothing happens he said When the hospitals ask us to do something and we dont do it all hell breaks loose
Today universities are recruiting those troops and are turning to their alumni to help build a strong constituenshy
cy of support Who better to promote the value of higher education
Tell your family your friend s and your co-workers how important you think universities are Write to your local paper to let others know that a strong economy and a high standard of living depend on an educated workshyforce Call your MP and MPP and tell them that denying adequate funding to higher education is short-sighted in the extreme and that voters are expecting government action based on long-term priorities
Sasha Van Katwyk s generation is depending on it
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Marshalling the forces to fight for universities
There is a tribute $5000 to help revolution launch FOU and
taking place in Seymour hopes inshyeducation And dividual alumni will when the dust setshy keep the momentum tles we will see building The orshyprofound changes ganization needs in the way we imshy more than 100 inshypart knowledge dividual volunteers in the way we think each of Ontarios 130 about education electoral districts and the way we These friends will pay for it Some lobby MPPs on a of us will sit back regular basis in supshyand watch port of universities Others like Its a grassroots Harry Seymour Harry Seymour
OAC 61 will help influence the changes taking place
Seymour spent 22 years of his career on Torontos Bay Street then opted for a change that led to the forshymation of Pathfinder Learning Sysshytems As president he champions the Pathfinder program of computershymanaged learning as a way for classshyroom teachers to maximize their time and their students potential
Seymour maintains his interest in the investment business with several other companies including a 93-acre shoreline development project in Midshyland Ont But most of his time is devoted to education and university education is a significant part of that effort
If we can marshal the forces of university alumni we can have a profound effect on how government prioritizes education he says Those of us who have graduated from a university are in the best position to evaluate the importance of a university education We can sit back and look at the benefits we ve received and the kind of impact it has had on our lives
Seymour represents U of G alumni on the Friends of Ontario Universities (FOU) a provincial lobby group whose strategy is to organize Ontarios university alumni into a political constituency FOU members sayan unorganized constituency is part of the reason government has folshylowed a pattern of financial neglect
The University of Guelph Alumni Association was one of the first to con-
movement that has the potential to build long-term support
among decision makers and future generations of university graduates he says
If youd like to get involved call Trish Walker U of G s director of alumni affairs at 519-824-4120 Ex t 2122
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describes himself as a concerned citizen of Guelph who is committed to education Thats an undershystatement for a man who spent most of his career in educashytion including 16 years as senior academic officer at Conestoga College
He also cares deeply about the University of Guelph He worked hard in the early 1960s to help bring it to life serves on a presidential committee to promote a healthy town-and-gown relationship and is now working to increase local pride in the campus
It distresses me that we are not seeing our universities as intellectual leaders in the community in the province and throughout the country says Hagar who believes there is a need to increase public awareness about the role universities play in
Aubrey HORar
society Hes offered his vocal support to this venture as a volunteer for the Alliance for Ontario Universities
Who says talk is cheap
Your verbal support
of universities
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the most valuable gift
you could give
to the generations
of students
yet to teach
Independent of universities the alshyliance is building province-wide supshyport among communities organishyzations businesses and individuals like Hagar who are willing to expand that support on a local level
In each univershysity town there will be an alliance comshymittee that works to build community pride in the institushytion and to raise the profile of its scholars The Guelph group for example may inshyitiate an elementary school program that bui Ids rapport with the University or it might encourage med ia coverage of Guelphs environshymental work
Too often we downplay the conshytributions of our universities says Hagar but if we can instil these atshytitudes in people then financial supshyport through the political process will be there
The aJiiance is unique in Canada It shybegan in 1990 with seed money from the Council of Ontario Universities and gains financial independence this summer And its looking for more volunteers To learn more about the group call director Janet Napper at 416-979-0984
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Genetic engineering bull bull bull
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This is the second part of a report on the use of biotechno]ogy in University of Guelph research
by Mary Dickieson
String art Biotechnology research reminds me of string art the 1960s craft
that had us weaving colored strings back and forth around a pattern made by driving nails halfway into a board
Under skilful hands it became a piece of sculpture an optical illusion that prevented your eye from following any single thread across the board in a straight line
Biotechnology tools are like that Every time you think you understand what one biotechnique can do in one particular dis shycipline you find it reappearing somewhere else as someone in a laboratory across camshypus or on the other side of the world thinks of yet another way to use it
In Part 1 of our biotechnology report we sk immed the surface of how these tools are being used at U of G to benefit plant reshysearch In this story well see many of the same techniques applied in other organisms primaril y animals The secret of our success in animal biotechnology lies in the fact that Guelph has the expertise and the facilities to take any project from lab to barn and back again
Throughout this report youll read about animal scientists and clinical veterinarians teamed up with molecular biologists imshymunologists chemists and microbiologists and often food scientists toxicologists and environmental biologists Their efforts benefit not only livestock production but also human medicine pharmacology food processing waste disposal and the environshyment
Embryo transfer
A major thrust of the animal biotechnolshyogy research at Guelph is in the area of
embryo transfer In fact there are three reshysearch positions funded by government and industry that deal directly with embryo manipul ation as a way to improve the comshypetitive position of Canadas beef and dairy industries
Biomedical scientist Keith Betteridge OVC MSc 60 heads an embryo research lab molecular biologist Alan Wildeman CBS PhD 83 holds a research chair devoted to the mammalian embryo and animal scientist Charles Smith concentrates on industrial research in animal-breeding strategies
Their work is supported by both federal and provincial granting agencies animal breeders and Semex Canada the major marketing arm of Canadas attificial breedshying industry Semex records annual export sales of more than $25 million and is leadshying the industry to the nex t plateau shymarketing sexed frozen or cloned embryos
One route to increasi ng the efficiency of animal production is by improving animal reproduction says Betteridge And that in shyvolves many new biotechniques associated with embryo transfer Conventional embryo transfer means collecting multiple embryos from selected cows and transferring them to properly synchronized recipients It is now almost equally conventional however to freeze or bisect the embryo as part of the procedure
Initially the selected cow was treated with hormones to produce more eggs which were fertilized through artificial inseminashytion (AI) with the semen of a top-rated bull A large number of embryos could then be recovered surgically from the cow for imshyplantation in surrogate cows of lesser genetic worth
These techniques are widely used for the production of purebred bulls More than half the dairy bulls currently at stud in Canadas major AI centres have been produced this way There is also keen interest in using the technology to produce genetically superior breeds and provide competitively priced volumes of commercial cattle embryos
From lOp Bisecting a bovine embryo to produce identical twin calves a chimeric chick created by mixing cells from two embryos microinjecting the egg ofa fruit fly with DNA from bacterial genes that can confer insecticide resistance and a Hereford heifer protected from shipping fever by a vaccine developed a f U of G
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and more Test-tube calves and lambs
In 1988 Semex research co-ordinator Robert Stubbings OVC 76 MSc 84 PhD 89 produced Guelph s first test-tube calf during his graduate studies with Prof PK Basrur in the Departshyment of Biomedical Sciences It was not the first test-tube calf in Canada but it was the first developed from an egg that was matured as well as fertilized in a test tube
The resulting zygotes (fertili zed eggs) were placed in the oviduct of a rabbit for their early development then moved after seven days to the uterus of a recipient cow
Just a few months later other memshybers of the Guelph team took the process one step further eliminating the need to use a temporary host oviduct Postdoctoral fellow Kang Pu Xu and PhD student John Pollard were able to extend development in vitro to the point where the embryo was mature enough to survive when transplanted directly into a recipient cow s uterus
The early embryos were cultured in a medium containing luminal cells exshytracted from the oviducts of slaughtered cows Two baby bulls were born the first in Canada using this method and only the second in North America
Last year gradu ate student Dawn Kelk CBS 89 and Prof Allan King 73 and MSc 75 of the Department of Biomedical Sciences produced North America s first in vitro fertilization (lVF) lambs using these techniques
These achievements were important for several reasons The Animal Biotechshynology Embryo Laboratory can now
Authors note
One of the things Ive learned while writing this story is that biotechnolshyogy is a word seldom used by scienshytisrs For inost of us it conjures up images of people in lab coats bent over microscopes using precision inshystruments to manipulate the cells of living organisms But for scien~ists that s too vague The word may have
meaning but it d6eslJt really
produce its own IVF embryos from oocytes recovered from slaughtershyhouse cows bypassing the more expensive route of sushyperovulation and surgical withdrawal
In addition scientists have gained knowledge about early embryo development that is important for improveshyments in embryo viability and vital for developments in cloning techniques and controlled transgenesis in livestock
In a more immediate and practical context the work has led to the first clinical
Prof Keith Belleridge left and Prof Stanley Leibo watch as research technician Cindy Christian prepares an embryo f or cryopreservation Photo by Mary Dic kieson
use of IVF in cattle in colshylaboration with Brian Hill OVC 80 of Western Ontario Breeders
Bisected embryos
Meanwhile yet another part of the team based in the Department of Populashytion Medicine was perfecting techniques to microsurgicall y bisect fertilized embryos to produce genetically identi shycal animals
Professors Brian Buckrell OVC 68 MSc 84 and Cathy Gartley OVC 82 DVSc 89 and postdoctoral fel shylow Rick Rorie bisected six-day-old sheep embryos - visible only through magnification - and surgically imshyplanted them into recipient ewes Five months later nine lambs were the first animals born at Guelph from bisected embryos
Prof Walter Johnson and postdoctoral
describe anything They talk instead about cell fusion enzyme systems i ermentation or genetic engineering
The fact that biotechnology didnt appear as a popular buzzword until the 1980s suggests that we are using ilto define something neW yet none of these disciplines is really new Human beings have been using other organisms to create new procucts for centuries Thats why We have yeast yogurt and beer as well as anti-
fellow Naida Loskutoff have now exshytended this work in cattle by producing identical twins from IVF embryos divided into quarters at earlier stages of development
These projects maximize embryo use and highlight the potential for creating significant numbers of genetically identishycal animals which can be vital for conshysistent research results Tests conducted on genetically identical animals can reduce the variables caused by genetic differences and ultimately the number of animals needed for experiments
Frozen sexed embryos
The development of in vitro technishyques has also made possible further studies in cryopreservation (freezing) and embryo sexing
It s been possible to freeze and thaw
biotics growth hormones and vacshycine ~ Even genetic engineering is not new although many of us think it is
Through selective breeding practices fanners have been engineering the genetic makeup of domestic animals -for centuries What is new is the speed and accuracy with which we can implement genetic changes the ability to cross the species barrier and a much greater understanding of life processes
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At the eight-cell stage ofdevelopment in a bovine embryo each cell is removed and placed in the shell ofa discarded embryo Afler three days the blastocysts are transferred into recipient cows and the pregnancies allowed to col1linue Eight identical calves will be born and will proshyvide a valuable tool for research
cattle embryos since 1973 and most of the 60000 or so embryo-transfer calves born annually in North America are now obtained from embryos that have been stored in liquid nitrogen But there are still many problems to overcome in freezing unfertilized eggs embryos at varying stages of development and embryos produced in vitro or subjected to micromanipulation
Biomedical science professor Stanley Leibo is a specialist in cryobiology Before coming to Guelph he was part of an industry team that produced the worlds first live young (mice) from frozen embryos and later invented the patented one-step method of freezing cattle embryos Other biomedical scienshytists - King and Don Rieger - and molecular biologists Wildeman and Stan Blecher are investigating various ways of sexing embryos
Some of these involve the use of micromanipulation to remove a small number of cells from an early-stage embryo The sex can be identified by locating X and Y chromosomes detectshying male-specific DNA or perhaps by studying the proteins produced by the DNA segments In embryonic life the activity of X-linked enzymes in female embryos is twice that in males
Detecting differences in the energy metabolism of male and female embryos may also become a method of sexing In studies on early embryos generated in vitro Guelph scientists disshycovered that male and female embryos develop at different rates In addition to its value in sexing embryos this knowledge poses another question If the team can one day learn to control the rate of embryo development will it be possible to control the sex of an embryo independent of its genetic comshyplement
Photo courtesy of the Animal Biotechnology Embryo Lab
Transgenic animals
Since the mid 1980s Wildeman and fellow molecular biologist John Phillips have been producing transgenic mice for studies in human disease
This involves recovering one-cell embryos microsurgicalty from an imshypregnated mouse With a finely drawn glass needle a piece of DNA is inserted into the nucleus of the embryo which is then placed in a surrogate female to complete the pregnancy The offspring carries the foreign gene
One line of research using transgenic mice involves the study of a virus known to affect the transformation of normal cells into tumorous cancer cells Wildeman performs this work using transgenic mice in studies of cancer and metastasis
Transgenic mice are also used in Phillipss ongoing study of the causes of insulin-dependent juvenile diabetes He borrowed a gene from the fruit fly and spliced it into the chromosomes of the mouse so that it is expressed in the beta cells of the pancreas
Observations from the research conshyfirm the long-standing hypothesis that one cause of juvenile diabetes arises from the action of oxygen radicals in the pancreas
The fruit fly itself is used in studies aimed at producing insecticide-resistant insects Working with a team of scienshytists in Texas Phillips is perfecting techshyniques to transfer organophosphate insecticide-resistant genes to the fruit fly and ultimately to agriculturally beneficial insects
Studies have shown that the use of inshysecticides could be reduced if beneficial insects were not also killed by the spray In addition this research may provide the solution needed by North American
honey producers who are suffering great losses in their beehives due to parasitic mites Currently there is no effective control of the mites
From mice to pigs and chickens
Transgenic mice are also playing a role in a project that may eventually imshyprove forage use in domestic animals
Ruminant animals like cows and sheep have friendly bacteria in their inshytestinal tract that enable them to digest the cellulose fibre in forage crops If other animals such as pigs or chickens had the same ability they could be reared on lower-quality cheaper feed than the cereal grains now used
A research team that includes Phillips microbiologists Cecil Forsberg and Peter Krell and environmental biologist David Collins-Thompson has isolated the effective gene from a microshyorganism present in ruminant animals and is transferring it into the mouse which is also a monogastric animal Studies with transgenic mice will enable the team to fine-tune its ability to manipulate expression of the gene
This is just the beginning of a longshyterm project says Phillips but it may one day connect with the work of Profs Rob Etches and Jim Squires in the Department of Animal and Poultry Science who are following separate paths to reach the same goal- transshygenic chickens
Blotchy chicks
Etchess lab opened the door for transshygenic poultry in 1988 when postdoctoral fellow Jim Petitte OAC PhD 86 sucshycessfully moved cells from one chick embryo to another creating chimeric chicks Until this breakthrough
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researchers had been unable to manipulate the avian embryo in the early stages of development
Petitte extracted embryonic cells from the yo lk of a newly laid egg from a barred Plymouth Rock hen and microinjected them into a rec ipient embryo in a dwarf white l eghorn egg through a tiny 05-censhytimetre window cut in the shell When incubated the egg went on to produce a chimeric chick Embryonic cells from the black Plymouth Rock donor were expressed as blotches of black in the chicks down
Since then Etchess research team has been able to do the procedure more successfully get better gene exshypression in the donor cells and keep the embryonic cells in culture for 24 to 48 hours befo re transplanting them into the recipient egg
The chimeric chick itself is not transgenic genetic information from the donor embryo is expressed in a limited number of cells in the chick A second-generation chimera howshyever would be transgenic if the donor cells contained a foreign gene
Thats the focu s of a collaborat ive
Animal scienlisl Jim Squirev has developed a chemic(li recipe Ih(l causes DNA-I(lced liposomes 10 fuse wilil sperm cells When pershyjeered the technique will allow him to use the natural veeror ofsperm cells 10 lransmit foreign
project between the labs of Etches and colleague Prof Ann Gibbins OAC MSc 71 PhD 80 who is intershyested in modifying the donor cells through genetic manipulation When her lab team is able to target a specific gene and change it - and only it - they will insert that gene into the donor cells to produce a chimeric chick and in the second generation a transgenic chick
Transgenic sperm
Squires is taking a more obvious but no less perilous route to the transgenic chicken by using sperm cells to carry the foreign DNA Just as the hen s embryo is difficul t to manipulate the rooster s sperm has barriers of its own Prevail ing thought is that any invas ion of the sperm cell will kill its potency
Although Itali an and Israeli reshysearchers claim to have inserted DNA into the sperm cells of mice through abshysorption no one else has been able to get this to work so the prevailing thought prevail s
Squires s approach is to power DNA into the cells He s de veloped a chemishycal recipe that causes DNA-laced liposomes (fat globules) to fuse with sperm cells
Squires says his team has overcome
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DNA Photo by Ma ry Dickieson
the three main obstacles encapsulating DNA in the liposomes fu sing the liposomes to sperm cells which affects the transfer of 0 TA and retaining the fertility of the sperm
What they have yet to demonstrate is that the process produces a transgenic animal Trials are under way using a radioactive marker ge ne that can be easi shyly detected in a developing transgenic chicken Squires will be eager for peer rev iew to document the results this fall
If successful the sperm cell technique can be adapted for use with all species of commercial animals Sperm cells are the perfect vector because their ultimate function is to insert DNA into an egg says Squires We ll just be supplying the DNA The method is easy economical and safe to periorm and does not inshyvolve expensive equipment
Disease diagnosis
The international race to identify a mutation assoc iated with a costly swine disease was won by Guelph pathologist Peter OBrien OVC 88 and Univershysity of Toronto professor David Maclennan
The mutation associated with maligshy
nant hyperthermia was identifi ed in Maclennan s laboratory by sequenc ing the gene in normal and abnormal swine A I OO-per-cent correlation was fo und between DNA-based tests in Maclennan s laboratory and phys iologishycalbiochemical tests used in 0 Brien s research for diagnosing the condition
From these findings the scienti sts developed a test using modem molecular biology techniques to identify the mutation in the blood cells of inshydividual swine
Malignant hyperthermia is seldom fatal in pigs but it results in poorshyquality pork Pork producers suffer major economic losses from what is known as PSE - pale soft exudative (watery) meat - in affected animals
Other research at U of G cou ld help eliminate a potentially lethal blood coagulation disorder in dairy cows Facshytor XI a genetic disorder associated with a lack of c lotting protein in the bl ood causes hemorrhag ing in Holstein cows
Researchers believe the problem can be eliminated by ensuring that breeding stocks are free of the disease Testing for all of Canada is conducted by U of G biomed ica l sc ienti st Patricia Gentry and research technician Michelle Ross
Vaccine development
Vaccination is the cheapest most efshyfecti ve way of dealing with infec tions and the most poweriul way of preventshying di sease Advanced immunization programs using new biotechniques are under way in many Guelph labs last fa ll the Natural Sc iences and Engineershying Research Council announced strategic grants for advanced techshynologies that included four vacci ne development projects at U of G
Profs Brian Derbyshire and Eva Nagy of the Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Immunology (VMI) recei ved a three-year grant of $295000 to perfect gene-cloning techniques for the de velopment of a vaccine for porshycine gas troenteritis
In the same department Profs Janet Maclnnes Soren Rosendal and Bonnie -Mallard OAC 79 MSc 82 PhD 88 were awarded $250000 over three years to work on a recombinant vaccine effecshytive against the bacterial organism that causes severe pneumonia in pigs
Also in VMI Prof Patricia SheweD 75 MSc 79 PhD 82 received a three-year grant of $408 000 with Prof
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Reggie Lo Microbiology to continue work on an improved vaccine for shipshyping fever Lo and Prof Alan Mellors Chemistry and Biochemistry received a $54000 grant to develop clinical and com mercial applications of a technique used in bone marrow transplantation and vaccine development
These projects follow in the footsteps of earlier developments like the bov ine shipping fever vaccine created by Shewen and VMI chair Bruce Wilkie OVC 65 It was like finding a way to control the common cold in humans
Although the bacterium Pasteurella haemolytica occurs normally in the noses of cattle its numbers increase during periods of high stress and present an insurmountable problem for the animals immune system
Wilkie and Shewen di scovered that during its most active stage of growth the bacterium produces a toxin that imshypairs the ability of clearing cells to eliminate the bacterium They grew the bacterium in a culture monitored toxin production and developed processes for vaccine production
The technology was licensed to Langford Inc of Guelph which man ufac tures and markets Presponse shipping fever vaccine in both Canada and the United States
Lab work by Lo and former student Craig Strathdee CBS 85 PhD 89 that contributed to the shipping fever vaccine project also led to a patent apshyplication - for the plasmid coding for Pasteurella haemolytic leucotoxin which has been implicated as a major virulence factor in the impairment of primary lung defence in cattle
Animal health
Wilkie and Mallard are also working with Prof Brian Kennedy in Guelph s Centre for the Genetic Improvement of Livestock to develop a selective breedshying program that uses knowledge acshyquired through genetic studies and stretches the definition of biotechnology
To stay hea lthy an individual animal must have the genetic ability to produce resi stance to infection says Wilkie That ability is not dependent on a sing le gene but on the expression of many difshyferent genes Neve rtheless these genetic traits are heritable and amenable to selection
This team has identified traits in pigs that are important in maintaining health has characterized individual animals
Biotechnology ofa different sort in volves the use of traditional selected breeding and a computer database to produce diseaseshyresistant pigs
through the expression of these genetic traits and has associated these traits with high productivity If these high producers are mated to produce a disshyease-resistant strain of pigs is that biotechnology
If foreign DNA had been introduced into the embryo of a pig to give it the characteristic of disease resistance that would be an obvious example of bioshytechnology But how do we catalogue the technology if it uses tradi tional selecshytive breeding and a computer to produce a piglet with the same resistance to disshyease
More biotechniques in action
Guelph food scientist Cyriel Duitschaever OAC MSc 66 PhD 75 has developed new fermented milk products that will benefit people suffershying from gastrointestinal illnesses
He and research associate Carole Buteau OAC MSc 78 PhD 83 isoshylated two naturally occurring intestinal bac teri a and propagated a pure culture in the laboratory to develop both liquid and yogurt-like milk products that can be used to stimulate digestion in the inshytestinal tracts of people who are on anshytibiotics who are lactose-intolerant or who suffer gas trointestinal disorders
Clinica l trials at the Children s Hospishytal of Buffalo have been promis ing giv ing rise to another potential use in the treatment of acute diarrhea l di seases affec ting people in the Third World
Microbiology professor Joseph Lam heads a research team that has develshyoped a diagnostic kit to quickly identify a bacteria group known to cause fat al inshy
fections in some hospital patients Pseushydomonas aeruginosa is the principal cause of death in cystic fibrosis sufshyferers and is a serious threat to burn vi cshytims cancer patients and those undergo ing transplants
Because the bacterium does not respond to conventional antibiotic treatshyments quick de tection is central to preventing spread of the infection Lam s kit can cut the test period from 12 hours to five minutes
His current research illustrates the cross-over effect of biotechnology He identified an antigen that is common to about 75 per cent of P aeruginosa strains and a monoclonal antibody against the antigen This has allowed him to iso late spec ia l bacteria that will produce the antigen in large quantities for further s tud y His work should evenshytually lead to a human monoclonal anshytibody that cou ld be used to protect cystic fibrosis patients
In 1989 when the federal governshyment decided it was time to put some money behind its verbal thrust in science and technology it allocated $240 million to estab li sh 14 centres of excellence that would integrate the reshysearch efforts of Canadian uni versi ties industry and government
Several U of G researchers received funding including microbiologists Chris Whitfield Anthony Clarke Joseph Lam Reggie Lo Roselynn Stevenson and Terry Beveridge who beshycame part of the network looking into bacterial di sease Their expertise will aid the search for the causative agents of bacterial diseases such as whooping cough gonorrhea toxic shock synshydrome lung infections and me ningitis
In 1988 biochemist Janet Wood and crop scientist Peter Paul s achieved a breakthrough in understanding how subshystances like sugars and amino ac ids are transported from outside to inside a living cell wall They found that minute protein molecules in the wall surroundshying a cell act like miniature pumps capshyturing the substance and powering it through the cell wall -They are now trying to determine how the protein molec ules choose subshystances for uptake or release S uch celshylular behavior plays a critical role in determining a plants reaction to soi l sa linity or explaining why cells fai l to transport glucose from the blood in diabetics
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Behind every how theres a why While we stand in awe of what sc ienshytists are accomplishing in the biological sciences we shouldnt lose sight of the reasons why they are manipulating cell structure and decoding genetic blueprints
To some extent scientific exploration is driven by human nature - our desire to understand and control the natural world Advances in biotechniques and genetic engineering promise to give us more of both
Reports on the Human Genome Project say that within 15 years well know the code of almost every gene in the human body This work and current explorations in animal genetics are harshymonized by the fact that many of the genes that control development are similar among species
The chicken for example is a familiar model for studies in developshymental biology Supported by 60 to 70 years of data todays embryologists like Prof Rob Etches are learning how to modify the genes that control developshyment of a chick embryo while giving us a better understanding of how genes efshyfect development in all vertebrates
Nothing could be more fund amental than understanding that process says Prof Keith Betteridge who heads the Guelph team working with bovine embryos In all areas of reproductive and genetic research the big payoff is that we will understand more about how two gametes can unite to fonn a single cell and develop into Northern Dancer or Albert Einstein he says
Everyone has a role to play in decidshying how to use this knowledge says Betteridge but the researcher has the triple responsibility of thinking through the implications of new technologies exshyplaining those implications to a skeptishycal and concerned public and safeshyguarding the welfare of animals used
Whether manipulating an entire animal or one of its reproductive cells the scientist is guided by the same set of moral standards If the technology inshyduces pain or suffering causes changes in behavior or affects the animals abilshyity to eat and survive then it shouldnt be done says Prof Bruce Wilkie chair of the Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Immunology
He and other Guelph scientists inshyvolved in animal research are subject to
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peer rev iew through the U of G s animal care committee which is also charged with ensuring that research and teaching programs are in compliance with the Animals for Research Act of Ontario
Reporting to the University s Reshysearch Board the committee is comshyposed offaculty student community and non-user representatives It estabshyli shes animal-care policies on campus and evaluates all protocols submitted by researchers and teachers After granting initial approval the committee reviews each project annually and inspects reshysearch facilities each semester A provinshycially appointed inspector also visits campus frequently and the Canadian Council on Animal Care makes an inshyspection every three years to assess the level of animal care
In addition to safeguarding animal care scienti sts al so need to provide evidence that the products of biotechnolshyogy are safe for human consumption or medical use The public needs to know that the pharmaceutical protein cloned and produced in a chicken s egg is no different than the same protein cultured from human cells and produced in a large bioreactor
The big payoff is that we will understand more about how two gametes can unite to form a single cell and develop into Northern Dancer or Albert Einstein
One of the most talked-about benefits of transgenic technologies is the potenshytial for producing enzymes prote ins and antibodies for pharmaceutical and inshydustrial uses Molecular farming would take advantage of the expression system in higher animals to produce a therashypeutic protein that is difficult or expenshysive to make in a lab
The potential seems enormous but the prac tice will be quite simple A typishycal Ontario dairy herd could probably produce enough human insulin or bloodshyclotting factor to satisfy the world
demand It s easy to see why these techshyniques are already presenting problems for patent offices
The past decade of work in transshygenesis has been a learning process for all of us Early research efforts that produced pigs in the United States with arthritic deformities and sheep in Australia with ulcers have taught us th at even science must learn to walk befo re it can run That means perfecting genetic transfer in animals where the techniques are easily controlled - such as mice and fruit flies - before applyshying them to domestic animals
One of the advantages of gene transshyfer technology is the control it offers geneticists who are able to manipulate expression of a single gene during development One of the limitations may be the re lative ly minor change that gene can make in one generation when compared with the changes induced through the countless generations of selection since domestication
These limitations may alleviate some of our fears about the use of gene transshyfer but it also makes us question its value at least in terms of breed improveshyment in domestic livestock Prof Charshyles Smith holds a research chair at Guelph in animal-breeding strategies and is often called on to assess the value of the new biotec hnologies in the genetic improvement of farm livestock
Economic traits are already being imshyproved through traditional selective breeding methods he says It would take quite large beneficial transgenic efshyfects (at least 10 per cent of the mean) on economic merit to make their incorshyporation worthwhile
Despite our e thical concerns the legal entanglements created by the use of biotechniques and the problem of turnshying new technologies into cost-effective procedures most scientists agree that these technolog ies are too powerfu I not to use They have the pote ntial to help allev iate some of the most serious problems facing the world - food production overpopulation disease and shyenvironmental degradation
Statisticians teU us that 50 years from now we will be trying to feed twice the current world s population on a smaller land base in a more fragile environshyment This is the why behind current research in genetic engineering
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OUD TH Annual giving in 1991 reached $14 million The value of the Annual Fund becomes more apparent each year as the University of
Scholarships amp BursariesGuelph faces continued financial $320127
AMF Priority Athletics ~ ---------- (Scholarships$38326
pressure The 1991 Annual Fund Pet Trust raised $14 million to help $261224 maintain scholarships and provide academic and library programs AMF OAC Alumni Scholarships Foundation ______ grew by $9245 25 per cent
$228494
Memorial Funds $56997
Arboretum $77441
Class Projects ResearchBuildings$86658
Matching gifts grew 31 per cent in 1991 More and more Canadian companies are g iving financial support to the institushytions that educated their employees A total of 44 companies matched 92 inshydividual gifts for a record $11120 in Annual Fund contributions to the University of Guelph in 1991
If you work for a matching-g ift employer every doll ar you donate is matched - doubled or even tripled shyby a company gift Its as easy as it sounds so check with your employer on how to multiply the value of your gift to the University
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Academic Enrichment $87246
3M Canada Incorporated Akzo America Foundation Alcan Aluminum Limited A lean Canada Products Ltd Amdahl Canada Limited American Home Products Corp American International Group Inc BASF Corporation Bell Canada Boise Cascade Canada Limited Campbell Soup Co Ltd Chevron Canada Resources Ltd F alconbridge Ltd Ford Motor Company of Canada Ltd Gelleral Electric Canada Inc Hoechst Canada Incorporated IBM Canada Limited ICI Canada Incorporated Insurance Bureau of Canada
$134893Library $103050
John Laball Limited Kraft General Foods Canada McGraw-H ill Ryerson Limited Nabisco Brands Canada Ltd Northern Telecom Limited Paul Revere Life Insurance Co Pfizer Canada Inc Pioneer Hi-Bred Limited Pitman-Moore Inc Sara Lee Corp ofCanada Ltd Square D Canada The Bank of Montreal The Coca-Cola Company The Toronto Star The UPS Foundation TransCanada Pipelines Warner-Lambert Canada Inc Westeel
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ADIT ON With thanks to Donors Class agents College representatives Alma Mater Fund Advisory Council
Alumni and others who give to the University of Guelph through the Annual Fund are helping to maintain quality at a time when governments are funding for mediocrity Because of the dedication and commitment of our donors and volunshyteers the 1991 Annual Fund surpassed last year s total by $100000 We did not achieve our goal - perhaps $1 6 million was overly ambitious in light of current economic conditions - but we were able to maintain last years 25-per-cent inshycrease in scholarship support
Through the Alma Mater Fund we raised more than $540000 and achieved Tom Sawyer
the target of 12-per-cent participation among graduates of the three founding colleges Arts CBS and CSS alumni substantially increased their donations and participation over last year Campus participation grew from 145 per cent in 1990 to 171 per cent this year And our parents program pushed contributions from parents to $84188 compared with $31500 in 1990
For the first time since 1984 the Alma Mater Fund Advisory Council was able to go beyond its commitments to fund eight additional projects - a total of $86000
Looking ahead our flagship project for 1992 will be War Memorial Hall renovations During Alumni Weekend in June you ll have a chance to see the work that has been done upstairs and the work still needed in the downstairs hall It s a project well worth the interest and support of alumni
For your past and future support of the Alma Mater Fund my sincere thanks
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Tom Sawyer OAC 59A and 6 Corporations Chair AMF Advisory Council Associations Foundations $2874947 Annual giving contribution s
III Annual IGiving Alumni
$1403701 Major Gifts $1236622
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were 22 per cent of the o
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in 1991
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Annual Giving Report
1991 Annual Fund Results $1 A niillion wasraised overallmiddot ariinceaSe of
76 per ceI1tThisyear alumrii in the Arts and CBS groups doubled theirparticipation alld conshytributions And the parents recotded a 46-pershy
cent participation rate
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The group of eight
Eight campus projects were selected to share $86000 in highest-priority funds from the 1990 Alma Mater Fund Among them are the OvC Wild Bird Clinics education program a CSS academic medal in memory of the late dean John vanderkamp a soc ial sc ience citation index for the library framshying for the fine art print study collection a computer design laboratory for the School of Engineering seed money for a history graduate scholarship a conshytinuing education survey for the Mac-FACS Alumni Association and a HAFA-sponsored executive-inshyresidence
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Of cattle cash and Colvil e Alumni gifts to the University of Guelph come in some pretty interesting packages Over the years alumni have given livestock concrete paintings shythere are two by Canadian painter Alex Colville - furniture land books inshysurance policies and a host of artifacts and antiques And money - a lot of money Almost every building on camshypus has some bricks and mortar paid for by alumni And hundreds of students are helped along the way each year by alumshyni-sponsored scholarships
The Annual Giving Report on the preceding pages shows once again how important alumni gifts are to the Univershysity and provides us with an opportunity to say thank you to those alumni who continue to give on a yearly basis Anshynual giving is however only one of three avenues through which alumni proshyvide financial support to the University The others are major gifts and promoshytional programs
Annual giving
The Alma Mater Fund established in 1969 is the route chosen by most alumshyni faculty and staff who make annual gifts to the University
AMF solicitation and management are handled by a volunteer advisory council On the preceding page chair Tom Sawyer OAC 59A and 64 talks about the funds success over the last two years with AMF scholarships inshycreasing by 25 per cent This year the AMF begins a three-year commitment to funding renovations to War Memorial Hall
In addition to its flagship project AMF provides regular support to athshyletics through Gryphon Club contribushytions to college advancement funds and scholarships and to individual class projects
The AMF supports the camaraderie of university days as alumni work together to plan and complete a project whether its funding a scholarship a painting a tree weight-lifting equipshyment or furniture for Alumni House AMF contributions also ensure that fushyture Guelph students will remember those who have gone before
In addition to AMF donations the anshynual giving program includes gifts to
the OVC Pet Trust Fund the OAC Alumni Foundation the Arboretum the paren ts program and the Li brary Other gifts made directly to the University supshyport memorial funds scholarships musishycal activities and research and academic programs
Major gifts
Major gifts to the University are adshyministered by the Deve lopment Office under the direction of Marilyn Robinson Mac 55 These include beshyquests or life insurance policies shortshyterm pledges (often made during a capital campaign) large donations that might establish an endowment fund or contributions to special University projects like the Heritage Fund or the proposed FACS Building addition
Gifts- in-kind - such as library materials art objects or estate properties - also fall within thi s category Last year alumni gave more than $12 milshylion in such tax-deductible gifts
Promotions
Every Guelph graduate is a member of the University of Guelph Alumni Asshysociation and receives the Guelph Alumshy
nus magazine and many other privishyleges There are no UGAA membership fees but the association does raise money through promotional programs like MasterCard travel packages and the North American Life Assurance proshygram
The UGAA provides serv ices to alumshyni and students - such as the careershyplanning workshop planned for Juneshyand returns many dollars directly to the campus Last year it gave $20000 to the library
In addition to direct financial support through annual giving and major gifts alumni also support the University inshydirectly through membership fees to individual college and program associashytions The fees pay for association acshytivities that help maintain ties between their members and the University
Questions
If you have questions or would like 10
know more about the tax advantages of giving to U of G write to Paulette Samson associate director of annual giving and support services at Alumni House University of Guelph Guelph Ont NIG 2Wl or call 519-824-4120 Ext 6183
When yo~bearrom US
If you think youre hearing from us moreoften lhanY9u elida few years ago you reright But checkyour mail and you ll 110tiqe that you~re also hearing
more frequemly from othernon-jgtrofit)rganizations and charities We v~ all stepped lip oui- fUQdIaising efforts
U QfGappreciates your support and needs your help butyou wont know that if we donr teflyou Aildeyen if you cant afford to make a fjnancialcon~
tributiori we hop~ to wjn yoUfverbaJ sliPPOJ-tJt will take many voices to coii- ylnce governmeritthal universities should beagreater public priority
When we contacenttyou on behalf of iheUriivetsity we lly to give more thiin we ask So tak~advantage ofthe p~1one call o(letter to findoutwhais happenc ing OJrcarnp~s U ofG hasmuchto offer llufnrii professionaldevelcipment courses library privileges travel programs recreation and a link Igt friends and
classmates
We Jik~to keep in roucharidYcwarit yO~1 to know the progress were rilaking Ast~e Uriiversity $ prestige grows so does the value ofyour degree
~0~ MarilynR~binson Trish Walker Mac55 DiJectoJ ofDevelopment CSSTl Director ofAJurhni Affairs
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Get your career on track
Responding to alumni requests the University of Guelph Alumni Associashytion will sponsor a career-planning workshop on campus June 26 to 28 The weekend program will be led by Sharon Crozier of the University of Calgary counselling service Each participant will receive a careerlifestyle analysis and will develop a personal action plan
The $225 fee includes the StrongshyCampbell Interest Inventory and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator which will be administered and tabulated prior to the weekend Testing dates have been set in Toronto for May 27 and in Guelph for June 4
Sponsored by the UGAA and coshyordinated by Continuing Education and Alumni Affairs the workshop will also draw on the Universitys Counselling and Student Resource Centre
Enrolment is limited to 20 For registration information see page 26 or call Continuing Education at 519-767shy5000
UGAA board report
by Grant Lee CSS 73 MA 80
The UGAA will present a convocation package to each graduate this spring imshymediately following presentation of the degree or diploma Developed by Alumshyni Affairs staff the package is designed to increase awareness of the UGAA and the collegeschool alumni associations encourage membership introduce the Guelph Alumnus and provide an opporshytunity for board members to congratushylate our new alumni
Approval of the new UGAA bylaw is on schedule It will be presented to members at the annual general meeting in June along with an amendment to the
i I UGAA Letters Patent
In addition the UGAA board bull has approved a $400 donation to help
cover costs for two students to represhysent Guelph at the 1992 World Debatshying Championships in Dublin Ireland
bull is looking at a proposal to help alumDl with financial planning There will be more to come on this subject later
bull received thanks from president Brian Segal on behalf of those alumni who attended the October symposium
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Canada Break Up or Restructure The association was a patron of the event
bull is responding to requests from alumni for more social events Aside from the travel program the UGAA sponsored a ski day at Horseshoe Valley in March
bull approved a proposal from the School of Landscape Architecture to research places of historical value on campus Financial support has yet to be resolved
bull accepted an offer to help sponsor the University Centres annual lecture series which invites Canadian and inshyternational public figures to speak on current issues All events in the winter 92 series were free to alumni
bull donated U of G sweatshirts to Canadian Guidance and Counselling for a conference in Ottawa this sumshymer
bull approved the purpose and terms of refshyerence for the new Alumni House Adshyvisory Committee which is charged with overseeing maintenance of the
facility adopted the 199192 budget and finanshycial plan drafted last November This year we expect to generate some $44000 and spend $33000 It has been suggested that we set the 199293 budget and plan in April of this year so the new board wi II start in September with a sound financial program and budget that will only reshyquire adoption or revision
Chapter news
Calgary - About 40 alumni and guests met at the Delta Bow Valley Hotel Feb 3 to view a U of G video and hear a talk by admissions counsellor C hr is tine Toews FACS 87 Co-ordinator of the event was Janet Hutchinson CBS 79
Edmonton - Paul OAC 67 and Anne Valentine CBS 69 hosted a group of 30 alumni and guests at the Ramada Renaissance Hotel
Montreal - U of G welcomed students and their parents - including many
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alumni - to its first Montreal informashytion night for prospective students The event was modelled after a successful program in Toronto that draws more than 800 students each spring
Vancouver - U of G president Brian Segal met with alumni March 5 at the Pan Pacific Hotel Jim Dodds OVC 63 and Sarah Bloom FACS 86 orshyganized the event which attracted about 70 alumni and guests
Halifax- U ofG alumni in Halifax met with Gryphon basketball players during the March 26 to 28 CIAU chamshypionships Despite losing the OUAA west division title to Brock University the Gryphons qualified for a wi ld card spot at the CIAU championships Alumshyni received free tickets to the game that pitted Guelph against Brandon in the consolation final Fan support was enshythusiastic but the Gryphons lost 72 to 64 finishing third overall
Homecoming 1992 Plans are well under way for Homecoming weekend Sept 25 and 26 In addition to the annual Gryphon Hall of Fame dinner and award s ceremony the weekend will feat ure a beach volshyleyball tou rnamen t --~4~=iiiiikshyconcert alumni brunch walk-a-thon pep rally reunions and the traditional homecoming dance following the Saturday afternoon footshyball game This year the Gryphons will play Wil frid Laurier University A complete schedule will appear in the next Guelph Alumnus but you can get
Winners of Ihe Ju SI fo r Fun square dance compelition 01 College Royal were left 10 right Ann Joselin Kelley Allen Joanne Hewirson Brenl McFadden caller Sue MacKinnon Richard Presley Trish Henderson Jason Thompson and Kelly Lillie
in the Homecoming spirit now by helpshying to plan your class reunion or signing up as a scorekeeper for the vo lleyball tournament For infOlmation call alumshyni officer Laurie Malleau HAFA 83 at 519-824-4120 Ext 2102
Swing your partner
Eight squares of alumni took part in the College Royal square dance competition in March Winners of the UGAA alumni square dance plaque were the Crazy 8s Joanne Hewitson Arts 91 Lloyd Hutchinson CBS 87 Sonya Jones CPS 90 Ed Ketchabaw OAC 88 and MSc 91 Carol)n OAC 90 and Brad MacNeil CPS 87 Mike Relf OAC 91 and student Sherry MacNeil Wayne Lowden was the caller
Winners in the Just for Fun category were Junior Farmer alumni who included Hewitson Ann Joselin OAC 90 Brent McFadden CSS 90 Richard Presley OAC 86 and soonshyto-be-alumni Kelley Allen Trish
Henderson Kelly Little and Jason Thompson The caller was Sue MacKinnon OVC 9 1
Florida picnic
The North Port Yacht Club hosted 199 alumni for the annual Florida picnic March 4 On hand to meet them was Trish Walker CSS 77 and MSc 90 director of alumni affairs Judy Phillips of the University s Real Estate Division also attended to talk about the Village by the Arboretum retirement deve lopshyment
Attendance prizes went to Gertrude Stewart Mac 30 and Morley Funston OAC 32 The picnic was sponsored by the UGAA Alumni-In shyAction Committee represented by Ken Gartley OAC 42 and the Florida reunion committee consisting of Mary and Ted Brent OAC 48 Helen and Don Moffatt OAC 46 Stella and Bob Moore OAC 48 and Retis and Bill HasenptlugOAC 39
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A new kind of class reunion
Its the latest fad in alumni circles shymeeting your classmates at the anshynual University of Guelph alumni hockey tournament Twenty-two teams played in the fifth annual tourshynament in December
For most teams tournament standshyings are secondary to the socializing with classmates that they may not see otherwise says Bill Seegmiller OAC 83 who worked with Brian TapscottOAC 8 1 to organize the event We promote the social aspect through two divisions - social and more social - and include family skating and a Saturday evening wine and cheese party he says Trish Walker director ofalumni affairs presents fhe social division lrophy 10 Ihe OAC 79
Dipper Oldies (II the U ofG alumni hockey tournamenl The OAC 79A team defeated the Grey Gryphons to win the more soshycial division The OAC 80 team won the consolation final and the spirit award went to OAC 7778
In the social (a little more competishytive) division it was the Faceoffs in first place over OAC 88 OAC 90 won the consolation trophy and the Valley Vikings took home the spirit award
Organizers plan to add womens exshyhibition games to the 1992 tournament which is scheduled for Dec 5 and 6 For more information call Seegmiller at 519-836-3807 or Rudy Diemer OAC 85 at 519-763-2250
A night at the races
The UGAA Alumni-in-Action group will host a night at Mohawk Raceway May 26 The $30 admission includes a 6 pm buffet parking program taxes and gratuities For detail s call Laurie
~ Malleau at 519-824-4120 Ext 2102
I Alumni directory
A new alumni directory will be ready for delivery in May The deadline for alumni updates has passed but you can still order a copy of the directory at a cost of $40 plus tax Return the order form you received with the special U of G wristwatch offer or write to Rosemary Clark Mac 59 at Alumni House University of Guelph Guelph Ont NIG 2Wl
Guelph Alumnus
Ottawa chapter 50 years young
There was a nostalgic gathering of Guelph alumni in Ottawa last winter to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the city s alumni chapter
Donald Fletcher OAC 36A and 39 who was president of the group in 1953 sent us a historical account of the chapters activities
A small organizing committee first met in February 1941 at Madame Burgers restaurant to plan the chapters first fun ction a skating party at the Ottawa Experimental Farm It attracted 75 people
Over the years the group held an anshynual picnic and a banquet and dance that gave them a chance to invite faculty from Guelph to speak about happenings at the colleges - and later the Univershysi ty Every president from George I Christie to Bill Winegard paid a vi sit
In 1951 alumni from OVC and Macshydonald Institute who had been meeting since 1936 joined the OAC group A crowd of almost 200 celebrated the chapter s 10th anniversary at a picnic at the farm of the late John Bracken OAC 06 During the 1950s they added a get-together at the annual Ottawa-area plowing match which gave way to a curling bon spiel in the 1960s
There have been many special funcshytions - entertaining the Gryphon footshyball teams square dances car rallies golf tournaments theatre parties and raceway evenings - but the event that stands out in Fletchers memory ocshycurred in 1966 when five members of Parliament hosted the group in the parshyliamentary ballroom
The chapter also includes a couples bridge club which has been meeting for 25 years in the homes of its members
Fletcher thanks the 30 people who have served as president of the Ottawa alumni chapter and the dozens more who have helped on committees devot shying years to the executive to promote the institution
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ALUMNI CAREER PLANNING WEEKEND WORKSHOP
JUNE 26 27 amp 28 ~ The Program This highly successful workshop developed by Sharon Crozier PhD University Counselling Services University of calgary is the first step for an alumnus who is considering a career move The weekend (Friday evening through Sunday afternoon) will consist of group presentations conducted by Dr Crozier with smaller working groups facilitated by profeSSional counsellors from the University of Guelph Counselling and Student Resource Centre
Discussion structured exercises and experiential activities will lead alumni to gain insight into a personal careerllifestyle analYSis and assessment career information resources networking skills and much more
No matter what their age career stage or reason for transition each participant will find this workshop to be an excellent opportunity to develop a personal action plan - and chart their next move
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May 2 - The Guelph Spring Festival begins with a 25th-anniversary gala dinshyner in Creelman Hall that will honor founding president Murdo MacKinnon Other festival events run until May 23 For more information call 519-821-7570
May 2 shy An All-Canadian University Asshysociation d inne r w il l be held in Washington DC at the Embassy of Canada Guest speaker is Robert Lanni president of the University of Windsor Entertainment will be provided by Windsors music department For inforshymation call T Chan at 202-543-9111
May 3 - Arboretum Day celebrates spring with family nature walks at 1 and 330 pm and an electrical keyboard concert at 230 pm featuring Canadian comshyposer Carole Anne Burris
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May 13 - Chancellor Lincoln Alexander is the guest speaker at the Alumni-inmiddotAction annual general meeting which begins at noon in the Arboretum Centre For details call Alumni Affairs 519-824middot 4120 Ext 2102
May 13 - The Human KineticsHuman Biology Alumni Association will hold its inaugural meeting at730 pm at Alumni House with a coffee and dessert social RSVP to 519-824-4120 Ext 6963
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May 30 - An Arboretum sale of rare native trees and shrubs at the RJ Hi lton Centre on College Avenue East runs from 9 am to 1 pm For information call 519-824shy4120 Ext 2113
May 30 shy The sixth annual All-Canadian University Dinner in Chicago will be held
in the Henry Crown Space Centre at the Museum of Science and Industry and will include a reception buffet dinner and an Omnivax movie beginning at 6 pm Guest speaker is George Pedersen president of the University of Western Ontario For information call David Cole at 312-372-4404 or Hugh Mackenzie at 708-369-3688
June 2 to 5 shy Spring convocation June 13 - Beginning at 7 am the Arshy
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June 15 to 17 shy U of G will host the 15th annual Guelph Conference on Sexuality With the theme Sexuality New Visions the conference will examine current isshysues in human sexuality counselling strategies for sexual problems and teaching approaches in sexuality educashytion For information call the Office of Continuing Education at 519-767-5000 or fax 519-767-0758
June 19 to 21 - ALUMNI WEEKEND See page 39 for a complete schedule of events and alumni association meetings The UGAA annual meeting is June 21 at 10 am in Macdonald Hall 149
June 26 to 28 shy The UGAA-sponsored alumni career-planning workshop will be held on campus See page 26 for details
July 31 amp Aug 4 shy The National Youth Orchestra will perform in War Memorial Hall at 8 pm as part of its summer program at U of G Tickets at $8 general $6 for stUdents and seniors will be availshyable at the door
Sept 26 - HOMECOMING Rise early for the second ann ual Homecoming charity walkathon At 930 am the Human Kinetics Alumni Association will hold its annual general meeting in the School of Human Biology lounge
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John Boros 88 of Wei land Ont writes that he is impressed by the way U of G keeps records after graduation Thi s gives the graduate a sense of belonging a connection to an important period in hi s or her life he says
Jane Buzza 88 is working as records co-ordinatorarchivist for the Ontario Medishycal Association in Toronto
Jacqueline (Sullivan) DeClerck 86 is a public relations officer at the Canada Trust head office in London Onto
Richard Ely 70 works at the Crown attorneys office in WeIland Ont He has an LLB from the University of Western Ontario in addition to his Guelph degree He says he often talks about U of G to young students trying to decide which university to attend
Paul Genest 81 finished graduate studies at Johns Hopkins Universi ty in Maryland and is now assistant professor of philosophy at Union College in Schenectady NY He is man-ied to Barbara Jessup 8 1
Brian Hogarth 78 is head of interpretashytion at the G1enbow Museum in Calgary
Martha Hooper 9 1 was married last Ocshytober to David Perry They live in Calgary where she is a sw itchboard operator at the Delta Bow Valley Inn
Rene van der Meijden 87 has put his degree in geogshyraphy and internationshyal development to good use with the Christian Reformed World Relief Comshymittce Originally from the Netherlands he is now in Uganda on a three-year asshy Rene van der signment as a rural Meijden development adv iser He sends greetings to his many friend s in Canada and to Guelph grads Stan and Kitty in Bolivia in particular and reminds us that visitors are always welshycome in Uganda
Edward Milliner 85 will graduate this spring from the faculty of education at the University of Windsor
Mark Moore 85 is doing postgraduate work in history at the University of Bristol in England He plans to teach high school
fn response to a letter from Dawn Monroe 69 that appeared in the winter 1992 issue of the Guelph Alumnus Doug Moynihan 69 of Fort McMurray Alta writes Be disapshypointed no more Dawn l I too graduated in 1969 from (the College of) Arts or as it was then called Wellington College and I havent heard from anyone either And I too think it is time to contribute my news
After graduation f headed out to disshycover and sol ve the problems of the world travelling overseas for about three years Since then Ive been working in human resources in a variety of organizations in many different locations in Canada Cun-entshyIy I am the manager of human resources in Fort McMurray
PS Do you remember me Dawn I was the bartender in Creelman Hall I
John Teskey 7 1 began new duties last summer as director of libraries at the University of New Brunsw ick in Fredericton He was head of adshyministrative sershyvices at the University of Albershyta before moving John Teskey across Canada to acshycept the UNB posishytion but had earlier served as chief librarian and was library personnel officer at both Alshyberta and the University of Saskatchewan
Teskey says his biggest challenge is to regain the lost purchasing power that univershysity libraries have suffered as a result of static budge ts and ri sing material costs He is encouraging increased resource-sharing among universities and interlibrary loan programs with shortened turnaround
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Elizabeth (Baxter) Willson 77 a real esshytate agent in Chatham Ont writes to voice a common feeling that the universi ty exshyperience itself is often more important than the degree or diploma received I am really glad I graduated from Guelph she says
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Michelle Bombadier and Mike Caldwell both 92 are two of 50 Canad ian youth selected to work in Guyana for three months with Youth Challenge International (YCI) a non-governmental organization that provides Third-world experience for Canadians They may spend the summer building a school teaching safety or clearing land for Gu ytna s first national park but they need some private support to he lp cover transportation costs Anyone able to help should write to YCI at I I Soho St Toronto M5T IZ6
Jane Coventry 86 writes with accolades for the Guelph Alumnus grad news section and an update on what she and her husband Jaydee Smith 84 and MSc 89 are doing They were married in 1989 while working at U of G - he in the Department of Animal and Poultry Science and she in the Departshyment of Crop Science In February 1991 they moved to England where Smith is doing a PhD at the University of Bristol and working as a research assistant Coventry
works in the technology transfer unit of Nickshyerson Seeds Ltd in Cambridge
Jeffrey Crawford 88 and Leslie Thompson 86 were malTied last October He is an elementary schoolteacher in Mount Forest Ont
Craig Emerson 83 earned a PhD at Dalshyhousie University in Halifax in 1990 and is now a research associate in oceanography
Paul Fleming 85 is a pharmaceutical sales representative for Hoechst Canada Inc and lives in Nepean Ont
David Forsey 80 is an assistant professor of computer science at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver He is marshyried to Lyn Bartram
Michael Gangl 89 is in his third year at the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College
Astrid Harms 87 is a registered nurse in London Ont
Andrew Holmes 85 worked for the Onshytario government as a wildlife biologist for three years but is now back at school in his second year at Northwestern Chiropractic College in Minneapolis
Timothy Johnson 86 works at the Centre for Limnology at the University of Wisconshys in in Madison
Karen Lennard 77 (HK) and her hu sshyband Paul Jackson 79 (HK ) and MSc
82 both went 011 to earn medical degrees from McMaster University in HalTilton Ont Jackson also has a master s in physiology from the University of Virginia and is comshypleting an anesthesiology residency in Hamilshyton Lennard has a part-time family medical practice allowing her to spend more time with the couples two children Matthew and Nicola
Wendy Maltby 74 is an elementary schoolteacher for the Metropolitan Toronto School Board
Sandra OConnor 84 earned a medical degree from the University of Western Onshytario and is now practi sing in Burlington Ont
Linda Owen 81 runs her own business as a consulting exercise physiologist and fitness supervisor in Campbell River BC
Sheryle Tetley 86 is regional sales manager for Glaxo Canada Inc in Mi ss isshysauga Ont where she lives with her husshyband Ian
Rob Tonus 87 is manager of the Black Creek Rehabilitation Project a grassroots enshyvironment program to improve a degraded urban stream in Toronto His office is with the Metropolitan Toronto and Region Conshyservation Authority and he lives in Oakville with his wife Wanda (Knul) 88 (HK) a public health inspector in Hamilton
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Richard Woods 81 is an instructor of xshyray technology at the Easte rn Ontario School of X-ray Technology at Kingston Ge neral Hospital He would like to hear from other members of the 1981 U of G choir wi th whom he travelled to Scandinav ia Write to him at RRI Od essa Ont KOH 2HO
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James Dy nes 84 has comp le ted g raduate studies in chemistry and so il sc ience at the Univers ity of Sas katchewan in Saskatoon
Catherine (McVittie) Clark 88 is a nuclear medica l tech nici an at Howard Counshyty General Hospita l in Columbia Md She and her husband Michae l li ve in Elkridge Md
David Holmes 85 is a systems analyst at Sun Life Assurance Company
RolfKierdorf 84 lives in Guelph with his wife Janet He is se lf-employed as a systems consultant
Donald McFadde n 71 and his wife Carol li ve in A lbany Ga where he pracshyti ses medicine
Donald Ridley 69 and PhD 73 has been appoin ted seni or v ice-presiden t of CibashyGeigy Canada Ltd in Oakvi lle Ont and is responsib le for a ll corpora te serv ices includshy
ing finance human resources safe ty health and the environment He a lso se rves on the board of the Canadian Agricu ltura l Research Council and is a member of the Great Lakes Action Plan Strategi c Advi sory Committee
Kathryn Root Parr is an assoc iate minister at Lorne Park Bapti st Church in Mississhysa uga Ont She was married las t fa ll to Vicshytor Parr
Peter Simpson 85 is dis tric t manager for McNeil Pharmaceutical Ltd in Stouffville Ont He is married to Cynthia (Hamilton) 85 (HK)
Keith Stemshorn 83 is in the Canadian Armed Forces stationed in Calgary
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Nikki Dignard 86 moved to Ottawa last year where her husband Ted Henike pracshyti ses denti stry Dignard is working on an M BA and says she d love to hear from CSS classmates Tom Cam and Kathryn
Bonnie Dunnett 87 and MA 91 works on campus at the Gerontology Research Centre S he and Barry Hallman 9 1 li ve in Guelph
Kathryn Faulkner 80 is a registered nurse in Burling ton Ont where she li ves wi th he r husband John
Ruth Fox 84 is a sta ffing assistant for
Transport Canad a and lives in Toronto w ith her husband Christopher
Shonna Giles 88 is an admiss ions officer at Simon Fraser Unive rs ity in Burnaby BC
Gina Grieco 75 is a hi gh school guidance counsellor in North York Onto
John Harris 82 is manager of financial planning and budgets for th e City of Brampton Ont
Paulette Heppner 76 is a teache r in Vanshycouver
John Johnston 7 1 has been appointed exshyec uti ve vice-pres ident o f Ve rsacold Canada Corp and pres ident of QF Foods Distribushytion Services Versacold Canada is the largest public refri gera ted ware hou sing orshygani za tion in Western Canada
Michael Kral 79 has moved from the Univers ity of Manitoba to the University of Wind sor where he is an assistant professor of psychology
Jeffrey Lozon 76 and his family recently returned to Toronto after 15 years in Western Canada He is executive vice-president and ch ief operat ing officer at St Michael s Hos pital and li ves in Oakville wi th hi s wife Donna and two daughters
Bria n Martin 79 is a real estate appraiser in Portland Ont whe re he li ves w ith hi s wife Margaret (Sheffield) Arts 79
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Leith Mason 90 works in Toronto in the Canadian office of the State of Illinois as a special assistant to the Illinois Department of Food and Agricul ture
Michael McKean 74 of Don Mills Ont was recently appointed president of Wrigley Canada Inc Before joining Wrigley as execushytive v ice-pres ident in 1990 he he ld senior positions in Hong Kong Brazil and the United States
Rick 74 and Vicki (Collard) McTaggart FACS 74 are working in Ottawa He is director of overseas operations for the Unitarian Service Committee a charitable non-governmental organization that supports commun it y and human resou rce developshyment activities in Africa and Asia She is sec tion head of consumer analysis in the agr ifood development branch of Agriculture Canada
Sandra Morrison 86 is an ass istant professhysor in the department of psychiatry at the University of Western Ontario
Stephen Naylor 85 is director of planning and development for the amalgamated municipalities of Alliston Beeton Tecumshyseth and Tottenham
Brian ONeill 68 MA lives in SUITey England where he is managing director of Innovation Management Consultant s
Jodi Parisi 89 is a sales representative for Gillette who says U of Goo was the greatest
Moira Skikavich 81 is completing a PhD in c inematelevision at the University of Southern California
Virginia Sutherland 78 is an air traffic controller at the Toronto Island Airport
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Peggy Bates 88 was recently promoted to sales manager with Sears Canada Inc She lives in Owen Sound Ont
Caroline Begin 86 is working in Singshyapore as a dietitian
Diana Close 87 is a c linical nutri ti onis t at Chedoke McMaster Hospital in Hamilton Ont
Sarah Davenport 90 is a case worker with the Wellington County Social Services office in Guelph She is malTied to Matthew Harvey CBS 90
Timothy Dyck 8 1 is national sales manager for Black amp Decker Canada workshying out of the Corbin Division in Richmond HillOnt
Sharon (Muir) 84 and Richard Ernst CBS 83 are the proud parents of a future Guelph grad uate one-year-old Andrew Graham
Patricia Edwards 78 is food servi ce sushypervisor fo r St Peter s Hospita l in Hamilton Ont
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For the love ofteaching Since she
middot graduated bull from Macshydonald Inshymiddot stitute in
J 963 Nancy Kerr has built a career on teaching and research in telttles The middotheidofthe Uriiveisityof
Albertas department of Clothing and texiiles pursues a middotscientific interest inthepreservashylion of hi stori~lfabricsarid in developing pesticide-proofc1otl1ing But Jler fitstlove i ~ teaching
In 199b shewonone ofU of As four Rutherford AWljrds for excellence ill unshy
dergraduate teat-hing The first member of the faculty middotofliomemiddoteconornicsto receive the award slie was the rcentcipient6f the facultys own underglltiduate teaching award three years earlier
Winning the Rutherford was a gteat honor says Ken who has been on
faculty at Alberta since 1967 She oiscovered she had an aptitude for
middot teaching as a graduate student at the University of California Davis in
196566 After earning her MSc she casr about for afaculty position in Canada and round U of A was the 0111y place I could teach ju t textiles plus have a chance to develop new cQurses and research labs
middot Kerr sa)s she gets a tremelldous sense of satisfaction from teaching and the learning he must do to stay cUlTent She attributes her succe s as a teaCher to middotIec-middot
middot tures that are well organized and clear and to creltting a positive classroom climate
~Thcomfort level of students is reaUy middot ililportanL ~ Kerr eamedherPhD in fibre lnd
polymer science from North Carolina bull Staie University in 1982 Her doctoral work concentrated oil deacidification
techniques to preserve historicatcottOnln 1988 she spent a sabbatical ye~r doing research at the Caliadian Conservation
middot In tirute in OnflW1 middot Originalmiddotly from Ottawa Kerr is a
trarisphlnted -vesterner who enjoys middot hiking anlt sk1ing
From left Diane Ellison Lisa Wilson Lori Davis and Pippa Hobbes
Diane Ellison 84 is liv ing in Osaka Japan where she teaches English to Japanese busishyness people Last October she welcomed three U of G friends for a visit Lori Davis CSS 85 manager of Jumbo Video Inc in Oakville Ont Pippa Hobbes 84 accountshying manager for Paramount Holidays in Willowda le Ont and Lisa Wilson 84 co-ord inator of membership serv ices for the Metropolitan Toronto Board of Trade
Monica Hrybko HAFA 88 is director of sales for the Ramada Hotel Old Town in San Diego Calif
David Jones HAFA 88 is a con troller at the Holiday Inn Montreal Centre-Ville
Kathleen McLachlin 83 is operating an insurance agency in Kitchener OnL She opened the State Farm Insurance office in March 1988 and says she loves her job
Susan (Goettler) Parker 80 is working in Toronto as benefits administrator for Imshyperial Oil Limited She is married to Donald Parker OAC 79
Mary Jean (Sinnott) Price Mac 7 1 has returned to sc hool at the University of Otshytawa to earn a bachelor of education
Margaret (Richardson) Rankin 75 has been living in Halifax since 1990 and is an account analyst for Central Guaranty Trust
Janet (Wanless) Sutherland 77 is in private practice as a marriage and family therapist in East Kelowna BC
Jean Thomson Mac 37 says 1937 was a long time ago but shes delighted with all the changes that have gone at the college A former hospita l nutritionist she is retired and living in London Ont -
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Olayiwola Layi Adeola MSc 86 and PhD 89 and his wife Mope are living in West Lafayette Indiana where he is an assisshytant professor of pig nutrition at Purdue University
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Bruce Barrie 79 (Eng) graduated last June with an MBA from City Uni ve rsi ty in Washington State and is now a senior adshyviser in strategic planning with Petro-Canada Resources in Calgary He is a professional eng ineer with APEGGA and an ac tive memshyber of the Planning Forum an international society for planning and strategic manageshyment
Barbara Bryce 83 and her husband Ricardo Ramirez 82 are living in Rome Italy She is a landscape architect and he is a communications officer with the Food and Agriculture Organizat ion
Daniel Campbell 81 and his wife SharonshyMarianne are farmin g near Petrolia Onto
Carolyn Closs 82 and her husband Harold operate a beef cowca lf operation in Shawville Que
Luc Cote 83 is an agricullural account manager for the Royal Bank of Canada in Joliette Que
Kerrie Lea Curran 85 plans to graduate this fall from the master of architecture proshygram at McGi ll University
Bruce Dodson 74A is course superinshytendent at Hawd Ridge Golf and Curling Club in Orillia Ont
Richard Donkin OAC 85A originalshyly from Zimbabwe is the manager of Venida Packing Inc in Exeter Calif Situated in central Californias San Joashyquin Valley Venida Packing ships tree fruit throughout the Richard Donkin United States Canada the Pacific Rim and the Far East Products under the brand names Ruby River and Venida include peaches plums nectarines kiwi grapes persimmons and pomegranates In 1988 Donkin married California native Lisa Kolander and they live in Lemon Cove a community in the Sierra foothill s
Brendan Elder 8S A lives in Kelowna BC and works for Dogwood Nursery He plans to be married thi s summer to Rosemary Powell
Robert Fessenden OAC MSc 67 was recently appointed vice-president of devel opshyment and planning at the Alberta Research Council He is responsible for tec hnology management and corporate marketing
John Fitzgerald 86 was married last November to Susan Given a ] 991 indeshypendent study graduate in animal producshytion He is a lecturer at Ridgetown College she works at Centralia College and is work shying on a psychology degree at the University of Waterloo They live in Strathroy Ont
Glenn Helstern 79A is a driver for the Calgary division of Greyhound Bus Lines of Canada Ltd
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She tells a princely tale
For seven miniJtes on Oct 24 199 L Ellen Het1eOAC 76~U1d MSc 80
(ltllked with PIince Charles Invited toopert a newfumaceat
inco Lilniteds Copper Cliff smelter iri Sudbury Ont the Princemiddot of Wales was easy to talk with says Heale ftwasverycxciting
As eiwironmental co-ordinator Of land reclamation andrevegetation at Copper Cliff Healetold theprince middot about Tnc(secosystem rehabilitation
projects Theroyalvisitor was parshyticulatfyiilterestedin the treegrow- ing project in abandoned inines flld in tlpoundrevegetation ()f acres of tailings
and barren rock Planrilig vegetation on the tailings
hasattrlttcled wildlifeto a protected habitat says Beale who has wqrked forIncosincc she graduated in 1976
Ninety~iwo species ofbirds as weil asrodems hares foxes wolves bears andinoQse have been sighted on the 2500 acres of rehabilitated ore waste
One thing about this job is you middot can s~e where youve been effective she says
While an undergraduate student in Prill(e Charles with EIen Heale horticultural science Healea native ofSiidbury worked at Ineo during the sumniers She wasthi tirst woman to
work inrhemining companys agriculture middot department After shegraduated the niekshy el inine hired her full time tcido horticul- turaLfleld research ~ Ineo later granted heT a two-semester leave of absente t6 work
Theodore Jacobs 78 (Eng) is engineering supervisor at Standard Tube in Woodstock Ont
Greg Keast 85 (Eng) is li ving in Mozamshybique in East Africa where he works as a project officer for UNICEF rural water supshyply project s
Richard Kline 74 was appointed partner of the Toronto accounting firm Schwartz Levitsky Feldman Inc last faiL He is presishydent of the film s bankruptcy division a member of the Chartered Accountants of Onshytario and first vice- president of the Ontario Insolvency Association
Christopher Laforest MSc 91 (USRPD) works in planning and economic developshyment for Bruce County Ont
Jean-Paul PhD 90 and Lynn (Hammell) Laforest 82 and MSc 85 are both employed at Laval University in Sainte-Foy Que He is a professor and s he is a research associate
Kenneth Lawless 63 earned a Guelph deshygree in agricultural economics then went on to stud y dentistry at the Uni versity of Toronshyto He is now an oral and manilo-fac ial surshygeon in Kingston Ont
oil her masters at OAC~ In her current PdStion Heale has rnore
administrative and public relations responshyibilities On her own time she sits on the
board of management for the tocal Red Cross and isalllember ofthe Sudbury
Business and Professional Womens Club
Margie Luffman 77 writes that she has happily returned to Ontario after 10 years in New Brunswick to work at the Smithfield Experimental Farm in Trenton She is curator of the Plant Gene Resources of Canada clonal gene bank
Brian MacCulloch MAg 89 is a sa les representative for Springva le Nurseries Ltd in Berwick NS
Daniel Mansell 64 and MSc 68 is Onshytario manager of the eastern habitat joint venture in the wildlife policy branch of the Ministry of Natural Resources He is stashytioned in Midhurst Ont
Peter McEntire 77A writes from County Langford in Ireland to keep in touch with U of G He is farming and work s as an AI techshynician with Bova Genetics Ltd
Darryl Mitchell 78 works at Pioneer HishyBred Limited in Chatham Ont
Hugh ONeil 88 is manager of customer financial services for Ral ston Purina Canada Inc
Umed Panu MSc 72 (Eng) has done a lot of travelling during his career After Guelph he earned a PhD in civil engineering
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David Nedelko OAC 86 and Ljrlda ArmsJrollg CBS 89 (Jurk 011 cemre) were marriediasl SeplemiJer in Bari ~ie OnlTluir weddiIg iiarly illcilldedfiom leli Katy KusmiliskiOA C 88Paul Allgusline GAG 86 Roh Reed OAC 87Carv Belfral1l oAC 8RJIuJ Sa ndimiddoto (CollinI) BerlrCIlII CBS RR Also 1I111ie wedding w(lS Arlllslong s Veal ullcleClarence Fleming OVC 34 The couple (Ire living in
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at the Universit y of Waterloo taught in India and at Mi ss iss ippi State Uni vers ity and worked with Briti sh Columbia Hydro and the Government of Newfoundland In 1986 he jo ined the faculty of c ivil engi neering at Lakehead Uni ve rsity in Thunder Bay Ont and was promoted to full professor in 199 1 He and hi s wife Kashna and the ir children Neeti and Anukud enjoy the outdoor recreashytion ac ti viti es available in Northwestern Onshytario and look forward to visits from U of G alumni trave lling to Thunder Bay
Lyle Pettigrew 61 is a marketin g consulshytant with Harris Kovacs Alderman in Atlanshyta Ga
Helen Prior 88 joined Sheridan Nurseries after graduation then worked for a year as a research tech nic ian in Guelph s Department of Crop Scie nce She is now in her th ird year at Emmanuel College at Victoria University and hopes to be ordained as a United Church min is ter in May
Gregory Scott 83 (Eng) is operations manager for Accuform Gol f Limited in Toronto
Ba rbara (Coordes) Skrypetz 87 is a fi e ld supervisor for the Ontario Dairy Herd Imshyprovement Corporation working out of Guelph He r husband Stephen 88 operates a bulldozing and excavating busi shyness in the Woodstock area
Victor Skidra 6 is re tired f rom his job as a sc ientific evaluator with Hea lth and Welshyfare Canada He and hi s wife Konstance live in Nepean Ont
William Slusarchuk 63 (Eng) and MSc
The way we were in 1902 OAC alumnus Douglas Campbell 60 passes on a bit of col lege hi sto ry that shou ld make us think twice about our con stitutional squabbles in C anad a
Campbell is director of the Latin America and Caribbea n Trade Divis ion of Canada s Department of External Affa irs Last summer he hosted a vi s it by the president of Uruguay Luis Alberto Lacalle Herre ra whose grand fa the r made a simil a r vis it to Canada in 1902
This is what the elde r Herrera reported to his government Gue lph agricultural college enjoys a worldwide reputation and is con shys idered one of the grea t loca l attracshytions
More than 200 young Canadians a long with many foreign youths come together in its lecture rooms There are bursary ho lde rs from Norway and as far away as Mauritius C loser to us
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67 was recently appo inted pres ident of AGRA Eanh and Environmental Group an envi ronme ntal and geotechnica l firm that is a division of AGRA Indu stries Limited
Michael Sullivan 87 A is a pol ice officer with the Wate rloo Regional Police in Cambridge Ont
Argentina has 12 students there We ll then couldnt Uruguay imshy
itate those good exa mples and also se nd a number of worthy youths to Guelph to acquire the professional knowledge which is becoming m ore necessary each day for the deve lopshyment of our agric ulture~
In addition to the sc ienti fic benefits that our compatriots woul d deri ve from entering sLlch a Canadian techni cal in shystitution there would be the inca lcushylable benefit of becoming familiar with the stric t manly and sound habits of these people who are admirable in e ve ry respect
Afte r they have stee ped themse lves in this atmos phere of dem ocracy which fosters the development of all rights and is alien to intolerance thi s legati on w ill have the great honor of sending home not only sc ientists but a lso mode l citizens
Brenda Trask 80 operates he r own comshymunica tion s consulting company in Osshygoode Ont She is marri ed to Ron Ferguso n
Dave Vanden Bosch 89 is manager of operator services and plann ing for Bell Canada in London Ont
J Stallard Skip Waterhouse 54 and hi s wife Li sa are ce lebrating the birth of a daughter Samantha Elizabe th on New Years Day 1992 They live in New York State where Wate rhouse is iI pro fe ssor of bio logical science at the Plattsburgh Sta te Uni versity College of Arts and Science
Jeff 88 and Karen (Burrows) W h ite 87 live in Strathroy Ont Jeff work s for Bell Canada and Kare n is a Lambton County rural orga ni za tion spec ialist with the Ontar io Mini stry of Agriculture and Food
Harold Wright 86 is a development repre shysenta tive for Ci ba-Ge igy Canada Ltd in Mi sshysissauga Ont He and Lori Krieg 84 plan to marry thi s sprin g
Donald Ziraldo 7 I received doubl e honors last winter fro m the Ontario grape and wine industry Preside nt of Inniskillin W ines of Niagara-on -the-Lake Ont he was named to the Royal Order of the Grape for hi s leadership in enhancing the prod uct and its image
In addition Z ira ldo and his partner Karl Kai se r were named 1991 Men of the Year by FoodsCIvice and Hospitalily magazine During the ir 17-year partnership at Inn isk ilshylin the two have been instrumental in shapshying Canada s wine industry the magazine sa id
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ave Barry Burtis 69 was named president of the Ontario Veterinary Medical Association in January after working with the voluntary organization for four years as a director member of its editorial board and chair of its public relations committee Burtis lives in Burlington Ont and practises at the Bay Cities Animal Hospital He also appears on a local cable television program called Pel Tales
William Medway 54 of Blackwood NJ has been named an honorary life member of the International Association for Aquatic Animal Medicine for his contributions on beshyhalf of the association and the field of aquatic medicine He is both a founding member and past president of the associa shytion A professor emeritus of clinical laboratory medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine Medway is a member of the Marine Mammal Commissions committee of scientific advisers
Diane Pickering-Forster 86 is practising at Vander Kraan Veterinary Services in Huntsville Ont She is malTied to Chris Forster and they have one daughter Julia
Julien Proulx 67 has moved from Kapusshykasing Ont to La Pocatiere Que where he is superintendent of Agriculture Canada s Experimental Farm Last year he was feashytured on TVOntarios French network series Personalire Ontarienne for his work as a veterinarian his participation in municipal politics and his support of regional developshyment in Northern Ontario He was also awarded Agriculture Canadas research branch prize Agcellence for extraordinary management during his direction of the reshysearch program at the Kapuskasing Exshyperimental Farm
A North America-wide
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and others interested in science or nature
Write or phone for information
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Twoc~ireers middot on the samepat~ OVCaruninus Geoffrey Lord 49 felt a thopedic
middot enseofdejavuwhen he read theslory gastrointesshyabout Bill Naray~i1 OVe 63 il1la~t tinal and carc
springs issue ofthe Guelph Altimnus diovascular
There are amazing simi laritiesbetween surgery the c~reersof t~e two Guyanese wh6b6th says Lord If earnedvefetinary degrees atGueiph someone worked in c1ini(ai practice in)Yestem were to ask Canada then moved to the United States me ioday to work in human medic~lresearch what Tcon~
Narayan heads an AlDSresearchteamsider to be atJohns HopkiflS l1)iversilySchool of my expertise MediCirieinBaltimoreMatyland Lord is I would have retired directorofthdohnsonamp Johnson to saymecli- Geofrey Lord
middot Resear~h Foundalion ill NewJersey cal device lordsays he was influenced by OVC andbioshy
proJessDfs Anthony Kings(Qte and Frank Inaterials evaluation middot SchofieJd~ndwcentnton from GiJelphto pur- lt In the I 950s Lordwaspalt of ale-
sue graduate studies in parasitology auhe se~rch team that pioneered the use of University oJWiscollsin Sevenmorithsin animal tissue tOTeconstructdamagedjr
amixed practice in Drumheller Alta con blocked al1eries in hUl11ansTwenty years vinced him thaldinical medicine wasn6t middot later he drafted the first systematicap-
middot whati w~ted6 do He returned to Wis pr()ach to the safety evaluation of medica con5il110 eanla PhDlll pathologyano devices joined Johnson amp JohnsQri as asenior middot Allsubsequeill guidelines inCiLlding patilol()gistiriI953 those of the Foodaj)q Diug Admlnistrashy
Research at Johnson amp JohDson tiOnand the Canadian Regulatory ~teeredmeinto many interesting and chal- Authority hayeadopteoihis approach he
Jenging fieldsofbio-research includirig says derniiltoi9gy toxicologic pathology Lordand his wife Helen ltIividetheir wound healing surgical pathology iiinebetweel)Ciipe CodandBonita genera toxkology ofi~w drugs andor~ Springs FloriQa
Shane Renwick 77 and MSc 91 works in veterinary services at Agriculture Canada offices in Guelph
Ruth Reuter 61 is a veterinary pathologist in Plympton Australia
Tom Sanderson 6 1 was selected by the Ontario Veterinary Medical Association as Ontario Veterinarian of 1991 CUlTently OVCs co-ordinator of off-campus work terms he spent 20 years in private practice in Listowe1 and Mount Forest before returning to the coll ege in 1982 to manage the veterishynary research stations Sanderson s contribushytions to the profess ion have included many hours of volunteer work in the advancement
of the profession and in the development of veterinary inshysurance programs He is a past pres ident of both the Ontario and Canadian Veterishynary Medical associashytions
Jennifer Troughton 86 is practising in OronoOnt
Simone Woltner 86 is a veterinarian at the Chester Basin Animal Hospital in Chester Basin NS
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by her hu sband William and two sons The fo llowing dea ths have been reported since the las t issue of the Guelph Alumnus Full notices which are usu ally submitted by family or classmates may appear in thi s iss ue or in a later one
James Clement Arts 73 Feb 2 1992
Marilyn (Dyment) Farnan Mac 530 Feb 27 1992
David Fisher OAC 80A in October 1990
Elizabeth (C hristie) Glass Mac 3I D June 2l99 1
Peter Heskey OAC 54A Dec 6 199 1
Richard Ketchell OVC 51 Nov 23 199 1
Edward Kowalski Arts 79 in August 199 1
Pauline (Dixon) MacMillan Mac 240 Jan 2 1992
Catherine MacPherson Arts 83 Dec 11 1990
Marguerite (White) Maybury Mac 3 10 in June 1990
Donald McLeOd CSS 80 Jan 9 1992
Albert Meilus OAC 51 in 1991
Ann (Biggs) Ostler Mac 3 10 in April 1991
Robert Race Arts 73 in 1989
Ralph Sampson OAC 40 in December 1989
Mor ris Sanderson OAC 42 Nov 17 1991
Sir Peter Scott HDSc 8 1 in Au gust 1989
William Setterington OAC 40 Oct 22 1991
George Shoniker OAC 50A in March 199 1
John Somerset OAC 34 Dec 27 199 1
Gregory Van Patter OAC 7 1 in 1990
Frederich Weiland OAC 20A in 1990
Arts
Riccardo Rich Incitti 88 died Jan 5 1992 as the result of an accident near Hami lshyton Ont He was assistant manager at the Toronto-Dominion Bank in St Cathari nes and is survived by his parents Gu igi and Lucia of Cambridge and two sisters Laura and Andrea
Larry McNenly 73 died in October 1991 in Owen Sound Ont He is survived by his wife Marnie CSS 73
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Robert Everett HK 74 died in May 1991 in Burlington Ont A teac her at White Oaks Secondary Schoo l in Oakv ille he is survived by his wife Miche le and brother William CBS 74
James Sandy Fear 75 died Oct I I 199 1 in Toronto He is survi ved by his wi fe Sally (Firth) OAC 75 and hi s children Caitlin Alli son and Mered ith
CSS
Lynn (Dalys) Corby 84 died in Toron to May 6 1990 after a long battIe with cancer
Nancy (Birbeck) Gordon 77 died Oct 20 1991 in Ottawa after a short illness She worked at the Kitchener-Waterl oo Hospital and had previously been plan t accountant at Foseco Canada Incorporated in Guelph
Mac-FACS
Jean (Williams) Forward 280 Oct 28 1991 in Calgary She was the widow of Bower Forward OAC 25 and is survived by two sons
Catharine (Bechtel) Fromm 270 died Nov I 199 1 in Cambridge Ont She is surshyvived by three dau ghters Ellen Moore Mac 63 Nancy and Caro l
Alice (Rivaz) Garrard 28 di ed Dec 2 199 1 in Guelph She was an active member of the Mac-FACS Alumni Assoc iat ion and was the Mac 28 class agent for the Alma Mater Fund She is survived by her husband retired professor Edward Garrard OAC 27 and a daughter Betty Nelson
Della Marie (Diamond) Honey 300 of Warkworth Ont died June 29 1991 One ofWarkworths oldest and most respected citizens she served as local li brarian fo r 25 years She is survived by her son John OAC 52A his wife Patric ia and four grandchildren James OAC 84A William OAC 76A Thomas OvC 89 and Patricia Lonergan CSS 68
Barbara (Banigan) Martin 380 died Jan I 1992 in Don Mill s Ont A retired teacher wit h the North York Board of Education she is survived by a son Ted a sister and two brothers
Elizabeth (Burt) Perry 340 died June 28 1991 in Sidney BC and is surv ived by her husband Gordon and son Paul Nartel OAC 62
Jacqueline (Roy) Pote 34D died Dec 2 1 1991 in Willowdale Ont and is is survived
Merrill and Bill
Doroth y (MacFeeters) Scott 260 died Jan 14 1992 in Toronto She is su rvived by two daughters Anne Donaldson and Cynthia Scott
Florence (French) Snyder 370 died May 6 199 1 in Calgary and is survived by her husband Robert and two sons John and William
Katherine (Sweet) Watt Mac 220 died Feb 23 1992 She is survived by her husshyband Leslie a son David and a dau ghter Carol Gi llanders
Mattie (Newman) Widdicombe 240 died Dec 11 1991 in St Catharines Ont Preshydeceased by her husband John she is surshyvived by a bro ther and several nieces and nephews including Virginia Rigby Arts 76
OAC
George Grey Arnup 38 died Feb 2 1992 in Toronto He spent most of his career with the plant protection branch of Agriculture Canada He is survived by his wife Aileen three chi ldren Nancy Jim and Mary Ellen Vincent CBS 79 and four grandchi ldren
Herbert Boyce 28 and MSA 43 died Sept 2 1991 in Amherstburg Onto He is survi ved by his wife Norah a daughter Beverley Med lock and a brother James OAC 32
Jack Reddy Brethet 56 died Nov 4 199 1 in Burlington Ont President of Brethet Barnum Assoc iates Inc he is surshyv ived by his wife Caro l and two daughters Lyn n and Anne
Bruce Foster 28 died Feb 6 1992 in Ridgetown Ont and is survi ved by his daughter Gayle Anderson and son David CBS 69
Allison Gardhouse 49 died Sept 21 1991 in Midland Ont He was re tired supe rshyintendent of schoo ls for the Simcoe County Board of Education and is survi ved by his wife Merle
Kenneth Harrison 24 died Nov 5 199 1 in Kentville NS A distinguished plant patho logist military officer and mycologist he began hi s career in 1926 as assistant plant pathologis t at the Kentvi lle Experimental Farm He worked there until retirement in 1966 wi th the exception of mi litary servi ce du ring the Second World War
Dr Harrison had a lifelong interes t in the study of mushrooms and publ ished numerou s technica l papers on the mu shroom flora of Nova Scotia In addition he enshy
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couraged interested amateurs and led field trips for student s at Acadia University and the general public from 1929 until 1987 In 1979 he was honored by Acadia wi th the dedication of the Kenneth A Harri son Laboratory of Mycology
During his career he was a member of many professional organizations a charter member of the Mycological Society of America and fe llow of the American Associashytion for the Advancement of Science
He is survived by hi s wife Margaret two brothers Maynard OAC 30 and Arthur OAC 29 two son s Ashley and Kenneth and a daughter Jennie Sheito
William Kellam 4 1 died Oct 19 1991 in Brockville Ont He was retired from the Curb and Gate Co of-Brock ville where he had worked as a lab technician fo r 28 years He is survived by his wife Kathleen a son George and a daughter Mary
William M acMillan 48 died in February 1992 in Winnipeg He was supervisor of Fertilizer marketing for the Manitoba Pool Elevators and is surv ived by hi s wife Edna Jean and brother Harry OAC 5 1 A
Cameron McTaggart 35 died Feb 4 1992 in Aurora Ont After graduating from OAC he became manager of Don Head Farms in Richmond Hill He established the first agricul tural consulting business in Canada in 1947 and later ran an Angus cattle
sales management business from the family farm A life member of the OAC Alumni As shysociat ion and the Class of 35 executive he is survived by his wife Margaret Mac 35 and two sons John OAC 62 of Regina and David of Largo Fla
Douglas Miller 48 of Victoria BC died Nov 24 1991 in Toronto He is survived by hi s wife Ruth and five children
Gregory More 76 was killed Feb 3 1992 in Kitchener Ont at the Ontario Glove Manufacturing Co where he was co-owner and vice-president Following graduation he worked for the Rohrer Drug Co and the Stershyling Drug Co then returned to school ea rnshying an MBA at McMaster University in 1981 More was an avid squash player and golfer Court A at the Northfield Racquet Club in Waterloo was dedicated to his memory in March He is survived by his parents Noreen and Ken a brother Randy and a sister Katherine Keeler
John Jack Pawley 33 died March I 1992 in Guelph He is survived by his wife Ruth son John OAC 62 and daughter-inshylaw Carolyn He was a former director of the Ontario Milk Marketing Board and a past member of the Royal City Lodge of Perfecshytion
Harold Reid 20A died in December 1991 in Burlington Ont During the First World W ar he was one of Canadas premier rad io
experts work ing at the Roya l Canadian Navy shore transmitter in Sydney NS After the war he came to OAC to earn a diploma then went on to QueenS University to comshyplete an arts and theology degree His mini sshytry was mainly in St And rews and Montreal although he spent 13 years teaching Hebrew at the Presbyterian Coll ege before retiring in 1968
Donald Robertson 3 1 died Nov 4 1991 in Iroquois Ont He is survived by hi s wife Caroline (Grisdale) Mac 38 his two son s ScottOAC 65A and Guy and a daughter Sandra McNeil
Thomas Rokeby 48 and MSA 50 died Jan 29 1992 in Fayetteville Ark He was a professional engineer and tau ght for 30 years in the Univers ity of Arkansas engineering department Born in Port Rowan Ont he was a member of the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War the American Society of Agricultural Engineers and the agricultural honor societies of Gamma Sigma Delta and Alpha Epsilon He is surv ived by his wife Helen two sons Robert and Richard a daughter Penny and three brothers Michael Noel and Richard OAC 54
Francis Sweeney OAC 45 died Nov 17 1991 in Oakville Ont He was a longtime employee of Shell Canada and [nternational Shell working in Great Britain Europe and
WALL CUSTANCE MEMORIAL FOREST
The Wall-Custance Memorial Forest located at the Universi ty of Guelphs Arboretum was established in recognition of the severe depletion of our forests It is never too late to be a vital part of the effort to save and improve our air and water for the future of our children by planting trees This program is our small part of the major endeavor to reforest and to reduce the greenhouse effect improve air quality and provide food and cover for wildlife The Memorial Forest Proshygram not only pays a Significant tribute to a loved one but also assures a better environment for generations to come
The purpose of this program is to provide an opporshytuni ty to commemorate the life of a loved one by plantshy
Home of the WALL-CUSTANCE
MEMORIAL FOREST
ing a tree We envision that the Memorial Forest Program will continue for many years to come and our hope is that the solace that nature offers particularly in the depths of a living forest will be of comfort and benefi t to all
For more information or for a brochure call or write to
WALL-CUSTANCE Funeral Home and Chapel 206 Norfolk Street Guelph Ontario N1 H 4K3 (519) 822-0051
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Berna rd Weeks 35 died Oct 16 199 1 After graduation he re turned to his roots in
ew York and Pennsylvannia and worked in 4-H and you th organi zations for a few years He then took over the family farm at Troupsburg NY and built up a dairy operashytion with a sideline of sheep He is surv ived by his wife Ruth and four children
Glenn White 43 of Belleville Onl died Nov 24 199 1 in Florida and is surv ived by hi s wife Marjorie
ave Norman Anderson 39 of Wi nn ipeg died Dec 18 1991 in Arizona He had practised veterinary medicine in Norwood Man and was a member of the American Equine Pracshytitioners Association director of the Canadian Thoroughbred Society and track veterinarian at Assin iboia Downs for 50 years He is survived by his wi fe Peggy and two sons Laurie and James
George Beatty 5 I died Nov 22 1991 in Inverness III He practised in Palatine fo r 36 years and founded the Palatine Animal Hospi tal He was an active member of the American Animal Hospital Assoc iati on and the Chicago Veterinary Association and was a director of the Friends of the University of Guelph He is survived by his wife Mary and fo ur children - Suzanne Patricia Margaret and Tim
John Hamilton 5 L died Dec 15 1991 He had lived in Roslin On where he owned the Bay Regional Veterinary Hospital He is survived by hi s niece Ann Bongard
Nicholas Labzoffsky 39 died Dec 25 1991 in Largo Fla Fonnerly of Toronto he had li ved most recen tl y in Dorse t Ont and is survived by hi s wife Jane
Edgar Langford 49 died March 41992 in Monarch Alta A former research scienshytist with ADRI (Western) he is survived by his wife Norma and two daughters includshying Carolyn OVC 76
Stuart Maude 4 1 died Jan 14 1992 in Rosemead Calif A former Rosemead counshycillor and four-time mayor he operated the Rosemead Animal Hospital with his brother Arthur 52 from 1953 to 1980 He was a trustee for Ingles ide Hospital a past grand patron of both the Rosemead and the Califorshynia Order of Eastern Star and past-president of the local Kiwanis Club and Chamber of Commerce He is survived by his wife Vera two daughters Patricia and Susan Bezner a son Stuart and three brothers
Walter Morley 42 o f Mildmay On died Nov 28 199 1 He ran a large animal pracshytice in the Mild may area for 39 years raised cat tle and raced standardbred horses He was also a pu blic school board trustee and direcshytor of a local te lephone company for more
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than 30 years He is survived by his wife Joyce five sons - two of whom are OVC alumni Dave 68 and Randy 74 - and 10 grandchildren
Lloyd Neily 52 died Jan 3 1992 in Hantsport NS A retired meat inspector w ith the federal Department of Agriculture he had a private veterinary practice in Wind sor NS He is surv ived by hi s wife Mary
Elford Nundal 43 died Jan 7 1992 in Langley BC after a long battle with canshycer He operated a veterinary practice in Langley for 36 years and served as a di strict aldennan for 10 years before being elected mayor in 1982 Last year he received the BC Veterinarian Association s award of merit for a lifetime of veterinary work
Humphrey Rees 55 died Sepl 30 1991 in Amman Jordan while on ass ignment for the Overseas Development Ad ministrat ion as veterinary and animal hu sbandry adviser to the Jordani an government His contemshyporaries at Guelph will remember him as a singer debater raconteur rugby player and bon vivant He is surv ived by his wife Alice of POlt Eynon Wales
William Stinson 40 died Feb 15 1992 in Norwood Ont He is survi ved by his wife Rita a son John OVC 67 a brother Ford OAC 34 and a grandson John CSS 87
Faculty
Patric ia Harney died Dec 191991 in Yarshymouth NS A professor in the Department of Horticultural Science from 1962 to 1988 she developed severa l new variet ies of geraniums and was instru mental in es tabshylishing the Frances Ball rose collection at the Arboretum
Anthony Marston died Feb 3 1992 in Fershygu s ant Retired from the School of Hotel and Food Administration he was an acshycomplished competition chef who received his training in Switzerland and England He then spent severa l years working in the Caribbean before coming to Guelph in 1970 A member of the Canadian Olympic culinary team he held a number of positions in the
Donations given in memory ofGuelph alumni will help support University scholarships ifdirected to the Alumni M emorial Fund In 1991 donations were made in memory of the following alumni
Frank MacDonald OAC 37
Frank King OAC 33 -Robert Allen OAC 56A
Alice (Rivaz) Garrard Mac 28
Stan Vesselinovitch OVC 57
For more infonnation call the Office of Annual Giving at 519-824-4120 Ext 6 183
hote l and food industry until retiring in 1982 He is survived by hi s wife Di ana
Gordon McNally dled Jan 12 1992 in Guelph A professor in the Department of Zoo logy from 1934 to 1971 he served as academic assistant to the dean of CBS until retiring in 1979 While at Guelph he was honorary pres id ent of the classes of OAC 54 58 and 67 He is survived by his daughter Jean two siste rs and two grandchildren Prof McNallys family has established the A Gordon Mc a lly Memorial Fund to support a sc holarship or bursary Contributions may be sent care of the Alma Mater Fund Alumni Hou se University of Guelph Guelph ant N I G 2WI
Friends
Jean (Young) Branion died March 3 1992 in Guelph She was the wife of the late Hugh Branion a physiology professor at U of G and assistant to presidents Bill Winegard and Don Forster Jean Branion was an act ive volunteer on campus for many years and one of the firs t presidents of the College Womens Club She is survived by a son Richard and his wife Marga re t of Vanshycouve r and five grandchi ldren Donati ons may be made to the Hugh D Branion Memorial Scholarship through Alumni House
Davy Alexander Hamilton-Williamson died Feb 4 1992 in Guelph A painter and author of childrens stories he had been a member of the University s Presidents Council s ince it began in 1 985
Marjorie Pinkney wife of J ames Pinkney OVC 3 7 died Dec 151 99 [ at her home in Milton ant
Samuel Wyal died March 15 1992 in Brantford ant He was a partner in the law firm Wyatt Purce ll Will Stillman and Scott He is surv ived by his wife M a bel Mac 39 four sons Peter Michael William and John and two daughters Mary Alderson and Sarah Nadalin Arts 82
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INVmiddotESTMENTS amp
DIVIDENDS
Facts about university education in Canada and how we pay for it
By 2000 half of all new jobs in Canada will require a university degree
But at the current rate of government funding only one in five children
will have a chance to go to university
In the seven years from 1982 to 1989 per-student grants to universities in
Ontario barely kept pace with intlation at five per cent
per-student funding at American public univers ities jumped an average
of 23 per cent in the same period
Those US universities also receive twice the federal research dollars per student as do Ontario universities
In 1987 the average salary of a full-time professor at an Ontario univers ity was $55500
compared with $68200 for a private-sector position of similar education and experience
Lawyers economists and engineers made an average of $71 000
Ontario ranks ninth out of the to provinces in terms of grants to universities
Between 1978 and 1991 enrolment at Ontario univers ities grew by 40 per cent while funding dropped
from 59 to 409 per cent of total government spending
Universities were spending 14 per cent less per student between 1977 and 1988 hospital expenditures
rose 38 per cent per patient in the same period
Ontario universities generate $3 of economic activity for every
$1 invested by government funding
And the number of jobs generated by university activities in
Ontario is greater than the employment impact of the textile
industry the entire paper and pulp industry or utilities
University graduates can look forward to earning 63 per cent more than the average industrial worker
A 1990 survey of U of G alumni found that two years after graduation 97 per cent of Guelph grads
looking for work were employed 62 per cent were earning $25000 or more and 10 per cent were
earning $40000 or more
Unemployment rates in 1990 for those with a university degree was about one-third what it was
for those with only a high school diploma
Every year from 1978 to 1987 Ontario university inves tments in renovating or replacing
aging buildings could not keep pace with the rate at which the buildings depreciated
Graphics by Debbie Thompson Wilson Statistics supplied by th~ Council 01 Ontario UniverSities Statistics Canada and the U01 G Student EnVifonment Study Group
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A salute to sport Alumni Weekend June 19-21 9am Sio-pitch tournament
The tradition Jives on at the south quad diamond s Cooed teams of 12 or more players are encourshyaged to join in the fun
FRIDAY 10 am to 9 pm Registration Lambton Hall
6 pm Kick-off dinner and half-time show
get set and join In the Olympic spirit one of Alumni Creelman Hall will Weekends host the Wonderful most popular World of Sports with events Tours a half-time slide show start from to entertain alumni of Alumni House all ages and are sponshy9 pmshy sored by the Observatory tours CBS Alumni
Association
10 am and 2 pm
SATURDAY 8 am to 5 pm Guided Registration walking tours Lambton Hall
Remember 9 am to 5 pm making s now Alumni House tours sc ulptures on Students will host tours of Alumni House throughshyout the weekend Come and see what the generosity of alumni has accomplished
9 am to noon Alumni association annual meetings
This is the official notice for the annual general meetings of the following alumni associations
CBS - Alumni House starts at 830 am before guided walk MacFACS - HAFA Building Room 209
OVC - OvC Room 1438
OAC - Macdonald Hall Room 149
CSS - MacKinnon Building Room 305
HAFA - Alumni Hou se boardroom
Gryphs Lounge will be open for lunch and afLer the game
930 am Guided nature walk at the Arboretum
On your mark
Noon - OVC luncheon
The OvC Alumni Association will host a luncheon open to all OvC alumni and their guests
2 pm - Campus Showcase 92
Following on the heels of last year s success Campus Showshycase 92 will be bigger and better Come to the University Centre to see exhibits representing all areas on campus The Campus Junction store will also be open
2 pm - Zavitz Hall tour
Alumni are invited to browse through the newly renovated Za vitz Hall and attend a recep shytion sponsored by the Colshylege of Arts Alumni Asshysoc iation
5 pm Golden anniversary dinner
The OAC OvC and MacshyFACS alumni associations will provide complimenshytary tickets for alumni celebrating 50 years or more Additiona l tickets can be purchased Classes
Johnston Green or playing intramural hockey in the old Quonset arena Relive some of the memories by taking a walking tour of campus Tours begin from the lobby ofLambton Hall
Noon - Alumni picnic
This apopular event has new location - the sculpshyture garden beside the Macshydonald Stewart Art Centre Come on your own or reshyserve a group of tables for friends and classmates
Noon - Class reunion lunches
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SUNDAY 9am Church service and War Memorial Hall rededication
Thanks to a commitment from the Alma Mater Fund renovashytion of the upstairs of War Memorial Hall has been comshypleted Join us for the rededicashytion ceremony commemorating the 1924 opening and the 1952 dedication of an OAC memorial plaque
being honored are OAC 22 OAC 47 OvC 22 Mac 22 OAC 27 OvC 27 Mac 27 OAC 32 OvC 32 Mac 32 OAC 37 OvC 37 Mac 37 OAC 42 OvC 42 Mac 42
6 pm Class reunion dinners
Special dinn e r reunions are planned for OAC 47 OAC 52 OAC 52A OvC 52 Mac 57 OAC 57 OAC 62 Mac 67
10am UGAA annual meeting
All alumni are encouraged to atshytend the UGAA annual meeting in Macdonald Hall Room 149 An amendment to the UGAA Letters Patent and a revised bylaw will be presented for ap shyproval Copies of both are availshyable on request from Alumni House Call 519-824-4120 Ext 6544
11 am - Farewell brunch
The final event of Alumni Weekend will be held in Creelshyman Hall Come and meet the Univers ity S president Brian Segal The Alumnus of Honour medal will be presented at noon
To receive an Alumni Weekshyend brochure or to register for events call Alumni House at 59-824-4120 Ext 6963
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matical functions should be performed in order moving from left to righ t making the answer 45
Weiner asks us to apply
I have just read an article in the winter Guelph Alumnus by Roberta Franchuk on the subject of math anxiety The arshyticle includes a skill-testing question and gives the answer as 49195
Because the problem is posed incorshyrectly readers of the article must certainshyly have suffered considerable math anxiety trying to solve it
The answer to the problem should be 597A The answer of 49195 would solve the problem if the equation were enclosed in brackets The square brackshyets are the key
Math anxiety indeed
Joe Hagge GeorgetownOnt
Please note that the answer given to the skill-testing question on page 17 of the winter Alumnus is incorrect The correct and only solution is 597 A
Its no wonder students suffer math anxiety I do too every time I see skillshytesting questions with wrong anSwers
Don Hamilton MarkhamOnt
I would like to commend you on the exshycellent winter issue of the Alumnus Inshystead of my usual quick skim through I found myself actually reading it cover to cover
Many of the articles focused on reshysearch and teaching the two things I remember Guelph most fondly for and the two things that may convince many prospective students that Guelph is the right choice Such a refreshing change from the usual dull material on picnics conferences awards etc
I hope youll decide to continue in this vein
Christine (Paquette) Reissmann OAC 77
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I am writing in response to your letter from a former resident assistant I agree that being on the residence life staff can be a valuable experience but so can belonging to I nterhall Council
I am a fOlmer president of both Maritime Hall and Prairie Hall and a former Interhall Council chair The leadership and skills that I learned have been invaluable to me They enabled me
to enter the pharmaceutical industry as a sales representative Today I am a disshytrict sales manager for Rhone-Poulenc Rorer one of Canada s top 10 pharshymaceutical companies
When I was an undergraduate Intershyhall Council was underrated Students failed to realize that it was our members who represented the thousands of undershygraduates in residence on various adshyministrative committees We were the ones who negotiated for improvements in the residences and cafeterias
Interhall Council spearheaded the
We made a mistake In the last issue of the Guelph Alumnus we printed Roberta Franchuk s humorous look at math anxiety but the joke was on us In our illustration for the story we presented this sk ill-testshying math problem shy
Whats 5 of (52 - 14) x
216 - Jamp- + (256 - 133)
- but gave the wrong answer for it The correct answer is 597A Our answer of 49195 was wrong because we failed to observe the order of operations rules
Many readers noticed the error inshyclud ing everyone in the Univers ity s Department of Mathematics and Stati sshytics And several told us stories about the other people theyve caught abusshying the rules of BEDMAS (brackets exponents division multiplication adshydition subtraction) Our mistake has placed us in the company of several of Canadas largest corporations
Guelph professor Jack Weiner and Gary Flewelling math consultant for the Wellington County Board of Education recently argued the case of a high school student who was denied $200 worth of compact discs in an auto manufacturers contest because hi s answer to this skill-testing quesshytion- 22+ 14dx4 -3= -did not match the auto makers answer The student s answer was 37 213 The auto maker contends that all matheshy
campaign against the closing of Maritime cafeteria And lets not forget orientation Without the help of the residence hall presidents and their counshycil of volunteers orientation would not be the annual success that it is
So yes being a residence life staff may provide some opportunity and skills to deal with the future but I know that without my experience as a member of InterhaU Council I wouldnt be where I am today
Dean Demilio CBS 87 MississaugaOnt
the auto makers reasoning to a bankshying problem You have $100 in your savings account when you begin adshyding $10 a week for 20 weeks How much money do you have at the end of the 20 weeks If you write out the expression it looks like thi s 100 + 10 x 20 The correct answer of course is $300 but by the auto manufacturer s calculation youd have $2200 Is that how they price their cars) asks We iner
This is a good example of why we cant Jet mathematical errors go uncorshyrected Meanwhile the high school student still hasnt received his comshypact discs The company is now argushying that both answers are right Go figure l
Those of us working on the Guelph Alumnus have learned our lesson Our apologies to those readers who -deve loped math anxiety trying to figshyure out how we got our answer and to those reade rs who gor the same answer we did because now you know that youre not a mathematical whiz after all
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Food research gets boost U of G received a $ I-million Christmas gift from the W Garfield Weston Founshydation the charitable organization asshysoc iated with George Weston Limited one of the largest Canadian-owned food conglomerates The money will fund a research position in food-packaging technology in the Department of Food Science
A competition is being held to fill the position which will investigate ways to balance the consumer demand for less processing of food products with the need to maintain safety
Campus research in food process ing received another boost with the appointshyment of Prof Douglas Dalgleish to a reshysearch posi tion in dairy technology that is supported by the Ontario Dairy Counshycil and the Natural Sc iences and Enshygineering Research Council Dalgleish works closely with Prof Mansel Grifshyfiths who holds a research chair in microbiology that is sponsored by the Ontario Milk Marketing Board and NSERC
Dalgleishs research concentrates on milk and milk ingredients leading to practical applications in the developshyment of new dairy products Griffiths s work also focuses on new products as well as food safety and the development of rapid detection of micro-organisms in milk and other foods
Griffiths is one of six researchers who recently received funding as part of the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food s $S-million program to help keep the Ontario food-processing industry globally competitive
Other recipients include Profs Howard Swatland Animal and Poultry Science and Ralph Brown School of Engineering who will examine the use of fibre optics and ultrasound techshyniques to measure meat quality and yield in beef carcasses and live cattle Prof Gauri Mittal Engineering and Arthur Hill Food Science will further their work in pasteurization of milk and other liquid foods while looking for alshyternatives in food preservation And Prof Les Ferrier Animal and Poultry Science will study the effect of high linolenic acid eggs on blood lipids in humans Linolenic acid is an omega-3 fatty acid that is essential to lowering blood cholesterol levels
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Child-care survey reports
The largest and most comprehensive surshyvey on child care in Canadian history shythe Canadian National Child-Care Study -launched its introductory report in February Directed by family studies professor Donna Lero the $3-million study profiles the needs and arrangeshyments of more than 24000 Canadian families with at least one child under 13
It is based on data collected from Statistics Canada interviews with parents in 1988 One in every 90 Canadian households was included
Co-director of the study is Alan Pence of the University of Victoria Principal investigators are Hillel Goelman of the
University of British Columbia and Lois Brockman of the University of Manitoba What theyve found is that most Canadian parents share common concerns about child care - its quality affordability availability and stability
The federal governments recent anshynouncement that it has sc rapped plans for a national child-care program does not mean the issue is no longer imporshytant says Lero It means the governshyment sees the need but has chosen not to res pond to it
The study findings will be presented in IS subsequent reports and a set of 12 provincial and territorial summaries
Creative writing
U of G Senate has approved a proposal for a master of fine arts (MFA) program in creative writing Concentrating on prose poetry drama or a combination students would take courses do indeshypendent reading and produce a creative shythesis
English chair Connie Rooke says the Guelph program would differ from creashytive-writing degree programs at other Canadian universities The already hired core faculty - poet Dionne Brand novelist and poet Janice Kulyk Keefer
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and playwright Judith Thompson - are to reduce the drop-out rate in French distinguished Canadian writers rather studies More than 50 per cent of the stushythan career academics dents who complete the beginners level
Another unique feature is that in French do not continue Canadian writers would be invited to give lectures workshops and seminars offering students a writers perspective Convocation honors Visiting writers would also serve as
At winter conshymentors to individual students
vocation A starting date of fall 1993 is ceremonies in
proposed but is dependent on the February Jeavailability of funding Clare
RennieOAC 47 former asshy
Multimedia French sistant deputy minister of
What do French-language students at agriculture and Clare Renniethe universities of Guelph and Calgary food for On-have in common They can improve tario was named an honorary fellow of their language skills with the aid of mulshy the University He was honored for his timedia computer equipment that comshy contributions to U ofGs agricultural reshybines sound images and text These are search program Rennie was on facultythe only two Canadian universities parshy from 1952 to 1971 then moved toticipating in an IBM-sponsored North OMAF where he was responsible forAmerican program to explore new techshy the ministryS education and researchnology in teaching French as a second programs including the contract with Ulanguage of G Since 1974 the contract has
U of G is making the French connecshy grown to $34 million a year In additiontion thanks to $45000 worth of multishy Guelph has named its research chair in media equipment donated by IBM One animal-breeding strategies in his honor of the goals of the program at Guelph is
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The University also honored Canadian engineer Claudette MacKayshyLassonde by awarding her an honorary degree for her contributions to the enshygineering profession An expert on nuclear safety issues she developed the first site-selection criteria for nuclear power stations She has served as presishydent of the Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario and founded the group Women in Science and Engineershying
A boost for animal welfare OVC has established an academic position in animal welfare with a gift from the estate of Col KL Campbell His widow Mona has contributed $500000 to start an endowshy
Ron Downeyment fund to support the position
Prof Ron Downey assistant dean of OVC will assume the position July I to explore alternative methods that would reduce the use of animals in research Part of his job will be to promote the inshyterests of the Centre for the Study of Animal Welfare which was established at U ofG in 1990
KL Campbell was a notable horse breeder and showman who shared with his wife an interest and compassion for all animals The Campbells were among the earliest contributors to OVCs Pet Trust Fund which supports research on common problems of companion animals
Land and water stewardship
U of Gs Centre for Soil and Water Conshyservation has been renamed the Centre for Land and Water Stewardship to reflect a more holistic approach to susshytainability Accordingly its focus has expanded to include sectors other than agriculture that affect water quality The centres new director is Prof Stewart Hilts a 13-year faculty member who is cross-appointed to the Department of Land Resource Science and the Univershysity School of Rural Planning and Development
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Rewriting art history
In the 1480s the Duke of Milan comshymissioned Leonardo da Vinci to produce a 93-metre-high bronze monushyment of a horse and rider But political upheava l in Italy prevented the artist from seeing II Cavallo past the planning stage
Centuries later Guelph fine art profes shysor Chandler Kirwin hi s student Peter Rush and international art historians have begun a project to cast the monushyment in two-thirds scale It will be built in New York State at a cost of more than $2 million US and donated to the city of Milan in celebration of da Vincis achievements and the SOOth anniversary of Columbuss arrival in America
Rush is a mature student with 30 years experience as a metallurgist and foundry worker His technological know-how and Kirwin s knowledge of the artistic soc ial political and cultural climate of the Renaissance has led to a revised vision of II Cavallo They are proposing to the international art comshymunity that the altist had intended to cast the 60000-kilogram monument in one piece - an easy task with current industrial practices but a daring proposal in the 15th century
The project has revealed da Vincis genius as an engineer and has caused art historians to rethink their assessment of his place in Renaissance art history
News in brief
During Christmas break U of G inshystalled an automated direct-d ial telephone system that means faster sershyvice for callers who know the extension number theyre trying to reach Within three weeks of use the system was hanshydling half of the 13000 daily incoming caUs without operator assistance
The six top students who participated in U ofGs first Krakow semes ter were recently awarded certificates of merit from the Polonia Institute of Krakow where they studied
Five years ago U of G sent 3788 tonshynes of waste to the city landfill in one year Last year the figure was 1900 tonshynes thanks to the campus recycling proshygram About 25 tonnes of glass and tin
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Prof Chandler Kirwin lefl and Peter Rush pose with a model ofdo Vincis monument 11 Cavallo Photo by Roberta Franchuk
and more than half a tonne of fine paper portunities Teamed up with a group of are hauled away each week Guelph students they will study the
creative arts in Canada Canadian
Ample snowbanks this winter helped society and the political economy of the
protect the Arboretums gene banks Canada-US free trade agreement
which contain plantings of more than nine species of woody plants native to The planned widening of Gordon Street the Carolinian forest region of southshy - the route from campus to downtown western Ontario The gene banks will Guelph - has been delayed until 1993 eventually be used to help rebuild the while city council considers a proposal provinces heritage forest system by the U of G Cycling Club to include
bicyc le lanes as part of the project
This summer U of G begins an exshychange program that will bring 28 The first Ontario turfgrass symposium Pennsylvania students to Guelph for six was held on campus last January bringshyweeks in an effort to introduce them to ing together all sectors of the industry to Canadian educational and cultural op- discuss environmental responsibility
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Predicting food production capabilities
A new research technique developed by an interdisciplinary U of G group is the first of its kind in the world to quantitashytively measure the capacity or shortfall of food production in a specific geoshygraphic area
Applying the technique to Ontario inshyvolves a complex computer database that uses production figures from the 1980s and takes into account 18 major crops 10 livestock categories seven soil classes seven climate zones six economic regions and a number of production constraints
The computer then considers different aJlocations and trends as well as condishytions that might influence future demands and productive potential
We found the current agricultural base has the capacity to produce at least 30 per cent more of each product in Onshytario says geography professor Barry Smit who has co-ordinated the program since it began in the early 1980s But the 30-per-cent surplus capacity would not be sufficient to meet even relatively
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conservative demand projections through to the year 2000 he says
The program has been used to look at food projections and to study the effects of urban growth acid rain soil erosion global warming climatic variations on food production and to identify regions of the globe where food shortages reflect limits in production capacity
Campus safety
Students walking alone on campus at night can call the Central Student Associations Campus Safe Walk proshygram and a team of volunteers will esshycort them to their destination If they live off campus but need to work late at the University library students can take the Magic Bus a service provided by the CSS Student Government after city buses close down for the night And anyone who is hurt or injured on camshypus can get help from the First Aid Response Program run by the CSA and Security Services
Each of these programs will get a financial boost thanks to a provincial government grant aimed at improving campus safety In addition U of G will
use part of the grant to install more emergency telephones on campus add lighting and rearrange foliage that imshypedes vision in some areas Also being considered is a campu s safe house that would bring together 24-hour services for students
Preserving beauty
U of G landscape architect Nate Perkins is using a computer a scanner and a digitizing board to show the effects of development on sensitive rural landscapes He is working with the Onshytario Heritage Foundation to identify and protect the esthetic landscape feashytures of the entire Niagara Escarpment
The first step is to create an inventory of existing visual landscapes and how they are currently protected in Ontario Based on this selected landscape scenes will be sampled to illustrate what might happen under different scenariosshywith no regulation under current local and provincial regulatory programs and under Perkins s proposals With comshyputer technology he will be able to creshyate a picture of what the scene would look like in each case
People make a difference on and off canlpus
U of G has recruited Powell moved to Goldschmidt HDMus 84 many talented faculshy Guelph in 1965 to estabshy launched the festival which has
ty and staff who have lish the UniversityS proshy flourished to become one of N0I1h also become leaders in gram in human kinetics Americas most respected small music the community Two and the School of Human festivals MacKinnon was president of names come to mind shy Biology He designed 10 its board of directors for 15 years and John Powell and Murdo courses and was a driving is still one of its most active volun-MacKinnon - because force behind construction teers both are being recogshy of the building that The Guelph Spring Festival was one nized this spring for their houses the school example of MacKinnon s eff0l1s to ci vic contributions During his tenure the create closer ties between the Univershy
Retired human biology John Powell University hosted eight s ity and the community He and conshyprofessor John Powell Canadian national track cert manager Edith Kidd introduced was inducted April II into the and field coaching courses sponsored the idea of regular noon-hour conshyCanadian Amateur Sports Hall of by the Royal Canadian certs still held on camshy
Fame because of his lifelong work in Legion with more than pus each Thursday
amateur Sp0l1 3000 participants He also MacKinnon was founded a cardiovascular founding dean of WelshyAn Olympic-calibre sprinter in hi s exercise group which he lington College of Artsnative Great Britain Powell turned to led daily for 26 years and Sciences in 1964
coaching after being wounded in the Retired English professhy And he became the first
Second World War A three-time sor Murdo MacKinnon dean of the College of
Olympic coach he helped 19 athletes will be the centre of attenshy Arts in 1970 He is an
earn Olympic medals And for the last tion May 2 at the Guelph honorary fellow of the 21 years he has been a regular lecshy Spring Festivals 25thshy University and the Macshyturer at the International Olympic anniversary dinner He and Kinnon building is Academy in Greece artistic director Nicholas Murdo MacKinn on named in his honor
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University Families Fight the Odds
hy Mary Dickiesol1
The Van Katwyks and the
University ofGuelph are saving to educate
the next generation
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university education in Canada At current levels of government funding decreased
enrolments will limit university attendance to one in five within a few years
Paul and Christine Van Katwyk dont like the odds Theyre committed to univershy
s ity education - their own and Sasha s - and theyve been sav ing for hi s educashy -tion since he was s ix months old But what they hear about the continuing decline
in government funding makes them worry that the doors to Canada s universities
may not be open to Sasha when he s ready to enrol in 2007
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T heee good eoo to won) That s the message we ve been getting from universiti es and colleges in Canada for several years Many univershysity administrators including U of G president Brian Segal say they too are worried about the future of postseconshydary education
On the political agenda universities have taken a back seat to hospitals soshycial serv ices and schools despite the fact that they are part of the solution to problems facing the other sectors
In Ontario the universities share of the public purse has been declining since 1978 even though theyve added more than 160000 students to their enshyrolments Universities are actually spending 14 per cent less per full-time
Education makes a difference
Chris and I know from ou r own experience that a university educashytion can make a big di fference in one s life say Paul Van Ktttwyk
Paul grew up in a university family - hi fa ther is a professor at Wilfrid Laurier Univer ily in Waterloo He came to U of G after high school but quit before comshypleting a BA After two years o f making tire he was back on camshypus and is now finishing an MA in industrial organizational psycholshyogy U of G is one of the few uni versities in Canada that offer graduate work in this fie ld So Paul is heading off to the Uni versity of South Florida th is fall to do a PhD then will return to Canada to help expand his disc ipline to other Canadian universi tie
Chris is the first member of her family to atrend university She graduates this spring with a BASc in con umer studies With other members of her family out of work because their manufact uring jobs have disappeared Chris think a un iversi ty educashytion was the right choi e for her She would like to get involved in consumerenvironmental i sues and eventually open her own small business
student than they did 15 years ago
At the same time demand for university graduates is growing The Council of Ontario Universities (COU) esshytimates that half of the new jobs that will be created over the next decade will require L1ni versi ty-level training
At a time when unshyemployment plagues the province when health care and soc ial ass istance costs are rising when inshydustry needs to improve competitiveness when we need to boost investshyment in research and deve lopment one begins to wonder why postsecshyondary education is not a greater priority
Public opinion seems to support universities A 1990 Decima poll found that 80 per cent of Ontarians believe a lack of funding is affecting university quality and 83 per cent believe that
Universities are spending 14 per cent less for each student than they did 15 years ago
university fundin g is not keeping pace with funding for other services
But the university system needs more than quiet believers It needs strong vocal support Good intentions aren t enough to ensure survival in the politishycal arena or the global economy
Financial problems
Every year COU prepares a report on the financial position of Ontario univershysities The 1991 report reveals a steady decline in the priority that three successhysive provincial governments have gi ven to universi ties Collectively theyve igshynored the advice of their own advisory body on universities for 15 years allowshy
ing university funding to drop from 59 to 409 per cent of total government spending
This decline coincides with the federal governments introduction of Esshytablished Program Financing (EPF) which supplies a large part of the fundshying that is eventually allocated to postsecondary education
Prior to EPF federal and provincial governments shared the operating costs of postsecondary education on a 5050 basis Under EPF which was supposed to equalize payments to the provinces through a complicated system of cash transfers and tax points some provincial governments have been unable or unshywilling to maintain that 5050 balance In Ontario federal doll ars now account for a much higher percentage of the funding that is eventually transferred to universities
Many Ontario institutions believe the provincial government added insult to injury last October when it cut an addishytional $9 million from promised transfer payments for 1991 92 Before the c1awshyback COU had advised the government that universities would need a seven-pershycent increase in 199293 just to maintai n current level s of serv ice but the January budget gave them one per cent thi s year and promised no more than two per cen t in each of the ne xt two years
During this same J5-year period Ontario s universities have demonshystrated an increase in productivity unshymatched in almost any other sector by finding ways to educate 40 per cent more students with less money
The January budget brought bad news at a time when universities were also facing further cuts in provincial gove rnshyment grants for capital renovations inshycreased operating costs for utilities the federal government s 30-per-cent jump in UIC premiums a lO-per-cent in shyc rease in CPP payments and a loss of tuition revenue because of planned reductions in first-year enrolments
Ontarios Employer Health Tax and pay equity costs have also affected operating budgets at universities where more than 80 per cent of expenditures are dictated by salaries and benefits
Deficit financing is not the norm for U ofG but in 199192 costs exceeded Ministry of Colleges and Universities (MCU) operating revenue ($160 milshyli on) by almos t $46 million The defic it reflects both these unexpected increases and the planned expense of restructuring non-academic units
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Creative solutions
Like the business community Guelph has begun the ongoing process of selfshyappraisal The $69-million cost of the recent non-academic review left red ink in this fiscal year but the exercise has cut operating costs by an estimated $57 million a year Within the five-year payshyback period the University will have saved or in reality reallocated more than $28 million Segal says
The internal review removed 125 jobs simplified processes and improved efficiency A similar assessment of the non-teaching activities within the colshyleges is being completed and will be folshylowed by a look at academic functions
Guelph is one of the first universities in Ontario to undertake such a strucshytured review of its operations says Segal and it wont be the last Every university will be looking at ways to reduce the amount of work required to operate the institution he says
Were walking a tightrope trying to balance strategic goal s and fiscal management in a way that causes the least harm to students Nevertheless universities are prepared to be key players in the process of looking for creative ways of doing more with less
Segal predicts an increase in intershyuniversity and joint university-college programs that share resources more efshyfective use of automation more homeshystudy programs and co-operative purchasing arrangements
Unfortunately well al so see further staff cuts a loss of services some course cancellations and limits to stushydent enrolment
Last fall U of G decreased first-year enrolment by 686 to help ease overshycrowding on campus although total en-
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Charls reprinredjrom COU 1991 Report Oil rhe Financial Position laquo( Ontario Universities
rolment was a high of 13390 students The University plans to decrease enrolshyment to fewer than 12000 by 1994
There will al so be reductions in faculshyty positions estimates are that at least a third of the 60 current vacancies will not be filled in the next fi scal year
In addition to cos t-cutting measures universities will be looking at ways to generate new revenue More than 80 per cent of university revenue is controlled by government - transfer payments and tuition fees - but short-term operat shying fund s can benefit from increased revenues from food retail parking operations and non-tuition fee hikes
Segal says long-term endowment funds like Guelph s Heritage Fund will become a system-wide priority as will revenue sources from planned giving and alumni contributions real estate
development - like Guelphs Research Park - and capital accumulation
COU which Segal chairs will conshytinue to pressure government to increase tuition fees Ontario fees have not kept up with inflation In rel ative terms they are lower now than theyve been for 40 years representing less than 19 per cent of university operating revenue In comshyparison tuition revenues at public universities in the United States are 70 to 80 per cent higher and students at private US universities pay si x times as much as Ontario s undergraduates
COU is on record as favoring an inshycome-contingent repayment plan that would allow students to repay loans based on the level of their future inshycome But a COU proposal - even if it is accepted by MCU - is at least a year away from implementation
-Last f all the universities ofGuelph and Waterloo launched North America sfirst longshydistan ce interactive classroom project that links students at both institutions via two-way audio video and data lines Unlike other video systems that offer only televisiolltransmission the new Electrohome classroom system leIs studel1ls both see and hear each other as well as the professor It s j us t like being there - and it s aile example ofhow universities are sharing resources to improve academic programs and CUI costs Photo by Roberta Franc huk
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University benefits
Time and time again our alumni tell us that the total university experience is more valuable than the degree they received
Breadth of knowledge new insights personal satisfaction - these are things that cant be measured
The 966000 university graduates in Ontario do however share economic benefits that can be measured -like an unemployment rate that is one-third what it is for the general workforce and salaries that are on average 63 per cent higher than industrial workers
In addition university graduates share with the rest of the population even greater cultural social and economic benefits
T hrough the percolator effect Ontario universi ties generate $62 billion (1989 estimate) worth of economic activity each year and more than 138000 jobs
All Canadians share in the benefits of an academic system that acc umulates knowledge trains leaders and conducts much of the research that gives us a progress ive society
University laboratories have yielded medical breakthroughs in diabetes canshycer cystic fibrosis Alzheimer s disease and AIDS They have tackled environshymental research on the causes of water pollution and soil erosion University soshycial scientists study issues as vari ed as demographic trends cross-border shopshyping adoption and economic developshyment in native communities
On a more personal level each univershysity in Canada is a contributing member of its local community Says Guelph
Mayor John Counse ll The inshytangible benefits of having a university within our municipality inshyclude the injection into the comshymunity of intellecshytual standards talents and sershyvices
Almost every orshyganization in the city counts U of G faculty staff and students among its members and volunteers In fac t more than 30 U oG s campus wecomes almosl 150000 visitors every year
university employees were recently given special awards and commendations from both the provincial Ministry of Culture and Communications and Ministry of Citizenship
Guelph is also enriched financially by the Univers itys presence - 4 100 jobs $195 million in annual economic acshytivity The University is an attraction for many smaller companies and organizashytions and branches of provincial governshyment ministries that deal frequently with the campus In a way it has he lped to inshysulate the city of Guelph aga inst the reshycession says Counsell Last year Guelph enjoyed a net increase of three jobs in comparison with other cities where thousands of industrial jobs were lost
Equally important are the educational opportunities offered by the University
for local re sidents The number of people enrol led in distance education inshydependent study and non-degree courses at the University is almost twice the dayshytime student body Last year 500 senior citizens attended courses held on camshypus and 10000 schoolchildren parshyticipated in environmental education programs at the Arboretum People also brought 12000 animals and 500 wild birds to OVC clinics for treatment
Visitors to campus outnumber stushydents 10 to one They come for convocashytion College Royal Homecoming and Alumni Weekend to tour the Arshyboretum and the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre to attend workshops conferenshyces and lectures and to enjoy athletic events music and drama productions They also come for Sunday afternoon walks and sometimes to take wedding photos on Johnston Green
Education is everyones concern
With their Universi ty of Guelph degrees in hand Paul and
Christine Van Katwyk have joined the ranks of Ontario and Canadian univershysity graduates who recognize that the
funding of universities is not just a famishyly matter
Education is everyone s concern and should be a matter of government priority rather than rhetoric The probshylem is how to change that
Two years ago Ontario MPP Sean Conway told a group of university board members that they needed troops
When you ask us to do something and we don t do it nothing happens he said When the hospitals ask us to do something and we dont do it all hell breaks loose
Today universities are recruiting those troops and are turning to their alumni to help build a strong constituenshy
cy of support Who better to promote the value of higher education
Tell your family your friend s and your co-workers how important you think universities are Write to your local paper to let others know that a strong economy and a high standard of living depend on an educated workshyforce Call your MP and MPP and tell them that denying adequate funding to higher education is short-sighted in the extreme and that voters are expecting government action based on long-term priorities
Sasha Van Katwyk s generation is depending on it
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Marshalling the forces to fight for universities
There is a tribute $5000 to help revolution launch FOU and
taking place in Seymour hopes inshyeducation And dividual alumni will when the dust setshy keep the momentum tles we will see building The orshyprofound changes ganization needs in the way we imshy more than 100 inshypart knowledge dividual volunteers in the way we think each of Ontarios 130 about education electoral districts and the way we These friends will pay for it Some lobby MPPs on a of us will sit back regular basis in supshyand watch port of universities Others like Its a grassroots Harry Seymour Harry Seymour
OAC 61 will help influence the changes taking place
Seymour spent 22 years of his career on Torontos Bay Street then opted for a change that led to the forshymation of Pathfinder Learning Sysshytems As president he champions the Pathfinder program of computershymanaged learning as a way for classshyroom teachers to maximize their time and their students potential
Seymour maintains his interest in the investment business with several other companies including a 93-acre shoreline development project in Midshyland Ont But most of his time is devoted to education and university education is a significant part of that effort
If we can marshal the forces of university alumni we can have a profound effect on how government prioritizes education he says Those of us who have graduated from a university are in the best position to evaluate the importance of a university education We can sit back and look at the benefits we ve received and the kind of impact it has had on our lives
Seymour represents U of G alumni on the Friends of Ontario Universities (FOU) a provincial lobby group whose strategy is to organize Ontarios university alumni into a political constituency FOU members sayan unorganized constituency is part of the reason government has folshylowed a pattern of financial neglect
The University of Guelph Alumni Association was one of the first to con-
movement that has the potential to build long-term support
among decision makers and future generations of university graduates he says
If youd like to get involved call Trish Walker U of G s director of alumni affairs at 519-824-4120 Ex t 2122
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describes himself as a concerned citizen of Guelph who is committed to education Thats an undershystatement for a man who spent most of his career in educashytion including 16 years as senior academic officer at Conestoga College
He also cares deeply about the University of Guelph He worked hard in the early 1960s to help bring it to life serves on a presidential committee to promote a healthy town-and-gown relationship and is now working to increase local pride in the campus
It distresses me that we are not seeing our universities as intellectual leaders in the community in the province and throughout the country says Hagar who believes there is a need to increase public awareness about the role universities play in
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society Hes offered his vocal support to this venture as a volunteer for the Alliance for Ontario Universities
Who says talk is cheap
Your verbal support
of universities
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the most valuable gift
you could give
to the generations
of students
yet to teach
Independent of universities the alshyliance is building province-wide supshyport among communities organishyzations businesses and individuals like Hagar who are willing to expand that support on a local level
In each univershysity town there will be an alliance comshymittee that works to build community pride in the institushytion and to raise the profile of its scholars The Guelph group for example may inshyitiate an elementary school program that bui Ids rapport with the University or it might encourage med ia coverage of Guelphs environshymental work
Too often we downplay the conshytributions of our universities says Hagar but if we can instil these atshytitudes in people then financial supshyport through the political process will be there
The aJiiance is unique in Canada It shybegan in 1990 with seed money from the Council of Ontario Universities and gains financial independence this summer And its looking for more volunteers To learn more about the group call director Janet Napper at 416-979-0984
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Genetic engineering bull bull bull
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This is the second part of a report on the use of biotechno]ogy in University of Guelph research
by Mary Dickieson
String art Biotechnology research reminds me of string art the 1960s craft
that had us weaving colored strings back and forth around a pattern made by driving nails halfway into a board
Under skilful hands it became a piece of sculpture an optical illusion that prevented your eye from following any single thread across the board in a straight line
Biotechnology tools are like that Every time you think you understand what one biotechnique can do in one particular dis shycipline you find it reappearing somewhere else as someone in a laboratory across camshypus or on the other side of the world thinks of yet another way to use it
In Part 1 of our biotechnology report we sk immed the surface of how these tools are being used at U of G to benefit plant reshysearch In this story well see many of the same techniques applied in other organisms primaril y animals The secret of our success in animal biotechnology lies in the fact that Guelph has the expertise and the facilities to take any project from lab to barn and back again
Throughout this report youll read about animal scientists and clinical veterinarians teamed up with molecular biologists imshymunologists chemists and microbiologists and often food scientists toxicologists and environmental biologists Their efforts benefit not only livestock production but also human medicine pharmacology food processing waste disposal and the environshyment
Embryo transfer
A major thrust of the animal biotechnolshyogy research at Guelph is in the area of
embryo transfer In fact there are three reshysearch positions funded by government and industry that deal directly with embryo manipul ation as a way to improve the comshypetitive position of Canadas beef and dairy industries
Biomedical scientist Keith Betteridge OVC MSc 60 heads an embryo research lab molecular biologist Alan Wildeman CBS PhD 83 holds a research chair devoted to the mammalian embryo and animal scientist Charles Smith concentrates on industrial research in animal-breeding strategies
Their work is supported by both federal and provincial granting agencies animal breeders and Semex Canada the major marketing arm of Canadas attificial breedshying industry Semex records annual export sales of more than $25 million and is leadshying the industry to the nex t plateau shymarketing sexed frozen or cloned embryos
One route to increasi ng the efficiency of animal production is by improving animal reproduction says Betteridge And that in shyvolves many new biotechniques associated with embryo transfer Conventional embryo transfer means collecting multiple embryos from selected cows and transferring them to properly synchronized recipients It is now almost equally conventional however to freeze or bisect the embryo as part of the procedure
Initially the selected cow was treated with hormones to produce more eggs which were fertilized through artificial inseminashytion (AI) with the semen of a top-rated bull A large number of embryos could then be recovered surgically from the cow for imshyplantation in surrogate cows of lesser genetic worth
These techniques are widely used for the production of purebred bulls More than half the dairy bulls currently at stud in Canadas major AI centres have been produced this way There is also keen interest in using the technology to produce genetically superior breeds and provide competitively priced volumes of commercial cattle embryos
From lOp Bisecting a bovine embryo to produce identical twin calves a chimeric chick created by mixing cells from two embryos microinjecting the egg ofa fruit fly with DNA from bacterial genes that can confer insecticide resistance and a Hereford heifer protected from shipping fever by a vaccine developed a f U of G
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and more Test-tube calves and lambs
In 1988 Semex research co-ordinator Robert Stubbings OVC 76 MSc 84 PhD 89 produced Guelph s first test-tube calf during his graduate studies with Prof PK Basrur in the Departshyment of Biomedical Sciences It was not the first test-tube calf in Canada but it was the first developed from an egg that was matured as well as fertilized in a test tube
The resulting zygotes (fertili zed eggs) were placed in the oviduct of a rabbit for their early development then moved after seven days to the uterus of a recipient cow
Just a few months later other memshybers of the Guelph team took the process one step further eliminating the need to use a temporary host oviduct Postdoctoral fellow Kang Pu Xu and PhD student John Pollard were able to extend development in vitro to the point where the embryo was mature enough to survive when transplanted directly into a recipient cow s uterus
The early embryos were cultured in a medium containing luminal cells exshytracted from the oviducts of slaughtered cows Two baby bulls were born the first in Canada using this method and only the second in North America
Last year gradu ate student Dawn Kelk CBS 89 and Prof Allan King 73 and MSc 75 of the Department of Biomedical Sciences produced North America s first in vitro fertilization (lVF) lambs using these techniques
These achievements were important for several reasons The Animal Biotechshynology Embryo Laboratory can now
Authors note
One of the things Ive learned while writing this story is that biotechnolshyogy is a word seldom used by scienshytisrs For inost of us it conjures up images of people in lab coats bent over microscopes using precision inshystruments to manipulate the cells of living organisms But for scien~ists that s too vague The word may have
meaning but it d6eslJt really
produce its own IVF embryos from oocytes recovered from slaughtershyhouse cows bypassing the more expensive route of sushyperovulation and surgical withdrawal
In addition scientists have gained knowledge about early embryo development that is important for improveshyments in embryo viability and vital for developments in cloning techniques and controlled transgenesis in livestock
In a more immediate and practical context the work has led to the first clinical
Prof Keith Belleridge left and Prof Stanley Leibo watch as research technician Cindy Christian prepares an embryo f or cryopreservation Photo by Mary Dic kieson
use of IVF in cattle in colshylaboration with Brian Hill OVC 80 of Western Ontario Breeders
Bisected embryos
Meanwhile yet another part of the team based in the Department of Populashytion Medicine was perfecting techniques to microsurgicall y bisect fertilized embryos to produce genetically identi shycal animals
Professors Brian Buckrell OVC 68 MSc 84 and Cathy Gartley OVC 82 DVSc 89 and postdoctoral fel shylow Rick Rorie bisected six-day-old sheep embryos - visible only through magnification - and surgically imshyplanted them into recipient ewes Five months later nine lambs were the first animals born at Guelph from bisected embryos
Prof Walter Johnson and postdoctoral
describe anything They talk instead about cell fusion enzyme systems i ermentation or genetic engineering
The fact that biotechnology didnt appear as a popular buzzword until the 1980s suggests that we are using ilto define something neW yet none of these disciplines is really new Human beings have been using other organisms to create new procucts for centuries Thats why We have yeast yogurt and beer as well as anti-
fellow Naida Loskutoff have now exshytended this work in cattle by producing identical twins from IVF embryos divided into quarters at earlier stages of development
These projects maximize embryo use and highlight the potential for creating significant numbers of genetically identishycal animals which can be vital for conshysistent research results Tests conducted on genetically identical animals can reduce the variables caused by genetic differences and ultimately the number of animals needed for experiments
Frozen sexed embryos
The development of in vitro technishyques has also made possible further studies in cryopreservation (freezing) and embryo sexing
It s been possible to freeze and thaw
biotics growth hormones and vacshycine ~ Even genetic engineering is not new although many of us think it is
Through selective breeding practices fanners have been engineering the genetic makeup of domestic animals -for centuries What is new is the speed and accuracy with which we can implement genetic changes the ability to cross the species barrier and a much greater understanding of life processes
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At the eight-cell stage ofdevelopment in a bovine embryo each cell is removed and placed in the shell ofa discarded embryo Afler three days the blastocysts are transferred into recipient cows and the pregnancies allowed to col1linue Eight identical calves will be born and will proshyvide a valuable tool for research
cattle embryos since 1973 and most of the 60000 or so embryo-transfer calves born annually in North America are now obtained from embryos that have been stored in liquid nitrogen But there are still many problems to overcome in freezing unfertilized eggs embryos at varying stages of development and embryos produced in vitro or subjected to micromanipulation
Biomedical science professor Stanley Leibo is a specialist in cryobiology Before coming to Guelph he was part of an industry team that produced the worlds first live young (mice) from frozen embryos and later invented the patented one-step method of freezing cattle embryos Other biomedical scienshytists - King and Don Rieger - and molecular biologists Wildeman and Stan Blecher are investigating various ways of sexing embryos
Some of these involve the use of micromanipulation to remove a small number of cells from an early-stage embryo The sex can be identified by locating X and Y chromosomes detectshying male-specific DNA or perhaps by studying the proteins produced by the DNA segments In embryonic life the activity of X-linked enzymes in female embryos is twice that in males
Detecting differences in the energy metabolism of male and female embryos may also become a method of sexing In studies on early embryos generated in vitro Guelph scientists disshycovered that male and female embryos develop at different rates In addition to its value in sexing embryos this knowledge poses another question If the team can one day learn to control the rate of embryo development will it be possible to control the sex of an embryo independent of its genetic comshyplement
Photo courtesy of the Animal Biotechnology Embryo Lab
Transgenic animals
Since the mid 1980s Wildeman and fellow molecular biologist John Phillips have been producing transgenic mice for studies in human disease
This involves recovering one-cell embryos microsurgicalty from an imshypregnated mouse With a finely drawn glass needle a piece of DNA is inserted into the nucleus of the embryo which is then placed in a surrogate female to complete the pregnancy The offspring carries the foreign gene
One line of research using transgenic mice involves the study of a virus known to affect the transformation of normal cells into tumorous cancer cells Wildeman performs this work using transgenic mice in studies of cancer and metastasis
Transgenic mice are also used in Phillipss ongoing study of the causes of insulin-dependent juvenile diabetes He borrowed a gene from the fruit fly and spliced it into the chromosomes of the mouse so that it is expressed in the beta cells of the pancreas
Observations from the research conshyfirm the long-standing hypothesis that one cause of juvenile diabetes arises from the action of oxygen radicals in the pancreas
The fruit fly itself is used in studies aimed at producing insecticide-resistant insects Working with a team of scienshytists in Texas Phillips is perfecting techshyniques to transfer organophosphate insecticide-resistant genes to the fruit fly and ultimately to agriculturally beneficial insects
Studies have shown that the use of inshysecticides could be reduced if beneficial insects were not also killed by the spray In addition this research may provide the solution needed by North American
honey producers who are suffering great losses in their beehives due to parasitic mites Currently there is no effective control of the mites
From mice to pigs and chickens
Transgenic mice are also playing a role in a project that may eventually imshyprove forage use in domestic animals
Ruminant animals like cows and sheep have friendly bacteria in their inshytestinal tract that enable them to digest the cellulose fibre in forage crops If other animals such as pigs or chickens had the same ability they could be reared on lower-quality cheaper feed than the cereal grains now used
A research team that includes Phillips microbiologists Cecil Forsberg and Peter Krell and environmental biologist David Collins-Thompson has isolated the effective gene from a microshyorganism present in ruminant animals and is transferring it into the mouse which is also a monogastric animal Studies with transgenic mice will enable the team to fine-tune its ability to manipulate expression of the gene
This is just the beginning of a longshyterm project says Phillips but it may one day connect with the work of Profs Rob Etches and Jim Squires in the Department of Animal and Poultry Science who are following separate paths to reach the same goal- transshygenic chickens
Blotchy chicks
Etchess lab opened the door for transshygenic poultry in 1988 when postdoctoral fellow Jim Petitte OAC PhD 86 sucshycessfully moved cells from one chick embryo to another creating chimeric chicks Until this breakthrough
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researchers had been unable to manipulate the avian embryo in the early stages of development
Petitte extracted embryonic cells from the yo lk of a newly laid egg from a barred Plymouth Rock hen and microinjected them into a rec ipient embryo in a dwarf white l eghorn egg through a tiny 05-censhytimetre window cut in the shell When incubated the egg went on to produce a chimeric chick Embryonic cells from the black Plymouth Rock donor were expressed as blotches of black in the chicks down
Since then Etchess research team has been able to do the procedure more successfully get better gene exshypression in the donor cells and keep the embryonic cells in culture for 24 to 48 hours befo re transplanting them into the recipient egg
The chimeric chick itself is not transgenic genetic information from the donor embryo is expressed in a limited number of cells in the chick A second-generation chimera howshyever would be transgenic if the donor cells contained a foreign gene
Thats the focu s of a collaborat ive
Animal scienlisl Jim Squirev has developed a chemic(li recipe Ih(l causes DNA-I(lced liposomes 10 fuse wilil sperm cells When pershyjeered the technique will allow him to use the natural veeror ofsperm cells 10 lransmit foreign
project between the labs of Etches and colleague Prof Ann Gibbins OAC MSc 71 PhD 80 who is intershyested in modifying the donor cells through genetic manipulation When her lab team is able to target a specific gene and change it - and only it - they will insert that gene into the donor cells to produce a chimeric chick and in the second generation a transgenic chick
Transgenic sperm
Squires is taking a more obvious but no less perilous route to the transgenic chicken by using sperm cells to carry the foreign DNA Just as the hen s embryo is difficul t to manipulate the rooster s sperm has barriers of its own Prevail ing thought is that any invas ion of the sperm cell will kill its potency
Although Itali an and Israeli reshysearchers claim to have inserted DNA into the sperm cells of mice through abshysorption no one else has been able to get this to work so the prevailing thought prevail s
Squires s approach is to power DNA into the cells He s de veloped a chemishycal recipe that causes DNA-laced liposomes (fat globules) to fuse with sperm cells
Squires says his team has overcome
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the three main obstacles encapsulating DNA in the liposomes fu sing the liposomes to sperm cells which affects the transfer of 0 TA and retaining the fertility of the sperm
What they have yet to demonstrate is that the process produces a transgenic animal Trials are under way using a radioactive marker ge ne that can be easi shyly detected in a developing transgenic chicken Squires will be eager for peer rev iew to document the results this fall
If successful the sperm cell technique can be adapted for use with all species of commercial animals Sperm cells are the perfect vector because their ultimate function is to insert DNA into an egg says Squires We ll just be supplying the DNA The method is easy economical and safe to periorm and does not inshyvolve expensive equipment
Disease diagnosis
The international race to identify a mutation assoc iated with a costly swine disease was won by Guelph pathologist Peter OBrien OVC 88 and Univershysity of Toronto professor David Maclennan
The mutation associated with maligshy
nant hyperthermia was identifi ed in Maclennan s laboratory by sequenc ing the gene in normal and abnormal swine A I OO-per-cent correlation was fo und between DNA-based tests in Maclennan s laboratory and phys iologishycalbiochemical tests used in 0 Brien s research for diagnosing the condition
From these findings the scienti sts developed a test using modem molecular biology techniques to identify the mutation in the blood cells of inshydividual swine
Malignant hyperthermia is seldom fatal in pigs but it results in poorshyquality pork Pork producers suffer major economic losses from what is known as PSE - pale soft exudative (watery) meat - in affected animals
Other research at U of G cou ld help eliminate a potentially lethal blood coagulation disorder in dairy cows Facshytor XI a genetic disorder associated with a lack of c lotting protein in the bl ood causes hemorrhag ing in Holstein cows
Researchers believe the problem can be eliminated by ensuring that breeding stocks are free of the disease Testing for all of Canada is conducted by U of G biomed ica l sc ienti st Patricia Gentry and research technician Michelle Ross
Vaccine development
Vaccination is the cheapest most efshyfecti ve way of dealing with infec tions and the most poweriul way of preventshying di sease Advanced immunization programs using new biotechniques are under way in many Guelph labs last fa ll the Natural Sc iences and Engineershying Research Council announced strategic grants for advanced techshynologies that included four vacci ne development projects at U of G
Profs Brian Derbyshire and Eva Nagy of the Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Immunology (VMI) recei ved a three-year grant of $295000 to perfect gene-cloning techniques for the de velopment of a vaccine for porshycine gas troenteritis
In the same department Profs Janet Maclnnes Soren Rosendal and Bonnie -Mallard OAC 79 MSc 82 PhD 88 were awarded $250000 over three years to work on a recombinant vaccine effecshytive against the bacterial organism that causes severe pneumonia in pigs
Also in VMI Prof Patricia SheweD 75 MSc 79 PhD 82 received a three-year grant of $408 000 with Prof
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Reggie Lo Microbiology to continue work on an improved vaccine for shipshyping fever Lo and Prof Alan Mellors Chemistry and Biochemistry received a $54000 grant to develop clinical and com mercial applications of a technique used in bone marrow transplantation and vaccine development
These projects follow in the footsteps of earlier developments like the bov ine shipping fever vaccine created by Shewen and VMI chair Bruce Wilkie OVC 65 It was like finding a way to control the common cold in humans
Although the bacterium Pasteurella haemolytica occurs normally in the noses of cattle its numbers increase during periods of high stress and present an insurmountable problem for the animals immune system
Wilkie and Shewen di scovered that during its most active stage of growth the bacterium produces a toxin that imshypairs the ability of clearing cells to eliminate the bacterium They grew the bacterium in a culture monitored toxin production and developed processes for vaccine production
The technology was licensed to Langford Inc of Guelph which man ufac tures and markets Presponse shipping fever vaccine in both Canada and the United States
Lab work by Lo and former student Craig Strathdee CBS 85 PhD 89 that contributed to the shipping fever vaccine project also led to a patent apshyplication - for the plasmid coding for Pasteurella haemolytic leucotoxin which has been implicated as a major virulence factor in the impairment of primary lung defence in cattle
Animal health
Wilkie and Mallard are also working with Prof Brian Kennedy in Guelph s Centre for the Genetic Improvement of Livestock to develop a selective breedshying program that uses knowledge acshyquired through genetic studies and stretches the definition of biotechnology
To stay hea lthy an individual animal must have the genetic ability to produce resi stance to infection says Wilkie That ability is not dependent on a sing le gene but on the expression of many difshyferent genes Neve rtheless these genetic traits are heritable and amenable to selection
This team has identified traits in pigs that are important in maintaining health has characterized individual animals
Biotechnology ofa different sort in volves the use of traditional selected breeding and a computer database to produce diseaseshyresistant pigs
through the expression of these genetic traits and has associated these traits with high productivity If these high producers are mated to produce a disshyease-resistant strain of pigs is that biotechnology
If foreign DNA had been introduced into the embryo of a pig to give it the characteristic of disease resistance that would be an obvious example of bioshytechnology But how do we catalogue the technology if it uses tradi tional selecshytive breeding and a computer to produce a piglet with the same resistance to disshyease
More biotechniques in action
Guelph food scientist Cyriel Duitschaever OAC MSc 66 PhD 75 has developed new fermented milk products that will benefit people suffershying from gastrointestinal illnesses
He and research associate Carole Buteau OAC MSc 78 PhD 83 isoshylated two naturally occurring intestinal bac teri a and propagated a pure culture in the laboratory to develop both liquid and yogurt-like milk products that can be used to stimulate digestion in the inshytestinal tracts of people who are on anshytibiotics who are lactose-intolerant or who suffer gas trointestinal disorders
Clinica l trials at the Children s Hospishytal of Buffalo have been promis ing giv ing rise to another potential use in the treatment of acute diarrhea l di seases affec ting people in the Third World
Microbiology professor Joseph Lam heads a research team that has develshyoped a diagnostic kit to quickly identify a bacteria group known to cause fat al inshy
fections in some hospital patients Pseushydomonas aeruginosa is the principal cause of death in cystic fibrosis sufshyferers and is a serious threat to burn vi cshytims cancer patients and those undergo ing transplants
Because the bacterium does not respond to conventional antibiotic treatshyments quick de tection is central to preventing spread of the infection Lam s kit can cut the test period from 12 hours to five minutes
His current research illustrates the cross-over effect of biotechnology He identified an antigen that is common to about 75 per cent of P aeruginosa strains and a monoclonal antibody against the antigen This has allowed him to iso late spec ia l bacteria that will produce the antigen in large quantities for further s tud y His work should evenshytually lead to a human monoclonal anshytibody that cou ld be used to protect cystic fibrosis patients
In 1989 when the federal governshyment decided it was time to put some money behind its verbal thrust in science and technology it allocated $240 million to estab li sh 14 centres of excellence that would integrate the reshysearch efforts of Canadian uni versi ties industry and government
Several U of G researchers received funding including microbiologists Chris Whitfield Anthony Clarke Joseph Lam Reggie Lo Roselynn Stevenson and Terry Beveridge who beshycame part of the network looking into bacterial di sease Their expertise will aid the search for the causative agents of bacterial diseases such as whooping cough gonorrhea toxic shock synshydrome lung infections and me ningitis
In 1988 biochemist Janet Wood and crop scientist Peter Paul s achieved a breakthrough in understanding how subshystances like sugars and amino ac ids are transported from outside to inside a living cell wall They found that minute protein molecules in the wall surroundshying a cell act like miniature pumps capshyturing the substance and powering it through the cell wall -They are now trying to determine how the protein molec ules choose subshystances for uptake or release S uch celshylular behavior plays a critical role in determining a plants reaction to soi l sa linity or explaining why cells fai l to transport glucose from the blood in diabetics
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Behind every how theres a why While we stand in awe of what sc ienshytists are accomplishing in the biological sciences we shouldnt lose sight of the reasons why they are manipulating cell structure and decoding genetic blueprints
To some extent scientific exploration is driven by human nature - our desire to understand and control the natural world Advances in biotechniques and genetic engineering promise to give us more of both
Reports on the Human Genome Project say that within 15 years well know the code of almost every gene in the human body This work and current explorations in animal genetics are harshymonized by the fact that many of the genes that control development are similar among species
The chicken for example is a familiar model for studies in developshymental biology Supported by 60 to 70 years of data todays embryologists like Prof Rob Etches are learning how to modify the genes that control developshyment of a chick embryo while giving us a better understanding of how genes efshyfect development in all vertebrates
Nothing could be more fund amental than understanding that process says Prof Keith Betteridge who heads the Guelph team working with bovine embryos In all areas of reproductive and genetic research the big payoff is that we will understand more about how two gametes can unite to fonn a single cell and develop into Northern Dancer or Albert Einstein he says
Everyone has a role to play in decidshying how to use this knowledge says Betteridge but the researcher has the triple responsibility of thinking through the implications of new technologies exshyplaining those implications to a skeptishycal and concerned public and safeshyguarding the welfare of animals used
Whether manipulating an entire animal or one of its reproductive cells the scientist is guided by the same set of moral standards If the technology inshyduces pain or suffering causes changes in behavior or affects the animals abilshyity to eat and survive then it shouldnt be done says Prof Bruce Wilkie chair of the Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Immunology
He and other Guelph scientists inshyvolved in animal research are subject to
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peer rev iew through the U of G s animal care committee which is also charged with ensuring that research and teaching programs are in compliance with the Animals for Research Act of Ontario
Reporting to the University s Reshysearch Board the committee is comshyposed offaculty student community and non-user representatives It estabshyli shes animal-care policies on campus and evaluates all protocols submitted by researchers and teachers After granting initial approval the committee reviews each project annually and inspects reshysearch facilities each semester A provinshycially appointed inspector also visits campus frequently and the Canadian Council on Animal Care makes an inshyspection every three years to assess the level of animal care
In addition to safeguarding animal care scienti sts al so need to provide evidence that the products of biotechnolshyogy are safe for human consumption or medical use The public needs to know that the pharmaceutical protein cloned and produced in a chicken s egg is no different than the same protein cultured from human cells and produced in a large bioreactor
The big payoff is that we will understand more about how two gametes can unite to form a single cell and develop into Northern Dancer or Albert Einstein
One of the most talked-about benefits of transgenic technologies is the potenshytial for producing enzymes prote ins and antibodies for pharmaceutical and inshydustrial uses Molecular farming would take advantage of the expression system in higher animals to produce a therashypeutic protein that is difficult or expenshysive to make in a lab
The potential seems enormous but the prac tice will be quite simple A typishycal Ontario dairy herd could probably produce enough human insulin or bloodshyclotting factor to satisfy the world
demand It s easy to see why these techshyniques are already presenting problems for patent offices
The past decade of work in transshygenesis has been a learning process for all of us Early research efforts that produced pigs in the United States with arthritic deformities and sheep in Australia with ulcers have taught us th at even science must learn to walk befo re it can run That means perfecting genetic transfer in animals where the techniques are easily controlled - such as mice and fruit flies - before applyshying them to domestic animals
One of the advantages of gene transshyfer technology is the control it offers geneticists who are able to manipulate expression of a single gene during development One of the limitations may be the re lative ly minor change that gene can make in one generation when compared with the changes induced through the countless generations of selection since domestication
These limitations may alleviate some of our fears about the use of gene transshyfer but it also makes us question its value at least in terms of breed improveshyment in domestic livestock Prof Charshyles Smith holds a research chair at Guelph in animal-breeding strategies and is often called on to assess the value of the new biotec hnologies in the genetic improvement of farm livestock
Economic traits are already being imshyproved through traditional selective breeding methods he says It would take quite large beneficial transgenic efshyfects (at least 10 per cent of the mean) on economic merit to make their incorshyporation worthwhile
Despite our e thical concerns the legal entanglements created by the use of biotechniques and the problem of turnshying new technologies into cost-effective procedures most scientists agree that these technolog ies are too powerfu I not to use They have the pote ntial to help allev iate some of the most serious problems facing the world - food production overpopulation disease and shyenvironmental degradation
Statisticians teU us that 50 years from now we will be trying to feed twice the current world s population on a smaller land base in a more fragile environshyment This is the why behind current research in genetic engineering
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OUD TH Annual giving in 1991 reached $14 million The value of the Annual Fund becomes more apparent each year as the University of
Scholarships amp BursariesGuelph faces continued financial $320127
AMF Priority Athletics ~ ---------- (Scholarships$38326
pressure The 1991 Annual Fund Pet Trust raised $14 million to help $261224 maintain scholarships and provide academic and library programs AMF OAC Alumni Scholarships Foundation ______ grew by $9245 25 per cent
$228494
Memorial Funds $56997
Arboretum $77441
Class Projects ResearchBuildings$86658
Matching gifts grew 31 per cent in 1991 More and more Canadian companies are g iving financial support to the institushytions that educated their employees A total of 44 companies matched 92 inshydividual gifts for a record $11120 in Annual Fund contributions to the University of Guelph in 1991
If you work for a matching-g ift employer every doll ar you donate is matched - doubled or even tripled shyby a company gift Its as easy as it sounds so check with your employer on how to multiply the value of your gift to the University
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Academic Enrichment $87246
3M Canada Incorporated Akzo America Foundation Alcan Aluminum Limited A lean Canada Products Ltd Amdahl Canada Limited American Home Products Corp American International Group Inc BASF Corporation Bell Canada Boise Cascade Canada Limited Campbell Soup Co Ltd Chevron Canada Resources Ltd F alconbridge Ltd Ford Motor Company of Canada Ltd Gelleral Electric Canada Inc Hoechst Canada Incorporated IBM Canada Limited ICI Canada Incorporated Insurance Bureau of Canada
$134893Library $103050
John Laball Limited Kraft General Foods Canada McGraw-H ill Ryerson Limited Nabisco Brands Canada Ltd Northern Telecom Limited Paul Revere Life Insurance Co Pfizer Canada Inc Pioneer Hi-Bred Limited Pitman-Moore Inc Sara Lee Corp ofCanada Ltd Square D Canada The Bank of Montreal The Coca-Cola Company The Toronto Star The UPS Foundation TransCanada Pipelines Warner-Lambert Canada Inc Westeel
Guelph Alumnus
ADIT ON With thanks to Donors Class agents College representatives Alma Mater Fund Advisory Council
Alumni and others who give to the University of Guelph through the Annual Fund are helping to maintain quality at a time when governments are funding for mediocrity Because of the dedication and commitment of our donors and volunshyteers the 1991 Annual Fund surpassed last year s total by $100000 We did not achieve our goal - perhaps $1 6 million was overly ambitious in light of current economic conditions - but we were able to maintain last years 25-per-cent inshycrease in scholarship support
Through the Alma Mater Fund we raised more than $540000 and achieved Tom Sawyer
the target of 12-per-cent participation among graduates of the three founding colleges Arts CBS and CSS alumni substantially increased their donations and participation over last year Campus participation grew from 145 per cent in 1990 to 171 per cent this year And our parents program pushed contributions from parents to $84188 compared with $31500 in 1990
For the first time since 1984 the Alma Mater Fund Advisory Council was able to go beyond its commitments to fund eight additional projects - a total of $86000
Looking ahead our flagship project for 1992 will be War Memorial Hall renovations During Alumni Weekend in June you ll have a chance to see the work that has been done upstairs and the work still needed in the downstairs hall It s a project well worth the interest and support of alumni
For your past and future support of the Alma Mater Fund my sincere thanks
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Tom Sawyer OAC 59A and 6 Corporations Chair AMF Advisory Council Associations Foundations $2874947 Annual giving contribution s
III Annual IGiving Alumni
$1403701 Major Gifts $1236622
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were 22 per cent of the o
Other $687687
$6239707 given t U of G as donation
in 1991
Government (Donations only
$36750
Annual Giving Report
1991 Annual Fund Results $1 A niillion wasraised overallmiddot ariinceaSe of
76 per ceI1tThisyear alumrii in the Arts and CBS groups doubled theirparticipation alld conshytributions And the parents recotded a 46-pershy
cent participation rate
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The group of eight
Eight campus projects were selected to share $86000 in highest-priority funds from the 1990 Alma Mater Fund Among them are the OvC Wild Bird Clinics education program a CSS academic medal in memory of the late dean John vanderkamp a soc ial sc ience citation index for the library framshying for the fine art print study collection a computer design laboratory for the School of Engineering seed money for a history graduate scholarship a conshytinuing education survey for the Mac-FACS Alumni Association and a HAFA-sponsored executive-inshyresidence
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Of cattle cash and Colvil e Alumni gifts to the University of Guelph come in some pretty interesting packages Over the years alumni have given livestock concrete paintings shythere are two by Canadian painter Alex Colville - furniture land books inshysurance policies and a host of artifacts and antiques And money - a lot of money Almost every building on camshypus has some bricks and mortar paid for by alumni And hundreds of students are helped along the way each year by alumshyni-sponsored scholarships
The Annual Giving Report on the preceding pages shows once again how important alumni gifts are to the Univershysity and provides us with an opportunity to say thank you to those alumni who continue to give on a yearly basis Anshynual giving is however only one of three avenues through which alumni proshyvide financial support to the University The others are major gifts and promoshytional programs
Annual giving
The Alma Mater Fund established in 1969 is the route chosen by most alumshyni faculty and staff who make annual gifts to the University
AMF solicitation and management are handled by a volunteer advisory council On the preceding page chair Tom Sawyer OAC 59A and 64 talks about the funds success over the last two years with AMF scholarships inshycreasing by 25 per cent This year the AMF begins a three-year commitment to funding renovations to War Memorial Hall
In addition to its flagship project AMF provides regular support to athshyletics through Gryphon Club contribushytions to college advancement funds and scholarships and to individual class projects
The AMF supports the camaraderie of university days as alumni work together to plan and complete a project whether its funding a scholarship a painting a tree weight-lifting equipshyment or furniture for Alumni House AMF contributions also ensure that fushyture Guelph students will remember those who have gone before
In addition to AMF donations the anshynual giving program includes gifts to
the OVC Pet Trust Fund the OAC Alumni Foundation the Arboretum the paren ts program and the Li brary Other gifts made directly to the University supshyport memorial funds scholarships musishycal activities and research and academic programs
Major gifts
Major gifts to the University are adshyministered by the Deve lopment Office under the direction of Marilyn Robinson Mac 55 These include beshyquests or life insurance policies shortshyterm pledges (often made during a capital campaign) large donations that might establish an endowment fund or contributions to special University projects like the Heritage Fund or the proposed FACS Building addition
Gifts- in-kind - such as library materials art objects or estate properties - also fall within thi s category Last year alumni gave more than $12 milshylion in such tax-deductible gifts
Promotions
Every Guelph graduate is a member of the University of Guelph Alumni Asshysociation and receives the Guelph Alumshy
nus magazine and many other privishyleges There are no UGAA membership fees but the association does raise money through promotional programs like MasterCard travel packages and the North American Life Assurance proshygram
The UGAA provides serv ices to alumshyni and students - such as the careershyplanning workshop planned for Juneshyand returns many dollars directly to the campus Last year it gave $20000 to the library
In addition to direct financial support through annual giving and major gifts alumni also support the University inshydirectly through membership fees to individual college and program associashytions The fees pay for association acshytivities that help maintain ties between their members and the University
Questions
If you have questions or would like 10
know more about the tax advantages of giving to U of G write to Paulette Samson associate director of annual giving and support services at Alumni House University of Guelph Guelph Ont NIG 2Wl or call 519-824-4120 Ext 6183
When yo~bearrom US
If you think youre hearing from us moreoften lhanY9u elida few years ago you reright But checkyour mail and you ll 110tiqe that you~re also hearing
more frequemly from othernon-jgtrofit)rganizations and charities We v~ all stepped lip oui- fUQdIaising efforts
U QfGappreciates your support and needs your help butyou wont know that if we donr teflyou Aildeyen if you cant afford to make a fjnancialcon~
tributiori we hop~ to wjn yoUfverbaJ sliPPOJ-tJt will take many voices to coii- ylnce governmeritthal universities should beagreater public priority
When we contacenttyou on behalf of iheUriivetsity we lly to give more thiin we ask So tak~advantage ofthe p~1one call o(letter to findoutwhais happenc ing OJrcarnp~s U ofG hasmuchto offer llufnrii professionaldevelcipment courses library privileges travel programs recreation and a link Igt friends and
classmates
We Jik~to keep in roucharidYcwarit yO~1 to know the progress were rilaking Ast~e Uriiversity $ prestige grows so does the value ofyour degree
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Get your career on track
Responding to alumni requests the University of Guelph Alumni Associashytion will sponsor a career-planning workshop on campus June 26 to 28 The weekend program will be led by Sharon Crozier of the University of Calgary counselling service Each participant will receive a careerlifestyle analysis and will develop a personal action plan
The $225 fee includes the StrongshyCampbell Interest Inventory and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator which will be administered and tabulated prior to the weekend Testing dates have been set in Toronto for May 27 and in Guelph for June 4
Sponsored by the UGAA and coshyordinated by Continuing Education and Alumni Affairs the workshop will also draw on the Universitys Counselling and Student Resource Centre
Enrolment is limited to 20 For registration information see page 26 or call Continuing Education at 519-767shy5000
UGAA board report
by Grant Lee CSS 73 MA 80
The UGAA will present a convocation package to each graduate this spring imshymediately following presentation of the degree or diploma Developed by Alumshyni Affairs staff the package is designed to increase awareness of the UGAA and the collegeschool alumni associations encourage membership introduce the Guelph Alumnus and provide an opporshytunity for board members to congratushylate our new alumni
Approval of the new UGAA bylaw is on schedule It will be presented to members at the annual general meeting in June along with an amendment to the
i I UGAA Letters Patent
In addition the UGAA board bull has approved a $400 donation to help
cover costs for two students to represhysent Guelph at the 1992 World Debatshying Championships in Dublin Ireland
bull is looking at a proposal to help alumDl with financial planning There will be more to come on this subject later
bull received thanks from president Brian Segal on behalf of those alumni who attended the October symposium
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Canada Break Up or Restructure The association was a patron of the event
bull is responding to requests from alumni for more social events Aside from the travel program the UGAA sponsored a ski day at Horseshoe Valley in March
bull approved a proposal from the School of Landscape Architecture to research places of historical value on campus Financial support has yet to be resolved
bull accepted an offer to help sponsor the University Centres annual lecture series which invites Canadian and inshyternational public figures to speak on current issues All events in the winter 92 series were free to alumni
bull donated U of G sweatshirts to Canadian Guidance and Counselling for a conference in Ottawa this sumshymer
bull approved the purpose and terms of refshyerence for the new Alumni House Adshyvisory Committee which is charged with overseeing maintenance of the
facility adopted the 199192 budget and finanshycial plan drafted last November This year we expect to generate some $44000 and spend $33000 It has been suggested that we set the 199293 budget and plan in April of this year so the new board wi II start in September with a sound financial program and budget that will only reshyquire adoption or revision
Chapter news
Calgary - About 40 alumni and guests met at the Delta Bow Valley Hotel Feb 3 to view a U of G video and hear a talk by admissions counsellor C hr is tine Toews FACS 87 Co-ordinator of the event was Janet Hutchinson CBS 79
Edmonton - Paul OAC 67 and Anne Valentine CBS 69 hosted a group of 30 alumni and guests at the Ramada Renaissance Hotel
Montreal - U of G welcomed students and their parents - including many
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alumni - to its first Montreal informashytion night for prospective students The event was modelled after a successful program in Toronto that draws more than 800 students each spring
Vancouver - U of G president Brian Segal met with alumni March 5 at the Pan Pacific Hotel Jim Dodds OVC 63 and Sarah Bloom FACS 86 orshyganized the event which attracted about 70 alumni and guests
Halifax- U ofG alumni in Halifax met with Gryphon basketball players during the March 26 to 28 CIAU chamshypionships Despite losing the OUAA west division title to Brock University the Gryphons qualified for a wi ld card spot at the CIAU championships Alumshyni received free tickets to the game that pitted Guelph against Brandon in the consolation final Fan support was enshythusiastic but the Gryphons lost 72 to 64 finishing third overall
Homecoming 1992 Plans are well under way for Homecoming weekend Sept 25 and 26 In addition to the annual Gryphon Hall of Fame dinner and award s ceremony the weekend will feat ure a beach volshyleyball tou rnamen t --~4~=iiiiikshyconcert alumni brunch walk-a-thon pep rally reunions and the traditional homecoming dance following the Saturday afternoon footshyball game This year the Gryphons will play Wil frid Laurier University A complete schedule will appear in the next Guelph Alumnus but you can get
Winners of Ihe Ju SI fo r Fun square dance compelition 01 College Royal were left 10 right Ann Joselin Kelley Allen Joanne Hewirson Brenl McFadden caller Sue MacKinnon Richard Presley Trish Henderson Jason Thompson and Kelly Lillie
in the Homecoming spirit now by helpshying to plan your class reunion or signing up as a scorekeeper for the vo lleyball tournament For infOlmation call alumshyni officer Laurie Malleau HAFA 83 at 519-824-4120 Ext 2102
Swing your partner
Eight squares of alumni took part in the College Royal square dance competition in March Winners of the UGAA alumni square dance plaque were the Crazy 8s Joanne Hewitson Arts 91 Lloyd Hutchinson CBS 87 Sonya Jones CPS 90 Ed Ketchabaw OAC 88 and MSc 91 Carol)n OAC 90 and Brad MacNeil CPS 87 Mike Relf OAC 91 and student Sherry MacNeil Wayne Lowden was the caller
Winners in the Just for Fun category were Junior Farmer alumni who included Hewitson Ann Joselin OAC 90 Brent McFadden CSS 90 Richard Presley OAC 86 and soonshyto-be-alumni Kelley Allen Trish
Henderson Kelly Little and Jason Thompson The caller was Sue MacKinnon OVC 9 1
Florida picnic
The North Port Yacht Club hosted 199 alumni for the annual Florida picnic March 4 On hand to meet them was Trish Walker CSS 77 and MSc 90 director of alumni affairs Judy Phillips of the University s Real Estate Division also attended to talk about the Village by the Arboretum retirement deve lopshyment
Attendance prizes went to Gertrude Stewart Mac 30 and Morley Funston OAC 32 The picnic was sponsored by the UGAA Alumni-In shyAction Committee represented by Ken Gartley OAC 42 and the Florida reunion committee consisting of Mary and Ted Brent OAC 48 Helen and Don Moffatt OAC 46 Stella and Bob Moore OAC 48 and Retis and Bill HasenptlugOAC 39
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A new kind of class reunion
Its the latest fad in alumni circles shymeeting your classmates at the anshynual University of Guelph alumni hockey tournament Twenty-two teams played in the fifth annual tourshynament in December
For most teams tournament standshyings are secondary to the socializing with classmates that they may not see otherwise says Bill Seegmiller OAC 83 who worked with Brian TapscottOAC 8 1 to organize the event We promote the social aspect through two divisions - social and more social - and include family skating and a Saturday evening wine and cheese party he says Trish Walker director ofalumni affairs presents fhe social division lrophy 10 Ihe OAC 79
Dipper Oldies (II the U ofG alumni hockey tournamenl The OAC 79A team defeated the Grey Gryphons to win the more soshycial division The OAC 80 team won the consolation final and the spirit award went to OAC 7778
In the social (a little more competishytive) division it was the Faceoffs in first place over OAC 88 OAC 90 won the consolation trophy and the Valley Vikings took home the spirit award
Organizers plan to add womens exshyhibition games to the 1992 tournament which is scheduled for Dec 5 and 6 For more information call Seegmiller at 519-836-3807 or Rudy Diemer OAC 85 at 519-763-2250
A night at the races
The UGAA Alumni-in-Action group will host a night at Mohawk Raceway May 26 The $30 admission includes a 6 pm buffet parking program taxes and gratuities For detail s call Laurie
~ Malleau at 519-824-4120 Ext 2102
I Alumni directory
A new alumni directory will be ready for delivery in May The deadline for alumni updates has passed but you can still order a copy of the directory at a cost of $40 plus tax Return the order form you received with the special U of G wristwatch offer or write to Rosemary Clark Mac 59 at Alumni House University of Guelph Guelph Ont NIG 2Wl
Guelph Alumnus
Ottawa chapter 50 years young
There was a nostalgic gathering of Guelph alumni in Ottawa last winter to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the city s alumni chapter
Donald Fletcher OAC 36A and 39 who was president of the group in 1953 sent us a historical account of the chapters activities
A small organizing committee first met in February 1941 at Madame Burgers restaurant to plan the chapters first fun ction a skating party at the Ottawa Experimental Farm It attracted 75 people
Over the years the group held an anshynual picnic and a banquet and dance that gave them a chance to invite faculty from Guelph to speak about happenings at the colleges - and later the Univershysi ty Every president from George I Christie to Bill Winegard paid a vi sit
In 1951 alumni from OVC and Macshydonald Institute who had been meeting since 1936 joined the OAC group A crowd of almost 200 celebrated the chapter s 10th anniversary at a picnic at the farm of the late John Bracken OAC 06 During the 1950s they added a get-together at the annual Ottawa-area plowing match which gave way to a curling bon spiel in the 1960s
There have been many special funcshytions - entertaining the Gryphon footshyball teams square dances car rallies golf tournaments theatre parties and raceway evenings - but the event that stands out in Fletchers memory ocshycurred in 1966 when five members of Parliament hosted the group in the parshyliamentary ballroom
The chapter also includes a couples bridge club which has been meeting for 25 years in the homes of its members
Fletcher thanks the 30 people who have served as president of the Ottawa alumni chapter and the dozens more who have helped on committees devot shying years to the executive to promote the institution
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JUNE 26 27 amp 28 ~ The Program This highly successful workshop developed by Sharon Crozier PhD University Counselling Services University of calgary is the first step for an alumnus who is considering a career move The weekend (Friday evening through Sunday afternoon) will consist of group presentations conducted by Dr Crozier with smaller working groups facilitated by profeSSional counsellors from the University of Guelph Counselling and Student Resource Centre
Discussion structured exercises and experiential activities will lead alumni to gain insight into a personal careerllifestyle analYSis and assessment career information resources networking skills and much more
No matter what their age career stage or reason for transition each participant will find this workshop to be an excellent opportunity to develop a personal action plan - and chart their next move
~ Pre-1esting In order to provide individualized career information registrants are required to attend one of two pre-testing sessions The Strongshycampbell Interest Inventory and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator will be administered and results tabulated prior to the workshop Pre-testing dates are as follows
Toronto Wednesday May 27 1992 700 pm - 8 30 pm Holiday Inn Yorkdale
Guelph Thursday June 4 1992 700 pm - 8 30 pm University Centre
~ Fee The registration fee of $225 includes administration and tabulation of the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator materials two lunches and refreshment breaks
Tuition fees in excess of $100 are income tax deductible
Enrolment is limited to 20 registrants
Sponsored by University of Guelph Alumni Association
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May 2 - The Guelph Spring Festival begins with a 25th-anniversary gala dinshyner in Creelman Hall that will honor founding president Murdo MacKinnon Other festival events run until May 23 For more information call 519-821-7570
May 2 shy An All-Canadian University Asshysociation d inne r w il l be held in Washington DC at the Embassy of Canada Guest speaker is Robert Lanni president of the University of Windsor Entertainment will be provided by Windsors music department For inforshymation call T Chan at 202-543-9111
May 3 - Arboretum Day celebrates spring with family nature walks at 1 and 330 pm and an electrical keyboard concert at 230 pm featuring Canadian comshyposer Carole Anne Burris
May 10 to Aug 30 - Guided nature walks run every Sunday at 230 pm in the Arboretum Topics include wildflowers birds turtles snakes and insects The nature centre is open from 1230 to 430 pm
May 13 - Chancellor Lincoln Alexander is the guest speaker at the Alumni-inmiddotAction annual general meeting which begins at noon in the Arboretum Centre For details call Alumni Affairs 519-824middot 4120 Ext 2102
May 13 - The Human KineticsHuman Biology Alumni Association will hold its inaugural meeting at730 pm at Alumni House with a coffee and dessert social RSVP to 519-824-4120 Ext 6963
May 23 shy FACS 82 is sponsoring a colshylection of Bob Munsch plays performed by the Carousel Players at3 pm at War Memorial Hall Tickets are $8 plus tax and handling To order call the UC box off ice at 519-824-4120 Ext 3940
May 26 - Alumni-in-Action is hosting a night at Mohawk Raceway Cost is $30 To register call 529-824-4120 Ext 2102
May 30 - An Arboretum sale of rare native trees and shrubs at the RJ Hi lton Centre on College Avenue East runs from 9 am to 1 pm For information call 519-824shy4120 Ext 2113
May 30 shy The sixth annual All-Canadian University Dinner in Chicago will be held
in the Henry Crown Space Centre at the Museum of Science and Industry and will include a reception buffet dinner and an Omnivax movie beginning at 6 pm Guest speaker is George Pedersen president of the University of Western Ontario For information call David Cole at 312-372-4404 or Hugh Mackenzie at 708-369-3688
June 2 to 5 shy Spring convocation June 13 - Beginning at 7 am the Arshy
boretum will hold its summer bird survey The four-hour walk will locate breeding birds and identify their species by sight and song
June 15 to 17 shy U of G will host the 15th annual Guelph Conference on Sexuality With the theme Sexuality New Visions the conference will examine current isshysues in human sexuality counselling strategies for sexual problems and teaching approaches in sexuality educashytion For information call the Office of Continuing Education at 519-767-5000 or fax 519-767-0758
June 19 to 21 - ALUMNI WEEKEND See page 39 for a complete schedule of events and alumni association meetings The UGAA annual meeting is June 21 at 10 am in Macdonald Hall 149
June 26 to 28 shy The UGAA-sponsored alumni career-planning workshop will be held on campus See page 26 for details
July 31 amp Aug 4 shy The National Youth Orchestra will perform in War Memorial Hall at 8 pm as part of its summer program at U of G Tickets at $8 general $6 for stUdents and seniors will be availshyable at the door
Sept 26 - HOMECOMING Rise early for the second ann ual Homecoming charity walkathon At 930 am the Human Kinetics Alumni Association will hold its annual general meeting in the School of Human Biology lounge
Oct 1 - OVCs 1992 Schofield Memorial Lecture will be given by Steven Arnoczky a professor in the department of small animal clin ical sciences at Michigan State Universitys Laboratory for Comparative Orthopedics The 3 pm lecture will be held in War Memorial Hall Admission is free
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wriies a weekly newspaper colllnin years ofmy life when hewas a stlderit at devoted 10 firesafetyalldpreventioll and is Guelph He lived in La Maison Frailcaise eaptilinof training Fbrtbe Hudson Fire - orfivesemestersand was house adviser in Department This summer he wiHspeak to 197677 the international Fire Buffs Associatioriin middot Hewrites Houseadvisers middotwerdofne shyclevelarid Ohio limes looked down on as sorneliOft6f
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John Boros 88 of Wei land Ont writes that he is impressed by the way U of G keeps records after graduation Thi s gives the graduate a sense of belonging a connection to an important period in hi s or her life he says
Jane Buzza 88 is working as records co-ordinatorarchivist for the Ontario Medishycal Association in Toronto
Jacqueline (Sullivan) DeClerck 86 is a public relations officer at the Canada Trust head office in London Onto
Richard Ely 70 works at the Crown attorneys office in WeIland Ont He has an LLB from the University of Western Ontario in addition to his Guelph degree He says he often talks about U of G to young students trying to decide which university to attend
Paul Genest 81 finished graduate studies at Johns Hopkins Universi ty in Maryland and is now assistant professor of philosophy at Union College in Schenectady NY He is man-ied to Barbara Jessup 8 1
Brian Hogarth 78 is head of interpretashytion at the G1enbow Museum in Calgary
Martha Hooper 9 1 was married last Ocshytober to David Perry They live in Calgary where she is a sw itchboard operator at the Delta Bow Valley Inn
Rene van der Meijden 87 has put his degree in geogshyraphy and internationshyal development to good use with the Christian Reformed World Relief Comshymittce Originally from the Netherlands he is now in Uganda on a three-year asshy Rene van der signment as a rural Meijden development adv iser He sends greetings to his many friend s in Canada and to Guelph grads Stan and Kitty in Bolivia in particular and reminds us that visitors are always welshycome in Uganda
Edward Milliner 85 will graduate this spring from the faculty of education at the University of Windsor
Mark Moore 85 is doing postgraduate work in history at the University of Bristol in England He plans to teach high school
fn response to a letter from Dawn Monroe 69 that appeared in the winter 1992 issue of the Guelph Alumnus Doug Moynihan 69 of Fort McMurray Alta writes Be disapshypointed no more Dawn l I too graduated in 1969 from (the College of) Arts or as it was then called Wellington College and I havent heard from anyone either And I too think it is time to contribute my news
After graduation f headed out to disshycover and sol ve the problems of the world travelling overseas for about three years Since then Ive been working in human resources in a variety of organizations in many different locations in Canada Cun-entshyIy I am the manager of human resources in Fort McMurray
PS Do you remember me Dawn I was the bartender in Creelman Hall I
John Teskey 7 1 began new duties last summer as director of libraries at the University of New Brunsw ick in Fredericton He was head of adshyministrative sershyvices at the University of Albershyta before moving John Teskey across Canada to acshycept the UNB posishytion but had earlier served as chief librarian and was library personnel officer at both Alshyberta and the University of Saskatchewan
Teskey says his biggest challenge is to regain the lost purchasing power that univershysity libraries have suffered as a result of static budge ts and ri sing material costs He is encouraging increased resource-sharing among universities and interlibrary loan programs with shortened turnaround
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Elizabeth (Baxter) Willson 77 a real esshytate agent in Chatham Ont writes to voice a common feeling that the universi ty exshyperience itself is often more important than the degree or diploma received I am really glad I graduated from Guelph she says
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Michelle Bombadier and Mike Caldwell both 92 are two of 50 Canad ian youth selected to work in Guyana for three months with Youth Challenge International (YCI) a non-governmental organization that provides Third-world experience for Canadians They may spend the summer building a school teaching safety or clearing land for Gu ytna s first national park but they need some private support to he lp cover transportation costs Anyone able to help should write to YCI at I I Soho St Toronto M5T IZ6
Jane Coventry 86 writes with accolades for the Guelph Alumnus grad news section and an update on what she and her husband Jaydee Smith 84 and MSc 89 are doing They were married in 1989 while working at U of G - he in the Department of Animal and Poultry Science and she in the Departshyment of Crop Science In February 1991 they moved to England where Smith is doing a PhD at the University of Bristol and working as a research assistant Coventry
works in the technology transfer unit of Nickshyerson Seeds Ltd in Cambridge
Jeffrey Crawford 88 and Leslie Thompson 86 were malTied last October He is an elementary schoolteacher in Mount Forest Ont
Craig Emerson 83 earned a PhD at Dalshyhousie University in Halifax in 1990 and is now a research associate in oceanography
Paul Fleming 85 is a pharmaceutical sales representative for Hoechst Canada Inc and lives in Nepean Ont
David Forsey 80 is an assistant professor of computer science at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver He is marshyried to Lyn Bartram
Michael Gangl 89 is in his third year at the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College
Astrid Harms 87 is a registered nurse in London Ont
Andrew Holmes 85 worked for the Onshytario government as a wildlife biologist for three years but is now back at school in his second year at Northwestern Chiropractic College in Minneapolis
Timothy Johnson 86 works at the Centre for Limnology at the University of Wisconshys in in Madison
Karen Lennard 77 (HK) and her hu sshyband Paul Jackson 79 (HK ) and MSc
82 both went 011 to earn medical degrees from McMaster University in HalTilton Ont Jackson also has a master s in physiology from the University of Virginia and is comshypleting an anesthesiology residency in Hamilshyton Lennard has a part-time family medical practice allowing her to spend more time with the couples two children Matthew and Nicola
Wendy Maltby 74 is an elementary schoolteacher for the Metropolitan Toronto School Board
Sandra OConnor 84 earned a medical degree from the University of Western Onshytario and is now practi sing in Burlington Ont
Linda Owen 81 runs her own business as a consulting exercise physiologist and fitness supervisor in Campbell River BC
Sheryle Tetley 86 is regional sales manager for Glaxo Canada Inc in Mi ss isshysauga Ont where she lives with her husshyband Ian
Rob Tonus 87 is manager of the Black Creek Rehabilitation Project a grassroots enshyvironment program to improve a degraded urban stream in Toronto His office is with the Metropolitan Toronto and Region Conshyservation Authority and he lives in Oakville with his wife Wanda (Knul) 88 (HK) a public health inspector in Hamilton
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Richard Woods 81 is an instructor of xshyray technology at the Easte rn Ontario School of X-ray Technology at Kingston Ge neral Hospital He would like to hear from other members of the 1981 U of G choir wi th whom he travelled to Scandinav ia Write to him at RRI Od essa Ont KOH 2HO
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James Dy nes 84 has comp le ted g raduate studies in chemistry and so il sc ience at the Univers ity of Sas katchewan in Saskatoon
Catherine (McVittie) Clark 88 is a nuclear medica l tech nici an at Howard Counshyty General Hospita l in Columbia Md She and her husband Michae l li ve in Elkridge Md
David Holmes 85 is a systems analyst at Sun Life Assurance Company
RolfKierdorf 84 lives in Guelph with his wife Janet He is se lf-employed as a systems consultant
Donald McFadde n 71 and his wife Carol li ve in A lbany Ga where he pracshyti ses medicine
Donald Ridley 69 and PhD 73 has been appoin ted seni or v ice-presiden t of CibashyGeigy Canada Ltd in Oakvi lle Ont and is responsib le for a ll corpora te serv ices includshy
ing finance human resources safe ty health and the environment He a lso se rves on the board of the Canadian Agricu ltura l Research Council and is a member of the Great Lakes Action Plan Strategi c Advi sory Committee
Kathryn Root Parr is an assoc iate minister at Lorne Park Bapti st Church in Mississhysa uga Ont She was married las t fa ll to Vicshytor Parr
Peter Simpson 85 is dis tric t manager for McNeil Pharmaceutical Ltd in Stouffville Ont He is married to Cynthia (Hamilton) 85 (HK)
Keith Stemshorn 83 is in the Canadian Armed Forces stationed in Calgary
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Nikki Dignard 86 moved to Ottawa last year where her husband Ted Henike pracshyti ses denti stry Dignard is working on an M BA and says she d love to hear from CSS classmates Tom Cam and Kathryn
Bonnie Dunnett 87 and MA 91 works on campus at the Gerontology Research Centre S he and Barry Hallman 9 1 li ve in Guelph
Kathryn Faulkner 80 is a registered nurse in Burling ton Ont where she li ves wi th he r husband John
Ruth Fox 84 is a sta ffing assistant for
Transport Canad a and lives in Toronto w ith her husband Christopher
Shonna Giles 88 is an admiss ions officer at Simon Fraser Unive rs ity in Burnaby BC
Gina Grieco 75 is a hi gh school guidance counsellor in North York Onto
John Harris 82 is manager of financial planning and budgets for th e City of Brampton Ont
Paulette Heppner 76 is a teache r in Vanshycouver
John Johnston 7 1 has been appointed exshyec uti ve vice-pres ident o f Ve rsacold Canada Corp and pres ident of QF Foods Distribushytion Services Versacold Canada is the largest public refri gera ted ware hou sing orshygani za tion in Western Canada
Michael Kral 79 has moved from the Univers ity of Manitoba to the University of Wind sor where he is an assistant professor of psychology
Jeffrey Lozon 76 and his family recently returned to Toronto after 15 years in Western Canada He is executive vice-president and ch ief operat ing officer at St Michael s Hos pital and li ves in Oakville wi th hi s wife Donna and two daughters
Bria n Martin 79 is a real estate appraiser in Portland Ont whe re he li ves w ith hi s wife Margaret (Sheffield) Arts 79
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Leith Mason 90 works in Toronto in the Canadian office of the State of Illinois as a special assistant to the Illinois Department of Food and Agricul ture
Michael McKean 74 of Don Mills Ont was recently appointed president of Wrigley Canada Inc Before joining Wrigley as execushytive v ice-pres ident in 1990 he he ld senior positions in Hong Kong Brazil and the United States
Rick 74 and Vicki (Collard) McTaggart FACS 74 are working in Ottawa He is director of overseas operations for the Unitarian Service Committee a charitable non-governmental organization that supports commun it y and human resou rce developshyment activities in Africa and Asia She is sec tion head of consumer analysis in the agr ifood development branch of Agriculture Canada
Sandra Morrison 86 is an ass istant professhysor in the department of psychiatry at the University of Western Ontario
Stephen Naylor 85 is director of planning and development for the amalgamated municipalities of Alliston Beeton Tecumshyseth and Tottenham
Brian ONeill 68 MA lives in SUITey England where he is managing director of Innovation Management Consultant s
Jodi Parisi 89 is a sales representative for Gillette who says U of Goo was the greatest
Moira Skikavich 81 is completing a PhD in c inematelevision at the University of Southern California
Virginia Sutherland 78 is an air traffic controller at the Toronto Island Airport
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Peggy Bates 88 was recently promoted to sales manager with Sears Canada Inc She lives in Owen Sound Ont
Caroline Begin 86 is working in Singshyapore as a dietitian
Diana Close 87 is a c linical nutri ti onis t at Chedoke McMaster Hospital in Hamilton Ont
Sarah Davenport 90 is a case worker with the Wellington County Social Services office in Guelph She is malTied to Matthew Harvey CBS 90
Timothy Dyck 8 1 is national sales manager for Black amp Decker Canada workshying out of the Corbin Division in Richmond HillOnt
Sharon (Muir) 84 and Richard Ernst CBS 83 are the proud parents of a future Guelph grad uate one-year-old Andrew Graham
Patricia Edwards 78 is food servi ce sushypervisor fo r St Peter s Hospita l in Hamilton Ont
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For the love ofteaching Since she
middot graduated bull from Macshydonald Inshymiddot stitute in
J 963 Nancy Kerr has built a career on teaching and research in telttles The middotheidofthe Uriiveisityof
Albertas department of Clothing and texiiles pursues a middotscientific interest inthepreservashylion of hi stori~lfabricsarid in developing pesticide-proofc1otl1ing But Jler fitstlove i ~ teaching
In 199b shewonone ofU of As four Rutherford AWljrds for excellence ill unshy
dergraduate teat-hing The first member of the faculty middotofliomemiddoteconornicsto receive the award slie was the rcentcipient6f the facultys own underglltiduate teaching award three years earlier
Winning the Rutherford was a gteat honor says Ken who has been on
faculty at Alberta since 1967 She oiscovered she had an aptitude for
middot teaching as a graduate student at the University of California Davis in
196566 After earning her MSc she casr about for afaculty position in Canada and round U of A was the 0111y place I could teach ju t textiles plus have a chance to develop new cQurses and research labs
middot Kerr sa)s she gets a tremelldous sense of satisfaction from teaching and the learning he must do to stay cUlTent She attributes her succe s as a teaCher to middotIec-middot
middot tures that are well organized and clear and to creltting a positive classroom climate
~Thcomfort level of students is reaUy middot ililportanL ~ Kerr eamedherPhD in fibre lnd
polymer science from North Carolina bull Staie University in 1982 Her doctoral work concentrated oil deacidification
techniques to preserve historicatcottOnln 1988 she spent a sabbatical ye~r doing research at the Caliadian Conservation
middot In tirute in OnflW1 middot Originalmiddotly from Ottawa Kerr is a
trarisphlnted -vesterner who enjoys middot hiking anlt sk1ing
From left Diane Ellison Lisa Wilson Lori Davis and Pippa Hobbes
Diane Ellison 84 is liv ing in Osaka Japan where she teaches English to Japanese busishyness people Last October she welcomed three U of G friends for a visit Lori Davis CSS 85 manager of Jumbo Video Inc in Oakville Ont Pippa Hobbes 84 accountshying manager for Paramount Holidays in Willowda le Ont and Lisa Wilson 84 co-ord inator of membership serv ices for the Metropolitan Toronto Board of Trade
Monica Hrybko HAFA 88 is director of sales for the Ramada Hotel Old Town in San Diego Calif
David Jones HAFA 88 is a con troller at the Holiday Inn Montreal Centre-Ville
Kathleen McLachlin 83 is operating an insurance agency in Kitchener OnL She opened the State Farm Insurance office in March 1988 and says she loves her job
Susan (Goettler) Parker 80 is working in Toronto as benefits administrator for Imshyperial Oil Limited She is married to Donald Parker OAC 79
Mary Jean (Sinnott) Price Mac 7 1 has returned to sc hool at the University of Otshytawa to earn a bachelor of education
Margaret (Richardson) Rankin 75 has been living in Halifax since 1990 and is an account analyst for Central Guaranty Trust
Janet (Wanless) Sutherland 77 is in private practice as a marriage and family therapist in East Kelowna BC
Jean Thomson Mac 37 says 1937 was a long time ago but shes delighted with all the changes that have gone at the college A former hospita l nutritionist she is retired and living in London Ont -
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Olayiwola Layi Adeola MSc 86 and PhD 89 and his wife Mope are living in West Lafayette Indiana where he is an assisshytant professor of pig nutrition at Purdue University
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Bruce Barrie 79 (Eng) graduated last June with an MBA from City Uni ve rsi ty in Washington State and is now a senior adshyviser in strategic planning with Petro-Canada Resources in Calgary He is a professional eng ineer with APEGGA and an ac tive memshyber of the Planning Forum an international society for planning and strategic manageshyment
Barbara Bryce 83 and her husband Ricardo Ramirez 82 are living in Rome Italy She is a landscape architect and he is a communications officer with the Food and Agriculture Organizat ion
Daniel Campbell 81 and his wife SharonshyMarianne are farmin g near Petrolia Onto
Carolyn Closs 82 and her husband Harold operate a beef cowca lf operation in Shawville Que
Luc Cote 83 is an agricullural account manager for the Royal Bank of Canada in Joliette Que
Kerrie Lea Curran 85 plans to graduate this fall from the master of architecture proshygram at McGi ll University
Bruce Dodson 74A is course superinshytendent at Hawd Ridge Golf and Curling Club in Orillia Ont
Richard Donkin OAC 85A originalshyly from Zimbabwe is the manager of Venida Packing Inc in Exeter Calif Situated in central Californias San Joashyquin Valley Venida Packing ships tree fruit throughout the Richard Donkin United States Canada the Pacific Rim and the Far East Products under the brand names Ruby River and Venida include peaches plums nectarines kiwi grapes persimmons and pomegranates In 1988 Donkin married California native Lisa Kolander and they live in Lemon Cove a community in the Sierra foothill s
Brendan Elder 8S A lives in Kelowna BC and works for Dogwood Nursery He plans to be married thi s summer to Rosemary Powell
Robert Fessenden OAC MSc 67 was recently appointed vice-president of devel opshyment and planning at the Alberta Research Council He is responsible for tec hnology management and corporate marketing
John Fitzgerald 86 was married last November to Susan Given a ] 991 indeshypendent study graduate in animal producshytion He is a lecturer at Ridgetown College she works at Centralia College and is work shying on a psychology degree at the University of Waterloo They live in Strathroy Ont
Glenn Helstern 79A is a driver for the Calgary division of Greyhound Bus Lines of Canada Ltd
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She tells a princely tale
For seven miniJtes on Oct 24 199 L Ellen Het1eOAC 76~U1d MSc 80
(ltllked with PIince Charles Invited toopert a newfumaceat
inco Lilniteds Copper Cliff smelter iri Sudbury Ont the Princemiddot of Wales was easy to talk with says Heale ftwasverycxciting
As eiwironmental co-ordinator Of land reclamation andrevegetation at Copper Cliff Healetold theprince middot about Tnc(secosystem rehabilitation
projects Theroyalvisitor was parshyticulatfyiilterestedin the treegrow- ing project in abandoned inines flld in tlpoundrevegetation ()f acres of tailings
and barren rock Planrilig vegetation on the tailings
hasattrlttcled wildlifeto a protected habitat says Beale who has wqrked forIncosincc she graduated in 1976
Ninety~iwo species ofbirds as weil asrodems hares foxes wolves bears andinoQse have been sighted on the 2500 acres of rehabilitated ore waste
One thing about this job is you middot can s~e where youve been effective she says
While an undergraduate student in Prill(e Charles with EIen Heale horticultural science Healea native ofSiidbury worked at Ineo during the sumniers She wasthi tirst woman to
work inrhemining companys agriculture middot department After shegraduated the niekshy el inine hired her full time tcido horticul- turaLfleld research ~ Ineo later granted heT a two-semester leave of absente t6 work
Theodore Jacobs 78 (Eng) is engineering supervisor at Standard Tube in Woodstock Ont
Greg Keast 85 (Eng) is li ving in Mozamshybique in East Africa where he works as a project officer for UNICEF rural water supshyply project s
Richard Kline 74 was appointed partner of the Toronto accounting firm Schwartz Levitsky Feldman Inc last faiL He is presishydent of the film s bankruptcy division a member of the Chartered Accountants of Onshytario and first vice- president of the Ontario Insolvency Association
Christopher Laforest MSc 91 (USRPD) works in planning and economic developshyment for Bruce County Ont
Jean-Paul PhD 90 and Lynn (Hammell) Laforest 82 and MSc 85 are both employed at Laval University in Sainte-Foy Que He is a professor and s he is a research associate
Kenneth Lawless 63 earned a Guelph deshygree in agricultural economics then went on to stud y dentistry at the Uni versity of Toronshyto He is now an oral and manilo-fac ial surshygeon in Kingston Ont
oil her masters at OAC~ In her current PdStion Heale has rnore
administrative and public relations responshyibilities On her own time she sits on the
board of management for the tocal Red Cross and isalllember ofthe Sudbury
Business and Professional Womens Club
Margie Luffman 77 writes that she has happily returned to Ontario after 10 years in New Brunswick to work at the Smithfield Experimental Farm in Trenton She is curator of the Plant Gene Resources of Canada clonal gene bank
Brian MacCulloch MAg 89 is a sa les representative for Springva le Nurseries Ltd in Berwick NS
Daniel Mansell 64 and MSc 68 is Onshytario manager of the eastern habitat joint venture in the wildlife policy branch of the Ministry of Natural Resources He is stashytioned in Midhurst Ont
Peter McEntire 77A writes from County Langford in Ireland to keep in touch with U of G He is farming and work s as an AI techshynician with Bova Genetics Ltd
Darryl Mitchell 78 works at Pioneer HishyBred Limited in Chatham Ont
Hugh ONeil 88 is manager of customer financial services for Ral ston Purina Canada Inc
Umed Panu MSc 72 (Eng) has done a lot of travelling during his career After Guelph he earned a PhD in civil engineering
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David Nedelko OAC 86 and Ljrlda ArmsJrollg CBS 89 (Jurk 011 cemre) were marriediasl SeplemiJer in Bari ~ie OnlTluir weddiIg iiarly illcilldedfiom leli Katy KusmiliskiOA C 88Paul Allgusline GAG 86 Roh Reed OAC 87Carv Belfral1l oAC 8RJIuJ Sa ndimiddoto (CollinI) BerlrCIlII CBS RR Also 1I111ie wedding w(lS Arlllslong s Veal ullcleClarence Fleming OVC 34 The couple (Ire living in
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at the Universit y of Waterloo taught in India and at Mi ss iss ippi State Uni vers ity and worked with Briti sh Columbia Hydro and the Government of Newfoundland In 1986 he jo ined the faculty of c ivil engi neering at Lakehead Uni ve rsity in Thunder Bay Ont and was promoted to full professor in 199 1 He and hi s wife Kashna and the ir children Neeti and Anukud enjoy the outdoor recreashytion ac ti viti es available in Northwestern Onshytario and look forward to visits from U of G alumni trave lling to Thunder Bay
Lyle Pettigrew 61 is a marketin g consulshytant with Harris Kovacs Alderman in Atlanshyta Ga
Helen Prior 88 joined Sheridan Nurseries after graduation then worked for a year as a research tech nic ian in Guelph s Department of Crop Scie nce She is now in her th ird year at Emmanuel College at Victoria University and hopes to be ordained as a United Church min is ter in May
Gregory Scott 83 (Eng) is operations manager for Accuform Gol f Limited in Toronto
Ba rbara (Coordes) Skrypetz 87 is a fi e ld supervisor for the Ontario Dairy Herd Imshyprovement Corporation working out of Guelph He r husband Stephen 88 operates a bulldozing and excavating busi shyness in the Woodstock area
Victor Skidra 6 is re tired f rom his job as a sc ientific evaluator with Hea lth and Welshyfare Canada He and hi s wife Konstance live in Nepean Ont
William Slusarchuk 63 (Eng) and MSc
The way we were in 1902 OAC alumnus Douglas Campbell 60 passes on a bit of col lege hi sto ry that shou ld make us think twice about our con stitutional squabbles in C anad a
Campbell is director of the Latin America and Caribbea n Trade Divis ion of Canada s Department of External Affa irs Last summer he hosted a vi s it by the president of Uruguay Luis Alberto Lacalle Herre ra whose grand fa the r made a simil a r vis it to Canada in 1902
This is what the elde r Herrera reported to his government Gue lph agricultural college enjoys a worldwide reputation and is con shys idered one of the grea t loca l attracshytions
More than 200 young Canadians a long with many foreign youths come together in its lecture rooms There are bursary ho lde rs from Norway and as far away as Mauritius C loser to us
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67 was recently appo inted pres ident of AGRA Eanh and Environmental Group an envi ronme ntal and geotechnica l firm that is a division of AGRA Indu stries Limited
Michael Sullivan 87 A is a pol ice officer with the Wate rloo Regional Police in Cambridge Ont
Argentina has 12 students there We ll then couldnt Uruguay imshy
itate those good exa mples and also se nd a number of worthy youths to Guelph to acquire the professional knowledge which is becoming m ore necessary each day for the deve lopshyment of our agric ulture~
In addition to the sc ienti fic benefits that our compatriots woul d deri ve from entering sLlch a Canadian techni cal in shystitution there would be the inca lcushylable benefit of becoming familiar with the stric t manly and sound habits of these people who are admirable in e ve ry respect
Afte r they have stee ped themse lves in this atmos phere of dem ocracy which fosters the development of all rights and is alien to intolerance thi s legati on w ill have the great honor of sending home not only sc ientists but a lso mode l citizens
Brenda Trask 80 operates he r own comshymunica tion s consulting company in Osshygoode Ont She is marri ed to Ron Ferguso n
Dave Vanden Bosch 89 is manager of operator services and plann ing for Bell Canada in London Ont
J Stallard Skip Waterhouse 54 and hi s wife Li sa are ce lebrating the birth of a daughter Samantha Elizabe th on New Years Day 1992 They live in New York State where Wate rhouse is iI pro fe ssor of bio logical science at the Plattsburgh Sta te Uni versity College of Arts and Science
Jeff 88 and Karen (Burrows) W h ite 87 live in Strathroy Ont Jeff work s for Bell Canada and Kare n is a Lambton County rural orga ni za tion spec ialist with the Ontar io Mini stry of Agriculture and Food
Harold Wright 86 is a development repre shysenta tive for Ci ba-Ge igy Canada Ltd in Mi sshysissauga Ont He and Lori Krieg 84 plan to marry thi s sprin g
Donald Ziraldo 7 I received doubl e honors last winter fro m the Ontario grape and wine industry Preside nt of Inniskillin W ines of Niagara-on -the-Lake Ont he was named to the Royal Order of the Grape for hi s leadership in enhancing the prod uct and its image
In addition Z ira ldo and his partner Karl Kai se r were named 1991 Men of the Year by FoodsCIvice and Hospitalily magazine During the ir 17-year partnership at Inn isk ilshylin the two have been instrumental in shapshying Canada s wine industry the magazine sa id
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ave Barry Burtis 69 was named president of the Ontario Veterinary Medical Association in January after working with the voluntary organization for four years as a director member of its editorial board and chair of its public relations committee Burtis lives in Burlington Ont and practises at the Bay Cities Animal Hospital He also appears on a local cable television program called Pel Tales
William Medway 54 of Blackwood NJ has been named an honorary life member of the International Association for Aquatic Animal Medicine for his contributions on beshyhalf of the association and the field of aquatic medicine He is both a founding member and past president of the associa shytion A professor emeritus of clinical laboratory medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine Medway is a member of the Marine Mammal Commissions committee of scientific advisers
Diane Pickering-Forster 86 is practising at Vander Kraan Veterinary Services in Huntsville Ont She is malTied to Chris Forster and they have one daughter Julia
Julien Proulx 67 has moved from Kapusshykasing Ont to La Pocatiere Que where he is superintendent of Agriculture Canada s Experimental Farm Last year he was feashytured on TVOntarios French network series Personalire Ontarienne for his work as a veterinarian his participation in municipal politics and his support of regional developshyment in Northern Ontario He was also awarded Agriculture Canadas research branch prize Agcellence for extraordinary management during his direction of the reshysearch program at the Kapuskasing Exshyperimental Farm
A North America-wide
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has been started (in spring 1991) for science professionalsacademics
and others interested in science or nature
Write or phone for information
Science Connection PO Box 389 Port Dover Ontario
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(519) 583-2858
Twoc~ireers middot on the samepat~ OVCaruninus Geoffrey Lord 49 felt a thopedic
middot enseofdejavuwhen he read theslory gastrointesshyabout Bill Naray~i1 OVe 63 il1la~t tinal and carc
springs issue ofthe Guelph Altimnus diovascular
There are amazing simi laritiesbetween surgery the c~reersof t~e two Guyanese wh6b6th says Lord If earnedvefetinary degrees atGueiph someone worked in c1ini(ai practice in)Yestem were to ask Canada then moved to the United States me ioday to work in human medic~lresearch what Tcon~
Narayan heads an AlDSresearchteamsider to be atJohns HopkiflS l1)iversilySchool of my expertise MediCirieinBaltimoreMatyland Lord is I would have retired directorofthdohnsonamp Johnson to saymecli- Geofrey Lord
middot Resear~h Foundalion ill NewJersey cal device lordsays he was influenced by OVC andbioshy
proJessDfs Anthony Kings(Qte and Frank Inaterials evaluation middot SchofieJd~ndwcentnton from GiJelphto pur- lt In the I 950s Lordwaspalt of ale-
sue graduate studies in parasitology auhe se~rch team that pioneered the use of University oJWiscollsin Sevenmorithsin animal tissue tOTeconstructdamagedjr
amixed practice in Drumheller Alta con blocked al1eries in hUl11ansTwenty years vinced him thaldinical medicine wasn6t middot later he drafted the first systematicap-
middot whati w~ted6 do He returned to Wis pr()ach to the safety evaluation of medica con5il110 eanla PhDlll pathologyano devices joined Johnson amp JohnsQri as asenior middot Allsubsequeill guidelines inCiLlding patilol()gistiriI953 those of the Foodaj)q Diug Admlnistrashy
Research at Johnson amp JohDson tiOnand the Canadian Regulatory ~teeredmeinto many interesting and chal- Authority hayeadopteoihis approach he
Jenging fieldsofbio-research includirig says derniiltoi9gy toxicologic pathology Lordand his wife Helen ltIividetheir wound healing surgical pathology iiinebetweel)Ciipe CodandBonita genera toxkology ofi~w drugs andor~ Springs FloriQa
Shane Renwick 77 and MSc 91 works in veterinary services at Agriculture Canada offices in Guelph
Ruth Reuter 61 is a veterinary pathologist in Plympton Australia
Tom Sanderson 6 1 was selected by the Ontario Veterinary Medical Association as Ontario Veterinarian of 1991 CUlTently OVCs co-ordinator of off-campus work terms he spent 20 years in private practice in Listowe1 and Mount Forest before returning to the coll ege in 1982 to manage the veterishynary research stations Sanderson s contribushytions to the profess ion have included many hours of volunteer work in the advancement
of the profession and in the development of veterinary inshysurance programs He is a past pres ident of both the Ontario and Canadian Veterishynary Medical associashytions
Jennifer Troughton 86 is practising in OronoOnt
Simone Woltner 86 is a veterinarian at the Chester Basin Animal Hospital in Chester Basin NS
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by her hu sband William and two sons The fo llowing dea ths have been reported since the las t issue of the Guelph Alumnus Full notices which are usu ally submitted by family or classmates may appear in thi s iss ue or in a later one
James Clement Arts 73 Feb 2 1992
Marilyn (Dyment) Farnan Mac 530 Feb 27 1992
David Fisher OAC 80A in October 1990
Elizabeth (C hristie) Glass Mac 3I D June 2l99 1
Peter Heskey OAC 54A Dec 6 199 1
Richard Ketchell OVC 51 Nov 23 199 1
Edward Kowalski Arts 79 in August 199 1
Pauline (Dixon) MacMillan Mac 240 Jan 2 1992
Catherine MacPherson Arts 83 Dec 11 1990
Marguerite (White) Maybury Mac 3 10 in June 1990
Donald McLeOd CSS 80 Jan 9 1992
Albert Meilus OAC 51 in 1991
Ann (Biggs) Ostler Mac 3 10 in April 1991
Robert Race Arts 73 in 1989
Ralph Sampson OAC 40 in December 1989
Mor ris Sanderson OAC 42 Nov 17 1991
Sir Peter Scott HDSc 8 1 in Au gust 1989
William Setterington OAC 40 Oct 22 1991
George Shoniker OAC 50A in March 199 1
John Somerset OAC 34 Dec 27 199 1
Gregory Van Patter OAC 7 1 in 1990
Frederich Weiland OAC 20A in 1990
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Riccardo Rich Incitti 88 died Jan 5 1992 as the result of an accident near Hami lshyton Ont He was assistant manager at the Toronto-Dominion Bank in St Cathari nes and is survived by his parents Gu igi and Lucia of Cambridge and two sisters Laura and Andrea
Larry McNenly 73 died in October 1991 in Owen Sound Ont He is survived by his wife Marnie CSS 73
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CBS
Robert Everett HK 74 died in May 1991 in Burlington Ont A teac her at White Oaks Secondary Schoo l in Oakv ille he is survived by his wife Miche le and brother William CBS 74
James Sandy Fear 75 died Oct I I 199 1 in Toronto He is survi ved by his wi fe Sally (Firth) OAC 75 and hi s children Caitlin Alli son and Mered ith
CSS
Lynn (Dalys) Corby 84 died in Toron to May 6 1990 after a long battIe with cancer
Nancy (Birbeck) Gordon 77 died Oct 20 1991 in Ottawa after a short illness She worked at the Kitchener-Waterl oo Hospital and had previously been plan t accountant at Foseco Canada Incorporated in Guelph
Mac-FACS
Jean (Williams) Forward 280 Oct 28 1991 in Calgary She was the widow of Bower Forward OAC 25 and is survived by two sons
Catharine (Bechtel) Fromm 270 died Nov I 199 1 in Cambridge Ont She is surshyvived by three dau ghters Ellen Moore Mac 63 Nancy and Caro l
Alice (Rivaz) Garrard 28 di ed Dec 2 199 1 in Guelph She was an active member of the Mac-FACS Alumni Assoc iat ion and was the Mac 28 class agent for the Alma Mater Fund She is survived by her husband retired professor Edward Garrard OAC 27 and a daughter Betty Nelson
Della Marie (Diamond) Honey 300 of Warkworth Ont died June 29 1991 One ofWarkworths oldest and most respected citizens she served as local li brarian fo r 25 years She is survived by her son John OAC 52A his wife Patric ia and four grandchildren James OAC 84A William OAC 76A Thomas OvC 89 and Patricia Lonergan CSS 68
Barbara (Banigan) Martin 380 died Jan I 1992 in Don Mill s Ont A retired teacher wit h the North York Board of Education she is survived by a son Ted a sister and two brothers
Elizabeth (Burt) Perry 340 died June 28 1991 in Sidney BC and is surv ived by her husband Gordon and son Paul Nartel OAC 62
Jacqueline (Roy) Pote 34D died Dec 2 1 1991 in Willowdale Ont and is is survived
Merrill and Bill
Doroth y (MacFeeters) Scott 260 died Jan 14 1992 in Toronto She is su rvived by two daughters Anne Donaldson and Cynthia Scott
Florence (French) Snyder 370 died May 6 199 1 in Calgary and is survived by her husband Robert and two sons John and William
Katherine (Sweet) Watt Mac 220 died Feb 23 1992 She is survived by her husshyband Leslie a son David and a dau ghter Carol Gi llanders
Mattie (Newman) Widdicombe 240 died Dec 11 1991 in St Catharines Ont Preshydeceased by her husband John she is surshyvived by a bro ther and several nieces and nephews including Virginia Rigby Arts 76
OAC
George Grey Arnup 38 died Feb 2 1992 in Toronto He spent most of his career with the plant protection branch of Agriculture Canada He is survived by his wife Aileen three chi ldren Nancy Jim and Mary Ellen Vincent CBS 79 and four grandchi ldren
Herbert Boyce 28 and MSA 43 died Sept 2 1991 in Amherstburg Onto He is survi ved by his wife Norah a daughter Beverley Med lock and a brother James OAC 32
Jack Reddy Brethet 56 died Nov 4 199 1 in Burlington Ont President of Brethet Barnum Assoc iates Inc he is surshyv ived by his wife Caro l and two daughters Lyn n and Anne
Bruce Foster 28 died Feb 6 1992 in Ridgetown Ont and is survi ved by his daughter Gayle Anderson and son David CBS 69
Allison Gardhouse 49 died Sept 21 1991 in Midland Ont He was re tired supe rshyintendent of schoo ls for the Simcoe County Board of Education and is survi ved by his wife Merle
Kenneth Harrison 24 died Nov 5 199 1 in Kentville NS A distinguished plant patho logist military officer and mycologist he began hi s career in 1926 as assistant plant pathologis t at the Kentvi lle Experimental Farm He worked there until retirement in 1966 wi th the exception of mi litary servi ce du ring the Second World War
Dr Harrison had a lifelong interes t in the study of mushrooms and publ ished numerou s technica l papers on the mu shroom flora of Nova Scotia In addition he enshy
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couraged interested amateurs and led field trips for student s at Acadia University and the general public from 1929 until 1987 In 1979 he was honored by Acadia wi th the dedication of the Kenneth A Harri son Laboratory of Mycology
During his career he was a member of many professional organizations a charter member of the Mycological Society of America and fe llow of the American Associashytion for the Advancement of Science
He is survived by hi s wife Margaret two brothers Maynard OAC 30 and Arthur OAC 29 two son s Ashley and Kenneth and a daughter Jennie Sheito
William Kellam 4 1 died Oct 19 1991 in Brockville Ont He was retired from the Curb and Gate Co of-Brock ville where he had worked as a lab technician fo r 28 years He is survived by his wife Kathleen a son George and a daughter Mary
William M acMillan 48 died in February 1992 in Winnipeg He was supervisor of Fertilizer marketing for the Manitoba Pool Elevators and is surv ived by hi s wife Edna Jean and brother Harry OAC 5 1 A
Cameron McTaggart 35 died Feb 4 1992 in Aurora Ont After graduating from OAC he became manager of Don Head Farms in Richmond Hill He established the first agricul tural consulting business in Canada in 1947 and later ran an Angus cattle
sales management business from the family farm A life member of the OAC Alumni As shysociat ion and the Class of 35 executive he is survived by his wife Margaret Mac 35 and two sons John OAC 62 of Regina and David of Largo Fla
Douglas Miller 48 of Victoria BC died Nov 24 1991 in Toronto He is survived by hi s wife Ruth and five children
Gregory More 76 was killed Feb 3 1992 in Kitchener Ont at the Ontario Glove Manufacturing Co where he was co-owner and vice-president Following graduation he worked for the Rohrer Drug Co and the Stershyling Drug Co then returned to school ea rnshying an MBA at McMaster University in 1981 More was an avid squash player and golfer Court A at the Northfield Racquet Club in Waterloo was dedicated to his memory in March He is survived by his parents Noreen and Ken a brother Randy and a sister Katherine Keeler
John Jack Pawley 33 died March I 1992 in Guelph He is survived by his wife Ruth son John OAC 62 and daughter-inshylaw Carolyn He was a former director of the Ontario Milk Marketing Board and a past member of the Royal City Lodge of Perfecshytion
Harold Reid 20A died in December 1991 in Burlington Ont During the First World W ar he was one of Canadas premier rad io
experts work ing at the Roya l Canadian Navy shore transmitter in Sydney NS After the war he came to OAC to earn a diploma then went on to QueenS University to comshyplete an arts and theology degree His mini sshytry was mainly in St And rews and Montreal although he spent 13 years teaching Hebrew at the Presbyterian Coll ege before retiring in 1968
Donald Robertson 3 1 died Nov 4 1991 in Iroquois Ont He is survived by hi s wife Caroline (Grisdale) Mac 38 his two son s ScottOAC 65A and Guy and a daughter Sandra McNeil
Thomas Rokeby 48 and MSA 50 died Jan 29 1992 in Fayetteville Ark He was a professional engineer and tau ght for 30 years in the Univers ity of Arkansas engineering department Born in Port Rowan Ont he was a member of the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War the American Society of Agricultural Engineers and the agricultural honor societies of Gamma Sigma Delta and Alpha Epsilon He is surv ived by his wife Helen two sons Robert and Richard a daughter Penny and three brothers Michael Noel and Richard OAC 54
Francis Sweeney OAC 45 died Nov 17 1991 in Oakville Ont He was a longtime employee of Shell Canada and [nternational Shell working in Great Britain Europe and
WALL CUSTANCE MEMORIAL FOREST
The Wall-Custance Memorial Forest located at the Universi ty of Guelphs Arboretum was established in recognition of the severe depletion of our forests It is never too late to be a vital part of the effort to save and improve our air and water for the future of our children by planting trees This program is our small part of the major endeavor to reforest and to reduce the greenhouse effect improve air quality and provide food and cover for wildlife The Memorial Forest Proshygram not only pays a Significant tribute to a loved one but also assures a better environment for generations to come
The purpose of this program is to provide an opporshytuni ty to commemorate the life of a loved one by plantshy
Home of the WALL-CUSTANCE
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ing a tree We envision that the Memorial Forest Program will continue for many years to come and our hope is that the solace that nature offers particularly in the depths of a living forest will be of comfort and benefi t to all
For more information or for a brochure call or write to
WALL-CUSTANCE Funeral Home and Chapel 206 Norfolk Street Guelph Ontario N1 H 4K3 (519) 822-0051
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Berna rd Weeks 35 died Oct 16 199 1 After graduation he re turned to his roots in
ew York and Pennsylvannia and worked in 4-H and you th organi zations for a few years He then took over the family farm at Troupsburg NY and built up a dairy operashytion with a sideline of sheep He is surv ived by his wife Ruth and four children
Glenn White 43 of Belleville Onl died Nov 24 199 1 in Florida and is surv ived by hi s wife Marjorie
ave Norman Anderson 39 of Wi nn ipeg died Dec 18 1991 in Arizona He had practised veterinary medicine in Norwood Man and was a member of the American Equine Pracshytitioners Association director of the Canadian Thoroughbred Society and track veterinarian at Assin iboia Downs for 50 years He is survived by his wi fe Peggy and two sons Laurie and James
George Beatty 5 I died Nov 22 1991 in Inverness III He practised in Palatine fo r 36 years and founded the Palatine Animal Hospi tal He was an active member of the American Animal Hospital Assoc iati on and the Chicago Veterinary Association and was a director of the Friends of the University of Guelph He is survived by his wife Mary and fo ur children - Suzanne Patricia Margaret and Tim
John Hamilton 5 L died Dec 15 1991 He had lived in Roslin On where he owned the Bay Regional Veterinary Hospital He is survived by hi s niece Ann Bongard
Nicholas Labzoffsky 39 died Dec 25 1991 in Largo Fla Fonnerly of Toronto he had li ved most recen tl y in Dorse t Ont and is survived by hi s wife Jane
Edgar Langford 49 died March 41992 in Monarch Alta A former research scienshytist with ADRI (Western) he is survived by his wife Norma and two daughters includshying Carolyn OVC 76
Stuart Maude 4 1 died Jan 14 1992 in Rosemead Calif A former Rosemead counshycillor and four-time mayor he operated the Rosemead Animal Hospital with his brother Arthur 52 from 1953 to 1980 He was a trustee for Ingles ide Hospital a past grand patron of both the Rosemead and the Califorshynia Order of Eastern Star and past-president of the local Kiwanis Club and Chamber of Commerce He is survived by his wife Vera two daughters Patricia and Susan Bezner a son Stuart and three brothers
Walter Morley 42 o f Mildmay On died Nov 28 199 1 He ran a large animal pracshytice in the Mild may area for 39 years raised cat tle and raced standardbred horses He was also a pu blic school board trustee and direcshytor of a local te lephone company for more
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than 30 years He is survived by his wife Joyce five sons - two of whom are OVC alumni Dave 68 and Randy 74 - and 10 grandchildren
Lloyd Neily 52 died Jan 3 1992 in Hantsport NS A retired meat inspector w ith the federal Department of Agriculture he had a private veterinary practice in Wind sor NS He is surv ived by hi s wife Mary
Elford Nundal 43 died Jan 7 1992 in Langley BC after a long battle with canshycer He operated a veterinary practice in Langley for 36 years and served as a di strict aldennan for 10 years before being elected mayor in 1982 Last year he received the BC Veterinarian Association s award of merit for a lifetime of veterinary work
Humphrey Rees 55 died Sepl 30 1991 in Amman Jordan while on ass ignment for the Overseas Development Ad ministrat ion as veterinary and animal hu sbandry adviser to the Jordani an government His contemshyporaries at Guelph will remember him as a singer debater raconteur rugby player and bon vivant He is surv ived by his wife Alice of POlt Eynon Wales
William Stinson 40 died Feb 15 1992 in Norwood Ont He is survi ved by his wife Rita a son John OVC 67 a brother Ford OAC 34 and a grandson John CSS 87
Faculty
Patric ia Harney died Dec 191991 in Yarshymouth NS A professor in the Department of Horticultural Science from 1962 to 1988 she developed severa l new variet ies of geraniums and was instru mental in es tabshylishing the Frances Ball rose collection at the Arboretum
Anthony Marston died Feb 3 1992 in Fershygu s ant Retired from the School of Hotel and Food Administration he was an acshycomplished competition chef who received his training in Switzerland and England He then spent severa l years working in the Caribbean before coming to Guelph in 1970 A member of the Canadian Olympic culinary team he held a number of positions in the
Donations given in memory ofGuelph alumni will help support University scholarships ifdirected to the Alumni M emorial Fund In 1991 donations were made in memory of the following alumni
Frank MacDonald OAC 37
Frank King OAC 33 -Robert Allen OAC 56A
Alice (Rivaz) Garrard Mac 28
Stan Vesselinovitch OVC 57
For more infonnation call the Office of Annual Giving at 519-824-4120 Ext 6 183
hote l and food industry until retiring in 1982 He is survived by hi s wife Di ana
Gordon McNally dled Jan 12 1992 in Guelph A professor in the Department of Zoo logy from 1934 to 1971 he served as academic assistant to the dean of CBS until retiring in 1979 While at Guelph he was honorary pres id ent of the classes of OAC 54 58 and 67 He is survived by his daughter Jean two siste rs and two grandchildren Prof McNallys family has established the A Gordon Mc a lly Memorial Fund to support a sc holarship or bursary Contributions may be sent care of the Alma Mater Fund Alumni Hou se University of Guelph Guelph ant N I G 2WI
Friends
Jean (Young) Branion died March 3 1992 in Guelph She was the wife of the late Hugh Branion a physiology professor at U of G and assistant to presidents Bill Winegard and Don Forster Jean Branion was an act ive volunteer on campus for many years and one of the firs t presidents of the College Womens Club She is survived by a son Richard and his wife Marga re t of Vanshycouve r and five grandchi ldren Donati ons may be made to the Hugh D Branion Memorial Scholarship through Alumni House
Davy Alexander Hamilton-Williamson died Feb 4 1992 in Guelph A painter and author of childrens stories he had been a member of the University s Presidents Council s ince it began in 1 985
Marjorie Pinkney wife of J ames Pinkney OVC 3 7 died Dec 151 99 [ at her home in Milton ant
Samuel Wyal died March 15 1992 in Brantford ant He was a partner in the law firm Wyatt Purce ll Will Stillman and Scott He is surv ived by his wife M a bel Mac 39 four sons Peter Michael William and John and two daughters Mary Alderson and Sarah Nadalin Arts 82
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INVmiddotESTMENTS amp
DIVIDENDS
Facts about university education in Canada and how we pay for it
By 2000 half of all new jobs in Canada will require a university degree
But at the current rate of government funding only one in five children
will have a chance to go to university
In the seven years from 1982 to 1989 per-student grants to universities in
Ontario barely kept pace with intlation at five per cent
per-student funding at American public univers ities jumped an average
of 23 per cent in the same period
Those US universities also receive twice the federal research dollars per student as do Ontario universities
In 1987 the average salary of a full-time professor at an Ontario univers ity was $55500
compared with $68200 for a private-sector position of similar education and experience
Lawyers economists and engineers made an average of $71 000
Ontario ranks ninth out of the to provinces in terms of grants to universities
Between 1978 and 1991 enrolment at Ontario univers ities grew by 40 per cent while funding dropped
from 59 to 409 per cent of total government spending
Universities were spending 14 per cent less per student between 1977 and 1988 hospital expenditures
rose 38 per cent per patient in the same period
Ontario universities generate $3 of economic activity for every
$1 invested by government funding
And the number of jobs generated by university activities in
Ontario is greater than the employment impact of the textile
industry the entire paper and pulp industry or utilities
University graduates can look forward to earning 63 per cent more than the average industrial worker
A 1990 survey of U of G alumni found that two years after graduation 97 per cent of Guelph grads
looking for work were employed 62 per cent were earning $25000 or more and 10 per cent were
earning $40000 or more
Unemployment rates in 1990 for those with a university degree was about one-third what it was
for those with only a high school diploma
Every year from 1978 to 1987 Ontario university inves tments in renovating or replacing
aging buildings could not keep pace with the rate at which the buildings depreciated
Graphics by Debbie Thompson Wilson Statistics supplied by th~ Council 01 Ontario UniverSities Statistics Canada and the U01 G Student EnVifonment Study Group
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A salute to sport Alumni Weekend June 19-21 9am Sio-pitch tournament
The tradition Jives on at the south quad diamond s Cooed teams of 12 or more players are encourshyaged to join in the fun
FRIDAY 10 am to 9 pm Registration Lambton Hall
6 pm Kick-off dinner and half-time show
get set and join In the Olympic spirit one of Alumni Creelman Hall will Weekends host the Wonderful most popular World of Sports with events Tours a half-time slide show start from to entertain alumni of Alumni House all ages and are sponshy9 pmshy sored by the Observatory tours CBS Alumni
Association
10 am and 2 pm
SATURDAY 8 am to 5 pm Guided Registration walking tours Lambton Hall
Remember 9 am to 5 pm making s now Alumni House tours sc ulptures on Students will host tours of Alumni House throughshyout the weekend Come and see what the generosity of alumni has accomplished
9 am to noon Alumni association annual meetings
This is the official notice for the annual general meetings of the following alumni associations
CBS - Alumni House starts at 830 am before guided walk MacFACS - HAFA Building Room 209
OVC - OvC Room 1438
OAC - Macdonald Hall Room 149
CSS - MacKinnon Building Room 305
HAFA - Alumni Hou se boardroom
Gryphs Lounge will be open for lunch and afLer the game
930 am Guided nature walk at the Arboretum
On your mark
Noon - OVC luncheon
The OvC Alumni Association will host a luncheon open to all OvC alumni and their guests
2 pm - Campus Showcase 92
Following on the heels of last year s success Campus Showshycase 92 will be bigger and better Come to the University Centre to see exhibits representing all areas on campus The Campus Junction store will also be open
2 pm - Zavitz Hall tour
Alumni are invited to browse through the newly renovated Za vitz Hall and attend a recep shytion sponsored by the Colshylege of Arts Alumni Asshysoc iation
5 pm Golden anniversary dinner
The OAC OvC and MacshyFACS alumni associations will provide complimenshytary tickets for alumni celebrating 50 years or more Additiona l tickets can be purchased Classes
Johnston Green or playing intramural hockey in the old Quonset arena Relive some of the memories by taking a walking tour of campus Tours begin from the lobby ofLambton Hall
Noon - Alumni picnic
This apopular event has new location - the sculpshyture garden beside the Macshydonald Stewart Art Centre Come on your own or reshyserve a group of tables for friends and classmates
Noon - Class reunion lunches
OAC 37 Mac 37 OAC 42 Mac 42 OAC 47 Mac 52 Mac57 Mac 67 FACS 72 FACS 77 FACS 87
OAC 67 FACS 82 OAC 82 OAC 82A CBS 82 FACS 87 OAC 87
SUNDAY 9am Church service and War Memorial Hall rededication
Thanks to a commitment from the Alma Mater Fund renovashytion of the upstairs of War Memorial Hall has been comshypleted Join us for the rededicashytion ceremony commemorating the 1924 opening and the 1952 dedication of an OAC memorial plaque
being honored are OAC 22 OAC 47 OvC 22 Mac 22 OAC 27 OvC 27 Mac 27 OAC 32 OvC 32 Mac 32 OAC 37 OvC 37 Mac 37 OAC 42 OvC 42 Mac 42
6 pm Class reunion dinners
Special dinn e r reunions are planned for OAC 47 OAC 52 OAC 52A OvC 52 Mac 57 OAC 57 OAC 62 Mac 67
10am UGAA annual meeting
All alumni are encouraged to atshytend the UGAA annual meeting in Macdonald Hall Room 149 An amendment to the UGAA Letters Patent and a revised bylaw will be presented for ap shyproval Copies of both are availshyable on request from Alumni House Call 519-824-4120 Ext 6544
11 am - Farewell brunch
The final event of Alumni Weekend will be held in Creelshyman Hall Come and meet the Univers ity S president Brian Segal The Alumnus of Honour medal will be presented at noon
To receive an Alumni Weekshyend brochure or to register for events call Alumni House at 59-824-4120 Ext 6963
Opened July 1991Research Park Centre shy
Where research and industry Dleet
Space available now Exceptional office and research facilities in our multi-tenant Research Park Centre
Research-driven corporations are breaking new ground at the University of Guelph Research Park Centre with exceptional growth opporshytunities in an ideal business setting
This 30-acre Research Park also accommodates tenants who choose to construct their own office and laboratory facilities
Find out why organizations such as Semex Canada Tremco Limited the Ontario Dairy Herd Improvement Corporation George Morris Centre LIPID Analytical Laboratories and Agriculture Canada have chosen the University of Guelph Research Park Call Ralph Eades or Judy Phillips Real Estate Division University of Guelph Telephone (519) 767-5003 or Fax (519) 837-0353
The Research Park is a project oj the Office oj Research and the University S Real Estate Division
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CENTRE UNIVERSITY grGUELPH
Food research gets boost U of G received a $ I-million Christmas gift from the W Garfield Weston Founshydation the charitable organization asshysoc iated with George Weston Limited one of the largest Canadian-owned food conglomerates The money will fund a research position in food-packaging technology in the Department of Food Science
A competition is being held to fill the position which will investigate ways to balance the consumer demand for less processing of food products with the need to maintain safety
Campus research in food process ing received another boost with the appointshyment of Prof Douglas Dalgleish to a reshysearch posi tion in dairy technology that is supported by the Ontario Dairy Counshycil and the Natural Sc iences and Enshygineering Research Council Dalgleish works closely with Prof Mansel Grifshyfiths who holds a research chair in microbiology that is sponsored by the Ontario Milk Marketing Board and NSERC
Dalgleishs research concentrates on milk and milk ingredients leading to practical applications in the developshyment of new dairy products Griffiths s work also focuses on new products as well as food safety and the development of rapid detection of micro-organisms in milk and other foods
Griffiths is one of six researchers who recently received funding as part of the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food s $S-million program to help keep the Ontario food-processing industry globally competitive
Other recipients include Profs Howard Swatland Animal and Poultry Science and Ralph Brown School of Engineering who will examine the use of fibre optics and ultrasound techshyniques to measure meat quality and yield in beef carcasses and live cattle Prof Gauri Mittal Engineering and Arthur Hill Food Science will further their work in pasteurization of milk and other liquid foods while looking for alshyternatives in food preservation And Prof Les Ferrier Animal and Poultry Science will study the effect of high linolenic acid eggs on blood lipids in humans Linolenic acid is an omega-3 fatty acid that is essential to lowering blood cholesterol levels
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Child-care survey reports
The largest and most comprehensive surshyvey on child care in Canadian history shythe Canadian National Child-Care Study -launched its introductory report in February Directed by family studies professor Donna Lero the $3-million study profiles the needs and arrangeshyments of more than 24000 Canadian families with at least one child under 13
It is based on data collected from Statistics Canada interviews with parents in 1988 One in every 90 Canadian households was included
Co-director of the study is Alan Pence of the University of Victoria Principal investigators are Hillel Goelman of the
University of British Columbia and Lois Brockman of the University of Manitoba What theyve found is that most Canadian parents share common concerns about child care - its quality affordability availability and stability
The federal governments recent anshynouncement that it has sc rapped plans for a national child-care program does not mean the issue is no longer imporshytant says Lero It means the governshyment sees the need but has chosen not to res pond to it
The study findings will be presented in IS subsequent reports and a set of 12 provincial and territorial summaries
Creative writing
U of G Senate has approved a proposal for a master of fine arts (MFA) program in creative writing Concentrating on prose poetry drama or a combination students would take courses do indeshypendent reading and produce a creative shythesis
English chair Connie Rooke says the Guelph program would differ from creashytive-writing degree programs at other Canadian universities The already hired core faculty - poet Dionne Brand novelist and poet Janice Kulyk Keefer
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and playwright Judith Thompson - are to reduce the drop-out rate in French distinguished Canadian writers rather studies More than 50 per cent of the stushythan career academics dents who complete the beginners level
Another unique feature is that in French do not continue Canadian writers would be invited to give lectures workshops and seminars offering students a writers perspective Convocation honors Visiting writers would also serve as
At winter conshymentors to individual students
vocation A starting date of fall 1993 is ceremonies in
proposed but is dependent on the February Jeavailability of funding Clare
RennieOAC 47 former asshy
Multimedia French sistant deputy minister of
What do French-language students at agriculture and Clare Renniethe universities of Guelph and Calgary food for On-have in common They can improve tario was named an honorary fellow of their language skills with the aid of mulshy the University He was honored for his timedia computer equipment that comshy contributions to U ofGs agricultural reshybines sound images and text These are search program Rennie was on facultythe only two Canadian universities parshy from 1952 to 1971 then moved toticipating in an IBM-sponsored North OMAF where he was responsible forAmerican program to explore new techshy the ministryS education and researchnology in teaching French as a second programs including the contract with Ulanguage of G Since 1974 the contract has
U of G is making the French connecshy grown to $34 million a year In additiontion thanks to $45000 worth of multishy Guelph has named its research chair in media equipment donated by IBM One animal-breeding strategies in his honor of the goals of the program at Guelph is
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The University also honored Canadian engineer Claudette MacKayshyLassonde by awarding her an honorary degree for her contributions to the enshygineering profession An expert on nuclear safety issues she developed the first site-selection criteria for nuclear power stations She has served as presishydent of the Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario and founded the group Women in Science and Engineershying
A boost for animal welfare OVC has established an academic position in animal welfare with a gift from the estate of Col KL Campbell His widow Mona has contributed $500000 to start an endowshy
Ron Downeyment fund to support the position
Prof Ron Downey assistant dean of OVC will assume the position July I to explore alternative methods that would reduce the use of animals in research Part of his job will be to promote the inshyterests of the Centre for the Study of Animal Welfare which was established at U ofG in 1990
KL Campbell was a notable horse breeder and showman who shared with his wife an interest and compassion for all animals The Campbells were among the earliest contributors to OVCs Pet Trust Fund which supports research on common problems of companion animals
Land and water stewardship
U of Gs Centre for Soil and Water Conshyservation has been renamed the Centre for Land and Water Stewardship to reflect a more holistic approach to susshytainability Accordingly its focus has expanded to include sectors other than agriculture that affect water quality The centres new director is Prof Stewart Hilts a 13-year faculty member who is cross-appointed to the Department of Land Resource Science and the Univershysity School of Rural Planning and Development
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Rewriting art history
In the 1480s the Duke of Milan comshymissioned Leonardo da Vinci to produce a 93-metre-high bronze monushyment of a horse and rider But political upheava l in Italy prevented the artist from seeing II Cavallo past the planning stage
Centuries later Guelph fine art profes shysor Chandler Kirwin hi s student Peter Rush and international art historians have begun a project to cast the monushyment in two-thirds scale It will be built in New York State at a cost of more than $2 million US and donated to the city of Milan in celebration of da Vincis achievements and the SOOth anniversary of Columbuss arrival in America
Rush is a mature student with 30 years experience as a metallurgist and foundry worker His technological know-how and Kirwin s knowledge of the artistic soc ial political and cultural climate of the Renaissance has led to a revised vision of II Cavallo They are proposing to the international art comshymunity that the altist had intended to cast the 60000-kilogram monument in one piece - an easy task with current industrial practices but a daring proposal in the 15th century
The project has revealed da Vincis genius as an engineer and has caused art historians to rethink their assessment of his place in Renaissance art history
News in brief
During Christmas break U of G inshystalled an automated direct-d ial telephone system that means faster sershyvice for callers who know the extension number theyre trying to reach Within three weeks of use the system was hanshydling half of the 13000 daily incoming caUs without operator assistance
The six top students who participated in U ofGs first Krakow semes ter were recently awarded certificates of merit from the Polonia Institute of Krakow where they studied
Five years ago U of G sent 3788 tonshynes of waste to the city landfill in one year Last year the figure was 1900 tonshynes thanks to the campus recycling proshygram About 25 tonnes of glass and tin
Guelph Alumnus
Prof Chandler Kirwin lefl and Peter Rush pose with a model ofdo Vincis monument 11 Cavallo Photo by Roberta Franchuk
and more than half a tonne of fine paper portunities Teamed up with a group of are hauled away each week Guelph students they will study the
creative arts in Canada Canadian
Ample snowbanks this winter helped society and the political economy of the
protect the Arboretums gene banks Canada-US free trade agreement
which contain plantings of more than nine species of woody plants native to The planned widening of Gordon Street the Carolinian forest region of southshy - the route from campus to downtown western Ontario The gene banks will Guelph - has been delayed until 1993 eventually be used to help rebuild the while city council considers a proposal provinces heritage forest system by the U of G Cycling Club to include
bicyc le lanes as part of the project
This summer U of G begins an exshychange program that will bring 28 The first Ontario turfgrass symposium Pennsylvania students to Guelph for six was held on campus last January bringshyweeks in an effort to introduce them to ing together all sectors of the industry to Canadian educational and cultural op- discuss environmental responsibility
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Predicting food production capabilities
A new research technique developed by an interdisciplinary U of G group is the first of its kind in the world to quantitashytively measure the capacity or shortfall of food production in a specific geoshygraphic area
Applying the technique to Ontario inshyvolves a complex computer database that uses production figures from the 1980s and takes into account 18 major crops 10 livestock categories seven soil classes seven climate zones six economic regions and a number of production constraints
The computer then considers different aJlocations and trends as well as condishytions that might influence future demands and productive potential
We found the current agricultural base has the capacity to produce at least 30 per cent more of each product in Onshytario says geography professor Barry Smit who has co-ordinated the program since it began in the early 1980s But the 30-per-cent surplus capacity would not be sufficient to meet even relatively
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conservative demand projections through to the year 2000 he says
The program has been used to look at food projections and to study the effects of urban growth acid rain soil erosion global warming climatic variations on food production and to identify regions of the globe where food shortages reflect limits in production capacity
Campus safety
Students walking alone on campus at night can call the Central Student Associations Campus Safe Walk proshygram and a team of volunteers will esshycort them to their destination If they live off campus but need to work late at the University library students can take the Magic Bus a service provided by the CSS Student Government after city buses close down for the night And anyone who is hurt or injured on camshypus can get help from the First Aid Response Program run by the CSA and Security Services
Each of these programs will get a financial boost thanks to a provincial government grant aimed at improving campus safety In addition U of G will
use part of the grant to install more emergency telephones on campus add lighting and rearrange foliage that imshypedes vision in some areas Also being considered is a campu s safe house that would bring together 24-hour services for students
Preserving beauty
U of G landscape architect Nate Perkins is using a computer a scanner and a digitizing board to show the effects of development on sensitive rural landscapes He is working with the Onshytario Heritage Foundation to identify and protect the esthetic landscape feashytures of the entire Niagara Escarpment
The first step is to create an inventory of existing visual landscapes and how they are currently protected in Ontario Based on this selected landscape scenes will be sampled to illustrate what might happen under different scenariosshywith no regulation under current local and provincial regulatory programs and under Perkins s proposals With comshyputer technology he will be able to creshyate a picture of what the scene would look like in each case
People make a difference on and off canlpus
U of G has recruited Powell moved to Goldschmidt HDMus 84 many talented faculshy Guelph in 1965 to estabshy launched the festival which has
ty and staff who have lish the UniversityS proshy flourished to become one of N0I1h also become leaders in gram in human kinetics Americas most respected small music the community Two and the School of Human festivals MacKinnon was president of names come to mind shy Biology He designed 10 its board of directors for 15 years and John Powell and Murdo courses and was a driving is still one of its most active volun-MacKinnon - because force behind construction teers both are being recogshy of the building that The Guelph Spring Festival was one nized this spring for their houses the school example of MacKinnon s eff0l1s to ci vic contributions During his tenure the create closer ties between the Univershy
Retired human biology John Powell University hosted eight s ity and the community He and conshyprofessor John Powell Canadian national track cert manager Edith Kidd introduced was inducted April II into the and field coaching courses sponsored the idea of regular noon-hour conshyCanadian Amateur Sports Hall of by the Royal Canadian certs still held on camshy
Fame because of his lifelong work in Legion with more than pus each Thursday
amateur Sp0l1 3000 participants He also MacKinnon was founded a cardiovascular founding dean of WelshyAn Olympic-calibre sprinter in hi s exercise group which he lington College of Artsnative Great Britain Powell turned to led daily for 26 years and Sciences in 1964
coaching after being wounded in the Retired English professhy And he became the first
Second World War A three-time sor Murdo MacKinnon dean of the College of
Olympic coach he helped 19 athletes will be the centre of attenshy Arts in 1970 He is an
earn Olympic medals And for the last tion May 2 at the Guelph honorary fellow of the 21 years he has been a regular lecshy Spring Festivals 25thshy University and the Macshyturer at the International Olympic anniversary dinner He and Kinnon building is Academy in Greece artistic director Nicholas Murdo MacKinn on named in his honor
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University Families Fight the Odds
hy Mary Dickiesol1
The Van Katwyks and the
University ofGuelph are saving to educate
the next generation
Guelph Alumnus
university education in Canada At current levels of government funding decreased
enrolments will limit university attendance to one in five within a few years
Paul and Christine Van Katwyk dont like the odds Theyre committed to univershy
s ity education - their own and Sasha s - and theyve been sav ing for hi s educashy -tion since he was s ix months old But what they hear about the continuing decline
in government funding makes them worry that the doors to Canada s universities
may not be open to Sasha when he s ready to enrol in 2007
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T heee good eoo to won) That s the message we ve been getting from universiti es and colleges in Canada for several years Many univershysity administrators including U of G president Brian Segal say they too are worried about the future of postseconshydary education
On the political agenda universities have taken a back seat to hospitals soshycial serv ices and schools despite the fact that they are part of the solution to problems facing the other sectors
In Ontario the universities share of the public purse has been declining since 1978 even though theyve added more than 160000 students to their enshyrolments Universities are actually spending 14 per cent less per full-time
Education makes a difference
Chris and I know from ou r own experience that a university educashytion can make a big di fference in one s life say Paul Van Ktttwyk
Paul grew up in a university family - hi fa ther is a professor at Wilfrid Laurier Univer ily in Waterloo He came to U of G after high school but quit before comshypleting a BA After two years o f making tire he was back on camshypus and is now finishing an MA in industrial organizational psycholshyogy U of G is one of the few uni versities in Canada that offer graduate work in this fie ld So Paul is heading off to the Uni versity of South Florida th is fall to do a PhD then will return to Canada to help expand his disc ipline to other Canadian universi tie
Chris is the first member of her family to atrend university She graduates this spring with a BASc in con umer studies With other members of her family out of work because their manufact uring jobs have disappeared Chris think a un iversi ty educashytion was the right choi e for her She would like to get involved in consumerenvironmental i sues and eventually open her own small business
student than they did 15 years ago
At the same time demand for university graduates is growing The Council of Ontario Universities (COU) esshytimates that half of the new jobs that will be created over the next decade will require L1ni versi ty-level training
At a time when unshyemployment plagues the province when health care and soc ial ass istance costs are rising when inshydustry needs to improve competitiveness when we need to boost investshyment in research and deve lopment one begins to wonder why postsecshyondary education is not a greater priority
Public opinion seems to support universities A 1990 Decima poll found that 80 per cent of Ontarians believe a lack of funding is affecting university quality and 83 per cent believe that
Universities are spending 14 per cent less for each student than they did 15 years ago
university fundin g is not keeping pace with funding for other services
But the university system needs more than quiet believers It needs strong vocal support Good intentions aren t enough to ensure survival in the politishycal arena or the global economy
Financial problems
Every year COU prepares a report on the financial position of Ontario univershysities The 1991 report reveals a steady decline in the priority that three successhysive provincial governments have gi ven to universi ties Collectively theyve igshynored the advice of their own advisory body on universities for 15 years allowshy
ing university funding to drop from 59 to 409 per cent of total government spending
This decline coincides with the federal governments introduction of Esshytablished Program Financing (EPF) which supplies a large part of the fundshying that is eventually allocated to postsecondary education
Prior to EPF federal and provincial governments shared the operating costs of postsecondary education on a 5050 basis Under EPF which was supposed to equalize payments to the provinces through a complicated system of cash transfers and tax points some provincial governments have been unable or unshywilling to maintain that 5050 balance In Ontario federal doll ars now account for a much higher percentage of the funding that is eventually transferred to universities
Many Ontario institutions believe the provincial government added insult to injury last October when it cut an addishytional $9 million from promised transfer payments for 1991 92 Before the c1awshyback COU had advised the government that universities would need a seven-pershycent increase in 199293 just to maintai n current level s of serv ice but the January budget gave them one per cent thi s year and promised no more than two per cen t in each of the ne xt two years
During this same J5-year period Ontario s universities have demonshystrated an increase in productivity unshymatched in almost any other sector by finding ways to educate 40 per cent more students with less money
The January budget brought bad news at a time when universities were also facing further cuts in provincial gove rnshyment grants for capital renovations inshycreased operating costs for utilities the federal government s 30-per-cent jump in UIC premiums a lO-per-cent in shyc rease in CPP payments and a loss of tuition revenue because of planned reductions in first-year enrolments
Ontarios Employer Health Tax and pay equity costs have also affected operating budgets at universities where more than 80 per cent of expenditures are dictated by salaries and benefits
Deficit financing is not the norm for U ofG but in 199192 costs exceeded Ministry of Colleges and Universities (MCU) operating revenue ($160 milshyli on) by almos t $46 million The defic it reflects both these unexpected increases and the planned expense of restructuring non-academic units
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OPERATING GRANTS TO UNIVERSITIES PER FTE STUDENT UNIVERSITIES SHARE OF PROVINCIAL BUDGETARY EXPENDITURES1977-78 to 1990-91
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Creative solutions
Like the business community Guelph has begun the ongoing process of selfshyappraisal The $69-million cost of the recent non-academic review left red ink in this fiscal year but the exercise has cut operating costs by an estimated $57 million a year Within the five-year payshyback period the University will have saved or in reality reallocated more than $28 million Segal says
The internal review removed 125 jobs simplified processes and improved efficiency A similar assessment of the non-teaching activities within the colshyleges is being completed and will be folshylowed by a look at academic functions
Guelph is one of the first universities in Ontario to undertake such a strucshytured review of its operations says Segal and it wont be the last Every university will be looking at ways to reduce the amount of work required to operate the institution he says
Were walking a tightrope trying to balance strategic goal s and fiscal management in a way that causes the least harm to students Nevertheless universities are prepared to be key players in the process of looking for creative ways of doing more with less
Segal predicts an increase in intershyuniversity and joint university-college programs that share resources more efshyfective use of automation more homeshystudy programs and co-operative purchasing arrangements
Unfortunately well al so see further staff cuts a loss of services some course cancellations and limits to stushydent enrolment
Last fall U of G decreased first-year enrolment by 686 to help ease overshycrowding on campus although total en-
Guelph Alumnus
Charls reprinredjrom COU 1991 Report Oil rhe Financial Position laquo( Ontario Universities
rolment was a high of 13390 students The University plans to decrease enrolshyment to fewer than 12000 by 1994
There will al so be reductions in faculshyty positions estimates are that at least a third of the 60 current vacancies will not be filled in the next fi scal year
In addition to cos t-cutting measures universities will be looking at ways to generate new revenue More than 80 per cent of university revenue is controlled by government - transfer payments and tuition fees - but short-term operat shying fund s can benefit from increased revenues from food retail parking operations and non-tuition fee hikes
Segal says long-term endowment funds like Guelph s Heritage Fund will become a system-wide priority as will revenue sources from planned giving and alumni contributions real estate
development - like Guelphs Research Park - and capital accumulation
COU which Segal chairs will conshytinue to pressure government to increase tuition fees Ontario fees have not kept up with inflation In rel ative terms they are lower now than theyve been for 40 years representing less than 19 per cent of university operating revenue In comshyparison tuition revenues at public universities in the United States are 70 to 80 per cent higher and students at private US universities pay si x times as much as Ontario s undergraduates
COU is on record as favoring an inshycome-contingent repayment plan that would allow students to repay loans based on the level of their future inshycome But a COU proposal - even if it is accepted by MCU - is at least a year away from implementation
-Last f all the universities ofGuelph and Waterloo launched North America sfirst longshydistan ce interactive classroom project that links students at both institutions via two-way audio video and data lines Unlike other video systems that offer only televisiolltransmission the new Electrohome classroom system leIs studel1ls both see and hear each other as well as the professor It s j us t like being there - and it s aile example ofhow universities are sharing resources to improve academic programs and CUI costs Photo by Roberta Franc huk
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University benefits
Time and time again our alumni tell us that the total university experience is more valuable than the degree they received
Breadth of knowledge new insights personal satisfaction - these are things that cant be measured
The 966000 university graduates in Ontario do however share economic benefits that can be measured -like an unemployment rate that is one-third what it is for the general workforce and salaries that are on average 63 per cent higher than industrial workers
In addition university graduates share with the rest of the population even greater cultural social and economic benefits
T hrough the percolator effect Ontario universi ties generate $62 billion (1989 estimate) worth of economic activity each year and more than 138000 jobs
All Canadians share in the benefits of an academic system that acc umulates knowledge trains leaders and conducts much of the research that gives us a progress ive society
University laboratories have yielded medical breakthroughs in diabetes canshycer cystic fibrosis Alzheimer s disease and AIDS They have tackled environshymental research on the causes of water pollution and soil erosion University soshycial scientists study issues as vari ed as demographic trends cross-border shopshyping adoption and economic developshyment in native communities
On a more personal level each univershysity in Canada is a contributing member of its local community Says Guelph
Mayor John Counse ll The inshytangible benefits of having a university within our municipality inshyclude the injection into the comshymunity of intellecshytual standards talents and sershyvices
Almost every orshyganization in the city counts U of G faculty staff and students among its members and volunteers In fac t more than 30 U oG s campus wecomes almosl 150000 visitors every year
university employees were recently given special awards and commendations from both the provincial Ministry of Culture and Communications and Ministry of Citizenship
Guelph is also enriched financially by the Univers itys presence - 4 100 jobs $195 million in annual economic acshytivity The University is an attraction for many smaller companies and organizashytions and branches of provincial governshyment ministries that deal frequently with the campus In a way it has he lped to inshysulate the city of Guelph aga inst the reshycession says Counsell Last year Guelph enjoyed a net increase of three jobs in comparison with other cities where thousands of industrial jobs were lost
Equally important are the educational opportunities offered by the University
for local re sidents The number of people enrol led in distance education inshydependent study and non-degree courses at the University is almost twice the dayshytime student body Last year 500 senior citizens attended courses held on camshypus and 10000 schoolchildren parshyticipated in environmental education programs at the Arboretum People also brought 12000 animals and 500 wild birds to OVC clinics for treatment
Visitors to campus outnumber stushydents 10 to one They come for convocashytion College Royal Homecoming and Alumni Weekend to tour the Arshyboretum and the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre to attend workshops conferenshyces and lectures and to enjoy athletic events music and drama productions They also come for Sunday afternoon walks and sometimes to take wedding photos on Johnston Green
Education is everyones concern
With their Universi ty of Guelph degrees in hand Paul and
Christine Van Katwyk have joined the ranks of Ontario and Canadian univershysity graduates who recognize that the
funding of universities is not just a famishyly matter
Education is everyone s concern and should be a matter of government priority rather than rhetoric The probshylem is how to change that
Two years ago Ontario MPP Sean Conway told a group of university board members that they needed troops
When you ask us to do something and we don t do it nothing happens he said When the hospitals ask us to do something and we dont do it all hell breaks loose
Today universities are recruiting those troops and are turning to their alumni to help build a strong constituenshy
cy of support Who better to promote the value of higher education
Tell your family your friend s and your co-workers how important you think universities are Write to your local paper to let others know that a strong economy and a high standard of living depend on an educated workshyforce Call your MP and MPP and tell them that denying adequate funding to higher education is short-sighted in the extreme and that voters are expecting government action based on long-term priorities
Sasha Van Katwyk s generation is depending on it
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Marshalling the forces to fight for universities
There is a tribute $5000 to help revolution launch FOU and
taking place in Seymour hopes inshyeducation And dividual alumni will when the dust setshy keep the momentum tles we will see building The orshyprofound changes ganization needs in the way we imshy more than 100 inshypart knowledge dividual volunteers in the way we think each of Ontarios 130 about education electoral districts and the way we These friends will pay for it Some lobby MPPs on a of us will sit back regular basis in supshyand watch port of universities Others like Its a grassroots Harry Seymour Harry Seymour
OAC 61 will help influence the changes taking place
Seymour spent 22 years of his career on Torontos Bay Street then opted for a change that led to the forshymation of Pathfinder Learning Sysshytems As president he champions the Pathfinder program of computershymanaged learning as a way for classshyroom teachers to maximize their time and their students potential
Seymour maintains his interest in the investment business with several other companies including a 93-acre shoreline development project in Midshyland Ont But most of his time is devoted to education and university education is a significant part of that effort
If we can marshal the forces of university alumni we can have a profound effect on how government prioritizes education he says Those of us who have graduated from a university are in the best position to evaluate the importance of a university education We can sit back and look at the benefits we ve received and the kind of impact it has had on our lives
Seymour represents U of G alumni on the Friends of Ontario Universities (FOU) a provincial lobby group whose strategy is to organize Ontarios university alumni into a political constituency FOU members sayan unorganized constituency is part of the reason government has folshylowed a pattern of financial neglect
The University of Guelph Alumni Association was one of the first to con-
movement that has the potential to build long-term support
among decision makers and future generations of university graduates he says
If youd like to get involved call Trish Walker U of G s director of alumni affairs at 519-824-4120 Ex t 2122
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describes himself as a concerned citizen of Guelph who is committed to education Thats an undershystatement for a man who spent most of his career in educashytion including 16 years as senior academic officer at Conestoga College
He also cares deeply about the University of Guelph He worked hard in the early 1960s to help bring it to life serves on a presidential committee to promote a healthy town-and-gown relationship and is now working to increase local pride in the campus
It distresses me that we are not seeing our universities as intellectual leaders in the community in the province and throughout the country says Hagar who believes there is a need to increase public awareness about the role universities play in
Aubrey HORar
society Hes offered his vocal support to this venture as a volunteer for the Alliance for Ontario Universities
Who says talk is cheap
Your verbal support
of universities
could he
the most valuable gift
you could give
to the generations
of students
yet to teach
Independent of universities the alshyliance is building province-wide supshyport among communities organishyzations businesses and individuals like Hagar who are willing to expand that support on a local level
In each univershysity town there will be an alliance comshymittee that works to build community pride in the institushytion and to raise the profile of its scholars The Guelph group for example may inshyitiate an elementary school program that bui Ids rapport with the University or it might encourage med ia coverage of Guelphs environshymental work
Too often we downplay the conshytributions of our universities says Hagar but if we can instil these atshytitudes in people then financial supshyport through the political process will be there
The aJiiance is unique in Canada It shybegan in 1990 with seed money from the Council of Ontario Universities and gains financial independence this summer And its looking for more volunteers To learn more about the group call director Janet Napper at 416-979-0984
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Genetic engineering bull bull bull
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This is the second part of a report on the use of biotechno]ogy in University of Guelph research
by Mary Dickieson
String art Biotechnology research reminds me of string art the 1960s craft
that had us weaving colored strings back and forth around a pattern made by driving nails halfway into a board
Under skilful hands it became a piece of sculpture an optical illusion that prevented your eye from following any single thread across the board in a straight line
Biotechnology tools are like that Every time you think you understand what one biotechnique can do in one particular dis shycipline you find it reappearing somewhere else as someone in a laboratory across camshypus or on the other side of the world thinks of yet another way to use it
In Part 1 of our biotechnology report we sk immed the surface of how these tools are being used at U of G to benefit plant reshysearch In this story well see many of the same techniques applied in other organisms primaril y animals The secret of our success in animal biotechnology lies in the fact that Guelph has the expertise and the facilities to take any project from lab to barn and back again
Throughout this report youll read about animal scientists and clinical veterinarians teamed up with molecular biologists imshymunologists chemists and microbiologists and often food scientists toxicologists and environmental biologists Their efforts benefit not only livestock production but also human medicine pharmacology food processing waste disposal and the environshyment
Embryo transfer
A major thrust of the animal biotechnolshyogy research at Guelph is in the area of
embryo transfer In fact there are three reshysearch positions funded by government and industry that deal directly with embryo manipul ation as a way to improve the comshypetitive position of Canadas beef and dairy industries
Biomedical scientist Keith Betteridge OVC MSc 60 heads an embryo research lab molecular biologist Alan Wildeman CBS PhD 83 holds a research chair devoted to the mammalian embryo and animal scientist Charles Smith concentrates on industrial research in animal-breeding strategies
Their work is supported by both federal and provincial granting agencies animal breeders and Semex Canada the major marketing arm of Canadas attificial breedshying industry Semex records annual export sales of more than $25 million and is leadshying the industry to the nex t plateau shymarketing sexed frozen or cloned embryos
One route to increasi ng the efficiency of animal production is by improving animal reproduction says Betteridge And that in shyvolves many new biotechniques associated with embryo transfer Conventional embryo transfer means collecting multiple embryos from selected cows and transferring them to properly synchronized recipients It is now almost equally conventional however to freeze or bisect the embryo as part of the procedure
Initially the selected cow was treated with hormones to produce more eggs which were fertilized through artificial inseminashytion (AI) with the semen of a top-rated bull A large number of embryos could then be recovered surgically from the cow for imshyplantation in surrogate cows of lesser genetic worth
These techniques are widely used for the production of purebred bulls More than half the dairy bulls currently at stud in Canadas major AI centres have been produced this way There is also keen interest in using the technology to produce genetically superior breeds and provide competitively priced volumes of commercial cattle embryos
From lOp Bisecting a bovine embryo to produce identical twin calves a chimeric chick created by mixing cells from two embryos microinjecting the egg ofa fruit fly with DNA from bacterial genes that can confer insecticide resistance and a Hereford heifer protected from shipping fever by a vaccine developed a f U of G
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and more Test-tube calves and lambs
In 1988 Semex research co-ordinator Robert Stubbings OVC 76 MSc 84 PhD 89 produced Guelph s first test-tube calf during his graduate studies with Prof PK Basrur in the Departshyment of Biomedical Sciences It was not the first test-tube calf in Canada but it was the first developed from an egg that was matured as well as fertilized in a test tube
The resulting zygotes (fertili zed eggs) were placed in the oviduct of a rabbit for their early development then moved after seven days to the uterus of a recipient cow
Just a few months later other memshybers of the Guelph team took the process one step further eliminating the need to use a temporary host oviduct Postdoctoral fellow Kang Pu Xu and PhD student John Pollard were able to extend development in vitro to the point where the embryo was mature enough to survive when transplanted directly into a recipient cow s uterus
The early embryos were cultured in a medium containing luminal cells exshytracted from the oviducts of slaughtered cows Two baby bulls were born the first in Canada using this method and only the second in North America
Last year gradu ate student Dawn Kelk CBS 89 and Prof Allan King 73 and MSc 75 of the Department of Biomedical Sciences produced North America s first in vitro fertilization (lVF) lambs using these techniques
These achievements were important for several reasons The Animal Biotechshynology Embryo Laboratory can now
Authors note
One of the things Ive learned while writing this story is that biotechnolshyogy is a word seldom used by scienshytisrs For inost of us it conjures up images of people in lab coats bent over microscopes using precision inshystruments to manipulate the cells of living organisms But for scien~ists that s too vague The word may have
meaning but it d6eslJt really
produce its own IVF embryos from oocytes recovered from slaughtershyhouse cows bypassing the more expensive route of sushyperovulation and surgical withdrawal
In addition scientists have gained knowledge about early embryo development that is important for improveshyments in embryo viability and vital for developments in cloning techniques and controlled transgenesis in livestock
In a more immediate and practical context the work has led to the first clinical
Prof Keith Belleridge left and Prof Stanley Leibo watch as research technician Cindy Christian prepares an embryo f or cryopreservation Photo by Mary Dic kieson
use of IVF in cattle in colshylaboration with Brian Hill OVC 80 of Western Ontario Breeders
Bisected embryos
Meanwhile yet another part of the team based in the Department of Populashytion Medicine was perfecting techniques to microsurgicall y bisect fertilized embryos to produce genetically identi shycal animals
Professors Brian Buckrell OVC 68 MSc 84 and Cathy Gartley OVC 82 DVSc 89 and postdoctoral fel shylow Rick Rorie bisected six-day-old sheep embryos - visible only through magnification - and surgically imshyplanted them into recipient ewes Five months later nine lambs were the first animals born at Guelph from bisected embryos
Prof Walter Johnson and postdoctoral
describe anything They talk instead about cell fusion enzyme systems i ermentation or genetic engineering
The fact that biotechnology didnt appear as a popular buzzword until the 1980s suggests that we are using ilto define something neW yet none of these disciplines is really new Human beings have been using other organisms to create new procucts for centuries Thats why We have yeast yogurt and beer as well as anti-
fellow Naida Loskutoff have now exshytended this work in cattle by producing identical twins from IVF embryos divided into quarters at earlier stages of development
These projects maximize embryo use and highlight the potential for creating significant numbers of genetically identishycal animals which can be vital for conshysistent research results Tests conducted on genetically identical animals can reduce the variables caused by genetic differences and ultimately the number of animals needed for experiments
Frozen sexed embryos
The development of in vitro technishyques has also made possible further studies in cryopreservation (freezing) and embryo sexing
It s been possible to freeze and thaw
biotics growth hormones and vacshycine ~ Even genetic engineering is not new although many of us think it is
Through selective breeding practices fanners have been engineering the genetic makeup of domestic animals -for centuries What is new is the speed and accuracy with which we can implement genetic changes the ability to cross the species barrier and a much greater understanding of life processes
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At the eight-cell stage ofdevelopment in a bovine embryo each cell is removed and placed in the shell ofa discarded embryo Afler three days the blastocysts are transferred into recipient cows and the pregnancies allowed to col1linue Eight identical calves will be born and will proshyvide a valuable tool for research
cattle embryos since 1973 and most of the 60000 or so embryo-transfer calves born annually in North America are now obtained from embryos that have been stored in liquid nitrogen But there are still many problems to overcome in freezing unfertilized eggs embryos at varying stages of development and embryos produced in vitro or subjected to micromanipulation
Biomedical science professor Stanley Leibo is a specialist in cryobiology Before coming to Guelph he was part of an industry team that produced the worlds first live young (mice) from frozen embryos and later invented the patented one-step method of freezing cattle embryos Other biomedical scienshytists - King and Don Rieger - and molecular biologists Wildeman and Stan Blecher are investigating various ways of sexing embryos
Some of these involve the use of micromanipulation to remove a small number of cells from an early-stage embryo The sex can be identified by locating X and Y chromosomes detectshying male-specific DNA or perhaps by studying the proteins produced by the DNA segments In embryonic life the activity of X-linked enzymes in female embryos is twice that in males
Detecting differences in the energy metabolism of male and female embryos may also become a method of sexing In studies on early embryos generated in vitro Guelph scientists disshycovered that male and female embryos develop at different rates In addition to its value in sexing embryos this knowledge poses another question If the team can one day learn to control the rate of embryo development will it be possible to control the sex of an embryo independent of its genetic comshyplement
Photo courtesy of the Animal Biotechnology Embryo Lab
Transgenic animals
Since the mid 1980s Wildeman and fellow molecular biologist John Phillips have been producing transgenic mice for studies in human disease
This involves recovering one-cell embryos microsurgicalty from an imshypregnated mouse With a finely drawn glass needle a piece of DNA is inserted into the nucleus of the embryo which is then placed in a surrogate female to complete the pregnancy The offspring carries the foreign gene
One line of research using transgenic mice involves the study of a virus known to affect the transformation of normal cells into tumorous cancer cells Wildeman performs this work using transgenic mice in studies of cancer and metastasis
Transgenic mice are also used in Phillipss ongoing study of the causes of insulin-dependent juvenile diabetes He borrowed a gene from the fruit fly and spliced it into the chromosomes of the mouse so that it is expressed in the beta cells of the pancreas
Observations from the research conshyfirm the long-standing hypothesis that one cause of juvenile diabetes arises from the action of oxygen radicals in the pancreas
The fruit fly itself is used in studies aimed at producing insecticide-resistant insects Working with a team of scienshytists in Texas Phillips is perfecting techshyniques to transfer organophosphate insecticide-resistant genes to the fruit fly and ultimately to agriculturally beneficial insects
Studies have shown that the use of inshysecticides could be reduced if beneficial insects were not also killed by the spray In addition this research may provide the solution needed by North American
honey producers who are suffering great losses in their beehives due to parasitic mites Currently there is no effective control of the mites
From mice to pigs and chickens
Transgenic mice are also playing a role in a project that may eventually imshyprove forage use in domestic animals
Ruminant animals like cows and sheep have friendly bacteria in their inshytestinal tract that enable them to digest the cellulose fibre in forage crops If other animals such as pigs or chickens had the same ability they could be reared on lower-quality cheaper feed than the cereal grains now used
A research team that includes Phillips microbiologists Cecil Forsberg and Peter Krell and environmental biologist David Collins-Thompson has isolated the effective gene from a microshyorganism present in ruminant animals and is transferring it into the mouse which is also a monogastric animal Studies with transgenic mice will enable the team to fine-tune its ability to manipulate expression of the gene
This is just the beginning of a longshyterm project says Phillips but it may one day connect with the work of Profs Rob Etches and Jim Squires in the Department of Animal and Poultry Science who are following separate paths to reach the same goal- transshygenic chickens
Blotchy chicks
Etchess lab opened the door for transshygenic poultry in 1988 when postdoctoral fellow Jim Petitte OAC PhD 86 sucshycessfully moved cells from one chick embryo to another creating chimeric chicks Until this breakthrough
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researchers had been unable to manipulate the avian embryo in the early stages of development
Petitte extracted embryonic cells from the yo lk of a newly laid egg from a barred Plymouth Rock hen and microinjected them into a rec ipient embryo in a dwarf white l eghorn egg through a tiny 05-censhytimetre window cut in the shell When incubated the egg went on to produce a chimeric chick Embryonic cells from the black Plymouth Rock donor were expressed as blotches of black in the chicks down
Since then Etchess research team has been able to do the procedure more successfully get better gene exshypression in the donor cells and keep the embryonic cells in culture for 24 to 48 hours befo re transplanting them into the recipient egg
The chimeric chick itself is not transgenic genetic information from the donor embryo is expressed in a limited number of cells in the chick A second-generation chimera howshyever would be transgenic if the donor cells contained a foreign gene
Thats the focu s of a collaborat ive
Animal scienlisl Jim Squirev has developed a chemic(li recipe Ih(l causes DNA-I(lced liposomes 10 fuse wilil sperm cells When pershyjeered the technique will allow him to use the natural veeror ofsperm cells 10 lransmit foreign
project between the labs of Etches and colleague Prof Ann Gibbins OAC MSc 71 PhD 80 who is intershyested in modifying the donor cells through genetic manipulation When her lab team is able to target a specific gene and change it - and only it - they will insert that gene into the donor cells to produce a chimeric chick and in the second generation a transgenic chick
Transgenic sperm
Squires is taking a more obvious but no less perilous route to the transgenic chicken by using sperm cells to carry the foreign DNA Just as the hen s embryo is difficul t to manipulate the rooster s sperm has barriers of its own Prevail ing thought is that any invas ion of the sperm cell will kill its potency
Although Itali an and Israeli reshysearchers claim to have inserted DNA into the sperm cells of mice through abshysorption no one else has been able to get this to work so the prevailing thought prevail s
Squires s approach is to power DNA into the cells He s de veloped a chemishycal recipe that causes DNA-laced liposomes (fat globules) to fuse with sperm cells
Squires says his team has overcome
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DNA Photo by Ma ry Dickieson
the three main obstacles encapsulating DNA in the liposomes fu sing the liposomes to sperm cells which affects the transfer of 0 TA and retaining the fertility of the sperm
What they have yet to demonstrate is that the process produces a transgenic animal Trials are under way using a radioactive marker ge ne that can be easi shyly detected in a developing transgenic chicken Squires will be eager for peer rev iew to document the results this fall
If successful the sperm cell technique can be adapted for use with all species of commercial animals Sperm cells are the perfect vector because their ultimate function is to insert DNA into an egg says Squires We ll just be supplying the DNA The method is easy economical and safe to periorm and does not inshyvolve expensive equipment
Disease diagnosis
The international race to identify a mutation assoc iated with a costly swine disease was won by Guelph pathologist Peter OBrien OVC 88 and Univershysity of Toronto professor David Maclennan
The mutation associated with maligshy
nant hyperthermia was identifi ed in Maclennan s laboratory by sequenc ing the gene in normal and abnormal swine A I OO-per-cent correlation was fo und between DNA-based tests in Maclennan s laboratory and phys iologishycalbiochemical tests used in 0 Brien s research for diagnosing the condition
From these findings the scienti sts developed a test using modem molecular biology techniques to identify the mutation in the blood cells of inshydividual swine
Malignant hyperthermia is seldom fatal in pigs but it results in poorshyquality pork Pork producers suffer major economic losses from what is known as PSE - pale soft exudative (watery) meat - in affected animals
Other research at U of G cou ld help eliminate a potentially lethal blood coagulation disorder in dairy cows Facshytor XI a genetic disorder associated with a lack of c lotting protein in the bl ood causes hemorrhag ing in Holstein cows
Researchers believe the problem can be eliminated by ensuring that breeding stocks are free of the disease Testing for all of Canada is conducted by U of G biomed ica l sc ienti st Patricia Gentry and research technician Michelle Ross
Vaccine development
Vaccination is the cheapest most efshyfecti ve way of dealing with infec tions and the most poweriul way of preventshying di sease Advanced immunization programs using new biotechniques are under way in many Guelph labs last fa ll the Natural Sc iences and Engineershying Research Council announced strategic grants for advanced techshynologies that included four vacci ne development projects at U of G
Profs Brian Derbyshire and Eva Nagy of the Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Immunology (VMI) recei ved a three-year grant of $295000 to perfect gene-cloning techniques for the de velopment of a vaccine for porshycine gas troenteritis
In the same department Profs Janet Maclnnes Soren Rosendal and Bonnie -Mallard OAC 79 MSc 82 PhD 88 were awarded $250000 over three years to work on a recombinant vaccine effecshytive against the bacterial organism that causes severe pneumonia in pigs
Also in VMI Prof Patricia SheweD 75 MSc 79 PhD 82 received a three-year grant of $408 000 with Prof
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Reggie Lo Microbiology to continue work on an improved vaccine for shipshyping fever Lo and Prof Alan Mellors Chemistry and Biochemistry received a $54000 grant to develop clinical and com mercial applications of a technique used in bone marrow transplantation and vaccine development
These projects follow in the footsteps of earlier developments like the bov ine shipping fever vaccine created by Shewen and VMI chair Bruce Wilkie OVC 65 It was like finding a way to control the common cold in humans
Although the bacterium Pasteurella haemolytica occurs normally in the noses of cattle its numbers increase during periods of high stress and present an insurmountable problem for the animals immune system
Wilkie and Shewen di scovered that during its most active stage of growth the bacterium produces a toxin that imshypairs the ability of clearing cells to eliminate the bacterium They grew the bacterium in a culture monitored toxin production and developed processes for vaccine production
The technology was licensed to Langford Inc of Guelph which man ufac tures and markets Presponse shipping fever vaccine in both Canada and the United States
Lab work by Lo and former student Craig Strathdee CBS 85 PhD 89 that contributed to the shipping fever vaccine project also led to a patent apshyplication - for the plasmid coding for Pasteurella haemolytic leucotoxin which has been implicated as a major virulence factor in the impairment of primary lung defence in cattle
Animal health
Wilkie and Mallard are also working with Prof Brian Kennedy in Guelph s Centre for the Genetic Improvement of Livestock to develop a selective breedshying program that uses knowledge acshyquired through genetic studies and stretches the definition of biotechnology
To stay hea lthy an individual animal must have the genetic ability to produce resi stance to infection says Wilkie That ability is not dependent on a sing le gene but on the expression of many difshyferent genes Neve rtheless these genetic traits are heritable and amenable to selection
This team has identified traits in pigs that are important in maintaining health has characterized individual animals
Biotechnology ofa different sort in volves the use of traditional selected breeding and a computer database to produce diseaseshyresistant pigs
through the expression of these genetic traits and has associated these traits with high productivity If these high producers are mated to produce a disshyease-resistant strain of pigs is that biotechnology
If foreign DNA had been introduced into the embryo of a pig to give it the characteristic of disease resistance that would be an obvious example of bioshytechnology But how do we catalogue the technology if it uses tradi tional selecshytive breeding and a computer to produce a piglet with the same resistance to disshyease
More biotechniques in action
Guelph food scientist Cyriel Duitschaever OAC MSc 66 PhD 75 has developed new fermented milk products that will benefit people suffershying from gastrointestinal illnesses
He and research associate Carole Buteau OAC MSc 78 PhD 83 isoshylated two naturally occurring intestinal bac teri a and propagated a pure culture in the laboratory to develop both liquid and yogurt-like milk products that can be used to stimulate digestion in the inshytestinal tracts of people who are on anshytibiotics who are lactose-intolerant or who suffer gas trointestinal disorders
Clinica l trials at the Children s Hospishytal of Buffalo have been promis ing giv ing rise to another potential use in the treatment of acute diarrhea l di seases affec ting people in the Third World
Microbiology professor Joseph Lam heads a research team that has develshyoped a diagnostic kit to quickly identify a bacteria group known to cause fat al inshy
fections in some hospital patients Pseushydomonas aeruginosa is the principal cause of death in cystic fibrosis sufshyferers and is a serious threat to burn vi cshytims cancer patients and those undergo ing transplants
Because the bacterium does not respond to conventional antibiotic treatshyments quick de tection is central to preventing spread of the infection Lam s kit can cut the test period from 12 hours to five minutes
His current research illustrates the cross-over effect of biotechnology He identified an antigen that is common to about 75 per cent of P aeruginosa strains and a monoclonal antibody against the antigen This has allowed him to iso late spec ia l bacteria that will produce the antigen in large quantities for further s tud y His work should evenshytually lead to a human monoclonal anshytibody that cou ld be used to protect cystic fibrosis patients
In 1989 when the federal governshyment decided it was time to put some money behind its verbal thrust in science and technology it allocated $240 million to estab li sh 14 centres of excellence that would integrate the reshysearch efforts of Canadian uni versi ties industry and government
Several U of G researchers received funding including microbiologists Chris Whitfield Anthony Clarke Joseph Lam Reggie Lo Roselynn Stevenson and Terry Beveridge who beshycame part of the network looking into bacterial di sease Their expertise will aid the search for the causative agents of bacterial diseases such as whooping cough gonorrhea toxic shock synshydrome lung infections and me ningitis
In 1988 biochemist Janet Wood and crop scientist Peter Paul s achieved a breakthrough in understanding how subshystances like sugars and amino ac ids are transported from outside to inside a living cell wall They found that minute protein molecules in the wall surroundshying a cell act like miniature pumps capshyturing the substance and powering it through the cell wall -They are now trying to determine how the protein molec ules choose subshystances for uptake or release S uch celshylular behavior plays a critical role in determining a plants reaction to soi l sa linity or explaining why cells fai l to transport glucose from the blood in diabetics
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Behind every how theres a why While we stand in awe of what sc ienshytists are accomplishing in the biological sciences we shouldnt lose sight of the reasons why they are manipulating cell structure and decoding genetic blueprints
To some extent scientific exploration is driven by human nature - our desire to understand and control the natural world Advances in biotechniques and genetic engineering promise to give us more of both
Reports on the Human Genome Project say that within 15 years well know the code of almost every gene in the human body This work and current explorations in animal genetics are harshymonized by the fact that many of the genes that control development are similar among species
The chicken for example is a familiar model for studies in developshymental biology Supported by 60 to 70 years of data todays embryologists like Prof Rob Etches are learning how to modify the genes that control developshyment of a chick embryo while giving us a better understanding of how genes efshyfect development in all vertebrates
Nothing could be more fund amental than understanding that process says Prof Keith Betteridge who heads the Guelph team working with bovine embryos In all areas of reproductive and genetic research the big payoff is that we will understand more about how two gametes can unite to fonn a single cell and develop into Northern Dancer or Albert Einstein he says
Everyone has a role to play in decidshying how to use this knowledge says Betteridge but the researcher has the triple responsibility of thinking through the implications of new technologies exshyplaining those implications to a skeptishycal and concerned public and safeshyguarding the welfare of animals used
Whether manipulating an entire animal or one of its reproductive cells the scientist is guided by the same set of moral standards If the technology inshyduces pain or suffering causes changes in behavior or affects the animals abilshyity to eat and survive then it shouldnt be done says Prof Bruce Wilkie chair of the Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Immunology
He and other Guelph scientists inshyvolved in animal research are subject to
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peer rev iew through the U of G s animal care committee which is also charged with ensuring that research and teaching programs are in compliance with the Animals for Research Act of Ontario
Reporting to the University s Reshysearch Board the committee is comshyposed offaculty student community and non-user representatives It estabshyli shes animal-care policies on campus and evaluates all protocols submitted by researchers and teachers After granting initial approval the committee reviews each project annually and inspects reshysearch facilities each semester A provinshycially appointed inspector also visits campus frequently and the Canadian Council on Animal Care makes an inshyspection every three years to assess the level of animal care
In addition to safeguarding animal care scienti sts al so need to provide evidence that the products of biotechnolshyogy are safe for human consumption or medical use The public needs to know that the pharmaceutical protein cloned and produced in a chicken s egg is no different than the same protein cultured from human cells and produced in a large bioreactor
The big payoff is that we will understand more about how two gametes can unite to form a single cell and develop into Northern Dancer or Albert Einstein
One of the most talked-about benefits of transgenic technologies is the potenshytial for producing enzymes prote ins and antibodies for pharmaceutical and inshydustrial uses Molecular farming would take advantage of the expression system in higher animals to produce a therashypeutic protein that is difficult or expenshysive to make in a lab
The potential seems enormous but the prac tice will be quite simple A typishycal Ontario dairy herd could probably produce enough human insulin or bloodshyclotting factor to satisfy the world
demand It s easy to see why these techshyniques are already presenting problems for patent offices
The past decade of work in transshygenesis has been a learning process for all of us Early research efforts that produced pigs in the United States with arthritic deformities and sheep in Australia with ulcers have taught us th at even science must learn to walk befo re it can run That means perfecting genetic transfer in animals where the techniques are easily controlled - such as mice and fruit flies - before applyshying them to domestic animals
One of the advantages of gene transshyfer technology is the control it offers geneticists who are able to manipulate expression of a single gene during development One of the limitations may be the re lative ly minor change that gene can make in one generation when compared with the changes induced through the countless generations of selection since domestication
These limitations may alleviate some of our fears about the use of gene transshyfer but it also makes us question its value at least in terms of breed improveshyment in domestic livestock Prof Charshyles Smith holds a research chair at Guelph in animal-breeding strategies and is often called on to assess the value of the new biotec hnologies in the genetic improvement of farm livestock
Economic traits are already being imshyproved through traditional selective breeding methods he says It would take quite large beneficial transgenic efshyfects (at least 10 per cent of the mean) on economic merit to make their incorshyporation worthwhile
Despite our e thical concerns the legal entanglements created by the use of biotechniques and the problem of turnshying new technologies into cost-effective procedures most scientists agree that these technolog ies are too powerfu I not to use They have the pote ntial to help allev iate some of the most serious problems facing the world - food production overpopulation disease and shyenvironmental degradation
Statisticians teU us that 50 years from now we will be trying to feed twice the current world s population on a smaller land base in a more fragile environshyment This is the why behind current research in genetic engineering
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Alumni and others who give to the University of Guelph through the Annual Fund are helping to maintain quality at a time when governments are funding for mediocrity Because of the dedication and commitment of our donors and volunshyteers the 1991 Annual Fund surpassed last year s total by $100000 We did not achieve our goal - perhaps $1 6 million was overly ambitious in light of current economic conditions - but we were able to maintain last years 25-per-cent inshycrease in scholarship support
Through the Alma Mater Fund we raised more than $540000 and achieved Tom Sawyer
the target of 12-per-cent participation among graduates of the three founding colleges Arts CBS and CSS alumni substantially increased their donations and participation over last year Campus participation grew from 145 per cent in 1990 to 171 per cent this year And our parents program pushed contributions from parents to $84188 compared with $31500 in 1990
For the first time since 1984 the Alma Mater Fund Advisory Council was able to go beyond its commitments to fund eight additional projects - a total of $86000
Looking ahead our flagship project for 1992 will be War Memorial Hall renovations During Alumni Weekend in June you ll have a chance to see the work that has been done upstairs and the work still needed in the downstairs hall It s a project well worth the interest and support of alumni
For your past and future support of the Alma Mater Fund my sincere thanks
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Of cattle cash and Colvil e Alumni gifts to the University of Guelph come in some pretty interesting packages Over the years alumni have given livestock concrete paintings shythere are two by Canadian painter Alex Colville - furniture land books inshysurance policies and a host of artifacts and antiques And money - a lot of money Almost every building on camshypus has some bricks and mortar paid for by alumni And hundreds of students are helped along the way each year by alumshyni-sponsored scholarships
The Annual Giving Report on the preceding pages shows once again how important alumni gifts are to the Univershysity and provides us with an opportunity to say thank you to those alumni who continue to give on a yearly basis Anshynual giving is however only one of three avenues through which alumni proshyvide financial support to the University The others are major gifts and promoshytional programs
Annual giving
The Alma Mater Fund established in 1969 is the route chosen by most alumshyni faculty and staff who make annual gifts to the University
AMF solicitation and management are handled by a volunteer advisory council On the preceding page chair Tom Sawyer OAC 59A and 64 talks about the funds success over the last two years with AMF scholarships inshycreasing by 25 per cent This year the AMF begins a three-year commitment to funding renovations to War Memorial Hall
In addition to its flagship project AMF provides regular support to athshyletics through Gryphon Club contribushytions to college advancement funds and scholarships and to individual class projects
The AMF supports the camaraderie of university days as alumni work together to plan and complete a project whether its funding a scholarship a painting a tree weight-lifting equipshyment or furniture for Alumni House AMF contributions also ensure that fushyture Guelph students will remember those who have gone before
In addition to AMF donations the anshynual giving program includes gifts to
the OVC Pet Trust Fund the OAC Alumni Foundation the Arboretum the paren ts program and the Li brary Other gifts made directly to the University supshyport memorial funds scholarships musishycal activities and research and academic programs
Major gifts
Major gifts to the University are adshyministered by the Deve lopment Office under the direction of Marilyn Robinson Mac 55 These include beshyquests or life insurance policies shortshyterm pledges (often made during a capital campaign) large donations that might establish an endowment fund or contributions to special University projects like the Heritage Fund or the proposed FACS Building addition
Gifts- in-kind - such as library materials art objects or estate properties - also fall within thi s category Last year alumni gave more than $12 milshylion in such tax-deductible gifts
Promotions
Every Guelph graduate is a member of the University of Guelph Alumni Asshysociation and receives the Guelph Alumshy
nus magazine and many other privishyleges There are no UGAA membership fees but the association does raise money through promotional programs like MasterCard travel packages and the North American Life Assurance proshygram
The UGAA provides serv ices to alumshyni and students - such as the careershyplanning workshop planned for Juneshyand returns many dollars directly to the campus Last year it gave $20000 to the library
In addition to direct financial support through annual giving and major gifts alumni also support the University inshydirectly through membership fees to individual college and program associashytions The fees pay for association acshytivities that help maintain ties between their members and the University
Questions
If you have questions or would like 10
know more about the tax advantages of giving to U of G write to Paulette Samson associate director of annual giving and support services at Alumni House University of Guelph Guelph Ont NIG 2Wl or call 519-824-4120 Ext 6183
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If you think youre hearing from us moreoften lhanY9u elida few years ago you reright But checkyour mail and you ll 110tiqe that you~re also hearing
more frequemly from othernon-jgtrofit)rganizations and charities We v~ all stepped lip oui- fUQdIaising efforts
U QfGappreciates your support and needs your help butyou wont know that if we donr teflyou Aildeyen if you cant afford to make a fjnancialcon~
tributiori we hop~ to wjn yoUfverbaJ sliPPOJ-tJt will take many voices to coii- ylnce governmeritthal universities should beagreater public priority
When we contacenttyou on behalf of iheUriivetsity we lly to give more thiin we ask So tak~advantage ofthe p~1one call o(letter to findoutwhais happenc ing OJrcarnp~s U ofG hasmuchto offer llufnrii professionaldevelcipment courses library privileges travel programs recreation and a link Igt friends and
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Get your career on track
Responding to alumni requests the University of Guelph Alumni Associashytion will sponsor a career-planning workshop on campus June 26 to 28 The weekend program will be led by Sharon Crozier of the University of Calgary counselling service Each participant will receive a careerlifestyle analysis and will develop a personal action plan
The $225 fee includes the StrongshyCampbell Interest Inventory and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator which will be administered and tabulated prior to the weekend Testing dates have been set in Toronto for May 27 and in Guelph for June 4
Sponsored by the UGAA and coshyordinated by Continuing Education and Alumni Affairs the workshop will also draw on the Universitys Counselling and Student Resource Centre
Enrolment is limited to 20 For registration information see page 26 or call Continuing Education at 519-767shy5000
UGAA board report
by Grant Lee CSS 73 MA 80
The UGAA will present a convocation package to each graduate this spring imshymediately following presentation of the degree or diploma Developed by Alumshyni Affairs staff the package is designed to increase awareness of the UGAA and the collegeschool alumni associations encourage membership introduce the Guelph Alumnus and provide an opporshytunity for board members to congratushylate our new alumni
Approval of the new UGAA bylaw is on schedule It will be presented to members at the annual general meeting in June along with an amendment to the
i I UGAA Letters Patent
In addition the UGAA board bull has approved a $400 donation to help
cover costs for two students to represhysent Guelph at the 1992 World Debatshying Championships in Dublin Ireland
bull is looking at a proposal to help alumDl with financial planning There will be more to come on this subject later
bull received thanks from president Brian Segal on behalf of those alumni who attended the October symposium
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Canada Break Up or Restructure The association was a patron of the event
bull is responding to requests from alumni for more social events Aside from the travel program the UGAA sponsored a ski day at Horseshoe Valley in March
bull approved a proposal from the School of Landscape Architecture to research places of historical value on campus Financial support has yet to be resolved
bull accepted an offer to help sponsor the University Centres annual lecture series which invites Canadian and inshyternational public figures to speak on current issues All events in the winter 92 series were free to alumni
bull donated U of G sweatshirts to Canadian Guidance and Counselling for a conference in Ottawa this sumshymer
bull approved the purpose and terms of refshyerence for the new Alumni House Adshyvisory Committee which is charged with overseeing maintenance of the
facility adopted the 199192 budget and finanshycial plan drafted last November This year we expect to generate some $44000 and spend $33000 It has been suggested that we set the 199293 budget and plan in April of this year so the new board wi II start in September with a sound financial program and budget that will only reshyquire adoption or revision
Chapter news
Calgary - About 40 alumni and guests met at the Delta Bow Valley Hotel Feb 3 to view a U of G video and hear a talk by admissions counsellor C hr is tine Toews FACS 87 Co-ordinator of the event was Janet Hutchinson CBS 79
Edmonton - Paul OAC 67 and Anne Valentine CBS 69 hosted a group of 30 alumni and guests at the Ramada Renaissance Hotel
Montreal - U of G welcomed students and their parents - including many
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alumni - to its first Montreal informashytion night for prospective students The event was modelled after a successful program in Toronto that draws more than 800 students each spring
Vancouver - U of G president Brian Segal met with alumni March 5 at the Pan Pacific Hotel Jim Dodds OVC 63 and Sarah Bloom FACS 86 orshyganized the event which attracted about 70 alumni and guests
Halifax- U ofG alumni in Halifax met with Gryphon basketball players during the March 26 to 28 CIAU chamshypionships Despite losing the OUAA west division title to Brock University the Gryphons qualified for a wi ld card spot at the CIAU championships Alumshyni received free tickets to the game that pitted Guelph against Brandon in the consolation final Fan support was enshythusiastic but the Gryphons lost 72 to 64 finishing third overall
Homecoming 1992 Plans are well under way for Homecoming weekend Sept 25 and 26 In addition to the annual Gryphon Hall of Fame dinner and award s ceremony the weekend will feat ure a beach volshyleyball tou rnamen t --~4~=iiiiikshyconcert alumni brunch walk-a-thon pep rally reunions and the traditional homecoming dance following the Saturday afternoon footshyball game This year the Gryphons will play Wil frid Laurier University A complete schedule will appear in the next Guelph Alumnus but you can get
Winners of Ihe Ju SI fo r Fun square dance compelition 01 College Royal were left 10 right Ann Joselin Kelley Allen Joanne Hewirson Brenl McFadden caller Sue MacKinnon Richard Presley Trish Henderson Jason Thompson and Kelly Lillie
in the Homecoming spirit now by helpshying to plan your class reunion or signing up as a scorekeeper for the vo lleyball tournament For infOlmation call alumshyni officer Laurie Malleau HAFA 83 at 519-824-4120 Ext 2102
Swing your partner
Eight squares of alumni took part in the College Royal square dance competition in March Winners of the UGAA alumni square dance plaque were the Crazy 8s Joanne Hewitson Arts 91 Lloyd Hutchinson CBS 87 Sonya Jones CPS 90 Ed Ketchabaw OAC 88 and MSc 91 Carol)n OAC 90 and Brad MacNeil CPS 87 Mike Relf OAC 91 and student Sherry MacNeil Wayne Lowden was the caller
Winners in the Just for Fun category were Junior Farmer alumni who included Hewitson Ann Joselin OAC 90 Brent McFadden CSS 90 Richard Presley OAC 86 and soonshyto-be-alumni Kelley Allen Trish
Henderson Kelly Little and Jason Thompson The caller was Sue MacKinnon OVC 9 1
Florida picnic
The North Port Yacht Club hosted 199 alumni for the annual Florida picnic March 4 On hand to meet them was Trish Walker CSS 77 and MSc 90 director of alumni affairs Judy Phillips of the University s Real Estate Division also attended to talk about the Village by the Arboretum retirement deve lopshyment
Attendance prizes went to Gertrude Stewart Mac 30 and Morley Funston OAC 32 The picnic was sponsored by the UGAA Alumni-In shyAction Committee represented by Ken Gartley OAC 42 and the Florida reunion committee consisting of Mary and Ted Brent OAC 48 Helen and Don Moffatt OAC 46 Stella and Bob Moore OAC 48 and Retis and Bill HasenptlugOAC 39
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A new kind of class reunion
Its the latest fad in alumni circles shymeeting your classmates at the anshynual University of Guelph alumni hockey tournament Twenty-two teams played in the fifth annual tourshynament in December
For most teams tournament standshyings are secondary to the socializing with classmates that they may not see otherwise says Bill Seegmiller OAC 83 who worked with Brian TapscottOAC 8 1 to organize the event We promote the social aspect through two divisions - social and more social - and include family skating and a Saturday evening wine and cheese party he says Trish Walker director ofalumni affairs presents fhe social division lrophy 10 Ihe OAC 79
Dipper Oldies (II the U ofG alumni hockey tournamenl The OAC 79A team defeated the Grey Gryphons to win the more soshycial division The OAC 80 team won the consolation final and the spirit award went to OAC 7778
In the social (a little more competishytive) division it was the Faceoffs in first place over OAC 88 OAC 90 won the consolation trophy and the Valley Vikings took home the spirit award
Organizers plan to add womens exshyhibition games to the 1992 tournament which is scheduled for Dec 5 and 6 For more information call Seegmiller at 519-836-3807 or Rudy Diemer OAC 85 at 519-763-2250
A night at the races
The UGAA Alumni-in-Action group will host a night at Mohawk Raceway May 26 The $30 admission includes a 6 pm buffet parking program taxes and gratuities For detail s call Laurie
~ Malleau at 519-824-4120 Ext 2102
I Alumni directory
A new alumni directory will be ready for delivery in May The deadline for alumni updates has passed but you can still order a copy of the directory at a cost of $40 plus tax Return the order form you received with the special U of G wristwatch offer or write to Rosemary Clark Mac 59 at Alumni House University of Guelph Guelph Ont NIG 2Wl
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Ottawa chapter 50 years young
There was a nostalgic gathering of Guelph alumni in Ottawa last winter to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the city s alumni chapter
Donald Fletcher OAC 36A and 39 who was president of the group in 1953 sent us a historical account of the chapters activities
A small organizing committee first met in February 1941 at Madame Burgers restaurant to plan the chapters first fun ction a skating party at the Ottawa Experimental Farm It attracted 75 people
Over the years the group held an anshynual picnic and a banquet and dance that gave them a chance to invite faculty from Guelph to speak about happenings at the colleges - and later the Univershysi ty Every president from George I Christie to Bill Winegard paid a vi sit
In 1951 alumni from OVC and Macshydonald Institute who had been meeting since 1936 joined the OAC group A crowd of almost 200 celebrated the chapter s 10th anniversary at a picnic at the farm of the late John Bracken OAC 06 During the 1950s they added a get-together at the annual Ottawa-area plowing match which gave way to a curling bon spiel in the 1960s
There have been many special funcshytions - entertaining the Gryphon footshyball teams square dances car rallies golf tournaments theatre parties and raceway evenings - but the event that stands out in Fletchers memory ocshycurred in 1966 when five members of Parliament hosted the group in the parshyliamentary ballroom
The chapter also includes a couples bridge club which has been meeting for 25 years in the homes of its members
Fletcher thanks the 30 people who have served as president of the Ottawa alumni chapter and the dozens more who have helped on committees devot shying years to the executive to promote the institution
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ALUMNI CAREER PLANNING WEEKEND WORKSHOP
JUNE 26 27 amp 28 ~ The Program This highly successful workshop developed by Sharon Crozier PhD University Counselling Services University of calgary is the first step for an alumnus who is considering a career move The weekend (Friday evening through Sunday afternoon) will consist of group presentations conducted by Dr Crozier with smaller working groups facilitated by profeSSional counsellors from the University of Guelph Counselling and Student Resource Centre
Discussion structured exercises and experiential activities will lead alumni to gain insight into a personal careerllifestyle analYSis and assessment career information resources networking skills and much more
No matter what their age career stage or reason for transition each participant will find this workshop to be an excellent opportunity to develop a personal action plan - and chart their next move
~ Pre-1esting In order to provide individualized career information registrants are required to attend one of two pre-testing sessions The Strongshycampbell Interest Inventory and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator will be administered and results tabulated prior to the workshop Pre-testing dates are as follows
Toronto Wednesday May 27 1992 700 pm - 8 30 pm Holiday Inn Yorkdale
Guelph Thursday June 4 1992 700 pm - 8 30 pm University Centre
~ Fee The registration fee of $225 includes administration and tabulation of the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator materials two lunches and refreshment breaks
Tuition fees in excess of $100 are income tax deductible
Enrolment is limited to 20 registrants
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May 2 - The Guelph Spring Festival begins with a 25th-anniversary gala dinshyner in Creelman Hall that will honor founding president Murdo MacKinnon Other festival events run until May 23 For more information call 519-821-7570
May 2 shy An All-Canadian University Asshysociation d inne r w il l be held in Washington DC at the Embassy of Canada Guest speaker is Robert Lanni president of the University of Windsor Entertainment will be provided by Windsors music department For inforshymation call T Chan at 202-543-9111
May 3 - Arboretum Day celebrates spring with family nature walks at 1 and 330 pm and an electrical keyboard concert at 230 pm featuring Canadian comshyposer Carole Anne Burris
May 10 to Aug 30 - Guided nature walks run every Sunday at 230 pm in the Arboretum Topics include wildflowers birds turtles snakes and insects The nature centre is open from 1230 to 430 pm
May 13 - Chancellor Lincoln Alexander is the guest speaker at the Alumni-inmiddotAction annual general meeting which begins at noon in the Arboretum Centre For details call Alumni Affairs 519-824middot 4120 Ext 2102
May 13 - The Human KineticsHuman Biology Alumni Association will hold its inaugural meeting at730 pm at Alumni House with a coffee and dessert social RSVP to 519-824-4120 Ext 6963
May 23 shy FACS 82 is sponsoring a colshylection of Bob Munsch plays performed by the Carousel Players at3 pm at War Memorial Hall Tickets are $8 plus tax and handling To order call the UC box off ice at 519-824-4120 Ext 3940
May 26 - Alumni-in-Action is hosting a night at Mohawk Raceway Cost is $30 To register call 529-824-4120 Ext 2102
May 30 - An Arboretum sale of rare native trees and shrubs at the RJ Hi lton Centre on College Avenue East runs from 9 am to 1 pm For information call 519-824shy4120 Ext 2113
May 30 shy The sixth annual All-Canadian University Dinner in Chicago will be held
in the Henry Crown Space Centre at the Museum of Science and Industry and will include a reception buffet dinner and an Omnivax movie beginning at 6 pm Guest speaker is George Pedersen president of the University of Western Ontario For information call David Cole at 312-372-4404 or Hugh Mackenzie at 708-369-3688
June 2 to 5 shy Spring convocation June 13 - Beginning at 7 am the Arshy
boretum will hold its summer bird survey The four-hour walk will locate breeding birds and identify their species by sight and song
June 15 to 17 shy U of G will host the 15th annual Guelph Conference on Sexuality With the theme Sexuality New Visions the conference will examine current isshysues in human sexuality counselling strategies for sexual problems and teaching approaches in sexuality educashytion For information call the Office of Continuing Education at 519-767-5000 or fax 519-767-0758
June 19 to 21 - ALUMNI WEEKEND See page 39 for a complete schedule of events and alumni association meetings The UGAA annual meeting is June 21 at 10 am in Macdonald Hall 149
June 26 to 28 shy The UGAA-sponsored alumni career-planning workshop will be held on campus See page 26 for details
July 31 amp Aug 4 shy The National Youth Orchestra will perform in War Memorial Hall at 8 pm as part of its summer program at U of G Tickets at $8 general $6 for stUdents and seniors will be availshyable at the door
Sept 26 - HOMECOMING Rise early for the second ann ual Homecoming charity walkathon At 930 am the Human Kinetics Alumni Association will hold its annual general meeting in the School of Human Biology lounge
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John Boros 88 of Wei land Ont writes that he is impressed by the way U of G keeps records after graduation Thi s gives the graduate a sense of belonging a connection to an important period in hi s or her life he says
Jane Buzza 88 is working as records co-ordinatorarchivist for the Ontario Medishycal Association in Toronto
Jacqueline (Sullivan) DeClerck 86 is a public relations officer at the Canada Trust head office in London Onto
Richard Ely 70 works at the Crown attorneys office in WeIland Ont He has an LLB from the University of Western Ontario in addition to his Guelph degree He says he often talks about U of G to young students trying to decide which university to attend
Paul Genest 81 finished graduate studies at Johns Hopkins Universi ty in Maryland and is now assistant professor of philosophy at Union College in Schenectady NY He is man-ied to Barbara Jessup 8 1
Brian Hogarth 78 is head of interpretashytion at the G1enbow Museum in Calgary
Martha Hooper 9 1 was married last Ocshytober to David Perry They live in Calgary where she is a sw itchboard operator at the Delta Bow Valley Inn
Rene van der Meijden 87 has put his degree in geogshyraphy and internationshyal development to good use with the Christian Reformed World Relief Comshymittce Originally from the Netherlands he is now in Uganda on a three-year asshy Rene van der signment as a rural Meijden development adv iser He sends greetings to his many friend s in Canada and to Guelph grads Stan and Kitty in Bolivia in particular and reminds us that visitors are always welshycome in Uganda
Edward Milliner 85 will graduate this spring from the faculty of education at the University of Windsor
Mark Moore 85 is doing postgraduate work in history at the University of Bristol in England He plans to teach high school
fn response to a letter from Dawn Monroe 69 that appeared in the winter 1992 issue of the Guelph Alumnus Doug Moynihan 69 of Fort McMurray Alta writes Be disapshypointed no more Dawn l I too graduated in 1969 from (the College of) Arts or as it was then called Wellington College and I havent heard from anyone either And I too think it is time to contribute my news
After graduation f headed out to disshycover and sol ve the problems of the world travelling overseas for about three years Since then Ive been working in human resources in a variety of organizations in many different locations in Canada Cun-entshyIy I am the manager of human resources in Fort McMurray
PS Do you remember me Dawn I was the bartender in Creelman Hall I
John Teskey 7 1 began new duties last summer as director of libraries at the University of New Brunsw ick in Fredericton He was head of adshyministrative sershyvices at the University of Albershyta before moving John Teskey across Canada to acshycept the UNB posishytion but had earlier served as chief librarian and was library personnel officer at both Alshyberta and the University of Saskatchewan
Teskey says his biggest challenge is to regain the lost purchasing power that univershysity libraries have suffered as a result of static budge ts and ri sing material costs He is encouraging increased resource-sharing among universities and interlibrary loan programs with shortened turnaround
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Elizabeth (Baxter) Willson 77 a real esshytate agent in Chatham Ont writes to voice a common feeling that the universi ty exshyperience itself is often more important than the degree or diploma received I am really glad I graduated from Guelph she says
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Michelle Bombadier and Mike Caldwell both 92 are two of 50 Canad ian youth selected to work in Guyana for three months with Youth Challenge International (YCI) a non-governmental organization that provides Third-world experience for Canadians They may spend the summer building a school teaching safety or clearing land for Gu ytna s first national park but they need some private support to he lp cover transportation costs Anyone able to help should write to YCI at I I Soho St Toronto M5T IZ6
Jane Coventry 86 writes with accolades for the Guelph Alumnus grad news section and an update on what she and her husband Jaydee Smith 84 and MSc 89 are doing They were married in 1989 while working at U of G - he in the Department of Animal and Poultry Science and she in the Departshyment of Crop Science In February 1991 they moved to England where Smith is doing a PhD at the University of Bristol and working as a research assistant Coventry
works in the technology transfer unit of Nickshyerson Seeds Ltd in Cambridge
Jeffrey Crawford 88 and Leslie Thompson 86 were malTied last October He is an elementary schoolteacher in Mount Forest Ont
Craig Emerson 83 earned a PhD at Dalshyhousie University in Halifax in 1990 and is now a research associate in oceanography
Paul Fleming 85 is a pharmaceutical sales representative for Hoechst Canada Inc and lives in Nepean Ont
David Forsey 80 is an assistant professor of computer science at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver He is marshyried to Lyn Bartram
Michael Gangl 89 is in his third year at the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College
Astrid Harms 87 is a registered nurse in London Ont
Andrew Holmes 85 worked for the Onshytario government as a wildlife biologist for three years but is now back at school in his second year at Northwestern Chiropractic College in Minneapolis
Timothy Johnson 86 works at the Centre for Limnology at the University of Wisconshys in in Madison
Karen Lennard 77 (HK) and her hu sshyband Paul Jackson 79 (HK ) and MSc
82 both went 011 to earn medical degrees from McMaster University in HalTilton Ont Jackson also has a master s in physiology from the University of Virginia and is comshypleting an anesthesiology residency in Hamilshyton Lennard has a part-time family medical practice allowing her to spend more time with the couples two children Matthew and Nicola
Wendy Maltby 74 is an elementary schoolteacher for the Metropolitan Toronto School Board
Sandra OConnor 84 earned a medical degree from the University of Western Onshytario and is now practi sing in Burlington Ont
Linda Owen 81 runs her own business as a consulting exercise physiologist and fitness supervisor in Campbell River BC
Sheryle Tetley 86 is regional sales manager for Glaxo Canada Inc in Mi ss isshysauga Ont where she lives with her husshyband Ian
Rob Tonus 87 is manager of the Black Creek Rehabilitation Project a grassroots enshyvironment program to improve a degraded urban stream in Toronto His office is with the Metropolitan Toronto and Region Conshyservation Authority and he lives in Oakville with his wife Wanda (Knul) 88 (HK) a public health inspector in Hamilton
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Richard Woods 81 is an instructor of xshyray technology at the Easte rn Ontario School of X-ray Technology at Kingston Ge neral Hospital He would like to hear from other members of the 1981 U of G choir wi th whom he travelled to Scandinav ia Write to him at RRI Od essa Ont KOH 2HO
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James Dy nes 84 has comp le ted g raduate studies in chemistry and so il sc ience at the Univers ity of Sas katchewan in Saskatoon
Catherine (McVittie) Clark 88 is a nuclear medica l tech nici an at Howard Counshyty General Hospita l in Columbia Md She and her husband Michae l li ve in Elkridge Md
David Holmes 85 is a systems analyst at Sun Life Assurance Company
RolfKierdorf 84 lives in Guelph with his wife Janet He is se lf-employed as a systems consultant
Donald McFadde n 71 and his wife Carol li ve in A lbany Ga where he pracshyti ses medicine
Donald Ridley 69 and PhD 73 has been appoin ted seni or v ice-presiden t of CibashyGeigy Canada Ltd in Oakvi lle Ont and is responsib le for a ll corpora te serv ices includshy
ing finance human resources safe ty health and the environment He a lso se rves on the board of the Canadian Agricu ltura l Research Council and is a member of the Great Lakes Action Plan Strategi c Advi sory Committee
Kathryn Root Parr is an assoc iate minister at Lorne Park Bapti st Church in Mississhysa uga Ont She was married las t fa ll to Vicshytor Parr
Peter Simpson 85 is dis tric t manager for McNeil Pharmaceutical Ltd in Stouffville Ont He is married to Cynthia (Hamilton) 85 (HK)
Keith Stemshorn 83 is in the Canadian Armed Forces stationed in Calgary
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Nikki Dignard 86 moved to Ottawa last year where her husband Ted Henike pracshyti ses denti stry Dignard is working on an M BA and says she d love to hear from CSS classmates Tom Cam and Kathryn
Bonnie Dunnett 87 and MA 91 works on campus at the Gerontology Research Centre S he and Barry Hallman 9 1 li ve in Guelph
Kathryn Faulkner 80 is a registered nurse in Burling ton Ont where she li ves wi th he r husband John
Ruth Fox 84 is a sta ffing assistant for
Transport Canad a and lives in Toronto w ith her husband Christopher
Shonna Giles 88 is an admiss ions officer at Simon Fraser Unive rs ity in Burnaby BC
Gina Grieco 75 is a hi gh school guidance counsellor in North York Onto
John Harris 82 is manager of financial planning and budgets for th e City of Brampton Ont
Paulette Heppner 76 is a teache r in Vanshycouver
John Johnston 7 1 has been appointed exshyec uti ve vice-pres ident o f Ve rsacold Canada Corp and pres ident of QF Foods Distribushytion Services Versacold Canada is the largest public refri gera ted ware hou sing orshygani za tion in Western Canada
Michael Kral 79 has moved from the Univers ity of Manitoba to the University of Wind sor where he is an assistant professor of psychology
Jeffrey Lozon 76 and his family recently returned to Toronto after 15 years in Western Canada He is executive vice-president and ch ief operat ing officer at St Michael s Hos pital and li ves in Oakville wi th hi s wife Donna and two daughters
Bria n Martin 79 is a real estate appraiser in Portland Ont whe re he li ves w ith hi s wife Margaret (Sheffield) Arts 79
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Leith Mason 90 works in Toronto in the Canadian office of the State of Illinois as a special assistant to the Illinois Department of Food and Agricul ture
Michael McKean 74 of Don Mills Ont was recently appointed president of Wrigley Canada Inc Before joining Wrigley as execushytive v ice-pres ident in 1990 he he ld senior positions in Hong Kong Brazil and the United States
Rick 74 and Vicki (Collard) McTaggart FACS 74 are working in Ottawa He is director of overseas operations for the Unitarian Service Committee a charitable non-governmental organization that supports commun it y and human resou rce developshyment activities in Africa and Asia She is sec tion head of consumer analysis in the agr ifood development branch of Agriculture Canada
Sandra Morrison 86 is an ass istant professhysor in the department of psychiatry at the University of Western Ontario
Stephen Naylor 85 is director of planning and development for the amalgamated municipalities of Alliston Beeton Tecumshyseth and Tottenham
Brian ONeill 68 MA lives in SUITey England where he is managing director of Innovation Management Consultant s
Jodi Parisi 89 is a sales representative for Gillette who says U of Goo was the greatest
Moira Skikavich 81 is completing a PhD in c inematelevision at the University of Southern California
Virginia Sutherland 78 is an air traffic controller at the Toronto Island Airport
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Peggy Bates 88 was recently promoted to sales manager with Sears Canada Inc She lives in Owen Sound Ont
Caroline Begin 86 is working in Singshyapore as a dietitian
Diana Close 87 is a c linical nutri ti onis t at Chedoke McMaster Hospital in Hamilton Ont
Sarah Davenport 90 is a case worker with the Wellington County Social Services office in Guelph She is malTied to Matthew Harvey CBS 90
Timothy Dyck 8 1 is national sales manager for Black amp Decker Canada workshying out of the Corbin Division in Richmond HillOnt
Sharon (Muir) 84 and Richard Ernst CBS 83 are the proud parents of a future Guelph grad uate one-year-old Andrew Graham
Patricia Edwards 78 is food servi ce sushypervisor fo r St Peter s Hospita l in Hamilton Ont
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For the love ofteaching Since she
middot graduated bull from Macshydonald Inshymiddot stitute in
J 963 Nancy Kerr has built a career on teaching and research in telttles The middotheidofthe Uriiveisityof
Albertas department of Clothing and texiiles pursues a middotscientific interest inthepreservashylion of hi stori~lfabricsarid in developing pesticide-proofc1otl1ing But Jler fitstlove i ~ teaching
In 199b shewonone ofU of As four Rutherford AWljrds for excellence ill unshy
dergraduate teat-hing The first member of the faculty middotofliomemiddoteconornicsto receive the award slie was the rcentcipient6f the facultys own underglltiduate teaching award three years earlier
Winning the Rutherford was a gteat honor says Ken who has been on
faculty at Alberta since 1967 She oiscovered she had an aptitude for
middot teaching as a graduate student at the University of California Davis in
196566 After earning her MSc she casr about for afaculty position in Canada and round U of A was the 0111y place I could teach ju t textiles plus have a chance to develop new cQurses and research labs
middot Kerr sa)s she gets a tremelldous sense of satisfaction from teaching and the learning he must do to stay cUlTent She attributes her succe s as a teaCher to middotIec-middot
middot tures that are well organized and clear and to creltting a positive classroom climate
~Thcomfort level of students is reaUy middot ililportanL ~ Kerr eamedherPhD in fibre lnd
polymer science from North Carolina bull Staie University in 1982 Her doctoral work concentrated oil deacidification
techniques to preserve historicatcottOnln 1988 she spent a sabbatical ye~r doing research at the Caliadian Conservation
middot In tirute in OnflW1 middot Originalmiddotly from Ottawa Kerr is a
trarisphlnted -vesterner who enjoys middot hiking anlt sk1ing
From left Diane Ellison Lisa Wilson Lori Davis and Pippa Hobbes
Diane Ellison 84 is liv ing in Osaka Japan where she teaches English to Japanese busishyness people Last October she welcomed three U of G friends for a visit Lori Davis CSS 85 manager of Jumbo Video Inc in Oakville Ont Pippa Hobbes 84 accountshying manager for Paramount Holidays in Willowda le Ont and Lisa Wilson 84 co-ord inator of membership serv ices for the Metropolitan Toronto Board of Trade
Monica Hrybko HAFA 88 is director of sales for the Ramada Hotel Old Town in San Diego Calif
David Jones HAFA 88 is a con troller at the Holiday Inn Montreal Centre-Ville
Kathleen McLachlin 83 is operating an insurance agency in Kitchener OnL She opened the State Farm Insurance office in March 1988 and says she loves her job
Susan (Goettler) Parker 80 is working in Toronto as benefits administrator for Imshyperial Oil Limited She is married to Donald Parker OAC 79
Mary Jean (Sinnott) Price Mac 7 1 has returned to sc hool at the University of Otshytawa to earn a bachelor of education
Margaret (Richardson) Rankin 75 has been living in Halifax since 1990 and is an account analyst for Central Guaranty Trust
Janet (Wanless) Sutherland 77 is in private practice as a marriage and family therapist in East Kelowna BC
Jean Thomson Mac 37 says 1937 was a long time ago but shes delighted with all the changes that have gone at the college A former hospita l nutritionist she is retired and living in London Ont -
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Olayiwola Layi Adeola MSc 86 and PhD 89 and his wife Mope are living in West Lafayette Indiana where he is an assisshytant professor of pig nutrition at Purdue University
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Bruce Barrie 79 (Eng) graduated last June with an MBA from City Uni ve rsi ty in Washington State and is now a senior adshyviser in strategic planning with Petro-Canada Resources in Calgary He is a professional eng ineer with APEGGA and an ac tive memshyber of the Planning Forum an international society for planning and strategic manageshyment
Barbara Bryce 83 and her husband Ricardo Ramirez 82 are living in Rome Italy She is a landscape architect and he is a communications officer with the Food and Agriculture Organizat ion
Daniel Campbell 81 and his wife SharonshyMarianne are farmin g near Petrolia Onto
Carolyn Closs 82 and her husband Harold operate a beef cowca lf operation in Shawville Que
Luc Cote 83 is an agricullural account manager for the Royal Bank of Canada in Joliette Que
Kerrie Lea Curran 85 plans to graduate this fall from the master of architecture proshygram at McGi ll University
Bruce Dodson 74A is course superinshytendent at Hawd Ridge Golf and Curling Club in Orillia Ont
Richard Donkin OAC 85A originalshyly from Zimbabwe is the manager of Venida Packing Inc in Exeter Calif Situated in central Californias San Joashyquin Valley Venida Packing ships tree fruit throughout the Richard Donkin United States Canada the Pacific Rim and the Far East Products under the brand names Ruby River and Venida include peaches plums nectarines kiwi grapes persimmons and pomegranates In 1988 Donkin married California native Lisa Kolander and they live in Lemon Cove a community in the Sierra foothill s
Brendan Elder 8S A lives in Kelowna BC and works for Dogwood Nursery He plans to be married thi s summer to Rosemary Powell
Robert Fessenden OAC MSc 67 was recently appointed vice-president of devel opshyment and planning at the Alberta Research Council He is responsible for tec hnology management and corporate marketing
John Fitzgerald 86 was married last November to Susan Given a ] 991 indeshypendent study graduate in animal producshytion He is a lecturer at Ridgetown College she works at Centralia College and is work shying on a psychology degree at the University of Waterloo They live in Strathroy Ont
Glenn Helstern 79A is a driver for the Calgary division of Greyhound Bus Lines of Canada Ltd
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She tells a princely tale
For seven miniJtes on Oct 24 199 L Ellen Het1eOAC 76~U1d MSc 80
(ltllked with PIince Charles Invited toopert a newfumaceat
inco Lilniteds Copper Cliff smelter iri Sudbury Ont the Princemiddot of Wales was easy to talk with says Heale ftwasverycxciting
As eiwironmental co-ordinator Of land reclamation andrevegetation at Copper Cliff Healetold theprince middot about Tnc(secosystem rehabilitation
projects Theroyalvisitor was parshyticulatfyiilterestedin the treegrow- ing project in abandoned inines flld in tlpoundrevegetation ()f acres of tailings
and barren rock Planrilig vegetation on the tailings
hasattrlttcled wildlifeto a protected habitat says Beale who has wqrked forIncosincc she graduated in 1976
Ninety~iwo species ofbirds as weil asrodems hares foxes wolves bears andinoQse have been sighted on the 2500 acres of rehabilitated ore waste
One thing about this job is you middot can s~e where youve been effective she says
While an undergraduate student in Prill(e Charles with EIen Heale horticultural science Healea native ofSiidbury worked at Ineo during the sumniers She wasthi tirst woman to
work inrhemining companys agriculture middot department After shegraduated the niekshy el inine hired her full time tcido horticul- turaLfleld research ~ Ineo later granted heT a two-semester leave of absente t6 work
Theodore Jacobs 78 (Eng) is engineering supervisor at Standard Tube in Woodstock Ont
Greg Keast 85 (Eng) is li ving in Mozamshybique in East Africa where he works as a project officer for UNICEF rural water supshyply project s
Richard Kline 74 was appointed partner of the Toronto accounting firm Schwartz Levitsky Feldman Inc last faiL He is presishydent of the film s bankruptcy division a member of the Chartered Accountants of Onshytario and first vice- president of the Ontario Insolvency Association
Christopher Laforest MSc 91 (USRPD) works in planning and economic developshyment for Bruce County Ont
Jean-Paul PhD 90 and Lynn (Hammell) Laforest 82 and MSc 85 are both employed at Laval University in Sainte-Foy Que He is a professor and s he is a research associate
Kenneth Lawless 63 earned a Guelph deshygree in agricultural economics then went on to stud y dentistry at the Uni versity of Toronshyto He is now an oral and manilo-fac ial surshygeon in Kingston Ont
oil her masters at OAC~ In her current PdStion Heale has rnore
administrative and public relations responshyibilities On her own time she sits on the
board of management for the tocal Red Cross and isalllember ofthe Sudbury
Business and Professional Womens Club
Margie Luffman 77 writes that she has happily returned to Ontario after 10 years in New Brunswick to work at the Smithfield Experimental Farm in Trenton She is curator of the Plant Gene Resources of Canada clonal gene bank
Brian MacCulloch MAg 89 is a sa les representative for Springva le Nurseries Ltd in Berwick NS
Daniel Mansell 64 and MSc 68 is Onshytario manager of the eastern habitat joint venture in the wildlife policy branch of the Ministry of Natural Resources He is stashytioned in Midhurst Ont
Peter McEntire 77A writes from County Langford in Ireland to keep in touch with U of G He is farming and work s as an AI techshynician with Bova Genetics Ltd
Darryl Mitchell 78 works at Pioneer HishyBred Limited in Chatham Ont
Hugh ONeil 88 is manager of customer financial services for Ral ston Purina Canada Inc
Umed Panu MSc 72 (Eng) has done a lot of travelling during his career After Guelph he earned a PhD in civil engineering
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David Nedelko OAC 86 and Ljrlda ArmsJrollg CBS 89 (Jurk 011 cemre) were marriediasl SeplemiJer in Bari ~ie OnlTluir weddiIg iiarly illcilldedfiom leli Katy KusmiliskiOA C 88Paul Allgusline GAG 86 Roh Reed OAC 87Carv Belfral1l oAC 8RJIuJ Sa ndimiddoto (CollinI) BerlrCIlII CBS RR Also 1I111ie wedding w(lS Arlllslong s Veal ullcleClarence Fleming OVC 34 The couple (Ire living in
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at the Universit y of Waterloo taught in India and at Mi ss iss ippi State Uni vers ity and worked with Briti sh Columbia Hydro and the Government of Newfoundland In 1986 he jo ined the faculty of c ivil engi neering at Lakehead Uni ve rsity in Thunder Bay Ont and was promoted to full professor in 199 1 He and hi s wife Kashna and the ir children Neeti and Anukud enjoy the outdoor recreashytion ac ti viti es available in Northwestern Onshytario and look forward to visits from U of G alumni trave lling to Thunder Bay
Lyle Pettigrew 61 is a marketin g consulshytant with Harris Kovacs Alderman in Atlanshyta Ga
Helen Prior 88 joined Sheridan Nurseries after graduation then worked for a year as a research tech nic ian in Guelph s Department of Crop Scie nce She is now in her th ird year at Emmanuel College at Victoria University and hopes to be ordained as a United Church min is ter in May
Gregory Scott 83 (Eng) is operations manager for Accuform Gol f Limited in Toronto
Ba rbara (Coordes) Skrypetz 87 is a fi e ld supervisor for the Ontario Dairy Herd Imshyprovement Corporation working out of Guelph He r husband Stephen 88 operates a bulldozing and excavating busi shyness in the Woodstock area
Victor Skidra 6 is re tired f rom his job as a sc ientific evaluator with Hea lth and Welshyfare Canada He and hi s wife Konstance live in Nepean Ont
William Slusarchuk 63 (Eng) and MSc
The way we were in 1902 OAC alumnus Douglas Campbell 60 passes on a bit of col lege hi sto ry that shou ld make us think twice about our con stitutional squabbles in C anad a
Campbell is director of the Latin America and Caribbea n Trade Divis ion of Canada s Department of External Affa irs Last summer he hosted a vi s it by the president of Uruguay Luis Alberto Lacalle Herre ra whose grand fa the r made a simil a r vis it to Canada in 1902
This is what the elde r Herrera reported to his government Gue lph agricultural college enjoys a worldwide reputation and is con shys idered one of the grea t loca l attracshytions
More than 200 young Canadians a long with many foreign youths come together in its lecture rooms There are bursary ho lde rs from Norway and as far away as Mauritius C loser to us
Guelph Alumnus
67 was recently appo inted pres ident of AGRA Eanh and Environmental Group an envi ronme ntal and geotechnica l firm that is a division of AGRA Indu stries Limited
Michael Sullivan 87 A is a pol ice officer with the Wate rloo Regional Police in Cambridge Ont
Argentina has 12 students there We ll then couldnt Uruguay imshy
itate those good exa mples and also se nd a number of worthy youths to Guelph to acquire the professional knowledge which is becoming m ore necessary each day for the deve lopshyment of our agric ulture~
In addition to the sc ienti fic benefits that our compatriots woul d deri ve from entering sLlch a Canadian techni cal in shystitution there would be the inca lcushylable benefit of becoming familiar with the stric t manly and sound habits of these people who are admirable in e ve ry respect
Afte r they have stee ped themse lves in this atmos phere of dem ocracy which fosters the development of all rights and is alien to intolerance thi s legati on w ill have the great honor of sending home not only sc ientists but a lso mode l citizens
Brenda Trask 80 operates he r own comshymunica tion s consulting company in Osshygoode Ont She is marri ed to Ron Ferguso n
Dave Vanden Bosch 89 is manager of operator services and plann ing for Bell Canada in London Ont
J Stallard Skip Waterhouse 54 and hi s wife Li sa are ce lebrating the birth of a daughter Samantha Elizabe th on New Years Day 1992 They live in New York State where Wate rhouse is iI pro fe ssor of bio logical science at the Plattsburgh Sta te Uni versity College of Arts and Science
Jeff 88 and Karen (Burrows) W h ite 87 live in Strathroy Ont Jeff work s for Bell Canada and Kare n is a Lambton County rural orga ni za tion spec ialist with the Ontar io Mini stry of Agriculture and Food
Harold Wright 86 is a development repre shysenta tive for Ci ba-Ge igy Canada Ltd in Mi sshysissauga Ont He and Lori Krieg 84 plan to marry thi s sprin g
Donald Ziraldo 7 I received doubl e honors last winter fro m the Ontario grape and wine industry Preside nt of Inniskillin W ines of Niagara-on -the-Lake Ont he was named to the Royal Order of the Grape for hi s leadership in enhancing the prod uct and its image
In addition Z ira ldo and his partner Karl Kai se r were named 1991 Men of the Year by FoodsCIvice and Hospitalily magazine During the ir 17-year partnership at Inn isk ilshylin the two have been instrumental in shapshying Canada s wine industry the magazine sa id
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ave Barry Burtis 69 was named president of the Ontario Veterinary Medical Association in January after working with the voluntary organization for four years as a director member of its editorial board and chair of its public relations committee Burtis lives in Burlington Ont and practises at the Bay Cities Animal Hospital He also appears on a local cable television program called Pel Tales
William Medway 54 of Blackwood NJ has been named an honorary life member of the International Association for Aquatic Animal Medicine for his contributions on beshyhalf of the association and the field of aquatic medicine He is both a founding member and past president of the associa shytion A professor emeritus of clinical laboratory medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine Medway is a member of the Marine Mammal Commissions committee of scientific advisers
Diane Pickering-Forster 86 is practising at Vander Kraan Veterinary Services in Huntsville Ont She is malTied to Chris Forster and they have one daughter Julia
Julien Proulx 67 has moved from Kapusshykasing Ont to La Pocatiere Que where he is superintendent of Agriculture Canada s Experimental Farm Last year he was feashytured on TVOntarios French network series Personalire Ontarienne for his work as a veterinarian his participation in municipal politics and his support of regional developshyment in Northern Ontario He was also awarded Agriculture Canadas research branch prize Agcellence for extraordinary management during his direction of the reshysearch program at the Kapuskasing Exshyperimental Farm
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Twoc~ireers middot on the samepat~ OVCaruninus Geoffrey Lord 49 felt a thopedic
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There are amazing simi laritiesbetween surgery the c~reersof t~e two Guyanese wh6b6th says Lord If earnedvefetinary degrees atGueiph someone worked in c1ini(ai practice in)Yestem were to ask Canada then moved to the United States me ioday to work in human medic~lresearch what Tcon~
Narayan heads an AlDSresearchteamsider to be atJohns HopkiflS l1)iversilySchool of my expertise MediCirieinBaltimoreMatyland Lord is I would have retired directorofthdohnsonamp Johnson to saymecli- Geofrey Lord
middot Resear~h Foundalion ill NewJersey cal device lordsays he was influenced by OVC andbioshy
proJessDfs Anthony Kings(Qte and Frank Inaterials evaluation middot SchofieJd~ndwcentnton from GiJelphto pur- lt In the I 950s Lordwaspalt of ale-
sue graduate studies in parasitology auhe se~rch team that pioneered the use of University oJWiscollsin Sevenmorithsin animal tissue tOTeconstructdamagedjr
amixed practice in Drumheller Alta con blocked al1eries in hUl11ansTwenty years vinced him thaldinical medicine wasn6t middot later he drafted the first systematicap-
middot whati w~ted6 do He returned to Wis pr()ach to the safety evaluation of medica con5il110 eanla PhDlll pathologyano devices joined Johnson amp JohnsQri as asenior middot Allsubsequeill guidelines inCiLlding patilol()gistiriI953 those of the Foodaj)q Diug Admlnistrashy
Research at Johnson amp JohDson tiOnand the Canadian Regulatory ~teeredmeinto many interesting and chal- Authority hayeadopteoihis approach he
Jenging fieldsofbio-research includirig says derniiltoi9gy toxicologic pathology Lordand his wife Helen ltIividetheir wound healing surgical pathology iiinebetweel)Ciipe CodandBonita genera toxkology ofi~w drugs andor~ Springs FloriQa
Shane Renwick 77 and MSc 91 works in veterinary services at Agriculture Canada offices in Guelph
Ruth Reuter 61 is a veterinary pathologist in Plympton Australia
Tom Sanderson 6 1 was selected by the Ontario Veterinary Medical Association as Ontario Veterinarian of 1991 CUlTently OVCs co-ordinator of off-campus work terms he spent 20 years in private practice in Listowe1 and Mount Forest before returning to the coll ege in 1982 to manage the veterishynary research stations Sanderson s contribushytions to the profess ion have included many hours of volunteer work in the advancement
of the profession and in the development of veterinary inshysurance programs He is a past pres ident of both the Ontario and Canadian Veterishynary Medical associashytions
Jennifer Troughton 86 is practising in OronoOnt
Simone Woltner 86 is a veterinarian at the Chester Basin Animal Hospital in Chester Basin NS
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by her hu sband William and two sons The fo llowing dea ths have been reported since the las t issue of the Guelph Alumnus Full notices which are usu ally submitted by family or classmates may appear in thi s iss ue or in a later one
James Clement Arts 73 Feb 2 1992
Marilyn (Dyment) Farnan Mac 530 Feb 27 1992
David Fisher OAC 80A in October 1990
Elizabeth (C hristie) Glass Mac 3I D June 2l99 1
Peter Heskey OAC 54A Dec 6 199 1
Richard Ketchell OVC 51 Nov 23 199 1
Edward Kowalski Arts 79 in August 199 1
Pauline (Dixon) MacMillan Mac 240 Jan 2 1992
Catherine MacPherson Arts 83 Dec 11 1990
Marguerite (White) Maybury Mac 3 10 in June 1990
Donald McLeOd CSS 80 Jan 9 1992
Albert Meilus OAC 51 in 1991
Ann (Biggs) Ostler Mac 3 10 in April 1991
Robert Race Arts 73 in 1989
Ralph Sampson OAC 40 in December 1989
Mor ris Sanderson OAC 42 Nov 17 1991
Sir Peter Scott HDSc 8 1 in Au gust 1989
William Setterington OAC 40 Oct 22 1991
George Shoniker OAC 50A in March 199 1
John Somerset OAC 34 Dec 27 199 1
Gregory Van Patter OAC 7 1 in 1990
Frederich Weiland OAC 20A in 1990
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Riccardo Rich Incitti 88 died Jan 5 1992 as the result of an accident near Hami lshyton Ont He was assistant manager at the Toronto-Dominion Bank in St Cathari nes and is survived by his parents Gu igi and Lucia of Cambridge and two sisters Laura and Andrea
Larry McNenly 73 died in October 1991 in Owen Sound Ont He is survived by his wife Marnie CSS 73
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Robert Everett HK 74 died in May 1991 in Burlington Ont A teac her at White Oaks Secondary Schoo l in Oakv ille he is survived by his wife Miche le and brother William CBS 74
James Sandy Fear 75 died Oct I I 199 1 in Toronto He is survi ved by his wi fe Sally (Firth) OAC 75 and hi s children Caitlin Alli son and Mered ith
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Lynn (Dalys) Corby 84 died in Toron to May 6 1990 after a long battIe with cancer
Nancy (Birbeck) Gordon 77 died Oct 20 1991 in Ottawa after a short illness She worked at the Kitchener-Waterl oo Hospital and had previously been plan t accountant at Foseco Canada Incorporated in Guelph
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Jean (Williams) Forward 280 Oct 28 1991 in Calgary She was the widow of Bower Forward OAC 25 and is survived by two sons
Catharine (Bechtel) Fromm 270 died Nov I 199 1 in Cambridge Ont She is surshyvived by three dau ghters Ellen Moore Mac 63 Nancy and Caro l
Alice (Rivaz) Garrard 28 di ed Dec 2 199 1 in Guelph She was an active member of the Mac-FACS Alumni Assoc iat ion and was the Mac 28 class agent for the Alma Mater Fund She is survived by her husband retired professor Edward Garrard OAC 27 and a daughter Betty Nelson
Della Marie (Diamond) Honey 300 of Warkworth Ont died June 29 1991 One ofWarkworths oldest and most respected citizens she served as local li brarian fo r 25 years She is survived by her son John OAC 52A his wife Patric ia and four grandchildren James OAC 84A William OAC 76A Thomas OvC 89 and Patricia Lonergan CSS 68
Barbara (Banigan) Martin 380 died Jan I 1992 in Don Mill s Ont A retired teacher wit h the North York Board of Education she is survived by a son Ted a sister and two brothers
Elizabeth (Burt) Perry 340 died June 28 1991 in Sidney BC and is surv ived by her husband Gordon and son Paul Nartel OAC 62
Jacqueline (Roy) Pote 34D died Dec 2 1 1991 in Willowdale Ont and is is survived
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Doroth y (MacFeeters) Scott 260 died Jan 14 1992 in Toronto She is su rvived by two daughters Anne Donaldson and Cynthia Scott
Florence (French) Snyder 370 died May 6 199 1 in Calgary and is survived by her husband Robert and two sons John and William
Katherine (Sweet) Watt Mac 220 died Feb 23 1992 She is survived by her husshyband Leslie a son David and a dau ghter Carol Gi llanders
Mattie (Newman) Widdicombe 240 died Dec 11 1991 in St Catharines Ont Preshydeceased by her husband John she is surshyvived by a bro ther and several nieces and nephews including Virginia Rigby Arts 76
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George Grey Arnup 38 died Feb 2 1992 in Toronto He spent most of his career with the plant protection branch of Agriculture Canada He is survived by his wife Aileen three chi ldren Nancy Jim and Mary Ellen Vincent CBS 79 and four grandchi ldren
Herbert Boyce 28 and MSA 43 died Sept 2 1991 in Amherstburg Onto He is survi ved by his wife Norah a daughter Beverley Med lock and a brother James OAC 32
Jack Reddy Brethet 56 died Nov 4 199 1 in Burlington Ont President of Brethet Barnum Assoc iates Inc he is surshyv ived by his wife Caro l and two daughters Lyn n and Anne
Bruce Foster 28 died Feb 6 1992 in Ridgetown Ont and is survi ved by his daughter Gayle Anderson and son David CBS 69
Allison Gardhouse 49 died Sept 21 1991 in Midland Ont He was re tired supe rshyintendent of schoo ls for the Simcoe County Board of Education and is survi ved by his wife Merle
Kenneth Harrison 24 died Nov 5 199 1 in Kentville NS A distinguished plant patho logist military officer and mycologist he began hi s career in 1926 as assistant plant pathologis t at the Kentvi lle Experimental Farm He worked there until retirement in 1966 wi th the exception of mi litary servi ce du ring the Second World War
Dr Harrison had a lifelong interes t in the study of mushrooms and publ ished numerou s technica l papers on the mu shroom flora of Nova Scotia In addition he enshy
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couraged interested amateurs and led field trips for student s at Acadia University and the general public from 1929 until 1987 In 1979 he was honored by Acadia wi th the dedication of the Kenneth A Harri son Laboratory of Mycology
During his career he was a member of many professional organizations a charter member of the Mycological Society of America and fe llow of the American Associashytion for the Advancement of Science
He is survived by hi s wife Margaret two brothers Maynard OAC 30 and Arthur OAC 29 two son s Ashley and Kenneth and a daughter Jennie Sheito
William Kellam 4 1 died Oct 19 1991 in Brockville Ont He was retired from the Curb and Gate Co of-Brock ville where he had worked as a lab technician fo r 28 years He is survived by his wife Kathleen a son George and a daughter Mary
William M acMillan 48 died in February 1992 in Winnipeg He was supervisor of Fertilizer marketing for the Manitoba Pool Elevators and is surv ived by hi s wife Edna Jean and brother Harry OAC 5 1 A
Cameron McTaggart 35 died Feb 4 1992 in Aurora Ont After graduating from OAC he became manager of Don Head Farms in Richmond Hill He established the first agricul tural consulting business in Canada in 1947 and later ran an Angus cattle
sales management business from the family farm A life member of the OAC Alumni As shysociat ion and the Class of 35 executive he is survived by his wife Margaret Mac 35 and two sons John OAC 62 of Regina and David of Largo Fla
Douglas Miller 48 of Victoria BC died Nov 24 1991 in Toronto He is survived by hi s wife Ruth and five children
Gregory More 76 was killed Feb 3 1992 in Kitchener Ont at the Ontario Glove Manufacturing Co where he was co-owner and vice-president Following graduation he worked for the Rohrer Drug Co and the Stershyling Drug Co then returned to school ea rnshying an MBA at McMaster University in 1981 More was an avid squash player and golfer Court A at the Northfield Racquet Club in Waterloo was dedicated to his memory in March He is survived by his parents Noreen and Ken a brother Randy and a sister Katherine Keeler
John Jack Pawley 33 died March I 1992 in Guelph He is survived by his wife Ruth son John OAC 62 and daughter-inshylaw Carolyn He was a former director of the Ontario Milk Marketing Board and a past member of the Royal City Lodge of Perfecshytion
Harold Reid 20A died in December 1991 in Burlington Ont During the First World W ar he was one of Canadas premier rad io
experts work ing at the Roya l Canadian Navy shore transmitter in Sydney NS After the war he came to OAC to earn a diploma then went on to QueenS University to comshyplete an arts and theology degree His mini sshytry was mainly in St And rews and Montreal although he spent 13 years teaching Hebrew at the Presbyterian Coll ege before retiring in 1968
Donald Robertson 3 1 died Nov 4 1991 in Iroquois Ont He is survived by hi s wife Caroline (Grisdale) Mac 38 his two son s ScottOAC 65A and Guy and a daughter Sandra McNeil
Thomas Rokeby 48 and MSA 50 died Jan 29 1992 in Fayetteville Ark He was a professional engineer and tau ght for 30 years in the Univers ity of Arkansas engineering department Born in Port Rowan Ont he was a member of the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War the American Society of Agricultural Engineers and the agricultural honor societies of Gamma Sigma Delta and Alpha Epsilon He is surv ived by his wife Helen two sons Robert and Richard a daughter Penny and three brothers Michael Noel and Richard OAC 54
Francis Sweeney OAC 45 died Nov 17 1991 in Oakville Ont He was a longtime employee of Shell Canada and [nternational Shell working in Great Britain Europe and
WALL CUSTANCE MEMORIAL FOREST
The Wall-Custance Memorial Forest located at the Universi ty of Guelphs Arboretum was established in recognition of the severe depletion of our forests It is never too late to be a vital part of the effort to save and improve our air and water for the future of our children by planting trees This program is our small part of the major endeavor to reforest and to reduce the greenhouse effect improve air quality and provide food and cover for wildlife The Memorial Forest Proshygram not only pays a Significant tribute to a loved one but also assures a better environment for generations to come
The purpose of this program is to provide an opporshytuni ty to commemorate the life of a loved one by plantshy
Home of the WALL-CUSTANCE
MEMORIAL FOREST
ing a tree We envision that the Memorial Forest Program will continue for many years to come and our hope is that the solace that nature offers particularly in the depths of a living forest will be of comfort and benefi t to all
For more information or for a brochure call or write to
WALL-CUSTANCE Funeral Home and Chapel 206 Norfolk Street Guelph Ontario N1 H 4K3 (519) 822-0051
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Berna rd Weeks 35 died Oct 16 199 1 After graduation he re turned to his roots in
ew York and Pennsylvannia and worked in 4-H and you th organi zations for a few years He then took over the family farm at Troupsburg NY and built up a dairy operashytion with a sideline of sheep He is surv ived by his wife Ruth and four children
Glenn White 43 of Belleville Onl died Nov 24 199 1 in Florida and is surv ived by hi s wife Marjorie
ave Norman Anderson 39 of Wi nn ipeg died Dec 18 1991 in Arizona He had practised veterinary medicine in Norwood Man and was a member of the American Equine Pracshytitioners Association director of the Canadian Thoroughbred Society and track veterinarian at Assin iboia Downs for 50 years He is survived by his wi fe Peggy and two sons Laurie and James
George Beatty 5 I died Nov 22 1991 in Inverness III He practised in Palatine fo r 36 years and founded the Palatine Animal Hospi tal He was an active member of the American Animal Hospital Assoc iati on and the Chicago Veterinary Association and was a director of the Friends of the University of Guelph He is survived by his wife Mary and fo ur children - Suzanne Patricia Margaret and Tim
John Hamilton 5 L died Dec 15 1991 He had lived in Roslin On where he owned the Bay Regional Veterinary Hospital He is survived by hi s niece Ann Bongard
Nicholas Labzoffsky 39 died Dec 25 1991 in Largo Fla Fonnerly of Toronto he had li ved most recen tl y in Dorse t Ont and is survived by hi s wife Jane
Edgar Langford 49 died March 41992 in Monarch Alta A former research scienshytist with ADRI (Western) he is survived by his wife Norma and two daughters includshying Carolyn OVC 76
Stuart Maude 4 1 died Jan 14 1992 in Rosemead Calif A former Rosemead counshycillor and four-time mayor he operated the Rosemead Animal Hospital with his brother Arthur 52 from 1953 to 1980 He was a trustee for Ingles ide Hospital a past grand patron of both the Rosemead and the Califorshynia Order of Eastern Star and past-president of the local Kiwanis Club and Chamber of Commerce He is survived by his wife Vera two daughters Patricia and Susan Bezner a son Stuart and three brothers
Walter Morley 42 o f Mildmay On died Nov 28 199 1 He ran a large animal pracshytice in the Mild may area for 39 years raised cat tle and raced standardbred horses He was also a pu blic school board trustee and direcshytor of a local te lephone company for more
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than 30 years He is survived by his wife Joyce five sons - two of whom are OVC alumni Dave 68 and Randy 74 - and 10 grandchildren
Lloyd Neily 52 died Jan 3 1992 in Hantsport NS A retired meat inspector w ith the federal Department of Agriculture he had a private veterinary practice in Wind sor NS He is surv ived by hi s wife Mary
Elford Nundal 43 died Jan 7 1992 in Langley BC after a long battle with canshycer He operated a veterinary practice in Langley for 36 years and served as a di strict aldennan for 10 years before being elected mayor in 1982 Last year he received the BC Veterinarian Association s award of merit for a lifetime of veterinary work
Humphrey Rees 55 died Sepl 30 1991 in Amman Jordan while on ass ignment for the Overseas Development Ad ministrat ion as veterinary and animal hu sbandry adviser to the Jordani an government His contemshyporaries at Guelph will remember him as a singer debater raconteur rugby player and bon vivant He is surv ived by his wife Alice of POlt Eynon Wales
William Stinson 40 died Feb 15 1992 in Norwood Ont He is survi ved by his wife Rita a son John OVC 67 a brother Ford OAC 34 and a grandson John CSS 87
Faculty
Patric ia Harney died Dec 191991 in Yarshymouth NS A professor in the Department of Horticultural Science from 1962 to 1988 she developed severa l new variet ies of geraniums and was instru mental in es tabshylishing the Frances Ball rose collection at the Arboretum
Anthony Marston died Feb 3 1992 in Fershygu s ant Retired from the School of Hotel and Food Administration he was an acshycomplished competition chef who received his training in Switzerland and England He then spent severa l years working in the Caribbean before coming to Guelph in 1970 A member of the Canadian Olympic culinary team he held a number of positions in the
Donations given in memory ofGuelph alumni will help support University scholarships ifdirected to the Alumni M emorial Fund In 1991 donations were made in memory of the following alumni
Frank MacDonald OAC 37
Frank King OAC 33 -Robert Allen OAC 56A
Alice (Rivaz) Garrard Mac 28
Stan Vesselinovitch OVC 57
For more infonnation call the Office of Annual Giving at 519-824-4120 Ext 6 183
hote l and food industry until retiring in 1982 He is survived by hi s wife Di ana
Gordon McNally dled Jan 12 1992 in Guelph A professor in the Department of Zoo logy from 1934 to 1971 he served as academic assistant to the dean of CBS until retiring in 1979 While at Guelph he was honorary pres id ent of the classes of OAC 54 58 and 67 He is survived by his daughter Jean two siste rs and two grandchildren Prof McNallys family has established the A Gordon Mc a lly Memorial Fund to support a sc holarship or bursary Contributions may be sent care of the Alma Mater Fund Alumni Hou se University of Guelph Guelph ant N I G 2WI
Friends
Jean (Young) Branion died March 3 1992 in Guelph She was the wife of the late Hugh Branion a physiology professor at U of G and assistant to presidents Bill Winegard and Don Forster Jean Branion was an act ive volunteer on campus for many years and one of the firs t presidents of the College Womens Club She is survived by a son Richard and his wife Marga re t of Vanshycouve r and five grandchi ldren Donati ons may be made to the Hugh D Branion Memorial Scholarship through Alumni House
Davy Alexander Hamilton-Williamson died Feb 4 1992 in Guelph A painter and author of childrens stories he had been a member of the University s Presidents Council s ince it began in 1 985
Marjorie Pinkney wife of J ames Pinkney OVC 3 7 died Dec 151 99 [ at her home in Milton ant
Samuel Wyal died March 15 1992 in Brantford ant He was a partner in the law firm Wyatt Purce ll Will Stillman and Scott He is surv ived by his wife M a bel Mac 39 four sons Peter Michael William and John and two daughters Mary Alderson and Sarah Nadalin Arts 82
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INVmiddotESTMENTS amp
DIVIDENDS
Facts about university education in Canada and how we pay for it
By 2000 half of all new jobs in Canada will require a university degree
But at the current rate of government funding only one in five children
will have a chance to go to university
In the seven years from 1982 to 1989 per-student grants to universities in
Ontario barely kept pace with intlation at five per cent
per-student funding at American public univers ities jumped an average
of 23 per cent in the same period
Those US universities also receive twice the federal research dollars per student as do Ontario universities
In 1987 the average salary of a full-time professor at an Ontario univers ity was $55500
compared with $68200 for a private-sector position of similar education and experience
Lawyers economists and engineers made an average of $71 000
Ontario ranks ninth out of the to provinces in terms of grants to universities
Between 1978 and 1991 enrolment at Ontario univers ities grew by 40 per cent while funding dropped
from 59 to 409 per cent of total government spending
Universities were spending 14 per cent less per student between 1977 and 1988 hospital expenditures
rose 38 per cent per patient in the same period
Ontario universities generate $3 of economic activity for every
$1 invested by government funding
And the number of jobs generated by university activities in
Ontario is greater than the employment impact of the textile
industry the entire paper and pulp industry or utilities
University graduates can look forward to earning 63 per cent more than the average industrial worker
A 1990 survey of U of G alumni found that two years after graduation 97 per cent of Guelph grads
looking for work were employed 62 per cent were earning $25000 or more and 10 per cent were
earning $40000 or more
Unemployment rates in 1990 for those with a university degree was about one-third what it was
for those with only a high school diploma
Every year from 1978 to 1987 Ontario university inves tments in renovating or replacing
aging buildings could not keep pace with the rate at which the buildings depreciated
Graphics by Debbie Thompson Wilson Statistics supplied by th~ Council 01 Ontario UniverSities Statistics Canada and the U01 G Student EnVifonment Study Group
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A salute to sport Alumni Weekend June 19-21 9am Sio-pitch tournament
The tradition Jives on at the south quad diamond s Cooed teams of 12 or more players are encourshyaged to join in the fun
FRIDAY 10 am to 9 pm Registration Lambton Hall
6 pm Kick-off dinner and half-time show
get set and join In the Olympic spirit one of Alumni Creelman Hall will Weekends host the Wonderful most popular World of Sports with events Tours a half-time slide show start from to entertain alumni of Alumni House all ages and are sponshy9 pmshy sored by the Observatory tours CBS Alumni
Association
10 am and 2 pm
SATURDAY 8 am to 5 pm Guided Registration walking tours Lambton Hall
Remember 9 am to 5 pm making s now Alumni House tours sc ulptures on Students will host tours of Alumni House throughshyout the weekend Come and see what the generosity of alumni has accomplished
9 am to noon Alumni association annual meetings
This is the official notice for the annual general meetings of the following alumni associations
CBS - Alumni House starts at 830 am before guided walk MacFACS - HAFA Building Room 209
OVC - OvC Room 1438
OAC - Macdonald Hall Room 149
CSS - MacKinnon Building Room 305
HAFA - Alumni Hou se boardroom
Gryphs Lounge will be open for lunch and afLer the game
930 am Guided nature walk at the Arboretum
On your mark
Noon - OVC luncheon
The OvC Alumni Association will host a luncheon open to all OvC alumni and their guests
2 pm - Campus Showcase 92
Following on the heels of last year s success Campus Showshycase 92 will be bigger and better Come to the University Centre to see exhibits representing all areas on campus The Campus Junction store will also be open
2 pm - Zavitz Hall tour
Alumni are invited to browse through the newly renovated Za vitz Hall and attend a recep shytion sponsored by the Colshylege of Arts Alumni Asshysoc iation
5 pm Golden anniversary dinner
The OAC OvC and MacshyFACS alumni associations will provide complimenshytary tickets for alumni celebrating 50 years or more Additiona l tickets can be purchased Classes
Johnston Green or playing intramural hockey in the old Quonset arena Relive some of the memories by taking a walking tour of campus Tours begin from the lobby ofLambton Hall
Noon - Alumni picnic
This apopular event has new location - the sculpshyture garden beside the Macshydonald Stewart Art Centre Come on your own or reshyserve a group of tables for friends and classmates
Noon - Class reunion lunches
OAC 37 Mac 37 OAC 42 Mac 42 OAC 47 Mac 52 Mac57 Mac 67 FACS 72 FACS 77 FACS 87
OAC 67 FACS 82 OAC 82 OAC 82A CBS 82 FACS 87 OAC 87
SUNDAY 9am Church service and War Memorial Hall rededication
Thanks to a commitment from the Alma Mater Fund renovashytion of the upstairs of War Memorial Hall has been comshypleted Join us for the rededicashytion ceremony commemorating the 1924 opening and the 1952 dedication of an OAC memorial plaque
being honored are OAC 22 OAC 47 OvC 22 Mac 22 OAC 27 OvC 27 Mac 27 OAC 32 OvC 32 Mac 32 OAC 37 OvC 37 Mac 37 OAC 42 OvC 42 Mac 42
6 pm Class reunion dinners
Special dinn e r reunions are planned for OAC 47 OAC 52 OAC 52A OvC 52 Mac 57 OAC 57 OAC 62 Mac 67
10am UGAA annual meeting
All alumni are encouraged to atshytend the UGAA annual meeting in Macdonald Hall Room 149 An amendment to the UGAA Letters Patent and a revised bylaw will be presented for ap shyproval Copies of both are availshyable on request from Alumni House Call 519-824-4120 Ext 6544
11 am - Farewell brunch
The final event of Alumni Weekend will be held in Creelshyman Hall Come and meet the Univers ity S president Brian Segal The Alumnus of Honour medal will be presented at noon
To receive an Alumni Weekshyend brochure or to register for events call Alumni House at 59-824-4120 Ext 6963
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Where research and industry Dleet
Space available now Exceptional office and research facilities in our multi-tenant Research Park Centre
Research-driven corporations are breaking new ground at the University of Guelph Research Park Centre with exceptional growth opporshytunities in an ideal business setting
This 30-acre Research Park also accommodates tenants who choose to construct their own office and laboratory facilities
Find out why organizations such as Semex Canada Tremco Limited the Ontario Dairy Herd Improvement Corporation George Morris Centre LIPID Analytical Laboratories and Agriculture Canada have chosen the University of Guelph Research Park Call Ralph Eades or Judy Phillips Real Estate Division University of Guelph Telephone (519) 767-5003 or Fax (519) 837-0353
The Research Park is a project oj the Office oj Research and the University S Real Estate Division
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and playwright Judith Thompson - are to reduce the drop-out rate in French distinguished Canadian writers rather studies More than 50 per cent of the stushythan career academics dents who complete the beginners level
Another unique feature is that in French do not continue Canadian writers would be invited to give lectures workshops and seminars offering students a writers perspective Convocation honors Visiting writers would also serve as
At winter conshymentors to individual students
vocation A starting date of fall 1993 is ceremonies in
proposed but is dependent on the February Jeavailability of funding Clare
RennieOAC 47 former asshy
Multimedia French sistant deputy minister of
What do French-language students at agriculture and Clare Renniethe universities of Guelph and Calgary food for On-have in common They can improve tario was named an honorary fellow of their language skills with the aid of mulshy the University He was honored for his timedia computer equipment that comshy contributions to U ofGs agricultural reshybines sound images and text These are search program Rennie was on facultythe only two Canadian universities parshy from 1952 to 1971 then moved toticipating in an IBM-sponsored North OMAF where he was responsible forAmerican program to explore new techshy the ministryS education and researchnology in teaching French as a second programs including the contract with Ulanguage of G Since 1974 the contract has
U of G is making the French connecshy grown to $34 million a year In additiontion thanks to $45000 worth of multishy Guelph has named its research chair in media equipment donated by IBM One animal-breeding strategies in his honor of the goals of the program at Guelph is
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The University also honored Canadian engineer Claudette MacKayshyLassonde by awarding her an honorary degree for her contributions to the enshygineering profession An expert on nuclear safety issues she developed the first site-selection criteria for nuclear power stations She has served as presishydent of the Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario and founded the group Women in Science and Engineershying
A boost for animal welfare OVC has established an academic position in animal welfare with a gift from the estate of Col KL Campbell His widow Mona has contributed $500000 to start an endowshy
Ron Downeyment fund to support the position
Prof Ron Downey assistant dean of OVC will assume the position July I to explore alternative methods that would reduce the use of animals in research Part of his job will be to promote the inshyterests of the Centre for the Study of Animal Welfare which was established at U ofG in 1990
KL Campbell was a notable horse breeder and showman who shared with his wife an interest and compassion for all animals The Campbells were among the earliest contributors to OVCs Pet Trust Fund which supports research on common problems of companion animals
Land and water stewardship
U of Gs Centre for Soil and Water Conshyservation has been renamed the Centre for Land and Water Stewardship to reflect a more holistic approach to susshytainability Accordingly its focus has expanded to include sectors other than agriculture that affect water quality The centres new director is Prof Stewart Hilts a 13-year faculty member who is cross-appointed to the Department of Land Resource Science and the Univershysity School of Rural Planning and Development
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Rewriting art history
In the 1480s the Duke of Milan comshymissioned Leonardo da Vinci to produce a 93-metre-high bronze monushyment of a horse and rider But political upheava l in Italy prevented the artist from seeing II Cavallo past the planning stage
Centuries later Guelph fine art profes shysor Chandler Kirwin hi s student Peter Rush and international art historians have begun a project to cast the monushyment in two-thirds scale It will be built in New York State at a cost of more than $2 million US and donated to the city of Milan in celebration of da Vincis achievements and the SOOth anniversary of Columbuss arrival in America
Rush is a mature student with 30 years experience as a metallurgist and foundry worker His technological know-how and Kirwin s knowledge of the artistic soc ial political and cultural climate of the Renaissance has led to a revised vision of II Cavallo They are proposing to the international art comshymunity that the altist had intended to cast the 60000-kilogram monument in one piece - an easy task with current industrial practices but a daring proposal in the 15th century
The project has revealed da Vincis genius as an engineer and has caused art historians to rethink their assessment of his place in Renaissance art history
News in brief
During Christmas break U of G inshystalled an automated direct-d ial telephone system that means faster sershyvice for callers who know the extension number theyre trying to reach Within three weeks of use the system was hanshydling half of the 13000 daily incoming caUs without operator assistance
The six top students who participated in U ofGs first Krakow semes ter were recently awarded certificates of merit from the Polonia Institute of Krakow where they studied
Five years ago U of G sent 3788 tonshynes of waste to the city landfill in one year Last year the figure was 1900 tonshynes thanks to the campus recycling proshygram About 25 tonnes of glass and tin
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Prof Chandler Kirwin lefl and Peter Rush pose with a model ofdo Vincis monument 11 Cavallo Photo by Roberta Franchuk
and more than half a tonne of fine paper portunities Teamed up with a group of are hauled away each week Guelph students they will study the
creative arts in Canada Canadian
Ample snowbanks this winter helped society and the political economy of the
protect the Arboretums gene banks Canada-US free trade agreement
which contain plantings of more than nine species of woody plants native to The planned widening of Gordon Street the Carolinian forest region of southshy - the route from campus to downtown western Ontario The gene banks will Guelph - has been delayed until 1993 eventually be used to help rebuild the while city council considers a proposal provinces heritage forest system by the U of G Cycling Club to include
bicyc le lanes as part of the project
This summer U of G begins an exshychange program that will bring 28 The first Ontario turfgrass symposium Pennsylvania students to Guelph for six was held on campus last January bringshyweeks in an effort to introduce them to ing together all sectors of the industry to Canadian educational and cultural op- discuss environmental responsibility
University ojGuelph Tour Program
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Predicting food production capabilities
A new research technique developed by an interdisciplinary U of G group is the first of its kind in the world to quantitashytively measure the capacity or shortfall of food production in a specific geoshygraphic area
Applying the technique to Ontario inshyvolves a complex computer database that uses production figures from the 1980s and takes into account 18 major crops 10 livestock categories seven soil classes seven climate zones six economic regions and a number of production constraints
The computer then considers different aJlocations and trends as well as condishytions that might influence future demands and productive potential
We found the current agricultural base has the capacity to produce at least 30 per cent more of each product in Onshytario says geography professor Barry Smit who has co-ordinated the program since it began in the early 1980s But the 30-per-cent surplus capacity would not be sufficient to meet even relatively
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conservative demand projections through to the year 2000 he says
The program has been used to look at food projections and to study the effects of urban growth acid rain soil erosion global warming climatic variations on food production and to identify regions of the globe where food shortages reflect limits in production capacity
Campus safety
Students walking alone on campus at night can call the Central Student Associations Campus Safe Walk proshygram and a team of volunteers will esshycort them to their destination If they live off campus but need to work late at the University library students can take the Magic Bus a service provided by the CSS Student Government after city buses close down for the night And anyone who is hurt or injured on camshypus can get help from the First Aid Response Program run by the CSA and Security Services
Each of these programs will get a financial boost thanks to a provincial government grant aimed at improving campus safety In addition U of G will
use part of the grant to install more emergency telephones on campus add lighting and rearrange foliage that imshypedes vision in some areas Also being considered is a campu s safe house that would bring together 24-hour services for students
Preserving beauty
U of G landscape architect Nate Perkins is using a computer a scanner and a digitizing board to show the effects of development on sensitive rural landscapes He is working with the Onshytario Heritage Foundation to identify and protect the esthetic landscape feashytures of the entire Niagara Escarpment
The first step is to create an inventory of existing visual landscapes and how they are currently protected in Ontario Based on this selected landscape scenes will be sampled to illustrate what might happen under different scenariosshywith no regulation under current local and provincial regulatory programs and under Perkins s proposals With comshyputer technology he will be able to creshyate a picture of what the scene would look like in each case
People make a difference on and off canlpus
U of G has recruited Powell moved to Goldschmidt HDMus 84 many talented faculshy Guelph in 1965 to estabshy launched the festival which has
ty and staff who have lish the UniversityS proshy flourished to become one of N0I1h also become leaders in gram in human kinetics Americas most respected small music the community Two and the School of Human festivals MacKinnon was president of names come to mind shy Biology He designed 10 its board of directors for 15 years and John Powell and Murdo courses and was a driving is still one of its most active volun-MacKinnon - because force behind construction teers both are being recogshy of the building that The Guelph Spring Festival was one nized this spring for their houses the school example of MacKinnon s eff0l1s to ci vic contributions During his tenure the create closer ties between the Univershy
Retired human biology John Powell University hosted eight s ity and the community He and conshyprofessor John Powell Canadian national track cert manager Edith Kidd introduced was inducted April II into the and field coaching courses sponsored the idea of regular noon-hour conshyCanadian Amateur Sports Hall of by the Royal Canadian certs still held on camshy
Fame because of his lifelong work in Legion with more than pus each Thursday
amateur Sp0l1 3000 participants He also MacKinnon was founded a cardiovascular founding dean of WelshyAn Olympic-calibre sprinter in hi s exercise group which he lington College of Artsnative Great Britain Powell turned to led daily for 26 years and Sciences in 1964
coaching after being wounded in the Retired English professhy And he became the first
Second World War A three-time sor Murdo MacKinnon dean of the College of
Olympic coach he helped 19 athletes will be the centre of attenshy Arts in 1970 He is an
earn Olympic medals And for the last tion May 2 at the Guelph honorary fellow of the 21 years he has been a regular lecshy Spring Festivals 25thshy University and the Macshyturer at the International Olympic anniversary dinner He and Kinnon building is Academy in Greece artistic director Nicholas Murdo MacKinn on named in his honor
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University Families Fight the Odds
hy Mary Dickiesol1
The Van Katwyks and the
University ofGuelph are saving to educate
the next generation
Guelph Alumnus
university education in Canada At current levels of government funding decreased
enrolments will limit university attendance to one in five within a few years
Paul and Christine Van Katwyk dont like the odds Theyre committed to univershy
s ity education - their own and Sasha s - and theyve been sav ing for hi s educashy -tion since he was s ix months old But what they hear about the continuing decline
in government funding makes them worry that the doors to Canada s universities
may not be open to Sasha when he s ready to enrol in 2007
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T heee good eoo to won) That s the message we ve been getting from universiti es and colleges in Canada for several years Many univershysity administrators including U of G president Brian Segal say they too are worried about the future of postseconshydary education
On the political agenda universities have taken a back seat to hospitals soshycial serv ices and schools despite the fact that they are part of the solution to problems facing the other sectors
In Ontario the universities share of the public purse has been declining since 1978 even though theyve added more than 160000 students to their enshyrolments Universities are actually spending 14 per cent less per full-time
Education makes a difference
Chris and I know from ou r own experience that a university educashytion can make a big di fference in one s life say Paul Van Ktttwyk
Paul grew up in a university family - hi fa ther is a professor at Wilfrid Laurier Univer ily in Waterloo He came to U of G after high school but quit before comshypleting a BA After two years o f making tire he was back on camshypus and is now finishing an MA in industrial organizational psycholshyogy U of G is one of the few uni versities in Canada that offer graduate work in this fie ld So Paul is heading off to the Uni versity of South Florida th is fall to do a PhD then will return to Canada to help expand his disc ipline to other Canadian universi tie
Chris is the first member of her family to atrend university She graduates this spring with a BASc in con umer studies With other members of her family out of work because their manufact uring jobs have disappeared Chris think a un iversi ty educashytion was the right choi e for her She would like to get involved in consumerenvironmental i sues and eventually open her own small business
student than they did 15 years ago
At the same time demand for university graduates is growing The Council of Ontario Universities (COU) esshytimates that half of the new jobs that will be created over the next decade will require L1ni versi ty-level training
At a time when unshyemployment plagues the province when health care and soc ial ass istance costs are rising when inshydustry needs to improve competitiveness when we need to boost investshyment in research and deve lopment one begins to wonder why postsecshyondary education is not a greater priority
Public opinion seems to support universities A 1990 Decima poll found that 80 per cent of Ontarians believe a lack of funding is affecting university quality and 83 per cent believe that
Universities are spending 14 per cent less for each student than they did 15 years ago
university fundin g is not keeping pace with funding for other services
But the university system needs more than quiet believers It needs strong vocal support Good intentions aren t enough to ensure survival in the politishycal arena or the global economy
Financial problems
Every year COU prepares a report on the financial position of Ontario univershysities The 1991 report reveals a steady decline in the priority that three successhysive provincial governments have gi ven to universi ties Collectively theyve igshynored the advice of their own advisory body on universities for 15 years allowshy
ing university funding to drop from 59 to 409 per cent of total government spending
This decline coincides with the federal governments introduction of Esshytablished Program Financing (EPF) which supplies a large part of the fundshying that is eventually allocated to postsecondary education
Prior to EPF federal and provincial governments shared the operating costs of postsecondary education on a 5050 basis Under EPF which was supposed to equalize payments to the provinces through a complicated system of cash transfers and tax points some provincial governments have been unable or unshywilling to maintain that 5050 balance In Ontario federal doll ars now account for a much higher percentage of the funding that is eventually transferred to universities
Many Ontario institutions believe the provincial government added insult to injury last October when it cut an addishytional $9 million from promised transfer payments for 1991 92 Before the c1awshyback COU had advised the government that universities would need a seven-pershycent increase in 199293 just to maintai n current level s of serv ice but the January budget gave them one per cent thi s year and promised no more than two per cen t in each of the ne xt two years
During this same J5-year period Ontario s universities have demonshystrated an increase in productivity unshymatched in almost any other sector by finding ways to educate 40 per cent more students with less money
The January budget brought bad news at a time when universities were also facing further cuts in provincial gove rnshyment grants for capital renovations inshycreased operating costs for utilities the federal government s 30-per-cent jump in UIC premiums a lO-per-cent in shyc rease in CPP payments and a loss of tuition revenue because of planned reductions in first-year enrolments
Ontarios Employer Health Tax and pay equity costs have also affected operating budgets at universities where more than 80 per cent of expenditures are dictated by salaries and benefits
Deficit financing is not the norm for U ofG but in 199192 costs exceeded Ministry of Colleges and Universities (MCU) operating revenue ($160 milshyli on) by almos t $46 million The defic it reflects both these unexpected increases and the planned expense of restructuring non-academic units
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Creative solutions
Like the business community Guelph has begun the ongoing process of selfshyappraisal The $69-million cost of the recent non-academic review left red ink in this fiscal year but the exercise has cut operating costs by an estimated $57 million a year Within the five-year payshyback period the University will have saved or in reality reallocated more than $28 million Segal says
The internal review removed 125 jobs simplified processes and improved efficiency A similar assessment of the non-teaching activities within the colshyleges is being completed and will be folshylowed by a look at academic functions
Guelph is one of the first universities in Ontario to undertake such a strucshytured review of its operations says Segal and it wont be the last Every university will be looking at ways to reduce the amount of work required to operate the institution he says
Were walking a tightrope trying to balance strategic goal s and fiscal management in a way that causes the least harm to students Nevertheless universities are prepared to be key players in the process of looking for creative ways of doing more with less
Segal predicts an increase in intershyuniversity and joint university-college programs that share resources more efshyfective use of automation more homeshystudy programs and co-operative purchasing arrangements
Unfortunately well al so see further staff cuts a loss of services some course cancellations and limits to stushydent enrolment
Last fall U of G decreased first-year enrolment by 686 to help ease overshycrowding on campus although total en-
Guelph Alumnus
Charls reprinredjrom COU 1991 Report Oil rhe Financial Position laquo( Ontario Universities
rolment was a high of 13390 students The University plans to decrease enrolshyment to fewer than 12000 by 1994
There will al so be reductions in faculshyty positions estimates are that at least a third of the 60 current vacancies will not be filled in the next fi scal year
In addition to cos t-cutting measures universities will be looking at ways to generate new revenue More than 80 per cent of university revenue is controlled by government - transfer payments and tuition fees - but short-term operat shying fund s can benefit from increased revenues from food retail parking operations and non-tuition fee hikes
Segal says long-term endowment funds like Guelph s Heritage Fund will become a system-wide priority as will revenue sources from planned giving and alumni contributions real estate
development - like Guelphs Research Park - and capital accumulation
COU which Segal chairs will conshytinue to pressure government to increase tuition fees Ontario fees have not kept up with inflation In rel ative terms they are lower now than theyve been for 40 years representing less than 19 per cent of university operating revenue In comshyparison tuition revenues at public universities in the United States are 70 to 80 per cent higher and students at private US universities pay si x times as much as Ontario s undergraduates
COU is on record as favoring an inshycome-contingent repayment plan that would allow students to repay loans based on the level of their future inshycome But a COU proposal - even if it is accepted by MCU - is at least a year away from implementation
-Last f all the universities ofGuelph and Waterloo launched North America sfirst longshydistan ce interactive classroom project that links students at both institutions via two-way audio video and data lines Unlike other video systems that offer only televisiolltransmission the new Electrohome classroom system leIs studel1ls both see and hear each other as well as the professor It s j us t like being there - and it s aile example ofhow universities are sharing resources to improve academic programs and CUI costs Photo by Roberta Franc huk
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University benefits
Time and time again our alumni tell us that the total university experience is more valuable than the degree they received
Breadth of knowledge new insights personal satisfaction - these are things that cant be measured
The 966000 university graduates in Ontario do however share economic benefits that can be measured -like an unemployment rate that is one-third what it is for the general workforce and salaries that are on average 63 per cent higher than industrial workers
In addition university graduates share with the rest of the population even greater cultural social and economic benefits
T hrough the percolator effect Ontario universi ties generate $62 billion (1989 estimate) worth of economic activity each year and more than 138000 jobs
All Canadians share in the benefits of an academic system that acc umulates knowledge trains leaders and conducts much of the research that gives us a progress ive society
University laboratories have yielded medical breakthroughs in diabetes canshycer cystic fibrosis Alzheimer s disease and AIDS They have tackled environshymental research on the causes of water pollution and soil erosion University soshycial scientists study issues as vari ed as demographic trends cross-border shopshyping adoption and economic developshyment in native communities
On a more personal level each univershysity in Canada is a contributing member of its local community Says Guelph
Mayor John Counse ll The inshytangible benefits of having a university within our municipality inshyclude the injection into the comshymunity of intellecshytual standards talents and sershyvices
Almost every orshyganization in the city counts U of G faculty staff and students among its members and volunteers In fac t more than 30 U oG s campus wecomes almosl 150000 visitors every year
university employees were recently given special awards and commendations from both the provincial Ministry of Culture and Communications and Ministry of Citizenship
Guelph is also enriched financially by the Univers itys presence - 4 100 jobs $195 million in annual economic acshytivity The University is an attraction for many smaller companies and organizashytions and branches of provincial governshyment ministries that deal frequently with the campus In a way it has he lped to inshysulate the city of Guelph aga inst the reshycession says Counsell Last year Guelph enjoyed a net increase of three jobs in comparison with other cities where thousands of industrial jobs were lost
Equally important are the educational opportunities offered by the University
for local re sidents The number of people enrol led in distance education inshydependent study and non-degree courses at the University is almost twice the dayshytime student body Last year 500 senior citizens attended courses held on camshypus and 10000 schoolchildren parshyticipated in environmental education programs at the Arboretum People also brought 12000 animals and 500 wild birds to OVC clinics for treatment
Visitors to campus outnumber stushydents 10 to one They come for convocashytion College Royal Homecoming and Alumni Weekend to tour the Arshyboretum and the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre to attend workshops conferenshyces and lectures and to enjoy athletic events music and drama productions They also come for Sunday afternoon walks and sometimes to take wedding photos on Johnston Green
Education is everyones concern
With their Universi ty of Guelph degrees in hand Paul and
Christine Van Katwyk have joined the ranks of Ontario and Canadian univershysity graduates who recognize that the
funding of universities is not just a famishyly matter
Education is everyone s concern and should be a matter of government priority rather than rhetoric The probshylem is how to change that
Two years ago Ontario MPP Sean Conway told a group of university board members that they needed troops
When you ask us to do something and we don t do it nothing happens he said When the hospitals ask us to do something and we dont do it all hell breaks loose
Today universities are recruiting those troops and are turning to their alumni to help build a strong constituenshy
cy of support Who better to promote the value of higher education
Tell your family your friend s and your co-workers how important you think universities are Write to your local paper to let others know that a strong economy and a high standard of living depend on an educated workshyforce Call your MP and MPP and tell them that denying adequate funding to higher education is short-sighted in the extreme and that voters are expecting government action based on long-term priorities
Sasha Van Katwyk s generation is depending on it
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Marshalling the forces to fight for universities
There is a tribute $5000 to help revolution launch FOU and
taking place in Seymour hopes inshyeducation And dividual alumni will when the dust setshy keep the momentum tles we will see building The orshyprofound changes ganization needs in the way we imshy more than 100 inshypart knowledge dividual volunteers in the way we think each of Ontarios 130 about education electoral districts and the way we These friends will pay for it Some lobby MPPs on a of us will sit back regular basis in supshyand watch port of universities Others like Its a grassroots Harry Seymour Harry Seymour
OAC 61 will help influence the changes taking place
Seymour spent 22 years of his career on Torontos Bay Street then opted for a change that led to the forshymation of Pathfinder Learning Sysshytems As president he champions the Pathfinder program of computershymanaged learning as a way for classshyroom teachers to maximize their time and their students potential
Seymour maintains his interest in the investment business with several other companies including a 93-acre shoreline development project in Midshyland Ont But most of his time is devoted to education and university education is a significant part of that effort
If we can marshal the forces of university alumni we can have a profound effect on how government prioritizes education he says Those of us who have graduated from a university are in the best position to evaluate the importance of a university education We can sit back and look at the benefits we ve received and the kind of impact it has had on our lives
Seymour represents U of G alumni on the Friends of Ontario Universities (FOU) a provincial lobby group whose strategy is to organize Ontarios university alumni into a political constituency FOU members sayan unorganized constituency is part of the reason government has folshylowed a pattern of financial neglect
The University of Guelph Alumni Association was one of the first to con-
movement that has the potential to build long-term support
among decision makers and future generations of university graduates he says
If youd like to get involved call Trish Walker U of G s director of alumni affairs at 519-824-4120 Ex t 2122
Aubrey Hagar OAC 45
describes himself as a concerned citizen of Guelph who is committed to education Thats an undershystatement for a man who spent most of his career in educashytion including 16 years as senior academic officer at Conestoga College
He also cares deeply about the University of Guelph He worked hard in the early 1960s to help bring it to life serves on a presidential committee to promote a healthy town-and-gown relationship and is now working to increase local pride in the campus
It distresses me that we are not seeing our universities as intellectual leaders in the community in the province and throughout the country says Hagar who believes there is a need to increase public awareness about the role universities play in
Aubrey HORar
society Hes offered his vocal support to this venture as a volunteer for the Alliance for Ontario Universities
Who says talk is cheap
Your verbal support
of universities
could he
the most valuable gift
you could give
to the generations
of students
yet to teach
Independent of universities the alshyliance is building province-wide supshyport among communities organishyzations businesses and individuals like Hagar who are willing to expand that support on a local level
In each univershysity town there will be an alliance comshymittee that works to build community pride in the institushytion and to raise the profile of its scholars The Guelph group for example may inshyitiate an elementary school program that bui Ids rapport with the University or it might encourage med ia coverage of Guelphs environshymental work
Too often we downplay the conshytributions of our universities says Hagar but if we can instil these atshytitudes in people then financial supshyport through the political process will be there
The aJiiance is unique in Canada It shybegan in 1990 with seed money from the Council of Ontario Universities and gains financial independence this summer And its looking for more volunteers To learn more about the group call director Janet Napper at 416-979-0984
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Genetic engineering bull bull bull
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This is the second part of a report on the use of biotechno]ogy in University of Guelph research
by Mary Dickieson
String art Biotechnology research reminds me of string art the 1960s craft
that had us weaving colored strings back and forth around a pattern made by driving nails halfway into a board
Under skilful hands it became a piece of sculpture an optical illusion that prevented your eye from following any single thread across the board in a straight line
Biotechnology tools are like that Every time you think you understand what one biotechnique can do in one particular dis shycipline you find it reappearing somewhere else as someone in a laboratory across camshypus or on the other side of the world thinks of yet another way to use it
In Part 1 of our biotechnology report we sk immed the surface of how these tools are being used at U of G to benefit plant reshysearch In this story well see many of the same techniques applied in other organisms primaril y animals The secret of our success in animal biotechnology lies in the fact that Guelph has the expertise and the facilities to take any project from lab to barn and back again
Throughout this report youll read about animal scientists and clinical veterinarians teamed up with molecular biologists imshymunologists chemists and microbiologists and often food scientists toxicologists and environmental biologists Their efforts benefit not only livestock production but also human medicine pharmacology food processing waste disposal and the environshyment
Embryo transfer
A major thrust of the animal biotechnolshyogy research at Guelph is in the area of
embryo transfer In fact there are three reshysearch positions funded by government and industry that deal directly with embryo manipul ation as a way to improve the comshypetitive position of Canadas beef and dairy industries
Biomedical scientist Keith Betteridge OVC MSc 60 heads an embryo research lab molecular biologist Alan Wildeman CBS PhD 83 holds a research chair devoted to the mammalian embryo and animal scientist Charles Smith concentrates on industrial research in animal-breeding strategies
Their work is supported by both federal and provincial granting agencies animal breeders and Semex Canada the major marketing arm of Canadas attificial breedshying industry Semex records annual export sales of more than $25 million and is leadshying the industry to the nex t plateau shymarketing sexed frozen or cloned embryos
One route to increasi ng the efficiency of animal production is by improving animal reproduction says Betteridge And that in shyvolves many new biotechniques associated with embryo transfer Conventional embryo transfer means collecting multiple embryos from selected cows and transferring them to properly synchronized recipients It is now almost equally conventional however to freeze or bisect the embryo as part of the procedure
Initially the selected cow was treated with hormones to produce more eggs which were fertilized through artificial inseminashytion (AI) with the semen of a top-rated bull A large number of embryos could then be recovered surgically from the cow for imshyplantation in surrogate cows of lesser genetic worth
These techniques are widely used for the production of purebred bulls More than half the dairy bulls currently at stud in Canadas major AI centres have been produced this way There is also keen interest in using the technology to produce genetically superior breeds and provide competitively priced volumes of commercial cattle embryos
From lOp Bisecting a bovine embryo to produce identical twin calves a chimeric chick created by mixing cells from two embryos microinjecting the egg ofa fruit fly with DNA from bacterial genes that can confer insecticide resistance and a Hereford heifer protected from shipping fever by a vaccine developed a f U of G
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and more Test-tube calves and lambs
In 1988 Semex research co-ordinator Robert Stubbings OVC 76 MSc 84 PhD 89 produced Guelph s first test-tube calf during his graduate studies with Prof PK Basrur in the Departshyment of Biomedical Sciences It was not the first test-tube calf in Canada but it was the first developed from an egg that was matured as well as fertilized in a test tube
The resulting zygotes (fertili zed eggs) were placed in the oviduct of a rabbit for their early development then moved after seven days to the uterus of a recipient cow
Just a few months later other memshybers of the Guelph team took the process one step further eliminating the need to use a temporary host oviduct Postdoctoral fellow Kang Pu Xu and PhD student John Pollard were able to extend development in vitro to the point where the embryo was mature enough to survive when transplanted directly into a recipient cow s uterus
The early embryos were cultured in a medium containing luminal cells exshytracted from the oviducts of slaughtered cows Two baby bulls were born the first in Canada using this method and only the second in North America
Last year gradu ate student Dawn Kelk CBS 89 and Prof Allan King 73 and MSc 75 of the Department of Biomedical Sciences produced North America s first in vitro fertilization (lVF) lambs using these techniques
These achievements were important for several reasons The Animal Biotechshynology Embryo Laboratory can now
Authors note
One of the things Ive learned while writing this story is that biotechnolshyogy is a word seldom used by scienshytisrs For inost of us it conjures up images of people in lab coats bent over microscopes using precision inshystruments to manipulate the cells of living organisms But for scien~ists that s too vague The word may have
meaning but it d6eslJt really
produce its own IVF embryos from oocytes recovered from slaughtershyhouse cows bypassing the more expensive route of sushyperovulation and surgical withdrawal
In addition scientists have gained knowledge about early embryo development that is important for improveshyments in embryo viability and vital for developments in cloning techniques and controlled transgenesis in livestock
In a more immediate and practical context the work has led to the first clinical
Prof Keith Belleridge left and Prof Stanley Leibo watch as research technician Cindy Christian prepares an embryo f or cryopreservation Photo by Mary Dic kieson
use of IVF in cattle in colshylaboration with Brian Hill OVC 80 of Western Ontario Breeders
Bisected embryos
Meanwhile yet another part of the team based in the Department of Populashytion Medicine was perfecting techniques to microsurgicall y bisect fertilized embryos to produce genetically identi shycal animals
Professors Brian Buckrell OVC 68 MSc 84 and Cathy Gartley OVC 82 DVSc 89 and postdoctoral fel shylow Rick Rorie bisected six-day-old sheep embryos - visible only through magnification - and surgically imshyplanted them into recipient ewes Five months later nine lambs were the first animals born at Guelph from bisected embryos
Prof Walter Johnson and postdoctoral
describe anything They talk instead about cell fusion enzyme systems i ermentation or genetic engineering
The fact that biotechnology didnt appear as a popular buzzword until the 1980s suggests that we are using ilto define something neW yet none of these disciplines is really new Human beings have been using other organisms to create new procucts for centuries Thats why We have yeast yogurt and beer as well as anti-
fellow Naida Loskutoff have now exshytended this work in cattle by producing identical twins from IVF embryos divided into quarters at earlier stages of development
These projects maximize embryo use and highlight the potential for creating significant numbers of genetically identishycal animals which can be vital for conshysistent research results Tests conducted on genetically identical animals can reduce the variables caused by genetic differences and ultimately the number of animals needed for experiments
Frozen sexed embryos
The development of in vitro technishyques has also made possible further studies in cryopreservation (freezing) and embryo sexing
It s been possible to freeze and thaw
biotics growth hormones and vacshycine ~ Even genetic engineering is not new although many of us think it is
Through selective breeding practices fanners have been engineering the genetic makeup of domestic animals -for centuries What is new is the speed and accuracy with which we can implement genetic changes the ability to cross the species barrier and a much greater understanding of life processes
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At the eight-cell stage ofdevelopment in a bovine embryo each cell is removed and placed in the shell ofa discarded embryo Afler three days the blastocysts are transferred into recipient cows and the pregnancies allowed to col1linue Eight identical calves will be born and will proshyvide a valuable tool for research
cattle embryos since 1973 and most of the 60000 or so embryo-transfer calves born annually in North America are now obtained from embryos that have been stored in liquid nitrogen But there are still many problems to overcome in freezing unfertilized eggs embryos at varying stages of development and embryos produced in vitro or subjected to micromanipulation
Biomedical science professor Stanley Leibo is a specialist in cryobiology Before coming to Guelph he was part of an industry team that produced the worlds first live young (mice) from frozen embryos and later invented the patented one-step method of freezing cattle embryos Other biomedical scienshytists - King and Don Rieger - and molecular biologists Wildeman and Stan Blecher are investigating various ways of sexing embryos
Some of these involve the use of micromanipulation to remove a small number of cells from an early-stage embryo The sex can be identified by locating X and Y chromosomes detectshying male-specific DNA or perhaps by studying the proteins produced by the DNA segments In embryonic life the activity of X-linked enzymes in female embryos is twice that in males
Detecting differences in the energy metabolism of male and female embryos may also become a method of sexing In studies on early embryos generated in vitro Guelph scientists disshycovered that male and female embryos develop at different rates In addition to its value in sexing embryos this knowledge poses another question If the team can one day learn to control the rate of embryo development will it be possible to control the sex of an embryo independent of its genetic comshyplement
Photo courtesy of the Animal Biotechnology Embryo Lab
Transgenic animals
Since the mid 1980s Wildeman and fellow molecular biologist John Phillips have been producing transgenic mice for studies in human disease
This involves recovering one-cell embryos microsurgicalty from an imshypregnated mouse With a finely drawn glass needle a piece of DNA is inserted into the nucleus of the embryo which is then placed in a surrogate female to complete the pregnancy The offspring carries the foreign gene
One line of research using transgenic mice involves the study of a virus known to affect the transformation of normal cells into tumorous cancer cells Wildeman performs this work using transgenic mice in studies of cancer and metastasis
Transgenic mice are also used in Phillipss ongoing study of the causes of insulin-dependent juvenile diabetes He borrowed a gene from the fruit fly and spliced it into the chromosomes of the mouse so that it is expressed in the beta cells of the pancreas
Observations from the research conshyfirm the long-standing hypothesis that one cause of juvenile diabetes arises from the action of oxygen radicals in the pancreas
The fruit fly itself is used in studies aimed at producing insecticide-resistant insects Working with a team of scienshytists in Texas Phillips is perfecting techshyniques to transfer organophosphate insecticide-resistant genes to the fruit fly and ultimately to agriculturally beneficial insects
Studies have shown that the use of inshysecticides could be reduced if beneficial insects were not also killed by the spray In addition this research may provide the solution needed by North American
honey producers who are suffering great losses in their beehives due to parasitic mites Currently there is no effective control of the mites
From mice to pigs and chickens
Transgenic mice are also playing a role in a project that may eventually imshyprove forage use in domestic animals
Ruminant animals like cows and sheep have friendly bacteria in their inshytestinal tract that enable them to digest the cellulose fibre in forage crops If other animals such as pigs or chickens had the same ability they could be reared on lower-quality cheaper feed than the cereal grains now used
A research team that includes Phillips microbiologists Cecil Forsberg and Peter Krell and environmental biologist David Collins-Thompson has isolated the effective gene from a microshyorganism present in ruminant animals and is transferring it into the mouse which is also a monogastric animal Studies with transgenic mice will enable the team to fine-tune its ability to manipulate expression of the gene
This is just the beginning of a longshyterm project says Phillips but it may one day connect with the work of Profs Rob Etches and Jim Squires in the Department of Animal and Poultry Science who are following separate paths to reach the same goal- transshygenic chickens
Blotchy chicks
Etchess lab opened the door for transshygenic poultry in 1988 when postdoctoral fellow Jim Petitte OAC PhD 86 sucshycessfully moved cells from one chick embryo to another creating chimeric chicks Until this breakthrough
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researchers had been unable to manipulate the avian embryo in the early stages of development
Petitte extracted embryonic cells from the yo lk of a newly laid egg from a barred Plymouth Rock hen and microinjected them into a rec ipient embryo in a dwarf white l eghorn egg through a tiny 05-censhytimetre window cut in the shell When incubated the egg went on to produce a chimeric chick Embryonic cells from the black Plymouth Rock donor were expressed as blotches of black in the chicks down
Since then Etchess research team has been able to do the procedure more successfully get better gene exshypression in the donor cells and keep the embryonic cells in culture for 24 to 48 hours befo re transplanting them into the recipient egg
The chimeric chick itself is not transgenic genetic information from the donor embryo is expressed in a limited number of cells in the chick A second-generation chimera howshyever would be transgenic if the donor cells contained a foreign gene
Thats the focu s of a collaborat ive
Animal scienlisl Jim Squirev has developed a chemic(li recipe Ih(l causes DNA-I(lced liposomes 10 fuse wilil sperm cells When pershyjeered the technique will allow him to use the natural veeror ofsperm cells 10 lransmit foreign
project between the labs of Etches and colleague Prof Ann Gibbins OAC MSc 71 PhD 80 who is intershyested in modifying the donor cells through genetic manipulation When her lab team is able to target a specific gene and change it - and only it - they will insert that gene into the donor cells to produce a chimeric chick and in the second generation a transgenic chick
Transgenic sperm
Squires is taking a more obvious but no less perilous route to the transgenic chicken by using sperm cells to carry the foreign DNA Just as the hen s embryo is difficul t to manipulate the rooster s sperm has barriers of its own Prevail ing thought is that any invas ion of the sperm cell will kill its potency
Although Itali an and Israeli reshysearchers claim to have inserted DNA into the sperm cells of mice through abshysorption no one else has been able to get this to work so the prevailing thought prevail s
Squires s approach is to power DNA into the cells He s de veloped a chemishycal recipe that causes DNA-laced liposomes (fat globules) to fuse with sperm cells
Squires says his team has overcome
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DNA Photo by Ma ry Dickieson
the three main obstacles encapsulating DNA in the liposomes fu sing the liposomes to sperm cells which affects the transfer of 0 TA and retaining the fertility of the sperm
What they have yet to demonstrate is that the process produces a transgenic animal Trials are under way using a radioactive marker ge ne that can be easi shyly detected in a developing transgenic chicken Squires will be eager for peer rev iew to document the results this fall
If successful the sperm cell technique can be adapted for use with all species of commercial animals Sperm cells are the perfect vector because their ultimate function is to insert DNA into an egg says Squires We ll just be supplying the DNA The method is easy economical and safe to periorm and does not inshyvolve expensive equipment
Disease diagnosis
The international race to identify a mutation assoc iated with a costly swine disease was won by Guelph pathologist Peter OBrien OVC 88 and Univershysity of Toronto professor David Maclennan
The mutation associated with maligshy
nant hyperthermia was identifi ed in Maclennan s laboratory by sequenc ing the gene in normal and abnormal swine A I OO-per-cent correlation was fo und between DNA-based tests in Maclennan s laboratory and phys iologishycalbiochemical tests used in 0 Brien s research for diagnosing the condition
From these findings the scienti sts developed a test using modem molecular biology techniques to identify the mutation in the blood cells of inshydividual swine
Malignant hyperthermia is seldom fatal in pigs but it results in poorshyquality pork Pork producers suffer major economic losses from what is known as PSE - pale soft exudative (watery) meat - in affected animals
Other research at U of G cou ld help eliminate a potentially lethal blood coagulation disorder in dairy cows Facshytor XI a genetic disorder associated with a lack of c lotting protein in the bl ood causes hemorrhag ing in Holstein cows
Researchers believe the problem can be eliminated by ensuring that breeding stocks are free of the disease Testing for all of Canada is conducted by U of G biomed ica l sc ienti st Patricia Gentry and research technician Michelle Ross
Vaccine development
Vaccination is the cheapest most efshyfecti ve way of dealing with infec tions and the most poweriul way of preventshying di sease Advanced immunization programs using new biotechniques are under way in many Guelph labs last fa ll the Natural Sc iences and Engineershying Research Council announced strategic grants for advanced techshynologies that included four vacci ne development projects at U of G
Profs Brian Derbyshire and Eva Nagy of the Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Immunology (VMI) recei ved a three-year grant of $295000 to perfect gene-cloning techniques for the de velopment of a vaccine for porshycine gas troenteritis
In the same department Profs Janet Maclnnes Soren Rosendal and Bonnie -Mallard OAC 79 MSc 82 PhD 88 were awarded $250000 over three years to work on a recombinant vaccine effecshytive against the bacterial organism that causes severe pneumonia in pigs
Also in VMI Prof Patricia SheweD 75 MSc 79 PhD 82 received a three-year grant of $408 000 with Prof
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Reggie Lo Microbiology to continue work on an improved vaccine for shipshyping fever Lo and Prof Alan Mellors Chemistry and Biochemistry received a $54000 grant to develop clinical and com mercial applications of a technique used in bone marrow transplantation and vaccine development
These projects follow in the footsteps of earlier developments like the bov ine shipping fever vaccine created by Shewen and VMI chair Bruce Wilkie OVC 65 It was like finding a way to control the common cold in humans
Although the bacterium Pasteurella haemolytica occurs normally in the noses of cattle its numbers increase during periods of high stress and present an insurmountable problem for the animals immune system
Wilkie and Shewen di scovered that during its most active stage of growth the bacterium produces a toxin that imshypairs the ability of clearing cells to eliminate the bacterium They grew the bacterium in a culture monitored toxin production and developed processes for vaccine production
The technology was licensed to Langford Inc of Guelph which man ufac tures and markets Presponse shipping fever vaccine in both Canada and the United States
Lab work by Lo and former student Craig Strathdee CBS 85 PhD 89 that contributed to the shipping fever vaccine project also led to a patent apshyplication - for the plasmid coding for Pasteurella haemolytic leucotoxin which has been implicated as a major virulence factor in the impairment of primary lung defence in cattle
Animal health
Wilkie and Mallard are also working with Prof Brian Kennedy in Guelph s Centre for the Genetic Improvement of Livestock to develop a selective breedshying program that uses knowledge acshyquired through genetic studies and stretches the definition of biotechnology
To stay hea lthy an individual animal must have the genetic ability to produce resi stance to infection says Wilkie That ability is not dependent on a sing le gene but on the expression of many difshyferent genes Neve rtheless these genetic traits are heritable and amenable to selection
This team has identified traits in pigs that are important in maintaining health has characterized individual animals
Biotechnology ofa different sort in volves the use of traditional selected breeding and a computer database to produce diseaseshyresistant pigs
through the expression of these genetic traits and has associated these traits with high productivity If these high producers are mated to produce a disshyease-resistant strain of pigs is that biotechnology
If foreign DNA had been introduced into the embryo of a pig to give it the characteristic of disease resistance that would be an obvious example of bioshytechnology But how do we catalogue the technology if it uses tradi tional selecshytive breeding and a computer to produce a piglet with the same resistance to disshyease
More biotechniques in action
Guelph food scientist Cyriel Duitschaever OAC MSc 66 PhD 75 has developed new fermented milk products that will benefit people suffershying from gastrointestinal illnesses
He and research associate Carole Buteau OAC MSc 78 PhD 83 isoshylated two naturally occurring intestinal bac teri a and propagated a pure culture in the laboratory to develop both liquid and yogurt-like milk products that can be used to stimulate digestion in the inshytestinal tracts of people who are on anshytibiotics who are lactose-intolerant or who suffer gas trointestinal disorders
Clinica l trials at the Children s Hospishytal of Buffalo have been promis ing giv ing rise to another potential use in the treatment of acute diarrhea l di seases affec ting people in the Third World
Microbiology professor Joseph Lam heads a research team that has develshyoped a diagnostic kit to quickly identify a bacteria group known to cause fat al inshy
fections in some hospital patients Pseushydomonas aeruginosa is the principal cause of death in cystic fibrosis sufshyferers and is a serious threat to burn vi cshytims cancer patients and those undergo ing transplants
Because the bacterium does not respond to conventional antibiotic treatshyments quick de tection is central to preventing spread of the infection Lam s kit can cut the test period from 12 hours to five minutes
His current research illustrates the cross-over effect of biotechnology He identified an antigen that is common to about 75 per cent of P aeruginosa strains and a monoclonal antibody against the antigen This has allowed him to iso late spec ia l bacteria that will produce the antigen in large quantities for further s tud y His work should evenshytually lead to a human monoclonal anshytibody that cou ld be used to protect cystic fibrosis patients
In 1989 when the federal governshyment decided it was time to put some money behind its verbal thrust in science and technology it allocated $240 million to estab li sh 14 centres of excellence that would integrate the reshysearch efforts of Canadian uni versi ties industry and government
Several U of G researchers received funding including microbiologists Chris Whitfield Anthony Clarke Joseph Lam Reggie Lo Roselynn Stevenson and Terry Beveridge who beshycame part of the network looking into bacterial di sease Their expertise will aid the search for the causative agents of bacterial diseases such as whooping cough gonorrhea toxic shock synshydrome lung infections and me ningitis
In 1988 biochemist Janet Wood and crop scientist Peter Paul s achieved a breakthrough in understanding how subshystances like sugars and amino ac ids are transported from outside to inside a living cell wall They found that minute protein molecules in the wall surroundshying a cell act like miniature pumps capshyturing the substance and powering it through the cell wall -They are now trying to determine how the protein molec ules choose subshystances for uptake or release S uch celshylular behavior plays a critical role in determining a plants reaction to soi l sa linity or explaining why cells fai l to transport glucose from the blood in diabetics
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Behind every how theres a why While we stand in awe of what sc ienshytists are accomplishing in the biological sciences we shouldnt lose sight of the reasons why they are manipulating cell structure and decoding genetic blueprints
To some extent scientific exploration is driven by human nature - our desire to understand and control the natural world Advances in biotechniques and genetic engineering promise to give us more of both
Reports on the Human Genome Project say that within 15 years well know the code of almost every gene in the human body This work and current explorations in animal genetics are harshymonized by the fact that many of the genes that control development are similar among species
The chicken for example is a familiar model for studies in developshymental biology Supported by 60 to 70 years of data todays embryologists like Prof Rob Etches are learning how to modify the genes that control developshyment of a chick embryo while giving us a better understanding of how genes efshyfect development in all vertebrates
Nothing could be more fund amental than understanding that process says Prof Keith Betteridge who heads the Guelph team working with bovine embryos In all areas of reproductive and genetic research the big payoff is that we will understand more about how two gametes can unite to fonn a single cell and develop into Northern Dancer or Albert Einstein he says
Everyone has a role to play in decidshying how to use this knowledge says Betteridge but the researcher has the triple responsibility of thinking through the implications of new technologies exshyplaining those implications to a skeptishycal and concerned public and safeshyguarding the welfare of animals used
Whether manipulating an entire animal or one of its reproductive cells the scientist is guided by the same set of moral standards If the technology inshyduces pain or suffering causes changes in behavior or affects the animals abilshyity to eat and survive then it shouldnt be done says Prof Bruce Wilkie chair of the Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Immunology
He and other Guelph scientists inshyvolved in animal research are subject to
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peer rev iew through the U of G s animal care committee which is also charged with ensuring that research and teaching programs are in compliance with the Animals for Research Act of Ontario
Reporting to the University s Reshysearch Board the committee is comshyposed offaculty student community and non-user representatives It estabshyli shes animal-care policies on campus and evaluates all protocols submitted by researchers and teachers After granting initial approval the committee reviews each project annually and inspects reshysearch facilities each semester A provinshycially appointed inspector also visits campus frequently and the Canadian Council on Animal Care makes an inshyspection every three years to assess the level of animal care
In addition to safeguarding animal care scienti sts al so need to provide evidence that the products of biotechnolshyogy are safe for human consumption or medical use The public needs to know that the pharmaceutical protein cloned and produced in a chicken s egg is no different than the same protein cultured from human cells and produced in a large bioreactor
The big payoff is that we will understand more about how two gametes can unite to form a single cell and develop into Northern Dancer or Albert Einstein
One of the most talked-about benefits of transgenic technologies is the potenshytial for producing enzymes prote ins and antibodies for pharmaceutical and inshydustrial uses Molecular farming would take advantage of the expression system in higher animals to produce a therashypeutic protein that is difficult or expenshysive to make in a lab
The potential seems enormous but the prac tice will be quite simple A typishycal Ontario dairy herd could probably produce enough human insulin or bloodshyclotting factor to satisfy the world
demand It s easy to see why these techshyniques are already presenting problems for patent offices
The past decade of work in transshygenesis has been a learning process for all of us Early research efforts that produced pigs in the United States with arthritic deformities and sheep in Australia with ulcers have taught us th at even science must learn to walk befo re it can run That means perfecting genetic transfer in animals where the techniques are easily controlled - such as mice and fruit flies - before applyshying them to domestic animals
One of the advantages of gene transshyfer technology is the control it offers geneticists who are able to manipulate expression of a single gene during development One of the limitations may be the re lative ly minor change that gene can make in one generation when compared with the changes induced through the countless generations of selection since domestication
These limitations may alleviate some of our fears about the use of gene transshyfer but it also makes us question its value at least in terms of breed improveshyment in domestic livestock Prof Charshyles Smith holds a research chair at Guelph in animal-breeding strategies and is often called on to assess the value of the new biotec hnologies in the genetic improvement of farm livestock
Economic traits are already being imshyproved through traditional selective breeding methods he says It would take quite large beneficial transgenic efshyfects (at least 10 per cent of the mean) on economic merit to make their incorshyporation worthwhile
Despite our e thical concerns the legal entanglements created by the use of biotechniques and the problem of turnshying new technologies into cost-effective procedures most scientists agree that these technolog ies are too powerfu I not to use They have the pote ntial to help allev iate some of the most serious problems facing the world - food production overpopulation disease and shyenvironmental degradation
Statisticians teU us that 50 years from now we will be trying to feed twice the current world s population on a smaller land base in a more fragile environshyment This is the why behind current research in genetic engineering
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OUD TH Annual giving in 1991 reached $14 million The value of the Annual Fund becomes more apparent each year as the University of
Scholarships amp BursariesGuelph faces continued financial $320127
AMF Priority Athletics ~ ---------- (Scholarships$38326
pressure The 1991 Annual Fund Pet Trust raised $14 million to help $261224 maintain scholarships and provide academic and library programs AMF OAC Alumni Scholarships Foundation ______ grew by $9245 25 per cent
$228494
Memorial Funds $56997
Arboretum $77441
Class Projects ResearchBuildings$86658
Matching gifts grew 31 per cent in 1991 More and more Canadian companies are g iving financial support to the institushytions that educated their employees A total of 44 companies matched 92 inshydividual gifts for a record $11120 in Annual Fund contributions to the University of Guelph in 1991
If you work for a matching-g ift employer every doll ar you donate is matched - doubled or even tripled shyby a company gift Its as easy as it sounds so check with your employer on how to multiply the value of your gift to the University
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Academic Enrichment $87246
3M Canada Incorporated Akzo America Foundation Alcan Aluminum Limited A lean Canada Products Ltd Amdahl Canada Limited American Home Products Corp American International Group Inc BASF Corporation Bell Canada Boise Cascade Canada Limited Campbell Soup Co Ltd Chevron Canada Resources Ltd F alconbridge Ltd Ford Motor Company of Canada Ltd Gelleral Electric Canada Inc Hoechst Canada Incorporated IBM Canada Limited ICI Canada Incorporated Insurance Bureau of Canada
$134893Library $103050
John Laball Limited Kraft General Foods Canada McGraw-H ill Ryerson Limited Nabisco Brands Canada Ltd Northern Telecom Limited Paul Revere Life Insurance Co Pfizer Canada Inc Pioneer Hi-Bred Limited Pitman-Moore Inc Sara Lee Corp ofCanada Ltd Square D Canada The Bank of Montreal The Coca-Cola Company The Toronto Star The UPS Foundation TransCanada Pipelines Warner-Lambert Canada Inc Westeel
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ADIT ON With thanks to Donors Class agents College representatives Alma Mater Fund Advisory Council
Alumni and others who give to the University of Guelph through the Annual Fund are helping to maintain quality at a time when governments are funding for mediocrity Because of the dedication and commitment of our donors and volunshyteers the 1991 Annual Fund surpassed last year s total by $100000 We did not achieve our goal - perhaps $1 6 million was overly ambitious in light of current economic conditions - but we were able to maintain last years 25-per-cent inshycrease in scholarship support
Through the Alma Mater Fund we raised more than $540000 and achieved Tom Sawyer
the target of 12-per-cent participation among graduates of the three founding colleges Arts CBS and CSS alumni substantially increased their donations and participation over last year Campus participation grew from 145 per cent in 1990 to 171 per cent this year And our parents program pushed contributions from parents to $84188 compared with $31500 in 1990
For the first time since 1984 the Alma Mater Fund Advisory Council was able to go beyond its commitments to fund eight additional projects - a total of $86000
Looking ahead our flagship project for 1992 will be War Memorial Hall renovations During Alumni Weekend in June you ll have a chance to see the work that has been done upstairs and the work still needed in the downstairs hall It s a project well worth the interest and support of alumni
For your past and future support of the Alma Mater Fund my sincere thanks
s
Tom Sawyer OAC 59A and 6 Corporations Chair AMF Advisory Council Associations Foundations $2874947 Annual giving contribution s
III Annual IGiving Alumni
$1403701 Major Gifts $1236622
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were 22 per cent of the o
Other $687687
$6239707 given t U of G as donation
in 1991
Government (Donations only
$36750
Annual Giving Report
1991 Annual Fund Results $1 A niillion wasraised overallmiddot ariinceaSe of
76 per ceI1tThisyear alumrii in the Arts and CBS groups doubled theirparticipation alld conshytributions And the parents recotded a 46-pershy
cent participation rate
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The group of eight
Eight campus projects were selected to share $86000 in highest-priority funds from the 1990 Alma Mater Fund Among them are the OvC Wild Bird Clinics education program a CSS academic medal in memory of the late dean John vanderkamp a soc ial sc ience citation index for the library framshying for the fine art print study collection a computer design laboratory for the School of Engineering seed money for a history graduate scholarship a conshytinuing education survey for the Mac-FACS Alumni Association and a HAFA-sponsored executive-inshyresidence
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Of cattle cash and Colvil e Alumni gifts to the University of Guelph come in some pretty interesting packages Over the years alumni have given livestock concrete paintings shythere are two by Canadian painter Alex Colville - furniture land books inshysurance policies and a host of artifacts and antiques And money - a lot of money Almost every building on camshypus has some bricks and mortar paid for by alumni And hundreds of students are helped along the way each year by alumshyni-sponsored scholarships
The Annual Giving Report on the preceding pages shows once again how important alumni gifts are to the Univershysity and provides us with an opportunity to say thank you to those alumni who continue to give on a yearly basis Anshynual giving is however only one of three avenues through which alumni proshyvide financial support to the University The others are major gifts and promoshytional programs
Annual giving
The Alma Mater Fund established in 1969 is the route chosen by most alumshyni faculty and staff who make annual gifts to the University
AMF solicitation and management are handled by a volunteer advisory council On the preceding page chair Tom Sawyer OAC 59A and 64 talks about the funds success over the last two years with AMF scholarships inshycreasing by 25 per cent This year the AMF begins a three-year commitment to funding renovations to War Memorial Hall
In addition to its flagship project AMF provides regular support to athshyletics through Gryphon Club contribushytions to college advancement funds and scholarships and to individual class projects
The AMF supports the camaraderie of university days as alumni work together to plan and complete a project whether its funding a scholarship a painting a tree weight-lifting equipshyment or furniture for Alumni House AMF contributions also ensure that fushyture Guelph students will remember those who have gone before
In addition to AMF donations the anshynual giving program includes gifts to
the OVC Pet Trust Fund the OAC Alumni Foundation the Arboretum the paren ts program and the Li brary Other gifts made directly to the University supshyport memorial funds scholarships musishycal activities and research and academic programs
Major gifts
Major gifts to the University are adshyministered by the Deve lopment Office under the direction of Marilyn Robinson Mac 55 These include beshyquests or life insurance policies shortshyterm pledges (often made during a capital campaign) large donations that might establish an endowment fund or contributions to special University projects like the Heritage Fund or the proposed FACS Building addition
Gifts- in-kind - such as library materials art objects or estate properties - also fall within thi s category Last year alumni gave more than $12 milshylion in such tax-deductible gifts
Promotions
Every Guelph graduate is a member of the University of Guelph Alumni Asshysociation and receives the Guelph Alumshy
nus magazine and many other privishyleges There are no UGAA membership fees but the association does raise money through promotional programs like MasterCard travel packages and the North American Life Assurance proshygram
The UGAA provides serv ices to alumshyni and students - such as the careershyplanning workshop planned for Juneshyand returns many dollars directly to the campus Last year it gave $20000 to the library
In addition to direct financial support through annual giving and major gifts alumni also support the University inshydirectly through membership fees to individual college and program associashytions The fees pay for association acshytivities that help maintain ties between their members and the University
Questions
If you have questions or would like 10
know more about the tax advantages of giving to U of G write to Paulette Samson associate director of annual giving and support services at Alumni House University of Guelph Guelph Ont NIG 2Wl or call 519-824-4120 Ext 6183
When yo~bearrom US
If you think youre hearing from us moreoften lhanY9u elida few years ago you reright But checkyour mail and you ll 110tiqe that you~re also hearing
more frequemly from othernon-jgtrofit)rganizations and charities We v~ all stepped lip oui- fUQdIaising efforts
U QfGappreciates your support and needs your help butyou wont know that if we donr teflyou Aildeyen if you cant afford to make a fjnancialcon~
tributiori we hop~ to wjn yoUfverbaJ sliPPOJ-tJt will take many voices to coii- ylnce governmeritthal universities should beagreater public priority
When we contacenttyou on behalf of iheUriivetsity we lly to give more thiin we ask So tak~advantage ofthe p~1one call o(letter to findoutwhais happenc ing OJrcarnp~s U ofG hasmuchto offer llufnrii professionaldevelcipment courses library privileges travel programs recreation and a link Igt friends and
classmates
We Jik~to keep in roucharidYcwarit yO~1 to know the progress were rilaking Ast~e Uriiversity $ prestige grows so does the value ofyour degree
~0~ MarilynR~binson Trish Walker Mac55 DiJectoJ ofDevelopment CSSTl Director ofAJurhni Affairs
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Get your career on track
Responding to alumni requests the University of Guelph Alumni Associashytion will sponsor a career-planning workshop on campus June 26 to 28 The weekend program will be led by Sharon Crozier of the University of Calgary counselling service Each participant will receive a careerlifestyle analysis and will develop a personal action plan
The $225 fee includes the StrongshyCampbell Interest Inventory and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator which will be administered and tabulated prior to the weekend Testing dates have been set in Toronto for May 27 and in Guelph for June 4
Sponsored by the UGAA and coshyordinated by Continuing Education and Alumni Affairs the workshop will also draw on the Universitys Counselling and Student Resource Centre
Enrolment is limited to 20 For registration information see page 26 or call Continuing Education at 519-767shy5000
UGAA board report
by Grant Lee CSS 73 MA 80
The UGAA will present a convocation package to each graduate this spring imshymediately following presentation of the degree or diploma Developed by Alumshyni Affairs staff the package is designed to increase awareness of the UGAA and the collegeschool alumni associations encourage membership introduce the Guelph Alumnus and provide an opporshytunity for board members to congratushylate our new alumni
Approval of the new UGAA bylaw is on schedule It will be presented to members at the annual general meeting in June along with an amendment to the
i I UGAA Letters Patent
In addition the UGAA board bull has approved a $400 donation to help
cover costs for two students to represhysent Guelph at the 1992 World Debatshying Championships in Dublin Ireland
bull is looking at a proposal to help alumDl with financial planning There will be more to come on this subject later
bull received thanks from president Brian Segal on behalf of those alumni who attended the October symposium
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Canada Break Up or Restructure The association was a patron of the event
bull is responding to requests from alumni for more social events Aside from the travel program the UGAA sponsored a ski day at Horseshoe Valley in March
bull approved a proposal from the School of Landscape Architecture to research places of historical value on campus Financial support has yet to be resolved
bull accepted an offer to help sponsor the University Centres annual lecture series which invites Canadian and inshyternational public figures to speak on current issues All events in the winter 92 series were free to alumni
bull donated U of G sweatshirts to Canadian Guidance and Counselling for a conference in Ottawa this sumshymer
bull approved the purpose and terms of refshyerence for the new Alumni House Adshyvisory Committee which is charged with overseeing maintenance of the
facility adopted the 199192 budget and finanshycial plan drafted last November This year we expect to generate some $44000 and spend $33000 It has been suggested that we set the 199293 budget and plan in April of this year so the new board wi II start in September with a sound financial program and budget that will only reshyquire adoption or revision
Chapter news
Calgary - About 40 alumni and guests met at the Delta Bow Valley Hotel Feb 3 to view a U of G video and hear a talk by admissions counsellor C hr is tine Toews FACS 87 Co-ordinator of the event was Janet Hutchinson CBS 79
Edmonton - Paul OAC 67 and Anne Valentine CBS 69 hosted a group of 30 alumni and guests at the Ramada Renaissance Hotel
Montreal - U of G welcomed students and their parents - including many
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alumni - to its first Montreal informashytion night for prospective students The event was modelled after a successful program in Toronto that draws more than 800 students each spring
Vancouver - U of G president Brian Segal met with alumni March 5 at the Pan Pacific Hotel Jim Dodds OVC 63 and Sarah Bloom FACS 86 orshyganized the event which attracted about 70 alumni and guests
Halifax- U ofG alumni in Halifax met with Gryphon basketball players during the March 26 to 28 CIAU chamshypionships Despite losing the OUAA west division title to Brock University the Gryphons qualified for a wi ld card spot at the CIAU championships Alumshyni received free tickets to the game that pitted Guelph against Brandon in the consolation final Fan support was enshythusiastic but the Gryphons lost 72 to 64 finishing third overall
Homecoming 1992 Plans are well under way for Homecoming weekend Sept 25 and 26 In addition to the annual Gryphon Hall of Fame dinner and award s ceremony the weekend will feat ure a beach volshyleyball tou rnamen t --~4~=iiiiikshyconcert alumni brunch walk-a-thon pep rally reunions and the traditional homecoming dance following the Saturday afternoon footshyball game This year the Gryphons will play Wil frid Laurier University A complete schedule will appear in the next Guelph Alumnus but you can get
Winners of Ihe Ju SI fo r Fun square dance compelition 01 College Royal were left 10 right Ann Joselin Kelley Allen Joanne Hewirson Brenl McFadden caller Sue MacKinnon Richard Presley Trish Henderson Jason Thompson and Kelly Lillie
in the Homecoming spirit now by helpshying to plan your class reunion or signing up as a scorekeeper for the vo lleyball tournament For infOlmation call alumshyni officer Laurie Malleau HAFA 83 at 519-824-4120 Ext 2102
Swing your partner
Eight squares of alumni took part in the College Royal square dance competition in March Winners of the UGAA alumni square dance plaque were the Crazy 8s Joanne Hewitson Arts 91 Lloyd Hutchinson CBS 87 Sonya Jones CPS 90 Ed Ketchabaw OAC 88 and MSc 91 Carol)n OAC 90 and Brad MacNeil CPS 87 Mike Relf OAC 91 and student Sherry MacNeil Wayne Lowden was the caller
Winners in the Just for Fun category were Junior Farmer alumni who included Hewitson Ann Joselin OAC 90 Brent McFadden CSS 90 Richard Presley OAC 86 and soonshyto-be-alumni Kelley Allen Trish
Henderson Kelly Little and Jason Thompson The caller was Sue MacKinnon OVC 9 1
Florida picnic
The North Port Yacht Club hosted 199 alumni for the annual Florida picnic March 4 On hand to meet them was Trish Walker CSS 77 and MSc 90 director of alumni affairs Judy Phillips of the University s Real Estate Division also attended to talk about the Village by the Arboretum retirement deve lopshyment
Attendance prizes went to Gertrude Stewart Mac 30 and Morley Funston OAC 32 The picnic was sponsored by the UGAA Alumni-In shyAction Committee represented by Ken Gartley OAC 42 and the Florida reunion committee consisting of Mary and Ted Brent OAC 48 Helen and Don Moffatt OAC 46 Stella and Bob Moore OAC 48 and Retis and Bill HasenptlugOAC 39
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Its the latest fad in alumni circles shymeeting your classmates at the anshynual University of Guelph alumni hockey tournament Twenty-two teams played in the fifth annual tourshynament in December
For most teams tournament standshyings are secondary to the socializing with classmates that they may not see otherwise says Bill Seegmiller OAC 83 who worked with Brian TapscottOAC 8 1 to organize the event We promote the social aspect through two divisions - social and more social - and include family skating and a Saturday evening wine and cheese party he says Trish Walker director ofalumni affairs presents fhe social division lrophy 10 Ihe OAC 79
Dipper Oldies (II the U ofG alumni hockey tournamenl The OAC 79A team defeated the Grey Gryphons to win the more soshycial division The OAC 80 team won the consolation final and the spirit award went to OAC 7778
In the social (a little more competishytive) division it was the Faceoffs in first place over OAC 88 OAC 90 won the consolation trophy and the Valley Vikings took home the spirit award
Organizers plan to add womens exshyhibition games to the 1992 tournament which is scheduled for Dec 5 and 6 For more information call Seegmiller at 519-836-3807 or Rudy Diemer OAC 85 at 519-763-2250
A night at the races
The UGAA Alumni-in-Action group will host a night at Mohawk Raceway May 26 The $30 admission includes a 6 pm buffet parking program taxes and gratuities For detail s call Laurie
~ Malleau at 519-824-4120 Ext 2102
I Alumni directory
A new alumni directory will be ready for delivery in May The deadline for alumni updates has passed but you can still order a copy of the directory at a cost of $40 plus tax Return the order form you received with the special U of G wristwatch offer or write to Rosemary Clark Mac 59 at Alumni House University of Guelph Guelph Ont NIG 2Wl
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Ottawa chapter 50 years young
There was a nostalgic gathering of Guelph alumni in Ottawa last winter to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the city s alumni chapter
Donald Fletcher OAC 36A and 39 who was president of the group in 1953 sent us a historical account of the chapters activities
A small organizing committee first met in February 1941 at Madame Burgers restaurant to plan the chapters first fun ction a skating party at the Ottawa Experimental Farm It attracted 75 people
Over the years the group held an anshynual picnic and a banquet and dance that gave them a chance to invite faculty from Guelph to speak about happenings at the colleges - and later the Univershysi ty Every president from George I Christie to Bill Winegard paid a vi sit
In 1951 alumni from OVC and Macshydonald Institute who had been meeting since 1936 joined the OAC group A crowd of almost 200 celebrated the chapter s 10th anniversary at a picnic at the farm of the late John Bracken OAC 06 During the 1950s they added a get-together at the annual Ottawa-area plowing match which gave way to a curling bon spiel in the 1960s
There have been many special funcshytions - entertaining the Gryphon footshyball teams square dances car rallies golf tournaments theatre parties and raceway evenings - but the event that stands out in Fletchers memory ocshycurred in 1966 when five members of Parliament hosted the group in the parshyliamentary ballroom
The chapter also includes a couples bridge club which has been meeting for 25 years in the homes of its members
Fletcher thanks the 30 people who have served as president of the Ottawa alumni chapter and the dozens more who have helped on committees devot shying years to the executive to promote the institution
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ALUMNI CAREER PLANNING WEEKEND WORKSHOP
JUNE 26 27 amp 28 ~ The Program This highly successful workshop developed by Sharon Crozier PhD University Counselling Services University of calgary is the first step for an alumnus who is considering a career move The weekend (Friday evening through Sunday afternoon) will consist of group presentations conducted by Dr Crozier with smaller working groups facilitated by profeSSional counsellors from the University of Guelph Counselling and Student Resource Centre
Discussion structured exercises and experiential activities will lead alumni to gain insight into a personal careerllifestyle analYSis and assessment career information resources networking skills and much more
No matter what their age career stage or reason for transition each participant will find this workshop to be an excellent opportunity to develop a personal action plan - and chart their next move
~ Pre-1esting In order to provide individualized career information registrants are required to attend one of two pre-testing sessions The Strongshycampbell Interest Inventory and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator will be administered and results tabulated prior to the workshop Pre-testing dates are as follows
Toronto Wednesday May 27 1992 700 pm - 8 30 pm Holiday Inn Yorkdale
Guelph Thursday June 4 1992 700 pm - 8 30 pm University Centre
~ Fee The registration fee of $225 includes administration and tabulation of the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator materials two lunches and refreshment breaks
Tuition fees in excess of $100 are income tax deductible
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May 2 - The Guelph Spring Festival begins with a 25th-anniversary gala dinshyner in Creelman Hall that will honor founding president Murdo MacKinnon Other festival events run until May 23 For more information call 519-821-7570
May 2 shy An All-Canadian University Asshysociation d inne r w il l be held in Washington DC at the Embassy of Canada Guest speaker is Robert Lanni president of the University of Windsor Entertainment will be provided by Windsors music department For inforshymation call T Chan at 202-543-9111
May 3 - Arboretum Day celebrates spring with family nature walks at 1 and 330 pm and an electrical keyboard concert at 230 pm featuring Canadian comshyposer Carole Anne Burris
May 10 to Aug 30 - Guided nature walks run every Sunday at 230 pm in the Arboretum Topics include wildflowers birds turtles snakes and insects The nature centre is open from 1230 to 430 pm
May 13 - Chancellor Lincoln Alexander is the guest speaker at the Alumni-inmiddotAction annual general meeting which begins at noon in the Arboretum Centre For details call Alumni Affairs 519-824middot 4120 Ext 2102
May 13 - The Human KineticsHuman Biology Alumni Association will hold its inaugural meeting at730 pm at Alumni House with a coffee and dessert social RSVP to 519-824-4120 Ext 6963
May 23 shy FACS 82 is sponsoring a colshylection of Bob Munsch plays performed by the Carousel Players at3 pm at War Memorial Hall Tickets are $8 plus tax and handling To order call the UC box off ice at 519-824-4120 Ext 3940
May 26 - Alumni-in-Action is hosting a night at Mohawk Raceway Cost is $30 To register call 529-824-4120 Ext 2102
May 30 - An Arboretum sale of rare native trees and shrubs at the RJ Hi lton Centre on College Avenue East runs from 9 am to 1 pm For information call 519-824shy4120 Ext 2113
May 30 shy The sixth annual All-Canadian University Dinner in Chicago will be held
in the Henry Crown Space Centre at the Museum of Science and Industry and will include a reception buffet dinner and an Omnivax movie beginning at 6 pm Guest speaker is George Pedersen president of the University of Western Ontario For information call David Cole at 312-372-4404 or Hugh Mackenzie at 708-369-3688
June 2 to 5 shy Spring convocation June 13 - Beginning at 7 am the Arshy
boretum will hold its summer bird survey The four-hour walk will locate breeding birds and identify their species by sight and song
June 15 to 17 shy U of G will host the 15th annual Guelph Conference on Sexuality With the theme Sexuality New Visions the conference will examine current isshysues in human sexuality counselling strategies for sexual problems and teaching approaches in sexuality educashytion For information call the Office of Continuing Education at 519-767-5000 or fax 519-767-0758
June 19 to 21 - ALUMNI WEEKEND See page 39 for a complete schedule of events and alumni association meetings The UGAA annual meeting is June 21 at 10 am in Macdonald Hall 149
June 26 to 28 shy The UGAA-sponsored alumni career-planning workshop will be held on campus See page 26 for details
July 31 amp Aug 4 shy The National Youth Orchestra will perform in War Memorial Hall at 8 pm as part of its summer program at U of G Tickets at $8 general $6 for stUdents and seniors will be availshyable at the door
Sept 26 - HOMECOMING Rise early for the second ann ual Homecoming charity walkathon At 930 am the Human Kinetics Alumni Association will hold its annual general meeting in the School of Human Biology lounge
Oct 1 - OVCs 1992 Schofield Memorial Lecture will be given by Steven Arnoczky a professor in the department of small animal clin ical sciences at Michigan State Universitys Laboratory for Comparative Orthopedics The 3 pm lecture will be held in War Memorial Hall Admission is free
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John Boros 88 of Wei land Ont writes that he is impressed by the way U of G keeps records after graduation Thi s gives the graduate a sense of belonging a connection to an important period in hi s or her life he says
Jane Buzza 88 is working as records co-ordinatorarchivist for the Ontario Medishycal Association in Toronto
Jacqueline (Sullivan) DeClerck 86 is a public relations officer at the Canada Trust head office in London Onto
Richard Ely 70 works at the Crown attorneys office in WeIland Ont He has an LLB from the University of Western Ontario in addition to his Guelph degree He says he often talks about U of G to young students trying to decide which university to attend
Paul Genest 81 finished graduate studies at Johns Hopkins Universi ty in Maryland and is now assistant professor of philosophy at Union College in Schenectady NY He is man-ied to Barbara Jessup 8 1
Brian Hogarth 78 is head of interpretashytion at the G1enbow Museum in Calgary
Martha Hooper 9 1 was married last Ocshytober to David Perry They live in Calgary where she is a sw itchboard operator at the Delta Bow Valley Inn
Rene van der Meijden 87 has put his degree in geogshyraphy and internationshyal development to good use with the Christian Reformed World Relief Comshymittce Originally from the Netherlands he is now in Uganda on a three-year asshy Rene van der signment as a rural Meijden development adv iser He sends greetings to his many friend s in Canada and to Guelph grads Stan and Kitty in Bolivia in particular and reminds us that visitors are always welshycome in Uganda
Edward Milliner 85 will graduate this spring from the faculty of education at the University of Windsor
Mark Moore 85 is doing postgraduate work in history at the University of Bristol in England He plans to teach high school
fn response to a letter from Dawn Monroe 69 that appeared in the winter 1992 issue of the Guelph Alumnus Doug Moynihan 69 of Fort McMurray Alta writes Be disapshypointed no more Dawn l I too graduated in 1969 from (the College of) Arts or as it was then called Wellington College and I havent heard from anyone either And I too think it is time to contribute my news
After graduation f headed out to disshycover and sol ve the problems of the world travelling overseas for about three years Since then Ive been working in human resources in a variety of organizations in many different locations in Canada Cun-entshyIy I am the manager of human resources in Fort McMurray
PS Do you remember me Dawn I was the bartender in Creelman Hall I
John Teskey 7 1 began new duties last summer as director of libraries at the University of New Brunsw ick in Fredericton He was head of adshyministrative sershyvices at the University of Albershyta before moving John Teskey across Canada to acshycept the UNB posishytion but had earlier served as chief librarian and was library personnel officer at both Alshyberta and the University of Saskatchewan
Teskey says his biggest challenge is to regain the lost purchasing power that univershysity libraries have suffered as a result of static budge ts and ri sing material costs He is encouraging increased resource-sharing among universities and interlibrary loan programs with shortened turnaround
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Elizabeth (Baxter) Willson 77 a real esshytate agent in Chatham Ont writes to voice a common feeling that the universi ty exshyperience itself is often more important than the degree or diploma received I am really glad I graduated from Guelph she says
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Michelle Bombadier and Mike Caldwell both 92 are two of 50 Canad ian youth selected to work in Guyana for three months with Youth Challenge International (YCI) a non-governmental organization that provides Third-world experience for Canadians They may spend the summer building a school teaching safety or clearing land for Gu ytna s first national park but they need some private support to he lp cover transportation costs Anyone able to help should write to YCI at I I Soho St Toronto M5T IZ6
Jane Coventry 86 writes with accolades for the Guelph Alumnus grad news section and an update on what she and her husband Jaydee Smith 84 and MSc 89 are doing They were married in 1989 while working at U of G - he in the Department of Animal and Poultry Science and she in the Departshyment of Crop Science In February 1991 they moved to England where Smith is doing a PhD at the University of Bristol and working as a research assistant Coventry
works in the technology transfer unit of Nickshyerson Seeds Ltd in Cambridge
Jeffrey Crawford 88 and Leslie Thompson 86 were malTied last October He is an elementary schoolteacher in Mount Forest Ont
Craig Emerson 83 earned a PhD at Dalshyhousie University in Halifax in 1990 and is now a research associate in oceanography
Paul Fleming 85 is a pharmaceutical sales representative for Hoechst Canada Inc and lives in Nepean Ont
David Forsey 80 is an assistant professor of computer science at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver He is marshyried to Lyn Bartram
Michael Gangl 89 is in his third year at the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College
Astrid Harms 87 is a registered nurse in London Ont
Andrew Holmes 85 worked for the Onshytario government as a wildlife biologist for three years but is now back at school in his second year at Northwestern Chiropractic College in Minneapolis
Timothy Johnson 86 works at the Centre for Limnology at the University of Wisconshys in in Madison
Karen Lennard 77 (HK) and her hu sshyband Paul Jackson 79 (HK ) and MSc
82 both went 011 to earn medical degrees from McMaster University in HalTilton Ont Jackson also has a master s in physiology from the University of Virginia and is comshypleting an anesthesiology residency in Hamilshyton Lennard has a part-time family medical practice allowing her to spend more time with the couples two children Matthew and Nicola
Wendy Maltby 74 is an elementary schoolteacher for the Metropolitan Toronto School Board
Sandra OConnor 84 earned a medical degree from the University of Western Onshytario and is now practi sing in Burlington Ont
Linda Owen 81 runs her own business as a consulting exercise physiologist and fitness supervisor in Campbell River BC
Sheryle Tetley 86 is regional sales manager for Glaxo Canada Inc in Mi ss isshysauga Ont where she lives with her husshyband Ian
Rob Tonus 87 is manager of the Black Creek Rehabilitation Project a grassroots enshyvironment program to improve a degraded urban stream in Toronto His office is with the Metropolitan Toronto and Region Conshyservation Authority and he lives in Oakville with his wife Wanda (Knul) 88 (HK) a public health inspector in Hamilton
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Richard Woods 81 is an instructor of xshyray technology at the Easte rn Ontario School of X-ray Technology at Kingston Ge neral Hospital He would like to hear from other members of the 1981 U of G choir wi th whom he travelled to Scandinav ia Write to him at RRI Od essa Ont KOH 2HO
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James Dy nes 84 has comp le ted g raduate studies in chemistry and so il sc ience at the Univers ity of Sas katchewan in Saskatoon
Catherine (McVittie) Clark 88 is a nuclear medica l tech nici an at Howard Counshyty General Hospita l in Columbia Md She and her husband Michae l li ve in Elkridge Md
David Holmes 85 is a systems analyst at Sun Life Assurance Company
RolfKierdorf 84 lives in Guelph with his wife Janet He is se lf-employed as a systems consultant
Donald McFadde n 71 and his wife Carol li ve in A lbany Ga where he pracshyti ses medicine
Donald Ridley 69 and PhD 73 has been appoin ted seni or v ice-presiden t of CibashyGeigy Canada Ltd in Oakvi lle Ont and is responsib le for a ll corpora te serv ices includshy
ing finance human resources safe ty health and the environment He a lso se rves on the board of the Canadian Agricu ltura l Research Council and is a member of the Great Lakes Action Plan Strategi c Advi sory Committee
Kathryn Root Parr is an assoc iate minister at Lorne Park Bapti st Church in Mississhysa uga Ont She was married las t fa ll to Vicshytor Parr
Peter Simpson 85 is dis tric t manager for McNeil Pharmaceutical Ltd in Stouffville Ont He is married to Cynthia (Hamilton) 85 (HK)
Keith Stemshorn 83 is in the Canadian Armed Forces stationed in Calgary
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Nikki Dignard 86 moved to Ottawa last year where her husband Ted Henike pracshyti ses denti stry Dignard is working on an M BA and says she d love to hear from CSS classmates Tom Cam and Kathryn
Bonnie Dunnett 87 and MA 91 works on campus at the Gerontology Research Centre S he and Barry Hallman 9 1 li ve in Guelph
Kathryn Faulkner 80 is a registered nurse in Burling ton Ont where she li ves wi th he r husband John
Ruth Fox 84 is a sta ffing assistant for
Transport Canad a and lives in Toronto w ith her husband Christopher
Shonna Giles 88 is an admiss ions officer at Simon Fraser Unive rs ity in Burnaby BC
Gina Grieco 75 is a hi gh school guidance counsellor in North York Onto
John Harris 82 is manager of financial planning and budgets for th e City of Brampton Ont
Paulette Heppner 76 is a teache r in Vanshycouver
John Johnston 7 1 has been appointed exshyec uti ve vice-pres ident o f Ve rsacold Canada Corp and pres ident of QF Foods Distribushytion Services Versacold Canada is the largest public refri gera ted ware hou sing orshygani za tion in Western Canada
Michael Kral 79 has moved from the Univers ity of Manitoba to the University of Wind sor where he is an assistant professor of psychology
Jeffrey Lozon 76 and his family recently returned to Toronto after 15 years in Western Canada He is executive vice-president and ch ief operat ing officer at St Michael s Hos pital and li ves in Oakville wi th hi s wife Donna and two daughters
Bria n Martin 79 is a real estate appraiser in Portland Ont whe re he li ves w ith hi s wife Margaret (Sheffield) Arts 79
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Leith Mason 90 works in Toronto in the Canadian office of the State of Illinois as a special assistant to the Illinois Department of Food and Agricul ture
Michael McKean 74 of Don Mills Ont was recently appointed president of Wrigley Canada Inc Before joining Wrigley as execushytive v ice-pres ident in 1990 he he ld senior positions in Hong Kong Brazil and the United States
Rick 74 and Vicki (Collard) McTaggart FACS 74 are working in Ottawa He is director of overseas operations for the Unitarian Service Committee a charitable non-governmental organization that supports commun it y and human resou rce developshyment activities in Africa and Asia She is sec tion head of consumer analysis in the agr ifood development branch of Agriculture Canada
Sandra Morrison 86 is an ass istant professhysor in the department of psychiatry at the University of Western Ontario
Stephen Naylor 85 is director of planning and development for the amalgamated municipalities of Alliston Beeton Tecumshyseth and Tottenham
Brian ONeill 68 MA lives in SUITey England where he is managing director of Innovation Management Consultant s
Jodi Parisi 89 is a sales representative for Gillette who says U of Goo was the greatest
Moira Skikavich 81 is completing a PhD in c inematelevision at the University of Southern California
Virginia Sutherland 78 is an air traffic controller at the Toronto Island Airport
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Peggy Bates 88 was recently promoted to sales manager with Sears Canada Inc She lives in Owen Sound Ont
Caroline Begin 86 is working in Singshyapore as a dietitian
Diana Close 87 is a c linical nutri ti onis t at Chedoke McMaster Hospital in Hamilton Ont
Sarah Davenport 90 is a case worker with the Wellington County Social Services office in Guelph She is malTied to Matthew Harvey CBS 90
Timothy Dyck 8 1 is national sales manager for Black amp Decker Canada workshying out of the Corbin Division in Richmond HillOnt
Sharon (Muir) 84 and Richard Ernst CBS 83 are the proud parents of a future Guelph grad uate one-year-old Andrew Graham
Patricia Edwards 78 is food servi ce sushypervisor fo r St Peter s Hospita l in Hamilton Ont
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For the love ofteaching Since she
middot graduated bull from Macshydonald Inshymiddot stitute in
J 963 Nancy Kerr has built a career on teaching and research in telttles The middotheidofthe Uriiveisityof
Albertas department of Clothing and texiiles pursues a middotscientific interest inthepreservashylion of hi stori~lfabricsarid in developing pesticide-proofc1otl1ing But Jler fitstlove i ~ teaching
In 199b shewonone ofU of As four Rutherford AWljrds for excellence ill unshy
dergraduate teat-hing The first member of the faculty middotofliomemiddoteconornicsto receive the award slie was the rcentcipient6f the facultys own underglltiduate teaching award three years earlier
Winning the Rutherford was a gteat honor says Ken who has been on
faculty at Alberta since 1967 She oiscovered she had an aptitude for
middot teaching as a graduate student at the University of California Davis in
196566 After earning her MSc she casr about for afaculty position in Canada and round U of A was the 0111y place I could teach ju t textiles plus have a chance to develop new cQurses and research labs
middot Kerr sa)s she gets a tremelldous sense of satisfaction from teaching and the learning he must do to stay cUlTent She attributes her succe s as a teaCher to middotIec-middot
middot tures that are well organized and clear and to creltting a positive classroom climate
~Thcomfort level of students is reaUy middot ililportanL ~ Kerr eamedherPhD in fibre lnd
polymer science from North Carolina bull Staie University in 1982 Her doctoral work concentrated oil deacidification
techniques to preserve historicatcottOnln 1988 she spent a sabbatical ye~r doing research at the Caliadian Conservation
middot In tirute in OnflW1 middot Originalmiddotly from Ottawa Kerr is a
trarisphlnted -vesterner who enjoys middot hiking anlt sk1ing
From left Diane Ellison Lisa Wilson Lori Davis and Pippa Hobbes
Diane Ellison 84 is liv ing in Osaka Japan where she teaches English to Japanese busishyness people Last October she welcomed three U of G friends for a visit Lori Davis CSS 85 manager of Jumbo Video Inc in Oakville Ont Pippa Hobbes 84 accountshying manager for Paramount Holidays in Willowda le Ont and Lisa Wilson 84 co-ord inator of membership serv ices for the Metropolitan Toronto Board of Trade
Monica Hrybko HAFA 88 is director of sales for the Ramada Hotel Old Town in San Diego Calif
David Jones HAFA 88 is a con troller at the Holiday Inn Montreal Centre-Ville
Kathleen McLachlin 83 is operating an insurance agency in Kitchener OnL She opened the State Farm Insurance office in March 1988 and says she loves her job
Susan (Goettler) Parker 80 is working in Toronto as benefits administrator for Imshyperial Oil Limited She is married to Donald Parker OAC 79
Mary Jean (Sinnott) Price Mac 7 1 has returned to sc hool at the University of Otshytawa to earn a bachelor of education
Margaret (Richardson) Rankin 75 has been living in Halifax since 1990 and is an account analyst for Central Guaranty Trust
Janet (Wanless) Sutherland 77 is in private practice as a marriage and family therapist in East Kelowna BC
Jean Thomson Mac 37 says 1937 was a long time ago but shes delighted with all the changes that have gone at the college A former hospita l nutritionist she is retired and living in London Ont -
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Olayiwola Layi Adeola MSc 86 and PhD 89 and his wife Mope are living in West Lafayette Indiana where he is an assisshytant professor of pig nutrition at Purdue University
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Bruce Barrie 79 (Eng) graduated last June with an MBA from City Uni ve rsi ty in Washington State and is now a senior adshyviser in strategic planning with Petro-Canada Resources in Calgary He is a professional eng ineer with APEGGA and an ac tive memshyber of the Planning Forum an international society for planning and strategic manageshyment
Barbara Bryce 83 and her husband Ricardo Ramirez 82 are living in Rome Italy She is a landscape architect and he is a communications officer with the Food and Agriculture Organizat ion
Daniel Campbell 81 and his wife SharonshyMarianne are farmin g near Petrolia Onto
Carolyn Closs 82 and her husband Harold operate a beef cowca lf operation in Shawville Que
Luc Cote 83 is an agricullural account manager for the Royal Bank of Canada in Joliette Que
Kerrie Lea Curran 85 plans to graduate this fall from the master of architecture proshygram at McGi ll University
Bruce Dodson 74A is course superinshytendent at Hawd Ridge Golf and Curling Club in Orillia Ont
Richard Donkin OAC 85A originalshyly from Zimbabwe is the manager of Venida Packing Inc in Exeter Calif Situated in central Californias San Joashyquin Valley Venida Packing ships tree fruit throughout the Richard Donkin United States Canada the Pacific Rim and the Far East Products under the brand names Ruby River and Venida include peaches plums nectarines kiwi grapes persimmons and pomegranates In 1988 Donkin married California native Lisa Kolander and they live in Lemon Cove a community in the Sierra foothill s
Brendan Elder 8S A lives in Kelowna BC and works for Dogwood Nursery He plans to be married thi s summer to Rosemary Powell
Robert Fessenden OAC MSc 67 was recently appointed vice-president of devel opshyment and planning at the Alberta Research Council He is responsible for tec hnology management and corporate marketing
John Fitzgerald 86 was married last November to Susan Given a ] 991 indeshypendent study graduate in animal producshytion He is a lecturer at Ridgetown College she works at Centralia College and is work shying on a psychology degree at the University of Waterloo They live in Strathroy Ont
Glenn Helstern 79A is a driver for the Calgary division of Greyhound Bus Lines of Canada Ltd
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She tells a princely tale
For seven miniJtes on Oct 24 199 L Ellen Het1eOAC 76~U1d MSc 80
(ltllked with PIince Charles Invited toopert a newfumaceat
inco Lilniteds Copper Cliff smelter iri Sudbury Ont the Princemiddot of Wales was easy to talk with says Heale ftwasverycxciting
As eiwironmental co-ordinator Of land reclamation andrevegetation at Copper Cliff Healetold theprince middot about Tnc(secosystem rehabilitation
projects Theroyalvisitor was parshyticulatfyiilterestedin the treegrow- ing project in abandoned inines flld in tlpoundrevegetation ()f acres of tailings
and barren rock Planrilig vegetation on the tailings
hasattrlttcled wildlifeto a protected habitat says Beale who has wqrked forIncosincc she graduated in 1976
Ninety~iwo species ofbirds as weil asrodems hares foxes wolves bears andinoQse have been sighted on the 2500 acres of rehabilitated ore waste
One thing about this job is you middot can s~e where youve been effective she says
While an undergraduate student in Prill(e Charles with EIen Heale horticultural science Healea native ofSiidbury worked at Ineo during the sumniers She wasthi tirst woman to
work inrhemining companys agriculture middot department After shegraduated the niekshy el inine hired her full time tcido horticul- turaLfleld research ~ Ineo later granted heT a two-semester leave of absente t6 work
Theodore Jacobs 78 (Eng) is engineering supervisor at Standard Tube in Woodstock Ont
Greg Keast 85 (Eng) is li ving in Mozamshybique in East Africa where he works as a project officer for UNICEF rural water supshyply project s
Richard Kline 74 was appointed partner of the Toronto accounting firm Schwartz Levitsky Feldman Inc last faiL He is presishydent of the film s bankruptcy division a member of the Chartered Accountants of Onshytario and first vice- president of the Ontario Insolvency Association
Christopher Laforest MSc 91 (USRPD) works in planning and economic developshyment for Bruce County Ont
Jean-Paul PhD 90 and Lynn (Hammell) Laforest 82 and MSc 85 are both employed at Laval University in Sainte-Foy Que He is a professor and s he is a research associate
Kenneth Lawless 63 earned a Guelph deshygree in agricultural economics then went on to stud y dentistry at the Uni versity of Toronshyto He is now an oral and manilo-fac ial surshygeon in Kingston Ont
oil her masters at OAC~ In her current PdStion Heale has rnore
administrative and public relations responshyibilities On her own time she sits on the
board of management for the tocal Red Cross and isalllember ofthe Sudbury
Business and Professional Womens Club
Margie Luffman 77 writes that she has happily returned to Ontario after 10 years in New Brunswick to work at the Smithfield Experimental Farm in Trenton She is curator of the Plant Gene Resources of Canada clonal gene bank
Brian MacCulloch MAg 89 is a sa les representative for Springva le Nurseries Ltd in Berwick NS
Daniel Mansell 64 and MSc 68 is Onshytario manager of the eastern habitat joint venture in the wildlife policy branch of the Ministry of Natural Resources He is stashytioned in Midhurst Ont
Peter McEntire 77A writes from County Langford in Ireland to keep in touch with U of G He is farming and work s as an AI techshynician with Bova Genetics Ltd
Darryl Mitchell 78 works at Pioneer HishyBred Limited in Chatham Ont
Hugh ONeil 88 is manager of customer financial services for Ral ston Purina Canada Inc
Umed Panu MSc 72 (Eng) has done a lot of travelling during his career After Guelph he earned a PhD in civil engineering
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David Nedelko OAC 86 and Ljrlda ArmsJrollg CBS 89 (Jurk 011 cemre) were marriediasl SeplemiJer in Bari ~ie OnlTluir weddiIg iiarly illcilldedfiom leli Katy KusmiliskiOA C 88Paul Allgusline GAG 86 Roh Reed OAC 87Carv Belfral1l oAC 8RJIuJ Sa ndimiddoto (CollinI) BerlrCIlII CBS RR Also 1I111ie wedding w(lS Arlllslong s Veal ullcleClarence Fleming OVC 34 The couple (Ire living in
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at the Universit y of Waterloo taught in India and at Mi ss iss ippi State Uni vers ity and worked with Briti sh Columbia Hydro and the Government of Newfoundland In 1986 he jo ined the faculty of c ivil engi neering at Lakehead Uni ve rsity in Thunder Bay Ont and was promoted to full professor in 199 1 He and hi s wife Kashna and the ir children Neeti and Anukud enjoy the outdoor recreashytion ac ti viti es available in Northwestern Onshytario and look forward to visits from U of G alumni trave lling to Thunder Bay
Lyle Pettigrew 61 is a marketin g consulshytant with Harris Kovacs Alderman in Atlanshyta Ga
Helen Prior 88 joined Sheridan Nurseries after graduation then worked for a year as a research tech nic ian in Guelph s Department of Crop Scie nce She is now in her th ird year at Emmanuel College at Victoria University and hopes to be ordained as a United Church min is ter in May
Gregory Scott 83 (Eng) is operations manager for Accuform Gol f Limited in Toronto
Ba rbara (Coordes) Skrypetz 87 is a fi e ld supervisor for the Ontario Dairy Herd Imshyprovement Corporation working out of Guelph He r husband Stephen 88 operates a bulldozing and excavating busi shyness in the Woodstock area
Victor Skidra 6 is re tired f rom his job as a sc ientific evaluator with Hea lth and Welshyfare Canada He and hi s wife Konstance live in Nepean Ont
William Slusarchuk 63 (Eng) and MSc
The way we were in 1902 OAC alumnus Douglas Campbell 60 passes on a bit of col lege hi sto ry that shou ld make us think twice about our con stitutional squabbles in C anad a
Campbell is director of the Latin America and Caribbea n Trade Divis ion of Canada s Department of External Affa irs Last summer he hosted a vi s it by the president of Uruguay Luis Alberto Lacalle Herre ra whose grand fa the r made a simil a r vis it to Canada in 1902
This is what the elde r Herrera reported to his government Gue lph agricultural college enjoys a worldwide reputation and is con shys idered one of the grea t loca l attracshytions
More than 200 young Canadians a long with many foreign youths come together in its lecture rooms There are bursary ho lde rs from Norway and as far away as Mauritius C loser to us
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67 was recently appo inted pres ident of AGRA Eanh and Environmental Group an envi ronme ntal and geotechnica l firm that is a division of AGRA Indu stries Limited
Michael Sullivan 87 A is a pol ice officer with the Wate rloo Regional Police in Cambridge Ont
Argentina has 12 students there We ll then couldnt Uruguay imshy
itate those good exa mples and also se nd a number of worthy youths to Guelph to acquire the professional knowledge which is becoming m ore necessary each day for the deve lopshyment of our agric ulture~
In addition to the sc ienti fic benefits that our compatriots woul d deri ve from entering sLlch a Canadian techni cal in shystitution there would be the inca lcushylable benefit of becoming familiar with the stric t manly and sound habits of these people who are admirable in e ve ry respect
Afte r they have stee ped themse lves in this atmos phere of dem ocracy which fosters the development of all rights and is alien to intolerance thi s legati on w ill have the great honor of sending home not only sc ientists but a lso mode l citizens
Brenda Trask 80 operates he r own comshymunica tion s consulting company in Osshygoode Ont She is marri ed to Ron Ferguso n
Dave Vanden Bosch 89 is manager of operator services and plann ing for Bell Canada in London Ont
J Stallard Skip Waterhouse 54 and hi s wife Li sa are ce lebrating the birth of a daughter Samantha Elizabe th on New Years Day 1992 They live in New York State where Wate rhouse is iI pro fe ssor of bio logical science at the Plattsburgh Sta te Uni versity College of Arts and Science
Jeff 88 and Karen (Burrows) W h ite 87 live in Strathroy Ont Jeff work s for Bell Canada and Kare n is a Lambton County rural orga ni za tion spec ialist with the Ontar io Mini stry of Agriculture and Food
Harold Wright 86 is a development repre shysenta tive for Ci ba-Ge igy Canada Ltd in Mi sshysissauga Ont He and Lori Krieg 84 plan to marry thi s sprin g
Donald Ziraldo 7 I received doubl e honors last winter fro m the Ontario grape and wine industry Preside nt of Inniskillin W ines of Niagara-on -the-Lake Ont he was named to the Royal Order of the Grape for hi s leadership in enhancing the prod uct and its image
In addition Z ira ldo and his partner Karl Kai se r were named 1991 Men of the Year by FoodsCIvice and Hospitalily magazine During the ir 17-year partnership at Inn isk ilshylin the two have been instrumental in shapshying Canada s wine industry the magazine sa id
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ave Barry Burtis 69 was named president of the Ontario Veterinary Medical Association in January after working with the voluntary organization for four years as a director member of its editorial board and chair of its public relations committee Burtis lives in Burlington Ont and practises at the Bay Cities Animal Hospital He also appears on a local cable television program called Pel Tales
William Medway 54 of Blackwood NJ has been named an honorary life member of the International Association for Aquatic Animal Medicine for his contributions on beshyhalf of the association and the field of aquatic medicine He is both a founding member and past president of the associa shytion A professor emeritus of clinical laboratory medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine Medway is a member of the Marine Mammal Commissions committee of scientific advisers
Diane Pickering-Forster 86 is practising at Vander Kraan Veterinary Services in Huntsville Ont She is malTied to Chris Forster and they have one daughter Julia
Julien Proulx 67 has moved from Kapusshykasing Ont to La Pocatiere Que where he is superintendent of Agriculture Canada s Experimental Farm Last year he was feashytured on TVOntarios French network series Personalire Ontarienne for his work as a veterinarian his participation in municipal politics and his support of regional developshyment in Northern Ontario He was also awarded Agriculture Canadas research branch prize Agcellence for extraordinary management during his direction of the reshysearch program at the Kapuskasing Exshyperimental Farm
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Twoc~ireers middot on the samepat~ OVCaruninus Geoffrey Lord 49 felt a thopedic
middot enseofdejavuwhen he read theslory gastrointesshyabout Bill Naray~i1 OVe 63 il1la~t tinal and carc
springs issue ofthe Guelph Altimnus diovascular
There are amazing simi laritiesbetween surgery the c~reersof t~e two Guyanese wh6b6th says Lord If earnedvefetinary degrees atGueiph someone worked in c1ini(ai practice in)Yestem were to ask Canada then moved to the United States me ioday to work in human medic~lresearch what Tcon~
Narayan heads an AlDSresearchteamsider to be atJohns HopkiflS l1)iversilySchool of my expertise MediCirieinBaltimoreMatyland Lord is I would have retired directorofthdohnsonamp Johnson to saymecli- Geofrey Lord
middot Resear~h Foundalion ill NewJersey cal device lordsays he was influenced by OVC andbioshy
proJessDfs Anthony Kings(Qte and Frank Inaterials evaluation middot SchofieJd~ndwcentnton from GiJelphto pur- lt In the I 950s Lordwaspalt of ale-
sue graduate studies in parasitology auhe se~rch team that pioneered the use of University oJWiscollsin Sevenmorithsin animal tissue tOTeconstructdamagedjr
amixed practice in Drumheller Alta con blocked al1eries in hUl11ansTwenty years vinced him thaldinical medicine wasn6t middot later he drafted the first systematicap-
middot whati w~ted6 do He returned to Wis pr()ach to the safety evaluation of medica con5il110 eanla PhDlll pathologyano devices joined Johnson amp JohnsQri as asenior middot Allsubsequeill guidelines inCiLlding patilol()gistiriI953 those of the Foodaj)q Diug Admlnistrashy
Research at Johnson amp JohDson tiOnand the Canadian Regulatory ~teeredmeinto many interesting and chal- Authority hayeadopteoihis approach he
Jenging fieldsofbio-research includirig says derniiltoi9gy toxicologic pathology Lordand his wife Helen ltIividetheir wound healing surgical pathology iiinebetweel)Ciipe CodandBonita genera toxkology ofi~w drugs andor~ Springs FloriQa
Shane Renwick 77 and MSc 91 works in veterinary services at Agriculture Canada offices in Guelph
Ruth Reuter 61 is a veterinary pathologist in Plympton Australia
Tom Sanderson 6 1 was selected by the Ontario Veterinary Medical Association as Ontario Veterinarian of 1991 CUlTently OVCs co-ordinator of off-campus work terms he spent 20 years in private practice in Listowe1 and Mount Forest before returning to the coll ege in 1982 to manage the veterishynary research stations Sanderson s contribushytions to the profess ion have included many hours of volunteer work in the advancement
of the profession and in the development of veterinary inshysurance programs He is a past pres ident of both the Ontario and Canadian Veterishynary Medical associashytions
Jennifer Troughton 86 is practising in OronoOnt
Simone Woltner 86 is a veterinarian at the Chester Basin Animal Hospital in Chester Basin NS
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by her hu sband William and two sons The fo llowing dea ths have been reported since the las t issue of the Guelph Alumnus Full notices which are usu ally submitted by family or classmates may appear in thi s iss ue or in a later one
James Clement Arts 73 Feb 2 1992
Marilyn (Dyment) Farnan Mac 530 Feb 27 1992
David Fisher OAC 80A in October 1990
Elizabeth (C hristie) Glass Mac 3I D June 2l99 1
Peter Heskey OAC 54A Dec 6 199 1
Richard Ketchell OVC 51 Nov 23 199 1
Edward Kowalski Arts 79 in August 199 1
Pauline (Dixon) MacMillan Mac 240 Jan 2 1992
Catherine MacPherson Arts 83 Dec 11 1990
Marguerite (White) Maybury Mac 3 10 in June 1990
Donald McLeOd CSS 80 Jan 9 1992
Albert Meilus OAC 51 in 1991
Ann (Biggs) Ostler Mac 3 10 in April 1991
Robert Race Arts 73 in 1989
Ralph Sampson OAC 40 in December 1989
Mor ris Sanderson OAC 42 Nov 17 1991
Sir Peter Scott HDSc 8 1 in Au gust 1989
William Setterington OAC 40 Oct 22 1991
George Shoniker OAC 50A in March 199 1
John Somerset OAC 34 Dec 27 199 1
Gregory Van Patter OAC 7 1 in 1990
Frederich Weiland OAC 20A in 1990
Arts
Riccardo Rich Incitti 88 died Jan 5 1992 as the result of an accident near Hami lshyton Ont He was assistant manager at the Toronto-Dominion Bank in St Cathari nes and is survived by his parents Gu igi and Lucia of Cambridge and two sisters Laura and Andrea
Larry McNenly 73 died in October 1991 in Owen Sound Ont He is survived by his wife Marnie CSS 73
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Robert Everett HK 74 died in May 1991 in Burlington Ont A teac her at White Oaks Secondary Schoo l in Oakv ille he is survived by his wife Miche le and brother William CBS 74
James Sandy Fear 75 died Oct I I 199 1 in Toronto He is survi ved by his wi fe Sally (Firth) OAC 75 and hi s children Caitlin Alli son and Mered ith
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Lynn (Dalys) Corby 84 died in Toron to May 6 1990 after a long battIe with cancer
Nancy (Birbeck) Gordon 77 died Oct 20 1991 in Ottawa after a short illness She worked at the Kitchener-Waterl oo Hospital and had previously been plan t accountant at Foseco Canada Incorporated in Guelph
Mac-FACS
Jean (Williams) Forward 280 Oct 28 1991 in Calgary She was the widow of Bower Forward OAC 25 and is survived by two sons
Catharine (Bechtel) Fromm 270 died Nov I 199 1 in Cambridge Ont She is surshyvived by three dau ghters Ellen Moore Mac 63 Nancy and Caro l
Alice (Rivaz) Garrard 28 di ed Dec 2 199 1 in Guelph She was an active member of the Mac-FACS Alumni Assoc iat ion and was the Mac 28 class agent for the Alma Mater Fund She is survived by her husband retired professor Edward Garrard OAC 27 and a daughter Betty Nelson
Della Marie (Diamond) Honey 300 of Warkworth Ont died June 29 1991 One ofWarkworths oldest and most respected citizens she served as local li brarian fo r 25 years She is survived by her son John OAC 52A his wife Patric ia and four grandchildren James OAC 84A William OAC 76A Thomas OvC 89 and Patricia Lonergan CSS 68
Barbara (Banigan) Martin 380 died Jan I 1992 in Don Mill s Ont A retired teacher wit h the North York Board of Education she is survived by a son Ted a sister and two brothers
Elizabeth (Burt) Perry 340 died June 28 1991 in Sidney BC and is surv ived by her husband Gordon and son Paul Nartel OAC 62
Jacqueline (Roy) Pote 34D died Dec 2 1 1991 in Willowdale Ont and is is survived
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Doroth y (MacFeeters) Scott 260 died Jan 14 1992 in Toronto She is su rvived by two daughters Anne Donaldson and Cynthia Scott
Florence (French) Snyder 370 died May 6 199 1 in Calgary and is survived by her husband Robert and two sons John and William
Katherine (Sweet) Watt Mac 220 died Feb 23 1992 She is survived by her husshyband Leslie a son David and a dau ghter Carol Gi llanders
Mattie (Newman) Widdicombe 240 died Dec 11 1991 in St Catharines Ont Preshydeceased by her husband John she is surshyvived by a bro ther and several nieces and nephews including Virginia Rigby Arts 76
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George Grey Arnup 38 died Feb 2 1992 in Toronto He spent most of his career with the plant protection branch of Agriculture Canada He is survived by his wife Aileen three chi ldren Nancy Jim and Mary Ellen Vincent CBS 79 and four grandchi ldren
Herbert Boyce 28 and MSA 43 died Sept 2 1991 in Amherstburg Onto He is survi ved by his wife Norah a daughter Beverley Med lock and a brother James OAC 32
Jack Reddy Brethet 56 died Nov 4 199 1 in Burlington Ont President of Brethet Barnum Assoc iates Inc he is surshyv ived by his wife Caro l and two daughters Lyn n and Anne
Bruce Foster 28 died Feb 6 1992 in Ridgetown Ont and is survi ved by his daughter Gayle Anderson and son David CBS 69
Allison Gardhouse 49 died Sept 21 1991 in Midland Ont He was re tired supe rshyintendent of schoo ls for the Simcoe County Board of Education and is survi ved by his wife Merle
Kenneth Harrison 24 died Nov 5 199 1 in Kentville NS A distinguished plant patho logist military officer and mycologist he began hi s career in 1926 as assistant plant pathologis t at the Kentvi lle Experimental Farm He worked there until retirement in 1966 wi th the exception of mi litary servi ce du ring the Second World War
Dr Harrison had a lifelong interes t in the study of mushrooms and publ ished numerou s technica l papers on the mu shroom flora of Nova Scotia In addition he enshy
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couraged interested amateurs and led field trips for student s at Acadia University and the general public from 1929 until 1987 In 1979 he was honored by Acadia wi th the dedication of the Kenneth A Harri son Laboratory of Mycology
During his career he was a member of many professional organizations a charter member of the Mycological Society of America and fe llow of the American Associashytion for the Advancement of Science
He is survived by hi s wife Margaret two brothers Maynard OAC 30 and Arthur OAC 29 two son s Ashley and Kenneth and a daughter Jennie Sheito
William Kellam 4 1 died Oct 19 1991 in Brockville Ont He was retired from the Curb and Gate Co of-Brock ville where he had worked as a lab technician fo r 28 years He is survived by his wife Kathleen a son George and a daughter Mary
William M acMillan 48 died in February 1992 in Winnipeg He was supervisor of Fertilizer marketing for the Manitoba Pool Elevators and is surv ived by hi s wife Edna Jean and brother Harry OAC 5 1 A
Cameron McTaggart 35 died Feb 4 1992 in Aurora Ont After graduating from OAC he became manager of Don Head Farms in Richmond Hill He established the first agricul tural consulting business in Canada in 1947 and later ran an Angus cattle
sales management business from the family farm A life member of the OAC Alumni As shysociat ion and the Class of 35 executive he is survived by his wife Margaret Mac 35 and two sons John OAC 62 of Regina and David of Largo Fla
Douglas Miller 48 of Victoria BC died Nov 24 1991 in Toronto He is survived by hi s wife Ruth and five children
Gregory More 76 was killed Feb 3 1992 in Kitchener Ont at the Ontario Glove Manufacturing Co where he was co-owner and vice-president Following graduation he worked for the Rohrer Drug Co and the Stershyling Drug Co then returned to school ea rnshying an MBA at McMaster University in 1981 More was an avid squash player and golfer Court A at the Northfield Racquet Club in Waterloo was dedicated to his memory in March He is survived by his parents Noreen and Ken a brother Randy and a sister Katherine Keeler
John Jack Pawley 33 died March I 1992 in Guelph He is survived by his wife Ruth son John OAC 62 and daughter-inshylaw Carolyn He was a former director of the Ontario Milk Marketing Board and a past member of the Royal City Lodge of Perfecshytion
Harold Reid 20A died in December 1991 in Burlington Ont During the First World W ar he was one of Canadas premier rad io
experts work ing at the Roya l Canadian Navy shore transmitter in Sydney NS After the war he came to OAC to earn a diploma then went on to QueenS University to comshyplete an arts and theology degree His mini sshytry was mainly in St And rews and Montreal although he spent 13 years teaching Hebrew at the Presbyterian Coll ege before retiring in 1968
Donald Robertson 3 1 died Nov 4 1991 in Iroquois Ont He is survived by hi s wife Caroline (Grisdale) Mac 38 his two son s ScottOAC 65A and Guy and a daughter Sandra McNeil
Thomas Rokeby 48 and MSA 50 died Jan 29 1992 in Fayetteville Ark He was a professional engineer and tau ght for 30 years in the Univers ity of Arkansas engineering department Born in Port Rowan Ont he was a member of the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War the American Society of Agricultural Engineers and the agricultural honor societies of Gamma Sigma Delta and Alpha Epsilon He is surv ived by his wife Helen two sons Robert and Richard a daughter Penny and three brothers Michael Noel and Richard OAC 54
Francis Sweeney OAC 45 died Nov 17 1991 in Oakville Ont He was a longtime employee of Shell Canada and [nternational Shell working in Great Britain Europe and
WALL CUSTANCE MEMORIAL FOREST
The Wall-Custance Memorial Forest located at the Universi ty of Guelphs Arboretum was established in recognition of the severe depletion of our forests It is never too late to be a vital part of the effort to save and improve our air and water for the future of our children by planting trees This program is our small part of the major endeavor to reforest and to reduce the greenhouse effect improve air quality and provide food and cover for wildlife The Memorial Forest Proshygram not only pays a Significant tribute to a loved one but also assures a better environment for generations to come
The purpose of this program is to provide an opporshytuni ty to commemorate the life of a loved one by plantshy
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Berna rd Weeks 35 died Oct 16 199 1 After graduation he re turned to his roots in
ew York and Pennsylvannia and worked in 4-H and you th organi zations for a few years He then took over the family farm at Troupsburg NY and built up a dairy operashytion with a sideline of sheep He is surv ived by his wife Ruth and four children
Glenn White 43 of Belleville Onl died Nov 24 199 1 in Florida and is surv ived by hi s wife Marjorie
ave Norman Anderson 39 of Wi nn ipeg died Dec 18 1991 in Arizona He had practised veterinary medicine in Norwood Man and was a member of the American Equine Pracshytitioners Association director of the Canadian Thoroughbred Society and track veterinarian at Assin iboia Downs for 50 years He is survived by his wi fe Peggy and two sons Laurie and James
George Beatty 5 I died Nov 22 1991 in Inverness III He practised in Palatine fo r 36 years and founded the Palatine Animal Hospi tal He was an active member of the American Animal Hospital Assoc iati on and the Chicago Veterinary Association and was a director of the Friends of the University of Guelph He is survived by his wife Mary and fo ur children - Suzanne Patricia Margaret and Tim
John Hamilton 5 L died Dec 15 1991 He had lived in Roslin On where he owned the Bay Regional Veterinary Hospital He is survived by hi s niece Ann Bongard
Nicholas Labzoffsky 39 died Dec 25 1991 in Largo Fla Fonnerly of Toronto he had li ved most recen tl y in Dorse t Ont and is survived by hi s wife Jane
Edgar Langford 49 died March 41992 in Monarch Alta A former research scienshytist with ADRI (Western) he is survived by his wife Norma and two daughters includshying Carolyn OVC 76
Stuart Maude 4 1 died Jan 14 1992 in Rosemead Calif A former Rosemead counshycillor and four-time mayor he operated the Rosemead Animal Hospital with his brother Arthur 52 from 1953 to 1980 He was a trustee for Ingles ide Hospital a past grand patron of both the Rosemead and the Califorshynia Order of Eastern Star and past-president of the local Kiwanis Club and Chamber of Commerce He is survived by his wife Vera two daughters Patricia and Susan Bezner a son Stuart and three brothers
Walter Morley 42 o f Mildmay On died Nov 28 199 1 He ran a large animal pracshytice in the Mild may area for 39 years raised cat tle and raced standardbred horses He was also a pu blic school board trustee and direcshytor of a local te lephone company for more
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than 30 years He is survived by his wife Joyce five sons - two of whom are OVC alumni Dave 68 and Randy 74 - and 10 grandchildren
Lloyd Neily 52 died Jan 3 1992 in Hantsport NS A retired meat inspector w ith the federal Department of Agriculture he had a private veterinary practice in Wind sor NS He is surv ived by hi s wife Mary
Elford Nundal 43 died Jan 7 1992 in Langley BC after a long battle with canshycer He operated a veterinary practice in Langley for 36 years and served as a di strict aldennan for 10 years before being elected mayor in 1982 Last year he received the BC Veterinarian Association s award of merit for a lifetime of veterinary work
Humphrey Rees 55 died Sepl 30 1991 in Amman Jordan while on ass ignment for the Overseas Development Ad ministrat ion as veterinary and animal hu sbandry adviser to the Jordani an government His contemshyporaries at Guelph will remember him as a singer debater raconteur rugby player and bon vivant He is surv ived by his wife Alice of POlt Eynon Wales
William Stinson 40 died Feb 15 1992 in Norwood Ont He is survi ved by his wife Rita a son John OVC 67 a brother Ford OAC 34 and a grandson John CSS 87
Faculty
Patric ia Harney died Dec 191991 in Yarshymouth NS A professor in the Department of Horticultural Science from 1962 to 1988 she developed severa l new variet ies of geraniums and was instru mental in es tabshylishing the Frances Ball rose collection at the Arboretum
Anthony Marston died Feb 3 1992 in Fershygu s ant Retired from the School of Hotel and Food Administration he was an acshycomplished competition chef who received his training in Switzerland and England He then spent severa l years working in the Caribbean before coming to Guelph in 1970 A member of the Canadian Olympic culinary team he held a number of positions in the
Donations given in memory ofGuelph alumni will help support University scholarships ifdirected to the Alumni M emorial Fund In 1991 donations were made in memory of the following alumni
Frank MacDonald OAC 37
Frank King OAC 33 -Robert Allen OAC 56A
Alice (Rivaz) Garrard Mac 28
Stan Vesselinovitch OVC 57
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hote l and food industry until retiring in 1982 He is survived by hi s wife Di ana
Gordon McNally dled Jan 12 1992 in Guelph A professor in the Department of Zoo logy from 1934 to 1971 he served as academic assistant to the dean of CBS until retiring in 1979 While at Guelph he was honorary pres id ent of the classes of OAC 54 58 and 67 He is survived by his daughter Jean two siste rs and two grandchildren Prof McNallys family has established the A Gordon Mc a lly Memorial Fund to support a sc holarship or bursary Contributions may be sent care of the Alma Mater Fund Alumni Hou se University of Guelph Guelph ant N I G 2WI
Friends
Jean (Young) Branion died March 3 1992 in Guelph She was the wife of the late Hugh Branion a physiology professor at U of G and assistant to presidents Bill Winegard and Don Forster Jean Branion was an act ive volunteer on campus for many years and one of the firs t presidents of the College Womens Club She is survived by a son Richard and his wife Marga re t of Vanshycouve r and five grandchi ldren Donati ons may be made to the Hugh D Branion Memorial Scholarship through Alumni House
Davy Alexander Hamilton-Williamson died Feb 4 1992 in Guelph A painter and author of childrens stories he had been a member of the University s Presidents Council s ince it began in 1 985
Marjorie Pinkney wife of J ames Pinkney OVC 3 7 died Dec 151 99 [ at her home in Milton ant
Samuel Wyal died March 15 1992 in Brantford ant He was a partner in the law firm Wyatt Purce ll Will Stillman and Scott He is surv ived by his wife M a bel Mac 39 four sons Peter Michael William and John and two daughters Mary Alderson and Sarah Nadalin Arts 82
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INVmiddotESTMENTS amp
DIVIDENDS
Facts about university education in Canada and how we pay for it
By 2000 half of all new jobs in Canada will require a university degree
But at the current rate of government funding only one in five children
will have a chance to go to university
In the seven years from 1982 to 1989 per-student grants to universities in
Ontario barely kept pace with intlation at five per cent
per-student funding at American public univers ities jumped an average
of 23 per cent in the same period
Those US universities also receive twice the federal research dollars per student as do Ontario universities
In 1987 the average salary of a full-time professor at an Ontario univers ity was $55500
compared with $68200 for a private-sector position of similar education and experience
Lawyers economists and engineers made an average of $71 000
Ontario ranks ninth out of the to provinces in terms of grants to universities
Between 1978 and 1991 enrolment at Ontario univers ities grew by 40 per cent while funding dropped
from 59 to 409 per cent of total government spending
Universities were spending 14 per cent less per student between 1977 and 1988 hospital expenditures
rose 38 per cent per patient in the same period
Ontario universities generate $3 of economic activity for every
$1 invested by government funding
And the number of jobs generated by university activities in
Ontario is greater than the employment impact of the textile
industry the entire paper and pulp industry or utilities
University graduates can look forward to earning 63 per cent more than the average industrial worker
A 1990 survey of U of G alumni found that two years after graduation 97 per cent of Guelph grads
looking for work were employed 62 per cent were earning $25000 or more and 10 per cent were
earning $40000 or more
Unemployment rates in 1990 for those with a university degree was about one-third what it was
for those with only a high school diploma
Every year from 1978 to 1987 Ontario university inves tments in renovating or replacing
aging buildings could not keep pace with the rate at which the buildings depreciated
Graphics by Debbie Thompson Wilson Statistics supplied by th~ Council 01 Ontario UniverSities Statistics Canada and the U01 G Student EnVifonment Study Group
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A salute to sport Alumni Weekend June 19-21 9am Sio-pitch tournament
The tradition Jives on at the south quad diamond s Cooed teams of 12 or more players are encourshyaged to join in the fun
FRIDAY 10 am to 9 pm Registration Lambton Hall
6 pm Kick-off dinner and half-time show
get set and join In the Olympic spirit one of Alumni Creelman Hall will Weekends host the Wonderful most popular World of Sports with events Tours a half-time slide show start from to entertain alumni of Alumni House all ages and are sponshy9 pmshy sored by the Observatory tours CBS Alumni
Association
10 am and 2 pm
SATURDAY 8 am to 5 pm Guided Registration walking tours Lambton Hall
Remember 9 am to 5 pm making s now Alumni House tours sc ulptures on Students will host tours of Alumni House throughshyout the weekend Come and see what the generosity of alumni has accomplished
9 am to noon Alumni association annual meetings
This is the official notice for the annual general meetings of the following alumni associations
CBS - Alumni House starts at 830 am before guided walk MacFACS - HAFA Building Room 209
OVC - OvC Room 1438
OAC - Macdonald Hall Room 149
CSS - MacKinnon Building Room 305
HAFA - Alumni Hou se boardroom
Gryphs Lounge will be open for lunch and afLer the game
930 am Guided nature walk at the Arboretum
On your mark
Noon - OVC luncheon
The OvC Alumni Association will host a luncheon open to all OvC alumni and their guests
2 pm - Campus Showcase 92
Following on the heels of last year s success Campus Showshycase 92 will be bigger and better Come to the University Centre to see exhibits representing all areas on campus The Campus Junction store will also be open
2 pm - Zavitz Hall tour
Alumni are invited to browse through the newly renovated Za vitz Hall and attend a recep shytion sponsored by the Colshylege of Arts Alumni Asshysoc iation
5 pm Golden anniversary dinner
The OAC OvC and MacshyFACS alumni associations will provide complimenshytary tickets for alumni celebrating 50 years or more Additiona l tickets can be purchased Classes
Johnston Green or playing intramural hockey in the old Quonset arena Relive some of the memories by taking a walking tour of campus Tours begin from the lobby ofLambton Hall
Noon - Alumni picnic
This apopular event has new location - the sculpshyture garden beside the Macshydonald Stewart Art Centre Come on your own or reshyserve a group of tables for friends and classmates
Noon - Class reunion lunches
OAC 37 Mac 37 OAC 42 Mac 42 OAC 47 Mac 52 Mac57 Mac 67 FACS 72 FACS 77 FACS 87
OAC 67 FACS 82 OAC 82 OAC 82A CBS 82 FACS 87 OAC 87
SUNDAY 9am Church service and War Memorial Hall rededication
Thanks to a commitment from the Alma Mater Fund renovashytion of the upstairs of War Memorial Hall has been comshypleted Join us for the rededicashytion ceremony commemorating the 1924 opening and the 1952 dedication of an OAC memorial plaque
being honored are OAC 22 OAC 47 OvC 22 Mac 22 OAC 27 OvC 27 Mac 27 OAC 32 OvC 32 Mac 32 OAC 37 OvC 37 Mac 37 OAC 42 OvC 42 Mac 42
6 pm Class reunion dinners
Special dinn e r reunions are planned for OAC 47 OAC 52 OAC 52A OvC 52 Mac 57 OAC 57 OAC 62 Mac 67
10am UGAA annual meeting
All alumni are encouraged to atshytend the UGAA annual meeting in Macdonald Hall Room 149 An amendment to the UGAA Letters Patent and a revised bylaw will be presented for ap shyproval Copies of both are availshyable on request from Alumni House Call 519-824-4120 Ext 6544
11 am - Farewell brunch
The final event of Alumni Weekend will be held in Creelshyman Hall Come and meet the Univers ity S president Brian Segal The Alumnus of Honour medal will be presented at noon
To receive an Alumni Weekshyend brochure or to register for events call Alumni House at 59-824-4120 Ext 6963
Opened July 1991Research Park Centre shy
Where research and industry Dleet
Space available now Exceptional office and research facilities in our multi-tenant Research Park Centre
Research-driven corporations are breaking new ground at the University of Guelph Research Park Centre with exceptional growth opporshytunities in an ideal business setting
This 30-acre Research Park also accommodates tenants who choose to construct their own office and laboratory facilities
Find out why organizations such as Semex Canada Tremco Limited the Ontario Dairy Herd Improvement Corporation George Morris Centre LIPID Analytical Laboratories and Agriculture Canada have chosen the University of Guelph Research Park Call Ralph Eades or Judy Phillips Real Estate Division University of Guelph Telephone (519) 767-5003 or Fax (519) 837-0353
The Research Park is a project oj the Office oj Research and the University S Real Estate Division
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Rewriting art history
In the 1480s the Duke of Milan comshymissioned Leonardo da Vinci to produce a 93-metre-high bronze monushyment of a horse and rider But political upheava l in Italy prevented the artist from seeing II Cavallo past the planning stage
Centuries later Guelph fine art profes shysor Chandler Kirwin hi s student Peter Rush and international art historians have begun a project to cast the monushyment in two-thirds scale It will be built in New York State at a cost of more than $2 million US and donated to the city of Milan in celebration of da Vincis achievements and the SOOth anniversary of Columbuss arrival in America
Rush is a mature student with 30 years experience as a metallurgist and foundry worker His technological know-how and Kirwin s knowledge of the artistic soc ial political and cultural climate of the Renaissance has led to a revised vision of II Cavallo They are proposing to the international art comshymunity that the altist had intended to cast the 60000-kilogram monument in one piece - an easy task with current industrial practices but a daring proposal in the 15th century
The project has revealed da Vincis genius as an engineer and has caused art historians to rethink their assessment of his place in Renaissance art history
News in brief
During Christmas break U of G inshystalled an automated direct-d ial telephone system that means faster sershyvice for callers who know the extension number theyre trying to reach Within three weeks of use the system was hanshydling half of the 13000 daily incoming caUs without operator assistance
The six top students who participated in U ofGs first Krakow semes ter were recently awarded certificates of merit from the Polonia Institute of Krakow where they studied
Five years ago U of G sent 3788 tonshynes of waste to the city landfill in one year Last year the figure was 1900 tonshynes thanks to the campus recycling proshygram About 25 tonnes of glass and tin
Guelph Alumnus
Prof Chandler Kirwin lefl and Peter Rush pose with a model ofdo Vincis monument 11 Cavallo Photo by Roberta Franchuk
and more than half a tonne of fine paper portunities Teamed up with a group of are hauled away each week Guelph students they will study the
creative arts in Canada Canadian
Ample snowbanks this winter helped society and the political economy of the
protect the Arboretums gene banks Canada-US free trade agreement
which contain plantings of more than nine species of woody plants native to The planned widening of Gordon Street the Carolinian forest region of southshy - the route from campus to downtown western Ontario The gene banks will Guelph - has been delayed until 1993 eventually be used to help rebuild the while city council considers a proposal provinces heritage forest system by the U of G Cycling Club to include
bicyc le lanes as part of the project
This summer U of G begins an exshychange program that will bring 28 The first Ontario turfgrass symposium Pennsylvania students to Guelph for six was held on campus last January bringshyweeks in an effort to introduce them to ing together all sectors of the industry to Canadian educational and cultural op- discuss environmental responsibility
University ojGuelph Tour Program
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Predicting food production capabilities
A new research technique developed by an interdisciplinary U of G group is the first of its kind in the world to quantitashytively measure the capacity or shortfall of food production in a specific geoshygraphic area
Applying the technique to Ontario inshyvolves a complex computer database that uses production figures from the 1980s and takes into account 18 major crops 10 livestock categories seven soil classes seven climate zones six economic regions and a number of production constraints
The computer then considers different aJlocations and trends as well as condishytions that might influence future demands and productive potential
We found the current agricultural base has the capacity to produce at least 30 per cent more of each product in Onshytario says geography professor Barry Smit who has co-ordinated the program since it began in the early 1980s But the 30-per-cent surplus capacity would not be sufficient to meet even relatively
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conservative demand projections through to the year 2000 he says
The program has been used to look at food projections and to study the effects of urban growth acid rain soil erosion global warming climatic variations on food production and to identify regions of the globe where food shortages reflect limits in production capacity
Campus safety
Students walking alone on campus at night can call the Central Student Associations Campus Safe Walk proshygram and a team of volunteers will esshycort them to their destination If they live off campus but need to work late at the University library students can take the Magic Bus a service provided by the CSS Student Government after city buses close down for the night And anyone who is hurt or injured on camshypus can get help from the First Aid Response Program run by the CSA and Security Services
Each of these programs will get a financial boost thanks to a provincial government grant aimed at improving campus safety In addition U of G will
use part of the grant to install more emergency telephones on campus add lighting and rearrange foliage that imshypedes vision in some areas Also being considered is a campu s safe house that would bring together 24-hour services for students
Preserving beauty
U of G landscape architect Nate Perkins is using a computer a scanner and a digitizing board to show the effects of development on sensitive rural landscapes He is working with the Onshytario Heritage Foundation to identify and protect the esthetic landscape feashytures of the entire Niagara Escarpment
The first step is to create an inventory of existing visual landscapes and how they are currently protected in Ontario Based on this selected landscape scenes will be sampled to illustrate what might happen under different scenariosshywith no regulation under current local and provincial regulatory programs and under Perkins s proposals With comshyputer technology he will be able to creshyate a picture of what the scene would look like in each case
People make a difference on and off canlpus
U of G has recruited Powell moved to Goldschmidt HDMus 84 many talented faculshy Guelph in 1965 to estabshy launched the festival which has
ty and staff who have lish the UniversityS proshy flourished to become one of N0I1h also become leaders in gram in human kinetics Americas most respected small music the community Two and the School of Human festivals MacKinnon was president of names come to mind shy Biology He designed 10 its board of directors for 15 years and John Powell and Murdo courses and was a driving is still one of its most active volun-MacKinnon - because force behind construction teers both are being recogshy of the building that The Guelph Spring Festival was one nized this spring for their houses the school example of MacKinnon s eff0l1s to ci vic contributions During his tenure the create closer ties between the Univershy
Retired human biology John Powell University hosted eight s ity and the community He and conshyprofessor John Powell Canadian national track cert manager Edith Kidd introduced was inducted April II into the and field coaching courses sponsored the idea of regular noon-hour conshyCanadian Amateur Sports Hall of by the Royal Canadian certs still held on camshy
Fame because of his lifelong work in Legion with more than pus each Thursday
amateur Sp0l1 3000 participants He also MacKinnon was founded a cardiovascular founding dean of WelshyAn Olympic-calibre sprinter in hi s exercise group which he lington College of Artsnative Great Britain Powell turned to led daily for 26 years and Sciences in 1964
coaching after being wounded in the Retired English professhy And he became the first
Second World War A three-time sor Murdo MacKinnon dean of the College of
Olympic coach he helped 19 athletes will be the centre of attenshy Arts in 1970 He is an
earn Olympic medals And for the last tion May 2 at the Guelph honorary fellow of the 21 years he has been a regular lecshy Spring Festivals 25thshy University and the Macshyturer at the International Olympic anniversary dinner He and Kinnon building is Academy in Greece artistic director Nicholas Murdo MacKinn on named in his honor
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University Families Fight the Odds
hy Mary Dickiesol1
The Van Katwyks and the
University ofGuelph are saving to educate
the next generation
Guelph Alumnus
university education in Canada At current levels of government funding decreased
enrolments will limit university attendance to one in five within a few years
Paul and Christine Van Katwyk dont like the odds Theyre committed to univershy
s ity education - their own and Sasha s - and theyve been sav ing for hi s educashy -tion since he was s ix months old But what they hear about the continuing decline
in government funding makes them worry that the doors to Canada s universities
may not be open to Sasha when he s ready to enrol in 2007
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T heee good eoo to won) That s the message we ve been getting from universiti es and colleges in Canada for several years Many univershysity administrators including U of G president Brian Segal say they too are worried about the future of postseconshydary education
On the political agenda universities have taken a back seat to hospitals soshycial serv ices and schools despite the fact that they are part of the solution to problems facing the other sectors
In Ontario the universities share of the public purse has been declining since 1978 even though theyve added more than 160000 students to their enshyrolments Universities are actually spending 14 per cent less per full-time
Education makes a difference
Chris and I know from ou r own experience that a university educashytion can make a big di fference in one s life say Paul Van Ktttwyk
Paul grew up in a university family - hi fa ther is a professor at Wilfrid Laurier Univer ily in Waterloo He came to U of G after high school but quit before comshypleting a BA After two years o f making tire he was back on camshypus and is now finishing an MA in industrial organizational psycholshyogy U of G is one of the few uni versities in Canada that offer graduate work in this fie ld So Paul is heading off to the Uni versity of South Florida th is fall to do a PhD then will return to Canada to help expand his disc ipline to other Canadian universi tie
Chris is the first member of her family to atrend university She graduates this spring with a BASc in con umer studies With other members of her family out of work because their manufact uring jobs have disappeared Chris think a un iversi ty educashytion was the right choi e for her She would like to get involved in consumerenvironmental i sues and eventually open her own small business
student than they did 15 years ago
At the same time demand for university graduates is growing The Council of Ontario Universities (COU) esshytimates that half of the new jobs that will be created over the next decade will require L1ni versi ty-level training
At a time when unshyemployment plagues the province when health care and soc ial ass istance costs are rising when inshydustry needs to improve competitiveness when we need to boost investshyment in research and deve lopment one begins to wonder why postsecshyondary education is not a greater priority
Public opinion seems to support universities A 1990 Decima poll found that 80 per cent of Ontarians believe a lack of funding is affecting university quality and 83 per cent believe that
Universities are spending 14 per cent less for each student than they did 15 years ago
university fundin g is not keeping pace with funding for other services
But the university system needs more than quiet believers It needs strong vocal support Good intentions aren t enough to ensure survival in the politishycal arena or the global economy
Financial problems
Every year COU prepares a report on the financial position of Ontario univershysities The 1991 report reveals a steady decline in the priority that three successhysive provincial governments have gi ven to universi ties Collectively theyve igshynored the advice of their own advisory body on universities for 15 years allowshy
ing university funding to drop from 59 to 409 per cent of total government spending
This decline coincides with the federal governments introduction of Esshytablished Program Financing (EPF) which supplies a large part of the fundshying that is eventually allocated to postsecondary education
Prior to EPF federal and provincial governments shared the operating costs of postsecondary education on a 5050 basis Under EPF which was supposed to equalize payments to the provinces through a complicated system of cash transfers and tax points some provincial governments have been unable or unshywilling to maintain that 5050 balance In Ontario federal doll ars now account for a much higher percentage of the funding that is eventually transferred to universities
Many Ontario institutions believe the provincial government added insult to injury last October when it cut an addishytional $9 million from promised transfer payments for 1991 92 Before the c1awshyback COU had advised the government that universities would need a seven-pershycent increase in 199293 just to maintai n current level s of serv ice but the January budget gave them one per cent thi s year and promised no more than two per cen t in each of the ne xt two years
During this same J5-year period Ontario s universities have demonshystrated an increase in productivity unshymatched in almost any other sector by finding ways to educate 40 per cent more students with less money
The January budget brought bad news at a time when universities were also facing further cuts in provincial gove rnshyment grants for capital renovations inshycreased operating costs for utilities the federal government s 30-per-cent jump in UIC premiums a lO-per-cent in shyc rease in CPP payments and a loss of tuition revenue because of planned reductions in first-year enrolments
Ontarios Employer Health Tax and pay equity costs have also affected operating budgets at universities where more than 80 per cent of expenditures are dictated by salaries and benefits
Deficit financing is not the norm for U ofG but in 199192 costs exceeded Ministry of Colleges and Universities (MCU) operating revenue ($160 milshyli on) by almos t $46 million The defic it reflects both these unexpected increases and the planned expense of restructuring non-academic units
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OPERATING GRANTS TO UNIVERSITIES PER FTE STUDENT UNIVERSITIES SHARE OF PROVINCIAL BUDGETARY EXPENDITURES1977-78 to 1990-91
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Creative solutions
Like the business community Guelph has begun the ongoing process of selfshyappraisal The $69-million cost of the recent non-academic review left red ink in this fiscal year but the exercise has cut operating costs by an estimated $57 million a year Within the five-year payshyback period the University will have saved or in reality reallocated more than $28 million Segal says
The internal review removed 125 jobs simplified processes and improved efficiency A similar assessment of the non-teaching activities within the colshyleges is being completed and will be folshylowed by a look at academic functions
Guelph is one of the first universities in Ontario to undertake such a strucshytured review of its operations says Segal and it wont be the last Every university will be looking at ways to reduce the amount of work required to operate the institution he says
Were walking a tightrope trying to balance strategic goal s and fiscal management in a way that causes the least harm to students Nevertheless universities are prepared to be key players in the process of looking for creative ways of doing more with less
Segal predicts an increase in intershyuniversity and joint university-college programs that share resources more efshyfective use of automation more homeshystudy programs and co-operative purchasing arrangements
Unfortunately well al so see further staff cuts a loss of services some course cancellations and limits to stushydent enrolment
Last fall U of G decreased first-year enrolment by 686 to help ease overshycrowding on campus although total en-
Guelph Alumnus
Charls reprinredjrom COU 1991 Report Oil rhe Financial Position laquo( Ontario Universities
rolment was a high of 13390 students The University plans to decrease enrolshyment to fewer than 12000 by 1994
There will al so be reductions in faculshyty positions estimates are that at least a third of the 60 current vacancies will not be filled in the next fi scal year
In addition to cos t-cutting measures universities will be looking at ways to generate new revenue More than 80 per cent of university revenue is controlled by government - transfer payments and tuition fees - but short-term operat shying fund s can benefit from increased revenues from food retail parking operations and non-tuition fee hikes
Segal says long-term endowment funds like Guelph s Heritage Fund will become a system-wide priority as will revenue sources from planned giving and alumni contributions real estate
development - like Guelphs Research Park - and capital accumulation
COU which Segal chairs will conshytinue to pressure government to increase tuition fees Ontario fees have not kept up with inflation In rel ative terms they are lower now than theyve been for 40 years representing less than 19 per cent of university operating revenue In comshyparison tuition revenues at public universities in the United States are 70 to 80 per cent higher and students at private US universities pay si x times as much as Ontario s undergraduates
COU is on record as favoring an inshycome-contingent repayment plan that would allow students to repay loans based on the level of their future inshycome But a COU proposal - even if it is accepted by MCU - is at least a year away from implementation
-Last f all the universities ofGuelph and Waterloo launched North America sfirst longshydistan ce interactive classroom project that links students at both institutions via two-way audio video and data lines Unlike other video systems that offer only televisiolltransmission the new Electrohome classroom system leIs studel1ls both see and hear each other as well as the professor It s j us t like being there - and it s aile example ofhow universities are sharing resources to improve academic programs and CUI costs Photo by Roberta Franc huk
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University benefits
Time and time again our alumni tell us that the total university experience is more valuable than the degree they received
Breadth of knowledge new insights personal satisfaction - these are things that cant be measured
The 966000 university graduates in Ontario do however share economic benefits that can be measured -like an unemployment rate that is one-third what it is for the general workforce and salaries that are on average 63 per cent higher than industrial workers
In addition university graduates share with the rest of the population even greater cultural social and economic benefits
T hrough the percolator effect Ontario universi ties generate $62 billion (1989 estimate) worth of economic activity each year and more than 138000 jobs
All Canadians share in the benefits of an academic system that acc umulates knowledge trains leaders and conducts much of the research that gives us a progress ive society
University laboratories have yielded medical breakthroughs in diabetes canshycer cystic fibrosis Alzheimer s disease and AIDS They have tackled environshymental research on the causes of water pollution and soil erosion University soshycial scientists study issues as vari ed as demographic trends cross-border shopshyping adoption and economic developshyment in native communities
On a more personal level each univershysity in Canada is a contributing member of its local community Says Guelph
Mayor John Counse ll The inshytangible benefits of having a university within our municipality inshyclude the injection into the comshymunity of intellecshytual standards talents and sershyvices
Almost every orshyganization in the city counts U of G faculty staff and students among its members and volunteers In fac t more than 30 U oG s campus wecomes almosl 150000 visitors every year
university employees were recently given special awards and commendations from both the provincial Ministry of Culture and Communications and Ministry of Citizenship
Guelph is also enriched financially by the Univers itys presence - 4 100 jobs $195 million in annual economic acshytivity The University is an attraction for many smaller companies and organizashytions and branches of provincial governshyment ministries that deal frequently with the campus In a way it has he lped to inshysulate the city of Guelph aga inst the reshycession says Counsell Last year Guelph enjoyed a net increase of three jobs in comparison with other cities where thousands of industrial jobs were lost
Equally important are the educational opportunities offered by the University
for local re sidents The number of people enrol led in distance education inshydependent study and non-degree courses at the University is almost twice the dayshytime student body Last year 500 senior citizens attended courses held on camshypus and 10000 schoolchildren parshyticipated in environmental education programs at the Arboretum People also brought 12000 animals and 500 wild birds to OVC clinics for treatment
Visitors to campus outnumber stushydents 10 to one They come for convocashytion College Royal Homecoming and Alumni Weekend to tour the Arshyboretum and the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre to attend workshops conferenshyces and lectures and to enjoy athletic events music and drama productions They also come for Sunday afternoon walks and sometimes to take wedding photos on Johnston Green
Education is everyones concern
With their Universi ty of Guelph degrees in hand Paul and
Christine Van Katwyk have joined the ranks of Ontario and Canadian univershysity graduates who recognize that the
funding of universities is not just a famishyly matter
Education is everyone s concern and should be a matter of government priority rather than rhetoric The probshylem is how to change that
Two years ago Ontario MPP Sean Conway told a group of university board members that they needed troops
When you ask us to do something and we don t do it nothing happens he said When the hospitals ask us to do something and we dont do it all hell breaks loose
Today universities are recruiting those troops and are turning to their alumni to help build a strong constituenshy
cy of support Who better to promote the value of higher education
Tell your family your friend s and your co-workers how important you think universities are Write to your local paper to let others know that a strong economy and a high standard of living depend on an educated workshyforce Call your MP and MPP and tell them that denying adequate funding to higher education is short-sighted in the extreme and that voters are expecting government action based on long-term priorities
Sasha Van Katwyk s generation is depending on it
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Marshalling the forces to fight for universities
There is a tribute $5000 to help revolution launch FOU and
taking place in Seymour hopes inshyeducation And dividual alumni will when the dust setshy keep the momentum tles we will see building The orshyprofound changes ganization needs in the way we imshy more than 100 inshypart knowledge dividual volunteers in the way we think each of Ontarios 130 about education electoral districts and the way we These friends will pay for it Some lobby MPPs on a of us will sit back regular basis in supshyand watch port of universities Others like Its a grassroots Harry Seymour Harry Seymour
OAC 61 will help influence the changes taking place
Seymour spent 22 years of his career on Torontos Bay Street then opted for a change that led to the forshymation of Pathfinder Learning Sysshytems As president he champions the Pathfinder program of computershymanaged learning as a way for classshyroom teachers to maximize their time and their students potential
Seymour maintains his interest in the investment business with several other companies including a 93-acre shoreline development project in Midshyland Ont But most of his time is devoted to education and university education is a significant part of that effort
If we can marshal the forces of university alumni we can have a profound effect on how government prioritizes education he says Those of us who have graduated from a university are in the best position to evaluate the importance of a university education We can sit back and look at the benefits we ve received and the kind of impact it has had on our lives
Seymour represents U of G alumni on the Friends of Ontario Universities (FOU) a provincial lobby group whose strategy is to organize Ontarios university alumni into a political constituency FOU members sayan unorganized constituency is part of the reason government has folshylowed a pattern of financial neglect
The University of Guelph Alumni Association was one of the first to con-
movement that has the potential to build long-term support
among decision makers and future generations of university graduates he says
If youd like to get involved call Trish Walker U of G s director of alumni affairs at 519-824-4120 Ex t 2122
Aubrey Hagar OAC 45
describes himself as a concerned citizen of Guelph who is committed to education Thats an undershystatement for a man who spent most of his career in educashytion including 16 years as senior academic officer at Conestoga College
He also cares deeply about the University of Guelph He worked hard in the early 1960s to help bring it to life serves on a presidential committee to promote a healthy town-and-gown relationship and is now working to increase local pride in the campus
It distresses me that we are not seeing our universities as intellectual leaders in the community in the province and throughout the country says Hagar who believes there is a need to increase public awareness about the role universities play in
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Independent of universities the alshyliance is building province-wide supshyport among communities organishyzations businesses and individuals like Hagar who are willing to expand that support on a local level
In each univershysity town there will be an alliance comshymittee that works to build community pride in the institushytion and to raise the profile of its scholars The Guelph group for example may inshyitiate an elementary school program that bui Ids rapport with the University or it might encourage med ia coverage of Guelphs environshymental work
Too often we downplay the conshytributions of our universities says Hagar but if we can instil these atshytitudes in people then financial supshyport through the political process will be there
The aJiiance is unique in Canada It shybegan in 1990 with seed money from the Council of Ontario Universities and gains financial independence this summer And its looking for more volunteers To learn more about the group call director Janet Napper at 416-979-0984
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This is the second part of a report on the use of biotechno]ogy in University of Guelph research
by Mary Dickieson
String art Biotechnology research reminds me of string art the 1960s craft
that had us weaving colored strings back and forth around a pattern made by driving nails halfway into a board
Under skilful hands it became a piece of sculpture an optical illusion that prevented your eye from following any single thread across the board in a straight line
Biotechnology tools are like that Every time you think you understand what one biotechnique can do in one particular dis shycipline you find it reappearing somewhere else as someone in a laboratory across camshypus or on the other side of the world thinks of yet another way to use it
In Part 1 of our biotechnology report we sk immed the surface of how these tools are being used at U of G to benefit plant reshysearch In this story well see many of the same techniques applied in other organisms primaril y animals The secret of our success in animal biotechnology lies in the fact that Guelph has the expertise and the facilities to take any project from lab to barn and back again
Throughout this report youll read about animal scientists and clinical veterinarians teamed up with molecular biologists imshymunologists chemists and microbiologists and often food scientists toxicologists and environmental biologists Their efforts benefit not only livestock production but also human medicine pharmacology food processing waste disposal and the environshyment
Embryo transfer
A major thrust of the animal biotechnolshyogy research at Guelph is in the area of
embryo transfer In fact there are three reshysearch positions funded by government and industry that deal directly with embryo manipul ation as a way to improve the comshypetitive position of Canadas beef and dairy industries
Biomedical scientist Keith Betteridge OVC MSc 60 heads an embryo research lab molecular biologist Alan Wildeman CBS PhD 83 holds a research chair devoted to the mammalian embryo and animal scientist Charles Smith concentrates on industrial research in animal-breeding strategies
Their work is supported by both federal and provincial granting agencies animal breeders and Semex Canada the major marketing arm of Canadas attificial breedshying industry Semex records annual export sales of more than $25 million and is leadshying the industry to the nex t plateau shymarketing sexed frozen or cloned embryos
One route to increasi ng the efficiency of animal production is by improving animal reproduction says Betteridge And that in shyvolves many new biotechniques associated with embryo transfer Conventional embryo transfer means collecting multiple embryos from selected cows and transferring them to properly synchronized recipients It is now almost equally conventional however to freeze or bisect the embryo as part of the procedure
Initially the selected cow was treated with hormones to produce more eggs which were fertilized through artificial inseminashytion (AI) with the semen of a top-rated bull A large number of embryos could then be recovered surgically from the cow for imshyplantation in surrogate cows of lesser genetic worth
These techniques are widely used for the production of purebred bulls More than half the dairy bulls currently at stud in Canadas major AI centres have been produced this way There is also keen interest in using the technology to produce genetically superior breeds and provide competitively priced volumes of commercial cattle embryos
From lOp Bisecting a bovine embryo to produce identical twin calves a chimeric chick created by mixing cells from two embryos microinjecting the egg ofa fruit fly with DNA from bacterial genes that can confer insecticide resistance and a Hereford heifer protected from shipping fever by a vaccine developed a f U of G
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and more Test-tube calves and lambs
In 1988 Semex research co-ordinator Robert Stubbings OVC 76 MSc 84 PhD 89 produced Guelph s first test-tube calf during his graduate studies with Prof PK Basrur in the Departshyment of Biomedical Sciences It was not the first test-tube calf in Canada but it was the first developed from an egg that was matured as well as fertilized in a test tube
The resulting zygotes (fertili zed eggs) were placed in the oviduct of a rabbit for their early development then moved after seven days to the uterus of a recipient cow
Just a few months later other memshybers of the Guelph team took the process one step further eliminating the need to use a temporary host oviduct Postdoctoral fellow Kang Pu Xu and PhD student John Pollard were able to extend development in vitro to the point where the embryo was mature enough to survive when transplanted directly into a recipient cow s uterus
The early embryos were cultured in a medium containing luminal cells exshytracted from the oviducts of slaughtered cows Two baby bulls were born the first in Canada using this method and only the second in North America
Last year gradu ate student Dawn Kelk CBS 89 and Prof Allan King 73 and MSc 75 of the Department of Biomedical Sciences produced North America s first in vitro fertilization (lVF) lambs using these techniques
These achievements were important for several reasons The Animal Biotechshynology Embryo Laboratory can now
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One of the things Ive learned while writing this story is that biotechnolshyogy is a word seldom used by scienshytisrs For inost of us it conjures up images of people in lab coats bent over microscopes using precision inshystruments to manipulate the cells of living organisms But for scien~ists that s too vague The word may have
meaning but it d6eslJt really
produce its own IVF embryos from oocytes recovered from slaughtershyhouse cows bypassing the more expensive route of sushyperovulation and surgical withdrawal
In addition scientists have gained knowledge about early embryo development that is important for improveshyments in embryo viability and vital for developments in cloning techniques and controlled transgenesis in livestock
In a more immediate and practical context the work has led to the first clinical
Prof Keith Belleridge left and Prof Stanley Leibo watch as research technician Cindy Christian prepares an embryo f or cryopreservation Photo by Mary Dic kieson
use of IVF in cattle in colshylaboration with Brian Hill OVC 80 of Western Ontario Breeders
Bisected embryos
Meanwhile yet another part of the team based in the Department of Populashytion Medicine was perfecting techniques to microsurgicall y bisect fertilized embryos to produce genetically identi shycal animals
Professors Brian Buckrell OVC 68 MSc 84 and Cathy Gartley OVC 82 DVSc 89 and postdoctoral fel shylow Rick Rorie bisected six-day-old sheep embryos - visible only through magnification - and surgically imshyplanted them into recipient ewes Five months later nine lambs were the first animals born at Guelph from bisected embryos
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describe anything They talk instead about cell fusion enzyme systems i ermentation or genetic engineering
The fact that biotechnology didnt appear as a popular buzzword until the 1980s suggests that we are using ilto define something neW yet none of these disciplines is really new Human beings have been using other organisms to create new procucts for centuries Thats why We have yeast yogurt and beer as well as anti-
fellow Naida Loskutoff have now exshytended this work in cattle by producing identical twins from IVF embryos divided into quarters at earlier stages of development
These projects maximize embryo use and highlight the potential for creating significant numbers of genetically identishycal animals which can be vital for conshysistent research results Tests conducted on genetically identical animals can reduce the variables caused by genetic differences and ultimately the number of animals needed for experiments
Frozen sexed embryos
The development of in vitro technishyques has also made possible further studies in cryopreservation (freezing) and embryo sexing
It s been possible to freeze and thaw
biotics growth hormones and vacshycine ~ Even genetic engineering is not new although many of us think it is
Through selective breeding practices fanners have been engineering the genetic makeup of domestic animals -for centuries What is new is the speed and accuracy with which we can implement genetic changes the ability to cross the species barrier and a much greater understanding of life processes
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At the eight-cell stage ofdevelopment in a bovine embryo each cell is removed and placed in the shell ofa discarded embryo Afler three days the blastocysts are transferred into recipient cows and the pregnancies allowed to col1linue Eight identical calves will be born and will proshyvide a valuable tool for research
cattle embryos since 1973 and most of the 60000 or so embryo-transfer calves born annually in North America are now obtained from embryos that have been stored in liquid nitrogen But there are still many problems to overcome in freezing unfertilized eggs embryos at varying stages of development and embryos produced in vitro or subjected to micromanipulation
Biomedical science professor Stanley Leibo is a specialist in cryobiology Before coming to Guelph he was part of an industry team that produced the worlds first live young (mice) from frozen embryos and later invented the patented one-step method of freezing cattle embryos Other biomedical scienshytists - King and Don Rieger - and molecular biologists Wildeman and Stan Blecher are investigating various ways of sexing embryos
Some of these involve the use of micromanipulation to remove a small number of cells from an early-stage embryo The sex can be identified by locating X and Y chromosomes detectshying male-specific DNA or perhaps by studying the proteins produced by the DNA segments In embryonic life the activity of X-linked enzymes in female embryos is twice that in males
Detecting differences in the energy metabolism of male and female embryos may also become a method of sexing In studies on early embryos generated in vitro Guelph scientists disshycovered that male and female embryos develop at different rates In addition to its value in sexing embryos this knowledge poses another question If the team can one day learn to control the rate of embryo development will it be possible to control the sex of an embryo independent of its genetic comshyplement
Photo courtesy of the Animal Biotechnology Embryo Lab
Transgenic animals
Since the mid 1980s Wildeman and fellow molecular biologist John Phillips have been producing transgenic mice for studies in human disease
This involves recovering one-cell embryos microsurgicalty from an imshypregnated mouse With a finely drawn glass needle a piece of DNA is inserted into the nucleus of the embryo which is then placed in a surrogate female to complete the pregnancy The offspring carries the foreign gene
One line of research using transgenic mice involves the study of a virus known to affect the transformation of normal cells into tumorous cancer cells Wildeman performs this work using transgenic mice in studies of cancer and metastasis
Transgenic mice are also used in Phillipss ongoing study of the causes of insulin-dependent juvenile diabetes He borrowed a gene from the fruit fly and spliced it into the chromosomes of the mouse so that it is expressed in the beta cells of the pancreas
Observations from the research conshyfirm the long-standing hypothesis that one cause of juvenile diabetes arises from the action of oxygen radicals in the pancreas
The fruit fly itself is used in studies aimed at producing insecticide-resistant insects Working with a team of scienshytists in Texas Phillips is perfecting techshyniques to transfer organophosphate insecticide-resistant genes to the fruit fly and ultimately to agriculturally beneficial insects
Studies have shown that the use of inshysecticides could be reduced if beneficial insects were not also killed by the spray In addition this research may provide the solution needed by North American
honey producers who are suffering great losses in their beehives due to parasitic mites Currently there is no effective control of the mites
From mice to pigs and chickens
Transgenic mice are also playing a role in a project that may eventually imshyprove forage use in domestic animals
Ruminant animals like cows and sheep have friendly bacteria in their inshytestinal tract that enable them to digest the cellulose fibre in forage crops If other animals such as pigs or chickens had the same ability they could be reared on lower-quality cheaper feed than the cereal grains now used
A research team that includes Phillips microbiologists Cecil Forsberg and Peter Krell and environmental biologist David Collins-Thompson has isolated the effective gene from a microshyorganism present in ruminant animals and is transferring it into the mouse which is also a monogastric animal Studies with transgenic mice will enable the team to fine-tune its ability to manipulate expression of the gene
This is just the beginning of a longshyterm project says Phillips but it may one day connect with the work of Profs Rob Etches and Jim Squires in the Department of Animal and Poultry Science who are following separate paths to reach the same goal- transshygenic chickens
Blotchy chicks
Etchess lab opened the door for transshygenic poultry in 1988 when postdoctoral fellow Jim Petitte OAC PhD 86 sucshycessfully moved cells from one chick embryo to another creating chimeric chicks Until this breakthrough
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researchers had been unable to manipulate the avian embryo in the early stages of development
Petitte extracted embryonic cells from the yo lk of a newly laid egg from a barred Plymouth Rock hen and microinjected them into a rec ipient embryo in a dwarf white l eghorn egg through a tiny 05-censhytimetre window cut in the shell When incubated the egg went on to produce a chimeric chick Embryonic cells from the black Plymouth Rock donor were expressed as blotches of black in the chicks down
Since then Etchess research team has been able to do the procedure more successfully get better gene exshypression in the donor cells and keep the embryonic cells in culture for 24 to 48 hours befo re transplanting them into the recipient egg
The chimeric chick itself is not transgenic genetic information from the donor embryo is expressed in a limited number of cells in the chick A second-generation chimera howshyever would be transgenic if the donor cells contained a foreign gene
Thats the focu s of a collaborat ive
Animal scienlisl Jim Squirev has developed a chemic(li recipe Ih(l causes DNA-I(lced liposomes 10 fuse wilil sperm cells When pershyjeered the technique will allow him to use the natural veeror ofsperm cells 10 lransmit foreign
project between the labs of Etches and colleague Prof Ann Gibbins OAC MSc 71 PhD 80 who is intershyested in modifying the donor cells through genetic manipulation When her lab team is able to target a specific gene and change it - and only it - they will insert that gene into the donor cells to produce a chimeric chick and in the second generation a transgenic chick
Transgenic sperm
Squires is taking a more obvious but no less perilous route to the transgenic chicken by using sperm cells to carry the foreign DNA Just as the hen s embryo is difficul t to manipulate the rooster s sperm has barriers of its own Prevail ing thought is that any invas ion of the sperm cell will kill its potency
Although Itali an and Israeli reshysearchers claim to have inserted DNA into the sperm cells of mice through abshysorption no one else has been able to get this to work so the prevailing thought prevail s
Squires s approach is to power DNA into the cells He s de veloped a chemishycal recipe that causes DNA-laced liposomes (fat globules) to fuse with sperm cells
Squires says his team has overcome
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DNA Photo by Ma ry Dickieson
the three main obstacles encapsulating DNA in the liposomes fu sing the liposomes to sperm cells which affects the transfer of 0 TA and retaining the fertility of the sperm
What they have yet to demonstrate is that the process produces a transgenic animal Trials are under way using a radioactive marker ge ne that can be easi shyly detected in a developing transgenic chicken Squires will be eager for peer rev iew to document the results this fall
If successful the sperm cell technique can be adapted for use with all species of commercial animals Sperm cells are the perfect vector because their ultimate function is to insert DNA into an egg says Squires We ll just be supplying the DNA The method is easy economical and safe to periorm and does not inshyvolve expensive equipment
Disease diagnosis
The international race to identify a mutation assoc iated with a costly swine disease was won by Guelph pathologist Peter OBrien OVC 88 and Univershysity of Toronto professor David Maclennan
The mutation associated with maligshy
nant hyperthermia was identifi ed in Maclennan s laboratory by sequenc ing the gene in normal and abnormal swine A I OO-per-cent correlation was fo und between DNA-based tests in Maclennan s laboratory and phys iologishycalbiochemical tests used in 0 Brien s research for diagnosing the condition
From these findings the scienti sts developed a test using modem molecular biology techniques to identify the mutation in the blood cells of inshydividual swine
Malignant hyperthermia is seldom fatal in pigs but it results in poorshyquality pork Pork producers suffer major economic losses from what is known as PSE - pale soft exudative (watery) meat - in affected animals
Other research at U of G cou ld help eliminate a potentially lethal blood coagulation disorder in dairy cows Facshytor XI a genetic disorder associated with a lack of c lotting protein in the bl ood causes hemorrhag ing in Holstein cows
Researchers believe the problem can be eliminated by ensuring that breeding stocks are free of the disease Testing for all of Canada is conducted by U of G biomed ica l sc ienti st Patricia Gentry and research technician Michelle Ross
Vaccine development
Vaccination is the cheapest most efshyfecti ve way of dealing with infec tions and the most poweriul way of preventshying di sease Advanced immunization programs using new biotechniques are under way in many Guelph labs last fa ll the Natural Sc iences and Engineershying Research Council announced strategic grants for advanced techshynologies that included four vacci ne development projects at U of G
Profs Brian Derbyshire and Eva Nagy of the Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Immunology (VMI) recei ved a three-year grant of $295000 to perfect gene-cloning techniques for the de velopment of a vaccine for porshycine gas troenteritis
In the same department Profs Janet Maclnnes Soren Rosendal and Bonnie -Mallard OAC 79 MSc 82 PhD 88 were awarded $250000 over three years to work on a recombinant vaccine effecshytive against the bacterial organism that causes severe pneumonia in pigs
Also in VMI Prof Patricia SheweD 75 MSc 79 PhD 82 received a three-year grant of $408 000 with Prof
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Reggie Lo Microbiology to continue work on an improved vaccine for shipshyping fever Lo and Prof Alan Mellors Chemistry and Biochemistry received a $54000 grant to develop clinical and com mercial applications of a technique used in bone marrow transplantation and vaccine development
These projects follow in the footsteps of earlier developments like the bov ine shipping fever vaccine created by Shewen and VMI chair Bruce Wilkie OVC 65 It was like finding a way to control the common cold in humans
Although the bacterium Pasteurella haemolytica occurs normally in the noses of cattle its numbers increase during periods of high stress and present an insurmountable problem for the animals immune system
Wilkie and Shewen di scovered that during its most active stage of growth the bacterium produces a toxin that imshypairs the ability of clearing cells to eliminate the bacterium They grew the bacterium in a culture monitored toxin production and developed processes for vaccine production
The technology was licensed to Langford Inc of Guelph which man ufac tures and markets Presponse shipping fever vaccine in both Canada and the United States
Lab work by Lo and former student Craig Strathdee CBS 85 PhD 89 that contributed to the shipping fever vaccine project also led to a patent apshyplication - for the plasmid coding for Pasteurella haemolytic leucotoxin which has been implicated as a major virulence factor in the impairment of primary lung defence in cattle
Animal health
Wilkie and Mallard are also working with Prof Brian Kennedy in Guelph s Centre for the Genetic Improvement of Livestock to develop a selective breedshying program that uses knowledge acshyquired through genetic studies and stretches the definition of biotechnology
To stay hea lthy an individual animal must have the genetic ability to produce resi stance to infection says Wilkie That ability is not dependent on a sing le gene but on the expression of many difshyferent genes Neve rtheless these genetic traits are heritable and amenable to selection
This team has identified traits in pigs that are important in maintaining health has characterized individual animals
Biotechnology ofa different sort in volves the use of traditional selected breeding and a computer database to produce diseaseshyresistant pigs
through the expression of these genetic traits and has associated these traits with high productivity If these high producers are mated to produce a disshyease-resistant strain of pigs is that biotechnology
If foreign DNA had been introduced into the embryo of a pig to give it the characteristic of disease resistance that would be an obvious example of bioshytechnology But how do we catalogue the technology if it uses tradi tional selecshytive breeding and a computer to produce a piglet with the same resistance to disshyease
More biotechniques in action
Guelph food scientist Cyriel Duitschaever OAC MSc 66 PhD 75 has developed new fermented milk products that will benefit people suffershying from gastrointestinal illnesses
He and research associate Carole Buteau OAC MSc 78 PhD 83 isoshylated two naturally occurring intestinal bac teri a and propagated a pure culture in the laboratory to develop both liquid and yogurt-like milk products that can be used to stimulate digestion in the inshytestinal tracts of people who are on anshytibiotics who are lactose-intolerant or who suffer gas trointestinal disorders
Clinica l trials at the Children s Hospishytal of Buffalo have been promis ing giv ing rise to another potential use in the treatment of acute diarrhea l di seases affec ting people in the Third World
Microbiology professor Joseph Lam heads a research team that has develshyoped a diagnostic kit to quickly identify a bacteria group known to cause fat al inshy
fections in some hospital patients Pseushydomonas aeruginosa is the principal cause of death in cystic fibrosis sufshyferers and is a serious threat to burn vi cshytims cancer patients and those undergo ing transplants
Because the bacterium does not respond to conventional antibiotic treatshyments quick de tection is central to preventing spread of the infection Lam s kit can cut the test period from 12 hours to five minutes
His current research illustrates the cross-over effect of biotechnology He identified an antigen that is common to about 75 per cent of P aeruginosa strains and a monoclonal antibody against the antigen This has allowed him to iso late spec ia l bacteria that will produce the antigen in large quantities for further s tud y His work should evenshytually lead to a human monoclonal anshytibody that cou ld be used to protect cystic fibrosis patients
In 1989 when the federal governshyment decided it was time to put some money behind its verbal thrust in science and technology it allocated $240 million to estab li sh 14 centres of excellence that would integrate the reshysearch efforts of Canadian uni versi ties industry and government
Several U of G researchers received funding including microbiologists Chris Whitfield Anthony Clarke Joseph Lam Reggie Lo Roselynn Stevenson and Terry Beveridge who beshycame part of the network looking into bacterial di sease Their expertise will aid the search for the causative agents of bacterial diseases such as whooping cough gonorrhea toxic shock synshydrome lung infections and me ningitis
In 1988 biochemist Janet Wood and crop scientist Peter Paul s achieved a breakthrough in understanding how subshystances like sugars and amino ac ids are transported from outside to inside a living cell wall They found that minute protein molecules in the wall surroundshying a cell act like miniature pumps capshyturing the substance and powering it through the cell wall -They are now trying to determine how the protein molec ules choose subshystances for uptake or release S uch celshylular behavior plays a critical role in determining a plants reaction to soi l sa linity or explaining why cells fai l to transport glucose from the blood in diabetics
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Behind every how theres a why While we stand in awe of what sc ienshytists are accomplishing in the biological sciences we shouldnt lose sight of the reasons why they are manipulating cell structure and decoding genetic blueprints
To some extent scientific exploration is driven by human nature - our desire to understand and control the natural world Advances in biotechniques and genetic engineering promise to give us more of both
Reports on the Human Genome Project say that within 15 years well know the code of almost every gene in the human body This work and current explorations in animal genetics are harshymonized by the fact that many of the genes that control development are similar among species
The chicken for example is a familiar model for studies in developshymental biology Supported by 60 to 70 years of data todays embryologists like Prof Rob Etches are learning how to modify the genes that control developshyment of a chick embryo while giving us a better understanding of how genes efshyfect development in all vertebrates
Nothing could be more fund amental than understanding that process says Prof Keith Betteridge who heads the Guelph team working with bovine embryos In all areas of reproductive and genetic research the big payoff is that we will understand more about how two gametes can unite to fonn a single cell and develop into Northern Dancer or Albert Einstein he says
Everyone has a role to play in decidshying how to use this knowledge says Betteridge but the researcher has the triple responsibility of thinking through the implications of new technologies exshyplaining those implications to a skeptishycal and concerned public and safeshyguarding the welfare of animals used
Whether manipulating an entire animal or one of its reproductive cells the scientist is guided by the same set of moral standards If the technology inshyduces pain or suffering causes changes in behavior or affects the animals abilshyity to eat and survive then it shouldnt be done says Prof Bruce Wilkie chair of the Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Immunology
He and other Guelph scientists inshyvolved in animal research are subject to
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peer rev iew through the U of G s animal care committee which is also charged with ensuring that research and teaching programs are in compliance with the Animals for Research Act of Ontario
Reporting to the University s Reshysearch Board the committee is comshyposed offaculty student community and non-user representatives It estabshyli shes animal-care policies on campus and evaluates all protocols submitted by researchers and teachers After granting initial approval the committee reviews each project annually and inspects reshysearch facilities each semester A provinshycially appointed inspector also visits campus frequently and the Canadian Council on Animal Care makes an inshyspection every three years to assess the level of animal care
In addition to safeguarding animal care scienti sts al so need to provide evidence that the products of biotechnolshyogy are safe for human consumption or medical use The public needs to know that the pharmaceutical protein cloned and produced in a chicken s egg is no different than the same protein cultured from human cells and produced in a large bioreactor
The big payoff is that we will understand more about how two gametes can unite to form a single cell and develop into Northern Dancer or Albert Einstein
One of the most talked-about benefits of transgenic technologies is the potenshytial for producing enzymes prote ins and antibodies for pharmaceutical and inshydustrial uses Molecular farming would take advantage of the expression system in higher animals to produce a therashypeutic protein that is difficult or expenshysive to make in a lab
The potential seems enormous but the prac tice will be quite simple A typishycal Ontario dairy herd could probably produce enough human insulin or bloodshyclotting factor to satisfy the world
demand It s easy to see why these techshyniques are already presenting problems for patent offices
The past decade of work in transshygenesis has been a learning process for all of us Early research efforts that produced pigs in the United States with arthritic deformities and sheep in Australia with ulcers have taught us th at even science must learn to walk befo re it can run That means perfecting genetic transfer in animals where the techniques are easily controlled - such as mice and fruit flies - before applyshying them to domestic animals
One of the advantages of gene transshyfer technology is the control it offers geneticists who are able to manipulate expression of a single gene during development One of the limitations may be the re lative ly minor change that gene can make in one generation when compared with the changes induced through the countless generations of selection since domestication
These limitations may alleviate some of our fears about the use of gene transshyfer but it also makes us question its value at least in terms of breed improveshyment in domestic livestock Prof Charshyles Smith holds a research chair at Guelph in animal-breeding strategies and is often called on to assess the value of the new biotec hnologies in the genetic improvement of farm livestock
Economic traits are already being imshyproved through traditional selective breeding methods he says It would take quite large beneficial transgenic efshyfects (at least 10 per cent of the mean) on economic merit to make their incorshyporation worthwhile
Despite our e thical concerns the legal entanglements created by the use of biotechniques and the problem of turnshying new technologies into cost-effective procedures most scientists agree that these technolog ies are too powerfu I not to use They have the pote ntial to help allev iate some of the most serious problems facing the world - food production overpopulation disease and shyenvironmental degradation
Statisticians teU us that 50 years from now we will be trying to feed twice the current world s population on a smaller land base in a more fragile environshyment This is the why behind current research in genetic engineering
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Alumni and others who give to the University of Guelph through the Annual Fund are helping to maintain quality at a time when governments are funding for mediocrity Because of the dedication and commitment of our donors and volunshyteers the 1991 Annual Fund surpassed last year s total by $100000 We did not achieve our goal - perhaps $1 6 million was overly ambitious in light of current economic conditions - but we were able to maintain last years 25-per-cent inshycrease in scholarship support
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For the first time since 1984 the Alma Mater Fund Advisory Council was able to go beyond its commitments to fund eight additional projects - a total of $86000
Looking ahead our flagship project for 1992 will be War Memorial Hall renovations During Alumni Weekend in June you ll have a chance to see the work that has been done upstairs and the work still needed in the downstairs hall It s a project well worth the interest and support of alumni
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The group of eight
Eight campus projects were selected to share $86000 in highest-priority funds from the 1990 Alma Mater Fund Among them are the OvC Wild Bird Clinics education program a CSS academic medal in memory of the late dean John vanderkamp a soc ial sc ience citation index for the library framshying for the fine art print study collection a computer design laboratory for the School of Engineering seed money for a history graduate scholarship a conshytinuing education survey for the Mac-FACS Alumni Association and a HAFA-sponsored executive-inshyresidence
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Of cattle cash and Colvil e Alumni gifts to the University of Guelph come in some pretty interesting packages Over the years alumni have given livestock concrete paintings shythere are two by Canadian painter Alex Colville - furniture land books inshysurance policies and a host of artifacts and antiques And money - a lot of money Almost every building on camshypus has some bricks and mortar paid for by alumni And hundreds of students are helped along the way each year by alumshyni-sponsored scholarships
The Annual Giving Report on the preceding pages shows once again how important alumni gifts are to the Univershysity and provides us with an opportunity to say thank you to those alumni who continue to give on a yearly basis Anshynual giving is however only one of three avenues through which alumni proshyvide financial support to the University The others are major gifts and promoshytional programs
Annual giving
The Alma Mater Fund established in 1969 is the route chosen by most alumshyni faculty and staff who make annual gifts to the University
AMF solicitation and management are handled by a volunteer advisory council On the preceding page chair Tom Sawyer OAC 59A and 64 talks about the funds success over the last two years with AMF scholarships inshycreasing by 25 per cent This year the AMF begins a three-year commitment to funding renovations to War Memorial Hall
In addition to its flagship project AMF provides regular support to athshyletics through Gryphon Club contribushytions to college advancement funds and scholarships and to individual class projects
The AMF supports the camaraderie of university days as alumni work together to plan and complete a project whether its funding a scholarship a painting a tree weight-lifting equipshyment or furniture for Alumni House AMF contributions also ensure that fushyture Guelph students will remember those who have gone before
In addition to AMF donations the anshynual giving program includes gifts to
the OVC Pet Trust Fund the OAC Alumni Foundation the Arboretum the paren ts program and the Li brary Other gifts made directly to the University supshyport memorial funds scholarships musishycal activities and research and academic programs
Major gifts
Major gifts to the University are adshyministered by the Deve lopment Office under the direction of Marilyn Robinson Mac 55 These include beshyquests or life insurance policies shortshyterm pledges (often made during a capital campaign) large donations that might establish an endowment fund or contributions to special University projects like the Heritage Fund or the proposed FACS Building addition
Gifts- in-kind - such as library materials art objects or estate properties - also fall within thi s category Last year alumni gave more than $12 milshylion in such tax-deductible gifts
Promotions
Every Guelph graduate is a member of the University of Guelph Alumni Asshysociation and receives the Guelph Alumshy
nus magazine and many other privishyleges There are no UGAA membership fees but the association does raise money through promotional programs like MasterCard travel packages and the North American Life Assurance proshygram
The UGAA provides serv ices to alumshyni and students - such as the careershyplanning workshop planned for Juneshyand returns many dollars directly to the campus Last year it gave $20000 to the library
In addition to direct financial support through annual giving and major gifts alumni also support the University inshydirectly through membership fees to individual college and program associashytions The fees pay for association acshytivities that help maintain ties between their members and the University
Questions
If you have questions or would like 10
know more about the tax advantages of giving to U of G write to Paulette Samson associate director of annual giving and support services at Alumni House University of Guelph Guelph Ont NIG 2Wl or call 519-824-4120 Ext 6183
When yo~bearrom US
If you think youre hearing from us moreoften lhanY9u elida few years ago you reright But checkyour mail and you ll 110tiqe that you~re also hearing
more frequemly from othernon-jgtrofit)rganizations and charities We v~ all stepped lip oui- fUQdIaising efforts
U QfGappreciates your support and needs your help butyou wont know that if we donr teflyou Aildeyen if you cant afford to make a fjnancialcon~
tributiori we hop~ to wjn yoUfverbaJ sliPPOJ-tJt will take many voices to coii- ylnce governmeritthal universities should beagreater public priority
When we contacenttyou on behalf of iheUriivetsity we lly to give more thiin we ask So tak~advantage ofthe p~1one call o(letter to findoutwhais happenc ing OJrcarnp~s U ofG hasmuchto offer llufnrii professionaldevelcipment courses library privileges travel programs recreation and a link Igt friends and
classmates
We Jik~to keep in roucharidYcwarit yO~1 to know the progress were rilaking Ast~e Uriiversity $ prestige grows so does the value ofyour degree
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Get your career on track
Responding to alumni requests the University of Guelph Alumni Associashytion will sponsor a career-planning workshop on campus June 26 to 28 The weekend program will be led by Sharon Crozier of the University of Calgary counselling service Each participant will receive a careerlifestyle analysis and will develop a personal action plan
The $225 fee includes the StrongshyCampbell Interest Inventory and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator which will be administered and tabulated prior to the weekend Testing dates have been set in Toronto for May 27 and in Guelph for June 4
Sponsored by the UGAA and coshyordinated by Continuing Education and Alumni Affairs the workshop will also draw on the Universitys Counselling and Student Resource Centre
Enrolment is limited to 20 For registration information see page 26 or call Continuing Education at 519-767shy5000
UGAA board report
by Grant Lee CSS 73 MA 80
The UGAA will present a convocation package to each graduate this spring imshymediately following presentation of the degree or diploma Developed by Alumshyni Affairs staff the package is designed to increase awareness of the UGAA and the collegeschool alumni associations encourage membership introduce the Guelph Alumnus and provide an opporshytunity for board members to congratushylate our new alumni
Approval of the new UGAA bylaw is on schedule It will be presented to members at the annual general meeting in June along with an amendment to the
i I UGAA Letters Patent
In addition the UGAA board bull has approved a $400 donation to help
cover costs for two students to represhysent Guelph at the 1992 World Debatshying Championships in Dublin Ireland
bull is looking at a proposal to help alumDl with financial planning There will be more to come on this subject later
bull received thanks from president Brian Segal on behalf of those alumni who attended the October symposium
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Canada Break Up or Restructure The association was a patron of the event
bull is responding to requests from alumni for more social events Aside from the travel program the UGAA sponsored a ski day at Horseshoe Valley in March
bull approved a proposal from the School of Landscape Architecture to research places of historical value on campus Financial support has yet to be resolved
bull accepted an offer to help sponsor the University Centres annual lecture series which invites Canadian and inshyternational public figures to speak on current issues All events in the winter 92 series were free to alumni
bull donated U of G sweatshirts to Canadian Guidance and Counselling for a conference in Ottawa this sumshymer
bull approved the purpose and terms of refshyerence for the new Alumni House Adshyvisory Committee which is charged with overseeing maintenance of the
facility adopted the 199192 budget and finanshycial plan drafted last November This year we expect to generate some $44000 and spend $33000 It has been suggested that we set the 199293 budget and plan in April of this year so the new board wi II start in September with a sound financial program and budget that will only reshyquire adoption or revision
Chapter news
Calgary - About 40 alumni and guests met at the Delta Bow Valley Hotel Feb 3 to view a U of G video and hear a talk by admissions counsellor C hr is tine Toews FACS 87 Co-ordinator of the event was Janet Hutchinson CBS 79
Edmonton - Paul OAC 67 and Anne Valentine CBS 69 hosted a group of 30 alumni and guests at the Ramada Renaissance Hotel
Montreal - U of G welcomed students and their parents - including many
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alumni - to its first Montreal informashytion night for prospective students The event was modelled after a successful program in Toronto that draws more than 800 students each spring
Vancouver - U of G president Brian Segal met with alumni March 5 at the Pan Pacific Hotel Jim Dodds OVC 63 and Sarah Bloom FACS 86 orshyganized the event which attracted about 70 alumni and guests
Halifax- U ofG alumni in Halifax met with Gryphon basketball players during the March 26 to 28 CIAU chamshypionships Despite losing the OUAA west division title to Brock University the Gryphons qualified for a wi ld card spot at the CIAU championships Alumshyni received free tickets to the game that pitted Guelph against Brandon in the consolation final Fan support was enshythusiastic but the Gryphons lost 72 to 64 finishing third overall
Homecoming 1992 Plans are well under way for Homecoming weekend Sept 25 and 26 In addition to the annual Gryphon Hall of Fame dinner and award s ceremony the weekend will feat ure a beach volshyleyball tou rnamen t --~4~=iiiiikshyconcert alumni brunch walk-a-thon pep rally reunions and the traditional homecoming dance following the Saturday afternoon footshyball game This year the Gryphons will play Wil frid Laurier University A complete schedule will appear in the next Guelph Alumnus but you can get
Winners of Ihe Ju SI fo r Fun square dance compelition 01 College Royal were left 10 right Ann Joselin Kelley Allen Joanne Hewirson Brenl McFadden caller Sue MacKinnon Richard Presley Trish Henderson Jason Thompson and Kelly Lillie
in the Homecoming spirit now by helpshying to plan your class reunion or signing up as a scorekeeper for the vo lleyball tournament For infOlmation call alumshyni officer Laurie Malleau HAFA 83 at 519-824-4120 Ext 2102
Swing your partner
Eight squares of alumni took part in the College Royal square dance competition in March Winners of the UGAA alumni square dance plaque were the Crazy 8s Joanne Hewitson Arts 91 Lloyd Hutchinson CBS 87 Sonya Jones CPS 90 Ed Ketchabaw OAC 88 and MSc 91 Carol)n OAC 90 and Brad MacNeil CPS 87 Mike Relf OAC 91 and student Sherry MacNeil Wayne Lowden was the caller
Winners in the Just for Fun category were Junior Farmer alumni who included Hewitson Ann Joselin OAC 90 Brent McFadden CSS 90 Richard Presley OAC 86 and soonshyto-be-alumni Kelley Allen Trish
Henderson Kelly Little and Jason Thompson The caller was Sue MacKinnon OVC 9 1
Florida picnic
The North Port Yacht Club hosted 199 alumni for the annual Florida picnic March 4 On hand to meet them was Trish Walker CSS 77 and MSc 90 director of alumni affairs Judy Phillips of the University s Real Estate Division also attended to talk about the Village by the Arboretum retirement deve lopshyment
Attendance prizes went to Gertrude Stewart Mac 30 and Morley Funston OAC 32 The picnic was sponsored by the UGAA Alumni-In shyAction Committee represented by Ken Gartley OAC 42 and the Florida reunion committee consisting of Mary and Ted Brent OAC 48 Helen and Don Moffatt OAC 46 Stella and Bob Moore OAC 48 and Retis and Bill HasenptlugOAC 39
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A new kind of class reunion
Its the latest fad in alumni circles shymeeting your classmates at the anshynual University of Guelph alumni hockey tournament Twenty-two teams played in the fifth annual tourshynament in December
For most teams tournament standshyings are secondary to the socializing with classmates that they may not see otherwise says Bill Seegmiller OAC 83 who worked with Brian TapscottOAC 8 1 to organize the event We promote the social aspect through two divisions - social and more social - and include family skating and a Saturday evening wine and cheese party he says Trish Walker director ofalumni affairs presents fhe social division lrophy 10 Ihe OAC 79
Dipper Oldies (II the U ofG alumni hockey tournamenl The OAC 79A team defeated the Grey Gryphons to win the more soshycial division The OAC 80 team won the consolation final and the spirit award went to OAC 7778
In the social (a little more competishytive) division it was the Faceoffs in first place over OAC 88 OAC 90 won the consolation trophy and the Valley Vikings took home the spirit award
Organizers plan to add womens exshyhibition games to the 1992 tournament which is scheduled for Dec 5 and 6 For more information call Seegmiller at 519-836-3807 or Rudy Diemer OAC 85 at 519-763-2250
A night at the races
The UGAA Alumni-in-Action group will host a night at Mohawk Raceway May 26 The $30 admission includes a 6 pm buffet parking program taxes and gratuities For detail s call Laurie
~ Malleau at 519-824-4120 Ext 2102
I Alumni directory
A new alumni directory will be ready for delivery in May The deadline for alumni updates has passed but you can still order a copy of the directory at a cost of $40 plus tax Return the order form you received with the special U of G wristwatch offer or write to Rosemary Clark Mac 59 at Alumni House University of Guelph Guelph Ont NIG 2Wl
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Ottawa chapter 50 years young
There was a nostalgic gathering of Guelph alumni in Ottawa last winter to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the city s alumni chapter
Donald Fletcher OAC 36A and 39 who was president of the group in 1953 sent us a historical account of the chapters activities
A small organizing committee first met in February 1941 at Madame Burgers restaurant to plan the chapters first fun ction a skating party at the Ottawa Experimental Farm It attracted 75 people
Over the years the group held an anshynual picnic and a banquet and dance that gave them a chance to invite faculty from Guelph to speak about happenings at the colleges - and later the Univershysi ty Every president from George I Christie to Bill Winegard paid a vi sit
In 1951 alumni from OVC and Macshydonald Institute who had been meeting since 1936 joined the OAC group A crowd of almost 200 celebrated the chapter s 10th anniversary at a picnic at the farm of the late John Bracken OAC 06 During the 1950s they added a get-together at the annual Ottawa-area plowing match which gave way to a curling bon spiel in the 1960s
There have been many special funcshytions - entertaining the Gryphon footshyball teams square dances car rallies golf tournaments theatre parties and raceway evenings - but the event that stands out in Fletchers memory ocshycurred in 1966 when five members of Parliament hosted the group in the parshyliamentary ballroom
The chapter also includes a couples bridge club which has been meeting for 25 years in the homes of its members
Fletcher thanks the 30 people who have served as president of the Ottawa alumni chapter and the dozens more who have helped on committees devot shying years to the executive to promote the institution
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ALUMNI CAREER PLANNING WEEKEND WORKSHOP
JUNE 26 27 amp 28 ~ The Program This highly successful workshop developed by Sharon Crozier PhD University Counselling Services University of calgary is the first step for an alumnus who is considering a career move The weekend (Friday evening through Sunday afternoon) will consist of group presentations conducted by Dr Crozier with smaller working groups facilitated by profeSSional counsellors from the University of Guelph Counselling and Student Resource Centre
Discussion structured exercises and experiential activities will lead alumni to gain insight into a personal careerllifestyle analYSis and assessment career information resources networking skills and much more
No matter what their age career stage or reason for transition each participant will find this workshop to be an excellent opportunity to develop a personal action plan - and chart their next move
~ Pre-1esting In order to provide individualized career information registrants are required to attend one of two pre-testing sessions The Strongshycampbell Interest Inventory and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator will be administered and results tabulated prior to the workshop Pre-testing dates are as follows
Toronto Wednesday May 27 1992 700 pm - 8 30 pm Holiday Inn Yorkdale
Guelph Thursday June 4 1992 700 pm - 8 30 pm University Centre
~ Fee The registration fee of $225 includes administration and tabulation of the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator materials two lunches and refreshment breaks
Tuition fees in excess of $100 are income tax deductible
Enrolment is limited to 20 registrants
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May 2 - The Guelph Spring Festival begins with a 25th-anniversary gala dinshyner in Creelman Hall that will honor founding president Murdo MacKinnon Other festival events run until May 23 For more information call 519-821-7570
May 2 shy An All-Canadian University Asshysociation d inne r w il l be held in Washington DC at the Embassy of Canada Guest speaker is Robert Lanni president of the University of Windsor Entertainment will be provided by Windsors music department For inforshymation call T Chan at 202-543-9111
May 3 - Arboretum Day celebrates spring with family nature walks at 1 and 330 pm and an electrical keyboard concert at 230 pm featuring Canadian comshyposer Carole Anne Burris
May 10 to Aug 30 - Guided nature walks run every Sunday at 230 pm in the Arboretum Topics include wildflowers birds turtles snakes and insects The nature centre is open from 1230 to 430 pm
May 13 - Chancellor Lincoln Alexander is the guest speaker at the Alumni-inmiddotAction annual general meeting which begins at noon in the Arboretum Centre For details call Alumni Affairs 519-824middot 4120 Ext 2102
May 13 - The Human KineticsHuman Biology Alumni Association will hold its inaugural meeting at730 pm at Alumni House with a coffee and dessert social RSVP to 519-824-4120 Ext 6963
May 23 shy FACS 82 is sponsoring a colshylection of Bob Munsch plays performed by the Carousel Players at3 pm at War Memorial Hall Tickets are $8 plus tax and handling To order call the UC box off ice at 519-824-4120 Ext 3940
May 26 - Alumni-in-Action is hosting a night at Mohawk Raceway Cost is $30 To register call 529-824-4120 Ext 2102
May 30 - An Arboretum sale of rare native trees and shrubs at the RJ Hi lton Centre on College Avenue East runs from 9 am to 1 pm For information call 519-824shy4120 Ext 2113
May 30 shy The sixth annual All-Canadian University Dinner in Chicago will be held
in the Henry Crown Space Centre at the Museum of Science and Industry and will include a reception buffet dinner and an Omnivax movie beginning at 6 pm Guest speaker is George Pedersen president of the University of Western Ontario For information call David Cole at 312-372-4404 or Hugh Mackenzie at 708-369-3688
June 2 to 5 shy Spring convocation June 13 - Beginning at 7 am the Arshy
boretum will hold its summer bird survey The four-hour walk will locate breeding birds and identify their species by sight and song
June 15 to 17 shy U of G will host the 15th annual Guelph Conference on Sexuality With the theme Sexuality New Visions the conference will examine current isshysues in human sexuality counselling strategies for sexual problems and teaching approaches in sexuality educashytion For information call the Office of Continuing Education at 519-767-5000 or fax 519-767-0758
June 19 to 21 - ALUMNI WEEKEND See page 39 for a complete schedule of events and alumni association meetings The UGAA annual meeting is June 21 at 10 am in Macdonald Hall 149
June 26 to 28 shy The UGAA-sponsored alumni career-planning workshop will be held on campus See page 26 for details
July 31 amp Aug 4 shy The National Youth Orchestra will perform in War Memorial Hall at 8 pm as part of its summer program at U of G Tickets at $8 general $6 for stUdents and seniors will be availshyable at the door
Sept 26 - HOMECOMING Rise early for the second ann ual Homecoming charity walkathon At 930 am the Human Kinetics Alumni Association will hold its annual general meeting in the School of Human Biology lounge
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John Boros 88 of Wei land Ont writes that he is impressed by the way U of G keeps records after graduation Thi s gives the graduate a sense of belonging a connection to an important period in hi s or her life he says
Jane Buzza 88 is working as records co-ordinatorarchivist for the Ontario Medishycal Association in Toronto
Jacqueline (Sullivan) DeClerck 86 is a public relations officer at the Canada Trust head office in London Onto
Richard Ely 70 works at the Crown attorneys office in WeIland Ont He has an LLB from the University of Western Ontario in addition to his Guelph degree He says he often talks about U of G to young students trying to decide which university to attend
Paul Genest 81 finished graduate studies at Johns Hopkins Universi ty in Maryland and is now assistant professor of philosophy at Union College in Schenectady NY He is man-ied to Barbara Jessup 8 1
Brian Hogarth 78 is head of interpretashytion at the G1enbow Museum in Calgary
Martha Hooper 9 1 was married last Ocshytober to David Perry They live in Calgary where she is a sw itchboard operator at the Delta Bow Valley Inn
Rene van der Meijden 87 has put his degree in geogshyraphy and internationshyal development to good use with the Christian Reformed World Relief Comshymittce Originally from the Netherlands he is now in Uganda on a three-year asshy Rene van der signment as a rural Meijden development adv iser He sends greetings to his many friend s in Canada and to Guelph grads Stan and Kitty in Bolivia in particular and reminds us that visitors are always welshycome in Uganda
Edward Milliner 85 will graduate this spring from the faculty of education at the University of Windsor
Mark Moore 85 is doing postgraduate work in history at the University of Bristol in England He plans to teach high school
fn response to a letter from Dawn Monroe 69 that appeared in the winter 1992 issue of the Guelph Alumnus Doug Moynihan 69 of Fort McMurray Alta writes Be disapshypointed no more Dawn l I too graduated in 1969 from (the College of) Arts or as it was then called Wellington College and I havent heard from anyone either And I too think it is time to contribute my news
After graduation f headed out to disshycover and sol ve the problems of the world travelling overseas for about three years Since then Ive been working in human resources in a variety of organizations in many different locations in Canada Cun-entshyIy I am the manager of human resources in Fort McMurray
PS Do you remember me Dawn I was the bartender in Creelman Hall I
John Teskey 7 1 began new duties last summer as director of libraries at the University of New Brunsw ick in Fredericton He was head of adshyministrative sershyvices at the University of Albershyta before moving John Teskey across Canada to acshycept the UNB posishytion but had earlier served as chief librarian and was library personnel officer at both Alshyberta and the University of Saskatchewan
Teskey says his biggest challenge is to regain the lost purchasing power that univershysity libraries have suffered as a result of static budge ts and ri sing material costs He is encouraging increased resource-sharing among universities and interlibrary loan programs with shortened turnaround
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Elizabeth (Baxter) Willson 77 a real esshytate agent in Chatham Ont writes to voice a common feeling that the universi ty exshyperience itself is often more important than the degree or diploma received I am really glad I graduated from Guelph she says
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Michelle Bombadier and Mike Caldwell both 92 are two of 50 Canad ian youth selected to work in Guyana for three months with Youth Challenge International (YCI) a non-governmental organization that provides Third-world experience for Canadians They may spend the summer building a school teaching safety or clearing land for Gu ytna s first national park but they need some private support to he lp cover transportation costs Anyone able to help should write to YCI at I I Soho St Toronto M5T IZ6
Jane Coventry 86 writes with accolades for the Guelph Alumnus grad news section and an update on what she and her husband Jaydee Smith 84 and MSc 89 are doing They were married in 1989 while working at U of G - he in the Department of Animal and Poultry Science and she in the Departshyment of Crop Science In February 1991 they moved to England where Smith is doing a PhD at the University of Bristol and working as a research assistant Coventry
works in the technology transfer unit of Nickshyerson Seeds Ltd in Cambridge
Jeffrey Crawford 88 and Leslie Thompson 86 were malTied last October He is an elementary schoolteacher in Mount Forest Ont
Craig Emerson 83 earned a PhD at Dalshyhousie University in Halifax in 1990 and is now a research associate in oceanography
Paul Fleming 85 is a pharmaceutical sales representative for Hoechst Canada Inc and lives in Nepean Ont
David Forsey 80 is an assistant professor of computer science at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver He is marshyried to Lyn Bartram
Michael Gangl 89 is in his third year at the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College
Astrid Harms 87 is a registered nurse in London Ont
Andrew Holmes 85 worked for the Onshytario government as a wildlife biologist for three years but is now back at school in his second year at Northwestern Chiropractic College in Minneapolis
Timothy Johnson 86 works at the Centre for Limnology at the University of Wisconshys in in Madison
Karen Lennard 77 (HK) and her hu sshyband Paul Jackson 79 (HK ) and MSc
82 both went 011 to earn medical degrees from McMaster University in HalTilton Ont Jackson also has a master s in physiology from the University of Virginia and is comshypleting an anesthesiology residency in Hamilshyton Lennard has a part-time family medical practice allowing her to spend more time with the couples two children Matthew and Nicola
Wendy Maltby 74 is an elementary schoolteacher for the Metropolitan Toronto School Board
Sandra OConnor 84 earned a medical degree from the University of Western Onshytario and is now practi sing in Burlington Ont
Linda Owen 81 runs her own business as a consulting exercise physiologist and fitness supervisor in Campbell River BC
Sheryle Tetley 86 is regional sales manager for Glaxo Canada Inc in Mi ss isshysauga Ont where she lives with her husshyband Ian
Rob Tonus 87 is manager of the Black Creek Rehabilitation Project a grassroots enshyvironment program to improve a degraded urban stream in Toronto His office is with the Metropolitan Toronto and Region Conshyservation Authority and he lives in Oakville with his wife Wanda (Knul) 88 (HK) a public health inspector in Hamilton
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Richard Woods 81 is an instructor of xshyray technology at the Easte rn Ontario School of X-ray Technology at Kingston Ge neral Hospital He would like to hear from other members of the 1981 U of G choir wi th whom he travelled to Scandinav ia Write to him at RRI Od essa Ont KOH 2HO
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James Dy nes 84 has comp le ted g raduate studies in chemistry and so il sc ience at the Univers ity of Sas katchewan in Saskatoon
Catherine (McVittie) Clark 88 is a nuclear medica l tech nici an at Howard Counshyty General Hospita l in Columbia Md She and her husband Michae l li ve in Elkridge Md
David Holmes 85 is a systems analyst at Sun Life Assurance Company
RolfKierdorf 84 lives in Guelph with his wife Janet He is se lf-employed as a systems consultant
Donald McFadde n 71 and his wife Carol li ve in A lbany Ga where he pracshyti ses medicine
Donald Ridley 69 and PhD 73 has been appoin ted seni or v ice-presiden t of CibashyGeigy Canada Ltd in Oakvi lle Ont and is responsib le for a ll corpora te serv ices includshy
ing finance human resources safe ty health and the environment He a lso se rves on the board of the Canadian Agricu ltura l Research Council and is a member of the Great Lakes Action Plan Strategi c Advi sory Committee
Kathryn Root Parr is an assoc iate minister at Lorne Park Bapti st Church in Mississhysa uga Ont She was married las t fa ll to Vicshytor Parr
Peter Simpson 85 is dis tric t manager for McNeil Pharmaceutical Ltd in Stouffville Ont He is married to Cynthia (Hamilton) 85 (HK)
Keith Stemshorn 83 is in the Canadian Armed Forces stationed in Calgary
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Nikki Dignard 86 moved to Ottawa last year where her husband Ted Henike pracshyti ses denti stry Dignard is working on an M BA and says she d love to hear from CSS classmates Tom Cam and Kathryn
Bonnie Dunnett 87 and MA 91 works on campus at the Gerontology Research Centre S he and Barry Hallman 9 1 li ve in Guelph
Kathryn Faulkner 80 is a registered nurse in Burling ton Ont where she li ves wi th he r husband John
Ruth Fox 84 is a sta ffing assistant for
Transport Canad a and lives in Toronto w ith her husband Christopher
Shonna Giles 88 is an admiss ions officer at Simon Fraser Unive rs ity in Burnaby BC
Gina Grieco 75 is a hi gh school guidance counsellor in North York Onto
John Harris 82 is manager of financial planning and budgets for th e City of Brampton Ont
Paulette Heppner 76 is a teache r in Vanshycouver
John Johnston 7 1 has been appointed exshyec uti ve vice-pres ident o f Ve rsacold Canada Corp and pres ident of QF Foods Distribushytion Services Versacold Canada is the largest public refri gera ted ware hou sing orshygani za tion in Western Canada
Michael Kral 79 has moved from the Univers ity of Manitoba to the University of Wind sor where he is an assistant professor of psychology
Jeffrey Lozon 76 and his family recently returned to Toronto after 15 years in Western Canada He is executive vice-president and ch ief operat ing officer at St Michael s Hos pital and li ves in Oakville wi th hi s wife Donna and two daughters
Bria n Martin 79 is a real estate appraiser in Portland Ont whe re he li ves w ith hi s wife Margaret (Sheffield) Arts 79
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Leith Mason 90 works in Toronto in the Canadian office of the State of Illinois as a special assistant to the Illinois Department of Food and Agricul ture
Michael McKean 74 of Don Mills Ont was recently appointed president of Wrigley Canada Inc Before joining Wrigley as execushytive v ice-pres ident in 1990 he he ld senior positions in Hong Kong Brazil and the United States
Rick 74 and Vicki (Collard) McTaggart FACS 74 are working in Ottawa He is director of overseas operations for the Unitarian Service Committee a charitable non-governmental organization that supports commun it y and human resou rce developshyment activities in Africa and Asia She is sec tion head of consumer analysis in the agr ifood development branch of Agriculture Canada
Sandra Morrison 86 is an ass istant professhysor in the department of psychiatry at the University of Western Ontario
Stephen Naylor 85 is director of planning and development for the amalgamated municipalities of Alliston Beeton Tecumshyseth and Tottenham
Brian ONeill 68 MA lives in SUITey England where he is managing director of Innovation Management Consultant s
Jodi Parisi 89 is a sales representative for Gillette who says U of Goo was the greatest
Moira Skikavich 81 is completing a PhD in c inematelevision at the University of Southern California
Virginia Sutherland 78 is an air traffic controller at the Toronto Island Airport
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Peggy Bates 88 was recently promoted to sales manager with Sears Canada Inc She lives in Owen Sound Ont
Caroline Begin 86 is working in Singshyapore as a dietitian
Diana Close 87 is a c linical nutri ti onis t at Chedoke McMaster Hospital in Hamilton Ont
Sarah Davenport 90 is a case worker with the Wellington County Social Services office in Guelph She is malTied to Matthew Harvey CBS 90
Timothy Dyck 8 1 is national sales manager for Black amp Decker Canada workshying out of the Corbin Division in Richmond HillOnt
Sharon (Muir) 84 and Richard Ernst CBS 83 are the proud parents of a future Guelph grad uate one-year-old Andrew Graham
Patricia Edwards 78 is food servi ce sushypervisor fo r St Peter s Hospita l in Hamilton Ont
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For the love ofteaching Since she
middot graduated bull from Macshydonald Inshymiddot stitute in
J 963 Nancy Kerr has built a career on teaching and research in telttles The middotheidofthe Uriiveisityof
Albertas department of Clothing and texiiles pursues a middotscientific interest inthepreservashylion of hi stori~lfabricsarid in developing pesticide-proofc1otl1ing But Jler fitstlove i ~ teaching
In 199b shewonone ofU of As four Rutherford AWljrds for excellence ill unshy
dergraduate teat-hing The first member of the faculty middotofliomemiddoteconornicsto receive the award slie was the rcentcipient6f the facultys own underglltiduate teaching award three years earlier
Winning the Rutherford was a gteat honor says Ken who has been on
faculty at Alberta since 1967 She oiscovered she had an aptitude for
middot teaching as a graduate student at the University of California Davis in
196566 After earning her MSc she casr about for afaculty position in Canada and round U of A was the 0111y place I could teach ju t textiles plus have a chance to develop new cQurses and research labs
middot Kerr sa)s she gets a tremelldous sense of satisfaction from teaching and the learning he must do to stay cUlTent She attributes her succe s as a teaCher to middotIec-middot
middot tures that are well organized and clear and to creltting a positive classroom climate
~Thcomfort level of students is reaUy middot ililportanL ~ Kerr eamedherPhD in fibre lnd
polymer science from North Carolina bull Staie University in 1982 Her doctoral work concentrated oil deacidification
techniques to preserve historicatcottOnln 1988 she spent a sabbatical ye~r doing research at the Caliadian Conservation
middot In tirute in OnflW1 middot Originalmiddotly from Ottawa Kerr is a
trarisphlnted -vesterner who enjoys middot hiking anlt sk1ing
From left Diane Ellison Lisa Wilson Lori Davis and Pippa Hobbes
Diane Ellison 84 is liv ing in Osaka Japan where she teaches English to Japanese busishyness people Last October she welcomed three U of G friends for a visit Lori Davis CSS 85 manager of Jumbo Video Inc in Oakville Ont Pippa Hobbes 84 accountshying manager for Paramount Holidays in Willowda le Ont and Lisa Wilson 84 co-ord inator of membership serv ices for the Metropolitan Toronto Board of Trade
Monica Hrybko HAFA 88 is director of sales for the Ramada Hotel Old Town in San Diego Calif
David Jones HAFA 88 is a con troller at the Holiday Inn Montreal Centre-Ville
Kathleen McLachlin 83 is operating an insurance agency in Kitchener OnL She opened the State Farm Insurance office in March 1988 and says she loves her job
Susan (Goettler) Parker 80 is working in Toronto as benefits administrator for Imshyperial Oil Limited She is married to Donald Parker OAC 79
Mary Jean (Sinnott) Price Mac 7 1 has returned to sc hool at the University of Otshytawa to earn a bachelor of education
Margaret (Richardson) Rankin 75 has been living in Halifax since 1990 and is an account analyst for Central Guaranty Trust
Janet (Wanless) Sutherland 77 is in private practice as a marriage and family therapist in East Kelowna BC
Jean Thomson Mac 37 says 1937 was a long time ago but shes delighted with all the changes that have gone at the college A former hospita l nutritionist she is retired and living in London Ont -
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Olayiwola Layi Adeola MSc 86 and PhD 89 and his wife Mope are living in West Lafayette Indiana where he is an assisshytant professor of pig nutrition at Purdue University
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Bruce Barrie 79 (Eng) graduated last June with an MBA from City Uni ve rsi ty in Washington State and is now a senior adshyviser in strategic planning with Petro-Canada Resources in Calgary He is a professional eng ineer with APEGGA and an ac tive memshyber of the Planning Forum an international society for planning and strategic manageshyment
Barbara Bryce 83 and her husband Ricardo Ramirez 82 are living in Rome Italy She is a landscape architect and he is a communications officer with the Food and Agriculture Organizat ion
Daniel Campbell 81 and his wife SharonshyMarianne are farmin g near Petrolia Onto
Carolyn Closs 82 and her husband Harold operate a beef cowca lf operation in Shawville Que
Luc Cote 83 is an agricullural account manager for the Royal Bank of Canada in Joliette Que
Kerrie Lea Curran 85 plans to graduate this fall from the master of architecture proshygram at McGi ll University
Bruce Dodson 74A is course superinshytendent at Hawd Ridge Golf and Curling Club in Orillia Ont
Richard Donkin OAC 85A originalshyly from Zimbabwe is the manager of Venida Packing Inc in Exeter Calif Situated in central Californias San Joashyquin Valley Venida Packing ships tree fruit throughout the Richard Donkin United States Canada the Pacific Rim and the Far East Products under the brand names Ruby River and Venida include peaches plums nectarines kiwi grapes persimmons and pomegranates In 1988 Donkin married California native Lisa Kolander and they live in Lemon Cove a community in the Sierra foothill s
Brendan Elder 8S A lives in Kelowna BC and works for Dogwood Nursery He plans to be married thi s summer to Rosemary Powell
Robert Fessenden OAC MSc 67 was recently appointed vice-president of devel opshyment and planning at the Alberta Research Council He is responsible for tec hnology management and corporate marketing
John Fitzgerald 86 was married last November to Susan Given a ] 991 indeshypendent study graduate in animal producshytion He is a lecturer at Ridgetown College she works at Centralia College and is work shying on a psychology degree at the University of Waterloo They live in Strathroy Ont
Glenn Helstern 79A is a driver for the Calgary division of Greyhound Bus Lines of Canada Ltd
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She tells a princely tale
For seven miniJtes on Oct 24 199 L Ellen Het1eOAC 76~U1d MSc 80
(ltllked with PIince Charles Invited toopert a newfumaceat
inco Lilniteds Copper Cliff smelter iri Sudbury Ont the Princemiddot of Wales was easy to talk with says Heale ftwasverycxciting
As eiwironmental co-ordinator Of land reclamation andrevegetation at Copper Cliff Healetold theprince middot about Tnc(secosystem rehabilitation
projects Theroyalvisitor was parshyticulatfyiilterestedin the treegrow- ing project in abandoned inines flld in tlpoundrevegetation ()f acres of tailings
and barren rock Planrilig vegetation on the tailings
hasattrlttcled wildlifeto a protected habitat says Beale who has wqrked forIncosincc she graduated in 1976
Ninety~iwo species ofbirds as weil asrodems hares foxes wolves bears andinoQse have been sighted on the 2500 acres of rehabilitated ore waste
One thing about this job is you middot can s~e where youve been effective she says
While an undergraduate student in Prill(e Charles with EIen Heale horticultural science Healea native ofSiidbury worked at Ineo during the sumniers She wasthi tirst woman to
work inrhemining companys agriculture middot department After shegraduated the niekshy el inine hired her full time tcido horticul- turaLfleld research ~ Ineo later granted heT a two-semester leave of absente t6 work
Theodore Jacobs 78 (Eng) is engineering supervisor at Standard Tube in Woodstock Ont
Greg Keast 85 (Eng) is li ving in Mozamshybique in East Africa where he works as a project officer for UNICEF rural water supshyply project s
Richard Kline 74 was appointed partner of the Toronto accounting firm Schwartz Levitsky Feldman Inc last faiL He is presishydent of the film s bankruptcy division a member of the Chartered Accountants of Onshytario and first vice- president of the Ontario Insolvency Association
Christopher Laforest MSc 91 (USRPD) works in planning and economic developshyment for Bruce County Ont
Jean-Paul PhD 90 and Lynn (Hammell) Laforest 82 and MSc 85 are both employed at Laval University in Sainte-Foy Que He is a professor and s he is a research associate
Kenneth Lawless 63 earned a Guelph deshygree in agricultural economics then went on to stud y dentistry at the Uni versity of Toronshyto He is now an oral and manilo-fac ial surshygeon in Kingston Ont
oil her masters at OAC~ In her current PdStion Heale has rnore
administrative and public relations responshyibilities On her own time she sits on the
board of management for the tocal Red Cross and isalllember ofthe Sudbury
Business and Professional Womens Club
Margie Luffman 77 writes that she has happily returned to Ontario after 10 years in New Brunswick to work at the Smithfield Experimental Farm in Trenton She is curator of the Plant Gene Resources of Canada clonal gene bank
Brian MacCulloch MAg 89 is a sa les representative for Springva le Nurseries Ltd in Berwick NS
Daniel Mansell 64 and MSc 68 is Onshytario manager of the eastern habitat joint venture in the wildlife policy branch of the Ministry of Natural Resources He is stashytioned in Midhurst Ont
Peter McEntire 77A writes from County Langford in Ireland to keep in touch with U of G He is farming and work s as an AI techshynician with Bova Genetics Ltd
Darryl Mitchell 78 works at Pioneer HishyBred Limited in Chatham Ont
Hugh ONeil 88 is manager of customer financial services for Ral ston Purina Canada Inc
Umed Panu MSc 72 (Eng) has done a lot of travelling during his career After Guelph he earned a PhD in civil engineering
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David Nedelko OAC 86 and Ljrlda ArmsJrollg CBS 89 (Jurk 011 cemre) were marriediasl SeplemiJer in Bari ~ie OnlTluir weddiIg iiarly illcilldedfiom leli Katy KusmiliskiOA C 88Paul Allgusline GAG 86 Roh Reed OAC 87Carv Belfral1l oAC 8RJIuJ Sa ndimiddoto (CollinI) BerlrCIlII CBS RR Also 1I111ie wedding w(lS Arlllslong s Veal ullcleClarence Fleming OVC 34 The couple (Ire living in
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at the Universit y of Waterloo taught in India and at Mi ss iss ippi State Uni vers ity and worked with Briti sh Columbia Hydro and the Government of Newfoundland In 1986 he jo ined the faculty of c ivil engi neering at Lakehead Uni ve rsity in Thunder Bay Ont and was promoted to full professor in 199 1 He and hi s wife Kashna and the ir children Neeti and Anukud enjoy the outdoor recreashytion ac ti viti es available in Northwestern Onshytario and look forward to visits from U of G alumni trave lling to Thunder Bay
Lyle Pettigrew 61 is a marketin g consulshytant with Harris Kovacs Alderman in Atlanshyta Ga
Helen Prior 88 joined Sheridan Nurseries after graduation then worked for a year as a research tech nic ian in Guelph s Department of Crop Scie nce She is now in her th ird year at Emmanuel College at Victoria University and hopes to be ordained as a United Church min is ter in May
Gregory Scott 83 (Eng) is operations manager for Accuform Gol f Limited in Toronto
Ba rbara (Coordes) Skrypetz 87 is a fi e ld supervisor for the Ontario Dairy Herd Imshyprovement Corporation working out of Guelph He r husband Stephen 88 operates a bulldozing and excavating busi shyness in the Woodstock area
Victor Skidra 6 is re tired f rom his job as a sc ientific evaluator with Hea lth and Welshyfare Canada He and hi s wife Konstance live in Nepean Ont
William Slusarchuk 63 (Eng) and MSc
The way we were in 1902 OAC alumnus Douglas Campbell 60 passes on a bit of col lege hi sto ry that shou ld make us think twice about our con stitutional squabbles in C anad a
Campbell is director of the Latin America and Caribbea n Trade Divis ion of Canada s Department of External Affa irs Last summer he hosted a vi s it by the president of Uruguay Luis Alberto Lacalle Herre ra whose grand fa the r made a simil a r vis it to Canada in 1902
This is what the elde r Herrera reported to his government Gue lph agricultural college enjoys a worldwide reputation and is con shys idered one of the grea t loca l attracshytions
More than 200 young Canadians a long with many foreign youths come together in its lecture rooms There are bursary ho lde rs from Norway and as far away as Mauritius C loser to us
Guelph Alumnus
67 was recently appo inted pres ident of AGRA Eanh and Environmental Group an envi ronme ntal and geotechnica l firm that is a division of AGRA Indu stries Limited
Michael Sullivan 87 A is a pol ice officer with the Wate rloo Regional Police in Cambridge Ont
Argentina has 12 students there We ll then couldnt Uruguay imshy
itate those good exa mples and also se nd a number of worthy youths to Guelph to acquire the professional knowledge which is becoming m ore necessary each day for the deve lopshyment of our agric ulture~
In addition to the sc ienti fic benefits that our compatriots woul d deri ve from entering sLlch a Canadian techni cal in shystitution there would be the inca lcushylable benefit of becoming familiar with the stric t manly and sound habits of these people who are admirable in e ve ry respect
Afte r they have stee ped themse lves in this atmos phere of dem ocracy which fosters the development of all rights and is alien to intolerance thi s legati on w ill have the great honor of sending home not only sc ientists but a lso mode l citizens
Brenda Trask 80 operates he r own comshymunica tion s consulting company in Osshygoode Ont She is marri ed to Ron Ferguso n
Dave Vanden Bosch 89 is manager of operator services and plann ing for Bell Canada in London Ont
J Stallard Skip Waterhouse 54 and hi s wife Li sa are ce lebrating the birth of a daughter Samantha Elizabe th on New Years Day 1992 They live in New York State where Wate rhouse is iI pro fe ssor of bio logical science at the Plattsburgh Sta te Uni versity College of Arts and Science
Jeff 88 and Karen (Burrows) W h ite 87 live in Strathroy Ont Jeff work s for Bell Canada and Kare n is a Lambton County rural orga ni za tion spec ialist with the Ontar io Mini stry of Agriculture and Food
Harold Wright 86 is a development repre shysenta tive for Ci ba-Ge igy Canada Ltd in Mi sshysissauga Ont He and Lori Krieg 84 plan to marry thi s sprin g
Donald Ziraldo 7 I received doubl e honors last winter fro m the Ontario grape and wine industry Preside nt of Inniskillin W ines of Niagara-on -the-Lake Ont he was named to the Royal Order of the Grape for hi s leadership in enhancing the prod uct and its image
In addition Z ira ldo and his partner Karl Kai se r were named 1991 Men of the Year by FoodsCIvice and Hospitalily magazine During the ir 17-year partnership at Inn isk ilshylin the two have been instrumental in shapshying Canada s wine industry the magazine sa id
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ave Barry Burtis 69 was named president of the Ontario Veterinary Medical Association in January after working with the voluntary organization for four years as a director member of its editorial board and chair of its public relations committee Burtis lives in Burlington Ont and practises at the Bay Cities Animal Hospital He also appears on a local cable television program called Pel Tales
William Medway 54 of Blackwood NJ has been named an honorary life member of the International Association for Aquatic Animal Medicine for his contributions on beshyhalf of the association and the field of aquatic medicine He is both a founding member and past president of the associa shytion A professor emeritus of clinical laboratory medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine Medway is a member of the Marine Mammal Commissions committee of scientific advisers
Diane Pickering-Forster 86 is practising at Vander Kraan Veterinary Services in Huntsville Ont She is malTied to Chris Forster and they have one daughter Julia
Julien Proulx 67 has moved from Kapusshykasing Ont to La Pocatiere Que where he is superintendent of Agriculture Canada s Experimental Farm Last year he was feashytured on TVOntarios French network series Personalire Ontarienne for his work as a veterinarian his participation in municipal politics and his support of regional developshyment in Northern Ontario He was also awarded Agriculture Canadas research branch prize Agcellence for extraordinary management during his direction of the reshysearch program at the Kapuskasing Exshyperimental Farm
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There are amazing simi laritiesbetween surgery the c~reersof t~e two Guyanese wh6b6th says Lord If earnedvefetinary degrees atGueiph someone worked in c1ini(ai practice in)Yestem were to ask Canada then moved to the United States me ioday to work in human medic~lresearch what Tcon~
Narayan heads an AlDSresearchteamsider to be atJohns HopkiflS l1)iversilySchool of my expertise MediCirieinBaltimoreMatyland Lord is I would have retired directorofthdohnsonamp Johnson to saymecli- Geofrey Lord
middot Resear~h Foundalion ill NewJersey cal device lordsays he was influenced by OVC andbioshy
proJessDfs Anthony Kings(Qte and Frank Inaterials evaluation middot SchofieJd~ndwcentnton from GiJelphto pur- lt In the I 950s Lordwaspalt of ale-
sue graduate studies in parasitology auhe se~rch team that pioneered the use of University oJWiscollsin Sevenmorithsin animal tissue tOTeconstructdamagedjr
amixed practice in Drumheller Alta con blocked al1eries in hUl11ansTwenty years vinced him thaldinical medicine wasn6t middot later he drafted the first systematicap-
middot whati w~ted6 do He returned to Wis pr()ach to the safety evaluation of medica con5il110 eanla PhDlll pathologyano devices joined Johnson amp JohnsQri as asenior middot Allsubsequeill guidelines inCiLlding patilol()gistiriI953 those of the Foodaj)q Diug Admlnistrashy
Research at Johnson amp JohDson tiOnand the Canadian Regulatory ~teeredmeinto many interesting and chal- Authority hayeadopteoihis approach he
Jenging fieldsofbio-research includirig says derniiltoi9gy toxicologic pathology Lordand his wife Helen ltIividetheir wound healing surgical pathology iiinebetweel)Ciipe CodandBonita genera toxkology ofi~w drugs andor~ Springs FloriQa
Shane Renwick 77 and MSc 91 works in veterinary services at Agriculture Canada offices in Guelph
Ruth Reuter 61 is a veterinary pathologist in Plympton Australia
Tom Sanderson 6 1 was selected by the Ontario Veterinary Medical Association as Ontario Veterinarian of 1991 CUlTently OVCs co-ordinator of off-campus work terms he spent 20 years in private practice in Listowe1 and Mount Forest before returning to the coll ege in 1982 to manage the veterishynary research stations Sanderson s contribushytions to the profess ion have included many hours of volunteer work in the advancement
of the profession and in the development of veterinary inshysurance programs He is a past pres ident of both the Ontario and Canadian Veterishynary Medical associashytions
Jennifer Troughton 86 is practising in OronoOnt
Simone Woltner 86 is a veterinarian at the Chester Basin Animal Hospital in Chester Basin NS
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by her hu sband William and two sons The fo llowing dea ths have been reported since the las t issue of the Guelph Alumnus Full notices which are usu ally submitted by family or classmates may appear in thi s iss ue or in a later one
James Clement Arts 73 Feb 2 1992
Marilyn (Dyment) Farnan Mac 530 Feb 27 1992
David Fisher OAC 80A in October 1990
Elizabeth (C hristie) Glass Mac 3I D June 2l99 1
Peter Heskey OAC 54A Dec 6 199 1
Richard Ketchell OVC 51 Nov 23 199 1
Edward Kowalski Arts 79 in August 199 1
Pauline (Dixon) MacMillan Mac 240 Jan 2 1992
Catherine MacPherson Arts 83 Dec 11 1990
Marguerite (White) Maybury Mac 3 10 in June 1990
Donald McLeOd CSS 80 Jan 9 1992
Albert Meilus OAC 51 in 1991
Ann (Biggs) Ostler Mac 3 10 in April 1991
Robert Race Arts 73 in 1989
Ralph Sampson OAC 40 in December 1989
Mor ris Sanderson OAC 42 Nov 17 1991
Sir Peter Scott HDSc 8 1 in Au gust 1989
William Setterington OAC 40 Oct 22 1991
George Shoniker OAC 50A in March 199 1
John Somerset OAC 34 Dec 27 199 1
Gregory Van Patter OAC 7 1 in 1990
Frederich Weiland OAC 20A in 1990
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Riccardo Rich Incitti 88 died Jan 5 1992 as the result of an accident near Hami lshyton Ont He was assistant manager at the Toronto-Dominion Bank in St Cathari nes and is survived by his parents Gu igi and Lucia of Cambridge and two sisters Laura and Andrea
Larry McNenly 73 died in October 1991 in Owen Sound Ont He is survived by his wife Marnie CSS 73
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Robert Everett HK 74 died in May 1991 in Burlington Ont A teac her at White Oaks Secondary Schoo l in Oakv ille he is survived by his wife Miche le and brother William CBS 74
James Sandy Fear 75 died Oct I I 199 1 in Toronto He is survi ved by his wi fe Sally (Firth) OAC 75 and hi s children Caitlin Alli son and Mered ith
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Lynn (Dalys) Corby 84 died in Toron to May 6 1990 after a long battIe with cancer
Nancy (Birbeck) Gordon 77 died Oct 20 1991 in Ottawa after a short illness She worked at the Kitchener-Waterl oo Hospital and had previously been plan t accountant at Foseco Canada Incorporated in Guelph
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Jean (Williams) Forward 280 Oct 28 1991 in Calgary She was the widow of Bower Forward OAC 25 and is survived by two sons
Catharine (Bechtel) Fromm 270 died Nov I 199 1 in Cambridge Ont She is surshyvived by three dau ghters Ellen Moore Mac 63 Nancy and Caro l
Alice (Rivaz) Garrard 28 di ed Dec 2 199 1 in Guelph She was an active member of the Mac-FACS Alumni Assoc iat ion and was the Mac 28 class agent for the Alma Mater Fund She is survived by her husband retired professor Edward Garrard OAC 27 and a daughter Betty Nelson
Della Marie (Diamond) Honey 300 of Warkworth Ont died June 29 1991 One ofWarkworths oldest and most respected citizens she served as local li brarian fo r 25 years She is survived by her son John OAC 52A his wife Patric ia and four grandchildren James OAC 84A William OAC 76A Thomas OvC 89 and Patricia Lonergan CSS 68
Barbara (Banigan) Martin 380 died Jan I 1992 in Don Mill s Ont A retired teacher wit h the North York Board of Education she is survived by a son Ted a sister and two brothers
Elizabeth (Burt) Perry 340 died June 28 1991 in Sidney BC and is surv ived by her husband Gordon and son Paul Nartel OAC 62
Jacqueline (Roy) Pote 34D died Dec 2 1 1991 in Willowdale Ont and is is survived
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Doroth y (MacFeeters) Scott 260 died Jan 14 1992 in Toronto She is su rvived by two daughters Anne Donaldson and Cynthia Scott
Florence (French) Snyder 370 died May 6 199 1 in Calgary and is survived by her husband Robert and two sons John and William
Katherine (Sweet) Watt Mac 220 died Feb 23 1992 She is survived by her husshyband Leslie a son David and a dau ghter Carol Gi llanders
Mattie (Newman) Widdicombe 240 died Dec 11 1991 in St Catharines Ont Preshydeceased by her husband John she is surshyvived by a bro ther and several nieces and nephews including Virginia Rigby Arts 76
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George Grey Arnup 38 died Feb 2 1992 in Toronto He spent most of his career with the plant protection branch of Agriculture Canada He is survived by his wife Aileen three chi ldren Nancy Jim and Mary Ellen Vincent CBS 79 and four grandchi ldren
Herbert Boyce 28 and MSA 43 died Sept 2 1991 in Amherstburg Onto He is survi ved by his wife Norah a daughter Beverley Med lock and a brother James OAC 32
Jack Reddy Brethet 56 died Nov 4 199 1 in Burlington Ont President of Brethet Barnum Assoc iates Inc he is surshyv ived by his wife Caro l and two daughters Lyn n and Anne
Bruce Foster 28 died Feb 6 1992 in Ridgetown Ont and is survi ved by his daughter Gayle Anderson and son David CBS 69
Allison Gardhouse 49 died Sept 21 1991 in Midland Ont He was re tired supe rshyintendent of schoo ls for the Simcoe County Board of Education and is survi ved by his wife Merle
Kenneth Harrison 24 died Nov 5 199 1 in Kentville NS A distinguished plant patho logist military officer and mycologist he began hi s career in 1926 as assistant plant pathologis t at the Kentvi lle Experimental Farm He worked there until retirement in 1966 wi th the exception of mi litary servi ce du ring the Second World War
Dr Harrison had a lifelong interes t in the study of mushrooms and publ ished numerou s technica l papers on the mu shroom flora of Nova Scotia In addition he enshy
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couraged interested amateurs and led field trips for student s at Acadia University and the general public from 1929 until 1987 In 1979 he was honored by Acadia wi th the dedication of the Kenneth A Harri son Laboratory of Mycology
During his career he was a member of many professional organizations a charter member of the Mycological Society of America and fe llow of the American Associashytion for the Advancement of Science
He is survived by hi s wife Margaret two brothers Maynard OAC 30 and Arthur OAC 29 two son s Ashley and Kenneth and a daughter Jennie Sheito
William Kellam 4 1 died Oct 19 1991 in Brockville Ont He was retired from the Curb and Gate Co of-Brock ville where he had worked as a lab technician fo r 28 years He is survived by his wife Kathleen a son George and a daughter Mary
William M acMillan 48 died in February 1992 in Winnipeg He was supervisor of Fertilizer marketing for the Manitoba Pool Elevators and is surv ived by hi s wife Edna Jean and brother Harry OAC 5 1 A
Cameron McTaggart 35 died Feb 4 1992 in Aurora Ont After graduating from OAC he became manager of Don Head Farms in Richmond Hill He established the first agricul tural consulting business in Canada in 1947 and later ran an Angus cattle
sales management business from the family farm A life member of the OAC Alumni As shysociat ion and the Class of 35 executive he is survived by his wife Margaret Mac 35 and two sons John OAC 62 of Regina and David of Largo Fla
Douglas Miller 48 of Victoria BC died Nov 24 1991 in Toronto He is survived by hi s wife Ruth and five children
Gregory More 76 was killed Feb 3 1992 in Kitchener Ont at the Ontario Glove Manufacturing Co where he was co-owner and vice-president Following graduation he worked for the Rohrer Drug Co and the Stershyling Drug Co then returned to school ea rnshying an MBA at McMaster University in 1981 More was an avid squash player and golfer Court A at the Northfield Racquet Club in Waterloo was dedicated to his memory in March He is survived by his parents Noreen and Ken a brother Randy and a sister Katherine Keeler
John Jack Pawley 33 died March I 1992 in Guelph He is survived by his wife Ruth son John OAC 62 and daughter-inshylaw Carolyn He was a former director of the Ontario Milk Marketing Board and a past member of the Royal City Lodge of Perfecshytion
Harold Reid 20A died in December 1991 in Burlington Ont During the First World W ar he was one of Canadas premier rad io
experts work ing at the Roya l Canadian Navy shore transmitter in Sydney NS After the war he came to OAC to earn a diploma then went on to QueenS University to comshyplete an arts and theology degree His mini sshytry was mainly in St And rews and Montreal although he spent 13 years teaching Hebrew at the Presbyterian Coll ege before retiring in 1968
Donald Robertson 3 1 died Nov 4 1991 in Iroquois Ont He is survived by hi s wife Caroline (Grisdale) Mac 38 his two son s ScottOAC 65A and Guy and a daughter Sandra McNeil
Thomas Rokeby 48 and MSA 50 died Jan 29 1992 in Fayetteville Ark He was a professional engineer and tau ght for 30 years in the Univers ity of Arkansas engineering department Born in Port Rowan Ont he was a member of the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War the American Society of Agricultural Engineers and the agricultural honor societies of Gamma Sigma Delta and Alpha Epsilon He is surv ived by his wife Helen two sons Robert and Richard a daughter Penny and three brothers Michael Noel and Richard OAC 54
Francis Sweeney OAC 45 died Nov 17 1991 in Oakville Ont He was a longtime employee of Shell Canada and [nternational Shell working in Great Britain Europe and
WALL CUSTANCE MEMORIAL FOREST
The Wall-Custance Memorial Forest located at the Universi ty of Guelphs Arboretum was established in recognition of the severe depletion of our forests It is never too late to be a vital part of the effort to save and improve our air and water for the future of our children by planting trees This program is our small part of the major endeavor to reforest and to reduce the greenhouse effect improve air quality and provide food and cover for wildlife The Memorial Forest Proshygram not only pays a Significant tribute to a loved one but also assures a better environment for generations to come
The purpose of this program is to provide an opporshytuni ty to commemorate the life of a loved one by plantshy
Home of the WALL-CUSTANCE
MEMORIAL FOREST
ing a tree We envision that the Memorial Forest Program will continue for many years to come and our hope is that the solace that nature offers particularly in the depths of a living forest will be of comfort and benefi t to all
For more information or for a brochure call or write to
WALL-CUSTANCE Funeral Home and Chapel 206 Norfolk Street Guelph Ontario N1 H 4K3 (519) 822-0051
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============= IN MEMORIAM ============= Venezuela He is survived by his wife Lynn and two daughters Alyson and Joselyn
Berna rd Weeks 35 died Oct 16 199 1 After graduation he re turned to his roots in
ew York and Pennsylvannia and worked in 4-H and you th organi zations for a few years He then took over the family farm at Troupsburg NY and built up a dairy operashytion with a sideline of sheep He is surv ived by his wife Ruth and four children
Glenn White 43 of Belleville Onl died Nov 24 199 1 in Florida and is surv ived by hi s wife Marjorie
ave Norman Anderson 39 of Wi nn ipeg died Dec 18 1991 in Arizona He had practised veterinary medicine in Norwood Man and was a member of the American Equine Pracshytitioners Association director of the Canadian Thoroughbred Society and track veterinarian at Assin iboia Downs for 50 years He is survived by his wi fe Peggy and two sons Laurie and James
George Beatty 5 I died Nov 22 1991 in Inverness III He practised in Palatine fo r 36 years and founded the Palatine Animal Hospi tal He was an active member of the American Animal Hospital Assoc iati on and the Chicago Veterinary Association and was a director of the Friends of the University of Guelph He is survived by his wife Mary and fo ur children - Suzanne Patricia Margaret and Tim
John Hamilton 5 L died Dec 15 1991 He had lived in Roslin On where he owned the Bay Regional Veterinary Hospital He is survived by hi s niece Ann Bongard
Nicholas Labzoffsky 39 died Dec 25 1991 in Largo Fla Fonnerly of Toronto he had li ved most recen tl y in Dorse t Ont and is survived by hi s wife Jane
Edgar Langford 49 died March 41992 in Monarch Alta A former research scienshytist with ADRI (Western) he is survived by his wife Norma and two daughters includshying Carolyn OVC 76
Stuart Maude 4 1 died Jan 14 1992 in Rosemead Calif A former Rosemead counshycillor and four-time mayor he operated the Rosemead Animal Hospital with his brother Arthur 52 from 1953 to 1980 He was a trustee for Ingles ide Hospital a past grand patron of both the Rosemead and the Califorshynia Order of Eastern Star and past-president of the local Kiwanis Club and Chamber of Commerce He is survived by his wife Vera two daughters Patricia and Susan Bezner a son Stuart and three brothers
Walter Morley 42 o f Mildmay On died Nov 28 199 1 He ran a large animal pracshytice in the Mild may area for 39 years raised cat tle and raced standardbred horses He was also a pu blic school board trustee and direcshytor of a local te lephone company for more
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than 30 years He is survived by his wife Joyce five sons - two of whom are OVC alumni Dave 68 and Randy 74 - and 10 grandchildren
Lloyd Neily 52 died Jan 3 1992 in Hantsport NS A retired meat inspector w ith the federal Department of Agriculture he had a private veterinary practice in Wind sor NS He is surv ived by hi s wife Mary
Elford Nundal 43 died Jan 7 1992 in Langley BC after a long battle with canshycer He operated a veterinary practice in Langley for 36 years and served as a di strict aldennan for 10 years before being elected mayor in 1982 Last year he received the BC Veterinarian Association s award of merit for a lifetime of veterinary work
Humphrey Rees 55 died Sepl 30 1991 in Amman Jordan while on ass ignment for the Overseas Development Ad ministrat ion as veterinary and animal hu sbandry adviser to the Jordani an government His contemshyporaries at Guelph will remember him as a singer debater raconteur rugby player and bon vivant He is surv ived by his wife Alice of POlt Eynon Wales
William Stinson 40 died Feb 15 1992 in Norwood Ont He is survi ved by his wife Rita a son John OVC 67 a brother Ford OAC 34 and a grandson John CSS 87
Faculty
Patric ia Harney died Dec 191991 in Yarshymouth NS A professor in the Department of Horticultural Science from 1962 to 1988 she developed severa l new variet ies of geraniums and was instru mental in es tabshylishing the Frances Ball rose collection at the Arboretum
Anthony Marston died Feb 3 1992 in Fershygu s ant Retired from the School of Hotel and Food Administration he was an acshycomplished competition chef who received his training in Switzerland and England He then spent severa l years working in the Caribbean before coming to Guelph in 1970 A member of the Canadian Olympic culinary team he held a number of positions in the
Donations given in memory ofGuelph alumni will help support University scholarships ifdirected to the Alumni M emorial Fund In 1991 donations were made in memory of the following alumni
Frank MacDonald OAC 37
Frank King OAC 33 -Robert Allen OAC 56A
Alice (Rivaz) Garrard Mac 28
Stan Vesselinovitch OVC 57
For more infonnation call the Office of Annual Giving at 519-824-4120 Ext 6 183
hote l and food industry until retiring in 1982 He is survived by hi s wife Di ana
Gordon McNally dled Jan 12 1992 in Guelph A professor in the Department of Zoo logy from 1934 to 1971 he served as academic assistant to the dean of CBS until retiring in 1979 While at Guelph he was honorary pres id ent of the classes of OAC 54 58 and 67 He is survived by his daughter Jean two siste rs and two grandchildren Prof McNallys family has established the A Gordon Mc a lly Memorial Fund to support a sc holarship or bursary Contributions may be sent care of the Alma Mater Fund Alumni Hou se University of Guelph Guelph ant N I G 2WI
Friends
Jean (Young) Branion died March 3 1992 in Guelph She was the wife of the late Hugh Branion a physiology professor at U of G and assistant to presidents Bill Winegard and Don Forster Jean Branion was an act ive volunteer on campus for many years and one of the firs t presidents of the College Womens Club She is survived by a son Richard and his wife Marga re t of Vanshycouve r and five grandchi ldren Donati ons may be made to the Hugh D Branion Memorial Scholarship through Alumni House
Davy Alexander Hamilton-Williamson died Feb 4 1992 in Guelph A painter and author of childrens stories he had been a member of the University s Presidents Council s ince it began in 1 985
Marjorie Pinkney wife of J ames Pinkney OVC 3 7 died Dec 151 99 [ at her home in Milton ant
Samuel Wyal died March 15 1992 in Brantford ant He was a partner in the law firm Wyatt Purce ll Will Stillman and Scott He is surv ived by his wife M a bel Mac 39 four sons Peter Michael William and John and two daughters Mary Alderson and Sarah Nadalin Arts 82
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INVmiddotESTMENTS amp
DIVIDENDS
Facts about university education in Canada and how we pay for it
By 2000 half of all new jobs in Canada will require a university degree
But at the current rate of government funding only one in five children
will have a chance to go to university
In the seven years from 1982 to 1989 per-student grants to universities in
Ontario barely kept pace with intlation at five per cent
per-student funding at American public univers ities jumped an average
of 23 per cent in the same period
Those US universities also receive twice the federal research dollars per student as do Ontario universities
In 1987 the average salary of a full-time professor at an Ontario univers ity was $55500
compared with $68200 for a private-sector position of similar education and experience
Lawyers economists and engineers made an average of $71 000
Ontario ranks ninth out of the to provinces in terms of grants to universities
Between 1978 and 1991 enrolment at Ontario univers ities grew by 40 per cent while funding dropped
from 59 to 409 per cent of total government spending
Universities were spending 14 per cent less per student between 1977 and 1988 hospital expenditures
rose 38 per cent per patient in the same period
Ontario universities generate $3 of economic activity for every
$1 invested by government funding
And the number of jobs generated by university activities in
Ontario is greater than the employment impact of the textile
industry the entire paper and pulp industry or utilities
University graduates can look forward to earning 63 per cent more than the average industrial worker
A 1990 survey of U of G alumni found that two years after graduation 97 per cent of Guelph grads
looking for work were employed 62 per cent were earning $25000 or more and 10 per cent were
earning $40000 or more
Unemployment rates in 1990 for those with a university degree was about one-third what it was
for those with only a high school diploma
Every year from 1978 to 1987 Ontario university inves tments in renovating or replacing
aging buildings could not keep pace with the rate at which the buildings depreciated
Graphics by Debbie Thompson Wilson Statistics supplied by th~ Council 01 Ontario UniverSities Statistics Canada and the U01 G Student EnVifonment Study Group
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A salute to sport Alumni Weekend June 19-21 9am Sio-pitch tournament
The tradition Jives on at the south quad diamond s Cooed teams of 12 or more players are encourshyaged to join in the fun
FRIDAY 10 am to 9 pm Registration Lambton Hall
6 pm Kick-off dinner and half-time show
get set and join In the Olympic spirit one of Alumni Creelman Hall will Weekends host the Wonderful most popular World of Sports with events Tours a half-time slide show start from to entertain alumni of Alumni House all ages and are sponshy9 pmshy sored by the Observatory tours CBS Alumni
Association
10 am and 2 pm
SATURDAY 8 am to 5 pm Guided Registration walking tours Lambton Hall
Remember 9 am to 5 pm making s now Alumni House tours sc ulptures on Students will host tours of Alumni House throughshyout the weekend Come and see what the generosity of alumni has accomplished
9 am to noon Alumni association annual meetings
This is the official notice for the annual general meetings of the following alumni associations
CBS - Alumni House starts at 830 am before guided walk MacFACS - HAFA Building Room 209
OVC - OvC Room 1438
OAC - Macdonald Hall Room 149
CSS - MacKinnon Building Room 305
HAFA - Alumni Hou se boardroom
Gryphs Lounge will be open for lunch and afLer the game
930 am Guided nature walk at the Arboretum
On your mark
Noon - OVC luncheon
The OvC Alumni Association will host a luncheon open to all OvC alumni and their guests
2 pm - Campus Showcase 92
Following on the heels of last year s success Campus Showshycase 92 will be bigger and better Come to the University Centre to see exhibits representing all areas on campus The Campus Junction store will also be open
2 pm - Zavitz Hall tour
Alumni are invited to browse through the newly renovated Za vitz Hall and attend a recep shytion sponsored by the Colshylege of Arts Alumni Asshysoc iation
5 pm Golden anniversary dinner
The OAC OvC and MacshyFACS alumni associations will provide complimenshytary tickets for alumni celebrating 50 years or more Additiona l tickets can be purchased Classes
Johnston Green or playing intramural hockey in the old Quonset arena Relive some of the memories by taking a walking tour of campus Tours begin from the lobby ofLambton Hall
Noon - Alumni picnic
This apopular event has new location - the sculpshyture garden beside the Macshydonald Stewart Art Centre Come on your own or reshyserve a group of tables for friends and classmates
Noon - Class reunion lunches
OAC 37 Mac 37 OAC 42 Mac 42 OAC 47 Mac 52 Mac57 Mac 67 FACS 72 FACS 77 FACS 87
OAC 67 FACS 82 OAC 82 OAC 82A CBS 82 FACS 87 OAC 87
SUNDAY 9am Church service and War Memorial Hall rededication
Thanks to a commitment from the Alma Mater Fund renovashytion of the upstairs of War Memorial Hall has been comshypleted Join us for the rededicashytion ceremony commemorating the 1924 opening and the 1952 dedication of an OAC memorial plaque
being honored are OAC 22 OAC 47 OvC 22 Mac 22 OAC 27 OvC 27 Mac 27 OAC 32 OvC 32 Mac 32 OAC 37 OvC 37 Mac 37 OAC 42 OvC 42 Mac 42
6 pm Class reunion dinners
Special dinn e r reunions are planned for OAC 47 OAC 52 OAC 52A OvC 52 Mac 57 OAC 57 OAC 62 Mac 67
10am UGAA annual meeting
All alumni are encouraged to atshytend the UGAA annual meeting in Macdonald Hall Room 149 An amendment to the UGAA Letters Patent and a revised bylaw will be presented for ap shyproval Copies of both are availshyable on request from Alumni House Call 519-824-4120 Ext 6544
11 am - Farewell brunch
The final event of Alumni Weekend will be held in Creelshyman Hall Come and meet the Univers ity S president Brian Segal The Alumnus of Honour medal will be presented at noon
To receive an Alumni Weekshyend brochure or to register for events call Alumni House at 59-824-4120 Ext 6963
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Where research and industry Dleet
Space available now Exceptional office and research facilities in our multi-tenant Research Park Centre
Research-driven corporations are breaking new ground at the University of Guelph Research Park Centre with exceptional growth opporshytunities in an ideal business setting
This 30-acre Research Park also accommodates tenants who choose to construct their own office and laboratory facilities
Find out why organizations such as Semex Canada Tremco Limited the Ontario Dairy Herd Improvement Corporation George Morris Centre LIPID Analytical Laboratories and Agriculture Canada have chosen the University of Guelph Research Park Call Ralph Eades or Judy Phillips Real Estate Division University of Guelph Telephone (519) 767-5003 or Fax (519) 837-0353
The Research Park is a project oj the Office oj Research and the University S Real Estate Division
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Predicting food production capabilities
A new research technique developed by an interdisciplinary U of G group is the first of its kind in the world to quantitashytively measure the capacity or shortfall of food production in a specific geoshygraphic area
Applying the technique to Ontario inshyvolves a complex computer database that uses production figures from the 1980s and takes into account 18 major crops 10 livestock categories seven soil classes seven climate zones six economic regions and a number of production constraints
The computer then considers different aJlocations and trends as well as condishytions that might influence future demands and productive potential
We found the current agricultural base has the capacity to produce at least 30 per cent more of each product in Onshytario says geography professor Barry Smit who has co-ordinated the program since it began in the early 1980s But the 30-per-cent surplus capacity would not be sufficient to meet even relatively
CAMPUS
conservative demand projections through to the year 2000 he says
The program has been used to look at food projections and to study the effects of urban growth acid rain soil erosion global warming climatic variations on food production and to identify regions of the globe where food shortages reflect limits in production capacity
Campus safety
Students walking alone on campus at night can call the Central Student Associations Campus Safe Walk proshygram and a team of volunteers will esshycort them to their destination If they live off campus but need to work late at the University library students can take the Magic Bus a service provided by the CSS Student Government after city buses close down for the night And anyone who is hurt or injured on camshypus can get help from the First Aid Response Program run by the CSA and Security Services
Each of these programs will get a financial boost thanks to a provincial government grant aimed at improving campus safety In addition U of G will
use part of the grant to install more emergency telephones on campus add lighting and rearrange foliage that imshypedes vision in some areas Also being considered is a campu s safe house that would bring together 24-hour services for students
Preserving beauty
U of G landscape architect Nate Perkins is using a computer a scanner and a digitizing board to show the effects of development on sensitive rural landscapes He is working with the Onshytario Heritage Foundation to identify and protect the esthetic landscape feashytures of the entire Niagara Escarpment
The first step is to create an inventory of existing visual landscapes and how they are currently protected in Ontario Based on this selected landscape scenes will be sampled to illustrate what might happen under different scenariosshywith no regulation under current local and provincial regulatory programs and under Perkins s proposals With comshyputer technology he will be able to creshyate a picture of what the scene would look like in each case
People make a difference on and off canlpus
U of G has recruited Powell moved to Goldschmidt HDMus 84 many talented faculshy Guelph in 1965 to estabshy launched the festival which has
ty and staff who have lish the UniversityS proshy flourished to become one of N0I1h also become leaders in gram in human kinetics Americas most respected small music the community Two and the School of Human festivals MacKinnon was president of names come to mind shy Biology He designed 10 its board of directors for 15 years and John Powell and Murdo courses and was a driving is still one of its most active volun-MacKinnon - because force behind construction teers both are being recogshy of the building that The Guelph Spring Festival was one nized this spring for their houses the school example of MacKinnon s eff0l1s to ci vic contributions During his tenure the create closer ties between the Univershy
Retired human biology John Powell University hosted eight s ity and the community He and conshyprofessor John Powell Canadian national track cert manager Edith Kidd introduced was inducted April II into the and field coaching courses sponsored the idea of regular noon-hour conshyCanadian Amateur Sports Hall of by the Royal Canadian certs still held on camshy
Fame because of his lifelong work in Legion with more than pus each Thursday
amateur Sp0l1 3000 participants He also MacKinnon was founded a cardiovascular founding dean of WelshyAn Olympic-calibre sprinter in hi s exercise group which he lington College of Artsnative Great Britain Powell turned to led daily for 26 years and Sciences in 1964
coaching after being wounded in the Retired English professhy And he became the first
Second World War A three-time sor Murdo MacKinnon dean of the College of
Olympic coach he helped 19 athletes will be the centre of attenshy Arts in 1970 He is an
earn Olympic medals And for the last tion May 2 at the Guelph honorary fellow of the 21 years he has been a regular lecshy Spring Festivals 25thshy University and the Macshyturer at the International Olympic anniversary dinner He and Kinnon building is Academy in Greece artistic director Nicholas Murdo MacKinn on named in his honor
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University Families Fight the Odds
hy Mary Dickiesol1
The Van Katwyks and the
University ofGuelph are saving to educate
the next generation
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university education in Canada At current levels of government funding decreased
enrolments will limit university attendance to one in five within a few years
Paul and Christine Van Katwyk dont like the odds Theyre committed to univershy
s ity education - their own and Sasha s - and theyve been sav ing for hi s educashy -tion since he was s ix months old But what they hear about the continuing decline
in government funding makes them worry that the doors to Canada s universities
may not be open to Sasha when he s ready to enrol in 2007
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T heee good eoo to won) That s the message we ve been getting from universiti es and colleges in Canada for several years Many univershysity administrators including U of G president Brian Segal say they too are worried about the future of postseconshydary education
On the political agenda universities have taken a back seat to hospitals soshycial serv ices and schools despite the fact that they are part of the solution to problems facing the other sectors
In Ontario the universities share of the public purse has been declining since 1978 even though theyve added more than 160000 students to their enshyrolments Universities are actually spending 14 per cent less per full-time
Education makes a difference
Chris and I know from ou r own experience that a university educashytion can make a big di fference in one s life say Paul Van Ktttwyk
Paul grew up in a university family - hi fa ther is a professor at Wilfrid Laurier Univer ily in Waterloo He came to U of G after high school but quit before comshypleting a BA After two years o f making tire he was back on camshypus and is now finishing an MA in industrial organizational psycholshyogy U of G is one of the few uni versities in Canada that offer graduate work in this fie ld So Paul is heading off to the Uni versity of South Florida th is fall to do a PhD then will return to Canada to help expand his disc ipline to other Canadian universi tie
Chris is the first member of her family to atrend university She graduates this spring with a BASc in con umer studies With other members of her family out of work because their manufact uring jobs have disappeared Chris think a un iversi ty educashytion was the right choi e for her She would like to get involved in consumerenvironmental i sues and eventually open her own small business
student than they did 15 years ago
At the same time demand for university graduates is growing The Council of Ontario Universities (COU) esshytimates that half of the new jobs that will be created over the next decade will require L1ni versi ty-level training
At a time when unshyemployment plagues the province when health care and soc ial ass istance costs are rising when inshydustry needs to improve competitiveness when we need to boost investshyment in research and deve lopment one begins to wonder why postsecshyondary education is not a greater priority
Public opinion seems to support universities A 1990 Decima poll found that 80 per cent of Ontarians believe a lack of funding is affecting university quality and 83 per cent believe that
Universities are spending 14 per cent less for each student than they did 15 years ago
university fundin g is not keeping pace with funding for other services
But the university system needs more than quiet believers It needs strong vocal support Good intentions aren t enough to ensure survival in the politishycal arena or the global economy
Financial problems
Every year COU prepares a report on the financial position of Ontario univershysities The 1991 report reveals a steady decline in the priority that three successhysive provincial governments have gi ven to universi ties Collectively theyve igshynored the advice of their own advisory body on universities for 15 years allowshy
ing university funding to drop from 59 to 409 per cent of total government spending
This decline coincides with the federal governments introduction of Esshytablished Program Financing (EPF) which supplies a large part of the fundshying that is eventually allocated to postsecondary education
Prior to EPF federal and provincial governments shared the operating costs of postsecondary education on a 5050 basis Under EPF which was supposed to equalize payments to the provinces through a complicated system of cash transfers and tax points some provincial governments have been unable or unshywilling to maintain that 5050 balance In Ontario federal doll ars now account for a much higher percentage of the funding that is eventually transferred to universities
Many Ontario institutions believe the provincial government added insult to injury last October when it cut an addishytional $9 million from promised transfer payments for 1991 92 Before the c1awshyback COU had advised the government that universities would need a seven-pershycent increase in 199293 just to maintai n current level s of serv ice but the January budget gave them one per cent thi s year and promised no more than two per cen t in each of the ne xt two years
During this same J5-year period Ontario s universities have demonshystrated an increase in productivity unshymatched in almost any other sector by finding ways to educate 40 per cent more students with less money
The January budget brought bad news at a time when universities were also facing further cuts in provincial gove rnshyment grants for capital renovations inshycreased operating costs for utilities the federal government s 30-per-cent jump in UIC premiums a lO-per-cent in shyc rease in CPP payments and a loss of tuition revenue because of planned reductions in first-year enrolments
Ontarios Employer Health Tax and pay equity costs have also affected operating budgets at universities where more than 80 per cent of expenditures are dictated by salaries and benefits
Deficit financing is not the norm for U ofG but in 199192 costs exceeded Ministry of Colleges and Universities (MCU) operating revenue ($160 milshyli on) by almos t $46 million The defic it reflects both these unexpected increases and the planned expense of restructuring non-academic units
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Creative solutions
Like the business community Guelph has begun the ongoing process of selfshyappraisal The $69-million cost of the recent non-academic review left red ink in this fiscal year but the exercise has cut operating costs by an estimated $57 million a year Within the five-year payshyback period the University will have saved or in reality reallocated more than $28 million Segal says
The internal review removed 125 jobs simplified processes and improved efficiency A similar assessment of the non-teaching activities within the colshyleges is being completed and will be folshylowed by a look at academic functions
Guelph is one of the first universities in Ontario to undertake such a strucshytured review of its operations says Segal and it wont be the last Every university will be looking at ways to reduce the amount of work required to operate the institution he says
Were walking a tightrope trying to balance strategic goal s and fiscal management in a way that causes the least harm to students Nevertheless universities are prepared to be key players in the process of looking for creative ways of doing more with less
Segal predicts an increase in intershyuniversity and joint university-college programs that share resources more efshyfective use of automation more homeshystudy programs and co-operative purchasing arrangements
Unfortunately well al so see further staff cuts a loss of services some course cancellations and limits to stushydent enrolment
Last fall U of G decreased first-year enrolment by 686 to help ease overshycrowding on campus although total en-
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Charls reprinredjrom COU 1991 Report Oil rhe Financial Position laquo( Ontario Universities
rolment was a high of 13390 students The University plans to decrease enrolshyment to fewer than 12000 by 1994
There will al so be reductions in faculshyty positions estimates are that at least a third of the 60 current vacancies will not be filled in the next fi scal year
In addition to cos t-cutting measures universities will be looking at ways to generate new revenue More than 80 per cent of university revenue is controlled by government - transfer payments and tuition fees - but short-term operat shying fund s can benefit from increased revenues from food retail parking operations and non-tuition fee hikes
Segal says long-term endowment funds like Guelph s Heritage Fund will become a system-wide priority as will revenue sources from planned giving and alumni contributions real estate
development - like Guelphs Research Park - and capital accumulation
COU which Segal chairs will conshytinue to pressure government to increase tuition fees Ontario fees have not kept up with inflation In rel ative terms they are lower now than theyve been for 40 years representing less than 19 per cent of university operating revenue In comshyparison tuition revenues at public universities in the United States are 70 to 80 per cent higher and students at private US universities pay si x times as much as Ontario s undergraduates
COU is on record as favoring an inshycome-contingent repayment plan that would allow students to repay loans based on the level of their future inshycome But a COU proposal - even if it is accepted by MCU - is at least a year away from implementation
-Last f all the universities ofGuelph and Waterloo launched North America sfirst longshydistan ce interactive classroom project that links students at both institutions via two-way audio video and data lines Unlike other video systems that offer only televisiolltransmission the new Electrohome classroom system leIs studel1ls both see and hear each other as well as the professor It s j us t like being there - and it s aile example ofhow universities are sharing resources to improve academic programs and CUI costs Photo by Roberta Franc huk
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University benefits
Time and time again our alumni tell us that the total university experience is more valuable than the degree they received
Breadth of knowledge new insights personal satisfaction - these are things that cant be measured
The 966000 university graduates in Ontario do however share economic benefits that can be measured -like an unemployment rate that is one-third what it is for the general workforce and salaries that are on average 63 per cent higher than industrial workers
In addition university graduates share with the rest of the population even greater cultural social and economic benefits
T hrough the percolator effect Ontario universi ties generate $62 billion (1989 estimate) worth of economic activity each year and more than 138000 jobs
All Canadians share in the benefits of an academic system that acc umulates knowledge trains leaders and conducts much of the research that gives us a progress ive society
University laboratories have yielded medical breakthroughs in diabetes canshycer cystic fibrosis Alzheimer s disease and AIDS They have tackled environshymental research on the causes of water pollution and soil erosion University soshycial scientists study issues as vari ed as demographic trends cross-border shopshyping adoption and economic developshyment in native communities
On a more personal level each univershysity in Canada is a contributing member of its local community Says Guelph
Mayor John Counse ll The inshytangible benefits of having a university within our municipality inshyclude the injection into the comshymunity of intellecshytual standards talents and sershyvices
Almost every orshyganization in the city counts U of G faculty staff and students among its members and volunteers In fac t more than 30 U oG s campus wecomes almosl 150000 visitors every year
university employees were recently given special awards and commendations from both the provincial Ministry of Culture and Communications and Ministry of Citizenship
Guelph is also enriched financially by the Univers itys presence - 4 100 jobs $195 million in annual economic acshytivity The University is an attraction for many smaller companies and organizashytions and branches of provincial governshyment ministries that deal frequently with the campus In a way it has he lped to inshysulate the city of Guelph aga inst the reshycession says Counsell Last year Guelph enjoyed a net increase of three jobs in comparison with other cities where thousands of industrial jobs were lost
Equally important are the educational opportunities offered by the University
for local re sidents The number of people enrol led in distance education inshydependent study and non-degree courses at the University is almost twice the dayshytime student body Last year 500 senior citizens attended courses held on camshypus and 10000 schoolchildren parshyticipated in environmental education programs at the Arboretum People also brought 12000 animals and 500 wild birds to OVC clinics for treatment
Visitors to campus outnumber stushydents 10 to one They come for convocashytion College Royal Homecoming and Alumni Weekend to tour the Arshyboretum and the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre to attend workshops conferenshyces and lectures and to enjoy athletic events music and drama productions They also come for Sunday afternoon walks and sometimes to take wedding photos on Johnston Green
Education is everyones concern
With their Universi ty of Guelph degrees in hand Paul and
Christine Van Katwyk have joined the ranks of Ontario and Canadian univershysity graduates who recognize that the
funding of universities is not just a famishyly matter
Education is everyone s concern and should be a matter of government priority rather than rhetoric The probshylem is how to change that
Two years ago Ontario MPP Sean Conway told a group of university board members that they needed troops
When you ask us to do something and we don t do it nothing happens he said When the hospitals ask us to do something and we dont do it all hell breaks loose
Today universities are recruiting those troops and are turning to their alumni to help build a strong constituenshy
cy of support Who better to promote the value of higher education
Tell your family your friend s and your co-workers how important you think universities are Write to your local paper to let others know that a strong economy and a high standard of living depend on an educated workshyforce Call your MP and MPP and tell them that denying adequate funding to higher education is short-sighted in the extreme and that voters are expecting government action based on long-term priorities
Sasha Van Katwyk s generation is depending on it
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Marshalling the forces to fight for universities
There is a tribute $5000 to help revolution launch FOU and
taking place in Seymour hopes inshyeducation And dividual alumni will when the dust setshy keep the momentum tles we will see building The orshyprofound changes ganization needs in the way we imshy more than 100 inshypart knowledge dividual volunteers in the way we think each of Ontarios 130 about education electoral districts and the way we These friends will pay for it Some lobby MPPs on a of us will sit back regular basis in supshyand watch port of universities Others like Its a grassroots Harry Seymour Harry Seymour
OAC 61 will help influence the changes taking place
Seymour spent 22 years of his career on Torontos Bay Street then opted for a change that led to the forshymation of Pathfinder Learning Sysshytems As president he champions the Pathfinder program of computershymanaged learning as a way for classshyroom teachers to maximize their time and their students potential
Seymour maintains his interest in the investment business with several other companies including a 93-acre shoreline development project in Midshyland Ont But most of his time is devoted to education and university education is a significant part of that effort
If we can marshal the forces of university alumni we can have a profound effect on how government prioritizes education he says Those of us who have graduated from a university are in the best position to evaluate the importance of a university education We can sit back and look at the benefits we ve received and the kind of impact it has had on our lives
Seymour represents U of G alumni on the Friends of Ontario Universities (FOU) a provincial lobby group whose strategy is to organize Ontarios university alumni into a political constituency FOU members sayan unorganized constituency is part of the reason government has folshylowed a pattern of financial neglect
The University of Guelph Alumni Association was one of the first to con-
movement that has the potential to build long-term support
among decision makers and future generations of university graduates he says
If youd like to get involved call Trish Walker U of G s director of alumni affairs at 519-824-4120 Ex t 2122
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describes himself as a concerned citizen of Guelph who is committed to education Thats an undershystatement for a man who spent most of his career in educashytion including 16 years as senior academic officer at Conestoga College
He also cares deeply about the University of Guelph He worked hard in the early 1960s to help bring it to life serves on a presidential committee to promote a healthy town-and-gown relationship and is now working to increase local pride in the campus
It distresses me that we are not seeing our universities as intellectual leaders in the community in the province and throughout the country says Hagar who believes there is a need to increase public awareness about the role universities play in
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society Hes offered his vocal support to this venture as a volunteer for the Alliance for Ontario Universities
Who says talk is cheap
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of universities
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the most valuable gift
you could give
to the generations
of students
yet to teach
Independent of universities the alshyliance is building province-wide supshyport among communities organishyzations businesses and individuals like Hagar who are willing to expand that support on a local level
In each univershysity town there will be an alliance comshymittee that works to build community pride in the institushytion and to raise the profile of its scholars The Guelph group for example may inshyitiate an elementary school program that bui Ids rapport with the University or it might encourage med ia coverage of Guelphs environshymental work
Too often we downplay the conshytributions of our universities says Hagar but if we can instil these atshytitudes in people then financial supshyport through the political process will be there
The aJiiance is unique in Canada It shybegan in 1990 with seed money from the Council of Ontario Universities and gains financial independence this summer And its looking for more volunteers To learn more about the group call director Janet Napper at 416-979-0984
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Genetic engineering bull bull bull
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This is the second part of a report on the use of biotechno]ogy in University of Guelph research
by Mary Dickieson
String art Biotechnology research reminds me of string art the 1960s craft
that had us weaving colored strings back and forth around a pattern made by driving nails halfway into a board
Under skilful hands it became a piece of sculpture an optical illusion that prevented your eye from following any single thread across the board in a straight line
Biotechnology tools are like that Every time you think you understand what one biotechnique can do in one particular dis shycipline you find it reappearing somewhere else as someone in a laboratory across camshypus or on the other side of the world thinks of yet another way to use it
In Part 1 of our biotechnology report we sk immed the surface of how these tools are being used at U of G to benefit plant reshysearch In this story well see many of the same techniques applied in other organisms primaril y animals The secret of our success in animal biotechnology lies in the fact that Guelph has the expertise and the facilities to take any project from lab to barn and back again
Throughout this report youll read about animal scientists and clinical veterinarians teamed up with molecular biologists imshymunologists chemists and microbiologists and often food scientists toxicologists and environmental biologists Their efforts benefit not only livestock production but also human medicine pharmacology food processing waste disposal and the environshyment
Embryo transfer
A major thrust of the animal biotechnolshyogy research at Guelph is in the area of
embryo transfer In fact there are three reshysearch positions funded by government and industry that deal directly with embryo manipul ation as a way to improve the comshypetitive position of Canadas beef and dairy industries
Biomedical scientist Keith Betteridge OVC MSc 60 heads an embryo research lab molecular biologist Alan Wildeman CBS PhD 83 holds a research chair devoted to the mammalian embryo and animal scientist Charles Smith concentrates on industrial research in animal-breeding strategies
Their work is supported by both federal and provincial granting agencies animal breeders and Semex Canada the major marketing arm of Canadas attificial breedshying industry Semex records annual export sales of more than $25 million and is leadshying the industry to the nex t plateau shymarketing sexed frozen or cloned embryos
One route to increasi ng the efficiency of animal production is by improving animal reproduction says Betteridge And that in shyvolves many new biotechniques associated with embryo transfer Conventional embryo transfer means collecting multiple embryos from selected cows and transferring them to properly synchronized recipients It is now almost equally conventional however to freeze or bisect the embryo as part of the procedure
Initially the selected cow was treated with hormones to produce more eggs which were fertilized through artificial inseminashytion (AI) with the semen of a top-rated bull A large number of embryos could then be recovered surgically from the cow for imshyplantation in surrogate cows of lesser genetic worth
These techniques are widely used for the production of purebred bulls More than half the dairy bulls currently at stud in Canadas major AI centres have been produced this way There is also keen interest in using the technology to produce genetically superior breeds and provide competitively priced volumes of commercial cattle embryos
From lOp Bisecting a bovine embryo to produce identical twin calves a chimeric chick created by mixing cells from two embryos microinjecting the egg ofa fruit fly with DNA from bacterial genes that can confer insecticide resistance and a Hereford heifer protected from shipping fever by a vaccine developed a f U of G
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and more Test-tube calves and lambs
In 1988 Semex research co-ordinator Robert Stubbings OVC 76 MSc 84 PhD 89 produced Guelph s first test-tube calf during his graduate studies with Prof PK Basrur in the Departshyment of Biomedical Sciences It was not the first test-tube calf in Canada but it was the first developed from an egg that was matured as well as fertilized in a test tube
The resulting zygotes (fertili zed eggs) were placed in the oviduct of a rabbit for their early development then moved after seven days to the uterus of a recipient cow
Just a few months later other memshybers of the Guelph team took the process one step further eliminating the need to use a temporary host oviduct Postdoctoral fellow Kang Pu Xu and PhD student John Pollard were able to extend development in vitro to the point where the embryo was mature enough to survive when transplanted directly into a recipient cow s uterus
The early embryos were cultured in a medium containing luminal cells exshytracted from the oviducts of slaughtered cows Two baby bulls were born the first in Canada using this method and only the second in North America
Last year gradu ate student Dawn Kelk CBS 89 and Prof Allan King 73 and MSc 75 of the Department of Biomedical Sciences produced North America s first in vitro fertilization (lVF) lambs using these techniques
These achievements were important for several reasons The Animal Biotechshynology Embryo Laboratory can now
Authors note
One of the things Ive learned while writing this story is that biotechnolshyogy is a word seldom used by scienshytisrs For inost of us it conjures up images of people in lab coats bent over microscopes using precision inshystruments to manipulate the cells of living organisms But for scien~ists that s too vague The word may have
meaning but it d6eslJt really
produce its own IVF embryos from oocytes recovered from slaughtershyhouse cows bypassing the more expensive route of sushyperovulation and surgical withdrawal
In addition scientists have gained knowledge about early embryo development that is important for improveshyments in embryo viability and vital for developments in cloning techniques and controlled transgenesis in livestock
In a more immediate and practical context the work has led to the first clinical
Prof Keith Belleridge left and Prof Stanley Leibo watch as research technician Cindy Christian prepares an embryo f or cryopreservation Photo by Mary Dic kieson
use of IVF in cattle in colshylaboration with Brian Hill OVC 80 of Western Ontario Breeders
Bisected embryos
Meanwhile yet another part of the team based in the Department of Populashytion Medicine was perfecting techniques to microsurgicall y bisect fertilized embryos to produce genetically identi shycal animals
Professors Brian Buckrell OVC 68 MSc 84 and Cathy Gartley OVC 82 DVSc 89 and postdoctoral fel shylow Rick Rorie bisected six-day-old sheep embryos - visible only through magnification - and surgically imshyplanted them into recipient ewes Five months later nine lambs were the first animals born at Guelph from bisected embryos
Prof Walter Johnson and postdoctoral
describe anything They talk instead about cell fusion enzyme systems i ermentation or genetic engineering
The fact that biotechnology didnt appear as a popular buzzword until the 1980s suggests that we are using ilto define something neW yet none of these disciplines is really new Human beings have been using other organisms to create new procucts for centuries Thats why We have yeast yogurt and beer as well as anti-
fellow Naida Loskutoff have now exshytended this work in cattle by producing identical twins from IVF embryos divided into quarters at earlier stages of development
These projects maximize embryo use and highlight the potential for creating significant numbers of genetically identishycal animals which can be vital for conshysistent research results Tests conducted on genetically identical animals can reduce the variables caused by genetic differences and ultimately the number of animals needed for experiments
Frozen sexed embryos
The development of in vitro technishyques has also made possible further studies in cryopreservation (freezing) and embryo sexing
It s been possible to freeze and thaw
biotics growth hormones and vacshycine ~ Even genetic engineering is not new although many of us think it is
Through selective breeding practices fanners have been engineering the genetic makeup of domestic animals -for centuries What is new is the speed and accuracy with which we can implement genetic changes the ability to cross the species barrier and a much greater understanding of life processes
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At the eight-cell stage ofdevelopment in a bovine embryo each cell is removed and placed in the shell ofa discarded embryo Afler three days the blastocysts are transferred into recipient cows and the pregnancies allowed to col1linue Eight identical calves will be born and will proshyvide a valuable tool for research
cattle embryos since 1973 and most of the 60000 or so embryo-transfer calves born annually in North America are now obtained from embryos that have been stored in liquid nitrogen But there are still many problems to overcome in freezing unfertilized eggs embryos at varying stages of development and embryos produced in vitro or subjected to micromanipulation
Biomedical science professor Stanley Leibo is a specialist in cryobiology Before coming to Guelph he was part of an industry team that produced the worlds first live young (mice) from frozen embryos and later invented the patented one-step method of freezing cattle embryos Other biomedical scienshytists - King and Don Rieger - and molecular biologists Wildeman and Stan Blecher are investigating various ways of sexing embryos
Some of these involve the use of micromanipulation to remove a small number of cells from an early-stage embryo The sex can be identified by locating X and Y chromosomes detectshying male-specific DNA or perhaps by studying the proteins produced by the DNA segments In embryonic life the activity of X-linked enzymes in female embryos is twice that in males
Detecting differences in the energy metabolism of male and female embryos may also become a method of sexing In studies on early embryos generated in vitro Guelph scientists disshycovered that male and female embryos develop at different rates In addition to its value in sexing embryos this knowledge poses another question If the team can one day learn to control the rate of embryo development will it be possible to control the sex of an embryo independent of its genetic comshyplement
Photo courtesy of the Animal Biotechnology Embryo Lab
Transgenic animals
Since the mid 1980s Wildeman and fellow molecular biologist John Phillips have been producing transgenic mice for studies in human disease
This involves recovering one-cell embryos microsurgicalty from an imshypregnated mouse With a finely drawn glass needle a piece of DNA is inserted into the nucleus of the embryo which is then placed in a surrogate female to complete the pregnancy The offspring carries the foreign gene
One line of research using transgenic mice involves the study of a virus known to affect the transformation of normal cells into tumorous cancer cells Wildeman performs this work using transgenic mice in studies of cancer and metastasis
Transgenic mice are also used in Phillipss ongoing study of the causes of insulin-dependent juvenile diabetes He borrowed a gene from the fruit fly and spliced it into the chromosomes of the mouse so that it is expressed in the beta cells of the pancreas
Observations from the research conshyfirm the long-standing hypothesis that one cause of juvenile diabetes arises from the action of oxygen radicals in the pancreas
The fruit fly itself is used in studies aimed at producing insecticide-resistant insects Working with a team of scienshytists in Texas Phillips is perfecting techshyniques to transfer organophosphate insecticide-resistant genes to the fruit fly and ultimately to agriculturally beneficial insects
Studies have shown that the use of inshysecticides could be reduced if beneficial insects were not also killed by the spray In addition this research may provide the solution needed by North American
honey producers who are suffering great losses in their beehives due to parasitic mites Currently there is no effective control of the mites
From mice to pigs and chickens
Transgenic mice are also playing a role in a project that may eventually imshyprove forage use in domestic animals
Ruminant animals like cows and sheep have friendly bacteria in their inshytestinal tract that enable them to digest the cellulose fibre in forage crops If other animals such as pigs or chickens had the same ability they could be reared on lower-quality cheaper feed than the cereal grains now used
A research team that includes Phillips microbiologists Cecil Forsberg and Peter Krell and environmental biologist David Collins-Thompson has isolated the effective gene from a microshyorganism present in ruminant animals and is transferring it into the mouse which is also a monogastric animal Studies with transgenic mice will enable the team to fine-tune its ability to manipulate expression of the gene
This is just the beginning of a longshyterm project says Phillips but it may one day connect with the work of Profs Rob Etches and Jim Squires in the Department of Animal and Poultry Science who are following separate paths to reach the same goal- transshygenic chickens
Blotchy chicks
Etchess lab opened the door for transshygenic poultry in 1988 when postdoctoral fellow Jim Petitte OAC PhD 86 sucshycessfully moved cells from one chick embryo to another creating chimeric chicks Until this breakthrough
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researchers had been unable to manipulate the avian embryo in the early stages of development
Petitte extracted embryonic cells from the yo lk of a newly laid egg from a barred Plymouth Rock hen and microinjected them into a rec ipient embryo in a dwarf white l eghorn egg through a tiny 05-censhytimetre window cut in the shell When incubated the egg went on to produce a chimeric chick Embryonic cells from the black Plymouth Rock donor were expressed as blotches of black in the chicks down
Since then Etchess research team has been able to do the procedure more successfully get better gene exshypression in the donor cells and keep the embryonic cells in culture for 24 to 48 hours befo re transplanting them into the recipient egg
The chimeric chick itself is not transgenic genetic information from the donor embryo is expressed in a limited number of cells in the chick A second-generation chimera howshyever would be transgenic if the donor cells contained a foreign gene
Thats the focu s of a collaborat ive
Animal scienlisl Jim Squirev has developed a chemic(li recipe Ih(l causes DNA-I(lced liposomes 10 fuse wilil sperm cells When pershyjeered the technique will allow him to use the natural veeror ofsperm cells 10 lransmit foreign
project between the labs of Etches and colleague Prof Ann Gibbins OAC MSc 71 PhD 80 who is intershyested in modifying the donor cells through genetic manipulation When her lab team is able to target a specific gene and change it - and only it - they will insert that gene into the donor cells to produce a chimeric chick and in the second generation a transgenic chick
Transgenic sperm
Squires is taking a more obvious but no less perilous route to the transgenic chicken by using sperm cells to carry the foreign DNA Just as the hen s embryo is difficul t to manipulate the rooster s sperm has barriers of its own Prevail ing thought is that any invas ion of the sperm cell will kill its potency
Although Itali an and Israeli reshysearchers claim to have inserted DNA into the sperm cells of mice through abshysorption no one else has been able to get this to work so the prevailing thought prevail s
Squires s approach is to power DNA into the cells He s de veloped a chemishycal recipe that causes DNA-laced liposomes (fat globules) to fuse with sperm cells
Squires says his team has overcome
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DNA Photo by Ma ry Dickieson
the three main obstacles encapsulating DNA in the liposomes fu sing the liposomes to sperm cells which affects the transfer of 0 TA and retaining the fertility of the sperm
What they have yet to demonstrate is that the process produces a transgenic animal Trials are under way using a radioactive marker ge ne that can be easi shyly detected in a developing transgenic chicken Squires will be eager for peer rev iew to document the results this fall
If successful the sperm cell technique can be adapted for use with all species of commercial animals Sperm cells are the perfect vector because their ultimate function is to insert DNA into an egg says Squires We ll just be supplying the DNA The method is easy economical and safe to periorm and does not inshyvolve expensive equipment
Disease diagnosis
The international race to identify a mutation assoc iated with a costly swine disease was won by Guelph pathologist Peter OBrien OVC 88 and Univershysity of Toronto professor David Maclennan
The mutation associated with maligshy
nant hyperthermia was identifi ed in Maclennan s laboratory by sequenc ing the gene in normal and abnormal swine A I OO-per-cent correlation was fo und between DNA-based tests in Maclennan s laboratory and phys iologishycalbiochemical tests used in 0 Brien s research for diagnosing the condition
From these findings the scienti sts developed a test using modem molecular biology techniques to identify the mutation in the blood cells of inshydividual swine
Malignant hyperthermia is seldom fatal in pigs but it results in poorshyquality pork Pork producers suffer major economic losses from what is known as PSE - pale soft exudative (watery) meat - in affected animals
Other research at U of G cou ld help eliminate a potentially lethal blood coagulation disorder in dairy cows Facshytor XI a genetic disorder associated with a lack of c lotting protein in the bl ood causes hemorrhag ing in Holstein cows
Researchers believe the problem can be eliminated by ensuring that breeding stocks are free of the disease Testing for all of Canada is conducted by U of G biomed ica l sc ienti st Patricia Gentry and research technician Michelle Ross
Vaccine development
Vaccination is the cheapest most efshyfecti ve way of dealing with infec tions and the most poweriul way of preventshying di sease Advanced immunization programs using new biotechniques are under way in many Guelph labs last fa ll the Natural Sc iences and Engineershying Research Council announced strategic grants for advanced techshynologies that included four vacci ne development projects at U of G
Profs Brian Derbyshire and Eva Nagy of the Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Immunology (VMI) recei ved a three-year grant of $295000 to perfect gene-cloning techniques for the de velopment of a vaccine for porshycine gas troenteritis
In the same department Profs Janet Maclnnes Soren Rosendal and Bonnie -Mallard OAC 79 MSc 82 PhD 88 were awarded $250000 over three years to work on a recombinant vaccine effecshytive against the bacterial organism that causes severe pneumonia in pigs
Also in VMI Prof Patricia SheweD 75 MSc 79 PhD 82 received a three-year grant of $408 000 with Prof
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Reggie Lo Microbiology to continue work on an improved vaccine for shipshyping fever Lo and Prof Alan Mellors Chemistry and Biochemistry received a $54000 grant to develop clinical and com mercial applications of a technique used in bone marrow transplantation and vaccine development
These projects follow in the footsteps of earlier developments like the bov ine shipping fever vaccine created by Shewen and VMI chair Bruce Wilkie OVC 65 It was like finding a way to control the common cold in humans
Although the bacterium Pasteurella haemolytica occurs normally in the noses of cattle its numbers increase during periods of high stress and present an insurmountable problem for the animals immune system
Wilkie and Shewen di scovered that during its most active stage of growth the bacterium produces a toxin that imshypairs the ability of clearing cells to eliminate the bacterium They grew the bacterium in a culture monitored toxin production and developed processes for vaccine production
The technology was licensed to Langford Inc of Guelph which man ufac tures and markets Presponse shipping fever vaccine in both Canada and the United States
Lab work by Lo and former student Craig Strathdee CBS 85 PhD 89 that contributed to the shipping fever vaccine project also led to a patent apshyplication - for the plasmid coding for Pasteurella haemolytic leucotoxin which has been implicated as a major virulence factor in the impairment of primary lung defence in cattle
Animal health
Wilkie and Mallard are also working with Prof Brian Kennedy in Guelph s Centre for the Genetic Improvement of Livestock to develop a selective breedshying program that uses knowledge acshyquired through genetic studies and stretches the definition of biotechnology
To stay hea lthy an individual animal must have the genetic ability to produce resi stance to infection says Wilkie That ability is not dependent on a sing le gene but on the expression of many difshyferent genes Neve rtheless these genetic traits are heritable and amenable to selection
This team has identified traits in pigs that are important in maintaining health has characterized individual animals
Biotechnology ofa different sort in volves the use of traditional selected breeding and a computer database to produce diseaseshyresistant pigs
through the expression of these genetic traits and has associated these traits with high productivity If these high producers are mated to produce a disshyease-resistant strain of pigs is that biotechnology
If foreign DNA had been introduced into the embryo of a pig to give it the characteristic of disease resistance that would be an obvious example of bioshytechnology But how do we catalogue the technology if it uses tradi tional selecshytive breeding and a computer to produce a piglet with the same resistance to disshyease
More biotechniques in action
Guelph food scientist Cyriel Duitschaever OAC MSc 66 PhD 75 has developed new fermented milk products that will benefit people suffershying from gastrointestinal illnesses
He and research associate Carole Buteau OAC MSc 78 PhD 83 isoshylated two naturally occurring intestinal bac teri a and propagated a pure culture in the laboratory to develop both liquid and yogurt-like milk products that can be used to stimulate digestion in the inshytestinal tracts of people who are on anshytibiotics who are lactose-intolerant or who suffer gas trointestinal disorders
Clinica l trials at the Children s Hospishytal of Buffalo have been promis ing giv ing rise to another potential use in the treatment of acute diarrhea l di seases affec ting people in the Third World
Microbiology professor Joseph Lam heads a research team that has develshyoped a diagnostic kit to quickly identify a bacteria group known to cause fat al inshy
fections in some hospital patients Pseushydomonas aeruginosa is the principal cause of death in cystic fibrosis sufshyferers and is a serious threat to burn vi cshytims cancer patients and those undergo ing transplants
Because the bacterium does not respond to conventional antibiotic treatshyments quick de tection is central to preventing spread of the infection Lam s kit can cut the test period from 12 hours to five minutes
His current research illustrates the cross-over effect of biotechnology He identified an antigen that is common to about 75 per cent of P aeruginosa strains and a monoclonal antibody against the antigen This has allowed him to iso late spec ia l bacteria that will produce the antigen in large quantities for further s tud y His work should evenshytually lead to a human monoclonal anshytibody that cou ld be used to protect cystic fibrosis patients
In 1989 when the federal governshyment decided it was time to put some money behind its verbal thrust in science and technology it allocated $240 million to estab li sh 14 centres of excellence that would integrate the reshysearch efforts of Canadian uni versi ties industry and government
Several U of G researchers received funding including microbiologists Chris Whitfield Anthony Clarke Joseph Lam Reggie Lo Roselynn Stevenson and Terry Beveridge who beshycame part of the network looking into bacterial di sease Their expertise will aid the search for the causative agents of bacterial diseases such as whooping cough gonorrhea toxic shock synshydrome lung infections and me ningitis
In 1988 biochemist Janet Wood and crop scientist Peter Paul s achieved a breakthrough in understanding how subshystances like sugars and amino ac ids are transported from outside to inside a living cell wall They found that minute protein molecules in the wall surroundshying a cell act like miniature pumps capshyturing the substance and powering it through the cell wall -They are now trying to determine how the protein molec ules choose subshystances for uptake or release S uch celshylular behavior plays a critical role in determining a plants reaction to soi l sa linity or explaining why cells fai l to transport glucose from the blood in diabetics
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Behind every how theres a why While we stand in awe of what sc ienshytists are accomplishing in the biological sciences we shouldnt lose sight of the reasons why they are manipulating cell structure and decoding genetic blueprints
To some extent scientific exploration is driven by human nature - our desire to understand and control the natural world Advances in biotechniques and genetic engineering promise to give us more of both
Reports on the Human Genome Project say that within 15 years well know the code of almost every gene in the human body This work and current explorations in animal genetics are harshymonized by the fact that many of the genes that control development are similar among species
The chicken for example is a familiar model for studies in developshymental biology Supported by 60 to 70 years of data todays embryologists like Prof Rob Etches are learning how to modify the genes that control developshyment of a chick embryo while giving us a better understanding of how genes efshyfect development in all vertebrates
Nothing could be more fund amental than understanding that process says Prof Keith Betteridge who heads the Guelph team working with bovine embryos In all areas of reproductive and genetic research the big payoff is that we will understand more about how two gametes can unite to fonn a single cell and develop into Northern Dancer or Albert Einstein he says
Everyone has a role to play in decidshying how to use this knowledge says Betteridge but the researcher has the triple responsibility of thinking through the implications of new technologies exshyplaining those implications to a skeptishycal and concerned public and safeshyguarding the welfare of animals used
Whether manipulating an entire animal or one of its reproductive cells the scientist is guided by the same set of moral standards If the technology inshyduces pain or suffering causes changes in behavior or affects the animals abilshyity to eat and survive then it shouldnt be done says Prof Bruce Wilkie chair of the Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Immunology
He and other Guelph scientists inshyvolved in animal research are subject to
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peer rev iew through the U of G s animal care committee which is also charged with ensuring that research and teaching programs are in compliance with the Animals for Research Act of Ontario
Reporting to the University s Reshysearch Board the committee is comshyposed offaculty student community and non-user representatives It estabshyli shes animal-care policies on campus and evaluates all protocols submitted by researchers and teachers After granting initial approval the committee reviews each project annually and inspects reshysearch facilities each semester A provinshycially appointed inspector also visits campus frequently and the Canadian Council on Animal Care makes an inshyspection every three years to assess the level of animal care
In addition to safeguarding animal care scienti sts al so need to provide evidence that the products of biotechnolshyogy are safe for human consumption or medical use The public needs to know that the pharmaceutical protein cloned and produced in a chicken s egg is no different than the same protein cultured from human cells and produced in a large bioreactor
The big payoff is that we will understand more about how two gametes can unite to form a single cell and develop into Northern Dancer or Albert Einstein
One of the most talked-about benefits of transgenic technologies is the potenshytial for producing enzymes prote ins and antibodies for pharmaceutical and inshydustrial uses Molecular farming would take advantage of the expression system in higher animals to produce a therashypeutic protein that is difficult or expenshysive to make in a lab
The potential seems enormous but the prac tice will be quite simple A typishycal Ontario dairy herd could probably produce enough human insulin or bloodshyclotting factor to satisfy the world
demand It s easy to see why these techshyniques are already presenting problems for patent offices
The past decade of work in transshygenesis has been a learning process for all of us Early research efforts that produced pigs in the United States with arthritic deformities and sheep in Australia with ulcers have taught us th at even science must learn to walk befo re it can run That means perfecting genetic transfer in animals where the techniques are easily controlled - such as mice and fruit flies - before applyshying them to domestic animals
One of the advantages of gene transshyfer technology is the control it offers geneticists who are able to manipulate expression of a single gene during development One of the limitations may be the re lative ly minor change that gene can make in one generation when compared with the changes induced through the countless generations of selection since domestication
These limitations may alleviate some of our fears about the use of gene transshyfer but it also makes us question its value at least in terms of breed improveshyment in domestic livestock Prof Charshyles Smith holds a research chair at Guelph in animal-breeding strategies and is often called on to assess the value of the new biotec hnologies in the genetic improvement of farm livestock
Economic traits are already being imshyproved through traditional selective breeding methods he says It would take quite large beneficial transgenic efshyfects (at least 10 per cent of the mean) on economic merit to make their incorshyporation worthwhile
Despite our e thical concerns the legal entanglements created by the use of biotechniques and the problem of turnshying new technologies into cost-effective procedures most scientists agree that these technolog ies are too powerfu I not to use They have the pote ntial to help allev iate some of the most serious problems facing the world - food production overpopulation disease and shyenvironmental degradation
Statisticians teU us that 50 years from now we will be trying to feed twice the current world s population on a smaller land base in a more fragile environshyment This is the why behind current research in genetic engineering
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OUD TH Annual giving in 1991 reached $14 million The value of the Annual Fund becomes more apparent each year as the University of
Scholarships amp BursariesGuelph faces continued financial $320127
AMF Priority Athletics ~ ---------- (Scholarships$38326
pressure The 1991 Annual Fund Pet Trust raised $14 million to help $261224 maintain scholarships and provide academic and library programs AMF OAC Alumni Scholarships Foundation ______ grew by $9245 25 per cent
$228494
Memorial Funds $56997
Arboretum $77441
Class Projects ResearchBuildings$86658
Matching gifts grew 31 per cent in 1991 More and more Canadian companies are g iving financial support to the institushytions that educated their employees A total of 44 companies matched 92 inshydividual gifts for a record $11120 in Annual Fund contributions to the University of Guelph in 1991
If you work for a matching-g ift employer every doll ar you donate is matched - doubled or even tripled shyby a company gift Its as easy as it sounds so check with your employer on how to multiply the value of your gift to the University
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Academic Enrichment $87246
3M Canada Incorporated Akzo America Foundation Alcan Aluminum Limited A lean Canada Products Ltd Amdahl Canada Limited American Home Products Corp American International Group Inc BASF Corporation Bell Canada Boise Cascade Canada Limited Campbell Soup Co Ltd Chevron Canada Resources Ltd F alconbridge Ltd Ford Motor Company of Canada Ltd Gelleral Electric Canada Inc Hoechst Canada Incorporated IBM Canada Limited ICI Canada Incorporated Insurance Bureau of Canada
$134893Library $103050
John Laball Limited Kraft General Foods Canada McGraw-H ill Ryerson Limited Nabisco Brands Canada Ltd Northern Telecom Limited Paul Revere Life Insurance Co Pfizer Canada Inc Pioneer Hi-Bred Limited Pitman-Moore Inc Sara Lee Corp ofCanada Ltd Square D Canada The Bank of Montreal The Coca-Cola Company The Toronto Star The UPS Foundation TransCanada Pipelines Warner-Lambert Canada Inc Westeel
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ADIT ON With thanks to Donors Class agents College representatives Alma Mater Fund Advisory Council
Alumni and others who give to the University of Guelph through the Annual Fund are helping to maintain quality at a time when governments are funding for mediocrity Because of the dedication and commitment of our donors and volunshyteers the 1991 Annual Fund surpassed last year s total by $100000 We did not achieve our goal - perhaps $1 6 million was overly ambitious in light of current economic conditions - but we were able to maintain last years 25-per-cent inshycrease in scholarship support
Through the Alma Mater Fund we raised more than $540000 and achieved Tom Sawyer
the target of 12-per-cent participation among graduates of the three founding colleges Arts CBS and CSS alumni substantially increased their donations and participation over last year Campus participation grew from 145 per cent in 1990 to 171 per cent this year And our parents program pushed contributions from parents to $84188 compared with $31500 in 1990
For the first time since 1984 the Alma Mater Fund Advisory Council was able to go beyond its commitments to fund eight additional projects - a total of $86000
Looking ahead our flagship project for 1992 will be War Memorial Hall renovations During Alumni Weekend in June you ll have a chance to see the work that has been done upstairs and the work still needed in the downstairs hall It s a project well worth the interest and support of alumni
For your past and future support of the Alma Mater Fund my sincere thanks
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Tom Sawyer OAC 59A and 6 Corporations Chair AMF Advisory Council Associations Foundations $2874947 Annual giving contribution s
III Annual IGiving Alumni
$1403701 Major Gifts $1236622
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were 22 per cent of the o
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$6239707 given t U of G as donation
in 1991
Government (Donations only
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Annual Giving Report
1991 Annual Fund Results $1 A niillion wasraised overallmiddot ariinceaSe of
76 per ceI1tThisyear alumrii in the Arts and CBS groups doubled theirparticipation alld conshytributions And the parents recotded a 46-pershy
cent participation rate
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The group of eight
Eight campus projects were selected to share $86000 in highest-priority funds from the 1990 Alma Mater Fund Among them are the OvC Wild Bird Clinics education program a CSS academic medal in memory of the late dean John vanderkamp a soc ial sc ience citation index for the library framshying for the fine art print study collection a computer design laboratory for the School of Engineering seed money for a history graduate scholarship a conshytinuing education survey for the Mac-FACS Alumni Association and a HAFA-sponsored executive-inshyresidence
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Of cattle cash and Colvil e Alumni gifts to the University of Guelph come in some pretty interesting packages Over the years alumni have given livestock concrete paintings shythere are two by Canadian painter Alex Colville - furniture land books inshysurance policies and a host of artifacts and antiques And money - a lot of money Almost every building on camshypus has some bricks and mortar paid for by alumni And hundreds of students are helped along the way each year by alumshyni-sponsored scholarships
The Annual Giving Report on the preceding pages shows once again how important alumni gifts are to the Univershysity and provides us with an opportunity to say thank you to those alumni who continue to give on a yearly basis Anshynual giving is however only one of three avenues through which alumni proshyvide financial support to the University The others are major gifts and promoshytional programs
Annual giving
The Alma Mater Fund established in 1969 is the route chosen by most alumshyni faculty and staff who make annual gifts to the University
AMF solicitation and management are handled by a volunteer advisory council On the preceding page chair Tom Sawyer OAC 59A and 64 talks about the funds success over the last two years with AMF scholarships inshycreasing by 25 per cent This year the AMF begins a three-year commitment to funding renovations to War Memorial Hall
In addition to its flagship project AMF provides regular support to athshyletics through Gryphon Club contribushytions to college advancement funds and scholarships and to individual class projects
The AMF supports the camaraderie of university days as alumni work together to plan and complete a project whether its funding a scholarship a painting a tree weight-lifting equipshyment or furniture for Alumni House AMF contributions also ensure that fushyture Guelph students will remember those who have gone before
In addition to AMF donations the anshynual giving program includes gifts to
the OVC Pet Trust Fund the OAC Alumni Foundation the Arboretum the paren ts program and the Li brary Other gifts made directly to the University supshyport memorial funds scholarships musishycal activities and research and academic programs
Major gifts
Major gifts to the University are adshyministered by the Deve lopment Office under the direction of Marilyn Robinson Mac 55 These include beshyquests or life insurance policies shortshyterm pledges (often made during a capital campaign) large donations that might establish an endowment fund or contributions to special University projects like the Heritage Fund or the proposed FACS Building addition
Gifts- in-kind - such as library materials art objects or estate properties - also fall within thi s category Last year alumni gave more than $12 milshylion in such tax-deductible gifts
Promotions
Every Guelph graduate is a member of the University of Guelph Alumni Asshysociation and receives the Guelph Alumshy
nus magazine and many other privishyleges There are no UGAA membership fees but the association does raise money through promotional programs like MasterCard travel packages and the North American Life Assurance proshygram
The UGAA provides serv ices to alumshyni and students - such as the careershyplanning workshop planned for Juneshyand returns many dollars directly to the campus Last year it gave $20000 to the library
In addition to direct financial support through annual giving and major gifts alumni also support the University inshydirectly through membership fees to individual college and program associashytions The fees pay for association acshytivities that help maintain ties between their members and the University
Questions
If you have questions or would like 10
know more about the tax advantages of giving to U of G write to Paulette Samson associate director of annual giving and support services at Alumni House University of Guelph Guelph Ont NIG 2Wl or call 519-824-4120 Ext 6183
When yo~bearrom US
If you think youre hearing from us moreoften lhanY9u elida few years ago you reright But checkyour mail and you ll 110tiqe that you~re also hearing
more frequemly from othernon-jgtrofit)rganizations and charities We v~ all stepped lip oui- fUQdIaising efforts
U QfGappreciates your support and needs your help butyou wont know that if we donr teflyou Aildeyen if you cant afford to make a fjnancialcon~
tributiori we hop~ to wjn yoUfverbaJ sliPPOJ-tJt will take many voices to coii- ylnce governmeritthal universities should beagreater public priority
When we contacenttyou on behalf of iheUriivetsity we lly to give more thiin we ask So tak~advantage ofthe p~1one call o(letter to findoutwhais happenc ing OJrcarnp~s U ofG hasmuchto offer llufnrii professionaldevelcipment courses library privileges travel programs recreation and a link Igt friends and
classmates
We Jik~to keep in roucharidYcwarit yO~1 to know the progress were rilaking Ast~e Uriiversity $ prestige grows so does the value ofyour degree
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Get your career on track
Responding to alumni requests the University of Guelph Alumni Associashytion will sponsor a career-planning workshop on campus June 26 to 28 The weekend program will be led by Sharon Crozier of the University of Calgary counselling service Each participant will receive a careerlifestyle analysis and will develop a personal action plan
The $225 fee includes the StrongshyCampbell Interest Inventory and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator which will be administered and tabulated prior to the weekend Testing dates have been set in Toronto for May 27 and in Guelph for June 4
Sponsored by the UGAA and coshyordinated by Continuing Education and Alumni Affairs the workshop will also draw on the Universitys Counselling and Student Resource Centre
Enrolment is limited to 20 For registration information see page 26 or call Continuing Education at 519-767shy5000
UGAA board report
by Grant Lee CSS 73 MA 80
The UGAA will present a convocation package to each graduate this spring imshymediately following presentation of the degree or diploma Developed by Alumshyni Affairs staff the package is designed to increase awareness of the UGAA and the collegeschool alumni associations encourage membership introduce the Guelph Alumnus and provide an opporshytunity for board members to congratushylate our new alumni
Approval of the new UGAA bylaw is on schedule It will be presented to members at the annual general meeting in June along with an amendment to the
i I UGAA Letters Patent
In addition the UGAA board bull has approved a $400 donation to help
cover costs for two students to represhysent Guelph at the 1992 World Debatshying Championships in Dublin Ireland
bull is looking at a proposal to help alumDl with financial planning There will be more to come on this subject later
bull received thanks from president Brian Segal on behalf of those alumni who attended the October symposium
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Canada Break Up or Restructure The association was a patron of the event
bull is responding to requests from alumni for more social events Aside from the travel program the UGAA sponsored a ski day at Horseshoe Valley in March
bull approved a proposal from the School of Landscape Architecture to research places of historical value on campus Financial support has yet to be resolved
bull accepted an offer to help sponsor the University Centres annual lecture series which invites Canadian and inshyternational public figures to speak on current issues All events in the winter 92 series were free to alumni
bull donated U of G sweatshirts to Canadian Guidance and Counselling for a conference in Ottawa this sumshymer
bull approved the purpose and terms of refshyerence for the new Alumni House Adshyvisory Committee which is charged with overseeing maintenance of the
facility adopted the 199192 budget and finanshycial plan drafted last November This year we expect to generate some $44000 and spend $33000 It has been suggested that we set the 199293 budget and plan in April of this year so the new board wi II start in September with a sound financial program and budget that will only reshyquire adoption or revision
Chapter news
Calgary - About 40 alumni and guests met at the Delta Bow Valley Hotel Feb 3 to view a U of G video and hear a talk by admissions counsellor C hr is tine Toews FACS 87 Co-ordinator of the event was Janet Hutchinson CBS 79
Edmonton - Paul OAC 67 and Anne Valentine CBS 69 hosted a group of 30 alumni and guests at the Ramada Renaissance Hotel
Montreal - U of G welcomed students and their parents - including many
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alumni - to its first Montreal informashytion night for prospective students The event was modelled after a successful program in Toronto that draws more than 800 students each spring
Vancouver - U of G president Brian Segal met with alumni March 5 at the Pan Pacific Hotel Jim Dodds OVC 63 and Sarah Bloom FACS 86 orshyganized the event which attracted about 70 alumni and guests
Halifax- U ofG alumni in Halifax met with Gryphon basketball players during the March 26 to 28 CIAU chamshypionships Despite losing the OUAA west division title to Brock University the Gryphons qualified for a wi ld card spot at the CIAU championships Alumshyni received free tickets to the game that pitted Guelph against Brandon in the consolation final Fan support was enshythusiastic but the Gryphons lost 72 to 64 finishing third overall
Homecoming 1992 Plans are well under way for Homecoming weekend Sept 25 and 26 In addition to the annual Gryphon Hall of Fame dinner and award s ceremony the weekend will feat ure a beach volshyleyball tou rnamen t --~4~=iiiiikshyconcert alumni brunch walk-a-thon pep rally reunions and the traditional homecoming dance following the Saturday afternoon footshyball game This year the Gryphons will play Wil frid Laurier University A complete schedule will appear in the next Guelph Alumnus but you can get
Winners of Ihe Ju SI fo r Fun square dance compelition 01 College Royal were left 10 right Ann Joselin Kelley Allen Joanne Hewirson Brenl McFadden caller Sue MacKinnon Richard Presley Trish Henderson Jason Thompson and Kelly Lillie
in the Homecoming spirit now by helpshying to plan your class reunion or signing up as a scorekeeper for the vo lleyball tournament For infOlmation call alumshyni officer Laurie Malleau HAFA 83 at 519-824-4120 Ext 2102
Swing your partner
Eight squares of alumni took part in the College Royal square dance competition in March Winners of the UGAA alumni square dance plaque were the Crazy 8s Joanne Hewitson Arts 91 Lloyd Hutchinson CBS 87 Sonya Jones CPS 90 Ed Ketchabaw OAC 88 and MSc 91 Carol)n OAC 90 and Brad MacNeil CPS 87 Mike Relf OAC 91 and student Sherry MacNeil Wayne Lowden was the caller
Winners in the Just for Fun category were Junior Farmer alumni who included Hewitson Ann Joselin OAC 90 Brent McFadden CSS 90 Richard Presley OAC 86 and soonshyto-be-alumni Kelley Allen Trish
Henderson Kelly Little and Jason Thompson The caller was Sue MacKinnon OVC 9 1
Florida picnic
The North Port Yacht Club hosted 199 alumni for the annual Florida picnic March 4 On hand to meet them was Trish Walker CSS 77 and MSc 90 director of alumni affairs Judy Phillips of the University s Real Estate Division also attended to talk about the Village by the Arboretum retirement deve lopshyment
Attendance prizes went to Gertrude Stewart Mac 30 and Morley Funston OAC 32 The picnic was sponsored by the UGAA Alumni-In shyAction Committee represented by Ken Gartley OAC 42 and the Florida reunion committee consisting of Mary and Ted Brent OAC 48 Helen and Don Moffatt OAC 46 Stella and Bob Moore OAC 48 and Retis and Bill HasenptlugOAC 39
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A new kind of class reunion
Its the latest fad in alumni circles shymeeting your classmates at the anshynual University of Guelph alumni hockey tournament Twenty-two teams played in the fifth annual tourshynament in December
For most teams tournament standshyings are secondary to the socializing with classmates that they may not see otherwise says Bill Seegmiller OAC 83 who worked with Brian TapscottOAC 8 1 to organize the event We promote the social aspect through two divisions - social and more social - and include family skating and a Saturday evening wine and cheese party he says Trish Walker director ofalumni affairs presents fhe social division lrophy 10 Ihe OAC 79
Dipper Oldies (II the U ofG alumni hockey tournamenl The OAC 79A team defeated the Grey Gryphons to win the more soshycial division The OAC 80 team won the consolation final and the spirit award went to OAC 7778
In the social (a little more competishytive) division it was the Faceoffs in first place over OAC 88 OAC 90 won the consolation trophy and the Valley Vikings took home the spirit award
Organizers plan to add womens exshyhibition games to the 1992 tournament which is scheduled for Dec 5 and 6 For more information call Seegmiller at 519-836-3807 or Rudy Diemer OAC 85 at 519-763-2250
A night at the races
The UGAA Alumni-in-Action group will host a night at Mohawk Raceway May 26 The $30 admission includes a 6 pm buffet parking program taxes and gratuities For detail s call Laurie
~ Malleau at 519-824-4120 Ext 2102
I Alumni directory
A new alumni directory will be ready for delivery in May The deadline for alumni updates has passed but you can still order a copy of the directory at a cost of $40 plus tax Return the order form you received with the special U of G wristwatch offer or write to Rosemary Clark Mac 59 at Alumni House University of Guelph Guelph Ont NIG 2Wl
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Ottawa chapter 50 years young
There was a nostalgic gathering of Guelph alumni in Ottawa last winter to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the city s alumni chapter
Donald Fletcher OAC 36A and 39 who was president of the group in 1953 sent us a historical account of the chapters activities
A small organizing committee first met in February 1941 at Madame Burgers restaurant to plan the chapters first fun ction a skating party at the Ottawa Experimental Farm It attracted 75 people
Over the years the group held an anshynual picnic and a banquet and dance that gave them a chance to invite faculty from Guelph to speak about happenings at the colleges - and later the Univershysi ty Every president from George I Christie to Bill Winegard paid a vi sit
In 1951 alumni from OVC and Macshydonald Institute who had been meeting since 1936 joined the OAC group A crowd of almost 200 celebrated the chapter s 10th anniversary at a picnic at the farm of the late John Bracken OAC 06 During the 1950s they added a get-together at the annual Ottawa-area plowing match which gave way to a curling bon spiel in the 1960s
There have been many special funcshytions - entertaining the Gryphon footshyball teams square dances car rallies golf tournaments theatre parties and raceway evenings - but the event that stands out in Fletchers memory ocshycurred in 1966 when five members of Parliament hosted the group in the parshyliamentary ballroom
The chapter also includes a couples bridge club which has been meeting for 25 years in the homes of its members
Fletcher thanks the 30 people who have served as president of the Ottawa alumni chapter and the dozens more who have helped on committees devot shying years to the executive to promote the institution
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ALUMNI CAREER PLANNING WEEKEND WORKSHOP
JUNE 26 27 amp 28 ~ The Program This highly successful workshop developed by Sharon Crozier PhD University Counselling Services University of calgary is the first step for an alumnus who is considering a career move The weekend (Friday evening through Sunday afternoon) will consist of group presentations conducted by Dr Crozier with smaller working groups facilitated by profeSSional counsellors from the University of Guelph Counselling and Student Resource Centre
Discussion structured exercises and experiential activities will lead alumni to gain insight into a personal careerllifestyle analYSis and assessment career information resources networking skills and much more
No matter what their age career stage or reason for transition each participant will find this workshop to be an excellent opportunity to develop a personal action plan - and chart their next move
~ Pre-1esting In order to provide individualized career information registrants are required to attend one of two pre-testing sessions The Strongshycampbell Interest Inventory and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator will be administered and results tabulated prior to the workshop Pre-testing dates are as follows
Toronto Wednesday May 27 1992 700 pm - 8 30 pm Holiday Inn Yorkdale
Guelph Thursday June 4 1992 700 pm - 8 30 pm University Centre
~ Fee The registration fee of $225 includes administration and tabulation of the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator materials two lunches and refreshment breaks
Tuition fees in excess of $100 are income tax deductible
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May 2 - The Guelph Spring Festival begins with a 25th-anniversary gala dinshyner in Creelman Hall that will honor founding president Murdo MacKinnon Other festival events run until May 23 For more information call 519-821-7570
May 2 shy An All-Canadian University Asshysociation d inne r w il l be held in Washington DC at the Embassy of Canada Guest speaker is Robert Lanni president of the University of Windsor Entertainment will be provided by Windsors music department For inforshymation call T Chan at 202-543-9111
May 3 - Arboretum Day celebrates spring with family nature walks at 1 and 330 pm and an electrical keyboard concert at 230 pm featuring Canadian comshyposer Carole Anne Burris
May 10 to Aug 30 - Guided nature walks run every Sunday at 230 pm in the Arboretum Topics include wildflowers birds turtles snakes and insects The nature centre is open from 1230 to 430 pm
May 13 - Chancellor Lincoln Alexander is the guest speaker at the Alumni-inmiddotAction annual general meeting which begins at noon in the Arboretum Centre For details call Alumni Affairs 519-824middot 4120 Ext 2102
May 13 - The Human KineticsHuman Biology Alumni Association will hold its inaugural meeting at730 pm at Alumni House with a coffee and dessert social RSVP to 519-824-4120 Ext 6963
May 23 shy FACS 82 is sponsoring a colshylection of Bob Munsch plays performed by the Carousel Players at3 pm at War Memorial Hall Tickets are $8 plus tax and handling To order call the UC box off ice at 519-824-4120 Ext 3940
May 26 - Alumni-in-Action is hosting a night at Mohawk Raceway Cost is $30 To register call 529-824-4120 Ext 2102
May 30 - An Arboretum sale of rare native trees and shrubs at the RJ Hi lton Centre on College Avenue East runs from 9 am to 1 pm For information call 519-824shy4120 Ext 2113
May 30 shy The sixth annual All-Canadian University Dinner in Chicago will be held
in the Henry Crown Space Centre at the Museum of Science and Industry and will include a reception buffet dinner and an Omnivax movie beginning at 6 pm Guest speaker is George Pedersen president of the University of Western Ontario For information call David Cole at 312-372-4404 or Hugh Mackenzie at 708-369-3688
June 2 to 5 shy Spring convocation June 13 - Beginning at 7 am the Arshy
boretum will hold its summer bird survey The four-hour walk will locate breeding birds and identify their species by sight and song
June 15 to 17 shy U of G will host the 15th annual Guelph Conference on Sexuality With the theme Sexuality New Visions the conference will examine current isshysues in human sexuality counselling strategies for sexual problems and teaching approaches in sexuality educashytion For information call the Office of Continuing Education at 519-767-5000 or fax 519-767-0758
June 19 to 21 - ALUMNI WEEKEND See page 39 for a complete schedule of events and alumni association meetings The UGAA annual meeting is June 21 at 10 am in Macdonald Hall 149
June 26 to 28 shy The UGAA-sponsored alumni career-planning workshop will be held on campus See page 26 for details
July 31 amp Aug 4 shy The National Youth Orchestra will perform in War Memorial Hall at 8 pm as part of its summer program at U of G Tickets at $8 general $6 for stUdents and seniors will be availshyable at the door
Sept 26 - HOMECOMING Rise early for the second ann ual Homecoming charity walkathon At 930 am the Human Kinetics Alumni Association will hold its annual general meeting in the School of Human Biology lounge
Oct 1 - OVCs 1992 Schofield Memorial Lecture will be given by Steven Arnoczky a professor in the department of small animal clin ical sciences at Michigan State Universitys Laboratory for Comparative Orthopedics The 3 pm lecture will be held in War Memorial Hall Admission is free
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John Boros 88 of Wei land Ont writes that he is impressed by the way U of G keeps records after graduation Thi s gives the graduate a sense of belonging a connection to an important period in hi s or her life he says
Jane Buzza 88 is working as records co-ordinatorarchivist for the Ontario Medishycal Association in Toronto
Jacqueline (Sullivan) DeClerck 86 is a public relations officer at the Canada Trust head office in London Onto
Richard Ely 70 works at the Crown attorneys office in WeIland Ont He has an LLB from the University of Western Ontario in addition to his Guelph degree He says he often talks about U of G to young students trying to decide which university to attend
Paul Genest 81 finished graduate studies at Johns Hopkins Universi ty in Maryland and is now assistant professor of philosophy at Union College in Schenectady NY He is man-ied to Barbara Jessup 8 1
Brian Hogarth 78 is head of interpretashytion at the G1enbow Museum in Calgary
Martha Hooper 9 1 was married last Ocshytober to David Perry They live in Calgary where she is a sw itchboard operator at the Delta Bow Valley Inn
Rene van der Meijden 87 has put his degree in geogshyraphy and internationshyal development to good use with the Christian Reformed World Relief Comshymittce Originally from the Netherlands he is now in Uganda on a three-year asshy Rene van der signment as a rural Meijden development adv iser He sends greetings to his many friend s in Canada and to Guelph grads Stan and Kitty in Bolivia in particular and reminds us that visitors are always welshycome in Uganda
Edward Milliner 85 will graduate this spring from the faculty of education at the University of Windsor
Mark Moore 85 is doing postgraduate work in history at the University of Bristol in England He plans to teach high school
fn response to a letter from Dawn Monroe 69 that appeared in the winter 1992 issue of the Guelph Alumnus Doug Moynihan 69 of Fort McMurray Alta writes Be disapshypointed no more Dawn l I too graduated in 1969 from (the College of) Arts or as it was then called Wellington College and I havent heard from anyone either And I too think it is time to contribute my news
After graduation f headed out to disshycover and sol ve the problems of the world travelling overseas for about three years Since then Ive been working in human resources in a variety of organizations in many different locations in Canada Cun-entshyIy I am the manager of human resources in Fort McMurray
PS Do you remember me Dawn I was the bartender in Creelman Hall I
John Teskey 7 1 began new duties last summer as director of libraries at the University of New Brunsw ick in Fredericton He was head of adshyministrative sershyvices at the University of Albershyta before moving John Teskey across Canada to acshycept the UNB posishytion but had earlier served as chief librarian and was library personnel officer at both Alshyberta and the University of Saskatchewan
Teskey says his biggest challenge is to regain the lost purchasing power that univershysity libraries have suffered as a result of static budge ts and ri sing material costs He is encouraging increased resource-sharing among universities and interlibrary loan programs with shortened turnaround
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Elizabeth (Baxter) Willson 77 a real esshytate agent in Chatham Ont writes to voice a common feeling that the universi ty exshyperience itself is often more important than the degree or diploma received I am really glad I graduated from Guelph she says
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Michelle Bombadier and Mike Caldwell both 92 are two of 50 Canad ian youth selected to work in Guyana for three months with Youth Challenge International (YCI) a non-governmental organization that provides Third-world experience for Canadians They may spend the summer building a school teaching safety or clearing land for Gu ytna s first national park but they need some private support to he lp cover transportation costs Anyone able to help should write to YCI at I I Soho St Toronto M5T IZ6
Jane Coventry 86 writes with accolades for the Guelph Alumnus grad news section and an update on what she and her husband Jaydee Smith 84 and MSc 89 are doing They were married in 1989 while working at U of G - he in the Department of Animal and Poultry Science and she in the Departshyment of Crop Science In February 1991 they moved to England where Smith is doing a PhD at the University of Bristol and working as a research assistant Coventry
works in the technology transfer unit of Nickshyerson Seeds Ltd in Cambridge
Jeffrey Crawford 88 and Leslie Thompson 86 were malTied last October He is an elementary schoolteacher in Mount Forest Ont
Craig Emerson 83 earned a PhD at Dalshyhousie University in Halifax in 1990 and is now a research associate in oceanography
Paul Fleming 85 is a pharmaceutical sales representative for Hoechst Canada Inc and lives in Nepean Ont
David Forsey 80 is an assistant professor of computer science at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver He is marshyried to Lyn Bartram
Michael Gangl 89 is in his third year at the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College
Astrid Harms 87 is a registered nurse in London Ont
Andrew Holmes 85 worked for the Onshytario government as a wildlife biologist for three years but is now back at school in his second year at Northwestern Chiropractic College in Minneapolis
Timothy Johnson 86 works at the Centre for Limnology at the University of Wisconshys in in Madison
Karen Lennard 77 (HK) and her hu sshyband Paul Jackson 79 (HK ) and MSc
82 both went 011 to earn medical degrees from McMaster University in HalTilton Ont Jackson also has a master s in physiology from the University of Virginia and is comshypleting an anesthesiology residency in Hamilshyton Lennard has a part-time family medical practice allowing her to spend more time with the couples two children Matthew and Nicola
Wendy Maltby 74 is an elementary schoolteacher for the Metropolitan Toronto School Board
Sandra OConnor 84 earned a medical degree from the University of Western Onshytario and is now practi sing in Burlington Ont
Linda Owen 81 runs her own business as a consulting exercise physiologist and fitness supervisor in Campbell River BC
Sheryle Tetley 86 is regional sales manager for Glaxo Canada Inc in Mi ss isshysauga Ont where she lives with her husshyband Ian
Rob Tonus 87 is manager of the Black Creek Rehabilitation Project a grassroots enshyvironment program to improve a degraded urban stream in Toronto His office is with the Metropolitan Toronto and Region Conshyservation Authority and he lives in Oakville with his wife Wanda (Knul) 88 (HK) a public health inspector in Hamilton
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Richard Woods 81 is an instructor of xshyray technology at the Easte rn Ontario School of X-ray Technology at Kingston Ge neral Hospital He would like to hear from other members of the 1981 U of G choir wi th whom he travelled to Scandinav ia Write to him at RRI Od essa Ont KOH 2HO
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James Dy nes 84 has comp le ted g raduate studies in chemistry and so il sc ience at the Univers ity of Sas katchewan in Saskatoon
Catherine (McVittie) Clark 88 is a nuclear medica l tech nici an at Howard Counshyty General Hospita l in Columbia Md She and her husband Michae l li ve in Elkridge Md
David Holmes 85 is a systems analyst at Sun Life Assurance Company
RolfKierdorf 84 lives in Guelph with his wife Janet He is se lf-employed as a systems consultant
Donald McFadde n 71 and his wife Carol li ve in A lbany Ga where he pracshyti ses medicine
Donald Ridley 69 and PhD 73 has been appoin ted seni or v ice-presiden t of CibashyGeigy Canada Ltd in Oakvi lle Ont and is responsib le for a ll corpora te serv ices includshy
ing finance human resources safe ty health and the environment He a lso se rves on the board of the Canadian Agricu ltura l Research Council and is a member of the Great Lakes Action Plan Strategi c Advi sory Committee
Kathryn Root Parr is an assoc iate minister at Lorne Park Bapti st Church in Mississhysa uga Ont She was married las t fa ll to Vicshytor Parr
Peter Simpson 85 is dis tric t manager for McNeil Pharmaceutical Ltd in Stouffville Ont He is married to Cynthia (Hamilton) 85 (HK)
Keith Stemshorn 83 is in the Canadian Armed Forces stationed in Calgary
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Nikki Dignard 86 moved to Ottawa last year where her husband Ted Henike pracshyti ses denti stry Dignard is working on an M BA and says she d love to hear from CSS classmates Tom Cam and Kathryn
Bonnie Dunnett 87 and MA 91 works on campus at the Gerontology Research Centre S he and Barry Hallman 9 1 li ve in Guelph
Kathryn Faulkner 80 is a registered nurse in Burling ton Ont where she li ves wi th he r husband John
Ruth Fox 84 is a sta ffing assistant for
Transport Canad a and lives in Toronto w ith her husband Christopher
Shonna Giles 88 is an admiss ions officer at Simon Fraser Unive rs ity in Burnaby BC
Gina Grieco 75 is a hi gh school guidance counsellor in North York Onto
John Harris 82 is manager of financial planning and budgets for th e City of Brampton Ont
Paulette Heppner 76 is a teache r in Vanshycouver
John Johnston 7 1 has been appointed exshyec uti ve vice-pres ident o f Ve rsacold Canada Corp and pres ident of QF Foods Distribushytion Services Versacold Canada is the largest public refri gera ted ware hou sing orshygani za tion in Western Canada
Michael Kral 79 has moved from the Univers ity of Manitoba to the University of Wind sor where he is an assistant professor of psychology
Jeffrey Lozon 76 and his family recently returned to Toronto after 15 years in Western Canada He is executive vice-president and ch ief operat ing officer at St Michael s Hos pital and li ves in Oakville wi th hi s wife Donna and two daughters
Bria n Martin 79 is a real estate appraiser in Portland Ont whe re he li ves w ith hi s wife Margaret (Sheffield) Arts 79
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Leith Mason 90 works in Toronto in the Canadian office of the State of Illinois as a special assistant to the Illinois Department of Food and Agricul ture
Michael McKean 74 of Don Mills Ont was recently appointed president of Wrigley Canada Inc Before joining Wrigley as execushytive v ice-pres ident in 1990 he he ld senior positions in Hong Kong Brazil and the United States
Rick 74 and Vicki (Collard) McTaggart FACS 74 are working in Ottawa He is director of overseas operations for the Unitarian Service Committee a charitable non-governmental organization that supports commun it y and human resou rce developshyment activities in Africa and Asia She is sec tion head of consumer analysis in the agr ifood development branch of Agriculture Canada
Sandra Morrison 86 is an ass istant professhysor in the department of psychiatry at the University of Western Ontario
Stephen Naylor 85 is director of planning and development for the amalgamated municipalities of Alliston Beeton Tecumshyseth and Tottenham
Brian ONeill 68 MA lives in SUITey England where he is managing director of Innovation Management Consultant s
Jodi Parisi 89 is a sales representative for Gillette who says U of Goo was the greatest
Moira Skikavich 81 is completing a PhD in c inematelevision at the University of Southern California
Virginia Sutherland 78 is an air traffic controller at the Toronto Island Airport
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Peggy Bates 88 was recently promoted to sales manager with Sears Canada Inc She lives in Owen Sound Ont
Caroline Begin 86 is working in Singshyapore as a dietitian
Diana Close 87 is a c linical nutri ti onis t at Chedoke McMaster Hospital in Hamilton Ont
Sarah Davenport 90 is a case worker with the Wellington County Social Services office in Guelph She is malTied to Matthew Harvey CBS 90
Timothy Dyck 8 1 is national sales manager for Black amp Decker Canada workshying out of the Corbin Division in Richmond HillOnt
Sharon (Muir) 84 and Richard Ernst CBS 83 are the proud parents of a future Guelph grad uate one-year-old Andrew Graham
Patricia Edwards 78 is food servi ce sushypervisor fo r St Peter s Hospita l in Hamilton Ont
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For the love ofteaching Since she
middot graduated bull from Macshydonald Inshymiddot stitute in
J 963 Nancy Kerr has built a career on teaching and research in telttles The middotheidofthe Uriiveisityof
Albertas department of Clothing and texiiles pursues a middotscientific interest inthepreservashylion of hi stori~lfabricsarid in developing pesticide-proofc1otl1ing But Jler fitstlove i ~ teaching
In 199b shewonone ofU of As four Rutherford AWljrds for excellence ill unshy
dergraduate teat-hing The first member of the faculty middotofliomemiddoteconornicsto receive the award slie was the rcentcipient6f the facultys own underglltiduate teaching award three years earlier
Winning the Rutherford was a gteat honor says Ken who has been on
faculty at Alberta since 1967 She oiscovered she had an aptitude for
middot teaching as a graduate student at the University of California Davis in
196566 After earning her MSc she casr about for afaculty position in Canada and round U of A was the 0111y place I could teach ju t textiles plus have a chance to develop new cQurses and research labs
middot Kerr sa)s she gets a tremelldous sense of satisfaction from teaching and the learning he must do to stay cUlTent She attributes her succe s as a teaCher to middotIec-middot
middot tures that are well organized and clear and to creltting a positive classroom climate
~Thcomfort level of students is reaUy middot ililportanL ~ Kerr eamedherPhD in fibre lnd
polymer science from North Carolina bull Staie University in 1982 Her doctoral work concentrated oil deacidification
techniques to preserve historicatcottOnln 1988 she spent a sabbatical ye~r doing research at the Caliadian Conservation
middot In tirute in OnflW1 middot Originalmiddotly from Ottawa Kerr is a
trarisphlnted -vesterner who enjoys middot hiking anlt sk1ing
From left Diane Ellison Lisa Wilson Lori Davis and Pippa Hobbes
Diane Ellison 84 is liv ing in Osaka Japan where she teaches English to Japanese busishyness people Last October she welcomed three U of G friends for a visit Lori Davis CSS 85 manager of Jumbo Video Inc in Oakville Ont Pippa Hobbes 84 accountshying manager for Paramount Holidays in Willowda le Ont and Lisa Wilson 84 co-ord inator of membership serv ices for the Metropolitan Toronto Board of Trade
Monica Hrybko HAFA 88 is director of sales for the Ramada Hotel Old Town in San Diego Calif
David Jones HAFA 88 is a con troller at the Holiday Inn Montreal Centre-Ville
Kathleen McLachlin 83 is operating an insurance agency in Kitchener OnL She opened the State Farm Insurance office in March 1988 and says she loves her job
Susan (Goettler) Parker 80 is working in Toronto as benefits administrator for Imshyperial Oil Limited She is married to Donald Parker OAC 79
Mary Jean (Sinnott) Price Mac 7 1 has returned to sc hool at the University of Otshytawa to earn a bachelor of education
Margaret (Richardson) Rankin 75 has been living in Halifax since 1990 and is an account analyst for Central Guaranty Trust
Janet (Wanless) Sutherland 77 is in private practice as a marriage and family therapist in East Kelowna BC
Jean Thomson Mac 37 says 1937 was a long time ago but shes delighted with all the changes that have gone at the college A former hospita l nutritionist she is retired and living in London Ont -
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Olayiwola Layi Adeola MSc 86 and PhD 89 and his wife Mope are living in West Lafayette Indiana where he is an assisshytant professor of pig nutrition at Purdue University
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Bruce Barrie 79 (Eng) graduated last June with an MBA from City Uni ve rsi ty in Washington State and is now a senior adshyviser in strategic planning with Petro-Canada Resources in Calgary He is a professional eng ineer with APEGGA and an ac tive memshyber of the Planning Forum an international society for planning and strategic manageshyment
Barbara Bryce 83 and her husband Ricardo Ramirez 82 are living in Rome Italy She is a landscape architect and he is a communications officer with the Food and Agriculture Organizat ion
Daniel Campbell 81 and his wife SharonshyMarianne are farmin g near Petrolia Onto
Carolyn Closs 82 and her husband Harold operate a beef cowca lf operation in Shawville Que
Luc Cote 83 is an agricullural account manager for the Royal Bank of Canada in Joliette Que
Kerrie Lea Curran 85 plans to graduate this fall from the master of architecture proshygram at McGi ll University
Bruce Dodson 74A is course superinshytendent at Hawd Ridge Golf and Curling Club in Orillia Ont
Richard Donkin OAC 85A originalshyly from Zimbabwe is the manager of Venida Packing Inc in Exeter Calif Situated in central Californias San Joashyquin Valley Venida Packing ships tree fruit throughout the Richard Donkin United States Canada the Pacific Rim and the Far East Products under the brand names Ruby River and Venida include peaches plums nectarines kiwi grapes persimmons and pomegranates In 1988 Donkin married California native Lisa Kolander and they live in Lemon Cove a community in the Sierra foothill s
Brendan Elder 8S A lives in Kelowna BC and works for Dogwood Nursery He plans to be married thi s summer to Rosemary Powell
Robert Fessenden OAC MSc 67 was recently appointed vice-president of devel opshyment and planning at the Alberta Research Council He is responsible for tec hnology management and corporate marketing
John Fitzgerald 86 was married last November to Susan Given a ] 991 indeshypendent study graduate in animal producshytion He is a lecturer at Ridgetown College she works at Centralia College and is work shying on a psychology degree at the University of Waterloo They live in Strathroy Ont
Glenn Helstern 79A is a driver for the Calgary division of Greyhound Bus Lines of Canada Ltd
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She tells a princely tale
For seven miniJtes on Oct 24 199 L Ellen Het1eOAC 76~U1d MSc 80
(ltllked with PIince Charles Invited toopert a newfumaceat
inco Lilniteds Copper Cliff smelter iri Sudbury Ont the Princemiddot of Wales was easy to talk with says Heale ftwasverycxciting
As eiwironmental co-ordinator Of land reclamation andrevegetation at Copper Cliff Healetold theprince middot about Tnc(secosystem rehabilitation
projects Theroyalvisitor was parshyticulatfyiilterestedin the treegrow- ing project in abandoned inines flld in tlpoundrevegetation ()f acres of tailings
and barren rock Planrilig vegetation on the tailings
hasattrlttcled wildlifeto a protected habitat says Beale who has wqrked forIncosincc she graduated in 1976
Ninety~iwo species ofbirds as weil asrodems hares foxes wolves bears andinoQse have been sighted on the 2500 acres of rehabilitated ore waste
One thing about this job is you middot can s~e where youve been effective she says
While an undergraduate student in Prill(e Charles with EIen Heale horticultural science Healea native ofSiidbury worked at Ineo during the sumniers She wasthi tirst woman to
work inrhemining companys agriculture middot department After shegraduated the niekshy el inine hired her full time tcido horticul- turaLfleld research ~ Ineo later granted heT a two-semester leave of absente t6 work
Theodore Jacobs 78 (Eng) is engineering supervisor at Standard Tube in Woodstock Ont
Greg Keast 85 (Eng) is li ving in Mozamshybique in East Africa where he works as a project officer for UNICEF rural water supshyply project s
Richard Kline 74 was appointed partner of the Toronto accounting firm Schwartz Levitsky Feldman Inc last faiL He is presishydent of the film s bankruptcy division a member of the Chartered Accountants of Onshytario and first vice- president of the Ontario Insolvency Association
Christopher Laforest MSc 91 (USRPD) works in planning and economic developshyment for Bruce County Ont
Jean-Paul PhD 90 and Lynn (Hammell) Laforest 82 and MSc 85 are both employed at Laval University in Sainte-Foy Que He is a professor and s he is a research associate
Kenneth Lawless 63 earned a Guelph deshygree in agricultural economics then went on to stud y dentistry at the Uni versity of Toronshyto He is now an oral and manilo-fac ial surshygeon in Kingston Ont
oil her masters at OAC~ In her current PdStion Heale has rnore
administrative and public relations responshyibilities On her own time she sits on the
board of management for the tocal Red Cross and isalllember ofthe Sudbury
Business and Professional Womens Club
Margie Luffman 77 writes that she has happily returned to Ontario after 10 years in New Brunswick to work at the Smithfield Experimental Farm in Trenton She is curator of the Plant Gene Resources of Canada clonal gene bank
Brian MacCulloch MAg 89 is a sa les representative for Springva le Nurseries Ltd in Berwick NS
Daniel Mansell 64 and MSc 68 is Onshytario manager of the eastern habitat joint venture in the wildlife policy branch of the Ministry of Natural Resources He is stashytioned in Midhurst Ont
Peter McEntire 77A writes from County Langford in Ireland to keep in touch with U of G He is farming and work s as an AI techshynician with Bova Genetics Ltd
Darryl Mitchell 78 works at Pioneer HishyBred Limited in Chatham Ont
Hugh ONeil 88 is manager of customer financial services for Ral ston Purina Canada Inc
Umed Panu MSc 72 (Eng) has done a lot of travelling during his career After Guelph he earned a PhD in civil engineering
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David Nedelko OAC 86 and Ljrlda ArmsJrollg CBS 89 (Jurk 011 cemre) were marriediasl SeplemiJer in Bari ~ie OnlTluir weddiIg iiarly illcilldedfiom leli Katy KusmiliskiOA C 88Paul Allgusline GAG 86 Roh Reed OAC 87Carv Belfral1l oAC 8RJIuJ Sa ndimiddoto (CollinI) BerlrCIlII CBS RR Also 1I111ie wedding w(lS Arlllslong s Veal ullcleClarence Fleming OVC 34 The couple (Ire living in
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at the Universit y of Waterloo taught in India and at Mi ss iss ippi State Uni vers ity and worked with Briti sh Columbia Hydro and the Government of Newfoundland In 1986 he jo ined the faculty of c ivil engi neering at Lakehead Uni ve rsity in Thunder Bay Ont and was promoted to full professor in 199 1 He and hi s wife Kashna and the ir children Neeti and Anukud enjoy the outdoor recreashytion ac ti viti es available in Northwestern Onshytario and look forward to visits from U of G alumni trave lling to Thunder Bay
Lyle Pettigrew 61 is a marketin g consulshytant with Harris Kovacs Alderman in Atlanshyta Ga
Helen Prior 88 joined Sheridan Nurseries after graduation then worked for a year as a research tech nic ian in Guelph s Department of Crop Scie nce She is now in her th ird year at Emmanuel College at Victoria University and hopes to be ordained as a United Church min is ter in May
Gregory Scott 83 (Eng) is operations manager for Accuform Gol f Limited in Toronto
Ba rbara (Coordes) Skrypetz 87 is a fi e ld supervisor for the Ontario Dairy Herd Imshyprovement Corporation working out of Guelph He r husband Stephen 88 operates a bulldozing and excavating busi shyness in the Woodstock area
Victor Skidra 6 is re tired f rom his job as a sc ientific evaluator with Hea lth and Welshyfare Canada He and hi s wife Konstance live in Nepean Ont
William Slusarchuk 63 (Eng) and MSc
The way we were in 1902 OAC alumnus Douglas Campbell 60 passes on a bit of col lege hi sto ry that shou ld make us think twice about our con stitutional squabbles in C anad a
Campbell is director of the Latin America and Caribbea n Trade Divis ion of Canada s Department of External Affa irs Last summer he hosted a vi s it by the president of Uruguay Luis Alberto Lacalle Herre ra whose grand fa the r made a simil a r vis it to Canada in 1902
This is what the elde r Herrera reported to his government Gue lph agricultural college enjoys a worldwide reputation and is con shys idered one of the grea t loca l attracshytions
More than 200 young Canadians a long with many foreign youths come together in its lecture rooms There are bursary ho lde rs from Norway and as far away as Mauritius C loser to us
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67 was recently appo inted pres ident of AGRA Eanh and Environmental Group an envi ronme ntal and geotechnica l firm that is a division of AGRA Indu stries Limited
Michael Sullivan 87 A is a pol ice officer with the Wate rloo Regional Police in Cambridge Ont
Argentina has 12 students there We ll then couldnt Uruguay imshy
itate those good exa mples and also se nd a number of worthy youths to Guelph to acquire the professional knowledge which is becoming m ore necessary each day for the deve lopshyment of our agric ulture~
In addition to the sc ienti fic benefits that our compatriots woul d deri ve from entering sLlch a Canadian techni cal in shystitution there would be the inca lcushylable benefit of becoming familiar with the stric t manly and sound habits of these people who are admirable in e ve ry respect
Afte r they have stee ped themse lves in this atmos phere of dem ocracy which fosters the development of all rights and is alien to intolerance thi s legati on w ill have the great honor of sending home not only sc ientists but a lso mode l citizens
Brenda Trask 80 operates he r own comshymunica tion s consulting company in Osshygoode Ont She is marri ed to Ron Ferguso n
Dave Vanden Bosch 89 is manager of operator services and plann ing for Bell Canada in London Ont
J Stallard Skip Waterhouse 54 and hi s wife Li sa are ce lebrating the birth of a daughter Samantha Elizabe th on New Years Day 1992 They live in New York State where Wate rhouse is iI pro fe ssor of bio logical science at the Plattsburgh Sta te Uni versity College of Arts and Science
Jeff 88 and Karen (Burrows) W h ite 87 live in Strathroy Ont Jeff work s for Bell Canada and Kare n is a Lambton County rural orga ni za tion spec ialist with the Ontar io Mini stry of Agriculture and Food
Harold Wright 86 is a development repre shysenta tive for Ci ba-Ge igy Canada Ltd in Mi sshysissauga Ont He and Lori Krieg 84 plan to marry thi s sprin g
Donald Ziraldo 7 I received doubl e honors last winter fro m the Ontario grape and wine industry Preside nt of Inniskillin W ines of Niagara-on -the-Lake Ont he was named to the Royal Order of the Grape for hi s leadership in enhancing the prod uct and its image
In addition Z ira ldo and his partner Karl Kai se r were named 1991 Men of the Year by FoodsCIvice and Hospitalily magazine During the ir 17-year partnership at Inn isk ilshylin the two have been instrumental in shapshying Canada s wine industry the magazine sa id
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ave Barry Burtis 69 was named president of the Ontario Veterinary Medical Association in January after working with the voluntary organization for four years as a director member of its editorial board and chair of its public relations committee Burtis lives in Burlington Ont and practises at the Bay Cities Animal Hospital He also appears on a local cable television program called Pel Tales
William Medway 54 of Blackwood NJ has been named an honorary life member of the International Association for Aquatic Animal Medicine for his contributions on beshyhalf of the association and the field of aquatic medicine He is both a founding member and past president of the associa shytion A professor emeritus of clinical laboratory medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine Medway is a member of the Marine Mammal Commissions committee of scientific advisers
Diane Pickering-Forster 86 is practising at Vander Kraan Veterinary Services in Huntsville Ont She is malTied to Chris Forster and they have one daughter Julia
Julien Proulx 67 has moved from Kapusshykasing Ont to La Pocatiere Que where he is superintendent of Agriculture Canada s Experimental Farm Last year he was feashytured on TVOntarios French network series Personalire Ontarienne for his work as a veterinarian his participation in municipal politics and his support of regional developshyment in Northern Ontario He was also awarded Agriculture Canadas research branch prize Agcellence for extraordinary management during his direction of the reshysearch program at the Kapuskasing Exshyperimental Farm
A North America-wide
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and others interested in science or nature
Write or phone for information
Science Connection PO Box 389 Port Dover Ontario
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Twoc~ireers middot on the samepat~ OVCaruninus Geoffrey Lord 49 felt a thopedic
middot enseofdejavuwhen he read theslory gastrointesshyabout Bill Naray~i1 OVe 63 il1la~t tinal and carc
springs issue ofthe Guelph Altimnus diovascular
There are amazing simi laritiesbetween surgery the c~reersof t~e two Guyanese wh6b6th says Lord If earnedvefetinary degrees atGueiph someone worked in c1ini(ai practice in)Yestem were to ask Canada then moved to the United States me ioday to work in human medic~lresearch what Tcon~
Narayan heads an AlDSresearchteamsider to be atJohns HopkiflS l1)iversilySchool of my expertise MediCirieinBaltimoreMatyland Lord is I would have retired directorofthdohnsonamp Johnson to saymecli- Geofrey Lord
middot Resear~h Foundalion ill NewJersey cal device lordsays he was influenced by OVC andbioshy
proJessDfs Anthony Kings(Qte and Frank Inaterials evaluation middot SchofieJd~ndwcentnton from GiJelphto pur- lt In the I 950s Lordwaspalt of ale-
sue graduate studies in parasitology auhe se~rch team that pioneered the use of University oJWiscollsin Sevenmorithsin animal tissue tOTeconstructdamagedjr
amixed practice in Drumheller Alta con blocked al1eries in hUl11ansTwenty years vinced him thaldinical medicine wasn6t middot later he drafted the first systematicap-
middot whati w~ted6 do He returned to Wis pr()ach to the safety evaluation of medica con5il110 eanla PhDlll pathologyano devices joined Johnson amp JohnsQri as asenior middot Allsubsequeill guidelines inCiLlding patilol()gistiriI953 those of the Foodaj)q Diug Admlnistrashy
Research at Johnson amp JohDson tiOnand the Canadian Regulatory ~teeredmeinto many interesting and chal- Authority hayeadopteoihis approach he
Jenging fieldsofbio-research includirig says derniiltoi9gy toxicologic pathology Lordand his wife Helen ltIividetheir wound healing surgical pathology iiinebetweel)Ciipe CodandBonita genera toxkology ofi~w drugs andor~ Springs FloriQa
Shane Renwick 77 and MSc 91 works in veterinary services at Agriculture Canada offices in Guelph
Ruth Reuter 61 is a veterinary pathologist in Plympton Australia
Tom Sanderson 6 1 was selected by the Ontario Veterinary Medical Association as Ontario Veterinarian of 1991 CUlTently OVCs co-ordinator of off-campus work terms he spent 20 years in private practice in Listowe1 and Mount Forest before returning to the coll ege in 1982 to manage the veterishynary research stations Sanderson s contribushytions to the profess ion have included many hours of volunteer work in the advancement
of the profession and in the development of veterinary inshysurance programs He is a past pres ident of both the Ontario and Canadian Veterishynary Medical associashytions
Jennifer Troughton 86 is practising in OronoOnt
Simone Woltner 86 is a veterinarian at the Chester Basin Animal Hospital in Chester Basin NS
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by her hu sband William and two sons The fo llowing dea ths have been reported since the las t issue of the Guelph Alumnus Full notices which are usu ally submitted by family or classmates may appear in thi s iss ue or in a later one
James Clement Arts 73 Feb 2 1992
Marilyn (Dyment) Farnan Mac 530 Feb 27 1992
David Fisher OAC 80A in October 1990
Elizabeth (C hristie) Glass Mac 3I D June 2l99 1
Peter Heskey OAC 54A Dec 6 199 1
Richard Ketchell OVC 51 Nov 23 199 1
Edward Kowalski Arts 79 in August 199 1
Pauline (Dixon) MacMillan Mac 240 Jan 2 1992
Catherine MacPherson Arts 83 Dec 11 1990
Marguerite (White) Maybury Mac 3 10 in June 1990
Donald McLeOd CSS 80 Jan 9 1992
Albert Meilus OAC 51 in 1991
Ann (Biggs) Ostler Mac 3 10 in April 1991
Robert Race Arts 73 in 1989
Ralph Sampson OAC 40 in December 1989
Mor ris Sanderson OAC 42 Nov 17 1991
Sir Peter Scott HDSc 8 1 in Au gust 1989
William Setterington OAC 40 Oct 22 1991
George Shoniker OAC 50A in March 199 1
John Somerset OAC 34 Dec 27 199 1
Gregory Van Patter OAC 7 1 in 1990
Frederich Weiland OAC 20A in 1990
Arts
Riccardo Rich Incitti 88 died Jan 5 1992 as the result of an accident near Hami lshyton Ont He was assistant manager at the Toronto-Dominion Bank in St Cathari nes and is survived by his parents Gu igi and Lucia of Cambridge and two sisters Laura and Andrea
Larry McNenly 73 died in October 1991 in Owen Sound Ont He is survived by his wife Marnie CSS 73
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CBS
Robert Everett HK 74 died in May 1991 in Burlington Ont A teac her at White Oaks Secondary Schoo l in Oakv ille he is survived by his wife Miche le and brother William CBS 74
James Sandy Fear 75 died Oct I I 199 1 in Toronto He is survi ved by his wi fe Sally (Firth) OAC 75 and hi s children Caitlin Alli son and Mered ith
CSS
Lynn (Dalys) Corby 84 died in Toron to May 6 1990 after a long battIe with cancer
Nancy (Birbeck) Gordon 77 died Oct 20 1991 in Ottawa after a short illness She worked at the Kitchener-Waterl oo Hospital and had previously been plan t accountant at Foseco Canada Incorporated in Guelph
Mac-FACS
Jean (Williams) Forward 280 Oct 28 1991 in Calgary She was the widow of Bower Forward OAC 25 and is survived by two sons
Catharine (Bechtel) Fromm 270 died Nov I 199 1 in Cambridge Ont She is surshyvived by three dau ghters Ellen Moore Mac 63 Nancy and Caro l
Alice (Rivaz) Garrard 28 di ed Dec 2 199 1 in Guelph She was an active member of the Mac-FACS Alumni Assoc iat ion and was the Mac 28 class agent for the Alma Mater Fund She is survived by her husband retired professor Edward Garrard OAC 27 and a daughter Betty Nelson
Della Marie (Diamond) Honey 300 of Warkworth Ont died June 29 1991 One ofWarkworths oldest and most respected citizens she served as local li brarian fo r 25 years She is survived by her son John OAC 52A his wife Patric ia and four grandchildren James OAC 84A William OAC 76A Thomas OvC 89 and Patricia Lonergan CSS 68
Barbara (Banigan) Martin 380 died Jan I 1992 in Don Mill s Ont A retired teacher wit h the North York Board of Education she is survived by a son Ted a sister and two brothers
Elizabeth (Burt) Perry 340 died June 28 1991 in Sidney BC and is surv ived by her husband Gordon and son Paul Nartel OAC 62
Jacqueline (Roy) Pote 34D died Dec 2 1 1991 in Willowdale Ont and is is survived
Merrill and Bill
Doroth y (MacFeeters) Scott 260 died Jan 14 1992 in Toronto She is su rvived by two daughters Anne Donaldson and Cynthia Scott
Florence (French) Snyder 370 died May 6 199 1 in Calgary and is survived by her husband Robert and two sons John and William
Katherine (Sweet) Watt Mac 220 died Feb 23 1992 She is survived by her husshyband Leslie a son David and a dau ghter Carol Gi llanders
Mattie (Newman) Widdicombe 240 died Dec 11 1991 in St Catharines Ont Preshydeceased by her husband John she is surshyvived by a bro ther and several nieces and nephews including Virginia Rigby Arts 76
OAC
George Grey Arnup 38 died Feb 2 1992 in Toronto He spent most of his career with the plant protection branch of Agriculture Canada He is survived by his wife Aileen three chi ldren Nancy Jim and Mary Ellen Vincent CBS 79 and four grandchi ldren
Herbert Boyce 28 and MSA 43 died Sept 2 1991 in Amherstburg Onto He is survi ved by his wife Norah a daughter Beverley Med lock and a brother James OAC 32
Jack Reddy Brethet 56 died Nov 4 199 1 in Burlington Ont President of Brethet Barnum Assoc iates Inc he is surshyv ived by his wife Caro l and two daughters Lyn n and Anne
Bruce Foster 28 died Feb 6 1992 in Ridgetown Ont and is survi ved by his daughter Gayle Anderson and son David CBS 69
Allison Gardhouse 49 died Sept 21 1991 in Midland Ont He was re tired supe rshyintendent of schoo ls for the Simcoe County Board of Education and is survi ved by his wife Merle
Kenneth Harrison 24 died Nov 5 199 1 in Kentville NS A distinguished plant patho logist military officer and mycologist he began hi s career in 1926 as assistant plant pathologis t at the Kentvi lle Experimental Farm He worked there until retirement in 1966 wi th the exception of mi litary servi ce du ring the Second World War
Dr Harrison had a lifelong interes t in the study of mushrooms and publ ished numerou s technica l papers on the mu shroom flora of Nova Scotia In addition he enshy
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couraged interested amateurs and led field trips for student s at Acadia University and the general public from 1929 until 1987 In 1979 he was honored by Acadia wi th the dedication of the Kenneth A Harri son Laboratory of Mycology
During his career he was a member of many professional organizations a charter member of the Mycological Society of America and fe llow of the American Associashytion for the Advancement of Science
He is survived by hi s wife Margaret two brothers Maynard OAC 30 and Arthur OAC 29 two son s Ashley and Kenneth and a daughter Jennie Sheito
William Kellam 4 1 died Oct 19 1991 in Brockville Ont He was retired from the Curb and Gate Co of-Brock ville where he had worked as a lab technician fo r 28 years He is survived by his wife Kathleen a son George and a daughter Mary
William M acMillan 48 died in February 1992 in Winnipeg He was supervisor of Fertilizer marketing for the Manitoba Pool Elevators and is surv ived by hi s wife Edna Jean and brother Harry OAC 5 1 A
Cameron McTaggart 35 died Feb 4 1992 in Aurora Ont After graduating from OAC he became manager of Don Head Farms in Richmond Hill He established the first agricul tural consulting business in Canada in 1947 and later ran an Angus cattle
sales management business from the family farm A life member of the OAC Alumni As shysociat ion and the Class of 35 executive he is survived by his wife Margaret Mac 35 and two sons John OAC 62 of Regina and David of Largo Fla
Douglas Miller 48 of Victoria BC died Nov 24 1991 in Toronto He is survived by hi s wife Ruth and five children
Gregory More 76 was killed Feb 3 1992 in Kitchener Ont at the Ontario Glove Manufacturing Co where he was co-owner and vice-president Following graduation he worked for the Rohrer Drug Co and the Stershyling Drug Co then returned to school ea rnshying an MBA at McMaster University in 1981 More was an avid squash player and golfer Court A at the Northfield Racquet Club in Waterloo was dedicated to his memory in March He is survived by his parents Noreen and Ken a brother Randy and a sister Katherine Keeler
John Jack Pawley 33 died March I 1992 in Guelph He is survived by his wife Ruth son John OAC 62 and daughter-inshylaw Carolyn He was a former director of the Ontario Milk Marketing Board and a past member of the Royal City Lodge of Perfecshytion
Harold Reid 20A died in December 1991 in Burlington Ont During the First World W ar he was one of Canadas premier rad io
experts work ing at the Roya l Canadian Navy shore transmitter in Sydney NS After the war he came to OAC to earn a diploma then went on to QueenS University to comshyplete an arts and theology degree His mini sshytry was mainly in St And rews and Montreal although he spent 13 years teaching Hebrew at the Presbyterian Coll ege before retiring in 1968
Donald Robertson 3 1 died Nov 4 1991 in Iroquois Ont He is survived by hi s wife Caroline (Grisdale) Mac 38 his two son s ScottOAC 65A and Guy and a daughter Sandra McNeil
Thomas Rokeby 48 and MSA 50 died Jan 29 1992 in Fayetteville Ark He was a professional engineer and tau ght for 30 years in the Univers ity of Arkansas engineering department Born in Port Rowan Ont he was a member of the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War the American Society of Agricultural Engineers and the agricultural honor societies of Gamma Sigma Delta and Alpha Epsilon He is surv ived by his wife Helen two sons Robert and Richard a daughter Penny and three brothers Michael Noel and Richard OAC 54
Francis Sweeney OAC 45 died Nov 17 1991 in Oakville Ont He was a longtime employee of Shell Canada and [nternational Shell working in Great Britain Europe and
WALL CUSTANCE MEMORIAL FOREST
The Wall-Custance Memorial Forest located at the Universi ty of Guelphs Arboretum was established in recognition of the severe depletion of our forests It is never too late to be a vital part of the effort to save and improve our air and water for the future of our children by planting trees This program is our small part of the major endeavor to reforest and to reduce the greenhouse effect improve air quality and provide food and cover for wildlife The Memorial Forest Proshygram not only pays a Significant tribute to a loved one but also assures a better environment for generations to come
The purpose of this program is to provide an opporshytuni ty to commemorate the life of a loved one by plantshy
Home of the WALL-CUSTANCE
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ing a tree We envision that the Memorial Forest Program will continue for many years to come and our hope is that the solace that nature offers particularly in the depths of a living forest will be of comfort and benefi t to all
For more information or for a brochure call or write to
WALL-CUSTANCE Funeral Home and Chapel 206 Norfolk Street Guelph Ontario N1 H 4K3 (519) 822-0051
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Berna rd Weeks 35 died Oct 16 199 1 After graduation he re turned to his roots in
ew York and Pennsylvannia and worked in 4-H and you th organi zations for a few years He then took over the family farm at Troupsburg NY and built up a dairy operashytion with a sideline of sheep He is surv ived by his wife Ruth and four children
Glenn White 43 of Belleville Onl died Nov 24 199 1 in Florida and is surv ived by hi s wife Marjorie
ave Norman Anderson 39 of Wi nn ipeg died Dec 18 1991 in Arizona He had practised veterinary medicine in Norwood Man and was a member of the American Equine Pracshytitioners Association director of the Canadian Thoroughbred Society and track veterinarian at Assin iboia Downs for 50 years He is survived by his wi fe Peggy and two sons Laurie and James
George Beatty 5 I died Nov 22 1991 in Inverness III He practised in Palatine fo r 36 years and founded the Palatine Animal Hospi tal He was an active member of the American Animal Hospital Assoc iati on and the Chicago Veterinary Association and was a director of the Friends of the University of Guelph He is survived by his wife Mary and fo ur children - Suzanne Patricia Margaret and Tim
John Hamilton 5 L died Dec 15 1991 He had lived in Roslin On where he owned the Bay Regional Veterinary Hospital He is survived by hi s niece Ann Bongard
Nicholas Labzoffsky 39 died Dec 25 1991 in Largo Fla Fonnerly of Toronto he had li ved most recen tl y in Dorse t Ont and is survived by hi s wife Jane
Edgar Langford 49 died March 41992 in Monarch Alta A former research scienshytist with ADRI (Western) he is survived by his wife Norma and two daughters includshying Carolyn OVC 76
Stuart Maude 4 1 died Jan 14 1992 in Rosemead Calif A former Rosemead counshycillor and four-time mayor he operated the Rosemead Animal Hospital with his brother Arthur 52 from 1953 to 1980 He was a trustee for Ingles ide Hospital a past grand patron of both the Rosemead and the Califorshynia Order of Eastern Star and past-president of the local Kiwanis Club and Chamber of Commerce He is survived by his wife Vera two daughters Patricia and Susan Bezner a son Stuart and three brothers
Walter Morley 42 o f Mildmay On died Nov 28 199 1 He ran a large animal pracshytice in the Mild may area for 39 years raised cat tle and raced standardbred horses He was also a pu blic school board trustee and direcshytor of a local te lephone company for more
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than 30 years He is survived by his wife Joyce five sons - two of whom are OVC alumni Dave 68 and Randy 74 - and 10 grandchildren
Lloyd Neily 52 died Jan 3 1992 in Hantsport NS A retired meat inspector w ith the federal Department of Agriculture he had a private veterinary practice in Wind sor NS He is surv ived by hi s wife Mary
Elford Nundal 43 died Jan 7 1992 in Langley BC after a long battle with canshycer He operated a veterinary practice in Langley for 36 years and served as a di strict aldennan for 10 years before being elected mayor in 1982 Last year he received the BC Veterinarian Association s award of merit for a lifetime of veterinary work
Humphrey Rees 55 died Sepl 30 1991 in Amman Jordan while on ass ignment for the Overseas Development Ad ministrat ion as veterinary and animal hu sbandry adviser to the Jordani an government His contemshyporaries at Guelph will remember him as a singer debater raconteur rugby player and bon vivant He is surv ived by his wife Alice of POlt Eynon Wales
William Stinson 40 died Feb 15 1992 in Norwood Ont He is survi ved by his wife Rita a son John OVC 67 a brother Ford OAC 34 and a grandson John CSS 87
Faculty
Patric ia Harney died Dec 191991 in Yarshymouth NS A professor in the Department of Horticultural Science from 1962 to 1988 she developed severa l new variet ies of geraniums and was instru mental in es tabshylishing the Frances Ball rose collection at the Arboretum
Anthony Marston died Feb 3 1992 in Fershygu s ant Retired from the School of Hotel and Food Administration he was an acshycomplished competition chef who received his training in Switzerland and England He then spent severa l years working in the Caribbean before coming to Guelph in 1970 A member of the Canadian Olympic culinary team he held a number of positions in the
Donations given in memory ofGuelph alumni will help support University scholarships ifdirected to the Alumni M emorial Fund In 1991 donations were made in memory of the following alumni
Frank MacDonald OAC 37
Frank King OAC 33 -Robert Allen OAC 56A
Alice (Rivaz) Garrard Mac 28
Stan Vesselinovitch OVC 57
For more infonnation call the Office of Annual Giving at 519-824-4120 Ext 6 183
hote l and food industry until retiring in 1982 He is survived by hi s wife Di ana
Gordon McNally dled Jan 12 1992 in Guelph A professor in the Department of Zoo logy from 1934 to 1971 he served as academic assistant to the dean of CBS until retiring in 1979 While at Guelph he was honorary pres id ent of the classes of OAC 54 58 and 67 He is survived by his daughter Jean two siste rs and two grandchildren Prof McNallys family has established the A Gordon Mc a lly Memorial Fund to support a sc holarship or bursary Contributions may be sent care of the Alma Mater Fund Alumni Hou se University of Guelph Guelph ant N I G 2WI
Friends
Jean (Young) Branion died March 3 1992 in Guelph She was the wife of the late Hugh Branion a physiology professor at U of G and assistant to presidents Bill Winegard and Don Forster Jean Branion was an act ive volunteer on campus for many years and one of the firs t presidents of the College Womens Club She is survived by a son Richard and his wife Marga re t of Vanshycouve r and five grandchi ldren Donati ons may be made to the Hugh D Branion Memorial Scholarship through Alumni House
Davy Alexander Hamilton-Williamson died Feb 4 1992 in Guelph A painter and author of childrens stories he had been a member of the University s Presidents Council s ince it began in 1 985
Marjorie Pinkney wife of J ames Pinkney OVC 3 7 died Dec 151 99 [ at her home in Milton ant
Samuel Wyal died March 15 1992 in Brantford ant He was a partner in the law firm Wyatt Purce ll Will Stillman and Scott He is surv ived by his wife M a bel Mac 39 four sons Peter Michael William and John and two daughters Mary Alderson and Sarah Nadalin Arts 82
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INVmiddotESTMENTS amp
DIVIDENDS
Facts about university education in Canada and how we pay for it
By 2000 half of all new jobs in Canada will require a university degree
But at the current rate of government funding only one in five children
will have a chance to go to university
In the seven years from 1982 to 1989 per-student grants to universities in
Ontario barely kept pace with intlation at five per cent
per-student funding at American public univers ities jumped an average
of 23 per cent in the same period
Those US universities also receive twice the federal research dollars per student as do Ontario universities
In 1987 the average salary of a full-time professor at an Ontario univers ity was $55500
compared with $68200 for a private-sector position of similar education and experience
Lawyers economists and engineers made an average of $71 000
Ontario ranks ninth out of the to provinces in terms of grants to universities
Between 1978 and 1991 enrolment at Ontario univers ities grew by 40 per cent while funding dropped
from 59 to 409 per cent of total government spending
Universities were spending 14 per cent less per student between 1977 and 1988 hospital expenditures
rose 38 per cent per patient in the same period
Ontario universities generate $3 of economic activity for every
$1 invested by government funding
And the number of jobs generated by university activities in
Ontario is greater than the employment impact of the textile
industry the entire paper and pulp industry or utilities
University graduates can look forward to earning 63 per cent more than the average industrial worker
A 1990 survey of U of G alumni found that two years after graduation 97 per cent of Guelph grads
looking for work were employed 62 per cent were earning $25000 or more and 10 per cent were
earning $40000 or more
Unemployment rates in 1990 for those with a university degree was about one-third what it was
for those with only a high school diploma
Every year from 1978 to 1987 Ontario university inves tments in renovating or replacing
aging buildings could not keep pace with the rate at which the buildings depreciated
Graphics by Debbie Thompson Wilson Statistics supplied by th~ Council 01 Ontario UniverSities Statistics Canada and the U01 G Student EnVifonment Study Group
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A salute to sport Alumni Weekend June 19-21 9am Sio-pitch tournament
The tradition Jives on at the south quad diamond s Cooed teams of 12 or more players are encourshyaged to join in the fun
FRIDAY 10 am to 9 pm Registration Lambton Hall
6 pm Kick-off dinner and half-time show
get set and join In the Olympic spirit one of Alumni Creelman Hall will Weekends host the Wonderful most popular World of Sports with events Tours a half-time slide show start from to entertain alumni of Alumni House all ages and are sponshy9 pmshy sored by the Observatory tours CBS Alumni
Association
10 am and 2 pm
SATURDAY 8 am to 5 pm Guided Registration walking tours Lambton Hall
Remember 9 am to 5 pm making s now Alumni House tours sc ulptures on Students will host tours of Alumni House throughshyout the weekend Come and see what the generosity of alumni has accomplished
9 am to noon Alumni association annual meetings
This is the official notice for the annual general meetings of the following alumni associations
CBS - Alumni House starts at 830 am before guided walk MacFACS - HAFA Building Room 209
OVC - OvC Room 1438
OAC - Macdonald Hall Room 149
CSS - MacKinnon Building Room 305
HAFA - Alumni Hou se boardroom
Gryphs Lounge will be open for lunch and afLer the game
930 am Guided nature walk at the Arboretum
On your mark
Noon - OVC luncheon
The OvC Alumni Association will host a luncheon open to all OvC alumni and their guests
2 pm - Campus Showcase 92
Following on the heels of last year s success Campus Showshycase 92 will be bigger and better Come to the University Centre to see exhibits representing all areas on campus The Campus Junction store will also be open
2 pm - Zavitz Hall tour
Alumni are invited to browse through the newly renovated Za vitz Hall and attend a recep shytion sponsored by the Colshylege of Arts Alumni Asshysoc iation
5 pm Golden anniversary dinner
The OAC OvC and MacshyFACS alumni associations will provide complimenshytary tickets for alumni celebrating 50 years or more Additiona l tickets can be purchased Classes
Johnston Green or playing intramural hockey in the old Quonset arena Relive some of the memories by taking a walking tour of campus Tours begin from the lobby ofLambton Hall
Noon - Alumni picnic
This apopular event has new location - the sculpshyture garden beside the Macshydonald Stewart Art Centre Come on your own or reshyserve a group of tables for friends and classmates
Noon - Class reunion lunches
OAC 37 Mac 37 OAC 42 Mac 42 OAC 47 Mac 52 Mac57 Mac 67 FACS 72 FACS 77 FACS 87
OAC 67 FACS 82 OAC 82 OAC 82A CBS 82 FACS 87 OAC 87
SUNDAY 9am Church service and War Memorial Hall rededication
Thanks to a commitment from the Alma Mater Fund renovashytion of the upstairs of War Memorial Hall has been comshypleted Join us for the rededicashytion ceremony commemorating the 1924 opening and the 1952 dedication of an OAC memorial plaque
being honored are OAC 22 OAC 47 OvC 22 Mac 22 OAC 27 OvC 27 Mac 27 OAC 32 OvC 32 Mac 32 OAC 37 OvC 37 Mac 37 OAC 42 OvC 42 Mac 42
6 pm Class reunion dinners
Special dinn e r reunions are planned for OAC 47 OAC 52 OAC 52A OvC 52 Mac 57 OAC 57 OAC 62 Mac 67
10am UGAA annual meeting
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University Families Fight the Odds
hy Mary Dickiesol1
The Van Katwyks and the
University ofGuelph are saving to educate
the next generation
Guelph Alumnus
university education in Canada At current levels of government funding decreased
enrolments will limit university attendance to one in five within a few years
Paul and Christine Van Katwyk dont like the odds Theyre committed to univershy
s ity education - their own and Sasha s - and theyve been sav ing for hi s educashy -tion since he was s ix months old But what they hear about the continuing decline
in government funding makes them worry that the doors to Canada s universities
may not be open to Sasha when he s ready to enrol in 2007
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T heee good eoo to won) That s the message we ve been getting from universiti es and colleges in Canada for several years Many univershysity administrators including U of G president Brian Segal say they too are worried about the future of postseconshydary education
On the political agenda universities have taken a back seat to hospitals soshycial serv ices and schools despite the fact that they are part of the solution to problems facing the other sectors
In Ontario the universities share of the public purse has been declining since 1978 even though theyve added more than 160000 students to their enshyrolments Universities are actually spending 14 per cent less per full-time
Education makes a difference
Chris and I know from ou r own experience that a university educashytion can make a big di fference in one s life say Paul Van Ktttwyk
Paul grew up in a university family - hi fa ther is a professor at Wilfrid Laurier Univer ily in Waterloo He came to U of G after high school but quit before comshypleting a BA After two years o f making tire he was back on camshypus and is now finishing an MA in industrial organizational psycholshyogy U of G is one of the few uni versities in Canada that offer graduate work in this fie ld So Paul is heading off to the Uni versity of South Florida th is fall to do a PhD then will return to Canada to help expand his disc ipline to other Canadian universi tie
Chris is the first member of her family to atrend university She graduates this spring with a BASc in con umer studies With other members of her family out of work because their manufact uring jobs have disappeared Chris think a un iversi ty educashytion was the right choi e for her She would like to get involved in consumerenvironmental i sues and eventually open her own small business
student than they did 15 years ago
At the same time demand for university graduates is growing The Council of Ontario Universities (COU) esshytimates that half of the new jobs that will be created over the next decade will require L1ni versi ty-level training
At a time when unshyemployment plagues the province when health care and soc ial ass istance costs are rising when inshydustry needs to improve competitiveness when we need to boost investshyment in research and deve lopment one begins to wonder why postsecshyondary education is not a greater priority
Public opinion seems to support universities A 1990 Decima poll found that 80 per cent of Ontarians believe a lack of funding is affecting university quality and 83 per cent believe that
Universities are spending 14 per cent less for each student than they did 15 years ago
university fundin g is not keeping pace with funding for other services
But the university system needs more than quiet believers It needs strong vocal support Good intentions aren t enough to ensure survival in the politishycal arena or the global economy
Financial problems
Every year COU prepares a report on the financial position of Ontario univershysities The 1991 report reveals a steady decline in the priority that three successhysive provincial governments have gi ven to universi ties Collectively theyve igshynored the advice of their own advisory body on universities for 15 years allowshy
ing university funding to drop from 59 to 409 per cent of total government spending
This decline coincides with the federal governments introduction of Esshytablished Program Financing (EPF) which supplies a large part of the fundshying that is eventually allocated to postsecondary education
Prior to EPF federal and provincial governments shared the operating costs of postsecondary education on a 5050 basis Under EPF which was supposed to equalize payments to the provinces through a complicated system of cash transfers and tax points some provincial governments have been unable or unshywilling to maintain that 5050 balance In Ontario federal doll ars now account for a much higher percentage of the funding that is eventually transferred to universities
Many Ontario institutions believe the provincial government added insult to injury last October when it cut an addishytional $9 million from promised transfer payments for 1991 92 Before the c1awshyback COU had advised the government that universities would need a seven-pershycent increase in 199293 just to maintai n current level s of serv ice but the January budget gave them one per cent thi s year and promised no more than two per cen t in each of the ne xt two years
During this same J5-year period Ontario s universities have demonshystrated an increase in productivity unshymatched in almost any other sector by finding ways to educate 40 per cent more students with less money
The January budget brought bad news at a time when universities were also facing further cuts in provincial gove rnshyment grants for capital renovations inshycreased operating costs for utilities the federal government s 30-per-cent jump in UIC premiums a lO-per-cent in shyc rease in CPP payments and a loss of tuition revenue because of planned reductions in first-year enrolments
Ontarios Employer Health Tax and pay equity costs have also affected operating budgets at universities where more than 80 per cent of expenditures are dictated by salaries and benefits
Deficit financing is not the norm for U ofG but in 199192 costs exceeded Ministry of Colleges and Universities (MCU) operating revenue ($160 milshyli on) by almos t $46 million The defic it reflects both these unexpected increases and the planned expense of restructuring non-academic units
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Creative solutions
Like the business community Guelph has begun the ongoing process of selfshyappraisal The $69-million cost of the recent non-academic review left red ink in this fiscal year but the exercise has cut operating costs by an estimated $57 million a year Within the five-year payshyback period the University will have saved or in reality reallocated more than $28 million Segal says
The internal review removed 125 jobs simplified processes and improved efficiency A similar assessment of the non-teaching activities within the colshyleges is being completed and will be folshylowed by a look at academic functions
Guelph is one of the first universities in Ontario to undertake such a strucshytured review of its operations says Segal and it wont be the last Every university will be looking at ways to reduce the amount of work required to operate the institution he says
Were walking a tightrope trying to balance strategic goal s and fiscal management in a way that causes the least harm to students Nevertheless universities are prepared to be key players in the process of looking for creative ways of doing more with less
Segal predicts an increase in intershyuniversity and joint university-college programs that share resources more efshyfective use of automation more homeshystudy programs and co-operative purchasing arrangements
Unfortunately well al so see further staff cuts a loss of services some course cancellations and limits to stushydent enrolment
Last fall U of G decreased first-year enrolment by 686 to help ease overshycrowding on campus although total en-
Guelph Alumnus
Charls reprinredjrom COU 1991 Report Oil rhe Financial Position laquo( Ontario Universities
rolment was a high of 13390 students The University plans to decrease enrolshyment to fewer than 12000 by 1994
There will al so be reductions in faculshyty positions estimates are that at least a third of the 60 current vacancies will not be filled in the next fi scal year
In addition to cos t-cutting measures universities will be looking at ways to generate new revenue More than 80 per cent of university revenue is controlled by government - transfer payments and tuition fees - but short-term operat shying fund s can benefit from increased revenues from food retail parking operations and non-tuition fee hikes
Segal says long-term endowment funds like Guelph s Heritage Fund will become a system-wide priority as will revenue sources from planned giving and alumni contributions real estate
development - like Guelphs Research Park - and capital accumulation
COU which Segal chairs will conshytinue to pressure government to increase tuition fees Ontario fees have not kept up with inflation In rel ative terms they are lower now than theyve been for 40 years representing less than 19 per cent of university operating revenue In comshyparison tuition revenues at public universities in the United States are 70 to 80 per cent higher and students at private US universities pay si x times as much as Ontario s undergraduates
COU is on record as favoring an inshycome-contingent repayment plan that would allow students to repay loans based on the level of their future inshycome But a COU proposal - even if it is accepted by MCU - is at least a year away from implementation
-Last f all the universities ofGuelph and Waterloo launched North America sfirst longshydistan ce interactive classroom project that links students at both institutions via two-way audio video and data lines Unlike other video systems that offer only televisiolltransmission the new Electrohome classroom system leIs studel1ls both see and hear each other as well as the professor It s j us t like being there - and it s aile example ofhow universities are sharing resources to improve academic programs and CUI costs Photo by Roberta Franc huk
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University benefits
Time and time again our alumni tell us that the total university experience is more valuable than the degree they received
Breadth of knowledge new insights personal satisfaction - these are things that cant be measured
The 966000 university graduates in Ontario do however share economic benefits that can be measured -like an unemployment rate that is one-third what it is for the general workforce and salaries that are on average 63 per cent higher than industrial workers
In addition university graduates share with the rest of the population even greater cultural social and economic benefits
T hrough the percolator effect Ontario universi ties generate $62 billion (1989 estimate) worth of economic activity each year and more than 138000 jobs
All Canadians share in the benefits of an academic system that acc umulates knowledge trains leaders and conducts much of the research that gives us a progress ive society
University laboratories have yielded medical breakthroughs in diabetes canshycer cystic fibrosis Alzheimer s disease and AIDS They have tackled environshymental research on the causes of water pollution and soil erosion University soshycial scientists study issues as vari ed as demographic trends cross-border shopshyping adoption and economic developshyment in native communities
On a more personal level each univershysity in Canada is a contributing member of its local community Says Guelph
Mayor John Counse ll The inshytangible benefits of having a university within our municipality inshyclude the injection into the comshymunity of intellecshytual standards talents and sershyvices
Almost every orshyganization in the city counts U of G faculty staff and students among its members and volunteers In fac t more than 30 U oG s campus wecomes almosl 150000 visitors every year
university employees were recently given special awards and commendations from both the provincial Ministry of Culture and Communications and Ministry of Citizenship
Guelph is also enriched financially by the Univers itys presence - 4 100 jobs $195 million in annual economic acshytivity The University is an attraction for many smaller companies and organizashytions and branches of provincial governshyment ministries that deal frequently with the campus In a way it has he lped to inshysulate the city of Guelph aga inst the reshycession says Counsell Last year Guelph enjoyed a net increase of three jobs in comparison with other cities where thousands of industrial jobs were lost
Equally important are the educational opportunities offered by the University
for local re sidents The number of people enrol led in distance education inshydependent study and non-degree courses at the University is almost twice the dayshytime student body Last year 500 senior citizens attended courses held on camshypus and 10000 schoolchildren parshyticipated in environmental education programs at the Arboretum People also brought 12000 animals and 500 wild birds to OVC clinics for treatment
Visitors to campus outnumber stushydents 10 to one They come for convocashytion College Royal Homecoming and Alumni Weekend to tour the Arshyboretum and the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre to attend workshops conferenshyces and lectures and to enjoy athletic events music and drama productions They also come for Sunday afternoon walks and sometimes to take wedding photos on Johnston Green
Education is everyones concern
With their Universi ty of Guelph degrees in hand Paul and
Christine Van Katwyk have joined the ranks of Ontario and Canadian univershysity graduates who recognize that the
funding of universities is not just a famishyly matter
Education is everyone s concern and should be a matter of government priority rather than rhetoric The probshylem is how to change that
Two years ago Ontario MPP Sean Conway told a group of university board members that they needed troops
When you ask us to do something and we don t do it nothing happens he said When the hospitals ask us to do something and we dont do it all hell breaks loose
Today universities are recruiting those troops and are turning to their alumni to help build a strong constituenshy
cy of support Who better to promote the value of higher education
Tell your family your friend s and your co-workers how important you think universities are Write to your local paper to let others know that a strong economy and a high standard of living depend on an educated workshyforce Call your MP and MPP and tell them that denying adequate funding to higher education is short-sighted in the extreme and that voters are expecting government action based on long-term priorities
Sasha Van Katwyk s generation is depending on it
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Marshalling the forces to fight for universities
There is a tribute $5000 to help revolution launch FOU and
taking place in Seymour hopes inshyeducation And dividual alumni will when the dust setshy keep the momentum tles we will see building The orshyprofound changes ganization needs in the way we imshy more than 100 inshypart knowledge dividual volunteers in the way we think each of Ontarios 130 about education electoral districts and the way we These friends will pay for it Some lobby MPPs on a of us will sit back regular basis in supshyand watch port of universities Others like Its a grassroots Harry Seymour Harry Seymour
OAC 61 will help influence the changes taking place
Seymour spent 22 years of his career on Torontos Bay Street then opted for a change that led to the forshymation of Pathfinder Learning Sysshytems As president he champions the Pathfinder program of computershymanaged learning as a way for classshyroom teachers to maximize their time and their students potential
Seymour maintains his interest in the investment business with several other companies including a 93-acre shoreline development project in Midshyland Ont But most of his time is devoted to education and university education is a significant part of that effort
If we can marshal the forces of university alumni we can have a profound effect on how government prioritizes education he says Those of us who have graduated from a university are in the best position to evaluate the importance of a university education We can sit back and look at the benefits we ve received and the kind of impact it has had on our lives
Seymour represents U of G alumni on the Friends of Ontario Universities (FOU) a provincial lobby group whose strategy is to organize Ontarios university alumni into a political constituency FOU members sayan unorganized constituency is part of the reason government has folshylowed a pattern of financial neglect
The University of Guelph Alumni Association was one of the first to con-
movement that has the potential to build long-term support
among decision makers and future generations of university graduates he says
If youd like to get involved call Trish Walker U of G s director of alumni affairs at 519-824-4120 Ex t 2122
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describes himself as a concerned citizen of Guelph who is committed to education Thats an undershystatement for a man who spent most of his career in educashytion including 16 years as senior academic officer at Conestoga College
He also cares deeply about the University of Guelph He worked hard in the early 1960s to help bring it to life serves on a presidential committee to promote a healthy town-and-gown relationship and is now working to increase local pride in the campus
It distresses me that we are not seeing our universities as intellectual leaders in the community in the province and throughout the country says Hagar who believes there is a need to increase public awareness about the role universities play in
Aubrey HORar
society Hes offered his vocal support to this venture as a volunteer for the Alliance for Ontario Universities
Who says talk is cheap
Your verbal support
of universities
could he
the most valuable gift
you could give
to the generations
of students
yet to teach
Independent of universities the alshyliance is building province-wide supshyport among communities organishyzations businesses and individuals like Hagar who are willing to expand that support on a local level
In each univershysity town there will be an alliance comshymittee that works to build community pride in the institushytion and to raise the profile of its scholars The Guelph group for example may inshyitiate an elementary school program that bui Ids rapport with the University or it might encourage med ia coverage of Guelphs environshymental work
Too often we downplay the conshytributions of our universities says Hagar but if we can instil these atshytitudes in people then financial supshyport through the political process will be there
The aJiiance is unique in Canada It shybegan in 1990 with seed money from the Council of Ontario Universities and gains financial independence this summer And its looking for more volunteers To learn more about the group call director Janet Napper at 416-979-0984
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Genetic engineering bull bull bull
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This is the second part of a report on the use of biotechno]ogy in University of Guelph research
by Mary Dickieson
String art Biotechnology research reminds me of string art the 1960s craft
that had us weaving colored strings back and forth around a pattern made by driving nails halfway into a board
Under skilful hands it became a piece of sculpture an optical illusion that prevented your eye from following any single thread across the board in a straight line
Biotechnology tools are like that Every time you think you understand what one biotechnique can do in one particular dis shycipline you find it reappearing somewhere else as someone in a laboratory across camshypus or on the other side of the world thinks of yet another way to use it
In Part 1 of our biotechnology report we sk immed the surface of how these tools are being used at U of G to benefit plant reshysearch In this story well see many of the same techniques applied in other organisms primaril y animals The secret of our success in animal biotechnology lies in the fact that Guelph has the expertise and the facilities to take any project from lab to barn and back again
Throughout this report youll read about animal scientists and clinical veterinarians teamed up with molecular biologists imshymunologists chemists and microbiologists and often food scientists toxicologists and environmental biologists Their efforts benefit not only livestock production but also human medicine pharmacology food processing waste disposal and the environshyment
Embryo transfer
A major thrust of the animal biotechnolshyogy research at Guelph is in the area of
embryo transfer In fact there are three reshysearch positions funded by government and industry that deal directly with embryo manipul ation as a way to improve the comshypetitive position of Canadas beef and dairy industries
Biomedical scientist Keith Betteridge OVC MSc 60 heads an embryo research lab molecular biologist Alan Wildeman CBS PhD 83 holds a research chair devoted to the mammalian embryo and animal scientist Charles Smith concentrates on industrial research in animal-breeding strategies
Their work is supported by both federal and provincial granting agencies animal breeders and Semex Canada the major marketing arm of Canadas attificial breedshying industry Semex records annual export sales of more than $25 million and is leadshying the industry to the nex t plateau shymarketing sexed frozen or cloned embryos
One route to increasi ng the efficiency of animal production is by improving animal reproduction says Betteridge And that in shyvolves many new biotechniques associated with embryo transfer Conventional embryo transfer means collecting multiple embryos from selected cows and transferring them to properly synchronized recipients It is now almost equally conventional however to freeze or bisect the embryo as part of the procedure
Initially the selected cow was treated with hormones to produce more eggs which were fertilized through artificial inseminashytion (AI) with the semen of a top-rated bull A large number of embryos could then be recovered surgically from the cow for imshyplantation in surrogate cows of lesser genetic worth
These techniques are widely used for the production of purebred bulls More than half the dairy bulls currently at stud in Canadas major AI centres have been produced this way There is also keen interest in using the technology to produce genetically superior breeds and provide competitively priced volumes of commercial cattle embryos
From lOp Bisecting a bovine embryo to produce identical twin calves a chimeric chick created by mixing cells from two embryos microinjecting the egg ofa fruit fly with DNA from bacterial genes that can confer insecticide resistance and a Hereford heifer protected from shipping fever by a vaccine developed a f U of G
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and more Test-tube calves and lambs
In 1988 Semex research co-ordinator Robert Stubbings OVC 76 MSc 84 PhD 89 produced Guelph s first test-tube calf during his graduate studies with Prof PK Basrur in the Departshyment of Biomedical Sciences It was not the first test-tube calf in Canada but it was the first developed from an egg that was matured as well as fertilized in a test tube
The resulting zygotes (fertili zed eggs) were placed in the oviduct of a rabbit for their early development then moved after seven days to the uterus of a recipient cow
Just a few months later other memshybers of the Guelph team took the process one step further eliminating the need to use a temporary host oviduct Postdoctoral fellow Kang Pu Xu and PhD student John Pollard were able to extend development in vitro to the point where the embryo was mature enough to survive when transplanted directly into a recipient cow s uterus
The early embryos were cultured in a medium containing luminal cells exshytracted from the oviducts of slaughtered cows Two baby bulls were born the first in Canada using this method and only the second in North America
Last year gradu ate student Dawn Kelk CBS 89 and Prof Allan King 73 and MSc 75 of the Department of Biomedical Sciences produced North America s first in vitro fertilization (lVF) lambs using these techniques
These achievements were important for several reasons The Animal Biotechshynology Embryo Laboratory can now
Authors note
One of the things Ive learned while writing this story is that biotechnolshyogy is a word seldom used by scienshytisrs For inost of us it conjures up images of people in lab coats bent over microscopes using precision inshystruments to manipulate the cells of living organisms But for scien~ists that s too vague The word may have
meaning but it d6eslJt really
produce its own IVF embryos from oocytes recovered from slaughtershyhouse cows bypassing the more expensive route of sushyperovulation and surgical withdrawal
In addition scientists have gained knowledge about early embryo development that is important for improveshyments in embryo viability and vital for developments in cloning techniques and controlled transgenesis in livestock
In a more immediate and practical context the work has led to the first clinical
Prof Keith Belleridge left and Prof Stanley Leibo watch as research technician Cindy Christian prepares an embryo f or cryopreservation Photo by Mary Dic kieson
use of IVF in cattle in colshylaboration with Brian Hill OVC 80 of Western Ontario Breeders
Bisected embryos
Meanwhile yet another part of the team based in the Department of Populashytion Medicine was perfecting techniques to microsurgicall y bisect fertilized embryos to produce genetically identi shycal animals
Professors Brian Buckrell OVC 68 MSc 84 and Cathy Gartley OVC 82 DVSc 89 and postdoctoral fel shylow Rick Rorie bisected six-day-old sheep embryos - visible only through magnification - and surgically imshyplanted them into recipient ewes Five months later nine lambs were the first animals born at Guelph from bisected embryos
Prof Walter Johnson and postdoctoral
describe anything They talk instead about cell fusion enzyme systems i ermentation or genetic engineering
The fact that biotechnology didnt appear as a popular buzzword until the 1980s suggests that we are using ilto define something neW yet none of these disciplines is really new Human beings have been using other organisms to create new procucts for centuries Thats why We have yeast yogurt and beer as well as anti-
fellow Naida Loskutoff have now exshytended this work in cattle by producing identical twins from IVF embryos divided into quarters at earlier stages of development
These projects maximize embryo use and highlight the potential for creating significant numbers of genetically identishycal animals which can be vital for conshysistent research results Tests conducted on genetically identical animals can reduce the variables caused by genetic differences and ultimately the number of animals needed for experiments
Frozen sexed embryos
The development of in vitro technishyques has also made possible further studies in cryopreservation (freezing) and embryo sexing
It s been possible to freeze and thaw
biotics growth hormones and vacshycine ~ Even genetic engineering is not new although many of us think it is
Through selective breeding practices fanners have been engineering the genetic makeup of domestic animals -for centuries What is new is the speed and accuracy with which we can implement genetic changes the ability to cross the species barrier and a much greater understanding of life processes
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At the eight-cell stage ofdevelopment in a bovine embryo each cell is removed and placed in the shell ofa discarded embryo Afler three days the blastocysts are transferred into recipient cows and the pregnancies allowed to col1linue Eight identical calves will be born and will proshyvide a valuable tool for research
cattle embryos since 1973 and most of the 60000 or so embryo-transfer calves born annually in North America are now obtained from embryos that have been stored in liquid nitrogen But there are still many problems to overcome in freezing unfertilized eggs embryos at varying stages of development and embryos produced in vitro or subjected to micromanipulation
Biomedical science professor Stanley Leibo is a specialist in cryobiology Before coming to Guelph he was part of an industry team that produced the worlds first live young (mice) from frozen embryos and later invented the patented one-step method of freezing cattle embryos Other biomedical scienshytists - King and Don Rieger - and molecular biologists Wildeman and Stan Blecher are investigating various ways of sexing embryos
Some of these involve the use of micromanipulation to remove a small number of cells from an early-stage embryo The sex can be identified by locating X and Y chromosomes detectshying male-specific DNA or perhaps by studying the proteins produced by the DNA segments In embryonic life the activity of X-linked enzymes in female embryos is twice that in males
Detecting differences in the energy metabolism of male and female embryos may also become a method of sexing In studies on early embryos generated in vitro Guelph scientists disshycovered that male and female embryos develop at different rates In addition to its value in sexing embryos this knowledge poses another question If the team can one day learn to control the rate of embryo development will it be possible to control the sex of an embryo independent of its genetic comshyplement
Photo courtesy of the Animal Biotechnology Embryo Lab
Transgenic animals
Since the mid 1980s Wildeman and fellow molecular biologist John Phillips have been producing transgenic mice for studies in human disease
This involves recovering one-cell embryos microsurgicalty from an imshypregnated mouse With a finely drawn glass needle a piece of DNA is inserted into the nucleus of the embryo which is then placed in a surrogate female to complete the pregnancy The offspring carries the foreign gene
One line of research using transgenic mice involves the study of a virus known to affect the transformation of normal cells into tumorous cancer cells Wildeman performs this work using transgenic mice in studies of cancer and metastasis
Transgenic mice are also used in Phillipss ongoing study of the causes of insulin-dependent juvenile diabetes He borrowed a gene from the fruit fly and spliced it into the chromosomes of the mouse so that it is expressed in the beta cells of the pancreas
Observations from the research conshyfirm the long-standing hypothesis that one cause of juvenile diabetes arises from the action of oxygen radicals in the pancreas
The fruit fly itself is used in studies aimed at producing insecticide-resistant insects Working with a team of scienshytists in Texas Phillips is perfecting techshyniques to transfer organophosphate insecticide-resistant genes to the fruit fly and ultimately to agriculturally beneficial insects
Studies have shown that the use of inshysecticides could be reduced if beneficial insects were not also killed by the spray In addition this research may provide the solution needed by North American
honey producers who are suffering great losses in their beehives due to parasitic mites Currently there is no effective control of the mites
From mice to pigs and chickens
Transgenic mice are also playing a role in a project that may eventually imshyprove forage use in domestic animals
Ruminant animals like cows and sheep have friendly bacteria in their inshytestinal tract that enable them to digest the cellulose fibre in forage crops If other animals such as pigs or chickens had the same ability they could be reared on lower-quality cheaper feed than the cereal grains now used
A research team that includes Phillips microbiologists Cecil Forsberg and Peter Krell and environmental biologist David Collins-Thompson has isolated the effective gene from a microshyorganism present in ruminant animals and is transferring it into the mouse which is also a monogastric animal Studies with transgenic mice will enable the team to fine-tune its ability to manipulate expression of the gene
This is just the beginning of a longshyterm project says Phillips but it may one day connect with the work of Profs Rob Etches and Jim Squires in the Department of Animal and Poultry Science who are following separate paths to reach the same goal- transshygenic chickens
Blotchy chicks
Etchess lab opened the door for transshygenic poultry in 1988 when postdoctoral fellow Jim Petitte OAC PhD 86 sucshycessfully moved cells from one chick embryo to another creating chimeric chicks Until this breakthrough
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researchers had been unable to manipulate the avian embryo in the early stages of development
Petitte extracted embryonic cells from the yo lk of a newly laid egg from a barred Plymouth Rock hen and microinjected them into a rec ipient embryo in a dwarf white l eghorn egg through a tiny 05-censhytimetre window cut in the shell When incubated the egg went on to produce a chimeric chick Embryonic cells from the black Plymouth Rock donor were expressed as blotches of black in the chicks down
Since then Etchess research team has been able to do the procedure more successfully get better gene exshypression in the donor cells and keep the embryonic cells in culture for 24 to 48 hours befo re transplanting them into the recipient egg
The chimeric chick itself is not transgenic genetic information from the donor embryo is expressed in a limited number of cells in the chick A second-generation chimera howshyever would be transgenic if the donor cells contained a foreign gene
Thats the focu s of a collaborat ive
Animal scienlisl Jim Squirev has developed a chemic(li recipe Ih(l causes DNA-I(lced liposomes 10 fuse wilil sperm cells When pershyjeered the technique will allow him to use the natural veeror ofsperm cells 10 lransmit foreign
project between the labs of Etches and colleague Prof Ann Gibbins OAC MSc 71 PhD 80 who is intershyested in modifying the donor cells through genetic manipulation When her lab team is able to target a specific gene and change it - and only it - they will insert that gene into the donor cells to produce a chimeric chick and in the second generation a transgenic chick
Transgenic sperm
Squires is taking a more obvious but no less perilous route to the transgenic chicken by using sperm cells to carry the foreign DNA Just as the hen s embryo is difficul t to manipulate the rooster s sperm has barriers of its own Prevail ing thought is that any invas ion of the sperm cell will kill its potency
Although Itali an and Israeli reshysearchers claim to have inserted DNA into the sperm cells of mice through abshysorption no one else has been able to get this to work so the prevailing thought prevail s
Squires s approach is to power DNA into the cells He s de veloped a chemishycal recipe that causes DNA-laced liposomes (fat globules) to fuse with sperm cells
Squires says his team has overcome
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DNA Photo by Ma ry Dickieson
the three main obstacles encapsulating DNA in the liposomes fu sing the liposomes to sperm cells which affects the transfer of 0 TA and retaining the fertility of the sperm
What they have yet to demonstrate is that the process produces a transgenic animal Trials are under way using a radioactive marker ge ne that can be easi shyly detected in a developing transgenic chicken Squires will be eager for peer rev iew to document the results this fall
If successful the sperm cell technique can be adapted for use with all species of commercial animals Sperm cells are the perfect vector because their ultimate function is to insert DNA into an egg says Squires We ll just be supplying the DNA The method is easy economical and safe to periorm and does not inshyvolve expensive equipment
Disease diagnosis
The international race to identify a mutation assoc iated with a costly swine disease was won by Guelph pathologist Peter OBrien OVC 88 and Univershysity of Toronto professor David Maclennan
The mutation associated with maligshy
nant hyperthermia was identifi ed in Maclennan s laboratory by sequenc ing the gene in normal and abnormal swine A I OO-per-cent correlation was fo und between DNA-based tests in Maclennan s laboratory and phys iologishycalbiochemical tests used in 0 Brien s research for diagnosing the condition
From these findings the scienti sts developed a test using modem molecular biology techniques to identify the mutation in the blood cells of inshydividual swine
Malignant hyperthermia is seldom fatal in pigs but it results in poorshyquality pork Pork producers suffer major economic losses from what is known as PSE - pale soft exudative (watery) meat - in affected animals
Other research at U of G cou ld help eliminate a potentially lethal blood coagulation disorder in dairy cows Facshytor XI a genetic disorder associated with a lack of c lotting protein in the bl ood causes hemorrhag ing in Holstein cows
Researchers believe the problem can be eliminated by ensuring that breeding stocks are free of the disease Testing for all of Canada is conducted by U of G biomed ica l sc ienti st Patricia Gentry and research technician Michelle Ross
Vaccine development
Vaccination is the cheapest most efshyfecti ve way of dealing with infec tions and the most poweriul way of preventshying di sease Advanced immunization programs using new biotechniques are under way in many Guelph labs last fa ll the Natural Sc iences and Engineershying Research Council announced strategic grants for advanced techshynologies that included four vacci ne development projects at U of G
Profs Brian Derbyshire and Eva Nagy of the Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Immunology (VMI) recei ved a three-year grant of $295000 to perfect gene-cloning techniques for the de velopment of a vaccine for porshycine gas troenteritis
In the same department Profs Janet Maclnnes Soren Rosendal and Bonnie -Mallard OAC 79 MSc 82 PhD 88 were awarded $250000 over three years to work on a recombinant vaccine effecshytive against the bacterial organism that causes severe pneumonia in pigs
Also in VMI Prof Patricia SheweD 75 MSc 79 PhD 82 received a three-year grant of $408 000 with Prof
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Reggie Lo Microbiology to continue work on an improved vaccine for shipshyping fever Lo and Prof Alan Mellors Chemistry and Biochemistry received a $54000 grant to develop clinical and com mercial applications of a technique used in bone marrow transplantation and vaccine development
These projects follow in the footsteps of earlier developments like the bov ine shipping fever vaccine created by Shewen and VMI chair Bruce Wilkie OVC 65 It was like finding a way to control the common cold in humans
Although the bacterium Pasteurella haemolytica occurs normally in the noses of cattle its numbers increase during periods of high stress and present an insurmountable problem for the animals immune system
Wilkie and Shewen di scovered that during its most active stage of growth the bacterium produces a toxin that imshypairs the ability of clearing cells to eliminate the bacterium They grew the bacterium in a culture monitored toxin production and developed processes for vaccine production
The technology was licensed to Langford Inc of Guelph which man ufac tures and markets Presponse shipping fever vaccine in both Canada and the United States
Lab work by Lo and former student Craig Strathdee CBS 85 PhD 89 that contributed to the shipping fever vaccine project also led to a patent apshyplication - for the plasmid coding for Pasteurella haemolytic leucotoxin which has been implicated as a major virulence factor in the impairment of primary lung defence in cattle
Animal health
Wilkie and Mallard are also working with Prof Brian Kennedy in Guelph s Centre for the Genetic Improvement of Livestock to develop a selective breedshying program that uses knowledge acshyquired through genetic studies and stretches the definition of biotechnology
To stay hea lthy an individual animal must have the genetic ability to produce resi stance to infection says Wilkie That ability is not dependent on a sing le gene but on the expression of many difshyferent genes Neve rtheless these genetic traits are heritable and amenable to selection
This team has identified traits in pigs that are important in maintaining health has characterized individual animals
Biotechnology ofa different sort in volves the use of traditional selected breeding and a computer database to produce diseaseshyresistant pigs
through the expression of these genetic traits and has associated these traits with high productivity If these high producers are mated to produce a disshyease-resistant strain of pigs is that biotechnology
If foreign DNA had been introduced into the embryo of a pig to give it the characteristic of disease resistance that would be an obvious example of bioshytechnology But how do we catalogue the technology if it uses tradi tional selecshytive breeding and a computer to produce a piglet with the same resistance to disshyease
More biotechniques in action
Guelph food scientist Cyriel Duitschaever OAC MSc 66 PhD 75 has developed new fermented milk products that will benefit people suffershying from gastrointestinal illnesses
He and research associate Carole Buteau OAC MSc 78 PhD 83 isoshylated two naturally occurring intestinal bac teri a and propagated a pure culture in the laboratory to develop both liquid and yogurt-like milk products that can be used to stimulate digestion in the inshytestinal tracts of people who are on anshytibiotics who are lactose-intolerant or who suffer gas trointestinal disorders
Clinica l trials at the Children s Hospishytal of Buffalo have been promis ing giv ing rise to another potential use in the treatment of acute diarrhea l di seases affec ting people in the Third World
Microbiology professor Joseph Lam heads a research team that has develshyoped a diagnostic kit to quickly identify a bacteria group known to cause fat al inshy
fections in some hospital patients Pseushydomonas aeruginosa is the principal cause of death in cystic fibrosis sufshyferers and is a serious threat to burn vi cshytims cancer patients and those undergo ing transplants
Because the bacterium does not respond to conventional antibiotic treatshyments quick de tection is central to preventing spread of the infection Lam s kit can cut the test period from 12 hours to five minutes
His current research illustrates the cross-over effect of biotechnology He identified an antigen that is common to about 75 per cent of P aeruginosa strains and a monoclonal antibody against the antigen This has allowed him to iso late spec ia l bacteria that will produce the antigen in large quantities for further s tud y His work should evenshytually lead to a human monoclonal anshytibody that cou ld be used to protect cystic fibrosis patients
In 1989 when the federal governshyment decided it was time to put some money behind its verbal thrust in science and technology it allocated $240 million to estab li sh 14 centres of excellence that would integrate the reshysearch efforts of Canadian uni versi ties industry and government
Several U of G researchers received funding including microbiologists Chris Whitfield Anthony Clarke Joseph Lam Reggie Lo Roselynn Stevenson and Terry Beveridge who beshycame part of the network looking into bacterial di sease Their expertise will aid the search for the causative agents of bacterial diseases such as whooping cough gonorrhea toxic shock synshydrome lung infections and me ningitis
In 1988 biochemist Janet Wood and crop scientist Peter Paul s achieved a breakthrough in understanding how subshystances like sugars and amino ac ids are transported from outside to inside a living cell wall They found that minute protein molecules in the wall surroundshying a cell act like miniature pumps capshyturing the substance and powering it through the cell wall -They are now trying to determine how the protein molec ules choose subshystances for uptake or release S uch celshylular behavior plays a critical role in determining a plants reaction to soi l sa linity or explaining why cells fai l to transport glucose from the blood in diabetics
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Behind every how theres a why While we stand in awe of what sc ienshytists are accomplishing in the biological sciences we shouldnt lose sight of the reasons why they are manipulating cell structure and decoding genetic blueprints
To some extent scientific exploration is driven by human nature - our desire to understand and control the natural world Advances in biotechniques and genetic engineering promise to give us more of both
Reports on the Human Genome Project say that within 15 years well know the code of almost every gene in the human body This work and current explorations in animal genetics are harshymonized by the fact that many of the genes that control development are similar among species
The chicken for example is a familiar model for studies in developshymental biology Supported by 60 to 70 years of data todays embryologists like Prof Rob Etches are learning how to modify the genes that control developshyment of a chick embryo while giving us a better understanding of how genes efshyfect development in all vertebrates
Nothing could be more fund amental than understanding that process says Prof Keith Betteridge who heads the Guelph team working with bovine embryos In all areas of reproductive and genetic research the big payoff is that we will understand more about how two gametes can unite to fonn a single cell and develop into Northern Dancer or Albert Einstein he says
Everyone has a role to play in decidshying how to use this knowledge says Betteridge but the researcher has the triple responsibility of thinking through the implications of new technologies exshyplaining those implications to a skeptishycal and concerned public and safeshyguarding the welfare of animals used
Whether manipulating an entire animal or one of its reproductive cells the scientist is guided by the same set of moral standards If the technology inshyduces pain or suffering causes changes in behavior or affects the animals abilshyity to eat and survive then it shouldnt be done says Prof Bruce Wilkie chair of the Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Immunology
He and other Guelph scientists inshyvolved in animal research are subject to
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peer rev iew through the U of G s animal care committee which is also charged with ensuring that research and teaching programs are in compliance with the Animals for Research Act of Ontario
Reporting to the University s Reshysearch Board the committee is comshyposed offaculty student community and non-user representatives It estabshyli shes animal-care policies on campus and evaluates all protocols submitted by researchers and teachers After granting initial approval the committee reviews each project annually and inspects reshysearch facilities each semester A provinshycially appointed inspector also visits campus frequently and the Canadian Council on Animal Care makes an inshyspection every three years to assess the level of animal care
In addition to safeguarding animal care scienti sts al so need to provide evidence that the products of biotechnolshyogy are safe for human consumption or medical use The public needs to know that the pharmaceutical protein cloned and produced in a chicken s egg is no different than the same protein cultured from human cells and produced in a large bioreactor
The big payoff is that we will understand more about how two gametes can unite to form a single cell and develop into Northern Dancer or Albert Einstein
One of the most talked-about benefits of transgenic technologies is the potenshytial for producing enzymes prote ins and antibodies for pharmaceutical and inshydustrial uses Molecular farming would take advantage of the expression system in higher animals to produce a therashypeutic protein that is difficult or expenshysive to make in a lab
The potential seems enormous but the prac tice will be quite simple A typishycal Ontario dairy herd could probably produce enough human insulin or bloodshyclotting factor to satisfy the world
demand It s easy to see why these techshyniques are already presenting problems for patent offices
The past decade of work in transshygenesis has been a learning process for all of us Early research efforts that produced pigs in the United States with arthritic deformities and sheep in Australia with ulcers have taught us th at even science must learn to walk befo re it can run That means perfecting genetic transfer in animals where the techniques are easily controlled - such as mice and fruit flies - before applyshying them to domestic animals
One of the advantages of gene transshyfer technology is the control it offers geneticists who are able to manipulate expression of a single gene during development One of the limitations may be the re lative ly minor change that gene can make in one generation when compared with the changes induced through the countless generations of selection since domestication
These limitations may alleviate some of our fears about the use of gene transshyfer but it also makes us question its value at least in terms of breed improveshyment in domestic livestock Prof Charshyles Smith holds a research chair at Guelph in animal-breeding strategies and is often called on to assess the value of the new biotec hnologies in the genetic improvement of farm livestock
Economic traits are already being imshyproved through traditional selective breeding methods he says It would take quite large beneficial transgenic efshyfects (at least 10 per cent of the mean) on economic merit to make their incorshyporation worthwhile
Despite our e thical concerns the legal entanglements created by the use of biotechniques and the problem of turnshying new technologies into cost-effective procedures most scientists agree that these technolog ies are too powerfu I not to use They have the pote ntial to help allev iate some of the most serious problems facing the world - food production overpopulation disease and shyenvironmental degradation
Statisticians teU us that 50 years from now we will be trying to feed twice the current world s population on a smaller land base in a more fragile environshyment This is the why behind current research in genetic engineering
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OUD TH Annual giving in 1991 reached $14 million The value of the Annual Fund becomes more apparent each year as the University of
Scholarships amp BursariesGuelph faces continued financial $320127
AMF Priority Athletics ~ ---------- (Scholarships$38326
pressure The 1991 Annual Fund Pet Trust raised $14 million to help $261224 maintain scholarships and provide academic and library programs AMF OAC Alumni Scholarships Foundation ______ grew by $9245 25 per cent
$228494
Memorial Funds $56997
Arboretum $77441
Class Projects ResearchBuildings$86658
Matching gifts grew 31 per cent in 1991 More and more Canadian companies are g iving financial support to the institushytions that educated their employees A total of 44 companies matched 92 inshydividual gifts for a record $11120 in Annual Fund contributions to the University of Guelph in 1991
If you work for a matching-g ift employer every doll ar you donate is matched - doubled or even tripled shyby a company gift Its as easy as it sounds so check with your employer on how to multiply the value of your gift to the University
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Academic Enrichment $87246
3M Canada Incorporated Akzo America Foundation Alcan Aluminum Limited A lean Canada Products Ltd Amdahl Canada Limited American Home Products Corp American International Group Inc BASF Corporation Bell Canada Boise Cascade Canada Limited Campbell Soup Co Ltd Chevron Canada Resources Ltd F alconbridge Ltd Ford Motor Company of Canada Ltd Gelleral Electric Canada Inc Hoechst Canada Incorporated IBM Canada Limited ICI Canada Incorporated Insurance Bureau of Canada
$134893Library $103050
John Laball Limited Kraft General Foods Canada McGraw-H ill Ryerson Limited Nabisco Brands Canada Ltd Northern Telecom Limited Paul Revere Life Insurance Co Pfizer Canada Inc Pioneer Hi-Bred Limited Pitman-Moore Inc Sara Lee Corp ofCanada Ltd Square D Canada The Bank of Montreal The Coca-Cola Company The Toronto Star The UPS Foundation TransCanada Pipelines Warner-Lambert Canada Inc Westeel
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ADIT ON With thanks to Donors Class agents College representatives Alma Mater Fund Advisory Council
Alumni and others who give to the University of Guelph through the Annual Fund are helping to maintain quality at a time when governments are funding for mediocrity Because of the dedication and commitment of our donors and volunshyteers the 1991 Annual Fund surpassed last year s total by $100000 We did not achieve our goal - perhaps $1 6 million was overly ambitious in light of current economic conditions - but we were able to maintain last years 25-per-cent inshycrease in scholarship support
Through the Alma Mater Fund we raised more than $540000 and achieved Tom Sawyer
the target of 12-per-cent participation among graduates of the three founding colleges Arts CBS and CSS alumni substantially increased their donations and participation over last year Campus participation grew from 145 per cent in 1990 to 171 per cent this year And our parents program pushed contributions from parents to $84188 compared with $31500 in 1990
For the first time since 1984 the Alma Mater Fund Advisory Council was able to go beyond its commitments to fund eight additional projects - a total of $86000
Looking ahead our flagship project for 1992 will be War Memorial Hall renovations During Alumni Weekend in June you ll have a chance to see the work that has been done upstairs and the work still needed in the downstairs hall It s a project well worth the interest and support of alumni
For your past and future support of the Alma Mater Fund my sincere thanks
s
Tom Sawyer OAC 59A and 6 Corporations Chair AMF Advisory Council Associations Foundations $2874947 Annual giving contribution s
III Annual IGiving Alumni
$1403701 Major Gifts $1236622
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were 22 per cent of the o
Other $687687
$6239707 given t U of G as donation
in 1991
Government (Donations only
$36750
Annual Giving Report
1991 Annual Fund Results $1 A niillion wasraised overallmiddot ariinceaSe of
76 per ceI1tThisyear alumrii in the Arts and CBS groups doubled theirparticipation alld conshytributions And the parents recotded a 46-pershy
cent participation rate
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The group of eight
Eight campus projects were selected to share $86000 in highest-priority funds from the 1990 Alma Mater Fund Among them are the OvC Wild Bird Clinics education program a CSS academic medal in memory of the late dean John vanderkamp a soc ial sc ience citation index for the library framshying for the fine art print study collection a computer design laboratory for the School of Engineering seed money for a history graduate scholarship a conshytinuing education survey for the Mac-FACS Alumni Association and a HAFA-sponsored executive-inshyresidence
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Of cattle cash and Colvil e Alumni gifts to the University of Guelph come in some pretty interesting packages Over the years alumni have given livestock concrete paintings shythere are two by Canadian painter Alex Colville - furniture land books inshysurance policies and a host of artifacts and antiques And money - a lot of money Almost every building on camshypus has some bricks and mortar paid for by alumni And hundreds of students are helped along the way each year by alumshyni-sponsored scholarships
The Annual Giving Report on the preceding pages shows once again how important alumni gifts are to the Univershysity and provides us with an opportunity to say thank you to those alumni who continue to give on a yearly basis Anshynual giving is however only one of three avenues through which alumni proshyvide financial support to the University The others are major gifts and promoshytional programs
Annual giving
The Alma Mater Fund established in 1969 is the route chosen by most alumshyni faculty and staff who make annual gifts to the University
AMF solicitation and management are handled by a volunteer advisory council On the preceding page chair Tom Sawyer OAC 59A and 64 talks about the funds success over the last two years with AMF scholarships inshycreasing by 25 per cent This year the AMF begins a three-year commitment to funding renovations to War Memorial Hall
In addition to its flagship project AMF provides regular support to athshyletics through Gryphon Club contribushytions to college advancement funds and scholarships and to individual class projects
The AMF supports the camaraderie of university days as alumni work together to plan and complete a project whether its funding a scholarship a painting a tree weight-lifting equipshyment or furniture for Alumni House AMF contributions also ensure that fushyture Guelph students will remember those who have gone before
In addition to AMF donations the anshynual giving program includes gifts to
the OVC Pet Trust Fund the OAC Alumni Foundation the Arboretum the paren ts program and the Li brary Other gifts made directly to the University supshyport memorial funds scholarships musishycal activities and research and academic programs
Major gifts
Major gifts to the University are adshyministered by the Deve lopment Office under the direction of Marilyn Robinson Mac 55 These include beshyquests or life insurance policies shortshyterm pledges (often made during a capital campaign) large donations that might establish an endowment fund or contributions to special University projects like the Heritage Fund or the proposed FACS Building addition
Gifts- in-kind - such as library materials art objects or estate properties - also fall within thi s category Last year alumni gave more than $12 milshylion in such tax-deductible gifts
Promotions
Every Guelph graduate is a member of the University of Guelph Alumni Asshysociation and receives the Guelph Alumshy
nus magazine and many other privishyleges There are no UGAA membership fees but the association does raise money through promotional programs like MasterCard travel packages and the North American Life Assurance proshygram
The UGAA provides serv ices to alumshyni and students - such as the careershyplanning workshop planned for Juneshyand returns many dollars directly to the campus Last year it gave $20000 to the library
In addition to direct financial support through annual giving and major gifts alumni also support the University inshydirectly through membership fees to individual college and program associashytions The fees pay for association acshytivities that help maintain ties between their members and the University
Questions
If you have questions or would like 10
know more about the tax advantages of giving to U of G write to Paulette Samson associate director of annual giving and support services at Alumni House University of Guelph Guelph Ont NIG 2Wl or call 519-824-4120 Ext 6183
When yo~bearrom US
If you think youre hearing from us moreoften lhanY9u elida few years ago you reright But checkyour mail and you ll 110tiqe that you~re also hearing
more frequemly from othernon-jgtrofit)rganizations and charities We v~ all stepped lip oui- fUQdIaising efforts
U QfGappreciates your support and needs your help butyou wont know that if we donr teflyou Aildeyen if you cant afford to make a fjnancialcon~
tributiori we hop~ to wjn yoUfverbaJ sliPPOJ-tJt will take many voices to coii- ylnce governmeritthal universities should beagreater public priority
When we contacenttyou on behalf of iheUriivetsity we lly to give more thiin we ask So tak~advantage ofthe p~1one call o(letter to findoutwhais happenc ing OJrcarnp~s U ofG hasmuchto offer llufnrii professionaldevelcipment courses library privileges travel programs recreation and a link Igt friends and
classmates
We Jik~to keep in roucharidYcwarit yO~1 to know the progress were rilaking Ast~e Uriiversity $ prestige grows so does the value ofyour degree
~0~ MarilynR~binson Trish Walker Mac55 DiJectoJ ofDevelopment CSSTl Director ofAJurhni Affairs
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Get your career on track
Responding to alumni requests the University of Guelph Alumni Associashytion will sponsor a career-planning workshop on campus June 26 to 28 The weekend program will be led by Sharon Crozier of the University of Calgary counselling service Each participant will receive a careerlifestyle analysis and will develop a personal action plan
The $225 fee includes the StrongshyCampbell Interest Inventory and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator which will be administered and tabulated prior to the weekend Testing dates have been set in Toronto for May 27 and in Guelph for June 4
Sponsored by the UGAA and coshyordinated by Continuing Education and Alumni Affairs the workshop will also draw on the Universitys Counselling and Student Resource Centre
Enrolment is limited to 20 For registration information see page 26 or call Continuing Education at 519-767shy5000
UGAA board report
by Grant Lee CSS 73 MA 80
The UGAA will present a convocation package to each graduate this spring imshymediately following presentation of the degree or diploma Developed by Alumshyni Affairs staff the package is designed to increase awareness of the UGAA and the collegeschool alumni associations encourage membership introduce the Guelph Alumnus and provide an opporshytunity for board members to congratushylate our new alumni
Approval of the new UGAA bylaw is on schedule It will be presented to members at the annual general meeting in June along with an amendment to the
i I UGAA Letters Patent
In addition the UGAA board bull has approved a $400 donation to help
cover costs for two students to represhysent Guelph at the 1992 World Debatshying Championships in Dublin Ireland
bull is looking at a proposal to help alumDl with financial planning There will be more to come on this subject later
bull received thanks from president Brian Segal on behalf of those alumni who attended the October symposium
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Canada Break Up or Restructure The association was a patron of the event
bull is responding to requests from alumni for more social events Aside from the travel program the UGAA sponsored a ski day at Horseshoe Valley in March
bull approved a proposal from the School of Landscape Architecture to research places of historical value on campus Financial support has yet to be resolved
bull accepted an offer to help sponsor the University Centres annual lecture series which invites Canadian and inshyternational public figures to speak on current issues All events in the winter 92 series were free to alumni
bull donated U of G sweatshirts to Canadian Guidance and Counselling for a conference in Ottawa this sumshymer
bull approved the purpose and terms of refshyerence for the new Alumni House Adshyvisory Committee which is charged with overseeing maintenance of the
facility adopted the 199192 budget and finanshycial plan drafted last November This year we expect to generate some $44000 and spend $33000 It has been suggested that we set the 199293 budget and plan in April of this year so the new board wi II start in September with a sound financial program and budget that will only reshyquire adoption or revision
Chapter news
Calgary - About 40 alumni and guests met at the Delta Bow Valley Hotel Feb 3 to view a U of G video and hear a talk by admissions counsellor C hr is tine Toews FACS 87 Co-ordinator of the event was Janet Hutchinson CBS 79
Edmonton - Paul OAC 67 and Anne Valentine CBS 69 hosted a group of 30 alumni and guests at the Ramada Renaissance Hotel
Montreal - U of G welcomed students and their parents - including many
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alumni - to its first Montreal informashytion night for prospective students The event was modelled after a successful program in Toronto that draws more than 800 students each spring
Vancouver - U of G president Brian Segal met with alumni March 5 at the Pan Pacific Hotel Jim Dodds OVC 63 and Sarah Bloom FACS 86 orshyganized the event which attracted about 70 alumni and guests
Halifax- U ofG alumni in Halifax met with Gryphon basketball players during the March 26 to 28 CIAU chamshypionships Despite losing the OUAA west division title to Brock University the Gryphons qualified for a wi ld card spot at the CIAU championships Alumshyni received free tickets to the game that pitted Guelph against Brandon in the consolation final Fan support was enshythusiastic but the Gryphons lost 72 to 64 finishing third overall
Homecoming 1992 Plans are well under way for Homecoming weekend Sept 25 and 26 In addition to the annual Gryphon Hall of Fame dinner and award s ceremony the weekend will feat ure a beach volshyleyball tou rnamen t --~4~=iiiiikshyconcert alumni brunch walk-a-thon pep rally reunions and the traditional homecoming dance following the Saturday afternoon footshyball game This year the Gryphons will play Wil frid Laurier University A complete schedule will appear in the next Guelph Alumnus but you can get
Winners of Ihe Ju SI fo r Fun square dance compelition 01 College Royal were left 10 right Ann Joselin Kelley Allen Joanne Hewirson Brenl McFadden caller Sue MacKinnon Richard Presley Trish Henderson Jason Thompson and Kelly Lillie
in the Homecoming spirit now by helpshying to plan your class reunion or signing up as a scorekeeper for the vo lleyball tournament For infOlmation call alumshyni officer Laurie Malleau HAFA 83 at 519-824-4120 Ext 2102
Swing your partner
Eight squares of alumni took part in the College Royal square dance competition in March Winners of the UGAA alumni square dance plaque were the Crazy 8s Joanne Hewitson Arts 91 Lloyd Hutchinson CBS 87 Sonya Jones CPS 90 Ed Ketchabaw OAC 88 and MSc 91 Carol)n OAC 90 and Brad MacNeil CPS 87 Mike Relf OAC 91 and student Sherry MacNeil Wayne Lowden was the caller
Winners in the Just for Fun category were Junior Farmer alumni who included Hewitson Ann Joselin OAC 90 Brent McFadden CSS 90 Richard Presley OAC 86 and soonshyto-be-alumni Kelley Allen Trish
Henderson Kelly Little and Jason Thompson The caller was Sue MacKinnon OVC 9 1
Florida picnic
The North Port Yacht Club hosted 199 alumni for the annual Florida picnic March 4 On hand to meet them was Trish Walker CSS 77 and MSc 90 director of alumni affairs Judy Phillips of the University s Real Estate Division also attended to talk about the Village by the Arboretum retirement deve lopshyment
Attendance prizes went to Gertrude Stewart Mac 30 and Morley Funston OAC 32 The picnic was sponsored by the UGAA Alumni-In shyAction Committee represented by Ken Gartley OAC 42 and the Florida reunion committee consisting of Mary and Ted Brent OAC 48 Helen and Don Moffatt OAC 46 Stella and Bob Moore OAC 48 and Retis and Bill HasenptlugOAC 39
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A new kind of class reunion
Its the latest fad in alumni circles shymeeting your classmates at the anshynual University of Guelph alumni hockey tournament Twenty-two teams played in the fifth annual tourshynament in December
For most teams tournament standshyings are secondary to the socializing with classmates that they may not see otherwise says Bill Seegmiller OAC 83 who worked with Brian TapscottOAC 8 1 to organize the event We promote the social aspect through two divisions - social and more social - and include family skating and a Saturday evening wine and cheese party he says Trish Walker director ofalumni affairs presents fhe social division lrophy 10 Ihe OAC 79
Dipper Oldies (II the U ofG alumni hockey tournamenl The OAC 79A team defeated the Grey Gryphons to win the more soshycial division The OAC 80 team won the consolation final and the spirit award went to OAC 7778
In the social (a little more competishytive) division it was the Faceoffs in first place over OAC 88 OAC 90 won the consolation trophy and the Valley Vikings took home the spirit award
Organizers plan to add womens exshyhibition games to the 1992 tournament which is scheduled for Dec 5 and 6 For more information call Seegmiller at 519-836-3807 or Rudy Diemer OAC 85 at 519-763-2250
A night at the races
The UGAA Alumni-in-Action group will host a night at Mohawk Raceway May 26 The $30 admission includes a 6 pm buffet parking program taxes and gratuities For detail s call Laurie
~ Malleau at 519-824-4120 Ext 2102
I Alumni directory
A new alumni directory will be ready for delivery in May The deadline for alumni updates has passed but you can still order a copy of the directory at a cost of $40 plus tax Return the order form you received with the special U of G wristwatch offer or write to Rosemary Clark Mac 59 at Alumni House University of Guelph Guelph Ont NIG 2Wl
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Ottawa chapter 50 years young
There was a nostalgic gathering of Guelph alumni in Ottawa last winter to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the city s alumni chapter
Donald Fletcher OAC 36A and 39 who was president of the group in 1953 sent us a historical account of the chapters activities
A small organizing committee first met in February 1941 at Madame Burgers restaurant to plan the chapters first fun ction a skating party at the Ottawa Experimental Farm It attracted 75 people
Over the years the group held an anshynual picnic and a banquet and dance that gave them a chance to invite faculty from Guelph to speak about happenings at the colleges - and later the Univershysi ty Every president from George I Christie to Bill Winegard paid a vi sit
In 1951 alumni from OVC and Macshydonald Institute who had been meeting since 1936 joined the OAC group A crowd of almost 200 celebrated the chapter s 10th anniversary at a picnic at the farm of the late John Bracken OAC 06 During the 1950s they added a get-together at the annual Ottawa-area plowing match which gave way to a curling bon spiel in the 1960s
There have been many special funcshytions - entertaining the Gryphon footshyball teams square dances car rallies golf tournaments theatre parties and raceway evenings - but the event that stands out in Fletchers memory ocshycurred in 1966 when five members of Parliament hosted the group in the parshyliamentary ballroom
The chapter also includes a couples bridge club which has been meeting for 25 years in the homes of its members
Fletcher thanks the 30 people who have served as president of the Ottawa alumni chapter and the dozens more who have helped on committees devot shying years to the executive to promote the institution
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JUNE 26 27 amp 28 ~ The Program This highly successful workshop developed by Sharon Crozier PhD University Counselling Services University of calgary is the first step for an alumnus who is considering a career move The weekend (Friday evening through Sunday afternoon) will consist of group presentations conducted by Dr Crozier with smaller working groups facilitated by profeSSional counsellors from the University of Guelph Counselling and Student Resource Centre
Discussion structured exercises and experiential activities will lead alumni to gain insight into a personal careerllifestyle analYSis and assessment career information resources networking skills and much more
No matter what their age career stage or reason for transition each participant will find this workshop to be an excellent opportunity to develop a personal action plan - and chart their next move
~ Pre-1esting In order to provide individualized career information registrants are required to attend one of two pre-testing sessions The Strongshycampbell Interest Inventory and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator will be administered and results tabulated prior to the workshop Pre-testing dates are as follows
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Guelph Thursday June 4 1992 700 pm - 8 30 pm University Centre
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May 2 - The Guelph Spring Festival begins with a 25th-anniversary gala dinshyner in Creelman Hall that will honor founding president Murdo MacKinnon Other festival events run until May 23 For more information call 519-821-7570
May 2 shy An All-Canadian University Asshysociation d inne r w il l be held in Washington DC at the Embassy of Canada Guest speaker is Robert Lanni president of the University of Windsor Entertainment will be provided by Windsors music department For inforshymation call T Chan at 202-543-9111
May 3 - Arboretum Day celebrates spring with family nature walks at 1 and 330 pm and an electrical keyboard concert at 230 pm featuring Canadian comshyposer Carole Anne Burris
May 10 to Aug 30 - Guided nature walks run every Sunday at 230 pm in the Arboretum Topics include wildflowers birds turtles snakes and insects The nature centre is open from 1230 to 430 pm
May 13 - Chancellor Lincoln Alexander is the guest speaker at the Alumni-inmiddotAction annual general meeting which begins at noon in the Arboretum Centre For details call Alumni Affairs 519-824middot 4120 Ext 2102
May 13 - The Human KineticsHuman Biology Alumni Association will hold its inaugural meeting at730 pm at Alumni House with a coffee and dessert social RSVP to 519-824-4120 Ext 6963
May 23 shy FACS 82 is sponsoring a colshylection of Bob Munsch plays performed by the Carousel Players at3 pm at War Memorial Hall Tickets are $8 plus tax and handling To order call the UC box off ice at 519-824-4120 Ext 3940
May 26 - Alumni-in-Action is hosting a night at Mohawk Raceway Cost is $30 To register call 529-824-4120 Ext 2102
May 30 - An Arboretum sale of rare native trees and shrubs at the RJ Hi lton Centre on College Avenue East runs from 9 am to 1 pm For information call 519-824shy4120 Ext 2113
May 30 shy The sixth annual All-Canadian University Dinner in Chicago will be held
in the Henry Crown Space Centre at the Museum of Science and Industry and will include a reception buffet dinner and an Omnivax movie beginning at 6 pm Guest speaker is George Pedersen president of the University of Western Ontario For information call David Cole at 312-372-4404 or Hugh Mackenzie at 708-369-3688
June 2 to 5 shy Spring convocation June 13 - Beginning at 7 am the Arshy
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June 15 to 17 shy U of G will host the 15th annual Guelph Conference on Sexuality With the theme Sexuality New Visions the conference will examine current isshysues in human sexuality counselling strategies for sexual problems and teaching approaches in sexuality educashytion For information call the Office of Continuing Education at 519-767-5000 or fax 519-767-0758
June 19 to 21 - ALUMNI WEEKEND See page 39 for a complete schedule of events and alumni association meetings The UGAA annual meeting is June 21 at 10 am in Macdonald Hall 149
June 26 to 28 shy The UGAA-sponsored alumni career-planning workshop will be held on campus See page 26 for details
July 31 amp Aug 4 shy The National Youth Orchestra will perform in War Memorial Hall at 8 pm as part of its summer program at U of G Tickets at $8 general $6 for stUdents and seniors will be availshyable at the door
Sept 26 - HOMECOMING Rise early for the second ann ual Homecoming charity walkathon At 930 am the Human Kinetics Alumni Association will hold its annual general meeting in the School of Human Biology lounge
Oct 1 - OVCs 1992 Schofield Memorial Lecture will be given by Steven Arnoczky a professor in the department of small animal clin ical sciences at Michigan State Universitys Laboratory for Comparative Orthopedics The 3 pm lecture will be held in War Memorial Hall Admission is free
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John Boros 88 of Wei land Ont writes that he is impressed by the way U of G keeps records after graduation Thi s gives the graduate a sense of belonging a connection to an important period in hi s or her life he says
Jane Buzza 88 is working as records co-ordinatorarchivist for the Ontario Medishycal Association in Toronto
Jacqueline (Sullivan) DeClerck 86 is a public relations officer at the Canada Trust head office in London Onto
Richard Ely 70 works at the Crown attorneys office in WeIland Ont He has an LLB from the University of Western Ontario in addition to his Guelph degree He says he often talks about U of G to young students trying to decide which university to attend
Paul Genest 81 finished graduate studies at Johns Hopkins Universi ty in Maryland and is now assistant professor of philosophy at Union College in Schenectady NY He is man-ied to Barbara Jessup 8 1
Brian Hogarth 78 is head of interpretashytion at the G1enbow Museum in Calgary
Martha Hooper 9 1 was married last Ocshytober to David Perry They live in Calgary where she is a sw itchboard operator at the Delta Bow Valley Inn
Rene van der Meijden 87 has put his degree in geogshyraphy and internationshyal development to good use with the Christian Reformed World Relief Comshymittce Originally from the Netherlands he is now in Uganda on a three-year asshy Rene van der signment as a rural Meijden development adv iser He sends greetings to his many friend s in Canada and to Guelph grads Stan and Kitty in Bolivia in particular and reminds us that visitors are always welshycome in Uganda
Edward Milliner 85 will graduate this spring from the faculty of education at the University of Windsor
Mark Moore 85 is doing postgraduate work in history at the University of Bristol in England He plans to teach high school
fn response to a letter from Dawn Monroe 69 that appeared in the winter 1992 issue of the Guelph Alumnus Doug Moynihan 69 of Fort McMurray Alta writes Be disapshypointed no more Dawn l I too graduated in 1969 from (the College of) Arts or as it was then called Wellington College and I havent heard from anyone either And I too think it is time to contribute my news
After graduation f headed out to disshycover and sol ve the problems of the world travelling overseas for about three years Since then Ive been working in human resources in a variety of organizations in many different locations in Canada Cun-entshyIy I am the manager of human resources in Fort McMurray
PS Do you remember me Dawn I was the bartender in Creelman Hall I
John Teskey 7 1 began new duties last summer as director of libraries at the University of New Brunsw ick in Fredericton He was head of adshyministrative sershyvices at the University of Albershyta before moving John Teskey across Canada to acshycept the UNB posishytion but had earlier served as chief librarian and was library personnel officer at both Alshyberta and the University of Saskatchewan
Teskey says his biggest challenge is to regain the lost purchasing power that univershysity libraries have suffered as a result of static budge ts and ri sing material costs He is encouraging increased resource-sharing among universities and interlibrary loan programs with shortened turnaround
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Elizabeth (Baxter) Willson 77 a real esshytate agent in Chatham Ont writes to voice a common feeling that the universi ty exshyperience itself is often more important than the degree or diploma received I am really glad I graduated from Guelph she says
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Michelle Bombadier and Mike Caldwell both 92 are two of 50 Canad ian youth selected to work in Guyana for three months with Youth Challenge International (YCI) a non-governmental organization that provides Third-world experience for Canadians They may spend the summer building a school teaching safety or clearing land for Gu ytna s first national park but they need some private support to he lp cover transportation costs Anyone able to help should write to YCI at I I Soho St Toronto M5T IZ6
Jane Coventry 86 writes with accolades for the Guelph Alumnus grad news section and an update on what she and her husband Jaydee Smith 84 and MSc 89 are doing They were married in 1989 while working at U of G - he in the Department of Animal and Poultry Science and she in the Departshyment of Crop Science In February 1991 they moved to England where Smith is doing a PhD at the University of Bristol and working as a research assistant Coventry
works in the technology transfer unit of Nickshyerson Seeds Ltd in Cambridge
Jeffrey Crawford 88 and Leslie Thompson 86 were malTied last October He is an elementary schoolteacher in Mount Forest Ont
Craig Emerson 83 earned a PhD at Dalshyhousie University in Halifax in 1990 and is now a research associate in oceanography
Paul Fleming 85 is a pharmaceutical sales representative for Hoechst Canada Inc and lives in Nepean Ont
David Forsey 80 is an assistant professor of computer science at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver He is marshyried to Lyn Bartram
Michael Gangl 89 is in his third year at the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College
Astrid Harms 87 is a registered nurse in London Ont
Andrew Holmes 85 worked for the Onshytario government as a wildlife biologist for three years but is now back at school in his second year at Northwestern Chiropractic College in Minneapolis
Timothy Johnson 86 works at the Centre for Limnology at the University of Wisconshys in in Madison
Karen Lennard 77 (HK) and her hu sshyband Paul Jackson 79 (HK ) and MSc
82 both went 011 to earn medical degrees from McMaster University in HalTilton Ont Jackson also has a master s in physiology from the University of Virginia and is comshypleting an anesthesiology residency in Hamilshyton Lennard has a part-time family medical practice allowing her to spend more time with the couples two children Matthew and Nicola
Wendy Maltby 74 is an elementary schoolteacher for the Metropolitan Toronto School Board
Sandra OConnor 84 earned a medical degree from the University of Western Onshytario and is now practi sing in Burlington Ont
Linda Owen 81 runs her own business as a consulting exercise physiologist and fitness supervisor in Campbell River BC
Sheryle Tetley 86 is regional sales manager for Glaxo Canada Inc in Mi ss isshysauga Ont where she lives with her husshyband Ian
Rob Tonus 87 is manager of the Black Creek Rehabilitation Project a grassroots enshyvironment program to improve a degraded urban stream in Toronto His office is with the Metropolitan Toronto and Region Conshyservation Authority and he lives in Oakville with his wife Wanda (Knul) 88 (HK) a public health inspector in Hamilton
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Richard Woods 81 is an instructor of xshyray technology at the Easte rn Ontario School of X-ray Technology at Kingston Ge neral Hospital He would like to hear from other members of the 1981 U of G choir wi th whom he travelled to Scandinav ia Write to him at RRI Od essa Ont KOH 2HO
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James Dy nes 84 has comp le ted g raduate studies in chemistry and so il sc ience at the Univers ity of Sas katchewan in Saskatoon
Catherine (McVittie) Clark 88 is a nuclear medica l tech nici an at Howard Counshyty General Hospita l in Columbia Md She and her husband Michae l li ve in Elkridge Md
David Holmes 85 is a systems analyst at Sun Life Assurance Company
RolfKierdorf 84 lives in Guelph with his wife Janet He is se lf-employed as a systems consultant
Donald McFadde n 71 and his wife Carol li ve in A lbany Ga where he pracshyti ses medicine
Donald Ridley 69 and PhD 73 has been appoin ted seni or v ice-presiden t of CibashyGeigy Canada Ltd in Oakvi lle Ont and is responsib le for a ll corpora te serv ices includshy
ing finance human resources safe ty health and the environment He a lso se rves on the board of the Canadian Agricu ltura l Research Council and is a member of the Great Lakes Action Plan Strategi c Advi sory Committee
Kathryn Root Parr is an assoc iate minister at Lorne Park Bapti st Church in Mississhysa uga Ont She was married las t fa ll to Vicshytor Parr
Peter Simpson 85 is dis tric t manager for McNeil Pharmaceutical Ltd in Stouffville Ont He is married to Cynthia (Hamilton) 85 (HK)
Keith Stemshorn 83 is in the Canadian Armed Forces stationed in Calgary
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Nikki Dignard 86 moved to Ottawa last year where her husband Ted Henike pracshyti ses denti stry Dignard is working on an M BA and says she d love to hear from CSS classmates Tom Cam and Kathryn
Bonnie Dunnett 87 and MA 91 works on campus at the Gerontology Research Centre S he and Barry Hallman 9 1 li ve in Guelph
Kathryn Faulkner 80 is a registered nurse in Burling ton Ont where she li ves wi th he r husband John
Ruth Fox 84 is a sta ffing assistant for
Transport Canad a and lives in Toronto w ith her husband Christopher
Shonna Giles 88 is an admiss ions officer at Simon Fraser Unive rs ity in Burnaby BC
Gina Grieco 75 is a hi gh school guidance counsellor in North York Onto
John Harris 82 is manager of financial planning and budgets for th e City of Brampton Ont
Paulette Heppner 76 is a teache r in Vanshycouver
John Johnston 7 1 has been appointed exshyec uti ve vice-pres ident o f Ve rsacold Canada Corp and pres ident of QF Foods Distribushytion Services Versacold Canada is the largest public refri gera ted ware hou sing orshygani za tion in Western Canada
Michael Kral 79 has moved from the Univers ity of Manitoba to the University of Wind sor where he is an assistant professor of psychology
Jeffrey Lozon 76 and his family recently returned to Toronto after 15 years in Western Canada He is executive vice-president and ch ief operat ing officer at St Michael s Hos pital and li ves in Oakville wi th hi s wife Donna and two daughters
Bria n Martin 79 is a real estate appraiser in Portland Ont whe re he li ves w ith hi s wife Margaret (Sheffield) Arts 79
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Leith Mason 90 works in Toronto in the Canadian office of the State of Illinois as a special assistant to the Illinois Department of Food and Agricul ture
Michael McKean 74 of Don Mills Ont was recently appointed president of Wrigley Canada Inc Before joining Wrigley as execushytive v ice-pres ident in 1990 he he ld senior positions in Hong Kong Brazil and the United States
Rick 74 and Vicki (Collard) McTaggart FACS 74 are working in Ottawa He is director of overseas operations for the Unitarian Service Committee a charitable non-governmental organization that supports commun it y and human resou rce developshyment activities in Africa and Asia She is sec tion head of consumer analysis in the agr ifood development branch of Agriculture Canada
Sandra Morrison 86 is an ass istant professhysor in the department of psychiatry at the University of Western Ontario
Stephen Naylor 85 is director of planning and development for the amalgamated municipalities of Alliston Beeton Tecumshyseth and Tottenham
Brian ONeill 68 MA lives in SUITey England where he is managing director of Innovation Management Consultant s
Jodi Parisi 89 is a sales representative for Gillette who says U of Goo was the greatest
Moira Skikavich 81 is completing a PhD in c inematelevision at the University of Southern California
Virginia Sutherland 78 is an air traffic controller at the Toronto Island Airport
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Peggy Bates 88 was recently promoted to sales manager with Sears Canada Inc She lives in Owen Sound Ont
Caroline Begin 86 is working in Singshyapore as a dietitian
Diana Close 87 is a c linical nutri ti onis t at Chedoke McMaster Hospital in Hamilton Ont
Sarah Davenport 90 is a case worker with the Wellington County Social Services office in Guelph She is malTied to Matthew Harvey CBS 90
Timothy Dyck 8 1 is national sales manager for Black amp Decker Canada workshying out of the Corbin Division in Richmond HillOnt
Sharon (Muir) 84 and Richard Ernst CBS 83 are the proud parents of a future Guelph grad uate one-year-old Andrew Graham
Patricia Edwards 78 is food servi ce sushypervisor fo r St Peter s Hospita l in Hamilton Ont
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For the love ofteaching Since she
middot graduated bull from Macshydonald Inshymiddot stitute in
J 963 Nancy Kerr has built a career on teaching and research in telttles The middotheidofthe Uriiveisityof
Albertas department of Clothing and texiiles pursues a middotscientific interest inthepreservashylion of hi stori~lfabricsarid in developing pesticide-proofc1otl1ing But Jler fitstlove i ~ teaching
In 199b shewonone ofU of As four Rutherford AWljrds for excellence ill unshy
dergraduate teat-hing The first member of the faculty middotofliomemiddoteconornicsto receive the award slie was the rcentcipient6f the facultys own underglltiduate teaching award three years earlier
Winning the Rutherford was a gteat honor says Ken who has been on
faculty at Alberta since 1967 She oiscovered she had an aptitude for
middot teaching as a graduate student at the University of California Davis in
196566 After earning her MSc she casr about for afaculty position in Canada and round U of A was the 0111y place I could teach ju t textiles plus have a chance to develop new cQurses and research labs
middot Kerr sa)s she gets a tremelldous sense of satisfaction from teaching and the learning he must do to stay cUlTent She attributes her succe s as a teaCher to middotIec-middot
middot tures that are well organized and clear and to creltting a positive classroom climate
~Thcomfort level of students is reaUy middot ililportanL ~ Kerr eamedherPhD in fibre lnd
polymer science from North Carolina bull Staie University in 1982 Her doctoral work concentrated oil deacidification
techniques to preserve historicatcottOnln 1988 she spent a sabbatical ye~r doing research at the Caliadian Conservation
middot In tirute in OnflW1 middot Originalmiddotly from Ottawa Kerr is a
trarisphlnted -vesterner who enjoys middot hiking anlt sk1ing
From left Diane Ellison Lisa Wilson Lori Davis and Pippa Hobbes
Diane Ellison 84 is liv ing in Osaka Japan where she teaches English to Japanese busishyness people Last October she welcomed three U of G friends for a visit Lori Davis CSS 85 manager of Jumbo Video Inc in Oakville Ont Pippa Hobbes 84 accountshying manager for Paramount Holidays in Willowda le Ont and Lisa Wilson 84 co-ord inator of membership serv ices for the Metropolitan Toronto Board of Trade
Monica Hrybko HAFA 88 is director of sales for the Ramada Hotel Old Town in San Diego Calif
David Jones HAFA 88 is a con troller at the Holiday Inn Montreal Centre-Ville
Kathleen McLachlin 83 is operating an insurance agency in Kitchener OnL She opened the State Farm Insurance office in March 1988 and says she loves her job
Susan (Goettler) Parker 80 is working in Toronto as benefits administrator for Imshyperial Oil Limited She is married to Donald Parker OAC 79
Mary Jean (Sinnott) Price Mac 7 1 has returned to sc hool at the University of Otshytawa to earn a bachelor of education
Margaret (Richardson) Rankin 75 has been living in Halifax since 1990 and is an account analyst for Central Guaranty Trust
Janet (Wanless) Sutherland 77 is in private practice as a marriage and family therapist in East Kelowna BC
Jean Thomson Mac 37 says 1937 was a long time ago but shes delighted with all the changes that have gone at the college A former hospita l nutritionist she is retired and living in London Ont -
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Olayiwola Layi Adeola MSc 86 and PhD 89 and his wife Mope are living in West Lafayette Indiana where he is an assisshytant professor of pig nutrition at Purdue University
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Bruce Barrie 79 (Eng) graduated last June with an MBA from City Uni ve rsi ty in Washington State and is now a senior adshyviser in strategic planning with Petro-Canada Resources in Calgary He is a professional eng ineer with APEGGA and an ac tive memshyber of the Planning Forum an international society for planning and strategic manageshyment
Barbara Bryce 83 and her husband Ricardo Ramirez 82 are living in Rome Italy She is a landscape architect and he is a communications officer with the Food and Agriculture Organizat ion
Daniel Campbell 81 and his wife SharonshyMarianne are farmin g near Petrolia Onto
Carolyn Closs 82 and her husband Harold operate a beef cowca lf operation in Shawville Que
Luc Cote 83 is an agricullural account manager for the Royal Bank of Canada in Joliette Que
Kerrie Lea Curran 85 plans to graduate this fall from the master of architecture proshygram at McGi ll University
Bruce Dodson 74A is course superinshytendent at Hawd Ridge Golf and Curling Club in Orillia Ont
Richard Donkin OAC 85A originalshyly from Zimbabwe is the manager of Venida Packing Inc in Exeter Calif Situated in central Californias San Joashyquin Valley Venida Packing ships tree fruit throughout the Richard Donkin United States Canada the Pacific Rim and the Far East Products under the brand names Ruby River and Venida include peaches plums nectarines kiwi grapes persimmons and pomegranates In 1988 Donkin married California native Lisa Kolander and they live in Lemon Cove a community in the Sierra foothill s
Brendan Elder 8S A lives in Kelowna BC and works for Dogwood Nursery He plans to be married thi s summer to Rosemary Powell
Robert Fessenden OAC MSc 67 was recently appointed vice-president of devel opshyment and planning at the Alberta Research Council He is responsible for tec hnology management and corporate marketing
John Fitzgerald 86 was married last November to Susan Given a ] 991 indeshypendent study graduate in animal producshytion He is a lecturer at Ridgetown College she works at Centralia College and is work shying on a psychology degree at the University of Waterloo They live in Strathroy Ont
Glenn Helstern 79A is a driver for the Calgary division of Greyhound Bus Lines of Canada Ltd
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She tells a princely tale
For seven miniJtes on Oct 24 199 L Ellen Het1eOAC 76~U1d MSc 80
(ltllked with PIince Charles Invited toopert a newfumaceat
inco Lilniteds Copper Cliff smelter iri Sudbury Ont the Princemiddot of Wales was easy to talk with says Heale ftwasverycxciting
As eiwironmental co-ordinator Of land reclamation andrevegetation at Copper Cliff Healetold theprince middot about Tnc(secosystem rehabilitation
projects Theroyalvisitor was parshyticulatfyiilterestedin the treegrow- ing project in abandoned inines flld in tlpoundrevegetation ()f acres of tailings
and barren rock Planrilig vegetation on the tailings
hasattrlttcled wildlifeto a protected habitat says Beale who has wqrked forIncosincc she graduated in 1976
Ninety~iwo species ofbirds as weil asrodems hares foxes wolves bears andinoQse have been sighted on the 2500 acres of rehabilitated ore waste
One thing about this job is you middot can s~e where youve been effective she says
While an undergraduate student in Prill(e Charles with EIen Heale horticultural science Healea native ofSiidbury worked at Ineo during the sumniers She wasthi tirst woman to
work inrhemining companys agriculture middot department After shegraduated the niekshy el inine hired her full time tcido horticul- turaLfleld research ~ Ineo later granted heT a two-semester leave of absente t6 work
Theodore Jacobs 78 (Eng) is engineering supervisor at Standard Tube in Woodstock Ont
Greg Keast 85 (Eng) is li ving in Mozamshybique in East Africa where he works as a project officer for UNICEF rural water supshyply project s
Richard Kline 74 was appointed partner of the Toronto accounting firm Schwartz Levitsky Feldman Inc last faiL He is presishydent of the film s bankruptcy division a member of the Chartered Accountants of Onshytario and first vice- president of the Ontario Insolvency Association
Christopher Laforest MSc 91 (USRPD) works in planning and economic developshyment for Bruce County Ont
Jean-Paul PhD 90 and Lynn (Hammell) Laforest 82 and MSc 85 are both employed at Laval University in Sainte-Foy Que He is a professor and s he is a research associate
Kenneth Lawless 63 earned a Guelph deshygree in agricultural economics then went on to stud y dentistry at the Uni versity of Toronshyto He is now an oral and manilo-fac ial surshygeon in Kingston Ont
oil her masters at OAC~ In her current PdStion Heale has rnore
administrative and public relations responshyibilities On her own time she sits on the
board of management for the tocal Red Cross and isalllember ofthe Sudbury
Business and Professional Womens Club
Margie Luffman 77 writes that she has happily returned to Ontario after 10 years in New Brunswick to work at the Smithfield Experimental Farm in Trenton She is curator of the Plant Gene Resources of Canada clonal gene bank
Brian MacCulloch MAg 89 is a sa les representative for Springva le Nurseries Ltd in Berwick NS
Daniel Mansell 64 and MSc 68 is Onshytario manager of the eastern habitat joint venture in the wildlife policy branch of the Ministry of Natural Resources He is stashytioned in Midhurst Ont
Peter McEntire 77A writes from County Langford in Ireland to keep in touch with U of G He is farming and work s as an AI techshynician with Bova Genetics Ltd
Darryl Mitchell 78 works at Pioneer HishyBred Limited in Chatham Ont
Hugh ONeil 88 is manager of customer financial services for Ral ston Purina Canada Inc
Umed Panu MSc 72 (Eng) has done a lot of travelling during his career After Guelph he earned a PhD in civil engineering
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David Nedelko OAC 86 and Ljrlda ArmsJrollg CBS 89 (Jurk 011 cemre) were marriediasl SeplemiJer in Bari ~ie OnlTluir weddiIg iiarly illcilldedfiom leli Katy KusmiliskiOA C 88Paul Allgusline GAG 86 Roh Reed OAC 87Carv Belfral1l oAC 8RJIuJ Sa ndimiddoto (CollinI) BerlrCIlII CBS RR Also 1I111ie wedding w(lS Arlllslong s Veal ullcleClarence Fleming OVC 34 The couple (Ire living in
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at the Universit y of Waterloo taught in India and at Mi ss iss ippi State Uni vers ity and worked with Briti sh Columbia Hydro and the Government of Newfoundland In 1986 he jo ined the faculty of c ivil engi neering at Lakehead Uni ve rsity in Thunder Bay Ont and was promoted to full professor in 199 1 He and hi s wife Kashna and the ir children Neeti and Anukud enjoy the outdoor recreashytion ac ti viti es available in Northwestern Onshytario and look forward to visits from U of G alumni trave lling to Thunder Bay
Lyle Pettigrew 61 is a marketin g consulshytant with Harris Kovacs Alderman in Atlanshyta Ga
Helen Prior 88 joined Sheridan Nurseries after graduation then worked for a year as a research tech nic ian in Guelph s Department of Crop Scie nce She is now in her th ird year at Emmanuel College at Victoria University and hopes to be ordained as a United Church min is ter in May
Gregory Scott 83 (Eng) is operations manager for Accuform Gol f Limited in Toronto
Ba rbara (Coordes) Skrypetz 87 is a fi e ld supervisor for the Ontario Dairy Herd Imshyprovement Corporation working out of Guelph He r husband Stephen 88 operates a bulldozing and excavating busi shyness in the Woodstock area
Victor Skidra 6 is re tired f rom his job as a sc ientific evaluator with Hea lth and Welshyfare Canada He and hi s wife Konstance live in Nepean Ont
William Slusarchuk 63 (Eng) and MSc
The way we were in 1902 OAC alumnus Douglas Campbell 60 passes on a bit of col lege hi sto ry that shou ld make us think twice about our con stitutional squabbles in C anad a
Campbell is director of the Latin America and Caribbea n Trade Divis ion of Canada s Department of External Affa irs Last summer he hosted a vi s it by the president of Uruguay Luis Alberto Lacalle Herre ra whose grand fa the r made a simil a r vis it to Canada in 1902
This is what the elde r Herrera reported to his government Gue lph agricultural college enjoys a worldwide reputation and is con shys idered one of the grea t loca l attracshytions
More than 200 young Canadians a long with many foreign youths come together in its lecture rooms There are bursary ho lde rs from Norway and as far away as Mauritius C loser to us
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67 was recently appo inted pres ident of AGRA Eanh and Environmental Group an envi ronme ntal and geotechnica l firm that is a division of AGRA Indu stries Limited
Michael Sullivan 87 A is a pol ice officer with the Wate rloo Regional Police in Cambridge Ont
Argentina has 12 students there We ll then couldnt Uruguay imshy
itate those good exa mples and also se nd a number of worthy youths to Guelph to acquire the professional knowledge which is becoming m ore necessary each day for the deve lopshyment of our agric ulture~
In addition to the sc ienti fic benefits that our compatriots woul d deri ve from entering sLlch a Canadian techni cal in shystitution there would be the inca lcushylable benefit of becoming familiar with the stric t manly and sound habits of these people who are admirable in e ve ry respect
Afte r they have stee ped themse lves in this atmos phere of dem ocracy which fosters the development of all rights and is alien to intolerance thi s legati on w ill have the great honor of sending home not only sc ientists but a lso mode l citizens
Brenda Trask 80 operates he r own comshymunica tion s consulting company in Osshygoode Ont She is marri ed to Ron Ferguso n
Dave Vanden Bosch 89 is manager of operator services and plann ing for Bell Canada in London Ont
J Stallard Skip Waterhouse 54 and hi s wife Li sa are ce lebrating the birth of a daughter Samantha Elizabe th on New Years Day 1992 They live in New York State where Wate rhouse is iI pro fe ssor of bio logical science at the Plattsburgh Sta te Uni versity College of Arts and Science
Jeff 88 and Karen (Burrows) W h ite 87 live in Strathroy Ont Jeff work s for Bell Canada and Kare n is a Lambton County rural orga ni za tion spec ialist with the Ontar io Mini stry of Agriculture and Food
Harold Wright 86 is a development repre shysenta tive for Ci ba-Ge igy Canada Ltd in Mi sshysissauga Ont He and Lori Krieg 84 plan to marry thi s sprin g
Donald Ziraldo 7 I received doubl e honors last winter fro m the Ontario grape and wine industry Preside nt of Inniskillin W ines of Niagara-on -the-Lake Ont he was named to the Royal Order of the Grape for hi s leadership in enhancing the prod uct and its image
In addition Z ira ldo and his partner Karl Kai se r were named 1991 Men of the Year by FoodsCIvice and Hospitalily magazine During the ir 17-year partnership at Inn isk ilshylin the two have been instrumental in shapshying Canada s wine industry the magazine sa id
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ave Barry Burtis 69 was named president of the Ontario Veterinary Medical Association in January after working with the voluntary organization for four years as a director member of its editorial board and chair of its public relations committee Burtis lives in Burlington Ont and practises at the Bay Cities Animal Hospital He also appears on a local cable television program called Pel Tales
William Medway 54 of Blackwood NJ has been named an honorary life member of the International Association for Aquatic Animal Medicine for his contributions on beshyhalf of the association and the field of aquatic medicine He is both a founding member and past president of the associa shytion A professor emeritus of clinical laboratory medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine Medway is a member of the Marine Mammal Commissions committee of scientific advisers
Diane Pickering-Forster 86 is practising at Vander Kraan Veterinary Services in Huntsville Ont She is malTied to Chris Forster and they have one daughter Julia
Julien Proulx 67 has moved from Kapusshykasing Ont to La Pocatiere Que where he is superintendent of Agriculture Canada s Experimental Farm Last year he was feashytured on TVOntarios French network series Personalire Ontarienne for his work as a veterinarian his participation in municipal politics and his support of regional developshyment in Northern Ontario He was also awarded Agriculture Canadas research branch prize Agcellence for extraordinary management during his direction of the reshysearch program at the Kapuskasing Exshyperimental Farm
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Twoc~ireers middot on the samepat~ OVCaruninus Geoffrey Lord 49 felt a thopedic
middot enseofdejavuwhen he read theslory gastrointesshyabout Bill Naray~i1 OVe 63 il1la~t tinal and carc
springs issue ofthe Guelph Altimnus diovascular
There are amazing simi laritiesbetween surgery the c~reersof t~e two Guyanese wh6b6th says Lord If earnedvefetinary degrees atGueiph someone worked in c1ini(ai practice in)Yestem were to ask Canada then moved to the United States me ioday to work in human medic~lresearch what Tcon~
Narayan heads an AlDSresearchteamsider to be atJohns HopkiflS l1)iversilySchool of my expertise MediCirieinBaltimoreMatyland Lord is I would have retired directorofthdohnsonamp Johnson to saymecli- Geofrey Lord
middot Resear~h Foundalion ill NewJersey cal device lordsays he was influenced by OVC andbioshy
proJessDfs Anthony Kings(Qte and Frank Inaterials evaluation middot SchofieJd~ndwcentnton from GiJelphto pur- lt In the I 950s Lordwaspalt of ale-
sue graduate studies in parasitology auhe se~rch team that pioneered the use of University oJWiscollsin Sevenmorithsin animal tissue tOTeconstructdamagedjr
amixed practice in Drumheller Alta con blocked al1eries in hUl11ansTwenty years vinced him thaldinical medicine wasn6t middot later he drafted the first systematicap-
middot whati w~ted6 do He returned to Wis pr()ach to the safety evaluation of medica con5il110 eanla PhDlll pathologyano devices joined Johnson amp JohnsQri as asenior middot Allsubsequeill guidelines inCiLlding patilol()gistiriI953 those of the Foodaj)q Diug Admlnistrashy
Research at Johnson amp JohDson tiOnand the Canadian Regulatory ~teeredmeinto many interesting and chal- Authority hayeadopteoihis approach he
Jenging fieldsofbio-research includirig says derniiltoi9gy toxicologic pathology Lordand his wife Helen ltIividetheir wound healing surgical pathology iiinebetweel)Ciipe CodandBonita genera toxkology ofi~w drugs andor~ Springs FloriQa
Shane Renwick 77 and MSc 91 works in veterinary services at Agriculture Canada offices in Guelph
Ruth Reuter 61 is a veterinary pathologist in Plympton Australia
Tom Sanderson 6 1 was selected by the Ontario Veterinary Medical Association as Ontario Veterinarian of 1991 CUlTently OVCs co-ordinator of off-campus work terms he spent 20 years in private practice in Listowe1 and Mount Forest before returning to the coll ege in 1982 to manage the veterishynary research stations Sanderson s contribushytions to the profess ion have included many hours of volunteer work in the advancement
of the profession and in the development of veterinary inshysurance programs He is a past pres ident of both the Ontario and Canadian Veterishynary Medical associashytions
Jennifer Troughton 86 is practising in OronoOnt
Simone Woltner 86 is a veterinarian at the Chester Basin Animal Hospital in Chester Basin NS
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by her hu sband William and two sons The fo llowing dea ths have been reported since the las t issue of the Guelph Alumnus Full notices which are usu ally submitted by family or classmates may appear in thi s iss ue or in a later one
James Clement Arts 73 Feb 2 1992
Marilyn (Dyment) Farnan Mac 530 Feb 27 1992
David Fisher OAC 80A in October 1990
Elizabeth (C hristie) Glass Mac 3I D June 2l99 1
Peter Heskey OAC 54A Dec 6 199 1
Richard Ketchell OVC 51 Nov 23 199 1
Edward Kowalski Arts 79 in August 199 1
Pauline (Dixon) MacMillan Mac 240 Jan 2 1992
Catherine MacPherson Arts 83 Dec 11 1990
Marguerite (White) Maybury Mac 3 10 in June 1990
Donald McLeOd CSS 80 Jan 9 1992
Albert Meilus OAC 51 in 1991
Ann (Biggs) Ostler Mac 3 10 in April 1991
Robert Race Arts 73 in 1989
Ralph Sampson OAC 40 in December 1989
Mor ris Sanderson OAC 42 Nov 17 1991
Sir Peter Scott HDSc 8 1 in Au gust 1989
William Setterington OAC 40 Oct 22 1991
George Shoniker OAC 50A in March 199 1
John Somerset OAC 34 Dec 27 199 1
Gregory Van Patter OAC 7 1 in 1990
Frederich Weiland OAC 20A in 1990
Arts
Riccardo Rich Incitti 88 died Jan 5 1992 as the result of an accident near Hami lshyton Ont He was assistant manager at the Toronto-Dominion Bank in St Cathari nes and is survived by his parents Gu igi and Lucia of Cambridge and two sisters Laura and Andrea
Larry McNenly 73 died in October 1991 in Owen Sound Ont He is survived by his wife Marnie CSS 73
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Robert Everett HK 74 died in May 1991 in Burlington Ont A teac her at White Oaks Secondary Schoo l in Oakv ille he is survived by his wife Miche le and brother William CBS 74
James Sandy Fear 75 died Oct I I 199 1 in Toronto He is survi ved by his wi fe Sally (Firth) OAC 75 and hi s children Caitlin Alli son and Mered ith
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Lynn (Dalys) Corby 84 died in Toron to May 6 1990 after a long battIe with cancer
Nancy (Birbeck) Gordon 77 died Oct 20 1991 in Ottawa after a short illness She worked at the Kitchener-Waterl oo Hospital and had previously been plan t accountant at Foseco Canada Incorporated in Guelph
Mac-FACS
Jean (Williams) Forward 280 Oct 28 1991 in Calgary She was the widow of Bower Forward OAC 25 and is survived by two sons
Catharine (Bechtel) Fromm 270 died Nov I 199 1 in Cambridge Ont She is surshyvived by three dau ghters Ellen Moore Mac 63 Nancy and Caro l
Alice (Rivaz) Garrard 28 di ed Dec 2 199 1 in Guelph She was an active member of the Mac-FACS Alumni Assoc iat ion and was the Mac 28 class agent for the Alma Mater Fund She is survived by her husband retired professor Edward Garrard OAC 27 and a daughter Betty Nelson
Della Marie (Diamond) Honey 300 of Warkworth Ont died June 29 1991 One ofWarkworths oldest and most respected citizens she served as local li brarian fo r 25 years She is survived by her son John OAC 52A his wife Patric ia and four grandchildren James OAC 84A William OAC 76A Thomas OvC 89 and Patricia Lonergan CSS 68
Barbara (Banigan) Martin 380 died Jan I 1992 in Don Mill s Ont A retired teacher wit h the North York Board of Education she is survived by a son Ted a sister and two brothers
Elizabeth (Burt) Perry 340 died June 28 1991 in Sidney BC and is surv ived by her husband Gordon and son Paul Nartel OAC 62
Jacqueline (Roy) Pote 34D died Dec 2 1 1991 in Willowdale Ont and is is survived
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Doroth y (MacFeeters) Scott 260 died Jan 14 1992 in Toronto She is su rvived by two daughters Anne Donaldson and Cynthia Scott
Florence (French) Snyder 370 died May 6 199 1 in Calgary and is survived by her husband Robert and two sons John and William
Katherine (Sweet) Watt Mac 220 died Feb 23 1992 She is survived by her husshyband Leslie a son David and a dau ghter Carol Gi llanders
Mattie (Newman) Widdicombe 240 died Dec 11 1991 in St Catharines Ont Preshydeceased by her husband John she is surshyvived by a bro ther and several nieces and nephews including Virginia Rigby Arts 76
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George Grey Arnup 38 died Feb 2 1992 in Toronto He spent most of his career with the plant protection branch of Agriculture Canada He is survived by his wife Aileen three chi ldren Nancy Jim and Mary Ellen Vincent CBS 79 and four grandchi ldren
Herbert Boyce 28 and MSA 43 died Sept 2 1991 in Amherstburg Onto He is survi ved by his wife Norah a daughter Beverley Med lock and a brother James OAC 32
Jack Reddy Brethet 56 died Nov 4 199 1 in Burlington Ont President of Brethet Barnum Assoc iates Inc he is surshyv ived by his wife Caro l and two daughters Lyn n and Anne
Bruce Foster 28 died Feb 6 1992 in Ridgetown Ont and is survi ved by his daughter Gayle Anderson and son David CBS 69
Allison Gardhouse 49 died Sept 21 1991 in Midland Ont He was re tired supe rshyintendent of schoo ls for the Simcoe County Board of Education and is survi ved by his wife Merle
Kenneth Harrison 24 died Nov 5 199 1 in Kentville NS A distinguished plant patho logist military officer and mycologist he began hi s career in 1926 as assistant plant pathologis t at the Kentvi lle Experimental Farm He worked there until retirement in 1966 wi th the exception of mi litary servi ce du ring the Second World War
Dr Harrison had a lifelong interes t in the study of mushrooms and publ ished numerou s technica l papers on the mu shroom flora of Nova Scotia In addition he enshy
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couraged interested amateurs and led field trips for student s at Acadia University and the general public from 1929 until 1987 In 1979 he was honored by Acadia wi th the dedication of the Kenneth A Harri son Laboratory of Mycology
During his career he was a member of many professional organizations a charter member of the Mycological Society of America and fe llow of the American Associashytion for the Advancement of Science
He is survived by hi s wife Margaret two brothers Maynard OAC 30 and Arthur OAC 29 two son s Ashley and Kenneth and a daughter Jennie Sheito
William Kellam 4 1 died Oct 19 1991 in Brockville Ont He was retired from the Curb and Gate Co of-Brock ville where he had worked as a lab technician fo r 28 years He is survived by his wife Kathleen a son George and a daughter Mary
William M acMillan 48 died in February 1992 in Winnipeg He was supervisor of Fertilizer marketing for the Manitoba Pool Elevators and is surv ived by hi s wife Edna Jean and brother Harry OAC 5 1 A
Cameron McTaggart 35 died Feb 4 1992 in Aurora Ont After graduating from OAC he became manager of Don Head Farms in Richmond Hill He established the first agricul tural consulting business in Canada in 1947 and later ran an Angus cattle
sales management business from the family farm A life member of the OAC Alumni As shysociat ion and the Class of 35 executive he is survived by his wife Margaret Mac 35 and two sons John OAC 62 of Regina and David of Largo Fla
Douglas Miller 48 of Victoria BC died Nov 24 1991 in Toronto He is survived by hi s wife Ruth and five children
Gregory More 76 was killed Feb 3 1992 in Kitchener Ont at the Ontario Glove Manufacturing Co where he was co-owner and vice-president Following graduation he worked for the Rohrer Drug Co and the Stershyling Drug Co then returned to school ea rnshying an MBA at McMaster University in 1981 More was an avid squash player and golfer Court A at the Northfield Racquet Club in Waterloo was dedicated to his memory in March He is survived by his parents Noreen and Ken a brother Randy and a sister Katherine Keeler
John Jack Pawley 33 died March I 1992 in Guelph He is survived by his wife Ruth son John OAC 62 and daughter-inshylaw Carolyn He was a former director of the Ontario Milk Marketing Board and a past member of the Royal City Lodge of Perfecshytion
Harold Reid 20A died in December 1991 in Burlington Ont During the First World W ar he was one of Canadas premier rad io
experts work ing at the Roya l Canadian Navy shore transmitter in Sydney NS After the war he came to OAC to earn a diploma then went on to QueenS University to comshyplete an arts and theology degree His mini sshytry was mainly in St And rews and Montreal although he spent 13 years teaching Hebrew at the Presbyterian Coll ege before retiring in 1968
Donald Robertson 3 1 died Nov 4 1991 in Iroquois Ont He is survived by hi s wife Caroline (Grisdale) Mac 38 his two son s ScottOAC 65A and Guy and a daughter Sandra McNeil
Thomas Rokeby 48 and MSA 50 died Jan 29 1992 in Fayetteville Ark He was a professional engineer and tau ght for 30 years in the Univers ity of Arkansas engineering department Born in Port Rowan Ont he was a member of the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War the American Society of Agricultural Engineers and the agricultural honor societies of Gamma Sigma Delta and Alpha Epsilon He is surv ived by his wife Helen two sons Robert and Richard a daughter Penny and three brothers Michael Noel and Richard OAC 54
Francis Sweeney OAC 45 died Nov 17 1991 in Oakville Ont He was a longtime employee of Shell Canada and [nternational Shell working in Great Britain Europe and
WALL CUSTANCE MEMORIAL FOREST
The Wall-Custance Memorial Forest located at the Universi ty of Guelphs Arboretum was established in recognition of the severe depletion of our forests It is never too late to be a vital part of the effort to save and improve our air and water for the future of our children by planting trees This program is our small part of the major endeavor to reforest and to reduce the greenhouse effect improve air quality and provide food and cover for wildlife The Memorial Forest Proshygram not only pays a Significant tribute to a loved one but also assures a better environment for generations to come
The purpose of this program is to provide an opporshytuni ty to commemorate the life of a loved one by plantshy
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Berna rd Weeks 35 died Oct 16 199 1 After graduation he re turned to his roots in
ew York and Pennsylvannia and worked in 4-H and you th organi zations for a few years He then took over the family farm at Troupsburg NY and built up a dairy operashytion with a sideline of sheep He is surv ived by his wife Ruth and four children
Glenn White 43 of Belleville Onl died Nov 24 199 1 in Florida and is surv ived by hi s wife Marjorie
ave Norman Anderson 39 of Wi nn ipeg died Dec 18 1991 in Arizona He had practised veterinary medicine in Norwood Man and was a member of the American Equine Pracshytitioners Association director of the Canadian Thoroughbred Society and track veterinarian at Assin iboia Downs for 50 years He is survived by his wi fe Peggy and two sons Laurie and James
George Beatty 5 I died Nov 22 1991 in Inverness III He practised in Palatine fo r 36 years and founded the Palatine Animal Hospi tal He was an active member of the American Animal Hospital Assoc iati on and the Chicago Veterinary Association and was a director of the Friends of the University of Guelph He is survived by his wife Mary and fo ur children - Suzanne Patricia Margaret and Tim
John Hamilton 5 L died Dec 15 1991 He had lived in Roslin On where he owned the Bay Regional Veterinary Hospital He is survived by hi s niece Ann Bongard
Nicholas Labzoffsky 39 died Dec 25 1991 in Largo Fla Fonnerly of Toronto he had li ved most recen tl y in Dorse t Ont and is survived by hi s wife Jane
Edgar Langford 49 died March 41992 in Monarch Alta A former research scienshytist with ADRI (Western) he is survived by his wife Norma and two daughters includshying Carolyn OVC 76
Stuart Maude 4 1 died Jan 14 1992 in Rosemead Calif A former Rosemead counshycillor and four-time mayor he operated the Rosemead Animal Hospital with his brother Arthur 52 from 1953 to 1980 He was a trustee for Ingles ide Hospital a past grand patron of both the Rosemead and the Califorshynia Order of Eastern Star and past-president of the local Kiwanis Club and Chamber of Commerce He is survived by his wife Vera two daughters Patricia and Susan Bezner a son Stuart and three brothers
Walter Morley 42 o f Mildmay On died Nov 28 199 1 He ran a large animal pracshytice in the Mild may area for 39 years raised cat tle and raced standardbred horses He was also a pu blic school board trustee and direcshytor of a local te lephone company for more
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than 30 years He is survived by his wife Joyce five sons - two of whom are OVC alumni Dave 68 and Randy 74 - and 10 grandchildren
Lloyd Neily 52 died Jan 3 1992 in Hantsport NS A retired meat inspector w ith the federal Department of Agriculture he had a private veterinary practice in Wind sor NS He is surv ived by hi s wife Mary
Elford Nundal 43 died Jan 7 1992 in Langley BC after a long battle with canshycer He operated a veterinary practice in Langley for 36 years and served as a di strict aldennan for 10 years before being elected mayor in 1982 Last year he received the BC Veterinarian Association s award of merit for a lifetime of veterinary work
Humphrey Rees 55 died Sepl 30 1991 in Amman Jordan while on ass ignment for the Overseas Development Ad ministrat ion as veterinary and animal hu sbandry adviser to the Jordani an government His contemshyporaries at Guelph will remember him as a singer debater raconteur rugby player and bon vivant He is surv ived by his wife Alice of POlt Eynon Wales
William Stinson 40 died Feb 15 1992 in Norwood Ont He is survi ved by his wife Rita a son John OVC 67 a brother Ford OAC 34 and a grandson John CSS 87
Faculty
Patric ia Harney died Dec 191991 in Yarshymouth NS A professor in the Department of Horticultural Science from 1962 to 1988 she developed severa l new variet ies of geraniums and was instru mental in es tabshylishing the Frances Ball rose collection at the Arboretum
Anthony Marston died Feb 3 1992 in Fershygu s ant Retired from the School of Hotel and Food Administration he was an acshycomplished competition chef who received his training in Switzerland and England He then spent severa l years working in the Caribbean before coming to Guelph in 1970 A member of the Canadian Olympic culinary team he held a number of positions in the
Donations given in memory ofGuelph alumni will help support University scholarships ifdirected to the Alumni M emorial Fund In 1991 donations were made in memory of the following alumni
Frank MacDonald OAC 37
Frank King OAC 33 -Robert Allen OAC 56A
Alice (Rivaz) Garrard Mac 28
Stan Vesselinovitch OVC 57
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hote l and food industry until retiring in 1982 He is survived by hi s wife Di ana
Gordon McNally dled Jan 12 1992 in Guelph A professor in the Department of Zoo logy from 1934 to 1971 he served as academic assistant to the dean of CBS until retiring in 1979 While at Guelph he was honorary pres id ent of the classes of OAC 54 58 and 67 He is survived by his daughter Jean two siste rs and two grandchildren Prof McNallys family has established the A Gordon Mc a lly Memorial Fund to support a sc holarship or bursary Contributions may be sent care of the Alma Mater Fund Alumni Hou se University of Guelph Guelph ant N I G 2WI
Friends
Jean (Young) Branion died March 3 1992 in Guelph She was the wife of the late Hugh Branion a physiology professor at U of G and assistant to presidents Bill Winegard and Don Forster Jean Branion was an act ive volunteer on campus for many years and one of the firs t presidents of the College Womens Club She is survived by a son Richard and his wife Marga re t of Vanshycouve r and five grandchi ldren Donati ons may be made to the Hugh D Branion Memorial Scholarship through Alumni House
Davy Alexander Hamilton-Williamson died Feb 4 1992 in Guelph A painter and author of childrens stories he had been a member of the University s Presidents Council s ince it began in 1 985
Marjorie Pinkney wife of J ames Pinkney OVC 3 7 died Dec 151 99 [ at her home in Milton ant
Samuel Wyal died March 15 1992 in Brantford ant He was a partner in the law firm Wyatt Purce ll Will Stillman and Scott He is surv ived by his wife M a bel Mac 39 four sons Peter Michael William and John and two daughters Mary Alderson and Sarah Nadalin Arts 82
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INVmiddotESTMENTS amp
DIVIDENDS
Facts about university education in Canada and how we pay for it
By 2000 half of all new jobs in Canada will require a university degree
But at the current rate of government funding only one in five children
will have a chance to go to university
In the seven years from 1982 to 1989 per-student grants to universities in
Ontario barely kept pace with intlation at five per cent
per-student funding at American public univers ities jumped an average
of 23 per cent in the same period
Those US universities also receive twice the federal research dollars per student as do Ontario universities
In 1987 the average salary of a full-time professor at an Ontario univers ity was $55500
compared with $68200 for a private-sector position of similar education and experience
Lawyers economists and engineers made an average of $71 000
Ontario ranks ninth out of the to provinces in terms of grants to universities
Between 1978 and 1991 enrolment at Ontario univers ities grew by 40 per cent while funding dropped
from 59 to 409 per cent of total government spending
Universities were spending 14 per cent less per student between 1977 and 1988 hospital expenditures
rose 38 per cent per patient in the same period
Ontario universities generate $3 of economic activity for every
$1 invested by government funding
And the number of jobs generated by university activities in
Ontario is greater than the employment impact of the textile
industry the entire paper and pulp industry or utilities
University graduates can look forward to earning 63 per cent more than the average industrial worker
A 1990 survey of U of G alumni found that two years after graduation 97 per cent of Guelph grads
looking for work were employed 62 per cent were earning $25000 or more and 10 per cent were
earning $40000 or more
Unemployment rates in 1990 for those with a university degree was about one-third what it was
for those with only a high school diploma
Every year from 1978 to 1987 Ontario university inves tments in renovating or replacing
aging buildings could not keep pace with the rate at which the buildings depreciated
Graphics by Debbie Thompson Wilson Statistics supplied by th~ Council 01 Ontario UniverSities Statistics Canada and the U01 G Student EnVifonment Study Group
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A salute to sport Alumni Weekend June 19-21 9am Sio-pitch tournament
The tradition Jives on at the south quad diamond s Cooed teams of 12 or more players are encourshyaged to join in the fun
FRIDAY 10 am to 9 pm Registration Lambton Hall
6 pm Kick-off dinner and half-time show
get set and join In the Olympic spirit one of Alumni Creelman Hall will Weekends host the Wonderful most popular World of Sports with events Tours a half-time slide show start from to entertain alumni of Alumni House all ages and are sponshy9 pmshy sored by the Observatory tours CBS Alumni
Association
10 am and 2 pm
SATURDAY 8 am to 5 pm Guided Registration walking tours Lambton Hall
Remember 9 am to 5 pm making s now Alumni House tours sc ulptures on Students will host tours of Alumni House throughshyout the weekend Come and see what the generosity of alumni has accomplished
9 am to noon Alumni association annual meetings
This is the official notice for the annual general meetings of the following alumni associations
CBS - Alumni House starts at 830 am before guided walk MacFACS - HAFA Building Room 209
OVC - OvC Room 1438
OAC - Macdonald Hall Room 149
CSS - MacKinnon Building Room 305
HAFA - Alumni Hou se boardroom
Gryphs Lounge will be open for lunch and afLer the game
930 am Guided nature walk at the Arboretum
On your mark
Noon - OVC luncheon
The OvC Alumni Association will host a luncheon open to all OvC alumni and their guests
2 pm - Campus Showcase 92
Following on the heels of last year s success Campus Showshycase 92 will be bigger and better Come to the University Centre to see exhibits representing all areas on campus The Campus Junction store will also be open
2 pm - Zavitz Hall tour
Alumni are invited to browse through the newly renovated Za vitz Hall and attend a recep shytion sponsored by the Colshylege of Arts Alumni Asshysoc iation
5 pm Golden anniversary dinner
The OAC OvC and MacshyFACS alumni associations will provide complimenshytary tickets for alumni celebrating 50 years or more Additiona l tickets can be purchased Classes
Johnston Green or playing intramural hockey in the old Quonset arena Relive some of the memories by taking a walking tour of campus Tours begin from the lobby ofLambton Hall
Noon - Alumni picnic
This apopular event has new location - the sculpshyture garden beside the Macshydonald Stewart Art Centre Come on your own or reshyserve a group of tables for friends and classmates
Noon - Class reunion lunches
OAC 37 Mac 37 OAC 42 Mac 42 OAC 47 Mac 52 Mac57 Mac 67 FACS 72 FACS 77 FACS 87
OAC 67 FACS 82 OAC 82 OAC 82A CBS 82 FACS 87 OAC 87
SUNDAY 9am Church service and War Memorial Hall rededication
Thanks to a commitment from the Alma Mater Fund renovashytion of the upstairs of War Memorial Hall has been comshypleted Join us for the rededicashytion ceremony commemorating the 1924 opening and the 1952 dedication of an OAC memorial plaque
being honored are OAC 22 OAC 47 OvC 22 Mac 22 OAC 27 OvC 27 Mac 27 OAC 32 OvC 32 Mac 32 OAC 37 OvC 37 Mac 37 OAC 42 OvC 42 Mac 42
6 pm Class reunion dinners
Special dinn e r reunions are planned for OAC 47 OAC 52 OAC 52A OvC 52 Mac 57 OAC 57 OAC 62 Mac 67
10am UGAA annual meeting
All alumni are encouraged to atshytend the UGAA annual meeting in Macdonald Hall Room 149 An amendment to the UGAA Letters Patent and a revised bylaw will be presented for ap shyproval Copies of both are availshyable on request from Alumni House Call 519-824-4120 Ext 6544
11 am - Farewell brunch
The final event of Alumni Weekend will be held in Creelshyman Hall Come and meet the Univers ity S president Brian Segal The Alumnus of Honour medal will be presented at noon
To receive an Alumni Weekshyend brochure or to register for events call Alumni House at 59-824-4120 Ext 6963
Opened July 1991Research Park Centre shy
Where research and industry Dleet
Space available now Exceptional office and research facilities in our multi-tenant Research Park Centre
Research-driven corporations are breaking new ground at the University of Guelph Research Park Centre with exceptional growth opporshytunities in an ideal business setting
This 30-acre Research Park also accommodates tenants who choose to construct their own office and laboratory facilities
Find out why organizations such as Semex Canada Tremco Limited the Ontario Dairy Herd Improvement Corporation George Morris Centre LIPID Analytical Laboratories and Agriculture Canada have chosen the University of Guelph Research Park Call Ralph Eades or Judy Phillips Real Estate Division University of Guelph Telephone (519) 767-5003 or Fax (519) 837-0353
The Research Park is a project oj the Office oj Research and the University S Real Estate Division
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CENTRE UNIVERSITY grGUELPH
T heee good eoo to won) That s the message we ve been getting from universiti es and colleges in Canada for several years Many univershysity administrators including U of G president Brian Segal say they too are worried about the future of postseconshydary education
On the political agenda universities have taken a back seat to hospitals soshycial serv ices and schools despite the fact that they are part of the solution to problems facing the other sectors
In Ontario the universities share of the public purse has been declining since 1978 even though theyve added more than 160000 students to their enshyrolments Universities are actually spending 14 per cent less per full-time
Education makes a difference
Chris and I know from ou r own experience that a university educashytion can make a big di fference in one s life say Paul Van Ktttwyk
Paul grew up in a university family - hi fa ther is a professor at Wilfrid Laurier Univer ily in Waterloo He came to U of G after high school but quit before comshypleting a BA After two years o f making tire he was back on camshypus and is now finishing an MA in industrial organizational psycholshyogy U of G is one of the few uni versities in Canada that offer graduate work in this fie ld So Paul is heading off to the Uni versity of South Florida th is fall to do a PhD then will return to Canada to help expand his disc ipline to other Canadian universi tie
Chris is the first member of her family to atrend university She graduates this spring with a BASc in con umer studies With other members of her family out of work because their manufact uring jobs have disappeared Chris think a un iversi ty educashytion was the right choi e for her She would like to get involved in consumerenvironmental i sues and eventually open her own small business
student than they did 15 years ago
At the same time demand for university graduates is growing The Council of Ontario Universities (COU) esshytimates that half of the new jobs that will be created over the next decade will require L1ni versi ty-level training
At a time when unshyemployment plagues the province when health care and soc ial ass istance costs are rising when inshydustry needs to improve competitiveness when we need to boost investshyment in research and deve lopment one begins to wonder why postsecshyondary education is not a greater priority
Public opinion seems to support universities A 1990 Decima poll found that 80 per cent of Ontarians believe a lack of funding is affecting university quality and 83 per cent believe that
Universities are spending 14 per cent less for each student than they did 15 years ago
university fundin g is not keeping pace with funding for other services
But the university system needs more than quiet believers It needs strong vocal support Good intentions aren t enough to ensure survival in the politishycal arena or the global economy
Financial problems
Every year COU prepares a report on the financial position of Ontario univershysities The 1991 report reveals a steady decline in the priority that three successhysive provincial governments have gi ven to universi ties Collectively theyve igshynored the advice of their own advisory body on universities for 15 years allowshy
ing university funding to drop from 59 to 409 per cent of total government spending
This decline coincides with the federal governments introduction of Esshytablished Program Financing (EPF) which supplies a large part of the fundshying that is eventually allocated to postsecondary education
Prior to EPF federal and provincial governments shared the operating costs of postsecondary education on a 5050 basis Under EPF which was supposed to equalize payments to the provinces through a complicated system of cash transfers and tax points some provincial governments have been unable or unshywilling to maintain that 5050 balance In Ontario federal doll ars now account for a much higher percentage of the funding that is eventually transferred to universities
Many Ontario institutions believe the provincial government added insult to injury last October when it cut an addishytional $9 million from promised transfer payments for 1991 92 Before the c1awshyback COU had advised the government that universities would need a seven-pershycent increase in 199293 just to maintai n current level s of serv ice but the January budget gave them one per cent thi s year and promised no more than two per cen t in each of the ne xt two years
During this same J5-year period Ontario s universities have demonshystrated an increase in productivity unshymatched in almost any other sector by finding ways to educate 40 per cent more students with less money
The January budget brought bad news at a time when universities were also facing further cuts in provincial gove rnshyment grants for capital renovations inshycreased operating costs for utilities the federal government s 30-per-cent jump in UIC premiums a lO-per-cent in shyc rease in CPP payments and a loss of tuition revenue because of planned reductions in first-year enrolments
Ontarios Employer Health Tax and pay equity costs have also affected operating budgets at universities where more than 80 per cent of expenditures are dictated by salaries and benefits
Deficit financing is not the norm for U ofG but in 199192 costs exceeded Ministry of Colleges and Universities (MCU) operating revenue ($160 milshyli on) by almos t $46 million The defic it reflects both these unexpected increases and the planned expense of restructuring non-academic units
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OPERATING GRANTS TO UNIVERSITIES PER FTE STUDENT UNIVERSITIES SHARE OF PROVINCIAL BUDGETARY EXPENDITURES1977-78 to 1990-91
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Year EnCling
Creative solutions
Like the business community Guelph has begun the ongoing process of selfshyappraisal The $69-million cost of the recent non-academic review left red ink in this fiscal year but the exercise has cut operating costs by an estimated $57 million a year Within the five-year payshyback period the University will have saved or in reality reallocated more than $28 million Segal says
The internal review removed 125 jobs simplified processes and improved efficiency A similar assessment of the non-teaching activities within the colshyleges is being completed and will be folshylowed by a look at academic functions
Guelph is one of the first universities in Ontario to undertake such a strucshytured review of its operations says Segal and it wont be the last Every university will be looking at ways to reduce the amount of work required to operate the institution he says
Were walking a tightrope trying to balance strategic goal s and fiscal management in a way that causes the least harm to students Nevertheless universities are prepared to be key players in the process of looking for creative ways of doing more with less
Segal predicts an increase in intershyuniversity and joint university-college programs that share resources more efshyfective use of automation more homeshystudy programs and co-operative purchasing arrangements
Unfortunately well al so see further staff cuts a loss of services some course cancellations and limits to stushydent enrolment
Last fall U of G decreased first-year enrolment by 686 to help ease overshycrowding on campus although total en-
Guelph Alumnus
Charls reprinredjrom COU 1991 Report Oil rhe Financial Position laquo( Ontario Universities
rolment was a high of 13390 students The University plans to decrease enrolshyment to fewer than 12000 by 1994
There will al so be reductions in faculshyty positions estimates are that at least a third of the 60 current vacancies will not be filled in the next fi scal year
In addition to cos t-cutting measures universities will be looking at ways to generate new revenue More than 80 per cent of university revenue is controlled by government - transfer payments and tuition fees - but short-term operat shying fund s can benefit from increased revenues from food retail parking operations and non-tuition fee hikes
Segal says long-term endowment funds like Guelph s Heritage Fund will become a system-wide priority as will revenue sources from planned giving and alumni contributions real estate
development - like Guelphs Research Park - and capital accumulation
COU which Segal chairs will conshytinue to pressure government to increase tuition fees Ontario fees have not kept up with inflation In rel ative terms they are lower now than theyve been for 40 years representing less than 19 per cent of university operating revenue In comshyparison tuition revenues at public universities in the United States are 70 to 80 per cent higher and students at private US universities pay si x times as much as Ontario s undergraduates
COU is on record as favoring an inshycome-contingent repayment plan that would allow students to repay loans based on the level of their future inshycome But a COU proposal - even if it is accepted by MCU - is at least a year away from implementation
-Last f all the universities ofGuelph and Waterloo launched North America sfirst longshydistan ce interactive classroom project that links students at both institutions via two-way audio video and data lines Unlike other video systems that offer only televisiolltransmission the new Electrohome classroom system leIs studel1ls both see and hear each other as well as the professor It s j us t like being there - and it s aile example ofhow universities are sharing resources to improve academic programs and CUI costs Photo by Roberta Franc huk
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University benefits
Time and time again our alumni tell us that the total university experience is more valuable than the degree they received
Breadth of knowledge new insights personal satisfaction - these are things that cant be measured
The 966000 university graduates in Ontario do however share economic benefits that can be measured -like an unemployment rate that is one-third what it is for the general workforce and salaries that are on average 63 per cent higher than industrial workers
In addition university graduates share with the rest of the population even greater cultural social and economic benefits
T hrough the percolator effect Ontario universi ties generate $62 billion (1989 estimate) worth of economic activity each year and more than 138000 jobs
All Canadians share in the benefits of an academic system that acc umulates knowledge trains leaders and conducts much of the research that gives us a progress ive society
University laboratories have yielded medical breakthroughs in diabetes canshycer cystic fibrosis Alzheimer s disease and AIDS They have tackled environshymental research on the causes of water pollution and soil erosion University soshycial scientists study issues as vari ed as demographic trends cross-border shopshyping adoption and economic developshyment in native communities
On a more personal level each univershysity in Canada is a contributing member of its local community Says Guelph
Mayor John Counse ll The inshytangible benefits of having a university within our municipality inshyclude the injection into the comshymunity of intellecshytual standards talents and sershyvices
Almost every orshyganization in the city counts U of G faculty staff and students among its members and volunteers In fac t more than 30 U oG s campus wecomes almosl 150000 visitors every year
university employees were recently given special awards and commendations from both the provincial Ministry of Culture and Communications and Ministry of Citizenship
Guelph is also enriched financially by the Univers itys presence - 4 100 jobs $195 million in annual economic acshytivity The University is an attraction for many smaller companies and organizashytions and branches of provincial governshyment ministries that deal frequently with the campus In a way it has he lped to inshysulate the city of Guelph aga inst the reshycession says Counsell Last year Guelph enjoyed a net increase of three jobs in comparison with other cities where thousands of industrial jobs were lost
Equally important are the educational opportunities offered by the University
for local re sidents The number of people enrol led in distance education inshydependent study and non-degree courses at the University is almost twice the dayshytime student body Last year 500 senior citizens attended courses held on camshypus and 10000 schoolchildren parshyticipated in environmental education programs at the Arboretum People also brought 12000 animals and 500 wild birds to OVC clinics for treatment
Visitors to campus outnumber stushydents 10 to one They come for convocashytion College Royal Homecoming and Alumni Weekend to tour the Arshyboretum and the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre to attend workshops conferenshyces and lectures and to enjoy athletic events music and drama productions They also come for Sunday afternoon walks and sometimes to take wedding photos on Johnston Green
Education is everyones concern
With their Universi ty of Guelph degrees in hand Paul and
Christine Van Katwyk have joined the ranks of Ontario and Canadian univershysity graduates who recognize that the
funding of universities is not just a famishyly matter
Education is everyone s concern and should be a matter of government priority rather than rhetoric The probshylem is how to change that
Two years ago Ontario MPP Sean Conway told a group of university board members that they needed troops
When you ask us to do something and we don t do it nothing happens he said When the hospitals ask us to do something and we dont do it all hell breaks loose
Today universities are recruiting those troops and are turning to their alumni to help build a strong constituenshy
cy of support Who better to promote the value of higher education
Tell your family your friend s and your co-workers how important you think universities are Write to your local paper to let others know that a strong economy and a high standard of living depend on an educated workshyforce Call your MP and MPP and tell them that denying adequate funding to higher education is short-sighted in the extreme and that voters are expecting government action based on long-term priorities
Sasha Van Katwyk s generation is depending on it
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Marshalling the forces to fight for universities
There is a tribute $5000 to help revolution launch FOU and
taking place in Seymour hopes inshyeducation And dividual alumni will when the dust setshy keep the momentum tles we will see building The orshyprofound changes ganization needs in the way we imshy more than 100 inshypart knowledge dividual volunteers in the way we think each of Ontarios 130 about education electoral districts and the way we These friends will pay for it Some lobby MPPs on a of us will sit back regular basis in supshyand watch port of universities Others like Its a grassroots Harry Seymour Harry Seymour
OAC 61 will help influence the changes taking place
Seymour spent 22 years of his career on Torontos Bay Street then opted for a change that led to the forshymation of Pathfinder Learning Sysshytems As president he champions the Pathfinder program of computershymanaged learning as a way for classshyroom teachers to maximize their time and their students potential
Seymour maintains his interest in the investment business with several other companies including a 93-acre shoreline development project in Midshyland Ont But most of his time is devoted to education and university education is a significant part of that effort
If we can marshal the forces of university alumni we can have a profound effect on how government prioritizes education he says Those of us who have graduated from a university are in the best position to evaluate the importance of a university education We can sit back and look at the benefits we ve received and the kind of impact it has had on our lives
Seymour represents U of G alumni on the Friends of Ontario Universities (FOU) a provincial lobby group whose strategy is to organize Ontarios university alumni into a political constituency FOU members sayan unorganized constituency is part of the reason government has folshylowed a pattern of financial neglect
The University of Guelph Alumni Association was one of the first to con-
movement that has the potential to build long-term support
among decision makers and future generations of university graduates he says
If youd like to get involved call Trish Walker U of G s director of alumni affairs at 519-824-4120 Ex t 2122
Aubrey Hagar OAC 45
describes himself as a concerned citizen of Guelph who is committed to education Thats an undershystatement for a man who spent most of his career in educashytion including 16 years as senior academic officer at Conestoga College
He also cares deeply about the University of Guelph He worked hard in the early 1960s to help bring it to life serves on a presidential committee to promote a healthy town-and-gown relationship and is now working to increase local pride in the campus
It distresses me that we are not seeing our universities as intellectual leaders in the community in the province and throughout the country says Hagar who believes there is a need to increase public awareness about the role universities play in
Aubrey HORar
society Hes offered his vocal support to this venture as a volunteer for the Alliance for Ontario Universities
Who says talk is cheap
Your verbal support
of universities
could he
the most valuable gift
you could give
to the generations
of students
yet to teach
Independent of universities the alshyliance is building province-wide supshyport among communities organishyzations businesses and individuals like Hagar who are willing to expand that support on a local level
In each univershysity town there will be an alliance comshymittee that works to build community pride in the institushytion and to raise the profile of its scholars The Guelph group for example may inshyitiate an elementary school program that bui Ids rapport with the University or it might encourage med ia coverage of Guelphs environshymental work
Too often we downplay the conshytributions of our universities says Hagar but if we can instil these atshytitudes in people then financial supshyport through the political process will be there
The aJiiance is unique in Canada It shybegan in 1990 with seed money from the Council of Ontario Universities and gains financial independence this summer And its looking for more volunteers To learn more about the group call director Janet Napper at 416-979-0984
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Genetic engineering bull bull bull
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This is the second part of a report on the use of biotechno]ogy in University of Guelph research
by Mary Dickieson
String art Biotechnology research reminds me of string art the 1960s craft
that had us weaving colored strings back and forth around a pattern made by driving nails halfway into a board
Under skilful hands it became a piece of sculpture an optical illusion that prevented your eye from following any single thread across the board in a straight line
Biotechnology tools are like that Every time you think you understand what one biotechnique can do in one particular dis shycipline you find it reappearing somewhere else as someone in a laboratory across camshypus or on the other side of the world thinks of yet another way to use it
In Part 1 of our biotechnology report we sk immed the surface of how these tools are being used at U of G to benefit plant reshysearch In this story well see many of the same techniques applied in other organisms primaril y animals The secret of our success in animal biotechnology lies in the fact that Guelph has the expertise and the facilities to take any project from lab to barn and back again
Throughout this report youll read about animal scientists and clinical veterinarians teamed up with molecular biologists imshymunologists chemists and microbiologists and often food scientists toxicologists and environmental biologists Their efforts benefit not only livestock production but also human medicine pharmacology food processing waste disposal and the environshyment
Embryo transfer
A major thrust of the animal biotechnolshyogy research at Guelph is in the area of
embryo transfer In fact there are three reshysearch positions funded by government and industry that deal directly with embryo manipul ation as a way to improve the comshypetitive position of Canadas beef and dairy industries
Biomedical scientist Keith Betteridge OVC MSc 60 heads an embryo research lab molecular biologist Alan Wildeman CBS PhD 83 holds a research chair devoted to the mammalian embryo and animal scientist Charles Smith concentrates on industrial research in animal-breeding strategies
Their work is supported by both federal and provincial granting agencies animal breeders and Semex Canada the major marketing arm of Canadas attificial breedshying industry Semex records annual export sales of more than $25 million and is leadshying the industry to the nex t plateau shymarketing sexed frozen or cloned embryos
One route to increasi ng the efficiency of animal production is by improving animal reproduction says Betteridge And that in shyvolves many new biotechniques associated with embryo transfer Conventional embryo transfer means collecting multiple embryos from selected cows and transferring them to properly synchronized recipients It is now almost equally conventional however to freeze or bisect the embryo as part of the procedure
Initially the selected cow was treated with hormones to produce more eggs which were fertilized through artificial inseminashytion (AI) with the semen of a top-rated bull A large number of embryos could then be recovered surgically from the cow for imshyplantation in surrogate cows of lesser genetic worth
These techniques are widely used for the production of purebred bulls More than half the dairy bulls currently at stud in Canadas major AI centres have been produced this way There is also keen interest in using the technology to produce genetically superior breeds and provide competitively priced volumes of commercial cattle embryos
From lOp Bisecting a bovine embryo to produce identical twin calves a chimeric chick created by mixing cells from two embryos microinjecting the egg ofa fruit fly with DNA from bacterial genes that can confer insecticide resistance and a Hereford heifer protected from shipping fever by a vaccine developed a f U of G
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and more Test-tube calves and lambs
In 1988 Semex research co-ordinator Robert Stubbings OVC 76 MSc 84 PhD 89 produced Guelph s first test-tube calf during his graduate studies with Prof PK Basrur in the Departshyment of Biomedical Sciences It was not the first test-tube calf in Canada but it was the first developed from an egg that was matured as well as fertilized in a test tube
The resulting zygotes (fertili zed eggs) were placed in the oviduct of a rabbit for their early development then moved after seven days to the uterus of a recipient cow
Just a few months later other memshybers of the Guelph team took the process one step further eliminating the need to use a temporary host oviduct Postdoctoral fellow Kang Pu Xu and PhD student John Pollard were able to extend development in vitro to the point where the embryo was mature enough to survive when transplanted directly into a recipient cow s uterus
The early embryos were cultured in a medium containing luminal cells exshytracted from the oviducts of slaughtered cows Two baby bulls were born the first in Canada using this method and only the second in North America
Last year gradu ate student Dawn Kelk CBS 89 and Prof Allan King 73 and MSc 75 of the Department of Biomedical Sciences produced North America s first in vitro fertilization (lVF) lambs using these techniques
These achievements were important for several reasons The Animal Biotechshynology Embryo Laboratory can now
Authors note
One of the things Ive learned while writing this story is that biotechnolshyogy is a word seldom used by scienshytisrs For inost of us it conjures up images of people in lab coats bent over microscopes using precision inshystruments to manipulate the cells of living organisms But for scien~ists that s too vague The word may have
meaning but it d6eslJt really
produce its own IVF embryos from oocytes recovered from slaughtershyhouse cows bypassing the more expensive route of sushyperovulation and surgical withdrawal
In addition scientists have gained knowledge about early embryo development that is important for improveshyments in embryo viability and vital for developments in cloning techniques and controlled transgenesis in livestock
In a more immediate and practical context the work has led to the first clinical
Prof Keith Belleridge left and Prof Stanley Leibo watch as research technician Cindy Christian prepares an embryo f or cryopreservation Photo by Mary Dic kieson
use of IVF in cattle in colshylaboration with Brian Hill OVC 80 of Western Ontario Breeders
Bisected embryos
Meanwhile yet another part of the team based in the Department of Populashytion Medicine was perfecting techniques to microsurgicall y bisect fertilized embryos to produce genetically identi shycal animals
Professors Brian Buckrell OVC 68 MSc 84 and Cathy Gartley OVC 82 DVSc 89 and postdoctoral fel shylow Rick Rorie bisected six-day-old sheep embryos - visible only through magnification - and surgically imshyplanted them into recipient ewes Five months later nine lambs were the first animals born at Guelph from bisected embryos
Prof Walter Johnson and postdoctoral
describe anything They talk instead about cell fusion enzyme systems i ermentation or genetic engineering
The fact that biotechnology didnt appear as a popular buzzword until the 1980s suggests that we are using ilto define something neW yet none of these disciplines is really new Human beings have been using other organisms to create new procucts for centuries Thats why We have yeast yogurt and beer as well as anti-
fellow Naida Loskutoff have now exshytended this work in cattle by producing identical twins from IVF embryos divided into quarters at earlier stages of development
These projects maximize embryo use and highlight the potential for creating significant numbers of genetically identishycal animals which can be vital for conshysistent research results Tests conducted on genetically identical animals can reduce the variables caused by genetic differences and ultimately the number of animals needed for experiments
Frozen sexed embryos
The development of in vitro technishyques has also made possible further studies in cryopreservation (freezing) and embryo sexing
It s been possible to freeze and thaw
biotics growth hormones and vacshycine ~ Even genetic engineering is not new although many of us think it is
Through selective breeding practices fanners have been engineering the genetic makeup of domestic animals -for centuries What is new is the speed and accuracy with which we can implement genetic changes the ability to cross the species barrier and a much greater understanding of life processes
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At the eight-cell stage ofdevelopment in a bovine embryo each cell is removed and placed in the shell ofa discarded embryo Afler three days the blastocysts are transferred into recipient cows and the pregnancies allowed to col1linue Eight identical calves will be born and will proshyvide a valuable tool for research
cattle embryos since 1973 and most of the 60000 or so embryo-transfer calves born annually in North America are now obtained from embryos that have been stored in liquid nitrogen But there are still many problems to overcome in freezing unfertilized eggs embryos at varying stages of development and embryos produced in vitro or subjected to micromanipulation
Biomedical science professor Stanley Leibo is a specialist in cryobiology Before coming to Guelph he was part of an industry team that produced the worlds first live young (mice) from frozen embryos and later invented the patented one-step method of freezing cattle embryos Other biomedical scienshytists - King and Don Rieger - and molecular biologists Wildeman and Stan Blecher are investigating various ways of sexing embryos
Some of these involve the use of micromanipulation to remove a small number of cells from an early-stage embryo The sex can be identified by locating X and Y chromosomes detectshying male-specific DNA or perhaps by studying the proteins produced by the DNA segments In embryonic life the activity of X-linked enzymes in female embryos is twice that in males
Detecting differences in the energy metabolism of male and female embryos may also become a method of sexing In studies on early embryos generated in vitro Guelph scientists disshycovered that male and female embryos develop at different rates In addition to its value in sexing embryos this knowledge poses another question If the team can one day learn to control the rate of embryo development will it be possible to control the sex of an embryo independent of its genetic comshyplement
Photo courtesy of the Animal Biotechnology Embryo Lab
Transgenic animals
Since the mid 1980s Wildeman and fellow molecular biologist John Phillips have been producing transgenic mice for studies in human disease
This involves recovering one-cell embryos microsurgicalty from an imshypregnated mouse With a finely drawn glass needle a piece of DNA is inserted into the nucleus of the embryo which is then placed in a surrogate female to complete the pregnancy The offspring carries the foreign gene
One line of research using transgenic mice involves the study of a virus known to affect the transformation of normal cells into tumorous cancer cells Wildeman performs this work using transgenic mice in studies of cancer and metastasis
Transgenic mice are also used in Phillipss ongoing study of the causes of insulin-dependent juvenile diabetes He borrowed a gene from the fruit fly and spliced it into the chromosomes of the mouse so that it is expressed in the beta cells of the pancreas
Observations from the research conshyfirm the long-standing hypothesis that one cause of juvenile diabetes arises from the action of oxygen radicals in the pancreas
The fruit fly itself is used in studies aimed at producing insecticide-resistant insects Working with a team of scienshytists in Texas Phillips is perfecting techshyniques to transfer organophosphate insecticide-resistant genes to the fruit fly and ultimately to agriculturally beneficial insects
Studies have shown that the use of inshysecticides could be reduced if beneficial insects were not also killed by the spray In addition this research may provide the solution needed by North American
honey producers who are suffering great losses in their beehives due to parasitic mites Currently there is no effective control of the mites
From mice to pigs and chickens
Transgenic mice are also playing a role in a project that may eventually imshyprove forage use in domestic animals
Ruminant animals like cows and sheep have friendly bacteria in their inshytestinal tract that enable them to digest the cellulose fibre in forage crops If other animals such as pigs or chickens had the same ability they could be reared on lower-quality cheaper feed than the cereal grains now used
A research team that includes Phillips microbiologists Cecil Forsberg and Peter Krell and environmental biologist David Collins-Thompson has isolated the effective gene from a microshyorganism present in ruminant animals and is transferring it into the mouse which is also a monogastric animal Studies with transgenic mice will enable the team to fine-tune its ability to manipulate expression of the gene
This is just the beginning of a longshyterm project says Phillips but it may one day connect with the work of Profs Rob Etches and Jim Squires in the Department of Animal and Poultry Science who are following separate paths to reach the same goal- transshygenic chickens
Blotchy chicks
Etchess lab opened the door for transshygenic poultry in 1988 when postdoctoral fellow Jim Petitte OAC PhD 86 sucshycessfully moved cells from one chick embryo to another creating chimeric chicks Until this breakthrough
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researchers had been unable to manipulate the avian embryo in the early stages of development
Petitte extracted embryonic cells from the yo lk of a newly laid egg from a barred Plymouth Rock hen and microinjected them into a rec ipient embryo in a dwarf white l eghorn egg through a tiny 05-censhytimetre window cut in the shell When incubated the egg went on to produce a chimeric chick Embryonic cells from the black Plymouth Rock donor were expressed as blotches of black in the chicks down
Since then Etchess research team has been able to do the procedure more successfully get better gene exshypression in the donor cells and keep the embryonic cells in culture for 24 to 48 hours befo re transplanting them into the recipient egg
The chimeric chick itself is not transgenic genetic information from the donor embryo is expressed in a limited number of cells in the chick A second-generation chimera howshyever would be transgenic if the donor cells contained a foreign gene
Thats the focu s of a collaborat ive
Animal scienlisl Jim Squirev has developed a chemic(li recipe Ih(l causes DNA-I(lced liposomes 10 fuse wilil sperm cells When pershyjeered the technique will allow him to use the natural veeror ofsperm cells 10 lransmit foreign
project between the labs of Etches and colleague Prof Ann Gibbins OAC MSc 71 PhD 80 who is intershyested in modifying the donor cells through genetic manipulation When her lab team is able to target a specific gene and change it - and only it - they will insert that gene into the donor cells to produce a chimeric chick and in the second generation a transgenic chick
Transgenic sperm
Squires is taking a more obvious but no less perilous route to the transgenic chicken by using sperm cells to carry the foreign DNA Just as the hen s embryo is difficul t to manipulate the rooster s sperm has barriers of its own Prevail ing thought is that any invas ion of the sperm cell will kill its potency
Although Itali an and Israeli reshysearchers claim to have inserted DNA into the sperm cells of mice through abshysorption no one else has been able to get this to work so the prevailing thought prevail s
Squires s approach is to power DNA into the cells He s de veloped a chemishycal recipe that causes DNA-laced liposomes (fat globules) to fuse with sperm cells
Squires says his team has overcome
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DNA Photo by Ma ry Dickieson
the three main obstacles encapsulating DNA in the liposomes fu sing the liposomes to sperm cells which affects the transfer of 0 TA and retaining the fertility of the sperm
What they have yet to demonstrate is that the process produces a transgenic animal Trials are under way using a radioactive marker ge ne that can be easi shyly detected in a developing transgenic chicken Squires will be eager for peer rev iew to document the results this fall
If successful the sperm cell technique can be adapted for use with all species of commercial animals Sperm cells are the perfect vector because their ultimate function is to insert DNA into an egg says Squires We ll just be supplying the DNA The method is easy economical and safe to periorm and does not inshyvolve expensive equipment
Disease diagnosis
The international race to identify a mutation assoc iated with a costly swine disease was won by Guelph pathologist Peter OBrien OVC 88 and Univershysity of Toronto professor David Maclennan
The mutation associated with maligshy
nant hyperthermia was identifi ed in Maclennan s laboratory by sequenc ing the gene in normal and abnormal swine A I OO-per-cent correlation was fo und between DNA-based tests in Maclennan s laboratory and phys iologishycalbiochemical tests used in 0 Brien s research for diagnosing the condition
From these findings the scienti sts developed a test using modem molecular biology techniques to identify the mutation in the blood cells of inshydividual swine
Malignant hyperthermia is seldom fatal in pigs but it results in poorshyquality pork Pork producers suffer major economic losses from what is known as PSE - pale soft exudative (watery) meat - in affected animals
Other research at U of G cou ld help eliminate a potentially lethal blood coagulation disorder in dairy cows Facshytor XI a genetic disorder associated with a lack of c lotting protein in the bl ood causes hemorrhag ing in Holstein cows
Researchers believe the problem can be eliminated by ensuring that breeding stocks are free of the disease Testing for all of Canada is conducted by U of G biomed ica l sc ienti st Patricia Gentry and research technician Michelle Ross
Vaccine development
Vaccination is the cheapest most efshyfecti ve way of dealing with infec tions and the most poweriul way of preventshying di sease Advanced immunization programs using new biotechniques are under way in many Guelph labs last fa ll the Natural Sc iences and Engineershying Research Council announced strategic grants for advanced techshynologies that included four vacci ne development projects at U of G
Profs Brian Derbyshire and Eva Nagy of the Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Immunology (VMI) recei ved a three-year grant of $295000 to perfect gene-cloning techniques for the de velopment of a vaccine for porshycine gas troenteritis
In the same department Profs Janet Maclnnes Soren Rosendal and Bonnie -Mallard OAC 79 MSc 82 PhD 88 were awarded $250000 over three years to work on a recombinant vaccine effecshytive against the bacterial organism that causes severe pneumonia in pigs
Also in VMI Prof Patricia SheweD 75 MSc 79 PhD 82 received a three-year grant of $408 000 with Prof
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Reggie Lo Microbiology to continue work on an improved vaccine for shipshyping fever Lo and Prof Alan Mellors Chemistry and Biochemistry received a $54000 grant to develop clinical and com mercial applications of a technique used in bone marrow transplantation and vaccine development
These projects follow in the footsteps of earlier developments like the bov ine shipping fever vaccine created by Shewen and VMI chair Bruce Wilkie OVC 65 It was like finding a way to control the common cold in humans
Although the bacterium Pasteurella haemolytica occurs normally in the noses of cattle its numbers increase during periods of high stress and present an insurmountable problem for the animals immune system
Wilkie and Shewen di scovered that during its most active stage of growth the bacterium produces a toxin that imshypairs the ability of clearing cells to eliminate the bacterium They grew the bacterium in a culture monitored toxin production and developed processes for vaccine production
The technology was licensed to Langford Inc of Guelph which man ufac tures and markets Presponse shipping fever vaccine in both Canada and the United States
Lab work by Lo and former student Craig Strathdee CBS 85 PhD 89 that contributed to the shipping fever vaccine project also led to a patent apshyplication - for the plasmid coding for Pasteurella haemolytic leucotoxin which has been implicated as a major virulence factor in the impairment of primary lung defence in cattle
Animal health
Wilkie and Mallard are also working with Prof Brian Kennedy in Guelph s Centre for the Genetic Improvement of Livestock to develop a selective breedshying program that uses knowledge acshyquired through genetic studies and stretches the definition of biotechnology
To stay hea lthy an individual animal must have the genetic ability to produce resi stance to infection says Wilkie That ability is not dependent on a sing le gene but on the expression of many difshyferent genes Neve rtheless these genetic traits are heritable and amenable to selection
This team has identified traits in pigs that are important in maintaining health has characterized individual animals
Biotechnology ofa different sort in volves the use of traditional selected breeding and a computer database to produce diseaseshyresistant pigs
through the expression of these genetic traits and has associated these traits with high productivity If these high producers are mated to produce a disshyease-resistant strain of pigs is that biotechnology
If foreign DNA had been introduced into the embryo of a pig to give it the characteristic of disease resistance that would be an obvious example of bioshytechnology But how do we catalogue the technology if it uses tradi tional selecshytive breeding and a computer to produce a piglet with the same resistance to disshyease
More biotechniques in action
Guelph food scientist Cyriel Duitschaever OAC MSc 66 PhD 75 has developed new fermented milk products that will benefit people suffershying from gastrointestinal illnesses
He and research associate Carole Buteau OAC MSc 78 PhD 83 isoshylated two naturally occurring intestinal bac teri a and propagated a pure culture in the laboratory to develop both liquid and yogurt-like milk products that can be used to stimulate digestion in the inshytestinal tracts of people who are on anshytibiotics who are lactose-intolerant or who suffer gas trointestinal disorders
Clinica l trials at the Children s Hospishytal of Buffalo have been promis ing giv ing rise to another potential use in the treatment of acute diarrhea l di seases affec ting people in the Third World
Microbiology professor Joseph Lam heads a research team that has develshyoped a diagnostic kit to quickly identify a bacteria group known to cause fat al inshy
fections in some hospital patients Pseushydomonas aeruginosa is the principal cause of death in cystic fibrosis sufshyferers and is a serious threat to burn vi cshytims cancer patients and those undergo ing transplants
Because the bacterium does not respond to conventional antibiotic treatshyments quick de tection is central to preventing spread of the infection Lam s kit can cut the test period from 12 hours to five minutes
His current research illustrates the cross-over effect of biotechnology He identified an antigen that is common to about 75 per cent of P aeruginosa strains and a monoclonal antibody against the antigen This has allowed him to iso late spec ia l bacteria that will produce the antigen in large quantities for further s tud y His work should evenshytually lead to a human monoclonal anshytibody that cou ld be used to protect cystic fibrosis patients
In 1989 when the federal governshyment decided it was time to put some money behind its verbal thrust in science and technology it allocated $240 million to estab li sh 14 centres of excellence that would integrate the reshysearch efforts of Canadian uni versi ties industry and government
Several U of G researchers received funding including microbiologists Chris Whitfield Anthony Clarke Joseph Lam Reggie Lo Roselynn Stevenson and Terry Beveridge who beshycame part of the network looking into bacterial di sease Their expertise will aid the search for the causative agents of bacterial diseases such as whooping cough gonorrhea toxic shock synshydrome lung infections and me ningitis
In 1988 biochemist Janet Wood and crop scientist Peter Paul s achieved a breakthrough in understanding how subshystances like sugars and amino ac ids are transported from outside to inside a living cell wall They found that minute protein molecules in the wall surroundshying a cell act like miniature pumps capshyturing the substance and powering it through the cell wall -They are now trying to determine how the protein molec ules choose subshystances for uptake or release S uch celshylular behavior plays a critical role in determining a plants reaction to soi l sa linity or explaining why cells fai l to transport glucose from the blood in diabetics
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Behind every how theres a why While we stand in awe of what sc ienshytists are accomplishing in the biological sciences we shouldnt lose sight of the reasons why they are manipulating cell structure and decoding genetic blueprints
To some extent scientific exploration is driven by human nature - our desire to understand and control the natural world Advances in biotechniques and genetic engineering promise to give us more of both
Reports on the Human Genome Project say that within 15 years well know the code of almost every gene in the human body This work and current explorations in animal genetics are harshymonized by the fact that many of the genes that control development are similar among species
The chicken for example is a familiar model for studies in developshymental biology Supported by 60 to 70 years of data todays embryologists like Prof Rob Etches are learning how to modify the genes that control developshyment of a chick embryo while giving us a better understanding of how genes efshyfect development in all vertebrates
Nothing could be more fund amental than understanding that process says Prof Keith Betteridge who heads the Guelph team working with bovine embryos In all areas of reproductive and genetic research the big payoff is that we will understand more about how two gametes can unite to fonn a single cell and develop into Northern Dancer or Albert Einstein he says
Everyone has a role to play in decidshying how to use this knowledge says Betteridge but the researcher has the triple responsibility of thinking through the implications of new technologies exshyplaining those implications to a skeptishycal and concerned public and safeshyguarding the welfare of animals used
Whether manipulating an entire animal or one of its reproductive cells the scientist is guided by the same set of moral standards If the technology inshyduces pain or suffering causes changes in behavior or affects the animals abilshyity to eat and survive then it shouldnt be done says Prof Bruce Wilkie chair of the Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Immunology
He and other Guelph scientists inshyvolved in animal research are subject to
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peer rev iew through the U of G s animal care committee which is also charged with ensuring that research and teaching programs are in compliance with the Animals for Research Act of Ontario
Reporting to the University s Reshysearch Board the committee is comshyposed offaculty student community and non-user representatives It estabshyli shes animal-care policies on campus and evaluates all protocols submitted by researchers and teachers After granting initial approval the committee reviews each project annually and inspects reshysearch facilities each semester A provinshycially appointed inspector also visits campus frequently and the Canadian Council on Animal Care makes an inshyspection every three years to assess the level of animal care
In addition to safeguarding animal care scienti sts al so need to provide evidence that the products of biotechnolshyogy are safe for human consumption or medical use The public needs to know that the pharmaceutical protein cloned and produced in a chicken s egg is no different than the same protein cultured from human cells and produced in a large bioreactor
The big payoff is that we will understand more about how two gametes can unite to form a single cell and develop into Northern Dancer or Albert Einstein
One of the most talked-about benefits of transgenic technologies is the potenshytial for producing enzymes prote ins and antibodies for pharmaceutical and inshydustrial uses Molecular farming would take advantage of the expression system in higher animals to produce a therashypeutic protein that is difficult or expenshysive to make in a lab
The potential seems enormous but the prac tice will be quite simple A typishycal Ontario dairy herd could probably produce enough human insulin or bloodshyclotting factor to satisfy the world
demand It s easy to see why these techshyniques are already presenting problems for patent offices
The past decade of work in transshygenesis has been a learning process for all of us Early research efforts that produced pigs in the United States with arthritic deformities and sheep in Australia with ulcers have taught us th at even science must learn to walk befo re it can run That means perfecting genetic transfer in animals where the techniques are easily controlled - such as mice and fruit flies - before applyshying them to domestic animals
One of the advantages of gene transshyfer technology is the control it offers geneticists who are able to manipulate expression of a single gene during development One of the limitations may be the re lative ly minor change that gene can make in one generation when compared with the changes induced through the countless generations of selection since domestication
These limitations may alleviate some of our fears about the use of gene transshyfer but it also makes us question its value at least in terms of breed improveshyment in domestic livestock Prof Charshyles Smith holds a research chair at Guelph in animal-breeding strategies and is often called on to assess the value of the new biotec hnologies in the genetic improvement of farm livestock
Economic traits are already being imshyproved through traditional selective breeding methods he says It would take quite large beneficial transgenic efshyfects (at least 10 per cent of the mean) on economic merit to make their incorshyporation worthwhile
Despite our e thical concerns the legal entanglements created by the use of biotechniques and the problem of turnshying new technologies into cost-effective procedures most scientists agree that these technolog ies are too powerfu I not to use They have the pote ntial to help allev iate some of the most serious problems facing the world - food production overpopulation disease and shyenvironmental degradation
Statisticians teU us that 50 years from now we will be trying to feed twice the current world s population on a smaller land base in a more fragile environshyment This is the why behind current research in genetic engineering
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OUD TH Annual giving in 1991 reached $14 million The value of the Annual Fund becomes more apparent each year as the University of
Scholarships amp BursariesGuelph faces continued financial $320127
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pressure The 1991 Annual Fund Pet Trust raised $14 million to help $261224 maintain scholarships and provide academic and library programs AMF OAC Alumni Scholarships Foundation ______ grew by $9245 25 per cent
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Class Projects ResearchBuildings$86658
Matching gifts grew 31 per cent in 1991 More and more Canadian companies are g iving financial support to the institushytions that educated their employees A total of 44 companies matched 92 inshydividual gifts for a record $11120 in Annual Fund contributions to the University of Guelph in 1991
If you work for a matching-g ift employer every doll ar you donate is matched - doubled or even tripled shyby a company gift Its as easy as it sounds so check with your employer on how to multiply the value of your gift to the University
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ADIT ON With thanks to Donors Class agents College representatives Alma Mater Fund Advisory Council
Alumni and others who give to the University of Guelph through the Annual Fund are helping to maintain quality at a time when governments are funding for mediocrity Because of the dedication and commitment of our donors and volunshyteers the 1991 Annual Fund surpassed last year s total by $100000 We did not achieve our goal - perhaps $1 6 million was overly ambitious in light of current economic conditions - but we were able to maintain last years 25-per-cent inshycrease in scholarship support
Through the Alma Mater Fund we raised more than $540000 and achieved Tom Sawyer
the target of 12-per-cent participation among graduates of the three founding colleges Arts CBS and CSS alumni substantially increased their donations and participation over last year Campus participation grew from 145 per cent in 1990 to 171 per cent this year And our parents program pushed contributions from parents to $84188 compared with $31500 in 1990
For the first time since 1984 the Alma Mater Fund Advisory Council was able to go beyond its commitments to fund eight additional projects - a total of $86000
Looking ahead our flagship project for 1992 will be War Memorial Hall renovations During Alumni Weekend in June you ll have a chance to see the work that has been done upstairs and the work still needed in the downstairs hall It s a project well worth the interest and support of alumni
For your past and future support of the Alma Mater Fund my sincere thanks
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Tom Sawyer OAC 59A and 6 Corporations Chair AMF Advisory Council Associations Foundations $2874947 Annual giving contribution s
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Annual Giving Report
1991 Annual Fund Results $1 A niillion wasraised overallmiddot ariinceaSe of
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Eight campus projects were selected to share $86000 in highest-priority funds from the 1990 Alma Mater Fund Among them are the OvC Wild Bird Clinics education program a CSS academic medal in memory of the late dean John vanderkamp a soc ial sc ience citation index for the library framshying for the fine art print study collection a computer design laboratory for the School of Engineering seed money for a history graduate scholarship a conshytinuing education survey for the Mac-FACS Alumni Association and a HAFA-sponsored executive-inshyresidence
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Of cattle cash and Colvil e Alumni gifts to the University of Guelph come in some pretty interesting packages Over the years alumni have given livestock concrete paintings shythere are two by Canadian painter Alex Colville - furniture land books inshysurance policies and a host of artifacts and antiques And money - a lot of money Almost every building on camshypus has some bricks and mortar paid for by alumni And hundreds of students are helped along the way each year by alumshyni-sponsored scholarships
The Annual Giving Report on the preceding pages shows once again how important alumni gifts are to the Univershysity and provides us with an opportunity to say thank you to those alumni who continue to give on a yearly basis Anshynual giving is however only one of three avenues through which alumni proshyvide financial support to the University The others are major gifts and promoshytional programs
Annual giving
The Alma Mater Fund established in 1969 is the route chosen by most alumshyni faculty and staff who make annual gifts to the University
AMF solicitation and management are handled by a volunteer advisory council On the preceding page chair Tom Sawyer OAC 59A and 64 talks about the funds success over the last two years with AMF scholarships inshycreasing by 25 per cent This year the AMF begins a three-year commitment to funding renovations to War Memorial Hall
In addition to its flagship project AMF provides regular support to athshyletics through Gryphon Club contribushytions to college advancement funds and scholarships and to individual class projects
The AMF supports the camaraderie of university days as alumni work together to plan and complete a project whether its funding a scholarship a painting a tree weight-lifting equipshyment or furniture for Alumni House AMF contributions also ensure that fushyture Guelph students will remember those who have gone before
In addition to AMF donations the anshynual giving program includes gifts to
the OVC Pet Trust Fund the OAC Alumni Foundation the Arboretum the paren ts program and the Li brary Other gifts made directly to the University supshyport memorial funds scholarships musishycal activities and research and academic programs
Major gifts
Major gifts to the University are adshyministered by the Deve lopment Office under the direction of Marilyn Robinson Mac 55 These include beshyquests or life insurance policies shortshyterm pledges (often made during a capital campaign) large donations that might establish an endowment fund or contributions to special University projects like the Heritage Fund or the proposed FACS Building addition
Gifts- in-kind - such as library materials art objects or estate properties - also fall within thi s category Last year alumni gave more than $12 milshylion in such tax-deductible gifts
Promotions
Every Guelph graduate is a member of the University of Guelph Alumni Asshysociation and receives the Guelph Alumshy
nus magazine and many other privishyleges There are no UGAA membership fees but the association does raise money through promotional programs like MasterCard travel packages and the North American Life Assurance proshygram
The UGAA provides serv ices to alumshyni and students - such as the careershyplanning workshop planned for Juneshyand returns many dollars directly to the campus Last year it gave $20000 to the library
In addition to direct financial support through annual giving and major gifts alumni also support the University inshydirectly through membership fees to individual college and program associashytions The fees pay for association acshytivities that help maintain ties between their members and the University
Questions
If you have questions or would like 10
know more about the tax advantages of giving to U of G write to Paulette Samson associate director of annual giving and support services at Alumni House University of Guelph Guelph Ont NIG 2Wl or call 519-824-4120 Ext 6183
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If you think youre hearing from us moreoften lhanY9u elida few years ago you reright But checkyour mail and you ll 110tiqe that you~re also hearing
more frequemly from othernon-jgtrofit)rganizations and charities We v~ all stepped lip oui- fUQdIaising efforts
U QfGappreciates your support and needs your help butyou wont know that if we donr teflyou Aildeyen if you cant afford to make a fjnancialcon~
tributiori we hop~ to wjn yoUfverbaJ sliPPOJ-tJt will take many voices to coii- ylnce governmeritthal universities should beagreater public priority
When we contacenttyou on behalf of iheUriivetsity we lly to give more thiin we ask So tak~advantage ofthe p~1one call o(letter to findoutwhais happenc ing OJrcarnp~s U ofG hasmuchto offer llufnrii professionaldevelcipment courses library privileges travel programs recreation and a link Igt friends and
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We Jik~to keep in roucharidYcwarit yO~1 to know the progress were rilaking Ast~e Uriiversity $ prestige grows so does the value ofyour degree
~0~ MarilynR~binson Trish Walker Mac55 DiJectoJ ofDevelopment CSSTl Director ofAJurhni Affairs
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Get your career on track
Responding to alumni requests the University of Guelph Alumni Associashytion will sponsor a career-planning workshop on campus June 26 to 28 The weekend program will be led by Sharon Crozier of the University of Calgary counselling service Each participant will receive a careerlifestyle analysis and will develop a personal action plan
The $225 fee includes the StrongshyCampbell Interest Inventory and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator which will be administered and tabulated prior to the weekend Testing dates have been set in Toronto for May 27 and in Guelph for June 4
Sponsored by the UGAA and coshyordinated by Continuing Education and Alumni Affairs the workshop will also draw on the Universitys Counselling and Student Resource Centre
Enrolment is limited to 20 For registration information see page 26 or call Continuing Education at 519-767shy5000
UGAA board report
by Grant Lee CSS 73 MA 80
The UGAA will present a convocation package to each graduate this spring imshymediately following presentation of the degree or diploma Developed by Alumshyni Affairs staff the package is designed to increase awareness of the UGAA and the collegeschool alumni associations encourage membership introduce the Guelph Alumnus and provide an opporshytunity for board members to congratushylate our new alumni
Approval of the new UGAA bylaw is on schedule It will be presented to members at the annual general meeting in June along with an amendment to the
i I UGAA Letters Patent
In addition the UGAA board bull has approved a $400 donation to help
cover costs for two students to represhysent Guelph at the 1992 World Debatshying Championships in Dublin Ireland
bull is looking at a proposal to help alumDl with financial planning There will be more to come on this subject later
bull received thanks from president Brian Segal on behalf of those alumni who attended the October symposium
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Canada Break Up or Restructure The association was a patron of the event
bull is responding to requests from alumni for more social events Aside from the travel program the UGAA sponsored a ski day at Horseshoe Valley in March
bull approved a proposal from the School of Landscape Architecture to research places of historical value on campus Financial support has yet to be resolved
bull accepted an offer to help sponsor the University Centres annual lecture series which invites Canadian and inshyternational public figures to speak on current issues All events in the winter 92 series were free to alumni
bull donated U of G sweatshirts to Canadian Guidance and Counselling for a conference in Ottawa this sumshymer
bull approved the purpose and terms of refshyerence for the new Alumni House Adshyvisory Committee which is charged with overseeing maintenance of the
facility adopted the 199192 budget and finanshycial plan drafted last November This year we expect to generate some $44000 and spend $33000 It has been suggested that we set the 199293 budget and plan in April of this year so the new board wi II start in September with a sound financial program and budget that will only reshyquire adoption or revision
Chapter news
Calgary - About 40 alumni and guests met at the Delta Bow Valley Hotel Feb 3 to view a U of G video and hear a talk by admissions counsellor C hr is tine Toews FACS 87 Co-ordinator of the event was Janet Hutchinson CBS 79
Edmonton - Paul OAC 67 and Anne Valentine CBS 69 hosted a group of 30 alumni and guests at the Ramada Renaissance Hotel
Montreal - U of G welcomed students and their parents - including many
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alumni - to its first Montreal informashytion night for prospective students The event was modelled after a successful program in Toronto that draws more than 800 students each spring
Vancouver - U of G president Brian Segal met with alumni March 5 at the Pan Pacific Hotel Jim Dodds OVC 63 and Sarah Bloom FACS 86 orshyganized the event which attracted about 70 alumni and guests
Halifax- U ofG alumni in Halifax met with Gryphon basketball players during the March 26 to 28 CIAU chamshypionships Despite losing the OUAA west division title to Brock University the Gryphons qualified for a wi ld card spot at the CIAU championships Alumshyni received free tickets to the game that pitted Guelph against Brandon in the consolation final Fan support was enshythusiastic but the Gryphons lost 72 to 64 finishing third overall
Homecoming 1992 Plans are well under way for Homecoming weekend Sept 25 and 26 In addition to the annual Gryphon Hall of Fame dinner and award s ceremony the weekend will feat ure a beach volshyleyball tou rnamen t --~4~=iiiiikshyconcert alumni brunch walk-a-thon pep rally reunions and the traditional homecoming dance following the Saturday afternoon footshyball game This year the Gryphons will play Wil frid Laurier University A complete schedule will appear in the next Guelph Alumnus but you can get
Winners of Ihe Ju SI fo r Fun square dance compelition 01 College Royal were left 10 right Ann Joselin Kelley Allen Joanne Hewirson Brenl McFadden caller Sue MacKinnon Richard Presley Trish Henderson Jason Thompson and Kelly Lillie
in the Homecoming spirit now by helpshying to plan your class reunion or signing up as a scorekeeper for the vo lleyball tournament For infOlmation call alumshyni officer Laurie Malleau HAFA 83 at 519-824-4120 Ext 2102
Swing your partner
Eight squares of alumni took part in the College Royal square dance competition in March Winners of the UGAA alumni square dance plaque were the Crazy 8s Joanne Hewitson Arts 91 Lloyd Hutchinson CBS 87 Sonya Jones CPS 90 Ed Ketchabaw OAC 88 and MSc 91 Carol)n OAC 90 and Brad MacNeil CPS 87 Mike Relf OAC 91 and student Sherry MacNeil Wayne Lowden was the caller
Winners in the Just for Fun category were Junior Farmer alumni who included Hewitson Ann Joselin OAC 90 Brent McFadden CSS 90 Richard Presley OAC 86 and soonshyto-be-alumni Kelley Allen Trish
Henderson Kelly Little and Jason Thompson The caller was Sue MacKinnon OVC 9 1
Florida picnic
The North Port Yacht Club hosted 199 alumni for the annual Florida picnic March 4 On hand to meet them was Trish Walker CSS 77 and MSc 90 director of alumni affairs Judy Phillips of the University s Real Estate Division also attended to talk about the Village by the Arboretum retirement deve lopshyment
Attendance prizes went to Gertrude Stewart Mac 30 and Morley Funston OAC 32 The picnic was sponsored by the UGAA Alumni-In shyAction Committee represented by Ken Gartley OAC 42 and the Florida reunion committee consisting of Mary and Ted Brent OAC 48 Helen and Don Moffatt OAC 46 Stella and Bob Moore OAC 48 and Retis and Bill HasenptlugOAC 39
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A new kind of class reunion
Its the latest fad in alumni circles shymeeting your classmates at the anshynual University of Guelph alumni hockey tournament Twenty-two teams played in the fifth annual tourshynament in December
For most teams tournament standshyings are secondary to the socializing with classmates that they may not see otherwise says Bill Seegmiller OAC 83 who worked with Brian TapscottOAC 8 1 to organize the event We promote the social aspect through two divisions - social and more social - and include family skating and a Saturday evening wine and cheese party he says Trish Walker director ofalumni affairs presents fhe social division lrophy 10 Ihe OAC 79
Dipper Oldies (II the U ofG alumni hockey tournamenl The OAC 79A team defeated the Grey Gryphons to win the more soshycial division The OAC 80 team won the consolation final and the spirit award went to OAC 7778
In the social (a little more competishytive) division it was the Faceoffs in first place over OAC 88 OAC 90 won the consolation trophy and the Valley Vikings took home the spirit award
Organizers plan to add womens exshyhibition games to the 1992 tournament which is scheduled for Dec 5 and 6 For more information call Seegmiller at 519-836-3807 or Rudy Diemer OAC 85 at 519-763-2250
A night at the races
The UGAA Alumni-in-Action group will host a night at Mohawk Raceway May 26 The $30 admission includes a 6 pm buffet parking program taxes and gratuities For detail s call Laurie
~ Malleau at 519-824-4120 Ext 2102
I Alumni directory
A new alumni directory will be ready for delivery in May The deadline for alumni updates has passed but you can still order a copy of the directory at a cost of $40 plus tax Return the order form you received with the special U of G wristwatch offer or write to Rosemary Clark Mac 59 at Alumni House University of Guelph Guelph Ont NIG 2Wl
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Ottawa chapter 50 years young
There was a nostalgic gathering of Guelph alumni in Ottawa last winter to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the city s alumni chapter
Donald Fletcher OAC 36A and 39 who was president of the group in 1953 sent us a historical account of the chapters activities
A small organizing committee first met in February 1941 at Madame Burgers restaurant to plan the chapters first fun ction a skating party at the Ottawa Experimental Farm It attracted 75 people
Over the years the group held an anshynual picnic and a banquet and dance that gave them a chance to invite faculty from Guelph to speak about happenings at the colleges - and later the Univershysi ty Every president from George I Christie to Bill Winegard paid a vi sit
In 1951 alumni from OVC and Macshydonald Institute who had been meeting since 1936 joined the OAC group A crowd of almost 200 celebrated the chapter s 10th anniversary at a picnic at the farm of the late John Bracken OAC 06 During the 1950s they added a get-together at the annual Ottawa-area plowing match which gave way to a curling bon spiel in the 1960s
There have been many special funcshytions - entertaining the Gryphon footshyball teams square dances car rallies golf tournaments theatre parties and raceway evenings - but the event that stands out in Fletchers memory ocshycurred in 1966 when five members of Parliament hosted the group in the parshyliamentary ballroom
The chapter also includes a couples bridge club which has been meeting for 25 years in the homes of its members
Fletcher thanks the 30 people who have served as president of the Ottawa alumni chapter and the dozens more who have helped on committees devot shying years to the executive to promote the institution
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Discussion structured exercises and experiential activities will lead alumni to gain insight into a personal careerllifestyle analYSis and assessment career information resources networking skills and much more
No matter what their age career stage or reason for transition each participant will find this workshop to be an excellent opportunity to develop a personal action plan - and chart their next move
~ Pre-1esting In order to provide individualized career information registrants are required to attend one of two pre-testing sessions The Strongshycampbell Interest Inventory and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator will be administered and results tabulated prior to the workshop Pre-testing dates are as follows
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Guelph Thursday June 4 1992 700 pm - 8 30 pm University Centre
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May 2 - The Guelph Spring Festival begins with a 25th-anniversary gala dinshyner in Creelman Hall that will honor founding president Murdo MacKinnon Other festival events run until May 23 For more information call 519-821-7570
May 2 shy An All-Canadian University Asshysociation d inne r w il l be held in Washington DC at the Embassy of Canada Guest speaker is Robert Lanni president of the University of Windsor Entertainment will be provided by Windsors music department For inforshymation call T Chan at 202-543-9111
May 3 - Arboretum Day celebrates spring with family nature walks at 1 and 330 pm and an electrical keyboard concert at 230 pm featuring Canadian comshyposer Carole Anne Burris
May 10 to Aug 30 - Guided nature walks run every Sunday at 230 pm in the Arboretum Topics include wildflowers birds turtles snakes and insects The nature centre is open from 1230 to 430 pm
May 13 - Chancellor Lincoln Alexander is the guest speaker at the Alumni-inmiddotAction annual general meeting which begins at noon in the Arboretum Centre For details call Alumni Affairs 519-824middot 4120 Ext 2102
May 13 - The Human KineticsHuman Biology Alumni Association will hold its inaugural meeting at730 pm at Alumni House with a coffee and dessert social RSVP to 519-824-4120 Ext 6963
May 23 shy FACS 82 is sponsoring a colshylection of Bob Munsch plays performed by the Carousel Players at3 pm at War Memorial Hall Tickets are $8 plus tax and handling To order call the UC box off ice at 519-824-4120 Ext 3940
May 26 - Alumni-in-Action is hosting a night at Mohawk Raceway Cost is $30 To register call 529-824-4120 Ext 2102
May 30 - An Arboretum sale of rare native trees and shrubs at the RJ Hi lton Centre on College Avenue East runs from 9 am to 1 pm For information call 519-824shy4120 Ext 2113
May 30 shy The sixth annual All-Canadian University Dinner in Chicago will be held
in the Henry Crown Space Centre at the Museum of Science and Industry and will include a reception buffet dinner and an Omnivax movie beginning at 6 pm Guest speaker is George Pedersen president of the University of Western Ontario For information call David Cole at 312-372-4404 or Hugh Mackenzie at 708-369-3688
June 2 to 5 shy Spring convocation June 13 - Beginning at 7 am the Arshy
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June 15 to 17 shy U of G will host the 15th annual Guelph Conference on Sexuality With the theme Sexuality New Visions the conference will examine current isshysues in human sexuality counselling strategies for sexual problems and teaching approaches in sexuality educashytion For information call the Office of Continuing Education at 519-767-5000 or fax 519-767-0758
June 19 to 21 - ALUMNI WEEKEND See page 39 for a complete schedule of events and alumni association meetings The UGAA annual meeting is June 21 at 10 am in Macdonald Hall 149
June 26 to 28 shy The UGAA-sponsored alumni career-planning workshop will be held on campus See page 26 for details
July 31 amp Aug 4 shy The National Youth Orchestra will perform in War Memorial Hall at 8 pm as part of its summer program at U of G Tickets at $8 general $6 for stUdents and seniors will be availshyable at the door
Sept 26 - HOMECOMING Rise early for the second ann ual Homecoming charity walkathon At 930 am the Human Kinetics Alumni Association will hold its annual general meeting in the School of Human Biology lounge
Oct 1 - OVCs 1992 Schofield Memorial Lecture will be given by Steven Arnoczky a professor in the department of small animal clin ical sciences at Michigan State Universitys Laboratory for Comparative Orthopedics The 3 pm lecture will be held in War Memorial Hall Admission is free
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John Boros 88 of Wei land Ont writes that he is impressed by the way U of G keeps records after graduation Thi s gives the graduate a sense of belonging a connection to an important period in hi s or her life he says
Jane Buzza 88 is working as records co-ordinatorarchivist for the Ontario Medishycal Association in Toronto
Jacqueline (Sullivan) DeClerck 86 is a public relations officer at the Canada Trust head office in London Onto
Richard Ely 70 works at the Crown attorneys office in WeIland Ont He has an LLB from the University of Western Ontario in addition to his Guelph degree He says he often talks about U of G to young students trying to decide which university to attend
Paul Genest 81 finished graduate studies at Johns Hopkins Universi ty in Maryland and is now assistant professor of philosophy at Union College in Schenectady NY He is man-ied to Barbara Jessup 8 1
Brian Hogarth 78 is head of interpretashytion at the G1enbow Museum in Calgary
Martha Hooper 9 1 was married last Ocshytober to David Perry They live in Calgary where she is a sw itchboard operator at the Delta Bow Valley Inn
Rene van der Meijden 87 has put his degree in geogshyraphy and internationshyal development to good use with the Christian Reformed World Relief Comshymittce Originally from the Netherlands he is now in Uganda on a three-year asshy Rene van der signment as a rural Meijden development adv iser He sends greetings to his many friend s in Canada and to Guelph grads Stan and Kitty in Bolivia in particular and reminds us that visitors are always welshycome in Uganda
Edward Milliner 85 will graduate this spring from the faculty of education at the University of Windsor
Mark Moore 85 is doing postgraduate work in history at the University of Bristol in England He plans to teach high school
fn response to a letter from Dawn Monroe 69 that appeared in the winter 1992 issue of the Guelph Alumnus Doug Moynihan 69 of Fort McMurray Alta writes Be disapshypointed no more Dawn l I too graduated in 1969 from (the College of) Arts or as it was then called Wellington College and I havent heard from anyone either And I too think it is time to contribute my news
After graduation f headed out to disshycover and sol ve the problems of the world travelling overseas for about three years Since then Ive been working in human resources in a variety of organizations in many different locations in Canada Cun-entshyIy I am the manager of human resources in Fort McMurray
PS Do you remember me Dawn I was the bartender in Creelman Hall I
John Teskey 7 1 began new duties last summer as director of libraries at the University of New Brunsw ick in Fredericton He was head of adshyministrative sershyvices at the University of Albershyta before moving John Teskey across Canada to acshycept the UNB posishytion but had earlier served as chief librarian and was library personnel officer at both Alshyberta and the University of Saskatchewan
Teskey says his biggest challenge is to regain the lost purchasing power that univershysity libraries have suffered as a result of static budge ts and ri sing material costs He is encouraging increased resource-sharing among universities and interlibrary loan programs with shortened turnaround
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Elizabeth (Baxter) Willson 77 a real esshytate agent in Chatham Ont writes to voice a common feeling that the universi ty exshyperience itself is often more important than the degree or diploma received I am really glad I graduated from Guelph she says
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Michelle Bombadier and Mike Caldwell both 92 are two of 50 Canad ian youth selected to work in Guyana for three months with Youth Challenge International (YCI) a non-governmental organization that provides Third-world experience for Canadians They may spend the summer building a school teaching safety or clearing land for Gu ytna s first national park but they need some private support to he lp cover transportation costs Anyone able to help should write to YCI at I I Soho St Toronto M5T IZ6
Jane Coventry 86 writes with accolades for the Guelph Alumnus grad news section and an update on what she and her husband Jaydee Smith 84 and MSc 89 are doing They were married in 1989 while working at U of G - he in the Department of Animal and Poultry Science and she in the Departshyment of Crop Science In February 1991 they moved to England where Smith is doing a PhD at the University of Bristol and working as a research assistant Coventry
works in the technology transfer unit of Nickshyerson Seeds Ltd in Cambridge
Jeffrey Crawford 88 and Leslie Thompson 86 were malTied last October He is an elementary schoolteacher in Mount Forest Ont
Craig Emerson 83 earned a PhD at Dalshyhousie University in Halifax in 1990 and is now a research associate in oceanography
Paul Fleming 85 is a pharmaceutical sales representative for Hoechst Canada Inc and lives in Nepean Ont
David Forsey 80 is an assistant professor of computer science at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver He is marshyried to Lyn Bartram
Michael Gangl 89 is in his third year at the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College
Astrid Harms 87 is a registered nurse in London Ont
Andrew Holmes 85 worked for the Onshytario government as a wildlife biologist for three years but is now back at school in his second year at Northwestern Chiropractic College in Minneapolis
Timothy Johnson 86 works at the Centre for Limnology at the University of Wisconshys in in Madison
Karen Lennard 77 (HK) and her hu sshyband Paul Jackson 79 (HK ) and MSc
82 both went 011 to earn medical degrees from McMaster University in HalTilton Ont Jackson also has a master s in physiology from the University of Virginia and is comshypleting an anesthesiology residency in Hamilshyton Lennard has a part-time family medical practice allowing her to spend more time with the couples two children Matthew and Nicola
Wendy Maltby 74 is an elementary schoolteacher for the Metropolitan Toronto School Board
Sandra OConnor 84 earned a medical degree from the University of Western Onshytario and is now practi sing in Burlington Ont
Linda Owen 81 runs her own business as a consulting exercise physiologist and fitness supervisor in Campbell River BC
Sheryle Tetley 86 is regional sales manager for Glaxo Canada Inc in Mi ss isshysauga Ont where she lives with her husshyband Ian
Rob Tonus 87 is manager of the Black Creek Rehabilitation Project a grassroots enshyvironment program to improve a degraded urban stream in Toronto His office is with the Metropolitan Toronto and Region Conshyservation Authority and he lives in Oakville with his wife Wanda (Knul) 88 (HK) a public health inspector in Hamilton
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Richard Woods 81 is an instructor of xshyray technology at the Easte rn Ontario School of X-ray Technology at Kingston Ge neral Hospital He would like to hear from other members of the 1981 U of G choir wi th whom he travelled to Scandinav ia Write to him at RRI Od essa Ont KOH 2HO
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James Dy nes 84 has comp le ted g raduate studies in chemistry and so il sc ience at the Univers ity of Sas katchewan in Saskatoon
Catherine (McVittie) Clark 88 is a nuclear medica l tech nici an at Howard Counshyty General Hospita l in Columbia Md She and her husband Michae l li ve in Elkridge Md
David Holmes 85 is a systems analyst at Sun Life Assurance Company
RolfKierdorf 84 lives in Guelph with his wife Janet He is se lf-employed as a systems consultant
Donald McFadde n 71 and his wife Carol li ve in A lbany Ga where he pracshyti ses medicine
Donald Ridley 69 and PhD 73 has been appoin ted seni or v ice-presiden t of CibashyGeigy Canada Ltd in Oakvi lle Ont and is responsib le for a ll corpora te serv ices includshy
ing finance human resources safe ty health and the environment He a lso se rves on the board of the Canadian Agricu ltura l Research Council and is a member of the Great Lakes Action Plan Strategi c Advi sory Committee
Kathryn Root Parr is an assoc iate minister at Lorne Park Bapti st Church in Mississhysa uga Ont She was married las t fa ll to Vicshytor Parr
Peter Simpson 85 is dis tric t manager for McNeil Pharmaceutical Ltd in Stouffville Ont He is married to Cynthia (Hamilton) 85 (HK)
Keith Stemshorn 83 is in the Canadian Armed Forces stationed in Calgary
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Nikki Dignard 86 moved to Ottawa last year where her husband Ted Henike pracshyti ses denti stry Dignard is working on an M BA and says she d love to hear from CSS classmates Tom Cam and Kathryn
Bonnie Dunnett 87 and MA 91 works on campus at the Gerontology Research Centre S he and Barry Hallman 9 1 li ve in Guelph
Kathryn Faulkner 80 is a registered nurse in Burling ton Ont where she li ves wi th he r husband John
Ruth Fox 84 is a sta ffing assistant for
Transport Canad a and lives in Toronto w ith her husband Christopher
Shonna Giles 88 is an admiss ions officer at Simon Fraser Unive rs ity in Burnaby BC
Gina Grieco 75 is a hi gh school guidance counsellor in North York Onto
John Harris 82 is manager of financial planning and budgets for th e City of Brampton Ont
Paulette Heppner 76 is a teache r in Vanshycouver
John Johnston 7 1 has been appointed exshyec uti ve vice-pres ident o f Ve rsacold Canada Corp and pres ident of QF Foods Distribushytion Services Versacold Canada is the largest public refri gera ted ware hou sing orshygani za tion in Western Canada
Michael Kral 79 has moved from the Univers ity of Manitoba to the University of Wind sor where he is an assistant professor of psychology
Jeffrey Lozon 76 and his family recently returned to Toronto after 15 years in Western Canada He is executive vice-president and ch ief operat ing officer at St Michael s Hos pital and li ves in Oakville wi th hi s wife Donna and two daughters
Bria n Martin 79 is a real estate appraiser in Portland Ont whe re he li ves w ith hi s wife Margaret (Sheffield) Arts 79
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Leith Mason 90 works in Toronto in the Canadian office of the State of Illinois as a special assistant to the Illinois Department of Food and Agricul ture
Michael McKean 74 of Don Mills Ont was recently appointed president of Wrigley Canada Inc Before joining Wrigley as execushytive v ice-pres ident in 1990 he he ld senior positions in Hong Kong Brazil and the United States
Rick 74 and Vicki (Collard) McTaggart FACS 74 are working in Ottawa He is director of overseas operations for the Unitarian Service Committee a charitable non-governmental organization that supports commun it y and human resou rce developshyment activities in Africa and Asia She is sec tion head of consumer analysis in the agr ifood development branch of Agriculture Canada
Sandra Morrison 86 is an ass istant professhysor in the department of psychiatry at the University of Western Ontario
Stephen Naylor 85 is director of planning and development for the amalgamated municipalities of Alliston Beeton Tecumshyseth and Tottenham
Brian ONeill 68 MA lives in SUITey England where he is managing director of Innovation Management Consultant s
Jodi Parisi 89 is a sales representative for Gillette who says U of Goo was the greatest
Moira Skikavich 81 is completing a PhD in c inematelevision at the University of Southern California
Virginia Sutherland 78 is an air traffic controller at the Toronto Island Airport
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Peggy Bates 88 was recently promoted to sales manager with Sears Canada Inc She lives in Owen Sound Ont
Caroline Begin 86 is working in Singshyapore as a dietitian
Diana Close 87 is a c linical nutri ti onis t at Chedoke McMaster Hospital in Hamilton Ont
Sarah Davenport 90 is a case worker with the Wellington County Social Services office in Guelph She is malTied to Matthew Harvey CBS 90
Timothy Dyck 8 1 is national sales manager for Black amp Decker Canada workshying out of the Corbin Division in Richmond HillOnt
Sharon (Muir) 84 and Richard Ernst CBS 83 are the proud parents of a future Guelph grad uate one-year-old Andrew Graham
Patricia Edwards 78 is food servi ce sushypervisor fo r St Peter s Hospita l in Hamilton Ont
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For the love ofteaching Since she
middot graduated bull from Macshydonald Inshymiddot stitute in
J 963 Nancy Kerr has built a career on teaching and research in telttles The middotheidofthe Uriiveisityof
Albertas department of Clothing and texiiles pursues a middotscientific interest inthepreservashylion of hi stori~lfabricsarid in developing pesticide-proofc1otl1ing But Jler fitstlove i ~ teaching
In 199b shewonone ofU of As four Rutherford AWljrds for excellence ill unshy
dergraduate teat-hing The first member of the faculty middotofliomemiddoteconornicsto receive the award slie was the rcentcipient6f the facultys own underglltiduate teaching award three years earlier
Winning the Rutherford was a gteat honor says Ken who has been on
faculty at Alberta since 1967 She oiscovered she had an aptitude for
middot teaching as a graduate student at the University of California Davis in
196566 After earning her MSc she casr about for afaculty position in Canada and round U of A was the 0111y place I could teach ju t textiles plus have a chance to develop new cQurses and research labs
middot Kerr sa)s she gets a tremelldous sense of satisfaction from teaching and the learning he must do to stay cUlTent She attributes her succe s as a teaCher to middotIec-middot
middot tures that are well organized and clear and to creltting a positive classroom climate
~Thcomfort level of students is reaUy middot ililportanL ~ Kerr eamedherPhD in fibre lnd
polymer science from North Carolina bull Staie University in 1982 Her doctoral work concentrated oil deacidification
techniques to preserve historicatcottOnln 1988 she spent a sabbatical ye~r doing research at the Caliadian Conservation
middot In tirute in OnflW1 middot Originalmiddotly from Ottawa Kerr is a
trarisphlnted -vesterner who enjoys middot hiking anlt sk1ing
From left Diane Ellison Lisa Wilson Lori Davis and Pippa Hobbes
Diane Ellison 84 is liv ing in Osaka Japan where she teaches English to Japanese busishyness people Last October she welcomed three U of G friends for a visit Lori Davis CSS 85 manager of Jumbo Video Inc in Oakville Ont Pippa Hobbes 84 accountshying manager for Paramount Holidays in Willowda le Ont and Lisa Wilson 84 co-ord inator of membership serv ices for the Metropolitan Toronto Board of Trade
Monica Hrybko HAFA 88 is director of sales for the Ramada Hotel Old Town in San Diego Calif
David Jones HAFA 88 is a con troller at the Holiday Inn Montreal Centre-Ville
Kathleen McLachlin 83 is operating an insurance agency in Kitchener OnL She opened the State Farm Insurance office in March 1988 and says she loves her job
Susan (Goettler) Parker 80 is working in Toronto as benefits administrator for Imshyperial Oil Limited She is married to Donald Parker OAC 79
Mary Jean (Sinnott) Price Mac 7 1 has returned to sc hool at the University of Otshytawa to earn a bachelor of education
Margaret (Richardson) Rankin 75 has been living in Halifax since 1990 and is an account analyst for Central Guaranty Trust
Janet (Wanless) Sutherland 77 is in private practice as a marriage and family therapist in East Kelowna BC
Jean Thomson Mac 37 says 1937 was a long time ago but shes delighted with all the changes that have gone at the college A former hospita l nutritionist she is retired and living in London Ont -
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Olayiwola Layi Adeola MSc 86 and PhD 89 and his wife Mope are living in West Lafayette Indiana where he is an assisshytant professor of pig nutrition at Purdue University
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Bruce Barrie 79 (Eng) graduated last June with an MBA from City Uni ve rsi ty in Washington State and is now a senior adshyviser in strategic planning with Petro-Canada Resources in Calgary He is a professional eng ineer with APEGGA and an ac tive memshyber of the Planning Forum an international society for planning and strategic manageshyment
Barbara Bryce 83 and her husband Ricardo Ramirez 82 are living in Rome Italy She is a landscape architect and he is a communications officer with the Food and Agriculture Organizat ion
Daniel Campbell 81 and his wife SharonshyMarianne are farmin g near Petrolia Onto
Carolyn Closs 82 and her husband Harold operate a beef cowca lf operation in Shawville Que
Luc Cote 83 is an agricullural account manager for the Royal Bank of Canada in Joliette Que
Kerrie Lea Curran 85 plans to graduate this fall from the master of architecture proshygram at McGi ll University
Bruce Dodson 74A is course superinshytendent at Hawd Ridge Golf and Curling Club in Orillia Ont
Richard Donkin OAC 85A originalshyly from Zimbabwe is the manager of Venida Packing Inc in Exeter Calif Situated in central Californias San Joashyquin Valley Venida Packing ships tree fruit throughout the Richard Donkin United States Canada the Pacific Rim and the Far East Products under the brand names Ruby River and Venida include peaches plums nectarines kiwi grapes persimmons and pomegranates In 1988 Donkin married California native Lisa Kolander and they live in Lemon Cove a community in the Sierra foothill s
Brendan Elder 8S A lives in Kelowna BC and works for Dogwood Nursery He plans to be married thi s summer to Rosemary Powell
Robert Fessenden OAC MSc 67 was recently appointed vice-president of devel opshyment and planning at the Alberta Research Council He is responsible for tec hnology management and corporate marketing
John Fitzgerald 86 was married last November to Susan Given a ] 991 indeshypendent study graduate in animal producshytion He is a lecturer at Ridgetown College she works at Centralia College and is work shying on a psychology degree at the University of Waterloo They live in Strathroy Ont
Glenn Helstern 79A is a driver for the Calgary division of Greyhound Bus Lines of Canada Ltd
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She tells a princely tale
For seven miniJtes on Oct 24 199 L Ellen Het1eOAC 76~U1d MSc 80
(ltllked with PIince Charles Invited toopert a newfumaceat
inco Lilniteds Copper Cliff smelter iri Sudbury Ont the Princemiddot of Wales was easy to talk with says Heale ftwasverycxciting
As eiwironmental co-ordinator Of land reclamation andrevegetation at Copper Cliff Healetold theprince middot about Tnc(secosystem rehabilitation
projects Theroyalvisitor was parshyticulatfyiilterestedin the treegrow- ing project in abandoned inines flld in tlpoundrevegetation ()f acres of tailings
and barren rock Planrilig vegetation on the tailings
hasattrlttcled wildlifeto a protected habitat says Beale who has wqrked forIncosincc she graduated in 1976
Ninety~iwo species ofbirds as weil asrodems hares foxes wolves bears andinoQse have been sighted on the 2500 acres of rehabilitated ore waste
One thing about this job is you middot can s~e where youve been effective she says
While an undergraduate student in Prill(e Charles with EIen Heale horticultural science Healea native ofSiidbury worked at Ineo during the sumniers She wasthi tirst woman to
work inrhemining companys agriculture middot department After shegraduated the niekshy el inine hired her full time tcido horticul- turaLfleld research ~ Ineo later granted heT a two-semester leave of absente t6 work
Theodore Jacobs 78 (Eng) is engineering supervisor at Standard Tube in Woodstock Ont
Greg Keast 85 (Eng) is li ving in Mozamshybique in East Africa where he works as a project officer for UNICEF rural water supshyply project s
Richard Kline 74 was appointed partner of the Toronto accounting firm Schwartz Levitsky Feldman Inc last faiL He is presishydent of the film s bankruptcy division a member of the Chartered Accountants of Onshytario and first vice- president of the Ontario Insolvency Association
Christopher Laforest MSc 91 (USRPD) works in planning and economic developshyment for Bruce County Ont
Jean-Paul PhD 90 and Lynn (Hammell) Laforest 82 and MSc 85 are both employed at Laval University in Sainte-Foy Que He is a professor and s he is a research associate
Kenneth Lawless 63 earned a Guelph deshygree in agricultural economics then went on to stud y dentistry at the Uni versity of Toronshyto He is now an oral and manilo-fac ial surshygeon in Kingston Ont
oil her masters at OAC~ In her current PdStion Heale has rnore
administrative and public relations responshyibilities On her own time she sits on the
board of management for the tocal Red Cross and isalllember ofthe Sudbury
Business and Professional Womens Club
Margie Luffman 77 writes that she has happily returned to Ontario after 10 years in New Brunswick to work at the Smithfield Experimental Farm in Trenton She is curator of the Plant Gene Resources of Canada clonal gene bank
Brian MacCulloch MAg 89 is a sa les representative for Springva le Nurseries Ltd in Berwick NS
Daniel Mansell 64 and MSc 68 is Onshytario manager of the eastern habitat joint venture in the wildlife policy branch of the Ministry of Natural Resources He is stashytioned in Midhurst Ont
Peter McEntire 77A writes from County Langford in Ireland to keep in touch with U of G He is farming and work s as an AI techshynician with Bova Genetics Ltd
Darryl Mitchell 78 works at Pioneer HishyBred Limited in Chatham Ont
Hugh ONeil 88 is manager of customer financial services for Ral ston Purina Canada Inc
Umed Panu MSc 72 (Eng) has done a lot of travelling during his career After Guelph he earned a PhD in civil engineering
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David Nedelko OAC 86 and Ljrlda ArmsJrollg CBS 89 (Jurk 011 cemre) were marriediasl SeplemiJer in Bari ~ie OnlTluir weddiIg iiarly illcilldedfiom leli Katy KusmiliskiOA C 88Paul Allgusline GAG 86 Roh Reed OAC 87Carv Belfral1l oAC 8RJIuJ Sa ndimiddoto (CollinI) BerlrCIlII CBS RR Also 1I111ie wedding w(lS Arlllslong s Veal ullcleClarence Fleming OVC 34 The couple (Ire living in
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at the Universit y of Waterloo taught in India and at Mi ss iss ippi State Uni vers ity and worked with Briti sh Columbia Hydro and the Government of Newfoundland In 1986 he jo ined the faculty of c ivil engi neering at Lakehead Uni ve rsity in Thunder Bay Ont and was promoted to full professor in 199 1 He and hi s wife Kashna and the ir children Neeti and Anukud enjoy the outdoor recreashytion ac ti viti es available in Northwestern Onshytario and look forward to visits from U of G alumni trave lling to Thunder Bay
Lyle Pettigrew 61 is a marketin g consulshytant with Harris Kovacs Alderman in Atlanshyta Ga
Helen Prior 88 joined Sheridan Nurseries after graduation then worked for a year as a research tech nic ian in Guelph s Department of Crop Scie nce She is now in her th ird year at Emmanuel College at Victoria University and hopes to be ordained as a United Church min is ter in May
Gregory Scott 83 (Eng) is operations manager for Accuform Gol f Limited in Toronto
Ba rbara (Coordes) Skrypetz 87 is a fi e ld supervisor for the Ontario Dairy Herd Imshyprovement Corporation working out of Guelph He r husband Stephen 88 operates a bulldozing and excavating busi shyness in the Woodstock area
Victor Skidra 6 is re tired f rom his job as a sc ientific evaluator with Hea lth and Welshyfare Canada He and hi s wife Konstance live in Nepean Ont
William Slusarchuk 63 (Eng) and MSc
The way we were in 1902 OAC alumnus Douglas Campbell 60 passes on a bit of col lege hi sto ry that shou ld make us think twice about our con stitutional squabbles in C anad a
Campbell is director of the Latin America and Caribbea n Trade Divis ion of Canada s Department of External Affa irs Last summer he hosted a vi s it by the president of Uruguay Luis Alberto Lacalle Herre ra whose grand fa the r made a simil a r vis it to Canada in 1902
This is what the elde r Herrera reported to his government Gue lph agricultural college enjoys a worldwide reputation and is con shys idered one of the grea t loca l attracshytions
More than 200 young Canadians a long with many foreign youths come together in its lecture rooms There are bursary ho lde rs from Norway and as far away as Mauritius C loser to us
Guelph Alumnus
67 was recently appo inted pres ident of AGRA Eanh and Environmental Group an envi ronme ntal and geotechnica l firm that is a division of AGRA Indu stries Limited
Michael Sullivan 87 A is a pol ice officer with the Wate rloo Regional Police in Cambridge Ont
Argentina has 12 students there We ll then couldnt Uruguay imshy
itate those good exa mples and also se nd a number of worthy youths to Guelph to acquire the professional knowledge which is becoming m ore necessary each day for the deve lopshyment of our agric ulture~
In addition to the sc ienti fic benefits that our compatriots woul d deri ve from entering sLlch a Canadian techni cal in shystitution there would be the inca lcushylable benefit of becoming familiar with the stric t manly and sound habits of these people who are admirable in e ve ry respect
Afte r they have stee ped themse lves in this atmos phere of dem ocracy which fosters the development of all rights and is alien to intolerance thi s legati on w ill have the great honor of sending home not only sc ientists but a lso mode l citizens
Brenda Trask 80 operates he r own comshymunica tion s consulting company in Osshygoode Ont She is marri ed to Ron Ferguso n
Dave Vanden Bosch 89 is manager of operator services and plann ing for Bell Canada in London Ont
J Stallard Skip Waterhouse 54 and hi s wife Li sa are ce lebrating the birth of a daughter Samantha Elizabe th on New Years Day 1992 They live in New York State where Wate rhouse is iI pro fe ssor of bio logical science at the Plattsburgh Sta te Uni versity College of Arts and Science
Jeff 88 and Karen (Burrows) W h ite 87 live in Strathroy Ont Jeff work s for Bell Canada and Kare n is a Lambton County rural orga ni za tion spec ialist with the Ontar io Mini stry of Agriculture and Food
Harold Wright 86 is a development repre shysenta tive for Ci ba-Ge igy Canada Ltd in Mi sshysissauga Ont He and Lori Krieg 84 plan to marry thi s sprin g
Donald Ziraldo 7 I received doubl e honors last winter fro m the Ontario grape and wine industry Preside nt of Inniskillin W ines of Niagara-on -the-Lake Ont he was named to the Royal Order of the Grape for hi s leadership in enhancing the prod uct and its image
In addition Z ira ldo and his partner Karl Kai se r were named 1991 Men of the Year by FoodsCIvice and Hospitalily magazine During the ir 17-year partnership at Inn isk ilshylin the two have been instrumental in shapshying Canada s wine industry the magazine sa id
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ave Barry Burtis 69 was named president of the Ontario Veterinary Medical Association in January after working with the voluntary organization for four years as a director member of its editorial board and chair of its public relations committee Burtis lives in Burlington Ont and practises at the Bay Cities Animal Hospital He also appears on a local cable television program called Pel Tales
William Medway 54 of Blackwood NJ has been named an honorary life member of the International Association for Aquatic Animal Medicine for his contributions on beshyhalf of the association and the field of aquatic medicine He is both a founding member and past president of the associa shytion A professor emeritus of clinical laboratory medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine Medway is a member of the Marine Mammal Commissions committee of scientific advisers
Diane Pickering-Forster 86 is practising at Vander Kraan Veterinary Services in Huntsville Ont She is malTied to Chris Forster and they have one daughter Julia
Julien Proulx 67 has moved from Kapusshykasing Ont to La Pocatiere Que where he is superintendent of Agriculture Canada s Experimental Farm Last year he was feashytured on TVOntarios French network series Personalire Ontarienne for his work as a veterinarian his participation in municipal politics and his support of regional developshyment in Northern Ontario He was also awarded Agriculture Canadas research branch prize Agcellence for extraordinary management during his direction of the reshysearch program at the Kapuskasing Exshyperimental Farm
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Twoc~ireers middot on the samepat~ OVCaruninus Geoffrey Lord 49 felt a thopedic
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There are amazing simi laritiesbetween surgery the c~reersof t~e two Guyanese wh6b6th says Lord If earnedvefetinary degrees atGueiph someone worked in c1ini(ai practice in)Yestem were to ask Canada then moved to the United States me ioday to work in human medic~lresearch what Tcon~
Narayan heads an AlDSresearchteamsider to be atJohns HopkiflS l1)iversilySchool of my expertise MediCirieinBaltimoreMatyland Lord is I would have retired directorofthdohnsonamp Johnson to saymecli- Geofrey Lord
middot Resear~h Foundalion ill NewJersey cal device lordsays he was influenced by OVC andbioshy
proJessDfs Anthony Kings(Qte and Frank Inaterials evaluation middot SchofieJd~ndwcentnton from GiJelphto pur- lt In the I 950s Lordwaspalt of ale-
sue graduate studies in parasitology auhe se~rch team that pioneered the use of University oJWiscollsin Sevenmorithsin animal tissue tOTeconstructdamagedjr
amixed practice in Drumheller Alta con blocked al1eries in hUl11ansTwenty years vinced him thaldinical medicine wasn6t middot later he drafted the first systematicap-
middot whati w~ted6 do He returned to Wis pr()ach to the safety evaluation of medica con5il110 eanla PhDlll pathologyano devices joined Johnson amp JohnsQri as asenior middot Allsubsequeill guidelines inCiLlding patilol()gistiriI953 those of the Foodaj)q Diug Admlnistrashy
Research at Johnson amp JohDson tiOnand the Canadian Regulatory ~teeredmeinto many interesting and chal- Authority hayeadopteoihis approach he
Jenging fieldsofbio-research includirig says derniiltoi9gy toxicologic pathology Lordand his wife Helen ltIividetheir wound healing surgical pathology iiinebetweel)Ciipe CodandBonita genera toxkology ofi~w drugs andor~ Springs FloriQa
Shane Renwick 77 and MSc 91 works in veterinary services at Agriculture Canada offices in Guelph
Ruth Reuter 61 is a veterinary pathologist in Plympton Australia
Tom Sanderson 6 1 was selected by the Ontario Veterinary Medical Association as Ontario Veterinarian of 1991 CUlTently OVCs co-ordinator of off-campus work terms he spent 20 years in private practice in Listowe1 and Mount Forest before returning to the coll ege in 1982 to manage the veterishynary research stations Sanderson s contribushytions to the profess ion have included many hours of volunteer work in the advancement
of the profession and in the development of veterinary inshysurance programs He is a past pres ident of both the Ontario and Canadian Veterishynary Medical associashytions
Jennifer Troughton 86 is practising in OronoOnt
Simone Woltner 86 is a veterinarian at the Chester Basin Animal Hospital in Chester Basin NS
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by her hu sband William and two sons The fo llowing dea ths have been reported since the las t issue of the Guelph Alumnus Full notices which are usu ally submitted by family or classmates may appear in thi s iss ue or in a later one
James Clement Arts 73 Feb 2 1992
Marilyn (Dyment) Farnan Mac 530 Feb 27 1992
David Fisher OAC 80A in October 1990
Elizabeth (C hristie) Glass Mac 3I D June 2l99 1
Peter Heskey OAC 54A Dec 6 199 1
Richard Ketchell OVC 51 Nov 23 199 1
Edward Kowalski Arts 79 in August 199 1
Pauline (Dixon) MacMillan Mac 240 Jan 2 1992
Catherine MacPherson Arts 83 Dec 11 1990
Marguerite (White) Maybury Mac 3 10 in June 1990
Donald McLeOd CSS 80 Jan 9 1992
Albert Meilus OAC 51 in 1991
Ann (Biggs) Ostler Mac 3 10 in April 1991
Robert Race Arts 73 in 1989
Ralph Sampson OAC 40 in December 1989
Mor ris Sanderson OAC 42 Nov 17 1991
Sir Peter Scott HDSc 8 1 in Au gust 1989
William Setterington OAC 40 Oct 22 1991
George Shoniker OAC 50A in March 199 1
John Somerset OAC 34 Dec 27 199 1
Gregory Van Patter OAC 7 1 in 1990
Frederich Weiland OAC 20A in 1990
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Riccardo Rich Incitti 88 died Jan 5 1992 as the result of an accident near Hami lshyton Ont He was assistant manager at the Toronto-Dominion Bank in St Cathari nes and is survived by his parents Gu igi and Lucia of Cambridge and two sisters Laura and Andrea
Larry McNenly 73 died in October 1991 in Owen Sound Ont He is survived by his wife Marnie CSS 73
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Robert Everett HK 74 died in May 1991 in Burlington Ont A teac her at White Oaks Secondary Schoo l in Oakv ille he is survived by his wife Miche le and brother William CBS 74
James Sandy Fear 75 died Oct I I 199 1 in Toronto He is survi ved by his wi fe Sally (Firth) OAC 75 and hi s children Caitlin Alli son and Mered ith
CSS
Lynn (Dalys) Corby 84 died in Toron to May 6 1990 after a long battIe with cancer
Nancy (Birbeck) Gordon 77 died Oct 20 1991 in Ottawa after a short illness She worked at the Kitchener-Waterl oo Hospital and had previously been plan t accountant at Foseco Canada Incorporated in Guelph
Mac-FACS
Jean (Williams) Forward 280 Oct 28 1991 in Calgary She was the widow of Bower Forward OAC 25 and is survived by two sons
Catharine (Bechtel) Fromm 270 died Nov I 199 1 in Cambridge Ont She is surshyvived by three dau ghters Ellen Moore Mac 63 Nancy and Caro l
Alice (Rivaz) Garrard 28 di ed Dec 2 199 1 in Guelph She was an active member of the Mac-FACS Alumni Assoc iat ion and was the Mac 28 class agent for the Alma Mater Fund She is survived by her husband retired professor Edward Garrard OAC 27 and a daughter Betty Nelson
Della Marie (Diamond) Honey 300 of Warkworth Ont died June 29 1991 One ofWarkworths oldest and most respected citizens she served as local li brarian fo r 25 years She is survived by her son John OAC 52A his wife Patric ia and four grandchildren James OAC 84A William OAC 76A Thomas OvC 89 and Patricia Lonergan CSS 68
Barbara (Banigan) Martin 380 died Jan I 1992 in Don Mill s Ont A retired teacher wit h the North York Board of Education she is survived by a son Ted a sister and two brothers
Elizabeth (Burt) Perry 340 died June 28 1991 in Sidney BC and is surv ived by her husband Gordon and son Paul Nartel OAC 62
Jacqueline (Roy) Pote 34D died Dec 2 1 1991 in Willowdale Ont and is is survived
Merrill and Bill
Doroth y (MacFeeters) Scott 260 died Jan 14 1992 in Toronto She is su rvived by two daughters Anne Donaldson and Cynthia Scott
Florence (French) Snyder 370 died May 6 199 1 in Calgary and is survived by her husband Robert and two sons John and William
Katherine (Sweet) Watt Mac 220 died Feb 23 1992 She is survived by her husshyband Leslie a son David and a dau ghter Carol Gi llanders
Mattie (Newman) Widdicombe 240 died Dec 11 1991 in St Catharines Ont Preshydeceased by her husband John she is surshyvived by a bro ther and several nieces and nephews including Virginia Rigby Arts 76
OAC
George Grey Arnup 38 died Feb 2 1992 in Toronto He spent most of his career with the plant protection branch of Agriculture Canada He is survived by his wife Aileen three chi ldren Nancy Jim and Mary Ellen Vincent CBS 79 and four grandchi ldren
Herbert Boyce 28 and MSA 43 died Sept 2 1991 in Amherstburg Onto He is survi ved by his wife Norah a daughter Beverley Med lock and a brother James OAC 32
Jack Reddy Brethet 56 died Nov 4 199 1 in Burlington Ont President of Brethet Barnum Assoc iates Inc he is surshyv ived by his wife Caro l and two daughters Lyn n and Anne
Bruce Foster 28 died Feb 6 1992 in Ridgetown Ont and is survi ved by his daughter Gayle Anderson and son David CBS 69
Allison Gardhouse 49 died Sept 21 1991 in Midland Ont He was re tired supe rshyintendent of schoo ls for the Simcoe County Board of Education and is survi ved by his wife Merle
Kenneth Harrison 24 died Nov 5 199 1 in Kentville NS A distinguished plant patho logist military officer and mycologist he began hi s career in 1926 as assistant plant pathologis t at the Kentvi lle Experimental Farm He worked there until retirement in 1966 wi th the exception of mi litary servi ce du ring the Second World War
Dr Harrison had a lifelong interes t in the study of mushrooms and publ ished numerou s technica l papers on the mu shroom flora of Nova Scotia In addition he enshy
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couraged interested amateurs and led field trips for student s at Acadia University and the general public from 1929 until 1987 In 1979 he was honored by Acadia wi th the dedication of the Kenneth A Harri son Laboratory of Mycology
During his career he was a member of many professional organizations a charter member of the Mycological Society of America and fe llow of the American Associashytion for the Advancement of Science
He is survived by hi s wife Margaret two brothers Maynard OAC 30 and Arthur OAC 29 two son s Ashley and Kenneth and a daughter Jennie Sheito
William Kellam 4 1 died Oct 19 1991 in Brockville Ont He was retired from the Curb and Gate Co of-Brock ville where he had worked as a lab technician fo r 28 years He is survived by his wife Kathleen a son George and a daughter Mary
William M acMillan 48 died in February 1992 in Winnipeg He was supervisor of Fertilizer marketing for the Manitoba Pool Elevators and is surv ived by hi s wife Edna Jean and brother Harry OAC 5 1 A
Cameron McTaggart 35 died Feb 4 1992 in Aurora Ont After graduating from OAC he became manager of Don Head Farms in Richmond Hill He established the first agricul tural consulting business in Canada in 1947 and later ran an Angus cattle
sales management business from the family farm A life member of the OAC Alumni As shysociat ion and the Class of 35 executive he is survived by his wife Margaret Mac 35 and two sons John OAC 62 of Regina and David of Largo Fla
Douglas Miller 48 of Victoria BC died Nov 24 1991 in Toronto He is survived by hi s wife Ruth and five children
Gregory More 76 was killed Feb 3 1992 in Kitchener Ont at the Ontario Glove Manufacturing Co where he was co-owner and vice-president Following graduation he worked for the Rohrer Drug Co and the Stershyling Drug Co then returned to school ea rnshying an MBA at McMaster University in 1981 More was an avid squash player and golfer Court A at the Northfield Racquet Club in Waterloo was dedicated to his memory in March He is survived by his parents Noreen and Ken a brother Randy and a sister Katherine Keeler
John Jack Pawley 33 died March I 1992 in Guelph He is survived by his wife Ruth son John OAC 62 and daughter-inshylaw Carolyn He was a former director of the Ontario Milk Marketing Board and a past member of the Royal City Lodge of Perfecshytion
Harold Reid 20A died in December 1991 in Burlington Ont During the First World W ar he was one of Canadas premier rad io
experts work ing at the Roya l Canadian Navy shore transmitter in Sydney NS After the war he came to OAC to earn a diploma then went on to QueenS University to comshyplete an arts and theology degree His mini sshytry was mainly in St And rews and Montreal although he spent 13 years teaching Hebrew at the Presbyterian Coll ege before retiring in 1968
Donald Robertson 3 1 died Nov 4 1991 in Iroquois Ont He is survived by hi s wife Caroline (Grisdale) Mac 38 his two son s ScottOAC 65A and Guy and a daughter Sandra McNeil
Thomas Rokeby 48 and MSA 50 died Jan 29 1992 in Fayetteville Ark He was a professional engineer and tau ght for 30 years in the Univers ity of Arkansas engineering department Born in Port Rowan Ont he was a member of the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War the American Society of Agricultural Engineers and the agricultural honor societies of Gamma Sigma Delta and Alpha Epsilon He is surv ived by his wife Helen two sons Robert and Richard a daughter Penny and three brothers Michael Noel and Richard OAC 54
Francis Sweeney OAC 45 died Nov 17 1991 in Oakville Ont He was a longtime employee of Shell Canada and [nternational Shell working in Great Britain Europe and
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============= IN MEMORIAM ============= Venezuela He is survived by his wife Lynn and two daughters Alyson and Joselyn
Berna rd Weeks 35 died Oct 16 199 1 After graduation he re turned to his roots in
ew York and Pennsylvannia and worked in 4-H and you th organi zations for a few years He then took over the family farm at Troupsburg NY and built up a dairy operashytion with a sideline of sheep He is surv ived by his wife Ruth and four children
Glenn White 43 of Belleville Onl died Nov 24 199 1 in Florida and is surv ived by hi s wife Marjorie
ave Norman Anderson 39 of Wi nn ipeg died Dec 18 1991 in Arizona He had practised veterinary medicine in Norwood Man and was a member of the American Equine Pracshytitioners Association director of the Canadian Thoroughbred Society and track veterinarian at Assin iboia Downs for 50 years He is survived by his wi fe Peggy and two sons Laurie and James
George Beatty 5 I died Nov 22 1991 in Inverness III He practised in Palatine fo r 36 years and founded the Palatine Animal Hospi tal He was an active member of the American Animal Hospital Assoc iati on and the Chicago Veterinary Association and was a director of the Friends of the University of Guelph He is survived by his wife Mary and fo ur children - Suzanne Patricia Margaret and Tim
John Hamilton 5 L died Dec 15 1991 He had lived in Roslin On where he owned the Bay Regional Veterinary Hospital He is survived by hi s niece Ann Bongard
Nicholas Labzoffsky 39 died Dec 25 1991 in Largo Fla Fonnerly of Toronto he had li ved most recen tl y in Dorse t Ont and is survived by hi s wife Jane
Edgar Langford 49 died March 41992 in Monarch Alta A former research scienshytist with ADRI (Western) he is survived by his wife Norma and two daughters includshying Carolyn OVC 76
Stuart Maude 4 1 died Jan 14 1992 in Rosemead Calif A former Rosemead counshycillor and four-time mayor he operated the Rosemead Animal Hospital with his brother Arthur 52 from 1953 to 1980 He was a trustee for Ingles ide Hospital a past grand patron of both the Rosemead and the Califorshynia Order of Eastern Star and past-president of the local Kiwanis Club and Chamber of Commerce He is survived by his wife Vera two daughters Patricia and Susan Bezner a son Stuart and three brothers
Walter Morley 42 o f Mildmay On died Nov 28 199 1 He ran a large animal pracshytice in the Mild may area for 39 years raised cat tle and raced standardbred horses He was also a pu blic school board trustee and direcshytor of a local te lephone company for more
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than 30 years He is survived by his wife Joyce five sons - two of whom are OVC alumni Dave 68 and Randy 74 - and 10 grandchildren
Lloyd Neily 52 died Jan 3 1992 in Hantsport NS A retired meat inspector w ith the federal Department of Agriculture he had a private veterinary practice in Wind sor NS He is surv ived by hi s wife Mary
Elford Nundal 43 died Jan 7 1992 in Langley BC after a long battle with canshycer He operated a veterinary practice in Langley for 36 years and served as a di strict aldennan for 10 years before being elected mayor in 1982 Last year he received the BC Veterinarian Association s award of merit for a lifetime of veterinary work
Humphrey Rees 55 died Sepl 30 1991 in Amman Jordan while on ass ignment for the Overseas Development Ad ministrat ion as veterinary and animal hu sbandry adviser to the Jordani an government His contemshyporaries at Guelph will remember him as a singer debater raconteur rugby player and bon vivant He is surv ived by his wife Alice of POlt Eynon Wales
William Stinson 40 died Feb 15 1992 in Norwood Ont He is survi ved by his wife Rita a son John OVC 67 a brother Ford OAC 34 and a grandson John CSS 87
Faculty
Patric ia Harney died Dec 191991 in Yarshymouth NS A professor in the Department of Horticultural Science from 1962 to 1988 she developed severa l new variet ies of geraniums and was instru mental in es tabshylishing the Frances Ball rose collection at the Arboretum
Anthony Marston died Feb 3 1992 in Fershygu s ant Retired from the School of Hotel and Food Administration he was an acshycomplished competition chef who received his training in Switzerland and England He then spent severa l years working in the Caribbean before coming to Guelph in 1970 A member of the Canadian Olympic culinary team he held a number of positions in the
Donations given in memory ofGuelph alumni will help support University scholarships ifdirected to the Alumni M emorial Fund In 1991 donations were made in memory of the following alumni
Frank MacDonald OAC 37
Frank King OAC 33 -Robert Allen OAC 56A
Alice (Rivaz) Garrard Mac 28
Stan Vesselinovitch OVC 57
For more infonnation call the Office of Annual Giving at 519-824-4120 Ext 6 183
hote l and food industry until retiring in 1982 He is survived by hi s wife Di ana
Gordon McNally dled Jan 12 1992 in Guelph A professor in the Department of Zoo logy from 1934 to 1971 he served as academic assistant to the dean of CBS until retiring in 1979 While at Guelph he was honorary pres id ent of the classes of OAC 54 58 and 67 He is survived by his daughter Jean two siste rs and two grandchildren Prof McNallys family has established the A Gordon Mc a lly Memorial Fund to support a sc holarship or bursary Contributions may be sent care of the Alma Mater Fund Alumni Hou se University of Guelph Guelph ant N I G 2WI
Friends
Jean (Young) Branion died March 3 1992 in Guelph She was the wife of the late Hugh Branion a physiology professor at U of G and assistant to presidents Bill Winegard and Don Forster Jean Branion was an act ive volunteer on campus for many years and one of the firs t presidents of the College Womens Club She is survived by a son Richard and his wife Marga re t of Vanshycouve r and five grandchi ldren Donati ons may be made to the Hugh D Branion Memorial Scholarship through Alumni House
Davy Alexander Hamilton-Williamson died Feb 4 1992 in Guelph A painter and author of childrens stories he had been a member of the University s Presidents Council s ince it began in 1 985
Marjorie Pinkney wife of J ames Pinkney OVC 3 7 died Dec 151 99 [ at her home in Milton ant
Samuel Wyal died March 15 1992 in Brantford ant He was a partner in the law firm Wyatt Purce ll Will Stillman and Scott He is surv ived by his wife M a bel Mac 39 four sons Peter Michael William and John and two daughters Mary Alderson and Sarah Nadalin Arts 82
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INVmiddotESTMENTS amp
DIVIDENDS
Facts about university education in Canada and how we pay for it
By 2000 half of all new jobs in Canada will require a university degree
But at the current rate of government funding only one in five children
will have a chance to go to university
In the seven years from 1982 to 1989 per-student grants to universities in
Ontario barely kept pace with intlation at five per cent
per-student funding at American public univers ities jumped an average
of 23 per cent in the same period
Those US universities also receive twice the federal research dollars per student as do Ontario universities
In 1987 the average salary of a full-time professor at an Ontario univers ity was $55500
compared with $68200 for a private-sector position of similar education and experience
Lawyers economists and engineers made an average of $71 000
Ontario ranks ninth out of the to provinces in terms of grants to universities
Between 1978 and 1991 enrolment at Ontario univers ities grew by 40 per cent while funding dropped
from 59 to 409 per cent of total government spending
Universities were spending 14 per cent less per student between 1977 and 1988 hospital expenditures
rose 38 per cent per patient in the same period
Ontario universities generate $3 of economic activity for every
$1 invested by government funding
And the number of jobs generated by university activities in
Ontario is greater than the employment impact of the textile
industry the entire paper and pulp industry or utilities
University graduates can look forward to earning 63 per cent more than the average industrial worker
A 1990 survey of U of G alumni found that two years after graduation 97 per cent of Guelph grads
looking for work were employed 62 per cent were earning $25000 or more and 10 per cent were
earning $40000 or more
Unemployment rates in 1990 for those with a university degree was about one-third what it was
for those with only a high school diploma
Every year from 1978 to 1987 Ontario university inves tments in renovating or replacing
aging buildings could not keep pace with the rate at which the buildings depreciated
Graphics by Debbie Thompson Wilson Statistics supplied by th~ Council 01 Ontario UniverSities Statistics Canada and the U01 G Student EnVifonment Study Group
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A salute to sport Alumni Weekend June 19-21 9am Sio-pitch tournament
The tradition Jives on at the south quad diamond s Cooed teams of 12 or more players are encourshyaged to join in the fun
FRIDAY 10 am to 9 pm Registration Lambton Hall
6 pm Kick-off dinner and half-time show
get set and join In the Olympic spirit one of Alumni Creelman Hall will Weekends host the Wonderful most popular World of Sports with events Tours a half-time slide show start from to entertain alumni of Alumni House all ages and are sponshy9 pmshy sored by the Observatory tours CBS Alumni
Association
10 am and 2 pm
SATURDAY 8 am to 5 pm Guided Registration walking tours Lambton Hall
Remember 9 am to 5 pm making s now Alumni House tours sc ulptures on Students will host tours of Alumni House throughshyout the weekend Come and see what the generosity of alumni has accomplished
9 am to noon Alumni association annual meetings
This is the official notice for the annual general meetings of the following alumni associations
CBS - Alumni House starts at 830 am before guided walk MacFACS - HAFA Building Room 209
OVC - OvC Room 1438
OAC - Macdonald Hall Room 149
CSS - MacKinnon Building Room 305
HAFA - Alumni Hou se boardroom
Gryphs Lounge will be open for lunch and afLer the game
930 am Guided nature walk at the Arboretum
On your mark
Noon - OVC luncheon
The OvC Alumni Association will host a luncheon open to all OvC alumni and their guests
2 pm - Campus Showcase 92
Following on the heels of last year s success Campus Showshycase 92 will be bigger and better Come to the University Centre to see exhibits representing all areas on campus The Campus Junction store will also be open
2 pm - Zavitz Hall tour
Alumni are invited to browse through the newly renovated Za vitz Hall and attend a recep shytion sponsored by the Colshylege of Arts Alumni Asshysoc iation
5 pm Golden anniversary dinner
The OAC OvC and MacshyFACS alumni associations will provide complimenshytary tickets for alumni celebrating 50 years or more Additiona l tickets can be purchased Classes
Johnston Green or playing intramural hockey in the old Quonset arena Relive some of the memories by taking a walking tour of campus Tours begin from the lobby ofLambton Hall
Noon - Alumni picnic
This apopular event has new location - the sculpshyture garden beside the Macshydonald Stewart Art Centre Come on your own or reshyserve a group of tables for friends and classmates
Noon - Class reunion lunches
OAC 37 Mac 37 OAC 42 Mac 42 OAC 47 Mac 52 Mac57 Mac 67 FACS 72 FACS 77 FACS 87
OAC 67 FACS 82 OAC 82 OAC 82A CBS 82 FACS 87 OAC 87
SUNDAY 9am Church service and War Memorial Hall rededication
Thanks to a commitment from the Alma Mater Fund renovashytion of the upstairs of War Memorial Hall has been comshypleted Join us for the rededicashytion ceremony commemorating the 1924 opening and the 1952 dedication of an OAC memorial plaque
being honored are OAC 22 OAC 47 OvC 22 Mac 22 OAC 27 OvC 27 Mac 27 OAC 32 OvC 32 Mac 32 OAC 37 OvC 37 Mac 37 OAC 42 OvC 42 Mac 42
6 pm Class reunion dinners
Special dinn e r reunions are planned for OAC 47 OAC 52 OAC 52A OvC 52 Mac 57 OAC 57 OAC 62 Mac 67
10am UGAA annual meeting
All alumni are encouraged to atshytend the UGAA annual meeting in Macdonald Hall Room 149 An amendment to the UGAA Letters Patent and a revised bylaw will be presented for ap shyproval Copies of both are availshyable on request from Alumni House Call 519-824-4120 Ext 6544
11 am - Farewell brunch
The final event of Alumni Weekend will be held in Creelshyman Hall Come and meet the Univers ity S president Brian Segal The Alumnus of Honour medal will be presented at noon
To receive an Alumni Weekshyend brochure or to register for events call Alumni House at 59-824-4120 Ext 6963
Opened July 1991Research Park Centre shy
Where research and industry Dleet
Space available now Exceptional office and research facilities in our multi-tenant Research Park Centre
Research-driven corporations are breaking new ground at the University of Guelph Research Park Centre with exceptional growth opporshytunities in an ideal business setting
This 30-acre Research Park also accommodates tenants who choose to construct their own office and laboratory facilities
Find out why organizations such as Semex Canada Tremco Limited the Ontario Dairy Herd Improvement Corporation George Morris Centre LIPID Analytical Laboratories and Agriculture Canada have chosen the University of Guelph Research Park Call Ralph Eades or Judy Phillips Real Estate Division University of Guelph Telephone (519) 767-5003 or Fax (519) 837-0353
The Research Park is a project oj the Office oj Research and the University S Real Estate Division
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Year EnCling
Creative solutions
Like the business community Guelph has begun the ongoing process of selfshyappraisal The $69-million cost of the recent non-academic review left red ink in this fiscal year but the exercise has cut operating costs by an estimated $57 million a year Within the five-year payshyback period the University will have saved or in reality reallocated more than $28 million Segal says
The internal review removed 125 jobs simplified processes and improved efficiency A similar assessment of the non-teaching activities within the colshyleges is being completed and will be folshylowed by a look at academic functions
Guelph is one of the first universities in Ontario to undertake such a strucshytured review of its operations says Segal and it wont be the last Every university will be looking at ways to reduce the amount of work required to operate the institution he says
Were walking a tightrope trying to balance strategic goal s and fiscal management in a way that causes the least harm to students Nevertheless universities are prepared to be key players in the process of looking for creative ways of doing more with less
Segal predicts an increase in intershyuniversity and joint university-college programs that share resources more efshyfective use of automation more homeshystudy programs and co-operative purchasing arrangements
Unfortunately well al so see further staff cuts a loss of services some course cancellations and limits to stushydent enrolment
Last fall U of G decreased first-year enrolment by 686 to help ease overshycrowding on campus although total en-
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Charls reprinredjrom COU 1991 Report Oil rhe Financial Position laquo( Ontario Universities
rolment was a high of 13390 students The University plans to decrease enrolshyment to fewer than 12000 by 1994
There will al so be reductions in faculshyty positions estimates are that at least a third of the 60 current vacancies will not be filled in the next fi scal year
In addition to cos t-cutting measures universities will be looking at ways to generate new revenue More than 80 per cent of university revenue is controlled by government - transfer payments and tuition fees - but short-term operat shying fund s can benefit from increased revenues from food retail parking operations and non-tuition fee hikes
Segal says long-term endowment funds like Guelph s Heritage Fund will become a system-wide priority as will revenue sources from planned giving and alumni contributions real estate
development - like Guelphs Research Park - and capital accumulation
COU which Segal chairs will conshytinue to pressure government to increase tuition fees Ontario fees have not kept up with inflation In rel ative terms they are lower now than theyve been for 40 years representing less than 19 per cent of university operating revenue In comshyparison tuition revenues at public universities in the United States are 70 to 80 per cent higher and students at private US universities pay si x times as much as Ontario s undergraduates
COU is on record as favoring an inshycome-contingent repayment plan that would allow students to repay loans based on the level of their future inshycome But a COU proposal - even if it is accepted by MCU - is at least a year away from implementation
-Last f all the universities ofGuelph and Waterloo launched North America sfirst longshydistan ce interactive classroom project that links students at both institutions via two-way audio video and data lines Unlike other video systems that offer only televisiolltransmission the new Electrohome classroom system leIs studel1ls both see and hear each other as well as the professor It s j us t like being there - and it s aile example ofhow universities are sharing resources to improve academic programs and CUI costs Photo by Roberta Franc huk
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University benefits
Time and time again our alumni tell us that the total university experience is more valuable than the degree they received
Breadth of knowledge new insights personal satisfaction - these are things that cant be measured
The 966000 university graduates in Ontario do however share economic benefits that can be measured -like an unemployment rate that is one-third what it is for the general workforce and salaries that are on average 63 per cent higher than industrial workers
In addition university graduates share with the rest of the population even greater cultural social and economic benefits
T hrough the percolator effect Ontario universi ties generate $62 billion (1989 estimate) worth of economic activity each year and more than 138000 jobs
All Canadians share in the benefits of an academic system that acc umulates knowledge trains leaders and conducts much of the research that gives us a progress ive society
University laboratories have yielded medical breakthroughs in diabetes canshycer cystic fibrosis Alzheimer s disease and AIDS They have tackled environshymental research on the causes of water pollution and soil erosion University soshycial scientists study issues as vari ed as demographic trends cross-border shopshyping adoption and economic developshyment in native communities
On a more personal level each univershysity in Canada is a contributing member of its local community Says Guelph
Mayor John Counse ll The inshytangible benefits of having a university within our municipality inshyclude the injection into the comshymunity of intellecshytual standards talents and sershyvices
Almost every orshyganization in the city counts U of G faculty staff and students among its members and volunteers In fac t more than 30 U oG s campus wecomes almosl 150000 visitors every year
university employees were recently given special awards and commendations from both the provincial Ministry of Culture and Communications and Ministry of Citizenship
Guelph is also enriched financially by the Univers itys presence - 4 100 jobs $195 million in annual economic acshytivity The University is an attraction for many smaller companies and organizashytions and branches of provincial governshyment ministries that deal frequently with the campus In a way it has he lped to inshysulate the city of Guelph aga inst the reshycession says Counsell Last year Guelph enjoyed a net increase of three jobs in comparison with other cities where thousands of industrial jobs were lost
Equally important are the educational opportunities offered by the University
for local re sidents The number of people enrol led in distance education inshydependent study and non-degree courses at the University is almost twice the dayshytime student body Last year 500 senior citizens attended courses held on camshypus and 10000 schoolchildren parshyticipated in environmental education programs at the Arboretum People also brought 12000 animals and 500 wild birds to OVC clinics for treatment
Visitors to campus outnumber stushydents 10 to one They come for convocashytion College Royal Homecoming and Alumni Weekend to tour the Arshyboretum and the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre to attend workshops conferenshyces and lectures and to enjoy athletic events music and drama productions They also come for Sunday afternoon walks and sometimes to take wedding photos on Johnston Green
Education is everyones concern
With their Universi ty of Guelph degrees in hand Paul and
Christine Van Katwyk have joined the ranks of Ontario and Canadian univershysity graduates who recognize that the
funding of universities is not just a famishyly matter
Education is everyone s concern and should be a matter of government priority rather than rhetoric The probshylem is how to change that
Two years ago Ontario MPP Sean Conway told a group of university board members that they needed troops
When you ask us to do something and we don t do it nothing happens he said When the hospitals ask us to do something and we dont do it all hell breaks loose
Today universities are recruiting those troops and are turning to their alumni to help build a strong constituenshy
cy of support Who better to promote the value of higher education
Tell your family your friend s and your co-workers how important you think universities are Write to your local paper to let others know that a strong economy and a high standard of living depend on an educated workshyforce Call your MP and MPP and tell them that denying adequate funding to higher education is short-sighted in the extreme and that voters are expecting government action based on long-term priorities
Sasha Van Katwyk s generation is depending on it
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Marshalling the forces to fight for universities
There is a tribute $5000 to help revolution launch FOU and
taking place in Seymour hopes inshyeducation And dividual alumni will when the dust setshy keep the momentum tles we will see building The orshyprofound changes ganization needs in the way we imshy more than 100 inshypart knowledge dividual volunteers in the way we think each of Ontarios 130 about education electoral districts and the way we These friends will pay for it Some lobby MPPs on a of us will sit back regular basis in supshyand watch port of universities Others like Its a grassroots Harry Seymour Harry Seymour
OAC 61 will help influence the changes taking place
Seymour spent 22 years of his career on Torontos Bay Street then opted for a change that led to the forshymation of Pathfinder Learning Sysshytems As president he champions the Pathfinder program of computershymanaged learning as a way for classshyroom teachers to maximize their time and their students potential
Seymour maintains his interest in the investment business with several other companies including a 93-acre shoreline development project in Midshyland Ont But most of his time is devoted to education and university education is a significant part of that effort
If we can marshal the forces of university alumni we can have a profound effect on how government prioritizes education he says Those of us who have graduated from a university are in the best position to evaluate the importance of a university education We can sit back and look at the benefits we ve received and the kind of impact it has had on our lives
Seymour represents U of G alumni on the Friends of Ontario Universities (FOU) a provincial lobby group whose strategy is to organize Ontarios university alumni into a political constituency FOU members sayan unorganized constituency is part of the reason government has folshylowed a pattern of financial neglect
The University of Guelph Alumni Association was one of the first to con-
movement that has the potential to build long-term support
among decision makers and future generations of university graduates he says
If youd like to get involved call Trish Walker U of G s director of alumni affairs at 519-824-4120 Ex t 2122
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describes himself as a concerned citizen of Guelph who is committed to education Thats an undershystatement for a man who spent most of his career in educashytion including 16 years as senior academic officer at Conestoga College
He also cares deeply about the University of Guelph He worked hard in the early 1960s to help bring it to life serves on a presidential committee to promote a healthy town-and-gown relationship and is now working to increase local pride in the campus
It distresses me that we are not seeing our universities as intellectual leaders in the community in the province and throughout the country says Hagar who believes there is a need to increase public awareness about the role universities play in
Aubrey HORar
society Hes offered his vocal support to this venture as a volunteer for the Alliance for Ontario Universities
Who says talk is cheap
Your verbal support
of universities
could he
the most valuable gift
you could give
to the generations
of students
yet to teach
Independent of universities the alshyliance is building province-wide supshyport among communities organishyzations businesses and individuals like Hagar who are willing to expand that support on a local level
In each univershysity town there will be an alliance comshymittee that works to build community pride in the institushytion and to raise the profile of its scholars The Guelph group for example may inshyitiate an elementary school program that bui Ids rapport with the University or it might encourage med ia coverage of Guelphs environshymental work
Too often we downplay the conshytributions of our universities says Hagar but if we can instil these atshytitudes in people then financial supshyport through the political process will be there
The aJiiance is unique in Canada It shybegan in 1990 with seed money from the Council of Ontario Universities and gains financial independence this summer And its looking for more volunteers To learn more about the group call director Janet Napper at 416-979-0984
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Genetic engineering bull bull bull
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This is the second part of a report on the use of biotechno]ogy in University of Guelph research
by Mary Dickieson
String art Biotechnology research reminds me of string art the 1960s craft
that had us weaving colored strings back and forth around a pattern made by driving nails halfway into a board
Under skilful hands it became a piece of sculpture an optical illusion that prevented your eye from following any single thread across the board in a straight line
Biotechnology tools are like that Every time you think you understand what one biotechnique can do in one particular dis shycipline you find it reappearing somewhere else as someone in a laboratory across camshypus or on the other side of the world thinks of yet another way to use it
In Part 1 of our biotechnology report we sk immed the surface of how these tools are being used at U of G to benefit plant reshysearch In this story well see many of the same techniques applied in other organisms primaril y animals The secret of our success in animal biotechnology lies in the fact that Guelph has the expertise and the facilities to take any project from lab to barn and back again
Throughout this report youll read about animal scientists and clinical veterinarians teamed up with molecular biologists imshymunologists chemists and microbiologists and often food scientists toxicologists and environmental biologists Their efforts benefit not only livestock production but also human medicine pharmacology food processing waste disposal and the environshyment
Embryo transfer
A major thrust of the animal biotechnolshyogy research at Guelph is in the area of
embryo transfer In fact there are three reshysearch positions funded by government and industry that deal directly with embryo manipul ation as a way to improve the comshypetitive position of Canadas beef and dairy industries
Biomedical scientist Keith Betteridge OVC MSc 60 heads an embryo research lab molecular biologist Alan Wildeman CBS PhD 83 holds a research chair devoted to the mammalian embryo and animal scientist Charles Smith concentrates on industrial research in animal-breeding strategies
Their work is supported by both federal and provincial granting agencies animal breeders and Semex Canada the major marketing arm of Canadas attificial breedshying industry Semex records annual export sales of more than $25 million and is leadshying the industry to the nex t plateau shymarketing sexed frozen or cloned embryos
One route to increasi ng the efficiency of animal production is by improving animal reproduction says Betteridge And that in shyvolves many new biotechniques associated with embryo transfer Conventional embryo transfer means collecting multiple embryos from selected cows and transferring them to properly synchronized recipients It is now almost equally conventional however to freeze or bisect the embryo as part of the procedure
Initially the selected cow was treated with hormones to produce more eggs which were fertilized through artificial inseminashytion (AI) with the semen of a top-rated bull A large number of embryos could then be recovered surgically from the cow for imshyplantation in surrogate cows of lesser genetic worth
These techniques are widely used for the production of purebred bulls More than half the dairy bulls currently at stud in Canadas major AI centres have been produced this way There is also keen interest in using the technology to produce genetically superior breeds and provide competitively priced volumes of commercial cattle embryos
From lOp Bisecting a bovine embryo to produce identical twin calves a chimeric chick created by mixing cells from two embryos microinjecting the egg ofa fruit fly with DNA from bacterial genes that can confer insecticide resistance and a Hereford heifer protected from shipping fever by a vaccine developed a f U of G
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and more Test-tube calves and lambs
In 1988 Semex research co-ordinator Robert Stubbings OVC 76 MSc 84 PhD 89 produced Guelph s first test-tube calf during his graduate studies with Prof PK Basrur in the Departshyment of Biomedical Sciences It was not the first test-tube calf in Canada but it was the first developed from an egg that was matured as well as fertilized in a test tube
The resulting zygotes (fertili zed eggs) were placed in the oviduct of a rabbit for their early development then moved after seven days to the uterus of a recipient cow
Just a few months later other memshybers of the Guelph team took the process one step further eliminating the need to use a temporary host oviduct Postdoctoral fellow Kang Pu Xu and PhD student John Pollard were able to extend development in vitro to the point where the embryo was mature enough to survive when transplanted directly into a recipient cow s uterus
The early embryos were cultured in a medium containing luminal cells exshytracted from the oviducts of slaughtered cows Two baby bulls were born the first in Canada using this method and only the second in North America
Last year gradu ate student Dawn Kelk CBS 89 and Prof Allan King 73 and MSc 75 of the Department of Biomedical Sciences produced North America s first in vitro fertilization (lVF) lambs using these techniques
These achievements were important for several reasons The Animal Biotechshynology Embryo Laboratory can now
Authors note
One of the things Ive learned while writing this story is that biotechnolshyogy is a word seldom used by scienshytisrs For inost of us it conjures up images of people in lab coats bent over microscopes using precision inshystruments to manipulate the cells of living organisms But for scien~ists that s too vague The word may have
meaning but it d6eslJt really
produce its own IVF embryos from oocytes recovered from slaughtershyhouse cows bypassing the more expensive route of sushyperovulation and surgical withdrawal
In addition scientists have gained knowledge about early embryo development that is important for improveshyments in embryo viability and vital for developments in cloning techniques and controlled transgenesis in livestock
In a more immediate and practical context the work has led to the first clinical
Prof Keith Belleridge left and Prof Stanley Leibo watch as research technician Cindy Christian prepares an embryo f or cryopreservation Photo by Mary Dic kieson
use of IVF in cattle in colshylaboration with Brian Hill OVC 80 of Western Ontario Breeders
Bisected embryos
Meanwhile yet another part of the team based in the Department of Populashytion Medicine was perfecting techniques to microsurgicall y bisect fertilized embryos to produce genetically identi shycal animals
Professors Brian Buckrell OVC 68 MSc 84 and Cathy Gartley OVC 82 DVSc 89 and postdoctoral fel shylow Rick Rorie bisected six-day-old sheep embryos - visible only through magnification - and surgically imshyplanted them into recipient ewes Five months later nine lambs were the first animals born at Guelph from bisected embryos
Prof Walter Johnson and postdoctoral
describe anything They talk instead about cell fusion enzyme systems i ermentation or genetic engineering
The fact that biotechnology didnt appear as a popular buzzword until the 1980s suggests that we are using ilto define something neW yet none of these disciplines is really new Human beings have been using other organisms to create new procucts for centuries Thats why We have yeast yogurt and beer as well as anti-
fellow Naida Loskutoff have now exshytended this work in cattle by producing identical twins from IVF embryos divided into quarters at earlier stages of development
These projects maximize embryo use and highlight the potential for creating significant numbers of genetically identishycal animals which can be vital for conshysistent research results Tests conducted on genetically identical animals can reduce the variables caused by genetic differences and ultimately the number of animals needed for experiments
Frozen sexed embryos
The development of in vitro technishyques has also made possible further studies in cryopreservation (freezing) and embryo sexing
It s been possible to freeze and thaw
biotics growth hormones and vacshycine ~ Even genetic engineering is not new although many of us think it is
Through selective breeding practices fanners have been engineering the genetic makeup of domestic animals -for centuries What is new is the speed and accuracy with which we can implement genetic changes the ability to cross the species barrier and a much greater understanding of life processes
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At the eight-cell stage ofdevelopment in a bovine embryo each cell is removed and placed in the shell ofa discarded embryo Afler three days the blastocysts are transferred into recipient cows and the pregnancies allowed to col1linue Eight identical calves will be born and will proshyvide a valuable tool for research
cattle embryos since 1973 and most of the 60000 or so embryo-transfer calves born annually in North America are now obtained from embryos that have been stored in liquid nitrogen But there are still many problems to overcome in freezing unfertilized eggs embryos at varying stages of development and embryos produced in vitro or subjected to micromanipulation
Biomedical science professor Stanley Leibo is a specialist in cryobiology Before coming to Guelph he was part of an industry team that produced the worlds first live young (mice) from frozen embryos and later invented the patented one-step method of freezing cattle embryos Other biomedical scienshytists - King and Don Rieger - and molecular biologists Wildeman and Stan Blecher are investigating various ways of sexing embryos
Some of these involve the use of micromanipulation to remove a small number of cells from an early-stage embryo The sex can be identified by locating X and Y chromosomes detectshying male-specific DNA or perhaps by studying the proteins produced by the DNA segments In embryonic life the activity of X-linked enzymes in female embryos is twice that in males
Detecting differences in the energy metabolism of male and female embryos may also become a method of sexing In studies on early embryos generated in vitro Guelph scientists disshycovered that male and female embryos develop at different rates In addition to its value in sexing embryos this knowledge poses another question If the team can one day learn to control the rate of embryo development will it be possible to control the sex of an embryo independent of its genetic comshyplement
Photo courtesy of the Animal Biotechnology Embryo Lab
Transgenic animals
Since the mid 1980s Wildeman and fellow molecular biologist John Phillips have been producing transgenic mice for studies in human disease
This involves recovering one-cell embryos microsurgicalty from an imshypregnated mouse With a finely drawn glass needle a piece of DNA is inserted into the nucleus of the embryo which is then placed in a surrogate female to complete the pregnancy The offspring carries the foreign gene
One line of research using transgenic mice involves the study of a virus known to affect the transformation of normal cells into tumorous cancer cells Wildeman performs this work using transgenic mice in studies of cancer and metastasis
Transgenic mice are also used in Phillipss ongoing study of the causes of insulin-dependent juvenile diabetes He borrowed a gene from the fruit fly and spliced it into the chromosomes of the mouse so that it is expressed in the beta cells of the pancreas
Observations from the research conshyfirm the long-standing hypothesis that one cause of juvenile diabetes arises from the action of oxygen radicals in the pancreas
The fruit fly itself is used in studies aimed at producing insecticide-resistant insects Working with a team of scienshytists in Texas Phillips is perfecting techshyniques to transfer organophosphate insecticide-resistant genes to the fruit fly and ultimately to agriculturally beneficial insects
Studies have shown that the use of inshysecticides could be reduced if beneficial insects were not also killed by the spray In addition this research may provide the solution needed by North American
honey producers who are suffering great losses in their beehives due to parasitic mites Currently there is no effective control of the mites
From mice to pigs and chickens
Transgenic mice are also playing a role in a project that may eventually imshyprove forage use in domestic animals
Ruminant animals like cows and sheep have friendly bacteria in their inshytestinal tract that enable them to digest the cellulose fibre in forage crops If other animals such as pigs or chickens had the same ability they could be reared on lower-quality cheaper feed than the cereal grains now used
A research team that includes Phillips microbiologists Cecil Forsberg and Peter Krell and environmental biologist David Collins-Thompson has isolated the effective gene from a microshyorganism present in ruminant animals and is transferring it into the mouse which is also a monogastric animal Studies with transgenic mice will enable the team to fine-tune its ability to manipulate expression of the gene
This is just the beginning of a longshyterm project says Phillips but it may one day connect with the work of Profs Rob Etches and Jim Squires in the Department of Animal and Poultry Science who are following separate paths to reach the same goal- transshygenic chickens
Blotchy chicks
Etchess lab opened the door for transshygenic poultry in 1988 when postdoctoral fellow Jim Petitte OAC PhD 86 sucshycessfully moved cells from one chick embryo to another creating chimeric chicks Until this breakthrough
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researchers had been unable to manipulate the avian embryo in the early stages of development
Petitte extracted embryonic cells from the yo lk of a newly laid egg from a barred Plymouth Rock hen and microinjected them into a rec ipient embryo in a dwarf white l eghorn egg through a tiny 05-censhytimetre window cut in the shell When incubated the egg went on to produce a chimeric chick Embryonic cells from the black Plymouth Rock donor were expressed as blotches of black in the chicks down
Since then Etchess research team has been able to do the procedure more successfully get better gene exshypression in the donor cells and keep the embryonic cells in culture for 24 to 48 hours befo re transplanting them into the recipient egg
The chimeric chick itself is not transgenic genetic information from the donor embryo is expressed in a limited number of cells in the chick A second-generation chimera howshyever would be transgenic if the donor cells contained a foreign gene
Thats the focu s of a collaborat ive
Animal scienlisl Jim Squirev has developed a chemic(li recipe Ih(l causes DNA-I(lced liposomes 10 fuse wilil sperm cells When pershyjeered the technique will allow him to use the natural veeror ofsperm cells 10 lransmit foreign
project between the labs of Etches and colleague Prof Ann Gibbins OAC MSc 71 PhD 80 who is intershyested in modifying the donor cells through genetic manipulation When her lab team is able to target a specific gene and change it - and only it - they will insert that gene into the donor cells to produce a chimeric chick and in the second generation a transgenic chick
Transgenic sperm
Squires is taking a more obvious but no less perilous route to the transgenic chicken by using sperm cells to carry the foreign DNA Just as the hen s embryo is difficul t to manipulate the rooster s sperm has barriers of its own Prevail ing thought is that any invas ion of the sperm cell will kill its potency
Although Itali an and Israeli reshysearchers claim to have inserted DNA into the sperm cells of mice through abshysorption no one else has been able to get this to work so the prevailing thought prevail s
Squires s approach is to power DNA into the cells He s de veloped a chemishycal recipe that causes DNA-laced liposomes (fat globules) to fuse with sperm cells
Squires says his team has overcome
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DNA Photo by Ma ry Dickieson
the three main obstacles encapsulating DNA in the liposomes fu sing the liposomes to sperm cells which affects the transfer of 0 TA and retaining the fertility of the sperm
What they have yet to demonstrate is that the process produces a transgenic animal Trials are under way using a radioactive marker ge ne that can be easi shyly detected in a developing transgenic chicken Squires will be eager for peer rev iew to document the results this fall
If successful the sperm cell technique can be adapted for use with all species of commercial animals Sperm cells are the perfect vector because their ultimate function is to insert DNA into an egg says Squires We ll just be supplying the DNA The method is easy economical and safe to periorm and does not inshyvolve expensive equipment
Disease diagnosis
The international race to identify a mutation assoc iated with a costly swine disease was won by Guelph pathologist Peter OBrien OVC 88 and Univershysity of Toronto professor David Maclennan
The mutation associated with maligshy
nant hyperthermia was identifi ed in Maclennan s laboratory by sequenc ing the gene in normal and abnormal swine A I OO-per-cent correlation was fo und between DNA-based tests in Maclennan s laboratory and phys iologishycalbiochemical tests used in 0 Brien s research for diagnosing the condition
From these findings the scienti sts developed a test using modem molecular biology techniques to identify the mutation in the blood cells of inshydividual swine
Malignant hyperthermia is seldom fatal in pigs but it results in poorshyquality pork Pork producers suffer major economic losses from what is known as PSE - pale soft exudative (watery) meat - in affected animals
Other research at U of G cou ld help eliminate a potentially lethal blood coagulation disorder in dairy cows Facshytor XI a genetic disorder associated with a lack of c lotting protein in the bl ood causes hemorrhag ing in Holstein cows
Researchers believe the problem can be eliminated by ensuring that breeding stocks are free of the disease Testing for all of Canada is conducted by U of G biomed ica l sc ienti st Patricia Gentry and research technician Michelle Ross
Vaccine development
Vaccination is the cheapest most efshyfecti ve way of dealing with infec tions and the most poweriul way of preventshying di sease Advanced immunization programs using new biotechniques are under way in many Guelph labs last fa ll the Natural Sc iences and Engineershying Research Council announced strategic grants for advanced techshynologies that included four vacci ne development projects at U of G
Profs Brian Derbyshire and Eva Nagy of the Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Immunology (VMI) recei ved a three-year grant of $295000 to perfect gene-cloning techniques for the de velopment of a vaccine for porshycine gas troenteritis
In the same department Profs Janet Maclnnes Soren Rosendal and Bonnie -Mallard OAC 79 MSc 82 PhD 88 were awarded $250000 over three years to work on a recombinant vaccine effecshytive against the bacterial organism that causes severe pneumonia in pigs
Also in VMI Prof Patricia SheweD 75 MSc 79 PhD 82 received a three-year grant of $408 000 with Prof
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Reggie Lo Microbiology to continue work on an improved vaccine for shipshyping fever Lo and Prof Alan Mellors Chemistry and Biochemistry received a $54000 grant to develop clinical and com mercial applications of a technique used in bone marrow transplantation and vaccine development
These projects follow in the footsteps of earlier developments like the bov ine shipping fever vaccine created by Shewen and VMI chair Bruce Wilkie OVC 65 It was like finding a way to control the common cold in humans
Although the bacterium Pasteurella haemolytica occurs normally in the noses of cattle its numbers increase during periods of high stress and present an insurmountable problem for the animals immune system
Wilkie and Shewen di scovered that during its most active stage of growth the bacterium produces a toxin that imshypairs the ability of clearing cells to eliminate the bacterium They grew the bacterium in a culture monitored toxin production and developed processes for vaccine production
The technology was licensed to Langford Inc of Guelph which man ufac tures and markets Presponse shipping fever vaccine in both Canada and the United States
Lab work by Lo and former student Craig Strathdee CBS 85 PhD 89 that contributed to the shipping fever vaccine project also led to a patent apshyplication - for the plasmid coding for Pasteurella haemolytic leucotoxin which has been implicated as a major virulence factor in the impairment of primary lung defence in cattle
Animal health
Wilkie and Mallard are also working with Prof Brian Kennedy in Guelph s Centre for the Genetic Improvement of Livestock to develop a selective breedshying program that uses knowledge acshyquired through genetic studies and stretches the definition of biotechnology
To stay hea lthy an individual animal must have the genetic ability to produce resi stance to infection says Wilkie That ability is not dependent on a sing le gene but on the expression of many difshyferent genes Neve rtheless these genetic traits are heritable and amenable to selection
This team has identified traits in pigs that are important in maintaining health has characterized individual animals
Biotechnology ofa different sort in volves the use of traditional selected breeding and a computer database to produce diseaseshyresistant pigs
through the expression of these genetic traits and has associated these traits with high productivity If these high producers are mated to produce a disshyease-resistant strain of pigs is that biotechnology
If foreign DNA had been introduced into the embryo of a pig to give it the characteristic of disease resistance that would be an obvious example of bioshytechnology But how do we catalogue the technology if it uses tradi tional selecshytive breeding and a computer to produce a piglet with the same resistance to disshyease
More biotechniques in action
Guelph food scientist Cyriel Duitschaever OAC MSc 66 PhD 75 has developed new fermented milk products that will benefit people suffershying from gastrointestinal illnesses
He and research associate Carole Buteau OAC MSc 78 PhD 83 isoshylated two naturally occurring intestinal bac teri a and propagated a pure culture in the laboratory to develop both liquid and yogurt-like milk products that can be used to stimulate digestion in the inshytestinal tracts of people who are on anshytibiotics who are lactose-intolerant or who suffer gas trointestinal disorders
Clinica l trials at the Children s Hospishytal of Buffalo have been promis ing giv ing rise to another potential use in the treatment of acute diarrhea l di seases affec ting people in the Third World
Microbiology professor Joseph Lam heads a research team that has develshyoped a diagnostic kit to quickly identify a bacteria group known to cause fat al inshy
fections in some hospital patients Pseushydomonas aeruginosa is the principal cause of death in cystic fibrosis sufshyferers and is a serious threat to burn vi cshytims cancer patients and those undergo ing transplants
Because the bacterium does not respond to conventional antibiotic treatshyments quick de tection is central to preventing spread of the infection Lam s kit can cut the test period from 12 hours to five minutes
His current research illustrates the cross-over effect of biotechnology He identified an antigen that is common to about 75 per cent of P aeruginosa strains and a monoclonal antibody against the antigen This has allowed him to iso late spec ia l bacteria that will produce the antigen in large quantities for further s tud y His work should evenshytually lead to a human monoclonal anshytibody that cou ld be used to protect cystic fibrosis patients
In 1989 when the federal governshyment decided it was time to put some money behind its verbal thrust in science and technology it allocated $240 million to estab li sh 14 centres of excellence that would integrate the reshysearch efforts of Canadian uni versi ties industry and government
Several U of G researchers received funding including microbiologists Chris Whitfield Anthony Clarke Joseph Lam Reggie Lo Roselynn Stevenson and Terry Beveridge who beshycame part of the network looking into bacterial di sease Their expertise will aid the search for the causative agents of bacterial diseases such as whooping cough gonorrhea toxic shock synshydrome lung infections and me ningitis
In 1988 biochemist Janet Wood and crop scientist Peter Paul s achieved a breakthrough in understanding how subshystances like sugars and amino ac ids are transported from outside to inside a living cell wall They found that minute protein molecules in the wall surroundshying a cell act like miniature pumps capshyturing the substance and powering it through the cell wall -They are now trying to determine how the protein molec ules choose subshystances for uptake or release S uch celshylular behavior plays a critical role in determining a plants reaction to soi l sa linity or explaining why cells fai l to transport glucose from the blood in diabetics
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Behind every how theres a why While we stand in awe of what sc ienshytists are accomplishing in the biological sciences we shouldnt lose sight of the reasons why they are manipulating cell structure and decoding genetic blueprints
To some extent scientific exploration is driven by human nature - our desire to understand and control the natural world Advances in biotechniques and genetic engineering promise to give us more of both
Reports on the Human Genome Project say that within 15 years well know the code of almost every gene in the human body This work and current explorations in animal genetics are harshymonized by the fact that many of the genes that control development are similar among species
The chicken for example is a familiar model for studies in developshymental biology Supported by 60 to 70 years of data todays embryologists like Prof Rob Etches are learning how to modify the genes that control developshyment of a chick embryo while giving us a better understanding of how genes efshyfect development in all vertebrates
Nothing could be more fund amental than understanding that process says Prof Keith Betteridge who heads the Guelph team working with bovine embryos In all areas of reproductive and genetic research the big payoff is that we will understand more about how two gametes can unite to fonn a single cell and develop into Northern Dancer or Albert Einstein he says
Everyone has a role to play in decidshying how to use this knowledge says Betteridge but the researcher has the triple responsibility of thinking through the implications of new technologies exshyplaining those implications to a skeptishycal and concerned public and safeshyguarding the welfare of animals used
Whether manipulating an entire animal or one of its reproductive cells the scientist is guided by the same set of moral standards If the technology inshyduces pain or suffering causes changes in behavior or affects the animals abilshyity to eat and survive then it shouldnt be done says Prof Bruce Wilkie chair of the Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Immunology
He and other Guelph scientists inshyvolved in animal research are subject to
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peer rev iew through the U of G s animal care committee which is also charged with ensuring that research and teaching programs are in compliance with the Animals for Research Act of Ontario
Reporting to the University s Reshysearch Board the committee is comshyposed offaculty student community and non-user representatives It estabshyli shes animal-care policies on campus and evaluates all protocols submitted by researchers and teachers After granting initial approval the committee reviews each project annually and inspects reshysearch facilities each semester A provinshycially appointed inspector also visits campus frequently and the Canadian Council on Animal Care makes an inshyspection every three years to assess the level of animal care
In addition to safeguarding animal care scienti sts al so need to provide evidence that the products of biotechnolshyogy are safe for human consumption or medical use The public needs to know that the pharmaceutical protein cloned and produced in a chicken s egg is no different than the same protein cultured from human cells and produced in a large bioreactor
The big payoff is that we will understand more about how two gametes can unite to form a single cell and develop into Northern Dancer or Albert Einstein
One of the most talked-about benefits of transgenic technologies is the potenshytial for producing enzymes prote ins and antibodies for pharmaceutical and inshydustrial uses Molecular farming would take advantage of the expression system in higher animals to produce a therashypeutic protein that is difficult or expenshysive to make in a lab
The potential seems enormous but the prac tice will be quite simple A typishycal Ontario dairy herd could probably produce enough human insulin or bloodshyclotting factor to satisfy the world
demand It s easy to see why these techshyniques are already presenting problems for patent offices
The past decade of work in transshygenesis has been a learning process for all of us Early research efforts that produced pigs in the United States with arthritic deformities and sheep in Australia with ulcers have taught us th at even science must learn to walk befo re it can run That means perfecting genetic transfer in animals where the techniques are easily controlled - such as mice and fruit flies - before applyshying them to domestic animals
One of the advantages of gene transshyfer technology is the control it offers geneticists who are able to manipulate expression of a single gene during development One of the limitations may be the re lative ly minor change that gene can make in one generation when compared with the changes induced through the countless generations of selection since domestication
These limitations may alleviate some of our fears about the use of gene transshyfer but it also makes us question its value at least in terms of breed improveshyment in domestic livestock Prof Charshyles Smith holds a research chair at Guelph in animal-breeding strategies and is often called on to assess the value of the new biotec hnologies in the genetic improvement of farm livestock
Economic traits are already being imshyproved through traditional selective breeding methods he says It would take quite large beneficial transgenic efshyfects (at least 10 per cent of the mean) on economic merit to make their incorshyporation worthwhile
Despite our e thical concerns the legal entanglements created by the use of biotechniques and the problem of turnshying new technologies into cost-effective procedures most scientists agree that these technolog ies are too powerfu I not to use They have the pote ntial to help allev iate some of the most serious problems facing the world - food production overpopulation disease and shyenvironmental degradation
Statisticians teU us that 50 years from now we will be trying to feed twice the current world s population on a smaller land base in a more fragile environshyment This is the why behind current research in genetic engineering
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OUD TH Annual giving in 1991 reached $14 million The value of the Annual Fund becomes more apparent each year as the University of
Scholarships amp BursariesGuelph faces continued financial $320127
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pressure The 1991 Annual Fund Pet Trust raised $14 million to help $261224 maintain scholarships and provide academic and library programs AMF OAC Alumni Scholarships Foundation ______ grew by $9245 25 per cent
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Class Projects ResearchBuildings$86658
Matching gifts grew 31 per cent in 1991 More and more Canadian companies are g iving financial support to the institushytions that educated their employees A total of 44 companies matched 92 inshydividual gifts for a record $11120 in Annual Fund contributions to the University of Guelph in 1991
If you work for a matching-g ift employer every doll ar you donate is matched - doubled or even tripled shyby a company gift Its as easy as it sounds so check with your employer on how to multiply the value of your gift to the University
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ADIT ON With thanks to Donors Class agents College representatives Alma Mater Fund Advisory Council
Alumni and others who give to the University of Guelph through the Annual Fund are helping to maintain quality at a time when governments are funding for mediocrity Because of the dedication and commitment of our donors and volunshyteers the 1991 Annual Fund surpassed last year s total by $100000 We did not achieve our goal - perhaps $1 6 million was overly ambitious in light of current economic conditions - but we were able to maintain last years 25-per-cent inshycrease in scholarship support
Through the Alma Mater Fund we raised more than $540000 and achieved Tom Sawyer
the target of 12-per-cent participation among graduates of the three founding colleges Arts CBS and CSS alumni substantially increased their donations and participation over last year Campus participation grew from 145 per cent in 1990 to 171 per cent this year And our parents program pushed contributions from parents to $84188 compared with $31500 in 1990
For the first time since 1984 the Alma Mater Fund Advisory Council was able to go beyond its commitments to fund eight additional projects - a total of $86000
Looking ahead our flagship project for 1992 will be War Memorial Hall renovations During Alumni Weekend in June you ll have a chance to see the work that has been done upstairs and the work still needed in the downstairs hall It s a project well worth the interest and support of alumni
For your past and future support of the Alma Mater Fund my sincere thanks
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Tom Sawyer OAC 59A and 6 Corporations Chair AMF Advisory Council Associations Foundations $2874947 Annual giving contribution s
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Annual Giving Report
1991 Annual Fund Results $1 A niillion wasraised overallmiddot ariinceaSe of
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Eight campus projects were selected to share $86000 in highest-priority funds from the 1990 Alma Mater Fund Among them are the OvC Wild Bird Clinics education program a CSS academic medal in memory of the late dean John vanderkamp a soc ial sc ience citation index for the library framshying for the fine art print study collection a computer design laboratory for the School of Engineering seed money for a history graduate scholarship a conshytinuing education survey for the Mac-FACS Alumni Association and a HAFA-sponsored executive-inshyresidence
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Of cattle cash and Colvil e Alumni gifts to the University of Guelph come in some pretty interesting packages Over the years alumni have given livestock concrete paintings shythere are two by Canadian painter Alex Colville - furniture land books inshysurance policies and a host of artifacts and antiques And money - a lot of money Almost every building on camshypus has some bricks and mortar paid for by alumni And hundreds of students are helped along the way each year by alumshyni-sponsored scholarships
The Annual Giving Report on the preceding pages shows once again how important alumni gifts are to the Univershysity and provides us with an opportunity to say thank you to those alumni who continue to give on a yearly basis Anshynual giving is however only one of three avenues through which alumni proshyvide financial support to the University The others are major gifts and promoshytional programs
Annual giving
The Alma Mater Fund established in 1969 is the route chosen by most alumshyni faculty and staff who make annual gifts to the University
AMF solicitation and management are handled by a volunteer advisory council On the preceding page chair Tom Sawyer OAC 59A and 64 talks about the funds success over the last two years with AMF scholarships inshycreasing by 25 per cent This year the AMF begins a three-year commitment to funding renovations to War Memorial Hall
In addition to its flagship project AMF provides regular support to athshyletics through Gryphon Club contribushytions to college advancement funds and scholarships and to individual class projects
The AMF supports the camaraderie of university days as alumni work together to plan and complete a project whether its funding a scholarship a painting a tree weight-lifting equipshyment or furniture for Alumni House AMF contributions also ensure that fushyture Guelph students will remember those who have gone before
In addition to AMF donations the anshynual giving program includes gifts to
the OVC Pet Trust Fund the OAC Alumni Foundation the Arboretum the paren ts program and the Li brary Other gifts made directly to the University supshyport memorial funds scholarships musishycal activities and research and academic programs
Major gifts
Major gifts to the University are adshyministered by the Deve lopment Office under the direction of Marilyn Robinson Mac 55 These include beshyquests or life insurance policies shortshyterm pledges (often made during a capital campaign) large donations that might establish an endowment fund or contributions to special University projects like the Heritage Fund or the proposed FACS Building addition
Gifts- in-kind - such as library materials art objects or estate properties - also fall within thi s category Last year alumni gave more than $12 milshylion in such tax-deductible gifts
Promotions
Every Guelph graduate is a member of the University of Guelph Alumni Asshysociation and receives the Guelph Alumshy
nus magazine and many other privishyleges There are no UGAA membership fees but the association does raise money through promotional programs like MasterCard travel packages and the North American Life Assurance proshygram
The UGAA provides serv ices to alumshyni and students - such as the careershyplanning workshop planned for Juneshyand returns many dollars directly to the campus Last year it gave $20000 to the library
In addition to direct financial support through annual giving and major gifts alumni also support the University inshydirectly through membership fees to individual college and program associashytions The fees pay for association acshytivities that help maintain ties between their members and the University
Questions
If you have questions or would like 10
know more about the tax advantages of giving to U of G write to Paulette Samson associate director of annual giving and support services at Alumni House University of Guelph Guelph Ont NIG 2Wl or call 519-824-4120 Ext 6183
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If you think youre hearing from us moreoften lhanY9u elida few years ago you reright But checkyour mail and you ll 110tiqe that you~re also hearing
more frequemly from othernon-jgtrofit)rganizations and charities We v~ all stepped lip oui- fUQdIaising efforts
U QfGappreciates your support and needs your help butyou wont know that if we donr teflyou Aildeyen if you cant afford to make a fjnancialcon~
tributiori we hop~ to wjn yoUfverbaJ sliPPOJ-tJt will take many voices to coii- ylnce governmeritthal universities should beagreater public priority
When we contacenttyou on behalf of iheUriivetsity we lly to give more thiin we ask So tak~advantage ofthe p~1one call o(letter to findoutwhais happenc ing OJrcarnp~s U ofG hasmuchto offer llufnrii professionaldevelcipment courses library privileges travel programs recreation and a link Igt friends and
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We Jik~to keep in roucharidYcwarit yO~1 to know the progress were rilaking Ast~e Uriiversity $ prestige grows so does the value ofyour degree
~0~ MarilynR~binson Trish Walker Mac55 DiJectoJ ofDevelopment CSSTl Director ofAJurhni Affairs
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Get your career on track
Responding to alumni requests the University of Guelph Alumni Associashytion will sponsor a career-planning workshop on campus June 26 to 28 The weekend program will be led by Sharon Crozier of the University of Calgary counselling service Each participant will receive a careerlifestyle analysis and will develop a personal action plan
The $225 fee includes the StrongshyCampbell Interest Inventory and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator which will be administered and tabulated prior to the weekend Testing dates have been set in Toronto for May 27 and in Guelph for June 4
Sponsored by the UGAA and coshyordinated by Continuing Education and Alumni Affairs the workshop will also draw on the Universitys Counselling and Student Resource Centre
Enrolment is limited to 20 For registration information see page 26 or call Continuing Education at 519-767shy5000
UGAA board report
by Grant Lee CSS 73 MA 80
The UGAA will present a convocation package to each graduate this spring imshymediately following presentation of the degree or diploma Developed by Alumshyni Affairs staff the package is designed to increase awareness of the UGAA and the collegeschool alumni associations encourage membership introduce the Guelph Alumnus and provide an opporshytunity for board members to congratushylate our new alumni
Approval of the new UGAA bylaw is on schedule It will be presented to members at the annual general meeting in June along with an amendment to the
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In addition the UGAA board bull has approved a $400 donation to help
cover costs for two students to represhysent Guelph at the 1992 World Debatshying Championships in Dublin Ireland
bull is looking at a proposal to help alumDl with financial planning There will be more to come on this subject later
bull received thanks from president Brian Segal on behalf of those alumni who attended the October symposium
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Canada Break Up or Restructure The association was a patron of the event
bull is responding to requests from alumni for more social events Aside from the travel program the UGAA sponsored a ski day at Horseshoe Valley in March
bull approved a proposal from the School of Landscape Architecture to research places of historical value on campus Financial support has yet to be resolved
bull accepted an offer to help sponsor the University Centres annual lecture series which invites Canadian and inshyternational public figures to speak on current issues All events in the winter 92 series were free to alumni
bull donated U of G sweatshirts to Canadian Guidance and Counselling for a conference in Ottawa this sumshymer
bull approved the purpose and terms of refshyerence for the new Alumni House Adshyvisory Committee which is charged with overseeing maintenance of the
facility adopted the 199192 budget and finanshycial plan drafted last November This year we expect to generate some $44000 and spend $33000 It has been suggested that we set the 199293 budget and plan in April of this year so the new board wi II start in September with a sound financial program and budget that will only reshyquire adoption or revision
Chapter news
Calgary - About 40 alumni and guests met at the Delta Bow Valley Hotel Feb 3 to view a U of G video and hear a talk by admissions counsellor C hr is tine Toews FACS 87 Co-ordinator of the event was Janet Hutchinson CBS 79
Edmonton - Paul OAC 67 and Anne Valentine CBS 69 hosted a group of 30 alumni and guests at the Ramada Renaissance Hotel
Montreal - U of G welcomed students and their parents - including many
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alumni - to its first Montreal informashytion night for prospective students The event was modelled after a successful program in Toronto that draws more than 800 students each spring
Vancouver - U of G president Brian Segal met with alumni March 5 at the Pan Pacific Hotel Jim Dodds OVC 63 and Sarah Bloom FACS 86 orshyganized the event which attracted about 70 alumni and guests
Halifax- U ofG alumni in Halifax met with Gryphon basketball players during the March 26 to 28 CIAU chamshypionships Despite losing the OUAA west division title to Brock University the Gryphons qualified for a wi ld card spot at the CIAU championships Alumshyni received free tickets to the game that pitted Guelph against Brandon in the consolation final Fan support was enshythusiastic but the Gryphons lost 72 to 64 finishing third overall
Homecoming 1992 Plans are well under way for Homecoming weekend Sept 25 and 26 In addition to the annual Gryphon Hall of Fame dinner and award s ceremony the weekend will feat ure a beach volshyleyball tou rnamen t --~4~=iiiiikshyconcert alumni brunch walk-a-thon pep rally reunions and the traditional homecoming dance following the Saturday afternoon footshyball game This year the Gryphons will play Wil frid Laurier University A complete schedule will appear in the next Guelph Alumnus but you can get
Winners of Ihe Ju SI fo r Fun square dance compelition 01 College Royal were left 10 right Ann Joselin Kelley Allen Joanne Hewirson Brenl McFadden caller Sue MacKinnon Richard Presley Trish Henderson Jason Thompson and Kelly Lillie
in the Homecoming spirit now by helpshying to plan your class reunion or signing up as a scorekeeper for the vo lleyball tournament For infOlmation call alumshyni officer Laurie Malleau HAFA 83 at 519-824-4120 Ext 2102
Swing your partner
Eight squares of alumni took part in the College Royal square dance competition in March Winners of the UGAA alumni square dance plaque were the Crazy 8s Joanne Hewitson Arts 91 Lloyd Hutchinson CBS 87 Sonya Jones CPS 90 Ed Ketchabaw OAC 88 and MSc 91 Carol)n OAC 90 and Brad MacNeil CPS 87 Mike Relf OAC 91 and student Sherry MacNeil Wayne Lowden was the caller
Winners in the Just for Fun category were Junior Farmer alumni who included Hewitson Ann Joselin OAC 90 Brent McFadden CSS 90 Richard Presley OAC 86 and soonshyto-be-alumni Kelley Allen Trish
Henderson Kelly Little and Jason Thompson The caller was Sue MacKinnon OVC 9 1
Florida picnic
The North Port Yacht Club hosted 199 alumni for the annual Florida picnic March 4 On hand to meet them was Trish Walker CSS 77 and MSc 90 director of alumni affairs Judy Phillips of the University s Real Estate Division also attended to talk about the Village by the Arboretum retirement deve lopshyment
Attendance prizes went to Gertrude Stewart Mac 30 and Morley Funston OAC 32 The picnic was sponsored by the UGAA Alumni-In shyAction Committee represented by Ken Gartley OAC 42 and the Florida reunion committee consisting of Mary and Ted Brent OAC 48 Helen and Don Moffatt OAC 46 Stella and Bob Moore OAC 48 and Retis and Bill HasenptlugOAC 39
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A new kind of class reunion
Its the latest fad in alumni circles shymeeting your classmates at the anshynual University of Guelph alumni hockey tournament Twenty-two teams played in the fifth annual tourshynament in December
For most teams tournament standshyings are secondary to the socializing with classmates that they may not see otherwise says Bill Seegmiller OAC 83 who worked with Brian TapscottOAC 8 1 to organize the event We promote the social aspect through two divisions - social and more social - and include family skating and a Saturday evening wine and cheese party he says Trish Walker director ofalumni affairs presents fhe social division lrophy 10 Ihe OAC 79
Dipper Oldies (II the U ofG alumni hockey tournamenl The OAC 79A team defeated the Grey Gryphons to win the more soshycial division The OAC 80 team won the consolation final and the spirit award went to OAC 7778
In the social (a little more competishytive) division it was the Faceoffs in first place over OAC 88 OAC 90 won the consolation trophy and the Valley Vikings took home the spirit award
Organizers plan to add womens exshyhibition games to the 1992 tournament which is scheduled for Dec 5 and 6 For more information call Seegmiller at 519-836-3807 or Rudy Diemer OAC 85 at 519-763-2250
A night at the races
The UGAA Alumni-in-Action group will host a night at Mohawk Raceway May 26 The $30 admission includes a 6 pm buffet parking program taxes and gratuities For detail s call Laurie
~ Malleau at 519-824-4120 Ext 2102
I Alumni directory
A new alumni directory will be ready for delivery in May The deadline for alumni updates has passed but you can still order a copy of the directory at a cost of $40 plus tax Return the order form you received with the special U of G wristwatch offer or write to Rosemary Clark Mac 59 at Alumni House University of Guelph Guelph Ont NIG 2Wl
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Ottawa chapter 50 years young
There was a nostalgic gathering of Guelph alumni in Ottawa last winter to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the city s alumni chapter
Donald Fletcher OAC 36A and 39 who was president of the group in 1953 sent us a historical account of the chapters activities
A small organizing committee first met in February 1941 at Madame Burgers restaurant to plan the chapters first fun ction a skating party at the Ottawa Experimental Farm It attracted 75 people
Over the years the group held an anshynual picnic and a banquet and dance that gave them a chance to invite faculty from Guelph to speak about happenings at the colleges - and later the Univershysi ty Every president from George I Christie to Bill Winegard paid a vi sit
In 1951 alumni from OVC and Macshydonald Institute who had been meeting since 1936 joined the OAC group A crowd of almost 200 celebrated the chapter s 10th anniversary at a picnic at the farm of the late John Bracken OAC 06 During the 1950s they added a get-together at the annual Ottawa-area plowing match which gave way to a curling bon spiel in the 1960s
There have been many special funcshytions - entertaining the Gryphon footshyball teams square dances car rallies golf tournaments theatre parties and raceway evenings - but the event that stands out in Fletchers memory ocshycurred in 1966 when five members of Parliament hosted the group in the parshyliamentary ballroom
The chapter also includes a couples bridge club which has been meeting for 25 years in the homes of its members
Fletcher thanks the 30 people who have served as president of the Ottawa alumni chapter and the dozens more who have helped on committees devot shying years to the executive to promote the institution
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Discussion structured exercises and experiential activities will lead alumni to gain insight into a personal careerllifestyle analYSis and assessment career information resources networking skills and much more
No matter what their age career stage or reason for transition each participant will find this workshop to be an excellent opportunity to develop a personal action plan - and chart their next move
~ Pre-1esting In order to provide individualized career information registrants are required to attend one of two pre-testing sessions The Strongshycampbell Interest Inventory and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator will be administered and results tabulated prior to the workshop Pre-testing dates are as follows
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Guelph Thursday June 4 1992 700 pm - 8 30 pm University Centre
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May 2 - The Guelph Spring Festival begins with a 25th-anniversary gala dinshyner in Creelman Hall that will honor founding president Murdo MacKinnon Other festival events run until May 23 For more information call 519-821-7570
May 2 shy An All-Canadian University Asshysociation d inne r w il l be held in Washington DC at the Embassy of Canada Guest speaker is Robert Lanni president of the University of Windsor Entertainment will be provided by Windsors music department For inforshymation call T Chan at 202-543-9111
May 3 - Arboretum Day celebrates spring with family nature walks at 1 and 330 pm and an electrical keyboard concert at 230 pm featuring Canadian comshyposer Carole Anne Burris
May 10 to Aug 30 - Guided nature walks run every Sunday at 230 pm in the Arboretum Topics include wildflowers birds turtles snakes and insects The nature centre is open from 1230 to 430 pm
May 13 - Chancellor Lincoln Alexander is the guest speaker at the Alumni-inmiddotAction annual general meeting which begins at noon in the Arboretum Centre For details call Alumni Affairs 519-824middot 4120 Ext 2102
May 13 - The Human KineticsHuman Biology Alumni Association will hold its inaugural meeting at730 pm at Alumni House with a coffee and dessert social RSVP to 519-824-4120 Ext 6963
May 23 shy FACS 82 is sponsoring a colshylection of Bob Munsch plays performed by the Carousel Players at3 pm at War Memorial Hall Tickets are $8 plus tax and handling To order call the UC box off ice at 519-824-4120 Ext 3940
May 26 - Alumni-in-Action is hosting a night at Mohawk Raceway Cost is $30 To register call 529-824-4120 Ext 2102
May 30 - An Arboretum sale of rare native trees and shrubs at the RJ Hi lton Centre on College Avenue East runs from 9 am to 1 pm For information call 519-824shy4120 Ext 2113
May 30 shy The sixth annual All-Canadian University Dinner in Chicago will be held
in the Henry Crown Space Centre at the Museum of Science and Industry and will include a reception buffet dinner and an Omnivax movie beginning at 6 pm Guest speaker is George Pedersen president of the University of Western Ontario For information call David Cole at 312-372-4404 or Hugh Mackenzie at 708-369-3688
June 2 to 5 shy Spring convocation June 13 - Beginning at 7 am the Arshy
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June 15 to 17 shy U of G will host the 15th annual Guelph Conference on Sexuality With the theme Sexuality New Visions the conference will examine current isshysues in human sexuality counselling strategies for sexual problems and teaching approaches in sexuality educashytion For information call the Office of Continuing Education at 519-767-5000 or fax 519-767-0758
June 19 to 21 - ALUMNI WEEKEND See page 39 for a complete schedule of events and alumni association meetings The UGAA annual meeting is June 21 at 10 am in Macdonald Hall 149
June 26 to 28 shy The UGAA-sponsored alumni career-planning workshop will be held on campus See page 26 for details
July 31 amp Aug 4 shy The National Youth Orchestra will perform in War Memorial Hall at 8 pm as part of its summer program at U of G Tickets at $8 general $6 for stUdents and seniors will be availshyable at the door
Sept 26 - HOMECOMING Rise early for the second ann ual Homecoming charity walkathon At 930 am the Human Kinetics Alumni Association will hold its annual general meeting in the School of Human Biology lounge
Oct 1 - OVCs 1992 Schofield Memorial Lecture will be given by Steven Arnoczky a professor in the department of small animal clin ical sciences at Michigan State Universitys Laboratory for Comparative Orthopedics The 3 pm lecture will be held in War Memorial Hall Admission is free
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John Boros 88 of Wei land Ont writes that he is impressed by the way U of G keeps records after graduation Thi s gives the graduate a sense of belonging a connection to an important period in hi s or her life he says
Jane Buzza 88 is working as records co-ordinatorarchivist for the Ontario Medishycal Association in Toronto
Jacqueline (Sullivan) DeClerck 86 is a public relations officer at the Canada Trust head office in London Onto
Richard Ely 70 works at the Crown attorneys office in WeIland Ont He has an LLB from the University of Western Ontario in addition to his Guelph degree He says he often talks about U of G to young students trying to decide which university to attend
Paul Genest 81 finished graduate studies at Johns Hopkins Universi ty in Maryland and is now assistant professor of philosophy at Union College in Schenectady NY He is man-ied to Barbara Jessup 8 1
Brian Hogarth 78 is head of interpretashytion at the G1enbow Museum in Calgary
Martha Hooper 9 1 was married last Ocshytober to David Perry They live in Calgary where she is a sw itchboard operator at the Delta Bow Valley Inn
Rene van der Meijden 87 has put his degree in geogshyraphy and internationshyal development to good use with the Christian Reformed World Relief Comshymittce Originally from the Netherlands he is now in Uganda on a three-year asshy Rene van der signment as a rural Meijden development adv iser He sends greetings to his many friend s in Canada and to Guelph grads Stan and Kitty in Bolivia in particular and reminds us that visitors are always welshycome in Uganda
Edward Milliner 85 will graduate this spring from the faculty of education at the University of Windsor
Mark Moore 85 is doing postgraduate work in history at the University of Bristol in England He plans to teach high school
fn response to a letter from Dawn Monroe 69 that appeared in the winter 1992 issue of the Guelph Alumnus Doug Moynihan 69 of Fort McMurray Alta writes Be disapshypointed no more Dawn l I too graduated in 1969 from (the College of) Arts or as it was then called Wellington College and I havent heard from anyone either And I too think it is time to contribute my news
After graduation f headed out to disshycover and sol ve the problems of the world travelling overseas for about three years Since then Ive been working in human resources in a variety of organizations in many different locations in Canada Cun-entshyIy I am the manager of human resources in Fort McMurray
PS Do you remember me Dawn I was the bartender in Creelman Hall I
John Teskey 7 1 began new duties last summer as director of libraries at the University of New Brunsw ick in Fredericton He was head of adshyministrative sershyvices at the University of Albershyta before moving John Teskey across Canada to acshycept the UNB posishytion but had earlier served as chief librarian and was library personnel officer at both Alshyberta and the University of Saskatchewan
Teskey says his biggest challenge is to regain the lost purchasing power that univershysity libraries have suffered as a result of static budge ts and ri sing material costs He is encouraging increased resource-sharing among universities and interlibrary loan programs with shortened turnaround
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Elizabeth (Baxter) Willson 77 a real esshytate agent in Chatham Ont writes to voice a common feeling that the universi ty exshyperience itself is often more important than the degree or diploma received I am really glad I graduated from Guelph she says
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Michelle Bombadier and Mike Caldwell both 92 are two of 50 Canad ian youth selected to work in Guyana for three months with Youth Challenge International (YCI) a non-governmental organization that provides Third-world experience for Canadians They may spend the summer building a school teaching safety or clearing land for Gu ytna s first national park but they need some private support to he lp cover transportation costs Anyone able to help should write to YCI at I I Soho St Toronto M5T IZ6
Jane Coventry 86 writes with accolades for the Guelph Alumnus grad news section and an update on what she and her husband Jaydee Smith 84 and MSc 89 are doing They were married in 1989 while working at U of G - he in the Department of Animal and Poultry Science and she in the Departshyment of Crop Science In February 1991 they moved to England where Smith is doing a PhD at the University of Bristol and working as a research assistant Coventry
works in the technology transfer unit of Nickshyerson Seeds Ltd in Cambridge
Jeffrey Crawford 88 and Leslie Thompson 86 were malTied last October He is an elementary schoolteacher in Mount Forest Ont
Craig Emerson 83 earned a PhD at Dalshyhousie University in Halifax in 1990 and is now a research associate in oceanography
Paul Fleming 85 is a pharmaceutical sales representative for Hoechst Canada Inc and lives in Nepean Ont
David Forsey 80 is an assistant professor of computer science at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver He is marshyried to Lyn Bartram
Michael Gangl 89 is in his third year at the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College
Astrid Harms 87 is a registered nurse in London Ont
Andrew Holmes 85 worked for the Onshytario government as a wildlife biologist for three years but is now back at school in his second year at Northwestern Chiropractic College in Minneapolis
Timothy Johnson 86 works at the Centre for Limnology at the University of Wisconshys in in Madison
Karen Lennard 77 (HK) and her hu sshyband Paul Jackson 79 (HK ) and MSc
82 both went 011 to earn medical degrees from McMaster University in HalTilton Ont Jackson also has a master s in physiology from the University of Virginia and is comshypleting an anesthesiology residency in Hamilshyton Lennard has a part-time family medical practice allowing her to spend more time with the couples two children Matthew and Nicola
Wendy Maltby 74 is an elementary schoolteacher for the Metropolitan Toronto School Board
Sandra OConnor 84 earned a medical degree from the University of Western Onshytario and is now practi sing in Burlington Ont
Linda Owen 81 runs her own business as a consulting exercise physiologist and fitness supervisor in Campbell River BC
Sheryle Tetley 86 is regional sales manager for Glaxo Canada Inc in Mi ss isshysauga Ont where she lives with her husshyband Ian
Rob Tonus 87 is manager of the Black Creek Rehabilitation Project a grassroots enshyvironment program to improve a degraded urban stream in Toronto His office is with the Metropolitan Toronto and Region Conshyservation Authority and he lives in Oakville with his wife Wanda (Knul) 88 (HK) a public health inspector in Hamilton
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Richard Woods 81 is an instructor of xshyray technology at the Easte rn Ontario School of X-ray Technology at Kingston Ge neral Hospital He would like to hear from other members of the 1981 U of G choir wi th whom he travelled to Scandinav ia Write to him at RRI Od essa Ont KOH 2HO
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James Dy nes 84 has comp le ted g raduate studies in chemistry and so il sc ience at the Univers ity of Sas katchewan in Saskatoon
Catherine (McVittie) Clark 88 is a nuclear medica l tech nici an at Howard Counshyty General Hospita l in Columbia Md She and her husband Michae l li ve in Elkridge Md
David Holmes 85 is a systems analyst at Sun Life Assurance Company
RolfKierdorf 84 lives in Guelph with his wife Janet He is se lf-employed as a systems consultant
Donald McFadde n 71 and his wife Carol li ve in A lbany Ga where he pracshyti ses medicine
Donald Ridley 69 and PhD 73 has been appoin ted seni or v ice-presiden t of CibashyGeigy Canada Ltd in Oakvi lle Ont and is responsib le for a ll corpora te serv ices includshy
ing finance human resources safe ty health and the environment He a lso se rves on the board of the Canadian Agricu ltura l Research Council and is a member of the Great Lakes Action Plan Strategi c Advi sory Committee
Kathryn Root Parr is an assoc iate minister at Lorne Park Bapti st Church in Mississhysa uga Ont She was married las t fa ll to Vicshytor Parr
Peter Simpson 85 is dis tric t manager for McNeil Pharmaceutical Ltd in Stouffville Ont He is married to Cynthia (Hamilton) 85 (HK)
Keith Stemshorn 83 is in the Canadian Armed Forces stationed in Calgary
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Nikki Dignard 86 moved to Ottawa last year where her husband Ted Henike pracshyti ses denti stry Dignard is working on an M BA and says she d love to hear from CSS classmates Tom Cam and Kathryn
Bonnie Dunnett 87 and MA 91 works on campus at the Gerontology Research Centre S he and Barry Hallman 9 1 li ve in Guelph
Kathryn Faulkner 80 is a registered nurse in Burling ton Ont where she li ves wi th he r husband John
Ruth Fox 84 is a sta ffing assistant for
Transport Canad a and lives in Toronto w ith her husband Christopher
Shonna Giles 88 is an admiss ions officer at Simon Fraser Unive rs ity in Burnaby BC
Gina Grieco 75 is a hi gh school guidance counsellor in North York Onto
John Harris 82 is manager of financial planning and budgets for th e City of Brampton Ont
Paulette Heppner 76 is a teache r in Vanshycouver
John Johnston 7 1 has been appointed exshyec uti ve vice-pres ident o f Ve rsacold Canada Corp and pres ident of QF Foods Distribushytion Services Versacold Canada is the largest public refri gera ted ware hou sing orshygani za tion in Western Canada
Michael Kral 79 has moved from the Univers ity of Manitoba to the University of Wind sor where he is an assistant professor of psychology
Jeffrey Lozon 76 and his family recently returned to Toronto after 15 years in Western Canada He is executive vice-president and ch ief operat ing officer at St Michael s Hos pital and li ves in Oakville wi th hi s wife Donna and two daughters
Bria n Martin 79 is a real estate appraiser in Portland Ont whe re he li ves w ith hi s wife Margaret (Sheffield) Arts 79
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Leith Mason 90 works in Toronto in the Canadian office of the State of Illinois as a special assistant to the Illinois Department of Food and Agricul ture
Michael McKean 74 of Don Mills Ont was recently appointed president of Wrigley Canada Inc Before joining Wrigley as execushytive v ice-pres ident in 1990 he he ld senior positions in Hong Kong Brazil and the United States
Rick 74 and Vicki (Collard) McTaggart FACS 74 are working in Ottawa He is director of overseas operations for the Unitarian Service Committee a charitable non-governmental organization that supports commun it y and human resou rce developshyment activities in Africa and Asia She is sec tion head of consumer analysis in the agr ifood development branch of Agriculture Canada
Sandra Morrison 86 is an ass istant professhysor in the department of psychiatry at the University of Western Ontario
Stephen Naylor 85 is director of planning and development for the amalgamated municipalities of Alliston Beeton Tecumshyseth and Tottenham
Brian ONeill 68 MA lives in SUITey England where he is managing director of Innovation Management Consultant s
Jodi Parisi 89 is a sales representative for Gillette who says U of Goo was the greatest
Moira Skikavich 81 is completing a PhD in c inematelevision at the University of Southern California
Virginia Sutherland 78 is an air traffic controller at the Toronto Island Airport
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Peggy Bates 88 was recently promoted to sales manager with Sears Canada Inc She lives in Owen Sound Ont
Caroline Begin 86 is working in Singshyapore as a dietitian
Diana Close 87 is a c linical nutri ti onis t at Chedoke McMaster Hospital in Hamilton Ont
Sarah Davenport 90 is a case worker with the Wellington County Social Services office in Guelph She is malTied to Matthew Harvey CBS 90
Timothy Dyck 8 1 is national sales manager for Black amp Decker Canada workshying out of the Corbin Division in Richmond HillOnt
Sharon (Muir) 84 and Richard Ernst CBS 83 are the proud parents of a future Guelph grad uate one-year-old Andrew Graham
Patricia Edwards 78 is food servi ce sushypervisor fo r St Peter s Hospita l in Hamilton Ont
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For the love ofteaching Since she
middot graduated bull from Macshydonald Inshymiddot stitute in
J 963 Nancy Kerr has built a career on teaching and research in telttles The middotheidofthe Uriiveisityof
Albertas department of Clothing and texiiles pursues a middotscientific interest inthepreservashylion of hi stori~lfabricsarid in developing pesticide-proofc1otl1ing But Jler fitstlove i ~ teaching
In 199b shewonone ofU of As four Rutherford AWljrds for excellence ill unshy
dergraduate teat-hing The first member of the faculty middotofliomemiddoteconornicsto receive the award slie was the rcentcipient6f the facultys own underglltiduate teaching award three years earlier
Winning the Rutherford was a gteat honor says Ken who has been on
faculty at Alberta since 1967 She oiscovered she had an aptitude for
middot teaching as a graduate student at the University of California Davis in
196566 After earning her MSc she casr about for afaculty position in Canada and round U of A was the 0111y place I could teach ju t textiles plus have a chance to develop new cQurses and research labs
middot Kerr sa)s she gets a tremelldous sense of satisfaction from teaching and the learning he must do to stay cUlTent She attributes her succe s as a teaCher to middotIec-middot
middot tures that are well organized and clear and to creltting a positive classroom climate
~Thcomfort level of students is reaUy middot ililportanL ~ Kerr eamedherPhD in fibre lnd
polymer science from North Carolina bull Staie University in 1982 Her doctoral work concentrated oil deacidification
techniques to preserve historicatcottOnln 1988 she spent a sabbatical ye~r doing research at the Caliadian Conservation
middot In tirute in OnflW1 middot Originalmiddotly from Ottawa Kerr is a
trarisphlnted -vesterner who enjoys middot hiking anlt sk1ing
From left Diane Ellison Lisa Wilson Lori Davis and Pippa Hobbes
Diane Ellison 84 is liv ing in Osaka Japan where she teaches English to Japanese busishyness people Last October she welcomed three U of G friends for a visit Lori Davis CSS 85 manager of Jumbo Video Inc in Oakville Ont Pippa Hobbes 84 accountshying manager for Paramount Holidays in Willowda le Ont and Lisa Wilson 84 co-ord inator of membership serv ices for the Metropolitan Toronto Board of Trade
Monica Hrybko HAFA 88 is director of sales for the Ramada Hotel Old Town in San Diego Calif
David Jones HAFA 88 is a con troller at the Holiday Inn Montreal Centre-Ville
Kathleen McLachlin 83 is operating an insurance agency in Kitchener OnL She opened the State Farm Insurance office in March 1988 and says she loves her job
Susan (Goettler) Parker 80 is working in Toronto as benefits administrator for Imshyperial Oil Limited She is married to Donald Parker OAC 79
Mary Jean (Sinnott) Price Mac 7 1 has returned to sc hool at the University of Otshytawa to earn a bachelor of education
Margaret (Richardson) Rankin 75 has been living in Halifax since 1990 and is an account analyst for Central Guaranty Trust
Janet (Wanless) Sutherland 77 is in private practice as a marriage and family therapist in East Kelowna BC
Jean Thomson Mac 37 says 1937 was a long time ago but shes delighted with all the changes that have gone at the college A former hospita l nutritionist she is retired and living in London Ont -
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Olayiwola Layi Adeola MSc 86 and PhD 89 and his wife Mope are living in West Lafayette Indiana where he is an assisshytant professor of pig nutrition at Purdue University
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Bruce Barrie 79 (Eng) graduated last June with an MBA from City Uni ve rsi ty in Washington State and is now a senior adshyviser in strategic planning with Petro-Canada Resources in Calgary He is a professional eng ineer with APEGGA and an ac tive memshyber of the Planning Forum an international society for planning and strategic manageshyment
Barbara Bryce 83 and her husband Ricardo Ramirez 82 are living in Rome Italy She is a landscape architect and he is a communications officer with the Food and Agriculture Organizat ion
Daniel Campbell 81 and his wife SharonshyMarianne are farmin g near Petrolia Onto
Carolyn Closs 82 and her husband Harold operate a beef cowca lf operation in Shawville Que
Luc Cote 83 is an agricullural account manager for the Royal Bank of Canada in Joliette Que
Kerrie Lea Curran 85 plans to graduate this fall from the master of architecture proshygram at McGi ll University
Bruce Dodson 74A is course superinshytendent at Hawd Ridge Golf and Curling Club in Orillia Ont
Richard Donkin OAC 85A originalshyly from Zimbabwe is the manager of Venida Packing Inc in Exeter Calif Situated in central Californias San Joashyquin Valley Venida Packing ships tree fruit throughout the Richard Donkin United States Canada the Pacific Rim and the Far East Products under the brand names Ruby River and Venida include peaches plums nectarines kiwi grapes persimmons and pomegranates In 1988 Donkin married California native Lisa Kolander and they live in Lemon Cove a community in the Sierra foothill s
Brendan Elder 8S A lives in Kelowna BC and works for Dogwood Nursery He plans to be married thi s summer to Rosemary Powell
Robert Fessenden OAC MSc 67 was recently appointed vice-president of devel opshyment and planning at the Alberta Research Council He is responsible for tec hnology management and corporate marketing
John Fitzgerald 86 was married last November to Susan Given a ] 991 indeshypendent study graduate in animal producshytion He is a lecturer at Ridgetown College she works at Centralia College and is work shying on a psychology degree at the University of Waterloo They live in Strathroy Ont
Glenn Helstern 79A is a driver for the Calgary division of Greyhound Bus Lines of Canada Ltd
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She tells a princely tale
For seven miniJtes on Oct 24 199 L Ellen Het1eOAC 76~U1d MSc 80
(ltllked with PIince Charles Invited toopert a newfumaceat
inco Lilniteds Copper Cliff smelter iri Sudbury Ont the Princemiddot of Wales was easy to talk with says Heale ftwasverycxciting
As eiwironmental co-ordinator Of land reclamation andrevegetation at Copper Cliff Healetold theprince middot about Tnc(secosystem rehabilitation
projects Theroyalvisitor was parshyticulatfyiilterestedin the treegrow- ing project in abandoned inines flld in tlpoundrevegetation ()f acres of tailings
and barren rock Planrilig vegetation on the tailings
hasattrlttcled wildlifeto a protected habitat says Beale who has wqrked forIncosincc she graduated in 1976
Ninety~iwo species ofbirds as weil asrodems hares foxes wolves bears andinoQse have been sighted on the 2500 acres of rehabilitated ore waste
One thing about this job is you middot can s~e where youve been effective she says
While an undergraduate student in Prill(e Charles with EIen Heale horticultural science Healea native ofSiidbury worked at Ineo during the sumniers She wasthi tirst woman to
work inrhemining companys agriculture middot department After shegraduated the niekshy el inine hired her full time tcido horticul- turaLfleld research ~ Ineo later granted heT a two-semester leave of absente t6 work
Theodore Jacobs 78 (Eng) is engineering supervisor at Standard Tube in Woodstock Ont
Greg Keast 85 (Eng) is li ving in Mozamshybique in East Africa where he works as a project officer for UNICEF rural water supshyply project s
Richard Kline 74 was appointed partner of the Toronto accounting firm Schwartz Levitsky Feldman Inc last faiL He is presishydent of the film s bankruptcy division a member of the Chartered Accountants of Onshytario and first vice- president of the Ontario Insolvency Association
Christopher Laforest MSc 91 (USRPD) works in planning and economic developshyment for Bruce County Ont
Jean-Paul PhD 90 and Lynn (Hammell) Laforest 82 and MSc 85 are both employed at Laval University in Sainte-Foy Que He is a professor and s he is a research associate
Kenneth Lawless 63 earned a Guelph deshygree in agricultural economics then went on to stud y dentistry at the Uni versity of Toronshyto He is now an oral and manilo-fac ial surshygeon in Kingston Ont
oil her masters at OAC~ In her current PdStion Heale has rnore
administrative and public relations responshyibilities On her own time she sits on the
board of management for the tocal Red Cross and isalllember ofthe Sudbury
Business and Professional Womens Club
Margie Luffman 77 writes that she has happily returned to Ontario after 10 years in New Brunswick to work at the Smithfield Experimental Farm in Trenton She is curator of the Plant Gene Resources of Canada clonal gene bank
Brian MacCulloch MAg 89 is a sa les representative for Springva le Nurseries Ltd in Berwick NS
Daniel Mansell 64 and MSc 68 is Onshytario manager of the eastern habitat joint venture in the wildlife policy branch of the Ministry of Natural Resources He is stashytioned in Midhurst Ont
Peter McEntire 77A writes from County Langford in Ireland to keep in touch with U of G He is farming and work s as an AI techshynician with Bova Genetics Ltd
Darryl Mitchell 78 works at Pioneer HishyBred Limited in Chatham Ont
Hugh ONeil 88 is manager of customer financial services for Ral ston Purina Canada Inc
Umed Panu MSc 72 (Eng) has done a lot of travelling during his career After Guelph he earned a PhD in civil engineering
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David Nedelko OAC 86 and Ljrlda ArmsJrollg CBS 89 (Jurk 011 cemre) were marriediasl SeplemiJer in Bari ~ie OnlTluir weddiIg iiarly illcilldedfiom leli Katy KusmiliskiOA C 88Paul Allgusline GAG 86 Roh Reed OAC 87Carv Belfral1l oAC 8RJIuJ Sa ndimiddoto (CollinI) BerlrCIlII CBS RR Also 1I111ie wedding w(lS Arlllslong s Veal ullcleClarence Fleming OVC 34 The couple (Ire living in
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at the Universit y of Waterloo taught in India and at Mi ss iss ippi State Uni vers ity and worked with Briti sh Columbia Hydro and the Government of Newfoundland In 1986 he jo ined the faculty of c ivil engi neering at Lakehead Uni ve rsity in Thunder Bay Ont and was promoted to full professor in 199 1 He and hi s wife Kashna and the ir children Neeti and Anukud enjoy the outdoor recreashytion ac ti viti es available in Northwestern Onshytario and look forward to visits from U of G alumni trave lling to Thunder Bay
Lyle Pettigrew 61 is a marketin g consulshytant with Harris Kovacs Alderman in Atlanshyta Ga
Helen Prior 88 joined Sheridan Nurseries after graduation then worked for a year as a research tech nic ian in Guelph s Department of Crop Scie nce She is now in her th ird year at Emmanuel College at Victoria University and hopes to be ordained as a United Church min is ter in May
Gregory Scott 83 (Eng) is operations manager for Accuform Gol f Limited in Toronto
Ba rbara (Coordes) Skrypetz 87 is a fi e ld supervisor for the Ontario Dairy Herd Imshyprovement Corporation working out of Guelph He r husband Stephen 88 operates a bulldozing and excavating busi shyness in the Woodstock area
Victor Skidra 6 is re tired f rom his job as a sc ientific evaluator with Hea lth and Welshyfare Canada He and hi s wife Konstance live in Nepean Ont
William Slusarchuk 63 (Eng) and MSc
The way we were in 1902 OAC alumnus Douglas Campbell 60 passes on a bit of col lege hi sto ry that shou ld make us think twice about our con stitutional squabbles in C anad a
Campbell is director of the Latin America and Caribbea n Trade Divis ion of Canada s Department of External Affa irs Last summer he hosted a vi s it by the president of Uruguay Luis Alberto Lacalle Herre ra whose grand fa the r made a simil a r vis it to Canada in 1902
This is what the elde r Herrera reported to his government Gue lph agricultural college enjoys a worldwide reputation and is con shys idered one of the grea t loca l attracshytions
More than 200 young Canadians a long with many foreign youths come together in its lecture rooms There are bursary ho lde rs from Norway and as far away as Mauritius C loser to us
Guelph Alumnus
67 was recently appo inted pres ident of AGRA Eanh and Environmental Group an envi ronme ntal and geotechnica l firm that is a division of AGRA Indu stries Limited
Michael Sullivan 87 A is a pol ice officer with the Wate rloo Regional Police in Cambridge Ont
Argentina has 12 students there We ll then couldnt Uruguay imshy
itate those good exa mples and also se nd a number of worthy youths to Guelph to acquire the professional knowledge which is becoming m ore necessary each day for the deve lopshyment of our agric ulture~
In addition to the sc ienti fic benefits that our compatriots woul d deri ve from entering sLlch a Canadian techni cal in shystitution there would be the inca lcushylable benefit of becoming familiar with the stric t manly and sound habits of these people who are admirable in e ve ry respect
Afte r they have stee ped themse lves in this atmos phere of dem ocracy which fosters the development of all rights and is alien to intolerance thi s legati on w ill have the great honor of sending home not only sc ientists but a lso mode l citizens
Brenda Trask 80 operates he r own comshymunica tion s consulting company in Osshygoode Ont She is marri ed to Ron Ferguso n
Dave Vanden Bosch 89 is manager of operator services and plann ing for Bell Canada in London Ont
J Stallard Skip Waterhouse 54 and hi s wife Li sa are ce lebrating the birth of a daughter Samantha Elizabe th on New Years Day 1992 They live in New York State where Wate rhouse is iI pro fe ssor of bio logical science at the Plattsburgh Sta te Uni versity College of Arts and Science
Jeff 88 and Karen (Burrows) W h ite 87 live in Strathroy Ont Jeff work s for Bell Canada and Kare n is a Lambton County rural orga ni za tion spec ialist with the Ontar io Mini stry of Agriculture and Food
Harold Wright 86 is a development repre shysenta tive for Ci ba-Ge igy Canada Ltd in Mi sshysissauga Ont He and Lori Krieg 84 plan to marry thi s sprin g
Donald Ziraldo 7 I received doubl e honors last winter fro m the Ontario grape and wine industry Preside nt of Inniskillin W ines of Niagara-on -the-Lake Ont he was named to the Royal Order of the Grape for hi s leadership in enhancing the prod uct and its image
In addition Z ira ldo and his partner Karl Kai se r were named 1991 Men of the Year by FoodsCIvice and Hospitalily magazine During the ir 17-year partnership at Inn isk ilshylin the two have been instrumental in shapshying Canada s wine industry the magazine sa id
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ave Barry Burtis 69 was named president of the Ontario Veterinary Medical Association in January after working with the voluntary organization for four years as a director member of its editorial board and chair of its public relations committee Burtis lives in Burlington Ont and practises at the Bay Cities Animal Hospital He also appears on a local cable television program called Pel Tales
William Medway 54 of Blackwood NJ has been named an honorary life member of the International Association for Aquatic Animal Medicine for his contributions on beshyhalf of the association and the field of aquatic medicine He is both a founding member and past president of the associa shytion A professor emeritus of clinical laboratory medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine Medway is a member of the Marine Mammal Commissions committee of scientific advisers
Diane Pickering-Forster 86 is practising at Vander Kraan Veterinary Services in Huntsville Ont She is malTied to Chris Forster and they have one daughter Julia
Julien Proulx 67 has moved from Kapusshykasing Ont to La Pocatiere Que where he is superintendent of Agriculture Canada s Experimental Farm Last year he was feashytured on TVOntarios French network series Personalire Ontarienne for his work as a veterinarian his participation in municipal politics and his support of regional developshyment in Northern Ontario He was also awarded Agriculture Canadas research branch prize Agcellence for extraordinary management during his direction of the reshysearch program at the Kapuskasing Exshyperimental Farm
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Twoc~ireers middot on the samepat~ OVCaruninus Geoffrey Lord 49 felt a thopedic
middot enseofdejavuwhen he read theslory gastrointesshyabout Bill Naray~i1 OVe 63 il1la~t tinal and carc
springs issue ofthe Guelph Altimnus diovascular
There are amazing simi laritiesbetween surgery the c~reersof t~e two Guyanese wh6b6th says Lord If earnedvefetinary degrees atGueiph someone worked in c1ini(ai practice in)Yestem were to ask Canada then moved to the United States me ioday to work in human medic~lresearch what Tcon~
Narayan heads an AlDSresearchteamsider to be atJohns HopkiflS l1)iversilySchool of my expertise MediCirieinBaltimoreMatyland Lord is I would have retired directorofthdohnsonamp Johnson to saymecli- Geofrey Lord
middot Resear~h Foundalion ill NewJersey cal device lordsays he was influenced by OVC andbioshy
proJessDfs Anthony Kings(Qte and Frank Inaterials evaluation middot SchofieJd~ndwcentnton from GiJelphto pur- lt In the I 950s Lordwaspalt of ale-
sue graduate studies in parasitology auhe se~rch team that pioneered the use of University oJWiscollsin Sevenmorithsin animal tissue tOTeconstructdamagedjr
amixed practice in Drumheller Alta con blocked al1eries in hUl11ansTwenty years vinced him thaldinical medicine wasn6t middot later he drafted the first systematicap-
middot whati w~ted6 do He returned to Wis pr()ach to the safety evaluation of medica con5il110 eanla PhDlll pathologyano devices joined Johnson amp JohnsQri as asenior middot Allsubsequeill guidelines inCiLlding patilol()gistiriI953 those of the Foodaj)q Diug Admlnistrashy
Research at Johnson amp JohDson tiOnand the Canadian Regulatory ~teeredmeinto many interesting and chal- Authority hayeadopteoihis approach he
Jenging fieldsofbio-research includirig says derniiltoi9gy toxicologic pathology Lordand his wife Helen ltIividetheir wound healing surgical pathology iiinebetweel)Ciipe CodandBonita genera toxkology ofi~w drugs andor~ Springs FloriQa
Shane Renwick 77 and MSc 91 works in veterinary services at Agriculture Canada offices in Guelph
Ruth Reuter 61 is a veterinary pathologist in Plympton Australia
Tom Sanderson 6 1 was selected by the Ontario Veterinary Medical Association as Ontario Veterinarian of 1991 CUlTently OVCs co-ordinator of off-campus work terms he spent 20 years in private practice in Listowe1 and Mount Forest before returning to the coll ege in 1982 to manage the veterishynary research stations Sanderson s contribushytions to the profess ion have included many hours of volunteer work in the advancement
of the profession and in the development of veterinary inshysurance programs He is a past pres ident of both the Ontario and Canadian Veterishynary Medical associashytions
Jennifer Troughton 86 is practising in OronoOnt
Simone Woltner 86 is a veterinarian at the Chester Basin Animal Hospital in Chester Basin NS
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by her hu sband William and two sons The fo llowing dea ths have been reported since the las t issue of the Guelph Alumnus Full notices which are usu ally submitted by family or classmates may appear in thi s iss ue or in a later one
James Clement Arts 73 Feb 2 1992
Marilyn (Dyment) Farnan Mac 530 Feb 27 1992
David Fisher OAC 80A in October 1990
Elizabeth (C hristie) Glass Mac 3I D June 2l99 1
Peter Heskey OAC 54A Dec 6 199 1
Richard Ketchell OVC 51 Nov 23 199 1
Edward Kowalski Arts 79 in August 199 1
Pauline (Dixon) MacMillan Mac 240 Jan 2 1992
Catherine MacPherson Arts 83 Dec 11 1990
Marguerite (White) Maybury Mac 3 10 in June 1990
Donald McLeOd CSS 80 Jan 9 1992
Albert Meilus OAC 51 in 1991
Ann (Biggs) Ostler Mac 3 10 in April 1991
Robert Race Arts 73 in 1989
Ralph Sampson OAC 40 in December 1989
Mor ris Sanderson OAC 42 Nov 17 1991
Sir Peter Scott HDSc 8 1 in Au gust 1989
William Setterington OAC 40 Oct 22 1991
George Shoniker OAC 50A in March 199 1
John Somerset OAC 34 Dec 27 199 1
Gregory Van Patter OAC 7 1 in 1990
Frederich Weiland OAC 20A in 1990
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Riccardo Rich Incitti 88 died Jan 5 1992 as the result of an accident near Hami lshyton Ont He was assistant manager at the Toronto-Dominion Bank in St Cathari nes and is survived by his parents Gu igi and Lucia of Cambridge and two sisters Laura and Andrea
Larry McNenly 73 died in October 1991 in Owen Sound Ont He is survived by his wife Marnie CSS 73
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Robert Everett HK 74 died in May 1991 in Burlington Ont A teac her at White Oaks Secondary Schoo l in Oakv ille he is survived by his wife Miche le and brother William CBS 74
James Sandy Fear 75 died Oct I I 199 1 in Toronto He is survi ved by his wi fe Sally (Firth) OAC 75 and hi s children Caitlin Alli son and Mered ith
CSS
Lynn (Dalys) Corby 84 died in Toron to May 6 1990 after a long battIe with cancer
Nancy (Birbeck) Gordon 77 died Oct 20 1991 in Ottawa after a short illness She worked at the Kitchener-Waterl oo Hospital and had previously been plan t accountant at Foseco Canada Incorporated in Guelph
Mac-FACS
Jean (Williams) Forward 280 Oct 28 1991 in Calgary She was the widow of Bower Forward OAC 25 and is survived by two sons
Catharine (Bechtel) Fromm 270 died Nov I 199 1 in Cambridge Ont She is surshyvived by three dau ghters Ellen Moore Mac 63 Nancy and Caro l
Alice (Rivaz) Garrard 28 di ed Dec 2 199 1 in Guelph She was an active member of the Mac-FACS Alumni Assoc iat ion and was the Mac 28 class agent for the Alma Mater Fund She is survived by her husband retired professor Edward Garrard OAC 27 and a daughter Betty Nelson
Della Marie (Diamond) Honey 300 of Warkworth Ont died June 29 1991 One ofWarkworths oldest and most respected citizens she served as local li brarian fo r 25 years She is survived by her son John OAC 52A his wife Patric ia and four grandchildren James OAC 84A William OAC 76A Thomas OvC 89 and Patricia Lonergan CSS 68
Barbara (Banigan) Martin 380 died Jan I 1992 in Don Mill s Ont A retired teacher wit h the North York Board of Education she is survived by a son Ted a sister and two brothers
Elizabeth (Burt) Perry 340 died June 28 1991 in Sidney BC and is surv ived by her husband Gordon and son Paul Nartel OAC 62
Jacqueline (Roy) Pote 34D died Dec 2 1 1991 in Willowdale Ont and is is survived
Merrill and Bill
Doroth y (MacFeeters) Scott 260 died Jan 14 1992 in Toronto She is su rvived by two daughters Anne Donaldson and Cynthia Scott
Florence (French) Snyder 370 died May 6 199 1 in Calgary and is survived by her husband Robert and two sons John and William
Katherine (Sweet) Watt Mac 220 died Feb 23 1992 She is survived by her husshyband Leslie a son David and a dau ghter Carol Gi llanders
Mattie (Newman) Widdicombe 240 died Dec 11 1991 in St Catharines Ont Preshydeceased by her husband John she is surshyvived by a bro ther and several nieces and nephews including Virginia Rigby Arts 76
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George Grey Arnup 38 died Feb 2 1992 in Toronto He spent most of his career with the plant protection branch of Agriculture Canada He is survived by his wife Aileen three chi ldren Nancy Jim and Mary Ellen Vincent CBS 79 and four grandchi ldren
Herbert Boyce 28 and MSA 43 died Sept 2 1991 in Amherstburg Onto He is survi ved by his wife Norah a daughter Beverley Med lock and a brother James OAC 32
Jack Reddy Brethet 56 died Nov 4 199 1 in Burlington Ont President of Brethet Barnum Assoc iates Inc he is surshyv ived by his wife Caro l and two daughters Lyn n and Anne
Bruce Foster 28 died Feb 6 1992 in Ridgetown Ont and is survi ved by his daughter Gayle Anderson and son David CBS 69
Allison Gardhouse 49 died Sept 21 1991 in Midland Ont He was re tired supe rshyintendent of schoo ls for the Simcoe County Board of Education and is survi ved by his wife Merle
Kenneth Harrison 24 died Nov 5 199 1 in Kentville NS A distinguished plant patho logist military officer and mycologist he began hi s career in 1926 as assistant plant pathologis t at the Kentvi lle Experimental Farm He worked there until retirement in 1966 wi th the exception of mi litary servi ce du ring the Second World War
Dr Harrison had a lifelong interes t in the study of mushrooms and publ ished numerou s technica l papers on the mu shroom flora of Nova Scotia In addition he enshy
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IN MEMORIAM
couraged interested amateurs and led field trips for student s at Acadia University and the general public from 1929 until 1987 In 1979 he was honored by Acadia wi th the dedication of the Kenneth A Harri son Laboratory of Mycology
During his career he was a member of many professional organizations a charter member of the Mycological Society of America and fe llow of the American Associashytion for the Advancement of Science
He is survived by hi s wife Margaret two brothers Maynard OAC 30 and Arthur OAC 29 two son s Ashley and Kenneth and a daughter Jennie Sheito
William Kellam 4 1 died Oct 19 1991 in Brockville Ont He was retired from the Curb and Gate Co of-Brock ville where he had worked as a lab technician fo r 28 years He is survived by his wife Kathleen a son George and a daughter Mary
William M acMillan 48 died in February 1992 in Winnipeg He was supervisor of Fertilizer marketing for the Manitoba Pool Elevators and is surv ived by hi s wife Edna Jean and brother Harry OAC 5 1 A
Cameron McTaggart 35 died Feb 4 1992 in Aurora Ont After graduating from OAC he became manager of Don Head Farms in Richmond Hill He established the first agricul tural consulting business in Canada in 1947 and later ran an Angus cattle
sales management business from the family farm A life member of the OAC Alumni As shysociat ion and the Class of 35 executive he is survived by his wife Margaret Mac 35 and two sons John OAC 62 of Regina and David of Largo Fla
Douglas Miller 48 of Victoria BC died Nov 24 1991 in Toronto He is survived by hi s wife Ruth and five children
Gregory More 76 was killed Feb 3 1992 in Kitchener Ont at the Ontario Glove Manufacturing Co where he was co-owner and vice-president Following graduation he worked for the Rohrer Drug Co and the Stershyling Drug Co then returned to school ea rnshying an MBA at McMaster University in 1981 More was an avid squash player and golfer Court A at the Northfield Racquet Club in Waterloo was dedicated to his memory in March He is survived by his parents Noreen and Ken a brother Randy and a sister Katherine Keeler
John Jack Pawley 33 died March I 1992 in Guelph He is survived by his wife Ruth son John OAC 62 and daughter-inshylaw Carolyn He was a former director of the Ontario Milk Marketing Board and a past member of the Royal City Lodge of Perfecshytion
Harold Reid 20A died in December 1991 in Burlington Ont During the First World W ar he was one of Canadas premier rad io
experts work ing at the Roya l Canadian Navy shore transmitter in Sydney NS After the war he came to OAC to earn a diploma then went on to QueenS University to comshyplete an arts and theology degree His mini sshytry was mainly in St And rews and Montreal although he spent 13 years teaching Hebrew at the Presbyterian Coll ege before retiring in 1968
Donald Robertson 3 1 died Nov 4 1991 in Iroquois Ont He is survived by hi s wife Caroline (Grisdale) Mac 38 his two son s ScottOAC 65A and Guy and a daughter Sandra McNeil
Thomas Rokeby 48 and MSA 50 died Jan 29 1992 in Fayetteville Ark He was a professional engineer and tau ght for 30 years in the Univers ity of Arkansas engineering department Born in Port Rowan Ont he was a member of the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War the American Society of Agricultural Engineers and the agricultural honor societies of Gamma Sigma Delta and Alpha Epsilon He is surv ived by his wife Helen two sons Robert and Richard a daughter Penny and three brothers Michael Noel and Richard OAC 54
Francis Sweeney OAC 45 died Nov 17 1991 in Oakville Ont He was a longtime employee of Shell Canada and [nternational Shell working in Great Britain Europe and
WALL CUSTANCE MEMORIAL FOREST
The Wall-Custance Memorial Forest located at the Universi ty of Guelphs Arboretum was established in recognition of the severe depletion of our forests It is never too late to be a vital part of the effort to save and improve our air and water for the future of our children by planting trees This program is our small part of the major endeavor to reforest and to reduce the greenhouse effect improve air quality and provide food and cover for wildlife The Memorial Forest Proshygram not only pays a Significant tribute to a loved one but also assures a better environment for generations to come
The purpose of this program is to provide an opporshytuni ty to commemorate the life of a loved one by plantshy
Home of the WALL-CUSTANCE
MEMORIAL FOREST
ing a tree We envision that the Memorial Forest Program will continue for many years to come and our hope is that the solace that nature offers particularly in the depths of a living forest will be of comfort and benefi t to all
For more information or for a brochure call or write to
WALL-CUSTANCE Funeral Home and Chapel 206 Norfolk Street Guelph Ontario N1 H 4K3 (519) 822-0051
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============= IN MEMORIAM ============= Venezuela He is survived by his wife Lynn and two daughters Alyson and Joselyn
Berna rd Weeks 35 died Oct 16 199 1 After graduation he re turned to his roots in
ew York and Pennsylvannia and worked in 4-H and you th organi zations for a few years He then took over the family farm at Troupsburg NY and built up a dairy operashytion with a sideline of sheep He is surv ived by his wife Ruth and four children
Glenn White 43 of Belleville Onl died Nov 24 199 1 in Florida and is surv ived by hi s wife Marjorie
ave Norman Anderson 39 of Wi nn ipeg died Dec 18 1991 in Arizona He had practised veterinary medicine in Norwood Man and was a member of the American Equine Pracshytitioners Association director of the Canadian Thoroughbred Society and track veterinarian at Assin iboia Downs for 50 years He is survived by his wi fe Peggy and two sons Laurie and James
George Beatty 5 I died Nov 22 1991 in Inverness III He practised in Palatine fo r 36 years and founded the Palatine Animal Hospi tal He was an active member of the American Animal Hospital Assoc iati on and the Chicago Veterinary Association and was a director of the Friends of the University of Guelph He is survived by his wife Mary and fo ur children - Suzanne Patricia Margaret and Tim
John Hamilton 5 L died Dec 15 1991 He had lived in Roslin On where he owned the Bay Regional Veterinary Hospital He is survived by hi s niece Ann Bongard
Nicholas Labzoffsky 39 died Dec 25 1991 in Largo Fla Fonnerly of Toronto he had li ved most recen tl y in Dorse t Ont and is survived by hi s wife Jane
Edgar Langford 49 died March 41992 in Monarch Alta A former research scienshytist with ADRI (Western) he is survived by his wife Norma and two daughters includshying Carolyn OVC 76
Stuart Maude 4 1 died Jan 14 1992 in Rosemead Calif A former Rosemead counshycillor and four-time mayor he operated the Rosemead Animal Hospital with his brother Arthur 52 from 1953 to 1980 He was a trustee for Ingles ide Hospital a past grand patron of both the Rosemead and the Califorshynia Order of Eastern Star and past-president of the local Kiwanis Club and Chamber of Commerce He is survived by his wife Vera two daughters Patricia and Susan Bezner a son Stuart and three brothers
Walter Morley 42 o f Mildmay On died Nov 28 199 1 He ran a large animal pracshytice in the Mild may area for 39 years raised cat tle and raced standardbred horses He was also a pu blic school board trustee and direcshytor of a local te lephone company for more
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than 30 years He is survived by his wife Joyce five sons - two of whom are OVC alumni Dave 68 and Randy 74 - and 10 grandchildren
Lloyd Neily 52 died Jan 3 1992 in Hantsport NS A retired meat inspector w ith the federal Department of Agriculture he had a private veterinary practice in Wind sor NS He is surv ived by hi s wife Mary
Elford Nundal 43 died Jan 7 1992 in Langley BC after a long battle with canshycer He operated a veterinary practice in Langley for 36 years and served as a di strict aldennan for 10 years before being elected mayor in 1982 Last year he received the BC Veterinarian Association s award of merit for a lifetime of veterinary work
Humphrey Rees 55 died Sepl 30 1991 in Amman Jordan while on ass ignment for the Overseas Development Ad ministrat ion as veterinary and animal hu sbandry adviser to the Jordani an government His contemshyporaries at Guelph will remember him as a singer debater raconteur rugby player and bon vivant He is surv ived by his wife Alice of POlt Eynon Wales
William Stinson 40 died Feb 15 1992 in Norwood Ont He is survi ved by his wife Rita a son John OVC 67 a brother Ford OAC 34 and a grandson John CSS 87
Faculty
Patric ia Harney died Dec 191991 in Yarshymouth NS A professor in the Department of Horticultural Science from 1962 to 1988 she developed severa l new variet ies of geraniums and was instru mental in es tabshylishing the Frances Ball rose collection at the Arboretum
Anthony Marston died Feb 3 1992 in Fershygu s ant Retired from the School of Hotel and Food Administration he was an acshycomplished competition chef who received his training in Switzerland and England He then spent severa l years working in the Caribbean before coming to Guelph in 1970 A member of the Canadian Olympic culinary team he held a number of positions in the
Donations given in memory ofGuelph alumni will help support University scholarships ifdirected to the Alumni M emorial Fund In 1991 donations were made in memory of the following alumni
Frank MacDonald OAC 37
Frank King OAC 33 -Robert Allen OAC 56A
Alice (Rivaz) Garrard Mac 28
Stan Vesselinovitch OVC 57
For more infonnation call the Office of Annual Giving at 519-824-4120 Ext 6 183
hote l and food industry until retiring in 1982 He is survived by hi s wife Di ana
Gordon McNally dled Jan 12 1992 in Guelph A professor in the Department of Zoo logy from 1934 to 1971 he served as academic assistant to the dean of CBS until retiring in 1979 While at Guelph he was honorary pres id ent of the classes of OAC 54 58 and 67 He is survived by his daughter Jean two siste rs and two grandchildren Prof McNallys family has established the A Gordon Mc a lly Memorial Fund to support a sc holarship or bursary Contributions may be sent care of the Alma Mater Fund Alumni Hou se University of Guelph Guelph ant N I G 2WI
Friends
Jean (Young) Branion died March 3 1992 in Guelph She was the wife of the late Hugh Branion a physiology professor at U of G and assistant to presidents Bill Winegard and Don Forster Jean Branion was an act ive volunteer on campus for many years and one of the firs t presidents of the College Womens Club She is survived by a son Richard and his wife Marga re t of Vanshycouve r and five grandchi ldren Donati ons may be made to the Hugh D Branion Memorial Scholarship through Alumni House
Davy Alexander Hamilton-Williamson died Feb 4 1992 in Guelph A painter and author of childrens stories he had been a member of the University s Presidents Council s ince it began in 1 985
Marjorie Pinkney wife of J ames Pinkney OVC 3 7 died Dec 151 99 [ at her home in Milton ant
Samuel Wyal died March 15 1992 in Brantford ant He was a partner in the law firm Wyatt Purce ll Will Stillman and Scott He is surv ived by his wife M a bel Mac 39 four sons Peter Michael William and John and two daughters Mary Alderson and Sarah Nadalin Arts 82
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INVmiddotESTMENTS amp
DIVIDENDS
Facts about university education in Canada and how we pay for it
By 2000 half of all new jobs in Canada will require a university degree
But at the current rate of government funding only one in five children
will have a chance to go to university
In the seven years from 1982 to 1989 per-student grants to universities in
Ontario barely kept pace with intlation at five per cent
per-student funding at American public univers ities jumped an average
of 23 per cent in the same period
Those US universities also receive twice the federal research dollars per student as do Ontario universities
In 1987 the average salary of a full-time professor at an Ontario univers ity was $55500
compared with $68200 for a private-sector position of similar education and experience
Lawyers economists and engineers made an average of $71 000
Ontario ranks ninth out of the to provinces in terms of grants to universities
Between 1978 and 1991 enrolment at Ontario univers ities grew by 40 per cent while funding dropped
from 59 to 409 per cent of total government spending
Universities were spending 14 per cent less per student between 1977 and 1988 hospital expenditures
rose 38 per cent per patient in the same period
Ontario universities generate $3 of economic activity for every
$1 invested by government funding
And the number of jobs generated by university activities in
Ontario is greater than the employment impact of the textile
industry the entire paper and pulp industry or utilities
University graduates can look forward to earning 63 per cent more than the average industrial worker
A 1990 survey of U of G alumni found that two years after graduation 97 per cent of Guelph grads
looking for work were employed 62 per cent were earning $25000 or more and 10 per cent were
earning $40000 or more
Unemployment rates in 1990 for those with a university degree was about one-third what it was
for those with only a high school diploma
Every year from 1978 to 1987 Ontario university inves tments in renovating or replacing
aging buildings could not keep pace with the rate at which the buildings depreciated
Graphics by Debbie Thompson Wilson Statistics supplied by th~ Council 01 Ontario UniverSities Statistics Canada and the U01 G Student EnVifonment Study Group
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A salute to sport Alumni Weekend June 19-21 9am Sio-pitch tournament
The tradition Jives on at the south quad diamond s Cooed teams of 12 or more players are encourshyaged to join in the fun
FRIDAY 10 am to 9 pm Registration Lambton Hall
6 pm Kick-off dinner and half-time show
get set and join In the Olympic spirit one of Alumni Creelman Hall will Weekends host the Wonderful most popular World of Sports with events Tours a half-time slide show start from to entertain alumni of Alumni House all ages and are sponshy9 pmshy sored by the Observatory tours CBS Alumni
Association
10 am and 2 pm
SATURDAY 8 am to 5 pm Guided Registration walking tours Lambton Hall
Remember 9 am to 5 pm making s now Alumni House tours sc ulptures on Students will host tours of Alumni House throughshyout the weekend Come and see what the generosity of alumni has accomplished
9 am to noon Alumni association annual meetings
This is the official notice for the annual general meetings of the following alumni associations
CBS - Alumni House starts at 830 am before guided walk MacFACS - HAFA Building Room 209
OVC - OvC Room 1438
OAC - Macdonald Hall Room 149
CSS - MacKinnon Building Room 305
HAFA - Alumni Hou se boardroom
Gryphs Lounge will be open for lunch and afLer the game
930 am Guided nature walk at the Arboretum
On your mark
Noon - OVC luncheon
The OvC Alumni Association will host a luncheon open to all OvC alumni and their guests
2 pm - Campus Showcase 92
Following on the heels of last year s success Campus Showshycase 92 will be bigger and better Come to the University Centre to see exhibits representing all areas on campus The Campus Junction store will also be open
2 pm - Zavitz Hall tour
Alumni are invited to browse through the newly renovated Za vitz Hall and attend a recep shytion sponsored by the Colshylege of Arts Alumni Asshysoc iation
5 pm Golden anniversary dinner
The OAC OvC and MacshyFACS alumni associations will provide complimenshytary tickets for alumni celebrating 50 years or more Additiona l tickets can be purchased Classes
Johnston Green or playing intramural hockey in the old Quonset arena Relive some of the memories by taking a walking tour of campus Tours begin from the lobby ofLambton Hall
Noon - Alumni picnic
This apopular event has new location - the sculpshyture garden beside the Macshydonald Stewart Art Centre Come on your own or reshyserve a group of tables for friends and classmates
Noon - Class reunion lunches
OAC 37 Mac 37 OAC 42 Mac 42 OAC 47 Mac 52 Mac57 Mac 67 FACS 72 FACS 77 FACS 87
OAC 67 FACS 82 OAC 82 OAC 82A CBS 82 FACS 87 OAC 87
SUNDAY 9am Church service and War Memorial Hall rededication
Thanks to a commitment from the Alma Mater Fund renovashytion of the upstairs of War Memorial Hall has been comshypleted Join us for the rededicashytion ceremony commemorating the 1924 opening and the 1952 dedication of an OAC memorial plaque
being honored are OAC 22 OAC 47 OvC 22 Mac 22 OAC 27 OvC 27 Mac 27 OAC 32 OvC 32 Mac 32 OAC 37 OvC 37 Mac 37 OAC 42 OvC 42 Mac 42
6 pm Class reunion dinners
Special dinn e r reunions are planned for OAC 47 OAC 52 OAC 52A OvC 52 Mac 57 OAC 57 OAC 62 Mac 67
10am UGAA annual meeting
All alumni are encouraged to atshytend the UGAA annual meeting in Macdonald Hall Room 149 An amendment to the UGAA Letters Patent and a revised bylaw will be presented for ap shyproval Copies of both are availshyable on request from Alumni House Call 519-824-4120 Ext 6544
11 am - Farewell brunch
The final event of Alumni Weekend will be held in Creelshyman Hall Come and meet the Univers ity S president Brian Segal The Alumnus of Honour medal will be presented at noon
To receive an Alumni Weekshyend brochure or to register for events call Alumni House at 59-824-4120 Ext 6963
Opened July 1991Research Park Centre shy
Where research and industry Dleet
Space available now Exceptional office and research facilities in our multi-tenant Research Park Centre
Research-driven corporations are breaking new ground at the University of Guelph Research Park Centre with exceptional growth opporshytunities in an ideal business setting
This 30-acre Research Park also accommodates tenants who choose to construct their own office and laboratory facilities
Find out why organizations such as Semex Canada Tremco Limited the Ontario Dairy Herd Improvement Corporation George Morris Centre LIPID Analytical Laboratories and Agriculture Canada have chosen the University of Guelph Research Park Call Ralph Eades or Judy Phillips Real Estate Division University of Guelph Telephone (519) 767-5003 or Fax (519) 837-0353
The Research Park is a project oj the Office oj Research and the University S Real Estate Division
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University benefits
Time and time again our alumni tell us that the total university experience is more valuable than the degree they received
Breadth of knowledge new insights personal satisfaction - these are things that cant be measured
The 966000 university graduates in Ontario do however share economic benefits that can be measured -like an unemployment rate that is one-third what it is for the general workforce and salaries that are on average 63 per cent higher than industrial workers
In addition university graduates share with the rest of the population even greater cultural social and economic benefits
T hrough the percolator effect Ontario universi ties generate $62 billion (1989 estimate) worth of economic activity each year and more than 138000 jobs
All Canadians share in the benefits of an academic system that acc umulates knowledge trains leaders and conducts much of the research that gives us a progress ive society
University laboratories have yielded medical breakthroughs in diabetes canshycer cystic fibrosis Alzheimer s disease and AIDS They have tackled environshymental research on the causes of water pollution and soil erosion University soshycial scientists study issues as vari ed as demographic trends cross-border shopshyping adoption and economic developshyment in native communities
On a more personal level each univershysity in Canada is a contributing member of its local community Says Guelph
Mayor John Counse ll The inshytangible benefits of having a university within our municipality inshyclude the injection into the comshymunity of intellecshytual standards talents and sershyvices
Almost every orshyganization in the city counts U of G faculty staff and students among its members and volunteers In fac t more than 30 U oG s campus wecomes almosl 150000 visitors every year
university employees were recently given special awards and commendations from both the provincial Ministry of Culture and Communications and Ministry of Citizenship
Guelph is also enriched financially by the Univers itys presence - 4 100 jobs $195 million in annual economic acshytivity The University is an attraction for many smaller companies and organizashytions and branches of provincial governshyment ministries that deal frequently with the campus In a way it has he lped to inshysulate the city of Guelph aga inst the reshycession says Counsell Last year Guelph enjoyed a net increase of three jobs in comparison with other cities where thousands of industrial jobs were lost
Equally important are the educational opportunities offered by the University
for local re sidents The number of people enrol led in distance education inshydependent study and non-degree courses at the University is almost twice the dayshytime student body Last year 500 senior citizens attended courses held on camshypus and 10000 schoolchildren parshyticipated in environmental education programs at the Arboretum People also brought 12000 animals and 500 wild birds to OVC clinics for treatment
Visitors to campus outnumber stushydents 10 to one They come for convocashytion College Royal Homecoming and Alumni Weekend to tour the Arshyboretum and the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre to attend workshops conferenshyces and lectures and to enjoy athletic events music and drama productions They also come for Sunday afternoon walks and sometimes to take wedding photos on Johnston Green
Education is everyones concern
With their Universi ty of Guelph degrees in hand Paul and
Christine Van Katwyk have joined the ranks of Ontario and Canadian univershysity graduates who recognize that the
funding of universities is not just a famishyly matter
Education is everyone s concern and should be a matter of government priority rather than rhetoric The probshylem is how to change that
Two years ago Ontario MPP Sean Conway told a group of university board members that they needed troops
When you ask us to do something and we don t do it nothing happens he said When the hospitals ask us to do something and we dont do it all hell breaks loose
Today universities are recruiting those troops and are turning to their alumni to help build a strong constituenshy
cy of support Who better to promote the value of higher education
Tell your family your friend s and your co-workers how important you think universities are Write to your local paper to let others know that a strong economy and a high standard of living depend on an educated workshyforce Call your MP and MPP and tell them that denying adequate funding to higher education is short-sighted in the extreme and that voters are expecting government action based on long-term priorities
Sasha Van Katwyk s generation is depending on it
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Marshalling the forces to fight for universities
There is a tribute $5000 to help revolution launch FOU and
taking place in Seymour hopes inshyeducation And dividual alumni will when the dust setshy keep the momentum tles we will see building The orshyprofound changes ganization needs in the way we imshy more than 100 inshypart knowledge dividual volunteers in the way we think each of Ontarios 130 about education electoral districts and the way we These friends will pay for it Some lobby MPPs on a of us will sit back regular basis in supshyand watch port of universities Others like Its a grassroots Harry Seymour Harry Seymour
OAC 61 will help influence the changes taking place
Seymour spent 22 years of his career on Torontos Bay Street then opted for a change that led to the forshymation of Pathfinder Learning Sysshytems As president he champions the Pathfinder program of computershymanaged learning as a way for classshyroom teachers to maximize their time and their students potential
Seymour maintains his interest in the investment business with several other companies including a 93-acre shoreline development project in Midshyland Ont But most of his time is devoted to education and university education is a significant part of that effort
If we can marshal the forces of university alumni we can have a profound effect on how government prioritizes education he says Those of us who have graduated from a university are in the best position to evaluate the importance of a university education We can sit back and look at the benefits we ve received and the kind of impact it has had on our lives
Seymour represents U of G alumni on the Friends of Ontario Universities (FOU) a provincial lobby group whose strategy is to organize Ontarios university alumni into a political constituency FOU members sayan unorganized constituency is part of the reason government has folshylowed a pattern of financial neglect
The University of Guelph Alumni Association was one of the first to con-
movement that has the potential to build long-term support
among decision makers and future generations of university graduates he says
If youd like to get involved call Trish Walker U of G s director of alumni affairs at 519-824-4120 Ex t 2122
Aubrey Hagar OAC 45
describes himself as a concerned citizen of Guelph who is committed to education Thats an undershystatement for a man who spent most of his career in educashytion including 16 years as senior academic officer at Conestoga College
He also cares deeply about the University of Guelph He worked hard in the early 1960s to help bring it to life serves on a presidential committee to promote a healthy town-and-gown relationship and is now working to increase local pride in the campus
It distresses me that we are not seeing our universities as intellectual leaders in the community in the province and throughout the country says Hagar who believes there is a need to increase public awareness about the role universities play in
Aubrey HORar
society Hes offered his vocal support to this venture as a volunteer for the Alliance for Ontario Universities
Who says talk is cheap
Your verbal support
of universities
could he
the most valuable gift
you could give
to the generations
of students
yet to teach
Independent of universities the alshyliance is building province-wide supshyport among communities organishyzations businesses and individuals like Hagar who are willing to expand that support on a local level
In each univershysity town there will be an alliance comshymittee that works to build community pride in the institushytion and to raise the profile of its scholars The Guelph group for example may inshyitiate an elementary school program that bui Ids rapport with the University or it might encourage med ia coverage of Guelphs environshymental work
Too often we downplay the conshytributions of our universities says Hagar but if we can instil these atshytitudes in people then financial supshyport through the political process will be there
The aJiiance is unique in Canada It shybegan in 1990 with seed money from the Council of Ontario Universities and gains financial independence this summer And its looking for more volunteers To learn more about the group call director Janet Napper at 416-979-0984
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Genetic engineering bull bull bull
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This is the second part of a report on the use of biotechno]ogy in University of Guelph research
by Mary Dickieson
String art Biotechnology research reminds me of string art the 1960s craft
that had us weaving colored strings back and forth around a pattern made by driving nails halfway into a board
Under skilful hands it became a piece of sculpture an optical illusion that prevented your eye from following any single thread across the board in a straight line
Biotechnology tools are like that Every time you think you understand what one biotechnique can do in one particular dis shycipline you find it reappearing somewhere else as someone in a laboratory across camshypus or on the other side of the world thinks of yet another way to use it
In Part 1 of our biotechnology report we sk immed the surface of how these tools are being used at U of G to benefit plant reshysearch In this story well see many of the same techniques applied in other organisms primaril y animals The secret of our success in animal biotechnology lies in the fact that Guelph has the expertise and the facilities to take any project from lab to barn and back again
Throughout this report youll read about animal scientists and clinical veterinarians teamed up with molecular biologists imshymunologists chemists and microbiologists and often food scientists toxicologists and environmental biologists Their efforts benefit not only livestock production but also human medicine pharmacology food processing waste disposal and the environshyment
Embryo transfer
A major thrust of the animal biotechnolshyogy research at Guelph is in the area of
embryo transfer In fact there are three reshysearch positions funded by government and industry that deal directly with embryo manipul ation as a way to improve the comshypetitive position of Canadas beef and dairy industries
Biomedical scientist Keith Betteridge OVC MSc 60 heads an embryo research lab molecular biologist Alan Wildeman CBS PhD 83 holds a research chair devoted to the mammalian embryo and animal scientist Charles Smith concentrates on industrial research in animal-breeding strategies
Their work is supported by both federal and provincial granting agencies animal breeders and Semex Canada the major marketing arm of Canadas attificial breedshying industry Semex records annual export sales of more than $25 million and is leadshying the industry to the nex t plateau shymarketing sexed frozen or cloned embryos
One route to increasi ng the efficiency of animal production is by improving animal reproduction says Betteridge And that in shyvolves many new biotechniques associated with embryo transfer Conventional embryo transfer means collecting multiple embryos from selected cows and transferring them to properly synchronized recipients It is now almost equally conventional however to freeze or bisect the embryo as part of the procedure
Initially the selected cow was treated with hormones to produce more eggs which were fertilized through artificial inseminashytion (AI) with the semen of a top-rated bull A large number of embryos could then be recovered surgically from the cow for imshyplantation in surrogate cows of lesser genetic worth
These techniques are widely used for the production of purebred bulls More than half the dairy bulls currently at stud in Canadas major AI centres have been produced this way There is also keen interest in using the technology to produce genetically superior breeds and provide competitively priced volumes of commercial cattle embryos
From lOp Bisecting a bovine embryo to produce identical twin calves a chimeric chick created by mixing cells from two embryos microinjecting the egg ofa fruit fly with DNA from bacterial genes that can confer insecticide resistance and a Hereford heifer protected from shipping fever by a vaccine developed a f U of G
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and more Test-tube calves and lambs
In 1988 Semex research co-ordinator Robert Stubbings OVC 76 MSc 84 PhD 89 produced Guelph s first test-tube calf during his graduate studies with Prof PK Basrur in the Departshyment of Biomedical Sciences It was not the first test-tube calf in Canada but it was the first developed from an egg that was matured as well as fertilized in a test tube
The resulting zygotes (fertili zed eggs) were placed in the oviduct of a rabbit for their early development then moved after seven days to the uterus of a recipient cow
Just a few months later other memshybers of the Guelph team took the process one step further eliminating the need to use a temporary host oviduct Postdoctoral fellow Kang Pu Xu and PhD student John Pollard were able to extend development in vitro to the point where the embryo was mature enough to survive when transplanted directly into a recipient cow s uterus
The early embryos were cultured in a medium containing luminal cells exshytracted from the oviducts of slaughtered cows Two baby bulls were born the first in Canada using this method and only the second in North America
Last year gradu ate student Dawn Kelk CBS 89 and Prof Allan King 73 and MSc 75 of the Department of Biomedical Sciences produced North America s first in vitro fertilization (lVF) lambs using these techniques
These achievements were important for several reasons The Animal Biotechshynology Embryo Laboratory can now
Authors note
One of the things Ive learned while writing this story is that biotechnolshyogy is a word seldom used by scienshytisrs For inost of us it conjures up images of people in lab coats bent over microscopes using precision inshystruments to manipulate the cells of living organisms But for scien~ists that s too vague The word may have
meaning but it d6eslJt really
produce its own IVF embryos from oocytes recovered from slaughtershyhouse cows bypassing the more expensive route of sushyperovulation and surgical withdrawal
In addition scientists have gained knowledge about early embryo development that is important for improveshyments in embryo viability and vital for developments in cloning techniques and controlled transgenesis in livestock
In a more immediate and practical context the work has led to the first clinical
Prof Keith Belleridge left and Prof Stanley Leibo watch as research technician Cindy Christian prepares an embryo f or cryopreservation Photo by Mary Dic kieson
use of IVF in cattle in colshylaboration with Brian Hill OVC 80 of Western Ontario Breeders
Bisected embryos
Meanwhile yet another part of the team based in the Department of Populashytion Medicine was perfecting techniques to microsurgicall y bisect fertilized embryos to produce genetically identi shycal animals
Professors Brian Buckrell OVC 68 MSc 84 and Cathy Gartley OVC 82 DVSc 89 and postdoctoral fel shylow Rick Rorie bisected six-day-old sheep embryos - visible only through magnification - and surgically imshyplanted them into recipient ewes Five months later nine lambs were the first animals born at Guelph from bisected embryos
Prof Walter Johnson and postdoctoral
describe anything They talk instead about cell fusion enzyme systems i ermentation or genetic engineering
The fact that biotechnology didnt appear as a popular buzzword until the 1980s suggests that we are using ilto define something neW yet none of these disciplines is really new Human beings have been using other organisms to create new procucts for centuries Thats why We have yeast yogurt and beer as well as anti-
fellow Naida Loskutoff have now exshytended this work in cattle by producing identical twins from IVF embryos divided into quarters at earlier stages of development
These projects maximize embryo use and highlight the potential for creating significant numbers of genetically identishycal animals which can be vital for conshysistent research results Tests conducted on genetically identical animals can reduce the variables caused by genetic differences and ultimately the number of animals needed for experiments
Frozen sexed embryos
The development of in vitro technishyques has also made possible further studies in cryopreservation (freezing) and embryo sexing
It s been possible to freeze and thaw
biotics growth hormones and vacshycine ~ Even genetic engineering is not new although many of us think it is
Through selective breeding practices fanners have been engineering the genetic makeup of domestic animals -for centuries What is new is the speed and accuracy with which we can implement genetic changes the ability to cross the species barrier and a much greater understanding of life processes
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At the eight-cell stage ofdevelopment in a bovine embryo each cell is removed and placed in the shell ofa discarded embryo Afler three days the blastocysts are transferred into recipient cows and the pregnancies allowed to col1linue Eight identical calves will be born and will proshyvide a valuable tool for research
cattle embryos since 1973 and most of the 60000 or so embryo-transfer calves born annually in North America are now obtained from embryos that have been stored in liquid nitrogen But there are still many problems to overcome in freezing unfertilized eggs embryos at varying stages of development and embryos produced in vitro or subjected to micromanipulation
Biomedical science professor Stanley Leibo is a specialist in cryobiology Before coming to Guelph he was part of an industry team that produced the worlds first live young (mice) from frozen embryos and later invented the patented one-step method of freezing cattle embryos Other biomedical scienshytists - King and Don Rieger - and molecular biologists Wildeman and Stan Blecher are investigating various ways of sexing embryos
Some of these involve the use of micromanipulation to remove a small number of cells from an early-stage embryo The sex can be identified by locating X and Y chromosomes detectshying male-specific DNA or perhaps by studying the proteins produced by the DNA segments In embryonic life the activity of X-linked enzymes in female embryos is twice that in males
Detecting differences in the energy metabolism of male and female embryos may also become a method of sexing In studies on early embryos generated in vitro Guelph scientists disshycovered that male and female embryos develop at different rates In addition to its value in sexing embryos this knowledge poses another question If the team can one day learn to control the rate of embryo development will it be possible to control the sex of an embryo independent of its genetic comshyplement
Photo courtesy of the Animal Biotechnology Embryo Lab
Transgenic animals
Since the mid 1980s Wildeman and fellow molecular biologist John Phillips have been producing transgenic mice for studies in human disease
This involves recovering one-cell embryos microsurgicalty from an imshypregnated mouse With a finely drawn glass needle a piece of DNA is inserted into the nucleus of the embryo which is then placed in a surrogate female to complete the pregnancy The offspring carries the foreign gene
One line of research using transgenic mice involves the study of a virus known to affect the transformation of normal cells into tumorous cancer cells Wildeman performs this work using transgenic mice in studies of cancer and metastasis
Transgenic mice are also used in Phillipss ongoing study of the causes of insulin-dependent juvenile diabetes He borrowed a gene from the fruit fly and spliced it into the chromosomes of the mouse so that it is expressed in the beta cells of the pancreas
Observations from the research conshyfirm the long-standing hypothesis that one cause of juvenile diabetes arises from the action of oxygen radicals in the pancreas
The fruit fly itself is used in studies aimed at producing insecticide-resistant insects Working with a team of scienshytists in Texas Phillips is perfecting techshyniques to transfer organophosphate insecticide-resistant genes to the fruit fly and ultimately to agriculturally beneficial insects
Studies have shown that the use of inshysecticides could be reduced if beneficial insects were not also killed by the spray In addition this research may provide the solution needed by North American
honey producers who are suffering great losses in their beehives due to parasitic mites Currently there is no effective control of the mites
From mice to pigs and chickens
Transgenic mice are also playing a role in a project that may eventually imshyprove forage use in domestic animals
Ruminant animals like cows and sheep have friendly bacteria in their inshytestinal tract that enable them to digest the cellulose fibre in forage crops If other animals such as pigs or chickens had the same ability they could be reared on lower-quality cheaper feed than the cereal grains now used
A research team that includes Phillips microbiologists Cecil Forsberg and Peter Krell and environmental biologist David Collins-Thompson has isolated the effective gene from a microshyorganism present in ruminant animals and is transferring it into the mouse which is also a monogastric animal Studies with transgenic mice will enable the team to fine-tune its ability to manipulate expression of the gene
This is just the beginning of a longshyterm project says Phillips but it may one day connect with the work of Profs Rob Etches and Jim Squires in the Department of Animal and Poultry Science who are following separate paths to reach the same goal- transshygenic chickens
Blotchy chicks
Etchess lab opened the door for transshygenic poultry in 1988 when postdoctoral fellow Jim Petitte OAC PhD 86 sucshycessfully moved cells from one chick embryo to another creating chimeric chicks Until this breakthrough
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researchers had been unable to manipulate the avian embryo in the early stages of development
Petitte extracted embryonic cells from the yo lk of a newly laid egg from a barred Plymouth Rock hen and microinjected them into a rec ipient embryo in a dwarf white l eghorn egg through a tiny 05-censhytimetre window cut in the shell When incubated the egg went on to produce a chimeric chick Embryonic cells from the black Plymouth Rock donor were expressed as blotches of black in the chicks down
Since then Etchess research team has been able to do the procedure more successfully get better gene exshypression in the donor cells and keep the embryonic cells in culture for 24 to 48 hours befo re transplanting them into the recipient egg
The chimeric chick itself is not transgenic genetic information from the donor embryo is expressed in a limited number of cells in the chick A second-generation chimera howshyever would be transgenic if the donor cells contained a foreign gene
Thats the focu s of a collaborat ive
Animal scienlisl Jim Squirev has developed a chemic(li recipe Ih(l causes DNA-I(lced liposomes 10 fuse wilil sperm cells When pershyjeered the technique will allow him to use the natural veeror ofsperm cells 10 lransmit foreign
project between the labs of Etches and colleague Prof Ann Gibbins OAC MSc 71 PhD 80 who is intershyested in modifying the donor cells through genetic manipulation When her lab team is able to target a specific gene and change it - and only it - they will insert that gene into the donor cells to produce a chimeric chick and in the second generation a transgenic chick
Transgenic sperm
Squires is taking a more obvious but no less perilous route to the transgenic chicken by using sperm cells to carry the foreign DNA Just as the hen s embryo is difficul t to manipulate the rooster s sperm has barriers of its own Prevail ing thought is that any invas ion of the sperm cell will kill its potency
Although Itali an and Israeli reshysearchers claim to have inserted DNA into the sperm cells of mice through abshysorption no one else has been able to get this to work so the prevailing thought prevail s
Squires s approach is to power DNA into the cells He s de veloped a chemishycal recipe that causes DNA-laced liposomes (fat globules) to fuse with sperm cells
Squires says his team has overcome
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DNA Photo by Ma ry Dickieson
the three main obstacles encapsulating DNA in the liposomes fu sing the liposomes to sperm cells which affects the transfer of 0 TA and retaining the fertility of the sperm
What they have yet to demonstrate is that the process produces a transgenic animal Trials are under way using a radioactive marker ge ne that can be easi shyly detected in a developing transgenic chicken Squires will be eager for peer rev iew to document the results this fall
If successful the sperm cell technique can be adapted for use with all species of commercial animals Sperm cells are the perfect vector because their ultimate function is to insert DNA into an egg says Squires We ll just be supplying the DNA The method is easy economical and safe to periorm and does not inshyvolve expensive equipment
Disease diagnosis
The international race to identify a mutation assoc iated with a costly swine disease was won by Guelph pathologist Peter OBrien OVC 88 and Univershysity of Toronto professor David Maclennan
The mutation associated with maligshy
nant hyperthermia was identifi ed in Maclennan s laboratory by sequenc ing the gene in normal and abnormal swine A I OO-per-cent correlation was fo und between DNA-based tests in Maclennan s laboratory and phys iologishycalbiochemical tests used in 0 Brien s research for diagnosing the condition
From these findings the scienti sts developed a test using modem molecular biology techniques to identify the mutation in the blood cells of inshydividual swine
Malignant hyperthermia is seldom fatal in pigs but it results in poorshyquality pork Pork producers suffer major economic losses from what is known as PSE - pale soft exudative (watery) meat - in affected animals
Other research at U of G cou ld help eliminate a potentially lethal blood coagulation disorder in dairy cows Facshytor XI a genetic disorder associated with a lack of c lotting protein in the bl ood causes hemorrhag ing in Holstein cows
Researchers believe the problem can be eliminated by ensuring that breeding stocks are free of the disease Testing for all of Canada is conducted by U of G biomed ica l sc ienti st Patricia Gentry and research technician Michelle Ross
Vaccine development
Vaccination is the cheapest most efshyfecti ve way of dealing with infec tions and the most poweriul way of preventshying di sease Advanced immunization programs using new biotechniques are under way in many Guelph labs last fa ll the Natural Sc iences and Engineershying Research Council announced strategic grants for advanced techshynologies that included four vacci ne development projects at U of G
Profs Brian Derbyshire and Eva Nagy of the Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Immunology (VMI) recei ved a three-year grant of $295000 to perfect gene-cloning techniques for the de velopment of a vaccine for porshycine gas troenteritis
In the same department Profs Janet Maclnnes Soren Rosendal and Bonnie -Mallard OAC 79 MSc 82 PhD 88 were awarded $250000 over three years to work on a recombinant vaccine effecshytive against the bacterial organism that causes severe pneumonia in pigs
Also in VMI Prof Patricia SheweD 75 MSc 79 PhD 82 received a three-year grant of $408 000 with Prof
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Reggie Lo Microbiology to continue work on an improved vaccine for shipshyping fever Lo and Prof Alan Mellors Chemistry and Biochemistry received a $54000 grant to develop clinical and com mercial applications of a technique used in bone marrow transplantation and vaccine development
These projects follow in the footsteps of earlier developments like the bov ine shipping fever vaccine created by Shewen and VMI chair Bruce Wilkie OVC 65 It was like finding a way to control the common cold in humans
Although the bacterium Pasteurella haemolytica occurs normally in the noses of cattle its numbers increase during periods of high stress and present an insurmountable problem for the animals immune system
Wilkie and Shewen di scovered that during its most active stage of growth the bacterium produces a toxin that imshypairs the ability of clearing cells to eliminate the bacterium They grew the bacterium in a culture monitored toxin production and developed processes for vaccine production
The technology was licensed to Langford Inc of Guelph which man ufac tures and markets Presponse shipping fever vaccine in both Canada and the United States
Lab work by Lo and former student Craig Strathdee CBS 85 PhD 89 that contributed to the shipping fever vaccine project also led to a patent apshyplication - for the plasmid coding for Pasteurella haemolytic leucotoxin which has been implicated as a major virulence factor in the impairment of primary lung defence in cattle
Animal health
Wilkie and Mallard are also working with Prof Brian Kennedy in Guelph s Centre for the Genetic Improvement of Livestock to develop a selective breedshying program that uses knowledge acshyquired through genetic studies and stretches the definition of biotechnology
To stay hea lthy an individual animal must have the genetic ability to produce resi stance to infection says Wilkie That ability is not dependent on a sing le gene but on the expression of many difshyferent genes Neve rtheless these genetic traits are heritable and amenable to selection
This team has identified traits in pigs that are important in maintaining health has characterized individual animals
Biotechnology ofa different sort in volves the use of traditional selected breeding and a computer database to produce diseaseshyresistant pigs
through the expression of these genetic traits and has associated these traits with high productivity If these high producers are mated to produce a disshyease-resistant strain of pigs is that biotechnology
If foreign DNA had been introduced into the embryo of a pig to give it the characteristic of disease resistance that would be an obvious example of bioshytechnology But how do we catalogue the technology if it uses tradi tional selecshytive breeding and a computer to produce a piglet with the same resistance to disshyease
More biotechniques in action
Guelph food scientist Cyriel Duitschaever OAC MSc 66 PhD 75 has developed new fermented milk products that will benefit people suffershying from gastrointestinal illnesses
He and research associate Carole Buteau OAC MSc 78 PhD 83 isoshylated two naturally occurring intestinal bac teri a and propagated a pure culture in the laboratory to develop both liquid and yogurt-like milk products that can be used to stimulate digestion in the inshytestinal tracts of people who are on anshytibiotics who are lactose-intolerant or who suffer gas trointestinal disorders
Clinica l trials at the Children s Hospishytal of Buffalo have been promis ing giv ing rise to another potential use in the treatment of acute diarrhea l di seases affec ting people in the Third World
Microbiology professor Joseph Lam heads a research team that has develshyoped a diagnostic kit to quickly identify a bacteria group known to cause fat al inshy
fections in some hospital patients Pseushydomonas aeruginosa is the principal cause of death in cystic fibrosis sufshyferers and is a serious threat to burn vi cshytims cancer patients and those undergo ing transplants
Because the bacterium does not respond to conventional antibiotic treatshyments quick de tection is central to preventing spread of the infection Lam s kit can cut the test period from 12 hours to five minutes
His current research illustrates the cross-over effect of biotechnology He identified an antigen that is common to about 75 per cent of P aeruginosa strains and a monoclonal antibody against the antigen This has allowed him to iso late spec ia l bacteria that will produce the antigen in large quantities for further s tud y His work should evenshytually lead to a human monoclonal anshytibody that cou ld be used to protect cystic fibrosis patients
In 1989 when the federal governshyment decided it was time to put some money behind its verbal thrust in science and technology it allocated $240 million to estab li sh 14 centres of excellence that would integrate the reshysearch efforts of Canadian uni versi ties industry and government
Several U of G researchers received funding including microbiologists Chris Whitfield Anthony Clarke Joseph Lam Reggie Lo Roselynn Stevenson and Terry Beveridge who beshycame part of the network looking into bacterial di sease Their expertise will aid the search for the causative agents of bacterial diseases such as whooping cough gonorrhea toxic shock synshydrome lung infections and me ningitis
In 1988 biochemist Janet Wood and crop scientist Peter Paul s achieved a breakthrough in understanding how subshystances like sugars and amino ac ids are transported from outside to inside a living cell wall They found that minute protein molecules in the wall surroundshying a cell act like miniature pumps capshyturing the substance and powering it through the cell wall -They are now trying to determine how the protein molec ules choose subshystances for uptake or release S uch celshylular behavior plays a critical role in determining a plants reaction to soi l sa linity or explaining why cells fai l to transport glucose from the blood in diabetics
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Behind every how theres a why While we stand in awe of what sc ienshytists are accomplishing in the biological sciences we shouldnt lose sight of the reasons why they are manipulating cell structure and decoding genetic blueprints
To some extent scientific exploration is driven by human nature - our desire to understand and control the natural world Advances in biotechniques and genetic engineering promise to give us more of both
Reports on the Human Genome Project say that within 15 years well know the code of almost every gene in the human body This work and current explorations in animal genetics are harshymonized by the fact that many of the genes that control development are similar among species
The chicken for example is a familiar model for studies in developshymental biology Supported by 60 to 70 years of data todays embryologists like Prof Rob Etches are learning how to modify the genes that control developshyment of a chick embryo while giving us a better understanding of how genes efshyfect development in all vertebrates
Nothing could be more fund amental than understanding that process says Prof Keith Betteridge who heads the Guelph team working with bovine embryos In all areas of reproductive and genetic research the big payoff is that we will understand more about how two gametes can unite to fonn a single cell and develop into Northern Dancer or Albert Einstein he says
Everyone has a role to play in decidshying how to use this knowledge says Betteridge but the researcher has the triple responsibility of thinking through the implications of new technologies exshyplaining those implications to a skeptishycal and concerned public and safeshyguarding the welfare of animals used
Whether manipulating an entire animal or one of its reproductive cells the scientist is guided by the same set of moral standards If the technology inshyduces pain or suffering causes changes in behavior or affects the animals abilshyity to eat and survive then it shouldnt be done says Prof Bruce Wilkie chair of the Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Immunology
He and other Guelph scientists inshyvolved in animal research are subject to
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peer rev iew through the U of G s animal care committee which is also charged with ensuring that research and teaching programs are in compliance with the Animals for Research Act of Ontario
Reporting to the University s Reshysearch Board the committee is comshyposed offaculty student community and non-user representatives It estabshyli shes animal-care policies on campus and evaluates all protocols submitted by researchers and teachers After granting initial approval the committee reviews each project annually and inspects reshysearch facilities each semester A provinshycially appointed inspector also visits campus frequently and the Canadian Council on Animal Care makes an inshyspection every three years to assess the level of animal care
In addition to safeguarding animal care scienti sts al so need to provide evidence that the products of biotechnolshyogy are safe for human consumption or medical use The public needs to know that the pharmaceutical protein cloned and produced in a chicken s egg is no different than the same protein cultured from human cells and produced in a large bioreactor
The big payoff is that we will understand more about how two gametes can unite to form a single cell and develop into Northern Dancer or Albert Einstein
One of the most talked-about benefits of transgenic technologies is the potenshytial for producing enzymes prote ins and antibodies for pharmaceutical and inshydustrial uses Molecular farming would take advantage of the expression system in higher animals to produce a therashypeutic protein that is difficult or expenshysive to make in a lab
The potential seems enormous but the prac tice will be quite simple A typishycal Ontario dairy herd could probably produce enough human insulin or bloodshyclotting factor to satisfy the world
demand It s easy to see why these techshyniques are already presenting problems for patent offices
The past decade of work in transshygenesis has been a learning process for all of us Early research efforts that produced pigs in the United States with arthritic deformities and sheep in Australia with ulcers have taught us th at even science must learn to walk befo re it can run That means perfecting genetic transfer in animals where the techniques are easily controlled - such as mice and fruit flies - before applyshying them to domestic animals
One of the advantages of gene transshyfer technology is the control it offers geneticists who are able to manipulate expression of a single gene during development One of the limitations may be the re lative ly minor change that gene can make in one generation when compared with the changes induced through the countless generations of selection since domestication
These limitations may alleviate some of our fears about the use of gene transshyfer but it also makes us question its value at least in terms of breed improveshyment in domestic livestock Prof Charshyles Smith holds a research chair at Guelph in animal-breeding strategies and is often called on to assess the value of the new biotec hnologies in the genetic improvement of farm livestock
Economic traits are already being imshyproved through traditional selective breeding methods he says It would take quite large beneficial transgenic efshyfects (at least 10 per cent of the mean) on economic merit to make their incorshyporation worthwhile
Despite our e thical concerns the legal entanglements created by the use of biotechniques and the problem of turnshying new technologies into cost-effective procedures most scientists agree that these technolog ies are too powerfu I not to use They have the pote ntial to help allev iate some of the most serious problems facing the world - food production overpopulation disease and shyenvironmental degradation
Statisticians teU us that 50 years from now we will be trying to feed twice the current world s population on a smaller land base in a more fragile environshyment This is the why behind current research in genetic engineering
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OUD TH Annual giving in 1991 reached $14 million The value of the Annual Fund becomes more apparent each year as the University of
Scholarships amp BursariesGuelph faces continued financial $320127
AMF Priority Athletics ~ ---------- (Scholarships$38326
pressure The 1991 Annual Fund Pet Trust raised $14 million to help $261224 maintain scholarships and provide academic and library programs AMF OAC Alumni Scholarships Foundation ______ grew by $9245 25 per cent
$228494
Memorial Funds $56997
Arboretum $77441
Class Projects ResearchBuildings$86658
Matching gifts grew 31 per cent in 1991 More and more Canadian companies are g iving financial support to the institushytions that educated their employees A total of 44 companies matched 92 inshydividual gifts for a record $11120 in Annual Fund contributions to the University of Guelph in 1991
If you work for a matching-g ift employer every doll ar you donate is matched - doubled or even tripled shyby a company gift Its as easy as it sounds so check with your employer on how to multiply the value of your gift to the University
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Academic Enrichment $87246
3M Canada Incorporated Akzo America Foundation Alcan Aluminum Limited A lean Canada Products Ltd Amdahl Canada Limited American Home Products Corp American International Group Inc BASF Corporation Bell Canada Boise Cascade Canada Limited Campbell Soup Co Ltd Chevron Canada Resources Ltd F alconbridge Ltd Ford Motor Company of Canada Ltd Gelleral Electric Canada Inc Hoechst Canada Incorporated IBM Canada Limited ICI Canada Incorporated Insurance Bureau of Canada
$134893Library $103050
John Laball Limited Kraft General Foods Canada McGraw-H ill Ryerson Limited Nabisco Brands Canada Ltd Northern Telecom Limited Paul Revere Life Insurance Co Pfizer Canada Inc Pioneer Hi-Bred Limited Pitman-Moore Inc Sara Lee Corp ofCanada Ltd Square D Canada The Bank of Montreal The Coca-Cola Company The Toronto Star The UPS Foundation TransCanada Pipelines Warner-Lambert Canada Inc Westeel
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ADIT ON With thanks to Donors Class agents College representatives Alma Mater Fund Advisory Council
Alumni and others who give to the University of Guelph through the Annual Fund are helping to maintain quality at a time when governments are funding for mediocrity Because of the dedication and commitment of our donors and volunshyteers the 1991 Annual Fund surpassed last year s total by $100000 We did not achieve our goal - perhaps $1 6 million was overly ambitious in light of current economic conditions - but we were able to maintain last years 25-per-cent inshycrease in scholarship support
Through the Alma Mater Fund we raised more than $540000 and achieved Tom Sawyer
the target of 12-per-cent participation among graduates of the three founding colleges Arts CBS and CSS alumni substantially increased their donations and participation over last year Campus participation grew from 145 per cent in 1990 to 171 per cent this year And our parents program pushed contributions from parents to $84188 compared with $31500 in 1990
For the first time since 1984 the Alma Mater Fund Advisory Council was able to go beyond its commitments to fund eight additional projects - a total of $86000
Looking ahead our flagship project for 1992 will be War Memorial Hall renovations During Alumni Weekend in June you ll have a chance to see the work that has been done upstairs and the work still needed in the downstairs hall It s a project well worth the interest and support of alumni
For your past and future support of the Alma Mater Fund my sincere thanks
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Tom Sawyer OAC 59A and 6 Corporations Chair AMF Advisory Council Associations Foundations $2874947 Annual giving contribution s
III Annual IGiving Alumni
$1403701 Major Gifts $1236622
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were 22 per cent of the o
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$6239707 given t U of G as donation
in 1991
Government (Donations only
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Annual Giving Report
1991 Annual Fund Results $1 A niillion wasraised overallmiddot ariinceaSe of
76 per ceI1tThisyear alumrii in the Arts and CBS groups doubled theirparticipation alld conshytributions And the parents recotded a 46-pershy
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The group of eight
Eight campus projects were selected to share $86000 in highest-priority funds from the 1990 Alma Mater Fund Among them are the OvC Wild Bird Clinics education program a CSS academic medal in memory of the late dean John vanderkamp a soc ial sc ience citation index for the library framshying for the fine art print study collection a computer design laboratory for the School of Engineering seed money for a history graduate scholarship a conshytinuing education survey for the Mac-FACS Alumni Association and a HAFA-sponsored executive-inshyresidence
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Of cattle cash and Colvil e Alumni gifts to the University of Guelph come in some pretty interesting packages Over the years alumni have given livestock concrete paintings shythere are two by Canadian painter Alex Colville - furniture land books inshysurance policies and a host of artifacts and antiques And money - a lot of money Almost every building on camshypus has some bricks and mortar paid for by alumni And hundreds of students are helped along the way each year by alumshyni-sponsored scholarships
The Annual Giving Report on the preceding pages shows once again how important alumni gifts are to the Univershysity and provides us with an opportunity to say thank you to those alumni who continue to give on a yearly basis Anshynual giving is however only one of three avenues through which alumni proshyvide financial support to the University The others are major gifts and promoshytional programs
Annual giving
The Alma Mater Fund established in 1969 is the route chosen by most alumshyni faculty and staff who make annual gifts to the University
AMF solicitation and management are handled by a volunteer advisory council On the preceding page chair Tom Sawyer OAC 59A and 64 talks about the funds success over the last two years with AMF scholarships inshycreasing by 25 per cent This year the AMF begins a three-year commitment to funding renovations to War Memorial Hall
In addition to its flagship project AMF provides regular support to athshyletics through Gryphon Club contribushytions to college advancement funds and scholarships and to individual class projects
The AMF supports the camaraderie of university days as alumni work together to plan and complete a project whether its funding a scholarship a painting a tree weight-lifting equipshyment or furniture for Alumni House AMF contributions also ensure that fushyture Guelph students will remember those who have gone before
In addition to AMF donations the anshynual giving program includes gifts to
the OVC Pet Trust Fund the OAC Alumni Foundation the Arboretum the paren ts program and the Li brary Other gifts made directly to the University supshyport memorial funds scholarships musishycal activities and research and academic programs
Major gifts
Major gifts to the University are adshyministered by the Deve lopment Office under the direction of Marilyn Robinson Mac 55 These include beshyquests or life insurance policies shortshyterm pledges (often made during a capital campaign) large donations that might establish an endowment fund or contributions to special University projects like the Heritage Fund or the proposed FACS Building addition
Gifts- in-kind - such as library materials art objects or estate properties - also fall within thi s category Last year alumni gave more than $12 milshylion in such tax-deductible gifts
Promotions
Every Guelph graduate is a member of the University of Guelph Alumni Asshysociation and receives the Guelph Alumshy
nus magazine and many other privishyleges There are no UGAA membership fees but the association does raise money through promotional programs like MasterCard travel packages and the North American Life Assurance proshygram
The UGAA provides serv ices to alumshyni and students - such as the careershyplanning workshop planned for Juneshyand returns many dollars directly to the campus Last year it gave $20000 to the library
In addition to direct financial support through annual giving and major gifts alumni also support the University inshydirectly through membership fees to individual college and program associashytions The fees pay for association acshytivities that help maintain ties between their members and the University
Questions
If you have questions or would like 10
know more about the tax advantages of giving to U of G write to Paulette Samson associate director of annual giving and support services at Alumni House University of Guelph Guelph Ont NIG 2Wl or call 519-824-4120 Ext 6183
When yo~bearrom US
If you think youre hearing from us moreoften lhanY9u elida few years ago you reright But checkyour mail and you ll 110tiqe that you~re also hearing
more frequemly from othernon-jgtrofit)rganizations and charities We v~ all stepped lip oui- fUQdIaising efforts
U QfGappreciates your support and needs your help butyou wont know that if we donr teflyou Aildeyen if you cant afford to make a fjnancialcon~
tributiori we hop~ to wjn yoUfverbaJ sliPPOJ-tJt will take many voices to coii- ylnce governmeritthal universities should beagreater public priority
When we contacenttyou on behalf of iheUriivetsity we lly to give more thiin we ask So tak~advantage ofthe p~1one call o(letter to findoutwhais happenc ing OJrcarnp~s U ofG hasmuchto offer llufnrii professionaldevelcipment courses library privileges travel programs recreation and a link Igt friends and
classmates
We Jik~to keep in roucharidYcwarit yO~1 to know the progress were rilaking Ast~e Uriiversity $ prestige grows so does the value ofyour degree
~0~ MarilynR~binson Trish Walker Mac55 DiJectoJ ofDevelopment CSSTl Director ofAJurhni Affairs
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Get your career on track
Responding to alumni requests the University of Guelph Alumni Associashytion will sponsor a career-planning workshop on campus June 26 to 28 The weekend program will be led by Sharon Crozier of the University of Calgary counselling service Each participant will receive a careerlifestyle analysis and will develop a personal action plan
The $225 fee includes the StrongshyCampbell Interest Inventory and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator which will be administered and tabulated prior to the weekend Testing dates have been set in Toronto for May 27 and in Guelph for June 4
Sponsored by the UGAA and coshyordinated by Continuing Education and Alumni Affairs the workshop will also draw on the Universitys Counselling and Student Resource Centre
Enrolment is limited to 20 For registration information see page 26 or call Continuing Education at 519-767shy5000
UGAA board report
by Grant Lee CSS 73 MA 80
The UGAA will present a convocation package to each graduate this spring imshymediately following presentation of the degree or diploma Developed by Alumshyni Affairs staff the package is designed to increase awareness of the UGAA and the collegeschool alumni associations encourage membership introduce the Guelph Alumnus and provide an opporshytunity for board members to congratushylate our new alumni
Approval of the new UGAA bylaw is on schedule It will be presented to members at the annual general meeting in June along with an amendment to the
i I UGAA Letters Patent
In addition the UGAA board bull has approved a $400 donation to help
cover costs for two students to represhysent Guelph at the 1992 World Debatshying Championships in Dublin Ireland
bull is looking at a proposal to help alumDl with financial planning There will be more to come on this subject later
bull received thanks from president Brian Segal on behalf of those alumni who attended the October symposium
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Canada Break Up or Restructure The association was a patron of the event
bull is responding to requests from alumni for more social events Aside from the travel program the UGAA sponsored a ski day at Horseshoe Valley in March
bull approved a proposal from the School of Landscape Architecture to research places of historical value on campus Financial support has yet to be resolved
bull accepted an offer to help sponsor the University Centres annual lecture series which invites Canadian and inshyternational public figures to speak on current issues All events in the winter 92 series were free to alumni
bull donated U of G sweatshirts to Canadian Guidance and Counselling for a conference in Ottawa this sumshymer
bull approved the purpose and terms of refshyerence for the new Alumni House Adshyvisory Committee which is charged with overseeing maintenance of the
facility adopted the 199192 budget and finanshycial plan drafted last November This year we expect to generate some $44000 and spend $33000 It has been suggested that we set the 199293 budget and plan in April of this year so the new board wi II start in September with a sound financial program and budget that will only reshyquire adoption or revision
Chapter news
Calgary - About 40 alumni and guests met at the Delta Bow Valley Hotel Feb 3 to view a U of G video and hear a talk by admissions counsellor C hr is tine Toews FACS 87 Co-ordinator of the event was Janet Hutchinson CBS 79
Edmonton - Paul OAC 67 and Anne Valentine CBS 69 hosted a group of 30 alumni and guests at the Ramada Renaissance Hotel
Montreal - U of G welcomed students and their parents - including many
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alumni - to its first Montreal informashytion night for prospective students The event was modelled after a successful program in Toronto that draws more than 800 students each spring
Vancouver - U of G president Brian Segal met with alumni March 5 at the Pan Pacific Hotel Jim Dodds OVC 63 and Sarah Bloom FACS 86 orshyganized the event which attracted about 70 alumni and guests
Halifax- U ofG alumni in Halifax met with Gryphon basketball players during the March 26 to 28 CIAU chamshypionships Despite losing the OUAA west division title to Brock University the Gryphons qualified for a wi ld card spot at the CIAU championships Alumshyni received free tickets to the game that pitted Guelph against Brandon in the consolation final Fan support was enshythusiastic but the Gryphons lost 72 to 64 finishing third overall
Homecoming 1992 Plans are well under way for Homecoming weekend Sept 25 and 26 In addition to the annual Gryphon Hall of Fame dinner and award s ceremony the weekend will feat ure a beach volshyleyball tou rnamen t --~4~=iiiiikshyconcert alumni brunch walk-a-thon pep rally reunions and the traditional homecoming dance following the Saturday afternoon footshyball game This year the Gryphons will play Wil frid Laurier University A complete schedule will appear in the next Guelph Alumnus but you can get
Winners of Ihe Ju SI fo r Fun square dance compelition 01 College Royal were left 10 right Ann Joselin Kelley Allen Joanne Hewirson Brenl McFadden caller Sue MacKinnon Richard Presley Trish Henderson Jason Thompson and Kelly Lillie
in the Homecoming spirit now by helpshying to plan your class reunion or signing up as a scorekeeper for the vo lleyball tournament For infOlmation call alumshyni officer Laurie Malleau HAFA 83 at 519-824-4120 Ext 2102
Swing your partner
Eight squares of alumni took part in the College Royal square dance competition in March Winners of the UGAA alumni square dance plaque were the Crazy 8s Joanne Hewitson Arts 91 Lloyd Hutchinson CBS 87 Sonya Jones CPS 90 Ed Ketchabaw OAC 88 and MSc 91 Carol)n OAC 90 and Brad MacNeil CPS 87 Mike Relf OAC 91 and student Sherry MacNeil Wayne Lowden was the caller
Winners in the Just for Fun category were Junior Farmer alumni who included Hewitson Ann Joselin OAC 90 Brent McFadden CSS 90 Richard Presley OAC 86 and soonshyto-be-alumni Kelley Allen Trish
Henderson Kelly Little and Jason Thompson The caller was Sue MacKinnon OVC 9 1
Florida picnic
The North Port Yacht Club hosted 199 alumni for the annual Florida picnic March 4 On hand to meet them was Trish Walker CSS 77 and MSc 90 director of alumni affairs Judy Phillips of the University s Real Estate Division also attended to talk about the Village by the Arboretum retirement deve lopshyment
Attendance prizes went to Gertrude Stewart Mac 30 and Morley Funston OAC 32 The picnic was sponsored by the UGAA Alumni-In shyAction Committee represented by Ken Gartley OAC 42 and the Florida reunion committee consisting of Mary and Ted Brent OAC 48 Helen and Don Moffatt OAC 46 Stella and Bob Moore OAC 48 and Retis and Bill HasenptlugOAC 39
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A new kind of class reunion
Its the latest fad in alumni circles shymeeting your classmates at the anshynual University of Guelph alumni hockey tournament Twenty-two teams played in the fifth annual tourshynament in December
For most teams tournament standshyings are secondary to the socializing with classmates that they may not see otherwise says Bill Seegmiller OAC 83 who worked with Brian TapscottOAC 8 1 to organize the event We promote the social aspect through two divisions - social and more social - and include family skating and a Saturday evening wine and cheese party he says Trish Walker director ofalumni affairs presents fhe social division lrophy 10 Ihe OAC 79
Dipper Oldies (II the U ofG alumni hockey tournamenl The OAC 79A team defeated the Grey Gryphons to win the more soshycial division The OAC 80 team won the consolation final and the spirit award went to OAC 7778
In the social (a little more competishytive) division it was the Faceoffs in first place over OAC 88 OAC 90 won the consolation trophy and the Valley Vikings took home the spirit award
Organizers plan to add womens exshyhibition games to the 1992 tournament which is scheduled for Dec 5 and 6 For more information call Seegmiller at 519-836-3807 or Rudy Diemer OAC 85 at 519-763-2250
A night at the races
The UGAA Alumni-in-Action group will host a night at Mohawk Raceway May 26 The $30 admission includes a 6 pm buffet parking program taxes and gratuities For detail s call Laurie
~ Malleau at 519-824-4120 Ext 2102
I Alumni directory
A new alumni directory will be ready for delivery in May The deadline for alumni updates has passed but you can still order a copy of the directory at a cost of $40 plus tax Return the order form you received with the special U of G wristwatch offer or write to Rosemary Clark Mac 59 at Alumni House University of Guelph Guelph Ont NIG 2Wl
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Ottawa chapter 50 years young
There was a nostalgic gathering of Guelph alumni in Ottawa last winter to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the city s alumni chapter
Donald Fletcher OAC 36A and 39 who was president of the group in 1953 sent us a historical account of the chapters activities
A small organizing committee first met in February 1941 at Madame Burgers restaurant to plan the chapters first fun ction a skating party at the Ottawa Experimental Farm It attracted 75 people
Over the years the group held an anshynual picnic and a banquet and dance that gave them a chance to invite faculty from Guelph to speak about happenings at the colleges - and later the Univershysi ty Every president from George I Christie to Bill Winegard paid a vi sit
In 1951 alumni from OVC and Macshydonald Institute who had been meeting since 1936 joined the OAC group A crowd of almost 200 celebrated the chapter s 10th anniversary at a picnic at the farm of the late John Bracken OAC 06 During the 1950s they added a get-together at the annual Ottawa-area plowing match which gave way to a curling bon spiel in the 1960s
There have been many special funcshytions - entertaining the Gryphon footshyball teams square dances car rallies golf tournaments theatre parties and raceway evenings - but the event that stands out in Fletchers memory ocshycurred in 1966 when five members of Parliament hosted the group in the parshyliamentary ballroom
The chapter also includes a couples bridge club which has been meeting for 25 years in the homes of its members
Fletcher thanks the 30 people who have served as president of the Ottawa alumni chapter and the dozens more who have helped on committees devot shying years to the executive to promote the institution
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Discussion structured exercises and experiential activities will lead alumni to gain insight into a personal careerllifestyle analYSis and assessment career information resources networking skills and much more
No matter what their age career stage or reason for transition each participant will find this workshop to be an excellent opportunity to develop a personal action plan - and chart their next move
~ Pre-1esting In order to provide individualized career information registrants are required to attend one of two pre-testing sessions The Strongshycampbell Interest Inventory and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator will be administered and results tabulated prior to the workshop Pre-testing dates are as follows
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Guelph Thursday June 4 1992 700 pm - 8 30 pm University Centre
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May 2 - The Guelph Spring Festival begins with a 25th-anniversary gala dinshyner in Creelman Hall that will honor founding president Murdo MacKinnon Other festival events run until May 23 For more information call 519-821-7570
May 2 shy An All-Canadian University Asshysociation d inne r w il l be held in Washington DC at the Embassy of Canada Guest speaker is Robert Lanni president of the University of Windsor Entertainment will be provided by Windsors music department For inforshymation call T Chan at 202-543-9111
May 3 - Arboretum Day celebrates spring with family nature walks at 1 and 330 pm and an electrical keyboard concert at 230 pm featuring Canadian comshyposer Carole Anne Burris
May 10 to Aug 30 - Guided nature walks run every Sunday at 230 pm in the Arboretum Topics include wildflowers birds turtles snakes and insects The nature centre is open from 1230 to 430 pm
May 13 - Chancellor Lincoln Alexander is the guest speaker at the Alumni-inmiddotAction annual general meeting which begins at noon in the Arboretum Centre For details call Alumni Affairs 519-824middot 4120 Ext 2102
May 13 - The Human KineticsHuman Biology Alumni Association will hold its inaugural meeting at730 pm at Alumni House with a coffee and dessert social RSVP to 519-824-4120 Ext 6963
May 23 shy FACS 82 is sponsoring a colshylection of Bob Munsch plays performed by the Carousel Players at3 pm at War Memorial Hall Tickets are $8 plus tax and handling To order call the UC box off ice at 519-824-4120 Ext 3940
May 26 - Alumni-in-Action is hosting a night at Mohawk Raceway Cost is $30 To register call 529-824-4120 Ext 2102
May 30 - An Arboretum sale of rare native trees and shrubs at the RJ Hi lton Centre on College Avenue East runs from 9 am to 1 pm For information call 519-824shy4120 Ext 2113
May 30 shy The sixth annual All-Canadian University Dinner in Chicago will be held
in the Henry Crown Space Centre at the Museum of Science and Industry and will include a reception buffet dinner and an Omnivax movie beginning at 6 pm Guest speaker is George Pedersen president of the University of Western Ontario For information call David Cole at 312-372-4404 or Hugh Mackenzie at 708-369-3688
June 2 to 5 shy Spring convocation June 13 - Beginning at 7 am the Arshy
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June 15 to 17 shy U of G will host the 15th annual Guelph Conference on Sexuality With the theme Sexuality New Visions the conference will examine current isshysues in human sexuality counselling strategies for sexual problems and teaching approaches in sexuality educashytion For information call the Office of Continuing Education at 519-767-5000 or fax 519-767-0758
June 19 to 21 - ALUMNI WEEKEND See page 39 for a complete schedule of events and alumni association meetings The UGAA annual meeting is June 21 at 10 am in Macdonald Hall 149
June 26 to 28 shy The UGAA-sponsored alumni career-planning workshop will be held on campus See page 26 for details
July 31 amp Aug 4 shy The National Youth Orchestra will perform in War Memorial Hall at 8 pm as part of its summer program at U of G Tickets at $8 general $6 for stUdents and seniors will be availshyable at the door
Sept 26 - HOMECOMING Rise early for the second ann ual Homecoming charity walkathon At 930 am the Human Kinetics Alumni Association will hold its annual general meeting in the School of Human Biology lounge
Oct 1 - OVCs 1992 Schofield Memorial Lecture will be given by Steven Arnoczky a professor in the department of small animal clin ical sciences at Michigan State Universitys Laboratory for Comparative Orthopedics The 3 pm lecture will be held in War Memorial Hall Admission is free
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John Boros 88 of Wei land Ont writes that he is impressed by the way U of G keeps records after graduation Thi s gives the graduate a sense of belonging a connection to an important period in hi s or her life he says
Jane Buzza 88 is working as records co-ordinatorarchivist for the Ontario Medishycal Association in Toronto
Jacqueline (Sullivan) DeClerck 86 is a public relations officer at the Canada Trust head office in London Onto
Richard Ely 70 works at the Crown attorneys office in WeIland Ont He has an LLB from the University of Western Ontario in addition to his Guelph degree He says he often talks about U of G to young students trying to decide which university to attend
Paul Genest 81 finished graduate studies at Johns Hopkins Universi ty in Maryland and is now assistant professor of philosophy at Union College in Schenectady NY He is man-ied to Barbara Jessup 8 1
Brian Hogarth 78 is head of interpretashytion at the G1enbow Museum in Calgary
Martha Hooper 9 1 was married last Ocshytober to David Perry They live in Calgary where she is a sw itchboard operator at the Delta Bow Valley Inn
Rene van der Meijden 87 has put his degree in geogshyraphy and internationshyal development to good use with the Christian Reformed World Relief Comshymittce Originally from the Netherlands he is now in Uganda on a three-year asshy Rene van der signment as a rural Meijden development adv iser He sends greetings to his many friend s in Canada and to Guelph grads Stan and Kitty in Bolivia in particular and reminds us that visitors are always welshycome in Uganda
Edward Milliner 85 will graduate this spring from the faculty of education at the University of Windsor
Mark Moore 85 is doing postgraduate work in history at the University of Bristol in England He plans to teach high school
fn response to a letter from Dawn Monroe 69 that appeared in the winter 1992 issue of the Guelph Alumnus Doug Moynihan 69 of Fort McMurray Alta writes Be disapshypointed no more Dawn l I too graduated in 1969 from (the College of) Arts or as it was then called Wellington College and I havent heard from anyone either And I too think it is time to contribute my news
After graduation f headed out to disshycover and sol ve the problems of the world travelling overseas for about three years Since then Ive been working in human resources in a variety of organizations in many different locations in Canada Cun-entshyIy I am the manager of human resources in Fort McMurray
PS Do you remember me Dawn I was the bartender in Creelman Hall I
John Teskey 7 1 began new duties last summer as director of libraries at the University of New Brunsw ick in Fredericton He was head of adshyministrative sershyvices at the University of Albershyta before moving John Teskey across Canada to acshycept the UNB posishytion but had earlier served as chief librarian and was library personnel officer at both Alshyberta and the University of Saskatchewan
Teskey says his biggest challenge is to regain the lost purchasing power that univershysity libraries have suffered as a result of static budge ts and ri sing material costs He is encouraging increased resource-sharing among universities and interlibrary loan programs with shortened turnaround
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Elizabeth (Baxter) Willson 77 a real esshytate agent in Chatham Ont writes to voice a common feeling that the universi ty exshyperience itself is often more important than the degree or diploma received I am really glad I graduated from Guelph she says
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Michelle Bombadier and Mike Caldwell both 92 are two of 50 Canad ian youth selected to work in Guyana for three months with Youth Challenge International (YCI) a non-governmental organization that provides Third-world experience for Canadians They may spend the summer building a school teaching safety or clearing land for Gu ytna s first national park but they need some private support to he lp cover transportation costs Anyone able to help should write to YCI at I I Soho St Toronto M5T IZ6
Jane Coventry 86 writes with accolades for the Guelph Alumnus grad news section and an update on what she and her husband Jaydee Smith 84 and MSc 89 are doing They were married in 1989 while working at U of G - he in the Department of Animal and Poultry Science and she in the Departshyment of Crop Science In February 1991 they moved to England where Smith is doing a PhD at the University of Bristol and working as a research assistant Coventry
works in the technology transfer unit of Nickshyerson Seeds Ltd in Cambridge
Jeffrey Crawford 88 and Leslie Thompson 86 were malTied last October He is an elementary schoolteacher in Mount Forest Ont
Craig Emerson 83 earned a PhD at Dalshyhousie University in Halifax in 1990 and is now a research associate in oceanography
Paul Fleming 85 is a pharmaceutical sales representative for Hoechst Canada Inc and lives in Nepean Ont
David Forsey 80 is an assistant professor of computer science at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver He is marshyried to Lyn Bartram
Michael Gangl 89 is in his third year at the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College
Astrid Harms 87 is a registered nurse in London Ont
Andrew Holmes 85 worked for the Onshytario government as a wildlife biologist for three years but is now back at school in his second year at Northwestern Chiropractic College in Minneapolis
Timothy Johnson 86 works at the Centre for Limnology at the University of Wisconshys in in Madison
Karen Lennard 77 (HK) and her hu sshyband Paul Jackson 79 (HK ) and MSc
82 both went 011 to earn medical degrees from McMaster University in HalTilton Ont Jackson also has a master s in physiology from the University of Virginia and is comshypleting an anesthesiology residency in Hamilshyton Lennard has a part-time family medical practice allowing her to spend more time with the couples two children Matthew and Nicola
Wendy Maltby 74 is an elementary schoolteacher for the Metropolitan Toronto School Board
Sandra OConnor 84 earned a medical degree from the University of Western Onshytario and is now practi sing in Burlington Ont
Linda Owen 81 runs her own business as a consulting exercise physiologist and fitness supervisor in Campbell River BC
Sheryle Tetley 86 is regional sales manager for Glaxo Canada Inc in Mi ss isshysauga Ont where she lives with her husshyband Ian
Rob Tonus 87 is manager of the Black Creek Rehabilitation Project a grassroots enshyvironment program to improve a degraded urban stream in Toronto His office is with the Metropolitan Toronto and Region Conshyservation Authority and he lives in Oakville with his wife Wanda (Knul) 88 (HK) a public health inspector in Hamilton
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Richard Woods 81 is an instructor of xshyray technology at the Easte rn Ontario School of X-ray Technology at Kingston Ge neral Hospital He would like to hear from other members of the 1981 U of G choir wi th whom he travelled to Scandinav ia Write to him at RRI Od essa Ont KOH 2HO
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James Dy nes 84 has comp le ted g raduate studies in chemistry and so il sc ience at the Univers ity of Sas katchewan in Saskatoon
Catherine (McVittie) Clark 88 is a nuclear medica l tech nici an at Howard Counshyty General Hospita l in Columbia Md She and her husband Michae l li ve in Elkridge Md
David Holmes 85 is a systems analyst at Sun Life Assurance Company
RolfKierdorf 84 lives in Guelph with his wife Janet He is se lf-employed as a systems consultant
Donald McFadde n 71 and his wife Carol li ve in A lbany Ga where he pracshyti ses medicine
Donald Ridley 69 and PhD 73 has been appoin ted seni or v ice-presiden t of CibashyGeigy Canada Ltd in Oakvi lle Ont and is responsib le for a ll corpora te serv ices includshy
ing finance human resources safe ty health and the environment He a lso se rves on the board of the Canadian Agricu ltura l Research Council and is a member of the Great Lakes Action Plan Strategi c Advi sory Committee
Kathryn Root Parr is an assoc iate minister at Lorne Park Bapti st Church in Mississhysa uga Ont She was married las t fa ll to Vicshytor Parr
Peter Simpson 85 is dis tric t manager for McNeil Pharmaceutical Ltd in Stouffville Ont He is married to Cynthia (Hamilton) 85 (HK)
Keith Stemshorn 83 is in the Canadian Armed Forces stationed in Calgary
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Nikki Dignard 86 moved to Ottawa last year where her husband Ted Henike pracshyti ses denti stry Dignard is working on an M BA and says she d love to hear from CSS classmates Tom Cam and Kathryn
Bonnie Dunnett 87 and MA 91 works on campus at the Gerontology Research Centre S he and Barry Hallman 9 1 li ve in Guelph
Kathryn Faulkner 80 is a registered nurse in Burling ton Ont where she li ves wi th he r husband John
Ruth Fox 84 is a sta ffing assistant for
Transport Canad a and lives in Toronto w ith her husband Christopher
Shonna Giles 88 is an admiss ions officer at Simon Fraser Unive rs ity in Burnaby BC
Gina Grieco 75 is a hi gh school guidance counsellor in North York Onto
John Harris 82 is manager of financial planning and budgets for th e City of Brampton Ont
Paulette Heppner 76 is a teache r in Vanshycouver
John Johnston 7 1 has been appointed exshyec uti ve vice-pres ident o f Ve rsacold Canada Corp and pres ident of QF Foods Distribushytion Services Versacold Canada is the largest public refri gera ted ware hou sing orshygani za tion in Western Canada
Michael Kral 79 has moved from the Univers ity of Manitoba to the University of Wind sor where he is an assistant professor of psychology
Jeffrey Lozon 76 and his family recently returned to Toronto after 15 years in Western Canada He is executive vice-president and ch ief operat ing officer at St Michael s Hos pital and li ves in Oakville wi th hi s wife Donna and two daughters
Bria n Martin 79 is a real estate appraiser in Portland Ont whe re he li ves w ith hi s wife Margaret (Sheffield) Arts 79
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Leith Mason 90 works in Toronto in the Canadian office of the State of Illinois as a special assistant to the Illinois Department of Food and Agricul ture
Michael McKean 74 of Don Mills Ont was recently appointed president of Wrigley Canada Inc Before joining Wrigley as execushytive v ice-pres ident in 1990 he he ld senior positions in Hong Kong Brazil and the United States
Rick 74 and Vicki (Collard) McTaggart FACS 74 are working in Ottawa He is director of overseas operations for the Unitarian Service Committee a charitable non-governmental organization that supports commun it y and human resou rce developshyment activities in Africa and Asia She is sec tion head of consumer analysis in the agr ifood development branch of Agriculture Canada
Sandra Morrison 86 is an ass istant professhysor in the department of psychiatry at the University of Western Ontario
Stephen Naylor 85 is director of planning and development for the amalgamated municipalities of Alliston Beeton Tecumshyseth and Tottenham
Brian ONeill 68 MA lives in SUITey England where he is managing director of Innovation Management Consultant s
Jodi Parisi 89 is a sales representative for Gillette who says U of Goo was the greatest
Moira Skikavich 81 is completing a PhD in c inematelevision at the University of Southern California
Virginia Sutherland 78 is an air traffic controller at the Toronto Island Airport
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Peggy Bates 88 was recently promoted to sales manager with Sears Canada Inc She lives in Owen Sound Ont
Caroline Begin 86 is working in Singshyapore as a dietitian
Diana Close 87 is a c linical nutri ti onis t at Chedoke McMaster Hospital in Hamilton Ont
Sarah Davenport 90 is a case worker with the Wellington County Social Services office in Guelph She is malTied to Matthew Harvey CBS 90
Timothy Dyck 8 1 is national sales manager for Black amp Decker Canada workshying out of the Corbin Division in Richmond HillOnt
Sharon (Muir) 84 and Richard Ernst CBS 83 are the proud parents of a future Guelph grad uate one-year-old Andrew Graham
Patricia Edwards 78 is food servi ce sushypervisor fo r St Peter s Hospita l in Hamilton Ont
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middot graduated bull from Macshydonald Inshymiddot stitute in
J 963 Nancy Kerr has built a career on teaching and research in telttles The middotheidofthe Uriiveisityof
Albertas department of Clothing and texiiles pursues a middotscientific interest inthepreservashylion of hi stori~lfabricsarid in developing pesticide-proofc1otl1ing But Jler fitstlove i ~ teaching
In 199b shewonone ofU of As four Rutherford AWljrds for excellence ill unshy
dergraduate teat-hing The first member of the faculty middotofliomemiddoteconornicsto receive the award slie was the rcentcipient6f the facultys own underglltiduate teaching award three years earlier
Winning the Rutherford was a gteat honor says Ken who has been on
faculty at Alberta since 1967 She oiscovered she had an aptitude for
middot teaching as a graduate student at the University of California Davis in
196566 After earning her MSc she casr about for afaculty position in Canada and round U of A was the 0111y place I could teach ju t textiles plus have a chance to develop new cQurses and research labs
middot Kerr sa)s she gets a tremelldous sense of satisfaction from teaching and the learning he must do to stay cUlTent She attributes her succe s as a teaCher to middotIec-middot
middot tures that are well organized and clear and to creltting a positive classroom climate
~Thcomfort level of students is reaUy middot ililportanL ~ Kerr eamedherPhD in fibre lnd
polymer science from North Carolina bull Staie University in 1982 Her doctoral work concentrated oil deacidification
techniques to preserve historicatcottOnln 1988 she spent a sabbatical ye~r doing research at the Caliadian Conservation
middot In tirute in OnflW1 middot Originalmiddotly from Ottawa Kerr is a
trarisphlnted -vesterner who enjoys middot hiking anlt sk1ing
From left Diane Ellison Lisa Wilson Lori Davis and Pippa Hobbes
Diane Ellison 84 is liv ing in Osaka Japan where she teaches English to Japanese busishyness people Last October she welcomed three U of G friends for a visit Lori Davis CSS 85 manager of Jumbo Video Inc in Oakville Ont Pippa Hobbes 84 accountshying manager for Paramount Holidays in Willowda le Ont and Lisa Wilson 84 co-ord inator of membership serv ices for the Metropolitan Toronto Board of Trade
Monica Hrybko HAFA 88 is director of sales for the Ramada Hotel Old Town in San Diego Calif
David Jones HAFA 88 is a con troller at the Holiday Inn Montreal Centre-Ville
Kathleen McLachlin 83 is operating an insurance agency in Kitchener OnL She opened the State Farm Insurance office in March 1988 and says she loves her job
Susan (Goettler) Parker 80 is working in Toronto as benefits administrator for Imshyperial Oil Limited She is married to Donald Parker OAC 79
Mary Jean (Sinnott) Price Mac 7 1 has returned to sc hool at the University of Otshytawa to earn a bachelor of education
Margaret (Richardson) Rankin 75 has been living in Halifax since 1990 and is an account analyst for Central Guaranty Trust
Janet (Wanless) Sutherland 77 is in private practice as a marriage and family therapist in East Kelowna BC
Jean Thomson Mac 37 says 1937 was a long time ago but shes delighted with all the changes that have gone at the college A former hospita l nutritionist she is retired and living in London Ont -
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Olayiwola Layi Adeola MSc 86 and PhD 89 and his wife Mope are living in West Lafayette Indiana where he is an assisshytant professor of pig nutrition at Purdue University
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Bruce Barrie 79 (Eng) graduated last June with an MBA from City Uni ve rsi ty in Washington State and is now a senior adshyviser in strategic planning with Petro-Canada Resources in Calgary He is a professional eng ineer with APEGGA and an ac tive memshyber of the Planning Forum an international society for planning and strategic manageshyment
Barbara Bryce 83 and her husband Ricardo Ramirez 82 are living in Rome Italy She is a landscape architect and he is a communications officer with the Food and Agriculture Organizat ion
Daniel Campbell 81 and his wife SharonshyMarianne are farmin g near Petrolia Onto
Carolyn Closs 82 and her husband Harold operate a beef cowca lf operation in Shawville Que
Luc Cote 83 is an agricullural account manager for the Royal Bank of Canada in Joliette Que
Kerrie Lea Curran 85 plans to graduate this fall from the master of architecture proshygram at McGi ll University
Bruce Dodson 74A is course superinshytendent at Hawd Ridge Golf and Curling Club in Orillia Ont
Richard Donkin OAC 85A originalshyly from Zimbabwe is the manager of Venida Packing Inc in Exeter Calif Situated in central Californias San Joashyquin Valley Venida Packing ships tree fruit throughout the Richard Donkin United States Canada the Pacific Rim and the Far East Products under the brand names Ruby River and Venida include peaches plums nectarines kiwi grapes persimmons and pomegranates In 1988 Donkin married California native Lisa Kolander and they live in Lemon Cove a community in the Sierra foothill s
Brendan Elder 8S A lives in Kelowna BC and works for Dogwood Nursery He plans to be married thi s summer to Rosemary Powell
Robert Fessenden OAC MSc 67 was recently appointed vice-president of devel opshyment and planning at the Alberta Research Council He is responsible for tec hnology management and corporate marketing
John Fitzgerald 86 was married last November to Susan Given a ] 991 indeshypendent study graduate in animal producshytion He is a lecturer at Ridgetown College she works at Centralia College and is work shying on a psychology degree at the University of Waterloo They live in Strathroy Ont
Glenn Helstern 79A is a driver for the Calgary division of Greyhound Bus Lines of Canada Ltd
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She tells a princely tale
For seven miniJtes on Oct 24 199 L Ellen Het1eOAC 76~U1d MSc 80
(ltllked with PIince Charles Invited toopert a newfumaceat
inco Lilniteds Copper Cliff smelter iri Sudbury Ont the Princemiddot of Wales was easy to talk with says Heale ftwasverycxciting
As eiwironmental co-ordinator Of land reclamation andrevegetation at Copper Cliff Healetold theprince middot about Tnc(secosystem rehabilitation
projects Theroyalvisitor was parshyticulatfyiilterestedin the treegrow- ing project in abandoned inines flld in tlpoundrevegetation ()f acres of tailings
and barren rock Planrilig vegetation on the tailings
hasattrlttcled wildlifeto a protected habitat says Beale who has wqrked forIncosincc she graduated in 1976
Ninety~iwo species ofbirds as weil asrodems hares foxes wolves bears andinoQse have been sighted on the 2500 acres of rehabilitated ore waste
One thing about this job is you middot can s~e where youve been effective she says
While an undergraduate student in Prill(e Charles with EIen Heale horticultural science Healea native ofSiidbury worked at Ineo during the sumniers She wasthi tirst woman to
work inrhemining companys agriculture middot department After shegraduated the niekshy el inine hired her full time tcido horticul- turaLfleld research ~ Ineo later granted heT a two-semester leave of absente t6 work
Theodore Jacobs 78 (Eng) is engineering supervisor at Standard Tube in Woodstock Ont
Greg Keast 85 (Eng) is li ving in Mozamshybique in East Africa where he works as a project officer for UNICEF rural water supshyply project s
Richard Kline 74 was appointed partner of the Toronto accounting firm Schwartz Levitsky Feldman Inc last faiL He is presishydent of the film s bankruptcy division a member of the Chartered Accountants of Onshytario and first vice- president of the Ontario Insolvency Association
Christopher Laforest MSc 91 (USRPD) works in planning and economic developshyment for Bruce County Ont
Jean-Paul PhD 90 and Lynn (Hammell) Laforest 82 and MSc 85 are both employed at Laval University in Sainte-Foy Que He is a professor and s he is a research associate
Kenneth Lawless 63 earned a Guelph deshygree in agricultural economics then went on to stud y dentistry at the Uni versity of Toronshyto He is now an oral and manilo-fac ial surshygeon in Kingston Ont
oil her masters at OAC~ In her current PdStion Heale has rnore
administrative and public relations responshyibilities On her own time she sits on the
board of management for the tocal Red Cross and isalllember ofthe Sudbury
Business and Professional Womens Club
Margie Luffman 77 writes that she has happily returned to Ontario after 10 years in New Brunswick to work at the Smithfield Experimental Farm in Trenton She is curator of the Plant Gene Resources of Canada clonal gene bank
Brian MacCulloch MAg 89 is a sa les representative for Springva le Nurseries Ltd in Berwick NS
Daniel Mansell 64 and MSc 68 is Onshytario manager of the eastern habitat joint venture in the wildlife policy branch of the Ministry of Natural Resources He is stashytioned in Midhurst Ont
Peter McEntire 77A writes from County Langford in Ireland to keep in touch with U of G He is farming and work s as an AI techshynician with Bova Genetics Ltd
Darryl Mitchell 78 works at Pioneer HishyBred Limited in Chatham Ont
Hugh ONeil 88 is manager of customer financial services for Ral ston Purina Canada Inc
Umed Panu MSc 72 (Eng) has done a lot of travelling during his career After Guelph he earned a PhD in civil engineering
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David Nedelko OAC 86 and Ljrlda ArmsJrollg CBS 89 (Jurk 011 cemre) were marriediasl SeplemiJer in Bari ~ie OnlTluir weddiIg iiarly illcilldedfiom leli Katy KusmiliskiOA C 88Paul Allgusline GAG 86 Roh Reed OAC 87Carv Belfral1l oAC 8RJIuJ Sa ndimiddoto (CollinI) BerlrCIlII CBS RR Also 1I111ie wedding w(lS Arlllslong s Veal ullcleClarence Fleming OVC 34 The couple (Ire living in
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at the Universit y of Waterloo taught in India and at Mi ss iss ippi State Uni vers ity and worked with Briti sh Columbia Hydro and the Government of Newfoundland In 1986 he jo ined the faculty of c ivil engi neering at Lakehead Uni ve rsity in Thunder Bay Ont and was promoted to full professor in 199 1 He and hi s wife Kashna and the ir children Neeti and Anukud enjoy the outdoor recreashytion ac ti viti es available in Northwestern Onshytario and look forward to visits from U of G alumni trave lling to Thunder Bay
Lyle Pettigrew 61 is a marketin g consulshytant with Harris Kovacs Alderman in Atlanshyta Ga
Helen Prior 88 joined Sheridan Nurseries after graduation then worked for a year as a research tech nic ian in Guelph s Department of Crop Scie nce She is now in her th ird year at Emmanuel College at Victoria University and hopes to be ordained as a United Church min is ter in May
Gregory Scott 83 (Eng) is operations manager for Accuform Gol f Limited in Toronto
Ba rbara (Coordes) Skrypetz 87 is a fi e ld supervisor for the Ontario Dairy Herd Imshyprovement Corporation working out of Guelph He r husband Stephen 88 operates a bulldozing and excavating busi shyness in the Woodstock area
Victor Skidra 6 is re tired f rom his job as a sc ientific evaluator with Hea lth and Welshyfare Canada He and hi s wife Konstance live in Nepean Ont
William Slusarchuk 63 (Eng) and MSc
The way we were in 1902 OAC alumnus Douglas Campbell 60 passes on a bit of col lege hi sto ry that shou ld make us think twice about our con stitutional squabbles in C anad a
Campbell is director of the Latin America and Caribbea n Trade Divis ion of Canada s Department of External Affa irs Last summer he hosted a vi s it by the president of Uruguay Luis Alberto Lacalle Herre ra whose grand fa the r made a simil a r vis it to Canada in 1902
This is what the elde r Herrera reported to his government Gue lph agricultural college enjoys a worldwide reputation and is con shys idered one of the grea t loca l attracshytions
More than 200 young Canadians a long with many foreign youths come together in its lecture rooms There are bursary ho lde rs from Norway and as far away as Mauritius C loser to us
Guelph Alumnus
67 was recently appo inted pres ident of AGRA Eanh and Environmental Group an envi ronme ntal and geotechnica l firm that is a division of AGRA Indu stries Limited
Michael Sullivan 87 A is a pol ice officer with the Wate rloo Regional Police in Cambridge Ont
Argentina has 12 students there We ll then couldnt Uruguay imshy
itate those good exa mples and also se nd a number of worthy youths to Guelph to acquire the professional knowledge which is becoming m ore necessary each day for the deve lopshyment of our agric ulture~
In addition to the sc ienti fic benefits that our compatriots woul d deri ve from entering sLlch a Canadian techni cal in shystitution there would be the inca lcushylable benefit of becoming familiar with the stric t manly and sound habits of these people who are admirable in e ve ry respect
Afte r they have stee ped themse lves in this atmos phere of dem ocracy which fosters the development of all rights and is alien to intolerance thi s legati on w ill have the great honor of sending home not only sc ientists but a lso mode l citizens
Brenda Trask 80 operates he r own comshymunica tion s consulting company in Osshygoode Ont She is marri ed to Ron Ferguso n
Dave Vanden Bosch 89 is manager of operator services and plann ing for Bell Canada in London Ont
J Stallard Skip Waterhouse 54 and hi s wife Li sa are ce lebrating the birth of a daughter Samantha Elizabe th on New Years Day 1992 They live in New York State where Wate rhouse is iI pro fe ssor of bio logical science at the Plattsburgh Sta te Uni versity College of Arts and Science
Jeff 88 and Karen (Burrows) W h ite 87 live in Strathroy Ont Jeff work s for Bell Canada and Kare n is a Lambton County rural orga ni za tion spec ialist with the Ontar io Mini stry of Agriculture and Food
Harold Wright 86 is a development repre shysenta tive for Ci ba-Ge igy Canada Ltd in Mi sshysissauga Ont He and Lori Krieg 84 plan to marry thi s sprin g
Donald Ziraldo 7 I received doubl e honors last winter fro m the Ontario grape and wine industry Preside nt of Inniskillin W ines of Niagara-on -the-Lake Ont he was named to the Royal Order of the Grape for hi s leadership in enhancing the prod uct and its image
In addition Z ira ldo and his partner Karl Kai se r were named 1991 Men of the Year by FoodsCIvice and Hospitalily magazine During the ir 17-year partnership at Inn isk ilshylin the two have been instrumental in shapshying Canada s wine industry the magazine sa id
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ave Barry Burtis 69 was named president of the Ontario Veterinary Medical Association in January after working with the voluntary organization for four years as a director member of its editorial board and chair of its public relations committee Burtis lives in Burlington Ont and practises at the Bay Cities Animal Hospital He also appears on a local cable television program called Pel Tales
William Medway 54 of Blackwood NJ has been named an honorary life member of the International Association for Aquatic Animal Medicine for his contributions on beshyhalf of the association and the field of aquatic medicine He is both a founding member and past president of the associa shytion A professor emeritus of clinical laboratory medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine Medway is a member of the Marine Mammal Commissions committee of scientific advisers
Diane Pickering-Forster 86 is practising at Vander Kraan Veterinary Services in Huntsville Ont She is malTied to Chris Forster and they have one daughter Julia
Julien Proulx 67 has moved from Kapusshykasing Ont to La Pocatiere Que where he is superintendent of Agriculture Canada s Experimental Farm Last year he was feashytured on TVOntarios French network series Personalire Ontarienne for his work as a veterinarian his participation in municipal politics and his support of regional developshyment in Northern Ontario He was also awarded Agriculture Canadas research branch prize Agcellence for extraordinary management during his direction of the reshysearch program at the Kapuskasing Exshyperimental Farm
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Twoc~ireers middot on the samepat~ OVCaruninus Geoffrey Lord 49 felt a thopedic
middot enseofdejavuwhen he read theslory gastrointesshyabout Bill Naray~i1 OVe 63 il1la~t tinal and carc
springs issue ofthe Guelph Altimnus diovascular
There are amazing simi laritiesbetween surgery the c~reersof t~e two Guyanese wh6b6th says Lord If earnedvefetinary degrees atGueiph someone worked in c1ini(ai practice in)Yestem were to ask Canada then moved to the United States me ioday to work in human medic~lresearch what Tcon~
Narayan heads an AlDSresearchteamsider to be atJohns HopkiflS l1)iversilySchool of my expertise MediCirieinBaltimoreMatyland Lord is I would have retired directorofthdohnsonamp Johnson to saymecli- Geofrey Lord
middot Resear~h Foundalion ill NewJersey cal device lordsays he was influenced by OVC andbioshy
proJessDfs Anthony Kings(Qte and Frank Inaterials evaluation middot SchofieJd~ndwcentnton from GiJelphto pur- lt In the I 950s Lordwaspalt of ale-
sue graduate studies in parasitology auhe se~rch team that pioneered the use of University oJWiscollsin Sevenmorithsin animal tissue tOTeconstructdamagedjr
amixed practice in Drumheller Alta con blocked al1eries in hUl11ansTwenty years vinced him thaldinical medicine wasn6t middot later he drafted the first systematicap-
middot whati w~ted6 do He returned to Wis pr()ach to the safety evaluation of medica con5il110 eanla PhDlll pathologyano devices joined Johnson amp JohnsQri as asenior middot Allsubsequeill guidelines inCiLlding patilol()gistiriI953 those of the Foodaj)q Diug Admlnistrashy
Research at Johnson amp JohDson tiOnand the Canadian Regulatory ~teeredmeinto many interesting and chal- Authority hayeadopteoihis approach he
Jenging fieldsofbio-research includirig says derniiltoi9gy toxicologic pathology Lordand his wife Helen ltIividetheir wound healing surgical pathology iiinebetweel)Ciipe CodandBonita genera toxkology ofi~w drugs andor~ Springs FloriQa
Shane Renwick 77 and MSc 91 works in veterinary services at Agriculture Canada offices in Guelph
Ruth Reuter 61 is a veterinary pathologist in Plympton Australia
Tom Sanderson 6 1 was selected by the Ontario Veterinary Medical Association as Ontario Veterinarian of 1991 CUlTently OVCs co-ordinator of off-campus work terms he spent 20 years in private practice in Listowe1 and Mount Forest before returning to the coll ege in 1982 to manage the veterishynary research stations Sanderson s contribushytions to the profess ion have included many hours of volunteer work in the advancement
of the profession and in the development of veterinary inshysurance programs He is a past pres ident of both the Ontario and Canadian Veterishynary Medical associashytions
Jennifer Troughton 86 is practising in OronoOnt
Simone Woltner 86 is a veterinarian at the Chester Basin Animal Hospital in Chester Basin NS
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by her hu sband William and two sons The fo llowing dea ths have been reported since the las t issue of the Guelph Alumnus Full notices which are usu ally submitted by family or classmates may appear in thi s iss ue or in a later one
James Clement Arts 73 Feb 2 1992
Marilyn (Dyment) Farnan Mac 530 Feb 27 1992
David Fisher OAC 80A in October 1990
Elizabeth (C hristie) Glass Mac 3I D June 2l99 1
Peter Heskey OAC 54A Dec 6 199 1
Richard Ketchell OVC 51 Nov 23 199 1
Edward Kowalski Arts 79 in August 199 1
Pauline (Dixon) MacMillan Mac 240 Jan 2 1992
Catherine MacPherson Arts 83 Dec 11 1990
Marguerite (White) Maybury Mac 3 10 in June 1990
Donald McLeOd CSS 80 Jan 9 1992
Albert Meilus OAC 51 in 1991
Ann (Biggs) Ostler Mac 3 10 in April 1991
Robert Race Arts 73 in 1989
Ralph Sampson OAC 40 in December 1989
Mor ris Sanderson OAC 42 Nov 17 1991
Sir Peter Scott HDSc 8 1 in Au gust 1989
William Setterington OAC 40 Oct 22 1991
George Shoniker OAC 50A in March 199 1
John Somerset OAC 34 Dec 27 199 1
Gregory Van Patter OAC 7 1 in 1990
Frederich Weiland OAC 20A in 1990
Arts
Riccardo Rich Incitti 88 died Jan 5 1992 as the result of an accident near Hami lshyton Ont He was assistant manager at the Toronto-Dominion Bank in St Cathari nes and is survived by his parents Gu igi and Lucia of Cambridge and two sisters Laura and Andrea
Larry McNenly 73 died in October 1991 in Owen Sound Ont He is survived by his wife Marnie CSS 73
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Robert Everett HK 74 died in May 1991 in Burlington Ont A teac her at White Oaks Secondary Schoo l in Oakv ille he is survived by his wife Miche le and brother William CBS 74
James Sandy Fear 75 died Oct I I 199 1 in Toronto He is survi ved by his wi fe Sally (Firth) OAC 75 and hi s children Caitlin Alli son and Mered ith
CSS
Lynn (Dalys) Corby 84 died in Toron to May 6 1990 after a long battIe with cancer
Nancy (Birbeck) Gordon 77 died Oct 20 1991 in Ottawa after a short illness She worked at the Kitchener-Waterl oo Hospital and had previously been plan t accountant at Foseco Canada Incorporated in Guelph
Mac-FACS
Jean (Williams) Forward 280 Oct 28 1991 in Calgary She was the widow of Bower Forward OAC 25 and is survived by two sons
Catharine (Bechtel) Fromm 270 died Nov I 199 1 in Cambridge Ont She is surshyvived by three dau ghters Ellen Moore Mac 63 Nancy and Caro l
Alice (Rivaz) Garrard 28 di ed Dec 2 199 1 in Guelph She was an active member of the Mac-FACS Alumni Assoc iat ion and was the Mac 28 class agent for the Alma Mater Fund She is survived by her husband retired professor Edward Garrard OAC 27 and a daughter Betty Nelson
Della Marie (Diamond) Honey 300 of Warkworth Ont died June 29 1991 One ofWarkworths oldest and most respected citizens she served as local li brarian fo r 25 years She is survived by her son John OAC 52A his wife Patric ia and four grandchildren James OAC 84A William OAC 76A Thomas OvC 89 and Patricia Lonergan CSS 68
Barbara (Banigan) Martin 380 died Jan I 1992 in Don Mill s Ont A retired teacher wit h the North York Board of Education she is survived by a son Ted a sister and two brothers
Elizabeth (Burt) Perry 340 died June 28 1991 in Sidney BC and is surv ived by her husband Gordon and son Paul Nartel OAC 62
Jacqueline (Roy) Pote 34D died Dec 2 1 1991 in Willowdale Ont and is is survived
Merrill and Bill
Doroth y (MacFeeters) Scott 260 died Jan 14 1992 in Toronto She is su rvived by two daughters Anne Donaldson and Cynthia Scott
Florence (French) Snyder 370 died May 6 199 1 in Calgary and is survived by her husband Robert and two sons John and William
Katherine (Sweet) Watt Mac 220 died Feb 23 1992 She is survived by her husshyband Leslie a son David and a dau ghter Carol Gi llanders
Mattie (Newman) Widdicombe 240 died Dec 11 1991 in St Catharines Ont Preshydeceased by her husband John she is surshyvived by a bro ther and several nieces and nephews including Virginia Rigby Arts 76
OAC
George Grey Arnup 38 died Feb 2 1992 in Toronto He spent most of his career with the plant protection branch of Agriculture Canada He is survived by his wife Aileen three chi ldren Nancy Jim and Mary Ellen Vincent CBS 79 and four grandchi ldren
Herbert Boyce 28 and MSA 43 died Sept 2 1991 in Amherstburg Onto He is survi ved by his wife Norah a daughter Beverley Med lock and a brother James OAC 32
Jack Reddy Brethet 56 died Nov 4 199 1 in Burlington Ont President of Brethet Barnum Assoc iates Inc he is surshyv ived by his wife Caro l and two daughters Lyn n and Anne
Bruce Foster 28 died Feb 6 1992 in Ridgetown Ont and is survi ved by his daughter Gayle Anderson and son David CBS 69
Allison Gardhouse 49 died Sept 21 1991 in Midland Ont He was re tired supe rshyintendent of schoo ls for the Simcoe County Board of Education and is survi ved by his wife Merle
Kenneth Harrison 24 died Nov 5 199 1 in Kentville NS A distinguished plant patho logist military officer and mycologist he began hi s career in 1926 as assistant plant pathologis t at the Kentvi lle Experimental Farm He worked there until retirement in 1966 wi th the exception of mi litary servi ce du ring the Second World War
Dr Harrison had a lifelong interes t in the study of mushrooms and publ ished numerou s technica l papers on the mu shroom flora of Nova Scotia In addition he enshy
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couraged interested amateurs and led field trips for student s at Acadia University and the general public from 1929 until 1987 In 1979 he was honored by Acadia wi th the dedication of the Kenneth A Harri son Laboratory of Mycology
During his career he was a member of many professional organizations a charter member of the Mycological Society of America and fe llow of the American Associashytion for the Advancement of Science
He is survived by hi s wife Margaret two brothers Maynard OAC 30 and Arthur OAC 29 two son s Ashley and Kenneth and a daughter Jennie Sheito
William Kellam 4 1 died Oct 19 1991 in Brockville Ont He was retired from the Curb and Gate Co of-Brock ville where he had worked as a lab technician fo r 28 years He is survived by his wife Kathleen a son George and a daughter Mary
William M acMillan 48 died in February 1992 in Winnipeg He was supervisor of Fertilizer marketing for the Manitoba Pool Elevators and is surv ived by hi s wife Edna Jean and brother Harry OAC 5 1 A
Cameron McTaggart 35 died Feb 4 1992 in Aurora Ont After graduating from OAC he became manager of Don Head Farms in Richmond Hill He established the first agricul tural consulting business in Canada in 1947 and later ran an Angus cattle
sales management business from the family farm A life member of the OAC Alumni As shysociat ion and the Class of 35 executive he is survived by his wife Margaret Mac 35 and two sons John OAC 62 of Regina and David of Largo Fla
Douglas Miller 48 of Victoria BC died Nov 24 1991 in Toronto He is survived by hi s wife Ruth and five children
Gregory More 76 was killed Feb 3 1992 in Kitchener Ont at the Ontario Glove Manufacturing Co where he was co-owner and vice-president Following graduation he worked for the Rohrer Drug Co and the Stershyling Drug Co then returned to school ea rnshying an MBA at McMaster University in 1981 More was an avid squash player and golfer Court A at the Northfield Racquet Club in Waterloo was dedicated to his memory in March He is survived by his parents Noreen and Ken a brother Randy and a sister Katherine Keeler
John Jack Pawley 33 died March I 1992 in Guelph He is survived by his wife Ruth son John OAC 62 and daughter-inshylaw Carolyn He was a former director of the Ontario Milk Marketing Board and a past member of the Royal City Lodge of Perfecshytion
Harold Reid 20A died in December 1991 in Burlington Ont During the First World W ar he was one of Canadas premier rad io
experts work ing at the Roya l Canadian Navy shore transmitter in Sydney NS After the war he came to OAC to earn a diploma then went on to QueenS University to comshyplete an arts and theology degree His mini sshytry was mainly in St And rews and Montreal although he spent 13 years teaching Hebrew at the Presbyterian Coll ege before retiring in 1968
Donald Robertson 3 1 died Nov 4 1991 in Iroquois Ont He is survived by hi s wife Caroline (Grisdale) Mac 38 his two son s ScottOAC 65A and Guy and a daughter Sandra McNeil
Thomas Rokeby 48 and MSA 50 died Jan 29 1992 in Fayetteville Ark He was a professional engineer and tau ght for 30 years in the Univers ity of Arkansas engineering department Born in Port Rowan Ont he was a member of the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War the American Society of Agricultural Engineers and the agricultural honor societies of Gamma Sigma Delta and Alpha Epsilon He is surv ived by his wife Helen two sons Robert and Richard a daughter Penny and three brothers Michael Noel and Richard OAC 54
Francis Sweeney OAC 45 died Nov 17 1991 in Oakville Ont He was a longtime employee of Shell Canada and [nternational Shell working in Great Britain Europe and
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Berna rd Weeks 35 died Oct 16 199 1 After graduation he re turned to his roots in
ew York and Pennsylvannia and worked in 4-H and you th organi zations for a few years He then took over the family farm at Troupsburg NY and built up a dairy operashytion with a sideline of sheep He is surv ived by his wife Ruth and four children
Glenn White 43 of Belleville Onl died Nov 24 199 1 in Florida and is surv ived by hi s wife Marjorie
ave Norman Anderson 39 of Wi nn ipeg died Dec 18 1991 in Arizona He had practised veterinary medicine in Norwood Man and was a member of the American Equine Pracshytitioners Association director of the Canadian Thoroughbred Society and track veterinarian at Assin iboia Downs for 50 years He is survived by his wi fe Peggy and two sons Laurie and James
George Beatty 5 I died Nov 22 1991 in Inverness III He practised in Palatine fo r 36 years and founded the Palatine Animal Hospi tal He was an active member of the American Animal Hospital Assoc iati on and the Chicago Veterinary Association and was a director of the Friends of the University of Guelph He is survived by his wife Mary and fo ur children - Suzanne Patricia Margaret and Tim
John Hamilton 5 L died Dec 15 1991 He had lived in Roslin On where he owned the Bay Regional Veterinary Hospital He is survived by hi s niece Ann Bongard
Nicholas Labzoffsky 39 died Dec 25 1991 in Largo Fla Fonnerly of Toronto he had li ved most recen tl y in Dorse t Ont and is survived by hi s wife Jane
Edgar Langford 49 died March 41992 in Monarch Alta A former research scienshytist with ADRI (Western) he is survived by his wife Norma and two daughters includshying Carolyn OVC 76
Stuart Maude 4 1 died Jan 14 1992 in Rosemead Calif A former Rosemead counshycillor and four-time mayor he operated the Rosemead Animal Hospital with his brother Arthur 52 from 1953 to 1980 He was a trustee for Ingles ide Hospital a past grand patron of both the Rosemead and the Califorshynia Order of Eastern Star and past-president of the local Kiwanis Club and Chamber of Commerce He is survived by his wife Vera two daughters Patricia and Susan Bezner a son Stuart and three brothers
Walter Morley 42 o f Mildmay On died Nov 28 199 1 He ran a large animal pracshytice in the Mild may area for 39 years raised cat tle and raced standardbred horses He was also a pu blic school board trustee and direcshytor of a local te lephone company for more
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than 30 years He is survived by his wife Joyce five sons - two of whom are OVC alumni Dave 68 and Randy 74 - and 10 grandchildren
Lloyd Neily 52 died Jan 3 1992 in Hantsport NS A retired meat inspector w ith the federal Department of Agriculture he had a private veterinary practice in Wind sor NS He is surv ived by hi s wife Mary
Elford Nundal 43 died Jan 7 1992 in Langley BC after a long battle with canshycer He operated a veterinary practice in Langley for 36 years and served as a di strict aldennan for 10 years before being elected mayor in 1982 Last year he received the BC Veterinarian Association s award of merit for a lifetime of veterinary work
Humphrey Rees 55 died Sepl 30 1991 in Amman Jordan while on ass ignment for the Overseas Development Ad ministrat ion as veterinary and animal hu sbandry adviser to the Jordani an government His contemshyporaries at Guelph will remember him as a singer debater raconteur rugby player and bon vivant He is surv ived by his wife Alice of POlt Eynon Wales
William Stinson 40 died Feb 15 1992 in Norwood Ont He is survi ved by his wife Rita a son John OVC 67 a brother Ford OAC 34 and a grandson John CSS 87
Faculty
Patric ia Harney died Dec 191991 in Yarshymouth NS A professor in the Department of Horticultural Science from 1962 to 1988 she developed severa l new variet ies of geraniums and was instru mental in es tabshylishing the Frances Ball rose collection at the Arboretum
Anthony Marston died Feb 3 1992 in Fershygu s ant Retired from the School of Hotel and Food Administration he was an acshycomplished competition chef who received his training in Switzerland and England He then spent severa l years working in the Caribbean before coming to Guelph in 1970 A member of the Canadian Olympic culinary team he held a number of positions in the
Donations given in memory ofGuelph alumni will help support University scholarships ifdirected to the Alumni M emorial Fund In 1991 donations were made in memory of the following alumni
Frank MacDonald OAC 37
Frank King OAC 33 -Robert Allen OAC 56A
Alice (Rivaz) Garrard Mac 28
Stan Vesselinovitch OVC 57
For more infonnation call the Office of Annual Giving at 519-824-4120 Ext 6 183
hote l and food industry until retiring in 1982 He is survived by hi s wife Di ana
Gordon McNally dled Jan 12 1992 in Guelph A professor in the Department of Zoo logy from 1934 to 1971 he served as academic assistant to the dean of CBS until retiring in 1979 While at Guelph he was honorary pres id ent of the classes of OAC 54 58 and 67 He is survived by his daughter Jean two siste rs and two grandchildren Prof McNallys family has established the A Gordon Mc a lly Memorial Fund to support a sc holarship or bursary Contributions may be sent care of the Alma Mater Fund Alumni Hou se University of Guelph Guelph ant N I G 2WI
Friends
Jean (Young) Branion died March 3 1992 in Guelph She was the wife of the late Hugh Branion a physiology professor at U of G and assistant to presidents Bill Winegard and Don Forster Jean Branion was an act ive volunteer on campus for many years and one of the firs t presidents of the College Womens Club She is survived by a son Richard and his wife Marga re t of Vanshycouve r and five grandchi ldren Donati ons may be made to the Hugh D Branion Memorial Scholarship through Alumni House
Davy Alexander Hamilton-Williamson died Feb 4 1992 in Guelph A painter and author of childrens stories he had been a member of the University s Presidents Council s ince it began in 1 985
Marjorie Pinkney wife of J ames Pinkney OVC 3 7 died Dec 151 99 [ at her home in Milton ant
Samuel Wyal died March 15 1992 in Brantford ant He was a partner in the law firm Wyatt Purce ll Will Stillman and Scott He is surv ived by his wife M a bel Mac 39 four sons Peter Michael William and John and two daughters Mary Alderson and Sarah Nadalin Arts 82
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INVmiddotESTMENTS amp
DIVIDENDS
Facts about university education in Canada and how we pay for it
By 2000 half of all new jobs in Canada will require a university degree
But at the current rate of government funding only one in five children
will have a chance to go to university
In the seven years from 1982 to 1989 per-student grants to universities in
Ontario barely kept pace with intlation at five per cent
per-student funding at American public univers ities jumped an average
of 23 per cent in the same period
Those US universities also receive twice the federal research dollars per student as do Ontario universities
In 1987 the average salary of a full-time professor at an Ontario univers ity was $55500
compared with $68200 for a private-sector position of similar education and experience
Lawyers economists and engineers made an average of $71 000
Ontario ranks ninth out of the to provinces in terms of grants to universities
Between 1978 and 1991 enrolment at Ontario univers ities grew by 40 per cent while funding dropped
from 59 to 409 per cent of total government spending
Universities were spending 14 per cent less per student between 1977 and 1988 hospital expenditures
rose 38 per cent per patient in the same period
Ontario universities generate $3 of economic activity for every
$1 invested by government funding
And the number of jobs generated by university activities in
Ontario is greater than the employment impact of the textile
industry the entire paper and pulp industry or utilities
University graduates can look forward to earning 63 per cent more than the average industrial worker
A 1990 survey of U of G alumni found that two years after graduation 97 per cent of Guelph grads
looking for work were employed 62 per cent were earning $25000 or more and 10 per cent were
earning $40000 or more
Unemployment rates in 1990 for those with a university degree was about one-third what it was
for those with only a high school diploma
Every year from 1978 to 1987 Ontario university inves tments in renovating or replacing
aging buildings could not keep pace with the rate at which the buildings depreciated
Graphics by Debbie Thompson Wilson Statistics supplied by th~ Council 01 Ontario UniverSities Statistics Canada and the U01 G Student EnVifonment Study Group
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A salute to sport Alumni Weekend June 19-21 9am Sio-pitch tournament
The tradition Jives on at the south quad diamond s Cooed teams of 12 or more players are encourshyaged to join in the fun
FRIDAY 10 am to 9 pm Registration Lambton Hall
6 pm Kick-off dinner and half-time show
get set and join In the Olympic spirit one of Alumni Creelman Hall will Weekends host the Wonderful most popular World of Sports with events Tours a half-time slide show start from to entertain alumni of Alumni House all ages and are sponshy9 pmshy sored by the Observatory tours CBS Alumni
Association
10 am and 2 pm
SATURDAY 8 am to 5 pm Guided Registration walking tours Lambton Hall
Remember 9 am to 5 pm making s now Alumni House tours sc ulptures on Students will host tours of Alumni House throughshyout the weekend Come and see what the generosity of alumni has accomplished
9 am to noon Alumni association annual meetings
This is the official notice for the annual general meetings of the following alumni associations
CBS - Alumni House starts at 830 am before guided walk MacFACS - HAFA Building Room 209
OVC - OvC Room 1438
OAC - Macdonald Hall Room 149
CSS - MacKinnon Building Room 305
HAFA - Alumni Hou se boardroom
Gryphs Lounge will be open for lunch and afLer the game
930 am Guided nature walk at the Arboretum
On your mark
Noon - OVC luncheon
The OvC Alumni Association will host a luncheon open to all OvC alumni and their guests
2 pm - Campus Showcase 92
Following on the heels of last year s success Campus Showshycase 92 will be bigger and better Come to the University Centre to see exhibits representing all areas on campus The Campus Junction store will also be open
2 pm - Zavitz Hall tour
Alumni are invited to browse through the newly renovated Za vitz Hall and attend a recep shytion sponsored by the Colshylege of Arts Alumni Asshysoc iation
5 pm Golden anniversary dinner
The OAC OvC and MacshyFACS alumni associations will provide complimenshytary tickets for alumni celebrating 50 years or more Additiona l tickets can be purchased Classes
Johnston Green or playing intramural hockey in the old Quonset arena Relive some of the memories by taking a walking tour of campus Tours begin from the lobby ofLambton Hall
Noon - Alumni picnic
This apopular event has new location - the sculpshyture garden beside the Macshydonald Stewart Art Centre Come on your own or reshyserve a group of tables for friends and classmates
Noon - Class reunion lunches
OAC 37 Mac 37 OAC 42 Mac 42 OAC 47 Mac 52 Mac57 Mac 67 FACS 72 FACS 77 FACS 87
OAC 67 FACS 82 OAC 82 OAC 82A CBS 82 FACS 87 OAC 87
SUNDAY 9am Church service and War Memorial Hall rededication
Thanks to a commitment from the Alma Mater Fund renovashytion of the upstairs of War Memorial Hall has been comshypleted Join us for the rededicashytion ceremony commemorating the 1924 opening and the 1952 dedication of an OAC memorial plaque
being honored are OAC 22 OAC 47 OvC 22 Mac 22 OAC 27 OvC 27 Mac 27 OAC 32 OvC 32 Mac 32 OAC 37 OvC 37 Mac 37 OAC 42 OvC 42 Mac 42
6 pm Class reunion dinners
Special dinn e r reunions are planned for OAC 47 OAC 52 OAC 52A OvC 52 Mac 57 OAC 57 OAC 62 Mac 67
10am UGAA annual meeting
All alumni are encouraged to atshytend the UGAA annual meeting in Macdonald Hall Room 149 An amendment to the UGAA Letters Patent and a revised bylaw will be presented for ap shyproval Copies of both are availshyable on request from Alumni House Call 519-824-4120 Ext 6544
11 am - Farewell brunch
The final event of Alumni Weekend will be held in Creelshyman Hall Come and meet the Univers ity S president Brian Segal The Alumnus of Honour medal will be presented at noon
To receive an Alumni Weekshyend brochure or to register for events call Alumni House at 59-824-4120 Ext 6963
Opened July 1991Research Park Centre shy
Where research and industry Dleet
Space available now Exceptional office and research facilities in our multi-tenant Research Park Centre
Research-driven corporations are breaking new ground at the University of Guelph Research Park Centre with exceptional growth opporshytunities in an ideal business setting
This 30-acre Research Park also accommodates tenants who choose to construct their own office and laboratory facilities
Find out why organizations such as Semex Canada Tremco Limited the Ontario Dairy Herd Improvement Corporation George Morris Centre LIPID Analytical Laboratories and Agriculture Canada have chosen the University of Guelph Research Park Call Ralph Eades or Judy Phillips Real Estate Division University of Guelph Telephone (519) 767-5003 or Fax (519) 837-0353
The Research Park is a project oj the Office oj Research and the University S Real Estate Division
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CENTRE UNIVERSITY grGUELPH
Marshalling the forces to fight for universities
There is a tribute $5000 to help revolution launch FOU and
taking place in Seymour hopes inshyeducation And dividual alumni will when the dust setshy keep the momentum tles we will see building The orshyprofound changes ganization needs in the way we imshy more than 100 inshypart knowledge dividual volunteers in the way we think each of Ontarios 130 about education electoral districts and the way we These friends will pay for it Some lobby MPPs on a of us will sit back regular basis in supshyand watch port of universities Others like Its a grassroots Harry Seymour Harry Seymour
OAC 61 will help influence the changes taking place
Seymour spent 22 years of his career on Torontos Bay Street then opted for a change that led to the forshymation of Pathfinder Learning Sysshytems As president he champions the Pathfinder program of computershymanaged learning as a way for classshyroom teachers to maximize their time and their students potential
Seymour maintains his interest in the investment business with several other companies including a 93-acre shoreline development project in Midshyland Ont But most of his time is devoted to education and university education is a significant part of that effort
If we can marshal the forces of university alumni we can have a profound effect on how government prioritizes education he says Those of us who have graduated from a university are in the best position to evaluate the importance of a university education We can sit back and look at the benefits we ve received and the kind of impact it has had on our lives
Seymour represents U of G alumni on the Friends of Ontario Universities (FOU) a provincial lobby group whose strategy is to organize Ontarios university alumni into a political constituency FOU members sayan unorganized constituency is part of the reason government has folshylowed a pattern of financial neglect
The University of Guelph Alumni Association was one of the first to con-
movement that has the potential to build long-term support
among decision makers and future generations of university graduates he says
If youd like to get involved call Trish Walker U of G s director of alumni affairs at 519-824-4120 Ex t 2122
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describes himself as a concerned citizen of Guelph who is committed to education Thats an undershystatement for a man who spent most of his career in educashytion including 16 years as senior academic officer at Conestoga College
He also cares deeply about the University of Guelph He worked hard in the early 1960s to help bring it to life serves on a presidential committee to promote a healthy town-and-gown relationship and is now working to increase local pride in the campus
It distresses me that we are not seeing our universities as intellectual leaders in the community in the province and throughout the country says Hagar who believes there is a need to increase public awareness about the role universities play in
Aubrey HORar
society Hes offered his vocal support to this venture as a volunteer for the Alliance for Ontario Universities
Who says talk is cheap
Your verbal support
of universities
could he
the most valuable gift
you could give
to the generations
of students
yet to teach
Independent of universities the alshyliance is building province-wide supshyport among communities organishyzations businesses and individuals like Hagar who are willing to expand that support on a local level
In each univershysity town there will be an alliance comshymittee that works to build community pride in the institushytion and to raise the profile of its scholars The Guelph group for example may inshyitiate an elementary school program that bui Ids rapport with the University or it might encourage med ia coverage of Guelphs environshymental work
Too often we downplay the conshytributions of our universities says Hagar but if we can instil these atshytitudes in people then financial supshyport through the political process will be there
The aJiiance is unique in Canada It shybegan in 1990 with seed money from the Council of Ontario Universities and gains financial independence this summer And its looking for more volunteers To learn more about the group call director Janet Napper at 416-979-0984
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Genetic engineering bull bull bull
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This is the second part of a report on the use of biotechno]ogy in University of Guelph research
by Mary Dickieson
String art Biotechnology research reminds me of string art the 1960s craft
that had us weaving colored strings back and forth around a pattern made by driving nails halfway into a board
Under skilful hands it became a piece of sculpture an optical illusion that prevented your eye from following any single thread across the board in a straight line
Biotechnology tools are like that Every time you think you understand what one biotechnique can do in one particular dis shycipline you find it reappearing somewhere else as someone in a laboratory across camshypus or on the other side of the world thinks of yet another way to use it
In Part 1 of our biotechnology report we sk immed the surface of how these tools are being used at U of G to benefit plant reshysearch In this story well see many of the same techniques applied in other organisms primaril y animals The secret of our success in animal biotechnology lies in the fact that Guelph has the expertise and the facilities to take any project from lab to barn and back again
Throughout this report youll read about animal scientists and clinical veterinarians teamed up with molecular biologists imshymunologists chemists and microbiologists and often food scientists toxicologists and environmental biologists Their efforts benefit not only livestock production but also human medicine pharmacology food processing waste disposal and the environshyment
Embryo transfer
A major thrust of the animal biotechnolshyogy research at Guelph is in the area of
embryo transfer In fact there are three reshysearch positions funded by government and industry that deal directly with embryo manipul ation as a way to improve the comshypetitive position of Canadas beef and dairy industries
Biomedical scientist Keith Betteridge OVC MSc 60 heads an embryo research lab molecular biologist Alan Wildeman CBS PhD 83 holds a research chair devoted to the mammalian embryo and animal scientist Charles Smith concentrates on industrial research in animal-breeding strategies
Their work is supported by both federal and provincial granting agencies animal breeders and Semex Canada the major marketing arm of Canadas attificial breedshying industry Semex records annual export sales of more than $25 million and is leadshying the industry to the nex t plateau shymarketing sexed frozen or cloned embryos
One route to increasi ng the efficiency of animal production is by improving animal reproduction says Betteridge And that in shyvolves many new biotechniques associated with embryo transfer Conventional embryo transfer means collecting multiple embryos from selected cows and transferring them to properly synchronized recipients It is now almost equally conventional however to freeze or bisect the embryo as part of the procedure
Initially the selected cow was treated with hormones to produce more eggs which were fertilized through artificial inseminashytion (AI) with the semen of a top-rated bull A large number of embryos could then be recovered surgically from the cow for imshyplantation in surrogate cows of lesser genetic worth
These techniques are widely used for the production of purebred bulls More than half the dairy bulls currently at stud in Canadas major AI centres have been produced this way There is also keen interest in using the technology to produce genetically superior breeds and provide competitively priced volumes of commercial cattle embryos
From lOp Bisecting a bovine embryo to produce identical twin calves a chimeric chick created by mixing cells from two embryos microinjecting the egg ofa fruit fly with DNA from bacterial genes that can confer insecticide resistance and a Hereford heifer protected from shipping fever by a vaccine developed a f U of G
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and more Test-tube calves and lambs
In 1988 Semex research co-ordinator Robert Stubbings OVC 76 MSc 84 PhD 89 produced Guelph s first test-tube calf during his graduate studies with Prof PK Basrur in the Departshyment of Biomedical Sciences It was not the first test-tube calf in Canada but it was the first developed from an egg that was matured as well as fertilized in a test tube
The resulting zygotes (fertili zed eggs) were placed in the oviduct of a rabbit for their early development then moved after seven days to the uterus of a recipient cow
Just a few months later other memshybers of the Guelph team took the process one step further eliminating the need to use a temporary host oviduct Postdoctoral fellow Kang Pu Xu and PhD student John Pollard were able to extend development in vitro to the point where the embryo was mature enough to survive when transplanted directly into a recipient cow s uterus
The early embryos were cultured in a medium containing luminal cells exshytracted from the oviducts of slaughtered cows Two baby bulls were born the first in Canada using this method and only the second in North America
Last year gradu ate student Dawn Kelk CBS 89 and Prof Allan King 73 and MSc 75 of the Department of Biomedical Sciences produced North America s first in vitro fertilization (lVF) lambs using these techniques
These achievements were important for several reasons The Animal Biotechshynology Embryo Laboratory can now
Authors note
One of the things Ive learned while writing this story is that biotechnolshyogy is a word seldom used by scienshytisrs For inost of us it conjures up images of people in lab coats bent over microscopes using precision inshystruments to manipulate the cells of living organisms But for scien~ists that s too vague The word may have
meaning but it d6eslJt really
produce its own IVF embryos from oocytes recovered from slaughtershyhouse cows bypassing the more expensive route of sushyperovulation and surgical withdrawal
In addition scientists have gained knowledge about early embryo development that is important for improveshyments in embryo viability and vital for developments in cloning techniques and controlled transgenesis in livestock
In a more immediate and practical context the work has led to the first clinical
Prof Keith Belleridge left and Prof Stanley Leibo watch as research technician Cindy Christian prepares an embryo f or cryopreservation Photo by Mary Dic kieson
use of IVF in cattle in colshylaboration with Brian Hill OVC 80 of Western Ontario Breeders
Bisected embryos
Meanwhile yet another part of the team based in the Department of Populashytion Medicine was perfecting techniques to microsurgicall y bisect fertilized embryos to produce genetically identi shycal animals
Professors Brian Buckrell OVC 68 MSc 84 and Cathy Gartley OVC 82 DVSc 89 and postdoctoral fel shylow Rick Rorie bisected six-day-old sheep embryos - visible only through magnification - and surgically imshyplanted them into recipient ewes Five months later nine lambs were the first animals born at Guelph from bisected embryos
Prof Walter Johnson and postdoctoral
describe anything They talk instead about cell fusion enzyme systems i ermentation or genetic engineering
The fact that biotechnology didnt appear as a popular buzzword until the 1980s suggests that we are using ilto define something neW yet none of these disciplines is really new Human beings have been using other organisms to create new procucts for centuries Thats why We have yeast yogurt and beer as well as anti-
fellow Naida Loskutoff have now exshytended this work in cattle by producing identical twins from IVF embryos divided into quarters at earlier stages of development
These projects maximize embryo use and highlight the potential for creating significant numbers of genetically identishycal animals which can be vital for conshysistent research results Tests conducted on genetically identical animals can reduce the variables caused by genetic differences and ultimately the number of animals needed for experiments
Frozen sexed embryos
The development of in vitro technishyques has also made possible further studies in cryopreservation (freezing) and embryo sexing
It s been possible to freeze and thaw
biotics growth hormones and vacshycine ~ Even genetic engineering is not new although many of us think it is
Through selective breeding practices fanners have been engineering the genetic makeup of domestic animals -for centuries What is new is the speed and accuracy with which we can implement genetic changes the ability to cross the species barrier and a much greater understanding of life processes
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At the eight-cell stage ofdevelopment in a bovine embryo each cell is removed and placed in the shell ofa discarded embryo Afler three days the blastocysts are transferred into recipient cows and the pregnancies allowed to col1linue Eight identical calves will be born and will proshyvide a valuable tool for research
cattle embryos since 1973 and most of the 60000 or so embryo-transfer calves born annually in North America are now obtained from embryos that have been stored in liquid nitrogen But there are still many problems to overcome in freezing unfertilized eggs embryos at varying stages of development and embryos produced in vitro or subjected to micromanipulation
Biomedical science professor Stanley Leibo is a specialist in cryobiology Before coming to Guelph he was part of an industry team that produced the worlds first live young (mice) from frozen embryos and later invented the patented one-step method of freezing cattle embryos Other biomedical scienshytists - King and Don Rieger - and molecular biologists Wildeman and Stan Blecher are investigating various ways of sexing embryos
Some of these involve the use of micromanipulation to remove a small number of cells from an early-stage embryo The sex can be identified by locating X and Y chromosomes detectshying male-specific DNA or perhaps by studying the proteins produced by the DNA segments In embryonic life the activity of X-linked enzymes in female embryos is twice that in males
Detecting differences in the energy metabolism of male and female embryos may also become a method of sexing In studies on early embryos generated in vitro Guelph scientists disshycovered that male and female embryos develop at different rates In addition to its value in sexing embryos this knowledge poses another question If the team can one day learn to control the rate of embryo development will it be possible to control the sex of an embryo independent of its genetic comshyplement
Photo courtesy of the Animal Biotechnology Embryo Lab
Transgenic animals
Since the mid 1980s Wildeman and fellow molecular biologist John Phillips have been producing transgenic mice for studies in human disease
This involves recovering one-cell embryos microsurgicalty from an imshypregnated mouse With a finely drawn glass needle a piece of DNA is inserted into the nucleus of the embryo which is then placed in a surrogate female to complete the pregnancy The offspring carries the foreign gene
One line of research using transgenic mice involves the study of a virus known to affect the transformation of normal cells into tumorous cancer cells Wildeman performs this work using transgenic mice in studies of cancer and metastasis
Transgenic mice are also used in Phillipss ongoing study of the causes of insulin-dependent juvenile diabetes He borrowed a gene from the fruit fly and spliced it into the chromosomes of the mouse so that it is expressed in the beta cells of the pancreas
Observations from the research conshyfirm the long-standing hypothesis that one cause of juvenile diabetes arises from the action of oxygen radicals in the pancreas
The fruit fly itself is used in studies aimed at producing insecticide-resistant insects Working with a team of scienshytists in Texas Phillips is perfecting techshyniques to transfer organophosphate insecticide-resistant genes to the fruit fly and ultimately to agriculturally beneficial insects
Studies have shown that the use of inshysecticides could be reduced if beneficial insects were not also killed by the spray In addition this research may provide the solution needed by North American
honey producers who are suffering great losses in their beehives due to parasitic mites Currently there is no effective control of the mites
From mice to pigs and chickens
Transgenic mice are also playing a role in a project that may eventually imshyprove forage use in domestic animals
Ruminant animals like cows and sheep have friendly bacteria in their inshytestinal tract that enable them to digest the cellulose fibre in forage crops If other animals such as pigs or chickens had the same ability they could be reared on lower-quality cheaper feed than the cereal grains now used
A research team that includes Phillips microbiologists Cecil Forsberg and Peter Krell and environmental biologist David Collins-Thompson has isolated the effective gene from a microshyorganism present in ruminant animals and is transferring it into the mouse which is also a monogastric animal Studies with transgenic mice will enable the team to fine-tune its ability to manipulate expression of the gene
This is just the beginning of a longshyterm project says Phillips but it may one day connect with the work of Profs Rob Etches and Jim Squires in the Department of Animal and Poultry Science who are following separate paths to reach the same goal- transshygenic chickens
Blotchy chicks
Etchess lab opened the door for transshygenic poultry in 1988 when postdoctoral fellow Jim Petitte OAC PhD 86 sucshycessfully moved cells from one chick embryo to another creating chimeric chicks Until this breakthrough
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researchers had been unable to manipulate the avian embryo in the early stages of development
Petitte extracted embryonic cells from the yo lk of a newly laid egg from a barred Plymouth Rock hen and microinjected them into a rec ipient embryo in a dwarf white l eghorn egg through a tiny 05-censhytimetre window cut in the shell When incubated the egg went on to produce a chimeric chick Embryonic cells from the black Plymouth Rock donor were expressed as blotches of black in the chicks down
Since then Etchess research team has been able to do the procedure more successfully get better gene exshypression in the donor cells and keep the embryonic cells in culture for 24 to 48 hours befo re transplanting them into the recipient egg
The chimeric chick itself is not transgenic genetic information from the donor embryo is expressed in a limited number of cells in the chick A second-generation chimera howshyever would be transgenic if the donor cells contained a foreign gene
Thats the focu s of a collaborat ive
Animal scienlisl Jim Squirev has developed a chemic(li recipe Ih(l causes DNA-I(lced liposomes 10 fuse wilil sperm cells When pershyjeered the technique will allow him to use the natural veeror ofsperm cells 10 lransmit foreign
project between the labs of Etches and colleague Prof Ann Gibbins OAC MSc 71 PhD 80 who is intershyested in modifying the donor cells through genetic manipulation When her lab team is able to target a specific gene and change it - and only it - they will insert that gene into the donor cells to produce a chimeric chick and in the second generation a transgenic chick
Transgenic sperm
Squires is taking a more obvious but no less perilous route to the transgenic chicken by using sperm cells to carry the foreign DNA Just as the hen s embryo is difficul t to manipulate the rooster s sperm has barriers of its own Prevail ing thought is that any invas ion of the sperm cell will kill its potency
Although Itali an and Israeli reshysearchers claim to have inserted DNA into the sperm cells of mice through abshysorption no one else has been able to get this to work so the prevailing thought prevail s
Squires s approach is to power DNA into the cells He s de veloped a chemishycal recipe that causes DNA-laced liposomes (fat globules) to fuse with sperm cells
Squires says his team has overcome
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DNA Photo by Ma ry Dickieson
the three main obstacles encapsulating DNA in the liposomes fu sing the liposomes to sperm cells which affects the transfer of 0 TA and retaining the fertility of the sperm
What they have yet to demonstrate is that the process produces a transgenic animal Trials are under way using a radioactive marker ge ne that can be easi shyly detected in a developing transgenic chicken Squires will be eager for peer rev iew to document the results this fall
If successful the sperm cell technique can be adapted for use with all species of commercial animals Sperm cells are the perfect vector because their ultimate function is to insert DNA into an egg says Squires We ll just be supplying the DNA The method is easy economical and safe to periorm and does not inshyvolve expensive equipment
Disease diagnosis
The international race to identify a mutation assoc iated with a costly swine disease was won by Guelph pathologist Peter OBrien OVC 88 and Univershysity of Toronto professor David Maclennan
The mutation associated with maligshy
nant hyperthermia was identifi ed in Maclennan s laboratory by sequenc ing the gene in normal and abnormal swine A I OO-per-cent correlation was fo und between DNA-based tests in Maclennan s laboratory and phys iologishycalbiochemical tests used in 0 Brien s research for diagnosing the condition
From these findings the scienti sts developed a test using modem molecular biology techniques to identify the mutation in the blood cells of inshydividual swine
Malignant hyperthermia is seldom fatal in pigs but it results in poorshyquality pork Pork producers suffer major economic losses from what is known as PSE - pale soft exudative (watery) meat - in affected animals
Other research at U of G cou ld help eliminate a potentially lethal blood coagulation disorder in dairy cows Facshytor XI a genetic disorder associated with a lack of c lotting protein in the bl ood causes hemorrhag ing in Holstein cows
Researchers believe the problem can be eliminated by ensuring that breeding stocks are free of the disease Testing for all of Canada is conducted by U of G biomed ica l sc ienti st Patricia Gentry and research technician Michelle Ross
Vaccine development
Vaccination is the cheapest most efshyfecti ve way of dealing with infec tions and the most poweriul way of preventshying di sease Advanced immunization programs using new biotechniques are under way in many Guelph labs last fa ll the Natural Sc iences and Engineershying Research Council announced strategic grants for advanced techshynologies that included four vacci ne development projects at U of G
Profs Brian Derbyshire and Eva Nagy of the Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Immunology (VMI) recei ved a three-year grant of $295000 to perfect gene-cloning techniques for the de velopment of a vaccine for porshycine gas troenteritis
In the same department Profs Janet Maclnnes Soren Rosendal and Bonnie -Mallard OAC 79 MSc 82 PhD 88 were awarded $250000 over three years to work on a recombinant vaccine effecshytive against the bacterial organism that causes severe pneumonia in pigs
Also in VMI Prof Patricia SheweD 75 MSc 79 PhD 82 received a three-year grant of $408 000 with Prof
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Reggie Lo Microbiology to continue work on an improved vaccine for shipshyping fever Lo and Prof Alan Mellors Chemistry and Biochemistry received a $54000 grant to develop clinical and com mercial applications of a technique used in bone marrow transplantation and vaccine development
These projects follow in the footsteps of earlier developments like the bov ine shipping fever vaccine created by Shewen and VMI chair Bruce Wilkie OVC 65 It was like finding a way to control the common cold in humans
Although the bacterium Pasteurella haemolytica occurs normally in the noses of cattle its numbers increase during periods of high stress and present an insurmountable problem for the animals immune system
Wilkie and Shewen di scovered that during its most active stage of growth the bacterium produces a toxin that imshypairs the ability of clearing cells to eliminate the bacterium They grew the bacterium in a culture monitored toxin production and developed processes for vaccine production
The technology was licensed to Langford Inc of Guelph which man ufac tures and markets Presponse shipping fever vaccine in both Canada and the United States
Lab work by Lo and former student Craig Strathdee CBS 85 PhD 89 that contributed to the shipping fever vaccine project also led to a patent apshyplication - for the plasmid coding for Pasteurella haemolytic leucotoxin which has been implicated as a major virulence factor in the impairment of primary lung defence in cattle
Animal health
Wilkie and Mallard are also working with Prof Brian Kennedy in Guelph s Centre for the Genetic Improvement of Livestock to develop a selective breedshying program that uses knowledge acshyquired through genetic studies and stretches the definition of biotechnology
To stay hea lthy an individual animal must have the genetic ability to produce resi stance to infection says Wilkie That ability is not dependent on a sing le gene but on the expression of many difshyferent genes Neve rtheless these genetic traits are heritable and amenable to selection
This team has identified traits in pigs that are important in maintaining health has characterized individual animals
Biotechnology ofa different sort in volves the use of traditional selected breeding and a computer database to produce diseaseshyresistant pigs
through the expression of these genetic traits and has associated these traits with high productivity If these high producers are mated to produce a disshyease-resistant strain of pigs is that biotechnology
If foreign DNA had been introduced into the embryo of a pig to give it the characteristic of disease resistance that would be an obvious example of bioshytechnology But how do we catalogue the technology if it uses tradi tional selecshytive breeding and a computer to produce a piglet with the same resistance to disshyease
More biotechniques in action
Guelph food scientist Cyriel Duitschaever OAC MSc 66 PhD 75 has developed new fermented milk products that will benefit people suffershying from gastrointestinal illnesses
He and research associate Carole Buteau OAC MSc 78 PhD 83 isoshylated two naturally occurring intestinal bac teri a and propagated a pure culture in the laboratory to develop both liquid and yogurt-like milk products that can be used to stimulate digestion in the inshytestinal tracts of people who are on anshytibiotics who are lactose-intolerant or who suffer gas trointestinal disorders
Clinica l trials at the Children s Hospishytal of Buffalo have been promis ing giv ing rise to another potential use in the treatment of acute diarrhea l di seases affec ting people in the Third World
Microbiology professor Joseph Lam heads a research team that has develshyoped a diagnostic kit to quickly identify a bacteria group known to cause fat al inshy
fections in some hospital patients Pseushydomonas aeruginosa is the principal cause of death in cystic fibrosis sufshyferers and is a serious threat to burn vi cshytims cancer patients and those undergo ing transplants
Because the bacterium does not respond to conventional antibiotic treatshyments quick de tection is central to preventing spread of the infection Lam s kit can cut the test period from 12 hours to five minutes
His current research illustrates the cross-over effect of biotechnology He identified an antigen that is common to about 75 per cent of P aeruginosa strains and a monoclonal antibody against the antigen This has allowed him to iso late spec ia l bacteria that will produce the antigen in large quantities for further s tud y His work should evenshytually lead to a human monoclonal anshytibody that cou ld be used to protect cystic fibrosis patients
In 1989 when the federal governshyment decided it was time to put some money behind its verbal thrust in science and technology it allocated $240 million to estab li sh 14 centres of excellence that would integrate the reshysearch efforts of Canadian uni versi ties industry and government
Several U of G researchers received funding including microbiologists Chris Whitfield Anthony Clarke Joseph Lam Reggie Lo Roselynn Stevenson and Terry Beveridge who beshycame part of the network looking into bacterial di sease Their expertise will aid the search for the causative agents of bacterial diseases such as whooping cough gonorrhea toxic shock synshydrome lung infections and me ningitis
In 1988 biochemist Janet Wood and crop scientist Peter Paul s achieved a breakthrough in understanding how subshystances like sugars and amino ac ids are transported from outside to inside a living cell wall They found that minute protein molecules in the wall surroundshying a cell act like miniature pumps capshyturing the substance and powering it through the cell wall -They are now trying to determine how the protein molec ules choose subshystances for uptake or release S uch celshylular behavior plays a critical role in determining a plants reaction to soi l sa linity or explaining why cells fai l to transport glucose from the blood in diabetics
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Behind every how theres a why While we stand in awe of what sc ienshytists are accomplishing in the biological sciences we shouldnt lose sight of the reasons why they are manipulating cell structure and decoding genetic blueprints
To some extent scientific exploration is driven by human nature - our desire to understand and control the natural world Advances in biotechniques and genetic engineering promise to give us more of both
Reports on the Human Genome Project say that within 15 years well know the code of almost every gene in the human body This work and current explorations in animal genetics are harshymonized by the fact that many of the genes that control development are similar among species
The chicken for example is a familiar model for studies in developshymental biology Supported by 60 to 70 years of data todays embryologists like Prof Rob Etches are learning how to modify the genes that control developshyment of a chick embryo while giving us a better understanding of how genes efshyfect development in all vertebrates
Nothing could be more fund amental than understanding that process says Prof Keith Betteridge who heads the Guelph team working with bovine embryos In all areas of reproductive and genetic research the big payoff is that we will understand more about how two gametes can unite to fonn a single cell and develop into Northern Dancer or Albert Einstein he says
Everyone has a role to play in decidshying how to use this knowledge says Betteridge but the researcher has the triple responsibility of thinking through the implications of new technologies exshyplaining those implications to a skeptishycal and concerned public and safeshyguarding the welfare of animals used
Whether manipulating an entire animal or one of its reproductive cells the scientist is guided by the same set of moral standards If the technology inshyduces pain or suffering causes changes in behavior or affects the animals abilshyity to eat and survive then it shouldnt be done says Prof Bruce Wilkie chair of the Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Immunology
He and other Guelph scientists inshyvolved in animal research are subject to
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peer rev iew through the U of G s animal care committee which is also charged with ensuring that research and teaching programs are in compliance with the Animals for Research Act of Ontario
Reporting to the University s Reshysearch Board the committee is comshyposed offaculty student community and non-user representatives It estabshyli shes animal-care policies on campus and evaluates all protocols submitted by researchers and teachers After granting initial approval the committee reviews each project annually and inspects reshysearch facilities each semester A provinshycially appointed inspector also visits campus frequently and the Canadian Council on Animal Care makes an inshyspection every three years to assess the level of animal care
In addition to safeguarding animal care scienti sts al so need to provide evidence that the products of biotechnolshyogy are safe for human consumption or medical use The public needs to know that the pharmaceutical protein cloned and produced in a chicken s egg is no different than the same protein cultured from human cells and produced in a large bioreactor
The big payoff is that we will understand more about how two gametes can unite to form a single cell and develop into Northern Dancer or Albert Einstein
One of the most talked-about benefits of transgenic technologies is the potenshytial for producing enzymes prote ins and antibodies for pharmaceutical and inshydustrial uses Molecular farming would take advantage of the expression system in higher animals to produce a therashypeutic protein that is difficult or expenshysive to make in a lab
The potential seems enormous but the prac tice will be quite simple A typishycal Ontario dairy herd could probably produce enough human insulin or bloodshyclotting factor to satisfy the world
demand It s easy to see why these techshyniques are already presenting problems for patent offices
The past decade of work in transshygenesis has been a learning process for all of us Early research efforts that produced pigs in the United States with arthritic deformities and sheep in Australia with ulcers have taught us th at even science must learn to walk befo re it can run That means perfecting genetic transfer in animals where the techniques are easily controlled - such as mice and fruit flies - before applyshying them to domestic animals
One of the advantages of gene transshyfer technology is the control it offers geneticists who are able to manipulate expression of a single gene during development One of the limitations may be the re lative ly minor change that gene can make in one generation when compared with the changes induced through the countless generations of selection since domestication
These limitations may alleviate some of our fears about the use of gene transshyfer but it also makes us question its value at least in terms of breed improveshyment in domestic livestock Prof Charshyles Smith holds a research chair at Guelph in animal-breeding strategies and is often called on to assess the value of the new biotec hnologies in the genetic improvement of farm livestock
Economic traits are already being imshyproved through traditional selective breeding methods he says It would take quite large beneficial transgenic efshyfects (at least 10 per cent of the mean) on economic merit to make their incorshyporation worthwhile
Despite our e thical concerns the legal entanglements created by the use of biotechniques and the problem of turnshying new technologies into cost-effective procedures most scientists agree that these technolog ies are too powerfu I not to use They have the pote ntial to help allev iate some of the most serious problems facing the world - food production overpopulation disease and shyenvironmental degradation
Statisticians teU us that 50 years from now we will be trying to feed twice the current world s population on a smaller land base in a more fragile environshyment This is the why behind current research in genetic engineering
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OUD TH Annual giving in 1991 reached $14 million The value of the Annual Fund becomes more apparent each year as the University of
Scholarships amp BursariesGuelph faces continued financial $320127
AMF Priority Athletics ~ ---------- (Scholarships$38326
pressure The 1991 Annual Fund Pet Trust raised $14 million to help $261224 maintain scholarships and provide academic and library programs AMF OAC Alumni Scholarships Foundation ______ grew by $9245 25 per cent
$228494
Memorial Funds $56997
Arboretum $77441
Class Projects ResearchBuildings$86658
Matching gifts grew 31 per cent in 1991 More and more Canadian companies are g iving financial support to the institushytions that educated their employees A total of 44 companies matched 92 inshydividual gifts for a record $11120 in Annual Fund contributions to the University of Guelph in 1991
If you work for a matching-g ift employer every doll ar you donate is matched - doubled or even tripled shyby a company gift Its as easy as it sounds so check with your employer on how to multiply the value of your gift to the University
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Academic Enrichment $87246
3M Canada Incorporated Akzo America Foundation Alcan Aluminum Limited A lean Canada Products Ltd Amdahl Canada Limited American Home Products Corp American International Group Inc BASF Corporation Bell Canada Boise Cascade Canada Limited Campbell Soup Co Ltd Chevron Canada Resources Ltd F alconbridge Ltd Ford Motor Company of Canada Ltd Gelleral Electric Canada Inc Hoechst Canada Incorporated IBM Canada Limited ICI Canada Incorporated Insurance Bureau of Canada
$134893Library $103050
John Laball Limited Kraft General Foods Canada McGraw-H ill Ryerson Limited Nabisco Brands Canada Ltd Northern Telecom Limited Paul Revere Life Insurance Co Pfizer Canada Inc Pioneer Hi-Bred Limited Pitman-Moore Inc Sara Lee Corp ofCanada Ltd Square D Canada The Bank of Montreal The Coca-Cola Company The Toronto Star The UPS Foundation TransCanada Pipelines Warner-Lambert Canada Inc Westeel
Guelph Alumnus
ADIT ON With thanks to Donors Class agents College representatives Alma Mater Fund Advisory Council
Alumni and others who give to the University of Guelph through the Annual Fund are helping to maintain quality at a time when governments are funding for mediocrity Because of the dedication and commitment of our donors and volunshyteers the 1991 Annual Fund surpassed last year s total by $100000 We did not achieve our goal - perhaps $1 6 million was overly ambitious in light of current economic conditions - but we were able to maintain last years 25-per-cent inshycrease in scholarship support
Through the Alma Mater Fund we raised more than $540000 and achieved Tom Sawyer
the target of 12-per-cent participation among graduates of the three founding colleges Arts CBS and CSS alumni substantially increased their donations and participation over last year Campus participation grew from 145 per cent in 1990 to 171 per cent this year And our parents program pushed contributions from parents to $84188 compared with $31500 in 1990
For the first time since 1984 the Alma Mater Fund Advisory Council was able to go beyond its commitments to fund eight additional projects - a total of $86000
Looking ahead our flagship project for 1992 will be War Memorial Hall renovations During Alumni Weekend in June you ll have a chance to see the work that has been done upstairs and the work still needed in the downstairs hall It s a project well worth the interest and support of alumni
For your past and future support of the Alma Mater Fund my sincere thanks
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Tom Sawyer OAC 59A and 6 Corporations Chair AMF Advisory Council Associations Foundations $2874947 Annual giving contribution s
III Annual IGiving Alumni
$1403701 Major Gifts $1236622
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were 22 per cent of the o
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in 1991
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Annual Giving Report
1991 Annual Fund Results $1 A niillion wasraised overallmiddot ariinceaSe of
76 per ceI1tThisyear alumrii in the Arts and CBS groups doubled theirparticipation alld conshytributions And the parents recotded a 46-pershy
cent participation rate
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The group of eight
Eight campus projects were selected to share $86000 in highest-priority funds from the 1990 Alma Mater Fund Among them are the OvC Wild Bird Clinics education program a CSS academic medal in memory of the late dean John vanderkamp a soc ial sc ience citation index for the library framshying for the fine art print study collection a computer design laboratory for the School of Engineering seed money for a history graduate scholarship a conshytinuing education survey for the Mac-FACS Alumni Association and a HAFA-sponsored executive-inshyresidence
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Of cattle cash and Colvil e Alumni gifts to the University of Guelph come in some pretty interesting packages Over the years alumni have given livestock concrete paintings shythere are two by Canadian painter Alex Colville - furniture land books inshysurance policies and a host of artifacts and antiques And money - a lot of money Almost every building on camshypus has some bricks and mortar paid for by alumni And hundreds of students are helped along the way each year by alumshyni-sponsored scholarships
The Annual Giving Report on the preceding pages shows once again how important alumni gifts are to the Univershysity and provides us with an opportunity to say thank you to those alumni who continue to give on a yearly basis Anshynual giving is however only one of three avenues through which alumni proshyvide financial support to the University The others are major gifts and promoshytional programs
Annual giving
The Alma Mater Fund established in 1969 is the route chosen by most alumshyni faculty and staff who make annual gifts to the University
AMF solicitation and management are handled by a volunteer advisory council On the preceding page chair Tom Sawyer OAC 59A and 64 talks about the funds success over the last two years with AMF scholarships inshycreasing by 25 per cent This year the AMF begins a three-year commitment to funding renovations to War Memorial Hall
In addition to its flagship project AMF provides regular support to athshyletics through Gryphon Club contribushytions to college advancement funds and scholarships and to individual class projects
The AMF supports the camaraderie of university days as alumni work together to plan and complete a project whether its funding a scholarship a painting a tree weight-lifting equipshyment or furniture for Alumni House AMF contributions also ensure that fushyture Guelph students will remember those who have gone before
In addition to AMF donations the anshynual giving program includes gifts to
the OVC Pet Trust Fund the OAC Alumni Foundation the Arboretum the paren ts program and the Li brary Other gifts made directly to the University supshyport memorial funds scholarships musishycal activities and research and academic programs
Major gifts
Major gifts to the University are adshyministered by the Deve lopment Office under the direction of Marilyn Robinson Mac 55 These include beshyquests or life insurance policies shortshyterm pledges (often made during a capital campaign) large donations that might establish an endowment fund or contributions to special University projects like the Heritage Fund or the proposed FACS Building addition
Gifts- in-kind - such as library materials art objects or estate properties - also fall within thi s category Last year alumni gave more than $12 milshylion in such tax-deductible gifts
Promotions
Every Guelph graduate is a member of the University of Guelph Alumni Asshysociation and receives the Guelph Alumshy
nus magazine and many other privishyleges There are no UGAA membership fees but the association does raise money through promotional programs like MasterCard travel packages and the North American Life Assurance proshygram
The UGAA provides serv ices to alumshyni and students - such as the careershyplanning workshop planned for Juneshyand returns many dollars directly to the campus Last year it gave $20000 to the library
In addition to direct financial support through annual giving and major gifts alumni also support the University inshydirectly through membership fees to individual college and program associashytions The fees pay for association acshytivities that help maintain ties between their members and the University
Questions
If you have questions or would like 10
know more about the tax advantages of giving to U of G write to Paulette Samson associate director of annual giving and support services at Alumni House University of Guelph Guelph Ont NIG 2Wl or call 519-824-4120 Ext 6183
When yo~bearrom US
If you think youre hearing from us moreoften lhanY9u elida few years ago you reright But checkyour mail and you ll 110tiqe that you~re also hearing
more frequemly from othernon-jgtrofit)rganizations and charities We v~ all stepped lip oui- fUQdIaising efforts
U QfGappreciates your support and needs your help butyou wont know that if we donr teflyou Aildeyen if you cant afford to make a fjnancialcon~
tributiori we hop~ to wjn yoUfverbaJ sliPPOJ-tJt will take many voices to coii- ylnce governmeritthal universities should beagreater public priority
When we contacenttyou on behalf of iheUriivetsity we lly to give more thiin we ask So tak~advantage ofthe p~1one call o(letter to findoutwhais happenc ing OJrcarnp~s U ofG hasmuchto offer llufnrii professionaldevelcipment courses library privileges travel programs recreation and a link Igt friends and
classmates
We Jik~to keep in roucharidYcwarit yO~1 to know the progress were rilaking Ast~e Uriiversity $ prestige grows so does the value ofyour degree
~0~ MarilynR~binson Trish Walker Mac55 DiJectoJ ofDevelopment CSSTl Director ofAJurhni Affairs
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Get your career on track
Responding to alumni requests the University of Guelph Alumni Associashytion will sponsor a career-planning workshop on campus June 26 to 28 The weekend program will be led by Sharon Crozier of the University of Calgary counselling service Each participant will receive a careerlifestyle analysis and will develop a personal action plan
The $225 fee includes the StrongshyCampbell Interest Inventory and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator which will be administered and tabulated prior to the weekend Testing dates have been set in Toronto for May 27 and in Guelph for June 4
Sponsored by the UGAA and coshyordinated by Continuing Education and Alumni Affairs the workshop will also draw on the Universitys Counselling and Student Resource Centre
Enrolment is limited to 20 For registration information see page 26 or call Continuing Education at 519-767shy5000
UGAA board report
by Grant Lee CSS 73 MA 80
The UGAA will present a convocation package to each graduate this spring imshymediately following presentation of the degree or diploma Developed by Alumshyni Affairs staff the package is designed to increase awareness of the UGAA and the collegeschool alumni associations encourage membership introduce the Guelph Alumnus and provide an opporshytunity for board members to congratushylate our new alumni
Approval of the new UGAA bylaw is on schedule It will be presented to members at the annual general meeting in June along with an amendment to the
i I UGAA Letters Patent
In addition the UGAA board bull has approved a $400 donation to help
cover costs for two students to represhysent Guelph at the 1992 World Debatshying Championships in Dublin Ireland
bull is looking at a proposal to help alumDl with financial planning There will be more to come on this subject later
bull received thanks from president Brian Segal on behalf of those alumni who attended the October symposium
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Canada Break Up or Restructure The association was a patron of the event
bull is responding to requests from alumni for more social events Aside from the travel program the UGAA sponsored a ski day at Horseshoe Valley in March
bull approved a proposal from the School of Landscape Architecture to research places of historical value on campus Financial support has yet to be resolved
bull accepted an offer to help sponsor the University Centres annual lecture series which invites Canadian and inshyternational public figures to speak on current issues All events in the winter 92 series were free to alumni
bull donated U of G sweatshirts to Canadian Guidance and Counselling for a conference in Ottawa this sumshymer
bull approved the purpose and terms of refshyerence for the new Alumni House Adshyvisory Committee which is charged with overseeing maintenance of the
facility adopted the 199192 budget and finanshycial plan drafted last November This year we expect to generate some $44000 and spend $33000 It has been suggested that we set the 199293 budget and plan in April of this year so the new board wi II start in September with a sound financial program and budget that will only reshyquire adoption or revision
Chapter news
Calgary - About 40 alumni and guests met at the Delta Bow Valley Hotel Feb 3 to view a U of G video and hear a talk by admissions counsellor C hr is tine Toews FACS 87 Co-ordinator of the event was Janet Hutchinson CBS 79
Edmonton - Paul OAC 67 and Anne Valentine CBS 69 hosted a group of 30 alumni and guests at the Ramada Renaissance Hotel
Montreal - U of G welcomed students and their parents - including many
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alumni - to its first Montreal informashytion night for prospective students The event was modelled after a successful program in Toronto that draws more than 800 students each spring
Vancouver - U of G president Brian Segal met with alumni March 5 at the Pan Pacific Hotel Jim Dodds OVC 63 and Sarah Bloom FACS 86 orshyganized the event which attracted about 70 alumni and guests
Halifax- U ofG alumni in Halifax met with Gryphon basketball players during the March 26 to 28 CIAU chamshypionships Despite losing the OUAA west division title to Brock University the Gryphons qualified for a wi ld card spot at the CIAU championships Alumshyni received free tickets to the game that pitted Guelph against Brandon in the consolation final Fan support was enshythusiastic but the Gryphons lost 72 to 64 finishing third overall
Homecoming 1992 Plans are well under way for Homecoming weekend Sept 25 and 26 In addition to the annual Gryphon Hall of Fame dinner and award s ceremony the weekend will feat ure a beach volshyleyball tou rnamen t --~4~=iiiiikshyconcert alumni brunch walk-a-thon pep rally reunions and the traditional homecoming dance following the Saturday afternoon footshyball game This year the Gryphons will play Wil frid Laurier University A complete schedule will appear in the next Guelph Alumnus but you can get
Winners of Ihe Ju SI fo r Fun square dance compelition 01 College Royal were left 10 right Ann Joselin Kelley Allen Joanne Hewirson Brenl McFadden caller Sue MacKinnon Richard Presley Trish Henderson Jason Thompson and Kelly Lillie
in the Homecoming spirit now by helpshying to plan your class reunion or signing up as a scorekeeper for the vo lleyball tournament For infOlmation call alumshyni officer Laurie Malleau HAFA 83 at 519-824-4120 Ext 2102
Swing your partner
Eight squares of alumni took part in the College Royal square dance competition in March Winners of the UGAA alumni square dance plaque were the Crazy 8s Joanne Hewitson Arts 91 Lloyd Hutchinson CBS 87 Sonya Jones CPS 90 Ed Ketchabaw OAC 88 and MSc 91 Carol)n OAC 90 and Brad MacNeil CPS 87 Mike Relf OAC 91 and student Sherry MacNeil Wayne Lowden was the caller
Winners in the Just for Fun category were Junior Farmer alumni who included Hewitson Ann Joselin OAC 90 Brent McFadden CSS 90 Richard Presley OAC 86 and soonshyto-be-alumni Kelley Allen Trish
Henderson Kelly Little and Jason Thompson The caller was Sue MacKinnon OVC 9 1
Florida picnic
The North Port Yacht Club hosted 199 alumni for the annual Florida picnic March 4 On hand to meet them was Trish Walker CSS 77 and MSc 90 director of alumni affairs Judy Phillips of the University s Real Estate Division also attended to talk about the Village by the Arboretum retirement deve lopshyment
Attendance prizes went to Gertrude Stewart Mac 30 and Morley Funston OAC 32 The picnic was sponsored by the UGAA Alumni-In shyAction Committee represented by Ken Gartley OAC 42 and the Florida reunion committee consisting of Mary and Ted Brent OAC 48 Helen and Don Moffatt OAC 46 Stella and Bob Moore OAC 48 and Retis and Bill HasenptlugOAC 39
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A new kind of class reunion
Its the latest fad in alumni circles shymeeting your classmates at the anshynual University of Guelph alumni hockey tournament Twenty-two teams played in the fifth annual tourshynament in December
For most teams tournament standshyings are secondary to the socializing with classmates that they may not see otherwise says Bill Seegmiller OAC 83 who worked with Brian TapscottOAC 8 1 to organize the event We promote the social aspect through two divisions - social and more social - and include family skating and a Saturday evening wine and cheese party he says Trish Walker director ofalumni affairs presents fhe social division lrophy 10 Ihe OAC 79
Dipper Oldies (II the U ofG alumni hockey tournamenl The OAC 79A team defeated the Grey Gryphons to win the more soshycial division The OAC 80 team won the consolation final and the spirit award went to OAC 7778
In the social (a little more competishytive) division it was the Faceoffs in first place over OAC 88 OAC 90 won the consolation trophy and the Valley Vikings took home the spirit award
Organizers plan to add womens exshyhibition games to the 1992 tournament which is scheduled for Dec 5 and 6 For more information call Seegmiller at 519-836-3807 or Rudy Diemer OAC 85 at 519-763-2250
A night at the races
The UGAA Alumni-in-Action group will host a night at Mohawk Raceway May 26 The $30 admission includes a 6 pm buffet parking program taxes and gratuities For detail s call Laurie
~ Malleau at 519-824-4120 Ext 2102
I Alumni directory
A new alumni directory will be ready for delivery in May The deadline for alumni updates has passed but you can still order a copy of the directory at a cost of $40 plus tax Return the order form you received with the special U of G wristwatch offer or write to Rosemary Clark Mac 59 at Alumni House University of Guelph Guelph Ont NIG 2Wl
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Ottawa chapter 50 years young
There was a nostalgic gathering of Guelph alumni in Ottawa last winter to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the city s alumni chapter
Donald Fletcher OAC 36A and 39 who was president of the group in 1953 sent us a historical account of the chapters activities
A small organizing committee first met in February 1941 at Madame Burgers restaurant to plan the chapters first fun ction a skating party at the Ottawa Experimental Farm It attracted 75 people
Over the years the group held an anshynual picnic and a banquet and dance that gave them a chance to invite faculty from Guelph to speak about happenings at the colleges - and later the Univershysi ty Every president from George I Christie to Bill Winegard paid a vi sit
In 1951 alumni from OVC and Macshydonald Institute who had been meeting since 1936 joined the OAC group A crowd of almost 200 celebrated the chapter s 10th anniversary at a picnic at the farm of the late John Bracken OAC 06 During the 1950s they added a get-together at the annual Ottawa-area plowing match which gave way to a curling bon spiel in the 1960s
There have been many special funcshytions - entertaining the Gryphon footshyball teams square dances car rallies golf tournaments theatre parties and raceway evenings - but the event that stands out in Fletchers memory ocshycurred in 1966 when five members of Parliament hosted the group in the parshyliamentary ballroom
The chapter also includes a couples bridge club which has been meeting for 25 years in the homes of its members
Fletcher thanks the 30 people who have served as president of the Ottawa alumni chapter and the dozens more who have helped on committees devot shying years to the executive to promote the institution
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ALUMNI CAREER PLANNING WEEKEND WORKSHOP
JUNE 26 27 amp 28 ~ The Program This highly successful workshop developed by Sharon Crozier PhD University Counselling Services University of calgary is the first step for an alumnus who is considering a career move The weekend (Friday evening through Sunday afternoon) will consist of group presentations conducted by Dr Crozier with smaller working groups facilitated by profeSSional counsellors from the University of Guelph Counselling and Student Resource Centre
Discussion structured exercises and experiential activities will lead alumni to gain insight into a personal careerllifestyle analYSis and assessment career information resources networking skills and much more
No matter what their age career stage or reason for transition each participant will find this workshop to be an excellent opportunity to develop a personal action plan - and chart their next move
~ Pre-1esting In order to provide individualized career information registrants are required to attend one of two pre-testing sessions The Strongshycampbell Interest Inventory and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator will be administered and results tabulated prior to the workshop Pre-testing dates are as follows
Toronto Wednesday May 27 1992 700 pm - 8 30 pm Holiday Inn Yorkdale
Guelph Thursday June 4 1992 700 pm - 8 30 pm University Centre
~ Fee The registration fee of $225 includes administration and tabulation of the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator materials two lunches and refreshment breaks
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May 2 - The Guelph Spring Festival begins with a 25th-anniversary gala dinshyner in Creelman Hall that will honor founding president Murdo MacKinnon Other festival events run until May 23 For more information call 519-821-7570
May 2 shy An All-Canadian University Asshysociation d inne r w il l be held in Washington DC at the Embassy of Canada Guest speaker is Robert Lanni president of the University of Windsor Entertainment will be provided by Windsors music department For inforshymation call T Chan at 202-543-9111
May 3 - Arboretum Day celebrates spring with family nature walks at 1 and 330 pm and an electrical keyboard concert at 230 pm featuring Canadian comshyposer Carole Anne Burris
May 10 to Aug 30 - Guided nature walks run every Sunday at 230 pm in the Arboretum Topics include wildflowers birds turtles snakes and insects The nature centre is open from 1230 to 430 pm
May 13 - Chancellor Lincoln Alexander is the guest speaker at the Alumni-inmiddotAction annual general meeting which begins at noon in the Arboretum Centre For details call Alumni Affairs 519-824middot 4120 Ext 2102
May 13 - The Human KineticsHuman Biology Alumni Association will hold its inaugural meeting at730 pm at Alumni House with a coffee and dessert social RSVP to 519-824-4120 Ext 6963
May 23 shy FACS 82 is sponsoring a colshylection of Bob Munsch plays performed by the Carousel Players at3 pm at War Memorial Hall Tickets are $8 plus tax and handling To order call the UC box off ice at 519-824-4120 Ext 3940
May 26 - Alumni-in-Action is hosting a night at Mohawk Raceway Cost is $30 To register call 529-824-4120 Ext 2102
May 30 - An Arboretum sale of rare native trees and shrubs at the RJ Hi lton Centre on College Avenue East runs from 9 am to 1 pm For information call 519-824shy4120 Ext 2113
May 30 shy The sixth annual All-Canadian University Dinner in Chicago will be held
in the Henry Crown Space Centre at the Museum of Science and Industry and will include a reception buffet dinner and an Omnivax movie beginning at 6 pm Guest speaker is George Pedersen president of the University of Western Ontario For information call David Cole at 312-372-4404 or Hugh Mackenzie at 708-369-3688
June 2 to 5 shy Spring convocation June 13 - Beginning at 7 am the Arshy
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June 15 to 17 shy U of G will host the 15th annual Guelph Conference on Sexuality With the theme Sexuality New Visions the conference will examine current isshysues in human sexuality counselling strategies for sexual problems and teaching approaches in sexuality educashytion For information call the Office of Continuing Education at 519-767-5000 or fax 519-767-0758
June 19 to 21 - ALUMNI WEEKEND See page 39 for a complete schedule of events and alumni association meetings The UGAA annual meeting is June 21 at 10 am in Macdonald Hall 149
June 26 to 28 shy The UGAA-sponsored alumni career-planning workshop will be held on campus See page 26 for details
July 31 amp Aug 4 shy The National Youth Orchestra will perform in War Memorial Hall at 8 pm as part of its summer program at U of G Tickets at $8 general $6 for stUdents and seniors will be availshyable at the door
Sept 26 - HOMECOMING Rise early for the second ann ual Homecoming charity walkathon At 930 am the Human Kinetics Alumni Association will hold its annual general meeting in the School of Human Biology lounge
Oct 1 - OVCs 1992 Schofield Memorial Lecture will be given by Steven Arnoczky a professor in the department of small animal clin ical sciences at Michigan State Universitys Laboratory for Comparative Orthopedics The 3 pm lecture will be held in War Memorial Hall Admission is free
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John Boros 88 of Wei land Ont writes that he is impressed by the way U of G keeps records after graduation Thi s gives the graduate a sense of belonging a connection to an important period in hi s or her life he says
Jane Buzza 88 is working as records co-ordinatorarchivist for the Ontario Medishycal Association in Toronto
Jacqueline (Sullivan) DeClerck 86 is a public relations officer at the Canada Trust head office in London Onto
Richard Ely 70 works at the Crown attorneys office in WeIland Ont He has an LLB from the University of Western Ontario in addition to his Guelph degree He says he often talks about U of G to young students trying to decide which university to attend
Paul Genest 81 finished graduate studies at Johns Hopkins Universi ty in Maryland and is now assistant professor of philosophy at Union College in Schenectady NY He is man-ied to Barbara Jessup 8 1
Brian Hogarth 78 is head of interpretashytion at the G1enbow Museum in Calgary
Martha Hooper 9 1 was married last Ocshytober to David Perry They live in Calgary where she is a sw itchboard operator at the Delta Bow Valley Inn
Rene van der Meijden 87 has put his degree in geogshyraphy and internationshyal development to good use with the Christian Reformed World Relief Comshymittce Originally from the Netherlands he is now in Uganda on a three-year asshy Rene van der signment as a rural Meijden development adv iser He sends greetings to his many friend s in Canada and to Guelph grads Stan and Kitty in Bolivia in particular and reminds us that visitors are always welshycome in Uganda
Edward Milliner 85 will graduate this spring from the faculty of education at the University of Windsor
Mark Moore 85 is doing postgraduate work in history at the University of Bristol in England He plans to teach high school
fn response to a letter from Dawn Monroe 69 that appeared in the winter 1992 issue of the Guelph Alumnus Doug Moynihan 69 of Fort McMurray Alta writes Be disapshypointed no more Dawn l I too graduated in 1969 from (the College of) Arts or as it was then called Wellington College and I havent heard from anyone either And I too think it is time to contribute my news
After graduation f headed out to disshycover and sol ve the problems of the world travelling overseas for about three years Since then Ive been working in human resources in a variety of organizations in many different locations in Canada Cun-entshyIy I am the manager of human resources in Fort McMurray
PS Do you remember me Dawn I was the bartender in Creelman Hall I
John Teskey 7 1 began new duties last summer as director of libraries at the University of New Brunsw ick in Fredericton He was head of adshyministrative sershyvices at the University of Albershyta before moving John Teskey across Canada to acshycept the UNB posishytion but had earlier served as chief librarian and was library personnel officer at both Alshyberta and the University of Saskatchewan
Teskey says his biggest challenge is to regain the lost purchasing power that univershysity libraries have suffered as a result of static budge ts and ri sing material costs He is encouraging increased resource-sharing among universities and interlibrary loan programs with shortened turnaround
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Elizabeth (Baxter) Willson 77 a real esshytate agent in Chatham Ont writes to voice a common feeling that the universi ty exshyperience itself is often more important than the degree or diploma received I am really glad I graduated from Guelph she says
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Michelle Bombadier and Mike Caldwell both 92 are two of 50 Canad ian youth selected to work in Guyana for three months with Youth Challenge International (YCI) a non-governmental organization that provides Third-world experience for Canadians They may spend the summer building a school teaching safety or clearing land for Gu ytna s first national park but they need some private support to he lp cover transportation costs Anyone able to help should write to YCI at I I Soho St Toronto M5T IZ6
Jane Coventry 86 writes with accolades for the Guelph Alumnus grad news section and an update on what she and her husband Jaydee Smith 84 and MSc 89 are doing They were married in 1989 while working at U of G - he in the Department of Animal and Poultry Science and she in the Departshyment of Crop Science In February 1991 they moved to England where Smith is doing a PhD at the University of Bristol and working as a research assistant Coventry
works in the technology transfer unit of Nickshyerson Seeds Ltd in Cambridge
Jeffrey Crawford 88 and Leslie Thompson 86 were malTied last October He is an elementary schoolteacher in Mount Forest Ont
Craig Emerson 83 earned a PhD at Dalshyhousie University in Halifax in 1990 and is now a research associate in oceanography
Paul Fleming 85 is a pharmaceutical sales representative for Hoechst Canada Inc and lives in Nepean Ont
David Forsey 80 is an assistant professor of computer science at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver He is marshyried to Lyn Bartram
Michael Gangl 89 is in his third year at the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College
Astrid Harms 87 is a registered nurse in London Ont
Andrew Holmes 85 worked for the Onshytario government as a wildlife biologist for three years but is now back at school in his second year at Northwestern Chiropractic College in Minneapolis
Timothy Johnson 86 works at the Centre for Limnology at the University of Wisconshys in in Madison
Karen Lennard 77 (HK) and her hu sshyband Paul Jackson 79 (HK ) and MSc
82 both went 011 to earn medical degrees from McMaster University in HalTilton Ont Jackson also has a master s in physiology from the University of Virginia and is comshypleting an anesthesiology residency in Hamilshyton Lennard has a part-time family medical practice allowing her to spend more time with the couples two children Matthew and Nicola
Wendy Maltby 74 is an elementary schoolteacher for the Metropolitan Toronto School Board
Sandra OConnor 84 earned a medical degree from the University of Western Onshytario and is now practi sing in Burlington Ont
Linda Owen 81 runs her own business as a consulting exercise physiologist and fitness supervisor in Campbell River BC
Sheryle Tetley 86 is regional sales manager for Glaxo Canada Inc in Mi ss isshysauga Ont where she lives with her husshyband Ian
Rob Tonus 87 is manager of the Black Creek Rehabilitation Project a grassroots enshyvironment program to improve a degraded urban stream in Toronto His office is with the Metropolitan Toronto and Region Conshyservation Authority and he lives in Oakville with his wife Wanda (Knul) 88 (HK) a public health inspector in Hamilton
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Richard Woods 81 is an instructor of xshyray technology at the Easte rn Ontario School of X-ray Technology at Kingston Ge neral Hospital He would like to hear from other members of the 1981 U of G choir wi th whom he travelled to Scandinav ia Write to him at RRI Od essa Ont KOH 2HO
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James Dy nes 84 has comp le ted g raduate studies in chemistry and so il sc ience at the Univers ity of Sas katchewan in Saskatoon
Catherine (McVittie) Clark 88 is a nuclear medica l tech nici an at Howard Counshyty General Hospita l in Columbia Md She and her husband Michae l li ve in Elkridge Md
David Holmes 85 is a systems analyst at Sun Life Assurance Company
RolfKierdorf 84 lives in Guelph with his wife Janet He is se lf-employed as a systems consultant
Donald McFadde n 71 and his wife Carol li ve in A lbany Ga where he pracshyti ses medicine
Donald Ridley 69 and PhD 73 has been appoin ted seni or v ice-presiden t of CibashyGeigy Canada Ltd in Oakvi lle Ont and is responsib le for a ll corpora te serv ices includshy
ing finance human resources safe ty health and the environment He a lso se rves on the board of the Canadian Agricu ltura l Research Council and is a member of the Great Lakes Action Plan Strategi c Advi sory Committee
Kathryn Root Parr is an assoc iate minister at Lorne Park Bapti st Church in Mississhysa uga Ont She was married las t fa ll to Vicshytor Parr
Peter Simpson 85 is dis tric t manager for McNeil Pharmaceutical Ltd in Stouffville Ont He is married to Cynthia (Hamilton) 85 (HK)
Keith Stemshorn 83 is in the Canadian Armed Forces stationed in Calgary
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Nikki Dignard 86 moved to Ottawa last year where her husband Ted Henike pracshyti ses denti stry Dignard is working on an M BA and says she d love to hear from CSS classmates Tom Cam and Kathryn
Bonnie Dunnett 87 and MA 91 works on campus at the Gerontology Research Centre S he and Barry Hallman 9 1 li ve in Guelph
Kathryn Faulkner 80 is a registered nurse in Burling ton Ont where she li ves wi th he r husband John
Ruth Fox 84 is a sta ffing assistant for
Transport Canad a and lives in Toronto w ith her husband Christopher
Shonna Giles 88 is an admiss ions officer at Simon Fraser Unive rs ity in Burnaby BC
Gina Grieco 75 is a hi gh school guidance counsellor in North York Onto
John Harris 82 is manager of financial planning and budgets for th e City of Brampton Ont
Paulette Heppner 76 is a teache r in Vanshycouver
John Johnston 7 1 has been appointed exshyec uti ve vice-pres ident o f Ve rsacold Canada Corp and pres ident of QF Foods Distribushytion Services Versacold Canada is the largest public refri gera ted ware hou sing orshygani za tion in Western Canada
Michael Kral 79 has moved from the Univers ity of Manitoba to the University of Wind sor where he is an assistant professor of psychology
Jeffrey Lozon 76 and his family recently returned to Toronto after 15 years in Western Canada He is executive vice-president and ch ief operat ing officer at St Michael s Hos pital and li ves in Oakville wi th hi s wife Donna and two daughters
Bria n Martin 79 is a real estate appraiser in Portland Ont whe re he li ves w ith hi s wife Margaret (Sheffield) Arts 79
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Leith Mason 90 works in Toronto in the Canadian office of the State of Illinois as a special assistant to the Illinois Department of Food and Agricul ture
Michael McKean 74 of Don Mills Ont was recently appointed president of Wrigley Canada Inc Before joining Wrigley as execushytive v ice-pres ident in 1990 he he ld senior positions in Hong Kong Brazil and the United States
Rick 74 and Vicki (Collard) McTaggart FACS 74 are working in Ottawa He is director of overseas operations for the Unitarian Service Committee a charitable non-governmental organization that supports commun it y and human resou rce developshyment activities in Africa and Asia She is sec tion head of consumer analysis in the agr ifood development branch of Agriculture Canada
Sandra Morrison 86 is an ass istant professhysor in the department of psychiatry at the University of Western Ontario
Stephen Naylor 85 is director of planning and development for the amalgamated municipalities of Alliston Beeton Tecumshyseth and Tottenham
Brian ONeill 68 MA lives in SUITey England where he is managing director of Innovation Management Consultant s
Jodi Parisi 89 is a sales representative for Gillette who says U of Goo was the greatest
Moira Skikavich 81 is completing a PhD in c inematelevision at the University of Southern California
Virginia Sutherland 78 is an air traffic controller at the Toronto Island Airport
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Peggy Bates 88 was recently promoted to sales manager with Sears Canada Inc She lives in Owen Sound Ont
Caroline Begin 86 is working in Singshyapore as a dietitian
Diana Close 87 is a c linical nutri ti onis t at Chedoke McMaster Hospital in Hamilton Ont
Sarah Davenport 90 is a case worker with the Wellington County Social Services office in Guelph She is malTied to Matthew Harvey CBS 90
Timothy Dyck 8 1 is national sales manager for Black amp Decker Canada workshying out of the Corbin Division in Richmond HillOnt
Sharon (Muir) 84 and Richard Ernst CBS 83 are the proud parents of a future Guelph grad uate one-year-old Andrew Graham
Patricia Edwards 78 is food servi ce sushypervisor fo r St Peter s Hospita l in Hamilton Ont
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For the love ofteaching Since she
middot graduated bull from Macshydonald Inshymiddot stitute in
J 963 Nancy Kerr has built a career on teaching and research in telttles The middotheidofthe Uriiveisityof
Albertas department of Clothing and texiiles pursues a middotscientific interest inthepreservashylion of hi stori~lfabricsarid in developing pesticide-proofc1otl1ing But Jler fitstlove i ~ teaching
In 199b shewonone ofU of As four Rutherford AWljrds for excellence ill unshy
dergraduate teat-hing The first member of the faculty middotofliomemiddoteconornicsto receive the award slie was the rcentcipient6f the facultys own underglltiduate teaching award three years earlier
Winning the Rutherford was a gteat honor says Ken who has been on
faculty at Alberta since 1967 She oiscovered she had an aptitude for
middot teaching as a graduate student at the University of California Davis in
196566 After earning her MSc she casr about for afaculty position in Canada and round U of A was the 0111y place I could teach ju t textiles plus have a chance to develop new cQurses and research labs
middot Kerr sa)s she gets a tremelldous sense of satisfaction from teaching and the learning he must do to stay cUlTent She attributes her succe s as a teaCher to middotIec-middot
middot tures that are well organized and clear and to creltting a positive classroom climate
~Thcomfort level of students is reaUy middot ililportanL ~ Kerr eamedherPhD in fibre lnd
polymer science from North Carolina bull Staie University in 1982 Her doctoral work concentrated oil deacidification
techniques to preserve historicatcottOnln 1988 she spent a sabbatical ye~r doing research at the Caliadian Conservation
middot In tirute in OnflW1 middot Originalmiddotly from Ottawa Kerr is a
trarisphlnted -vesterner who enjoys middot hiking anlt sk1ing
From left Diane Ellison Lisa Wilson Lori Davis and Pippa Hobbes
Diane Ellison 84 is liv ing in Osaka Japan where she teaches English to Japanese busishyness people Last October she welcomed three U of G friends for a visit Lori Davis CSS 85 manager of Jumbo Video Inc in Oakville Ont Pippa Hobbes 84 accountshying manager for Paramount Holidays in Willowda le Ont and Lisa Wilson 84 co-ord inator of membership serv ices for the Metropolitan Toronto Board of Trade
Monica Hrybko HAFA 88 is director of sales for the Ramada Hotel Old Town in San Diego Calif
David Jones HAFA 88 is a con troller at the Holiday Inn Montreal Centre-Ville
Kathleen McLachlin 83 is operating an insurance agency in Kitchener OnL She opened the State Farm Insurance office in March 1988 and says she loves her job
Susan (Goettler) Parker 80 is working in Toronto as benefits administrator for Imshyperial Oil Limited She is married to Donald Parker OAC 79
Mary Jean (Sinnott) Price Mac 7 1 has returned to sc hool at the University of Otshytawa to earn a bachelor of education
Margaret (Richardson) Rankin 75 has been living in Halifax since 1990 and is an account analyst for Central Guaranty Trust
Janet (Wanless) Sutherland 77 is in private practice as a marriage and family therapist in East Kelowna BC
Jean Thomson Mac 37 says 1937 was a long time ago but shes delighted with all the changes that have gone at the college A former hospita l nutritionist she is retired and living in London Ont -
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Olayiwola Layi Adeola MSc 86 and PhD 89 and his wife Mope are living in West Lafayette Indiana where he is an assisshytant professor of pig nutrition at Purdue University
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Bruce Barrie 79 (Eng) graduated last June with an MBA from City Uni ve rsi ty in Washington State and is now a senior adshyviser in strategic planning with Petro-Canada Resources in Calgary He is a professional eng ineer with APEGGA and an ac tive memshyber of the Planning Forum an international society for planning and strategic manageshyment
Barbara Bryce 83 and her husband Ricardo Ramirez 82 are living in Rome Italy She is a landscape architect and he is a communications officer with the Food and Agriculture Organizat ion
Daniel Campbell 81 and his wife SharonshyMarianne are farmin g near Petrolia Onto
Carolyn Closs 82 and her husband Harold operate a beef cowca lf operation in Shawville Que
Luc Cote 83 is an agricullural account manager for the Royal Bank of Canada in Joliette Que
Kerrie Lea Curran 85 plans to graduate this fall from the master of architecture proshygram at McGi ll University
Bruce Dodson 74A is course superinshytendent at Hawd Ridge Golf and Curling Club in Orillia Ont
Richard Donkin OAC 85A originalshyly from Zimbabwe is the manager of Venida Packing Inc in Exeter Calif Situated in central Californias San Joashyquin Valley Venida Packing ships tree fruit throughout the Richard Donkin United States Canada the Pacific Rim and the Far East Products under the brand names Ruby River and Venida include peaches plums nectarines kiwi grapes persimmons and pomegranates In 1988 Donkin married California native Lisa Kolander and they live in Lemon Cove a community in the Sierra foothill s
Brendan Elder 8S A lives in Kelowna BC and works for Dogwood Nursery He plans to be married thi s summer to Rosemary Powell
Robert Fessenden OAC MSc 67 was recently appointed vice-president of devel opshyment and planning at the Alberta Research Council He is responsible for tec hnology management and corporate marketing
John Fitzgerald 86 was married last November to Susan Given a ] 991 indeshypendent study graduate in animal producshytion He is a lecturer at Ridgetown College she works at Centralia College and is work shying on a psychology degree at the University of Waterloo They live in Strathroy Ont
Glenn Helstern 79A is a driver for the Calgary division of Greyhound Bus Lines of Canada Ltd
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She tells a princely tale
For seven miniJtes on Oct 24 199 L Ellen Het1eOAC 76~U1d MSc 80
(ltllked with PIince Charles Invited toopert a newfumaceat
inco Lilniteds Copper Cliff smelter iri Sudbury Ont the Princemiddot of Wales was easy to talk with says Heale ftwasverycxciting
As eiwironmental co-ordinator Of land reclamation andrevegetation at Copper Cliff Healetold theprince middot about Tnc(secosystem rehabilitation
projects Theroyalvisitor was parshyticulatfyiilterestedin the treegrow- ing project in abandoned inines flld in tlpoundrevegetation ()f acres of tailings
and barren rock Planrilig vegetation on the tailings
hasattrlttcled wildlifeto a protected habitat says Beale who has wqrked forIncosincc she graduated in 1976
Ninety~iwo species ofbirds as weil asrodems hares foxes wolves bears andinoQse have been sighted on the 2500 acres of rehabilitated ore waste
One thing about this job is you middot can s~e where youve been effective she says
While an undergraduate student in Prill(e Charles with EIen Heale horticultural science Healea native ofSiidbury worked at Ineo during the sumniers She wasthi tirst woman to
work inrhemining companys agriculture middot department After shegraduated the niekshy el inine hired her full time tcido horticul- turaLfleld research ~ Ineo later granted heT a two-semester leave of absente t6 work
Theodore Jacobs 78 (Eng) is engineering supervisor at Standard Tube in Woodstock Ont
Greg Keast 85 (Eng) is li ving in Mozamshybique in East Africa where he works as a project officer for UNICEF rural water supshyply project s
Richard Kline 74 was appointed partner of the Toronto accounting firm Schwartz Levitsky Feldman Inc last faiL He is presishydent of the film s bankruptcy division a member of the Chartered Accountants of Onshytario and first vice- president of the Ontario Insolvency Association
Christopher Laforest MSc 91 (USRPD) works in planning and economic developshyment for Bruce County Ont
Jean-Paul PhD 90 and Lynn (Hammell) Laforest 82 and MSc 85 are both employed at Laval University in Sainte-Foy Que He is a professor and s he is a research associate
Kenneth Lawless 63 earned a Guelph deshygree in agricultural economics then went on to stud y dentistry at the Uni versity of Toronshyto He is now an oral and manilo-fac ial surshygeon in Kingston Ont
oil her masters at OAC~ In her current PdStion Heale has rnore
administrative and public relations responshyibilities On her own time she sits on the
board of management for the tocal Red Cross and isalllember ofthe Sudbury
Business and Professional Womens Club
Margie Luffman 77 writes that she has happily returned to Ontario after 10 years in New Brunswick to work at the Smithfield Experimental Farm in Trenton She is curator of the Plant Gene Resources of Canada clonal gene bank
Brian MacCulloch MAg 89 is a sa les representative for Springva le Nurseries Ltd in Berwick NS
Daniel Mansell 64 and MSc 68 is Onshytario manager of the eastern habitat joint venture in the wildlife policy branch of the Ministry of Natural Resources He is stashytioned in Midhurst Ont
Peter McEntire 77A writes from County Langford in Ireland to keep in touch with U of G He is farming and work s as an AI techshynician with Bova Genetics Ltd
Darryl Mitchell 78 works at Pioneer HishyBred Limited in Chatham Ont
Hugh ONeil 88 is manager of customer financial services for Ral ston Purina Canada Inc
Umed Panu MSc 72 (Eng) has done a lot of travelling during his career After Guelph he earned a PhD in civil engineering
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David Nedelko OAC 86 and Ljrlda ArmsJrollg CBS 89 (Jurk 011 cemre) were marriediasl SeplemiJer in Bari ~ie OnlTluir weddiIg iiarly illcilldedfiom leli Katy KusmiliskiOA C 88Paul Allgusline GAG 86 Roh Reed OAC 87Carv Belfral1l oAC 8RJIuJ Sa ndimiddoto (CollinI) BerlrCIlII CBS RR Also 1I111ie wedding w(lS Arlllslong s Veal ullcleClarence Fleming OVC 34 The couple (Ire living in
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at the Universit y of Waterloo taught in India and at Mi ss iss ippi State Uni vers ity and worked with Briti sh Columbia Hydro and the Government of Newfoundland In 1986 he jo ined the faculty of c ivil engi neering at Lakehead Uni ve rsity in Thunder Bay Ont and was promoted to full professor in 199 1 He and hi s wife Kashna and the ir children Neeti and Anukud enjoy the outdoor recreashytion ac ti viti es available in Northwestern Onshytario and look forward to visits from U of G alumni trave lling to Thunder Bay
Lyle Pettigrew 61 is a marketin g consulshytant with Harris Kovacs Alderman in Atlanshyta Ga
Helen Prior 88 joined Sheridan Nurseries after graduation then worked for a year as a research tech nic ian in Guelph s Department of Crop Scie nce She is now in her th ird year at Emmanuel College at Victoria University and hopes to be ordained as a United Church min is ter in May
Gregory Scott 83 (Eng) is operations manager for Accuform Gol f Limited in Toronto
Ba rbara (Coordes) Skrypetz 87 is a fi e ld supervisor for the Ontario Dairy Herd Imshyprovement Corporation working out of Guelph He r husband Stephen 88 operates a bulldozing and excavating busi shyness in the Woodstock area
Victor Skidra 6 is re tired f rom his job as a sc ientific evaluator with Hea lth and Welshyfare Canada He and hi s wife Konstance live in Nepean Ont
William Slusarchuk 63 (Eng) and MSc
The way we were in 1902 OAC alumnus Douglas Campbell 60 passes on a bit of col lege hi sto ry that shou ld make us think twice about our con stitutional squabbles in C anad a
Campbell is director of the Latin America and Caribbea n Trade Divis ion of Canada s Department of External Affa irs Last summer he hosted a vi s it by the president of Uruguay Luis Alberto Lacalle Herre ra whose grand fa the r made a simil a r vis it to Canada in 1902
This is what the elde r Herrera reported to his government Gue lph agricultural college enjoys a worldwide reputation and is con shys idered one of the grea t loca l attracshytions
More than 200 young Canadians a long with many foreign youths come together in its lecture rooms There are bursary ho lde rs from Norway and as far away as Mauritius C loser to us
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67 was recently appo inted pres ident of AGRA Eanh and Environmental Group an envi ronme ntal and geotechnica l firm that is a division of AGRA Indu stries Limited
Michael Sullivan 87 A is a pol ice officer with the Wate rloo Regional Police in Cambridge Ont
Argentina has 12 students there We ll then couldnt Uruguay imshy
itate those good exa mples and also se nd a number of worthy youths to Guelph to acquire the professional knowledge which is becoming m ore necessary each day for the deve lopshyment of our agric ulture~
In addition to the sc ienti fic benefits that our compatriots woul d deri ve from entering sLlch a Canadian techni cal in shystitution there would be the inca lcushylable benefit of becoming familiar with the stric t manly and sound habits of these people who are admirable in e ve ry respect
Afte r they have stee ped themse lves in this atmos phere of dem ocracy which fosters the development of all rights and is alien to intolerance thi s legati on w ill have the great honor of sending home not only sc ientists but a lso mode l citizens
Brenda Trask 80 operates he r own comshymunica tion s consulting company in Osshygoode Ont She is marri ed to Ron Ferguso n
Dave Vanden Bosch 89 is manager of operator services and plann ing for Bell Canada in London Ont
J Stallard Skip Waterhouse 54 and hi s wife Li sa are ce lebrating the birth of a daughter Samantha Elizabe th on New Years Day 1992 They live in New York State where Wate rhouse is iI pro fe ssor of bio logical science at the Plattsburgh Sta te Uni versity College of Arts and Science
Jeff 88 and Karen (Burrows) W h ite 87 live in Strathroy Ont Jeff work s for Bell Canada and Kare n is a Lambton County rural orga ni za tion spec ialist with the Ontar io Mini stry of Agriculture and Food
Harold Wright 86 is a development repre shysenta tive for Ci ba-Ge igy Canada Ltd in Mi sshysissauga Ont He and Lori Krieg 84 plan to marry thi s sprin g
Donald Ziraldo 7 I received doubl e honors last winter fro m the Ontario grape and wine industry Preside nt of Inniskillin W ines of Niagara-on -the-Lake Ont he was named to the Royal Order of the Grape for hi s leadership in enhancing the prod uct and its image
In addition Z ira ldo and his partner Karl Kai se r were named 1991 Men of the Year by FoodsCIvice and Hospitalily magazine During the ir 17-year partnership at Inn isk ilshylin the two have been instrumental in shapshying Canada s wine industry the magazine sa id
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ave Barry Burtis 69 was named president of the Ontario Veterinary Medical Association in January after working with the voluntary organization for four years as a director member of its editorial board and chair of its public relations committee Burtis lives in Burlington Ont and practises at the Bay Cities Animal Hospital He also appears on a local cable television program called Pel Tales
William Medway 54 of Blackwood NJ has been named an honorary life member of the International Association for Aquatic Animal Medicine for his contributions on beshyhalf of the association and the field of aquatic medicine He is both a founding member and past president of the associa shytion A professor emeritus of clinical laboratory medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine Medway is a member of the Marine Mammal Commissions committee of scientific advisers
Diane Pickering-Forster 86 is practising at Vander Kraan Veterinary Services in Huntsville Ont She is malTied to Chris Forster and they have one daughter Julia
Julien Proulx 67 has moved from Kapusshykasing Ont to La Pocatiere Que where he is superintendent of Agriculture Canada s Experimental Farm Last year he was feashytured on TVOntarios French network series Personalire Ontarienne for his work as a veterinarian his participation in municipal politics and his support of regional developshyment in Northern Ontario He was also awarded Agriculture Canadas research branch prize Agcellence for extraordinary management during his direction of the reshysearch program at the Kapuskasing Exshyperimental Farm
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Twoc~ireers middot on the samepat~ OVCaruninus Geoffrey Lord 49 felt a thopedic
middot enseofdejavuwhen he read theslory gastrointesshyabout Bill Naray~i1 OVe 63 il1la~t tinal and carc
springs issue ofthe Guelph Altimnus diovascular
There are amazing simi laritiesbetween surgery the c~reersof t~e two Guyanese wh6b6th says Lord If earnedvefetinary degrees atGueiph someone worked in c1ini(ai practice in)Yestem were to ask Canada then moved to the United States me ioday to work in human medic~lresearch what Tcon~
Narayan heads an AlDSresearchteamsider to be atJohns HopkiflS l1)iversilySchool of my expertise MediCirieinBaltimoreMatyland Lord is I would have retired directorofthdohnsonamp Johnson to saymecli- Geofrey Lord
middot Resear~h Foundalion ill NewJersey cal device lordsays he was influenced by OVC andbioshy
proJessDfs Anthony Kings(Qte and Frank Inaterials evaluation middot SchofieJd~ndwcentnton from GiJelphto pur- lt In the I 950s Lordwaspalt of ale-
sue graduate studies in parasitology auhe se~rch team that pioneered the use of University oJWiscollsin Sevenmorithsin animal tissue tOTeconstructdamagedjr
amixed practice in Drumheller Alta con blocked al1eries in hUl11ansTwenty years vinced him thaldinical medicine wasn6t middot later he drafted the first systematicap-
middot whati w~ted6 do He returned to Wis pr()ach to the safety evaluation of medica con5il110 eanla PhDlll pathologyano devices joined Johnson amp JohnsQri as asenior middot Allsubsequeill guidelines inCiLlding patilol()gistiriI953 those of the Foodaj)q Diug Admlnistrashy
Research at Johnson amp JohDson tiOnand the Canadian Regulatory ~teeredmeinto many interesting and chal- Authority hayeadopteoihis approach he
Jenging fieldsofbio-research includirig says derniiltoi9gy toxicologic pathology Lordand his wife Helen ltIividetheir wound healing surgical pathology iiinebetweel)Ciipe CodandBonita genera toxkology ofi~w drugs andor~ Springs FloriQa
Shane Renwick 77 and MSc 91 works in veterinary services at Agriculture Canada offices in Guelph
Ruth Reuter 61 is a veterinary pathologist in Plympton Australia
Tom Sanderson 6 1 was selected by the Ontario Veterinary Medical Association as Ontario Veterinarian of 1991 CUlTently OVCs co-ordinator of off-campus work terms he spent 20 years in private practice in Listowe1 and Mount Forest before returning to the coll ege in 1982 to manage the veterishynary research stations Sanderson s contribushytions to the profess ion have included many hours of volunteer work in the advancement
of the profession and in the development of veterinary inshysurance programs He is a past pres ident of both the Ontario and Canadian Veterishynary Medical associashytions
Jennifer Troughton 86 is practising in OronoOnt
Simone Woltner 86 is a veterinarian at the Chester Basin Animal Hospital in Chester Basin NS
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by her hu sband William and two sons The fo llowing dea ths have been reported since the las t issue of the Guelph Alumnus Full notices which are usu ally submitted by family or classmates may appear in thi s iss ue or in a later one
James Clement Arts 73 Feb 2 1992
Marilyn (Dyment) Farnan Mac 530 Feb 27 1992
David Fisher OAC 80A in October 1990
Elizabeth (C hristie) Glass Mac 3I D June 2l99 1
Peter Heskey OAC 54A Dec 6 199 1
Richard Ketchell OVC 51 Nov 23 199 1
Edward Kowalski Arts 79 in August 199 1
Pauline (Dixon) MacMillan Mac 240 Jan 2 1992
Catherine MacPherson Arts 83 Dec 11 1990
Marguerite (White) Maybury Mac 3 10 in June 1990
Donald McLeOd CSS 80 Jan 9 1992
Albert Meilus OAC 51 in 1991
Ann (Biggs) Ostler Mac 3 10 in April 1991
Robert Race Arts 73 in 1989
Ralph Sampson OAC 40 in December 1989
Mor ris Sanderson OAC 42 Nov 17 1991
Sir Peter Scott HDSc 8 1 in Au gust 1989
William Setterington OAC 40 Oct 22 1991
George Shoniker OAC 50A in March 199 1
John Somerset OAC 34 Dec 27 199 1
Gregory Van Patter OAC 7 1 in 1990
Frederich Weiland OAC 20A in 1990
Arts
Riccardo Rich Incitti 88 died Jan 5 1992 as the result of an accident near Hami lshyton Ont He was assistant manager at the Toronto-Dominion Bank in St Cathari nes and is survived by his parents Gu igi and Lucia of Cambridge and two sisters Laura and Andrea
Larry McNenly 73 died in October 1991 in Owen Sound Ont He is survived by his wife Marnie CSS 73
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Robert Everett HK 74 died in May 1991 in Burlington Ont A teac her at White Oaks Secondary Schoo l in Oakv ille he is survived by his wife Miche le and brother William CBS 74
James Sandy Fear 75 died Oct I I 199 1 in Toronto He is survi ved by his wi fe Sally (Firth) OAC 75 and hi s children Caitlin Alli son and Mered ith
CSS
Lynn (Dalys) Corby 84 died in Toron to May 6 1990 after a long battIe with cancer
Nancy (Birbeck) Gordon 77 died Oct 20 1991 in Ottawa after a short illness She worked at the Kitchener-Waterl oo Hospital and had previously been plan t accountant at Foseco Canada Incorporated in Guelph
Mac-FACS
Jean (Williams) Forward 280 Oct 28 1991 in Calgary She was the widow of Bower Forward OAC 25 and is survived by two sons
Catharine (Bechtel) Fromm 270 died Nov I 199 1 in Cambridge Ont She is surshyvived by three dau ghters Ellen Moore Mac 63 Nancy and Caro l
Alice (Rivaz) Garrard 28 di ed Dec 2 199 1 in Guelph She was an active member of the Mac-FACS Alumni Assoc iat ion and was the Mac 28 class agent for the Alma Mater Fund She is survived by her husband retired professor Edward Garrard OAC 27 and a daughter Betty Nelson
Della Marie (Diamond) Honey 300 of Warkworth Ont died June 29 1991 One ofWarkworths oldest and most respected citizens she served as local li brarian fo r 25 years She is survived by her son John OAC 52A his wife Patric ia and four grandchildren James OAC 84A William OAC 76A Thomas OvC 89 and Patricia Lonergan CSS 68
Barbara (Banigan) Martin 380 died Jan I 1992 in Don Mill s Ont A retired teacher wit h the North York Board of Education she is survived by a son Ted a sister and two brothers
Elizabeth (Burt) Perry 340 died June 28 1991 in Sidney BC and is surv ived by her husband Gordon and son Paul Nartel OAC 62
Jacqueline (Roy) Pote 34D died Dec 2 1 1991 in Willowdale Ont and is is survived
Merrill and Bill
Doroth y (MacFeeters) Scott 260 died Jan 14 1992 in Toronto She is su rvived by two daughters Anne Donaldson and Cynthia Scott
Florence (French) Snyder 370 died May 6 199 1 in Calgary and is survived by her husband Robert and two sons John and William
Katherine (Sweet) Watt Mac 220 died Feb 23 1992 She is survived by her husshyband Leslie a son David and a dau ghter Carol Gi llanders
Mattie (Newman) Widdicombe 240 died Dec 11 1991 in St Catharines Ont Preshydeceased by her husband John she is surshyvived by a bro ther and several nieces and nephews including Virginia Rigby Arts 76
OAC
George Grey Arnup 38 died Feb 2 1992 in Toronto He spent most of his career with the plant protection branch of Agriculture Canada He is survived by his wife Aileen three chi ldren Nancy Jim and Mary Ellen Vincent CBS 79 and four grandchi ldren
Herbert Boyce 28 and MSA 43 died Sept 2 1991 in Amherstburg Onto He is survi ved by his wife Norah a daughter Beverley Med lock and a brother James OAC 32
Jack Reddy Brethet 56 died Nov 4 199 1 in Burlington Ont President of Brethet Barnum Assoc iates Inc he is surshyv ived by his wife Caro l and two daughters Lyn n and Anne
Bruce Foster 28 died Feb 6 1992 in Ridgetown Ont and is survi ved by his daughter Gayle Anderson and son David CBS 69
Allison Gardhouse 49 died Sept 21 1991 in Midland Ont He was re tired supe rshyintendent of schoo ls for the Simcoe County Board of Education and is survi ved by his wife Merle
Kenneth Harrison 24 died Nov 5 199 1 in Kentville NS A distinguished plant patho logist military officer and mycologist he began hi s career in 1926 as assistant plant pathologis t at the Kentvi lle Experimental Farm He worked there until retirement in 1966 wi th the exception of mi litary servi ce du ring the Second World War
Dr Harrison had a lifelong interes t in the study of mushrooms and publ ished numerou s technica l papers on the mu shroom flora of Nova Scotia In addition he enshy
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couraged interested amateurs and led field trips for student s at Acadia University and the general public from 1929 until 1987 In 1979 he was honored by Acadia wi th the dedication of the Kenneth A Harri son Laboratory of Mycology
During his career he was a member of many professional organizations a charter member of the Mycological Society of America and fe llow of the American Associashytion for the Advancement of Science
He is survived by hi s wife Margaret two brothers Maynard OAC 30 and Arthur OAC 29 two son s Ashley and Kenneth and a daughter Jennie Sheito
William Kellam 4 1 died Oct 19 1991 in Brockville Ont He was retired from the Curb and Gate Co of-Brock ville where he had worked as a lab technician fo r 28 years He is survived by his wife Kathleen a son George and a daughter Mary
William M acMillan 48 died in February 1992 in Winnipeg He was supervisor of Fertilizer marketing for the Manitoba Pool Elevators and is surv ived by hi s wife Edna Jean and brother Harry OAC 5 1 A
Cameron McTaggart 35 died Feb 4 1992 in Aurora Ont After graduating from OAC he became manager of Don Head Farms in Richmond Hill He established the first agricul tural consulting business in Canada in 1947 and later ran an Angus cattle
sales management business from the family farm A life member of the OAC Alumni As shysociat ion and the Class of 35 executive he is survived by his wife Margaret Mac 35 and two sons John OAC 62 of Regina and David of Largo Fla
Douglas Miller 48 of Victoria BC died Nov 24 1991 in Toronto He is survived by hi s wife Ruth and five children
Gregory More 76 was killed Feb 3 1992 in Kitchener Ont at the Ontario Glove Manufacturing Co where he was co-owner and vice-president Following graduation he worked for the Rohrer Drug Co and the Stershyling Drug Co then returned to school ea rnshying an MBA at McMaster University in 1981 More was an avid squash player and golfer Court A at the Northfield Racquet Club in Waterloo was dedicated to his memory in March He is survived by his parents Noreen and Ken a brother Randy and a sister Katherine Keeler
John Jack Pawley 33 died March I 1992 in Guelph He is survived by his wife Ruth son John OAC 62 and daughter-inshylaw Carolyn He was a former director of the Ontario Milk Marketing Board and a past member of the Royal City Lodge of Perfecshytion
Harold Reid 20A died in December 1991 in Burlington Ont During the First World W ar he was one of Canadas premier rad io
experts work ing at the Roya l Canadian Navy shore transmitter in Sydney NS After the war he came to OAC to earn a diploma then went on to QueenS University to comshyplete an arts and theology degree His mini sshytry was mainly in St And rews and Montreal although he spent 13 years teaching Hebrew at the Presbyterian Coll ege before retiring in 1968
Donald Robertson 3 1 died Nov 4 1991 in Iroquois Ont He is survived by hi s wife Caroline (Grisdale) Mac 38 his two son s ScottOAC 65A and Guy and a daughter Sandra McNeil
Thomas Rokeby 48 and MSA 50 died Jan 29 1992 in Fayetteville Ark He was a professional engineer and tau ght for 30 years in the Univers ity of Arkansas engineering department Born in Port Rowan Ont he was a member of the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War the American Society of Agricultural Engineers and the agricultural honor societies of Gamma Sigma Delta and Alpha Epsilon He is surv ived by his wife Helen two sons Robert and Richard a daughter Penny and three brothers Michael Noel and Richard OAC 54
Francis Sweeney OAC 45 died Nov 17 1991 in Oakville Ont He was a longtime employee of Shell Canada and [nternational Shell working in Great Britain Europe and
WALL CUSTANCE MEMORIAL FOREST
The Wall-Custance Memorial Forest located at the Universi ty of Guelphs Arboretum was established in recognition of the severe depletion of our forests It is never too late to be a vital part of the effort to save and improve our air and water for the future of our children by planting trees This program is our small part of the major endeavor to reforest and to reduce the greenhouse effect improve air quality and provide food and cover for wildlife The Memorial Forest Proshygram not only pays a Significant tribute to a loved one but also assures a better environment for generations to come
The purpose of this program is to provide an opporshytuni ty to commemorate the life of a loved one by plantshy
Home of the WALL-CUSTANCE
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ing a tree We envision that the Memorial Forest Program will continue for many years to come and our hope is that the solace that nature offers particularly in the depths of a living forest will be of comfort and benefi t to all
For more information or for a brochure call or write to
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Berna rd Weeks 35 died Oct 16 199 1 After graduation he re turned to his roots in
ew York and Pennsylvannia and worked in 4-H and you th organi zations for a few years He then took over the family farm at Troupsburg NY and built up a dairy operashytion with a sideline of sheep He is surv ived by his wife Ruth and four children
Glenn White 43 of Belleville Onl died Nov 24 199 1 in Florida and is surv ived by hi s wife Marjorie
ave Norman Anderson 39 of Wi nn ipeg died Dec 18 1991 in Arizona He had practised veterinary medicine in Norwood Man and was a member of the American Equine Pracshytitioners Association director of the Canadian Thoroughbred Society and track veterinarian at Assin iboia Downs for 50 years He is survived by his wi fe Peggy and two sons Laurie and James
George Beatty 5 I died Nov 22 1991 in Inverness III He practised in Palatine fo r 36 years and founded the Palatine Animal Hospi tal He was an active member of the American Animal Hospital Assoc iati on and the Chicago Veterinary Association and was a director of the Friends of the University of Guelph He is survived by his wife Mary and fo ur children - Suzanne Patricia Margaret and Tim
John Hamilton 5 L died Dec 15 1991 He had lived in Roslin On where he owned the Bay Regional Veterinary Hospital He is survived by hi s niece Ann Bongard
Nicholas Labzoffsky 39 died Dec 25 1991 in Largo Fla Fonnerly of Toronto he had li ved most recen tl y in Dorse t Ont and is survived by hi s wife Jane
Edgar Langford 49 died March 41992 in Monarch Alta A former research scienshytist with ADRI (Western) he is survived by his wife Norma and two daughters includshying Carolyn OVC 76
Stuart Maude 4 1 died Jan 14 1992 in Rosemead Calif A former Rosemead counshycillor and four-time mayor he operated the Rosemead Animal Hospital with his brother Arthur 52 from 1953 to 1980 He was a trustee for Ingles ide Hospital a past grand patron of both the Rosemead and the Califorshynia Order of Eastern Star and past-president of the local Kiwanis Club and Chamber of Commerce He is survived by his wife Vera two daughters Patricia and Susan Bezner a son Stuart and three brothers
Walter Morley 42 o f Mildmay On died Nov 28 199 1 He ran a large animal pracshytice in the Mild may area for 39 years raised cat tle and raced standardbred horses He was also a pu blic school board trustee and direcshytor of a local te lephone company for more
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than 30 years He is survived by his wife Joyce five sons - two of whom are OVC alumni Dave 68 and Randy 74 - and 10 grandchildren
Lloyd Neily 52 died Jan 3 1992 in Hantsport NS A retired meat inspector w ith the federal Department of Agriculture he had a private veterinary practice in Wind sor NS He is surv ived by hi s wife Mary
Elford Nundal 43 died Jan 7 1992 in Langley BC after a long battle with canshycer He operated a veterinary practice in Langley for 36 years and served as a di strict aldennan for 10 years before being elected mayor in 1982 Last year he received the BC Veterinarian Association s award of merit for a lifetime of veterinary work
Humphrey Rees 55 died Sepl 30 1991 in Amman Jordan while on ass ignment for the Overseas Development Ad ministrat ion as veterinary and animal hu sbandry adviser to the Jordani an government His contemshyporaries at Guelph will remember him as a singer debater raconteur rugby player and bon vivant He is surv ived by his wife Alice of POlt Eynon Wales
William Stinson 40 died Feb 15 1992 in Norwood Ont He is survi ved by his wife Rita a son John OVC 67 a brother Ford OAC 34 and a grandson John CSS 87
Faculty
Patric ia Harney died Dec 191991 in Yarshymouth NS A professor in the Department of Horticultural Science from 1962 to 1988 she developed severa l new variet ies of geraniums and was instru mental in es tabshylishing the Frances Ball rose collection at the Arboretum
Anthony Marston died Feb 3 1992 in Fershygu s ant Retired from the School of Hotel and Food Administration he was an acshycomplished competition chef who received his training in Switzerland and England He then spent severa l years working in the Caribbean before coming to Guelph in 1970 A member of the Canadian Olympic culinary team he held a number of positions in the
Donations given in memory ofGuelph alumni will help support University scholarships ifdirected to the Alumni M emorial Fund In 1991 donations were made in memory of the following alumni
Frank MacDonald OAC 37
Frank King OAC 33 -Robert Allen OAC 56A
Alice (Rivaz) Garrard Mac 28
Stan Vesselinovitch OVC 57
For more infonnation call the Office of Annual Giving at 519-824-4120 Ext 6 183
hote l and food industry until retiring in 1982 He is survived by hi s wife Di ana
Gordon McNally dled Jan 12 1992 in Guelph A professor in the Department of Zoo logy from 1934 to 1971 he served as academic assistant to the dean of CBS until retiring in 1979 While at Guelph he was honorary pres id ent of the classes of OAC 54 58 and 67 He is survived by his daughter Jean two siste rs and two grandchildren Prof McNallys family has established the A Gordon Mc a lly Memorial Fund to support a sc holarship or bursary Contributions may be sent care of the Alma Mater Fund Alumni Hou se University of Guelph Guelph ant N I G 2WI
Friends
Jean (Young) Branion died March 3 1992 in Guelph She was the wife of the late Hugh Branion a physiology professor at U of G and assistant to presidents Bill Winegard and Don Forster Jean Branion was an act ive volunteer on campus for many years and one of the firs t presidents of the College Womens Club She is survived by a son Richard and his wife Marga re t of Vanshycouve r and five grandchi ldren Donati ons may be made to the Hugh D Branion Memorial Scholarship through Alumni House
Davy Alexander Hamilton-Williamson died Feb 4 1992 in Guelph A painter and author of childrens stories he had been a member of the University s Presidents Council s ince it began in 1 985
Marjorie Pinkney wife of J ames Pinkney OVC 3 7 died Dec 151 99 [ at her home in Milton ant
Samuel Wyal died March 15 1992 in Brantford ant He was a partner in the law firm Wyatt Purce ll Will Stillman and Scott He is surv ived by his wife M a bel Mac 39 four sons Peter Michael William and John and two daughters Mary Alderson and Sarah Nadalin Arts 82
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INVmiddotESTMENTS amp
DIVIDENDS
Facts about university education in Canada and how we pay for it
By 2000 half of all new jobs in Canada will require a university degree
But at the current rate of government funding only one in five children
will have a chance to go to university
In the seven years from 1982 to 1989 per-student grants to universities in
Ontario barely kept pace with intlation at five per cent
per-student funding at American public univers ities jumped an average
of 23 per cent in the same period
Those US universities also receive twice the federal research dollars per student as do Ontario universities
In 1987 the average salary of a full-time professor at an Ontario univers ity was $55500
compared with $68200 for a private-sector position of similar education and experience
Lawyers economists and engineers made an average of $71 000
Ontario ranks ninth out of the to provinces in terms of grants to universities
Between 1978 and 1991 enrolment at Ontario univers ities grew by 40 per cent while funding dropped
from 59 to 409 per cent of total government spending
Universities were spending 14 per cent less per student between 1977 and 1988 hospital expenditures
rose 38 per cent per patient in the same period
Ontario universities generate $3 of economic activity for every
$1 invested by government funding
And the number of jobs generated by university activities in
Ontario is greater than the employment impact of the textile
industry the entire paper and pulp industry or utilities
University graduates can look forward to earning 63 per cent more than the average industrial worker
A 1990 survey of U of G alumni found that two years after graduation 97 per cent of Guelph grads
looking for work were employed 62 per cent were earning $25000 or more and 10 per cent were
earning $40000 or more
Unemployment rates in 1990 for those with a university degree was about one-third what it was
for those with only a high school diploma
Every year from 1978 to 1987 Ontario university inves tments in renovating or replacing
aging buildings could not keep pace with the rate at which the buildings depreciated
Graphics by Debbie Thompson Wilson Statistics supplied by th~ Council 01 Ontario UniverSities Statistics Canada and the U01 G Student EnVifonment Study Group
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A salute to sport Alumni Weekend June 19-21 9am Sio-pitch tournament
The tradition Jives on at the south quad diamond s Cooed teams of 12 or more players are encourshyaged to join in the fun
FRIDAY 10 am to 9 pm Registration Lambton Hall
6 pm Kick-off dinner and half-time show
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This is the second part of a report on the use of biotechno]ogy in University of Guelph research
by Mary Dickieson
String art Biotechnology research reminds me of string art the 1960s craft
that had us weaving colored strings back and forth around a pattern made by driving nails halfway into a board
Under skilful hands it became a piece of sculpture an optical illusion that prevented your eye from following any single thread across the board in a straight line
Biotechnology tools are like that Every time you think you understand what one biotechnique can do in one particular dis shycipline you find it reappearing somewhere else as someone in a laboratory across camshypus or on the other side of the world thinks of yet another way to use it
In Part 1 of our biotechnology report we sk immed the surface of how these tools are being used at U of G to benefit plant reshysearch In this story well see many of the same techniques applied in other organisms primaril y animals The secret of our success in animal biotechnology lies in the fact that Guelph has the expertise and the facilities to take any project from lab to barn and back again
Throughout this report youll read about animal scientists and clinical veterinarians teamed up with molecular biologists imshymunologists chemists and microbiologists and often food scientists toxicologists and environmental biologists Their efforts benefit not only livestock production but also human medicine pharmacology food processing waste disposal and the environshyment
Embryo transfer
A major thrust of the animal biotechnolshyogy research at Guelph is in the area of
embryo transfer In fact there are three reshysearch positions funded by government and industry that deal directly with embryo manipul ation as a way to improve the comshypetitive position of Canadas beef and dairy industries
Biomedical scientist Keith Betteridge OVC MSc 60 heads an embryo research lab molecular biologist Alan Wildeman CBS PhD 83 holds a research chair devoted to the mammalian embryo and animal scientist Charles Smith concentrates on industrial research in animal-breeding strategies
Their work is supported by both federal and provincial granting agencies animal breeders and Semex Canada the major marketing arm of Canadas attificial breedshying industry Semex records annual export sales of more than $25 million and is leadshying the industry to the nex t plateau shymarketing sexed frozen or cloned embryos
One route to increasi ng the efficiency of animal production is by improving animal reproduction says Betteridge And that in shyvolves many new biotechniques associated with embryo transfer Conventional embryo transfer means collecting multiple embryos from selected cows and transferring them to properly synchronized recipients It is now almost equally conventional however to freeze or bisect the embryo as part of the procedure
Initially the selected cow was treated with hormones to produce more eggs which were fertilized through artificial inseminashytion (AI) with the semen of a top-rated bull A large number of embryos could then be recovered surgically from the cow for imshyplantation in surrogate cows of lesser genetic worth
These techniques are widely used for the production of purebred bulls More than half the dairy bulls currently at stud in Canadas major AI centres have been produced this way There is also keen interest in using the technology to produce genetically superior breeds and provide competitively priced volumes of commercial cattle embryos
From lOp Bisecting a bovine embryo to produce identical twin calves a chimeric chick created by mixing cells from two embryos microinjecting the egg ofa fruit fly with DNA from bacterial genes that can confer insecticide resistance and a Hereford heifer protected from shipping fever by a vaccine developed a f U of G
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and more Test-tube calves and lambs
In 1988 Semex research co-ordinator Robert Stubbings OVC 76 MSc 84 PhD 89 produced Guelph s first test-tube calf during his graduate studies with Prof PK Basrur in the Departshyment of Biomedical Sciences It was not the first test-tube calf in Canada but it was the first developed from an egg that was matured as well as fertilized in a test tube
The resulting zygotes (fertili zed eggs) were placed in the oviduct of a rabbit for their early development then moved after seven days to the uterus of a recipient cow
Just a few months later other memshybers of the Guelph team took the process one step further eliminating the need to use a temporary host oviduct Postdoctoral fellow Kang Pu Xu and PhD student John Pollard were able to extend development in vitro to the point where the embryo was mature enough to survive when transplanted directly into a recipient cow s uterus
The early embryos were cultured in a medium containing luminal cells exshytracted from the oviducts of slaughtered cows Two baby bulls were born the first in Canada using this method and only the second in North America
Last year gradu ate student Dawn Kelk CBS 89 and Prof Allan King 73 and MSc 75 of the Department of Biomedical Sciences produced North America s first in vitro fertilization (lVF) lambs using these techniques
These achievements were important for several reasons The Animal Biotechshynology Embryo Laboratory can now
Authors note
One of the things Ive learned while writing this story is that biotechnolshyogy is a word seldom used by scienshytisrs For inost of us it conjures up images of people in lab coats bent over microscopes using precision inshystruments to manipulate the cells of living organisms But for scien~ists that s too vague The word may have
meaning but it d6eslJt really
produce its own IVF embryos from oocytes recovered from slaughtershyhouse cows bypassing the more expensive route of sushyperovulation and surgical withdrawal
In addition scientists have gained knowledge about early embryo development that is important for improveshyments in embryo viability and vital for developments in cloning techniques and controlled transgenesis in livestock
In a more immediate and practical context the work has led to the first clinical
Prof Keith Belleridge left and Prof Stanley Leibo watch as research technician Cindy Christian prepares an embryo f or cryopreservation Photo by Mary Dic kieson
use of IVF in cattle in colshylaboration with Brian Hill OVC 80 of Western Ontario Breeders
Bisected embryos
Meanwhile yet another part of the team based in the Department of Populashytion Medicine was perfecting techniques to microsurgicall y bisect fertilized embryos to produce genetically identi shycal animals
Professors Brian Buckrell OVC 68 MSc 84 and Cathy Gartley OVC 82 DVSc 89 and postdoctoral fel shylow Rick Rorie bisected six-day-old sheep embryos - visible only through magnification - and surgically imshyplanted them into recipient ewes Five months later nine lambs were the first animals born at Guelph from bisected embryos
Prof Walter Johnson and postdoctoral
describe anything They talk instead about cell fusion enzyme systems i ermentation or genetic engineering
The fact that biotechnology didnt appear as a popular buzzword until the 1980s suggests that we are using ilto define something neW yet none of these disciplines is really new Human beings have been using other organisms to create new procucts for centuries Thats why We have yeast yogurt and beer as well as anti-
fellow Naida Loskutoff have now exshytended this work in cattle by producing identical twins from IVF embryos divided into quarters at earlier stages of development
These projects maximize embryo use and highlight the potential for creating significant numbers of genetically identishycal animals which can be vital for conshysistent research results Tests conducted on genetically identical animals can reduce the variables caused by genetic differences and ultimately the number of animals needed for experiments
Frozen sexed embryos
The development of in vitro technishyques has also made possible further studies in cryopreservation (freezing) and embryo sexing
It s been possible to freeze and thaw
biotics growth hormones and vacshycine ~ Even genetic engineering is not new although many of us think it is
Through selective breeding practices fanners have been engineering the genetic makeup of domestic animals -for centuries What is new is the speed and accuracy with which we can implement genetic changes the ability to cross the species barrier and a much greater understanding of life processes
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At the eight-cell stage ofdevelopment in a bovine embryo each cell is removed and placed in the shell ofa discarded embryo Afler three days the blastocysts are transferred into recipient cows and the pregnancies allowed to col1linue Eight identical calves will be born and will proshyvide a valuable tool for research
cattle embryos since 1973 and most of the 60000 or so embryo-transfer calves born annually in North America are now obtained from embryos that have been stored in liquid nitrogen But there are still many problems to overcome in freezing unfertilized eggs embryos at varying stages of development and embryos produced in vitro or subjected to micromanipulation
Biomedical science professor Stanley Leibo is a specialist in cryobiology Before coming to Guelph he was part of an industry team that produced the worlds first live young (mice) from frozen embryos and later invented the patented one-step method of freezing cattle embryos Other biomedical scienshytists - King and Don Rieger - and molecular biologists Wildeman and Stan Blecher are investigating various ways of sexing embryos
Some of these involve the use of micromanipulation to remove a small number of cells from an early-stage embryo The sex can be identified by locating X and Y chromosomes detectshying male-specific DNA or perhaps by studying the proteins produced by the DNA segments In embryonic life the activity of X-linked enzymes in female embryos is twice that in males
Detecting differences in the energy metabolism of male and female embryos may also become a method of sexing In studies on early embryos generated in vitro Guelph scientists disshycovered that male and female embryos develop at different rates In addition to its value in sexing embryos this knowledge poses another question If the team can one day learn to control the rate of embryo development will it be possible to control the sex of an embryo independent of its genetic comshyplement
Photo courtesy of the Animal Biotechnology Embryo Lab
Transgenic animals
Since the mid 1980s Wildeman and fellow molecular biologist John Phillips have been producing transgenic mice for studies in human disease
This involves recovering one-cell embryos microsurgicalty from an imshypregnated mouse With a finely drawn glass needle a piece of DNA is inserted into the nucleus of the embryo which is then placed in a surrogate female to complete the pregnancy The offspring carries the foreign gene
One line of research using transgenic mice involves the study of a virus known to affect the transformation of normal cells into tumorous cancer cells Wildeman performs this work using transgenic mice in studies of cancer and metastasis
Transgenic mice are also used in Phillipss ongoing study of the causes of insulin-dependent juvenile diabetes He borrowed a gene from the fruit fly and spliced it into the chromosomes of the mouse so that it is expressed in the beta cells of the pancreas
Observations from the research conshyfirm the long-standing hypothesis that one cause of juvenile diabetes arises from the action of oxygen radicals in the pancreas
The fruit fly itself is used in studies aimed at producing insecticide-resistant insects Working with a team of scienshytists in Texas Phillips is perfecting techshyniques to transfer organophosphate insecticide-resistant genes to the fruit fly and ultimately to agriculturally beneficial insects
Studies have shown that the use of inshysecticides could be reduced if beneficial insects were not also killed by the spray In addition this research may provide the solution needed by North American
honey producers who are suffering great losses in their beehives due to parasitic mites Currently there is no effective control of the mites
From mice to pigs and chickens
Transgenic mice are also playing a role in a project that may eventually imshyprove forage use in domestic animals
Ruminant animals like cows and sheep have friendly bacteria in their inshytestinal tract that enable them to digest the cellulose fibre in forage crops If other animals such as pigs or chickens had the same ability they could be reared on lower-quality cheaper feed than the cereal grains now used
A research team that includes Phillips microbiologists Cecil Forsberg and Peter Krell and environmental biologist David Collins-Thompson has isolated the effective gene from a microshyorganism present in ruminant animals and is transferring it into the mouse which is also a monogastric animal Studies with transgenic mice will enable the team to fine-tune its ability to manipulate expression of the gene
This is just the beginning of a longshyterm project says Phillips but it may one day connect with the work of Profs Rob Etches and Jim Squires in the Department of Animal and Poultry Science who are following separate paths to reach the same goal- transshygenic chickens
Blotchy chicks
Etchess lab opened the door for transshygenic poultry in 1988 when postdoctoral fellow Jim Petitte OAC PhD 86 sucshycessfully moved cells from one chick embryo to another creating chimeric chicks Until this breakthrough
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researchers had been unable to manipulate the avian embryo in the early stages of development
Petitte extracted embryonic cells from the yo lk of a newly laid egg from a barred Plymouth Rock hen and microinjected them into a rec ipient embryo in a dwarf white l eghorn egg through a tiny 05-censhytimetre window cut in the shell When incubated the egg went on to produce a chimeric chick Embryonic cells from the black Plymouth Rock donor were expressed as blotches of black in the chicks down
Since then Etchess research team has been able to do the procedure more successfully get better gene exshypression in the donor cells and keep the embryonic cells in culture for 24 to 48 hours befo re transplanting them into the recipient egg
The chimeric chick itself is not transgenic genetic information from the donor embryo is expressed in a limited number of cells in the chick A second-generation chimera howshyever would be transgenic if the donor cells contained a foreign gene
Thats the focu s of a collaborat ive
Animal scienlisl Jim Squirev has developed a chemic(li recipe Ih(l causes DNA-I(lced liposomes 10 fuse wilil sperm cells When pershyjeered the technique will allow him to use the natural veeror ofsperm cells 10 lransmit foreign
project between the labs of Etches and colleague Prof Ann Gibbins OAC MSc 71 PhD 80 who is intershyested in modifying the donor cells through genetic manipulation When her lab team is able to target a specific gene and change it - and only it - they will insert that gene into the donor cells to produce a chimeric chick and in the second generation a transgenic chick
Transgenic sperm
Squires is taking a more obvious but no less perilous route to the transgenic chicken by using sperm cells to carry the foreign DNA Just as the hen s embryo is difficul t to manipulate the rooster s sperm has barriers of its own Prevail ing thought is that any invas ion of the sperm cell will kill its potency
Although Itali an and Israeli reshysearchers claim to have inserted DNA into the sperm cells of mice through abshysorption no one else has been able to get this to work so the prevailing thought prevail s
Squires s approach is to power DNA into the cells He s de veloped a chemishycal recipe that causes DNA-laced liposomes (fat globules) to fuse with sperm cells
Squires says his team has overcome
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DNA Photo by Ma ry Dickieson
the three main obstacles encapsulating DNA in the liposomes fu sing the liposomes to sperm cells which affects the transfer of 0 TA and retaining the fertility of the sperm
What they have yet to demonstrate is that the process produces a transgenic animal Trials are under way using a radioactive marker ge ne that can be easi shyly detected in a developing transgenic chicken Squires will be eager for peer rev iew to document the results this fall
If successful the sperm cell technique can be adapted for use with all species of commercial animals Sperm cells are the perfect vector because their ultimate function is to insert DNA into an egg says Squires We ll just be supplying the DNA The method is easy economical and safe to periorm and does not inshyvolve expensive equipment
Disease diagnosis
The international race to identify a mutation assoc iated with a costly swine disease was won by Guelph pathologist Peter OBrien OVC 88 and Univershysity of Toronto professor David Maclennan
The mutation associated with maligshy
nant hyperthermia was identifi ed in Maclennan s laboratory by sequenc ing the gene in normal and abnormal swine A I OO-per-cent correlation was fo und between DNA-based tests in Maclennan s laboratory and phys iologishycalbiochemical tests used in 0 Brien s research for diagnosing the condition
From these findings the scienti sts developed a test using modem molecular biology techniques to identify the mutation in the blood cells of inshydividual swine
Malignant hyperthermia is seldom fatal in pigs but it results in poorshyquality pork Pork producers suffer major economic losses from what is known as PSE - pale soft exudative (watery) meat - in affected animals
Other research at U of G cou ld help eliminate a potentially lethal blood coagulation disorder in dairy cows Facshytor XI a genetic disorder associated with a lack of c lotting protein in the bl ood causes hemorrhag ing in Holstein cows
Researchers believe the problem can be eliminated by ensuring that breeding stocks are free of the disease Testing for all of Canada is conducted by U of G biomed ica l sc ienti st Patricia Gentry and research technician Michelle Ross
Vaccine development
Vaccination is the cheapest most efshyfecti ve way of dealing with infec tions and the most poweriul way of preventshying di sease Advanced immunization programs using new biotechniques are under way in many Guelph labs last fa ll the Natural Sc iences and Engineershying Research Council announced strategic grants for advanced techshynologies that included four vacci ne development projects at U of G
Profs Brian Derbyshire and Eva Nagy of the Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Immunology (VMI) recei ved a three-year grant of $295000 to perfect gene-cloning techniques for the de velopment of a vaccine for porshycine gas troenteritis
In the same department Profs Janet Maclnnes Soren Rosendal and Bonnie -Mallard OAC 79 MSc 82 PhD 88 were awarded $250000 over three years to work on a recombinant vaccine effecshytive against the bacterial organism that causes severe pneumonia in pigs
Also in VMI Prof Patricia SheweD 75 MSc 79 PhD 82 received a three-year grant of $408 000 with Prof
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Reggie Lo Microbiology to continue work on an improved vaccine for shipshyping fever Lo and Prof Alan Mellors Chemistry and Biochemistry received a $54000 grant to develop clinical and com mercial applications of a technique used in bone marrow transplantation and vaccine development
These projects follow in the footsteps of earlier developments like the bov ine shipping fever vaccine created by Shewen and VMI chair Bruce Wilkie OVC 65 It was like finding a way to control the common cold in humans
Although the bacterium Pasteurella haemolytica occurs normally in the noses of cattle its numbers increase during periods of high stress and present an insurmountable problem for the animals immune system
Wilkie and Shewen di scovered that during its most active stage of growth the bacterium produces a toxin that imshypairs the ability of clearing cells to eliminate the bacterium They grew the bacterium in a culture monitored toxin production and developed processes for vaccine production
The technology was licensed to Langford Inc of Guelph which man ufac tures and markets Presponse shipping fever vaccine in both Canada and the United States
Lab work by Lo and former student Craig Strathdee CBS 85 PhD 89 that contributed to the shipping fever vaccine project also led to a patent apshyplication - for the plasmid coding for Pasteurella haemolytic leucotoxin which has been implicated as a major virulence factor in the impairment of primary lung defence in cattle
Animal health
Wilkie and Mallard are also working with Prof Brian Kennedy in Guelph s Centre for the Genetic Improvement of Livestock to develop a selective breedshying program that uses knowledge acshyquired through genetic studies and stretches the definition of biotechnology
To stay hea lthy an individual animal must have the genetic ability to produce resi stance to infection says Wilkie That ability is not dependent on a sing le gene but on the expression of many difshyferent genes Neve rtheless these genetic traits are heritable and amenable to selection
This team has identified traits in pigs that are important in maintaining health has characterized individual animals
Biotechnology ofa different sort in volves the use of traditional selected breeding and a computer database to produce diseaseshyresistant pigs
through the expression of these genetic traits and has associated these traits with high productivity If these high producers are mated to produce a disshyease-resistant strain of pigs is that biotechnology
If foreign DNA had been introduced into the embryo of a pig to give it the characteristic of disease resistance that would be an obvious example of bioshytechnology But how do we catalogue the technology if it uses tradi tional selecshytive breeding and a computer to produce a piglet with the same resistance to disshyease
More biotechniques in action
Guelph food scientist Cyriel Duitschaever OAC MSc 66 PhD 75 has developed new fermented milk products that will benefit people suffershying from gastrointestinal illnesses
He and research associate Carole Buteau OAC MSc 78 PhD 83 isoshylated two naturally occurring intestinal bac teri a and propagated a pure culture in the laboratory to develop both liquid and yogurt-like milk products that can be used to stimulate digestion in the inshytestinal tracts of people who are on anshytibiotics who are lactose-intolerant or who suffer gas trointestinal disorders
Clinica l trials at the Children s Hospishytal of Buffalo have been promis ing giv ing rise to another potential use in the treatment of acute diarrhea l di seases affec ting people in the Third World
Microbiology professor Joseph Lam heads a research team that has develshyoped a diagnostic kit to quickly identify a bacteria group known to cause fat al inshy
fections in some hospital patients Pseushydomonas aeruginosa is the principal cause of death in cystic fibrosis sufshyferers and is a serious threat to burn vi cshytims cancer patients and those undergo ing transplants
Because the bacterium does not respond to conventional antibiotic treatshyments quick de tection is central to preventing spread of the infection Lam s kit can cut the test period from 12 hours to five minutes
His current research illustrates the cross-over effect of biotechnology He identified an antigen that is common to about 75 per cent of P aeruginosa strains and a monoclonal antibody against the antigen This has allowed him to iso late spec ia l bacteria that will produce the antigen in large quantities for further s tud y His work should evenshytually lead to a human monoclonal anshytibody that cou ld be used to protect cystic fibrosis patients
In 1989 when the federal governshyment decided it was time to put some money behind its verbal thrust in science and technology it allocated $240 million to estab li sh 14 centres of excellence that would integrate the reshysearch efforts of Canadian uni versi ties industry and government
Several U of G researchers received funding including microbiologists Chris Whitfield Anthony Clarke Joseph Lam Reggie Lo Roselynn Stevenson and Terry Beveridge who beshycame part of the network looking into bacterial di sease Their expertise will aid the search for the causative agents of bacterial diseases such as whooping cough gonorrhea toxic shock synshydrome lung infections and me ningitis
In 1988 biochemist Janet Wood and crop scientist Peter Paul s achieved a breakthrough in understanding how subshystances like sugars and amino ac ids are transported from outside to inside a living cell wall They found that minute protein molecules in the wall surroundshying a cell act like miniature pumps capshyturing the substance and powering it through the cell wall -They are now trying to determine how the protein molec ules choose subshystances for uptake or release S uch celshylular behavior plays a critical role in determining a plants reaction to soi l sa linity or explaining why cells fai l to transport glucose from the blood in diabetics
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Behind every how theres a why While we stand in awe of what sc ienshytists are accomplishing in the biological sciences we shouldnt lose sight of the reasons why they are manipulating cell structure and decoding genetic blueprints
To some extent scientific exploration is driven by human nature - our desire to understand and control the natural world Advances in biotechniques and genetic engineering promise to give us more of both
Reports on the Human Genome Project say that within 15 years well know the code of almost every gene in the human body This work and current explorations in animal genetics are harshymonized by the fact that many of the genes that control development are similar among species
The chicken for example is a familiar model for studies in developshymental biology Supported by 60 to 70 years of data todays embryologists like Prof Rob Etches are learning how to modify the genes that control developshyment of a chick embryo while giving us a better understanding of how genes efshyfect development in all vertebrates
Nothing could be more fund amental than understanding that process says Prof Keith Betteridge who heads the Guelph team working with bovine embryos In all areas of reproductive and genetic research the big payoff is that we will understand more about how two gametes can unite to fonn a single cell and develop into Northern Dancer or Albert Einstein he says
Everyone has a role to play in decidshying how to use this knowledge says Betteridge but the researcher has the triple responsibility of thinking through the implications of new technologies exshyplaining those implications to a skeptishycal and concerned public and safeshyguarding the welfare of animals used
Whether manipulating an entire animal or one of its reproductive cells the scientist is guided by the same set of moral standards If the technology inshyduces pain or suffering causes changes in behavior or affects the animals abilshyity to eat and survive then it shouldnt be done says Prof Bruce Wilkie chair of the Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Immunology
He and other Guelph scientists inshyvolved in animal research are subject to
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peer rev iew through the U of G s animal care committee which is also charged with ensuring that research and teaching programs are in compliance with the Animals for Research Act of Ontario
Reporting to the University s Reshysearch Board the committee is comshyposed offaculty student community and non-user representatives It estabshyli shes animal-care policies on campus and evaluates all protocols submitted by researchers and teachers After granting initial approval the committee reviews each project annually and inspects reshysearch facilities each semester A provinshycially appointed inspector also visits campus frequently and the Canadian Council on Animal Care makes an inshyspection every three years to assess the level of animal care
In addition to safeguarding animal care scienti sts al so need to provide evidence that the products of biotechnolshyogy are safe for human consumption or medical use The public needs to know that the pharmaceutical protein cloned and produced in a chicken s egg is no different than the same protein cultured from human cells and produced in a large bioreactor
The big payoff is that we will understand more about how two gametes can unite to form a single cell and develop into Northern Dancer or Albert Einstein
One of the most talked-about benefits of transgenic technologies is the potenshytial for producing enzymes prote ins and antibodies for pharmaceutical and inshydustrial uses Molecular farming would take advantage of the expression system in higher animals to produce a therashypeutic protein that is difficult or expenshysive to make in a lab
The potential seems enormous but the prac tice will be quite simple A typishycal Ontario dairy herd could probably produce enough human insulin or bloodshyclotting factor to satisfy the world
demand It s easy to see why these techshyniques are already presenting problems for patent offices
The past decade of work in transshygenesis has been a learning process for all of us Early research efforts that produced pigs in the United States with arthritic deformities and sheep in Australia with ulcers have taught us th at even science must learn to walk befo re it can run That means perfecting genetic transfer in animals where the techniques are easily controlled - such as mice and fruit flies - before applyshying them to domestic animals
One of the advantages of gene transshyfer technology is the control it offers geneticists who are able to manipulate expression of a single gene during development One of the limitations may be the re lative ly minor change that gene can make in one generation when compared with the changes induced through the countless generations of selection since domestication
These limitations may alleviate some of our fears about the use of gene transshyfer but it also makes us question its value at least in terms of breed improveshyment in domestic livestock Prof Charshyles Smith holds a research chair at Guelph in animal-breeding strategies and is often called on to assess the value of the new biotec hnologies in the genetic improvement of farm livestock
Economic traits are already being imshyproved through traditional selective breeding methods he says It would take quite large beneficial transgenic efshyfects (at least 10 per cent of the mean) on economic merit to make their incorshyporation worthwhile
Despite our e thical concerns the legal entanglements created by the use of biotechniques and the problem of turnshying new technologies into cost-effective procedures most scientists agree that these technolog ies are too powerfu I not to use They have the pote ntial to help allev iate some of the most serious problems facing the world - food production overpopulation disease and shyenvironmental degradation
Statisticians teU us that 50 years from now we will be trying to feed twice the current world s population on a smaller land base in a more fragile environshyment This is the why behind current research in genetic engineering
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ADIT ON With thanks to Donors Class agents College representatives Alma Mater Fund Advisory Council
Alumni and others who give to the University of Guelph through the Annual Fund are helping to maintain quality at a time when governments are funding for mediocrity Because of the dedication and commitment of our donors and volunshyteers the 1991 Annual Fund surpassed last year s total by $100000 We did not achieve our goal - perhaps $1 6 million was overly ambitious in light of current economic conditions - but we were able to maintain last years 25-per-cent inshycrease in scholarship support
Through the Alma Mater Fund we raised more than $540000 and achieved Tom Sawyer
the target of 12-per-cent participation among graduates of the three founding colleges Arts CBS and CSS alumni substantially increased their donations and participation over last year Campus participation grew from 145 per cent in 1990 to 171 per cent this year And our parents program pushed contributions from parents to $84188 compared with $31500 in 1990
For the first time since 1984 the Alma Mater Fund Advisory Council was able to go beyond its commitments to fund eight additional projects - a total of $86000
Looking ahead our flagship project for 1992 will be War Memorial Hall renovations During Alumni Weekend in June you ll have a chance to see the work that has been done upstairs and the work still needed in the downstairs hall It s a project well worth the interest and support of alumni
For your past and future support of the Alma Mater Fund my sincere thanks
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Tom Sawyer OAC 59A and 6 Corporations Chair AMF Advisory Council Associations Foundations $2874947 Annual giving contribution s
III Annual IGiving Alumni
$1403701 Major Gifts $1236622
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were 22 per cent of the o
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$6239707 given t U of G as donation
in 1991
Government (Donations only
$36750
Annual Giving Report
1991 Annual Fund Results $1 A niillion wasraised overallmiddot ariinceaSe of
76 per ceI1tThisyear alumrii in the Arts and CBS groups doubled theirparticipation alld conshytributions And the parents recotded a 46-pershy
cent participation rate
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The group of eight
Eight campus projects were selected to share $86000 in highest-priority funds from the 1990 Alma Mater Fund Among them are the OvC Wild Bird Clinics education program a CSS academic medal in memory of the late dean John vanderkamp a soc ial sc ience citation index for the library framshying for the fine art print study collection a computer design laboratory for the School of Engineering seed money for a history graduate scholarship a conshytinuing education survey for the Mac-FACS Alumni Association and a HAFA-sponsored executive-inshyresidence
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Of cattle cash and Colvil e Alumni gifts to the University of Guelph come in some pretty interesting packages Over the years alumni have given livestock concrete paintings shythere are two by Canadian painter Alex Colville - furniture land books inshysurance policies and a host of artifacts and antiques And money - a lot of money Almost every building on camshypus has some bricks and mortar paid for by alumni And hundreds of students are helped along the way each year by alumshyni-sponsored scholarships
The Annual Giving Report on the preceding pages shows once again how important alumni gifts are to the Univershysity and provides us with an opportunity to say thank you to those alumni who continue to give on a yearly basis Anshynual giving is however only one of three avenues through which alumni proshyvide financial support to the University The others are major gifts and promoshytional programs
Annual giving
The Alma Mater Fund established in 1969 is the route chosen by most alumshyni faculty and staff who make annual gifts to the University
AMF solicitation and management are handled by a volunteer advisory council On the preceding page chair Tom Sawyer OAC 59A and 64 talks about the funds success over the last two years with AMF scholarships inshycreasing by 25 per cent This year the AMF begins a three-year commitment to funding renovations to War Memorial Hall
In addition to its flagship project AMF provides regular support to athshyletics through Gryphon Club contribushytions to college advancement funds and scholarships and to individual class projects
The AMF supports the camaraderie of university days as alumni work together to plan and complete a project whether its funding a scholarship a painting a tree weight-lifting equipshyment or furniture for Alumni House AMF contributions also ensure that fushyture Guelph students will remember those who have gone before
In addition to AMF donations the anshynual giving program includes gifts to
the OVC Pet Trust Fund the OAC Alumni Foundation the Arboretum the paren ts program and the Li brary Other gifts made directly to the University supshyport memorial funds scholarships musishycal activities and research and academic programs
Major gifts
Major gifts to the University are adshyministered by the Deve lopment Office under the direction of Marilyn Robinson Mac 55 These include beshyquests or life insurance policies shortshyterm pledges (often made during a capital campaign) large donations that might establish an endowment fund or contributions to special University projects like the Heritage Fund or the proposed FACS Building addition
Gifts- in-kind - such as library materials art objects or estate properties - also fall within thi s category Last year alumni gave more than $12 milshylion in such tax-deductible gifts
Promotions
Every Guelph graduate is a member of the University of Guelph Alumni Asshysociation and receives the Guelph Alumshy
nus magazine and many other privishyleges There are no UGAA membership fees but the association does raise money through promotional programs like MasterCard travel packages and the North American Life Assurance proshygram
The UGAA provides serv ices to alumshyni and students - such as the careershyplanning workshop planned for Juneshyand returns many dollars directly to the campus Last year it gave $20000 to the library
In addition to direct financial support through annual giving and major gifts alumni also support the University inshydirectly through membership fees to individual college and program associashytions The fees pay for association acshytivities that help maintain ties between their members and the University
Questions
If you have questions or would like 10
know more about the tax advantages of giving to U of G write to Paulette Samson associate director of annual giving and support services at Alumni House University of Guelph Guelph Ont NIG 2Wl or call 519-824-4120 Ext 6183
When yo~bearrom US
If you think youre hearing from us moreoften lhanY9u elida few years ago you reright But checkyour mail and you ll 110tiqe that you~re also hearing
more frequemly from othernon-jgtrofit)rganizations and charities We v~ all stepped lip oui- fUQdIaising efforts
U QfGappreciates your support and needs your help butyou wont know that if we donr teflyou Aildeyen if you cant afford to make a fjnancialcon~
tributiori we hop~ to wjn yoUfverbaJ sliPPOJ-tJt will take many voices to coii- ylnce governmeritthal universities should beagreater public priority
When we contacenttyou on behalf of iheUriivetsity we lly to give more thiin we ask So tak~advantage ofthe p~1one call o(letter to findoutwhais happenc ing OJrcarnp~s U ofG hasmuchto offer llufnrii professionaldevelcipment courses library privileges travel programs recreation and a link Igt friends and
classmates
We Jik~to keep in roucharidYcwarit yO~1 to know the progress were rilaking Ast~e Uriiversity $ prestige grows so does the value ofyour degree
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Get your career on track
Responding to alumni requests the University of Guelph Alumni Associashytion will sponsor a career-planning workshop on campus June 26 to 28 The weekend program will be led by Sharon Crozier of the University of Calgary counselling service Each participant will receive a careerlifestyle analysis and will develop a personal action plan
The $225 fee includes the StrongshyCampbell Interest Inventory and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator which will be administered and tabulated prior to the weekend Testing dates have been set in Toronto for May 27 and in Guelph for June 4
Sponsored by the UGAA and coshyordinated by Continuing Education and Alumni Affairs the workshop will also draw on the Universitys Counselling and Student Resource Centre
Enrolment is limited to 20 For registration information see page 26 or call Continuing Education at 519-767shy5000
UGAA board report
by Grant Lee CSS 73 MA 80
The UGAA will present a convocation package to each graduate this spring imshymediately following presentation of the degree or diploma Developed by Alumshyni Affairs staff the package is designed to increase awareness of the UGAA and the collegeschool alumni associations encourage membership introduce the Guelph Alumnus and provide an opporshytunity for board members to congratushylate our new alumni
Approval of the new UGAA bylaw is on schedule It will be presented to members at the annual general meeting in June along with an amendment to the
i I UGAA Letters Patent
In addition the UGAA board bull has approved a $400 donation to help
cover costs for two students to represhysent Guelph at the 1992 World Debatshying Championships in Dublin Ireland
bull is looking at a proposal to help alumDl with financial planning There will be more to come on this subject later
bull received thanks from president Brian Segal on behalf of those alumni who attended the October symposium
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Canada Break Up or Restructure The association was a patron of the event
bull is responding to requests from alumni for more social events Aside from the travel program the UGAA sponsored a ski day at Horseshoe Valley in March
bull approved a proposal from the School of Landscape Architecture to research places of historical value on campus Financial support has yet to be resolved
bull accepted an offer to help sponsor the University Centres annual lecture series which invites Canadian and inshyternational public figures to speak on current issues All events in the winter 92 series were free to alumni
bull donated U of G sweatshirts to Canadian Guidance and Counselling for a conference in Ottawa this sumshymer
bull approved the purpose and terms of refshyerence for the new Alumni House Adshyvisory Committee which is charged with overseeing maintenance of the
facility adopted the 199192 budget and finanshycial plan drafted last November This year we expect to generate some $44000 and spend $33000 It has been suggested that we set the 199293 budget and plan in April of this year so the new board wi II start in September with a sound financial program and budget that will only reshyquire adoption or revision
Chapter news
Calgary - About 40 alumni and guests met at the Delta Bow Valley Hotel Feb 3 to view a U of G video and hear a talk by admissions counsellor C hr is tine Toews FACS 87 Co-ordinator of the event was Janet Hutchinson CBS 79
Edmonton - Paul OAC 67 and Anne Valentine CBS 69 hosted a group of 30 alumni and guests at the Ramada Renaissance Hotel
Montreal - U of G welcomed students and their parents - including many
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alumni - to its first Montreal informashytion night for prospective students The event was modelled after a successful program in Toronto that draws more than 800 students each spring
Vancouver - U of G president Brian Segal met with alumni March 5 at the Pan Pacific Hotel Jim Dodds OVC 63 and Sarah Bloom FACS 86 orshyganized the event which attracted about 70 alumni and guests
Halifax- U ofG alumni in Halifax met with Gryphon basketball players during the March 26 to 28 CIAU chamshypionships Despite losing the OUAA west division title to Brock University the Gryphons qualified for a wi ld card spot at the CIAU championships Alumshyni received free tickets to the game that pitted Guelph against Brandon in the consolation final Fan support was enshythusiastic but the Gryphons lost 72 to 64 finishing third overall
Homecoming 1992 Plans are well under way for Homecoming weekend Sept 25 and 26 In addition to the annual Gryphon Hall of Fame dinner and award s ceremony the weekend will feat ure a beach volshyleyball tou rnamen t --~4~=iiiiikshyconcert alumni brunch walk-a-thon pep rally reunions and the traditional homecoming dance following the Saturday afternoon footshyball game This year the Gryphons will play Wil frid Laurier University A complete schedule will appear in the next Guelph Alumnus but you can get
Winners of Ihe Ju SI fo r Fun square dance compelition 01 College Royal were left 10 right Ann Joselin Kelley Allen Joanne Hewirson Brenl McFadden caller Sue MacKinnon Richard Presley Trish Henderson Jason Thompson and Kelly Lillie
in the Homecoming spirit now by helpshying to plan your class reunion or signing up as a scorekeeper for the vo lleyball tournament For infOlmation call alumshyni officer Laurie Malleau HAFA 83 at 519-824-4120 Ext 2102
Swing your partner
Eight squares of alumni took part in the College Royal square dance competition in March Winners of the UGAA alumni square dance plaque were the Crazy 8s Joanne Hewitson Arts 91 Lloyd Hutchinson CBS 87 Sonya Jones CPS 90 Ed Ketchabaw OAC 88 and MSc 91 Carol)n OAC 90 and Brad MacNeil CPS 87 Mike Relf OAC 91 and student Sherry MacNeil Wayne Lowden was the caller
Winners in the Just for Fun category were Junior Farmer alumni who included Hewitson Ann Joselin OAC 90 Brent McFadden CSS 90 Richard Presley OAC 86 and soonshyto-be-alumni Kelley Allen Trish
Henderson Kelly Little and Jason Thompson The caller was Sue MacKinnon OVC 9 1
Florida picnic
The North Port Yacht Club hosted 199 alumni for the annual Florida picnic March 4 On hand to meet them was Trish Walker CSS 77 and MSc 90 director of alumni affairs Judy Phillips of the University s Real Estate Division also attended to talk about the Village by the Arboretum retirement deve lopshyment
Attendance prizes went to Gertrude Stewart Mac 30 and Morley Funston OAC 32 The picnic was sponsored by the UGAA Alumni-In shyAction Committee represented by Ken Gartley OAC 42 and the Florida reunion committee consisting of Mary and Ted Brent OAC 48 Helen and Don Moffatt OAC 46 Stella and Bob Moore OAC 48 and Retis and Bill HasenptlugOAC 39
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A new kind of class reunion
Its the latest fad in alumni circles shymeeting your classmates at the anshynual University of Guelph alumni hockey tournament Twenty-two teams played in the fifth annual tourshynament in December
For most teams tournament standshyings are secondary to the socializing with classmates that they may not see otherwise says Bill Seegmiller OAC 83 who worked with Brian TapscottOAC 8 1 to organize the event We promote the social aspect through two divisions - social and more social - and include family skating and a Saturday evening wine and cheese party he says Trish Walker director ofalumni affairs presents fhe social division lrophy 10 Ihe OAC 79
Dipper Oldies (II the U ofG alumni hockey tournamenl The OAC 79A team defeated the Grey Gryphons to win the more soshycial division The OAC 80 team won the consolation final and the spirit award went to OAC 7778
In the social (a little more competishytive) division it was the Faceoffs in first place over OAC 88 OAC 90 won the consolation trophy and the Valley Vikings took home the spirit award
Organizers plan to add womens exshyhibition games to the 1992 tournament which is scheduled for Dec 5 and 6 For more information call Seegmiller at 519-836-3807 or Rudy Diemer OAC 85 at 519-763-2250
A night at the races
The UGAA Alumni-in-Action group will host a night at Mohawk Raceway May 26 The $30 admission includes a 6 pm buffet parking program taxes and gratuities For detail s call Laurie
~ Malleau at 519-824-4120 Ext 2102
I Alumni directory
A new alumni directory will be ready for delivery in May The deadline for alumni updates has passed but you can still order a copy of the directory at a cost of $40 plus tax Return the order form you received with the special U of G wristwatch offer or write to Rosemary Clark Mac 59 at Alumni House University of Guelph Guelph Ont NIG 2Wl
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Ottawa chapter 50 years young
There was a nostalgic gathering of Guelph alumni in Ottawa last winter to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the city s alumni chapter
Donald Fletcher OAC 36A and 39 who was president of the group in 1953 sent us a historical account of the chapters activities
A small organizing committee first met in February 1941 at Madame Burgers restaurant to plan the chapters first fun ction a skating party at the Ottawa Experimental Farm It attracted 75 people
Over the years the group held an anshynual picnic and a banquet and dance that gave them a chance to invite faculty from Guelph to speak about happenings at the colleges - and later the Univershysi ty Every president from George I Christie to Bill Winegard paid a vi sit
In 1951 alumni from OVC and Macshydonald Institute who had been meeting since 1936 joined the OAC group A crowd of almost 200 celebrated the chapter s 10th anniversary at a picnic at the farm of the late John Bracken OAC 06 During the 1950s they added a get-together at the annual Ottawa-area plowing match which gave way to a curling bon spiel in the 1960s
There have been many special funcshytions - entertaining the Gryphon footshyball teams square dances car rallies golf tournaments theatre parties and raceway evenings - but the event that stands out in Fletchers memory ocshycurred in 1966 when five members of Parliament hosted the group in the parshyliamentary ballroom
The chapter also includes a couples bridge club which has been meeting for 25 years in the homes of its members
Fletcher thanks the 30 people who have served as president of the Ottawa alumni chapter and the dozens more who have helped on committees devot shying years to the executive to promote the institution
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JUNE 26 27 amp 28 ~ The Program This highly successful workshop developed by Sharon Crozier PhD University Counselling Services University of calgary is the first step for an alumnus who is considering a career move The weekend (Friday evening through Sunday afternoon) will consist of group presentations conducted by Dr Crozier with smaller working groups facilitated by profeSSional counsellors from the University of Guelph Counselling and Student Resource Centre
Discussion structured exercises and experiential activities will lead alumni to gain insight into a personal careerllifestyle analYSis and assessment career information resources networking skills and much more
No matter what their age career stage or reason for transition each participant will find this workshop to be an excellent opportunity to develop a personal action plan - and chart their next move
~ Pre-1esting In order to provide individualized career information registrants are required to attend one of two pre-testing sessions The Strongshycampbell Interest Inventory and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator will be administered and results tabulated prior to the workshop Pre-testing dates are as follows
Toronto Wednesday May 27 1992 700 pm - 8 30 pm Holiday Inn Yorkdale
Guelph Thursday June 4 1992 700 pm - 8 30 pm University Centre
~ Fee The registration fee of $225 includes administration and tabulation of the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator materials two lunches and refreshment breaks
Tuition fees in excess of $100 are income tax deductible
Enrolment is limited to 20 registrants
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May 2 - The Guelph Spring Festival begins with a 25th-anniversary gala dinshyner in Creelman Hall that will honor founding president Murdo MacKinnon Other festival events run until May 23 For more information call 519-821-7570
May 2 shy An All-Canadian University Asshysociation d inne r w il l be held in Washington DC at the Embassy of Canada Guest speaker is Robert Lanni president of the University of Windsor Entertainment will be provided by Windsors music department For inforshymation call T Chan at 202-543-9111
May 3 - Arboretum Day celebrates spring with family nature walks at 1 and 330 pm and an electrical keyboard concert at 230 pm featuring Canadian comshyposer Carole Anne Burris
May 10 to Aug 30 - Guided nature walks run every Sunday at 230 pm in the Arboretum Topics include wildflowers birds turtles snakes and insects The nature centre is open from 1230 to 430 pm
May 13 - Chancellor Lincoln Alexander is the guest speaker at the Alumni-inmiddotAction annual general meeting which begins at noon in the Arboretum Centre For details call Alumni Affairs 519-824middot 4120 Ext 2102
May 13 - The Human KineticsHuman Biology Alumni Association will hold its inaugural meeting at730 pm at Alumni House with a coffee and dessert social RSVP to 519-824-4120 Ext 6963
May 23 shy FACS 82 is sponsoring a colshylection of Bob Munsch plays performed by the Carousel Players at3 pm at War Memorial Hall Tickets are $8 plus tax and handling To order call the UC box off ice at 519-824-4120 Ext 3940
May 26 - Alumni-in-Action is hosting a night at Mohawk Raceway Cost is $30 To register call 529-824-4120 Ext 2102
May 30 - An Arboretum sale of rare native trees and shrubs at the RJ Hi lton Centre on College Avenue East runs from 9 am to 1 pm For information call 519-824shy4120 Ext 2113
May 30 shy The sixth annual All-Canadian University Dinner in Chicago will be held
in the Henry Crown Space Centre at the Museum of Science and Industry and will include a reception buffet dinner and an Omnivax movie beginning at 6 pm Guest speaker is George Pedersen president of the University of Western Ontario For information call David Cole at 312-372-4404 or Hugh Mackenzie at 708-369-3688
June 2 to 5 shy Spring convocation June 13 - Beginning at 7 am the Arshy
boretum will hold its summer bird survey The four-hour walk will locate breeding birds and identify their species by sight and song
June 15 to 17 shy U of G will host the 15th annual Guelph Conference on Sexuality With the theme Sexuality New Visions the conference will examine current isshysues in human sexuality counselling strategies for sexual problems and teaching approaches in sexuality educashytion For information call the Office of Continuing Education at 519-767-5000 or fax 519-767-0758
June 19 to 21 - ALUMNI WEEKEND See page 39 for a complete schedule of events and alumni association meetings The UGAA annual meeting is June 21 at 10 am in Macdonald Hall 149
June 26 to 28 shy The UGAA-sponsored alumni career-planning workshop will be held on campus See page 26 for details
July 31 amp Aug 4 shy The National Youth Orchestra will perform in War Memorial Hall at 8 pm as part of its summer program at U of G Tickets at $8 general $6 for stUdents and seniors will be availshyable at the door
Sept 26 - HOMECOMING Rise early for the second ann ual Homecoming charity walkathon At 930 am the Human Kinetics Alumni Association will hold its annual general meeting in the School of Human Biology lounge
Oct 1 - OVCs 1992 Schofield Memorial Lecture will be given by Steven Arnoczky a professor in the department of small animal clin ical sciences at Michigan State Universitys Laboratory for Comparative Orthopedics The 3 pm lecture will be held in War Memorial Hall Admission is free
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John Boros 88 of Wei land Ont writes that he is impressed by the way U of G keeps records after graduation Thi s gives the graduate a sense of belonging a connection to an important period in hi s or her life he says
Jane Buzza 88 is working as records co-ordinatorarchivist for the Ontario Medishycal Association in Toronto
Jacqueline (Sullivan) DeClerck 86 is a public relations officer at the Canada Trust head office in London Onto
Richard Ely 70 works at the Crown attorneys office in WeIland Ont He has an LLB from the University of Western Ontario in addition to his Guelph degree He says he often talks about U of G to young students trying to decide which university to attend
Paul Genest 81 finished graduate studies at Johns Hopkins Universi ty in Maryland and is now assistant professor of philosophy at Union College in Schenectady NY He is man-ied to Barbara Jessup 8 1
Brian Hogarth 78 is head of interpretashytion at the G1enbow Museum in Calgary
Martha Hooper 9 1 was married last Ocshytober to David Perry They live in Calgary where she is a sw itchboard operator at the Delta Bow Valley Inn
Rene van der Meijden 87 has put his degree in geogshyraphy and internationshyal development to good use with the Christian Reformed World Relief Comshymittce Originally from the Netherlands he is now in Uganda on a three-year asshy Rene van der signment as a rural Meijden development adv iser He sends greetings to his many friend s in Canada and to Guelph grads Stan and Kitty in Bolivia in particular and reminds us that visitors are always welshycome in Uganda
Edward Milliner 85 will graduate this spring from the faculty of education at the University of Windsor
Mark Moore 85 is doing postgraduate work in history at the University of Bristol in England He plans to teach high school
fn response to a letter from Dawn Monroe 69 that appeared in the winter 1992 issue of the Guelph Alumnus Doug Moynihan 69 of Fort McMurray Alta writes Be disapshypointed no more Dawn l I too graduated in 1969 from (the College of) Arts or as it was then called Wellington College and I havent heard from anyone either And I too think it is time to contribute my news
After graduation f headed out to disshycover and sol ve the problems of the world travelling overseas for about three years Since then Ive been working in human resources in a variety of organizations in many different locations in Canada Cun-entshyIy I am the manager of human resources in Fort McMurray
PS Do you remember me Dawn I was the bartender in Creelman Hall I
John Teskey 7 1 began new duties last summer as director of libraries at the University of New Brunsw ick in Fredericton He was head of adshyministrative sershyvices at the University of Albershyta before moving John Teskey across Canada to acshycept the UNB posishytion but had earlier served as chief librarian and was library personnel officer at both Alshyberta and the University of Saskatchewan
Teskey says his biggest challenge is to regain the lost purchasing power that univershysity libraries have suffered as a result of static budge ts and ri sing material costs He is encouraging increased resource-sharing among universities and interlibrary loan programs with shortened turnaround
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Elizabeth (Baxter) Willson 77 a real esshytate agent in Chatham Ont writes to voice a common feeling that the universi ty exshyperience itself is often more important than the degree or diploma received I am really glad I graduated from Guelph she says
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Michelle Bombadier and Mike Caldwell both 92 are two of 50 Canad ian youth selected to work in Guyana for three months with Youth Challenge International (YCI) a non-governmental organization that provides Third-world experience for Canadians They may spend the summer building a school teaching safety or clearing land for Gu ytna s first national park but they need some private support to he lp cover transportation costs Anyone able to help should write to YCI at I I Soho St Toronto M5T IZ6
Jane Coventry 86 writes with accolades for the Guelph Alumnus grad news section and an update on what she and her husband Jaydee Smith 84 and MSc 89 are doing They were married in 1989 while working at U of G - he in the Department of Animal and Poultry Science and she in the Departshyment of Crop Science In February 1991 they moved to England where Smith is doing a PhD at the University of Bristol and working as a research assistant Coventry
works in the technology transfer unit of Nickshyerson Seeds Ltd in Cambridge
Jeffrey Crawford 88 and Leslie Thompson 86 were malTied last October He is an elementary schoolteacher in Mount Forest Ont
Craig Emerson 83 earned a PhD at Dalshyhousie University in Halifax in 1990 and is now a research associate in oceanography
Paul Fleming 85 is a pharmaceutical sales representative for Hoechst Canada Inc and lives in Nepean Ont
David Forsey 80 is an assistant professor of computer science at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver He is marshyried to Lyn Bartram
Michael Gangl 89 is in his third year at the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College
Astrid Harms 87 is a registered nurse in London Ont
Andrew Holmes 85 worked for the Onshytario government as a wildlife biologist for three years but is now back at school in his second year at Northwestern Chiropractic College in Minneapolis
Timothy Johnson 86 works at the Centre for Limnology at the University of Wisconshys in in Madison
Karen Lennard 77 (HK) and her hu sshyband Paul Jackson 79 (HK ) and MSc
82 both went 011 to earn medical degrees from McMaster University in HalTilton Ont Jackson also has a master s in physiology from the University of Virginia and is comshypleting an anesthesiology residency in Hamilshyton Lennard has a part-time family medical practice allowing her to spend more time with the couples two children Matthew and Nicola
Wendy Maltby 74 is an elementary schoolteacher for the Metropolitan Toronto School Board
Sandra OConnor 84 earned a medical degree from the University of Western Onshytario and is now practi sing in Burlington Ont
Linda Owen 81 runs her own business as a consulting exercise physiologist and fitness supervisor in Campbell River BC
Sheryle Tetley 86 is regional sales manager for Glaxo Canada Inc in Mi ss isshysauga Ont where she lives with her husshyband Ian
Rob Tonus 87 is manager of the Black Creek Rehabilitation Project a grassroots enshyvironment program to improve a degraded urban stream in Toronto His office is with the Metropolitan Toronto and Region Conshyservation Authority and he lives in Oakville with his wife Wanda (Knul) 88 (HK) a public health inspector in Hamilton
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Richard Woods 81 is an instructor of xshyray technology at the Easte rn Ontario School of X-ray Technology at Kingston Ge neral Hospital He would like to hear from other members of the 1981 U of G choir wi th whom he travelled to Scandinav ia Write to him at RRI Od essa Ont KOH 2HO
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James Dy nes 84 has comp le ted g raduate studies in chemistry and so il sc ience at the Univers ity of Sas katchewan in Saskatoon
Catherine (McVittie) Clark 88 is a nuclear medica l tech nici an at Howard Counshyty General Hospita l in Columbia Md She and her husband Michae l li ve in Elkridge Md
David Holmes 85 is a systems analyst at Sun Life Assurance Company
RolfKierdorf 84 lives in Guelph with his wife Janet He is se lf-employed as a systems consultant
Donald McFadde n 71 and his wife Carol li ve in A lbany Ga where he pracshyti ses medicine
Donald Ridley 69 and PhD 73 has been appoin ted seni or v ice-presiden t of CibashyGeigy Canada Ltd in Oakvi lle Ont and is responsib le for a ll corpora te serv ices includshy
ing finance human resources safe ty health and the environment He a lso se rves on the board of the Canadian Agricu ltura l Research Council and is a member of the Great Lakes Action Plan Strategi c Advi sory Committee
Kathryn Root Parr is an assoc iate minister at Lorne Park Bapti st Church in Mississhysa uga Ont She was married las t fa ll to Vicshytor Parr
Peter Simpson 85 is dis tric t manager for McNeil Pharmaceutical Ltd in Stouffville Ont He is married to Cynthia (Hamilton) 85 (HK)
Keith Stemshorn 83 is in the Canadian Armed Forces stationed in Calgary
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Nikki Dignard 86 moved to Ottawa last year where her husband Ted Henike pracshyti ses denti stry Dignard is working on an M BA and says she d love to hear from CSS classmates Tom Cam and Kathryn
Bonnie Dunnett 87 and MA 91 works on campus at the Gerontology Research Centre S he and Barry Hallman 9 1 li ve in Guelph
Kathryn Faulkner 80 is a registered nurse in Burling ton Ont where she li ves wi th he r husband John
Ruth Fox 84 is a sta ffing assistant for
Transport Canad a and lives in Toronto w ith her husband Christopher
Shonna Giles 88 is an admiss ions officer at Simon Fraser Unive rs ity in Burnaby BC
Gina Grieco 75 is a hi gh school guidance counsellor in North York Onto
John Harris 82 is manager of financial planning and budgets for th e City of Brampton Ont
Paulette Heppner 76 is a teache r in Vanshycouver
John Johnston 7 1 has been appointed exshyec uti ve vice-pres ident o f Ve rsacold Canada Corp and pres ident of QF Foods Distribushytion Services Versacold Canada is the largest public refri gera ted ware hou sing orshygani za tion in Western Canada
Michael Kral 79 has moved from the Univers ity of Manitoba to the University of Wind sor where he is an assistant professor of psychology
Jeffrey Lozon 76 and his family recently returned to Toronto after 15 years in Western Canada He is executive vice-president and ch ief operat ing officer at St Michael s Hos pital and li ves in Oakville wi th hi s wife Donna and two daughters
Bria n Martin 79 is a real estate appraiser in Portland Ont whe re he li ves w ith hi s wife Margaret (Sheffield) Arts 79
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Leith Mason 90 works in Toronto in the Canadian office of the State of Illinois as a special assistant to the Illinois Department of Food and Agricul ture
Michael McKean 74 of Don Mills Ont was recently appointed president of Wrigley Canada Inc Before joining Wrigley as execushytive v ice-pres ident in 1990 he he ld senior positions in Hong Kong Brazil and the United States
Rick 74 and Vicki (Collard) McTaggart FACS 74 are working in Ottawa He is director of overseas operations for the Unitarian Service Committee a charitable non-governmental organization that supports commun it y and human resou rce developshyment activities in Africa and Asia She is sec tion head of consumer analysis in the agr ifood development branch of Agriculture Canada
Sandra Morrison 86 is an ass istant professhysor in the department of psychiatry at the University of Western Ontario
Stephen Naylor 85 is director of planning and development for the amalgamated municipalities of Alliston Beeton Tecumshyseth and Tottenham
Brian ONeill 68 MA lives in SUITey England where he is managing director of Innovation Management Consultant s
Jodi Parisi 89 is a sales representative for Gillette who says U of Goo was the greatest
Moira Skikavich 81 is completing a PhD in c inematelevision at the University of Southern California
Virginia Sutherland 78 is an air traffic controller at the Toronto Island Airport
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Peggy Bates 88 was recently promoted to sales manager with Sears Canada Inc She lives in Owen Sound Ont
Caroline Begin 86 is working in Singshyapore as a dietitian
Diana Close 87 is a c linical nutri ti onis t at Chedoke McMaster Hospital in Hamilton Ont
Sarah Davenport 90 is a case worker with the Wellington County Social Services office in Guelph She is malTied to Matthew Harvey CBS 90
Timothy Dyck 8 1 is national sales manager for Black amp Decker Canada workshying out of the Corbin Division in Richmond HillOnt
Sharon (Muir) 84 and Richard Ernst CBS 83 are the proud parents of a future Guelph grad uate one-year-old Andrew Graham
Patricia Edwards 78 is food servi ce sushypervisor fo r St Peter s Hospita l in Hamilton Ont
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For the love ofteaching Since she
middot graduated bull from Macshydonald Inshymiddot stitute in
J 963 Nancy Kerr has built a career on teaching and research in telttles The middotheidofthe Uriiveisityof
Albertas department of Clothing and texiiles pursues a middotscientific interest inthepreservashylion of hi stori~lfabricsarid in developing pesticide-proofc1otl1ing But Jler fitstlove i ~ teaching
In 199b shewonone ofU of As four Rutherford AWljrds for excellence ill unshy
dergraduate teat-hing The first member of the faculty middotofliomemiddoteconornicsto receive the award slie was the rcentcipient6f the facultys own underglltiduate teaching award three years earlier
Winning the Rutherford was a gteat honor says Ken who has been on
faculty at Alberta since 1967 She oiscovered she had an aptitude for
middot teaching as a graduate student at the University of California Davis in
196566 After earning her MSc she casr about for afaculty position in Canada and round U of A was the 0111y place I could teach ju t textiles plus have a chance to develop new cQurses and research labs
middot Kerr sa)s she gets a tremelldous sense of satisfaction from teaching and the learning he must do to stay cUlTent She attributes her succe s as a teaCher to middotIec-middot
middot tures that are well organized and clear and to creltting a positive classroom climate
~Thcomfort level of students is reaUy middot ililportanL ~ Kerr eamedherPhD in fibre lnd
polymer science from North Carolina bull Staie University in 1982 Her doctoral work concentrated oil deacidification
techniques to preserve historicatcottOnln 1988 she spent a sabbatical ye~r doing research at the Caliadian Conservation
middot In tirute in OnflW1 middot Originalmiddotly from Ottawa Kerr is a
trarisphlnted -vesterner who enjoys middot hiking anlt sk1ing
From left Diane Ellison Lisa Wilson Lori Davis and Pippa Hobbes
Diane Ellison 84 is liv ing in Osaka Japan where she teaches English to Japanese busishyness people Last October she welcomed three U of G friends for a visit Lori Davis CSS 85 manager of Jumbo Video Inc in Oakville Ont Pippa Hobbes 84 accountshying manager for Paramount Holidays in Willowda le Ont and Lisa Wilson 84 co-ord inator of membership serv ices for the Metropolitan Toronto Board of Trade
Monica Hrybko HAFA 88 is director of sales for the Ramada Hotel Old Town in San Diego Calif
David Jones HAFA 88 is a con troller at the Holiday Inn Montreal Centre-Ville
Kathleen McLachlin 83 is operating an insurance agency in Kitchener OnL She opened the State Farm Insurance office in March 1988 and says she loves her job
Susan (Goettler) Parker 80 is working in Toronto as benefits administrator for Imshyperial Oil Limited She is married to Donald Parker OAC 79
Mary Jean (Sinnott) Price Mac 7 1 has returned to sc hool at the University of Otshytawa to earn a bachelor of education
Margaret (Richardson) Rankin 75 has been living in Halifax since 1990 and is an account analyst for Central Guaranty Trust
Janet (Wanless) Sutherland 77 is in private practice as a marriage and family therapist in East Kelowna BC
Jean Thomson Mac 37 says 1937 was a long time ago but shes delighted with all the changes that have gone at the college A former hospita l nutritionist she is retired and living in London Ont -
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Olayiwola Layi Adeola MSc 86 and PhD 89 and his wife Mope are living in West Lafayette Indiana where he is an assisshytant professor of pig nutrition at Purdue University
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Bruce Barrie 79 (Eng) graduated last June with an MBA from City Uni ve rsi ty in Washington State and is now a senior adshyviser in strategic planning with Petro-Canada Resources in Calgary He is a professional eng ineer with APEGGA and an ac tive memshyber of the Planning Forum an international society for planning and strategic manageshyment
Barbara Bryce 83 and her husband Ricardo Ramirez 82 are living in Rome Italy She is a landscape architect and he is a communications officer with the Food and Agriculture Organizat ion
Daniel Campbell 81 and his wife SharonshyMarianne are farmin g near Petrolia Onto
Carolyn Closs 82 and her husband Harold operate a beef cowca lf operation in Shawville Que
Luc Cote 83 is an agricullural account manager for the Royal Bank of Canada in Joliette Que
Kerrie Lea Curran 85 plans to graduate this fall from the master of architecture proshygram at McGi ll University
Bruce Dodson 74A is course superinshytendent at Hawd Ridge Golf and Curling Club in Orillia Ont
Richard Donkin OAC 85A originalshyly from Zimbabwe is the manager of Venida Packing Inc in Exeter Calif Situated in central Californias San Joashyquin Valley Venida Packing ships tree fruit throughout the Richard Donkin United States Canada the Pacific Rim and the Far East Products under the brand names Ruby River and Venida include peaches plums nectarines kiwi grapes persimmons and pomegranates In 1988 Donkin married California native Lisa Kolander and they live in Lemon Cove a community in the Sierra foothill s
Brendan Elder 8S A lives in Kelowna BC and works for Dogwood Nursery He plans to be married thi s summer to Rosemary Powell
Robert Fessenden OAC MSc 67 was recently appointed vice-president of devel opshyment and planning at the Alberta Research Council He is responsible for tec hnology management and corporate marketing
John Fitzgerald 86 was married last November to Susan Given a ] 991 indeshypendent study graduate in animal producshytion He is a lecturer at Ridgetown College she works at Centralia College and is work shying on a psychology degree at the University of Waterloo They live in Strathroy Ont
Glenn Helstern 79A is a driver for the Calgary division of Greyhound Bus Lines of Canada Ltd
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She tells a princely tale
For seven miniJtes on Oct 24 199 L Ellen Het1eOAC 76~U1d MSc 80
(ltllked with PIince Charles Invited toopert a newfumaceat
inco Lilniteds Copper Cliff smelter iri Sudbury Ont the Princemiddot of Wales was easy to talk with says Heale ftwasverycxciting
As eiwironmental co-ordinator Of land reclamation andrevegetation at Copper Cliff Healetold theprince middot about Tnc(secosystem rehabilitation
projects Theroyalvisitor was parshyticulatfyiilterestedin the treegrow- ing project in abandoned inines flld in tlpoundrevegetation ()f acres of tailings
and barren rock Planrilig vegetation on the tailings
hasattrlttcled wildlifeto a protected habitat says Beale who has wqrked forIncosincc she graduated in 1976
Ninety~iwo species ofbirds as weil asrodems hares foxes wolves bears andinoQse have been sighted on the 2500 acres of rehabilitated ore waste
One thing about this job is you middot can s~e where youve been effective she says
While an undergraduate student in Prill(e Charles with EIen Heale horticultural science Healea native ofSiidbury worked at Ineo during the sumniers She wasthi tirst woman to
work inrhemining companys agriculture middot department After shegraduated the niekshy el inine hired her full time tcido horticul- turaLfleld research ~ Ineo later granted heT a two-semester leave of absente t6 work
Theodore Jacobs 78 (Eng) is engineering supervisor at Standard Tube in Woodstock Ont
Greg Keast 85 (Eng) is li ving in Mozamshybique in East Africa where he works as a project officer for UNICEF rural water supshyply project s
Richard Kline 74 was appointed partner of the Toronto accounting firm Schwartz Levitsky Feldman Inc last faiL He is presishydent of the film s bankruptcy division a member of the Chartered Accountants of Onshytario and first vice- president of the Ontario Insolvency Association
Christopher Laforest MSc 91 (USRPD) works in planning and economic developshyment for Bruce County Ont
Jean-Paul PhD 90 and Lynn (Hammell) Laforest 82 and MSc 85 are both employed at Laval University in Sainte-Foy Que He is a professor and s he is a research associate
Kenneth Lawless 63 earned a Guelph deshygree in agricultural economics then went on to stud y dentistry at the Uni versity of Toronshyto He is now an oral and manilo-fac ial surshygeon in Kingston Ont
oil her masters at OAC~ In her current PdStion Heale has rnore
administrative and public relations responshyibilities On her own time she sits on the
board of management for the tocal Red Cross and isalllember ofthe Sudbury
Business and Professional Womens Club
Margie Luffman 77 writes that she has happily returned to Ontario after 10 years in New Brunswick to work at the Smithfield Experimental Farm in Trenton She is curator of the Plant Gene Resources of Canada clonal gene bank
Brian MacCulloch MAg 89 is a sa les representative for Springva le Nurseries Ltd in Berwick NS
Daniel Mansell 64 and MSc 68 is Onshytario manager of the eastern habitat joint venture in the wildlife policy branch of the Ministry of Natural Resources He is stashytioned in Midhurst Ont
Peter McEntire 77A writes from County Langford in Ireland to keep in touch with U of G He is farming and work s as an AI techshynician with Bova Genetics Ltd
Darryl Mitchell 78 works at Pioneer HishyBred Limited in Chatham Ont
Hugh ONeil 88 is manager of customer financial services for Ral ston Purina Canada Inc
Umed Panu MSc 72 (Eng) has done a lot of travelling during his career After Guelph he earned a PhD in civil engineering
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David Nedelko OAC 86 and Ljrlda ArmsJrollg CBS 89 (Jurk 011 cemre) were marriediasl SeplemiJer in Bari ~ie OnlTluir weddiIg iiarly illcilldedfiom leli Katy KusmiliskiOA C 88Paul Allgusline GAG 86 Roh Reed OAC 87Carv Belfral1l oAC 8RJIuJ Sa ndimiddoto (CollinI) BerlrCIlII CBS RR Also 1I111ie wedding w(lS Arlllslong s Veal ullcleClarence Fleming OVC 34 The couple (Ire living in
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at the Universit y of Waterloo taught in India and at Mi ss iss ippi State Uni vers ity and worked with Briti sh Columbia Hydro and the Government of Newfoundland In 1986 he jo ined the faculty of c ivil engi neering at Lakehead Uni ve rsity in Thunder Bay Ont and was promoted to full professor in 199 1 He and hi s wife Kashna and the ir children Neeti and Anukud enjoy the outdoor recreashytion ac ti viti es available in Northwestern Onshytario and look forward to visits from U of G alumni trave lling to Thunder Bay
Lyle Pettigrew 61 is a marketin g consulshytant with Harris Kovacs Alderman in Atlanshyta Ga
Helen Prior 88 joined Sheridan Nurseries after graduation then worked for a year as a research tech nic ian in Guelph s Department of Crop Scie nce She is now in her th ird year at Emmanuel College at Victoria University and hopes to be ordained as a United Church min is ter in May
Gregory Scott 83 (Eng) is operations manager for Accuform Gol f Limited in Toronto
Ba rbara (Coordes) Skrypetz 87 is a fi e ld supervisor for the Ontario Dairy Herd Imshyprovement Corporation working out of Guelph He r husband Stephen 88 operates a bulldozing and excavating busi shyness in the Woodstock area
Victor Skidra 6 is re tired f rom his job as a sc ientific evaluator with Hea lth and Welshyfare Canada He and hi s wife Konstance live in Nepean Ont
William Slusarchuk 63 (Eng) and MSc
The way we were in 1902 OAC alumnus Douglas Campbell 60 passes on a bit of col lege hi sto ry that shou ld make us think twice about our con stitutional squabbles in C anad a
Campbell is director of the Latin America and Caribbea n Trade Divis ion of Canada s Department of External Affa irs Last summer he hosted a vi s it by the president of Uruguay Luis Alberto Lacalle Herre ra whose grand fa the r made a simil a r vis it to Canada in 1902
This is what the elde r Herrera reported to his government Gue lph agricultural college enjoys a worldwide reputation and is con shys idered one of the grea t loca l attracshytions
More than 200 young Canadians a long with many foreign youths come together in its lecture rooms There are bursary ho lde rs from Norway and as far away as Mauritius C loser to us
Guelph Alumnus
67 was recently appo inted pres ident of AGRA Eanh and Environmental Group an envi ronme ntal and geotechnica l firm that is a division of AGRA Indu stries Limited
Michael Sullivan 87 A is a pol ice officer with the Wate rloo Regional Police in Cambridge Ont
Argentina has 12 students there We ll then couldnt Uruguay imshy
itate those good exa mples and also se nd a number of worthy youths to Guelph to acquire the professional knowledge which is becoming m ore necessary each day for the deve lopshyment of our agric ulture~
In addition to the sc ienti fic benefits that our compatriots woul d deri ve from entering sLlch a Canadian techni cal in shystitution there would be the inca lcushylable benefit of becoming familiar with the stric t manly and sound habits of these people who are admirable in e ve ry respect
Afte r they have stee ped themse lves in this atmos phere of dem ocracy which fosters the development of all rights and is alien to intolerance thi s legati on w ill have the great honor of sending home not only sc ientists but a lso mode l citizens
Brenda Trask 80 operates he r own comshymunica tion s consulting company in Osshygoode Ont She is marri ed to Ron Ferguso n
Dave Vanden Bosch 89 is manager of operator services and plann ing for Bell Canada in London Ont
J Stallard Skip Waterhouse 54 and hi s wife Li sa are ce lebrating the birth of a daughter Samantha Elizabe th on New Years Day 1992 They live in New York State where Wate rhouse is iI pro fe ssor of bio logical science at the Plattsburgh Sta te Uni versity College of Arts and Science
Jeff 88 and Karen (Burrows) W h ite 87 live in Strathroy Ont Jeff work s for Bell Canada and Kare n is a Lambton County rural orga ni za tion spec ialist with the Ontar io Mini stry of Agriculture and Food
Harold Wright 86 is a development repre shysenta tive for Ci ba-Ge igy Canada Ltd in Mi sshysissauga Ont He and Lori Krieg 84 plan to marry thi s sprin g
Donald Ziraldo 7 I received doubl e honors last winter fro m the Ontario grape and wine industry Preside nt of Inniskillin W ines of Niagara-on -the-Lake Ont he was named to the Royal Order of the Grape for hi s leadership in enhancing the prod uct and its image
In addition Z ira ldo and his partner Karl Kai se r were named 1991 Men of the Year by FoodsCIvice and Hospitalily magazine During the ir 17-year partnership at Inn isk ilshylin the two have been instrumental in shapshying Canada s wine industry the magazine sa id
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ave Barry Burtis 69 was named president of the Ontario Veterinary Medical Association in January after working with the voluntary organization for four years as a director member of its editorial board and chair of its public relations committee Burtis lives in Burlington Ont and practises at the Bay Cities Animal Hospital He also appears on a local cable television program called Pel Tales
William Medway 54 of Blackwood NJ has been named an honorary life member of the International Association for Aquatic Animal Medicine for his contributions on beshyhalf of the association and the field of aquatic medicine He is both a founding member and past president of the associa shytion A professor emeritus of clinical laboratory medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine Medway is a member of the Marine Mammal Commissions committee of scientific advisers
Diane Pickering-Forster 86 is practising at Vander Kraan Veterinary Services in Huntsville Ont She is malTied to Chris Forster and they have one daughter Julia
Julien Proulx 67 has moved from Kapusshykasing Ont to La Pocatiere Que where he is superintendent of Agriculture Canada s Experimental Farm Last year he was feashytured on TVOntarios French network series Personalire Ontarienne for his work as a veterinarian his participation in municipal politics and his support of regional developshyment in Northern Ontario He was also awarded Agriculture Canadas research branch prize Agcellence for extraordinary management during his direction of the reshysearch program at the Kapuskasing Exshyperimental Farm
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There are amazing simi laritiesbetween surgery the c~reersof t~e two Guyanese wh6b6th says Lord If earnedvefetinary degrees atGueiph someone worked in c1ini(ai practice in)Yestem were to ask Canada then moved to the United States me ioday to work in human medic~lresearch what Tcon~
Narayan heads an AlDSresearchteamsider to be atJohns HopkiflS l1)iversilySchool of my expertise MediCirieinBaltimoreMatyland Lord is I would have retired directorofthdohnsonamp Johnson to saymecli- Geofrey Lord
middot Resear~h Foundalion ill NewJersey cal device lordsays he was influenced by OVC andbioshy
proJessDfs Anthony Kings(Qte and Frank Inaterials evaluation middot SchofieJd~ndwcentnton from GiJelphto pur- lt In the I 950s Lordwaspalt of ale-
sue graduate studies in parasitology auhe se~rch team that pioneered the use of University oJWiscollsin Sevenmorithsin animal tissue tOTeconstructdamagedjr
amixed practice in Drumheller Alta con blocked al1eries in hUl11ansTwenty years vinced him thaldinical medicine wasn6t middot later he drafted the first systematicap-
middot whati w~ted6 do He returned to Wis pr()ach to the safety evaluation of medica con5il110 eanla PhDlll pathologyano devices joined Johnson amp JohnsQri as asenior middot Allsubsequeill guidelines inCiLlding patilol()gistiriI953 those of the Foodaj)q Diug Admlnistrashy
Research at Johnson amp JohDson tiOnand the Canadian Regulatory ~teeredmeinto many interesting and chal- Authority hayeadopteoihis approach he
Jenging fieldsofbio-research includirig says derniiltoi9gy toxicologic pathology Lordand his wife Helen ltIividetheir wound healing surgical pathology iiinebetweel)Ciipe CodandBonita genera toxkology ofi~w drugs andor~ Springs FloriQa
Shane Renwick 77 and MSc 91 works in veterinary services at Agriculture Canada offices in Guelph
Ruth Reuter 61 is a veterinary pathologist in Plympton Australia
Tom Sanderson 6 1 was selected by the Ontario Veterinary Medical Association as Ontario Veterinarian of 1991 CUlTently OVCs co-ordinator of off-campus work terms he spent 20 years in private practice in Listowe1 and Mount Forest before returning to the coll ege in 1982 to manage the veterishynary research stations Sanderson s contribushytions to the profess ion have included many hours of volunteer work in the advancement
of the profession and in the development of veterinary inshysurance programs He is a past pres ident of both the Ontario and Canadian Veterishynary Medical associashytions
Jennifer Troughton 86 is practising in OronoOnt
Simone Woltner 86 is a veterinarian at the Chester Basin Animal Hospital in Chester Basin NS
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by her hu sband William and two sons The fo llowing dea ths have been reported since the las t issue of the Guelph Alumnus Full notices which are usu ally submitted by family or classmates may appear in thi s iss ue or in a later one
James Clement Arts 73 Feb 2 1992
Marilyn (Dyment) Farnan Mac 530 Feb 27 1992
David Fisher OAC 80A in October 1990
Elizabeth (C hristie) Glass Mac 3I D June 2l99 1
Peter Heskey OAC 54A Dec 6 199 1
Richard Ketchell OVC 51 Nov 23 199 1
Edward Kowalski Arts 79 in August 199 1
Pauline (Dixon) MacMillan Mac 240 Jan 2 1992
Catherine MacPherson Arts 83 Dec 11 1990
Marguerite (White) Maybury Mac 3 10 in June 1990
Donald McLeOd CSS 80 Jan 9 1992
Albert Meilus OAC 51 in 1991
Ann (Biggs) Ostler Mac 3 10 in April 1991
Robert Race Arts 73 in 1989
Ralph Sampson OAC 40 in December 1989
Mor ris Sanderson OAC 42 Nov 17 1991
Sir Peter Scott HDSc 8 1 in Au gust 1989
William Setterington OAC 40 Oct 22 1991
George Shoniker OAC 50A in March 199 1
John Somerset OAC 34 Dec 27 199 1
Gregory Van Patter OAC 7 1 in 1990
Frederich Weiland OAC 20A in 1990
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Riccardo Rich Incitti 88 died Jan 5 1992 as the result of an accident near Hami lshyton Ont He was assistant manager at the Toronto-Dominion Bank in St Cathari nes and is survived by his parents Gu igi and Lucia of Cambridge and two sisters Laura and Andrea
Larry McNenly 73 died in October 1991 in Owen Sound Ont He is survived by his wife Marnie CSS 73
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Robert Everett HK 74 died in May 1991 in Burlington Ont A teac her at White Oaks Secondary Schoo l in Oakv ille he is survived by his wife Miche le and brother William CBS 74
James Sandy Fear 75 died Oct I I 199 1 in Toronto He is survi ved by his wi fe Sally (Firth) OAC 75 and hi s children Caitlin Alli son and Mered ith
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Lynn (Dalys) Corby 84 died in Toron to May 6 1990 after a long battIe with cancer
Nancy (Birbeck) Gordon 77 died Oct 20 1991 in Ottawa after a short illness She worked at the Kitchener-Waterl oo Hospital and had previously been plan t accountant at Foseco Canada Incorporated in Guelph
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Jean (Williams) Forward 280 Oct 28 1991 in Calgary She was the widow of Bower Forward OAC 25 and is survived by two sons
Catharine (Bechtel) Fromm 270 died Nov I 199 1 in Cambridge Ont She is surshyvived by three dau ghters Ellen Moore Mac 63 Nancy and Caro l
Alice (Rivaz) Garrard 28 di ed Dec 2 199 1 in Guelph She was an active member of the Mac-FACS Alumni Assoc iat ion and was the Mac 28 class agent for the Alma Mater Fund She is survived by her husband retired professor Edward Garrard OAC 27 and a daughter Betty Nelson
Della Marie (Diamond) Honey 300 of Warkworth Ont died June 29 1991 One ofWarkworths oldest and most respected citizens she served as local li brarian fo r 25 years She is survived by her son John OAC 52A his wife Patric ia and four grandchildren James OAC 84A William OAC 76A Thomas OvC 89 and Patricia Lonergan CSS 68
Barbara (Banigan) Martin 380 died Jan I 1992 in Don Mill s Ont A retired teacher wit h the North York Board of Education she is survived by a son Ted a sister and two brothers
Elizabeth (Burt) Perry 340 died June 28 1991 in Sidney BC and is surv ived by her husband Gordon and son Paul Nartel OAC 62
Jacqueline (Roy) Pote 34D died Dec 2 1 1991 in Willowdale Ont and is is survived
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Doroth y (MacFeeters) Scott 260 died Jan 14 1992 in Toronto She is su rvived by two daughters Anne Donaldson and Cynthia Scott
Florence (French) Snyder 370 died May 6 199 1 in Calgary and is survived by her husband Robert and two sons John and William
Katherine (Sweet) Watt Mac 220 died Feb 23 1992 She is survived by her husshyband Leslie a son David and a dau ghter Carol Gi llanders
Mattie (Newman) Widdicombe 240 died Dec 11 1991 in St Catharines Ont Preshydeceased by her husband John she is surshyvived by a bro ther and several nieces and nephews including Virginia Rigby Arts 76
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George Grey Arnup 38 died Feb 2 1992 in Toronto He spent most of his career with the plant protection branch of Agriculture Canada He is survived by his wife Aileen three chi ldren Nancy Jim and Mary Ellen Vincent CBS 79 and four grandchi ldren
Herbert Boyce 28 and MSA 43 died Sept 2 1991 in Amherstburg Onto He is survi ved by his wife Norah a daughter Beverley Med lock and a brother James OAC 32
Jack Reddy Brethet 56 died Nov 4 199 1 in Burlington Ont President of Brethet Barnum Assoc iates Inc he is surshyv ived by his wife Caro l and two daughters Lyn n and Anne
Bruce Foster 28 died Feb 6 1992 in Ridgetown Ont and is survi ved by his daughter Gayle Anderson and son David CBS 69
Allison Gardhouse 49 died Sept 21 1991 in Midland Ont He was re tired supe rshyintendent of schoo ls for the Simcoe County Board of Education and is survi ved by his wife Merle
Kenneth Harrison 24 died Nov 5 199 1 in Kentville NS A distinguished plant patho logist military officer and mycologist he began hi s career in 1926 as assistant plant pathologis t at the Kentvi lle Experimental Farm He worked there until retirement in 1966 wi th the exception of mi litary servi ce du ring the Second World War
Dr Harrison had a lifelong interes t in the study of mushrooms and publ ished numerou s technica l papers on the mu shroom flora of Nova Scotia In addition he enshy
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couraged interested amateurs and led field trips for student s at Acadia University and the general public from 1929 until 1987 In 1979 he was honored by Acadia wi th the dedication of the Kenneth A Harri son Laboratory of Mycology
During his career he was a member of many professional organizations a charter member of the Mycological Society of America and fe llow of the American Associashytion for the Advancement of Science
He is survived by hi s wife Margaret two brothers Maynard OAC 30 and Arthur OAC 29 two son s Ashley and Kenneth and a daughter Jennie Sheito
William Kellam 4 1 died Oct 19 1991 in Brockville Ont He was retired from the Curb and Gate Co of-Brock ville where he had worked as a lab technician fo r 28 years He is survived by his wife Kathleen a son George and a daughter Mary
William M acMillan 48 died in February 1992 in Winnipeg He was supervisor of Fertilizer marketing for the Manitoba Pool Elevators and is surv ived by hi s wife Edna Jean and brother Harry OAC 5 1 A
Cameron McTaggart 35 died Feb 4 1992 in Aurora Ont After graduating from OAC he became manager of Don Head Farms in Richmond Hill He established the first agricul tural consulting business in Canada in 1947 and later ran an Angus cattle
sales management business from the family farm A life member of the OAC Alumni As shysociat ion and the Class of 35 executive he is survived by his wife Margaret Mac 35 and two sons John OAC 62 of Regina and David of Largo Fla
Douglas Miller 48 of Victoria BC died Nov 24 1991 in Toronto He is survived by hi s wife Ruth and five children
Gregory More 76 was killed Feb 3 1992 in Kitchener Ont at the Ontario Glove Manufacturing Co where he was co-owner and vice-president Following graduation he worked for the Rohrer Drug Co and the Stershyling Drug Co then returned to school ea rnshying an MBA at McMaster University in 1981 More was an avid squash player and golfer Court A at the Northfield Racquet Club in Waterloo was dedicated to his memory in March He is survived by his parents Noreen and Ken a brother Randy and a sister Katherine Keeler
John Jack Pawley 33 died March I 1992 in Guelph He is survived by his wife Ruth son John OAC 62 and daughter-inshylaw Carolyn He was a former director of the Ontario Milk Marketing Board and a past member of the Royal City Lodge of Perfecshytion
Harold Reid 20A died in December 1991 in Burlington Ont During the First World W ar he was one of Canadas premier rad io
experts work ing at the Roya l Canadian Navy shore transmitter in Sydney NS After the war he came to OAC to earn a diploma then went on to QueenS University to comshyplete an arts and theology degree His mini sshytry was mainly in St And rews and Montreal although he spent 13 years teaching Hebrew at the Presbyterian Coll ege before retiring in 1968
Donald Robertson 3 1 died Nov 4 1991 in Iroquois Ont He is survived by hi s wife Caroline (Grisdale) Mac 38 his two son s ScottOAC 65A and Guy and a daughter Sandra McNeil
Thomas Rokeby 48 and MSA 50 died Jan 29 1992 in Fayetteville Ark He was a professional engineer and tau ght for 30 years in the Univers ity of Arkansas engineering department Born in Port Rowan Ont he was a member of the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War the American Society of Agricultural Engineers and the agricultural honor societies of Gamma Sigma Delta and Alpha Epsilon He is surv ived by his wife Helen two sons Robert and Richard a daughter Penny and three brothers Michael Noel and Richard OAC 54
Francis Sweeney OAC 45 died Nov 17 1991 in Oakville Ont He was a longtime employee of Shell Canada and [nternational Shell working in Great Britain Europe and
WALL CUSTANCE MEMORIAL FOREST
The Wall-Custance Memorial Forest located at the Universi ty of Guelphs Arboretum was established in recognition of the severe depletion of our forests It is never too late to be a vital part of the effort to save and improve our air and water for the future of our children by planting trees This program is our small part of the major endeavor to reforest and to reduce the greenhouse effect improve air quality and provide food and cover for wildlife The Memorial Forest Proshygram not only pays a Significant tribute to a loved one but also assures a better environment for generations to come
The purpose of this program is to provide an opporshytuni ty to commemorate the life of a loved one by plantshy
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ing a tree We envision that the Memorial Forest Program will continue for many years to come and our hope is that the solace that nature offers particularly in the depths of a living forest will be of comfort and benefi t to all
For more information or for a brochure call or write to
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Berna rd Weeks 35 died Oct 16 199 1 After graduation he re turned to his roots in
ew York and Pennsylvannia and worked in 4-H and you th organi zations for a few years He then took over the family farm at Troupsburg NY and built up a dairy operashytion with a sideline of sheep He is surv ived by his wife Ruth and four children
Glenn White 43 of Belleville Onl died Nov 24 199 1 in Florida and is surv ived by hi s wife Marjorie
ave Norman Anderson 39 of Wi nn ipeg died Dec 18 1991 in Arizona He had practised veterinary medicine in Norwood Man and was a member of the American Equine Pracshytitioners Association director of the Canadian Thoroughbred Society and track veterinarian at Assin iboia Downs for 50 years He is survived by his wi fe Peggy and two sons Laurie and James
George Beatty 5 I died Nov 22 1991 in Inverness III He practised in Palatine fo r 36 years and founded the Palatine Animal Hospi tal He was an active member of the American Animal Hospital Assoc iati on and the Chicago Veterinary Association and was a director of the Friends of the University of Guelph He is survived by his wife Mary and fo ur children - Suzanne Patricia Margaret and Tim
John Hamilton 5 L died Dec 15 1991 He had lived in Roslin On where he owned the Bay Regional Veterinary Hospital He is survived by hi s niece Ann Bongard
Nicholas Labzoffsky 39 died Dec 25 1991 in Largo Fla Fonnerly of Toronto he had li ved most recen tl y in Dorse t Ont and is survived by hi s wife Jane
Edgar Langford 49 died March 41992 in Monarch Alta A former research scienshytist with ADRI (Western) he is survived by his wife Norma and two daughters includshying Carolyn OVC 76
Stuart Maude 4 1 died Jan 14 1992 in Rosemead Calif A former Rosemead counshycillor and four-time mayor he operated the Rosemead Animal Hospital with his brother Arthur 52 from 1953 to 1980 He was a trustee for Ingles ide Hospital a past grand patron of both the Rosemead and the Califorshynia Order of Eastern Star and past-president of the local Kiwanis Club and Chamber of Commerce He is survived by his wife Vera two daughters Patricia and Susan Bezner a son Stuart and three brothers
Walter Morley 42 o f Mildmay On died Nov 28 199 1 He ran a large animal pracshytice in the Mild may area for 39 years raised cat tle and raced standardbred horses He was also a pu blic school board trustee and direcshytor of a local te lephone company for more
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than 30 years He is survived by his wife Joyce five sons - two of whom are OVC alumni Dave 68 and Randy 74 - and 10 grandchildren
Lloyd Neily 52 died Jan 3 1992 in Hantsport NS A retired meat inspector w ith the federal Department of Agriculture he had a private veterinary practice in Wind sor NS He is surv ived by hi s wife Mary
Elford Nundal 43 died Jan 7 1992 in Langley BC after a long battle with canshycer He operated a veterinary practice in Langley for 36 years and served as a di strict aldennan for 10 years before being elected mayor in 1982 Last year he received the BC Veterinarian Association s award of merit for a lifetime of veterinary work
Humphrey Rees 55 died Sepl 30 1991 in Amman Jordan while on ass ignment for the Overseas Development Ad ministrat ion as veterinary and animal hu sbandry adviser to the Jordani an government His contemshyporaries at Guelph will remember him as a singer debater raconteur rugby player and bon vivant He is surv ived by his wife Alice of POlt Eynon Wales
William Stinson 40 died Feb 15 1992 in Norwood Ont He is survi ved by his wife Rita a son John OVC 67 a brother Ford OAC 34 and a grandson John CSS 87
Faculty
Patric ia Harney died Dec 191991 in Yarshymouth NS A professor in the Department of Horticultural Science from 1962 to 1988 she developed severa l new variet ies of geraniums and was instru mental in es tabshylishing the Frances Ball rose collection at the Arboretum
Anthony Marston died Feb 3 1992 in Fershygu s ant Retired from the School of Hotel and Food Administration he was an acshycomplished competition chef who received his training in Switzerland and England He then spent severa l years working in the Caribbean before coming to Guelph in 1970 A member of the Canadian Olympic culinary team he held a number of positions in the
Donations given in memory ofGuelph alumni will help support University scholarships ifdirected to the Alumni M emorial Fund In 1991 donations were made in memory of the following alumni
Frank MacDonald OAC 37
Frank King OAC 33 -Robert Allen OAC 56A
Alice (Rivaz) Garrard Mac 28
Stan Vesselinovitch OVC 57
For more infonnation call the Office of Annual Giving at 519-824-4120 Ext 6 183
hote l and food industry until retiring in 1982 He is survived by hi s wife Di ana
Gordon McNally dled Jan 12 1992 in Guelph A professor in the Department of Zoo logy from 1934 to 1971 he served as academic assistant to the dean of CBS until retiring in 1979 While at Guelph he was honorary pres id ent of the classes of OAC 54 58 and 67 He is survived by his daughter Jean two siste rs and two grandchildren Prof McNallys family has established the A Gordon Mc a lly Memorial Fund to support a sc holarship or bursary Contributions may be sent care of the Alma Mater Fund Alumni Hou se University of Guelph Guelph ant N I G 2WI
Friends
Jean (Young) Branion died March 3 1992 in Guelph She was the wife of the late Hugh Branion a physiology professor at U of G and assistant to presidents Bill Winegard and Don Forster Jean Branion was an act ive volunteer on campus for many years and one of the firs t presidents of the College Womens Club She is survived by a son Richard and his wife Marga re t of Vanshycouve r and five grandchi ldren Donati ons may be made to the Hugh D Branion Memorial Scholarship through Alumni House
Davy Alexander Hamilton-Williamson died Feb 4 1992 in Guelph A painter and author of childrens stories he had been a member of the University s Presidents Council s ince it began in 1 985
Marjorie Pinkney wife of J ames Pinkney OVC 3 7 died Dec 151 99 [ at her home in Milton ant
Samuel Wyal died March 15 1992 in Brantford ant He was a partner in the law firm Wyatt Purce ll Will Stillman and Scott He is surv ived by his wife M a bel Mac 39 four sons Peter Michael William and John and two daughters Mary Alderson and Sarah Nadalin Arts 82
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INVmiddotESTMENTS amp
DIVIDENDS
Facts about university education in Canada and how we pay for it
By 2000 half of all new jobs in Canada will require a university degree
But at the current rate of government funding only one in five children
will have a chance to go to university
In the seven years from 1982 to 1989 per-student grants to universities in
Ontario barely kept pace with intlation at five per cent
per-student funding at American public univers ities jumped an average
of 23 per cent in the same period
Those US universities also receive twice the federal research dollars per student as do Ontario universities
In 1987 the average salary of a full-time professor at an Ontario univers ity was $55500
compared with $68200 for a private-sector position of similar education and experience
Lawyers economists and engineers made an average of $71 000
Ontario ranks ninth out of the to provinces in terms of grants to universities
Between 1978 and 1991 enrolment at Ontario univers ities grew by 40 per cent while funding dropped
from 59 to 409 per cent of total government spending
Universities were spending 14 per cent less per student between 1977 and 1988 hospital expenditures
rose 38 per cent per patient in the same period
Ontario universities generate $3 of economic activity for every
$1 invested by government funding
And the number of jobs generated by university activities in
Ontario is greater than the employment impact of the textile
industry the entire paper and pulp industry or utilities
University graduates can look forward to earning 63 per cent more than the average industrial worker
A 1990 survey of U of G alumni found that two years after graduation 97 per cent of Guelph grads
looking for work were employed 62 per cent were earning $25000 or more and 10 per cent were
earning $40000 or more
Unemployment rates in 1990 for those with a university degree was about one-third what it was
for those with only a high school diploma
Every year from 1978 to 1987 Ontario university inves tments in renovating or replacing
aging buildings could not keep pace with the rate at which the buildings depreciated
Graphics by Debbie Thompson Wilson Statistics supplied by th~ Council 01 Ontario UniverSities Statistics Canada and the U01 G Student EnVifonment Study Group
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A salute to sport Alumni Weekend June 19-21 9am Sio-pitch tournament
The tradition Jives on at the south quad diamond s Cooed teams of 12 or more players are encourshyaged to join in the fun
FRIDAY 10 am to 9 pm Registration Lambton Hall
6 pm Kick-off dinner and half-time show
get set and join In the Olympic spirit one of Alumni Creelman Hall will Weekends host the Wonderful most popular World of Sports with events Tours a half-time slide show start from to entertain alumni of Alumni House all ages and are sponshy9 pmshy sored by the Observatory tours CBS Alumni
Association
10 am and 2 pm
SATURDAY 8 am to 5 pm Guided Registration walking tours Lambton Hall
Remember 9 am to 5 pm making s now Alumni House tours sc ulptures on Students will host tours of Alumni House throughshyout the weekend Come and see what the generosity of alumni has accomplished
9 am to noon Alumni association annual meetings
This is the official notice for the annual general meetings of the following alumni associations
CBS - Alumni House starts at 830 am before guided walk MacFACS - HAFA Building Room 209
OVC - OvC Room 1438
OAC - Macdonald Hall Room 149
CSS - MacKinnon Building Room 305
HAFA - Alumni Hou se boardroom
Gryphs Lounge will be open for lunch and afLer the game
930 am Guided nature walk at the Arboretum
On your mark
Noon - OVC luncheon
The OvC Alumni Association will host a luncheon open to all OvC alumni and their guests
2 pm - Campus Showcase 92
Following on the heels of last year s success Campus Showshycase 92 will be bigger and better Come to the University Centre to see exhibits representing all areas on campus The Campus Junction store will also be open
2 pm - Zavitz Hall tour
Alumni are invited to browse through the newly renovated Za vitz Hall and attend a recep shytion sponsored by the Colshylege of Arts Alumni Asshysoc iation
5 pm Golden anniversary dinner
The OAC OvC and MacshyFACS alumni associations will provide complimenshytary tickets for alumni celebrating 50 years or more Additiona l tickets can be purchased Classes
Johnston Green or playing intramural hockey in the old Quonset arena Relive some of the memories by taking a walking tour of campus Tours begin from the lobby ofLambton Hall
Noon - Alumni picnic
This apopular event has new location - the sculpshyture garden beside the Macshydonald Stewart Art Centre Come on your own or reshyserve a group of tables for friends and classmates
Noon - Class reunion lunches
OAC 37 Mac 37 OAC 42 Mac 42 OAC 47 Mac 52 Mac57 Mac 67 FACS 72 FACS 77 FACS 87
OAC 67 FACS 82 OAC 82 OAC 82A CBS 82 FACS 87 OAC 87
SUNDAY 9am Church service and War Memorial Hall rededication
Thanks to a commitment from the Alma Mater Fund renovashytion of the upstairs of War Memorial Hall has been comshypleted Join us for the rededicashytion ceremony commemorating the 1924 opening and the 1952 dedication of an OAC memorial plaque
being honored are OAC 22 OAC 47 OvC 22 Mac 22 OAC 27 OvC 27 Mac 27 OAC 32 OvC 32 Mac 32 OAC 37 OvC 37 Mac 37 OAC 42 OvC 42 Mac 42
6 pm Class reunion dinners
Special dinn e r reunions are planned for OAC 47 OAC 52 OAC 52A OvC 52 Mac 57 OAC 57 OAC 62 Mac 67
10am UGAA annual meeting
All alumni are encouraged to atshytend the UGAA annual meeting in Macdonald Hall Room 149 An amendment to the UGAA Letters Patent and a revised bylaw will be presented for ap shyproval Copies of both are availshyable on request from Alumni House Call 519-824-4120 Ext 6544
11 am - Farewell brunch
The final event of Alumni Weekend will be held in Creelshyman Hall Come and meet the Univers ity S president Brian Segal The Alumnus of Honour medal will be presented at noon
To receive an Alumni Weekshyend brochure or to register for events call Alumni House at 59-824-4120 Ext 6963
Opened July 1991Research Park Centre shy
Where research and industry Dleet
Space available now Exceptional office and research facilities in our multi-tenant Research Park Centre
Research-driven corporations are breaking new ground at the University of Guelph Research Park Centre with exceptional growth opporshytunities in an ideal business setting
This 30-acre Research Park also accommodates tenants who choose to construct their own office and laboratory facilities
Find out why organizations such as Semex Canada Tremco Limited the Ontario Dairy Herd Improvement Corporation George Morris Centre LIPID Analytical Laboratories and Agriculture Canada have chosen the University of Guelph Research Park Call Ralph Eades or Judy Phillips Real Estate Division University of Guelph Telephone (519) 767-5003 or Fax (519) 837-0353
The Research Park is a project oj the Office oj Research and the University S Real Estate Division
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and more Test-tube calves and lambs
In 1988 Semex research co-ordinator Robert Stubbings OVC 76 MSc 84 PhD 89 produced Guelph s first test-tube calf during his graduate studies with Prof PK Basrur in the Departshyment of Biomedical Sciences It was not the first test-tube calf in Canada but it was the first developed from an egg that was matured as well as fertilized in a test tube
The resulting zygotes (fertili zed eggs) were placed in the oviduct of a rabbit for their early development then moved after seven days to the uterus of a recipient cow
Just a few months later other memshybers of the Guelph team took the process one step further eliminating the need to use a temporary host oviduct Postdoctoral fellow Kang Pu Xu and PhD student John Pollard were able to extend development in vitro to the point where the embryo was mature enough to survive when transplanted directly into a recipient cow s uterus
The early embryos were cultured in a medium containing luminal cells exshytracted from the oviducts of slaughtered cows Two baby bulls were born the first in Canada using this method and only the second in North America
Last year gradu ate student Dawn Kelk CBS 89 and Prof Allan King 73 and MSc 75 of the Department of Biomedical Sciences produced North America s first in vitro fertilization (lVF) lambs using these techniques
These achievements were important for several reasons The Animal Biotechshynology Embryo Laboratory can now
Authors note
One of the things Ive learned while writing this story is that biotechnolshyogy is a word seldom used by scienshytisrs For inost of us it conjures up images of people in lab coats bent over microscopes using precision inshystruments to manipulate the cells of living organisms But for scien~ists that s too vague The word may have
meaning but it d6eslJt really
produce its own IVF embryos from oocytes recovered from slaughtershyhouse cows bypassing the more expensive route of sushyperovulation and surgical withdrawal
In addition scientists have gained knowledge about early embryo development that is important for improveshyments in embryo viability and vital for developments in cloning techniques and controlled transgenesis in livestock
In a more immediate and practical context the work has led to the first clinical
Prof Keith Belleridge left and Prof Stanley Leibo watch as research technician Cindy Christian prepares an embryo f or cryopreservation Photo by Mary Dic kieson
use of IVF in cattle in colshylaboration with Brian Hill OVC 80 of Western Ontario Breeders
Bisected embryos
Meanwhile yet another part of the team based in the Department of Populashytion Medicine was perfecting techniques to microsurgicall y bisect fertilized embryos to produce genetically identi shycal animals
Professors Brian Buckrell OVC 68 MSc 84 and Cathy Gartley OVC 82 DVSc 89 and postdoctoral fel shylow Rick Rorie bisected six-day-old sheep embryos - visible only through magnification - and surgically imshyplanted them into recipient ewes Five months later nine lambs were the first animals born at Guelph from bisected embryos
Prof Walter Johnson and postdoctoral
describe anything They talk instead about cell fusion enzyme systems i ermentation or genetic engineering
The fact that biotechnology didnt appear as a popular buzzword until the 1980s suggests that we are using ilto define something neW yet none of these disciplines is really new Human beings have been using other organisms to create new procucts for centuries Thats why We have yeast yogurt and beer as well as anti-
fellow Naida Loskutoff have now exshytended this work in cattle by producing identical twins from IVF embryos divided into quarters at earlier stages of development
These projects maximize embryo use and highlight the potential for creating significant numbers of genetically identishycal animals which can be vital for conshysistent research results Tests conducted on genetically identical animals can reduce the variables caused by genetic differences and ultimately the number of animals needed for experiments
Frozen sexed embryos
The development of in vitro technishyques has also made possible further studies in cryopreservation (freezing) and embryo sexing
It s been possible to freeze and thaw
biotics growth hormones and vacshycine ~ Even genetic engineering is not new although many of us think it is
Through selective breeding practices fanners have been engineering the genetic makeup of domestic animals -for centuries What is new is the speed and accuracy with which we can implement genetic changes the ability to cross the species barrier and a much greater understanding of life processes
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At the eight-cell stage ofdevelopment in a bovine embryo each cell is removed and placed in the shell ofa discarded embryo Afler three days the blastocysts are transferred into recipient cows and the pregnancies allowed to col1linue Eight identical calves will be born and will proshyvide a valuable tool for research
cattle embryos since 1973 and most of the 60000 or so embryo-transfer calves born annually in North America are now obtained from embryos that have been stored in liquid nitrogen But there are still many problems to overcome in freezing unfertilized eggs embryos at varying stages of development and embryos produced in vitro or subjected to micromanipulation
Biomedical science professor Stanley Leibo is a specialist in cryobiology Before coming to Guelph he was part of an industry team that produced the worlds first live young (mice) from frozen embryos and later invented the patented one-step method of freezing cattle embryos Other biomedical scienshytists - King and Don Rieger - and molecular biologists Wildeman and Stan Blecher are investigating various ways of sexing embryos
Some of these involve the use of micromanipulation to remove a small number of cells from an early-stage embryo The sex can be identified by locating X and Y chromosomes detectshying male-specific DNA or perhaps by studying the proteins produced by the DNA segments In embryonic life the activity of X-linked enzymes in female embryos is twice that in males
Detecting differences in the energy metabolism of male and female embryos may also become a method of sexing In studies on early embryos generated in vitro Guelph scientists disshycovered that male and female embryos develop at different rates In addition to its value in sexing embryos this knowledge poses another question If the team can one day learn to control the rate of embryo development will it be possible to control the sex of an embryo independent of its genetic comshyplement
Photo courtesy of the Animal Biotechnology Embryo Lab
Transgenic animals
Since the mid 1980s Wildeman and fellow molecular biologist John Phillips have been producing transgenic mice for studies in human disease
This involves recovering one-cell embryos microsurgicalty from an imshypregnated mouse With a finely drawn glass needle a piece of DNA is inserted into the nucleus of the embryo which is then placed in a surrogate female to complete the pregnancy The offspring carries the foreign gene
One line of research using transgenic mice involves the study of a virus known to affect the transformation of normal cells into tumorous cancer cells Wildeman performs this work using transgenic mice in studies of cancer and metastasis
Transgenic mice are also used in Phillipss ongoing study of the causes of insulin-dependent juvenile diabetes He borrowed a gene from the fruit fly and spliced it into the chromosomes of the mouse so that it is expressed in the beta cells of the pancreas
Observations from the research conshyfirm the long-standing hypothesis that one cause of juvenile diabetes arises from the action of oxygen radicals in the pancreas
The fruit fly itself is used in studies aimed at producing insecticide-resistant insects Working with a team of scienshytists in Texas Phillips is perfecting techshyniques to transfer organophosphate insecticide-resistant genes to the fruit fly and ultimately to agriculturally beneficial insects
Studies have shown that the use of inshysecticides could be reduced if beneficial insects were not also killed by the spray In addition this research may provide the solution needed by North American
honey producers who are suffering great losses in their beehives due to parasitic mites Currently there is no effective control of the mites
From mice to pigs and chickens
Transgenic mice are also playing a role in a project that may eventually imshyprove forage use in domestic animals
Ruminant animals like cows and sheep have friendly bacteria in their inshytestinal tract that enable them to digest the cellulose fibre in forage crops If other animals such as pigs or chickens had the same ability they could be reared on lower-quality cheaper feed than the cereal grains now used
A research team that includes Phillips microbiologists Cecil Forsberg and Peter Krell and environmental biologist David Collins-Thompson has isolated the effective gene from a microshyorganism present in ruminant animals and is transferring it into the mouse which is also a monogastric animal Studies with transgenic mice will enable the team to fine-tune its ability to manipulate expression of the gene
This is just the beginning of a longshyterm project says Phillips but it may one day connect with the work of Profs Rob Etches and Jim Squires in the Department of Animal and Poultry Science who are following separate paths to reach the same goal- transshygenic chickens
Blotchy chicks
Etchess lab opened the door for transshygenic poultry in 1988 when postdoctoral fellow Jim Petitte OAC PhD 86 sucshycessfully moved cells from one chick embryo to another creating chimeric chicks Until this breakthrough
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researchers had been unable to manipulate the avian embryo in the early stages of development
Petitte extracted embryonic cells from the yo lk of a newly laid egg from a barred Plymouth Rock hen and microinjected them into a rec ipient embryo in a dwarf white l eghorn egg through a tiny 05-censhytimetre window cut in the shell When incubated the egg went on to produce a chimeric chick Embryonic cells from the black Plymouth Rock donor were expressed as blotches of black in the chicks down
Since then Etchess research team has been able to do the procedure more successfully get better gene exshypression in the donor cells and keep the embryonic cells in culture for 24 to 48 hours befo re transplanting them into the recipient egg
The chimeric chick itself is not transgenic genetic information from the donor embryo is expressed in a limited number of cells in the chick A second-generation chimera howshyever would be transgenic if the donor cells contained a foreign gene
Thats the focu s of a collaborat ive
Animal scienlisl Jim Squirev has developed a chemic(li recipe Ih(l causes DNA-I(lced liposomes 10 fuse wilil sperm cells When pershyjeered the technique will allow him to use the natural veeror ofsperm cells 10 lransmit foreign
project between the labs of Etches and colleague Prof Ann Gibbins OAC MSc 71 PhD 80 who is intershyested in modifying the donor cells through genetic manipulation When her lab team is able to target a specific gene and change it - and only it - they will insert that gene into the donor cells to produce a chimeric chick and in the second generation a transgenic chick
Transgenic sperm
Squires is taking a more obvious but no less perilous route to the transgenic chicken by using sperm cells to carry the foreign DNA Just as the hen s embryo is difficul t to manipulate the rooster s sperm has barriers of its own Prevail ing thought is that any invas ion of the sperm cell will kill its potency
Although Itali an and Israeli reshysearchers claim to have inserted DNA into the sperm cells of mice through abshysorption no one else has been able to get this to work so the prevailing thought prevail s
Squires s approach is to power DNA into the cells He s de veloped a chemishycal recipe that causes DNA-laced liposomes (fat globules) to fuse with sperm cells
Squires says his team has overcome
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DNA Photo by Ma ry Dickieson
the three main obstacles encapsulating DNA in the liposomes fu sing the liposomes to sperm cells which affects the transfer of 0 TA and retaining the fertility of the sperm
What they have yet to demonstrate is that the process produces a transgenic animal Trials are under way using a radioactive marker ge ne that can be easi shyly detected in a developing transgenic chicken Squires will be eager for peer rev iew to document the results this fall
If successful the sperm cell technique can be adapted for use with all species of commercial animals Sperm cells are the perfect vector because their ultimate function is to insert DNA into an egg says Squires We ll just be supplying the DNA The method is easy economical and safe to periorm and does not inshyvolve expensive equipment
Disease diagnosis
The international race to identify a mutation assoc iated with a costly swine disease was won by Guelph pathologist Peter OBrien OVC 88 and Univershysity of Toronto professor David Maclennan
The mutation associated with maligshy
nant hyperthermia was identifi ed in Maclennan s laboratory by sequenc ing the gene in normal and abnormal swine A I OO-per-cent correlation was fo und between DNA-based tests in Maclennan s laboratory and phys iologishycalbiochemical tests used in 0 Brien s research for diagnosing the condition
From these findings the scienti sts developed a test using modem molecular biology techniques to identify the mutation in the blood cells of inshydividual swine
Malignant hyperthermia is seldom fatal in pigs but it results in poorshyquality pork Pork producers suffer major economic losses from what is known as PSE - pale soft exudative (watery) meat - in affected animals
Other research at U of G cou ld help eliminate a potentially lethal blood coagulation disorder in dairy cows Facshytor XI a genetic disorder associated with a lack of c lotting protein in the bl ood causes hemorrhag ing in Holstein cows
Researchers believe the problem can be eliminated by ensuring that breeding stocks are free of the disease Testing for all of Canada is conducted by U of G biomed ica l sc ienti st Patricia Gentry and research technician Michelle Ross
Vaccine development
Vaccination is the cheapest most efshyfecti ve way of dealing with infec tions and the most poweriul way of preventshying di sease Advanced immunization programs using new biotechniques are under way in many Guelph labs last fa ll the Natural Sc iences and Engineershying Research Council announced strategic grants for advanced techshynologies that included four vacci ne development projects at U of G
Profs Brian Derbyshire and Eva Nagy of the Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Immunology (VMI) recei ved a three-year grant of $295000 to perfect gene-cloning techniques for the de velopment of a vaccine for porshycine gas troenteritis
In the same department Profs Janet Maclnnes Soren Rosendal and Bonnie -Mallard OAC 79 MSc 82 PhD 88 were awarded $250000 over three years to work on a recombinant vaccine effecshytive against the bacterial organism that causes severe pneumonia in pigs
Also in VMI Prof Patricia SheweD 75 MSc 79 PhD 82 received a three-year grant of $408 000 with Prof
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Reggie Lo Microbiology to continue work on an improved vaccine for shipshyping fever Lo and Prof Alan Mellors Chemistry and Biochemistry received a $54000 grant to develop clinical and com mercial applications of a technique used in bone marrow transplantation and vaccine development
These projects follow in the footsteps of earlier developments like the bov ine shipping fever vaccine created by Shewen and VMI chair Bruce Wilkie OVC 65 It was like finding a way to control the common cold in humans
Although the bacterium Pasteurella haemolytica occurs normally in the noses of cattle its numbers increase during periods of high stress and present an insurmountable problem for the animals immune system
Wilkie and Shewen di scovered that during its most active stage of growth the bacterium produces a toxin that imshypairs the ability of clearing cells to eliminate the bacterium They grew the bacterium in a culture monitored toxin production and developed processes for vaccine production
The technology was licensed to Langford Inc of Guelph which man ufac tures and markets Presponse shipping fever vaccine in both Canada and the United States
Lab work by Lo and former student Craig Strathdee CBS 85 PhD 89 that contributed to the shipping fever vaccine project also led to a patent apshyplication - for the plasmid coding for Pasteurella haemolytic leucotoxin which has been implicated as a major virulence factor in the impairment of primary lung defence in cattle
Animal health
Wilkie and Mallard are also working with Prof Brian Kennedy in Guelph s Centre for the Genetic Improvement of Livestock to develop a selective breedshying program that uses knowledge acshyquired through genetic studies and stretches the definition of biotechnology
To stay hea lthy an individual animal must have the genetic ability to produce resi stance to infection says Wilkie That ability is not dependent on a sing le gene but on the expression of many difshyferent genes Neve rtheless these genetic traits are heritable and amenable to selection
This team has identified traits in pigs that are important in maintaining health has characterized individual animals
Biotechnology ofa different sort in volves the use of traditional selected breeding and a computer database to produce diseaseshyresistant pigs
through the expression of these genetic traits and has associated these traits with high productivity If these high producers are mated to produce a disshyease-resistant strain of pigs is that biotechnology
If foreign DNA had been introduced into the embryo of a pig to give it the characteristic of disease resistance that would be an obvious example of bioshytechnology But how do we catalogue the technology if it uses tradi tional selecshytive breeding and a computer to produce a piglet with the same resistance to disshyease
More biotechniques in action
Guelph food scientist Cyriel Duitschaever OAC MSc 66 PhD 75 has developed new fermented milk products that will benefit people suffershying from gastrointestinal illnesses
He and research associate Carole Buteau OAC MSc 78 PhD 83 isoshylated two naturally occurring intestinal bac teri a and propagated a pure culture in the laboratory to develop both liquid and yogurt-like milk products that can be used to stimulate digestion in the inshytestinal tracts of people who are on anshytibiotics who are lactose-intolerant or who suffer gas trointestinal disorders
Clinica l trials at the Children s Hospishytal of Buffalo have been promis ing giv ing rise to another potential use in the treatment of acute diarrhea l di seases affec ting people in the Third World
Microbiology professor Joseph Lam heads a research team that has develshyoped a diagnostic kit to quickly identify a bacteria group known to cause fat al inshy
fections in some hospital patients Pseushydomonas aeruginosa is the principal cause of death in cystic fibrosis sufshyferers and is a serious threat to burn vi cshytims cancer patients and those undergo ing transplants
Because the bacterium does not respond to conventional antibiotic treatshyments quick de tection is central to preventing spread of the infection Lam s kit can cut the test period from 12 hours to five minutes
His current research illustrates the cross-over effect of biotechnology He identified an antigen that is common to about 75 per cent of P aeruginosa strains and a monoclonal antibody against the antigen This has allowed him to iso late spec ia l bacteria that will produce the antigen in large quantities for further s tud y His work should evenshytually lead to a human monoclonal anshytibody that cou ld be used to protect cystic fibrosis patients
In 1989 when the federal governshyment decided it was time to put some money behind its verbal thrust in science and technology it allocated $240 million to estab li sh 14 centres of excellence that would integrate the reshysearch efforts of Canadian uni versi ties industry and government
Several U of G researchers received funding including microbiologists Chris Whitfield Anthony Clarke Joseph Lam Reggie Lo Roselynn Stevenson and Terry Beveridge who beshycame part of the network looking into bacterial di sease Their expertise will aid the search for the causative agents of bacterial diseases such as whooping cough gonorrhea toxic shock synshydrome lung infections and me ningitis
In 1988 biochemist Janet Wood and crop scientist Peter Paul s achieved a breakthrough in understanding how subshystances like sugars and amino ac ids are transported from outside to inside a living cell wall They found that minute protein molecules in the wall surroundshying a cell act like miniature pumps capshyturing the substance and powering it through the cell wall -They are now trying to determine how the protein molec ules choose subshystances for uptake or release S uch celshylular behavior plays a critical role in determining a plants reaction to soi l sa linity or explaining why cells fai l to transport glucose from the blood in diabetics
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Behind every how theres a why While we stand in awe of what sc ienshytists are accomplishing in the biological sciences we shouldnt lose sight of the reasons why they are manipulating cell structure and decoding genetic blueprints
To some extent scientific exploration is driven by human nature - our desire to understand and control the natural world Advances in biotechniques and genetic engineering promise to give us more of both
Reports on the Human Genome Project say that within 15 years well know the code of almost every gene in the human body This work and current explorations in animal genetics are harshymonized by the fact that many of the genes that control development are similar among species
The chicken for example is a familiar model for studies in developshymental biology Supported by 60 to 70 years of data todays embryologists like Prof Rob Etches are learning how to modify the genes that control developshyment of a chick embryo while giving us a better understanding of how genes efshyfect development in all vertebrates
Nothing could be more fund amental than understanding that process says Prof Keith Betteridge who heads the Guelph team working with bovine embryos In all areas of reproductive and genetic research the big payoff is that we will understand more about how two gametes can unite to fonn a single cell and develop into Northern Dancer or Albert Einstein he says
Everyone has a role to play in decidshying how to use this knowledge says Betteridge but the researcher has the triple responsibility of thinking through the implications of new technologies exshyplaining those implications to a skeptishycal and concerned public and safeshyguarding the welfare of animals used
Whether manipulating an entire animal or one of its reproductive cells the scientist is guided by the same set of moral standards If the technology inshyduces pain or suffering causes changes in behavior or affects the animals abilshyity to eat and survive then it shouldnt be done says Prof Bruce Wilkie chair of the Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Immunology
He and other Guelph scientists inshyvolved in animal research are subject to
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peer rev iew through the U of G s animal care committee which is also charged with ensuring that research and teaching programs are in compliance with the Animals for Research Act of Ontario
Reporting to the University s Reshysearch Board the committee is comshyposed offaculty student community and non-user representatives It estabshyli shes animal-care policies on campus and evaluates all protocols submitted by researchers and teachers After granting initial approval the committee reviews each project annually and inspects reshysearch facilities each semester A provinshycially appointed inspector also visits campus frequently and the Canadian Council on Animal Care makes an inshyspection every three years to assess the level of animal care
In addition to safeguarding animal care scienti sts al so need to provide evidence that the products of biotechnolshyogy are safe for human consumption or medical use The public needs to know that the pharmaceutical protein cloned and produced in a chicken s egg is no different than the same protein cultured from human cells and produced in a large bioreactor
The big payoff is that we will understand more about how two gametes can unite to form a single cell and develop into Northern Dancer or Albert Einstein
One of the most talked-about benefits of transgenic technologies is the potenshytial for producing enzymes prote ins and antibodies for pharmaceutical and inshydustrial uses Molecular farming would take advantage of the expression system in higher animals to produce a therashypeutic protein that is difficult or expenshysive to make in a lab
The potential seems enormous but the prac tice will be quite simple A typishycal Ontario dairy herd could probably produce enough human insulin or bloodshyclotting factor to satisfy the world
demand It s easy to see why these techshyniques are already presenting problems for patent offices
The past decade of work in transshygenesis has been a learning process for all of us Early research efforts that produced pigs in the United States with arthritic deformities and sheep in Australia with ulcers have taught us th at even science must learn to walk befo re it can run That means perfecting genetic transfer in animals where the techniques are easily controlled - such as mice and fruit flies - before applyshying them to domestic animals
One of the advantages of gene transshyfer technology is the control it offers geneticists who are able to manipulate expression of a single gene during development One of the limitations may be the re lative ly minor change that gene can make in one generation when compared with the changes induced through the countless generations of selection since domestication
These limitations may alleviate some of our fears about the use of gene transshyfer but it also makes us question its value at least in terms of breed improveshyment in domestic livestock Prof Charshyles Smith holds a research chair at Guelph in animal-breeding strategies and is often called on to assess the value of the new biotec hnologies in the genetic improvement of farm livestock
Economic traits are already being imshyproved through traditional selective breeding methods he says It would take quite large beneficial transgenic efshyfects (at least 10 per cent of the mean) on economic merit to make their incorshyporation worthwhile
Despite our e thical concerns the legal entanglements created by the use of biotechniques and the problem of turnshying new technologies into cost-effective procedures most scientists agree that these technolog ies are too powerfu I not to use They have the pote ntial to help allev iate some of the most serious problems facing the world - food production overpopulation disease and shyenvironmental degradation
Statisticians teU us that 50 years from now we will be trying to feed twice the current world s population on a smaller land base in a more fragile environshyment This is the why behind current research in genetic engineering
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OUD TH Annual giving in 1991 reached $14 million The value of the Annual Fund becomes more apparent each year as the University of
Scholarships amp BursariesGuelph faces continued financial $320127
AMF Priority Athletics ~ ---------- (Scholarships$38326
pressure The 1991 Annual Fund Pet Trust raised $14 million to help $261224 maintain scholarships and provide academic and library programs AMF OAC Alumni Scholarships Foundation ______ grew by $9245 25 per cent
$228494
Memorial Funds $56997
Arboretum $77441
Class Projects ResearchBuildings$86658
Matching gifts grew 31 per cent in 1991 More and more Canadian companies are g iving financial support to the institushytions that educated their employees A total of 44 companies matched 92 inshydividual gifts for a record $11120 in Annual Fund contributions to the University of Guelph in 1991
If you work for a matching-g ift employer every doll ar you donate is matched - doubled or even tripled shyby a company gift Its as easy as it sounds so check with your employer on how to multiply the value of your gift to the University
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Academic Enrichment $87246
3M Canada Incorporated Akzo America Foundation Alcan Aluminum Limited A lean Canada Products Ltd Amdahl Canada Limited American Home Products Corp American International Group Inc BASF Corporation Bell Canada Boise Cascade Canada Limited Campbell Soup Co Ltd Chevron Canada Resources Ltd F alconbridge Ltd Ford Motor Company of Canada Ltd Gelleral Electric Canada Inc Hoechst Canada Incorporated IBM Canada Limited ICI Canada Incorporated Insurance Bureau of Canada
$134893Library $103050
John Laball Limited Kraft General Foods Canada McGraw-H ill Ryerson Limited Nabisco Brands Canada Ltd Northern Telecom Limited Paul Revere Life Insurance Co Pfizer Canada Inc Pioneer Hi-Bred Limited Pitman-Moore Inc Sara Lee Corp ofCanada Ltd Square D Canada The Bank of Montreal The Coca-Cola Company The Toronto Star The UPS Foundation TransCanada Pipelines Warner-Lambert Canada Inc Westeel
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ADIT ON With thanks to Donors Class agents College representatives Alma Mater Fund Advisory Council
Alumni and others who give to the University of Guelph through the Annual Fund are helping to maintain quality at a time when governments are funding for mediocrity Because of the dedication and commitment of our donors and volunshyteers the 1991 Annual Fund surpassed last year s total by $100000 We did not achieve our goal - perhaps $1 6 million was overly ambitious in light of current economic conditions - but we were able to maintain last years 25-per-cent inshycrease in scholarship support
Through the Alma Mater Fund we raised more than $540000 and achieved Tom Sawyer
the target of 12-per-cent participation among graduates of the three founding colleges Arts CBS and CSS alumni substantially increased their donations and participation over last year Campus participation grew from 145 per cent in 1990 to 171 per cent this year And our parents program pushed contributions from parents to $84188 compared with $31500 in 1990
For the first time since 1984 the Alma Mater Fund Advisory Council was able to go beyond its commitments to fund eight additional projects - a total of $86000
Looking ahead our flagship project for 1992 will be War Memorial Hall renovations During Alumni Weekend in June you ll have a chance to see the work that has been done upstairs and the work still needed in the downstairs hall It s a project well worth the interest and support of alumni
For your past and future support of the Alma Mater Fund my sincere thanks
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Tom Sawyer OAC 59A and 6 Corporations Chair AMF Advisory Council Associations Foundations $2874947 Annual giving contribution s
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$1403701 Major Gifts $1236622
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in 1991
Government (Donations only
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Annual Giving Report
1991 Annual Fund Results $1 A niillion wasraised overallmiddot ariinceaSe of
76 per ceI1tThisyear alumrii in the Arts and CBS groups doubled theirparticipation alld conshytributions And the parents recotded a 46-pershy
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The group of eight
Eight campus projects were selected to share $86000 in highest-priority funds from the 1990 Alma Mater Fund Among them are the OvC Wild Bird Clinics education program a CSS academic medal in memory of the late dean John vanderkamp a soc ial sc ience citation index for the library framshying for the fine art print study collection a computer design laboratory for the School of Engineering seed money for a history graduate scholarship a conshytinuing education survey for the Mac-FACS Alumni Association and a HAFA-sponsored executive-inshyresidence
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Of cattle cash and Colvil e Alumni gifts to the University of Guelph come in some pretty interesting packages Over the years alumni have given livestock concrete paintings shythere are two by Canadian painter Alex Colville - furniture land books inshysurance policies and a host of artifacts and antiques And money - a lot of money Almost every building on camshypus has some bricks and mortar paid for by alumni And hundreds of students are helped along the way each year by alumshyni-sponsored scholarships
The Annual Giving Report on the preceding pages shows once again how important alumni gifts are to the Univershysity and provides us with an opportunity to say thank you to those alumni who continue to give on a yearly basis Anshynual giving is however only one of three avenues through which alumni proshyvide financial support to the University The others are major gifts and promoshytional programs
Annual giving
The Alma Mater Fund established in 1969 is the route chosen by most alumshyni faculty and staff who make annual gifts to the University
AMF solicitation and management are handled by a volunteer advisory council On the preceding page chair Tom Sawyer OAC 59A and 64 talks about the funds success over the last two years with AMF scholarships inshycreasing by 25 per cent This year the AMF begins a three-year commitment to funding renovations to War Memorial Hall
In addition to its flagship project AMF provides regular support to athshyletics through Gryphon Club contribushytions to college advancement funds and scholarships and to individual class projects
The AMF supports the camaraderie of university days as alumni work together to plan and complete a project whether its funding a scholarship a painting a tree weight-lifting equipshyment or furniture for Alumni House AMF contributions also ensure that fushyture Guelph students will remember those who have gone before
In addition to AMF donations the anshynual giving program includes gifts to
the OVC Pet Trust Fund the OAC Alumni Foundation the Arboretum the paren ts program and the Li brary Other gifts made directly to the University supshyport memorial funds scholarships musishycal activities and research and academic programs
Major gifts
Major gifts to the University are adshyministered by the Deve lopment Office under the direction of Marilyn Robinson Mac 55 These include beshyquests or life insurance policies shortshyterm pledges (often made during a capital campaign) large donations that might establish an endowment fund or contributions to special University projects like the Heritage Fund or the proposed FACS Building addition
Gifts- in-kind - such as library materials art objects or estate properties - also fall within thi s category Last year alumni gave more than $12 milshylion in such tax-deductible gifts
Promotions
Every Guelph graduate is a member of the University of Guelph Alumni Asshysociation and receives the Guelph Alumshy
nus magazine and many other privishyleges There are no UGAA membership fees but the association does raise money through promotional programs like MasterCard travel packages and the North American Life Assurance proshygram
The UGAA provides serv ices to alumshyni and students - such as the careershyplanning workshop planned for Juneshyand returns many dollars directly to the campus Last year it gave $20000 to the library
In addition to direct financial support through annual giving and major gifts alumni also support the University inshydirectly through membership fees to individual college and program associashytions The fees pay for association acshytivities that help maintain ties between their members and the University
Questions
If you have questions or would like 10
know more about the tax advantages of giving to U of G write to Paulette Samson associate director of annual giving and support services at Alumni House University of Guelph Guelph Ont NIG 2Wl or call 519-824-4120 Ext 6183
When yo~bearrom US
If you think youre hearing from us moreoften lhanY9u elida few years ago you reright But checkyour mail and you ll 110tiqe that you~re also hearing
more frequemly from othernon-jgtrofit)rganizations and charities We v~ all stepped lip oui- fUQdIaising efforts
U QfGappreciates your support and needs your help butyou wont know that if we donr teflyou Aildeyen if you cant afford to make a fjnancialcon~
tributiori we hop~ to wjn yoUfverbaJ sliPPOJ-tJt will take many voices to coii- ylnce governmeritthal universities should beagreater public priority
When we contacenttyou on behalf of iheUriivetsity we lly to give more thiin we ask So tak~advantage ofthe p~1one call o(letter to findoutwhais happenc ing OJrcarnp~s U ofG hasmuchto offer llufnrii professionaldevelcipment courses library privileges travel programs recreation and a link Igt friends and
classmates
We Jik~to keep in roucharidYcwarit yO~1 to know the progress were rilaking Ast~e Uriiversity $ prestige grows so does the value ofyour degree
~0~ MarilynR~binson Trish Walker Mac55 DiJectoJ ofDevelopment CSSTl Director ofAJurhni Affairs
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Get your career on track
Responding to alumni requests the University of Guelph Alumni Associashytion will sponsor a career-planning workshop on campus June 26 to 28 The weekend program will be led by Sharon Crozier of the University of Calgary counselling service Each participant will receive a careerlifestyle analysis and will develop a personal action plan
The $225 fee includes the StrongshyCampbell Interest Inventory and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator which will be administered and tabulated prior to the weekend Testing dates have been set in Toronto for May 27 and in Guelph for June 4
Sponsored by the UGAA and coshyordinated by Continuing Education and Alumni Affairs the workshop will also draw on the Universitys Counselling and Student Resource Centre
Enrolment is limited to 20 For registration information see page 26 or call Continuing Education at 519-767shy5000
UGAA board report
by Grant Lee CSS 73 MA 80
The UGAA will present a convocation package to each graduate this spring imshymediately following presentation of the degree or diploma Developed by Alumshyni Affairs staff the package is designed to increase awareness of the UGAA and the collegeschool alumni associations encourage membership introduce the Guelph Alumnus and provide an opporshytunity for board members to congratushylate our new alumni
Approval of the new UGAA bylaw is on schedule It will be presented to members at the annual general meeting in June along with an amendment to the
i I UGAA Letters Patent
In addition the UGAA board bull has approved a $400 donation to help
cover costs for two students to represhysent Guelph at the 1992 World Debatshying Championships in Dublin Ireland
bull is looking at a proposal to help alumDl with financial planning There will be more to come on this subject later
bull received thanks from president Brian Segal on behalf of those alumni who attended the October symposium
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Canada Break Up or Restructure The association was a patron of the event
bull is responding to requests from alumni for more social events Aside from the travel program the UGAA sponsored a ski day at Horseshoe Valley in March
bull approved a proposal from the School of Landscape Architecture to research places of historical value on campus Financial support has yet to be resolved
bull accepted an offer to help sponsor the University Centres annual lecture series which invites Canadian and inshyternational public figures to speak on current issues All events in the winter 92 series were free to alumni
bull donated U of G sweatshirts to Canadian Guidance and Counselling for a conference in Ottawa this sumshymer
bull approved the purpose and terms of refshyerence for the new Alumni House Adshyvisory Committee which is charged with overseeing maintenance of the
facility adopted the 199192 budget and finanshycial plan drafted last November This year we expect to generate some $44000 and spend $33000 It has been suggested that we set the 199293 budget and plan in April of this year so the new board wi II start in September with a sound financial program and budget that will only reshyquire adoption or revision
Chapter news
Calgary - About 40 alumni and guests met at the Delta Bow Valley Hotel Feb 3 to view a U of G video and hear a talk by admissions counsellor C hr is tine Toews FACS 87 Co-ordinator of the event was Janet Hutchinson CBS 79
Edmonton - Paul OAC 67 and Anne Valentine CBS 69 hosted a group of 30 alumni and guests at the Ramada Renaissance Hotel
Montreal - U of G welcomed students and their parents - including many
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alumni - to its first Montreal informashytion night for prospective students The event was modelled after a successful program in Toronto that draws more than 800 students each spring
Vancouver - U of G president Brian Segal met with alumni March 5 at the Pan Pacific Hotel Jim Dodds OVC 63 and Sarah Bloom FACS 86 orshyganized the event which attracted about 70 alumni and guests
Halifax- U ofG alumni in Halifax met with Gryphon basketball players during the March 26 to 28 CIAU chamshypionships Despite losing the OUAA west division title to Brock University the Gryphons qualified for a wi ld card spot at the CIAU championships Alumshyni received free tickets to the game that pitted Guelph against Brandon in the consolation final Fan support was enshythusiastic but the Gryphons lost 72 to 64 finishing third overall
Homecoming 1992 Plans are well under way for Homecoming weekend Sept 25 and 26 In addition to the annual Gryphon Hall of Fame dinner and award s ceremony the weekend will feat ure a beach volshyleyball tou rnamen t --~4~=iiiiikshyconcert alumni brunch walk-a-thon pep rally reunions and the traditional homecoming dance following the Saturday afternoon footshyball game This year the Gryphons will play Wil frid Laurier University A complete schedule will appear in the next Guelph Alumnus but you can get
Winners of Ihe Ju SI fo r Fun square dance compelition 01 College Royal were left 10 right Ann Joselin Kelley Allen Joanne Hewirson Brenl McFadden caller Sue MacKinnon Richard Presley Trish Henderson Jason Thompson and Kelly Lillie
in the Homecoming spirit now by helpshying to plan your class reunion or signing up as a scorekeeper for the vo lleyball tournament For infOlmation call alumshyni officer Laurie Malleau HAFA 83 at 519-824-4120 Ext 2102
Swing your partner
Eight squares of alumni took part in the College Royal square dance competition in March Winners of the UGAA alumni square dance plaque were the Crazy 8s Joanne Hewitson Arts 91 Lloyd Hutchinson CBS 87 Sonya Jones CPS 90 Ed Ketchabaw OAC 88 and MSc 91 Carol)n OAC 90 and Brad MacNeil CPS 87 Mike Relf OAC 91 and student Sherry MacNeil Wayne Lowden was the caller
Winners in the Just for Fun category were Junior Farmer alumni who included Hewitson Ann Joselin OAC 90 Brent McFadden CSS 90 Richard Presley OAC 86 and soonshyto-be-alumni Kelley Allen Trish
Henderson Kelly Little and Jason Thompson The caller was Sue MacKinnon OVC 9 1
Florida picnic
The North Port Yacht Club hosted 199 alumni for the annual Florida picnic March 4 On hand to meet them was Trish Walker CSS 77 and MSc 90 director of alumni affairs Judy Phillips of the University s Real Estate Division also attended to talk about the Village by the Arboretum retirement deve lopshyment
Attendance prizes went to Gertrude Stewart Mac 30 and Morley Funston OAC 32 The picnic was sponsored by the UGAA Alumni-In shyAction Committee represented by Ken Gartley OAC 42 and the Florida reunion committee consisting of Mary and Ted Brent OAC 48 Helen and Don Moffatt OAC 46 Stella and Bob Moore OAC 48 and Retis and Bill HasenptlugOAC 39
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A new kind of class reunion
Its the latest fad in alumni circles shymeeting your classmates at the anshynual University of Guelph alumni hockey tournament Twenty-two teams played in the fifth annual tourshynament in December
For most teams tournament standshyings are secondary to the socializing with classmates that they may not see otherwise says Bill Seegmiller OAC 83 who worked with Brian TapscottOAC 8 1 to organize the event We promote the social aspect through two divisions - social and more social - and include family skating and a Saturday evening wine and cheese party he says Trish Walker director ofalumni affairs presents fhe social division lrophy 10 Ihe OAC 79
Dipper Oldies (II the U ofG alumni hockey tournamenl The OAC 79A team defeated the Grey Gryphons to win the more soshycial division The OAC 80 team won the consolation final and the spirit award went to OAC 7778
In the social (a little more competishytive) division it was the Faceoffs in first place over OAC 88 OAC 90 won the consolation trophy and the Valley Vikings took home the spirit award
Organizers plan to add womens exshyhibition games to the 1992 tournament which is scheduled for Dec 5 and 6 For more information call Seegmiller at 519-836-3807 or Rudy Diemer OAC 85 at 519-763-2250
A night at the races
The UGAA Alumni-in-Action group will host a night at Mohawk Raceway May 26 The $30 admission includes a 6 pm buffet parking program taxes and gratuities For detail s call Laurie
~ Malleau at 519-824-4120 Ext 2102
I Alumni directory
A new alumni directory will be ready for delivery in May The deadline for alumni updates has passed but you can still order a copy of the directory at a cost of $40 plus tax Return the order form you received with the special U of G wristwatch offer or write to Rosemary Clark Mac 59 at Alumni House University of Guelph Guelph Ont NIG 2Wl
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Ottawa chapter 50 years young
There was a nostalgic gathering of Guelph alumni in Ottawa last winter to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the city s alumni chapter
Donald Fletcher OAC 36A and 39 who was president of the group in 1953 sent us a historical account of the chapters activities
A small organizing committee first met in February 1941 at Madame Burgers restaurant to plan the chapters first fun ction a skating party at the Ottawa Experimental Farm It attracted 75 people
Over the years the group held an anshynual picnic and a banquet and dance that gave them a chance to invite faculty from Guelph to speak about happenings at the colleges - and later the Univershysi ty Every president from George I Christie to Bill Winegard paid a vi sit
In 1951 alumni from OVC and Macshydonald Institute who had been meeting since 1936 joined the OAC group A crowd of almost 200 celebrated the chapter s 10th anniversary at a picnic at the farm of the late John Bracken OAC 06 During the 1950s they added a get-together at the annual Ottawa-area plowing match which gave way to a curling bon spiel in the 1960s
There have been many special funcshytions - entertaining the Gryphon footshyball teams square dances car rallies golf tournaments theatre parties and raceway evenings - but the event that stands out in Fletchers memory ocshycurred in 1966 when five members of Parliament hosted the group in the parshyliamentary ballroom
The chapter also includes a couples bridge club which has been meeting for 25 years in the homes of its members
Fletcher thanks the 30 people who have served as president of the Ottawa alumni chapter and the dozens more who have helped on committees devot shying years to the executive to promote the institution
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JUNE 26 27 amp 28 ~ The Program This highly successful workshop developed by Sharon Crozier PhD University Counselling Services University of calgary is the first step for an alumnus who is considering a career move The weekend (Friday evening through Sunday afternoon) will consist of group presentations conducted by Dr Crozier with smaller working groups facilitated by profeSSional counsellors from the University of Guelph Counselling and Student Resource Centre
Discussion structured exercises and experiential activities will lead alumni to gain insight into a personal careerllifestyle analYSis and assessment career information resources networking skills and much more
No matter what their age career stage or reason for transition each participant will find this workshop to be an excellent opportunity to develop a personal action plan - and chart their next move
~ Pre-1esting In order to provide individualized career information registrants are required to attend one of two pre-testing sessions The Strongshycampbell Interest Inventory and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator will be administered and results tabulated prior to the workshop Pre-testing dates are as follows
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Guelph Thursday June 4 1992 700 pm - 8 30 pm University Centre
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May 2 - The Guelph Spring Festival begins with a 25th-anniversary gala dinshyner in Creelman Hall that will honor founding president Murdo MacKinnon Other festival events run until May 23 For more information call 519-821-7570
May 2 shy An All-Canadian University Asshysociation d inne r w il l be held in Washington DC at the Embassy of Canada Guest speaker is Robert Lanni president of the University of Windsor Entertainment will be provided by Windsors music department For inforshymation call T Chan at 202-543-9111
May 3 - Arboretum Day celebrates spring with family nature walks at 1 and 330 pm and an electrical keyboard concert at 230 pm featuring Canadian comshyposer Carole Anne Burris
May 10 to Aug 30 - Guided nature walks run every Sunday at 230 pm in the Arboretum Topics include wildflowers birds turtles snakes and insects The nature centre is open from 1230 to 430 pm
May 13 - Chancellor Lincoln Alexander is the guest speaker at the Alumni-inmiddotAction annual general meeting which begins at noon in the Arboretum Centre For details call Alumni Affairs 519-824middot 4120 Ext 2102
May 13 - The Human KineticsHuman Biology Alumni Association will hold its inaugural meeting at730 pm at Alumni House with a coffee and dessert social RSVP to 519-824-4120 Ext 6963
May 23 shy FACS 82 is sponsoring a colshylection of Bob Munsch plays performed by the Carousel Players at3 pm at War Memorial Hall Tickets are $8 plus tax and handling To order call the UC box off ice at 519-824-4120 Ext 3940
May 26 - Alumni-in-Action is hosting a night at Mohawk Raceway Cost is $30 To register call 529-824-4120 Ext 2102
May 30 - An Arboretum sale of rare native trees and shrubs at the RJ Hi lton Centre on College Avenue East runs from 9 am to 1 pm For information call 519-824shy4120 Ext 2113
May 30 shy The sixth annual All-Canadian University Dinner in Chicago will be held
in the Henry Crown Space Centre at the Museum of Science and Industry and will include a reception buffet dinner and an Omnivax movie beginning at 6 pm Guest speaker is George Pedersen president of the University of Western Ontario For information call David Cole at 312-372-4404 or Hugh Mackenzie at 708-369-3688
June 2 to 5 shy Spring convocation June 13 - Beginning at 7 am the Arshy
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June 15 to 17 shy U of G will host the 15th annual Guelph Conference on Sexuality With the theme Sexuality New Visions the conference will examine current isshysues in human sexuality counselling strategies for sexual problems and teaching approaches in sexuality educashytion For information call the Office of Continuing Education at 519-767-5000 or fax 519-767-0758
June 19 to 21 - ALUMNI WEEKEND See page 39 for a complete schedule of events and alumni association meetings The UGAA annual meeting is June 21 at 10 am in Macdonald Hall 149
June 26 to 28 shy The UGAA-sponsored alumni career-planning workshop will be held on campus See page 26 for details
July 31 amp Aug 4 shy The National Youth Orchestra will perform in War Memorial Hall at 8 pm as part of its summer program at U of G Tickets at $8 general $6 for stUdents and seniors will be availshyable at the door
Sept 26 - HOMECOMING Rise early for the second ann ual Homecoming charity walkathon At 930 am the Human Kinetics Alumni Association will hold its annual general meeting in the School of Human Biology lounge
Oct 1 - OVCs 1992 Schofield Memorial Lecture will be given by Steven Arnoczky a professor in the department of small animal clin ical sciences at Michigan State Universitys Laboratory for Comparative Orthopedics The 3 pm lecture will be held in War Memorial Hall Admission is free
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John Boros 88 of Wei land Ont writes that he is impressed by the way U of G keeps records after graduation Thi s gives the graduate a sense of belonging a connection to an important period in hi s or her life he says
Jane Buzza 88 is working as records co-ordinatorarchivist for the Ontario Medishycal Association in Toronto
Jacqueline (Sullivan) DeClerck 86 is a public relations officer at the Canada Trust head office in London Onto
Richard Ely 70 works at the Crown attorneys office in WeIland Ont He has an LLB from the University of Western Ontario in addition to his Guelph degree He says he often talks about U of G to young students trying to decide which university to attend
Paul Genest 81 finished graduate studies at Johns Hopkins Universi ty in Maryland and is now assistant professor of philosophy at Union College in Schenectady NY He is man-ied to Barbara Jessup 8 1
Brian Hogarth 78 is head of interpretashytion at the G1enbow Museum in Calgary
Martha Hooper 9 1 was married last Ocshytober to David Perry They live in Calgary where she is a sw itchboard operator at the Delta Bow Valley Inn
Rene van der Meijden 87 has put his degree in geogshyraphy and internationshyal development to good use with the Christian Reformed World Relief Comshymittce Originally from the Netherlands he is now in Uganda on a three-year asshy Rene van der signment as a rural Meijden development adv iser He sends greetings to his many friend s in Canada and to Guelph grads Stan and Kitty in Bolivia in particular and reminds us that visitors are always welshycome in Uganda
Edward Milliner 85 will graduate this spring from the faculty of education at the University of Windsor
Mark Moore 85 is doing postgraduate work in history at the University of Bristol in England He plans to teach high school
fn response to a letter from Dawn Monroe 69 that appeared in the winter 1992 issue of the Guelph Alumnus Doug Moynihan 69 of Fort McMurray Alta writes Be disapshypointed no more Dawn l I too graduated in 1969 from (the College of) Arts or as it was then called Wellington College and I havent heard from anyone either And I too think it is time to contribute my news
After graduation f headed out to disshycover and sol ve the problems of the world travelling overseas for about three years Since then Ive been working in human resources in a variety of organizations in many different locations in Canada Cun-entshyIy I am the manager of human resources in Fort McMurray
PS Do you remember me Dawn I was the bartender in Creelman Hall I
John Teskey 7 1 began new duties last summer as director of libraries at the University of New Brunsw ick in Fredericton He was head of adshyministrative sershyvices at the University of Albershyta before moving John Teskey across Canada to acshycept the UNB posishytion but had earlier served as chief librarian and was library personnel officer at both Alshyberta and the University of Saskatchewan
Teskey says his biggest challenge is to regain the lost purchasing power that univershysity libraries have suffered as a result of static budge ts and ri sing material costs He is encouraging increased resource-sharing among universities and interlibrary loan programs with shortened turnaround
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Elizabeth (Baxter) Willson 77 a real esshytate agent in Chatham Ont writes to voice a common feeling that the universi ty exshyperience itself is often more important than the degree or diploma received I am really glad I graduated from Guelph she says
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Michelle Bombadier and Mike Caldwell both 92 are two of 50 Canad ian youth selected to work in Guyana for three months with Youth Challenge International (YCI) a non-governmental organization that provides Third-world experience for Canadians They may spend the summer building a school teaching safety or clearing land for Gu ytna s first national park but they need some private support to he lp cover transportation costs Anyone able to help should write to YCI at I I Soho St Toronto M5T IZ6
Jane Coventry 86 writes with accolades for the Guelph Alumnus grad news section and an update on what she and her husband Jaydee Smith 84 and MSc 89 are doing They were married in 1989 while working at U of G - he in the Department of Animal and Poultry Science and she in the Departshyment of Crop Science In February 1991 they moved to England where Smith is doing a PhD at the University of Bristol and working as a research assistant Coventry
works in the technology transfer unit of Nickshyerson Seeds Ltd in Cambridge
Jeffrey Crawford 88 and Leslie Thompson 86 were malTied last October He is an elementary schoolteacher in Mount Forest Ont
Craig Emerson 83 earned a PhD at Dalshyhousie University in Halifax in 1990 and is now a research associate in oceanography
Paul Fleming 85 is a pharmaceutical sales representative for Hoechst Canada Inc and lives in Nepean Ont
David Forsey 80 is an assistant professor of computer science at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver He is marshyried to Lyn Bartram
Michael Gangl 89 is in his third year at the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College
Astrid Harms 87 is a registered nurse in London Ont
Andrew Holmes 85 worked for the Onshytario government as a wildlife biologist for three years but is now back at school in his second year at Northwestern Chiropractic College in Minneapolis
Timothy Johnson 86 works at the Centre for Limnology at the University of Wisconshys in in Madison
Karen Lennard 77 (HK) and her hu sshyband Paul Jackson 79 (HK ) and MSc
82 both went 011 to earn medical degrees from McMaster University in HalTilton Ont Jackson also has a master s in physiology from the University of Virginia and is comshypleting an anesthesiology residency in Hamilshyton Lennard has a part-time family medical practice allowing her to spend more time with the couples two children Matthew and Nicola
Wendy Maltby 74 is an elementary schoolteacher for the Metropolitan Toronto School Board
Sandra OConnor 84 earned a medical degree from the University of Western Onshytario and is now practi sing in Burlington Ont
Linda Owen 81 runs her own business as a consulting exercise physiologist and fitness supervisor in Campbell River BC
Sheryle Tetley 86 is regional sales manager for Glaxo Canada Inc in Mi ss isshysauga Ont where she lives with her husshyband Ian
Rob Tonus 87 is manager of the Black Creek Rehabilitation Project a grassroots enshyvironment program to improve a degraded urban stream in Toronto His office is with the Metropolitan Toronto and Region Conshyservation Authority and he lives in Oakville with his wife Wanda (Knul) 88 (HK) a public health inspector in Hamilton
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Richard Woods 81 is an instructor of xshyray technology at the Easte rn Ontario School of X-ray Technology at Kingston Ge neral Hospital He would like to hear from other members of the 1981 U of G choir wi th whom he travelled to Scandinav ia Write to him at RRI Od essa Ont KOH 2HO
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James Dy nes 84 has comp le ted g raduate studies in chemistry and so il sc ience at the Univers ity of Sas katchewan in Saskatoon
Catherine (McVittie) Clark 88 is a nuclear medica l tech nici an at Howard Counshyty General Hospita l in Columbia Md She and her husband Michae l li ve in Elkridge Md
David Holmes 85 is a systems analyst at Sun Life Assurance Company
RolfKierdorf 84 lives in Guelph with his wife Janet He is se lf-employed as a systems consultant
Donald McFadde n 71 and his wife Carol li ve in A lbany Ga where he pracshyti ses medicine
Donald Ridley 69 and PhD 73 has been appoin ted seni or v ice-presiden t of CibashyGeigy Canada Ltd in Oakvi lle Ont and is responsib le for a ll corpora te serv ices includshy
ing finance human resources safe ty health and the environment He a lso se rves on the board of the Canadian Agricu ltura l Research Council and is a member of the Great Lakes Action Plan Strategi c Advi sory Committee
Kathryn Root Parr is an assoc iate minister at Lorne Park Bapti st Church in Mississhysa uga Ont She was married las t fa ll to Vicshytor Parr
Peter Simpson 85 is dis tric t manager for McNeil Pharmaceutical Ltd in Stouffville Ont He is married to Cynthia (Hamilton) 85 (HK)
Keith Stemshorn 83 is in the Canadian Armed Forces stationed in Calgary
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Nikki Dignard 86 moved to Ottawa last year where her husband Ted Henike pracshyti ses denti stry Dignard is working on an M BA and says she d love to hear from CSS classmates Tom Cam and Kathryn
Bonnie Dunnett 87 and MA 91 works on campus at the Gerontology Research Centre S he and Barry Hallman 9 1 li ve in Guelph
Kathryn Faulkner 80 is a registered nurse in Burling ton Ont where she li ves wi th he r husband John
Ruth Fox 84 is a sta ffing assistant for
Transport Canad a and lives in Toronto w ith her husband Christopher
Shonna Giles 88 is an admiss ions officer at Simon Fraser Unive rs ity in Burnaby BC
Gina Grieco 75 is a hi gh school guidance counsellor in North York Onto
John Harris 82 is manager of financial planning and budgets for th e City of Brampton Ont
Paulette Heppner 76 is a teache r in Vanshycouver
John Johnston 7 1 has been appointed exshyec uti ve vice-pres ident o f Ve rsacold Canada Corp and pres ident of QF Foods Distribushytion Services Versacold Canada is the largest public refri gera ted ware hou sing orshygani za tion in Western Canada
Michael Kral 79 has moved from the Univers ity of Manitoba to the University of Wind sor where he is an assistant professor of psychology
Jeffrey Lozon 76 and his family recently returned to Toronto after 15 years in Western Canada He is executive vice-president and ch ief operat ing officer at St Michael s Hos pital and li ves in Oakville wi th hi s wife Donna and two daughters
Bria n Martin 79 is a real estate appraiser in Portland Ont whe re he li ves w ith hi s wife Margaret (Sheffield) Arts 79
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Leith Mason 90 works in Toronto in the Canadian office of the State of Illinois as a special assistant to the Illinois Department of Food and Agricul ture
Michael McKean 74 of Don Mills Ont was recently appointed president of Wrigley Canada Inc Before joining Wrigley as execushytive v ice-pres ident in 1990 he he ld senior positions in Hong Kong Brazil and the United States
Rick 74 and Vicki (Collard) McTaggart FACS 74 are working in Ottawa He is director of overseas operations for the Unitarian Service Committee a charitable non-governmental organization that supports commun it y and human resou rce developshyment activities in Africa and Asia She is sec tion head of consumer analysis in the agr ifood development branch of Agriculture Canada
Sandra Morrison 86 is an ass istant professhysor in the department of psychiatry at the University of Western Ontario
Stephen Naylor 85 is director of planning and development for the amalgamated municipalities of Alliston Beeton Tecumshyseth and Tottenham
Brian ONeill 68 MA lives in SUITey England where he is managing director of Innovation Management Consultant s
Jodi Parisi 89 is a sales representative for Gillette who says U of Goo was the greatest
Moira Skikavich 81 is completing a PhD in c inematelevision at the University of Southern California
Virginia Sutherland 78 is an air traffic controller at the Toronto Island Airport
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Peggy Bates 88 was recently promoted to sales manager with Sears Canada Inc She lives in Owen Sound Ont
Caroline Begin 86 is working in Singshyapore as a dietitian
Diana Close 87 is a c linical nutri ti onis t at Chedoke McMaster Hospital in Hamilton Ont
Sarah Davenport 90 is a case worker with the Wellington County Social Services office in Guelph She is malTied to Matthew Harvey CBS 90
Timothy Dyck 8 1 is national sales manager for Black amp Decker Canada workshying out of the Corbin Division in Richmond HillOnt
Sharon (Muir) 84 and Richard Ernst CBS 83 are the proud parents of a future Guelph grad uate one-year-old Andrew Graham
Patricia Edwards 78 is food servi ce sushypervisor fo r St Peter s Hospita l in Hamilton Ont
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middot graduated bull from Macshydonald Inshymiddot stitute in
J 963 Nancy Kerr has built a career on teaching and research in telttles The middotheidofthe Uriiveisityof
Albertas department of Clothing and texiiles pursues a middotscientific interest inthepreservashylion of hi stori~lfabricsarid in developing pesticide-proofc1otl1ing But Jler fitstlove i ~ teaching
In 199b shewonone ofU of As four Rutherford AWljrds for excellence ill unshy
dergraduate teat-hing The first member of the faculty middotofliomemiddoteconornicsto receive the award slie was the rcentcipient6f the facultys own underglltiduate teaching award three years earlier
Winning the Rutherford was a gteat honor says Ken who has been on
faculty at Alberta since 1967 She oiscovered she had an aptitude for
middot teaching as a graduate student at the University of California Davis in
196566 After earning her MSc she casr about for afaculty position in Canada and round U of A was the 0111y place I could teach ju t textiles plus have a chance to develop new cQurses and research labs
middot Kerr sa)s she gets a tremelldous sense of satisfaction from teaching and the learning he must do to stay cUlTent She attributes her succe s as a teaCher to middotIec-middot
middot tures that are well organized and clear and to creltting a positive classroom climate
~Thcomfort level of students is reaUy middot ililportanL ~ Kerr eamedherPhD in fibre lnd
polymer science from North Carolina bull Staie University in 1982 Her doctoral work concentrated oil deacidification
techniques to preserve historicatcottOnln 1988 she spent a sabbatical ye~r doing research at the Caliadian Conservation
middot In tirute in OnflW1 middot Originalmiddotly from Ottawa Kerr is a
trarisphlnted -vesterner who enjoys middot hiking anlt sk1ing
From left Diane Ellison Lisa Wilson Lori Davis and Pippa Hobbes
Diane Ellison 84 is liv ing in Osaka Japan where she teaches English to Japanese busishyness people Last October she welcomed three U of G friends for a visit Lori Davis CSS 85 manager of Jumbo Video Inc in Oakville Ont Pippa Hobbes 84 accountshying manager for Paramount Holidays in Willowda le Ont and Lisa Wilson 84 co-ord inator of membership serv ices for the Metropolitan Toronto Board of Trade
Monica Hrybko HAFA 88 is director of sales for the Ramada Hotel Old Town in San Diego Calif
David Jones HAFA 88 is a con troller at the Holiday Inn Montreal Centre-Ville
Kathleen McLachlin 83 is operating an insurance agency in Kitchener OnL She opened the State Farm Insurance office in March 1988 and says she loves her job
Susan (Goettler) Parker 80 is working in Toronto as benefits administrator for Imshyperial Oil Limited She is married to Donald Parker OAC 79
Mary Jean (Sinnott) Price Mac 7 1 has returned to sc hool at the University of Otshytawa to earn a bachelor of education
Margaret (Richardson) Rankin 75 has been living in Halifax since 1990 and is an account analyst for Central Guaranty Trust
Janet (Wanless) Sutherland 77 is in private practice as a marriage and family therapist in East Kelowna BC
Jean Thomson Mac 37 says 1937 was a long time ago but shes delighted with all the changes that have gone at the college A former hospita l nutritionist she is retired and living in London Ont -
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Olayiwola Layi Adeola MSc 86 and PhD 89 and his wife Mope are living in West Lafayette Indiana where he is an assisshytant professor of pig nutrition at Purdue University
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Bruce Barrie 79 (Eng) graduated last June with an MBA from City Uni ve rsi ty in Washington State and is now a senior adshyviser in strategic planning with Petro-Canada Resources in Calgary He is a professional eng ineer with APEGGA and an ac tive memshyber of the Planning Forum an international society for planning and strategic manageshyment
Barbara Bryce 83 and her husband Ricardo Ramirez 82 are living in Rome Italy She is a landscape architect and he is a communications officer with the Food and Agriculture Organizat ion
Daniel Campbell 81 and his wife SharonshyMarianne are farmin g near Petrolia Onto
Carolyn Closs 82 and her husband Harold operate a beef cowca lf operation in Shawville Que
Luc Cote 83 is an agricullural account manager for the Royal Bank of Canada in Joliette Que
Kerrie Lea Curran 85 plans to graduate this fall from the master of architecture proshygram at McGi ll University
Bruce Dodson 74A is course superinshytendent at Hawd Ridge Golf and Curling Club in Orillia Ont
Richard Donkin OAC 85A originalshyly from Zimbabwe is the manager of Venida Packing Inc in Exeter Calif Situated in central Californias San Joashyquin Valley Venida Packing ships tree fruit throughout the Richard Donkin United States Canada the Pacific Rim and the Far East Products under the brand names Ruby River and Venida include peaches plums nectarines kiwi grapes persimmons and pomegranates In 1988 Donkin married California native Lisa Kolander and they live in Lemon Cove a community in the Sierra foothill s
Brendan Elder 8S A lives in Kelowna BC and works for Dogwood Nursery He plans to be married thi s summer to Rosemary Powell
Robert Fessenden OAC MSc 67 was recently appointed vice-president of devel opshyment and planning at the Alberta Research Council He is responsible for tec hnology management and corporate marketing
John Fitzgerald 86 was married last November to Susan Given a ] 991 indeshypendent study graduate in animal producshytion He is a lecturer at Ridgetown College she works at Centralia College and is work shying on a psychology degree at the University of Waterloo They live in Strathroy Ont
Glenn Helstern 79A is a driver for the Calgary division of Greyhound Bus Lines of Canada Ltd
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She tells a princely tale
For seven miniJtes on Oct 24 199 L Ellen Het1eOAC 76~U1d MSc 80
(ltllked with PIince Charles Invited toopert a newfumaceat
inco Lilniteds Copper Cliff smelter iri Sudbury Ont the Princemiddot of Wales was easy to talk with says Heale ftwasverycxciting
As eiwironmental co-ordinator Of land reclamation andrevegetation at Copper Cliff Healetold theprince middot about Tnc(secosystem rehabilitation
projects Theroyalvisitor was parshyticulatfyiilterestedin the treegrow- ing project in abandoned inines flld in tlpoundrevegetation ()f acres of tailings
and barren rock Planrilig vegetation on the tailings
hasattrlttcled wildlifeto a protected habitat says Beale who has wqrked forIncosincc she graduated in 1976
Ninety~iwo species ofbirds as weil asrodems hares foxes wolves bears andinoQse have been sighted on the 2500 acres of rehabilitated ore waste
One thing about this job is you middot can s~e where youve been effective she says
While an undergraduate student in Prill(e Charles with EIen Heale horticultural science Healea native ofSiidbury worked at Ineo during the sumniers She wasthi tirst woman to
work inrhemining companys agriculture middot department After shegraduated the niekshy el inine hired her full time tcido horticul- turaLfleld research ~ Ineo later granted heT a two-semester leave of absente t6 work
Theodore Jacobs 78 (Eng) is engineering supervisor at Standard Tube in Woodstock Ont
Greg Keast 85 (Eng) is li ving in Mozamshybique in East Africa where he works as a project officer for UNICEF rural water supshyply project s
Richard Kline 74 was appointed partner of the Toronto accounting firm Schwartz Levitsky Feldman Inc last faiL He is presishydent of the film s bankruptcy division a member of the Chartered Accountants of Onshytario and first vice- president of the Ontario Insolvency Association
Christopher Laforest MSc 91 (USRPD) works in planning and economic developshyment for Bruce County Ont
Jean-Paul PhD 90 and Lynn (Hammell) Laforest 82 and MSc 85 are both employed at Laval University in Sainte-Foy Que He is a professor and s he is a research associate
Kenneth Lawless 63 earned a Guelph deshygree in agricultural economics then went on to stud y dentistry at the Uni versity of Toronshyto He is now an oral and manilo-fac ial surshygeon in Kingston Ont
oil her masters at OAC~ In her current PdStion Heale has rnore
administrative and public relations responshyibilities On her own time she sits on the
board of management for the tocal Red Cross and isalllember ofthe Sudbury
Business and Professional Womens Club
Margie Luffman 77 writes that she has happily returned to Ontario after 10 years in New Brunswick to work at the Smithfield Experimental Farm in Trenton She is curator of the Plant Gene Resources of Canada clonal gene bank
Brian MacCulloch MAg 89 is a sa les representative for Springva le Nurseries Ltd in Berwick NS
Daniel Mansell 64 and MSc 68 is Onshytario manager of the eastern habitat joint venture in the wildlife policy branch of the Ministry of Natural Resources He is stashytioned in Midhurst Ont
Peter McEntire 77A writes from County Langford in Ireland to keep in touch with U of G He is farming and work s as an AI techshynician with Bova Genetics Ltd
Darryl Mitchell 78 works at Pioneer HishyBred Limited in Chatham Ont
Hugh ONeil 88 is manager of customer financial services for Ral ston Purina Canada Inc
Umed Panu MSc 72 (Eng) has done a lot of travelling during his career After Guelph he earned a PhD in civil engineering
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David Nedelko OAC 86 and Ljrlda ArmsJrollg CBS 89 (Jurk 011 cemre) were marriediasl SeplemiJer in Bari ~ie OnlTluir weddiIg iiarly illcilldedfiom leli Katy KusmiliskiOA C 88Paul Allgusline GAG 86 Roh Reed OAC 87Carv Belfral1l oAC 8RJIuJ Sa ndimiddoto (CollinI) BerlrCIlII CBS RR Also 1I111ie wedding w(lS Arlllslong s Veal ullcleClarence Fleming OVC 34 The couple (Ire living in
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at the Universit y of Waterloo taught in India and at Mi ss iss ippi State Uni vers ity and worked with Briti sh Columbia Hydro and the Government of Newfoundland In 1986 he jo ined the faculty of c ivil engi neering at Lakehead Uni ve rsity in Thunder Bay Ont and was promoted to full professor in 199 1 He and hi s wife Kashna and the ir children Neeti and Anukud enjoy the outdoor recreashytion ac ti viti es available in Northwestern Onshytario and look forward to visits from U of G alumni trave lling to Thunder Bay
Lyle Pettigrew 61 is a marketin g consulshytant with Harris Kovacs Alderman in Atlanshyta Ga
Helen Prior 88 joined Sheridan Nurseries after graduation then worked for a year as a research tech nic ian in Guelph s Department of Crop Scie nce She is now in her th ird year at Emmanuel College at Victoria University and hopes to be ordained as a United Church min is ter in May
Gregory Scott 83 (Eng) is operations manager for Accuform Gol f Limited in Toronto
Ba rbara (Coordes) Skrypetz 87 is a fi e ld supervisor for the Ontario Dairy Herd Imshyprovement Corporation working out of Guelph He r husband Stephen 88 operates a bulldozing and excavating busi shyness in the Woodstock area
Victor Skidra 6 is re tired f rom his job as a sc ientific evaluator with Hea lth and Welshyfare Canada He and hi s wife Konstance live in Nepean Ont
William Slusarchuk 63 (Eng) and MSc
The way we were in 1902 OAC alumnus Douglas Campbell 60 passes on a bit of col lege hi sto ry that shou ld make us think twice about our con stitutional squabbles in C anad a
Campbell is director of the Latin America and Caribbea n Trade Divis ion of Canada s Department of External Affa irs Last summer he hosted a vi s it by the president of Uruguay Luis Alberto Lacalle Herre ra whose grand fa the r made a simil a r vis it to Canada in 1902
This is what the elde r Herrera reported to his government Gue lph agricultural college enjoys a worldwide reputation and is con shys idered one of the grea t loca l attracshytions
More than 200 young Canadians a long with many foreign youths come together in its lecture rooms There are bursary ho lde rs from Norway and as far away as Mauritius C loser to us
Guelph Alumnus
67 was recently appo inted pres ident of AGRA Eanh and Environmental Group an envi ronme ntal and geotechnica l firm that is a division of AGRA Indu stries Limited
Michael Sullivan 87 A is a pol ice officer with the Wate rloo Regional Police in Cambridge Ont
Argentina has 12 students there We ll then couldnt Uruguay imshy
itate those good exa mples and also se nd a number of worthy youths to Guelph to acquire the professional knowledge which is becoming m ore necessary each day for the deve lopshyment of our agric ulture~
In addition to the sc ienti fic benefits that our compatriots woul d deri ve from entering sLlch a Canadian techni cal in shystitution there would be the inca lcushylable benefit of becoming familiar with the stric t manly and sound habits of these people who are admirable in e ve ry respect
Afte r they have stee ped themse lves in this atmos phere of dem ocracy which fosters the development of all rights and is alien to intolerance thi s legati on w ill have the great honor of sending home not only sc ientists but a lso mode l citizens
Brenda Trask 80 operates he r own comshymunica tion s consulting company in Osshygoode Ont She is marri ed to Ron Ferguso n
Dave Vanden Bosch 89 is manager of operator services and plann ing for Bell Canada in London Ont
J Stallard Skip Waterhouse 54 and hi s wife Li sa are ce lebrating the birth of a daughter Samantha Elizabe th on New Years Day 1992 They live in New York State where Wate rhouse is iI pro fe ssor of bio logical science at the Plattsburgh Sta te Uni versity College of Arts and Science
Jeff 88 and Karen (Burrows) W h ite 87 live in Strathroy Ont Jeff work s for Bell Canada and Kare n is a Lambton County rural orga ni za tion spec ialist with the Ontar io Mini stry of Agriculture and Food
Harold Wright 86 is a development repre shysenta tive for Ci ba-Ge igy Canada Ltd in Mi sshysissauga Ont He and Lori Krieg 84 plan to marry thi s sprin g
Donald Ziraldo 7 I received doubl e honors last winter fro m the Ontario grape and wine industry Preside nt of Inniskillin W ines of Niagara-on -the-Lake Ont he was named to the Royal Order of the Grape for hi s leadership in enhancing the prod uct and its image
In addition Z ira ldo and his partner Karl Kai se r were named 1991 Men of the Year by FoodsCIvice and Hospitalily magazine During the ir 17-year partnership at Inn isk ilshylin the two have been instrumental in shapshying Canada s wine industry the magazine sa id
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ave Barry Burtis 69 was named president of the Ontario Veterinary Medical Association in January after working with the voluntary organization for four years as a director member of its editorial board and chair of its public relations committee Burtis lives in Burlington Ont and practises at the Bay Cities Animal Hospital He also appears on a local cable television program called Pel Tales
William Medway 54 of Blackwood NJ has been named an honorary life member of the International Association for Aquatic Animal Medicine for his contributions on beshyhalf of the association and the field of aquatic medicine He is both a founding member and past president of the associa shytion A professor emeritus of clinical laboratory medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine Medway is a member of the Marine Mammal Commissions committee of scientific advisers
Diane Pickering-Forster 86 is practising at Vander Kraan Veterinary Services in Huntsville Ont She is malTied to Chris Forster and they have one daughter Julia
Julien Proulx 67 has moved from Kapusshykasing Ont to La Pocatiere Que where he is superintendent of Agriculture Canada s Experimental Farm Last year he was feashytured on TVOntarios French network series Personalire Ontarienne for his work as a veterinarian his participation in municipal politics and his support of regional developshyment in Northern Ontario He was also awarded Agriculture Canadas research branch prize Agcellence for extraordinary management during his direction of the reshysearch program at the Kapuskasing Exshyperimental Farm
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Twoc~ireers middot on the samepat~ OVCaruninus Geoffrey Lord 49 felt a thopedic
middot enseofdejavuwhen he read theslory gastrointesshyabout Bill Naray~i1 OVe 63 il1la~t tinal and carc
springs issue ofthe Guelph Altimnus diovascular
There are amazing simi laritiesbetween surgery the c~reersof t~e two Guyanese wh6b6th says Lord If earnedvefetinary degrees atGueiph someone worked in c1ini(ai practice in)Yestem were to ask Canada then moved to the United States me ioday to work in human medic~lresearch what Tcon~
Narayan heads an AlDSresearchteamsider to be atJohns HopkiflS l1)iversilySchool of my expertise MediCirieinBaltimoreMatyland Lord is I would have retired directorofthdohnsonamp Johnson to saymecli- Geofrey Lord
middot Resear~h Foundalion ill NewJersey cal device lordsays he was influenced by OVC andbioshy
proJessDfs Anthony Kings(Qte and Frank Inaterials evaluation middot SchofieJd~ndwcentnton from GiJelphto pur- lt In the I 950s Lordwaspalt of ale-
sue graduate studies in parasitology auhe se~rch team that pioneered the use of University oJWiscollsin Sevenmorithsin animal tissue tOTeconstructdamagedjr
amixed practice in Drumheller Alta con blocked al1eries in hUl11ansTwenty years vinced him thaldinical medicine wasn6t middot later he drafted the first systematicap-
middot whati w~ted6 do He returned to Wis pr()ach to the safety evaluation of medica con5il110 eanla PhDlll pathologyano devices joined Johnson amp JohnsQri as asenior middot Allsubsequeill guidelines inCiLlding patilol()gistiriI953 those of the Foodaj)q Diug Admlnistrashy
Research at Johnson amp JohDson tiOnand the Canadian Regulatory ~teeredmeinto many interesting and chal- Authority hayeadopteoihis approach he
Jenging fieldsofbio-research includirig says derniiltoi9gy toxicologic pathology Lordand his wife Helen ltIividetheir wound healing surgical pathology iiinebetweel)Ciipe CodandBonita genera toxkology ofi~w drugs andor~ Springs FloriQa
Shane Renwick 77 and MSc 91 works in veterinary services at Agriculture Canada offices in Guelph
Ruth Reuter 61 is a veterinary pathologist in Plympton Australia
Tom Sanderson 6 1 was selected by the Ontario Veterinary Medical Association as Ontario Veterinarian of 1991 CUlTently OVCs co-ordinator of off-campus work terms he spent 20 years in private practice in Listowe1 and Mount Forest before returning to the coll ege in 1982 to manage the veterishynary research stations Sanderson s contribushytions to the profess ion have included many hours of volunteer work in the advancement
of the profession and in the development of veterinary inshysurance programs He is a past pres ident of both the Ontario and Canadian Veterishynary Medical associashytions
Jennifer Troughton 86 is practising in OronoOnt
Simone Woltner 86 is a veterinarian at the Chester Basin Animal Hospital in Chester Basin NS
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by her hu sband William and two sons The fo llowing dea ths have been reported since the las t issue of the Guelph Alumnus Full notices which are usu ally submitted by family or classmates may appear in thi s iss ue or in a later one
James Clement Arts 73 Feb 2 1992
Marilyn (Dyment) Farnan Mac 530 Feb 27 1992
David Fisher OAC 80A in October 1990
Elizabeth (C hristie) Glass Mac 3I D June 2l99 1
Peter Heskey OAC 54A Dec 6 199 1
Richard Ketchell OVC 51 Nov 23 199 1
Edward Kowalski Arts 79 in August 199 1
Pauline (Dixon) MacMillan Mac 240 Jan 2 1992
Catherine MacPherson Arts 83 Dec 11 1990
Marguerite (White) Maybury Mac 3 10 in June 1990
Donald McLeOd CSS 80 Jan 9 1992
Albert Meilus OAC 51 in 1991
Ann (Biggs) Ostler Mac 3 10 in April 1991
Robert Race Arts 73 in 1989
Ralph Sampson OAC 40 in December 1989
Mor ris Sanderson OAC 42 Nov 17 1991
Sir Peter Scott HDSc 8 1 in Au gust 1989
William Setterington OAC 40 Oct 22 1991
George Shoniker OAC 50A in March 199 1
John Somerset OAC 34 Dec 27 199 1
Gregory Van Patter OAC 7 1 in 1990
Frederich Weiland OAC 20A in 1990
Arts
Riccardo Rich Incitti 88 died Jan 5 1992 as the result of an accident near Hami lshyton Ont He was assistant manager at the Toronto-Dominion Bank in St Cathari nes and is survived by his parents Gu igi and Lucia of Cambridge and two sisters Laura and Andrea
Larry McNenly 73 died in October 1991 in Owen Sound Ont He is survived by his wife Marnie CSS 73
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Robert Everett HK 74 died in May 1991 in Burlington Ont A teac her at White Oaks Secondary Schoo l in Oakv ille he is survived by his wife Miche le and brother William CBS 74
James Sandy Fear 75 died Oct I I 199 1 in Toronto He is survi ved by his wi fe Sally (Firth) OAC 75 and hi s children Caitlin Alli son and Mered ith
CSS
Lynn (Dalys) Corby 84 died in Toron to May 6 1990 after a long battIe with cancer
Nancy (Birbeck) Gordon 77 died Oct 20 1991 in Ottawa after a short illness She worked at the Kitchener-Waterl oo Hospital and had previously been plan t accountant at Foseco Canada Incorporated in Guelph
Mac-FACS
Jean (Williams) Forward 280 Oct 28 1991 in Calgary She was the widow of Bower Forward OAC 25 and is survived by two sons
Catharine (Bechtel) Fromm 270 died Nov I 199 1 in Cambridge Ont She is surshyvived by three dau ghters Ellen Moore Mac 63 Nancy and Caro l
Alice (Rivaz) Garrard 28 di ed Dec 2 199 1 in Guelph She was an active member of the Mac-FACS Alumni Assoc iat ion and was the Mac 28 class agent for the Alma Mater Fund She is survived by her husband retired professor Edward Garrard OAC 27 and a daughter Betty Nelson
Della Marie (Diamond) Honey 300 of Warkworth Ont died June 29 1991 One ofWarkworths oldest and most respected citizens she served as local li brarian fo r 25 years She is survived by her son John OAC 52A his wife Patric ia and four grandchildren James OAC 84A William OAC 76A Thomas OvC 89 and Patricia Lonergan CSS 68
Barbara (Banigan) Martin 380 died Jan I 1992 in Don Mill s Ont A retired teacher wit h the North York Board of Education she is survived by a son Ted a sister and two brothers
Elizabeth (Burt) Perry 340 died June 28 1991 in Sidney BC and is surv ived by her husband Gordon and son Paul Nartel OAC 62
Jacqueline (Roy) Pote 34D died Dec 2 1 1991 in Willowdale Ont and is is survived
Merrill and Bill
Doroth y (MacFeeters) Scott 260 died Jan 14 1992 in Toronto She is su rvived by two daughters Anne Donaldson and Cynthia Scott
Florence (French) Snyder 370 died May 6 199 1 in Calgary and is survived by her husband Robert and two sons John and William
Katherine (Sweet) Watt Mac 220 died Feb 23 1992 She is survived by her husshyband Leslie a son David and a dau ghter Carol Gi llanders
Mattie (Newman) Widdicombe 240 died Dec 11 1991 in St Catharines Ont Preshydeceased by her husband John she is surshyvived by a bro ther and several nieces and nephews including Virginia Rigby Arts 76
OAC
George Grey Arnup 38 died Feb 2 1992 in Toronto He spent most of his career with the plant protection branch of Agriculture Canada He is survived by his wife Aileen three chi ldren Nancy Jim and Mary Ellen Vincent CBS 79 and four grandchi ldren
Herbert Boyce 28 and MSA 43 died Sept 2 1991 in Amherstburg Onto He is survi ved by his wife Norah a daughter Beverley Med lock and a brother James OAC 32
Jack Reddy Brethet 56 died Nov 4 199 1 in Burlington Ont President of Brethet Barnum Assoc iates Inc he is surshyv ived by his wife Caro l and two daughters Lyn n and Anne
Bruce Foster 28 died Feb 6 1992 in Ridgetown Ont and is survi ved by his daughter Gayle Anderson and son David CBS 69
Allison Gardhouse 49 died Sept 21 1991 in Midland Ont He was re tired supe rshyintendent of schoo ls for the Simcoe County Board of Education and is survi ved by his wife Merle
Kenneth Harrison 24 died Nov 5 199 1 in Kentville NS A distinguished plant patho logist military officer and mycologist he began hi s career in 1926 as assistant plant pathologis t at the Kentvi lle Experimental Farm He worked there until retirement in 1966 wi th the exception of mi litary servi ce du ring the Second World War
Dr Harrison had a lifelong interes t in the study of mushrooms and publ ished numerou s technica l papers on the mu shroom flora of Nova Scotia In addition he enshy
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couraged interested amateurs and led field trips for student s at Acadia University and the general public from 1929 until 1987 In 1979 he was honored by Acadia wi th the dedication of the Kenneth A Harri son Laboratory of Mycology
During his career he was a member of many professional organizations a charter member of the Mycological Society of America and fe llow of the American Associashytion for the Advancement of Science
He is survived by hi s wife Margaret two brothers Maynard OAC 30 and Arthur OAC 29 two son s Ashley and Kenneth and a daughter Jennie Sheito
William Kellam 4 1 died Oct 19 1991 in Brockville Ont He was retired from the Curb and Gate Co of-Brock ville where he had worked as a lab technician fo r 28 years He is survived by his wife Kathleen a son George and a daughter Mary
William M acMillan 48 died in February 1992 in Winnipeg He was supervisor of Fertilizer marketing for the Manitoba Pool Elevators and is surv ived by hi s wife Edna Jean and brother Harry OAC 5 1 A
Cameron McTaggart 35 died Feb 4 1992 in Aurora Ont After graduating from OAC he became manager of Don Head Farms in Richmond Hill He established the first agricul tural consulting business in Canada in 1947 and later ran an Angus cattle
sales management business from the family farm A life member of the OAC Alumni As shysociat ion and the Class of 35 executive he is survived by his wife Margaret Mac 35 and two sons John OAC 62 of Regina and David of Largo Fla
Douglas Miller 48 of Victoria BC died Nov 24 1991 in Toronto He is survived by hi s wife Ruth and five children
Gregory More 76 was killed Feb 3 1992 in Kitchener Ont at the Ontario Glove Manufacturing Co where he was co-owner and vice-president Following graduation he worked for the Rohrer Drug Co and the Stershyling Drug Co then returned to school ea rnshying an MBA at McMaster University in 1981 More was an avid squash player and golfer Court A at the Northfield Racquet Club in Waterloo was dedicated to his memory in March He is survived by his parents Noreen and Ken a brother Randy and a sister Katherine Keeler
John Jack Pawley 33 died March I 1992 in Guelph He is survived by his wife Ruth son John OAC 62 and daughter-inshylaw Carolyn He was a former director of the Ontario Milk Marketing Board and a past member of the Royal City Lodge of Perfecshytion
Harold Reid 20A died in December 1991 in Burlington Ont During the First World W ar he was one of Canadas premier rad io
experts work ing at the Roya l Canadian Navy shore transmitter in Sydney NS After the war he came to OAC to earn a diploma then went on to QueenS University to comshyplete an arts and theology degree His mini sshytry was mainly in St And rews and Montreal although he spent 13 years teaching Hebrew at the Presbyterian Coll ege before retiring in 1968
Donald Robertson 3 1 died Nov 4 1991 in Iroquois Ont He is survived by hi s wife Caroline (Grisdale) Mac 38 his two son s ScottOAC 65A and Guy and a daughter Sandra McNeil
Thomas Rokeby 48 and MSA 50 died Jan 29 1992 in Fayetteville Ark He was a professional engineer and tau ght for 30 years in the Univers ity of Arkansas engineering department Born in Port Rowan Ont he was a member of the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War the American Society of Agricultural Engineers and the agricultural honor societies of Gamma Sigma Delta and Alpha Epsilon He is surv ived by his wife Helen two sons Robert and Richard a daughter Penny and three brothers Michael Noel and Richard OAC 54
Francis Sweeney OAC 45 died Nov 17 1991 in Oakville Ont He was a longtime employee of Shell Canada and [nternational Shell working in Great Britain Europe and
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Berna rd Weeks 35 died Oct 16 199 1 After graduation he re turned to his roots in
ew York and Pennsylvannia and worked in 4-H and you th organi zations for a few years He then took over the family farm at Troupsburg NY and built up a dairy operashytion with a sideline of sheep He is surv ived by his wife Ruth and four children
Glenn White 43 of Belleville Onl died Nov 24 199 1 in Florida and is surv ived by hi s wife Marjorie
ave Norman Anderson 39 of Wi nn ipeg died Dec 18 1991 in Arizona He had practised veterinary medicine in Norwood Man and was a member of the American Equine Pracshytitioners Association director of the Canadian Thoroughbred Society and track veterinarian at Assin iboia Downs for 50 years He is survived by his wi fe Peggy and two sons Laurie and James
George Beatty 5 I died Nov 22 1991 in Inverness III He practised in Palatine fo r 36 years and founded the Palatine Animal Hospi tal He was an active member of the American Animal Hospital Assoc iati on and the Chicago Veterinary Association and was a director of the Friends of the University of Guelph He is survived by his wife Mary and fo ur children - Suzanne Patricia Margaret and Tim
John Hamilton 5 L died Dec 15 1991 He had lived in Roslin On where he owned the Bay Regional Veterinary Hospital He is survived by hi s niece Ann Bongard
Nicholas Labzoffsky 39 died Dec 25 1991 in Largo Fla Fonnerly of Toronto he had li ved most recen tl y in Dorse t Ont and is survived by hi s wife Jane
Edgar Langford 49 died March 41992 in Monarch Alta A former research scienshytist with ADRI (Western) he is survived by his wife Norma and two daughters includshying Carolyn OVC 76
Stuart Maude 4 1 died Jan 14 1992 in Rosemead Calif A former Rosemead counshycillor and four-time mayor he operated the Rosemead Animal Hospital with his brother Arthur 52 from 1953 to 1980 He was a trustee for Ingles ide Hospital a past grand patron of both the Rosemead and the Califorshynia Order of Eastern Star and past-president of the local Kiwanis Club and Chamber of Commerce He is survived by his wife Vera two daughters Patricia and Susan Bezner a son Stuart and three brothers
Walter Morley 42 o f Mildmay On died Nov 28 199 1 He ran a large animal pracshytice in the Mild may area for 39 years raised cat tle and raced standardbred horses He was also a pu blic school board trustee and direcshytor of a local te lephone company for more
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than 30 years He is survived by his wife Joyce five sons - two of whom are OVC alumni Dave 68 and Randy 74 - and 10 grandchildren
Lloyd Neily 52 died Jan 3 1992 in Hantsport NS A retired meat inspector w ith the federal Department of Agriculture he had a private veterinary practice in Wind sor NS He is surv ived by hi s wife Mary
Elford Nundal 43 died Jan 7 1992 in Langley BC after a long battle with canshycer He operated a veterinary practice in Langley for 36 years and served as a di strict aldennan for 10 years before being elected mayor in 1982 Last year he received the BC Veterinarian Association s award of merit for a lifetime of veterinary work
Humphrey Rees 55 died Sepl 30 1991 in Amman Jordan while on ass ignment for the Overseas Development Ad ministrat ion as veterinary and animal hu sbandry adviser to the Jordani an government His contemshyporaries at Guelph will remember him as a singer debater raconteur rugby player and bon vivant He is surv ived by his wife Alice of POlt Eynon Wales
William Stinson 40 died Feb 15 1992 in Norwood Ont He is survi ved by his wife Rita a son John OVC 67 a brother Ford OAC 34 and a grandson John CSS 87
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Patric ia Harney died Dec 191991 in Yarshymouth NS A professor in the Department of Horticultural Science from 1962 to 1988 she developed severa l new variet ies of geraniums and was instru mental in es tabshylishing the Frances Ball rose collection at the Arboretum
Anthony Marston died Feb 3 1992 in Fershygu s ant Retired from the School of Hotel and Food Administration he was an acshycomplished competition chef who received his training in Switzerland and England He then spent severa l years working in the Caribbean before coming to Guelph in 1970 A member of the Canadian Olympic culinary team he held a number of positions in the
Donations given in memory ofGuelph alumni will help support University scholarships ifdirected to the Alumni M emorial Fund In 1991 donations were made in memory of the following alumni
Frank MacDonald OAC 37
Frank King OAC 33 -Robert Allen OAC 56A
Alice (Rivaz) Garrard Mac 28
Stan Vesselinovitch OVC 57
For more infonnation call the Office of Annual Giving at 519-824-4120 Ext 6 183
hote l and food industry until retiring in 1982 He is survived by hi s wife Di ana
Gordon McNally dled Jan 12 1992 in Guelph A professor in the Department of Zoo logy from 1934 to 1971 he served as academic assistant to the dean of CBS until retiring in 1979 While at Guelph he was honorary pres id ent of the classes of OAC 54 58 and 67 He is survived by his daughter Jean two siste rs and two grandchildren Prof McNallys family has established the A Gordon Mc a lly Memorial Fund to support a sc holarship or bursary Contributions may be sent care of the Alma Mater Fund Alumni Hou se University of Guelph Guelph ant N I G 2WI
Friends
Jean (Young) Branion died March 3 1992 in Guelph She was the wife of the late Hugh Branion a physiology professor at U of G and assistant to presidents Bill Winegard and Don Forster Jean Branion was an act ive volunteer on campus for many years and one of the firs t presidents of the College Womens Club She is survived by a son Richard and his wife Marga re t of Vanshycouve r and five grandchi ldren Donati ons may be made to the Hugh D Branion Memorial Scholarship through Alumni House
Davy Alexander Hamilton-Williamson died Feb 4 1992 in Guelph A painter and author of childrens stories he had been a member of the University s Presidents Council s ince it began in 1 985
Marjorie Pinkney wife of J ames Pinkney OVC 3 7 died Dec 151 99 [ at her home in Milton ant
Samuel Wyal died March 15 1992 in Brantford ant He was a partner in the law firm Wyatt Purce ll Will Stillman and Scott He is surv ived by his wife M a bel Mac 39 four sons Peter Michael William and John and two daughters Mary Alderson and Sarah Nadalin Arts 82
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INVmiddotESTMENTS amp
DIVIDENDS
Facts about university education in Canada and how we pay for it
By 2000 half of all new jobs in Canada will require a university degree
But at the current rate of government funding only one in five children
will have a chance to go to university
In the seven years from 1982 to 1989 per-student grants to universities in
Ontario barely kept pace with intlation at five per cent
per-student funding at American public univers ities jumped an average
of 23 per cent in the same period
Those US universities also receive twice the federal research dollars per student as do Ontario universities
In 1987 the average salary of a full-time professor at an Ontario univers ity was $55500
compared with $68200 for a private-sector position of similar education and experience
Lawyers economists and engineers made an average of $71 000
Ontario ranks ninth out of the to provinces in terms of grants to universities
Between 1978 and 1991 enrolment at Ontario univers ities grew by 40 per cent while funding dropped
from 59 to 409 per cent of total government spending
Universities were spending 14 per cent less per student between 1977 and 1988 hospital expenditures
rose 38 per cent per patient in the same period
Ontario universities generate $3 of economic activity for every
$1 invested by government funding
And the number of jobs generated by university activities in
Ontario is greater than the employment impact of the textile
industry the entire paper and pulp industry or utilities
University graduates can look forward to earning 63 per cent more than the average industrial worker
A 1990 survey of U of G alumni found that two years after graduation 97 per cent of Guelph grads
looking for work were employed 62 per cent were earning $25000 or more and 10 per cent were
earning $40000 or more
Unemployment rates in 1990 for those with a university degree was about one-third what it was
for those with only a high school diploma
Every year from 1978 to 1987 Ontario university inves tments in renovating or replacing
aging buildings could not keep pace with the rate at which the buildings depreciated
Graphics by Debbie Thompson Wilson Statistics supplied by th~ Council 01 Ontario UniverSities Statistics Canada and the U01 G Student EnVifonment Study Group
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A salute to sport Alumni Weekend June 19-21 9am Sio-pitch tournament
The tradition Jives on at the south quad diamond s Cooed teams of 12 or more players are encourshyaged to join in the fun
FRIDAY 10 am to 9 pm Registration Lambton Hall
6 pm Kick-off dinner and half-time show
get set and join In the Olympic spirit one of Alumni Creelman Hall will Weekends host the Wonderful most popular World of Sports with events Tours a half-time slide show start from to entertain alumni of Alumni House all ages and are sponshy9 pmshy sored by the Observatory tours CBS Alumni
Association
10 am and 2 pm
SATURDAY 8 am to 5 pm Guided Registration walking tours Lambton Hall
Remember 9 am to 5 pm making s now Alumni House tours sc ulptures on Students will host tours of Alumni House throughshyout the weekend Come and see what the generosity of alumni has accomplished
9 am to noon Alumni association annual meetings
This is the official notice for the annual general meetings of the following alumni associations
CBS - Alumni House starts at 830 am before guided walk MacFACS - HAFA Building Room 209
OVC - OvC Room 1438
OAC - Macdonald Hall Room 149
CSS - MacKinnon Building Room 305
HAFA - Alumni Hou se boardroom
Gryphs Lounge will be open for lunch and afLer the game
930 am Guided nature walk at the Arboretum
On your mark
Noon - OVC luncheon
The OvC Alumni Association will host a luncheon open to all OvC alumni and their guests
2 pm - Campus Showcase 92
Following on the heels of last year s success Campus Showshycase 92 will be bigger and better Come to the University Centre to see exhibits representing all areas on campus The Campus Junction store will also be open
2 pm - Zavitz Hall tour
Alumni are invited to browse through the newly renovated Za vitz Hall and attend a recep shytion sponsored by the Colshylege of Arts Alumni Asshysoc iation
5 pm Golden anniversary dinner
The OAC OvC and MacshyFACS alumni associations will provide complimenshytary tickets for alumni celebrating 50 years or more Additiona l tickets can be purchased Classes
Johnston Green or playing intramural hockey in the old Quonset arena Relive some of the memories by taking a walking tour of campus Tours begin from the lobby ofLambton Hall
Noon - Alumni picnic
This apopular event has new location - the sculpshyture garden beside the Macshydonald Stewart Art Centre Come on your own or reshyserve a group of tables for friends and classmates
Noon - Class reunion lunches
OAC 37 Mac 37 OAC 42 Mac 42 OAC 47 Mac 52 Mac57 Mac 67 FACS 72 FACS 77 FACS 87
OAC 67 FACS 82 OAC 82 OAC 82A CBS 82 FACS 87 OAC 87
SUNDAY 9am Church service and War Memorial Hall rededication
Thanks to a commitment from the Alma Mater Fund renovashytion of the upstairs of War Memorial Hall has been comshypleted Join us for the rededicashytion ceremony commemorating the 1924 opening and the 1952 dedication of an OAC memorial plaque
being honored are OAC 22 OAC 47 OvC 22 Mac 22 OAC 27 OvC 27 Mac 27 OAC 32 OvC 32 Mac 32 OAC 37 OvC 37 Mac 37 OAC 42 OvC 42 Mac 42
6 pm Class reunion dinners
Special dinn e r reunions are planned for OAC 47 OAC 52 OAC 52A OvC 52 Mac 57 OAC 57 OAC 62 Mac 67
10am UGAA annual meeting
All alumni are encouraged to atshytend the UGAA annual meeting in Macdonald Hall Room 149 An amendment to the UGAA Letters Patent and a revised bylaw will be presented for ap shyproval Copies of both are availshyable on request from Alumni House Call 519-824-4120 Ext 6544
11 am - Farewell brunch
The final event of Alumni Weekend will be held in Creelshyman Hall Come and meet the Univers ity S president Brian Segal The Alumnus of Honour medal will be presented at noon
To receive an Alumni Weekshyend brochure or to register for events call Alumni House at 59-824-4120 Ext 6963
Opened July 1991Research Park Centre shy
Where research and industry Dleet
Space available now Exceptional office and research facilities in our multi-tenant Research Park Centre
Research-driven corporations are breaking new ground at the University of Guelph Research Park Centre with exceptional growth opporshytunities in an ideal business setting
This 30-acre Research Park also accommodates tenants who choose to construct their own office and laboratory facilities
Find out why organizations such as Semex Canada Tremco Limited the Ontario Dairy Herd Improvement Corporation George Morris Centre LIPID Analytical Laboratories and Agriculture Canada have chosen the University of Guelph Research Park Call Ralph Eades or Judy Phillips Real Estate Division University of Guelph Telephone (519) 767-5003 or Fax (519) 837-0353
The Research Park is a project oj the Office oj Research and the University S Real Estate Division
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At the eight-cell stage ofdevelopment in a bovine embryo each cell is removed and placed in the shell ofa discarded embryo Afler three days the blastocysts are transferred into recipient cows and the pregnancies allowed to col1linue Eight identical calves will be born and will proshyvide a valuable tool for research
cattle embryos since 1973 and most of the 60000 or so embryo-transfer calves born annually in North America are now obtained from embryos that have been stored in liquid nitrogen But there are still many problems to overcome in freezing unfertilized eggs embryos at varying stages of development and embryos produced in vitro or subjected to micromanipulation
Biomedical science professor Stanley Leibo is a specialist in cryobiology Before coming to Guelph he was part of an industry team that produced the worlds first live young (mice) from frozen embryos and later invented the patented one-step method of freezing cattle embryos Other biomedical scienshytists - King and Don Rieger - and molecular biologists Wildeman and Stan Blecher are investigating various ways of sexing embryos
Some of these involve the use of micromanipulation to remove a small number of cells from an early-stage embryo The sex can be identified by locating X and Y chromosomes detectshying male-specific DNA or perhaps by studying the proteins produced by the DNA segments In embryonic life the activity of X-linked enzymes in female embryos is twice that in males
Detecting differences in the energy metabolism of male and female embryos may also become a method of sexing In studies on early embryos generated in vitro Guelph scientists disshycovered that male and female embryos develop at different rates In addition to its value in sexing embryos this knowledge poses another question If the team can one day learn to control the rate of embryo development will it be possible to control the sex of an embryo independent of its genetic comshyplement
Photo courtesy of the Animal Biotechnology Embryo Lab
Transgenic animals
Since the mid 1980s Wildeman and fellow molecular biologist John Phillips have been producing transgenic mice for studies in human disease
This involves recovering one-cell embryos microsurgicalty from an imshypregnated mouse With a finely drawn glass needle a piece of DNA is inserted into the nucleus of the embryo which is then placed in a surrogate female to complete the pregnancy The offspring carries the foreign gene
One line of research using transgenic mice involves the study of a virus known to affect the transformation of normal cells into tumorous cancer cells Wildeman performs this work using transgenic mice in studies of cancer and metastasis
Transgenic mice are also used in Phillipss ongoing study of the causes of insulin-dependent juvenile diabetes He borrowed a gene from the fruit fly and spliced it into the chromosomes of the mouse so that it is expressed in the beta cells of the pancreas
Observations from the research conshyfirm the long-standing hypothesis that one cause of juvenile diabetes arises from the action of oxygen radicals in the pancreas
The fruit fly itself is used in studies aimed at producing insecticide-resistant insects Working with a team of scienshytists in Texas Phillips is perfecting techshyniques to transfer organophosphate insecticide-resistant genes to the fruit fly and ultimately to agriculturally beneficial insects
Studies have shown that the use of inshysecticides could be reduced if beneficial insects were not also killed by the spray In addition this research may provide the solution needed by North American
honey producers who are suffering great losses in their beehives due to parasitic mites Currently there is no effective control of the mites
From mice to pigs and chickens
Transgenic mice are also playing a role in a project that may eventually imshyprove forage use in domestic animals
Ruminant animals like cows and sheep have friendly bacteria in their inshytestinal tract that enable them to digest the cellulose fibre in forage crops If other animals such as pigs or chickens had the same ability they could be reared on lower-quality cheaper feed than the cereal grains now used
A research team that includes Phillips microbiologists Cecil Forsberg and Peter Krell and environmental biologist David Collins-Thompson has isolated the effective gene from a microshyorganism present in ruminant animals and is transferring it into the mouse which is also a monogastric animal Studies with transgenic mice will enable the team to fine-tune its ability to manipulate expression of the gene
This is just the beginning of a longshyterm project says Phillips but it may one day connect with the work of Profs Rob Etches and Jim Squires in the Department of Animal and Poultry Science who are following separate paths to reach the same goal- transshygenic chickens
Blotchy chicks
Etchess lab opened the door for transshygenic poultry in 1988 when postdoctoral fellow Jim Petitte OAC PhD 86 sucshycessfully moved cells from one chick embryo to another creating chimeric chicks Until this breakthrough
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researchers had been unable to manipulate the avian embryo in the early stages of development
Petitte extracted embryonic cells from the yo lk of a newly laid egg from a barred Plymouth Rock hen and microinjected them into a rec ipient embryo in a dwarf white l eghorn egg through a tiny 05-censhytimetre window cut in the shell When incubated the egg went on to produce a chimeric chick Embryonic cells from the black Plymouth Rock donor were expressed as blotches of black in the chicks down
Since then Etchess research team has been able to do the procedure more successfully get better gene exshypression in the donor cells and keep the embryonic cells in culture for 24 to 48 hours befo re transplanting them into the recipient egg
The chimeric chick itself is not transgenic genetic information from the donor embryo is expressed in a limited number of cells in the chick A second-generation chimera howshyever would be transgenic if the donor cells contained a foreign gene
Thats the focu s of a collaborat ive
Animal scienlisl Jim Squirev has developed a chemic(li recipe Ih(l causes DNA-I(lced liposomes 10 fuse wilil sperm cells When pershyjeered the technique will allow him to use the natural veeror ofsperm cells 10 lransmit foreign
project between the labs of Etches and colleague Prof Ann Gibbins OAC MSc 71 PhD 80 who is intershyested in modifying the donor cells through genetic manipulation When her lab team is able to target a specific gene and change it - and only it - they will insert that gene into the donor cells to produce a chimeric chick and in the second generation a transgenic chick
Transgenic sperm
Squires is taking a more obvious but no less perilous route to the transgenic chicken by using sperm cells to carry the foreign DNA Just as the hen s embryo is difficul t to manipulate the rooster s sperm has barriers of its own Prevail ing thought is that any invas ion of the sperm cell will kill its potency
Although Itali an and Israeli reshysearchers claim to have inserted DNA into the sperm cells of mice through abshysorption no one else has been able to get this to work so the prevailing thought prevail s
Squires s approach is to power DNA into the cells He s de veloped a chemishycal recipe that causes DNA-laced liposomes (fat globules) to fuse with sperm cells
Squires says his team has overcome
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DNA Photo by Ma ry Dickieson
the three main obstacles encapsulating DNA in the liposomes fu sing the liposomes to sperm cells which affects the transfer of 0 TA and retaining the fertility of the sperm
What they have yet to demonstrate is that the process produces a transgenic animal Trials are under way using a radioactive marker ge ne that can be easi shyly detected in a developing transgenic chicken Squires will be eager for peer rev iew to document the results this fall
If successful the sperm cell technique can be adapted for use with all species of commercial animals Sperm cells are the perfect vector because their ultimate function is to insert DNA into an egg says Squires We ll just be supplying the DNA The method is easy economical and safe to periorm and does not inshyvolve expensive equipment
Disease diagnosis
The international race to identify a mutation assoc iated with a costly swine disease was won by Guelph pathologist Peter OBrien OVC 88 and Univershysity of Toronto professor David Maclennan
The mutation associated with maligshy
nant hyperthermia was identifi ed in Maclennan s laboratory by sequenc ing the gene in normal and abnormal swine A I OO-per-cent correlation was fo und between DNA-based tests in Maclennan s laboratory and phys iologishycalbiochemical tests used in 0 Brien s research for diagnosing the condition
From these findings the scienti sts developed a test using modem molecular biology techniques to identify the mutation in the blood cells of inshydividual swine
Malignant hyperthermia is seldom fatal in pigs but it results in poorshyquality pork Pork producers suffer major economic losses from what is known as PSE - pale soft exudative (watery) meat - in affected animals
Other research at U of G cou ld help eliminate a potentially lethal blood coagulation disorder in dairy cows Facshytor XI a genetic disorder associated with a lack of c lotting protein in the bl ood causes hemorrhag ing in Holstein cows
Researchers believe the problem can be eliminated by ensuring that breeding stocks are free of the disease Testing for all of Canada is conducted by U of G biomed ica l sc ienti st Patricia Gentry and research technician Michelle Ross
Vaccine development
Vaccination is the cheapest most efshyfecti ve way of dealing with infec tions and the most poweriul way of preventshying di sease Advanced immunization programs using new biotechniques are under way in many Guelph labs last fa ll the Natural Sc iences and Engineershying Research Council announced strategic grants for advanced techshynologies that included four vacci ne development projects at U of G
Profs Brian Derbyshire and Eva Nagy of the Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Immunology (VMI) recei ved a three-year grant of $295000 to perfect gene-cloning techniques for the de velopment of a vaccine for porshycine gas troenteritis
In the same department Profs Janet Maclnnes Soren Rosendal and Bonnie -Mallard OAC 79 MSc 82 PhD 88 were awarded $250000 over three years to work on a recombinant vaccine effecshytive against the bacterial organism that causes severe pneumonia in pigs
Also in VMI Prof Patricia SheweD 75 MSc 79 PhD 82 received a three-year grant of $408 000 with Prof
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Reggie Lo Microbiology to continue work on an improved vaccine for shipshyping fever Lo and Prof Alan Mellors Chemistry and Biochemistry received a $54000 grant to develop clinical and com mercial applications of a technique used in bone marrow transplantation and vaccine development
These projects follow in the footsteps of earlier developments like the bov ine shipping fever vaccine created by Shewen and VMI chair Bruce Wilkie OVC 65 It was like finding a way to control the common cold in humans
Although the bacterium Pasteurella haemolytica occurs normally in the noses of cattle its numbers increase during periods of high stress and present an insurmountable problem for the animals immune system
Wilkie and Shewen di scovered that during its most active stage of growth the bacterium produces a toxin that imshypairs the ability of clearing cells to eliminate the bacterium They grew the bacterium in a culture monitored toxin production and developed processes for vaccine production
The technology was licensed to Langford Inc of Guelph which man ufac tures and markets Presponse shipping fever vaccine in both Canada and the United States
Lab work by Lo and former student Craig Strathdee CBS 85 PhD 89 that contributed to the shipping fever vaccine project also led to a patent apshyplication - for the plasmid coding for Pasteurella haemolytic leucotoxin which has been implicated as a major virulence factor in the impairment of primary lung defence in cattle
Animal health
Wilkie and Mallard are also working with Prof Brian Kennedy in Guelph s Centre for the Genetic Improvement of Livestock to develop a selective breedshying program that uses knowledge acshyquired through genetic studies and stretches the definition of biotechnology
To stay hea lthy an individual animal must have the genetic ability to produce resi stance to infection says Wilkie That ability is not dependent on a sing le gene but on the expression of many difshyferent genes Neve rtheless these genetic traits are heritable and amenable to selection
This team has identified traits in pigs that are important in maintaining health has characterized individual animals
Biotechnology ofa different sort in volves the use of traditional selected breeding and a computer database to produce diseaseshyresistant pigs
through the expression of these genetic traits and has associated these traits with high productivity If these high producers are mated to produce a disshyease-resistant strain of pigs is that biotechnology
If foreign DNA had been introduced into the embryo of a pig to give it the characteristic of disease resistance that would be an obvious example of bioshytechnology But how do we catalogue the technology if it uses tradi tional selecshytive breeding and a computer to produce a piglet with the same resistance to disshyease
More biotechniques in action
Guelph food scientist Cyriel Duitschaever OAC MSc 66 PhD 75 has developed new fermented milk products that will benefit people suffershying from gastrointestinal illnesses
He and research associate Carole Buteau OAC MSc 78 PhD 83 isoshylated two naturally occurring intestinal bac teri a and propagated a pure culture in the laboratory to develop both liquid and yogurt-like milk products that can be used to stimulate digestion in the inshytestinal tracts of people who are on anshytibiotics who are lactose-intolerant or who suffer gas trointestinal disorders
Clinica l trials at the Children s Hospishytal of Buffalo have been promis ing giv ing rise to another potential use in the treatment of acute diarrhea l di seases affec ting people in the Third World
Microbiology professor Joseph Lam heads a research team that has develshyoped a diagnostic kit to quickly identify a bacteria group known to cause fat al inshy
fections in some hospital patients Pseushydomonas aeruginosa is the principal cause of death in cystic fibrosis sufshyferers and is a serious threat to burn vi cshytims cancer patients and those undergo ing transplants
Because the bacterium does not respond to conventional antibiotic treatshyments quick de tection is central to preventing spread of the infection Lam s kit can cut the test period from 12 hours to five minutes
His current research illustrates the cross-over effect of biotechnology He identified an antigen that is common to about 75 per cent of P aeruginosa strains and a monoclonal antibody against the antigen This has allowed him to iso late spec ia l bacteria that will produce the antigen in large quantities for further s tud y His work should evenshytually lead to a human monoclonal anshytibody that cou ld be used to protect cystic fibrosis patients
In 1989 when the federal governshyment decided it was time to put some money behind its verbal thrust in science and technology it allocated $240 million to estab li sh 14 centres of excellence that would integrate the reshysearch efforts of Canadian uni versi ties industry and government
Several U of G researchers received funding including microbiologists Chris Whitfield Anthony Clarke Joseph Lam Reggie Lo Roselynn Stevenson and Terry Beveridge who beshycame part of the network looking into bacterial di sease Their expertise will aid the search for the causative agents of bacterial diseases such as whooping cough gonorrhea toxic shock synshydrome lung infections and me ningitis
In 1988 biochemist Janet Wood and crop scientist Peter Paul s achieved a breakthrough in understanding how subshystances like sugars and amino ac ids are transported from outside to inside a living cell wall They found that minute protein molecules in the wall surroundshying a cell act like miniature pumps capshyturing the substance and powering it through the cell wall -They are now trying to determine how the protein molec ules choose subshystances for uptake or release S uch celshylular behavior plays a critical role in determining a plants reaction to soi l sa linity or explaining why cells fai l to transport glucose from the blood in diabetics
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Behind every how theres a why While we stand in awe of what sc ienshytists are accomplishing in the biological sciences we shouldnt lose sight of the reasons why they are manipulating cell structure and decoding genetic blueprints
To some extent scientific exploration is driven by human nature - our desire to understand and control the natural world Advances in biotechniques and genetic engineering promise to give us more of both
Reports on the Human Genome Project say that within 15 years well know the code of almost every gene in the human body This work and current explorations in animal genetics are harshymonized by the fact that many of the genes that control development are similar among species
The chicken for example is a familiar model for studies in developshymental biology Supported by 60 to 70 years of data todays embryologists like Prof Rob Etches are learning how to modify the genes that control developshyment of a chick embryo while giving us a better understanding of how genes efshyfect development in all vertebrates
Nothing could be more fund amental than understanding that process says Prof Keith Betteridge who heads the Guelph team working with bovine embryos In all areas of reproductive and genetic research the big payoff is that we will understand more about how two gametes can unite to fonn a single cell and develop into Northern Dancer or Albert Einstein he says
Everyone has a role to play in decidshying how to use this knowledge says Betteridge but the researcher has the triple responsibility of thinking through the implications of new technologies exshyplaining those implications to a skeptishycal and concerned public and safeshyguarding the welfare of animals used
Whether manipulating an entire animal or one of its reproductive cells the scientist is guided by the same set of moral standards If the technology inshyduces pain or suffering causes changes in behavior or affects the animals abilshyity to eat and survive then it shouldnt be done says Prof Bruce Wilkie chair of the Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Immunology
He and other Guelph scientists inshyvolved in animal research are subject to
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peer rev iew through the U of G s animal care committee which is also charged with ensuring that research and teaching programs are in compliance with the Animals for Research Act of Ontario
Reporting to the University s Reshysearch Board the committee is comshyposed offaculty student community and non-user representatives It estabshyli shes animal-care policies on campus and evaluates all protocols submitted by researchers and teachers After granting initial approval the committee reviews each project annually and inspects reshysearch facilities each semester A provinshycially appointed inspector also visits campus frequently and the Canadian Council on Animal Care makes an inshyspection every three years to assess the level of animal care
In addition to safeguarding animal care scienti sts al so need to provide evidence that the products of biotechnolshyogy are safe for human consumption or medical use The public needs to know that the pharmaceutical protein cloned and produced in a chicken s egg is no different than the same protein cultured from human cells and produced in a large bioreactor
The big payoff is that we will understand more about how two gametes can unite to form a single cell and develop into Northern Dancer or Albert Einstein
One of the most talked-about benefits of transgenic technologies is the potenshytial for producing enzymes prote ins and antibodies for pharmaceutical and inshydustrial uses Molecular farming would take advantage of the expression system in higher animals to produce a therashypeutic protein that is difficult or expenshysive to make in a lab
The potential seems enormous but the prac tice will be quite simple A typishycal Ontario dairy herd could probably produce enough human insulin or bloodshyclotting factor to satisfy the world
demand It s easy to see why these techshyniques are already presenting problems for patent offices
The past decade of work in transshygenesis has been a learning process for all of us Early research efforts that produced pigs in the United States with arthritic deformities and sheep in Australia with ulcers have taught us th at even science must learn to walk befo re it can run That means perfecting genetic transfer in animals where the techniques are easily controlled - such as mice and fruit flies - before applyshying them to domestic animals
One of the advantages of gene transshyfer technology is the control it offers geneticists who are able to manipulate expression of a single gene during development One of the limitations may be the re lative ly minor change that gene can make in one generation when compared with the changes induced through the countless generations of selection since domestication
These limitations may alleviate some of our fears about the use of gene transshyfer but it also makes us question its value at least in terms of breed improveshyment in domestic livestock Prof Charshyles Smith holds a research chair at Guelph in animal-breeding strategies and is often called on to assess the value of the new biotec hnologies in the genetic improvement of farm livestock
Economic traits are already being imshyproved through traditional selective breeding methods he says It would take quite large beneficial transgenic efshyfects (at least 10 per cent of the mean) on economic merit to make their incorshyporation worthwhile
Despite our e thical concerns the legal entanglements created by the use of biotechniques and the problem of turnshying new technologies into cost-effective procedures most scientists agree that these technolog ies are too powerfu I not to use They have the pote ntial to help allev iate some of the most serious problems facing the world - food production overpopulation disease and shyenvironmental degradation
Statisticians teU us that 50 years from now we will be trying to feed twice the current world s population on a smaller land base in a more fragile environshyment This is the why behind current research in genetic engineering
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Matching gifts grew 31 per cent in 1991 More and more Canadian companies are g iving financial support to the institushytions that educated their employees A total of 44 companies matched 92 inshydividual gifts for a record $11120 in Annual Fund contributions to the University of Guelph in 1991
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ADIT ON With thanks to Donors Class agents College representatives Alma Mater Fund Advisory Council
Alumni and others who give to the University of Guelph through the Annual Fund are helping to maintain quality at a time when governments are funding for mediocrity Because of the dedication and commitment of our donors and volunshyteers the 1991 Annual Fund surpassed last year s total by $100000 We did not achieve our goal - perhaps $1 6 million was overly ambitious in light of current economic conditions - but we were able to maintain last years 25-per-cent inshycrease in scholarship support
Through the Alma Mater Fund we raised more than $540000 and achieved Tom Sawyer
the target of 12-per-cent participation among graduates of the three founding colleges Arts CBS and CSS alumni substantially increased their donations and participation over last year Campus participation grew from 145 per cent in 1990 to 171 per cent this year And our parents program pushed contributions from parents to $84188 compared with $31500 in 1990
For the first time since 1984 the Alma Mater Fund Advisory Council was able to go beyond its commitments to fund eight additional projects - a total of $86000
Looking ahead our flagship project for 1992 will be War Memorial Hall renovations During Alumni Weekend in June you ll have a chance to see the work that has been done upstairs and the work still needed in the downstairs hall It s a project well worth the interest and support of alumni
For your past and future support of the Alma Mater Fund my sincere thanks
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Tom Sawyer OAC 59A and 6 Corporations Chair AMF Advisory Council Associations Foundations $2874947 Annual giving contribution s
III Annual IGiving Alumni
$1403701 Major Gifts $1236622
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were 22 per cent of the o
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$6239707 given t U of G as donation
in 1991
Government (Donations only
$36750
Annual Giving Report
1991 Annual Fund Results $1 A niillion wasraised overallmiddot ariinceaSe of
76 per ceI1tThisyear alumrii in the Arts and CBS groups doubled theirparticipation alld conshytributions And the parents recotded a 46-pershy
cent participation rate
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The group of eight
Eight campus projects were selected to share $86000 in highest-priority funds from the 1990 Alma Mater Fund Among them are the OvC Wild Bird Clinics education program a CSS academic medal in memory of the late dean John vanderkamp a soc ial sc ience citation index for the library framshying for the fine art print study collection a computer design laboratory for the School of Engineering seed money for a history graduate scholarship a conshytinuing education survey for the Mac-FACS Alumni Association and a HAFA-sponsored executive-inshyresidence
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Of cattle cash and Colvil e Alumni gifts to the University of Guelph come in some pretty interesting packages Over the years alumni have given livestock concrete paintings shythere are two by Canadian painter Alex Colville - furniture land books inshysurance policies and a host of artifacts and antiques And money - a lot of money Almost every building on camshypus has some bricks and mortar paid for by alumni And hundreds of students are helped along the way each year by alumshyni-sponsored scholarships
The Annual Giving Report on the preceding pages shows once again how important alumni gifts are to the Univershysity and provides us with an opportunity to say thank you to those alumni who continue to give on a yearly basis Anshynual giving is however only one of three avenues through which alumni proshyvide financial support to the University The others are major gifts and promoshytional programs
Annual giving
The Alma Mater Fund established in 1969 is the route chosen by most alumshyni faculty and staff who make annual gifts to the University
AMF solicitation and management are handled by a volunteer advisory council On the preceding page chair Tom Sawyer OAC 59A and 64 talks about the funds success over the last two years with AMF scholarships inshycreasing by 25 per cent This year the AMF begins a three-year commitment to funding renovations to War Memorial Hall
In addition to its flagship project AMF provides regular support to athshyletics through Gryphon Club contribushytions to college advancement funds and scholarships and to individual class projects
The AMF supports the camaraderie of university days as alumni work together to plan and complete a project whether its funding a scholarship a painting a tree weight-lifting equipshyment or furniture for Alumni House AMF contributions also ensure that fushyture Guelph students will remember those who have gone before
In addition to AMF donations the anshynual giving program includes gifts to
the OVC Pet Trust Fund the OAC Alumni Foundation the Arboretum the paren ts program and the Li brary Other gifts made directly to the University supshyport memorial funds scholarships musishycal activities and research and academic programs
Major gifts
Major gifts to the University are adshyministered by the Deve lopment Office under the direction of Marilyn Robinson Mac 55 These include beshyquests or life insurance policies shortshyterm pledges (often made during a capital campaign) large donations that might establish an endowment fund or contributions to special University projects like the Heritage Fund or the proposed FACS Building addition
Gifts- in-kind - such as library materials art objects or estate properties - also fall within thi s category Last year alumni gave more than $12 milshylion in such tax-deductible gifts
Promotions
Every Guelph graduate is a member of the University of Guelph Alumni Asshysociation and receives the Guelph Alumshy
nus magazine and many other privishyleges There are no UGAA membership fees but the association does raise money through promotional programs like MasterCard travel packages and the North American Life Assurance proshygram
The UGAA provides serv ices to alumshyni and students - such as the careershyplanning workshop planned for Juneshyand returns many dollars directly to the campus Last year it gave $20000 to the library
In addition to direct financial support through annual giving and major gifts alumni also support the University inshydirectly through membership fees to individual college and program associashytions The fees pay for association acshytivities that help maintain ties between their members and the University
Questions
If you have questions or would like 10
know more about the tax advantages of giving to U of G write to Paulette Samson associate director of annual giving and support services at Alumni House University of Guelph Guelph Ont NIG 2Wl or call 519-824-4120 Ext 6183
When yo~bearrom US
If you think youre hearing from us moreoften lhanY9u elida few years ago you reright But checkyour mail and you ll 110tiqe that you~re also hearing
more frequemly from othernon-jgtrofit)rganizations and charities We v~ all stepped lip oui- fUQdIaising efforts
U QfGappreciates your support and needs your help butyou wont know that if we donr teflyou Aildeyen if you cant afford to make a fjnancialcon~
tributiori we hop~ to wjn yoUfverbaJ sliPPOJ-tJt will take many voices to coii- ylnce governmeritthal universities should beagreater public priority
When we contacenttyou on behalf of iheUriivetsity we lly to give more thiin we ask So tak~advantage ofthe p~1one call o(letter to findoutwhais happenc ing OJrcarnp~s U ofG hasmuchto offer llufnrii professionaldevelcipment courses library privileges travel programs recreation and a link Igt friends and
classmates
We Jik~to keep in roucharidYcwarit yO~1 to know the progress were rilaking Ast~e Uriiversity $ prestige grows so does the value ofyour degree
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Get your career on track
Responding to alumni requests the University of Guelph Alumni Associashytion will sponsor a career-planning workshop on campus June 26 to 28 The weekend program will be led by Sharon Crozier of the University of Calgary counselling service Each participant will receive a careerlifestyle analysis and will develop a personal action plan
The $225 fee includes the StrongshyCampbell Interest Inventory and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator which will be administered and tabulated prior to the weekend Testing dates have been set in Toronto for May 27 and in Guelph for June 4
Sponsored by the UGAA and coshyordinated by Continuing Education and Alumni Affairs the workshop will also draw on the Universitys Counselling and Student Resource Centre
Enrolment is limited to 20 For registration information see page 26 or call Continuing Education at 519-767shy5000
UGAA board report
by Grant Lee CSS 73 MA 80
The UGAA will present a convocation package to each graduate this spring imshymediately following presentation of the degree or diploma Developed by Alumshyni Affairs staff the package is designed to increase awareness of the UGAA and the collegeschool alumni associations encourage membership introduce the Guelph Alumnus and provide an opporshytunity for board members to congratushylate our new alumni
Approval of the new UGAA bylaw is on schedule It will be presented to members at the annual general meeting in June along with an amendment to the
i I UGAA Letters Patent
In addition the UGAA board bull has approved a $400 donation to help
cover costs for two students to represhysent Guelph at the 1992 World Debatshying Championships in Dublin Ireland
bull is looking at a proposal to help alumDl with financial planning There will be more to come on this subject later
bull received thanks from president Brian Segal on behalf of those alumni who attended the October symposium
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Canada Break Up or Restructure The association was a patron of the event
bull is responding to requests from alumni for more social events Aside from the travel program the UGAA sponsored a ski day at Horseshoe Valley in March
bull approved a proposal from the School of Landscape Architecture to research places of historical value on campus Financial support has yet to be resolved
bull accepted an offer to help sponsor the University Centres annual lecture series which invites Canadian and inshyternational public figures to speak on current issues All events in the winter 92 series were free to alumni
bull donated U of G sweatshirts to Canadian Guidance and Counselling for a conference in Ottawa this sumshymer
bull approved the purpose and terms of refshyerence for the new Alumni House Adshyvisory Committee which is charged with overseeing maintenance of the
facility adopted the 199192 budget and finanshycial plan drafted last November This year we expect to generate some $44000 and spend $33000 It has been suggested that we set the 199293 budget and plan in April of this year so the new board wi II start in September with a sound financial program and budget that will only reshyquire adoption or revision
Chapter news
Calgary - About 40 alumni and guests met at the Delta Bow Valley Hotel Feb 3 to view a U of G video and hear a talk by admissions counsellor C hr is tine Toews FACS 87 Co-ordinator of the event was Janet Hutchinson CBS 79
Edmonton - Paul OAC 67 and Anne Valentine CBS 69 hosted a group of 30 alumni and guests at the Ramada Renaissance Hotel
Montreal - U of G welcomed students and their parents - including many
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alumni - to its first Montreal informashytion night for prospective students The event was modelled after a successful program in Toronto that draws more than 800 students each spring
Vancouver - U of G president Brian Segal met with alumni March 5 at the Pan Pacific Hotel Jim Dodds OVC 63 and Sarah Bloom FACS 86 orshyganized the event which attracted about 70 alumni and guests
Halifax- U ofG alumni in Halifax met with Gryphon basketball players during the March 26 to 28 CIAU chamshypionships Despite losing the OUAA west division title to Brock University the Gryphons qualified for a wi ld card spot at the CIAU championships Alumshyni received free tickets to the game that pitted Guelph against Brandon in the consolation final Fan support was enshythusiastic but the Gryphons lost 72 to 64 finishing third overall
Homecoming 1992 Plans are well under way for Homecoming weekend Sept 25 and 26 In addition to the annual Gryphon Hall of Fame dinner and award s ceremony the weekend will feat ure a beach volshyleyball tou rnamen t --~4~=iiiiikshyconcert alumni brunch walk-a-thon pep rally reunions and the traditional homecoming dance following the Saturday afternoon footshyball game This year the Gryphons will play Wil frid Laurier University A complete schedule will appear in the next Guelph Alumnus but you can get
Winners of Ihe Ju SI fo r Fun square dance compelition 01 College Royal were left 10 right Ann Joselin Kelley Allen Joanne Hewirson Brenl McFadden caller Sue MacKinnon Richard Presley Trish Henderson Jason Thompson and Kelly Lillie
in the Homecoming spirit now by helpshying to plan your class reunion or signing up as a scorekeeper for the vo lleyball tournament For infOlmation call alumshyni officer Laurie Malleau HAFA 83 at 519-824-4120 Ext 2102
Swing your partner
Eight squares of alumni took part in the College Royal square dance competition in March Winners of the UGAA alumni square dance plaque were the Crazy 8s Joanne Hewitson Arts 91 Lloyd Hutchinson CBS 87 Sonya Jones CPS 90 Ed Ketchabaw OAC 88 and MSc 91 Carol)n OAC 90 and Brad MacNeil CPS 87 Mike Relf OAC 91 and student Sherry MacNeil Wayne Lowden was the caller
Winners in the Just for Fun category were Junior Farmer alumni who included Hewitson Ann Joselin OAC 90 Brent McFadden CSS 90 Richard Presley OAC 86 and soonshyto-be-alumni Kelley Allen Trish
Henderson Kelly Little and Jason Thompson The caller was Sue MacKinnon OVC 9 1
Florida picnic
The North Port Yacht Club hosted 199 alumni for the annual Florida picnic March 4 On hand to meet them was Trish Walker CSS 77 and MSc 90 director of alumni affairs Judy Phillips of the University s Real Estate Division also attended to talk about the Village by the Arboretum retirement deve lopshyment
Attendance prizes went to Gertrude Stewart Mac 30 and Morley Funston OAC 32 The picnic was sponsored by the UGAA Alumni-In shyAction Committee represented by Ken Gartley OAC 42 and the Florida reunion committee consisting of Mary and Ted Brent OAC 48 Helen and Don Moffatt OAC 46 Stella and Bob Moore OAC 48 and Retis and Bill HasenptlugOAC 39
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A new kind of class reunion
Its the latest fad in alumni circles shymeeting your classmates at the anshynual University of Guelph alumni hockey tournament Twenty-two teams played in the fifth annual tourshynament in December
For most teams tournament standshyings are secondary to the socializing with classmates that they may not see otherwise says Bill Seegmiller OAC 83 who worked with Brian TapscottOAC 8 1 to organize the event We promote the social aspect through two divisions - social and more social - and include family skating and a Saturday evening wine and cheese party he says Trish Walker director ofalumni affairs presents fhe social division lrophy 10 Ihe OAC 79
Dipper Oldies (II the U ofG alumni hockey tournamenl The OAC 79A team defeated the Grey Gryphons to win the more soshycial division The OAC 80 team won the consolation final and the spirit award went to OAC 7778
In the social (a little more competishytive) division it was the Faceoffs in first place over OAC 88 OAC 90 won the consolation trophy and the Valley Vikings took home the spirit award
Organizers plan to add womens exshyhibition games to the 1992 tournament which is scheduled for Dec 5 and 6 For more information call Seegmiller at 519-836-3807 or Rudy Diemer OAC 85 at 519-763-2250
A night at the races
The UGAA Alumni-in-Action group will host a night at Mohawk Raceway May 26 The $30 admission includes a 6 pm buffet parking program taxes and gratuities For detail s call Laurie
~ Malleau at 519-824-4120 Ext 2102
I Alumni directory
A new alumni directory will be ready for delivery in May The deadline for alumni updates has passed but you can still order a copy of the directory at a cost of $40 plus tax Return the order form you received with the special U of G wristwatch offer or write to Rosemary Clark Mac 59 at Alumni House University of Guelph Guelph Ont NIG 2Wl
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Ottawa chapter 50 years young
There was a nostalgic gathering of Guelph alumni in Ottawa last winter to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the city s alumni chapter
Donald Fletcher OAC 36A and 39 who was president of the group in 1953 sent us a historical account of the chapters activities
A small organizing committee first met in February 1941 at Madame Burgers restaurant to plan the chapters first fun ction a skating party at the Ottawa Experimental Farm It attracted 75 people
Over the years the group held an anshynual picnic and a banquet and dance that gave them a chance to invite faculty from Guelph to speak about happenings at the colleges - and later the Univershysi ty Every president from George I Christie to Bill Winegard paid a vi sit
In 1951 alumni from OVC and Macshydonald Institute who had been meeting since 1936 joined the OAC group A crowd of almost 200 celebrated the chapter s 10th anniversary at a picnic at the farm of the late John Bracken OAC 06 During the 1950s they added a get-together at the annual Ottawa-area plowing match which gave way to a curling bon spiel in the 1960s
There have been many special funcshytions - entertaining the Gryphon footshyball teams square dances car rallies golf tournaments theatre parties and raceway evenings - but the event that stands out in Fletchers memory ocshycurred in 1966 when five members of Parliament hosted the group in the parshyliamentary ballroom
The chapter also includes a couples bridge club which has been meeting for 25 years in the homes of its members
Fletcher thanks the 30 people who have served as president of the Ottawa alumni chapter and the dozens more who have helped on committees devot shying years to the executive to promote the institution
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JUNE 26 27 amp 28 ~ The Program This highly successful workshop developed by Sharon Crozier PhD University Counselling Services University of calgary is the first step for an alumnus who is considering a career move The weekend (Friday evening through Sunday afternoon) will consist of group presentations conducted by Dr Crozier with smaller working groups facilitated by profeSSional counsellors from the University of Guelph Counselling and Student Resource Centre
Discussion structured exercises and experiential activities will lead alumni to gain insight into a personal careerllifestyle analYSis and assessment career information resources networking skills and much more
No matter what their age career stage or reason for transition each participant will find this workshop to be an excellent opportunity to develop a personal action plan - and chart their next move
~ Pre-1esting In order to provide individualized career information registrants are required to attend one of two pre-testing sessions The Strongshycampbell Interest Inventory and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator will be administered and results tabulated prior to the workshop Pre-testing dates are as follows
Toronto Wednesday May 27 1992 700 pm - 8 30 pm Holiday Inn Yorkdale
Guelph Thursday June 4 1992 700 pm - 8 30 pm University Centre
~ Fee The registration fee of $225 includes administration and tabulation of the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator materials two lunches and refreshment breaks
Tuition fees in excess of $100 are income tax deductible
Enrolment is limited to 20 registrants
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May 2 - The Guelph Spring Festival begins with a 25th-anniversary gala dinshyner in Creelman Hall that will honor founding president Murdo MacKinnon Other festival events run until May 23 For more information call 519-821-7570
May 2 shy An All-Canadian University Asshysociation d inne r w il l be held in Washington DC at the Embassy of Canada Guest speaker is Robert Lanni president of the University of Windsor Entertainment will be provided by Windsors music department For inforshymation call T Chan at 202-543-9111
May 3 - Arboretum Day celebrates spring with family nature walks at 1 and 330 pm and an electrical keyboard concert at 230 pm featuring Canadian comshyposer Carole Anne Burris
May 10 to Aug 30 - Guided nature walks run every Sunday at 230 pm in the Arboretum Topics include wildflowers birds turtles snakes and insects The nature centre is open from 1230 to 430 pm
May 13 - Chancellor Lincoln Alexander is the guest speaker at the Alumni-inmiddotAction annual general meeting which begins at noon in the Arboretum Centre For details call Alumni Affairs 519-824middot 4120 Ext 2102
May 13 - The Human KineticsHuman Biology Alumni Association will hold its inaugural meeting at730 pm at Alumni House with a coffee and dessert social RSVP to 519-824-4120 Ext 6963
May 23 shy FACS 82 is sponsoring a colshylection of Bob Munsch plays performed by the Carousel Players at3 pm at War Memorial Hall Tickets are $8 plus tax and handling To order call the UC box off ice at 519-824-4120 Ext 3940
May 26 - Alumni-in-Action is hosting a night at Mohawk Raceway Cost is $30 To register call 529-824-4120 Ext 2102
May 30 - An Arboretum sale of rare native trees and shrubs at the RJ Hi lton Centre on College Avenue East runs from 9 am to 1 pm For information call 519-824shy4120 Ext 2113
May 30 shy The sixth annual All-Canadian University Dinner in Chicago will be held
in the Henry Crown Space Centre at the Museum of Science and Industry and will include a reception buffet dinner and an Omnivax movie beginning at 6 pm Guest speaker is George Pedersen president of the University of Western Ontario For information call David Cole at 312-372-4404 or Hugh Mackenzie at 708-369-3688
June 2 to 5 shy Spring convocation June 13 - Beginning at 7 am the Arshy
boretum will hold its summer bird survey The four-hour walk will locate breeding birds and identify their species by sight and song
June 15 to 17 shy U of G will host the 15th annual Guelph Conference on Sexuality With the theme Sexuality New Visions the conference will examine current isshysues in human sexuality counselling strategies for sexual problems and teaching approaches in sexuality educashytion For information call the Office of Continuing Education at 519-767-5000 or fax 519-767-0758
June 19 to 21 - ALUMNI WEEKEND See page 39 for a complete schedule of events and alumni association meetings The UGAA annual meeting is June 21 at 10 am in Macdonald Hall 149
June 26 to 28 shy The UGAA-sponsored alumni career-planning workshop will be held on campus See page 26 for details
July 31 amp Aug 4 shy The National Youth Orchestra will perform in War Memorial Hall at 8 pm as part of its summer program at U of G Tickets at $8 general $6 for stUdents and seniors will be availshyable at the door
Sept 26 - HOMECOMING Rise early for the second ann ual Homecoming charity walkathon At 930 am the Human Kinetics Alumni Association will hold its annual general meeting in the School of Human Biology lounge
Oct 1 - OVCs 1992 Schofield Memorial Lecture will be given by Steven Arnoczky a professor in the department of small animal clin ical sciences at Michigan State Universitys Laboratory for Comparative Orthopedics The 3 pm lecture will be held in War Memorial Hall Admission is free
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John Boros 88 of Wei land Ont writes that he is impressed by the way U of G keeps records after graduation Thi s gives the graduate a sense of belonging a connection to an important period in hi s or her life he says
Jane Buzza 88 is working as records co-ordinatorarchivist for the Ontario Medishycal Association in Toronto
Jacqueline (Sullivan) DeClerck 86 is a public relations officer at the Canada Trust head office in London Onto
Richard Ely 70 works at the Crown attorneys office in WeIland Ont He has an LLB from the University of Western Ontario in addition to his Guelph degree He says he often talks about U of G to young students trying to decide which university to attend
Paul Genest 81 finished graduate studies at Johns Hopkins Universi ty in Maryland and is now assistant professor of philosophy at Union College in Schenectady NY He is man-ied to Barbara Jessup 8 1
Brian Hogarth 78 is head of interpretashytion at the G1enbow Museum in Calgary
Martha Hooper 9 1 was married last Ocshytober to David Perry They live in Calgary where she is a sw itchboard operator at the Delta Bow Valley Inn
Rene van der Meijden 87 has put his degree in geogshyraphy and internationshyal development to good use with the Christian Reformed World Relief Comshymittce Originally from the Netherlands he is now in Uganda on a three-year asshy Rene van der signment as a rural Meijden development adv iser He sends greetings to his many friend s in Canada and to Guelph grads Stan and Kitty in Bolivia in particular and reminds us that visitors are always welshycome in Uganda
Edward Milliner 85 will graduate this spring from the faculty of education at the University of Windsor
Mark Moore 85 is doing postgraduate work in history at the University of Bristol in England He plans to teach high school
fn response to a letter from Dawn Monroe 69 that appeared in the winter 1992 issue of the Guelph Alumnus Doug Moynihan 69 of Fort McMurray Alta writes Be disapshypointed no more Dawn l I too graduated in 1969 from (the College of) Arts or as it was then called Wellington College and I havent heard from anyone either And I too think it is time to contribute my news
After graduation f headed out to disshycover and sol ve the problems of the world travelling overseas for about three years Since then Ive been working in human resources in a variety of organizations in many different locations in Canada Cun-entshyIy I am the manager of human resources in Fort McMurray
PS Do you remember me Dawn I was the bartender in Creelman Hall I
John Teskey 7 1 began new duties last summer as director of libraries at the University of New Brunsw ick in Fredericton He was head of adshyministrative sershyvices at the University of Albershyta before moving John Teskey across Canada to acshycept the UNB posishytion but had earlier served as chief librarian and was library personnel officer at both Alshyberta and the University of Saskatchewan
Teskey says his biggest challenge is to regain the lost purchasing power that univershysity libraries have suffered as a result of static budge ts and ri sing material costs He is encouraging increased resource-sharing among universities and interlibrary loan programs with shortened turnaround
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Elizabeth (Baxter) Willson 77 a real esshytate agent in Chatham Ont writes to voice a common feeling that the universi ty exshyperience itself is often more important than the degree or diploma received I am really glad I graduated from Guelph she says
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Michelle Bombadier and Mike Caldwell both 92 are two of 50 Canad ian youth selected to work in Guyana for three months with Youth Challenge International (YCI) a non-governmental organization that provides Third-world experience for Canadians They may spend the summer building a school teaching safety or clearing land for Gu ytna s first national park but they need some private support to he lp cover transportation costs Anyone able to help should write to YCI at I I Soho St Toronto M5T IZ6
Jane Coventry 86 writes with accolades for the Guelph Alumnus grad news section and an update on what she and her husband Jaydee Smith 84 and MSc 89 are doing They were married in 1989 while working at U of G - he in the Department of Animal and Poultry Science and she in the Departshyment of Crop Science In February 1991 they moved to England where Smith is doing a PhD at the University of Bristol and working as a research assistant Coventry
works in the technology transfer unit of Nickshyerson Seeds Ltd in Cambridge
Jeffrey Crawford 88 and Leslie Thompson 86 were malTied last October He is an elementary schoolteacher in Mount Forest Ont
Craig Emerson 83 earned a PhD at Dalshyhousie University in Halifax in 1990 and is now a research associate in oceanography
Paul Fleming 85 is a pharmaceutical sales representative for Hoechst Canada Inc and lives in Nepean Ont
David Forsey 80 is an assistant professor of computer science at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver He is marshyried to Lyn Bartram
Michael Gangl 89 is in his third year at the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College
Astrid Harms 87 is a registered nurse in London Ont
Andrew Holmes 85 worked for the Onshytario government as a wildlife biologist for three years but is now back at school in his second year at Northwestern Chiropractic College in Minneapolis
Timothy Johnson 86 works at the Centre for Limnology at the University of Wisconshys in in Madison
Karen Lennard 77 (HK) and her hu sshyband Paul Jackson 79 (HK ) and MSc
82 both went 011 to earn medical degrees from McMaster University in HalTilton Ont Jackson also has a master s in physiology from the University of Virginia and is comshypleting an anesthesiology residency in Hamilshyton Lennard has a part-time family medical practice allowing her to spend more time with the couples two children Matthew and Nicola
Wendy Maltby 74 is an elementary schoolteacher for the Metropolitan Toronto School Board
Sandra OConnor 84 earned a medical degree from the University of Western Onshytario and is now practi sing in Burlington Ont
Linda Owen 81 runs her own business as a consulting exercise physiologist and fitness supervisor in Campbell River BC
Sheryle Tetley 86 is regional sales manager for Glaxo Canada Inc in Mi ss isshysauga Ont where she lives with her husshyband Ian
Rob Tonus 87 is manager of the Black Creek Rehabilitation Project a grassroots enshyvironment program to improve a degraded urban stream in Toronto His office is with the Metropolitan Toronto and Region Conshyservation Authority and he lives in Oakville with his wife Wanda (Knul) 88 (HK) a public health inspector in Hamilton
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Richard Woods 81 is an instructor of xshyray technology at the Easte rn Ontario School of X-ray Technology at Kingston Ge neral Hospital He would like to hear from other members of the 1981 U of G choir wi th whom he travelled to Scandinav ia Write to him at RRI Od essa Ont KOH 2HO
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James Dy nes 84 has comp le ted g raduate studies in chemistry and so il sc ience at the Univers ity of Sas katchewan in Saskatoon
Catherine (McVittie) Clark 88 is a nuclear medica l tech nici an at Howard Counshyty General Hospita l in Columbia Md She and her husband Michae l li ve in Elkridge Md
David Holmes 85 is a systems analyst at Sun Life Assurance Company
RolfKierdorf 84 lives in Guelph with his wife Janet He is se lf-employed as a systems consultant
Donald McFadde n 71 and his wife Carol li ve in A lbany Ga where he pracshyti ses medicine
Donald Ridley 69 and PhD 73 has been appoin ted seni or v ice-presiden t of CibashyGeigy Canada Ltd in Oakvi lle Ont and is responsib le for a ll corpora te serv ices includshy
ing finance human resources safe ty health and the environment He a lso se rves on the board of the Canadian Agricu ltura l Research Council and is a member of the Great Lakes Action Plan Strategi c Advi sory Committee
Kathryn Root Parr is an assoc iate minister at Lorne Park Bapti st Church in Mississhysa uga Ont She was married las t fa ll to Vicshytor Parr
Peter Simpson 85 is dis tric t manager for McNeil Pharmaceutical Ltd in Stouffville Ont He is married to Cynthia (Hamilton) 85 (HK)
Keith Stemshorn 83 is in the Canadian Armed Forces stationed in Calgary
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Nikki Dignard 86 moved to Ottawa last year where her husband Ted Henike pracshyti ses denti stry Dignard is working on an M BA and says she d love to hear from CSS classmates Tom Cam and Kathryn
Bonnie Dunnett 87 and MA 91 works on campus at the Gerontology Research Centre S he and Barry Hallman 9 1 li ve in Guelph
Kathryn Faulkner 80 is a registered nurse in Burling ton Ont where she li ves wi th he r husband John
Ruth Fox 84 is a sta ffing assistant for
Transport Canad a and lives in Toronto w ith her husband Christopher
Shonna Giles 88 is an admiss ions officer at Simon Fraser Unive rs ity in Burnaby BC
Gina Grieco 75 is a hi gh school guidance counsellor in North York Onto
John Harris 82 is manager of financial planning and budgets for th e City of Brampton Ont
Paulette Heppner 76 is a teache r in Vanshycouver
John Johnston 7 1 has been appointed exshyec uti ve vice-pres ident o f Ve rsacold Canada Corp and pres ident of QF Foods Distribushytion Services Versacold Canada is the largest public refri gera ted ware hou sing orshygani za tion in Western Canada
Michael Kral 79 has moved from the Univers ity of Manitoba to the University of Wind sor where he is an assistant professor of psychology
Jeffrey Lozon 76 and his family recently returned to Toronto after 15 years in Western Canada He is executive vice-president and ch ief operat ing officer at St Michael s Hos pital and li ves in Oakville wi th hi s wife Donna and two daughters
Bria n Martin 79 is a real estate appraiser in Portland Ont whe re he li ves w ith hi s wife Margaret (Sheffield) Arts 79
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Leith Mason 90 works in Toronto in the Canadian office of the State of Illinois as a special assistant to the Illinois Department of Food and Agricul ture
Michael McKean 74 of Don Mills Ont was recently appointed president of Wrigley Canada Inc Before joining Wrigley as execushytive v ice-pres ident in 1990 he he ld senior positions in Hong Kong Brazil and the United States
Rick 74 and Vicki (Collard) McTaggart FACS 74 are working in Ottawa He is director of overseas operations for the Unitarian Service Committee a charitable non-governmental organization that supports commun it y and human resou rce developshyment activities in Africa and Asia She is sec tion head of consumer analysis in the agr ifood development branch of Agriculture Canada
Sandra Morrison 86 is an ass istant professhysor in the department of psychiatry at the University of Western Ontario
Stephen Naylor 85 is director of planning and development for the amalgamated municipalities of Alliston Beeton Tecumshyseth and Tottenham
Brian ONeill 68 MA lives in SUITey England where he is managing director of Innovation Management Consultant s
Jodi Parisi 89 is a sales representative for Gillette who says U of Goo was the greatest
Moira Skikavich 81 is completing a PhD in c inematelevision at the University of Southern California
Virginia Sutherland 78 is an air traffic controller at the Toronto Island Airport
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Peggy Bates 88 was recently promoted to sales manager with Sears Canada Inc She lives in Owen Sound Ont
Caroline Begin 86 is working in Singshyapore as a dietitian
Diana Close 87 is a c linical nutri ti onis t at Chedoke McMaster Hospital in Hamilton Ont
Sarah Davenport 90 is a case worker with the Wellington County Social Services office in Guelph She is malTied to Matthew Harvey CBS 90
Timothy Dyck 8 1 is national sales manager for Black amp Decker Canada workshying out of the Corbin Division in Richmond HillOnt
Sharon (Muir) 84 and Richard Ernst CBS 83 are the proud parents of a future Guelph grad uate one-year-old Andrew Graham
Patricia Edwards 78 is food servi ce sushypervisor fo r St Peter s Hospita l in Hamilton Ont
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For the love ofteaching Since she
middot graduated bull from Macshydonald Inshymiddot stitute in
J 963 Nancy Kerr has built a career on teaching and research in telttles The middotheidofthe Uriiveisityof
Albertas department of Clothing and texiiles pursues a middotscientific interest inthepreservashylion of hi stori~lfabricsarid in developing pesticide-proofc1otl1ing But Jler fitstlove i ~ teaching
In 199b shewonone ofU of As four Rutherford AWljrds for excellence ill unshy
dergraduate teat-hing The first member of the faculty middotofliomemiddoteconornicsto receive the award slie was the rcentcipient6f the facultys own underglltiduate teaching award three years earlier
Winning the Rutherford was a gteat honor says Ken who has been on
faculty at Alberta since 1967 She oiscovered she had an aptitude for
middot teaching as a graduate student at the University of California Davis in
196566 After earning her MSc she casr about for afaculty position in Canada and round U of A was the 0111y place I could teach ju t textiles plus have a chance to develop new cQurses and research labs
middot Kerr sa)s she gets a tremelldous sense of satisfaction from teaching and the learning he must do to stay cUlTent She attributes her succe s as a teaCher to middotIec-middot
middot tures that are well organized and clear and to creltting a positive classroom climate
~Thcomfort level of students is reaUy middot ililportanL ~ Kerr eamedherPhD in fibre lnd
polymer science from North Carolina bull Staie University in 1982 Her doctoral work concentrated oil deacidification
techniques to preserve historicatcottOnln 1988 she spent a sabbatical ye~r doing research at the Caliadian Conservation
middot In tirute in OnflW1 middot Originalmiddotly from Ottawa Kerr is a
trarisphlnted -vesterner who enjoys middot hiking anlt sk1ing
From left Diane Ellison Lisa Wilson Lori Davis and Pippa Hobbes
Diane Ellison 84 is liv ing in Osaka Japan where she teaches English to Japanese busishyness people Last October she welcomed three U of G friends for a visit Lori Davis CSS 85 manager of Jumbo Video Inc in Oakville Ont Pippa Hobbes 84 accountshying manager for Paramount Holidays in Willowda le Ont and Lisa Wilson 84 co-ord inator of membership serv ices for the Metropolitan Toronto Board of Trade
Monica Hrybko HAFA 88 is director of sales for the Ramada Hotel Old Town in San Diego Calif
David Jones HAFA 88 is a con troller at the Holiday Inn Montreal Centre-Ville
Kathleen McLachlin 83 is operating an insurance agency in Kitchener OnL She opened the State Farm Insurance office in March 1988 and says she loves her job
Susan (Goettler) Parker 80 is working in Toronto as benefits administrator for Imshyperial Oil Limited She is married to Donald Parker OAC 79
Mary Jean (Sinnott) Price Mac 7 1 has returned to sc hool at the University of Otshytawa to earn a bachelor of education
Margaret (Richardson) Rankin 75 has been living in Halifax since 1990 and is an account analyst for Central Guaranty Trust
Janet (Wanless) Sutherland 77 is in private practice as a marriage and family therapist in East Kelowna BC
Jean Thomson Mac 37 says 1937 was a long time ago but shes delighted with all the changes that have gone at the college A former hospita l nutritionist she is retired and living in London Ont -
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Olayiwola Layi Adeola MSc 86 and PhD 89 and his wife Mope are living in West Lafayette Indiana where he is an assisshytant professor of pig nutrition at Purdue University
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Bruce Barrie 79 (Eng) graduated last June with an MBA from City Uni ve rsi ty in Washington State and is now a senior adshyviser in strategic planning with Petro-Canada Resources in Calgary He is a professional eng ineer with APEGGA and an ac tive memshyber of the Planning Forum an international society for planning and strategic manageshyment
Barbara Bryce 83 and her husband Ricardo Ramirez 82 are living in Rome Italy She is a landscape architect and he is a communications officer with the Food and Agriculture Organizat ion
Daniel Campbell 81 and his wife SharonshyMarianne are farmin g near Petrolia Onto
Carolyn Closs 82 and her husband Harold operate a beef cowca lf operation in Shawville Que
Luc Cote 83 is an agricullural account manager for the Royal Bank of Canada in Joliette Que
Kerrie Lea Curran 85 plans to graduate this fall from the master of architecture proshygram at McGi ll University
Bruce Dodson 74A is course superinshytendent at Hawd Ridge Golf and Curling Club in Orillia Ont
Richard Donkin OAC 85A originalshyly from Zimbabwe is the manager of Venida Packing Inc in Exeter Calif Situated in central Californias San Joashyquin Valley Venida Packing ships tree fruit throughout the Richard Donkin United States Canada the Pacific Rim and the Far East Products under the brand names Ruby River and Venida include peaches plums nectarines kiwi grapes persimmons and pomegranates In 1988 Donkin married California native Lisa Kolander and they live in Lemon Cove a community in the Sierra foothill s
Brendan Elder 8S A lives in Kelowna BC and works for Dogwood Nursery He plans to be married thi s summer to Rosemary Powell
Robert Fessenden OAC MSc 67 was recently appointed vice-president of devel opshyment and planning at the Alberta Research Council He is responsible for tec hnology management and corporate marketing
John Fitzgerald 86 was married last November to Susan Given a ] 991 indeshypendent study graduate in animal producshytion He is a lecturer at Ridgetown College she works at Centralia College and is work shying on a psychology degree at the University of Waterloo They live in Strathroy Ont
Glenn Helstern 79A is a driver for the Calgary division of Greyhound Bus Lines of Canada Ltd
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She tells a princely tale
For seven miniJtes on Oct 24 199 L Ellen Het1eOAC 76~U1d MSc 80
(ltllked with PIince Charles Invited toopert a newfumaceat
inco Lilniteds Copper Cliff smelter iri Sudbury Ont the Princemiddot of Wales was easy to talk with says Heale ftwasverycxciting
As eiwironmental co-ordinator Of land reclamation andrevegetation at Copper Cliff Healetold theprince middot about Tnc(secosystem rehabilitation
projects Theroyalvisitor was parshyticulatfyiilterestedin the treegrow- ing project in abandoned inines flld in tlpoundrevegetation ()f acres of tailings
and barren rock Planrilig vegetation on the tailings
hasattrlttcled wildlifeto a protected habitat says Beale who has wqrked forIncosincc she graduated in 1976
Ninety~iwo species ofbirds as weil asrodems hares foxes wolves bears andinoQse have been sighted on the 2500 acres of rehabilitated ore waste
One thing about this job is you middot can s~e where youve been effective she says
While an undergraduate student in Prill(e Charles with EIen Heale horticultural science Healea native ofSiidbury worked at Ineo during the sumniers She wasthi tirst woman to
work inrhemining companys agriculture middot department After shegraduated the niekshy el inine hired her full time tcido horticul- turaLfleld research ~ Ineo later granted heT a two-semester leave of absente t6 work
Theodore Jacobs 78 (Eng) is engineering supervisor at Standard Tube in Woodstock Ont
Greg Keast 85 (Eng) is li ving in Mozamshybique in East Africa where he works as a project officer for UNICEF rural water supshyply project s
Richard Kline 74 was appointed partner of the Toronto accounting firm Schwartz Levitsky Feldman Inc last faiL He is presishydent of the film s bankruptcy division a member of the Chartered Accountants of Onshytario and first vice- president of the Ontario Insolvency Association
Christopher Laforest MSc 91 (USRPD) works in planning and economic developshyment for Bruce County Ont
Jean-Paul PhD 90 and Lynn (Hammell) Laforest 82 and MSc 85 are both employed at Laval University in Sainte-Foy Que He is a professor and s he is a research associate
Kenneth Lawless 63 earned a Guelph deshygree in agricultural economics then went on to stud y dentistry at the Uni versity of Toronshyto He is now an oral and manilo-fac ial surshygeon in Kingston Ont
oil her masters at OAC~ In her current PdStion Heale has rnore
administrative and public relations responshyibilities On her own time she sits on the
board of management for the tocal Red Cross and isalllember ofthe Sudbury
Business and Professional Womens Club
Margie Luffman 77 writes that she has happily returned to Ontario after 10 years in New Brunswick to work at the Smithfield Experimental Farm in Trenton She is curator of the Plant Gene Resources of Canada clonal gene bank
Brian MacCulloch MAg 89 is a sa les representative for Springva le Nurseries Ltd in Berwick NS
Daniel Mansell 64 and MSc 68 is Onshytario manager of the eastern habitat joint venture in the wildlife policy branch of the Ministry of Natural Resources He is stashytioned in Midhurst Ont
Peter McEntire 77A writes from County Langford in Ireland to keep in touch with U of G He is farming and work s as an AI techshynician with Bova Genetics Ltd
Darryl Mitchell 78 works at Pioneer HishyBred Limited in Chatham Ont
Hugh ONeil 88 is manager of customer financial services for Ral ston Purina Canada Inc
Umed Panu MSc 72 (Eng) has done a lot of travelling during his career After Guelph he earned a PhD in civil engineering
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David Nedelko OAC 86 and Ljrlda ArmsJrollg CBS 89 (Jurk 011 cemre) were marriediasl SeplemiJer in Bari ~ie OnlTluir weddiIg iiarly illcilldedfiom leli Katy KusmiliskiOA C 88Paul Allgusline GAG 86 Roh Reed OAC 87Carv Belfral1l oAC 8RJIuJ Sa ndimiddoto (CollinI) BerlrCIlII CBS RR Also 1I111ie wedding w(lS Arlllslong s Veal ullcleClarence Fleming OVC 34 The couple (Ire living in
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at the Universit y of Waterloo taught in India and at Mi ss iss ippi State Uni vers ity and worked with Briti sh Columbia Hydro and the Government of Newfoundland In 1986 he jo ined the faculty of c ivil engi neering at Lakehead Uni ve rsity in Thunder Bay Ont and was promoted to full professor in 199 1 He and hi s wife Kashna and the ir children Neeti and Anukud enjoy the outdoor recreashytion ac ti viti es available in Northwestern Onshytario and look forward to visits from U of G alumni trave lling to Thunder Bay
Lyle Pettigrew 61 is a marketin g consulshytant with Harris Kovacs Alderman in Atlanshyta Ga
Helen Prior 88 joined Sheridan Nurseries after graduation then worked for a year as a research tech nic ian in Guelph s Department of Crop Scie nce She is now in her th ird year at Emmanuel College at Victoria University and hopes to be ordained as a United Church min is ter in May
Gregory Scott 83 (Eng) is operations manager for Accuform Gol f Limited in Toronto
Ba rbara (Coordes) Skrypetz 87 is a fi e ld supervisor for the Ontario Dairy Herd Imshyprovement Corporation working out of Guelph He r husband Stephen 88 operates a bulldozing and excavating busi shyness in the Woodstock area
Victor Skidra 6 is re tired f rom his job as a sc ientific evaluator with Hea lth and Welshyfare Canada He and hi s wife Konstance live in Nepean Ont
William Slusarchuk 63 (Eng) and MSc
The way we were in 1902 OAC alumnus Douglas Campbell 60 passes on a bit of col lege hi sto ry that shou ld make us think twice about our con stitutional squabbles in C anad a
Campbell is director of the Latin America and Caribbea n Trade Divis ion of Canada s Department of External Affa irs Last summer he hosted a vi s it by the president of Uruguay Luis Alberto Lacalle Herre ra whose grand fa the r made a simil a r vis it to Canada in 1902
This is what the elde r Herrera reported to his government Gue lph agricultural college enjoys a worldwide reputation and is con shys idered one of the grea t loca l attracshytions
More than 200 young Canadians a long with many foreign youths come together in its lecture rooms There are bursary ho lde rs from Norway and as far away as Mauritius C loser to us
Guelph Alumnus
67 was recently appo inted pres ident of AGRA Eanh and Environmental Group an envi ronme ntal and geotechnica l firm that is a division of AGRA Indu stries Limited
Michael Sullivan 87 A is a pol ice officer with the Wate rloo Regional Police in Cambridge Ont
Argentina has 12 students there We ll then couldnt Uruguay imshy
itate those good exa mples and also se nd a number of worthy youths to Guelph to acquire the professional knowledge which is becoming m ore necessary each day for the deve lopshyment of our agric ulture~
In addition to the sc ienti fic benefits that our compatriots woul d deri ve from entering sLlch a Canadian techni cal in shystitution there would be the inca lcushylable benefit of becoming familiar with the stric t manly and sound habits of these people who are admirable in e ve ry respect
Afte r they have stee ped themse lves in this atmos phere of dem ocracy which fosters the development of all rights and is alien to intolerance thi s legati on w ill have the great honor of sending home not only sc ientists but a lso mode l citizens
Brenda Trask 80 operates he r own comshymunica tion s consulting company in Osshygoode Ont She is marri ed to Ron Ferguso n
Dave Vanden Bosch 89 is manager of operator services and plann ing for Bell Canada in London Ont
J Stallard Skip Waterhouse 54 and hi s wife Li sa are ce lebrating the birth of a daughter Samantha Elizabe th on New Years Day 1992 They live in New York State where Wate rhouse is iI pro fe ssor of bio logical science at the Plattsburgh Sta te Uni versity College of Arts and Science
Jeff 88 and Karen (Burrows) W h ite 87 live in Strathroy Ont Jeff work s for Bell Canada and Kare n is a Lambton County rural orga ni za tion spec ialist with the Ontar io Mini stry of Agriculture and Food
Harold Wright 86 is a development repre shysenta tive for Ci ba-Ge igy Canada Ltd in Mi sshysissauga Ont He and Lori Krieg 84 plan to marry thi s sprin g
Donald Ziraldo 7 I received doubl e honors last winter fro m the Ontario grape and wine industry Preside nt of Inniskillin W ines of Niagara-on -the-Lake Ont he was named to the Royal Order of the Grape for hi s leadership in enhancing the prod uct and its image
In addition Z ira ldo and his partner Karl Kai se r were named 1991 Men of the Year by FoodsCIvice and Hospitalily magazine During the ir 17-year partnership at Inn isk ilshylin the two have been instrumental in shapshying Canada s wine industry the magazine sa id
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ave Barry Burtis 69 was named president of the Ontario Veterinary Medical Association in January after working with the voluntary organization for four years as a director member of its editorial board and chair of its public relations committee Burtis lives in Burlington Ont and practises at the Bay Cities Animal Hospital He also appears on a local cable television program called Pel Tales
William Medway 54 of Blackwood NJ has been named an honorary life member of the International Association for Aquatic Animal Medicine for his contributions on beshyhalf of the association and the field of aquatic medicine He is both a founding member and past president of the associa shytion A professor emeritus of clinical laboratory medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine Medway is a member of the Marine Mammal Commissions committee of scientific advisers
Diane Pickering-Forster 86 is practising at Vander Kraan Veterinary Services in Huntsville Ont She is malTied to Chris Forster and they have one daughter Julia
Julien Proulx 67 has moved from Kapusshykasing Ont to La Pocatiere Que where he is superintendent of Agriculture Canada s Experimental Farm Last year he was feashytured on TVOntarios French network series Personalire Ontarienne for his work as a veterinarian his participation in municipal politics and his support of regional developshyment in Northern Ontario He was also awarded Agriculture Canadas research branch prize Agcellence for extraordinary management during his direction of the reshysearch program at the Kapuskasing Exshyperimental Farm
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There are amazing simi laritiesbetween surgery the c~reersof t~e two Guyanese wh6b6th says Lord If earnedvefetinary degrees atGueiph someone worked in c1ini(ai practice in)Yestem were to ask Canada then moved to the United States me ioday to work in human medic~lresearch what Tcon~
Narayan heads an AlDSresearchteamsider to be atJohns HopkiflS l1)iversilySchool of my expertise MediCirieinBaltimoreMatyland Lord is I would have retired directorofthdohnsonamp Johnson to saymecli- Geofrey Lord
middot Resear~h Foundalion ill NewJersey cal device lordsays he was influenced by OVC andbioshy
proJessDfs Anthony Kings(Qte and Frank Inaterials evaluation middot SchofieJd~ndwcentnton from GiJelphto pur- lt In the I 950s Lordwaspalt of ale-
sue graduate studies in parasitology auhe se~rch team that pioneered the use of University oJWiscollsin Sevenmorithsin animal tissue tOTeconstructdamagedjr
amixed practice in Drumheller Alta con blocked al1eries in hUl11ansTwenty years vinced him thaldinical medicine wasn6t middot later he drafted the first systematicap-
middot whati w~ted6 do He returned to Wis pr()ach to the safety evaluation of medica con5il110 eanla PhDlll pathologyano devices joined Johnson amp JohnsQri as asenior middot Allsubsequeill guidelines inCiLlding patilol()gistiriI953 those of the Foodaj)q Diug Admlnistrashy
Research at Johnson amp JohDson tiOnand the Canadian Regulatory ~teeredmeinto many interesting and chal- Authority hayeadopteoihis approach he
Jenging fieldsofbio-research includirig says derniiltoi9gy toxicologic pathology Lordand his wife Helen ltIividetheir wound healing surgical pathology iiinebetweel)Ciipe CodandBonita genera toxkology ofi~w drugs andor~ Springs FloriQa
Shane Renwick 77 and MSc 91 works in veterinary services at Agriculture Canada offices in Guelph
Ruth Reuter 61 is a veterinary pathologist in Plympton Australia
Tom Sanderson 6 1 was selected by the Ontario Veterinary Medical Association as Ontario Veterinarian of 1991 CUlTently OVCs co-ordinator of off-campus work terms he spent 20 years in private practice in Listowe1 and Mount Forest before returning to the coll ege in 1982 to manage the veterishynary research stations Sanderson s contribushytions to the profess ion have included many hours of volunteer work in the advancement
of the profession and in the development of veterinary inshysurance programs He is a past pres ident of both the Ontario and Canadian Veterishynary Medical associashytions
Jennifer Troughton 86 is practising in OronoOnt
Simone Woltner 86 is a veterinarian at the Chester Basin Animal Hospital in Chester Basin NS
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by her hu sband William and two sons The fo llowing dea ths have been reported since the las t issue of the Guelph Alumnus Full notices which are usu ally submitted by family or classmates may appear in thi s iss ue or in a later one
James Clement Arts 73 Feb 2 1992
Marilyn (Dyment) Farnan Mac 530 Feb 27 1992
David Fisher OAC 80A in October 1990
Elizabeth (C hristie) Glass Mac 3I D June 2l99 1
Peter Heskey OAC 54A Dec 6 199 1
Richard Ketchell OVC 51 Nov 23 199 1
Edward Kowalski Arts 79 in August 199 1
Pauline (Dixon) MacMillan Mac 240 Jan 2 1992
Catherine MacPherson Arts 83 Dec 11 1990
Marguerite (White) Maybury Mac 3 10 in June 1990
Donald McLeOd CSS 80 Jan 9 1992
Albert Meilus OAC 51 in 1991
Ann (Biggs) Ostler Mac 3 10 in April 1991
Robert Race Arts 73 in 1989
Ralph Sampson OAC 40 in December 1989
Mor ris Sanderson OAC 42 Nov 17 1991
Sir Peter Scott HDSc 8 1 in Au gust 1989
William Setterington OAC 40 Oct 22 1991
George Shoniker OAC 50A in March 199 1
John Somerset OAC 34 Dec 27 199 1
Gregory Van Patter OAC 7 1 in 1990
Frederich Weiland OAC 20A in 1990
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Riccardo Rich Incitti 88 died Jan 5 1992 as the result of an accident near Hami lshyton Ont He was assistant manager at the Toronto-Dominion Bank in St Cathari nes and is survived by his parents Gu igi and Lucia of Cambridge and two sisters Laura and Andrea
Larry McNenly 73 died in October 1991 in Owen Sound Ont He is survived by his wife Marnie CSS 73
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Robert Everett HK 74 died in May 1991 in Burlington Ont A teac her at White Oaks Secondary Schoo l in Oakv ille he is survived by his wife Miche le and brother William CBS 74
James Sandy Fear 75 died Oct I I 199 1 in Toronto He is survi ved by his wi fe Sally (Firth) OAC 75 and hi s children Caitlin Alli son and Mered ith
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Lynn (Dalys) Corby 84 died in Toron to May 6 1990 after a long battIe with cancer
Nancy (Birbeck) Gordon 77 died Oct 20 1991 in Ottawa after a short illness She worked at the Kitchener-Waterl oo Hospital and had previously been plan t accountant at Foseco Canada Incorporated in Guelph
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Jean (Williams) Forward 280 Oct 28 1991 in Calgary She was the widow of Bower Forward OAC 25 and is survived by two sons
Catharine (Bechtel) Fromm 270 died Nov I 199 1 in Cambridge Ont She is surshyvived by three dau ghters Ellen Moore Mac 63 Nancy and Caro l
Alice (Rivaz) Garrard 28 di ed Dec 2 199 1 in Guelph She was an active member of the Mac-FACS Alumni Assoc iat ion and was the Mac 28 class agent for the Alma Mater Fund She is survived by her husband retired professor Edward Garrard OAC 27 and a daughter Betty Nelson
Della Marie (Diamond) Honey 300 of Warkworth Ont died June 29 1991 One ofWarkworths oldest and most respected citizens she served as local li brarian fo r 25 years She is survived by her son John OAC 52A his wife Patric ia and four grandchildren James OAC 84A William OAC 76A Thomas OvC 89 and Patricia Lonergan CSS 68
Barbara (Banigan) Martin 380 died Jan I 1992 in Don Mill s Ont A retired teacher wit h the North York Board of Education she is survived by a son Ted a sister and two brothers
Elizabeth (Burt) Perry 340 died June 28 1991 in Sidney BC and is surv ived by her husband Gordon and son Paul Nartel OAC 62
Jacqueline (Roy) Pote 34D died Dec 2 1 1991 in Willowdale Ont and is is survived
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Doroth y (MacFeeters) Scott 260 died Jan 14 1992 in Toronto She is su rvived by two daughters Anne Donaldson and Cynthia Scott
Florence (French) Snyder 370 died May 6 199 1 in Calgary and is survived by her husband Robert and two sons John and William
Katherine (Sweet) Watt Mac 220 died Feb 23 1992 She is survived by her husshyband Leslie a son David and a dau ghter Carol Gi llanders
Mattie (Newman) Widdicombe 240 died Dec 11 1991 in St Catharines Ont Preshydeceased by her husband John she is surshyvived by a bro ther and several nieces and nephews including Virginia Rigby Arts 76
OAC
George Grey Arnup 38 died Feb 2 1992 in Toronto He spent most of his career with the plant protection branch of Agriculture Canada He is survived by his wife Aileen three chi ldren Nancy Jim and Mary Ellen Vincent CBS 79 and four grandchi ldren
Herbert Boyce 28 and MSA 43 died Sept 2 1991 in Amherstburg Onto He is survi ved by his wife Norah a daughter Beverley Med lock and a brother James OAC 32
Jack Reddy Brethet 56 died Nov 4 199 1 in Burlington Ont President of Brethet Barnum Assoc iates Inc he is surshyv ived by his wife Caro l and two daughters Lyn n and Anne
Bruce Foster 28 died Feb 6 1992 in Ridgetown Ont and is survi ved by his daughter Gayle Anderson and son David CBS 69
Allison Gardhouse 49 died Sept 21 1991 in Midland Ont He was re tired supe rshyintendent of schoo ls for the Simcoe County Board of Education and is survi ved by his wife Merle
Kenneth Harrison 24 died Nov 5 199 1 in Kentville NS A distinguished plant patho logist military officer and mycologist he began hi s career in 1926 as assistant plant pathologis t at the Kentvi lle Experimental Farm He worked there until retirement in 1966 wi th the exception of mi litary servi ce du ring the Second World War
Dr Harrison had a lifelong interes t in the study of mushrooms and publ ished numerou s technica l papers on the mu shroom flora of Nova Scotia In addition he enshy
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couraged interested amateurs and led field trips for student s at Acadia University and the general public from 1929 until 1987 In 1979 he was honored by Acadia wi th the dedication of the Kenneth A Harri son Laboratory of Mycology
During his career he was a member of many professional organizations a charter member of the Mycological Society of America and fe llow of the American Associashytion for the Advancement of Science
He is survived by hi s wife Margaret two brothers Maynard OAC 30 and Arthur OAC 29 two son s Ashley and Kenneth and a daughter Jennie Sheito
William Kellam 4 1 died Oct 19 1991 in Brockville Ont He was retired from the Curb and Gate Co of-Brock ville where he had worked as a lab technician fo r 28 years He is survived by his wife Kathleen a son George and a daughter Mary
William M acMillan 48 died in February 1992 in Winnipeg He was supervisor of Fertilizer marketing for the Manitoba Pool Elevators and is surv ived by hi s wife Edna Jean and brother Harry OAC 5 1 A
Cameron McTaggart 35 died Feb 4 1992 in Aurora Ont After graduating from OAC he became manager of Don Head Farms in Richmond Hill He established the first agricul tural consulting business in Canada in 1947 and later ran an Angus cattle
sales management business from the family farm A life member of the OAC Alumni As shysociat ion and the Class of 35 executive he is survived by his wife Margaret Mac 35 and two sons John OAC 62 of Regina and David of Largo Fla
Douglas Miller 48 of Victoria BC died Nov 24 1991 in Toronto He is survived by hi s wife Ruth and five children
Gregory More 76 was killed Feb 3 1992 in Kitchener Ont at the Ontario Glove Manufacturing Co where he was co-owner and vice-president Following graduation he worked for the Rohrer Drug Co and the Stershyling Drug Co then returned to school ea rnshying an MBA at McMaster University in 1981 More was an avid squash player and golfer Court A at the Northfield Racquet Club in Waterloo was dedicated to his memory in March He is survived by his parents Noreen and Ken a brother Randy and a sister Katherine Keeler
John Jack Pawley 33 died March I 1992 in Guelph He is survived by his wife Ruth son John OAC 62 and daughter-inshylaw Carolyn He was a former director of the Ontario Milk Marketing Board and a past member of the Royal City Lodge of Perfecshytion
Harold Reid 20A died in December 1991 in Burlington Ont During the First World W ar he was one of Canadas premier rad io
experts work ing at the Roya l Canadian Navy shore transmitter in Sydney NS After the war he came to OAC to earn a diploma then went on to QueenS University to comshyplete an arts and theology degree His mini sshytry was mainly in St And rews and Montreal although he spent 13 years teaching Hebrew at the Presbyterian Coll ege before retiring in 1968
Donald Robertson 3 1 died Nov 4 1991 in Iroquois Ont He is survived by hi s wife Caroline (Grisdale) Mac 38 his two son s ScottOAC 65A and Guy and a daughter Sandra McNeil
Thomas Rokeby 48 and MSA 50 died Jan 29 1992 in Fayetteville Ark He was a professional engineer and tau ght for 30 years in the Univers ity of Arkansas engineering department Born in Port Rowan Ont he was a member of the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War the American Society of Agricultural Engineers and the agricultural honor societies of Gamma Sigma Delta and Alpha Epsilon He is surv ived by his wife Helen two sons Robert and Richard a daughter Penny and three brothers Michael Noel and Richard OAC 54
Francis Sweeney OAC 45 died Nov 17 1991 in Oakville Ont He was a longtime employee of Shell Canada and [nternational Shell working in Great Britain Europe and
WALL CUSTANCE MEMORIAL FOREST
The Wall-Custance Memorial Forest located at the Universi ty of Guelphs Arboretum was established in recognition of the severe depletion of our forests It is never too late to be a vital part of the effort to save and improve our air and water for the future of our children by planting trees This program is our small part of the major endeavor to reforest and to reduce the greenhouse effect improve air quality and provide food and cover for wildlife The Memorial Forest Proshygram not only pays a Significant tribute to a loved one but also assures a better environment for generations to come
The purpose of this program is to provide an opporshytuni ty to commemorate the life of a loved one by plantshy
Home of the WALL-CUSTANCE
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ing a tree We envision that the Memorial Forest Program will continue for many years to come and our hope is that the solace that nature offers particularly in the depths of a living forest will be of comfort and benefi t to all
For more information or for a brochure call or write to
WALL-CUSTANCE Funeral Home and Chapel 206 Norfolk Street Guelph Ontario N1 H 4K3 (519) 822-0051
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Berna rd Weeks 35 died Oct 16 199 1 After graduation he re turned to his roots in
ew York and Pennsylvannia and worked in 4-H and you th organi zations for a few years He then took over the family farm at Troupsburg NY and built up a dairy operashytion with a sideline of sheep He is surv ived by his wife Ruth and four children
Glenn White 43 of Belleville Onl died Nov 24 199 1 in Florida and is surv ived by hi s wife Marjorie
ave Norman Anderson 39 of Wi nn ipeg died Dec 18 1991 in Arizona He had practised veterinary medicine in Norwood Man and was a member of the American Equine Pracshytitioners Association director of the Canadian Thoroughbred Society and track veterinarian at Assin iboia Downs for 50 years He is survived by his wi fe Peggy and two sons Laurie and James
George Beatty 5 I died Nov 22 1991 in Inverness III He practised in Palatine fo r 36 years and founded the Palatine Animal Hospi tal He was an active member of the American Animal Hospital Assoc iati on and the Chicago Veterinary Association and was a director of the Friends of the University of Guelph He is survived by his wife Mary and fo ur children - Suzanne Patricia Margaret and Tim
John Hamilton 5 L died Dec 15 1991 He had lived in Roslin On where he owned the Bay Regional Veterinary Hospital He is survived by hi s niece Ann Bongard
Nicholas Labzoffsky 39 died Dec 25 1991 in Largo Fla Fonnerly of Toronto he had li ved most recen tl y in Dorse t Ont and is survived by hi s wife Jane
Edgar Langford 49 died March 41992 in Monarch Alta A former research scienshytist with ADRI (Western) he is survived by his wife Norma and two daughters includshying Carolyn OVC 76
Stuart Maude 4 1 died Jan 14 1992 in Rosemead Calif A former Rosemead counshycillor and four-time mayor he operated the Rosemead Animal Hospital with his brother Arthur 52 from 1953 to 1980 He was a trustee for Ingles ide Hospital a past grand patron of both the Rosemead and the Califorshynia Order of Eastern Star and past-president of the local Kiwanis Club and Chamber of Commerce He is survived by his wife Vera two daughters Patricia and Susan Bezner a son Stuart and three brothers
Walter Morley 42 o f Mildmay On died Nov 28 199 1 He ran a large animal pracshytice in the Mild may area for 39 years raised cat tle and raced standardbred horses He was also a pu blic school board trustee and direcshytor of a local te lephone company for more
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than 30 years He is survived by his wife Joyce five sons - two of whom are OVC alumni Dave 68 and Randy 74 - and 10 grandchildren
Lloyd Neily 52 died Jan 3 1992 in Hantsport NS A retired meat inspector w ith the federal Department of Agriculture he had a private veterinary practice in Wind sor NS He is surv ived by hi s wife Mary
Elford Nundal 43 died Jan 7 1992 in Langley BC after a long battle with canshycer He operated a veterinary practice in Langley for 36 years and served as a di strict aldennan for 10 years before being elected mayor in 1982 Last year he received the BC Veterinarian Association s award of merit for a lifetime of veterinary work
Humphrey Rees 55 died Sepl 30 1991 in Amman Jordan while on ass ignment for the Overseas Development Ad ministrat ion as veterinary and animal hu sbandry adviser to the Jordani an government His contemshyporaries at Guelph will remember him as a singer debater raconteur rugby player and bon vivant He is surv ived by his wife Alice of POlt Eynon Wales
William Stinson 40 died Feb 15 1992 in Norwood Ont He is survi ved by his wife Rita a son John OVC 67 a brother Ford OAC 34 and a grandson John CSS 87
Faculty
Patric ia Harney died Dec 191991 in Yarshymouth NS A professor in the Department of Horticultural Science from 1962 to 1988 she developed severa l new variet ies of geraniums and was instru mental in es tabshylishing the Frances Ball rose collection at the Arboretum
Anthony Marston died Feb 3 1992 in Fershygu s ant Retired from the School of Hotel and Food Administration he was an acshycomplished competition chef who received his training in Switzerland and England He then spent severa l years working in the Caribbean before coming to Guelph in 1970 A member of the Canadian Olympic culinary team he held a number of positions in the
Donations given in memory ofGuelph alumni will help support University scholarships ifdirected to the Alumni M emorial Fund In 1991 donations were made in memory of the following alumni
Frank MacDonald OAC 37
Frank King OAC 33 -Robert Allen OAC 56A
Alice (Rivaz) Garrard Mac 28
Stan Vesselinovitch OVC 57
For more infonnation call the Office of Annual Giving at 519-824-4120 Ext 6 183
hote l and food industry until retiring in 1982 He is survived by hi s wife Di ana
Gordon McNally dled Jan 12 1992 in Guelph A professor in the Department of Zoo logy from 1934 to 1971 he served as academic assistant to the dean of CBS until retiring in 1979 While at Guelph he was honorary pres id ent of the classes of OAC 54 58 and 67 He is survived by his daughter Jean two siste rs and two grandchildren Prof McNallys family has established the A Gordon Mc a lly Memorial Fund to support a sc holarship or bursary Contributions may be sent care of the Alma Mater Fund Alumni Hou se University of Guelph Guelph ant N I G 2WI
Friends
Jean (Young) Branion died March 3 1992 in Guelph She was the wife of the late Hugh Branion a physiology professor at U of G and assistant to presidents Bill Winegard and Don Forster Jean Branion was an act ive volunteer on campus for many years and one of the firs t presidents of the College Womens Club She is survived by a son Richard and his wife Marga re t of Vanshycouve r and five grandchi ldren Donati ons may be made to the Hugh D Branion Memorial Scholarship through Alumni House
Davy Alexander Hamilton-Williamson died Feb 4 1992 in Guelph A painter and author of childrens stories he had been a member of the University s Presidents Council s ince it began in 1 985
Marjorie Pinkney wife of J ames Pinkney OVC 3 7 died Dec 151 99 [ at her home in Milton ant
Samuel Wyal died March 15 1992 in Brantford ant He was a partner in the law firm Wyatt Purce ll Will Stillman and Scott He is surv ived by his wife M a bel Mac 39 four sons Peter Michael William and John and two daughters Mary Alderson and Sarah Nadalin Arts 82
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INVmiddotESTMENTS amp
DIVIDENDS
Facts about university education in Canada and how we pay for it
By 2000 half of all new jobs in Canada will require a university degree
But at the current rate of government funding only one in five children
will have a chance to go to university
In the seven years from 1982 to 1989 per-student grants to universities in
Ontario barely kept pace with intlation at five per cent
per-student funding at American public univers ities jumped an average
of 23 per cent in the same period
Those US universities also receive twice the federal research dollars per student as do Ontario universities
In 1987 the average salary of a full-time professor at an Ontario univers ity was $55500
compared with $68200 for a private-sector position of similar education and experience
Lawyers economists and engineers made an average of $71 000
Ontario ranks ninth out of the to provinces in terms of grants to universities
Between 1978 and 1991 enrolment at Ontario univers ities grew by 40 per cent while funding dropped
from 59 to 409 per cent of total government spending
Universities were spending 14 per cent less per student between 1977 and 1988 hospital expenditures
rose 38 per cent per patient in the same period
Ontario universities generate $3 of economic activity for every
$1 invested by government funding
And the number of jobs generated by university activities in
Ontario is greater than the employment impact of the textile
industry the entire paper and pulp industry or utilities
University graduates can look forward to earning 63 per cent more than the average industrial worker
A 1990 survey of U of G alumni found that two years after graduation 97 per cent of Guelph grads
looking for work were employed 62 per cent were earning $25000 or more and 10 per cent were
earning $40000 or more
Unemployment rates in 1990 for those with a university degree was about one-third what it was
for those with only a high school diploma
Every year from 1978 to 1987 Ontario university inves tments in renovating or replacing
aging buildings could not keep pace with the rate at which the buildings depreciated
Graphics by Debbie Thompson Wilson Statistics supplied by th~ Council 01 Ontario UniverSities Statistics Canada and the U01 G Student EnVifonment Study Group
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A salute to sport Alumni Weekend June 19-21 9am Sio-pitch tournament
The tradition Jives on at the south quad diamond s Cooed teams of 12 or more players are encourshyaged to join in the fun
FRIDAY 10 am to 9 pm Registration Lambton Hall
6 pm Kick-off dinner and half-time show
get set and join In the Olympic spirit one of Alumni Creelman Hall will Weekends host the Wonderful most popular World of Sports with events Tours a half-time slide show start from to entertain alumni of Alumni House all ages and are sponshy9 pmshy sored by the Observatory tours CBS Alumni
Association
10 am and 2 pm
SATURDAY 8 am to 5 pm Guided Registration walking tours Lambton Hall
Remember 9 am to 5 pm making s now Alumni House tours sc ulptures on Students will host tours of Alumni House throughshyout the weekend Come and see what the generosity of alumni has accomplished
9 am to noon Alumni association annual meetings
This is the official notice for the annual general meetings of the following alumni associations
CBS - Alumni House starts at 830 am before guided walk MacFACS - HAFA Building Room 209
OVC - OvC Room 1438
OAC - Macdonald Hall Room 149
CSS - MacKinnon Building Room 305
HAFA - Alumni Hou se boardroom
Gryphs Lounge will be open for lunch and afLer the game
930 am Guided nature walk at the Arboretum
On your mark
Noon - OVC luncheon
The OvC Alumni Association will host a luncheon open to all OvC alumni and their guests
2 pm - Campus Showcase 92
Following on the heels of last year s success Campus Showshycase 92 will be bigger and better Come to the University Centre to see exhibits representing all areas on campus The Campus Junction store will also be open
2 pm - Zavitz Hall tour
Alumni are invited to browse through the newly renovated Za vitz Hall and attend a recep shytion sponsored by the Colshylege of Arts Alumni Asshysoc iation
5 pm Golden anniversary dinner
The OAC OvC and MacshyFACS alumni associations will provide complimenshytary tickets for alumni celebrating 50 years or more Additiona l tickets can be purchased Classes
Johnston Green or playing intramural hockey in the old Quonset arena Relive some of the memories by taking a walking tour of campus Tours begin from the lobby ofLambton Hall
Noon - Alumni picnic
This apopular event has new location - the sculpshyture garden beside the Macshydonald Stewart Art Centre Come on your own or reshyserve a group of tables for friends and classmates
Noon - Class reunion lunches
OAC 37 Mac 37 OAC 42 Mac 42 OAC 47 Mac 52 Mac57 Mac 67 FACS 72 FACS 77 FACS 87
OAC 67 FACS 82 OAC 82 OAC 82A CBS 82 FACS 87 OAC 87
SUNDAY 9am Church service and War Memorial Hall rededication
Thanks to a commitment from the Alma Mater Fund renovashytion of the upstairs of War Memorial Hall has been comshypleted Join us for the rededicashytion ceremony commemorating the 1924 opening and the 1952 dedication of an OAC memorial plaque
being honored are OAC 22 OAC 47 OvC 22 Mac 22 OAC 27 OvC 27 Mac 27 OAC 32 OvC 32 Mac 32 OAC 37 OvC 37 Mac 37 OAC 42 OvC 42 Mac 42
6 pm Class reunion dinners
Special dinn e r reunions are planned for OAC 47 OAC 52 OAC 52A OvC 52 Mac 57 OAC 57 OAC 62 Mac 67
10am UGAA annual meeting
All alumni are encouraged to atshytend the UGAA annual meeting in Macdonald Hall Room 149 An amendment to the UGAA Letters Patent and a revised bylaw will be presented for ap shyproval Copies of both are availshyable on request from Alumni House Call 519-824-4120 Ext 6544
11 am - Farewell brunch
The final event of Alumni Weekend will be held in Creelshyman Hall Come and meet the Univers ity S president Brian Segal The Alumnus of Honour medal will be presented at noon
To receive an Alumni Weekshyend brochure or to register for events call Alumni House at 59-824-4120 Ext 6963
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Where research and industry Dleet
Space available now Exceptional office and research facilities in our multi-tenant Research Park Centre
Research-driven corporations are breaking new ground at the University of Guelph Research Park Centre with exceptional growth opporshytunities in an ideal business setting
This 30-acre Research Park also accommodates tenants who choose to construct their own office and laboratory facilities
Find out why organizations such as Semex Canada Tremco Limited the Ontario Dairy Herd Improvement Corporation George Morris Centre LIPID Analytical Laboratories and Agriculture Canada have chosen the University of Guelph Research Park Call Ralph Eades or Judy Phillips Real Estate Division University of Guelph Telephone (519) 767-5003 or Fax (519) 837-0353
The Research Park is a project oj the Office oj Research and the University S Real Estate Division
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researchers had been unable to manipulate the avian embryo in the early stages of development
Petitte extracted embryonic cells from the yo lk of a newly laid egg from a barred Plymouth Rock hen and microinjected them into a rec ipient embryo in a dwarf white l eghorn egg through a tiny 05-censhytimetre window cut in the shell When incubated the egg went on to produce a chimeric chick Embryonic cells from the black Plymouth Rock donor were expressed as blotches of black in the chicks down
Since then Etchess research team has been able to do the procedure more successfully get better gene exshypression in the donor cells and keep the embryonic cells in culture for 24 to 48 hours befo re transplanting them into the recipient egg
The chimeric chick itself is not transgenic genetic information from the donor embryo is expressed in a limited number of cells in the chick A second-generation chimera howshyever would be transgenic if the donor cells contained a foreign gene
Thats the focu s of a collaborat ive
Animal scienlisl Jim Squirev has developed a chemic(li recipe Ih(l causes DNA-I(lced liposomes 10 fuse wilil sperm cells When pershyjeered the technique will allow him to use the natural veeror ofsperm cells 10 lransmit foreign
project between the labs of Etches and colleague Prof Ann Gibbins OAC MSc 71 PhD 80 who is intershyested in modifying the donor cells through genetic manipulation When her lab team is able to target a specific gene and change it - and only it - they will insert that gene into the donor cells to produce a chimeric chick and in the second generation a transgenic chick
Transgenic sperm
Squires is taking a more obvious but no less perilous route to the transgenic chicken by using sperm cells to carry the foreign DNA Just as the hen s embryo is difficul t to manipulate the rooster s sperm has barriers of its own Prevail ing thought is that any invas ion of the sperm cell will kill its potency
Although Itali an and Israeli reshysearchers claim to have inserted DNA into the sperm cells of mice through abshysorption no one else has been able to get this to work so the prevailing thought prevail s
Squires s approach is to power DNA into the cells He s de veloped a chemishycal recipe that causes DNA-laced liposomes (fat globules) to fuse with sperm cells
Squires says his team has overcome
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DNA Photo by Ma ry Dickieson
the three main obstacles encapsulating DNA in the liposomes fu sing the liposomes to sperm cells which affects the transfer of 0 TA and retaining the fertility of the sperm
What they have yet to demonstrate is that the process produces a transgenic animal Trials are under way using a radioactive marker ge ne that can be easi shyly detected in a developing transgenic chicken Squires will be eager for peer rev iew to document the results this fall
If successful the sperm cell technique can be adapted for use with all species of commercial animals Sperm cells are the perfect vector because their ultimate function is to insert DNA into an egg says Squires We ll just be supplying the DNA The method is easy economical and safe to periorm and does not inshyvolve expensive equipment
Disease diagnosis
The international race to identify a mutation assoc iated with a costly swine disease was won by Guelph pathologist Peter OBrien OVC 88 and Univershysity of Toronto professor David Maclennan
The mutation associated with maligshy
nant hyperthermia was identifi ed in Maclennan s laboratory by sequenc ing the gene in normal and abnormal swine A I OO-per-cent correlation was fo und between DNA-based tests in Maclennan s laboratory and phys iologishycalbiochemical tests used in 0 Brien s research for diagnosing the condition
From these findings the scienti sts developed a test using modem molecular biology techniques to identify the mutation in the blood cells of inshydividual swine
Malignant hyperthermia is seldom fatal in pigs but it results in poorshyquality pork Pork producers suffer major economic losses from what is known as PSE - pale soft exudative (watery) meat - in affected animals
Other research at U of G cou ld help eliminate a potentially lethal blood coagulation disorder in dairy cows Facshytor XI a genetic disorder associated with a lack of c lotting protein in the bl ood causes hemorrhag ing in Holstein cows
Researchers believe the problem can be eliminated by ensuring that breeding stocks are free of the disease Testing for all of Canada is conducted by U of G biomed ica l sc ienti st Patricia Gentry and research technician Michelle Ross
Vaccine development
Vaccination is the cheapest most efshyfecti ve way of dealing with infec tions and the most poweriul way of preventshying di sease Advanced immunization programs using new biotechniques are under way in many Guelph labs last fa ll the Natural Sc iences and Engineershying Research Council announced strategic grants for advanced techshynologies that included four vacci ne development projects at U of G
Profs Brian Derbyshire and Eva Nagy of the Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Immunology (VMI) recei ved a three-year grant of $295000 to perfect gene-cloning techniques for the de velopment of a vaccine for porshycine gas troenteritis
In the same department Profs Janet Maclnnes Soren Rosendal and Bonnie -Mallard OAC 79 MSc 82 PhD 88 were awarded $250000 over three years to work on a recombinant vaccine effecshytive against the bacterial organism that causes severe pneumonia in pigs
Also in VMI Prof Patricia SheweD 75 MSc 79 PhD 82 received a three-year grant of $408 000 with Prof
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Reggie Lo Microbiology to continue work on an improved vaccine for shipshyping fever Lo and Prof Alan Mellors Chemistry and Biochemistry received a $54000 grant to develop clinical and com mercial applications of a technique used in bone marrow transplantation and vaccine development
These projects follow in the footsteps of earlier developments like the bov ine shipping fever vaccine created by Shewen and VMI chair Bruce Wilkie OVC 65 It was like finding a way to control the common cold in humans
Although the bacterium Pasteurella haemolytica occurs normally in the noses of cattle its numbers increase during periods of high stress and present an insurmountable problem for the animals immune system
Wilkie and Shewen di scovered that during its most active stage of growth the bacterium produces a toxin that imshypairs the ability of clearing cells to eliminate the bacterium They grew the bacterium in a culture monitored toxin production and developed processes for vaccine production
The technology was licensed to Langford Inc of Guelph which man ufac tures and markets Presponse shipping fever vaccine in both Canada and the United States
Lab work by Lo and former student Craig Strathdee CBS 85 PhD 89 that contributed to the shipping fever vaccine project also led to a patent apshyplication - for the plasmid coding for Pasteurella haemolytic leucotoxin which has been implicated as a major virulence factor in the impairment of primary lung defence in cattle
Animal health
Wilkie and Mallard are also working with Prof Brian Kennedy in Guelph s Centre for the Genetic Improvement of Livestock to develop a selective breedshying program that uses knowledge acshyquired through genetic studies and stretches the definition of biotechnology
To stay hea lthy an individual animal must have the genetic ability to produce resi stance to infection says Wilkie That ability is not dependent on a sing le gene but on the expression of many difshyferent genes Neve rtheless these genetic traits are heritable and amenable to selection
This team has identified traits in pigs that are important in maintaining health has characterized individual animals
Biotechnology ofa different sort in volves the use of traditional selected breeding and a computer database to produce diseaseshyresistant pigs
through the expression of these genetic traits and has associated these traits with high productivity If these high producers are mated to produce a disshyease-resistant strain of pigs is that biotechnology
If foreign DNA had been introduced into the embryo of a pig to give it the characteristic of disease resistance that would be an obvious example of bioshytechnology But how do we catalogue the technology if it uses tradi tional selecshytive breeding and a computer to produce a piglet with the same resistance to disshyease
More biotechniques in action
Guelph food scientist Cyriel Duitschaever OAC MSc 66 PhD 75 has developed new fermented milk products that will benefit people suffershying from gastrointestinal illnesses
He and research associate Carole Buteau OAC MSc 78 PhD 83 isoshylated two naturally occurring intestinal bac teri a and propagated a pure culture in the laboratory to develop both liquid and yogurt-like milk products that can be used to stimulate digestion in the inshytestinal tracts of people who are on anshytibiotics who are lactose-intolerant or who suffer gas trointestinal disorders
Clinica l trials at the Children s Hospishytal of Buffalo have been promis ing giv ing rise to another potential use in the treatment of acute diarrhea l di seases affec ting people in the Third World
Microbiology professor Joseph Lam heads a research team that has develshyoped a diagnostic kit to quickly identify a bacteria group known to cause fat al inshy
fections in some hospital patients Pseushydomonas aeruginosa is the principal cause of death in cystic fibrosis sufshyferers and is a serious threat to burn vi cshytims cancer patients and those undergo ing transplants
Because the bacterium does not respond to conventional antibiotic treatshyments quick de tection is central to preventing spread of the infection Lam s kit can cut the test period from 12 hours to five minutes
His current research illustrates the cross-over effect of biotechnology He identified an antigen that is common to about 75 per cent of P aeruginosa strains and a monoclonal antibody against the antigen This has allowed him to iso late spec ia l bacteria that will produce the antigen in large quantities for further s tud y His work should evenshytually lead to a human monoclonal anshytibody that cou ld be used to protect cystic fibrosis patients
In 1989 when the federal governshyment decided it was time to put some money behind its verbal thrust in science and technology it allocated $240 million to estab li sh 14 centres of excellence that would integrate the reshysearch efforts of Canadian uni versi ties industry and government
Several U of G researchers received funding including microbiologists Chris Whitfield Anthony Clarke Joseph Lam Reggie Lo Roselynn Stevenson and Terry Beveridge who beshycame part of the network looking into bacterial di sease Their expertise will aid the search for the causative agents of bacterial diseases such as whooping cough gonorrhea toxic shock synshydrome lung infections and me ningitis
In 1988 biochemist Janet Wood and crop scientist Peter Paul s achieved a breakthrough in understanding how subshystances like sugars and amino ac ids are transported from outside to inside a living cell wall They found that minute protein molecules in the wall surroundshying a cell act like miniature pumps capshyturing the substance and powering it through the cell wall -They are now trying to determine how the protein molec ules choose subshystances for uptake or release S uch celshylular behavior plays a critical role in determining a plants reaction to soi l sa linity or explaining why cells fai l to transport glucose from the blood in diabetics
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Behind every how theres a why While we stand in awe of what sc ienshytists are accomplishing in the biological sciences we shouldnt lose sight of the reasons why they are manipulating cell structure and decoding genetic blueprints
To some extent scientific exploration is driven by human nature - our desire to understand and control the natural world Advances in biotechniques and genetic engineering promise to give us more of both
Reports on the Human Genome Project say that within 15 years well know the code of almost every gene in the human body This work and current explorations in animal genetics are harshymonized by the fact that many of the genes that control development are similar among species
The chicken for example is a familiar model for studies in developshymental biology Supported by 60 to 70 years of data todays embryologists like Prof Rob Etches are learning how to modify the genes that control developshyment of a chick embryo while giving us a better understanding of how genes efshyfect development in all vertebrates
Nothing could be more fund amental than understanding that process says Prof Keith Betteridge who heads the Guelph team working with bovine embryos In all areas of reproductive and genetic research the big payoff is that we will understand more about how two gametes can unite to fonn a single cell and develop into Northern Dancer or Albert Einstein he says
Everyone has a role to play in decidshying how to use this knowledge says Betteridge but the researcher has the triple responsibility of thinking through the implications of new technologies exshyplaining those implications to a skeptishycal and concerned public and safeshyguarding the welfare of animals used
Whether manipulating an entire animal or one of its reproductive cells the scientist is guided by the same set of moral standards If the technology inshyduces pain or suffering causes changes in behavior or affects the animals abilshyity to eat and survive then it shouldnt be done says Prof Bruce Wilkie chair of the Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Immunology
He and other Guelph scientists inshyvolved in animal research are subject to
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peer rev iew through the U of G s animal care committee which is also charged with ensuring that research and teaching programs are in compliance with the Animals for Research Act of Ontario
Reporting to the University s Reshysearch Board the committee is comshyposed offaculty student community and non-user representatives It estabshyli shes animal-care policies on campus and evaluates all protocols submitted by researchers and teachers After granting initial approval the committee reviews each project annually and inspects reshysearch facilities each semester A provinshycially appointed inspector also visits campus frequently and the Canadian Council on Animal Care makes an inshyspection every three years to assess the level of animal care
In addition to safeguarding animal care scienti sts al so need to provide evidence that the products of biotechnolshyogy are safe for human consumption or medical use The public needs to know that the pharmaceutical protein cloned and produced in a chicken s egg is no different than the same protein cultured from human cells and produced in a large bioreactor
The big payoff is that we will understand more about how two gametes can unite to form a single cell and develop into Northern Dancer or Albert Einstein
One of the most talked-about benefits of transgenic technologies is the potenshytial for producing enzymes prote ins and antibodies for pharmaceutical and inshydustrial uses Molecular farming would take advantage of the expression system in higher animals to produce a therashypeutic protein that is difficult or expenshysive to make in a lab
The potential seems enormous but the prac tice will be quite simple A typishycal Ontario dairy herd could probably produce enough human insulin or bloodshyclotting factor to satisfy the world
demand It s easy to see why these techshyniques are already presenting problems for patent offices
The past decade of work in transshygenesis has been a learning process for all of us Early research efforts that produced pigs in the United States with arthritic deformities and sheep in Australia with ulcers have taught us th at even science must learn to walk befo re it can run That means perfecting genetic transfer in animals where the techniques are easily controlled - such as mice and fruit flies - before applyshying them to domestic animals
One of the advantages of gene transshyfer technology is the control it offers geneticists who are able to manipulate expression of a single gene during development One of the limitations may be the re lative ly minor change that gene can make in one generation when compared with the changes induced through the countless generations of selection since domestication
These limitations may alleviate some of our fears about the use of gene transshyfer but it also makes us question its value at least in terms of breed improveshyment in domestic livestock Prof Charshyles Smith holds a research chair at Guelph in animal-breeding strategies and is often called on to assess the value of the new biotec hnologies in the genetic improvement of farm livestock
Economic traits are already being imshyproved through traditional selective breeding methods he says It would take quite large beneficial transgenic efshyfects (at least 10 per cent of the mean) on economic merit to make their incorshyporation worthwhile
Despite our e thical concerns the legal entanglements created by the use of biotechniques and the problem of turnshying new technologies into cost-effective procedures most scientists agree that these technolog ies are too powerfu I not to use They have the pote ntial to help allev iate some of the most serious problems facing the world - food production overpopulation disease and shyenvironmental degradation
Statisticians teU us that 50 years from now we will be trying to feed twice the current world s population on a smaller land base in a more fragile environshyment This is the why behind current research in genetic engineering
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OUD TH Annual giving in 1991 reached $14 million The value of the Annual Fund becomes more apparent each year as the University of
Scholarships amp BursariesGuelph faces continued financial $320127
AMF Priority Athletics ~ ---------- (Scholarships$38326
pressure The 1991 Annual Fund Pet Trust raised $14 million to help $261224 maintain scholarships and provide academic and library programs AMF OAC Alumni Scholarships Foundation ______ grew by $9245 25 per cent
$228494
Memorial Funds $56997
Arboretum $77441
Class Projects ResearchBuildings$86658
Matching gifts grew 31 per cent in 1991 More and more Canadian companies are g iving financial support to the institushytions that educated their employees A total of 44 companies matched 92 inshydividual gifts for a record $11120 in Annual Fund contributions to the University of Guelph in 1991
If you work for a matching-g ift employer every doll ar you donate is matched - doubled or even tripled shyby a company gift Its as easy as it sounds so check with your employer on how to multiply the value of your gift to the University
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Academic Enrichment $87246
3M Canada Incorporated Akzo America Foundation Alcan Aluminum Limited A lean Canada Products Ltd Amdahl Canada Limited American Home Products Corp American International Group Inc BASF Corporation Bell Canada Boise Cascade Canada Limited Campbell Soup Co Ltd Chevron Canada Resources Ltd F alconbridge Ltd Ford Motor Company of Canada Ltd Gelleral Electric Canada Inc Hoechst Canada Incorporated IBM Canada Limited ICI Canada Incorporated Insurance Bureau of Canada
$134893Library $103050
John Laball Limited Kraft General Foods Canada McGraw-H ill Ryerson Limited Nabisco Brands Canada Ltd Northern Telecom Limited Paul Revere Life Insurance Co Pfizer Canada Inc Pioneer Hi-Bred Limited Pitman-Moore Inc Sara Lee Corp ofCanada Ltd Square D Canada The Bank of Montreal The Coca-Cola Company The Toronto Star The UPS Foundation TransCanada Pipelines Warner-Lambert Canada Inc Westeel
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ADIT ON With thanks to Donors Class agents College representatives Alma Mater Fund Advisory Council
Alumni and others who give to the University of Guelph through the Annual Fund are helping to maintain quality at a time when governments are funding for mediocrity Because of the dedication and commitment of our donors and volunshyteers the 1991 Annual Fund surpassed last year s total by $100000 We did not achieve our goal - perhaps $1 6 million was overly ambitious in light of current economic conditions - but we were able to maintain last years 25-per-cent inshycrease in scholarship support
Through the Alma Mater Fund we raised more than $540000 and achieved Tom Sawyer
the target of 12-per-cent participation among graduates of the three founding colleges Arts CBS and CSS alumni substantially increased their donations and participation over last year Campus participation grew from 145 per cent in 1990 to 171 per cent this year And our parents program pushed contributions from parents to $84188 compared with $31500 in 1990
For the first time since 1984 the Alma Mater Fund Advisory Council was able to go beyond its commitments to fund eight additional projects - a total of $86000
Looking ahead our flagship project for 1992 will be War Memorial Hall renovations During Alumni Weekend in June you ll have a chance to see the work that has been done upstairs and the work still needed in the downstairs hall It s a project well worth the interest and support of alumni
For your past and future support of the Alma Mater Fund my sincere thanks
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Tom Sawyer OAC 59A and 6 Corporations Chair AMF Advisory Council Associations Foundations $2874947 Annual giving contribution s
III Annual IGiving Alumni
$1403701 Major Gifts $1236622
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were 22 per cent of the o
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in 1991
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Annual Giving Report
1991 Annual Fund Results $1 A niillion wasraised overallmiddot ariinceaSe of
76 per ceI1tThisyear alumrii in the Arts and CBS groups doubled theirparticipation alld conshytributions And the parents recotded a 46-pershy
cent participation rate
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The group of eight
Eight campus projects were selected to share $86000 in highest-priority funds from the 1990 Alma Mater Fund Among them are the OvC Wild Bird Clinics education program a CSS academic medal in memory of the late dean John vanderkamp a soc ial sc ience citation index for the library framshying for the fine art print study collection a computer design laboratory for the School of Engineering seed money for a history graduate scholarship a conshytinuing education survey for the Mac-FACS Alumni Association and a HAFA-sponsored executive-inshyresidence
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Of cattle cash and Colvil e Alumni gifts to the University of Guelph come in some pretty interesting packages Over the years alumni have given livestock concrete paintings shythere are two by Canadian painter Alex Colville - furniture land books inshysurance policies and a host of artifacts and antiques And money - a lot of money Almost every building on camshypus has some bricks and mortar paid for by alumni And hundreds of students are helped along the way each year by alumshyni-sponsored scholarships
The Annual Giving Report on the preceding pages shows once again how important alumni gifts are to the Univershysity and provides us with an opportunity to say thank you to those alumni who continue to give on a yearly basis Anshynual giving is however only one of three avenues through which alumni proshyvide financial support to the University The others are major gifts and promoshytional programs
Annual giving
The Alma Mater Fund established in 1969 is the route chosen by most alumshyni faculty and staff who make annual gifts to the University
AMF solicitation and management are handled by a volunteer advisory council On the preceding page chair Tom Sawyer OAC 59A and 64 talks about the funds success over the last two years with AMF scholarships inshycreasing by 25 per cent This year the AMF begins a three-year commitment to funding renovations to War Memorial Hall
In addition to its flagship project AMF provides regular support to athshyletics through Gryphon Club contribushytions to college advancement funds and scholarships and to individual class projects
The AMF supports the camaraderie of university days as alumni work together to plan and complete a project whether its funding a scholarship a painting a tree weight-lifting equipshyment or furniture for Alumni House AMF contributions also ensure that fushyture Guelph students will remember those who have gone before
In addition to AMF donations the anshynual giving program includes gifts to
the OVC Pet Trust Fund the OAC Alumni Foundation the Arboretum the paren ts program and the Li brary Other gifts made directly to the University supshyport memorial funds scholarships musishycal activities and research and academic programs
Major gifts
Major gifts to the University are adshyministered by the Deve lopment Office under the direction of Marilyn Robinson Mac 55 These include beshyquests or life insurance policies shortshyterm pledges (often made during a capital campaign) large donations that might establish an endowment fund or contributions to special University projects like the Heritage Fund or the proposed FACS Building addition
Gifts- in-kind - such as library materials art objects or estate properties - also fall within thi s category Last year alumni gave more than $12 milshylion in such tax-deductible gifts
Promotions
Every Guelph graduate is a member of the University of Guelph Alumni Asshysociation and receives the Guelph Alumshy
nus magazine and many other privishyleges There are no UGAA membership fees but the association does raise money through promotional programs like MasterCard travel packages and the North American Life Assurance proshygram
The UGAA provides serv ices to alumshyni and students - such as the careershyplanning workshop planned for Juneshyand returns many dollars directly to the campus Last year it gave $20000 to the library
In addition to direct financial support through annual giving and major gifts alumni also support the University inshydirectly through membership fees to individual college and program associashytions The fees pay for association acshytivities that help maintain ties between their members and the University
Questions
If you have questions or would like 10
know more about the tax advantages of giving to U of G write to Paulette Samson associate director of annual giving and support services at Alumni House University of Guelph Guelph Ont NIG 2Wl or call 519-824-4120 Ext 6183
When yo~bearrom US
If you think youre hearing from us moreoften lhanY9u elida few years ago you reright But checkyour mail and you ll 110tiqe that you~re also hearing
more frequemly from othernon-jgtrofit)rganizations and charities We v~ all stepped lip oui- fUQdIaising efforts
U QfGappreciates your support and needs your help butyou wont know that if we donr teflyou Aildeyen if you cant afford to make a fjnancialcon~
tributiori we hop~ to wjn yoUfverbaJ sliPPOJ-tJt will take many voices to coii- ylnce governmeritthal universities should beagreater public priority
When we contacenttyou on behalf of iheUriivetsity we lly to give more thiin we ask So tak~advantage ofthe p~1one call o(letter to findoutwhais happenc ing OJrcarnp~s U ofG hasmuchto offer llufnrii professionaldevelcipment courses library privileges travel programs recreation and a link Igt friends and
classmates
We Jik~to keep in roucharidYcwarit yO~1 to know the progress were rilaking Ast~e Uriiversity $ prestige grows so does the value ofyour degree
~0~ MarilynR~binson Trish Walker Mac55 DiJectoJ ofDevelopment CSSTl Director ofAJurhni Affairs
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Get your career on track
Responding to alumni requests the University of Guelph Alumni Associashytion will sponsor a career-planning workshop on campus June 26 to 28 The weekend program will be led by Sharon Crozier of the University of Calgary counselling service Each participant will receive a careerlifestyle analysis and will develop a personal action plan
The $225 fee includes the StrongshyCampbell Interest Inventory and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator which will be administered and tabulated prior to the weekend Testing dates have been set in Toronto for May 27 and in Guelph for June 4
Sponsored by the UGAA and coshyordinated by Continuing Education and Alumni Affairs the workshop will also draw on the Universitys Counselling and Student Resource Centre
Enrolment is limited to 20 For registration information see page 26 or call Continuing Education at 519-767shy5000
UGAA board report
by Grant Lee CSS 73 MA 80
The UGAA will present a convocation package to each graduate this spring imshymediately following presentation of the degree or diploma Developed by Alumshyni Affairs staff the package is designed to increase awareness of the UGAA and the collegeschool alumni associations encourage membership introduce the Guelph Alumnus and provide an opporshytunity for board members to congratushylate our new alumni
Approval of the new UGAA bylaw is on schedule It will be presented to members at the annual general meeting in June along with an amendment to the
i I UGAA Letters Patent
In addition the UGAA board bull has approved a $400 donation to help
cover costs for two students to represhysent Guelph at the 1992 World Debatshying Championships in Dublin Ireland
bull is looking at a proposal to help alumDl with financial planning There will be more to come on this subject later
bull received thanks from president Brian Segal on behalf of those alumni who attended the October symposium
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Canada Break Up or Restructure The association was a patron of the event
bull is responding to requests from alumni for more social events Aside from the travel program the UGAA sponsored a ski day at Horseshoe Valley in March
bull approved a proposal from the School of Landscape Architecture to research places of historical value on campus Financial support has yet to be resolved
bull accepted an offer to help sponsor the University Centres annual lecture series which invites Canadian and inshyternational public figures to speak on current issues All events in the winter 92 series were free to alumni
bull donated U of G sweatshirts to Canadian Guidance and Counselling for a conference in Ottawa this sumshymer
bull approved the purpose and terms of refshyerence for the new Alumni House Adshyvisory Committee which is charged with overseeing maintenance of the
facility adopted the 199192 budget and finanshycial plan drafted last November This year we expect to generate some $44000 and spend $33000 It has been suggested that we set the 199293 budget and plan in April of this year so the new board wi II start in September with a sound financial program and budget that will only reshyquire adoption or revision
Chapter news
Calgary - About 40 alumni and guests met at the Delta Bow Valley Hotel Feb 3 to view a U of G video and hear a talk by admissions counsellor C hr is tine Toews FACS 87 Co-ordinator of the event was Janet Hutchinson CBS 79
Edmonton - Paul OAC 67 and Anne Valentine CBS 69 hosted a group of 30 alumni and guests at the Ramada Renaissance Hotel
Montreal - U of G welcomed students and their parents - including many
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alumni - to its first Montreal informashytion night for prospective students The event was modelled after a successful program in Toronto that draws more than 800 students each spring
Vancouver - U of G president Brian Segal met with alumni March 5 at the Pan Pacific Hotel Jim Dodds OVC 63 and Sarah Bloom FACS 86 orshyganized the event which attracted about 70 alumni and guests
Halifax- U ofG alumni in Halifax met with Gryphon basketball players during the March 26 to 28 CIAU chamshypionships Despite losing the OUAA west division title to Brock University the Gryphons qualified for a wi ld card spot at the CIAU championships Alumshyni received free tickets to the game that pitted Guelph against Brandon in the consolation final Fan support was enshythusiastic but the Gryphons lost 72 to 64 finishing third overall
Homecoming 1992 Plans are well under way for Homecoming weekend Sept 25 and 26 In addition to the annual Gryphon Hall of Fame dinner and award s ceremony the weekend will feat ure a beach volshyleyball tou rnamen t --~4~=iiiiikshyconcert alumni brunch walk-a-thon pep rally reunions and the traditional homecoming dance following the Saturday afternoon footshyball game This year the Gryphons will play Wil frid Laurier University A complete schedule will appear in the next Guelph Alumnus but you can get
Winners of Ihe Ju SI fo r Fun square dance compelition 01 College Royal were left 10 right Ann Joselin Kelley Allen Joanne Hewirson Brenl McFadden caller Sue MacKinnon Richard Presley Trish Henderson Jason Thompson and Kelly Lillie
in the Homecoming spirit now by helpshying to plan your class reunion or signing up as a scorekeeper for the vo lleyball tournament For infOlmation call alumshyni officer Laurie Malleau HAFA 83 at 519-824-4120 Ext 2102
Swing your partner
Eight squares of alumni took part in the College Royal square dance competition in March Winners of the UGAA alumni square dance plaque were the Crazy 8s Joanne Hewitson Arts 91 Lloyd Hutchinson CBS 87 Sonya Jones CPS 90 Ed Ketchabaw OAC 88 and MSc 91 Carol)n OAC 90 and Brad MacNeil CPS 87 Mike Relf OAC 91 and student Sherry MacNeil Wayne Lowden was the caller
Winners in the Just for Fun category were Junior Farmer alumni who included Hewitson Ann Joselin OAC 90 Brent McFadden CSS 90 Richard Presley OAC 86 and soonshyto-be-alumni Kelley Allen Trish
Henderson Kelly Little and Jason Thompson The caller was Sue MacKinnon OVC 9 1
Florida picnic
The North Port Yacht Club hosted 199 alumni for the annual Florida picnic March 4 On hand to meet them was Trish Walker CSS 77 and MSc 90 director of alumni affairs Judy Phillips of the University s Real Estate Division also attended to talk about the Village by the Arboretum retirement deve lopshyment
Attendance prizes went to Gertrude Stewart Mac 30 and Morley Funston OAC 32 The picnic was sponsored by the UGAA Alumni-In shyAction Committee represented by Ken Gartley OAC 42 and the Florida reunion committee consisting of Mary and Ted Brent OAC 48 Helen and Don Moffatt OAC 46 Stella and Bob Moore OAC 48 and Retis and Bill HasenptlugOAC 39
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A new kind of class reunion
Its the latest fad in alumni circles shymeeting your classmates at the anshynual University of Guelph alumni hockey tournament Twenty-two teams played in the fifth annual tourshynament in December
For most teams tournament standshyings are secondary to the socializing with classmates that they may not see otherwise says Bill Seegmiller OAC 83 who worked with Brian TapscottOAC 8 1 to organize the event We promote the social aspect through two divisions - social and more social - and include family skating and a Saturday evening wine and cheese party he says Trish Walker director ofalumni affairs presents fhe social division lrophy 10 Ihe OAC 79
Dipper Oldies (II the U ofG alumni hockey tournamenl The OAC 79A team defeated the Grey Gryphons to win the more soshycial division The OAC 80 team won the consolation final and the spirit award went to OAC 7778
In the social (a little more competishytive) division it was the Faceoffs in first place over OAC 88 OAC 90 won the consolation trophy and the Valley Vikings took home the spirit award
Organizers plan to add womens exshyhibition games to the 1992 tournament which is scheduled for Dec 5 and 6 For more information call Seegmiller at 519-836-3807 or Rudy Diemer OAC 85 at 519-763-2250
A night at the races
The UGAA Alumni-in-Action group will host a night at Mohawk Raceway May 26 The $30 admission includes a 6 pm buffet parking program taxes and gratuities For detail s call Laurie
~ Malleau at 519-824-4120 Ext 2102
I Alumni directory
A new alumni directory will be ready for delivery in May The deadline for alumni updates has passed but you can still order a copy of the directory at a cost of $40 plus tax Return the order form you received with the special U of G wristwatch offer or write to Rosemary Clark Mac 59 at Alumni House University of Guelph Guelph Ont NIG 2Wl
Guelph Alumnus
Ottawa chapter 50 years young
There was a nostalgic gathering of Guelph alumni in Ottawa last winter to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the city s alumni chapter
Donald Fletcher OAC 36A and 39 who was president of the group in 1953 sent us a historical account of the chapters activities
A small organizing committee first met in February 1941 at Madame Burgers restaurant to plan the chapters first fun ction a skating party at the Ottawa Experimental Farm It attracted 75 people
Over the years the group held an anshynual picnic and a banquet and dance that gave them a chance to invite faculty from Guelph to speak about happenings at the colleges - and later the Univershysi ty Every president from George I Christie to Bill Winegard paid a vi sit
In 1951 alumni from OVC and Macshydonald Institute who had been meeting since 1936 joined the OAC group A crowd of almost 200 celebrated the chapter s 10th anniversary at a picnic at the farm of the late John Bracken OAC 06 During the 1950s they added a get-together at the annual Ottawa-area plowing match which gave way to a curling bon spiel in the 1960s
There have been many special funcshytions - entertaining the Gryphon footshyball teams square dances car rallies golf tournaments theatre parties and raceway evenings - but the event that stands out in Fletchers memory ocshycurred in 1966 when five members of Parliament hosted the group in the parshyliamentary ballroom
The chapter also includes a couples bridge club which has been meeting for 25 years in the homes of its members
Fletcher thanks the 30 people who have served as president of the Ottawa alumni chapter and the dozens more who have helped on committees devot shying years to the executive to promote the institution
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ALUMNI CAREER PLANNING WEEKEND WORKSHOP
JUNE 26 27 amp 28 ~ The Program This highly successful workshop developed by Sharon Crozier PhD University Counselling Services University of calgary is the first step for an alumnus who is considering a career move The weekend (Friday evening through Sunday afternoon) will consist of group presentations conducted by Dr Crozier with smaller working groups facilitated by profeSSional counsellors from the University of Guelph Counselling and Student Resource Centre
Discussion structured exercises and experiential activities will lead alumni to gain insight into a personal careerllifestyle analYSis and assessment career information resources networking skills and much more
No matter what their age career stage or reason for transition each participant will find this workshop to be an excellent opportunity to develop a personal action plan - and chart their next move
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May 2 - The Guelph Spring Festival begins with a 25th-anniversary gala dinshyner in Creelman Hall that will honor founding president Murdo MacKinnon Other festival events run until May 23 For more information call 519-821-7570
May 2 shy An All-Canadian University Asshysociation d inne r w il l be held in Washington DC at the Embassy of Canada Guest speaker is Robert Lanni president of the University of Windsor Entertainment will be provided by Windsors music department For inforshymation call T Chan at 202-543-9111
May 3 - Arboretum Day celebrates spring with family nature walks at 1 and 330 pm and an electrical keyboard concert at 230 pm featuring Canadian comshyposer Carole Anne Burris
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May 13 - Chancellor Lincoln Alexander is the guest speaker at the Alumni-inmiddotAction annual general meeting which begins at noon in the Arboretum Centre For details call Alumni Affairs 519-824middot 4120 Ext 2102
May 13 - The Human KineticsHuman Biology Alumni Association will hold its inaugural meeting at730 pm at Alumni House with a coffee and dessert social RSVP to 519-824-4120 Ext 6963
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May 30 - An Arboretum sale of rare native trees and shrubs at the RJ Hi lton Centre on College Avenue East runs from 9 am to 1 pm For information call 519-824shy4120 Ext 2113
May 30 shy The sixth annual All-Canadian University Dinner in Chicago will be held
in the Henry Crown Space Centre at the Museum of Science and Industry and will include a reception buffet dinner and an Omnivax movie beginning at 6 pm Guest speaker is George Pedersen president of the University of Western Ontario For information call David Cole at 312-372-4404 or Hugh Mackenzie at 708-369-3688
June 2 to 5 shy Spring convocation June 13 - Beginning at 7 am the Arshy
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June 15 to 17 shy U of G will host the 15th annual Guelph Conference on Sexuality With the theme Sexuality New Visions the conference will examine current isshysues in human sexuality counselling strategies for sexual problems and teaching approaches in sexuality educashytion For information call the Office of Continuing Education at 519-767-5000 or fax 519-767-0758
June 19 to 21 - ALUMNI WEEKEND See page 39 for a complete schedule of events and alumni association meetings The UGAA annual meeting is June 21 at 10 am in Macdonald Hall 149
June 26 to 28 shy The UGAA-sponsored alumni career-planning workshop will be held on campus See page 26 for details
July 31 amp Aug 4 shy The National Youth Orchestra will perform in War Memorial Hall at 8 pm as part of its summer program at U of G Tickets at $8 general $6 for stUdents and seniors will be availshyable at the door
Sept 26 - HOMECOMING Rise early for the second ann ual Homecoming charity walkathon At 930 am the Human Kinetics Alumni Association will hold its annual general meeting in the School of Human Biology lounge
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John Boros 88 of Wei land Ont writes that he is impressed by the way U of G keeps records after graduation Thi s gives the graduate a sense of belonging a connection to an important period in hi s or her life he says
Jane Buzza 88 is working as records co-ordinatorarchivist for the Ontario Medishycal Association in Toronto
Jacqueline (Sullivan) DeClerck 86 is a public relations officer at the Canada Trust head office in London Onto
Richard Ely 70 works at the Crown attorneys office in WeIland Ont He has an LLB from the University of Western Ontario in addition to his Guelph degree He says he often talks about U of G to young students trying to decide which university to attend
Paul Genest 81 finished graduate studies at Johns Hopkins Universi ty in Maryland and is now assistant professor of philosophy at Union College in Schenectady NY He is man-ied to Barbara Jessup 8 1
Brian Hogarth 78 is head of interpretashytion at the G1enbow Museum in Calgary
Martha Hooper 9 1 was married last Ocshytober to David Perry They live in Calgary where she is a sw itchboard operator at the Delta Bow Valley Inn
Rene van der Meijden 87 has put his degree in geogshyraphy and internationshyal development to good use with the Christian Reformed World Relief Comshymittce Originally from the Netherlands he is now in Uganda on a three-year asshy Rene van der signment as a rural Meijden development adv iser He sends greetings to his many friend s in Canada and to Guelph grads Stan and Kitty in Bolivia in particular and reminds us that visitors are always welshycome in Uganda
Edward Milliner 85 will graduate this spring from the faculty of education at the University of Windsor
Mark Moore 85 is doing postgraduate work in history at the University of Bristol in England He plans to teach high school
fn response to a letter from Dawn Monroe 69 that appeared in the winter 1992 issue of the Guelph Alumnus Doug Moynihan 69 of Fort McMurray Alta writes Be disapshypointed no more Dawn l I too graduated in 1969 from (the College of) Arts or as it was then called Wellington College and I havent heard from anyone either And I too think it is time to contribute my news
After graduation f headed out to disshycover and sol ve the problems of the world travelling overseas for about three years Since then Ive been working in human resources in a variety of organizations in many different locations in Canada Cun-entshyIy I am the manager of human resources in Fort McMurray
PS Do you remember me Dawn I was the bartender in Creelman Hall I
John Teskey 7 1 began new duties last summer as director of libraries at the University of New Brunsw ick in Fredericton He was head of adshyministrative sershyvices at the University of Albershyta before moving John Teskey across Canada to acshycept the UNB posishytion but had earlier served as chief librarian and was library personnel officer at both Alshyberta and the University of Saskatchewan
Teskey says his biggest challenge is to regain the lost purchasing power that univershysity libraries have suffered as a result of static budge ts and ri sing material costs He is encouraging increased resource-sharing among universities and interlibrary loan programs with shortened turnaround
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Elizabeth (Baxter) Willson 77 a real esshytate agent in Chatham Ont writes to voice a common feeling that the universi ty exshyperience itself is often more important than the degree or diploma received I am really glad I graduated from Guelph she says
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Michelle Bombadier and Mike Caldwell both 92 are two of 50 Canad ian youth selected to work in Guyana for three months with Youth Challenge International (YCI) a non-governmental organization that provides Third-world experience for Canadians They may spend the summer building a school teaching safety or clearing land for Gu ytna s first national park but they need some private support to he lp cover transportation costs Anyone able to help should write to YCI at I I Soho St Toronto M5T IZ6
Jane Coventry 86 writes with accolades for the Guelph Alumnus grad news section and an update on what she and her husband Jaydee Smith 84 and MSc 89 are doing They were married in 1989 while working at U of G - he in the Department of Animal and Poultry Science and she in the Departshyment of Crop Science In February 1991 they moved to England where Smith is doing a PhD at the University of Bristol and working as a research assistant Coventry
works in the technology transfer unit of Nickshyerson Seeds Ltd in Cambridge
Jeffrey Crawford 88 and Leslie Thompson 86 were malTied last October He is an elementary schoolteacher in Mount Forest Ont
Craig Emerson 83 earned a PhD at Dalshyhousie University in Halifax in 1990 and is now a research associate in oceanography
Paul Fleming 85 is a pharmaceutical sales representative for Hoechst Canada Inc and lives in Nepean Ont
David Forsey 80 is an assistant professor of computer science at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver He is marshyried to Lyn Bartram
Michael Gangl 89 is in his third year at the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College
Astrid Harms 87 is a registered nurse in London Ont
Andrew Holmes 85 worked for the Onshytario government as a wildlife biologist for three years but is now back at school in his second year at Northwestern Chiropractic College in Minneapolis
Timothy Johnson 86 works at the Centre for Limnology at the University of Wisconshys in in Madison
Karen Lennard 77 (HK) and her hu sshyband Paul Jackson 79 (HK ) and MSc
82 both went 011 to earn medical degrees from McMaster University in HalTilton Ont Jackson also has a master s in physiology from the University of Virginia and is comshypleting an anesthesiology residency in Hamilshyton Lennard has a part-time family medical practice allowing her to spend more time with the couples two children Matthew and Nicola
Wendy Maltby 74 is an elementary schoolteacher for the Metropolitan Toronto School Board
Sandra OConnor 84 earned a medical degree from the University of Western Onshytario and is now practi sing in Burlington Ont
Linda Owen 81 runs her own business as a consulting exercise physiologist and fitness supervisor in Campbell River BC
Sheryle Tetley 86 is regional sales manager for Glaxo Canada Inc in Mi ss isshysauga Ont where she lives with her husshyband Ian
Rob Tonus 87 is manager of the Black Creek Rehabilitation Project a grassroots enshyvironment program to improve a degraded urban stream in Toronto His office is with the Metropolitan Toronto and Region Conshyservation Authority and he lives in Oakville with his wife Wanda (Knul) 88 (HK) a public health inspector in Hamilton
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Richard Woods 81 is an instructor of xshyray technology at the Easte rn Ontario School of X-ray Technology at Kingston Ge neral Hospital He would like to hear from other members of the 1981 U of G choir wi th whom he travelled to Scandinav ia Write to him at RRI Od essa Ont KOH 2HO
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James Dy nes 84 has comp le ted g raduate studies in chemistry and so il sc ience at the Univers ity of Sas katchewan in Saskatoon
Catherine (McVittie) Clark 88 is a nuclear medica l tech nici an at Howard Counshyty General Hospita l in Columbia Md She and her husband Michae l li ve in Elkridge Md
David Holmes 85 is a systems analyst at Sun Life Assurance Company
RolfKierdorf 84 lives in Guelph with his wife Janet He is se lf-employed as a systems consultant
Donald McFadde n 71 and his wife Carol li ve in A lbany Ga where he pracshyti ses medicine
Donald Ridley 69 and PhD 73 has been appoin ted seni or v ice-presiden t of CibashyGeigy Canada Ltd in Oakvi lle Ont and is responsib le for a ll corpora te serv ices includshy
ing finance human resources safe ty health and the environment He a lso se rves on the board of the Canadian Agricu ltura l Research Council and is a member of the Great Lakes Action Plan Strategi c Advi sory Committee
Kathryn Root Parr is an assoc iate minister at Lorne Park Bapti st Church in Mississhysa uga Ont She was married las t fa ll to Vicshytor Parr
Peter Simpson 85 is dis tric t manager for McNeil Pharmaceutical Ltd in Stouffville Ont He is married to Cynthia (Hamilton) 85 (HK)
Keith Stemshorn 83 is in the Canadian Armed Forces stationed in Calgary
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Nikki Dignard 86 moved to Ottawa last year where her husband Ted Henike pracshyti ses denti stry Dignard is working on an M BA and says she d love to hear from CSS classmates Tom Cam and Kathryn
Bonnie Dunnett 87 and MA 91 works on campus at the Gerontology Research Centre S he and Barry Hallman 9 1 li ve in Guelph
Kathryn Faulkner 80 is a registered nurse in Burling ton Ont where she li ves wi th he r husband John
Ruth Fox 84 is a sta ffing assistant for
Transport Canad a and lives in Toronto w ith her husband Christopher
Shonna Giles 88 is an admiss ions officer at Simon Fraser Unive rs ity in Burnaby BC
Gina Grieco 75 is a hi gh school guidance counsellor in North York Onto
John Harris 82 is manager of financial planning and budgets for th e City of Brampton Ont
Paulette Heppner 76 is a teache r in Vanshycouver
John Johnston 7 1 has been appointed exshyec uti ve vice-pres ident o f Ve rsacold Canada Corp and pres ident of QF Foods Distribushytion Services Versacold Canada is the largest public refri gera ted ware hou sing orshygani za tion in Western Canada
Michael Kral 79 has moved from the Univers ity of Manitoba to the University of Wind sor where he is an assistant professor of psychology
Jeffrey Lozon 76 and his family recently returned to Toronto after 15 years in Western Canada He is executive vice-president and ch ief operat ing officer at St Michael s Hos pital and li ves in Oakville wi th hi s wife Donna and two daughters
Bria n Martin 79 is a real estate appraiser in Portland Ont whe re he li ves w ith hi s wife Margaret (Sheffield) Arts 79
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Leith Mason 90 works in Toronto in the Canadian office of the State of Illinois as a special assistant to the Illinois Department of Food and Agricul ture
Michael McKean 74 of Don Mills Ont was recently appointed president of Wrigley Canada Inc Before joining Wrigley as execushytive v ice-pres ident in 1990 he he ld senior positions in Hong Kong Brazil and the United States
Rick 74 and Vicki (Collard) McTaggart FACS 74 are working in Ottawa He is director of overseas operations for the Unitarian Service Committee a charitable non-governmental organization that supports commun it y and human resou rce developshyment activities in Africa and Asia She is sec tion head of consumer analysis in the agr ifood development branch of Agriculture Canada
Sandra Morrison 86 is an ass istant professhysor in the department of psychiatry at the University of Western Ontario
Stephen Naylor 85 is director of planning and development for the amalgamated municipalities of Alliston Beeton Tecumshyseth and Tottenham
Brian ONeill 68 MA lives in SUITey England where he is managing director of Innovation Management Consultant s
Jodi Parisi 89 is a sales representative for Gillette who says U of Goo was the greatest
Moira Skikavich 81 is completing a PhD in c inematelevision at the University of Southern California
Virginia Sutherland 78 is an air traffic controller at the Toronto Island Airport
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Peggy Bates 88 was recently promoted to sales manager with Sears Canada Inc She lives in Owen Sound Ont
Caroline Begin 86 is working in Singshyapore as a dietitian
Diana Close 87 is a c linical nutri ti onis t at Chedoke McMaster Hospital in Hamilton Ont
Sarah Davenport 90 is a case worker with the Wellington County Social Services office in Guelph She is malTied to Matthew Harvey CBS 90
Timothy Dyck 8 1 is national sales manager for Black amp Decker Canada workshying out of the Corbin Division in Richmond HillOnt
Sharon (Muir) 84 and Richard Ernst CBS 83 are the proud parents of a future Guelph grad uate one-year-old Andrew Graham
Patricia Edwards 78 is food servi ce sushypervisor fo r St Peter s Hospita l in Hamilton Ont
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For the love ofteaching Since she
middot graduated bull from Macshydonald Inshymiddot stitute in
J 963 Nancy Kerr has built a career on teaching and research in telttles The middotheidofthe Uriiveisityof
Albertas department of Clothing and texiiles pursues a middotscientific interest inthepreservashylion of hi stori~lfabricsarid in developing pesticide-proofc1otl1ing But Jler fitstlove i ~ teaching
In 199b shewonone ofU of As four Rutherford AWljrds for excellence ill unshy
dergraduate teat-hing The first member of the faculty middotofliomemiddoteconornicsto receive the award slie was the rcentcipient6f the facultys own underglltiduate teaching award three years earlier
Winning the Rutherford was a gteat honor says Ken who has been on
faculty at Alberta since 1967 She oiscovered she had an aptitude for
middot teaching as a graduate student at the University of California Davis in
196566 After earning her MSc she casr about for afaculty position in Canada and round U of A was the 0111y place I could teach ju t textiles plus have a chance to develop new cQurses and research labs
middot Kerr sa)s she gets a tremelldous sense of satisfaction from teaching and the learning he must do to stay cUlTent She attributes her succe s as a teaCher to middotIec-middot
middot tures that are well organized and clear and to creltting a positive classroom climate
~Thcomfort level of students is reaUy middot ililportanL ~ Kerr eamedherPhD in fibre lnd
polymer science from North Carolina bull Staie University in 1982 Her doctoral work concentrated oil deacidification
techniques to preserve historicatcottOnln 1988 she spent a sabbatical ye~r doing research at the Caliadian Conservation
middot In tirute in OnflW1 middot Originalmiddotly from Ottawa Kerr is a
trarisphlnted -vesterner who enjoys middot hiking anlt sk1ing
From left Diane Ellison Lisa Wilson Lori Davis and Pippa Hobbes
Diane Ellison 84 is liv ing in Osaka Japan where she teaches English to Japanese busishyness people Last October she welcomed three U of G friends for a visit Lori Davis CSS 85 manager of Jumbo Video Inc in Oakville Ont Pippa Hobbes 84 accountshying manager for Paramount Holidays in Willowda le Ont and Lisa Wilson 84 co-ord inator of membership serv ices for the Metropolitan Toronto Board of Trade
Monica Hrybko HAFA 88 is director of sales for the Ramada Hotel Old Town in San Diego Calif
David Jones HAFA 88 is a con troller at the Holiday Inn Montreal Centre-Ville
Kathleen McLachlin 83 is operating an insurance agency in Kitchener OnL She opened the State Farm Insurance office in March 1988 and says she loves her job
Susan (Goettler) Parker 80 is working in Toronto as benefits administrator for Imshyperial Oil Limited She is married to Donald Parker OAC 79
Mary Jean (Sinnott) Price Mac 7 1 has returned to sc hool at the University of Otshytawa to earn a bachelor of education
Margaret (Richardson) Rankin 75 has been living in Halifax since 1990 and is an account analyst for Central Guaranty Trust
Janet (Wanless) Sutherland 77 is in private practice as a marriage and family therapist in East Kelowna BC
Jean Thomson Mac 37 says 1937 was a long time ago but shes delighted with all the changes that have gone at the college A former hospita l nutritionist she is retired and living in London Ont -
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Olayiwola Layi Adeola MSc 86 and PhD 89 and his wife Mope are living in West Lafayette Indiana where he is an assisshytant professor of pig nutrition at Purdue University
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Bruce Barrie 79 (Eng) graduated last June with an MBA from City Uni ve rsi ty in Washington State and is now a senior adshyviser in strategic planning with Petro-Canada Resources in Calgary He is a professional eng ineer with APEGGA and an ac tive memshyber of the Planning Forum an international society for planning and strategic manageshyment
Barbara Bryce 83 and her husband Ricardo Ramirez 82 are living in Rome Italy She is a landscape architect and he is a communications officer with the Food and Agriculture Organizat ion
Daniel Campbell 81 and his wife SharonshyMarianne are farmin g near Petrolia Onto
Carolyn Closs 82 and her husband Harold operate a beef cowca lf operation in Shawville Que
Luc Cote 83 is an agricullural account manager for the Royal Bank of Canada in Joliette Que
Kerrie Lea Curran 85 plans to graduate this fall from the master of architecture proshygram at McGi ll University
Bruce Dodson 74A is course superinshytendent at Hawd Ridge Golf and Curling Club in Orillia Ont
Richard Donkin OAC 85A originalshyly from Zimbabwe is the manager of Venida Packing Inc in Exeter Calif Situated in central Californias San Joashyquin Valley Venida Packing ships tree fruit throughout the Richard Donkin United States Canada the Pacific Rim and the Far East Products under the brand names Ruby River and Venida include peaches plums nectarines kiwi grapes persimmons and pomegranates In 1988 Donkin married California native Lisa Kolander and they live in Lemon Cove a community in the Sierra foothill s
Brendan Elder 8S A lives in Kelowna BC and works for Dogwood Nursery He plans to be married thi s summer to Rosemary Powell
Robert Fessenden OAC MSc 67 was recently appointed vice-president of devel opshyment and planning at the Alberta Research Council He is responsible for tec hnology management and corporate marketing
John Fitzgerald 86 was married last November to Susan Given a ] 991 indeshypendent study graduate in animal producshytion He is a lecturer at Ridgetown College she works at Centralia College and is work shying on a psychology degree at the University of Waterloo They live in Strathroy Ont
Glenn Helstern 79A is a driver for the Calgary division of Greyhound Bus Lines of Canada Ltd
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She tells a princely tale
For seven miniJtes on Oct 24 199 L Ellen Het1eOAC 76~U1d MSc 80
(ltllked with PIince Charles Invited toopert a newfumaceat
inco Lilniteds Copper Cliff smelter iri Sudbury Ont the Princemiddot of Wales was easy to talk with says Heale ftwasverycxciting
As eiwironmental co-ordinator Of land reclamation andrevegetation at Copper Cliff Healetold theprince middot about Tnc(secosystem rehabilitation
projects Theroyalvisitor was parshyticulatfyiilterestedin the treegrow- ing project in abandoned inines flld in tlpoundrevegetation ()f acres of tailings
and barren rock Planrilig vegetation on the tailings
hasattrlttcled wildlifeto a protected habitat says Beale who has wqrked forIncosincc she graduated in 1976
Ninety~iwo species ofbirds as weil asrodems hares foxes wolves bears andinoQse have been sighted on the 2500 acres of rehabilitated ore waste
One thing about this job is you middot can s~e where youve been effective she says
While an undergraduate student in Prill(e Charles with EIen Heale horticultural science Healea native ofSiidbury worked at Ineo during the sumniers She wasthi tirst woman to
work inrhemining companys agriculture middot department After shegraduated the niekshy el inine hired her full time tcido horticul- turaLfleld research ~ Ineo later granted heT a two-semester leave of absente t6 work
Theodore Jacobs 78 (Eng) is engineering supervisor at Standard Tube in Woodstock Ont
Greg Keast 85 (Eng) is li ving in Mozamshybique in East Africa where he works as a project officer for UNICEF rural water supshyply project s
Richard Kline 74 was appointed partner of the Toronto accounting firm Schwartz Levitsky Feldman Inc last faiL He is presishydent of the film s bankruptcy division a member of the Chartered Accountants of Onshytario and first vice- president of the Ontario Insolvency Association
Christopher Laforest MSc 91 (USRPD) works in planning and economic developshyment for Bruce County Ont
Jean-Paul PhD 90 and Lynn (Hammell) Laforest 82 and MSc 85 are both employed at Laval University in Sainte-Foy Que He is a professor and s he is a research associate
Kenneth Lawless 63 earned a Guelph deshygree in agricultural economics then went on to stud y dentistry at the Uni versity of Toronshyto He is now an oral and manilo-fac ial surshygeon in Kingston Ont
oil her masters at OAC~ In her current PdStion Heale has rnore
administrative and public relations responshyibilities On her own time she sits on the
board of management for the tocal Red Cross and isalllember ofthe Sudbury
Business and Professional Womens Club
Margie Luffman 77 writes that she has happily returned to Ontario after 10 years in New Brunswick to work at the Smithfield Experimental Farm in Trenton She is curator of the Plant Gene Resources of Canada clonal gene bank
Brian MacCulloch MAg 89 is a sa les representative for Springva le Nurseries Ltd in Berwick NS
Daniel Mansell 64 and MSc 68 is Onshytario manager of the eastern habitat joint venture in the wildlife policy branch of the Ministry of Natural Resources He is stashytioned in Midhurst Ont
Peter McEntire 77A writes from County Langford in Ireland to keep in touch with U of G He is farming and work s as an AI techshynician with Bova Genetics Ltd
Darryl Mitchell 78 works at Pioneer HishyBred Limited in Chatham Ont
Hugh ONeil 88 is manager of customer financial services for Ral ston Purina Canada Inc
Umed Panu MSc 72 (Eng) has done a lot of travelling during his career After Guelph he earned a PhD in civil engineering
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David Nedelko OAC 86 and Ljrlda ArmsJrollg CBS 89 (Jurk 011 cemre) were marriediasl SeplemiJer in Bari ~ie OnlTluir weddiIg iiarly illcilldedfiom leli Katy KusmiliskiOA C 88Paul Allgusline GAG 86 Roh Reed OAC 87Carv Belfral1l oAC 8RJIuJ Sa ndimiddoto (CollinI) BerlrCIlII CBS RR Also 1I111ie wedding w(lS Arlllslong s Veal ullcleClarence Fleming OVC 34 The couple (Ire living in
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at the Universit y of Waterloo taught in India and at Mi ss iss ippi State Uni vers ity and worked with Briti sh Columbia Hydro and the Government of Newfoundland In 1986 he jo ined the faculty of c ivil engi neering at Lakehead Uni ve rsity in Thunder Bay Ont and was promoted to full professor in 199 1 He and hi s wife Kashna and the ir children Neeti and Anukud enjoy the outdoor recreashytion ac ti viti es available in Northwestern Onshytario and look forward to visits from U of G alumni trave lling to Thunder Bay
Lyle Pettigrew 61 is a marketin g consulshytant with Harris Kovacs Alderman in Atlanshyta Ga
Helen Prior 88 joined Sheridan Nurseries after graduation then worked for a year as a research tech nic ian in Guelph s Department of Crop Scie nce She is now in her th ird year at Emmanuel College at Victoria University and hopes to be ordained as a United Church min is ter in May
Gregory Scott 83 (Eng) is operations manager for Accuform Gol f Limited in Toronto
Ba rbara (Coordes) Skrypetz 87 is a fi e ld supervisor for the Ontario Dairy Herd Imshyprovement Corporation working out of Guelph He r husband Stephen 88 operates a bulldozing and excavating busi shyness in the Woodstock area
Victor Skidra 6 is re tired f rom his job as a sc ientific evaluator with Hea lth and Welshyfare Canada He and hi s wife Konstance live in Nepean Ont
William Slusarchuk 63 (Eng) and MSc
The way we were in 1902 OAC alumnus Douglas Campbell 60 passes on a bit of col lege hi sto ry that shou ld make us think twice about our con stitutional squabbles in C anad a
Campbell is director of the Latin America and Caribbea n Trade Divis ion of Canada s Department of External Affa irs Last summer he hosted a vi s it by the president of Uruguay Luis Alberto Lacalle Herre ra whose grand fa the r made a simil a r vis it to Canada in 1902
This is what the elde r Herrera reported to his government Gue lph agricultural college enjoys a worldwide reputation and is con shys idered one of the grea t loca l attracshytions
More than 200 young Canadians a long with many foreign youths come together in its lecture rooms There are bursary ho lde rs from Norway and as far away as Mauritius C loser to us
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67 was recently appo inted pres ident of AGRA Eanh and Environmental Group an envi ronme ntal and geotechnica l firm that is a division of AGRA Indu stries Limited
Michael Sullivan 87 A is a pol ice officer with the Wate rloo Regional Police in Cambridge Ont
Argentina has 12 students there We ll then couldnt Uruguay imshy
itate those good exa mples and also se nd a number of worthy youths to Guelph to acquire the professional knowledge which is becoming m ore necessary each day for the deve lopshyment of our agric ulture~
In addition to the sc ienti fic benefits that our compatriots woul d deri ve from entering sLlch a Canadian techni cal in shystitution there would be the inca lcushylable benefit of becoming familiar with the stric t manly and sound habits of these people who are admirable in e ve ry respect
Afte r they have stee ped themse lves in this atmos phere of dem ocracy which fosters the development of all rights and is alien to intolerance thi s legati on w ill have the great honor of sending home not only sc ientists but a lso mode l citizens
Brenda Trask 80 operates he r own comshymunica tion s consulting company in Osshygoode Ont She is marri ed to Ron Ferguso n
Dave Vanden Bosch 89 is manager of operator services and plann ing for Bell Canada in London Ont
J Stallard Skip Waterhouse 54 and hi s wife Li sa are ce lebrating the birth of a daughter Samantha Elizabe th on New Years Day 1992 They live in New York State where Wate rhouse is iI pro fe ssor of bio logical science at the Plattsburgh Sta te Uni versity College of Arts and Science
Jeff 88 and Karen (Burrows) W h ite 87 live in Strathroy Ont Jeff work s for Bell Canada and Kare n is a Lambton County rural orga ni za tion spec ialist with the Ontar io Mini stry of Agriculture and Food
Harold Wright 86 is a development repre shysenta tive for Ci ba-Ge igy Canada Ltd in Mi sshysissauga Ont He and Lori Krieg 84 plan to marry thi s sprin g
Donald Ziraldo 7 I received doubl e honors last winter fro m the Ontario grape and wine industry Preside nt of Inniskillin W ines of Niagara-on -the-Lake Ont he was named to the Royal Order of the Grape for hi s leadership in enhancing the prod uct and its image
In addition Z ira ldo and his partner Karl Kai se r were named 1991 Men of the Year by FoodsCIvice and Hospitalily magazine During the ir 17-year partnership at Inn isk ilshylin the two have been instrumental in shapshying Canada s wine industry the magazine sa id
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ave Barry Burtis 69 was named president of the Ontario Veterinary Medical Association in January after working with the voluntary organization for four years as a director member of its editorial board and chair of its public relations committee Burtis lives in Burlington Ont and practises at the Bay Cities Animal Hospital He also appears on a local cable television program called Pel Tales
William Medway 54 of Blackwood NJ has been named an honorary life member of the International Association for Aquatic Animal Medicine for his contributions on beshyhalf of the association and the field of aquatic medicine He is both a founding member and past president of the associa shytion A professor emeritus of clinical laboratory medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine Medway is a member of the Marine Mammal Commissions committee of scientific advisers
Diane Pickering-Forster 86 is practising at Vander Kraan Veterinary Services in Huntsville Ont She is malTied to Chris Forster and they have one daughter Julia
Julien Proulx 67 has moved from Kapusshykasing Ont to La Pocatiere Que where he is superintendent of Agriculture Canada s Experimental Farm Last year he was feashytured on TVOntarios French network series Personalire Ontarienne for his work as a veterinarian his participation in municipal politics and his support of regional developshyment in Northern Ontario He was also awarded Agriculture Canadas research branch prize Agcellence for extraordinary management during his direction of the reshysearch program at the Kapuskasing Exshyperimental Farm
A North America-wide
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and others interested in science or nature
Write or phone for information
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Twoc~ireers middot on the samepat~ OVCaruninus Geoffrey Lord 49 felt a thopedic
middot enseofdejavuwhen he read theslory gastrointesshyabout Bill Naray~i1 OVe 63 il1la~t tinal and carc
springs issue ofthe Guelph Altimnus diovascular
There are amazing simi laritiesbetween surgery the c~reersof t~e two Guyanese wh6b6th says Lord If earnedvefetinary degrees atGueiph someone worked in c1ini(ai practice in)Yestem were to ask Canada then moved to the United States me ioday to work in human medic~lresearch what Tcon~
Narayan heads an AlDSresearchteamsider to be atJohns HopkiflS l1)iversilySchool of my expertise MediCirieinBaltimoreMatyland Lord is I would have retired directorofthdohnsonamp Johnson to saymecli- Geofrey Lord
middot Resear~h Foundalion ill NewJersey cal device lordsays he was influenced by OVC andbioshy
proJessDfs Anthony Kings(Qte and Frank Inaterials evaluation middot SchofieJd~ndwcentnton from GiJelphto pur- lt In the I 950s Lordwaspalt of ale-
sue graduate studies in parasitology auhe se~rch team that pioneered the use of University oJWiscollsin Sevenmorithsin animal tissue tOTeconstructdamagedjr
amixed practice in Drumheller Alta con blocked al1eries in hUl11ansTwenty years vinced him thaldinical medicine wasn6t middot later he drafted the first systematicap-
middot whati w~ted6 do He returned to Wis pr()ach to the safety evaluation of medica con5il110 eanla PhDlll pathologyano devices joined Johnson amp JohnsQri as asenior middot Allsubsequeill guidelines inCiLlding patilol()gistiriI953 those of the Foodaj)q Diug Admlnistrashy
Research at Johnson amp JohDson tiOnand the Canadian Regulatory ~teeredmeinto many interesting and chal- Authority hayeadopteoihis approach he
Jenging fieldsofbio-research includirig says derniiltoi9gy toxicologic pathology Lordand his wife Helen ltIividetheir wound healing surgical pathology iiinebetweel)Ciipe CodandBonita genera toxkology ofi~w drugs andor~ Springs FloriQa
Shane Renwick 77 and MSc 91 works in veterinary services at Agriculture Canada offices in Guelph
Ruth Reuter 61 is a veterinary pathologist in Plympton Australia
Tom Sanderson 6 1 was selected by the Ontario Veterinary Medical Association as Ontario Veterinarian of 1991 CUlTently OVCs co-ordinator of off-campus work terms he spent 20 years in private practice in Listowe1 and Mount Forest before returning to the coll ege in 1982 to manage the veterishynary research stations Sanderson s contribushytions to the profess ion have included many hours of volunteer work in the advancement
of the profession and in the development of veterinary inshysurance programs He is a past pres ident of both the Ontario and Canadian Veterishynary Medical associashytions
Jennifer Troughton 86 is practising in OronoOnt
Simone Woltner 86 is a veterinarian at the Chester Basin Animal Hospital in Chester Basin NS
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by her hu sband William and two sons The fo llowing dea ths have been reported since the las t issue of the Guelph Alumnus Full notices which are usu ally submitted by family or classmates may appear in thi s iss ue or in a later one
James Clement Arts 73 Feb 2 1992
Marilyn (Dyment) Farnan Mac 530 Feb 27 1992
David Fisher OAC 80A in October 1990
Elizabeth (C hristie) Glass Mac 3I D June 2l99 1
Peter Heskey OAC 54A Dec 6 199 1
Richard Ketchell OVC 51 Nov 23 199 1
Edward Kowalski Arts 79 in August 199 1
Pauline (Dixon) MacMillan Mac 240 Jan 2 1992
Catherine MacPherson Arts 83 Dec 11 1990
Marguerite (White) Maybury Mac 3 10 in June 1990
Donald McLeOd CSS 80 Jan 9 1992
Albert Meilus OAC 51 in 1991
Ann (Biggs) Ostler Mac 3 10 in April 1991
Robert Race Arts 73 in 1989
Ralph Sampson OAC 40 in December 1989
Mor ris Sanderson OAC 42 Nov 17 1991
Sir Peter Scott HDSc 8 1 in Au gust 1989
William Setterington OAC 40 Oct 22 1991
George Shoniker OAC 50A in March 199 1
John Somerset OAC 34 Dec 27 199 1
Gregory Van Patter OAC 7 1 in 1990
Frederich Weiland OAC 20A in 1990
Arts
Riccardo Rich Incitti 88 died Jan 5 1992 as the result of an accident near Hami lshyton Ont He was assistant manager at the Toronto-Dominion Bank in St Cathari nes and is survived by his parents Gu igi and Lucia of Cambridge and two sisters Laura and Andrea
Larry McNenly 73 died in October 1991 in Owen Sound Ont He is survived by his wife Marnie CSS 73
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Robert Everett HK 74 died in May 1991 in Burlington Ont A teac her at White Oaks Secondary Schoo l in Oakv ille he is survived by his wife Miche le and brother William CBS 74
James Sandy Fear 75 died Oct I I 199 1 in Toronto He is survi ved by his wi fe Sally (Firth) OAC 75 and hi s children Caitlin Alli son and Mered ith
CSS
Lynn (Dalys) Corby 84 died in Toron to May 6 1990 after a long battIe with cancer
Nancy (Birbeck) Gordon 77 died Oct 20 1991 in Ottawa after a short illness She worked at the Kitchener-Waterl oo Hospital and had previously been plan t accountant at Foseco Canada Incorporated in Guelph
Mac-FACS
Jean (Williams) Forward 280 Oct 28 1991 in Calgary She was the widow of Bower Forward OAC 25 and is survived by two sons
Catharine (Bechtel) Fromm 270 died Nov I 199 1 in Cambridge Ont She is surshyvived by three dau ghters Ellen Moore Mac 63 Nancy and Caro l
Alice (Rivaz) Garrard 28 di ed Dec 2 199 1 in Guelph She was an active member of the Mac-FACS Alumni Assoc iat ion and was the Mac 28 class agent for the Alma Mater Fund She is survived by her husband retired professor Edward Garrard OAC 27 and a daughter Betty Nelson
Della Marie (Diamond) Honey 300 of Warkworth Ont died June 29 1991 One ofWarkworths oldest and most respected citizens she served as local li brarian fo r 25 years She is survived by her son John OAC 52A his wife Patric ia and four grandchildren James OAC 84A William OAC 76A Thomas OvC 89 and Patricia Lonergan CSS 68
Barbara (Banigan) Martin 380 died Jan I 1992 in Don Mill s Ont A retired teacher wit h the North York Board of Education she is survived by a son Ted a sister and two brothers
Elizabeth (Burt) Perry 340 died June 28 1991 in Sidney BC and is surv ived by her husband Gordon and son Paul Nartel OAC 62
Jacqueline (Roy) Pote 34D died Dec 2 1 1991 in Willowdale Ont and is is survived
Merrill and Bill
Doroth y (MacFeeters) Scott 260 died Jan 14 1992 in Toronto She is su rvived by two daughters Anne Donaldson and Cynthia Scott
Florence (French) Snyder 370 died May 6 199 1 in Calgary and is survived by her husband Robert and two sons John and William
Katherine (Sweet) Watt Mac 220 died Feb 23 1992 She is survived by her husshyband Leslie a son David and a dau ghter Carol Gi llanders
Mattie (Newman) Widdicombe 240 died Dec 11 1991 in St Catharines Ont Preshydeceased by her husband John she is surshyvived by a bro ther and several nieces and nephews including Virginia Rigby Arts 76
OAC
George Grey Arnup 38 died Feb 2 1992 in Toronto He spent most of his career with the plant protection branch of Agriculture Canada He is survived by his wife Aileen three chi ldren Nancy Jim and Mary Ellen Vincent CBS 79 and four grandchi ldren
Herbert Boyce 28 and MSA 43 died Sept 2 1991 in Amherstburg Onto He is survi ved by his wife Norah a daughter Beverley Med lock and a brother James OAC 32
Jack Reddy Brethet 56 died Nov 4 199 1 in Burlington Ont President of Brethet Barnum Assoc iates Inc he is surshyv ived by his wife Caro l and two daughters Lyn n and Anne
Bruce Foster 28 died Feb 6 1992 in Ridgetown Ont and is survi ved by his daughter Gayle Anderson and son David CBS 69
Allison Gardhouse 49 died Sept 21 1991 in Midland Ont He was re tired supe rshyintendent of schoo ls for the Simcoe County Board of Education and is survi ved by his wife Merle
Kenneth Harrison 24 died Nov 5 199 1 in Kentville NS A distinguished plant patho logist military officer and mycologist he began hi s career in 1926 as assistant plant pathologis t at the Kentvi lle Experimental Farm He worked there until retirement in 1966 wi th the exception of mi litary servi ce du ring the Second World War
Dr Harrison had a lifelong interes t in the study of mushrooms and publ ished numerou s technica l papers on the mu shroom flora of Nova Scotia In addition he enshy
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couraged interested amateurs and led field trips for student s at Acadia University and the general public from 1929 until 1987 In 1979 he was honored by Acadia wi th the dedication of the Kenneth A Harri son Laboratory of Mycology
During his career he was a member of many professional organizations a charter member of the Mycological Society of America and fe llow of the American Associashytion for the Advancement of Science
He is survived by hi s wife Margaret two brothers Maynard OAC 30 and Arthur OAC 29 two son s Ashley and Kenneth and a daughter Jennie Sheito
William Kellam 4 1 died Oct 19 1991 in Brockville Ont He was retired from the Curb and Gate Co of-Brock ville where he had worked as a lab technician fo r 28 years He is survived by his wife Kathleen a son George and a daughter Mary
William M acMillan 48 died in February 1992 in Winnipeg He was supervisor of Fertilizer marketing for the Manitoba Pool Elevators and is surv ived by hi s wife Edna Jean and brother Harry OAC 5 1 A
Cameron McTaggart 35 died Feb 4 1992 in Aurora Ont After graduating from OAC he became manager of Don Head Farms in Richmond Hill He established the first agricul tural consulting business in Canada in 1947 and later ran an Angus cattle
sales management business from the family farm A life member of the OAC Alumni As shysociat ion and the Class of 35 executive he is survived by his wife Margaret Mac 35 and two sons John OAC 62 of Regina and David of Largo Fla
Douglas Miller 48 of Victoria BC died Nov 24 1991 in Toronto He is survived by hi s wife Ruth and five children
Gregory More 76 was killed Feb 3 1992 in Kitchener Ont at the Ontario Glove Manufacturing Co where he was co-owner and vice-president Following graduation he worked for the Rohrer Drug Co and the Stershyling Drug Co then returned to school ea rnshying an MBA at McMaster University in 1981 More was an avid squash player and golfer Court A at the Northfield Racquet Club in Waterloo was dedicated to his memory in March He is survived by his parents Noreen and Ken a brother Randy and a sister Katherine Keeler
John Jack Pawley 33 died March I 1992 in Guelph He is survived by his wife Ruth son John OAC 62 and daughter-inshylaw Carolyn He was a former director of the Ontario Milk Marketing Board and a past member of the Royal City Lodge of Perfecshytion
Harold Reid 20A died in December 1991 in Burlington Ont During the First World W ar he was one of Canadas premier rad io
experts work ing at the Roya l Canadian Navy shore transmitter in Sydney NS After the war he came to OAC to earn a diploma then went on to QueenS University to comshyplete an arts and theology degree His mini sshytry was mainly in St And rews and Montreal although he spent 13 years teaching Hebrew at the Presbyterian Coll ege before retiring in 1968
Donald Robertson 3 1 died Nov 4 1991 in Iroquois Ont He is survived by hi s wife Caroline (Grisdale) Mac 38 his two son s ScottOAC 65A and Guy and a daughter Sandra McNeil
Thomas Rokeby 48 and MSA 50 died Jan 29 1992 in Fayetteville Ark He was a professional engineer and tau ght for 30 years in the Univers ity of Arkansas engineering department Born in Port Rowan Ont he was a member of the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War the American Society of Agricultural Engineers and the agricultural honor societies of Gamma Sigma Delta and Alpha Epsilon He is surv ived by his wife Helen two sons Robert and Richard a daughter Penny and three brothers Michael Noel and Richard OAC 54
Francis Sweeney OAC 45 died Nov 17 1991 in Oakville Ont He was a longtime employee of Shell Canada and [nternational Shell working in Great Britain Europe and
WALL CUSTANCE MEMORIAL FOREST
The Wall-Custance Memorial Forest located at the Universi ty of Guelphs Arboretum was established in recognition of the severe depletion of our forests It is never too late to be a vital part of the effort to save and improve our air and water for the future of our children by planting trees This program is our small part of the major endeavor to reforest and to reduce the greenhouse effect improve air quality and provide food and cover for wildlife The Memorial Forest Proshygram not only pays a Significant tribute to a loved one but also assures a better environment for generations to come
The purpose of this program is to provide an opporshytuni ty to commemorate the life of a loved one by plantshy
Home of the WALL-CUSTANCE
MEMORIAL FOREST
ing a tree We envision that the Memorial Forest Program will continue for many years to come and our hope is that the solace that nature offers particularly in the depths of a living forest will be of comfort and benefi t to all
For more information or for a brochure call or write to
WALL-CUSTANCE Funeral Home and Chapel 206 Norfolk Street Guelph Ontario N1 H 4K3 (519) 822-0051
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Berna rd Weeks 35 died Oct 16 199 1 After graduation he re turned to his roots in
ew York and Pennsylvannia and worked in 4-H and you th organi zations for a few years He then took over the family farm at Troupsburg NY and built up a dairy operashytion with a sideline of sheep He is surv ived by his wife Ruth and four children
Glenn White 43 of Belleville Onl died Nov 24 199 1 in Florida and is surv ived by hi s wife Marjorie
ave Norman Anderson 39 of Wi nn ipeg died Dec 18 1991 in Arizona He had practised veterinary medicine in Norwood Man and was a member of the American Equine Pracshytitioners Association director of the Canadian Thoroughbred Society and track veterinarian at Assin iboia Downs for 50 years He is survived by his wi fe Peggy and two sons Laurie and James
George Beatty 5 I died Nov 22 1991 in Inverness III He practised in Palatine fo r 36 years and founded the Palatine Animal Hospi tal He was an active member of the American Animal Hospital Assoc iati on and the Chicago Veterinary Association and was a director of the Friends of the University of Guelph He is survived by his wife Mary and fo ur children - Suzanne Patricia Margaret and Tim
John Hamilton 5 L died Dec 15 1991 He had lived in Roslin On where he owned the Bay Regional Veterinary Hospital He is survived by hi s niece Ann Bongard
Nicholas Labzoffsky 39 died Dec 25 1991 in Largo Fla Fonnerly of Toronto he had li ved most recen tl y in Dorse t Ont and is survived by hi s wife Jane
Edgar Langford 49 died March 41992 in Monarch Alta A former research scienshytist with ADRI (Western) he is survived by his wife Norma and two daughters includshying Carolyn OVC 76
Stuart Maude 4 1 died Jan 14 1992 in Rosemead Calif A former Rosemead counshycillor and four-time mayor he operated the Rosemead Animal Hospital with his brother Arthur 52 from 1953 to 1980 He was a trustee for Ingles ide Hospital a past grand patron of both the Rosemead and the Califorshynia Order of Eastern Star and past-president of the local Kiwanis Club and Chamber of Commerce He is survived by his wife Vera two daughters Patricia and Susan Bezner a son Stuart and three brothers
Walter Morley 42 o f Mildmay On died Nov 28 199 1 He ran a large animal pracshytice in the Mild may area for 39 years raised cat tle and raced standardbred horses He was also a pu blic school board trustee and direcshytor of a local te lephone company for more
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than 30 years He is survived by his wife Joyce five sons - two of whom are OVC alumni Dave 68 and Randy 74 - and 10 grandchildren
Lloyd Neily 52 died Jan 3 1992 in Hantsport NS A retired meat inspector w ith the federal Department of Agriculture he had a private veterinary practice in Wind sor NS He is surv ived by hi s wife Mary
Elford Nundal 43 died Jan 7 1992 in Langley BC after a long battle with canshycer He operated a veterinary practice in Langley for 36 years and served as a di strict aldennan for 10 years before being elected mayor in 1982 Last year he received the BC Veterinarian Association s award of merit for a lifetime of veterinary work
Humphrey Rees 55 died Sepl 30 1991 in Amman Jordan while on ass ignment for the Overseas Development Ad ministrat ion as veterinary and animal hu sbandry adviser to the Jordani an government His contemshyporaries at Guelph will remember him as a singer debater raconteur rugby player and bon vivant He is surv ived by his wife Alice of POlt Eynon Wales
William Stinson 40 died Feb 15 1992 in Norwood Ont He is survi ved by his wife Rita a son John OVC 67 a brother Ford OAC 34 and a grandson John CSS 87
Faculty
Patric ia Harney died Dec 191991 in Yarshymouth NS A professor in the Department of Horticultural Science from 1962 to 1988 she developed severa l new variet ies of geraniums and was instru mental in es tabshylishing the Frances Ball rose collection at the Arboretum
Anthony Marston died Feb 3 1992 in Fershygu s ant Retired from the School of Hotel and Food Administration he was an acshycomplished competition chef who received his training in Switzerland and England He then spent severa l years working in the Caribbean before coming to Guelph in 1970 A member of the Canadian Olympic culinary team he held a number of positions in the
Donations given in memory ofGuelph alumni will help support University scholarships ifdirected to the Alumni M emorial Fund In 1991 donations were made in memory of the following alumni
Frank MacDonald OAC 37
Frank King OAC 33 -Robert Allen OAC 56A
Alice (Rivaz) Garrard Mac 28
Stan Vesselinovitch OVC 57
For more infonnation call the Office of Annual Giving at 519-824-4120 Ext 6 183
hote l and food industry until retiring in 1982 He is survived by hi s wife Di ana
Gordon McNally dled Jan 12 1992 in Guelph A professor in the Department of Zoo logy from 1934 to 1971 he served as academic assistant to the dean of CBS until retiring in 1979 While at Guelph he was honorary pres id ent of the classes of OAC 54 58 and 67 He is survived by his daughter Jean two siste rs and two grandchildren Prof McNallys family has established the A Gordon Mc a lly Memorial Fund to support a sc holarship or bursary Contributions may be sent care of the Alma Mater Fund Alumni Hou se University of Guelph Guelph ant N I G 2WI
Friends
Jean (Young) Branion died March 3 1992 in Guelph She was the wife of the late Hugh Branion a physiology professor at U of G and assistant to presidents Bill Winegard and Don Forster Jean Branion was an act ive volunteer on campus for many years and one of the firs t presidents of the College Womens Club She is survived by a son Richard and his wife Marga re t of Vanshycouve r and five grandchi ldren Donati ons may be made to the Hugh D Branion Memorial Scholarship through Alumni House
Davy Alexander Hamilton-Williamson died Feb 4 1992 in Guelph A painter and author of childrens stories he had been a member of the University s Presidents Council s ince it began in 1 985
Marjorie Pinkney wife of J ames Pinkney OVC 3 7 died Dec 151 99 [ at her home in Milton ant
Samuel Wyal died March 15 1992 in Brantford ant He was a partner in the law firm Wyatt Purce ll Will Stillman and Scott He is surv ived by his wife M a bel Mac 39 four sons Peter Michael William and John and two daughters Mary Alderson and Sarah Nadalin Arts 82
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INVmiddotESTMENTS amp
DIVIDENDS
Facts about university education in Canada and how we pay for it
By 2000 half of all new jobs in Canada will require a university degree
But at the current rate of government funding only one in five children
will have a chance to go to university
In the seven years from 1982 to 1989 per-student grants to universities in
Ontario barely kept pace with intlation at five per cent
per-student funding at American public univers ities jumped an average
of 23 per cent in the same period
Those US universities also receive twice the federal research dollars per student as do Ontario universities
In 1987 the average salary of a full-time professor at an Ontario univers ity was $55500
compared with $68200 for a private-sector position of similar education and experience
Lawyers economists and engineers made an average of $71 000
Ontario ranks ninth out of the to provinces in terms of grants to universities
Between 1978 and 1991 enrolment at Ontario univers ities grew by 40 per cent while funding dropped
from 59 to 409 per cent of total government spending
Universities were spending 14 per cent less per student between 1977 and 1988 hospital expenditures
rose 38 per cent per patient in the same period
Ontario universities generate $3 of economic activity for every
$1 invested by government funding
And the number of jobs generated by university activities in
Ontario is greater than the employment impact of the textile
industry the entire paper and pulp industry or utilities
University graduates can look forward to earning 63 per cent more than the average industrial worker
A 1990 survey of U of G alumni found that two years after graduation 97 per cent of Guelph grads
looking for work were employed 62 per cent were earning $25000 or more and 10 per cent were
earning $40000 or more
Unemployment rates in 1990 for those with a university degree was about one-third what it was
for those with only a high school diploma
Every year from 1978 to 1987 Ontario university inves tments in renovating or replacing
aging buildings could not keep pace with the rate at which the buildings depreciated
Graphics by Debbie Thompson Wilson Statistics supplied by th~ Council 01 Ontario UniverSities Statistics Canada and the U01 G Student EnVifonment Study Group
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A salute to sport Alumni Weekend June 19-21 9am Sio-pitch tournament
The tradition Jives on at the south quad diamond s Cooed teams of 12 or more players are encourshyaged to join in the fun
FRIDAY 10 am to 9 pm Registration Lambton Hall
6 pm Kick-off dinner and half-time show
get set and join In the Olympic spirit one of Alumni Creelman Hall will Weekends host the Wonderful most popular World of Sports with events Tours a half-time slide show start from to entertain alumni of Alumni House all ages and are sponshy9 pmshy sored by the Observatory tours CBS Alumni
Association
10 am and 2 pm
SATURDAY 8 am to 5 pm Guided Registration walking tours Lambton Hall
Remember 9 am to 5 pm making s now Alumni House tours sc ulptures on Students will host tours of Alumni House throughshyout the weekend Come and see what the generosity of alumni has accomplished
9 am to noon Alumni association annual meetings
This is the official notice for the annual general meetings of the following alumni associations
CBS - Alumni House starts at 830 am before guided walk MacFACS - HAFA Building Room 209
OVC - OvC Room 1438
OAC - Macdonald Hall Room 149
CSS - MacKinnon Building Room 305
HAFA - Alumni Hou se boardroom
Gryphs Lounge will be open for lunch and afLer the game
930 am Guided nature walk at the Arboretum
On your mark
Noon - OVC luncheon
The OvC Alumni Association will host a luncheon open to all OvC alumni and their guests
2 pm - Campus Showcase 92
Following on the heels of last year s success Campus Showshycase 92 will be bigger and better Come to the University Centre to see exhibits representing all areas on campus The Campus Junction store will also be open
2 pm - Zavitz Hall tour
Alumni are invited to browse through the newly renovated Za vitz Hall and attend a recep shytion sponsored by the Colshylege of Arts Alumni Asshysoc iation
5 pm Golden anniversary dinner
The OAC OvC and MacshyFACS alumni associations will provide complimenshytary tickets for alumni celebrating 50 years or more Additiona l tickets can be purchased Classes
Johnston Green or playing intramural hockey in the old Quonset arena Relive some of the memories by taking a walking tour of campus Tours begin from the lobby ofLambton Hall
Noon - Alumni picnic
This apopular event has new location - the sculpshyture garden beside the Macshydonald Stewart Art Centre Come on your own or reshyserve a group of tables for friends and classmates
Noon - Class reunion lunches
OAC 37 Mac 37 OAC 42 Mac 42 OAC 47 Mac 52 Mac57 Mac 67 FACS 72 FACS 77 FACS 87
OAC 67 FACS 82 OAC 82 OAC 82A CBS 82 FACS 87 OAC 87
SUNDAY 9am Church service and War Memorial Hall rededication
Thanks to a commitment from the Alma Mater Fund renovashytion of the upstairs of War Memorial Hall has been comshypleted Join us for the rededicashytion ceremony commemorating the 1924 opening and the 1952 dedication of an OAC memorial plaque
being honored are OAC 22 OAC 47 OvC 22 Mac 22 OAC 27 OvC 27 Mac 27 OAC 32 OvC 32 Mac 32 OAC 37 OvC 37 Mac 37 OAC 42 OvC 42 Mac 42
6 pm Class reunion dinners
Special dinn e r reunions are planned for OAC 47 OAC 52 OAC 52A OvC 52 Mac 57 OAC 57 OAC 62 Mac 67
10am UGAA annual meeting
All alumni are encouraged to atshytend the UGAA annual meeting in Macdonald Hall Room 149 An amendment to the UGAA Letters Patent and a revised bylaw will be presented for ap shyproval Copies of both are availshyable on request from Alumni House Call 519-824-4120 Ext 6544
11 am - Farewell brunch
The final event of Alumni Weekend will be held in Creelshyman Hall Come and meet the Univers ity S president Brian Segal The Alumnus of Honour medal will be presented at noon
To receive an Alumni Weekshyend brochure or to register for events call Alumni House at 59-824-4120 Ext 6963
Opened July 1991Research Park Centre shy
Where research and industry Dleet
Space available now Exceptional office and research facilities in our multi-tenant Research Park Centre
Research-driven corporations are breaking new ground at the University of Guelph Research Park Centre with exceptional growth opporshytunities in an ideal business setting
This 30-acre Research Park also accommodates tenants who choose to construct their own office and laboratory facilities
Find out why organizations such as Semex Canada Tremco Limited the Ontario Dairy Herd Improvement Corporation George Morris Centre LIPID Analytical Laboratories and Agriculture Canada have chosen the University of Guelph Research Park Call Ralph Eades or Judy Phillips Real Estate Division University of Guelph Telephone (519) 767-5003 or Fax (519) 837-0353
The Research Park is a project oj the Office oj Research and the University S Real Estate Division
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Reggie Lo Microbiology to continue work on an improved vaccine for shipshyping fever Lo and Prof Alan Mellors Chemistry and Biochemistry received a $54000 grant to develop clinical and com mercial applications of a technique used in bone marrow transplantation and vaccine development
These projects follow in the footsteps of earlier developments like the bov ine shipping fever vaccine created by Shewen and VMI chair Bruce Wilkie OVC 65 It was like finding a way to control the common cold in humans
Although the bacterium Pasteurella haemolytica occurs normally in the noses of cattle its numbers increase during periods of high stress and present an insurmountable problem for the animals immune system
Wilkie and Shewen di scovered that during its most active stage of growth the bacterium produces a toxin that imshypairs the ability of clearing cells to eliminate the bacterium They grew the bacterium in a culture monitored toxin production and developed processes for vaccine production
The technology was licensed to Langford Inc of Guelph which man ufac tures and markets Presponse shipping fever vaccine in both Canada and the United States
Lab work by Lo and former student Craig Strathdee CBS 85 PhD 89 that contributed to the shipping fever vaccine project also led to a patent apshyplication - for the plasmid coding for Pasteurella haemolytic leucotoxin which has been implicated as a major virulence factor in the impairment of primary lung defence in cattle
Animal health
Wilkie and Mallard are also working with Prof Brian Kennedy in Guelph s Centre for the Genetic Improvement of Livestock to develop a selective breedshying program that uses knowledge acshyquired through genetic studies and stretches the definition of biotechnology
To stay hea lthy an individual animal must have the genetic ability to produce resi stance to infection says Wilkie That ability is not dependent on a sing le gene but on the expression of many difshyferent genes Neve rtheless these genetic traits are heritable and amenable to selection
This team has identified traits in pigs that are important in maintaining health has characterized individual animals
Biotechnology ofa different sort in volves the use of traditional selected breeding and a computer database to produce diseaseshyresistant pigs
through the expression of these genetic traits and has associated these traits with high productivity If these high producers are mated to produce a disshyease-resistant strain of pigs is that biotechnology
If foreign DNA had been introduced into the embryo of a pig to give it the characteristic of disease resistance that would be an obvious example of bioshytechnology But how do we catalogue the technology if it uses tradi tional selecshytive breeding and a computer to produce a piglet with the same resistance to disshyease
More biotechniques in action
Guelph food scientist Cyriel Duitschaever OAC MSc 66 PhD 75 has developed new fermented milk products that will benefit people suffershying from gastrointestinal illnesses
He and research associate Carole Buteau OAC MSc 78 PhD 83 isoshylated two naturally occurring intestinal bac teri a and propagated a pure culture in the laboratory to develop both liquid and yogurt-like milk products that can be used to stimulate digestion in the inshytestinal tracts of people who are on anshytibiotics who are lactose-intolerant or who suffer gas trointestinal disorders
Clinica l trials at the Children s Hospishytal of Buffalo have been promis ing giv ing rise to another potential use in the treatment of acute diarrhea l di seases affec ting people in the Third World
Microbiology professor Joseph Lam heads a research team that has develshyoped a diagnostic kit to quickly identify a bacteria group known to cause fat al inshy
fections in some hospital patients Pseushydomonas aeruginosa is the principal cause of death in cystic fibrosis sufshyferers and is a serious threat to burn vi cshytims cancer patients and those undergo ing transplants
Because the bacterium does not respond to conventional antibiotic treatshyments quick de tection is central to preventing spread of the infection Lam s kit can cut the test period from 12 hours to five minutes
His current research illustrates the cross-over effect of biotechnology He identified an antigen that is common to about 75 per cent of P aeruginosa strains and a monoclonal antibody against the antigen This has allowed him to iso late spec ia l bacteria that will produce the antigen in large quantities for further s tud y His work should evenshytually lead to a human monoclonal anshytibody that cou ld be used to protect cystic fibrosis patients
In 1989 when the federal governshyment decided it was time to put some money behind its verbal thrust in science and technology it allocated $240 million to estab li sh 14 centres of excellence that would integrate the reshysearch efforts of Canadian uni versi ties industry and government
Several U of G researchers received funding including microbiologists Chris Whitfield Anthony Clarke Joseph Lam Reggie Lo Roselynn Stevenson and Terry Beveridge who beshycame part of the network looking into bacterial di sease Their expertise will aid the search for the causative agents of bacterial diseases such as whooping cough gonorrhea toxic shock synshydrome lung infections and me ningitis
In 1988 biochemist Janet Wood and crop scientist Peter Paul s achieved a breakthrough in understanding how subshystances like sugars and amino ac ids are transported from outside to inside a living cell wall They found that minute protein molecules in the wall surroundshying a cell act like miniature pumps capshyturing the substance and powering it through the cell wall -They are now trying to determine how the protein molec ules choose subshystances for uptake or release S uch celshylular behavior plays a critical role in determining a plants reaction to soi l sa linity or explaining why cells fai l to transport glucose from the blood in diabetics
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Behind every how theres a why While we stand in awe of what sc ienshytists are accomplishing in the biological sciences we shouldnt lose sight of the reasons why they are manipulating cell structure and decoding genetic blueprints
To some extent scientific exploration is driven by human nature - our desire to understand and control the natural world Advances in biotechniques and genetic engineering promise to give us more of both
Reports on the Human Genome Project say that within 15 years well know the code of almost every gene in the human body This work and current explorations in animal genetics are harshymonized by the fact that many of the genes that control development are similar among species
The chicken for example is a familiar model for studies in developshymental biology Supported by 60 to 70 years of data todays embryologists like Prof Rob Etches are learning how to modify the genes that control developshyment of a chick embryo while giving us a better understanding of how genes efshyfect development in all vertebrates
Nothing could be more fund amental than understanding that process says Prof Keith Betteridge who heads the Guelph team working with bovine embryos In all areas of reproductive and genetic research the big payoff is that we will understand more about how two gametes can unite to fonn a single cell and develop into Northern Dancer or Albert Einstein he says
Everyone has a role to play in decidshying how to use this knowledge says Betteridge but the researcher has the triple responsibility of thinking through the implications of new technologies exshyplaining those implications to a skeptishycal and concerned public and safeshyguarding the welfare of animals used
Whether manipulating an entire animal or one of its reproductive cells the scientist is guided by the same set of moral standards If the technology inshyduces pain or suffering causes changes in behavior or affects the animals abilshyity to eat and survive then it shouldnt be done says Prof Bruce Wilkie chair of the Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Immunology
He and other Guelph scientists inshyvolved in animal research are subject to
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peer rev iew through the U of G s animal care committee which is also charged with ensuring that research and teaching programs are in compliance with the Animals for Research Act of Ontario
Reporting to the University s Reshysearch Board the committee is comshyposed offaculty student community and non-user representatives It estabshyli shes animal-care policies on campus and evaluates all protocols submitted by researchers and teachers After granting initial approval the committee reviews each project annually and inspects reshysearch facilities each semester A provinshycially appointed inspector also visits campus frequently and the Canadian Council on Animal Care makes an inshyspection every three years to assess the level of animal care
In addition to safeguarding animal care scienti sts al so need to provide evidence that the products of biotechnolshyogy are safe for human consumption or medical use The public needs to know that the pharmaceutical protein cloned and produced in a chicken s egg is no different than the same protein cultured from human cells and produced in a large bioreactor
The big payoff is that we will understand more about how two gametes can unite to form a single cell and develop into Northern Dancer or Albert Einstein
One of the most talked-about benefits of transgenic technologies is the potenshytial for producing enzymes prote ins and antibodies for pharmaceutical and inshydustrial uses Molecular farming would take advantage of the expression system in higher animals to produce a therashypeutic protein that is difficult or expenshysive to make in a lab
The potential seems enormous but the prac tice will be quite simple A typishycal Ontario dairy herd could probably produce enough human insulin or bloodshyclotting factor to satisfy the world
demand It s easy to see why these techshyniques are already presenting problems for patent offices
The past decade of work in transshygenesis has been a learning process for all of us Early research efforts that produced pigs in the United States with arthritic deformities and sheep in Australia with ulcers have taught us th at even science must learn to walk befo re it can run That means perfecting genetic transfer in animals where the techniques are easily controlled - such as mice and fruit flies - before applyshying them to domestic animals
One of the advantages of gene transshyfer technology is the control it offers geneticists who are able to manipulate expression of a single gene during development One of the limitations may be the re lative ly minor change that gene can make in one generation when compared with the changes induced through the countless generations of selection since domestication
These limitations may alleviate some of our fears about the use of gene transshyfer but it also makes us question its value at least in terms of breed improveshyment in domestic livestock Prof Charshyles Smith holds a research chair at Guelph in animal-breeding strategies and is often called on to assess the value of the new biotec hnologies in the genetic improvement of farm livestock
Economic traits are already being imshyproved through traditional selective breeding methods he says It would take quite large beneficial transgenic efshyfects (at least 10 per cent of the mean) on economic merit to make their incorshyporation worthwhile
Despite our e thical concerns the legal entanglements created by the use of biotechniques and the problem of turnshying new technologies into cost-effective procedures most scientists agree that these technolog ies are too powerfu I not to use They have the pote ntial to help allev iate some of the most serious problems facing the world - food production overpopulation disease and shyenvironmental degradation
Statisticians teU us that 50 years from now we will be trying to feed twice the current world s population on a smaller land base in a more fragile environshyment This is the why behind current research in genetic engineering
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OUD TH Annual giving in 1991 reached $14 million The value of the Annual Fund becomes more apparent each year as the University of
Scholarships amp BursariesGuelph faces continued financial $320127
AMF Priority Athletics ~ ---------- (Scholarships$38326
pressure The 1991 Annual Fund Pet Trust raised $14 million to help $261224 maintain scholarships and provide academic and library programs AMF OAC Alumni Scholarships Foundation ______ grew by $9245 25 per cent
$228494
Memorial Funds $56997
Arboretum $77441
Class Projects ResearchBuildings$86658
Matching gifts grew 31 per cent in 1991 More and more Canadian companies are g iving financial support to the institushytions that educated their employees A total of 44 companies matched 92 inshydividual gifts for a record $11120 in Annual Fund contributions to the University of Guelph in 1991
If you work for a matching-g ift employer every doll ar you donate is matched - doubled or even tripled shyby a company gift Its as easy as it sounds so check with your employer on how to multiply the value of your gift to the University
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Academic Enrichment $87246
3M Canada Incorporated Akzo America Foundation Alcan Aluminum Limited A lean Canada Products Ltd Amdahl Canada Limited American Home Products Corp American International Group Inc BASF Corporation Bell Canada Boise Cascade Canada Limited Campbell Soup Co Ltd Chevron Canada Resources Ltd F alconbridge Ltd Ford Motor Company of Canada Ltd Gelleral Electric Canada Inc Hoechst Canada Incorporated IBM Canada Limited ICI Canada Incorporated Insurance Bureau of Canada
$134893Library $103050
John Laball Limited Kraft General Foods Canada McGraw-H ill Ryerson Limited Nabisco Brands Canada Ltd Northern Telecom Limited Paul Revere Life Insurance Co Pfizer Canada Inc Pioneer Hi-Bred Limited Pitman-Moore Inc Sara Lee Corp ofCanada Ltd Square D Canada The Bank of Montreal The Coca-Cola Company The Toronto Star The UPS Foundation TransCanada Pipelines Warner-Lambert Canada Inc Westeel
Guelph Alumnus
ADIT ON With thanks to Donors Class agents College representatives Alma Mater Fund Advisory Council
Alumni and others who give to the University of Guelph through the Annual Fund are helping to maintain quality at a time when governments are funding for mediocrity Because of the dedication and commitment of our donors and volunshyteers the 1991 Annual Fund surpassed last year s total by $100000 We did not achieve our goal - perhaps $1 6 million was overly ambitious in light of current economic conditions - but we were able to maintain last years 25-per-cent inshycrease in scholarship support
Through the Alma Mater Fund we raised more than $540000 and achieved Tom Sawyer
the target of 12-per-cent participation among graduates of the three founding colleges Arts CBS and CSS alumni substantially increased their donations and participation over last year Campus participation grew from 145 per cent in 1990 to 171 per cent this year And our parents program pushed contributions from parents to $84188 compared with $31500 in 1990
For the first time since 1984 the Alma Mater Fund Advisory Council was able to go beyond its commitments to fund eight additional projects - a total of $86000
Looking ahead our flagship project for 1992 will be War Memorial Hall renovations During Alumni Weekend in June you ll have a chance to see the work that has been done upstairs and the work still needed in the downstairs hall It s a project well worth the interest and support of alumni
For your past and future support of the Alma Mater Fund my sincere thanks
s
Tom Sawyer OAC 59A and 6 Corporations Chair AMF Advisory Council Associations Foundations $2874947 Annual giving contribution s
III Annual IGiving Alumni
$1403701 Major Gifts $1236622
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were 22 per cent of the o
Other $687687
$6239707 given t U of G as donation
in 1991
Government (Donations only
$36750
Annual Giving Report
1991 Annual Fund Results $1 A niillion wasraised overallmiddot ariinceaSe of
76 per ceI1tThisyear alumrii in the Arts and CBS groups doubled theirparticipation alld conshytributions And the parents recotded a 46-pershy
cent participation rate
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The group of eight
Eight campus projects were selected to share $86000 in highest-priority funds from the 1990 Alma Mater Fund Among them are the OvC Wild Bird Clinics education program a CSS academic medal in memory of the late dean John vanderkamp a soc ial sc ience citation index for the library framshying for the fine art print study collection a computer design laboratory for the School of Engineering seed money for a history graduate scholarship a conshytinuing education survey for the Mac-FACS Alumni Association and a HAFA-sponsored executive-inshyresidence
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Of cattle cash and Colvil e Alumni gifts to the University of Guelph come in some pretty interesting packages Over the years alumni have given livestock concrete paintings shythere are two by Canadian painter Alex Colville - furniture land books inshysurance policies and a host of artifacts and antiques And money - a lot of money Almost every building on camshypus has some bricks and mortar paid for by alumni And hundreds of students are helped along the way each year by alumshyni-sponsored scholarships
The Annual Giving Report on the preceding pages shows once again how important alumni gifts are to the Univershysity and provides us with an opportunity to say thank you to those alumni who continue to give on a yearly basis Anshynual giving is however only one of three avenues through which alumni proshyvide financial support to the University The others are major gifts and promoshytional programs
Annual giving
The Alma Mater Fund established in 1969 is the route chosen by most alumshyni faculty and staff who make annual gifts to the University
AMF solicitation and management are handled by a volunteer advisory council On the preceding page chair Tom Sawyer OAC 59A and 64 talks about the funds success over the last two years with AMF scholarships inshycreasing by 25 per cent This year the AMF begins a three-year commitment to funding renovations to War Memorial Hall
In addition to its flagship project AMF provides regular support to athshyletics through Gryphon Club contribushytions to college advancement funds and scholarships and to individual class projects
The AMF supports the camaraderie of university days as alumni work together to plan and complete a project whether its funding a scholarship a painting a tree weight-lifting equipshyment or furniture for Alumni House AMF contributions also ensure that fushyture Guelph students will remember those who have gone before
In addition to AMF donations the anshynual giving program includes gifts to
the OVC Pet Trust Fund the OAC Alumni Foundation the Arboretum the paren ts program and the Li brary Other gifts made directly to the University supshyport memorial funds scholarships musishycal activities and research and academic programs
Major gifts
Major gifts to the University are adshyministered by the Deve lopment Office under the direction of Marilyn Robinson Mac 55 These include beshyquests or life insurance policies shortshyterm pledges (often made during a capital campaign) large donations that might establish an endowment fund or contributions to special University projects like the Heritage Fund or the proposed FACS Building addition
Gifts- in-kind - such as library materials art objects or estate properties - also fall within thi s category Last year alumni gave more than $12 milshylion in such tax-deductible gifts
Promotions
Every Guelph graduate is a member of the University of Guelph Alumni Asshysociation and receives the Guelph Alumshy
nus magazine and many other privishyleges There are no UGAA membership fees but the association does raise money through promotional programs like MasterCard travel packages and the North American Life Assurance proshygram
The UGAA provides serv ices to alumshyni and students - such as the careershyplanning workshop planned for Juneshyand returns many dollars directly to the campus Last year it gave $20000 to the library
In addition to direct financial support through annual giving and major gifts alumni also support the University inshydirectly through membership fees to individual college and program associashytions The fees pay for association acshytivities that help maintain ties between their members and the University
Questions
If you have questions or would like 10
know more about the tax advantages of giving to U of G write to Paulette Samson associate director of annual giving and support services at Alumni House University of Guelph Guelph Ont NIG 2Wl or call 519-824-4120 Ext 6183
When yo~bearrom US
If you think youre hearing from us moreoften lhanY9u elida few years ago you reright But checkyour mail and you ll 110tiqe that you~re also hearing
more frequemly from othernon-jgtrofit)rganizations and charities We v~ all stepped lip oui- fUQdIaising efforts
U QfGappreciates your support and needs your help butyou wont know that if we donr teflyou Aildeyen if you cant afford to make a fjnancialcon~
tributiori we hop~ to wjn yoUfverbaJ sliPPOJ-tJt will take many voices to coii- ylnce governmeritthal universities should beagreater public priority
When we contacenttyou on behalf of iheUriivetsity we lly to give more thiin we ask So tak~advantage ofthe p~1one call o(letter to findoutwhais happenc ing OJrcarnp~s U ofG hasmuchto offer llufnrii professionaldevelcipment courses library privileges travel programs recreation and a link Igt friends and
classmates
We Jik~to keep in roucharidYcwarit yO~1 to know the progress were rilaking Ast~e Uriiversity $ prestige grows so does the value ofyour degree
~0~ MarilynR~binson Trish Walker Mac55 DiJectoJ ofDevelopment CSSTl Director ofAJurhni Affairs
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Get your career on track
Responding to alumni requests the University of Guelph Alumni Associashytion will sponsor a career-planning workshop on campus June 26 to 28 The weekend program will be led by Sharon Crozier of the University of Calgary counselling service Each participant will receive a careerlifestyle analysis and will develop a personal action plan
The $225 fee includes the StrongshyCampbell Interest Inventory and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator which will be administered and tabulated prior to the weekend Testing dates have been set in Toronto for May 27 and in Guelph for June 4
Sponsored by the UGAA and coshyordinated by Continuing Education and Alumni Affairs the workshop will also draw on the Universitys Counselling and Student Resource Centre
Enrolment is limited to 20 For registration information see page 26 or call Continuing Education at 519-767shy5000
UGAA board report
by Grant Lee CSS 73 MA 80
The UGAA will present a convocation package to each graduate this spring imshymediately following presentation of the degree or diploma Developed by Alumshyni Affairs staff the package is designed to increase awareness of the UGAA and the collegeschool alumni associations encourage membership introduce the Guelph Alumnus and provide an opporshytunity for board members to congratushylate our new alumni
Approval of the new UGAA bylaw is on schedule It will be presented to members at the annual general meeting in June along with an amendment to the
i I UGAA Letters Patent
In addition the UGAA board bull has approved a $400 donation to help
cover costs for two students to represhysent Guelph at the 1992 World Debatshying Championships in Dublin Ireland
bull is looking at a proposal to help alumDl with financial planning There will be more to come on this subject later
bull received thanks from president Brian Segal on behalf of those alumni who attended the October symposium
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Canada Break Up or Restructure The association was a patron of the event
bull is responding to requests from alumni for more social events Aside from the travel program the UGAA sponsored a ski day at Horseshoe Valley in March
bull approved a proposal from the School of Landscape Architecture to research places of historical value on campus Financial support has yet to be resolved
bull accepted an offer to help sponsor the University Centres annual lecture series which invites Canadian and inshyternational public figures to speak on current issues All events in the winter 92 series were free to alumni
bull donated U of G sweatshirts to Canadian Guidance and Counselling for a conference in Ottawa this sumshymer
bull approved the purpose and terms of refshyerence for the new Alumni House Adshyvisory Committee which is charged with overseeing maintenance of the
facility adopted the 199192 budget and finanshycial plan drafted last November This year we expect to generate some $44000 and spend $33000 It has been suggested that we set the 199293 budget and plan in April of this year so the new board wi II start in September with a sound financial program and budget that will only reshyquire adoption or revision
Chapter news
Calgary - About 40 alumni and guests met at the Delta Bow Valley Hotel Feb 3 to view a U of G video and hear a talk by admissions counsellor C hr is tine Toews FACS 87 Co-ordinator of the event was Janet Hutchinson CBS 79
Edmonton - Paul OAC 67 and Anne Valentine CBS 69 hosted a group of 30 alumni and guests at the Ramada Renaissance Hotel
Montreal - U of G welcomed students and their parents - including many
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alumni - to its first Montreal informashytion night for prospective students The event was modelled after a successful program in Toronto that draws more than 800 students each spring
Vancouver - U of G president Brian Segal met with alumni March 5 at the Pan Pacific Hotel Jim Dodds OVC 63 and Sarah Bloom FACS 86 orshyganized the event which attracted about 70 alumni and guests
Halifax- U ofG alumni in Halifax met with Gryphon basketball players during the March 26 to 28 CIAU chamshypionships Despite losing the OUAA west division title to Brock University the Gryphons qualified for a wi ld card spot at the CIAU championships Alumshyni received free tickets to the game that pitted Guelph against Brandon in the consolation final Fan support was enshythusiastic but the Gryphons lost 72 to 64 finishing third overall
Homecoming 1992 Plans are well under way for Homecoming weekend Sept 25 and 26 In addition to the annual Gryphon Hall of Fame dinner and award s ceremony the weekend will feat ure a beach volshyleyball tou rnamen t --~4~=iiiiikshyconcert alumni brunch walk-a-thon pep rally reunions and the traditional homecoming dance following the Saturday afternoon footshyball game This year the Gryphons will play Wil frid Laurier University A complete schedule will appear in the next Guelph Alumnus but you can get
Winners of Ihe Ju SI fo r Fun square dance compelition 01 College Royal were left 10 right Ann Joselin Kelley Allen Joanne Hewirson Brenl McFadden caller Sue MacKinnon Richard Presley Trish Henderson Jason Thompson and Kelly Lillie
in the Homecoming spirit now by helpshying to plan your class reunion or signing up as a scorekeeper for the vo lleyball tournament For infOlmation call alumshyni officer Laurie Malleau HAFA 83 at 519-824-4120 Ext 2102
Swing your partner
Eight squares of alumni took part in the College Royal square dance competition in March Winners of the UGAA alumni square dance plaque were the Crazy 8s Joanne Hewitson Arts 91 Lloyd Hutchinson CBS 87 Sonya Jones CPS 90 Ed Ketchabaw OAC 88 and MSc 91 Carol)n OAC 90 and Brad MacNeil CPS 87 Mike Relf OAC 91 and student Sherry MacNeil Wayne Lowden was the caller
Winners in the Just for Fun category were Junior Farmer alumni who included Hewitson Ann Joselin OAC 90 Brent McFadden CSS 90 Richard Presley OAC 86 and soonshyto-be-alumni Kelley Allen Trish
Henderson Kelly Little and Jason Thompson The caller was Sue MacKinnon OVC 9 1
Florida picnic
The North Port Yacht Club hosted 199 alumni for the annual Florida picnic March 4 On hand to meet them was Trish Walker CSS 77 and MSc 90 director of alumni affairs Judy Phillips of the University s Real Estate Division also attended to talk about the Village by the Arboretum retirement deve lopshyment
Attendance prizes went to Gertrude Stewart Mac 30 and Morley Funston OAC 32 The picnic was sponsored by the UGAA Alumni-In shyAction Committee represented by Ken Gartley OAC 42 and the Florida reunion committee consisting of Mary and Ted Brent OAC 48 Helen and Don Moffatt OAC 46 Stella and Bob Moore OAC 48 and Retis and Bill HasenptlugOAC 39
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Its the latest fad in alumni circles shymeeting your classmates at the anshynual University of Guelph alumni hockey tournament Twenty-two teams played in the fifth annual tourshynament in December
For most teams tournament standshyings are secondary to the socializing with classmates that they may not see otherwise says Bill Seegmiller OAC 83 who worked with Brian TapscottOAC 8 1 to organize the event We promote the social aspect through two divisions - social and more social - and include family skating and a Saturday evening wine and cheese party he says Trish Walker director ofalumni affairs presents fhe social division lrophy 10 Ihe OAC 79
Dipper Oldies (II the U ofG alumni hockey tournamenl The OAC 79A team defeated the Grey Gryphons to win the more soshycial division The OAC 80 team won the consolation final and the spirit award went to OAC 7778
In the social (a little more competishytive) division it was the Faceoffs in first place over OAC 88 OAC 90 won the consolation trophy and the Valley Vikings took home the spirit award
Organizers plan to add womens exshyhibition games to the 1992 tournament which is scheduled for Dec 5 and 6 For more information call Seegmiller at 519-836-3807 or Rudy Diemer OAC 85 at 519-763-2250
A night at the races
The UGAA Alumni-in-Action group will host a night at Mohawk Raceway May 26 The $30 admission includes a 6 pm buffet parking program taxes and gratuities For detail s call Laurie
~ Malleau at 519-824-4120 Ext 2102
I Alumni directory
A new alumni directory will be ready for delivery in May The deadline for alumni updates has passed but you can still order a copy of the directory at a cost of $40 plus tax Return the order form you received with the special U of G wristwatch offer or write to Rosemary Clark Mac 59 at Alumni House University of Guelph Guelph Ont NIG 2Wl
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Ottawa chapter 50 years young
There was a nostalgic gathering of Guelph alumni in Ottawa last winter to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the city s alumni chapter
Donald Fletcher OAC 36A and 39 who was president of the group in 1953 sent us a historical account of the chapters activities
A small organizing committee first met in February 1941 at Madame Burgers restaurant to plan the chapters first fun ction a skating party at the Ottawa Experimental Farm It attracted 75 people
Over the years the group held an anshynual picnic and a banquet and dance that gave them a chance to invite faculty from Guelph to speak about happenings at the colleges - and later the Univershysi ty Every president from George I Christie to Bill Winegard paid a vi sit
In 1951 alumni from OVC and Macshydonald Institute who had been meeting since 1936 joined the OAC group A crowd of almost 200 celebrated the chapter s 10th anniversary at a picnic at the farm of the late John Bracken OAC 06 During the 1950s they added a get-together at the annual Ottawa-area plowing match which gave way to a curling bon spiel in the 1960s
There have been many special funcshytions - entertaining the Gryphon footshyball teams square dances car rallies golf tournaments theatre parties and raceway evenings - but the event that stands out in Fletchers memory ocshycurred in 1966 when five members of Parliament hosted the group in the parshyliamentary ballroom
The chapter also includes a couples bridge club which has been meeting for 25 years in the homes of its members
Fletcher thanks the 30 people who have served as president of the Ottawa alumni chapter and the dozens more who have helped on committees devot shying years to the executive to promote the institution
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ALUMNI CAREER PLANNING WEEKEND WORKSHOP
JUNE 26 27 amp 28 ~ The Program This highly successful workshop developed by Sharon Crozier PhD University Counselling Services University of calgary is the first step for an alumnus who is considering a career move The weekend (Friday evening through Sunday afternoon) will consist of group presentations conducted by Dr Crozier with smaller working groups facilitated by profeSSional counsellors from the University of Guelph Counselling and Student Resource Centre
Discussion structured exercises and experiential activities will lead alumni to gain insight into a personal careerllifestyle analYSis and assessment career information resources networking skills and much more
No matter what their age career stage or reason for transition each participant will find this workshop to be an excellent opportunity to develop a personal action plan - and chart their next move
~ Pre-1esting In order to provide individualized career information registrants are required to attend one of two pre-testing sessions The Strongshycampbell Interest Inventory and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator will be administered and results tabulated prior to the workshop Pre-testing dates are as follows
Toronto Wednesday May 27 1992 700 pm - 8 30 pm Holiday Inn Yorkdale
Guelph Thursday June 4 1992 700 pm - 8 30 pm University Centre
~ Fee The registration fee of $225 includes administration and tabulation of the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator materials two lunches and refreshment breaks
Tuition fees in excess of $100 are income tax deductible
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May 2 - The Guelph Spring Festival begins with a 25th-anniversary gala dinshyner in Creelman Hall that will honor founding president Murdo MacKinnon Other festival events run until May 23 For more information call 519-821-7570
May 2 shy An All-Canadian University Asshysociation d inne r w il l be held in Washington DC at the Embassy of Canada Guest speaker is Robert Lanni president of the University of Windsor Entertainment will be provided by Windsors music department For inforshymation call T Chan at 202-543-9111
May 3 - Arboretum Day celebrates spring with family nature walks at 1 and 330 pm and an electrical keyboard concert at 230 pm featuring Canadian comshyposer Carole Anne Burris
May 10 to Aug 30 - Guided nature walks run every Sunday at 230 pm in the Arboretum Topics include wildflowers birds turtles snakes and insects The nature centre is open from 1230 to 430 pm
May 13 - Chancellor Lincoln Alexander is the guest speaker at the Alumni-inmiddotAction annual general meeting which begins at noon in the Arboretum Centre For details call Alumni Affairs 519-824middot 4120 Ext 2102
May 13 - The Human KineticsHuman Biology Alumni Association will hold its inaugural meeting at730 pm at Alumni House with a coffee and dessert social RSVP to 519-824-4120 Ext 6963
May 23 shy FACS 82 is sponsoring a colshylection of Bob Munsch plays performed by the Carousel Players at3 pm at War Memorial Hall Tickets are $8 plus tax and handling To order call the UC box off ice at 519-824-4120 Ext 3940
May 26 - Alumni-in-Action is hosting a night at Mohawk Raceway Cost is $30 To register call 529-824-4120 Ext 2102
May 30 - An Arboretum sale of rare native trees and shrubs at the RJ Hi lton Centre on College Avenue East runs from 9 am to 1 pm For information call 519-824shy4120 Ext 2113
May 30 shy The sixth annual All-Canadian University Dinner in Chicago will be held
in the Henry Crown Space Centre at the Museum of Science and Industry and will include a reception buffet dinner and an Omnivax movie beginning at 6 pm Guest speaker is George Pedersen president of the University of Western Ontario For information call David Cole at 312-372-4404 or Hugh Mackenzie at 708-369-3688
June 2 to 5 shy Spring convocation June 13 - Beginning at 7 am the Arshy
boretum will hold its summer bird survey The four-hour walk will locate breeding birds and identify their species by sight and song
June 15 to 17 shy U of G will host the 15th annual Guelph Conference on Sexuality With the theme Sexuality New Visions the conference will examine current isshysues in human sexuality counselling strategies for sexual problems and teaching approaches in sexuality educashytion For information call the Office of Continuing Education at 519-767-5000 or fax 519-767-0758
June 19 to 21 - ALUMNI WEEKEND See page 39 for a complete schedule of events and alumni association meetings The UGAA annual meeting is June 21 at 10 am in Macdonald Hall 149
June 26 to 28 shy The UGAA-sponsored alumni career-planning workshop will be held on campus See page 26 for details
July 31 amp Aug 4 shy The National Youth Orchestra will perform in War Memorial Hall at 8 pm as part of its summer program at U of G Tickets at $8 general $6 for stUdents and seniors will be availshyable at the door
Sept 26 - HOMECOMING Rise early for the second ann ual Homecoming charity walkathon At 930 am the Human Kinetics Alumni Association will hold its annual general meeting in the School of Human Biology lounge
Oct 1 - OVCs 1992 Schofield Memorial Lecture will be given by Steven Arnoczky a professor in the department of small animal clin ical sciences at Michigan State Universitys Laboratory for Comparative Orthopedics The 3 pm lecture will be held in War Memorial Hall Admission is free
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John Boros 88 of Wei land Ont writes that he is impressed by the way U of G keeps records after graduation Thi s gives the graduate a sense of belonging a connection to an important period in hi s or her life he says
Jane Buzza 88 is working as records co-ordinatorarchivist for the Ontario Medishycal Association in Toronto
Jacqueline (Sullivan) DeClerck 86 is a public relations officer at the Canada Trust head office in London Onto
Richard Ely 70 works at the Crown attorneys office in WeIland Ont He has an LLB from the University of Western Ontario in addition to his Guelph degree He says he often talks about U of G to young students trying to decide which university to attend
Paul Genest 81 finished graduate studies at Johns Hopkins Universi ty in Maryland and is now assistant professor of philosophy at Union College in Schenectady NY He is man-ied to Barbara Jessup 8 1
Brian Hogarth 78 is head of interpretashytion at the G1enbow Museum in Calgary
Martha Hooper 9 1 was married last Ocshytober to David Perry They live in Calgary where she is a sw itchboard operator at the Delta Bow Valley Inn
Rene van der Meijden 87 has put his degree in geogshyraphy and internationshyal development to good use with the Christian Reformed World Relief Comshymittce Originally from the Netherlands he is now in Uganda on a three-year asshy Rene van der signment as a rural Meijden development adv iser He sends greetings to his many friend s in Canada and to Guelph grads Stan and Kitty in Bolivia in particular and reminds us that visitors are always welshycome in Uganda
Edward Milliner 85 will graduate this spring from the faculty of education at the University of Windsor
Mark Moore 85 is doing postgraduate work in history at the University of Bristol in England He plans to teach high school
fn response to a letter from Dawn Monroe 69 that appeared in the winter 1992 issue of the Guelph Alumnus Doug Moynihan 69 of Fort McMurray Alta writes Be disapshypointed no more Dawn l I too graduated in 1969 from (the College of) Arts or as it was then called Wellington College and I havent heard from anyone either And I too think it is time to contribute my news
After graduation f headed out to disshycover and sol ve the problems of the world travelling overseas for about three years Since then Ive been working in human resources in a variety of organizations in many different locations in Canada Cun-entshyIy I am the manager of human resources in Fort McMurray
PS Do you remember me Dawn I was the bartender in Creelman Hall I
John Teskey 7 1 began new duties last summer as director of libraries at the University of New Brunsw ick in Fredericton He was head of adshyministrative sershyvices at the University of Albershyta before moving John Teskey across Canada to acshycept the UNB posishytion but had earlier served as chief librarian and was library personnel officer at both Alshyberta and the University of Saskatchewan
Teskey says his biggest challenge is to regain the lost purchasing power that univershysity libraries have suffered as a result of static budge ts and ri sing material costs He is encouraging increased resource-sharing among universities and interlibrary loan programs with shortened turnaround
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Elizabeth (Baxter) Willson 77 a real esshytate agent in Chatham Ont writes to voice a common feeling that the universi ty exshyperience itself is often more important than the degree or diploma received I am really glad I graduated from Guelph she says
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Michelle Bombadier and Mike Caldwell both 92 are two of 50 Canad ian youth selected to work in Guyana for three months with Youth Challenge International (YCI) a non-governmental organization that provides Third-world experience for Canadians They may spend the summer building a school teaching safety or clearing land for Gu ytna s first national park but they need some private support to he lp cover transportation costs Anyone able to help should write to YCI at I I Soho St Toronto M5T IZ6
Jane Coventry 86 writes with accolades for the Guelph Alumnus grad news section and an update on what she and her husband Jaydee Smith 84 and MSc 89 are doing They were married in 1989 while working at U of G - he in the Department of Animal and Poultry Science and she in the Departshyment of Crop Science In February 1991 they moved to England where Smith is doing a PhD at the University of Bristol and working as a research assistant Coventry
works in the technology transfer unit of Nickshyerson Seeds Ltd in Cambridge
Jeffrey Crawford 88 and Leslie Thompson 86 were malTied last October He is an elementary schoolteacher in Mount Forest Ont
Craig Emerson 83 earned a PhD at Dalshyhousie University in Halifax in 1990 and is now a research associate in oceanography
Paul Fleming 85 is a pharmaceutical sales representative for Hoechst Canada Inc and lives in Nepean Ont
David Forsey 80 is an assistant professor of computer science at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver He is marshyried to Lyn Bartram
Michael Gangl 89 is in his third year at the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College
Astrid Harms 87 is a registered nurse in London Ont
Andrew Holmes 85 worked for the Onshytario government as a wildlife biologist for three years but is now back at school in his second year at Northwestern Chiropractic College in Minneapolis
Timothy Johnson 86 works at the Centre for Limnology at the University of Wisconshys in in Madison
Karen Lennard 77 (HK) and her hu sshyband Paul Jackson 79 (HK ) and MSc
82 both went 011 to earn medical degrees from McMaster University in HalTilton Ont Jackson also has a master s in physiology from the University of Virginia and is comshypleting an anesthesiology residency in Hamilshyton Lennard has a part-time family medical practice allowing her to spend more time with the couples two children Matthew and Nicola
Wendy Maltby 74 is an elementary schoolteacher for the Metropolitan Toronto School Board
Sandra OConnor 84 earned a medical degree from the University of Western Onshytario and is now practi sing in Burlington Ont
Linda Owen 81 runs her own business as a consulting exercise physiologist and fitness supervisor in Campbell River BC
Sheryle Tetley 86 is regional sales manager for Glaxo Canada Inc in Mi ss isshysauga Ont where she lives with her husshyband Ian
Rob Tonus 87 is manager of the Black Creek Rehabilitation Project a grassroots enshyvironment program to improve a degraded urban stream in Toronto His office is with the Metropolitan Toronto and Region Conshyservation Authority and he lives in Oakville with his wife Wanda (Knul) 88 (HK) a public health inspector in Hamilton
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Richard Woods 81 is an instructor of xshyray technology at the Easte rn Ontario School of X-ray Technology at Kingston Ge neral Hospital He would like to hear from other members of the 1981 U of G choir wi th whom he travelled to Scandinav ia Write to him at RRI Od essa Ont KOH 2HO
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James Dy nes 84 has comp le ted g raduate studies in chemistry and so il sc ience at the Univers ity of Sas katchewan in Saskatoon
Catherine (McVittie) Clark 88 is a nuclear medica l tech nici an at Howard Counshyty General Hospita l in Columbia Md She and her husband Michae l li ve in Elkridge Md
David Holmes 85 is a systems analyst at Sun Life Assurance Company
RolfKierdorf 84 lives in Guelph with his wife Janet He is se lf-employed as a systems consultant
Donald McFadde n 71 and his wife Carol li ve in A lbany Ga where he pracshyti ses medicine
Donald Ridley 69 and PhD 73 has been appoin ted seni or v ice-presiden t of CibashyGeigy Canada Ltd in Oakvi lle Ont and is responsib le for a ll corpora te serv ices includshy
ing finance human resources safe ty health and the environment He a lso se rves on the board of the Canadian Agricu ltura l Research Council and is a member of the Great Lakes Action Plan Strategi c Advi sory Committee
Kathryn Root Parr is an assoc iate minister at Lorne Park Bapti st Church in Mississhysa uga Ont She was married las t fa ll to Vicshytor Parr
Peter Simpson 85 is dis tric t manager for McNeil Pharmaceutical Ltd in Stouffville Ont He is married to Cynthia (Hamilton) 85 (HK)
Keith Stemshorn 83 is in the Canadian Armed Forces stationed in Calgary
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Nikki Dignard 86 moved to Ottawa last year where her husband Ted Henike pracshyti ses denti stry Dignard is working on an M BA and says she d love to hear from CSS classmates Tom Cam and Kathryn
Bonnie Dunnett 87 and MA 91 works on campus at the Gerontology Research Centre S he and Barry Hallman 9 1 li ve in Guelph
Kathryn Faulkner 80 is a registered nurse in Burling ton Ont where she li ves wi th he r husband John
Ruth Fox 84 is a sta ffing assistant for
Transport Canad a and lives in Toronto w ith her husband Christopher
Shonna Giles 88 is an admiss ions officer at Simon Fraser Unive rs ity in Burnaby BC
Gina Grieco 75 is a hi gh school guidance counsellor in North York Onto
John Harris 82 is manager of financial planning and budgets for th e City of Brampton Ont
Paulette Heppner 76 is a teache r in Vanshycouver
John Johnston 7 1 has been appointed exshyec uti ve vice-pres ident o f Ve rsacold Canada Corp and pres ident of QF Foods Distribushytion Services Versacold Canada is the largest public refri gera ted ware hou sing orshygani za tion in Western Canada
Michael Kral 79 has moved from the Univers ity of Manitoba to the University of Wind sor where he is an assistant professor of psychology
Jeffrey Lozon 76 and his family recently returned to Toronto after 15 years in Western Canada He is executive vice-president and ch ief operat ing officer at St Michael s Hos pital and li ves in Oakville wi th hi s wife Donna and two daughters
Bria n Martin 79 is a real estate appraiser in Portland Ont whe re he li ves w ith hi s wife Margaret (Sheffield) Arts 79
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Leith Mason 90 works in Toronto in the Canadian office of the State of Illinois as a special assistant to the Illinois Department of Food and Agricul ture
Michael McKean 74 of Don Mills Ont was recently appointed president of Wrigley Canada Inc Before joining Wrigley as execushytive v ice-pres ident in 1990 he he ld senior positions in Hong Kong Brazil and the United States
Rick 74 and Vicki (Collard) McTaggart FACS 74 are working in Ottawa He is director of overseas operations for the Unitarian Service Committee a charitable non-governmental organization that supports commun it y and human resou rce developshyment activities in Africa and Asia She is sec tion head of consumer analysis in the agr ifood development branch of Agriculture Canada
Sandra Morrison 86 is an ass istant professhysor in the department of psychiatry at the University of Western Ontario
Stephen Naylor 85 is director of planning and development for the amalgamated municipalities of Alliston Beeton Tecumshyseth and Tottenham
Brian ONeill 68 MA lives in SUITey England where he is managing director of Innovation Management Consultant s
Jodi Parisi 89 is a sales representative for Gillette who says U of Goo was the greatest
Moira Skikavich 81 is completing a PhD in c inematelevision at the University of Southern California
Virginia Sutherland 78 is an air traffic controller at the Toronto Island Airport
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Peggy Bates 88 was recently promoted to sales manager with Sears Canada Inc She lives in Owen Sound Ont
Caroline Begin 86 is working in Singshyapore as a dietitian
Diana Close 87 is a c linical nutri ti onis t at Chedoke McMaster Hospital in Hamilton Ont
Sarah Davenport 90 is a case worker with the Wellington County Social Services office in Guelph She is malTied to Matthew Harvey CBS 90
Timothy Dyck 8 1 is national sales manager for Black amp Decker Canada workshying out of the Corbin Division in Richmond HillOnt
Sharon (Muir) 84 and Richard Ernst CBS 83 are the proud parents of a future Guelph grad uate one-year-old Andrew Graham
Patricia Edwards 78 is food servi ce sushypervisor fo r St Peter s Hospita l in Hamilton Ont
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For the love ofteaching Since she
middot graduated bull from Macshydonald Inshymiddot stitute in
J 963 Nancy Kerr has built a career on teaching and research in telttles The middotheidofthe Uriiveisityof
Albertas department of Clothing and texiiles pursues a middotscientific interest inthepreservashylion of hi stori~lfabricsarid in developing pesticide-proofc1otl1ing But Jler fitstlove i ~ teaching
In 199b shewonone ofU of As four Rutherford AWljrds for excellence ill unshy
dergraduate teat-hing The first member of the faculty middotofliomemiddoteconornicsto receive the award slie was the rcentcipient6f the facultys own underglltiduate teaching award three years earlier
Winning the Rutherford was a gteat honor says Ken who has been on
faculty at Alberta since 1967 She oiscovered she had an aptitude for
middot teaching as a graduate student at the University of California Davis in
196566 After earning her MSc she casr about for afaculty position in Canada and round U of A was the 0111y place I could teach ju t textiles plus have a chance to develop new cQurses and research labs
middot Kerr sa)s she gets a tremelldous sense of satisfaction from teaching and the learning he must do to stay cUlTent She attributes her succe s as a teaCher to middotIec-middot
middot tures that are well organized and clear and to creltting a positive classroom climate
~Thcomfort level of students is reaUy middot ililportanL ~ Kerr eamedherPhD in fibre lnd
polymer science from North Carolina bull Staie University in 1982 Her doctoral work concentrated oil deacidification
techniques to preserve historicatcottOnln 1988 she spent a sabbatical ye~r doing research at the Caliadian Conservation
middot In tirute in OnflW1 middot Originalmiddotly from Ottawa Kerr is a
trarisphlnted -vesterner who enjoys middot hiking anlt sk1ing
From left Diane Ellison Lisa Wilson Lori Davis and Pippa Hobbes
Diane Ellison 84 is liv ing in Osaka Japan where she teaches English to Japanese busishyness people Last October she welcomed three U of G friends for a visit Lori Davis CSS 85 manager of Jumbo Video Inc in Oakville Ont Pippa Hobbes 84 accountshying manager for Paramount Holidays in Willowda le Ont and Lisa Wilson 84 co-ord inator of membership serv ices for the Metropolitan Toronto Board of Trade
Monica Hrybko HAFA 88 is director of sales for the Ramada Hotel Old Town in San Diego Calif
David Jones HAFA 88 is a con troller at the Holiday Inn Montreal Centre-Ville
Kathleen McLachlin 83 is operating an insurance agency in Kitchener OnL She opened the State Farm Insurance office in March 1988 and says she loves her job
Susan (Goettler) Parker 80 is working in Toronto as benefits administrator for Imshyperial Oil Limited She is married to Donald Parker OAC 79
Mary Jean (Sinnott) Price Mac 7 1 has returned to sc hool at the University of Otshytawa to earn a bachelor of education
Margaret (Richardson) Rankin 75 has been living in Halifax since 1990 and is an account analyst for Central Guaranty Trust
Janet (Wanless) Sutherland 77 is in private practice as a marriage and family therapist in East Kelowna BC
Jean Thomson Mac 37 says 1937 was a long time ago but shes delighted with all the changes that have gone at the college A former hospita l nutritionist she is retired and living in London Ont -
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Olayiwola Layi Adeola MSc 86 and PhD 89 and his wife Mope are living in West Lafayette Indiana where he is an assisshytant professor of pig nutrition at Purdue University
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Bruce Barrie 79 (Eng) graduated last June with an MBA from City Uni ve rsi ty in Washington State and is now a senior adshyviser in strategic planning with Petro-Canada Resources in Calgary He is a professional eng ineer with APEGGA and an ac tive memshyber of the Planning Forum an international society for planning and strategic manageshyment
Barbara Bryce 83 and her husband Ricardo Ramirez 82 are living in Rome Italy She is a landscape architect and he is a communications officer with the Food and Agriculture Organizat ion
Daniel Campbell 81 and his wife SharonshyMarianne are farmin g near Petrolia Onto
Carolyn Closs 82 and her husband Harold operate a beef cowca lf operation in Shawville Que
Luc Cote 83 is an agricullural account manager for the Royal Bank of Canada in Joliette Que
Kerrie Lea Curran 85 plans to graduate this fall from the master of architecture proshygram at McGi ll University
Bruce Dodson 74A is course superinshytendent at Hawd Ridge Golf and Curling Club in Orillia Ont
Richard Donkin OAC 85A originalshyly from Zimbabwe is the manager of Venida Packing Inc in Exeter Calif Situated in central Californias San Joashyquin Valley Venida Packing ships tree fruit throughout the Richard Donkin United States Canada the Pacific Rim and the Far East Products under the brand names Ruby River and Venida include peaches plums nectarines kiwi grapes persimmons and pomegranates In 1988 Donkin married California native Lisa Kolander and they live in Lemon Cove a community in the Sierra foothill s
Brendan Elder 8S A lives in Kelowna BC and works for Dogwood Nursery He plans to be married thi s summer to Rosemary Powell
Robert Fessenden OAC MSc 67 was recently appointed vice-president of devel opshyment and planning at the Alberta Research Council He is responsible for tec hnology management and corporate marketing
John Fitzgerald 86 was married last November to Susan Given a ] 991 indeshypendent study graduate in animal producshytion He is a lecturer at Ridgetown College she works at Centralia College and is work shying on a psychology degree at the University of Waterloo They live in Strathroy Ont
Glenn Helstern 79A is a driver for the Calgary division of Greyhound Bus Lines of Canada Ltd
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She tells a princely tale
For seven miniJtes on Oct 24 199 L Ellen Het1eOAC 76~U1d MSc 80
(ltllked with PIince Charles Invited toopert a newfumaceat
inco Lilniteds Copper Cliff smelter iri Sudbury Ont the Princemiddot of Wales was easy to talk with says Heale ftwasverycxciting
As eiwironmental co-ordinator Of land reclamation andrevegetation at Copper Cliff Healetold theprince middot about Tnc(secosystem rehabilitation
projects Theroyalvisitor was parshyticulatfyiilterestedin the treegrow- ing project in abandoned inines flld in tlpoundrevegetation ()f acres of tailings
and barren rock Planrilig vegetation on the tailings
hasattrlttcled wildlifeto a protected habitat says Beale who has wqrked forIncosincc she graduated in 1976
Ninety~iwo species ofbirds as weil asrodems hares foxes wolves bears andinoQse have been sighted on the 2500 acres of rehabilitated ore waste
One thing about this job is you middot can s~e where youve been effective she says
While an undergraduate student in Prill(e Charles with EIen Heale horticultural science Healea native ofSiidbury worked at Ineo during the sumniers She wasthi tirst woman to
work inrhemining companys agriculture middot department After shegraduated the niekshy el inine hired her full time tcido horticul- turaLfleld research ~ Ineo later granted heT a two-semester leave of absente t6 work
Theodore Jacobs 78 (Eng) is engineering supervisor at Standard Tube in Woodstock Ont
Greg Keast 85 (Eng) is li ving in Mozamshybique in East Africa where he works as a project officer for UNICEF rural water supshyply project s
Richard Kline 74 was appointed partner of the Toronto accounting firm Schwartz Levitsky Feldman Inc last faiL He is presishydent of the film s bankruptcy division a member of the Chartered Accountants of Onshytario and first vice- president of the Ontario Insolvency Association
Christopher Laforest MSc 91 (USRPD) works in planning and economic developshyment for Bruce County Ont
Jean-Paul PhD 90 and Lynn (Hammell) Laforest 82 and MSc 85 are both employed at Laval University in Sainte-Foy Que He is a professor and s he is a research associate
Kenneth Lawless 63 earned a Guelph deshygree in agricultural economics then went on to stud y dentistry at the Uni versity of Toronshyto He is now an oral and manilo-fac ial surshygeon in Kingston Ont
oil her masters at OAC~ In her current PdStion Heale has rnore
administrative and public relations responshyibilities On her own time she sits on the
board of management for the tocal Red Cross and isalllember ofthe Sudbury
Business and Professional Womens Club
Margie Luffman 77 writes that she has happily returned to Ontario after 10 years in New Brunswick to work at the Smithfield Experimental Farm in Trenton She is curator of the Plant Gene Resources of Canada clonal gene bank
Brian MacCulloch MAg 89 is a sa les representative for Springva le Nurseries Ltd in Berwick NS
Daniel Mansell 64 and MSc 68 is Onshytario manager of the eastern habitat joint venture in the wildlife policy branch of the Ministry of Natural Resources He is stashytioned in Midhurst Ont
Peter McEntire 77A writes from County Langford in Ireland to keep in touch with U of G He is farming and work s as an AI techshynician with Bova Genetics Ltd
Darryl Mitchell 78 works at Pioneer HishyBred Limited in Chatham Ont
Hugh ONeil 88 is manager of customer financial services for Ral ston Purina Canada Inc
Umed Panu MSc 72 (Eng) has done a lot of travelling during his career After Guelph he earned a PhD in civil engineering
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David Nedelko OAC 86 and Ljrlda ArmsJrollg CBS 89 (Jurk 011 cemre) were marriediasl SeplemiJer in Bari ~ie OnlTluir weddiIg iiarly illcilldedfiom leli Katy KusmiliskiOA C 88Paul Allgusline GAG 86 Roh Reed OAC 87Carv Belfral1l oAC 8RJIuJ Sa ndimiddoto (CollinI) BerlrCIlII CBS RR Also 1I111ie wedding w(lS Arlllslong s Veal ullcleClarence Fleming OVC 34 The couple (Ire living in
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at the Universit y of Waterloo taught in India and at Mi ss iss ippi State Uni vers ity and worked with Briti sh Columbia Hydro and the Government of Newfoundland In 1986 he jo ined the faculty of c ivil engi neering at Lakehead Uni ve rsity in Thunder Bay Ont and was promoted to full professor in 199 1 He and hi s wife Kashna and the ir children Neeti and Anukud enjoy the outdoor recreashytion ac ti viti es available in Northwestern Onshytario and look forward to visits from U of G alumni trave lling to Thunder Bay
Lyle Pettigrew 61 is a marketin g consulshytant with Harris Kovacs Alderman in Atlanshyta Ga
Helen Prior 88 joined Sheridan Nurseries after graduation then worked for a year as a research tech nic ian in Guelph s Department of Crop Scie nce She is now in her th ird year at Emmanuel College at Victoria University and hopes to be ordained as a United Church min is ter in May
Gregory Scott 83 (Eng) is operations manager for Accuform Gol f Limited in Toronto
Ba rbara (Coordes) Skrypetz 87 is a fi e ld supervisor for the Ontario Dairy Herd Imshyprovement Corporation working out of Guelph He r husband Stephen 88 operates a bulldozing and excavating busi shyness in the Woodstock area
Victor Skidra 6 is re tired f rom his job as a sc ientific evaluator with Hea lth and Welshyfare Canada He and hi s wife Konstance live in Nepean Ont
William Slusarchuk 63 (Eng) and MSc
The way we were in 1902 OAC alumnus Douglas Campbell 60 passes on a bit of col lege hi sto ry that shou ld make us think twice about our con stitutional squabbles in C anad a
Campbell is director of the Latin America and Caribbea n Trade Divis ion of Canada s Department of External Affa irs Last summer he hosted a vi s it by the president of Uruguay Luis Alberto Lacalle Herre ra whose grand fa the r made a simil a r vis it to Canada in 1902
This is what the elde r Herrera reported to his government Gue lph agricultural college enjoys a worldwide reputation and is con shys idered one of the grea t loca l attracshytions
More than 200 young Canadians a long with many foreign youths come together in its lecture rooms There are bursary ho lde rs from Norway and as far away as Mauritius C loser to us
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67 was recently appo inted pres ident of AGRA Eanh and Environmental Group an envi ronme ntal and geotechnica l firm that is a division of AGRA Indu stries Limited
Michael Sullivan 87 A is a pol ice officer with the Wate rloo Regional Police in Cambridge Ont
Argentina has 12 students there We ll then couldnt Uruguay imshy
itate those good exa mples and also se nd a number of worthy youths to Guelph to acquire the professional knowledge which is becoming m ore necessary each day for the deve lopshyment of our agric ulture~
In addition to the sc ienti fic benefits that our compatriots woul d deri ve from entering sLlch a Canadian techni cal in shystitution there would be the inca lcushylable benefit of becoming familiar with the stric t manly and sound habits of these people who are admirable in e ve ry respect
Afte r they have stee ped themse lves in this atmos phere of dem ocracy which fosters the development of all rights and is alien to intolerance thi s legati on w ill have the great honor of sending home not only sc ientists but a lso mode l citizens
Brenda Trask 80 operates he r own comshymunica tion s consulting company in Osshygoode Ont She is marri ed to Ron Ferguso n
Dave Vanden Bosch 89 is manager of operator services and plann ing for Bell Canada in London Ont
J Stallard Skip Waterhouse 54 and hi s wife Li sa are ce lebrating the birth of a daughter Samantha Elizabe th on New Years Day 1992 They live in New York State where Wate rhouse is iI pro fe ssor of bio logical science at the Plattsburgh Sta te Uni versity College of Arts and Science
Jeff 88 and Karen (Burrows) W h ite 87 live in Strathroy Ont Jeff work s for Bell Canada and Kare n is a Lambton County rural orga ni za tion spec ialist with the Ontar io Mini stry of Agriculture and Food
Harold Wright 86 is a development repre shysenta tive for Ci ba-Ge igy Canada Ltd in Mi sshysissauga Ont He and Lori Krieg 84 plan to marry thi s sprin g
Donald Ziraldo 7 I received doubl e honors last winter fro m the Ontario grape and wine industry Preside nt of Inniskillin W ines of Niagara-on -the-Lake Ont he was named to the Royal Order of the Grape for hi s leadership in enhancing the prod uct and its image
In addition Z ira ldo and his partner Karl Kai se r were named 1991 Men of the Year by FoodsCIvice and Hospitalily magazine During the ir 17-year partnership at Inn isk ilshylin the two have been instrumental in shapshying Canada s wine industry the magazine sa id
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ave Barry Burtis 69 was named president of the Ontario Veterinary Medical Association in January after working with the voluntary organization for four years as a director member of its editorial board and chair of its public relations committee Burtis lives in Burlington Ont and practises at the Bay Cities Animal Hospital He also appears on a local cable television program called Pel Tales
William Medway 54 of Blackwood NJ has been named an honorary life member of the International Association for Aquatic Animal Medicine for his contributions on beshyhalf of the association and the field of aquatic medicine He is both a founding member and past president of the associa shytion A professor emeritus of clinical laboratory medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine Medway is a member of the Marine Mammal Commissions committee of scientific advisers
Diane Pickering-Forster 86 is practising at Vander Kraan Veterinary Services in Huntsville Ont She is malTied to Chris Forster and they have one daughter Julia
Julien Proulx 67 has moved from Kapusshykasing Ont to La Pocatiere Que where he is superintendent of Agriculture Canada s Experimental Farm Last year he was feashytured on TVOntarios French network series Personalire Ontarienne for his work as a veterinarian his participation in municipal politics and his support of regional developshyment in Northern Ontario He was also awarded Agriculture Canadas research branch prize Agcellence for extraordinary management during his direction of the reshysearch program at the Kapuskasing Exshyperimental Farm
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Twoc~ireers middot on the samepat~ OVCaruninus Geoffrey Lord 49 felt a thopedic
middot enseofdejavuwhen he read theslory gastrointesshyabout Bill Naray~i1 OVe 63 il1la~t tinal and carc
springs issue ofthe Guelph Altimnus diovascular
There are amazing simi laritiesbetween surgery the c~reersof t~e two Guyanese wh6b6th says Lord If earnedvefetinary degrees atGueiph someone worked in c1ini(ai practice in)Yestem were to ask Canada then moved to the United States me ioday to work in human medic~lresearch what Tcon~
Narayan heads an AlDSresearchteamsider to be atJohns HopkiflS l1)iversilySchool of my expertise MediCirieinBaltimoreMatyland Lord is I would have retired directorofthdohnsonamp Johnson to saymecli- Geofrey Lord
middot Resear~h Foundalion ill NewJersey cal device lordsays he was influenced by OVC andbioshy
proJessDfs Anthony Kings(Qte and Frank Inaterials evaluation middot SchofieJd~ndwcentnton from GiJelphto pur- lt In the I 950s Lordwaspalt of ale-
sue graduate studies in parasitology auhe se~rch team that pioneered the use of University oJWiscollsin Sevenmorithsin animal tissue tOTeconstructdamagedjr
amixed practice in Drumheller Alta con blocked al1eries in hUl11ansTwenty years vinced him thaldinical medicine wasn6t middot later he drafted the first systematicap-
middot whati w~ted6 do He returned to Wis pr()ach to the safety evaluation of medica con5il110 eanla PhDlll pathologyano devices joined Johnson amp JohnsQri as asenior middot Allsubsequeill guidelines inCiLlding patilol()gistiriI953 those of the Foodaj)q Diug Admlnistrashy
Research at Johnson amp JohDson tiOnand the Canadian Regulatory ~teeredmeinto many interesting and chal- Authority hayeadopteoihis approach he
Jenging fieldsofbio-research includirig says derniiltoi9gy toxicologic pathology Lordand his wife Helen ltIividetheir wound healing surgical pathology iiinebetweel)Ciipe CodandBonita genera toxkology ofi~w drugs andor~ Springs FloriQa
Shane Renwick 77 and MSc 91 works in veterinary services at Agriculture Canada offices in Guelph
Ruth Reuter 61 is a veterinary pathologist in Plympton Australia
Tom Sanderson 6 1 was selected by the Ontario Veterinary Medical Association as Ontario Veterinarian of 1991 CUlTently OVCs co-ordinator of off-campus work terms he spent 20 years in private practice in Listowe1 and Mount Forest before returning to the coll ege in 1982 to manage the veterishynary research stations Sanderson s contribushytions to the profess ion have included many hours of volunteer work in the advancement
of the profession and in the development of veterinary inshysurance programs He is a past pres ident of both the Ontario and Canadian Veterishynary Medical associashytions
Jennifer Troughton 86 is practising in OronoOnt
Simone Woltner 86 is a veterinarian at the Chester Basin Animal Hospital in Chester Basin NS
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by her hu sband William and two sons The fo llowing dea ths have been reported since the las t issue of the Guelph Alumnus Full notices which are usu ally submitted by family or classmates may appear in thi s iss ue or in a later one
James Clement Arts 73 Feb 2 1992
Marilyn (Dyment) Farnan Mac 530 Feb 27 1992
David Fisher OAC 80A in October 1990
Elizabeth (C hristie) Glass Mac 3I D June 2l99 1
Peter Heskey OAC 54A Dec 6 199 1
Richard Ketchell OVC 51 Nov 23 199 1
Edward Kowalski Arts 79 in August 199 1
Pauline (Dixon) MacMillan Mac 240 Jan 2 1992
Catherine MacPherson Arts 83 Dec 11 1990
Marguerite (White) Maybury Mac 3 10 in June 1990
Donald McLeOd CSS 80 Jan 9 1992
Albert Meilus OAC 51 in 1991
Ann (Biggs) Ostler Mac 3 10 in April 1991
Robert Race Arts 73 in 1989
Ralph Sampson OAC 40 in December 1989
Mor ris Sanderson OAC 42 Nov 17 1991
Sir Peter Scott HDSc 8 1 in Au gust 1989
William Setterington OAC 40 Oct 22 1991
George Shoniker OAC 50A in March 199 1
John Somerset OAC 34 Dec 27 199 1
Gregory Van Patter OAC 7 1 in 1990
Frederich Weiland OAC 20A in 1990
Arts
Riccardo Rich Incitti 88 died Jan 5 1992 as the result of an accident near Hami lshyton Ont He was assistant manager at the Toronto-Dominion Bank in St Cathari nes and is survived by his parents Gu igi and Lucia of Cambridge and two sisters Laura and Andrea
Larry McNenly 73 died in October 1991 in Owen Sound Ont He is survived by his wife Marnie CSS 73
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Robert Everett HK 74 died in May 1991 in Burlington Ont A teac her at White Oaks Secondary Schoo l in Oakv ille he is survived by his wife Miche le and brother William CBS 74
James Sandy Fear 75 died Oct I I 199 1 in Toronto He is survi ved by his wi fe Sally (Firth) OAC 75 and hi s children Caitlin Alli son and Mered ith
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Lynn (Dalys) Corby 84 died in Toron to May 6 1990 after a long battIe with cancer
Nancy (Birbeck) Gordon 77 died Oct 20 1991 in Ottawa after a short illness She worked at the Kitchener-Waterl oo Hospital and had previously been plan t accountant at Foseco Canada Incorporated in Guelph
Mac-FACS
Jean (Williams) Forward 280 Oct 28 1991 in Calgary She was the widow of Bower Forward OAC 25 and is survived by two sons
Catharine (Bechtel) Fromm 270 died Nov I 199 1 in Cambridge Ont She is surshyvived by three dau ghters Ellen Moore Mac 63 Nancy and Caro l
Alice (Rivaz) Garrard 28 di ed Dec 2 199 1 in Guelph She was an active member of the Mac-FACS Alumni Assoc iat ion and was the Mac 28 class agent for the Alma Mater Fund She is survived by her husband retired professor Edward Garrard OAC 27 and a daughter Betty Nelson
Della Marie (Diamond) Honey 300 of Warkworth Ont died June 29 1991 One ofWarkworths oldest and most respected citizens she served as local li brarian fo r 25 years She is survived by her son John OAC 52A his wife Patric ia and four grandchildren James OAC 84A William OAC 76A Thomas OvC 89 and Patricia Lonergan CSS 68
Barbara (Banigan) Martin 380 died Jan I 1992 in Don Mill s Ont A retired teacher wit h the North York Board of Education she is survived by a son Ted a sister and two brothers
Elizabeth (Burt) Perry 340 died June 28 1991 in Sidney BC and is surv ived by her husband Gordon and son Paul Nartel OAC 62
Jacqueline (Roy) Pote 34D died Dec 2 1 1991 in Willowdale Ont and is is survived
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Doroth y (MacFeeters) Scott 260 died Jan 14 1992 in Toronto She is su rvived by two daughters Anne Donaldson and Cynthia Scott
Florence (French) Snyder 370 died May 6 199 1 in Calgary and is survived by her husband Robert and two sons John and William
Katherine (Sweet) Watt Mac 220 died Feb 23 1992 She is survived by her husshyband Leslie a son David and a dau ghter Carol Gi llanders
Mattie (Newman) Widdicombe 240 died Dec 11 1991 in St Catharines Ont Preshydeceased by her husband John she is surshyvived by a bro ther and several nieces and nephews including Virginia Rigby Arts 76
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George Grey Arnup 38 died Feb 2 1992 in Toronto He spent most of his career with the plant protection branch of Agriculture Canada He is survived by his wife Aileen three chi ldren Nancy Jim and Mary Ellen Vincent CBS 79 and four grandchi ldren
Herbert Boyce 28 and MSA 43 died Sept 2 1991 in Amherstburg Onto He is survi ved by his wife Norah a daughter Beverley Med lock and a brother James OAC 32
Jack Reddy Brethet 56 died Nov 4 199 1 in Burlington Ont President of Brethet Barnum Assoc iates Inc he is surshyv ived by his wife Caro l and two daughters Lyn n and Anne
Bruce Foster 28 died Feb 6 1992 in Ridgetown Ont and is survi ved by his daughter Gayle Anderson and son David CBS 69
Allison Gardhouse 49 died Sept 21 1991 in Midland Ont He was re tired supe rshyintendent of schoo ls for the Simcoe County Board of Education and is survi ved by his wife Merle
Kenneth Harrison 24 died Nov 5 199 1 in Kentville NS A distinguished plant patho logist military officer and mycologist he began hi s career in 1926 as assistant plant pathologis t at the Kentvi lle Experimental Farm He worked there until retirement in 1966 wi th the exception of mi litary servi ce du ring the Second World War
Dr Harrison had a lifelong interes t in the study of mushrooms and publ ished numerou s technica l papers on the mu shroom flora of Nova Scotia In addition he enshy
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couraged interested amateurs and led field trips for student s at Acadia University and the general public from 1929 until 1987 In 1979 he was honored by Acadia wi th the dedication of the Kenneth A Harri son Laboratory of Mycology
During his career he was a member of many professional organizations a charter member of the Mycological Society of America and fe llow of the American Associashytion for the Advancement of Science
He is survived by hi s wife Margaret two brothers Maynard OAC 30 and Arthur OAC 29 two son s Ashley and Kenneth and a daughter Jennie Sheito
William Kellam 4 1 died Oct 19 1991 in Brockville Ont He was retired from the Curb and Gate Co of-Brock ville where he had worked as a lab technician fo r 28 years He is survived by his wife Kathleen a son George and a daughter Mary
William M acMillan 48 died in February 1992 in Winnipeg He was supervisor of Fertilizer marketing for the Manitoba Pool Elevators and is surv ived by hi s wife Edna Jean and brother Harry OAC 5 1 A
Cameron McTaggart 35 died Feb 4 1992 in Aurora Ont After graduating from OAC he became manager of Don Head Farms in Richmond Hill He established the first agricul tural consulting business in Canada in 1947 and later ran an Angus cattle
sales management business from the family farm A life member of the OAC Alumni As shysociat ion and the Class of 35 executive he is survived by his wife Margaret Mac 35 and two sons John OAC 62 of Regina and David of Largo Fla
Douglas Miller 48 of Victoria BC died Nov 24 1991 in Toronto He is survived by hi s wife Ruth and five children
Gregory More 76 was killed Feb 3 1992 in Kitchener Ont at the Ontario Glove Manufacturing Co where he was co-owner and vice-president Following graduation he worked for the Rohrer Drug Co and the Stershyling Drug Co then returned to school ea rnshying an MBA at McMaster University in 1981 More was an avid squash player and golfer Court A at the Northfield Racquet Club in Waterloo was dedicated to his memory in March He is survived by his parents Noreen and Ken a brother Randy and a sister Katherine Keeler
John Jack Pawley 33 died March I 1992 in Guelph He is survived by his wife Ruth son John OAC 62 and daughter-inshylaw Carolyn He was a former director of the Ontario Milk Marketing Board and a past member of the Royal City Lodge of Perfecshytion
Harold Reid 20A died in December 1991 in Burlington Ont During the First World W ar he was one of Canadas premier rad io
experts work ing at the Roya l Canadian Navy shore transmitter in Sydney NS After the war he came to OAC to earn a diploma then went on to QueenS University to comshyplete an arts and theology degree His mini sshytry was mainly in St And rews and Montreal although he spent 13 years teaching Hebrew at the Presbyterian Coll ege before retiring in 1968
Donald Robertson 3 1 died Nov 4 1991 in Iroquois Ont He is survived by hi s wife Caroline (Grisdale) Mac 38 his two son s ScottOAC 65A and Guy and a daughter Sandra McNeil
Thomas Rokeby 48 and MSA 50 died Jan 29 1992 in Fayetteville Ark He was a professional engineer and tau ght for 30 years in the Univers ity of Arkansas engineering department Born in Port Rowan Ont he was a member of the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War the American Society of Agricultural Engineers and the agricultural honor societies of Gamma Sigma Delta and Alpha Epsilon He is surv ived by his wife Helen two sons Robert and Richard a daughter Penny and three brothers Michael Noel and Richard OAC 54
Francis Sweeney OAC 45 died Nov 17 1991 in Oakville Ont He was a longtime employee of Shell Canada and [nternational Shell working in Great Britain Europe and
WALL CUSTANCE MEMORIAL FOREST
The Wall-Custance Memorial Forest located at the Universi ty of Guelphs Arboretum was established in recognition of the severe depletion of our forests It is never too late to be a vital part of the effort to save and improve our air and water for the future of our children by planting trees This program is our small part of the major endeavor to reforest and to reduce the greenhouse effect improve air quality and provide food and cover for wildlife The Memorial Forest Proshygram not only pays a Significant tribute to a loved one but also assures a better environment for generations to come
The purpose of this program is to provide an opporshytuni ty to commemorate the life of a loved one by plantshy
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Berna rd Weeks 35 died Oct 16 199 1 After graduation he re turned to his roots in
ew York and Pennsylvannia and worked in 4-H and you th organi zations for a few years He then took over the family farm at Troupsburg NY and built up a dairy operashytion with a sideline of sheep He is surv ived by his wife Ruth and four children
Glenn White 43 of Belleville Onl died Nov 24 199 1 in Florida and is surv ived by hi s wife Marjorie
ave Norman Anderson 39 of Wi nn ipeg died Dec 18 1991 in Arizona He had practised veterinary medicine in Norwood Man and was a member of the American Equine Pracshytitioners Association director of the Canadian Thoroughbred Society and track veterinarian at Assin iboia Downs for 50 years He is survived by his wi fe Peggy and two sons Laurie and James
George Beatty 5 I died Nov 22 1991 in Inverness III He practised in Palatine fo r 36 years and founded the Palatine Animal Hospi tal He was an active member of the American Animal Hospital Assoc iati on and the Chicago Veterinary Association and was a director of the Friends of the University of Guelph He is survived by his wife Mary and fo ur children - Suzanne Patricia Margaret and Tim
John Hamilton 5 L died Dec 15 1991 He had lived in Roslin On where he owned the Bay Regional Veterinary Hospital He is survived by hi s niece Ann Bongard
Nicholas Labzoffsky 39 died Dec 25 1991 in Largo Fla Fonnerly of Toronto he had li ved most recen tl y in Dorse t Ont and is survived by hi s wife Jane
Edgar Langford 49 died March 41992 in Monarch Alta A former research scienshytist with ADRI (Western) he is survived by his wife Norma and two daughters includshying Carolyn OVC 76
Stuart Maude 4 1 died Jan 14 1992 in Rosemead Calif A former Rosemead counshycillor and four-time mayor he operated the Rosemead Animal Hospital with his brother Arthur 52 from 1953 to 1980 He was a trustee for Ingles ide Hospital a past grand patron of both the Rosemead and the Califorshynia Order of Eastern Star and past-president of the local Kiwanis Club and Chamber of Commerce He is survived by his wife Vera two daughters Patricia and Susan Bezner a son Stuart and three brothers
Walter Morley 42 o f Mildmay On died Nov 28 199 1 He ran a large animal pracshytice in the Mild may area for 39 years raised cat tle and raced standardbred horses He was also a pu blic school board trustee and direcshytor of a local te lephone company for more
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than 30 years He is survived by his wife Joyce five sons - two of whom are OVC alumni Dave 68 and Randy 74 - and 10 grandchildren
Lloyd Neily 52 died Jan 3 1992 in Hantsport NS A retired meat inspector w ith the federal Department of Agriculture he had a private veterinary practice in Wind sor NS He is surv ived by hi s wife Mary
Elford Nundal 43 died Jan 7 1992 in Langley BC after a long battle with canshycer He operated a veterinary practice in Langley for 36 years and served as a di strict aldennan for 10 years before being elected mayor in 1982 Last year he received the BC Veterinarian Association s award of merit for a lifetime of veterinary work
Humphrey Rees 55 died Sepl 30 1991 in Amman Jordan while on ass ignment for the Overseas Development Ad ministrat ion as veterinary and animal hu sbandry adviser to the Jordani an government His contemshyporaries at Guelph will remember him as a singer debater raconteur rugby player and bon vivant He is surv ived by his wife Alice of POlt Eynon Wales
William Stinson 40 died Feb 15 1992 in Norwood Ont He is survi ved by his wife Rita a son John OVC 67 a brother Ford OAC 34 and a grandson John CSS 87
Faculty
Patric ia Harney died Dec 191991 in Yarshymouth NS A professor in the Department of Horticultural Science from 1962 to 1988 she developed severa l new variet ies of geraniums and was instru mental in es tabshylishing the Frances Ball rose collection at the Arboretum
Anthony Marston died Feb 3 1992 in Fershygu s ant Retired from the School of Hotel and Food Administration he was an acshycomplished competition chef who received his training in Switzerland and England He then spent severa l years working in the Caribbean before coming to Guelph in 1970 A member of the Canadian Olympic culinary team he held a number of positions in the
Donations given in memory ofGuelph alumni will help support University scholarships ifdirected to the Alumni M emorial Fund In 1991 donations were made in memory of the following alumni
Frank MacDonald OAC 37
Frank King OAC 33 -Robert Allen OAC 56A
Alice (Rivaz) Garrard Mac 28
Stan Vesselinovitch OVC 57
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hote l and food industry until retiring in 1982 He is survived by hi s wife Di ana
Gordon McNally dled Jan 12 1992 in Guelph A professor in the Department of Zoo logy from 1934 to 1971 he served as academic assistant to the dean of CBS until retiring in 1979 While at Guelph he was honorary pres id ent of the classes of OAC 54 58 and 67 He is survived by his daughter Jean two siste rs and two grandchildren Prof McNallys family has established the A Gordon Mc a lly Memorial Fund to support a sc holarship or bursary Contributions may be sent care of the Alma Mater Fund Alumni Hou se University of Guelph Guelph ant N I G 2WI
Friends
Jean (Young) Branion died March 3 1992 in Guelph She was the wife of the late Hugh Branion a physiology professor at U of G and assistant to presidents Bill Winegard and Don Forster Jean Branion was an act ive volunteer on campus for many years and one of the firs t presidents of the College Womens Club She is survived by a son Richard and his wife Marga re t of Vanshycouve r and five grandchi ldren Donati ons may be made to the Hugh D Branion Memorial Scholarship through Alumni House
Davy Alexander Hamilton-Williamson died Feb 4 1992 in Guelph A painter and author of childrens stories he had been a member of the University s Presidents Council s ince it began in 1 985
Marjorie Pinkney wife of J ames Pinkney OVC 3 7 died Dec 151 99 [ at her home in Milton ant
Samuel Wyal died March 15 1992 in Brantford ant He was a partner in the law firm Wyatt Purce ll Will Stillman and Scott He is surv ived by his wife M a bel Mac 39 four sons Peter Michael William and John and two daughters Mary Alderson and Sarah Nadalin Arts 82
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INVmiddotESTMENTS amp
DIVIDENDS
Facts about university education in Canada and how we pay for it
By 2000 half of all new jobs in Canada will require a university degree
But at the current rate of government funding only one in five children
will have a chance to go to university
In the seven years from 1982 to 1989 per-student grants to universities in
Ontario barely kept pace with intlation at five per cent
per-student funding at American public univers ities jumped an average
of 23 per cent in the same period
Those US universities also receive twice the federal research dollars per student as do Ontario universities
In 1987 the average salary of a full-time professor at an Ontario univers ity was $55500
compared with $68200 for a private-sector position of similar education and experience
Lawyers economists and engineers made an average of $71 000
Ontario ranks ninth out of the to provinces in terms of grants to universities
Between 1978 and 1991 enrolment at Ontario univers ities grew by 40 per cent while funding dropped
from 59 to 409 per cent of total government spending
Universities were spending 14 per cent less per student between 1977 and 1988 hospital expenditures
rose 38 per cent per patient in the same period
Ontario universities generate $3 of economic activity for every
$1 invested by government funding
And the number of jobs generated by university activities in
Ontario is greater than the employment impact of the textile
industry the entire paper and pulp industry or utilities
University graduates can look forward to earning 63 per cent more than the average industrial worker
A 1990 survey of U of G alumni found that two years after graduation 97 per cent of Guelph grads
looking for work were employed 62 per cent were earning $25000 or more and 10 per cent were
earning $40000 or more
Unemployment rates in 1990 for those with a university degree was about one-third what it was
for those with only a high school diploma
Every year from 1978 to 1987 Ontario university inves tments in renovating or replacing
aging buildings could not keep pace with the rate at which the buildings depreciated
Graphics by Debbie Thompson Wilson Statistics supplied by th~ Council 01 Ontario UniverSities Statistics Canada and the U01 G Student EnVifonment Study Group
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A salute to sport Alumni Weekend June 19-21 9am Sio-pitch tournament
The tradition Jives on at the south quad diamond s Cooed teams of 12 or more players are encourshyaged to join in the fun
FRIDAY 10 am to 9 pm Registration Lambton Hall
6 pm Kick-off dinner and half-time show
get set and join In the Olympic spirit one of Alumni Creelman Hall will Weekends host the Wonderful most popular World of Sports with events Tours a half-time slide show start from to entertain alumni of Alumni House all ages and are sponshy9 pmshy sored by the Observatory tours CBS Alumni
Association
10 am and 2 pm
SATURDAY 8 am to 5 pm Guided Registration walking tours Lambton Hall
Remember 9 am to 5 pm making s now Alumni House tours sc ulptures on Students will host tours of Alumni House throughshyout the weekend Come and see what the generosity of alumni has accomplished
9 am to noon Alumni association annual meetings
This is the official notice for the annual general meetings of the following alumni associations
CBS - Alumni House starts at 830 am before guided walk MacFACS - HAFA Building Room 209
OVC - OvC Room 1438
OAC - Macdonald Hall Room 149
CSS - MacKinnon Building Room 305
HAFA - Alumni Hou se boardroom
Gryphs Lounge will be open for lunch and afLer the game
930 am Guided nature walk at the Arboretum
On your mark
Noon - OVC luncheon
The OvC Alumni Association will host a luncheon open to all OvC alumni and their guests
2 pm - Campus Showcase 92
Following on the heels of last year s success Campus Showshycase 92 will be bigger and better Come to the University Centre to see exhibits representing all areas on campus The Campus Junction store will also be open
2 pm - Zavitz Hall tour
Alumni are invited to browse through the newly renovated Za vitz Hall and attend a recep shytion sponsored by the Colshylege of Arts Alumni Asshysoc iation
5 pm Golden anniversary dinner
The OAC OvC and MacshyFACS alumni associations will provide complimenshytary tickets for alumni celebrating 50 years or more Additiona l tickets can be purchased Classes
Johnston Green or playing intramural hockey in the old Quonset arena Relive some of the memories by taking a walking tour of campus Tours begin from the lobby ofLambton Hall
Noon - Alumni picnic
This apopular event has new location - the sculpshyture garden beside the Macshydonald Stewart Art Centre Come on your own or reshyserve a group of tables for friends and classmates
Noon - Class reunion lunches
OAC 37 Mac 37 OAC 42 Mac 42 OAC 47 Mac 52 Mac57 Mac 67 FACS 72 FACS 77 FACS 87
OAC 67 FACS 82 OAC 82 OAC 82A CBS 82 FACS 87 OAC 87
SUNDAY 9am Church service and War Memorial Hall rededication
Thanks to a commitment from the Alma Mater Fund renovashytion of the upstairs of War Memorial Hall has been comshypleted Join us for the rededicashytion ceremony commemorating the 1924 opening and the 1952 dedication of an OAC memorial plaque
being honored are OAC 22 OAC 47 OvC 22 Mac 22 OAC 27 OvC 27 Mac 27 OAC 32 OvC 32 Mac 32 OAC 37 OvC 37 Mac 37 OAC 42 OvC 42 Mac 42
6 pm Class reunion dinners
Special dinn e r reunions are planned for OAC 47 OAC 52 OAC 52A OvC 52 Mac 57 OAC 57 OAC 62 Mac 67
10am UGAA annual meeting
All alumni are encouraged to atshytend the UGAA annual meeting in Macdonald Hall Room 149 An amendment to the UGAA Letters Patent and a revised bylaw will be presented for ap shyproval Copies of both are availshyable on request from Alumni House Call 519-824-4120 Ext 6544
11 am - Farewell brunch
The final event of Alumni Weekend will be held in Creelshyman Hall Come and meet the Univers ity S president Brian Segal The Alumnus of Honour medal will be presented at noon
To receive an Alumni Weekshyend brochure or to register for events call Alumni House at 59-824-4120 Ext 6963
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Where research and industry Dleet
Space available now Exceptional office and research facilities in our multi-tenant Research Park Centre
Research-driven corporations are breaking new ground at the University of Guelph Research Park Centre with exceptional growth opporshytunities in an ideal business setting
This 30-acre Research Park also accommodates tenants who choose to construct their own office and laboratory facilities
Find out why organizations such as Semex Canada Tremco Limited the Ontario Dairy Herd Improvement Corporation George Morris Centre LIPID Analytical Laboratories and Agriculture Canada have chosen the University of Guelph Research Park Call Ralph Eades or Judy Phillips Real Estate Division University of Guelph Telephone (519) 767-5003 or Fax (519) 837-0353
The Research Park is a project oj the Office oj Research and the University S Real Estate Division
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Behind every how theres a why While we stand in awe of what sc ienshytists are accomplishing in the biological sciences we shouldnt lose sight of the reasons why they are manipulating cell structure and decoding genetic blueprints
To some extent scientific exploration is driven by human nature - our desire to understand and control the natural world Advances in biotechniques and genetic engineering promise to give us more of both
Reports on the Human Genome Project say that within 15 years well know the code of almost every gene in the human body This work and current explorations in animal genetics are harshymonized by the fact that many of the genes that control development are similar among species
The chicken for example is a familiar model for studies in developshymental biology Supported by 60 to 70 years of data todays embryologists like Prof Rob Etches are learning how to modify the genes that control developshyment of a chick embryo while giving us a better understanding of how genes efshyfect development in all vertebrates
Nothing could be more fund amental than understanding that process says Prof Keith Betteridge who heads the Guelph team working with bovine embryos In all areas of reproductive and genetic research the big payoff is that we will understand more about how two gametes can unite to fonn a single cell and develop into Northern Dancer or Albert Einstein he says
Everyone has a role to play in decidshying how to use this knowledge says Betteridge but the researcher has the triple responsibility of thinking through the implications of new technologies exshyplaining those implications to a skeptishycal and concerned public and safeshyguarding the welfare of animals used
Whether manipulating an entire animal or one of its reproductive cells the scientist is guided by the same set of moral standards If the technology inshyduces pain or suffering causes changes in behavior or affects the animals abilshyity to eat and survive then it shouldnt be done says Prof Bruce Wilkie chair of the Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Immunology
He and other Guelph scientists inshyvolved in animal research are subject to
Cuelph Alumnus
peer rev iew through the U of G s animal care committee which is also charged with ensuring that research and teaching programs are in compliance with the Animals for Research Act of Ontario
Reporting to the University s Reshysearch Board the committee is comshyposed offaculty student community and non-user representatives It estabshyli shes animal-care policies on campus and evaluates all protocols submitted by researchers and teachers After granting initial approval the committee reviews each project annually and inspects reshysearch facilities each semester A provinshycially appointed inspector also visits campus frequently and the Canadian Council on Animal Care makes an inshyspection every three years to assess the level of animal care
In addition to safeguarding animal care scienti sts al so need to provide evidence that the products of biotechnolshyogy are safe for human consumption or medical use The public needs to know that the pharmaceutical protein cloned and produced in a chicken s egg is no different than the same protein cultured from human cells and produced in a large bioreactor
The big payoff is that we will understand more about how two gametes can unite to form a single cell and develop into Northern Dancer or Albert Einstein
One of the most talked-about benefits of transgenic technologies is the potenshytial for producing enzymes prote ins and antibodies for pharmaceutical and inshydustrial uses Molecular farming would take advantage of the expression system in higher animals to produce a therashypeutic protein that is difficult or expenshysive to make in a lab
The potential seems enormous but the prac tice will be quite simple A typishycal Ontario dairy herd could probably produce enough human insulin or bloodshyclotting factor to satisfy the world
demand It s easy to see why these techshyniques are already presenting problems for patent offices
The past decade of work in transshygenesis has been a learning process for all of us Early research efforts that produced pigs in the United States with arthritic deformities and sheep in Australia with ulcers have taught us th at even science must learn to walk befo re it can run That means perfecting genetic transfer in animals where the techniques are easily controlled - such as mice and fruit flies - before applyshying them to domestic animals
One of the advantages of gene transshyfer technology is the control it offers geneticists who are able to manipulate expression of a single gene during development One of the limitations may be the re lative ly minor change that gene can make in one generation when compared with the changes induced through the countless generations of selection since domestication
These limitations may alleviate some of our fears about the use of gene transshyfer but it also makes us question its value at least in terms of breed improveshyment in domestic livestock Prof Charshyles Smith holds a research chair at Guelph in animal-breeding strategies and is often called on to assess the value of the new biotec hnologies in the genetic improvement of farm livestock
Economic traits are already being imshyproved through traditional selective breeding methods he says It would take quite large beneficial transgenic efshyfects (at least 10 per cent of the mean) on economic merit to make their incorshyporation worthwhile
Despite our e thical concerns the legal entanglements created by the use of biotechniques and the problem of turnshying new technologies into cost-effective procedures most scientists agree that these technolog ies are too powerfu I not to use They have the pote ntial to help allev iate some of the most serious problems facing the world - food production overpopulation disease and shyenvironmental degradation
Statisticians teU us that 50 years from now we will be trying to feed twice the current world s population on a smaller land base in a more fragile environshyment This is the why behind current research in genetic engineering
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OUD TH Annual giving in 1991 reached $14 million The value of the Annual Fund becomes more apparent each year as the University of
Scholarships amp BursariesGuelph faces continued financial $320127
AMF Priority Athletics ~ ---------- (Scholarships$38326
pressure The 1991 Annual Fund Pet Trust raised $14 million to help $261224 maintain scholarships and provide academic and library programs AMF OAC Alumni Scholarships Foundation ______ grew by $9245 25 per cent
$228494
Memorial Funds $56997
Arboretum $77441
Class Projects ResearchBuildings$86658
Matching gifts grew 31 per cent in 1991 More and more Canadian companies are g iving financial support to the institushytions that educated their employees A total of 44 companies matched 92 inshydividual gifts for a record $11120 in Annual Fund contributions to the University of Guelph in 1991
If you work for a matching-g ift employer every doll ar you donate is matched - doubled or even tripled shyby a company gift Its as easy as it sounds so check with your employer on how to multiply the value of your gift to the University
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Academic Enrichment $87246
3M Canada Incorporated Akzo America Foundation Alcan Aluminum Limited A lean Canada Products Ltd Amdahl Canada Limited American Home Products Corp American International Group Inc BASF Corporation Bell Canada Boise Cascade Canada Limited Campbell Soup Co Ltd Chevron Canada Resources Ltd F alconbridge Ltd Ford Motor Company of Canada Ltd Gelleral Electric Canada Inc Hoechst Canada Incorporated IBM Canada Limited ICI Canada Incorporated Insurance Bureau of Canada
$134893Library $103050
John Laball Limited Kraft General Foods Canada McGraw-H ill Ryerson Limited Nabisco Brands Canada Ltd Northern Telecom Limited Paul Revere Life Insurance Co Pfizer Canada Inc Pioneer Hi-Bred Limited Pitman-Moore Inc Sara Lee Corp ofCanada Ltd Square D Canada The Bank of Montreal The Coca-Cola Company The Toronto Star The UPS Foundation TransCanada Pipelines Warner-Lambert Canada Inc Westeel
Guelph Alumnus
ADIT ON With thanks to Donors Class agents College representatives Alma Mater Fund Advisory Council
Alumni and others who give to the University of Guelph through the Annual Fund are helping to maintain quality at a time when governments are funding for mediocrity Because of the dedication and commitment of our donors and volunshyteers the 1991 Annual Fund surpassed last year s total by $100000 We did not achieve our goal - perhaps $1 6 million was overly ambitious in light of current economic conditions - but we were able to maintain last years 25-per-cent inshycrease in scholarship support
Through the Alma Mater Fund we raised more than $540000 and achieved Tom Sawyer
the target of 12-per-cent participation among graduates of the three founding colleges Arts CBS and CSS alumni substantially increased their donations and participation over last year Campus participation grew from 145 per cent in 1990 to 171 per cent this year And our parents program pushed contributions from parents to $84188 compared with $31500 in 1990
For the first time since 1984 the Alma Mater Fund Advisory Council was able to go beyond its commitments to fund eight additional projects - a total of $86000
Looking ahead our flagship project for 1992 will be War Memorial Hall renovations During Alumni Weekend in June you ll have a chance to see the work that has been done upstairs and the work still needed in the downstairs hall It s a project well worth the interest and support of alumni
For your past and future support of the Alma Mater Fund my sincere thanks
s
Tom Sawyer OAC 59A and 6 Corporations Chair AMF Advisory Council Associations Foundations $2874947 Annual giving contribution s
III Annual IGiving Alumni
$1403701 Major Gifts $1236622
Guelph Alumnus
were 22 per cent of the o
Other $687687
$6239707 given t U of G as donation
in 1991
Government (Donations only
$36750
Annual Giving Report
1991 Annual Fund Results $1 A niillion wasraised overallmiddot ariinceaSe of
76 per ceI1tThisyear alumrii in the Arts and CBS groups doubled theirparticipation alld conshytributions And the parents recotded a 46-pershy
cent participation rate
Cons(itiJen~y
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CPIS
ess
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No oj alwnni
5269
662 1
198X
8 129
4016
12815
567
1lt131
1411
9 887
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603
4J)67
94 950
445
50133
5406
1603
2gm
5337
parI
78
103
88
83
92
89
93 middot
203
190
165
95 I3X
162
4 3
79
47
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258
171
46~
82
65282 141
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I gJl605 1
345365 1
1273 6 11
86932
15m986
535970
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306289
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31500
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119700
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263~Ri95
64579 16
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The group of eight
Eight campus projects were selected to share $86000 in highest-priority funds from the 1990 Alma Mater Fund Among them are the OvC Wild Bird Clinics education program a CSS academic medal in memory of the late dean John vanderkamp a soc ial sc ience citation index for the library framshying for the fine art print study collection a computer design laboratory for the School of Engineering seed money for a history graduate scholarship a conshytinuing education survey for the Mac-FACS Alumni Association and a HAFA-sponsored executive-inshyresidence
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Of cattle cash and Colvil e Alumni gifts to the University of Guelph come in some pretty interesting packages Over the years alumni have given livestock concrete paintings shythere are two by Canadian painter Alex Colville - furniture land books inshysurance policies and a host of artifacts and antiques And money - a lot of money Almost every building on camshypus has some bricks and mortar paid for by alumni And hundreds of students are helped along the way each year by alumshyni-sponsored scholarships
The Annual Giving Report on the preceding pages shows once again how important alumni gifts are to the Univershysity and provides us with an opportunity to say thank you to those alumni who continue to give on a yearly basis Anshynual giving is however only one of three avenues through which alumni proshyvide financial support to the University The others are major gifts and promoshytional programs
Annual giving
The Alma Mater Fund established in 1969 is the route chosen by most alumshyni faculty and staff who make annual gifts to the University
AMF solicitation and management are handled by a volunteer advisory council On the preceding page chair Tom Sawyer OAC 59A and 64 talks about the funds success over the last two years with AMF scholarships inshycreasing by 25 per cent This year the AMF begins a three-year commitment to funding renovations to War Memorial Hall
In addition to its flagship project AMF provides regular support to athshyletics through Gryphon Club contribushytions to college advancement funds and scholarships and to individual class projects
The AMF supports the camaraderie of university days as alumni work together to plan and complete a project whether its funding a scholarship a painting a tree weight-lifting equipshyment or furniture for Alumni House AMF contributions also ensure that fushyture Guelph students will remember those who have gone before
In addition to AMF donations the anshynual giving program includes gifts to
the OVC Pet Trust Fund the OAC Alumni Foundation the Arboretum the paren ts program and the Li brary Other gifts made directly to the University supshyport memorial funds scholarships musishycal activities and research and academic programs
Major gifts
Major gifts to the University are adshyministered by the Deve lopment Office under the direction of Marilyn Robinson Mac 55 These include beshyquests or life insurance policies shortshyterm pledges (often made during a capital campaign) large donations that might establish an endowment fund or contributions to special University projects like the Heritage Fund or the proposed FACS Building addition
Gifts- in-kind - such as library materials art objects or estate properties - also fall within thi s category Last year alumni gave more than $12 milshylion in such tax-deductible gifts
Promotions
Every Guelph graduate is a member of the University of Guelph Alumni Asshysociation and receives the Guelph Alumshy
nus magazine and many other privishyleges There are no UGAA membership fees but the association does raise money through promotional programs like MasterCard travel packages and the North American Life Assurance proshygram
The UGAA provides serv ices to alumshyni and students - such as the careershyplanning workshop planned for Juneshyand returns many dollars directly to the campus Last year it gave $20000 to the library
In addition to direct financial support through annual giving and major gifts alumni also support the University inshydirectly through membership fees to individual college and program associashytions The fees pay for association acshytivities that help maintain ties between their members and the University
Questions
If you have questions or would like 10
know more about the tax advantages of giving to U of G write to Paulette Samson associate director of annual giving and support services at Alumni House University of Guelph Guelph Ont NIG 2Wl or call 519-824-4120 Ext 6183
When yo~bearrom US
If you think youre hearing from us moreoften lhanY9u elida few years ago you reright But checkyour mail and you ll 110tiqe that you~re also hearing
more frequemly from othernon-jgtrofit)rganizations and charities We v~ all stepped lip oui- fUQdIaising efforts
U QfGappreciates your support and needs your help butyou wont know that if we donr teflyou Aildeyen if you cant afford to make a fjnancialcon~
tributiori we hop~ to wjn yoUfverbaJ sliPPOJ-tJt will take many voices to coii- ylnce governmeritthal universities should beagreater public priority
When we contacenttyou on behalf of iheUriivetsity we lly to give more thiin we ask So tak~advantage ofthe p~1one call o(letter to findoutwhais happenc ing OJrcarnp~s U ofG hasmuchto offer llufnrii professionaldevelcipment courses library privileges travel programs recreation and a link Igt friends and
classmates
We Jik~to keep in roucharidYcwarit yO~1 to know the progress were rilaking Ast~e Uriiversity $ prestige grows so does the value ofyour degree
~0~ MarilynR~binson Trish Walker Mac55 DiJectoJ ofDevelopment CSSTl Director ofAJurhni Affairs
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Get your career on track
Responding to alumni requests the University of Guelph Alumni Associashytion will sponsor a career-planning workshop on campus June 26 to 28 The weekend program will be led by Sharon Crozier of the University of Calgary counselling service Each participant will receive a careerlifestyle analysis and will develop a personal action plan
The $225 fee includes the StrongshyCampbell Interest Inventory and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator which will be administered and tabulated prior to the weekend Testing dates have been set in Toronto for May 27 and in Guelph for June 4
Sponsored by the UGAA and coshyordinated by Continuing Education and Alumni Affairs the workshop will also draw on the Universitys Counselling and Student Resource Centre
Enrolment is limited to 20 For registration information see page 26 or call Continuing Education at 519-767shy5000
UGAA board report
by Grant Lee CSS 73 MA 80
The UGAA will present a convocation package to each graduate this spring imshymediately following presentation of the degree or diploma Developed by Alumshyni Affairs staff the package is designed to increase awareness of the UGAA and the collegeschool alumni associations encourage membership introduce the Guelph Alumnus and provide an opporshytunity for board members to congratushylate our new alumni
Approval of the new UGAA bylaw is on schedule It will be presented to members at the annual general meeting in June along with an amendment to the
i I UGAA Letters Patent
In addition the UGAA board bull has approved a $400 donation to help
cover costs for two students to represhysent Guelph at the 1992 World Debatshying Championships in Dublin Ireland
bull is looking at a proposal to help alumDl with financial planning There will be more to come on this subject later
bull received thanks from president Brian Segal on behalf of those alumni who attended the October symposium
Guelph Alumnus
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Photo courtesy of IbeCinadi~n Si)rice Agenlt__y
Canada Break Up or Restructure The association was a patron of the event
bull is responding to requests from alumni for more social events Aside from the travel program the UGAA sponsored a ski day at Horseshoe Valley in March
bull approved a proposal from the School of Landscape Architecture to research places of historical value on campus Financial support has yet to be resolved
bull accepted an offer to help sponsor the University Centres annual lecture series which invites Canadian and inshyternational public figures to speak on current issues All events in the winter 92 series were free to alumni
bull donated U of G sweatshirts to Canadian Guidance and Counselling for a conference in Ottawa this sumshymer
bull approved the purpose and terms of refshyerence for the new Alumni House Adshyvisory Committee which is charged with overseeing maintenance of the
facility adopted the 199192 budget and finanshycial plan drafted last November This year we expect to generate some $44000 and spend $33000 It has been suggested that we set the 199293 budget and plan in April of this year so the new board wi II start in September with a sound financial program and budget that will only reshyquire adoption or revision
Chapter news
Calgary - About 40 alumni and guests met at the Delta Bow Valley Hotel Feb 3 to view a U of G video and hear a talk by admissions counsellor C hr is tine Toews FACS 87 Co-ordinator of the event was Janet Hutchinson CBS 79
Edmonton - Paul OAC 67 and Anne Valentine CBS 69 hosted a group of 30 alumni and guests at the Ramada Renaissance Hotel
Montreal - U of G welcomed students and their parents - including many
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alumni - to its first Montreal informashytion night for prospective students The event was modelled after a successful program in Toronto that draws more than 800 students each spring
Vancouver - U of G president Brian Segal met with alumni March 5 at the Pan Pacific Hotel Jim Dodds OVC 63 and Sarah Bloom FACS 86 orshyganized the event which attracted about 70 alumni and guests
Halifax- U ofG alumni in Halifax met with Gryphon basketball players during the March 26 to 28 CIAU chamshypionships Despite losing the OUAA west division title to Brock University the Gryphons qualified for a wi ld card spot at the CIAU championships Alumshyni received free tickets to the game that pitted Guelph against Brandon in the consolation final Fan support was enshythusiastic but the Gryphons lost 72 to 64 finishing third overall
Homecoming 1992 Plans are well under way for Homecoming weekend Sept 25 and 26 In addition to the annual Gryphon Hall of Fame dinner and award s ceremony the weekend will feat ure a beach volshyleyball tou rnamen t --~4~=iiiiikshyconcert alumni brunch walk-a-thon pep rally reunions and the traditional homecoming dance following the Saturday afternoon footshyball game This year the Gryphons will play Wil frid Laurier University A complete schedule will appear in the next Guelph Alumnus but you can get
Winners of Ihe Ju SI fo r Fun square dance compelition 01 College Royal were left 10 right Ann Joselin Kelley Allen Joanne Hewirson Brenl McFadden caller Sue MacKinnon Richard Presley Trish Henderson Jason Thompson and Kelly Lillie
in the Homecoming spirit now by helpshying to plan your class reunion or signing up as a scorekeeper for the vo lleyball tournament For infOlmation call alumshyni officer Laurie Malleau HAFA 83 at 519-824-4120 Ext 2102
Swing your partner
Eight squares of alumni took part in the College Royal square dance competition in March Winners of the UGAA alumni square dance plaque were the Crazy 8s Joanne Hewitson Arts 91 Lloyd Hutchinson CBS 87 Sonya Jones CPS 90 Ed Ketchabaw OAC 88 and MSc 91 Carol)n OAC 90 and Brad MacNeil CPS 87 Mike Relf OAC 91 and student Sherry MacNeil Wayne Lowden was the caller
Winners in the Just for Fun category were Junior Farmer alumni who included Hewitson Ann Joselin OAC 90 Brent McFadden CSS 90 Richard Presley OAC 86 and soonshyto-be-alumni Kelley Allen Trish
Henderson Kelly Little and Jason Thompson The caller was Sue MacKinnon OVC 9 1
Florida picnic
The North Port Yacht Club hosted 199 alumni for the annual Florida picnic March 4 On hand to meet them was Trish Walker CSS 77 and MSc 90 director of alumni affairs Judy Phillips of the University s Real Estate Division also attended to talk about the Village by the Arboretum retirement deve lopshyment
Attendance prizes went to Gertrude Stewart Mac 30 and Morley Funston OAC 32 The picnic was sponsored by the UGAA Alumni-In shyAction Committee represented by Ken Gartley OAC 42 and the Florida reunion committee consisting of Mary and Ted Brent OAC 48 Helen and Don Moffatt OAC 46 Stella and Bob Moore OAC 48 and Retis and Bill HasenptlugOAC 39
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Its the latest fad in alumni circles shymeeting your classmates at the anshynual University of Guelph alumni hockey tournament Twenty-two teams played in the fifth annual tourshynament in December
For most teams tournament standshyings are secondary to the socializing with classmates that they may not see otherwise says Bill Seegmiller OAC 83 who worked with Brian TapscottOAC 8 1 to organize the event We promote the social aspect through two divisions - social and more social - and include family skating and a Saturday evening wine and cheese party he says Trish Walker director ofalumni affairs presents fhe social division lrophy 10 Ihe OAC 79
Dipper Oldies (II the U ofG alumni hockey tournamenl The OAC 79A team defeated the Grey Gryphons to win the more soshycial division The OAC 80 team won the consolation final and the spirit award went to OAC 7778
In the social (a little more competishytive) division it was the Faceoffs in first place over OAC 88 OAC 90 won the consolation trophy and the Valley Vikings took home the spirit award
Organizers plan to add womens exshyhibition games to the 1992 tournament which is scheduled for Dec 5 and 6 For more information call Seegmiller at 519-836-3807 or Rudy Diemer OAC 85 at 519-763-2250
A night at the races
The UGAA Alumni-in-Action group will host a night at Mohawk Raceway May 26 The $30 admission includes a 6 pm buffet parking program taxes and gratuities For detail s call Laurie
~ Malleau at 519-824-4120 Ext 2102
I Alumni directory
A new alumni directory will be ready for delivery in May The deadline for alumni updates has passed but you can still order a copy of the directory at a cost of $40 plus tax Return the order form you received with the special U of G wristwatch offer or write to Rosemary Clark Mac 59 at Alumni House University of Guelph Guelph Ont NIG 2Wl
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Ottawa chapter 50 years young
There was a nostalgic gathering of Guelph alumni in Ottawa last winter to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the city s alumni chapter
Donald Fletcher OAC 36A and 39 who was president of the group in 1953 sent us a historical account of the chapters activities
A small organizing committee first met in February 1941 at Madame Burgers restaurant to plan the chapters first fun ction a skating party at the Ottawa Experimental Farm It attracted 75 people
Over the years the group held an anshynual picnic and a banquet and dance that gave them a chance to invite faculty from Guelph to speak about happenings at the colleges - and later the Univershysi ty Every president from George I Christie to Bill Winegard paid a vi sit
In 1951 alumni from OVC and Macshydonald Institute who had been meeting since 1936 joined the OAC group A crowd of almost 200 celebrated the chapter s 10th anniversary at a picnic at the farm of the late John Bracken OAC 06 During the 1950s they added a get-together at the annual Ottawa-area plowing match which gave way to a curling bon spiel in the 1960s
There have been many special funcshytions - entertaining the Gryphon footshyball teams square dances car rallies golf tournaments theatre parties and raceway evenings - but the event that stands out in Fletchers memory ocshycurred in 1966 when five members of Parliament hosted the group in the parshyliamentary ballroom
The chapter also includes a couples bridge club which has been meeting for 25 years in the homes of its members
Fletcher thanks the 30 people who have served as president of the Ottawa alumni chapter and the dozens more who have helped on committees devot shying years to the executive to promote the institution
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ALUMNI CAREER PLANNING WEEKEND WORKSHOP
JUNE 26 27 amp 28 ~ The Program This highly successful workshop developed by Sharon Crozier PhD University Counselling Services University of calgary is the first step for an alumnus who is considering a career move The weekend (Friday evening through Sunday afternoon) will consist of group presentations conducted by Dr Crozier with smaller working groups facilitated by profeSSional counsellors from the University of Guelph Counselling and Student Resource Centre
Discussion structured exercises and experiential activities will lead alumni to gain insight into a personal careerllifestyle analYSis and assessment career information resources networking skills and much more
No matter what their age career stage or reason for transition each participant will find this workshop to be an excellent opportunity to develop a personal action plan - and chart their next move
~ Pre-1esting In order to provide individualized career information registrants are required to attend one of two pre-testing sessions The Strongshycampbell Interest Inventory and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator will be administered and results tabulated prior to the workshop Pre-testing dates are as follows
Toronto Wednesday May 27 1992 700 pm - 8 30 pm Holiday Inn Yorkdale
Guelph Thursday June 4 1992 700 pm - 8 30 pm University Centre
~ Fee The registration fee of $225 includes administration and tabulation of the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator materials two lunches and refreshment breaks
Tuition fees in excess of $100 are income tax deductible
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May 2 - The Guelph Spring Festival begins with a 25th-anniversary gala dinshyner in Creelman Hall that will honor founding president Murdo MacKinnon Other festival events run until May 23 For more information call 519-821-7570
May 2 shy An All-Canadian University Asshysociation d inne r w il l be held in Washington DC at the Embassy of Canada Guest speaker is Robert Lanni president of the University of Windsor Entertainment will be provided by Windsors music department For inforshymation call T Chan at 202-543-9111
May 3 - Arboretum Day celebrates spring with family nature walks at 1 and 330 pm and an electrical keyboard concert at 230 pm featuring Canadian comshyposer Carole Anne Burris
May 10 to Aug 30 - Guided nature walks run every Sunday at 230 pm in the Arboretum Topics include wildflowers birds turtles snakes and insects The nature centre is open from 1230 to 430 pm
May 13 - Chancellor Lincoln Alexander is the guest speaker at the Alumni-inmiddotAction annual general meeting which begins at noon in the Arboretum Centre For details call Alumni Affairs 519-824middot 4120 Ext 2102
May 13 - The Human KineticsHuman Biology Alumni Association will hold its inaugural meeting at730 pm at Alumni House with a coffee and dessert social RSVP to 519-824-4120 Ext 6963
May 23 shy FACS 82 is sponsoring a colshylection of Bob Munsch plays performed by the Carousel Players at3 pm at War Memorial Hall Tickets are $8 plus tax and handling To order call the UC box off ice at 519-824-4120 Ext 3940
May 26 - Alumni-in-Action is hosting a night at Mohawk Raceway Cost is $30 To register call 529-824-4120 Ext 2102
May 30 - An Arboretum sale of rare native trees and shrubs at the RJ Hi lton Centre on College Avenue East runs from 9 am to 1 pm For information call 519-824shy4120 Ext 2113
May 30 shy The sixth annual All-Canadian University Dinner in Chicago will be held
in the Henry Crown Space Centre at the Museum of Science and Industry and will include a reception buffet dinner and an Omnivax movie beginning at 6 pm Guest speaker is George Pedersen president of the University of Western Ontario For information call David Cole at 312-372-4404 or Hugh Mackenzie at 708-369-3688
June 2 to 5 shy Spring convocation June 13 - Beginning at 7 am the Arshy
boretum will hold its summer bird survey The four-hour walk will locate breeding birds and identify their species by sight and song
June 15 to 17 shy U of G will host the 15th annual Guelph Conference on Sexuality With the theme Sexuality New Visions the conference will examine current isshysues in human sexuality counselling strategies for sexual problems and teaching approaches in sexuality educashytion For information call the Office of Continuing Education at 519-767-5000 or fax 519-767-0758
June 19 to 21 - ALUMNI WEEKEND See page 39 for a complete schedule of events and alumni association meetings The UGAA annual meeting is June 21 at 10 am in Macdonald Hall 149
June 26 to 28 shy The UGAA-sponsored alumni career-planning workshop will be held on campus See page 26 for details
July 31 amp Aug 4 shy The National Youth Orchestra will perform in War Memorial Hall at 8 pm as part of its summer program at U of G Tickets at $8 general $6 for stUdents and seniors will be availshyable at the door
Sept 26 - HOMECOMING Rise early for the second ann ual Homecoming charity walkathon At 930 am the Human Kinetics Alumni Association will hold its annual general meeting in the School of Human Biology lounge
Oct 1 - OVCs 1992 Schofield Memorial Lecture will be given by Steven Arnoczky a professor in the department of small animal clin ical sciences at Michigan State Universitys Laboratory for Comparative Orthopedics The 3 pm lecture will be held in War Memorial Hall Admission is free
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John Boros 88 of Wei land Ont writes that he is impressed by the way U of G keeps records after graduation Thi s gives the graduate a sense of belonging a connection to an important period in hi s or her life he says
Jane Buzza 88 is working as records co-ordinatorarchivist for the Ontario Medishycal Association in Toronto
Jacqueline (Sullivan) DeClerck 86 is a public relations officer at the Canada Trust head office in London Onto
Richard Ely 70 works at the Crown attorneys office in WeIland Ont He has an LLB from the University of Western Ontario in addition to his Guelph degree He says he often talks about U of G to young students trying to decide which university to attend
Paul Genest 81 finished graduate studies at Johns Hopkins Universi ty in Maryland and is now assistant professor of philosophy at Union College in Schenectady NY He is man-ied to Barbara Jessup 8 1
Brian Hogarth 78 is head of interpretashytion at the G1enbow Museum in Calgary
Martha Hooper 9 1 was married last Ocshytober to David Perry They live in Calgary where she is a sw itchboard operator at the Delta Bow Valley Inn
Rene van der Meijden 87 has put his degree in geogshyraphy and internationshyal development to good use with the Christian Reformed World Relief Comshymittce Originally from the Netherlands he is now in Uganda on a three-year asshy Rene van der signment as a rural Meijden development adv iser He sends greetings to his many friend s in Canada and to Guelph grads Stan and Kitty in Bolivia in particular and reminds us that visitors are always welshycome in Uganda
Edward Milliner 85 will graduate this spring from the faculty of education at the University of Windsor
Mark Moore 85 is doing postgraduate work in history at the University of Bristol in England He plans to teach high school
fn response to a letter from Dawn Monroe 69 that appeared in the winter 1992 issue of the Guelph Alumnus Doug Moynihan 69 of Fort McMurray Alta writes Be disapshypointed no more Dawn l I too graduated in 1969 from (the College of) Arts or as it was then called Wellington College and I havent heard from anyone either And I too think it is time to contribute my news
After graduation f headed out to disshycover and sol ve the problems of the world travelling overseas for about three years Since then Ive been working in human resources in a variety of organizations in many different locations in Canada Cun-entshyIy I am the manager of human resources in Fort McMurray
PS Do you remember me Dawn I was the bartender in Creelman Hall I
John Teskey 7 1 began new duties last summer as director of libraries at the University of New Brunsw ick in Fredericton He was head of adshyministrative sershyvices at the University of Albershyta before moving John Teskey across Canada to acshycept the UNB posishytion but had earlier served as chief librarian and was library personnel officer at both Alshyberta and the University of Saskatchewan
Teskey says his biggest challenge is to regain the lost purchasing power that univershysity libraries have suffered as a result of static budge ts and ri sing material costs He is encouraging increased resource-sharing among universities and interlibrary loan programs with shortened turnaround
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Elizabeth (Baxter) Willson 77 a real esshytate agent in Chatham Ont writes to voice a common feeling that the universi ty exshyperience itself is often more important than the degree or diploma received I am really glad I graduated from Guelph she says
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Michelle Bombadier and Mike Caldwell both 92 are two of 50 Canad ian youth selected to work in Guyana for three months with Youth Challenge International (YCI) a non-governmental organization that provides Third-world experience for Canadians They may spend the summer building a school teaching safety or clearing land for Gu ytna s first national park but they need some private support to he lp cover transportation costs Anyone able to help should write to YCI at I I Soho St Toronto M5T IZ6
Jane Coventry 86 writes with accolades for the Guelph Alumnus grad news section and an update on what she and her husband Jaydee Smith 84 and MSc 89 are doing They were married in 1989 while working at U of G - he in the Department of Animal and Poultry Science and she in the Departshyment of Crop Science In February 1991 they moved to England where Smith is doing a PhD at the University of Bristol and working as a research assistant Coventry
works in the technology transfer unit of Nickshyerson Seeds Ltd in Cambridge
Jeffrey Crawford 88 and Leslie Thompson 86 were malTied last October He is an elementary schoolteacher in Mount Forest Ont
Craig Emerson 83 earned a PhD at Dalshyhousie University in Halifax in 1990 and is now a research associate in oceanography
Paul Fleming 85 is a pharmaceutical sales representative for Hoechst Canada Inc and lives in Nepean Ont
David Forsey 80 is an assistant professor of computer science at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver He is marshyried to Lyn Bartram
Michael Gangl 89 is in his third year at the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College
Astrid Harms 87 is a registered nurse in London Ont
Andrew Holmes 85 worked for the Onshytario government as a wildlife biologist for three years but is now back at school in his second year at Northwestern Chiropractic College in Minneapolis
Timothy Johnson 86 works at the Centre for Limnology at the University of Wisconshys in in Madison
Karen Lennard 77 (HK) and her hu sshyband Paul Jackson 79 (HK ) and MSc
82 both went 011 to earn medical degrees from McMaster University in HalTilton Ont Jackson also has a master s in physiology from the University of Virginia and is comshypleting an anesthesiology residency in Hamilshyton Lennard has a part-time family medical practice allowing her to spend more time with the couples two children Matthew and Nicola
Wendy Maltby 74 is an elementary schoolteacher for the Metropolitan Toronto School Board
Sandra OConnor 84 earned a medical degree from the University of Western Onshytario and is now practi sing in Burlington Ont
Linda Owen 81 runs her own business as a consulting exercise physiologist and fitness supervisor in Campbell River BC
Sheryle Tetley 86 is regional sales manager for Glaxo Canada Inc in Mi ss isshysauga Ont where she lives with her husshyband Ian
Rob Tonus 87 is manager of the Black Creek Rehabilitation Project a grassroots enshyvironment program to improve a degraded urban stream in Toronto His office is with the Metropolitan Toronto and Region Conshyservation Authority and he lives in Oakville with his wife Wanda (Knul) 88 (HK) a public health inspector in Hamilton
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Richard Woods 81 is an instructor of xshyray technology at the Easte rn Ontario School of X-ray Technology at Kingston Ge neral Hospital He would like to hear from other members of the 1981 U of G choir wi th whom he travelled to Scandinav ia Write to him at RRI Od essa Ont KOH 2HO
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James Dy nes 84 has comp le ted g raduate studies in chemistry and so il sc ience at the Univers ity of Sas katchewan in Saskatoon
Catherine (McVittie) Clark 88 is a nuclear medica l tech nici an at Howard Counshyty General Hospita l in Columbia Md She and her husband Michae l li ve in Elkridge Md
David Holmes 85 is a systems analyst at Sun Life Assurance Company
RolfKierdorf 84 lives in Guelph with his wife Janet He is se lf-employed as a systems consultant
Donald McFadde n 71 and his wife Carol li ve in A lbany Ga where he pracshyti ses medicine
Donald Ridley 69 and PhD 73 has been appoin ted seni or v ice-presiden t of CibashyGeigy Canada Ltd in Oakvi lle Ont and is responsib le for a ll corpora te serv ices includshy
ing finance human resources safe ty health and the environment He a lso se rves on the board of the Canadian Agricu ltura l Research Council and is a member of the Great Lakes Action Plan Strategi c Advi sory Committee
Kathryn Root Parr is an assoc iate minister at Lorne Park Bapti st Church in Mississhysa uga Ont She was married las t fa ll to Vicshytor Parr
Peter Simpson 85 is dis tric t manager for McNeil Pharmaceutical Ltd in Stouffville Ont He is married to Cynthia (Hamilton) 85 (HK)
Keith Stemshorn 83 is in the Canadian Armed Forces stationed in Calgary
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Nikki Dignard 86 moved to Ottawa last year where her husband Ted Henike pracshyti ses denti stry Dignard is working on an M BA and says she d love to hear from CSS classmates Tom Cam and Kathryn
Bonnie Dunnett 87 and MA 91 works on campus at the Gerontology Research Centre S he and Barry Hallman 9 1 li ve in Guelph
Kathryn Faulkner 80 is a registered nurse in Burling ton Ont where she li ves wi th he r husband John
Ruth Fox 84 is a sta ffing assistant for
Transport Canad a and lives in Toronto w ith her husband Christopher
Shonna Giles 88 is an admiss ions officer at Simon Fraser Unive rs ity in Burnaby BC
Gina Grieco 75 is a hi gh school guidance counsellor in North York Onto
John Harris 82 is manager of financial planning and budgets for th e City of Brampton Ont
Paulette Heppner 76 is a teache r in Vanshycouver
John Johnston 7 1 has been appointed exshyec uti ve vice-pres ident o f Ve rsacold Canada Corp and pres ident of QF Foods Distribushytion Services Versacold Canada is the largest public refri gera ted ware hou sing orshygani za tion in Western Canada
Michael Kral 79 has moved from the Univers ity of Manitoba to the University of Wind sor where he is an assistant professor of psychology
Jeffrey Lozon 76 and his family recently returned to Toronto after 15 years in Western Canada He is executive vice-president and ch ief operat ing officer at St Michael s Hos pital and li ves in Oakville wi th hi s wife Donna and two daughters
Bria n Martin 79 is a real estate appraiser in Portland Ont whe re he li ves w ith hi s wife Margaret (Sheffield) Arts 79
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Leith Mason 90 works in Toronto in the Canadian office of the State of Illinois as a special assistant to the Illinois Department of Food and Agricul ture
Michael McKean 74 of Don Mills Ont was recently appointed president of Wrigley Canada Inc Before joining Wrigley as execushytive v ice-pres ident in 1990 he he ld senior positions in Hong Kong Brazil and the United States
Rick 74 and Vicki (Collard) McTaggart FACS 74 are working in Ottawa He is director of overseas operations for the Unitarian Service Committee a charitable non-governmental organization that supports commun it y and human resou rce developshyment activities in Africa and Asia She is sec tion head of consumer analysis in the agr ifood development branch of Agriculture Canada
Sandra Morrison 86 is an ass istant professhysor in the department of psychiatry at the University of Western Ontario
Stephen Naylor 85 is director of planning and development for the amalgamated municipalities of Alliston Beeton Tecumshyseth and Tottenham
Brian ONeill 68 MA lives in SUITey England where he is managing director of Innovation Management Consultant s
Jodi Parisi 89 is a sales representative for Gillette who says U of Goo was the greatest
Moira Skikavich 81 is completing a PhD in c inematelevision at the University of Southern California
Virginia Sutherland 78 is an air traffic controller at the Toronto Island Airport
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Peggy Bates 88 was recently promoted to sales manager with Sears Canada Inc She lives in Owen Sound Ont
Caroline Begin 86 is working in Singshyapore as a dietitian
Diana Close 87 is a c linical nutri ti onis t at Chedoke McMaster Hospital in Hamilton Ont
Sarah Davenport 90 is a case worker with the Wellington County Social Services office in Guelph She is malTied to Matthew Harvey CBS 90
Timothy Dyck 8 1 is national sales manager for Black amp Decker Canada workshying out of the Corbin Division in Richmond HillOnt
Sharon (Muir) 84 and Richard Ernst CBS 83 are the proud parents of a future Guelph grad uate one-year-old Andrew Graham
Patricia Edwards 78 is food servi ce sushypervisor fo r St Peter s Hospita l in Hamilton Ont
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For the love ofteaching Since she
middot graduated bull from Macshydonald Inshymiddot stitute in
J 963 Nancy Kerr has built a career on teaching and research in telttles The middotheidofthe Uriiveisityof
Albertas department of Clothing and texiiles pursues a middotscientific interest inthepreservashylion of hi stori~lfabricsarid in developing pesticide-proofc1otl1ing But Jler fitstlove i ~ teaching
In 199b shewonone ofU of As four Rutherford AWljrds for excellence ill unshy
dergraduate teat-hing The first member of the faculty middotofliomemiddoteconornicsto receive the award slie was the rcentcipient6f the facultys own underglltiduate teaching award three years earlier
Winning the Rutherford was a gteat honor says Ken who has been on
faculty at Alberta since 1967 She oiscovered she had an aptitude for
middot teaching as a graduate student at the University of California Davis in
196566 After earning her MSc she casr about for afaculty position in Canada and round U of A was the 0111y place I could teach ju t textiles plus have a chance to develop new cQurses and research labs
middot Kerr sa)s she gets a tremelldous sense of satisfaction from teaching and the learning he must do to stay cUlTent She attributes her succe s as a teaCher to middotIec-middot
middot tures that are well organized and clear and to creltting a positive classroom climate
~Thcomfort level of students is reaUy middot ililportanL ~ Kerr eamedherPhD in fibre lnd
polymer science from North Carolina bull Staie University in 1982 Her doctoral work concentrated oil deacidification
techniques to preserve historicatcottOnln 1988 she spent a sabbatical ye~r doing research at the Caliadian Conservation
middot In tirute in OnflW1 middot Originalmiddotly from Ottawa Kerr is a
trarisphlnted -vesterner who enjoys middot hiking anlt sk1ing
From left Diane Ellison Lisa Wilson Lori Davis and Pippa Hobbes
Diane Ellison 84 is liv ing in Osaka Japan where she teaches English to Japanese busishyness people Last October she welcomed three U of G friends for a visit Lori Davis CSS 85 manager of Jumbo Video Inc in Oakville Ont Pippa Hobbes 84 accountshying manager for Paramount Holidays in Willowda le Ont and Lisa Wilson 84 co-ord inator of membership serv ices for the Metropolitan Toronto Board of Trade
Monica Hrybko HAFA 88 is director of sales for the Ramada Hotel Old Town in San Diego Calif
David Jones HAFA 88 is a con troller at the Holiday Inn Montreal Centre-Ville
Kathleen McLachlin 83 is operating an insurance agency in Kitchener OnL She opened the State Farm Insurance office in March 1988 and says she loves her job
Susan (Goettler) Parker 80 is working in Toronto as benefits administrator for Imshyperial Oil Limited She is married to Donald Parker OAC 79
Mary Jean (Sinnott) Price Mac 7 1 has returned to sc hool at the University of Otshytawa to earn a bachelor of education
Margaret (Richardson) Rankin 75 has been living in Halifax since 1990 and is an account analyst for Central Guaranty Trust
Janet (Wanless) Sutherland 77 is in private practice as a marriage and family therapist in East Kelowna BC
Jean Thomson Mac 37 says 1937 was a long time ago but shes delighted with all the changes that have gone at the college A former hospita l nutritionist she is retired and living in London Ont -
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Olayiwola Layi Adeola MSc 86 and PhD 89 and his wife Mope are living in West Lafayette Indiana where he is an assisshytant professor of pig nutrition at Purdue University
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Bruce Barrie 79 (Eng) graduated last June with an MBA from City Uni ve rsi ty in Washington State and is now a senior adshyviser in strategic planning with Petro-Canada Resources in Calgary He is a professional eng ineer with APEGGA and an ac tive memshyber of the Planning Forum an international society for planning and strategic manageshyment
Barbara Bryce 83 and her husband Ricardo Ramirez 82 are living in Rome Italy She is a landscape architect and he is a communications officer with the Food and Agriculture Organizat ion
Daniel Campbell 81 and his wife SharonshyMarianne are farmin g near Petrolia Onto
Carolyn Closs 82 and her husband Harold operate a beef cowca lf operation in Shawville Que
Luc Cote 83 is an agricullural account manager for the Royal Bank of Canada in Joliette Que
Kerrie Lea Curran 85 plans to graduate this fall from the master of architecture proshygram at McGi ll University
Bruce Dodson 74A is course superinshytendent at Hawd Ridge Golf and Curling Club in Orillia Ont
Richard Donkin OAC 85A originalshyly from Zimbabwe is the manager of Venida Packing Inc in Exeter Calif Situated in central Californias San Joashyquin Valley Venida Packing ships tree fruit throughout the Richard Donkin United States Canada the Pacific Rim and the Far East Products under the brand names Ruby River and Venida include peaches plums nectarines kiwi grapes persimmons and pomegranates In 1988 Donkin married California native Lisa Kolander and they live in Lemon Cove a community in the Sierra foothill s
Brendan Elder 8S A lives in Kelowna BC and works for Dogwood Nursery He plans to be married thi s summer to Rosemary Powell
Robert Fessenden OAC MSc 67 was recently appointed vice-president of devel opshyment and planning at the Alberta Research Council He is responsible for tec hnology management and corporate marketing
John Fitzgerald 86 was married last November to Susan Given a ] 991 indeshypendent study graduate in animal producshytion He is a lecturer at Ridgetown College she works at Centralia College and is work shying on a psychology degree at the University of Waterloo They live in Strathroy Ont
Glenn Helstern 79A is a driver for the Calgary division of Greyhound Bus Lines of Canada Ltd
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She tells a princely tale
For seven miniJtes on Oct 24 199 L Ellen Het1eOAC 76~U1d MSc 80
(ltllked with PIince Charles Invited toopert a newfumaceat
inco Lilniteds Copper Cliff smelter iri Sudbury Ont the Princemiddot of Wales was easy to talk with says Heale ftwasverycxciting
As eiwironmental co-ordinator Of land reclamation andrevegetation at Copper Cliff Healetold theprince middot about Tnc(secosystem rehabilitation
projects Theroyalvisitor was parshyticulatfyiilterestedin the treegrow- ing project in abandoned inines flld in tlpoundrevegetation ()f acres of tailings
and barren rock Planrilig vegetation on the tailings
hasattrlttcled wildlifeto a protected habitat says Beale who has wqrked forIncosincc she graduated in 1976
Ninety~iwo species ofbirds as weil asrodems hares foxes wolves bears andinoQse have been sighted on the 2500 acres of rehabilitated ore waste
One thing about this job is you middot can s~e where youve been effective she says
While an undergraduate student in Prill(e Charles with EIen Heale horticultural science Healea native ofSiidbury worked at Ineo during the sumniers She wasthi tirst woman to
work inrhemining companys agriculture middot department After shegraduated the niekshy el inine hired her full time tcido horticul- turaLfleld research ~ Ineo later granted heT a two-semester leave of absente t6 work
Theodore Jacobs 78 (Eng) is engineering supervisor at Standard Tube in Woodstock Ont
Greg Keast 85 (Eng) is li ving in Mozamshybique in East Africa where he works as a project officer for UNICEF rural water supshyply project s
Richard Kline 74 was appointed partner of the Toronto accounting firm Schwartz Levitsky Feldman Inc last faiL He is presishydent of the film s bankruptcy division a member of the Chartered Accountants of Onshytario and first vice- president of the Ontario Insolvency Association
Christopher Laforest MSc 91 (USRPD) works in planning and economic developshyment for Bruce County Ont
Jean-Paul PhD 90 and Lynn (Hammell) Laforest 82 and MSc 85 are both employed at Laval University in Sainte-Foy Que He is a professor and s he is a research associate
Kenneth Lawless 63 earned a Guelph deshygree in agricultural economics then went on to stud y dentistry at the Uni versity of Toronshyto He is now an oral and manilo-fac ial surshygeon in Kingston Ont
oil her masters at OAC~ In her current PdStion Heale has rnore
administrative and public relations responshyibilities On her own time she sits on the
board of management for the tocal Red Cross and isalllember ofthe Sudbury
Business and Professional Womens Club
Margie Luffman 77 writes that she has happily returned to Ontario after 10 years in New Brunswick to work at the Smithfield Experimental Farm in Trenton She is curator of the Plant Gene Resources of Canada clonal gene bank
Brian MacCulloch MAg 89 is a sa les representative for Springva le Nurseries Ltd in Berwick NS
Daniel Mansell 64 and MSc 68 is Onshytario manager of the eastern habitat joint venture in the wildlife policy branch of the Ministry of Natural Resources He is stashytioned in Midhurst Ont
Peter McEntire 77A writes from County Langford in Ireland to keep in touch with U of G He is farming and work s as an AI techshynician with Bova Genetics Ltd
Darryl Mitchell 78 works at Pioneer HishyBred Limited in Chatham Ont
Hugh ONeil 88 is manager of customer financial services for Ral ston Purina Canada Inc
Umed Panu MSc 72 (Eng) has done a lot of travelling during his career After Guelph he earned a PhD in civil engineering
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David Nedelko OAC 86 and Ljrlda ArmsJrollg CBS 89 (Jurk 011 cemre) were marriediasl SeplemiJer in Bari ~ie OnlTluir weddiIg iiarly illcilldedfiom leli Katy KusmiliskiOA C 88Paul Allgusline GAG 86 Roh Reed OAC 87Carv Belfral1l oAC 8RJIuJ Sa ndimiddoto (CollinI) BerlrCIlII CBS RR Also 1I111ie wedding w(lS Arlllslong s Veal ullcleClarence Fleming OVC 34 The couple (Ire living in
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at the Universit y of Waterloo taught in India and at Mi ss iss ippi State Uni vers ity and worked with Briti sh Columbia Hydro and the Government of Newfoundland In 1986 he jo ined the faculty of c ivil engi neering at Lakehead Uni ve rsity in Thunder Bay Ont and was promoted to full professor in 199 1 He and hi s wife Kashna and the ir children Neeti and Anukud enjoy the outdoor recreashytion ac ti viti es available in Northwestern Onshytario and look forward to visits from U of G alumni trave lling to Thunder Bay
Lyle Pettigrew 61 is a marketin g consulshytant with Harris Kovacs Alderman in Atlanshyta Ga
Helen Prior 88 joined Sheridan Nurseries after graduation then worked for a year as a research tech nic ian in Guelph s Department of Crop Scie nce She is now in her th ird year at Emmanuel College at Victoria University and hopes to be ordained as a United Church min is ter in May
Gregory Scott 83 (Eng) is operations manager for Accuform Gol f Limited in Toronto
Ba rbara (Coordes) Skrypetz 87 is a fi e ld supervisor for the Ontario Dairy Herd Imshyprovement Corporation working out of Guelph He r husband Stephen 88 operates a bulldozing and excavating busi shyness in the Woodstock area
Victor Skidra 6 is re tired f rom his job as a sc ientific evaluator with Hea lth and Welshyfare Canada He and hi s wife Konstance live in Nepean Ont
William Slusarchuk 63 (Eng) and MSc
The way we were in 1902 OAC alumnus Douglas Campbell 60 passes on a bit of col lege hi sto ry that shou ld make us think twice about our con stitutional squabbles in C anad a
Campbell is director of the Latin America and Caribbea n Trade Divis ion of Canada s Department of External Affa irs Last summer he hosted a vi s it by the president of Uruguay Luis Alberto Lacalle Herre ra whose grand fa the r made a simil a r vis it to Canada in 1902
This is what the elde r Herrera reported to his government Gue lph agricultural college enjoys a worldwide reputation and is con shys idered one of the grea t loca l attracshytions
More than 200 young Canadians a long with many foreign youths come together in its lecture rooms There are bursary ho lde rs from Norway and as far away as Mauritius C loser to us
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67 was recently appo inted pres ident of AGRA Eanh and Environmental Group an envi ronme ntal and geotechnica l firm that is a division of AGRA Indu stries Limited
Michael Sullivan 87 A is a pol ice officer with the Wate rloo Regional Police in Cambridge Ont
Argentina has 12 students there We ll then couldnt Uruguay imshy
itate those good exa mples and also se nd a number of worthy youths to Guelph to acquire the professional knowledge which is becoming m ore necessary each day for the deve lopshyment of our agric ulture~
In addition to the sc ienti fic benefits that our compatriots woul d deri ve from entering sLlch a Canadian techni cal in shystitution there would be the inca lcushylable benefit of becoming familiar with the stric t manly and sound habits of these people who are admirable in e ve ry respect
Afte r they have stee ped themse lves in this atmos phere of dem ocracy which fosters the development of all rights and is alien to intolerance thi s legati on w ill have the great honor of sending home not only sc ientists but a lso mode l citizens
Brenda Trask 80 operates he r own comshymunica tion s consulting company in Osshygoode Ont She is marri ed to Ron Ferguso n
Dave Vanden Bosch 89 is manager of operator services and plann ing for Bell Canada in London Ont
J Stallard Skip Waterhouse 54 and hi s wife Li sa are ce lebrating the birth of a daughter Samantha Elizabe th on New Years Day 1992 They live in New York State where Wate rhouse is iI pro fe ssor of bio logical science at the Plattsburgh Sta te Uni versity College of Arts and Science
Jeff 88 and Karen (Burrows) W h ite 87 live in Strathroy Ont Jeff work s for Bell Canada and Kare n is a Lambton County rural orga ni za tion spec ialist with the Ontar io Mini stry of Agriculture and Food
Harold Wright 86 is a development repre shysenta tive for Ci ba-Ge igy Canada Ltd in Mi sshysissauga Ont He and Lori Krieg 84 plan to marry thi s sprin g
Donald Ziraldo 7 I received doubl e honors last winter fro m the Ontario grape and wine industry Preside nt of Inniskillin W ines of Niagara-on -the-Lake Ont he was named to the Royal Order of the Grape for hi s leadership in enhancing the prod uct and its image
In addition Z ira ldo and his partner Karl Kai se r were named 1991 Men of the Year by FoodsCIvice and Hospitalily magazine During the ir 17-year partnership at Inn isk ilshylin the two have been instrumental in shapshying Canada s wine industry the magazine sa id
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ave Barry Burtis 69 was named president of the Ontario Veterinary Medical Association in January after working with the voluntary organization for four years as a director member of its editorial board and chair of its public relations committee Burtis lives in Burlington Ont and practises at the Bay Cities Animal Hospital He also appears on a local cable television program called Pel Tales
William Medway 54 of Blackwood NJ has been named an honorary life member of the International Association for Aquatic Animal Medicine for his contributions on beshyhalf of the association and the field of aquatic medicine He is both a founding member and past president of the associa shytion A professor emeritus of clinical laboratory medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine Medway is a member of the Marine Mammal Commissions committee of scientific advisers
Diane Pickering-Forster 86 is practising at Vander Kraan Veterinary Services in Huntsville Ont She is malTied to Chris Forster and they have one daughter Julia
Julien Proulx 67 has moved from Kapusshykasing Ont to La Pocatiere Que where he is superintendent of Agriculture Canada s Experimental Farm Last year he was feashytured on TVOntarios French network series Personalire Ontarienne for his work as a veterinarian his participation in municipal politics and his support of regional developshyment in Northern Ontario He was also awarded Agriculture Canadas research branch prize Agcellence for extraordinary management during his direction of the reshysearch program at the Kapuskasing Exshyperimental Farm
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Twoc~ireers middot on the samepat~ OVCaruninus Geoffrey Lord 49 felt a thopedic
middot enseofdejavuwhen he read theslory gastrointesshyabout Bill Naray~i1 OVe 63 il1la~t tinal and carc
springs issue ofthe Guelph Altimnus diovascular
There are amazing simi laritiesbetween surgery the c~reersof t~e two Guyanese wh6b6th says Lord If earnedvefetinary degrees atGueiph someone worked in c1ini(ai practice in)Yestem were to ask Canada then moved to the United States me ioday to work in human medic~lresearch what Tcon~
Narayan heads an AlDSresearchteamsider to be atJohns HopkiflS l1)iversilySchool of my expertise MediCirieinBaltimoreMatyland Lord is I would have retired directorofthdohnsonamp Johnson to saymecli- Geofrey Lord
middot Resear~h Foundalion ill NewJersey cal device lordsays he was influenced by OVC andbioshy
proJessDfs Anthony Kings(Qte and Frank Inaterials evaluation middot SchofieJd~ndwcentnton from GiJelphto pur- lt In the I 950s Lordwaspalt of ale-
sue graduate studies in parasitology auhe se~rch team that pioneered the use of University oJWiscollsin Sevenmorithsin animal tissue tOTeconstructdamagedjr
amixed practice in Drumheller Alta con blocked al1eries in hUl11ansTwenty years vinced him thaldinical medicine wasn6t middot later he drafted the first systematicap-
middot whati w~ted6 do He returned to Wis pr()ach to the safety evaluation of medica con5il110 eanla PhDlll pathologyano devices joined Johnson amp JohnsQri as asenior middot Allsubsequeill guidelines inCiLlding patilol()gistiriI953 those of the Foodaj)q Diug Admlnistrashy
Research at Johnson amp JohDson tiOnand the Canadian Regulatory ~teeredmeinto many interesting and chal- Authority hayeadopteoihis approach he
Jenging fieldsofbio-research includirig says derniiltoi9gy toxicologic pathology Lordand his wife Helen ltIividetheir wound healing surgical pathology iiinebetweel)Ciipe CodandBonita genera toxkology ofi~w drugs andor~ Springs FloriQa
Shane Renwick 77 and MSc 91 works in veterinary services at Agriculture Canada offices in Guelph
Ruth Reuter 61 is a veterinary pathologist in Plympton Australia
Tom Sanderson 6 1 was selected by the Ontario Veterinary Medical Association as Ontario Veterinarian of 1991 CUlTently OVCs co-ordinator of off-campus work terms he spent 20 years in private practice in Listowe1 and Mount Forest before returning to the coll ege in 1982 to manage the veterishynary research stations Sanderson s contribushytions to the profess ion have included many hours of volunteer work in the advancement
of the profession and in the development of veterinary inshysurance programs He is a past pres ident of both the Ontario and Canadian Veterishynary Medical associashytions
Jennifer Troughton 86 is practising in OronoOnt
Simone Woltner 86 is a veterinarian at the Chester Basin Animal Hospital in Chester Basin NS
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by her hu sband William and two sons The fo llowing dea ths have been reported since the las t issue of the Guelph Alumnus Full notices which are usu ally submitted by family or classmates may appear in thi s iss ue or in a later one
James Clement Arts 73 Feb 2 1992
Marilyn (Dyment) Farnan Mac 530 Feb 27 1992
David Fisher OAC 80A in October 1990
Elizabeth (C hristie) Glass Mac 3I D June 2l99 1
Peter Heskey OAC 54A Dec 6 199 1
Richard Ketchell OVC 51 Nov 23 199 1
Edward Kowalski Arts 79 in August 199 1
Pauline (Dixon) MacMillan Mac 240 Jan 2 1992
Catherine MacPherson Arts 83 Dec 11 1990
Marguerite (White) Maybury Mac 3 10 in June 1990
Donald McLeOd CSS 80 Jan 9 1992
Albert Meilus OAC 51 in 1991
Ann (Biggs) Ostler Mac 3 10 in April 1991
Robert Race Arts 73 in 1989
Ralph Sampson OAC 40 in December 1989
Mor ris Sanderson OAC 42 Nov 17 1991
Sir Peter Scott HDSc 8 1 in Au gust 1989
William Setterington OAC 40 Oct 22 1991
George Shoniker OAC 50A in March 199 1
John Somerset OAC 34 Dec 27 199 1
Gregory Van Patter OAC 7 1 in 1990
Frederich Weiland OAC 20A in 1990
Arts
Riccardo Rich Incitti 88 died Jan 5 1992 as the result of an accident near Hami lshyton Ont He was assistant manager at the Toronto-Dominion Bank in St Cathari nes and is survived by his parents Gu igi and Lucia of Cambridge and two sisters Laura and Andrea
Larry McNenly 73 died in October 1991 in Owen Sound Ont He is survived by his wife Marnie CSS 73
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Robert Everett HK 74 died in May 1991 in Burlington Ont A teac her at White Oaks Secondary Schoo l in Oakv ille he is survived by his wife Miche le and brother William CBS 74
James Sandy Fear 75 died Oct I I 199 1 in Toronto He is survi ved by his wi fe Sally (Firth) OAC 75 and hi s children Caitlin Alli son and Mered ith
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Lynn (Dalys) Corby 84 died in Toron to May 6 1990 after a long battIe with cancer
Nancy (Birbeck) Gordon 77 died Oct 20 1991 in Ottawa after a short illness She worked at the Kitchener-Waterl oo Hospital and had previously been plan t accountant at Foseco Canada Incorporated in Guelph
Mac-FACS
Jean (Williams) Forward 280 Oct 28 1991 in Calgary She was the widow of Bower Forward OAC 25 and is survived by two sons
Catharine (Bechtel) Fromm 270 died Nov I 199 1 in Cambridge Ont She is surshyvived by three dau ghters Ellen Moore Mac 63 Nancy and Caro l
Alice (Rivaz) Garrard 28 di ed Dec 2 199 1 in Guelph She was an active member of the Mac-FACS Alumni Assoc iat ion and was the Mac 28 class agent for the Alma Mater Fund She is survived by her husband retired professor Edward Garrard OAC 27 and a daughter Betty Nelson
Della Marie (Diamond) Honey 300 of Warkworth Ont died June 29 1991 One ofWarkworths oldest and most respected citizens she served as local li brarian fo r 25 years She is survived by her son John OAC 52A his wife Patric ia and four grandchildren James OAC 84A William OAC 76A Thomas OvC 89 and Patricia Lonergan CSS 68
Barbara (Banigan) Martin 380 died Jan I 1992 in Don Mill s Ont A retired teacher wit h the North York Board of Education she is survived by a son Ted a sister and two brothers
Elizabeth (Burt) Perry 340 died June 28 1991 in Sidney BC and is surv ived by her husband Gordon and son Paul Nartel OAC 62
Jacqueline (Roy) Pote 34D died Dec 2 1 1991 in Willowdale Ont and is is survived
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Doroth y (MacFeeters) Scott 260 died Jan 14 1992 in Toronto She is su rvived by two daughters Anne Donaldson and Cynthia Scott
Florence (French) Snyder 370 died May 6 199 1 in Calgary and is survived by her husband Robert and two sons John and William
Katherine (Sweet) Watt Mac 220 died Feb 23 1992 She is survived by her husshyband Leslie a son David and a dau ghter Carol Gi llanders
Mattie (Newman) Widdicombe 240 died Dec 11 1991 in St Catharines Ont Preshydeceased by her husband John she is surshyvived by a bro ther and several nieces and nephews including Virginia Rigby Arts 76
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George Grey Arnup 38 died Feb 2 1992 in Toronto He spent most of his career with the plant protection branch of Agriculture Canada He is survived by his wife Aileen three chi ldren Nancy Jim and Mary Ellen Vincent CBS 79 and four grandchi ldren
Herbert Boyce 28 and MSA 43 died Sept 2 1991 in Amherstburg Onto He is survi ved by his wife Norah a daughter Beverley Med lock and a brother James OAC 32
Jack Reddy Brethet 56 died Nov 4 199 1 in Burlington Ont President of Brethet Barnum Assoc iates Inc he is surshyv ived by his wife Caro l and two daughters Lyn n and Anne
Bruce Foster 28 died Feb 6 1992 in Ridgetown Ont and is survi ved by his daughter Gayle Anderson and son David CBS 69
Allison Gardhouse 49 died Sept 21 1991 in Midland Ont He was re tired supe rshyintendent of schoo ls for the Simcoe County Board of Education and is survi ved by his wife Merle
Kenneth Harrison 24 died Nov 5 199 1 in Kentville NS A distinguished plant patho logist military officer and mycologist he began hi s career in 1926 as assistant plant pathologis t at the Kentvi lle Experimental Farm He worked there until retirement in 1966 wi th the exception of mi litary servi ce du ring the Second World War
Dr Harrison had a lifelong interes t in the study of mushrooms and publ ished numerou s technica l papers on the mu shroom flora of Nova Scotia In addition he enshy
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couraged interested amateurs and led field trips for student s at Acadia University and the general public from 1929 until 1987 In 1979 he was honored by Acadia wi th the dedication of the Kenneth A Harri son Laboratory of Mycology
During his career he was a member of many professional organizations a charter member of the Mycological Society of America and fe llow of the American Associashytion for the Advancement of Science
He is survived by hi s wife Margaret two brothers Maynard OAC 30 and Arthur OAC 29 two son s Ashley and Kenneth and a daughter Jennie Sheito
William Kellam 4 1 died Oct 19 1991 in Brockville Ont He was retired from the Curb and Gate Co of-Brock ville where he had worked as a lab technician fo r 28 years He is survived by his wife Kathleen a son George and a daughter Mary
William M acMillan 48 died in February 1992 in Winnipeg He was supervisor of Fertilizer marketing for the Manitoba Pool Elevators and is surv ived by hi s wife Edna Jean and brother Harry OAC 5 1 A
Cameron McTaggart 35 died Feb 4 1992 in Aurora Ont After graduating from OAC he became manager of Don Head Farms in Richmond Hill He established the first agricul tural consulting business in Canada in 1947 and later ran an Angus cattle
sales management business from the family farm A life member of the OAC Alumni As shysociat ion and the Class of 35 executive he is survived by his wife Margaret Mac 35 and two sons John OAC 62 of Regina and David of Largo Fla
Douglas Miller 48 of Victoria BC died Nov 24 1991 in Toronto He is survived by hi s wife Ruth and five children
Gregory More 76 was killed Feb 3 1992 in Kitchener Ont at the Ontario Glove Manufacturing Co where he was co-owner and vice-president Following graduation he worked for the Rohrer Drug Co and the Stershyling Drug Co then returned to school ea rnshying an MBA at McMaster University in 1981 More was an avid squash player and golfer Court A at the Northfield Racquet Club in Waterloo was dedicated to his memory in March He is survived by his parents Noreen and Ken a brother Randy and a sister Katherine Keeler
John Jack Pawley 33 died March I 1992 in Guelph He is survived by his wife Ruth son John OAC 62 and daughter-inshylaw Carolyn He was a former director of the Ontario Milk Marketing Board and a past member of the Royal City Lodge of Perfecshytion
Harold Reid 20A died in December 1991 in Burlington Ont During the First World W ar he was one of Canadas premier rad io
experts work ing at the Roya l Canadian Navy shore transmitter in Sydney NS After the war he came to OAC to earn a diploma then went on to QueenS University to comshyplete an arts and theology degree His mini sshytry was mainly in St And rews and Montreal although he spent 13 years teaching Hebrew at the Presbyterian Coll ege before retiring in 1968
Donald Robertson 3 1 died Nov 4 1991 in Iroquois Ont He is survived by hi s wife Caroline (Grisdale) Mac 38 his two son s ScottOAC 65A and Guy and a daughter Sandra McNeil
Thomas Rokeby 48 and MSA 50 died Jan 29 1992 in Fayetteville Ark He was a professional engineer and tau ght for 30 years in the Univers ity of Arkansas engineering department Born in Port Rowan Ont he was a member of the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War the American Society of Agricultural Engineers and the agricultural honor societies of Gamma Sigma Delta and Alpha Epsilon He is surv ived by his wife Helen two sons Robert and Richard a daughter Penny and three brothers Michael Noel and Richard OAC 54
Francis Sweeney OAC 45 died Nov 17 1991 in Oakville Ont He was a longtime employee of Shell Canada and [nternational Shell working in Great Britain Europe and
WALL CUSTANCE MEMORIAL FOREST
The Wall-Custance Memorial Forest located at the Universi ty of Guelphs Arboretum was established in recognition of the severe depletion of our forests It is never too late to be a vital part of the effort to save and improve our air and water for the future of our children by planting trees This program is our small part of the major endeavor to reforest and to reduce the greenhouse effect improve air quality and provide food and cover for wildlife The Memorial Forest Proshygram not only pays a Significant tribute to a loved one but also assures a better environment for generations to come
The purpose of this program is to provide an opporshytuni ty to commemorate the life of a loved one by plantshy
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Berna rd Weeks 35 died Oct 16 199 1 After graduation he re turned to his roots in
ew York and Pennsylvannia and worked in 4-H and you th organi zations for a few years He then took over the family farm at Troupsburg NY and built up a dairy operashytion with a sideline of sheep He is surv ived by his wife Ruth and four children
Glenn White 43 of Belleville Onl died Nov 24 199 1 in Florida and is surv ived by hi s wife Marjorie
ave Norman Anderson 39 of Wi nn ipeg died Dec 18 1991 in Arizona He had practised veterinary medicine in Norwood Man and was a member of the American Equine Pracshytitioners Association director of the Canadian Thoroughbred Society and track veterinarian at Assin iboia Downs for 50 years He is survived by his wi fe Peggy and two sons Laurie and James
George Beatty 5 I died Nov 22 1991 in Inverness III He practised in Palatine fo r 36 years and founded the Palatine Animal Hospi tal He was an active member of the American Animal Hospital Assoc iati on and the Chicago Veterinary Association and was a director of the Friends of the University of Guelph He is survived by his wife Mary and fo ur children - Suzanne Patricia Margaret and Tim
John Hamilton 5 L died Dec 15 1991 He had lived in Roslin On where he owned the Bay Regional Veterinary Hospital He is survived by hi s niece Ann Bongard
Nicholas Labzoffsky 39 died Dec 25 1991 in Largo Fla Fonnerly of Toronto he had li ved most recen tl y in Dorse t Ont and is survived by hi s wife Jane
Edgar Langford 49 died March 41992 in Monarch Alta A former research scienshytist with ADRI (Western) he is survived by his wife Norma and two daughters includshying Carolyn OVC 76
Stuart Maude 4 1 died Jan 14 1992 in Rosemead Calif A former Rosemead counshycillor and four-time mayor he operated the Rosemead Animal Hospital with his brother Arthur 52 from 1953 to 1980 He was a trustee for Ingles ide Hospital a past grand patron of both the Rosemead and the Califorshynia Order of Eastern Star and past-president of the local Kiwanis Club and Chamber of Commerce He is survived by his wife Vera two daughters Patricia and Susan Bezner a son Stuart and three brothers
Walter Morley 42 o f Mildmay On died Nov 28 199 1 He ran a large animal pracshytice in the Mild may area for 39 years raised cat tle and raced standardbred horses He was also a pu blic school board trustee and direcshytor of a local te lephone company for more
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than 30 years He is survived by his wife Joyce five sons - two of whom are OVC alumni Dave 68 and Randy 74 - and 10 grandchildren
Lloyd Neily 52 died Jan 3 1992 in Hantsport NS A retired meat inspector w ith the federal Department of Agriculture he had a private veterinary practice in Wind sor NS He is surv ived by hi s wife Mary
Elford Nundal 43 died Jan 7 1992 in Langley BC after a long battle with canshycer He operated a veterinary practice in Langley for 36 years and served as a di strict aldennan for 10 years before being elected mayor in 1982 Last year he received the BC Veterinarian Association s award of merit for a lifetime of veterinary work
Humphrey Rees 55 died Sepl 30 1991 in Amman Jordan while on ass ignment for the Overseas Development Ad ministrat ion as veterinary and animal hu sbandry adviser to the Jordani an government His contemshyporaries at Guelph will remember him as a singer debater raconteur rugby player and bon vivant He is surv ived by his wife Alice of POlt Eynon Wales
William Stinson 40 died Feb 15 1992 in Norwood Ont He is survi ved by his wife Rita a son John OVC 67 a brother Ford OAC 34 and a grandson John CSS 87
Faculty
Patric ia Harney died Dec 191991 in Yarshymouth NS A professor in the Department of Horticultural Science from 1962 to 1988 she developed severa l new variet ies of geraniums and was instru mental in es tabshylishing the Frances Ball rose collection at the Arboretum
Anthony Marston died Feb 3 1992 in Fershygu s ant Retired from the School of Hotel and Food Administration he was an acshycomplished competition chef who received his training in Switzerland and England He then spent severa l years working in the Caribbean before coming to Guelph in 1970 A member of the Canadian Olympic culinary team he held a number of positions in the
Donations given in memory ofGuelph alumni will help support University scholarships ifdirected to the Alumni M emorial Fund In 1991 donations were made in memory of the following alumni
Frank MacDonald OAC 37
Frank King OAC 33 -Robert Allen OAC 56A
Alice (Rivaz) Garrard Mac 28
Stan Vesselinovitch OVC 57
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hote l and food industry until retiring in 1982 He is survived by hi s wife Di ana
Gordon McNally dled Jan 12 1992 in Guelph A professor in the Department of Zoo logy from 1934 to 1971 he served as academic assistant to the dean of CBS until retiring in 1979 While at Guelph he was honorary pres id ent of the classes of OAC 54 58 and 67 He is survived by his daughter Jean two siste rs and two grandchildren Prof McNallys family has established the A Gordon Mc a lly Memorial Fund to support a sc holarship or bursary Contributions may be sent care of the Alma Mater Fund Alumni Hou se University of Guelph Guelph ant N I G 2WI
Friends
Jean (Young) Branion died March 3 1992 in Guelph She was the wife of the late Hugh Branion a physiology professor at U of G and assistant to presidents Bill Winegard and Don Forster Jean Branion was an act ive volunteer on campus for many years and one of the firs t presidents of the College Womens Club She is survived by a son Richard and his wife Marga re t of Vanshycouve r and five grandchi ldren Donati ons may be made to the Hugh D Branion Memorial Scholarship through Alumni House
Davy Alexander Hamilton-Williamson died Feb 4 1992 in Guelph A painter and author of childrens stories he had been a member of the University s Presidents Council s ince it began in 1 985
Marjorie Pinkney wife of J ames Pinkney OVC 3 7 died Dec 151 99 [ at her home in Milton ant
Samuel Wyal died March 15 1992 in Brantford ant He was a partner in the law firm Wyatt Purce ll Will Stillman and Scott He is surv ived by his wife M a bel Mac 39 four sons Peter Michael William and John and two daughters Mary Alderson and Sarah Nadalin Arts 82
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DIVIDENDS
Facts about university education in Canada and how we pay for it
By 2000 half of all new jobs in Canada will require a university degree
But at the current rate of government funding only one in five children
will have a chance to go to university
In the seven years from 1982 to 1989 per-student grants to universities in
Ontario barely kept pace with intlation at five per cent
per-student funding at American public univers ities jumped an average
of 23 per cent in the same period
Those US universities also receive twice the federal research dollars per student as do Ontario universities
In 1987 the average salary of a full-time professor at an Ontario univers ity was $55500
compared with $68200 for a private-sector position of similar education and experience
Lawyers economists and engineers made an average of $71 000
Ontario ranks ninth out of the to provinces in terms of grants to universities
Between 1978 and 1991 enrolment at Ontario univers ities grew by 40 per cent while funding dropped
from 59 to 409 per cent of total government spending
Universities were spending 14 per cent less per student between 1977 and 1988 hospital expenditures
rose 38 per cent per patient in the same period
Ontario universities generate $3 of economic activity for every
$1 invested by government funding
And the number of jobs generated by university activities in
Ontario is greater than the employment impact of the textile
industry the entire paper and pulp industry or utilities
University graduates can look forward to earning 63 per cent more than the average industrial worker
A 1990 survey of U of G alumni found that two years after graduation 97 per cent of Guelph grads
looking for work were employed 62 per cent were earning $25000 or more and 10 per cent were
earning $40000 or more
Unemployment rates in 1990 for those with a university degree was about one-third what it was
for those with only a high school diploma
Every year from 1978 to 1987 Ontario university inves tments in renovating or replacing
aging buildings could not keep pace with the rate at which the buildings depreciated
Graphics by Debbie Thompson Wilson Statistics supplied by th~ Council 01 Ontario UniverSities Statistics Canada and the U01 G Student EnVifonment Study Group
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A salute to sport Alumni Weekend June 19-21 9am Sio-pitch tournament
The tradition Jives on at the south quad diamond s Cooed teams of 12 or more players are encourshyaged to join in the fun
FRIDAY 10 am to 9 pm Registration Lambton Hall
6 pm Kick-off dinner and half-time show
get set and join In the Olympic spirit one of Alumni Creelman Hall will Weekends host the Wonderful most popular World of Sports with events Tours a half-time slide show start from to entertain alumni of Alumni House all ages and are sponshy9 pmshy sored by the Observatory tours CBS Alumni
Association
10 am and 2 pm
SATURDAY 8 am to 5 pm Guided Registration walking tours Lambton Hall
Remember 9 am to 5 pm making s now Alumni House tours sc ulptures on Students will host tours of Alumni House throughshyout the weekend Come and see what the generosity of alumni has accomplished
9 am to noon Alumni association annual meetings
This is the official notice for the annual general meetings of the following alumni associations
CBS - Alumni House starts at 830 am before guided walk MacFACS - HAFA Building Room 209
OVC - OvC Room 1438
OAC - Macdonald Hall Room 149
CSS - MacKinnon Building Room 305
HAFA - Alumni Hou se boardroom
Gryphs Lounge will be open for lunch and afLer the game
930 am Guided nature walk at the Arboretum
On your mark
Noon - OVC luncheon
The OvC Alumni Association will host a luncheon open to all OvC alumni and their guests
2 pm - Campus Showcase 92
Following on the heels of last year s success Campus Showshycase 92 will be bigger and better Come to the University Centre to see exhibits representing all areas on campus The Campus Junction store will also be open
2 pm - Zavitz Hall tour
Alumni are invited to browse through the newly renovated Za vitz Hall and attend a recep shytion sponsored by the Colshylege of Arts Alumni Asshysoc iation
5 pm Golden anniversary dinner
The OAC OvC and MacshyFACS alumni associations will provide complimenshytary tickets for alumni celebrating 50 years or more Additiona l tickets can be purchased Classes
Johnston Green or playing intramural hockey in the old Quonset arena Relive some of the memories by taking a walking tour of campus Tours begin from the lobby ofLambton Hall
Noon - Alumni picnic
This apopular event has new location - the sculpshyture garden beside the Macshydonald Stewart Art Centre Come on your own or reshyserve a group of tables for friends and classmates
Noon - Class reunion lunches
OAC 37 Mac 37 OAC 42 Mac 42 OAC 47 Mac 52 Mac57 Mac 67 FACS 72 FACS 77 FACS 87
OAC 67 FACS 82 OAC 82 OAC 82A CBS 82 FACS 87 OAC 87
SUNDAY 9am Church service and War Memorial Hall rededication
Thanks to a commitment from the Alma Mater Fund renovashytion of the upstairs of War Memorial Hall has been comshypleted Join us for the rededicashytion ceremony commemorating the 1924 opening and the 1952 dedication of an OAC memorial plaque
being honored are OAC 22 OAC 47 OvC 22 Mac 22 OAC 27 OvC 27 Mac 27 OAC 32 OvC 32 Mac 32 OAC 37 OvC 37 Mac 37 OAC 42 OvC 42 Mac 42
6 pm Class reunion dinners
Special dinn e r reunions are planned for OAC 47 OAC 52 OAC 52A OvC 52 Mac 57 OAC 57 OAC 62 Mac 67
10am UGAA annual meeting
All alumni are encouraged to atshytend the UGAA annual meeting in Macdonald Hall Room 149 An amendment to the UGAA Letters Patent and a revised bylaw will be presented for ap shyproval Copies of both are availshyable on request from Alumni House Call 519-824-4120 Ext 6544
11 am - Farewell brunch
The final event of Alumni Weekend will be held in Creelshyman Hall Come and meet the Univers ity S president Brian Segal The Alumnus of Honour medal will be presented at noon
To receive an Alumni Weekshyend brochure or to register for events call Alumni House at 59-824-4120 Ext 6963
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Where research and industry Dleet
Space available now Exceptional office and research facilities in our multi-tenant Research Park Centre
Research-driven corporations are breaking new ground at the University of Guelph Research Park Centre with exceptional growth opporshytunities in an ideal business setting
This 30-acre Research Park also accommodates tenants who choose to construct their own office and laboratory facilities
Find out why organizations such as Semex Canada Tremco Limited the Ontario Dairy Herd Improvement Corporation George Morris Centre LIPID Analytical Laboratories and Agriculture Canada have chosen the University of Guelph Research Park Call Ralph Eades or Judy Phillips Real Estate Division University of Guelph Telephone (519) 767-5003 or Fax (519) 837-0353
The Research Park is a project oj the Office oj Research and the University S Real Estate Division
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OUD TH Annual giving in 1991 reached $14 million The value of the Annual Fund becomes more apparent each year as the University of
Scholarships amp BursariesGuelph faces continued financial $320127
AMF Priority Athletics ~ ---------- (Scholarships$38326
pressure The 1991 Annual Fund Pet Trust raised $14 million to help $261224 maintain scholarships and provide academic and library programs AMF OAC Alumni Scholarships Foundation ______ grew by $9245 25 per cent
$228494
Memorial Funds $56997
Arboretum $77441
Class Projects ResearchBuildings$86658
Matching gifts grew 31 per cent in 1991 More and more Canadian companies are g iving financial support to the institushytions that educated their employees A total of 44 companies matched 92 inshydividual gifts for a record $11120 in Annual Fund contributions to the University of Guelph in 1991
If you work for a matching-g ift employer every doll ar you donate is matched - doubled or even tripled shyby a company gift Its as easy as it sounds so check with your employer on how to multiply the value of your gift to the University
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Academic Enrichment $87246
3M Canada Incorporated Akzo America Foundation Alcan Aluminum Limited A lean Canada Products Ltd Amdahl Canada Limited American Home Products Corp American International Group Inc BASF Corporation Bell Canada Boise Cascade Canada Limited Campbell Soup Co Ltd Chevron Canada Resources Ltd F alconbridge Ltd Ford Motor Company of Canada Ltd Gelleral Electric Canada Inc Hoechst Canada Incorporated IBM Canada Limited ICI Canada Incorporated Insurance Bureau of Canada
$134893Library $103050
John Laball Limited Kraft General Foods Canada McGraw-H ill Ryerson Limited Nabisco Brands Canada Ltd Northern Telecom Limited Paul Revere Life Insurance Co Pfizer Canada Inc Pioneer Hi-Bred Limited Pitman-Moore Inc Sara Lee Corp ofCanada Ltd Square D Canada The Bank of Montreal The Coca-Cola Company The Toronto Star The UPS Foundation TransCanada Pipelines Warner-Lambert Canada Inc Westeel
Guelph Alumnus
ADIT ON With thanks to Donors Class agents College representatives Alma Mater Fund Advisory Council
Alumni and others who give to the University of Guelph through the Annual Fund are helping to maintain quality at a time when governments are funding for mediocrity Because of the dedication and commitment of our donors and volunshyteers the 1991 Annual Fund surpassed last year s total by $100000 We did not achieve our goal - perhaps $1 6 million was overly ambitious in light of current economic conditions - but we were able to maintain last years 25-per-cent inshycrease in scholarship support
Through the Alma Mater Fund we raised more than $540000 and achieved Tom Sawyer
the target of 12-per-cent participation among graduates of the three founding colleges Arts CBS and CSS alumni substantially increased their donations and participation over last year Campus participation grew from 145 per cent in 1990 to 171 per cent this year And our parents program pushed contributions from parents to $84188 compared with $31500 in 1990
For the first time since 1984 the Alma Mater Fund Advisory Council was able to go beyond its commitments to fund eight additional projects - a total of $86000
Looking ahead our flagship project for 1992 will be War Memorial Hall renovations During Alumni Weekend in June you ll have a chance to see the work that has been done upstairs and the work still needed in the downstairs hall It s a project well worth the interest and support of alumni
For your past and future support of the Alma Mater Fund my sincere thanks
s
Tom Sawyer OAC 59A and 6 Corporations Chair AMF Advisory Council Associations Foundations $2874947 Annual giving contribution s
III Annual IGiving Alumni
$1403701 Major Gifts $1236622
Guelph Alumnus
were 22 per cent of the o
Other $687687
$6239707 given t U of G as donation
in 1991
Government (Donations only
$36750
Annual Giving Report
1991 Annual Fund Results $1 A niillion wasraised overallmiddot ariinceaSe of
76 per ceI1tThisyear alumrii in the Arts and CBS groups doubled theirparticipation alld conshytributions And the parents recotded a 46-pershy
cent participation rate
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8 129
4016
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445
50133
5406
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103
88
83
92
89
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190
165
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79
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171
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345365 1
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86932
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The group of eight
Eight campus projects were selected to share $86000 in highest-priority funds from the 1990 Alma Mater Fund Among them are the OvC Wild Bird Clinics education program a CSS academic medal in memory of the late dean John vanderkamp a soc ial sc ience citation index for the library framshying for the fine art print study collection a computer design laboratory for the School of Engineering seed money for a history graduate scholarship a conshytinuing education survey for the Mac-FACS Alumni Association and a HAFA-sponsored executive-inshyresidence
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Of cattle cash and Colvil e Alumni gifts to the University of Guelph come in some pretty interesting packages Over the years alumni have given livestock concrete paintings shythere are two by Canadian painter Alex Colville - furniture land books inshysurance policies and a host of artifacts and antiques And money - a lot of money Almost every building on camshypus has some bricks and mortar paid for by alumni And hundreds of students are helped along the way each year by alumshyni-sponsored scholarships
The Annual Giving Report on the preceding pages shows once again how important alumni gifts are to the Univershysity and provides us with an opportunity to say thank you to those alumni who continue to give on a yearly basis Anshynual giving is however only one of three avenues through which alumni proshyvide financial support to the University The others are major gifts and promoshytional programs
Annual giving
The Alma Mater Fund established in 1969 is the route chosen by most alumshyni faculty and staff who make annual gifts to the University
AMF solicitation and management are handled by a volunteer advisory council On the preceding page chair Tom Sawyer OAC 59A and 64 talks about the funds success over the last two years with AMF scholarships inshycreasing by 25 per cent This year the AMF begins a three-year commitment to funding renovations to War Memorial Hall
In addition to its flagship project AMF provides regular support to athshyletics through Gryphon Club contribushytions to college advancement funds and scholarships and to individual class projects
The AMF supports the camaraderie of university days as alumni work together to plan and complete a project whether its funding a scholarship a painting a tree weight-lifting equipshyment or furniture for Alumni House AMF contributions also ensure that fushyture Guelph students will remember those who have gone before
In addition to AMF donations the anshynual giving program includes gifts to
the OVC Pet Trust Fund the OAC Alumni Foundation the Arboretum the paren ts program and the Li brary Other gifts made directly to the University supshyport memorial funds scholarships musishycal activities and research and academic programs
Major gifts
Major gifts to the University are adshyministered by the Deve lopment Office under the direction of Marilyn Robinson Mac 55 These include beshyquests or life insurance policies shortshyterm pledges (often made during a capital campaign) large donations that might establish an endowment fund or contributions to special University projects like the Heritage Fund or the proposed FACS Building addition
Gifts- in-kind - such as library materials art objects or estate properties - also fall within thi s category Last year alumni gave more than $12 milshylion in such tax-deductible gifts
Promotions
Every Guelph graduate is a member of the University of Guelph Alumni Asshysociation and receives the Guelph Alumshy
nus magazine and many other privishyleges There are no UGAA membership fees but the association does raise money through promotional programs like MasterCard travel packages and the North American Life Assurance proshygram
The UGAA provides serv ices to alumshyni and students - such as the careershyplanning workshop planned for Juneshyand returns many dollars directly to the campus Last year it gave $20000 to the library
In addition to direct financial support through annual giving and major gifts alumni also support the University inshydirectly through membership fees to individual college and program associashytions The fees pay for association acshytivities that help maintain ties between their members and the University
Questions
If you have questions or would like 10
know more about the tax advantages of giving to U of G write to Paulette Samson associate director of annual giving and support services at Alumni House University of Guelph Guelph Ont NIG 2Wl or call 519-824-4120 Ext 6183
When yo~bearrom US
If you think youre hearing from us moreoften lhanY9u elida few years ago you reright But checkyour mail and you ll 110tiqe that you~re also hearing
more frequemly from othernon-jgtrofit)rganizations and charities We v~ all stepped lip oui- fUQdIaising efforts
U QfGappreciates your support and needs your help butyou wont know that if we donr teflyou Aildeyen if you cant afford to make a fjnancialcon~
tributiori we hop~ to wjn yoUfverbaJ sliPPOJ-tJt will take many voices to coii- ylnce governmeritthal universities should beagreater public priority
When we contacenttyou on behalf of iheUriivetsity we lly to give more thiin we ask So tak~advantage ofthe p~1one call o(letter to findoutwhais happenc ing OJrcarnp~s U ofG hasmuchto offer llufnrii professionaldevelcipment courses library privileges travel programs recreation and a link Igt friends and
classmates
We Jik~to keep in roucharidYcwarit yO~1 to know the progress were rilaking Ast~e Uriiversity $ prestige grows so does the value ofyour degree
~0~ MarilynR~binson Trish Walker Mac55 DiJectoJ ofDevelopment CSSTl Director ofAJurhni Affairs
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Get your career on track
Responding to alumni requests the University of Guelph Alumni Associashytion will sponsor a career-planning workshop on campus June 26 to 28 The weekend program will be led by Sharon Crozier of the University of Calgary counselling service Each participant will receive a careerlifestyle analysis and will develop a personal action plan
The $225 fee includes the StrongshyCampbell Interest Inventory and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator which will be administered and tabulated prior to the weekend Testing dates have been set in Toronto for May 27 and in Guelph for June 4
Sponsored by the UGAA and coshyordinated by Continuing Education and Alumni Affairs the workshop will also draw on the Universitys Counselling and Student Resource Centre
Enrolment is limited to 20 For registration information see page 26 or call Continuing Education at 519-767shy5000
UGAA board report
by Grant Lee CSS 73 MA 80
The UGAA will present a convocation package to each graduate this spring imshymediately following presentation of the degree or diploma Developed by Alumshyni Affairs staff the package is designed to increase awareness of the UGAA and the collegeschool alumni associations encourage membership introduce the Guelph Alumnus and provide an opporshytunity for board members to congratushylate our new alumni
Approval of the new UGAA bylaw is on schedule It will be presented to members at the annual general meeting in June along with an amendment to the
i I UGAA Letters Patent
In addition the UGAA board bull has approved a $400 donation to help
cover costs for two students to represhysent Guelph at the 1992 World Debatshying Championships in Dublin Ireland
bull is looking at a proposal to help alumDl with financial planning There will be more to come on this subject later
bull received thanks from president Brian Segal on behalf of those alumni who attended the October symposium
Guelph Alumnus
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Photo courtesy of IbeCinadi~n Si)rice Agenlt__y
Canada Break Up or Restructure The association was a patron of the event
bull is responding to requests from alumni for more social events Aside from the travel program the UGAA sponsored a ski day at Horseshoe Valley in March
bull approved a proposal from the School of Landscape Architecture to research places of historical value on campus Financial support has yet to be resolved
bull accepted an offer to help sponsor the University Centres annual lecture series which invites Canadian and inshyternational public figures to speak on current issues All events in the winter 92 series were free to alumni
bull donated U of G sweatshirts to Canadian Guidance and Counselling for a conference in Ottawa this sumshymer
bull approved the purpose and terms of refshyerence for the new Alumni House Adshyvisory Committee which is charged with overseeing maintenance of the
facility adopted the 199192 budget and finanshycial plan drafted last November This year we expect to generate some $44000 and spend $33000 It has been suggested that we set the 199293 budget and plan in April of this year so the new board wi II start in September with a sound financial program and budget that will only reshyquire adoption or revision
Chapter news
Calgary - About 40 alumni and guests met at the Delta Bow Valley Hotel Feb 3 to view a U of G video and hear a talk by admissions counsellor C hr is tine Toews FACS 87 Co-ordinator of the event was Janet Hutchinson CBS 79
Edmonton - Paul OAC 67 and Anne Valentine CBS 69 hosted a group of 30 alumni and guests at the Ramada Renaissance Hotel
Montreal - U of G welcomed students and their parents - including many
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alumni - to its first Montreal informashytion night for prospective students The event was modelled after a successful program in Toronto that draws more than 800 students each spring
Vancouver - U of G president Brian Segal met with alumni March 5 at the Pan Pacific Hotel Jim Dodds OVC 63 and Sarah Bloom FACS 86 orshyganized the event which attracted about 70 alumni and guests
Halifax- U ofG alumni in Halifax met with Gryphon basketball players during the March 26 to 28 CIAU chamshypionships Despite losing the OUAA west division title to Brock University the Gryphons qualified for a wi ld card spot at the CIAU championships Alumshyni received free tickets to the game that pitted Guelph against Brandon in the consolation final Fan support was enshythusiastic but the Gryphons lost 72 to 64 finishing third overall
Homecoming 1992 Plans are well under way for Homecoming weekend Sept 25 and 26 In addition to the annual Gryphon Hall of Fame dinner and award s ceremony the weekend will feat ure a beach volshyleyball tou rnamen t --~4~=iiiiikshyconcert alumni brunch walk-a-thon pep rally reunions and the traditional homecoming dance following the Saturday afternoon footshyball game This year the Gryphons will play Wil frid Laurier University A complete schedule will appear in the next Guelph Alumnus but you can get
Winners of Ihe Ju SI fo r Fun square dance compelition 01 College Royal were left 10 right Ann Joselin Kelley Allen Joanne Hewirson Brenl McFadden caller Sue MacKinnon Richard Presley Trish Henderson Jason Thompson and Kelly Lillie
in the Homecoming spirit now by helpshying to plan your class reunion or signing up as a scorekeeper for the vo lleyball tournament For infOlmation call alumshyni officer Laurie Malleau HAFA 83 at 519-824-4120 Ext 2102
Swing your partner
Eight squares of alumni took part in the College Royal square dance competition in March Winners of the UGAA alumni square dance plaque were the Crazy 8s Joanne Hewitson Arts 91 Lloyd Hutchinson CBS 87 Sonya Jones CPS 90 Ed Ketchabaw OAC 88 and MSc 91 Carol)n OAC 90 and Brad MacNeil CPS 87 Mike Relf OAC 91 and student Sherry MacNeil Wayne Lowden was the caller
Winners in the Just for Fun category were Junior Farmer alumni who included Hewitson Ann Joselin OAC 90 Brent McFadden CSS 90 Richard Presley OAC 86 and soonshyto-be-alumni Kelley Allen Trish
Henderson Kelly Little and Jason Thompson The caller was Sue MacKinnon OVC 9 1
Florida picnic
The North Port Yacht Club hosted 199 alumni for the annual Florida picnic March 4 On hand to meet them was Trish Walker CSS 77 and MSc 90 director of alumni affairs Judy Phillips of the University s Real Estate Division also attended to talk about the Village by the Arboretum retirement deve lopshyment
Attendance prizes went to Gertrude Stewart Mac 30 and Morley Funston OAC 32 The picnic was sponsored by the UGAA Alumni-In shyAction Committee represented by Ken Gartley OAC 42 and the Florida reunion committee consisting of Mary and Ted Brent OAC 48 Helen and Don Moffatt OAC 46 Stella and Bob Moore OAC 48 and Retis and Bill HasenptlugOAC 39
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A new kind of class reunion
Its the latest fad in alumni circles shymeeting your classmates at the anshynual University of Guelph alumni hockey tournament Twenty-two teams played in the fifth annual tourshynament in December
For most teams tournament standshyings are secondary to the socializing with classmates that they may not see otherwise says Bill Seegmiller OAC 83 who worked with Brian TapscottOAC 8 1 to organize the event We promote the social aspect through two divisions - social and more social - and include family skating and a Saturday evening wine and cheese party he says Trish Walker director ofalumni affairs presents fhe social division lrophy 10 Ihe OAC 79
Dipper Oldies (II the U ofG alumni hockey tournamenl The OAC 79A team defeated the Grey Gryphons to win the more soshycial division The OAC 80 team won the consolation final and the spirit award went to OAC 7778
In the social (a little more competishytive) division it was the Faceoffs in first place over OAC 88 OAC 90 won the consolation trophy and the Valley Vikings took home the spirit award
Organizers plan to add womens exshyhibition games to the 1992 tournament which is scheduled for Dec 5 and 6 For more information call Seegmiller at 519-836-3807 or Rudy Diemer OAC 85 at 519-763-2250
A night at the races
The UGAA Alumni-in-Action group will host a night at Mohawk Raceway May 26 The $30 admission includes a 6 pm buffet parking program taxes and gratuities For detail s call Laurie
~ Malleau at 519-824-4120 Ext 2102
I Alumni directory
A new alumni directory will be ready for delivery in May The deadline for alumni updates has passed but you can still order a copy of the directory at a cost of $40 plus tax Return the order form you received with the special U of G wristwatch offer or write to Rosemary Clark Mac 59 at Alumni House University of Guelph Guelph Ont NIG 2Wl
Guelph Alumnus
Ottawa chapter 50 years young
There was a nostalgic gathering of Guelph alumni in Ottawa last winter to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the city s alumni chapter
Donald Fletcher OAC 36A and 39 who was president of the group in 1953 sent us a historical account of the chapters activities
A small organizing committee first met in February 1941 at Madame Burgers restaurant to plan the chapters first fun ction a skating party at the Ottawa Experimental Farm It attracted 75 people
Over the years the group held an anshynual picnic and a banquet and dance that gave them a chance to invite faculty from Guelph to speak about happenings at the colleges - and later the Univershysi ty Every president from George I Christie to Bill Winegard paid a vi sit
In 1951 alumni from OVC and Macshydonald Institute who had been meeting since 1936 joined the OAC group A crowd of almost 200 celebrated the chapter s 10th anniversary at a picnic at the farm of the late John Bracken OAC 06 During the 1950s they added a get-together at the annual Ottawa-area plowing match which gave way to a curling bon spiel in the 1960s
There have been many special funcshytions - entertaining the Gryphon footshyball teams square dances car rallies golf tournaments theatre parties and raceway evenings - but the event that stands out in Fletchers memory ocshycurred in 1966 when five members of Parliament hosted the group in the parshyliamentary ballroom
The chapter also includes a couples bridge club which has been meeting for 25 years in the homes of its members
Fletcher thanks the 30 people who have served as president of the Ottawa alumni chapter and the dozens more who have helped on committees devot shying years to the executive to promote the institution
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ALUMNI CAREER PLANNING WEEKEND WORKSHOP
JUNE 26 27 amp 28 ~ The Program This highly successful workshop developed by Sharon Crozier PhD University Counselling Services University of calgary is the first step for an alumnus who is considering a career move The weekend (Friday evening through Sunday afternoon) will consist of group presentations conducted by Dr Crozier with smaller working groups facilitated by profeSSional counsellors from the University of Guelph Counselling and Student Resource Centre
Discussion structured exercises and experiential activities will lead alumni to gain insight into a personal careerllifestyle analYSis and assessment career information resources networking skills and much more
No matter what their age career stage or reason for transition each participant will find this workshop to be an excellent opportunity to develop a personal action plan - and chart their next move
~ Pre-1esting In order to provide individualized career information registrants are required to attend one of two pre-testing sessions The Strongshycampbell Interest Inventory and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator will be administered and results tabulated prior to the workshop Pre-testing dates are as follows
Toronto Wednesday May 27 1992 700 pm - 8 30 pm Holiday Inn Yorkdale
Guelph Thursday June 4 1992 700 pm - 8 30 pm University Centre
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May 2 - The Guelph Spring Festival begins with a 25th-anniversary gala dinshyner in Creelman Hall that will honor founding president Murdo MacKinnon Other festival events run until May 23 For more information call 519-821-7570
May 2 shy An All-Canadian University Asshysociation d inne r w il l be held in Washington DC at the Embassy of Canada Guest speaker is Robert Lanni president of the University of Windsor Entertainment will be provided by Windsors music department For inforshymation call T Chan at 202-543-9111
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May 30 shy The sixth annual All-Canadian University Dinner in Chicago will be held
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John Boros 88 of Wei land Ont writes that he is impressed by the way U of G keeps records after graduation Thi s gives the graduate a sense of belonging a connection to an important period in hi s or her life he says
Jane Buzza 88 is working as records co-ordinatorarchivist for the Ontario Medishycal Association in Toronto
Jacqueline (Sullivan) DeClerck 86 is a public relations officer at the Canada Trust head office in London Onto
Richard Ely 70 works at the Crown attorneys office in WeIland Ont He has an LLB from the University of Western Ontario in addition to his Guelph degree He says he often talks about U of G to young students trying to decide which university to attend
Paul Genest 81 finished graduate studies at Johns Hopkins Universi ty in Maryland and is now assistant professor of philosophy at Union College in Schenectady NY He is man-ied to Barbara Jessup 8 1
Brian Hogarth 78 is head of interpretashytion at the G1enbow Museum in Calgary
Martha Hooper 9 1 was married last Ocshytober to David Perry They live in Calgary where she is a sw itchboard operator at the Delta Bow Valley Inn
Rene van der Meijden 87 has put his degree in geogshyraphy and internationshyal development to good use with the Christian Reformed World Relief Comshymittce Originally from the Netherlands he is now in Uganda on a three-year asshy Rene van der signment as a rural Meijden development adv iser He sends greetings to his many friend s in Canada and to Guelph grads Stan and Kitty in Bolivia in particular and reminds us that visitors are always welshycome in Uganda
Edward Milliner 85 will graduate this spring from the faculty of education at the University of Windsor
Mark Moore 85 is doing postgraduate work in history at the University of Bristol in England He plans to teach high school
fn response to a letter from Dawn Monroe 69 that appeared in the winter 1992 issue of the Guelph Alumnus Doug Moynihan 69 of Fort McMurray Alta writes Be disapshypointed no more Dawn l I too graduated in 1969 from (the College of) Arts or as it was then called Wellington College and I havent heard from anyone either And I too think it is time to contribute my news
After graduation f headed out to disshycover and sol ve the problems of the world travelling overseas for about three years Since then Ive been working in human resources in a variety of organizations in many different locations in Canada Cun-entshyIy I am the manager of human resources in Fort McMurray
PS Do you remember me Dawn I was the bartender in Creelman Hall I
John Teskey 7 1 began new duties last summer as director of libraries at the University of New Brunsw ick in Fredericton He was head of adshyministrative sershyvices at the University of Albershyta before moving John Teskey across Canada to acshycept the UNB posishytion but had earlier served as chief librarian and was library personnel officer at both Alshyberta and the University of Saskatchewan
Teskey says his biggest challenge is to regain the lost purchasing power that univershysity libraries have suffered as a result of static budge ts and ri sing material costs He is encouraging increased resource-sharing among universities and interlibrary loan programs with shortened turnaround
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Elizabeth (Baxter) Willson 77 a real esshytate agent in Chatham Ont writes to voice a common feeling that the universi ty exshyperience itself is often more important than the degree or diploma received I am really glad I graduated from Guelph she says
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Michelle Bombadier and Mike Caldwell both 92 are two of 50 Canad ian youth selected to work in Guyana for three months with Youth Challenge International (YCI) a non-governmental organization that provides Third-world experience for Canadians They may spend the summer building a school teaching safety or clearing land for Gu ytna s first national park but they need some private support to he lp cover transportation costs Anyone able to help should write to YCI at I I Soho St Toronto M5T IZ6
Jane Coventry 86 writes with accolades for the Guelph Alumnus grad news section and an update on what she and her husband Jaydee Smith 84 and MSc 89 are doing They were married in 1989 while working at U of G - he in the Department of Animal and Poultry Science and she in the Departshyment of Crop Science In February 1991 they moved to England where Smith is doing a PhD at the University of Bristol and working as a research assistant Coventry
works in the technology transfer unit of Nickshyerson Seeds Ltd in Cambridge
Jeffrey Crawford 88 and Leslie Thompson 86 were malTied last October He is an elementary schoolteacher in Mount Forest Ont
Craig Emerson 83 earned a PhD at Dalshyhousie University in Halifax in 1990 and is now a research associate in oceanography
Paul Fleming 85 is a pharmaceutical sales representative for Hoechst Canada Inc and lives in Nepean Ont
David Forsey 80 is an assistant professor of computer science at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver He is marshyried to Lyn Bartram
Michael Gangl 89 is in his third year at the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College
Astrid Harms 87 is a registered nurse in London Ont
Andrew Holmes 85 worked for the Onshytario government as a wildlife biologist for three years but is now back at school in his second year at Northwestern Chiropractic College in Minneapolis
Timothy Johnson 86 works at the Centre for Limnology at the University of Wisconshys in in Madison
Karen Lennard 77 (HK) and her hu sshyband Paul Jackson 79 (HK ) and MSc
82 both went 011 to earn medical degrees from McMaster University in HalTilton Ont Jackson also has a master s in physiology from the University of Virginia and is comshypleting an anesthesiology residency in Hamilshyton Lennard has a part-time family medical practice allowing her to spend more time with the couples two children Matthew and Nicola
Wendy Maltby 74 is an elementary schoolteacher for the Metropolitan Toronto School Board
Sandra OConnor 84 earned a medical degree from the University of Western Onshytario and is now practi sing in Burlington Ont
Linda Owen 81 runs her own business as a consulting exercise physiologist and fitness supervisor in Campbell River BC
Sheryle Tetley 86 is regional sales manager for Glaxo Canada Inc in Mi ss isshysauga Ont where she lives with her husshyband Ian
Rob Tonus 87 is manager of the Black Creek Rehabilitation Project a grassroots enshyvironment program to improve a degraded urban stream in Toronto His office is with the Metropolitan Toronto and Region Conshyservation Authority and he lives in Oakville with his wife Wanda (Knul) 88 (HK) a public health inspector in Hamilton
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Richard Woods 81 is an instructor of xshyray technology at the Easte rn Ontario School of X-ray Technology at Kingston Ge neral Hospital He would like to hear from other members of the 1981 U of G choir wi th whom he travelled to Scandinav ia Write to him at RRI Od essa Ont KOH 2HO
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James Dy nes 84 has comp le ted g raduate studies in chemistry and so il sc ience at the Univers ity of Sas katchewan in Saskatoon
Catherine (McVittie) Clark 88 is a nuclear medica l tech nici an at Howard Counshyty General Hospita l in Columbia Md She and her husband Michae l li ve in Elkridge Md
David Holmes 85 is a systems analyst at Sun Life Assurance Company
RolfKierdorf 84 lives in Guelph with his wife Janet He is se lf-employed as a systems consultant
Donald McFadde n 71 and his wife Carol li ve in A lbany Ga where he pracshyti ses medicine
Donald Ridley 69 and PhD 73 has been appoin ted seni or v ice-presiden t of CibashyGeigy Canada Ltd in Oakvi lle Ont and is responsib le for a ll corpora te serv ices includshy
ing finance human resources safe ty health and the environment He a lso se rves on the board of the Canadian Agricu ltura l Research Council and is a member of the Great Lakes Action Plan Strategi c Advi sory Committee
Kathryn Root Parr is an assoc iate minister at Lorne Park Bapti st Church in Mississhysa uga Ont She was married las t fa ll to Vicshytor Parr
Peter Simpson 85 is dis tric t manager for McNeil Pharmaceutical Ltd in Stouffville Ont He is married to Cynthia (Hamilton) 85 (HK)
Keith Stemshorn 83 is in the Canadian Armed Forces stationed in Calgary
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Nikki Dignard 86 moved to Ottawa last year where her husband Ted Henike pracshyti ses denti stry Dignard is working on an M BA and says she d love to hear from CSS classmates Tom Cam and Kathryn
Bonnie Dunnett 87 and MA 91 works on campus at the Gerontology Research Centre S he and Barry Hallman 9 1 li ve in Guelph
Kathryn Faulkner 80 is a registered nurse in Burling ton Ont where she li ves wi th he r husband John
Ruth Fox 84 is a sta ffing assistant for
Transport Canad a and lives in Toronto w ith her husband Christopher
Shonna Giles 88 is an admiss ions officer at Simon Fraser Unive rs ity in Burnaby BC
Gina Grieco 75 is a hi gh school guidance counsellor in North York Onto
John Harris 82 is manager of financial planning and budgets for th e City of Brampton Ont
Paulette Heppner 76 is a teache r in Vanshycouver
John Johnston 7 1 has been appointed exshyec uti ve vice-pres ident o f Ve rsacold Canada Corp and pres ident of QF Foods Distribushytion Services Versacold Canada is the largest public refri gera ted ware hou sing orshygani za tion in Western Canada
Michael Kral 79 has moved from the Univers ity of Manitoba to the University of Wind sor where he is an assistant professor of psychology
Jeffrey Lozon 76 and his family recently returned to Toronto after 15 years in Western Canada He is executive vice-president and ch ief operat ing officer at St Michael s Hos pital and li ves in Oakville wi th hi s wife Donna and two daughters
Bria n Martin 79 is a real estate appraiser in Portland Ont whe re he li ves w ith hi s wife Margaret (Sheffield) Arts 79
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Leith Mason 90 works in Toronto in the Canadian office of the State of Illinois as a special assistant to the Illinois Department of Food and Agricul ture
Michael McKean 74 of Don Mills Ont was recently appointed president of Wrigley Canada Inc Before joining Wrigley as execushytive v ice-pres ident in 1990 he he ld senior positions in Hong Kong Brazil and the United States
Rick 74 and Vicki (Collard) McTaggart FACS 74 are working in Ottawa He is director of overseas operations for the Unitarian Service Committee a charitable non-governmental organization that supports commun it y and human resou rce developshyment activities in Africa and Asia She is sec tion head of consumer analysis in the agr ifood development branch of Agriculture Canada
Sandra Morrison 86 is an ass istant professhysor in the department of psychiatry at the University of Western Ontario
Stephen Naylor 85 is director of planning and development for the amalgamated municipalities of Alliston Beeton Tecumshyseth and Tottenham
Brian ONeill 68 MA lives in SUITey England where he is managing director of Innovation Management Consultant s
Jodi Parisi 89 is a sales representative for Gillette who says U of Goo was the greatest
Moira Skikavich 81 is completing a PhD in c inematelevision at the University of Southern California
Virginia Sutherland 78 is an air traffic controller at the Toronto Island Airport
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Peggy Bates 88 was recently promoted to sales manager with Sears Canada Inc She lives in Owen Sound Ont
Caroline Begin 86 is working in Singshyapore as a dietitian
Diana Close 87 is a c linical nutri ti onis t at Chedoke McMaster Hospital in Hamilton Ont
Sarah Davenport 90 is a case worker with the Wellington County Social Services office in Guelph She is malTied to Matthew Harvey CBS 90
Timothy Dyck 8 1 is national sales manager for Black amp Decker Canada workshying out of the Corbin Division in Richmond HillOnt
Sharon (Muir) 84 and Richard Ernst CBS 83 are the proud parents of a future Guelph grad uate one-year-old Andrew Graham
Patricia Edwards 78 is food servi ce sushypervisor fo r St Peter s Hospita l in Hamilton Ont
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For the love ofteaching Since she
middot graduated bull from Macshydonald Inshymiddot stitute in
J 963 Nancy Kerr has built a career on teaching and research in telttles The middotheidofthe Uriiveisityof
Albertas department of Clothing and texiiles pursues a middotscientific interest inthepreservashylion of hi stori~lfabricsarid in developing pesticide-proofc1otl1ing But Jler fitstlove i ~ teaching
In 199b shewonone ofU of As four Rutherford AWljrds for excellence ill unshy
dergraduate teat-hing The first member of the faculty middotofliomemiddoteconornicsto receive the award slie was the rcentcipient6f the facultys own underglltiduate teaching award three years earlier
Winning the Rutherford was a gteat honor says Ken who has been on
faculty at Alberta since 1967 She oiscovered she had an aptitude for
middot teaching as a graduate student at the University of California Davis in
196566 After earning her MSc she casr about for afaculty position in Canada and round U of A was the 0111y place I could teach ju t textiles plus have a chance to develop new cQurses and research labs
middot Kerr sa)s she gets a tremelldous sense of satisfaction from teaching and the learning he must do to stay cUlTent She attributes her succe s as a teaCher to middotIec-middot
middot tures that are well organized and clear and to creltting a positive classroom climate
~Thcomfort level of students is reaUy middot ililportanL ~ Kerr eamedherPhD in fibre lnd
polymer science from North Carolina bull Staie University in 1982 Her doctoral work concentrated oil deacidification
techniques to preserve historicatcottOnln 1988 she spent a sabbatical ye~r doing research at the Caliadian Conservation
middot In tirute in OnflW1 middot Originalmiddotly from Ottawa Kerr is a
trarisphlnted -vesterner who enjoys middot hiking anlt sk1ing
From left Diane Ellison Lisa Wilson Lori Davis and Pippa Hobbes
Diane Ellison 84 is liv ing in Osaka Japan where she teaches English to Japanese busishyness people Last October she welcomed three U of G friends for a visit Lori Davis CSS 85 manager of Jumbo Video Inc in Oakville Ont Pippa Hobbes 84 accountshying manager for Paramount Holidays in Willowda le Ont and Lisa Wilson 84 co-ord inator of membership serv ices for the Metropolitan Toronto Board of Trade
Monica Hrybko HAFA 88 is director of sales for the Ramada Hotel Old Town in San Diego Calif
David Jones HAFA 88 is a con troller at the Holiday Inn Montreal Centre-Ville
Kathleen McLachlin 83 is operating an insurance agency in Kitchener OnL She opened the State Farm Insurance office in March 1988 and says she loves her job
Susan (Goettler) Parker 80 is working in Toronto as benefits administrator for Imshyperial Oil Limited She is married to Donald Parker OAC 79
Mary Jean (Sinnott) Price Mac 7 1 has returned to sc hool at the University of Otshytawa to earn a bachelor of education
Margaret (Richardson) Rankin 75 has been living in Halifax since 1990 and is an account analyst for Central Guaranty Trust
Janet (Wanless) Sutherland 77 is in private practice as a marriage and family therapist in East Kelowna BC
Jean Thomson Mac 37 says 1937 was a long time ago but shes delighted with all the changes that have gone at the college A former hospita l nutritionist she is retired and living in London Ont -
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Olayiwola Layi Adeola MSc 86 and PhD 89 and his wife Mope are living in West Lafayette Indiana where he is an assisshytant professor of pig nutrition at Purdue University
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Bruce Barrie 79 (Eng) graduated last June with an MBA from City Uni ve rsi ty in Washington State and is now a senior adshyviser in strategic planning with Petro-Canada Resources in Calgary He is a professional eng ineer with APEGGA and an ac tive memshyber of the Planning Forum an international society for planning and strategic manageshyment
Barbara Bryce 83 and her husband Ricardo Ramirez 82 are living in Rome Italy She is a landscape architect and he is a communications officer with the Food and Agriculture Organizat ion
Daniel Campbell 81 and his wife SharonshyMarianne are farmin g near Petrolia Onto
Carolyn Closs 82 and her husband Harold operate a beef cowca lf operation in Shawville Que
Luc Cote 83 is an agricullural account manager for the Royal Bank of Canada in Joliette Que
Kerrie Lea Curran 85 plans to graduate this fall from the master of architecture proshygram at McGi ll University
Bruce Dodson 74A is course superinshytendent at Hawd Ridge Golf and Curling Club in Orillia Ont
Richard Donkin OAC 85A originalshyly from Zimbabwe is the manager of Venida Packing Inc in Exeter Calif Situated in central Californias San Joashyquin Valley Venida Packing ships tree fruit throughout the Richard Donkin United States Canada the Pacific Rim and the Far East Products under the brand names Ruby River and Venida include peaches plums nectarines kiwi grapes persimmons and pomegranates In 1988 Donkin married California native Lisa Kolander and they live in Lemon Cove a community in the Sierra foothill s
Brendan Elder 8S A lives in Kelowna BC and works for Dogwood Nursery He plans to be married thi s summer to Rosemary Powell
Robert Fessenden OAC MSc 67 was recently appointed vice-president of devel opshyment and planning at the Alberta Research Council He is responsible for tec hnology management and corporate marketing
John Fitzgerald 86 was married last November to Susan Given a ] 991 indeshypendent study graduate in animal producshytion He is a lecturer at Ridgetown College she works at Centralia College and is work shying on a psychology degree at the University of Waterloo They live in Strathroy Ont
Glenn Helstern 79A is a driver for the Calgary division of Greyhound Bus Lines of Canada Ltd
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She tells a princely tale
For seven miniJtes on Oct 24 199 L Ellen Het1eOAC 76~U1d MSc 80
(ltllked with PIince Charles Invited toopert a newfumaceat
inco Lilniteds Copper Cliff smelter iri Sudbury Ont the Princemiddot of Wales was easy to talk with says Heale ftwasverycxciting
As eiwironmental co-ordinator Of land reclamation andrevegetation at Copper Cliff Healetold theprince middot about Tnc(secosystem rehabilitation
projects Theroyalvisitor was parshyticulatfyiilterestedin the treegrow- ing project in abandoned inines flld in tlpoundrevegetation ()f acres of tailings
and barren rock Planrilig vegetation on the tailings
hasattrlttcled wildlifeto a protected habitat says Beale who has wqrked forIncosincc she graduated in 1976
Ninety~iwo species ofbirds as weil asrodems hares foxes wolves bears andinoQse have been sighted on the 2500 acres of rehabilitated ore waste
One thing about this job is you middot can s~e where youve been effective she says
While an undergraduate student in Prill(e Charles with EIen Heale horticultural science Healea native ofSiidbury worked at Ineo during the sumniers She wasthi tirst woman to
work inrhemining companys agriculture middot department After shegraduated the niekshy el inine hired her full time tcido horticul- turaLfleld research ~ Ineo later granted heT a two-semester leave of absente t6 work
Theodore Jacobs 78 (Eng) is engineering supervisor at Standard Tube in Woodstock Ont
Greg Keast 85 (Eng) is li ving in Mozamshybique in East Africa where he works as a project officer for UNICEF rural water supshyply project s
Richard Kline 74 was appointed partner of the Toronto accounting firm Schwartz Levitsky Feldman Inc last faiL He is presishydent of the film s bankruptcy division a member of the Chartered Accountants of Onshytario and first vice- president of the Ontario Insolvency Association
Christopher Laforest MSc 91 (USRPD) works in planning and economic developshyment for Bruce County Ont
Jean-Paul PhD 90 and Lynn (Hammell) Laforest 82 and MSc 85 are both employed at Laval University in Sainte-Foy Que He is a professor and s he is a research associate
Kenneth Lawless 63 earned a Guelph deshygree in agricultural economics then went on to stud y dentistry at the Uni versity of Toronshyto He is now an oral and manilo-fac ial surshygeon in Kingston Ont
oil her masters at OAC~ In her current PdStion Heale has rnore
administrative and public relations responshyibilities On her own time she sits on the
board of management for the tocal Red Cross and isalllember ofthe Sudbury
Business and Professional Womens Club
Margie Luffman 77 writes that she has happily returned to Ontario after 10 years in New Brunswick to work at the Smithfield Experimental Farm in Trenton She is curator of the Plant Gene Resources of Canada clonal gene bank
Brian MacCulloch MAg 89 is a sa les representative for Springva le Nurseries Ltd in Berwick NS
Daniel Mansell 64 and MSc 68 is Onshytario manager of the eastern habitat joint venture in the wildlife policy branch of the Ministry of Natural Resources He is stashytioned in Midhurst Ont
Peter McEntire 77A writes from County Langford in Ireland to keep in touch with U of G He is farming and work s as an AI techshynician with Bova Genetics Ltd
Darryl Mitchell 78 works at Pioneer HishyBred Limited in Chatham Ont
Hugh ONeil 88 is manager of customer financial services for Ral ston Purina Canada Inc
Umed Panu MSc 72 (Eng) has done a lot of travelling during his career After Guelph he earned a PhD in civil engineering
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David Nedelko OAC 86 and Ljrlda ArmsJrollg CBS 89 (Jurk 011 cemre) were marriediasl SeplemiJer in Bari ~ie OnlTluir weddiIg iiarly illcilldedfiom leli Katy KusmiliskiOA C 88Paul Allgusline GAG 86 Roh Reed OAC 87Carv Belfral1l oAC 8RJIuJ Sa ndimiddoto (CollinI) BerlrCIlII CBS RR Also 1I111ie wedding w(lS Arlllslong s Veal ullcleClarence Fleming OVC 34 The couple (Ire living in
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at the Universit y of Waterloo taught in India and at Mi ss iss ippi State Uni vers ity and worked with Briti sh Columbia Hydro and the Government of Newfoundland In 1986 he jo ined the faculty of c ivil engi neering at Lakehead Uni ve rsity in Thunder Bay Ont and was promoted to full professor in 199 1 He and hi s wife Kashna and the ir children Neeti and Anukud enjoy the outdoor recreashytion ac ti viti es available in Northwestern Onshytario and look forward to visits from U of G alumni trave lling to Thunder Bay
Lyle Pettigrew 61 is a marketin g consulshytant with Harris Kovacs Alderman in Atlanshyta Ga
Helen Prior 88 joined Sheridan Nurseries after graduation then worked for a year as a research tech nic ian in Guelph s Department of Crop Scie nce She is now in her th ird year at Emmanuel College at Victoria University and hopes to be ordained as a United Church min is ter in May
Gregory Scott 83 (Eng) is operations manager for Accuform Gol f Limited in Toronto
Ba rbara (Coordes) Skrypetz 87 is a fi e ld supervisor for the Ontario Dairy Herd Imshyprovement Corporation working out of Guelph He r husband Stephen 88 operates a bulldozing and excavating busi shyness in the Woodstock area
Victor Skidra 6 is re tired f rom his job as a sc ientific evaluator with Hea lth and Welshyfare Canada He and hi s wife Konstance live in Nepean Ont
William Slusarchuk 63 (Eng) and MSc
The way we were in 1902 OAC alumnus Douglas Campbell 60 passes on a bit of col lege hi sto ry that shou ld make us think twice about our con stitutional squabbles in C anad a
Campbell is director of the Latin America and Caribbea n Trade Divis ion of Canada s Department of External Affa irs Last summer he hosted a vi s it by the president of Uruguay Luis Alberto Lacalle Herre ra whose grand fa the r made a simil a r vis it to Canada in 1902
This is what the elde r Herrera reported to his government Gue lph agricultural college enjoys a worldwide reputation and is con shys idered one of the grea t loca l attracshytions
More than 200 young Canadians a long with many foreign youths come together in its lecture rooms There are bursary ho lde rs from Norway and as far away as Mauritius C loser to us
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67 was recently appo inted pres ident of AGRA Eanh and Environmental Group an envi ronme ntal and geotechnica l firm that is a division of AGRA Indu stries Limited
Michael Sullivan 87 A is a pol ice officer with the Wate rloo Regional Police in Cambridge Ont
Argentina has 12 students there We ll then couldnt Uruguay imshy
itate those good exa mples and also se nd a number of worthy youths to Guelph to acquire the professional knowledge which is becoming m ore necessary each day for the deve lopshyment of our agric ulture~
In addition to the sc ienti fic benefits that our compatriots woul d deri ve from entering sLlch a Canadian techni cal in shystitution there would be the inca lcushylable benefit of becoming familiar with the stric t manly and sound habits of these people who are admirable in e ve ry respect
Afte r they have stee ped themse lves in this atmos phere of dem ocracy which fosters the development of all rights and is alien to intolerance thi s legati on w ill have the great honor of sending home not only sc ientists but a lso mode l citizens
Brenda Trask 80 operates he r own comshymunica tion s consulting company in Osshygoode Ont She is marri ed to Ron Ferguso n
Dave Vanden Bosch 89 is manager of operator services and plann ing for Bell Canada in London Ont
J Stallard Skip Waterhouse 54 and hi s wife Li sa are ce lebrating the birth of a daughter Samantha Elizabe th on New Years Day 1992 They live in New York State where Wate rhouse is iI pro fe ssor of bio logical science at the Plattsburgh Sta te Uni versity College of Arts and Science
Jeff 88 and Karen (Burrows) W h ite 87 live in Strathroy Ont Jeff work s for Bell Canada and Kare n is a Lambton County rural orga ni za tion spec ialist with the Ontar io Mini stry of Agriculture and Food
Harold Wright 86 is a development repre shysenta tive for Ci ba-Ge igy Canada Ltd in Mi sshysissauga Ont He and Lori Krieg 84 plan to marry thi s sprin g
Donald Ziraldo 7 I received doubl e honors last winter fro m the Ontario grape and wine industry Preside nt of Inniskillin W ines of Niagara-on -the-Lake Ont he was named to the Royal Order of the Grape for hi s leadership in enhancing the prod uct and its image
In addition Z ira ldo and his partner Karl Kai se r were named 1991 Men of the Year by FoodsCIvice and Hospitalily magazine During the ir 17-year partnership at Inn isk ilshylin the two have been instrumental in shapshying Canada s wine industry the magazine sa id
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ave Barry Burtis 69 was named president of the Ontario Veterinary Medical Association in January after working with the voluntary organization for four years as a director member of its editorial board and chair of its public relations committee Burtis lives in Burlington Ont and practises at the Bay Cities Animal Hospital He also appears on a local cable television program called Pel Tales
William Medway 54 of Blackwood NJ has been named an honorary life member of the International Association for Aquatic Animal Medicine for his contributions on beshyhalf of the association and the field of aquatic medicine He is both a founding member and past president of the associa shytion A professor emeritus of clinical laboratory medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine Medway is a member of the Marine Mammal Commissions committee of scientific advisers
Diane Pickering-Forster 86 is practising at Vander Kraan Veterinary Services in Huntsville Ont She is malTied to Chris Forster and they have one daughter Julia
Julien Proulx 67 has moved from Kapusshykasing Ont to La Pocatiere Que where he is superintendent of Agriculture Canada s Experimental Farm Last year he was feashytured on TVOntarios French network series Personalire Ontarienne for his work as a veterinarian his participation in municipal politics and his support of regional developshyment in Northern Ontario He was also awarded Agriculture Canadas research branch prize Agcellence for extraordinary management during his direction of the reshysearch program at the Kapuskasing Exshyperimental Farm
A North America-wide
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has been started (in spring 1991) for science professionalsacademics
and others interested in science or nature
Write or phone for information
Science Connection PO Box 389 Port Dover Ontario
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Twoc~ireers middot on the samepat~ OVCaruninus Geoffrey Lord 49 felt a thopedic
middot enseofdejavuwhen he read theslory gastrointesshyabout Bill Naray~i1 OVe 63 il1la~t tinal and carc
springs issue ofthe Guelph Altimnus diovascular
There are amazing simi laritiesbetween surgery the c~reersof t~e two Guyanese wh6b6th says Lord If earnedvefetinary degrees atGueiph someone worked in c1ini(ai practice in)Yestem were to ask Canada then moved to the United States me ioday to work in human medic~lresearch what Tcon~
Narayan heads an AlDSresearchteamsider to be atJohns HopkiflS l1)iversilySchool of my expertise MediCirieinBaltimoreMatyland Lord is I would have retired directorofthdohnsonamp Johnson to saymecli- Geofrey Lord
middot Resear~h Foundalion ill NewJersey cal device lordsays he was influenced by OVC andbioshy
proJessDfs Anthony Kings(Qte and Frank Inaterials evaluation middot SchofieJd~ndwcentnton from GiJelphto pur- lt In the I 950s Lordwaspalt of ale-
sue graduate studies in parasitology auhe se~rch team that pioneered the use of University oJWiscollsin Sevenmorithsin animal tissue tOTeconstructdamagedjr
amixed practice in Drumheller Alta con blocked al1eries in hUl11ansTwenty years vinced him thaldinical medicine wasn6t middot later he drafted the first systematicap-
middot whati w~ted6 do He returned to Wis pr()ach to the safety evaluation of medica con5il110 eanla PhDlll pathologyano devices joined Johnson amp JohnsQri as asenior middot Allsubsequeill guidelines inCiLlding patilol()gistiriI953 those of the Foodaj)q Diug Admlnistrashy
Research at Johnson amp JohDson tiOnand the Canadian Regulatory ~teeredmeinto many interesting and chal- Authority hayeadopteoihis approach he
Jenging fieldsofbio-research includirig says derniiltoi9gy toxicologic pathology Lordand his wife Helen ltIividetheir wound healing surgical pathology iiinebetweel)Ciipe CodandBonita genera toxkology ofi~w drugs andor~ Springs FloriQa
Shane Renwick 77 and MSc 91 works in veterinary services at Agriculture Canada offices in Guelph
Ruth Reuter 61 is a veterinary pathologist in Plympton Australia
Tom Sanderson 6 1 was selected by the Ontario Veterinary Medical Association as Ontario Veterinarian of 1991 CUlTently OVCs co-ordinator of off-campus work terms he spent 20 years in private practice in Listowe1 and Mount Forest before returning to the coll ege in 1982 to manage the veterishynary research stations Sanderson s contribushytions to the profess ion have included many hours of volunteer work in the advancement
of the profession and in the development of veterinary inshysurance programs He is a past pres ident of both the Ontario and Canadian Veterishynary Medical associashytions
Jennifer Troughton 86 is practising in OronoOnt
Simone Woltner 86 is a veterinarian at the Chester Basin Animal Hospital in Chester Basin NS
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by her hu sband William and two sons The fo llowing dea ths have been reported since the las t issue of the Guelph Alumnus Full notices which are usu ally submitted by family or classmates may appear in thi s iss ue or in a later one
James Clement Arts 73 Feb 2 1992
Marilyn (Dyment) Farnan Mac 530 Feb 27 1992
David Fisher OAC 80A in October 1990
Elizabeth (C hristie) Glass Mac 3I D June 2l99 1
Peter Heskey OAC 54A Dec 6 199 1
Richard Ketchell OVC 51 Nov 23 199 1
Edward Kowalski Arts 79 in August 199 1
Pauline (Dixon) MacMillan Mac 240 Jan 2 1992
Catherine MacPherson Arts 83 Dec 11 1990
Marguerite (White) Maybury Mac 3 10 in June 1990
Donald McLeOd CSS 80 Jan 9 1992
Albert Meilus OAC 51 in 1991
Ann (Biggs) Ostler Mac 3 10 in April 1991
Robert Race Arts 73 in 1989
Ralph Sampson OAC 40 in December 1989
Mor ris Sanderson OAC 42 Nov 17 1991
Sir Peter Scott HDSc 8 1 in Au gust 1989
William Setterington OAC 40 Oct 22 1991
George Shoniker OAC 50A in March 199 1
John Somerset OAC 34 Dec 27 199 1
Gregory Van Patter OAC 7 1 in 1990
Frederich Weiland OAC 20A in 1990
Arts
Riccardo Rich Incitti 88 died Jan 5 1992 as the result of an accident near Hami lshyton Ont He was assistant manager at the Toronto-Dominion Bank in St Cathari nes and is survived by his parents Gu igi and Lucia of Cambridge and two sisters Laura and Andrea
Larry McNenly 73 died in October 1991 in Owen Sound Ont He is survived by his wife Marnie CSS 73
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CBS
Robert Everett HK 74 died in May 1991 in Burlington Ont A teac her at White Oaks Secondary Schoo l in Oakv ille he is survived by his wife Miche le and brother William CBS 74
James Sandy Fear 75 died Oct I I 199 1 in Toronto He is survi ved by his wi fe Sally (Firth) OAC 75 and hi s children Caitlin Alli son and Mered ith
CSS
Lynn (Dalys) Corby 84 died in Toron to May 6 1990 after a long battIe with cancer
Nancy (Birbeck) Gordon 77 died Oct 20 1991 in Ottawa after a short illness She worked at the Kitchener-Waterl oo Hospital and had previously been plan t accountant at Foseco Canada Incorporated in Guelph
Mac-FACS
Jean (Williams) Forward 280 Oct 28 1991 in Calgary She was the widow of Bower Forward OAC 25 and is survived by two sons
Catharine (Bechtel) Fromm 270 died Nov I 199 1 in Cambridge Ont She is surshyvived by three dau ghters Ellen Moore Mac 63 Nancy and Caro l
Alice (Rivaz) Garrard 28 di ed Dec 2 199 1 in Guelph She was an active member of the Mac-FACS Alumni Assoc iat ion and was the Mac 28 class agent for the Alma Mater Fund She is survived by her husband retired professor Edward Garrard OAC 27 and a daughter Betty Nelson
Della Marie (Diamond) Honey 300 of Warkworth Ont died June 29 1991 One ofWarkworths oldest and most respected citizens she served as local li brarian fo r 25 years She is survived by her son John OAC 52A his wife Patric ia and four grandchildren James OAC 84A William OAC 76A Thomas OvC 89 and Patricia Lonergan CSS 68
Barbara (Banigan) Martin 380 died Jan I 1992 in Don Mill s Ont A retired teacher wit h the North York Board of Education she is survived by a son Ted a sister and two brothers
Elizabeth (Burt) Perry 340 died June 28 1991 in Sidney BC and is surv ived by her husband Gordon and son Paul Nartel OAC 62
Jacqueline (Roy) Pote 34D died Dec 2 1 1991 in Willowdale Ont and is is survived
Merrill and Bill
Doroth y (MacFeeters) Scott 260 died Jan 14 1992 in Toronto She is su rvived by two daughters Anne Donaldson and Cynthia Scott
Florence (French) Snyder 370 died May 6 199 1 in Calgary and is survived by her husband Robert and two sons John and William
Katherine (Sweet) Watt Mac 220 died Feb 23 1992 She is survived by her husshyband Leslie a son David and a dau ghter Carol Gi llanders
Mattie (Newman) Widdicombe 240 died Dec 11 1991 in St Catharines Ont Preshydeceased by her husband John she is surshyvived by a bro ther and several nieces and nephews including Virginia Rigby Arts 76
OAC
George Grey Arnup 38 died Feb 2 1992 in Toronto He spent most of his career with the plant protection branch of Agriculture Canada He is survived by his wife Aileen three chi ldren Nancy Jim and Mary Ellen Vincent CBS 79 and four grandchi ldren
Herbert Boyce 28 and MSA 43 died Sept 2 1991 in Amherstburg Onto He is survi ved by his wife Norah a daughter Beverley Med lock and a brother James OAC 32
Jack Reddy Brethet 56 died Nov 4 199 1 in Burlington Ont President of Brethet Barnum Assoc iates Inc he is surshyv ived by his wife Caro l and two daughters Lyn n and Anne
Bruce Foster 28 died Feb 6 1992 in Ridgetown Ont and is survi ved by his daughter Gayle Anderson and son David CBS 69
Allison Gardhouse 49 died Sept 21 1991 in Midland Ont He was re tired supe rshyintendent of schoo ls for the Simcoe County Board of Education and is survi ved by his wife Merle
Kenneth Harrison 24 died Nov 5 199 1 in Kentville NS A distinguished plant patho logist military officer and mycologist he began hi s career in 1926 as assistant plant pathologis t at the Kentvi lle Experimental Farm He worked there until retirement in 1966 wi th the exception of mi litary servi ce du ring the Second World War
Dr Harrison had a lifelong interes t in the study of mushrooms and publ ished numerou s technica l papers on the mu shroom flora of Nova Scotia In addition he enshy
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couraged interested amateurs and led field trips for student s at Acadia University and the general public from 1929 until 1987 In 1979 he was honored by Acadia wi th the dedication of the Kenneth A Harri son Laboratory of Mycology
During his career he was a member of many professional organizations a charter member of the Mycological Society of America and fe llow of the American Associashytion for the Advancement of Science
He is survived by hi s wife Margaret two brothers Maynard OAC 30 and Arthur OAC 29 two son s Ashley and Kenneth and a daughter Jennie Sheito
William Kellam 4 1 died Oct 19 1991 in Brockville Ont He was retired from the Curb and Gate Co of-Brock ville where he had worked as a lab technician fo r 28 years He is survived by his wife Kathleen a son George and a daughter Mary
William M acMillan 48 died in February 1992 in Winnipeg He was supervisor of Fertilizer marketing for the Manitoba Pool Elevators and is surv ived by hi s wife Edna Jean and brother Harry OAC 5 1 A
Cameron McTaggart 35 died Feb 4 1992 in Aurora Ont After graduating from OAC he became manager of Don Head Farms in Richmond Hill He established the first agricul tural consulting business in Canada in 1947 and later ran an Angus cattle
sales management business from the family farm A life member of the OAC Alumni As shysociat ion and the Class of 35 executive he is survived by his wife Margaret Mac 35 and two sons John OAC 62 of Regina and David of Largo Fla
Douglas Miller 48 of Victoria BC died Nov 24 1991 in Toronto He is survived by hi s wife Ruth and five children
Gregory More 76 was killed Feb 3 1992 in Kitchener Ont at the Ontario Glove Manufacturing Co where he was co-owner and vice-president Following graduation he worked for the Rohrer Drug Co and the Stershyling Drug Co then returned to school ea rnshying an MBA at McMaster University in 1981 More was an avid squash player and golfer Court A at the Northfield Racquet Club in Waterloo was dedicated to his memory in March He is survived by his parents Noreen and Ken a brother Randy and a sister Katherine Keeler
John Jack Pawley 33 died March I 1992 in Guelph He is survived by his wife Ruth son John OAC 62 and daughter-inshylaw Carolyn He was a former director of the Ontario Milk Marketing Board and a past member of the Royal City Lodge of Perfecshytion
Harold Reid 20A died in December 1991 in Burlington Ont During the First World W ar he was one of Canadas premier rad io
experts work ing at the Roya l Canadian Navy shore transmitter in Sydney NS After the war he came to OAC to earn a diploma then went on to QueenS University to comshyplete an arts and theology degree His mini sshytry was mainly in St And rews and Montreal although he spent 13 years teaching Hebrew at the Presbyterian Coll ege before retiring in 1968
Donald Robertson 3 1 died Nov 4 1991 in Iroquois Ont He is survived by hi s wife Caroline (Grisdale) Mac 38 his two son s ScottOAC 65A and Guy and a daughter Sandra McNeil
Thomas Rokeby 48 and MSA 50 died Jan 29 1992 in Fayetteville Ark He was a professional engineer and tau ght for 30 years in the Univers ity of Arkansas engineering department Born in Port Rowan Ont he was a member of the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War the American Society of Agricultural Engineers and the agricultural honor societies of Gamma Sigma Delta and Alpha Epsilon He is surv ived by his wife Helen two sons Robert and Richard a daughter Penny and three brothers Michael Noel and Richard OAC 54
Francis Sweeney OAC 45 died Nov 17 1991 in Oakville Ont He was a longtime employee of Shell Canada and [nternational Shell working in Great Britain Europe and
WALL CUSTANCE MEMORIAL FOREST
The Wall-Custance Memorial Forest located at the Universi ty of Guelphs Arboretum was established in recognition of the severe depletion of our forests It is never too late to be a vital part of the effort to save and improve our air and water for the future of our children by planting trees This program is our small part of the major endeavor to reforest and to reduce the greenhouse effect improve air quality and provide food and cover for wildlife The Memorial Forest Proshygram not only pays a Significant tribute to a loved one but also assures a better environment for generations to come
The purpose of this program is to provide an opporshytuni ty to commemorate the life of a loved one by plantshy
Home of the WALL-CUSTANCE
MEMORIAL FOREST
ing a tree We envision that the Memorial Forest Program will continue for many years to come and our hope is that the solace that nature offers particularly in the depths of a living forest will be of comfort and benefi t to all
For more information or for a brochure call or write to
WALL-CUSTANCE Funeral Home and Chapel 206 Norfolk Street Guelph Ontario N1 H 4K3 (519) 822-0051
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Berna rd Weeks 35 died Oct 16 199 1 After graduation he re turned to his roots in
ew York and Pennsylvannia and worked in 4-H and you th organi zations for a few years He then took over the family farm at Troupsburg NY and built up a dairy operashytion with a sideline of sheep He is surv ived by his wife Ruth and four children
Glenn White 43 of Belleville Onl died Nov 24 199 1 in Florida and is surv ived by hi s wife Marjorie
ave Norman Anderson 39 of Wi nn ipeg died Dec 18 1991 in Arizona He had practised veterinary medicine in Norwood Man and was a member of the American Equine Pracshytitioners Association director of the Canadian Thoroughbred Society and track veterinarian at Assin iboia Downs for 50 years He is survived by his wi fe Peggy and two sons Laurie and James
George Beatty 5 I died Nov 22 1991 in Inverness III He practised in Palatine fo r 36 years and founded the Palatine Animal Hospi tal He was an active member of the American Animal Hospital Assoc iati on and the Chicago Veterinary Association and was a director of the Friends of the University of Guelph He is survived by his wife Mary and fo ur children - Suzanne Patricia Margaret and Tim
John Hamilton 5 L died Dec 15 1991 He had lived in Roslin On where he owned the Bay Regional Veterinary Hospital He is survived by hi s niece Ann Bongard
Nicholas Labzoffsky 39 died Dec 25 1991 in Largo Fla Fonnerly of Toronto he had li ved most recen tl y in Dorse t Ont and is survived by hi s wife Jane
Edgar Langford 49 died March 41992 in Monarch Alta A former research scienshytist with ADRI (Western) he is survived by his wife Norma and two daughters includshying Carolyn OVC 76
Stuart Maude 4 1 died Jan 14 1992 in Rosemead Calif A former Rosemead counshycillor and four-time mayor he operated the Rosemead Animal Hospital with his brother Arthur 52 from 1953 to 1980 He was a trustee for Ingles ide Hospital a past grand patron of both the Rosemead and the Califorshynia Order of Eastern Star and past-president of the local Kiwanis Club and Chamber of Commerce He is survived by his wife Vera two daughters Patricia and Susan Bezner a son Stuart and three brothers
Walter Morley 42 o f Mildmay On died Nov 28 199 1 He ran a large animal pracshytice in the Mild may area for 39 years raised cat tle and raced standardbred horses He was also a pu blic school board trustee and direcshytor of a local te lephone company for more
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than 30 years He is survived by his wife Joyce five sons - two of whom are OVC alumni Dave 68 and Randy 74 - and 10 grandchildren
Lloyd Neily 52 died Jan 3 1992 in Hantsport NS A retired meat inspector w ith the federal Department of Agriculture he had a private veterinary practice in Wind sor NS He is surv ived by hi s wife Mary
Elford Nundal 43 died Jan 7 1992 in Langley BC after a long battle with canshycer He operated a veterinary practice in Langley for 36 years and served as a di strict aldennan for 10 years before being elected mayor in 1982 Last year he received the BC Veterinarian Association s award of merit for a lifetime of veterinary work
Humphrey Rees 55 died Sepl 30 1991 in Amman Jordan while on ass ignment for the Overseas Development Ad ministrat ion as veterinary and animal hu sbandry adviser to the Jordani an government His contemshyporaries at Guelph will remember him as a singer debater raconteur rugby player and bon vivant He is surv ived by his wife Alice of POlt Eynon Wales
William Stinson 40 died Feb 15 1992 in Norwood Ont He is survi ved by his wife Rita a son John OVC 67 a brother Ford OAC 34 and a grandson John CSS 87
Faculty
Patric ia Harney died Dec 191991 in Yarshymouth NS A professor in the Department of Horticultural Science from 1962 to 1988 she developed severa l new variet ies of geraniums and was instru mental in es tabshylishing the Frances Ball rose collection at the Arboretum
Anthony Marston died Feb 3 1992 in Fershygu s ant Retired from the School of Hotel and Food Administration he was an acshycomplished competition chef who received his training in Switzerland and England He then spent severa l years working in the Caribbean before coming to Guelph in 1970 A member of the Canadian Olympic culinary team he held a number of positions in the
Donations given in memory ofGuelph alumni will help support University scholarships ifdirected to the Alumni M emorial Fund In 1991 donations were made in memory of the following alumni
Frank MacDonald OAC 37
Frank King OAC 33 -Robert Allen OAC 56A
Alice (Rivaz) Garrard Mac 28
Stan Vesselinovitch OVC 57
For more infonnation call the Office of Annual Giving at 519-824-4120 Ext 6 183
hote l and food industry until retiring in 1982 He is survived by hi s wife Di ana
Gordon McNally dled Jan 12 1992 in Guelph A professor in the Department of Zoo logy from 1934 to 1971 he served as academic assistant to the dean of CBS until retiring in 1979 While at Guelph he was honorary pres id ent of the classes of OAC 54 58 and 67 He is survived by his daughter Jean two siste rs and two grandchildren Prof McNallys family has established the A Gordon Mc a lly Memorial Fund to support a sc holarship or bursary Contributions may be sent care of the Alma Mater Fund Alumni Hou se University of Guelph Guelph ant N I G 2WI
Friends
Jean (Young) Branion died March 3 1992 in Guelph She was the wife of the late Hugh Branion a physiology professor at U of G and assistant to presidents Bill Winegard and Don Forster Jean Branion was an act ive volunteer on campus for many years and one of the firs t presidents of the College Womens Club She is survived by a son Richard and his wife Marga re t of Vanshycouve r and five grandchi ldren Donati ons may be made to the Hugh D Branion Memorial Scholarship through Alumni House
Davy Alexander Hamilton-Williamson died Feb 4 1992 in Guelph A painter and author of childrens stories he had been a member of the University s Presidents Council s ince it began in 1 985
Marjorie Pinkney wife of J ames Pinkney OVC 3 7 died Dec 151 99 [ at her home in Milton ant
Samuel Wyal died March 15 1992 in Brantford ant He was a partner in the law firm Wyatt Purce ll Will Stillman and Scott He is surv ived by his wife M a bel Mac 39 four sons Peter Michael William and John and two daughters Mary Alderson and Sarah Nadalin Arts 82
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INVmiddotESTMENTS amp
DIVIDENDS
Facts about university education in Canada and how we pay for it
By 2000 half of all new jobs in Canada will require a university degree
But at the current rate of government funding only one in five children
will have a chance to go to university
In the seven years from 1982 to 1989 per-student grants to universities in
Ontario barely kept pace with intlation at five per cent
per-student funding at American public univers ities jumped an average
of 23 per cent in the same period
Those US universities also receive twice the federal research dollars per student as do Ontario universities
In 1987 the average salary of a full-time professor at an Ontario univers ity was $55500
compared with $68200 for a private-sector position of similar education and experience
Lawyers economists and engineers made an average of $71 000
Ontario ranks ninth out of the to provinces in terms of grants to universities
Between 1978 and 1991 enrolment at Ontario univers ities grew by 40 per cent while funding dropped
from 59 to 409 per cent of total government spending
Universities were spending 14 per cent less per student between 1977 and 1988 hospital expenditures
rose 38 per cent per patient in the same period
Ontario universities generate $3 of economic activity for every
$1 invested by government funding
And the number of jobs generated by university activities in
Ontario is greater than the employment impact of the textile
industry the entire paper and pulp industry or utilities
University graduates can look forward to earning 63 per cent more than the average industrial worker
A 1990 survey of U of G alumni found that two years after graduation 97 per cent of Guelph grads
looking for work were employed 62 per cent were earning $25000 or more and 10 per cent were
earning $40000 or more
Unemployment rates in 1990 for those with a university degree was about one-third what it was
for those with only a high school diploma
Every year from 1978 to 1987 Ontario university inves tments in renovating or replacing
aging buildings could not keep pace with the rate at which the buildings depreciated
Graphics by Debbie Thompson Wilson Statistics supplied by th~ Council 01 Ontario UniverSities Statistics Canada and the U01 G Student EnVifonment Study Group
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A salute to sport Alumni Weekend June 19-21 9am Sio-pitch tournament
The tradition Jives on at the south quad diamond s Cooed teams of 12 or more players are encourshyaged to join in the fun
FRIDAY 10 am to 9 pm Registration Lambton Hall
6 pm Kick-off dinner and half-time show
get set and join In the Olympic spirit one of Alumni Creelman Hall will Weekends host the Wonderful most popular World of Sports with events Tours a half-time slide show start from to entertain alumni of Alumni House all ages and are sponshy9 pmshy sored by the Observatory tours CBS Alumni
Association
10 am and 2 pm
SATURDAY 8 am to 5 pm Guided Registration walking tours Lambton Hall
Remember 9 am to 5 pm making s now Alumni House tours sc ulptures on Students will host tours of Alumni House throughshyout the weekend Come and see what the generosity of alumni has accomplished
9 am to noon Alumni association annual meetings
This is the official notice for the annual general meetings of the following alumni associations
CBS - Alumni House starts at 830 am before guided walk MacFACS - HAFA Building Room 209
OVC - OvC Room 1438
OAC - Macdonald Hall Room 149
CSS - MacKinnon Building Room 305
HAFA - Alumni Hou se boardroom
Gryphs Lounge will be open for lunch and afLer the game
930 am Guided nature walk at the Arboretum
On your mark
Noon - OVC luncheon
The OvC Alumni Association will host a luncheon open to all OvC alumni and their guests
2 pm - Campus Showcase 92
Following on the heels of last year s success Campus Showshycase 92 will be bigger and better Come to the University Centre to see exhibits representing all areas on campus The Campus Junction store will also be open
2 pm - Zavitz Hall tour
Alumni are invited to browse through the newly renovated Za vitz Hall and attend a recep shytion sponsored by the Colshylege of Arts Alumni Asshysoc iation
5 pm Golden anniversary dinner
The OAC OvC and MacshyFACS alumni associations will provide complimenshytary tickets for alumni celebrating 50 years or more Additiona l tickets can be purchased Classes
Johnston Green or playing intramural hockey in the old Quonset arena Relive some of the memories by taking a walking tour of campus Tours begin from the lobby ofLambton Hall
Noon - Alumni picnic
This apopular event has new location - the sculpshyture garden beside the Macshydonald Stewart Art Centre Come on your own or reshyserve a group of tables for friends and classmates
Noon - Class reunion lunches
OAC 37 Mac 37 OAC 42 Mac 42 OAC 47 Mac 52 Mac57 Mac 67 FACS 72 FACS 77 FACS 87
OAC 67 FACS 82 OAC 82 OAC 82A CBS 82 FACS 87 OAC 87
SUNDAY 9am Church service and War Memorial Hall rededication
Thanks to a commitment from the Alma Mater Fund renovashytion of the upstairs of War Memorial Hall has been comshypleted Join us for the rededicashytion ceremony commemorating the 1924 opening and the 1952 dedication of an OAC memorial plaque
being honored are OAC 22 OAC 47 OvC 22 Mac 22 OAC 27 OvC 27 Mac 27 OAC 32 OvC 32 Mac 32 OAC 37 OvC 37 Mac 37 OAC 42 OvC 42 Mac 42
6 pm Class reunion dinners
Special dinn e r reunions are planned for OAC 47 OAC 52 OAC 52A OvC 52 Mac 57 OAC 57 OAC 62 Mac 67
10am UGAA annual meeting
All alumni are encouraged to atshytend the UGAA annual meeting in Macdonald Hall Room 149 An amendment to the UGAA Letters Patent and a revised bylaw will be presented for ap shyproval Copies of both are availshyable on request from Alumni House Call 519-824-4120 Ext 6544
11 am - Farewell brunch
The final event of Alumni Weekend will be held in Creelshyman Hall Come and meet the Univers ity S president Brian Segal The Alumnus of Honour medal will be presented at noon
To receive an Alumni Weekshyend brochure or to register for events call Alumni House at 59-824-4120 Ext 6963
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ADIT ON With thanks to Donors Class agents College representatives Alma Mater Fund Advisory Council
Alumni and others who give to the University of Guelph through the Annual Fund are helping to maintain quality at a time when governments are funding for mediocrity Because of the dedication and commitment of our donors and volunshyteers the 1991 Annual Fund surpassed last year s total by $100000 We did not achieve our goal - perhaps $1 6 million was overly ambitious in light of current economic conditions - but we were able to maintain last years 25-per-cent inshycrease in scholarship support
Through the Alma Mater Fund we raised more than $540000 and achieved Tom Sawyer
the target of 12-per-cent participation among graduates of the three founding colleges Arts CBS and CSS alumni substantially increased their donations and participation over last year Campus participation grew from 145 per cent in 1990 to 171 per cent this year And our parents program pushed contributions from parents to $84188 compared with $31500 in 1990
For the first time since 1984 the Alma Mater Fund Advisory Council was able to go beyond its commitments to fund eight additional projects - a total of $86000
Looking ahead our flagship project for 1992 will be War Memorial Hall renovations During Alumni Weekend in June you ll have a chance to see the work that has been done upstairs and the work still needed in the downstairs hall It s a project well worth the interest and support of alumni
For your past and future support of the Alma Mater Fund my sincere thanks
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Tom Sawyer OAC 59A and 6 Corporations Chair AMF Advisory Council Associations Foundations $2874947 Annual giving contribution s
III Annual IGiving Alumni
$1403701 Major Gifts $1236622
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were 22 per cent of the o
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in 1991
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$36750
Annual Giving Report
1991 Annual Fund Results $1 A niillion wasraised overallmiddot ariinceaSe of
76 per ceI1tThisyear alumrii in the Arts and CBS groups doubled theirparticipation alld conshytributions And the parents recotded a 46-pershy
cent participation rate
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The group of eight
Eight campus projects were selected to share $86000 in highest-priority funds from the 1990 Alma Mater Fund Among them are the OvC Wild Bird Clinics education program a CSS academic medal in memory of the late dean John vanderkamp a soc ial sc ience citation index for the library framshying for the fine art print study collection a computer design laboratory for the School of Engineering seed money for a history graduate scholarship a conshytinuing education survey for the Mac-FACS Alumni Association and a HAFA-sponsored executive-inshyresidence
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Of cattle cash and Colvil e Alumni gifts to the University of Guelph come in some pretty interesting packages Over the years alumni have given livestock concrete paintings shythere are two by Canadian painter Alex Colville - furniture land books inshysurance policies and a host of artifacts and antiques And money - a lot of money Almost every building on camshypus has some bricks and mortar paid for by alumni And hundreds of students are helped along the way each year by alumshyni-sponsored scholarships
The Annual Giving Report on the preceding pages shows once again how important alumni gifts are to the Univershysity and provides us with an opportunity to say thank you to those alumni who continue to give on a yearly basis Anshynual giving is however only one of three avenues through which alumni proshyvide financial support to the University The others are major gifts and promoshytional programs
Annual giving
The Alma Mater Fund established in 1969 is the route chosen by most alumshyni faculty and staff who make annual gifts to the University
AMF solicitation and management are handled by a volunteer advisory council On the preceding page chair Tom Sawyer OAC 59A and 64 talks about the funds success over the last two years with AMF scholarships inshycreasing by 25 per cent This year the AMF begins a three-year commitment to funding renovations to War Memorial Hall
In addition to its flagship project AMF provides regular support to athshyletics through Gryphon Club contribushytions to college advancement funds and scholarships and to individual class projects
The AMF supports the camaraderie of university days as alumni work together to plan and complete a project whether its funding a scholarship a painting a tree weight-lifting equipshyment or furniture for Alumni House AMF contributions also ensure that fushyture Guelph students will remember those who have gone before
In addition to AMF donations the anshynual giving program includes gifts to
the OVC Pet Trust Fund the OAC Alumni Foundation the Arboretum the paren ts program and the Li brary Other gifts made directly to the University supshyport memorial funds scholarships musishycal activities and research and academic programs
Major gifts
Major gifts to the University are adshyministered by the Deve lopment Office under the direction of Marilyn Robinson Mac 55 These include beshyquests or life insurance policies shortshyterm pledges (often made during a capital campaign) large donations that might establish an endowment fund or contributions to special University projects like the Heritage Fund or the proposed FACS Building addition
Gifts- in-kind - such as library materials art objects or estate properties - also fall within thi s category Last year alumni gave more than $12 milshylion in such tax-deductible gifts
Promotions
Every Guelph graduate is a member of the University of Guelph Alumni Asshysociation and receives the Guelph Alumshy
nus magazine and many other privishyleges There are no UGAA membership fees but the association does raise money through promotional programs like MasterCard travel packages and the North American Life Assurance proshygram
The UGAA provides serv ices to alumshyni and students - such as the careershyplanning workshop planned for Juneshyand returns many dollars directly to the campus Last year it gave $20000 to the library
In addition to direct financial support through annual giving and major gifts alumni also support the University inshydirectly through membership fees to individual college and program associashytions The fees pay for association acshytivities that help maintain ties between their members and the University
Questions
If you have questions or would like 10
know more about the tax advantages of giving to U of G write to Paulette Samson associate director of annual giving and support services at Alumni House University of Guelph Guelph Ont NIG 2Wl or call 519-824-4120 Ext 6183
When yo~bearrom US
If you think youre hearing from us moreoften lhanY9u elida few years ago you reright But checkyour mail and you ll 110tiqe that you~re also hearing
more frequemly from othernon-jgtrofit)rganizations and charities We v~ all stepped lip oui- fUQdIaising efforts
U QfGappreciates your support and needs your help butyou wont know that if we donr teflyou Aildeyen if you cant afford to make a fjnancialcon~
tributiori we hop~ to wjn yoUfverbaJ sliPPOJ-tJt will take many voices to coii- ylnce governmeritthal universities should beagreater public priority
When we contacenttyou on behalf of iheUriivetsity we lly to give more thiin we ask So tak~advantage ofthe p~1one call o(letter to findoutwhais happenc ing OJrcarnp~s U ofG hasmuchto offer llufnrii professionaldevelcipment courses library privileges travel programs recreation and a link Igt friends and
classmates
We Jik~to keep in roucharidYcwarit yO~1 to know the progress were rilaking Ast~e Uriiversity $ prestige grows so does the value ofyour degree
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Get your career on track
Responding to alumni requests the University of Guelph Alumni Associashytion will sponsor a career-planning workshop on campus June 26 to 28 The weekend program will be led by Sharon Crozier of the University of Calgary counselling service Each participant will receive a careerlifestyle analysis and will develop a personal action plan
The $225 fee includes the StrongshyCampbell Interest Inventory and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator which will be administered and tabulated prior to the weekend Testing dates have been set in Toronto for May 27 and in Guelph for June 4
Sponsored by the UGAA and coshyordinated by Continuing Education and Alumni Affairs the workshop will also draw on the Universitys Counselling and Student Resource Centre
Enrolment is limited to 20 For registration information see page 26 or call Continuing Education at 519-767shy5000
UGAA board report
by Grant Lee CSS 73 MA 80
The UGAA will present a convocation package to each graduate this spring imshymediately following presentation of the degree or diploma Developed by Alumshyni Affairs staff the package is designed to increase awareness of the UGAA and the collegeschool alumni associations encourage membership introduce the Guelph Alumnus and provide an opporshytunity for board members to congratushylate our new alumni
Approval of the new UGAA bylaw is on schedule It will be presented to members at the annual general meeting in June along with an amendment to the
i I UGAA Letters Patent
In addition the UGAA board bull has approved a $400 donation to help
cover costs for two students to represhysent Guelph at the 1992 World Debatshying Championships in Dublin Ireland
bull is looking at a proposal to help alumDl with financial planning There will be more to come on this subject later
bull received thanks from president Brian Segal on behalf of those alumni who attended the October symposium
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Canada Break Up or Restructure The association was a patron of the event
bull is responding to requests from alumni for more social events Aside from the travel program the UGAA sponsored a ski day at Horseshoe Valley in March
bull approved a proposal from the School of Landscape Architecture to research places of historical value on campus Financial support has yet to be resolved
bull accepted an offer to help sponsor the University Centres annual lecture series which invites Canadian and inshyternational public figures to speak on current issues All events in the winter 92 series were free to alumni
bull donated U of G sweatshirts to Canadian Guidance and Counselling for a conference in Ottawa this sumshymer
bull approved the purpose and terms of refshyerence for the new Alumni House Adshyvisory Committee which is charged with overseeing maintenance of the
facility adopted the 199192 budget and finanshycial plan drafted last November This year we expect to generate some $44000 and spend $33000 It has been suggested that we set the 199293 budget and plan in April of this year so the new board wi II start in September with a sound financial program and budget that will only reshyquire adoption or revision
Chapter news
Calgary - About 40 alumni and guests met at the Delta Bow Valley Hotel Feb 3 to view a U of G video and hear a talk by admissions counsellor C hr is tine Toews FACS 87 Co-ordinator of the event was Janet Hutchinson CBS 79
Edmonton - Paul OAC 67 and Anne Valentine CBS 69 hosted a group of 30 alumni and guests at the Ramada Renaissance Hotel
Montreal - U of G welcomed students and their parents - including many
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alumni - to its first Montreal informashytion night for prospective students The event was modelled after a successful program in Toronto that draws more than 800 students each spring
Vancouver - U of G president Brian Segal met with alumni March 5 at the Pan Pacific Hotel Jim Dodds OVC 63 and Sarah Bloom FACS 86 orshyganized the event which attracted about 70 alumni and guests
Halifax- U ofG alumni in Halifax met with Gryphon basketball players during the March 26 to 28 CIAU chamshypionships Despite losing the OUAA west division title to Brock University the Gryphons qualified for a wi ld card spot at the CIAU championships Alumshyni received free tickets to the game that pitted Guelph against Brandon in the consolation final Fan support was enshythusiastic but the Gryphons lost 72 to 64 finishing third overall
Homecoming 1992 Plans are well under way for Homecoming weekend Sept 25 and 26 In addition to the annual Gryphon Hall of Fame dinner and award s ceremony the weekend will feat ure a beach volshyleyball tou rnamen t --~4~=iiiiikshyconcert alumni brunch walk-a-thon pep rally reunions and the traditional homecoming dance following the Saturday afternoon footshyball game This year the Gryphons will play Wil frid Laurier University A complete schedule will appear in the next Guelph Alumnus but you can get
Winners of Ihe Ju SI fo r Fun square dance compelition 01 College Royal were left 10 right Ann Joselin Kelley Allen Joanne Hewirson Brenl McFadden caller Sue MacKinnon Richard Presley Trish Henderson Jason Thompson and Kelly Lillie
in the Homecoming spirit now by helpshying to plan your class reunion or signing up as a scorekeeper for the vo lleyball tournament For infOlmation call alumshyni officer Laurie Malleau HAFA 83 at 519-824-4120 Ext 2102
Swing your partner
Eight squares of alumni took part in the College Royal square dance competition in March Winners of the UGAA alumni square dance plaque were the Crazy 8s Joanne Hewitson Arts 91 Lloyd Hutchinson CBS 87 Sonya Jones CPS 90 Ed Ketchabaw OAC 88 and MSc 91 Carol)n OAC 90 and Brad MacNeil CPS 87 Mike Relf OAC 91 and student Sherry MacNeil Wayne Lowden was the caller
Winners in the Just for Fun category were Junior Farmer alumni who included Hewitson Ann Joselin OAC 90 Brent McFadden CSS 90 Richard Presley OAC 86 and soonshyto-be-alumni Kelley Allen Trish
Henderson Kelly Little and Jason Thompson The caller was Sue MacKinnon OVC 9 1
Florida picnic
The North Port Yacht Club hosted 199 alumni for the annual Florida picnic March 4 On hand to meet them was Trish Walker CSS 77 and MSc 90 director of alumni affairs Judy Phillips of the University s Real Estate Division also attended to talk about the Village by the Arboretum retirement deve lopshyment
Attendance prizes went to Gertrude Stewart Mac 30 and Morley Funston OAC 32 The picnic was sponsored by the UGAA Alumni-In shyAction Committee represented by Ken Gartley OAC 42 and the Florida reunion committee consisting of Mary and Ted Brent OAC 48 Helen and Don Moffatt OAC 46 Stella and Bob Moore OAC 48 and Retis and Bill HasenptlugOAC 39
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A new kind of class reunion
Its the latest fad in alumni circles shymeeting your classmates at the anshynual University of Guelph alumni hockey tournament Twenty-two teams played in the fifth annual tourshynament in December
For most teams tournament standshyings are secondary to the socializing with classmates that they may not see otherwise says Bill Seegmiller OAC 83 who worked with Brian TapscottOAC 8 1 to organize the event We promote the social aspect through two divisions - social and more social - and include family skating and a Saturday evening wine and cheese party he says Trish Walker director ofalumni affairs presents fhe social division lrophy 10 Ihe OAC 79
Dipper Oldies (II the U ofG alumni hockey tournamenl The OAC 79A team defeated the Grey Gryphons to win the more soshycial division The OAC 80 team won the consolation final and the spirit award went to OAC 7778
In the social (a little more competishytive) division it was the Faceoffs in first place over OAC 88 OAC 90 won the consolation trophy and the Valley Vikings took home the spirit award
Organizers plan to add womens exshyhibition games to the 1992 tournament which is scheduled for Dec 5 and 6 For more information call Seegmiller at 519-836-3807 or Rudy Diemer OAC 85 at 519-763-2250
A night at the races
The UGAA Alumni-in-Action group will host a night at Mohawk Raceway May 26 The $30 admission includes a 6 pm buffet parking program taxes and gratuities For detail s call Laurie
~ Malleau at 519-824-4120 Ext 2102
I Alumni directory
A new alumni directory will be ready for delivery in May The deadline for alumni updates has passed but you can still order a copy of the directory at a cost of $40 plus tax Return the order form you received with the special U of G wristwatch offer or write to Rosemary Clark Mac 59 at Alumni House University of Guelph Guelph Ont NIG 2Wl
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Ottawa chapter 50 years young
There was a nostalgic gathering of Guelph alumni in Ottawa last winter to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the city s alumni chapter
Donald Fletcher OAC 36A and 39 who was president of the group in 1953 sent us a historical account of the chapters activities
A small organizing committee first met in February 1941 at Madame Burgers restaurant to plan the chapters first fun ction a skating party at the Ottawa Experimental Farm It attracted 75 people
Over the years the group held an anshynual picnic and a banquet and dance that gave them a chance to invite faculty from Guelph to speak about happenings at the colleges - and later the Univershysi ty Every president from George I Christie to Bill Winegard paid a vi sit
In 1951 alumni from OVC and Macshydonald Institute who had been meeting since 1936 joined the OAC group A crowd of almost 200 celebrated the chapter s 10th anniversary at a picnic at the farm of the late John Bracken OAC 06 During the 1950s they added a get-together at the annual Ottawa-area plowing match which gave way to a curling bon spiel in the 1960s
There have been many special funcshytions - entertaining the Gryphon footshyball teams square dances car rallies golf tournaments theatre parties and raceway evenings - but the event that stands out in Fletchers memory ocshycurred in 1966 when five members of Parliament hosted the group in the parshyliamentary ballroom
The chapter also includes a couples bridge club which has been meeting for 25 years in the homes of its members
Fletcher thanks the 30 people who have served as president of the Ottawa alumni chapter and the dozens more who have helped on committees devot shying years to the executive to promote the institution
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JUNE 26 27 amp 28 ~ The Program This highly successful workshop developed by Sharon Crozier PhD University Counselling Services University of calgary is the first step for an alumnus who is considering a career move The weekend (Friday evening through Sunday afternoon) will consist of group presentations conducted by Dr Crozier with smaller working groups facilitated by profeSSional counsellors from the University of Guelph Counselling and Student Resource Centre
Discussion structured exercises and experiential activities will lead alumni to gain insight into a personal careerllifestyle analYSis and assessment career information resources networking skills and much more
No matter what their age career stage or reason for transition each participant will find this workshop to be an excellent opportunity to develop a personal action plan - and chart their next move
~ Pre-1esting In order to provide individualized career information registrants are required to attend one of two pre-testing sessions The Strongshycampbell Interest Inventory and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator will be administered and results tabulated prior to the workshop Pre-testing dates are as follows
Toronto Wednesday May 27 1992 700 pm - 8 30 pm Holiday Inn Yorkdale
Guelph Thursday June 4 1992 700 pm - 8 30 pm University Centre
~ Fee The registration fee of $225 includes administration and tabulation of the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator materials two lunches and refreshment breaks
Tuition fees in excess of $100 are income tax deductible
Enrolment is limited to 20 registrants
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May 2 - The Guelph Spring Festival begins with a 25th-anniversary gala dinshyner in Creelman Hall that will honor founding president Murdo MacKinnon Other festival events run until May 23 For more information call 519-821-7570
May 2 shy An All-Canadian University Asshysociation d inne r w il l be held in Washington DC at the Embassy of Canada Guest speaker is Robert Lanni president of the University of Windsor Entertainment will be provided by Windsors music department For inforshymation call T Chan at 202-543-9111
May 3 - Arboretum Day celebrates spring with family nature walks at 1 and 330 pm and an electrical keyboard concert at 230 pm featuring Canadian comshyposer Carole Anne Burris
May 10 to Aug 30 - Guided nature walks run every Sunday at 230 pm in the Arboretum Topics include wildflowers birds turtles snakes and insects The nature centre is open from 1230 to 430 pm
May 13 - Chancellor Lincoln Alexander is the guest speaker at the Alumni-inmiddotAction annual general meeting which begins at noon in the Arboretum Centre For details call Alumni Affairs 519-824middot 4120 Ext 2102
May 13 - The Human KineticsHuman Biology Alumni Association will hold its inaugural meeting at730 pm at Alumni House with a coffee and dessert social RSVP to 519-824-4120 Ext 6963
May 23 shy FACS 82 is sponsoring a colshylection of Bob Munsch plays performed by the Carousel Players at3 pm at War Memorial Hall Tickets are $8 plus tax and handling To order call the UC box off ice at 519-824-4120 Ext 3940
May 26 - Alumni-in-Action is hosting a night at Mohawk Raceway Cost is $30 To register call 529-824-4120 Ext 2102
May 30 - An Arboretum sale of rare native trees and shrubs at the RJ Hi lton Centre on College Avenue East runs from 9 am to 1 pm For information call 519-824shy4120 Ext 2113
May 30 shy The sixth annual All-Canadian University Dinner in Chicago will be held
in the Henry Crown Space Centre at the Museum of Science and Industry and will include a reception buffet dinner and an Omnivax movie beginning at 6 pm Guest speaker is George Pedersen president of the University of Western Ontario For information call David Cole at 312-372-4404 or Hugh Mackenzie at 708-369-3688
June 2 to 5 shy Spring convocation June 13 - Beginning at 7 am the Arshy
boretum will hold its summer bird survey The four-hour walk will locate breeding birds and identify their species by sight and song
June 15 to 17 shy U of G will host the 15th annual Guelph Conference on Sexuality With the theme Sexuality New Visions the conference will examine current isshysues in human sexuality counselling strategies for sexual problems and teaching approaches in sexuality educashytion For information call the Office of Continuing Education at 519-767-5000 or fax 519-767-0758
June 19 to 21 - ALUMNI WEEKEND See page 39 for a complete schedule of events and alumni association meetings The UGAA annual meeting is June 21 at 10 am in Macdonald Hall 149
June 26 to 28 shy The UGAA-sponsored alumni career-planning workshop will be held on campus See page 26 for details
July 31 amp Aug 4 shy The National Youth Orchestra will perform in War Memorial Hall at 8 pm as part of its summer program at U of G Tickets at $8 general $6 for stUdents and seniors will be availshyable at the door
Sept 26 - HOMECOMING Rise early for the second ann ual Homecoming charity walkathon At 930 am the Human Kinetics Alumni Association will hold its annual general meeting in the School of Human Biology lounge
Oct 1 - OVCs 1992 Schofield Memorial Lecture will be given by Steven Arnoczky a professor in the department of small animal clin ical sciences at Michigan State Universitys Laboratory for Comparative Orthopedics The 3 pm lecture will be held in War Memorial Hall Admission is free
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with the public works department in Hud- dians trapped inthereserve by the Surete ~ooQuei checkingoutfirestationsandelicdtiQuebeCand the Canadian Army giries middotiriAustrafiaQn his return home the bull there were some tense moments for
HudsOIiGazeiie dubbed him Crocodile n13ny weeks but fmademanyfriendships Roddeeuidpfintedaphoto ofhim down umongiheMohawks he says That was
umiddotl1der a~sUr(lriieT [11 rieverforget F()t 19yeltrs Hodgs()n hls pOlred his Illa letter to the Citeph Aumntls eriergies into volunteer(irefighting He Hodgsbn talks about someofthebesl
wriies a weekly newspaper colllnin years ofmy life when hewas a stlderit at devoted 10 firesafetyalldpreventioll and is Guelph He lived in La Maison Frailcaise eaptilinof training Fbrtbe Hudson Fire - orfivesemestersand was house adviser in Department This summer he wiHspeak to 197677 the international Fire Buffs Associatioriin middot Hewrites Houseadvisers middotwerdofne shyclevelarid Ohio limes looked down on as sorneliOft6f
Aithb~ghHodgsonsgeography degree middot prefectorsemi-cop but we tried our best neverreaIly helped me in gettingajob it among some very hard times and r(stless was useful wheri he was amembefbf ()f1estoo Buiit was fun and a great learnshy
H~ds()ns town planning committee His ing experience for all of us history courses however translated i)ib U The experiencetaughthim how toJielp keen involvement-as president middot- in tl1e others through difficulties I have leVer Hudson HistoricaLS()Ciet)lt He recently co- take) any psychology courses but the year ljuthoredand pllbfishedtwoboQks onhismiddotill Guelph as house adviser helpedpreparc
toricHudsoll which is near Montreal mea greatdealJor later problenisin life He may cine day writeanQther book on Jny ownincJuded
hisobservationsofrhe 1990 O)(ii crisis The experience was also linguistically bull TheOkaresejVe is just acros$theTiver middot valuable_In Hudson Utmbilinguai and
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John Boros 88 of Wei land Ont writes that he is impressed by the way U of G keeps records after graduation Thi s gives the graduate a sense of belonging a connection to an important period in hi s or her life he says
Jane Buzza 88 is working as records co-ordinatorarchivist for the Ontario Medishycal Association in Toronto
Jacqueline (Sullivan) DeClerck 86 is a public relations officer at the Canada Trust head office in London Onto
Richard Ely 70 works at the Crown attorneys office in WeIland Ont He has an LLB from the University of Western Ontario in addition to his Guelph degree He says he often talks about U of G to young students trying to decide which university to attend
Paul Genest 81 finished graduate studies at Johns Hopkins Universi ty in Maryland and is now assistant professor of philosophy at Union College in Schenectady NY He is man-ied to Barbara Jessup 8 1
Brian Hogarth 78 is head of interpretashytion at the G1enbow Museum in Calgary
Martha Hooper 9 1 was married last Ocshytober to David Perry They live in Calgary where she is a sw itchboard operator at the Delta Bow Valley Inn
Rene van der Meijden 87 has put his degree in geogshyraphy and internationshyal development to good use with the Christian Reformed World Relief Comshymittce Originally from the Netherlands he is now in Uganda on a three-year asshy Rene van der signment as a rural Meijden development adv iser He sends greetings to his many friend s in Canada and to Guelph grads Stan and Kitty in Bolivia in particular and reminds us that visitors are always welshycome in Uganda
Edward Milliner 85 will graduate this spring from the faculty of education at the University of Windsor
Mark Moore 85 is doing postgraduate work in history at the University of Bristol in England He plans to teach high school
fn response to a letter from Dawn Monroe 69 that appeared in the winter 1992 issue of the Guelph Alumnus Doug Moynihan 69 of Fort McMurray Alta writes Be disapshypointed no more Dawn l I too graduated in 1969 from (the College of) Arts or as it was then called Wellington College and I havent heard from anyone either And I too think it is time to contribute my news
After graduation f headed out to disshycover and sol ve the problems of the world travelling overseas for about three years Since then Ive been working in human resources in a variety of organizations in many different locations in Canada Cun-entshyIy I am the manager of human resources in Fort McMurray
PS Do you remember me Dawn I was the bartender in Creelman Hall I
John Teskey 7 1 began new duties last summer as director of libraries at the University of New Brunsw ick in Fredericton He was head of adshyministrative sershyvices at the University of Albershyta before moving John Teskey across Canada to acshycept the UNB posishytion but had earlier served as chief librarian and was library personnel officer at both Alshyberta and the University of Saskatchewan
Teskey says his biggest challenge is to regain the lost purchasing power that univershysity libraries have suffered as a result of static budge ts and ri sing material costs He is encouraging increased resource-sharing among universities and interlibrary loan programs with shortened turnaround
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Elizabeth (Baxter) Willson 77 a real esshytate agent in Chatham Ont writes to voice a common feeling that the universi ty exshyperience itself is often more important than the degree or diploma received I am really glad I graduated from Guelph she says
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Michelle Bombadier and Mike Caldwell both 92 are two of 50 Canad ian youth selected to work in Guyana for three months with Youth Challenge International (YCI) a non-governmental organization that provides Third-world experience for Canadians They may spend the summer building a school teaching safety or clearing land for Gu ytna s first national park but they need some private support to he lp cover transportation costs Anyone able to help should write to YCI at I I Soho St Toronto M5T IZ6
Jane Coventry 86 writes with accolades for the Guelph Alumnus grad news section and an update on what she and her husband Jaydee Smith 84 and MSc 89 are doing They were married in 1989 while working at U of G - he in the Department of Animal and Poultry Science and she in the Departshyment of Crop Science In February 1991 they moved to England where Smith is doing a PhD at the University of Bristol and working as a research assistant Coventry
works in the technology transfer unit of Nickshyerson Seeds Ltd in Cambridge
Jeffrey Crawford 88 and Leslie Thompson 86 were malTied last October He is an elementary schoolteacher in Mount Forest Ont
Craig Emerson 83 earned a PhD at Dalshyhousie University in Halifax in 1990 and is now a research associate in oceanography
Paul Fleming 85 is a pharmaceutical sales representative for Hoechst Canada Inc and lives in Nepean Ont
David Forsey 80 is an assistant professor of computer science at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver He is marshyried to Lyn Bartram
Michael Gangl 89 is in his third year at the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College
Astrid Harms 87 is a registered nurse in London Ont
Andrew Holmes 85 worked for the Onshytario government as a wildlife biologist for three years but is now back at school in his second year at Northwestern Chiropractic College in Minneapolis
Timothy Johnson 86 works at the Centre for Limnology at the University of Wisconshys in in Madison
Karen Lennard 77 (HK) and her hu sshyband Paul Jackson 79 (HK ) and MSc
82 both went 011 to earn medical degrees from McMaster University in HalTilton Ont Jackson also has a master s in physiology from the University of Virginia and is comshypleting an anesthesiology residency in Hamilshyton Lennard has a part-time family medical practice allowing her to spend more time with the couples two children Matthew and Nicola
Wendy Maltby 74 is an elementary schoolteacher for the Metropolitan Toronto School Board
Sandra OConnor 84 earned a medical degree from the University of Western Onshytario and is now practi sing in Burlington Ont
Linda Owen 81 runs her own business as a consulting exercise physiologist and fitness supervisor in Campbell River BC
Sheryle Tetley 86 is regional sales manager for Glaxo Canada Inc in Mi ss isshysauga Ont where she lives with her husshyband Ian
Rob Tonus 87 is manager of the Black Creek Rehabilitation Project a grassroots enshyvironment program to improve a degraded urban stream in Toronto His office is with the Metropolitan Toronto and Region Conshyservation Authority and he lives in Oakville with his wife Wanda (Knul) 88 (HK) a public health inspector in Hamilton
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Richard Woods 81 is an instructor of xshyray technology at the Easte rn Ontario School of X-ray Technology at Kingston Ge neral Hospital He would like to hear from other members of the 1981 U of G choir wi th whom he travelled to Scandinav ia Write to him at RRI Od essa Ont KOH 2HO
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James Dy nes 84 has comp le ted g raduate studies in chemistry and so il sc ience at the Univers ity of Sas katchewan in Saskatoon
Catherine (McVittie) Clark 88 is a nuclear medica l tech nici an at Howard Counshyty General Hospita l in Columbia Md She and her husband Michae l li ve in Elkridge Md
David Holmes 85 is a systems analyst at Sun Life Assurance Company
RolfKierdorf 84 lives in Guelph with his wife Janet He is se lf-employed as a systems consultant
Donald McFadde n 71 and his wife Carol li ve in A lbany Ga where he pracshyti ses medicine
Donald Ridley 69 and PhD 73 has been appoin ted seni or v ice-presiden t of CibashyGeigy Canada Ltd in Oakvi lle Ont and is responsib le for a ll corpora te serv ices includshy
ing finance human resources safe ty health and the environment He a lso se rves on the board of the Canadian Agricu ltura l Research Council and is a member of the Great Lakes Action Plan Strategi c Advi sory Committee
Kathryn Root Parr is an assoc iate minister at Lorne Park Bapti st Church in Mississhysa uga Ont She was married las t fa ll to Vicshytor Parr
Peter Simpson 85 is dis tric t manager for McNeil Pharmaceutical Ltd in Stouffville Ont He is married to Cynthia (Hamilton) 85 (HK)
Keith Stemshorn 83 is in the Canadian Armed Forces stationed in Calgary
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Nikki Dignard 86 moved to Ottawa last year where her husband Ted Henike pracshyti ses denti stry Dignard is working on an M BA and says she d love to hear from CSS classmates Tom Cam and Kathryn
Bonnie Dunnett 87 and MA 91 works on campus at the Gerontology Research Centre S he and Barry Hallman 9 1 li ve in Guelph
Kathryn Faulkner 80 is a registered nurse in Burling ton Ont where she li ves wi th he r husband John
Ruth Fox 84 is a sta ffing assistant for
Transport Canad a and lives in Toronto w ith her husband Christopher
Shonna Giles 88 is an admiss ions officer at Simon Fraser Unive rs ity in Burnaby BC
Gina Grieco 75 is a hi gh school guidance counsellor in North York Onto
John Harris 82 is manager of financial planning and budgets for th e City of Brampton Ont
Paulette Heppner 76 is a teache r in Vanshycouver
John Johnston 7 1 has been appointed exshyec uti ve vice-pres ident o f Ve rsacold Canada Corp and pres ident of QF Foods Distribushytion Services Versacold Canada is the largest public refri gera ted ware hou sing orshygani za tion in Western Canada
Michael Kral 79 has moved from the Univers ity of Manitoba to the University of Wind sor where he is an assistant professor of psychology
Jeffrey Lozon 76 and his family recently returned to Toronto after 15 years in Western Canada He is executive vice-president and ch ief operat ing officer at St Michael s Hos pital and li ves in Oakville wi th hi s wife Donna and two daughters
Bria n Martin 79 is a real estate appraiser in Portland Ont whe re he li ves w ith hi s wife Margaret (Sheffield) Arts 79
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Leith Mason 90 works in Toronto in the Canadian office of the State of Illinois as a special assistant to the Illinois Department of Food and Agricul ture
Michael McKean 74 of Don Mills Ont was recently appointed president of Wrigley Canada Inc Before joining Wrigley as execushytive v ice-pres ident in 1990 he he ld senior positions in Hong Kong Brazil and the United States
Rick 74 and Vicki (Collard) McTaggart FACS 74 are working in Ottawa He is director of overseas operations for the Unitarian Service Committee a charitable non-governmental organization that supports commun it y and human resou rce developshyment activities in Africa and Asia She is sec tion head of consumer analysis in the agr ifood development branch of Agriculture Canada
Sandra Morrison 86 is an ass istant professhysor in the department of psychiatry at the University of Western Ontario
Stephen Naylor 85 is director of planning and development for the amalgamated municipalities of Alliston Beeton Tecumshyseth and Tottenham
Brian ONeill 68 MA lives in SUITey England where he is managing director of Innovation Management Consultant s
Jodi Parisi 89 is a sales representative for Gillette who says U of Goo was the greatest
Moira Skikavich 81 is completing a PhD in c inematelevision at the University of Southern California
Virginia Sutherland 78 is an air traffic controller at the Toronto Island Airport
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Peggy Bates 88 was recently promoted to sales manager with Sears Canada Inc She lives in Owen Sound Ont
Caroline Begin 86 is working in Singshyapore as a dietitian
Diana Close 87 is a c linical nutri ti onis t at Chedoke McMaster Hospital in Hamilton Ont
Sarah Davenport 90 is a case worker with the Wellington County Social Services office in Guelph She is malTied to Matthew Harvey CBS 90
Timothy Dyck 8 1 is national sales manager for Black amp Decker Canada workshying out of the Corbin Division in Richmond HillOnt
Sharon (Muir) 84 and Richard Ernst CBS 83 are the proud parents of a future Guelph grad uate one-year-old Andrew Graham
Patricia Edwards 78 is food servi ce sushypervisor fo r St Peter s Hospita l in Hamilton Ont
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For the love ofteaching Since she
middot graduated bull from Macshydonald Inshymiddot stitute in
J 963 Nancy Kerr has built a career on teaching and research in telttles The middotheidofthe Uriiveisityof
Albertas department of Clothing and texiiles pursues a middotscientific interest inthepreservashylion of hi stori~lfabricsarid in developing pesticide-proofc1otl1ing But Jler fitstlove i ~ teaching
In 199b shewonone ofU of As four Rutherford AWljrds for excellence ill unshy
dergraduate teat-hing The first member of the faculty middotofliomemiddoteconornicsto receive the award slie was the rcentcipient6f the facultys own underglltiduate teaching award three years earlier
Winning the Rutherford was a gteat honor says Ken who has been on
faculty at Alberta since 1967 She oiscovered she had an aptitude for
middot teaching as a graduate student at the University of California Davis in
196566 After earning her MSc she casr about for afaculty position in Canada and round U of A was the 0111y place I could teach ju t textiles plus have a chance to develop new cQurses and research labs
middot Kerr sa)s she gets a tremelldous sense of satisfaction from teaching and the learning he must do to stay cUlTent She attributes her succe s as a teaCher to middotIec-middot
middot tures that are well organized and clear and to creltting a positive classroom climate
~Thcomfort level of students is reaUy middot ililportanL ~ Kerr eamedherPhD in fibre lnd
polymer science from North Carolina bull Staie University in 1982 Her doctoral work concentrated oil deacidification
techniques to preserve historicatcottOnln 1988 she spent a sabbatical ye~r doing research at the Caliadian Conservation
middot In tirute in OnflW1 middot Originalmiddotly from Ottawa Kerr is a
trarisphlnted -vesterner who enjoys middot hiking anlt sk1ing
From left Diane Ellison Lisa Wilson Lori Davis and Pippa Hobbes
Diane Ellison 84 is liv ing in Osaka Japan where she teaches English to Japanese busishyness people Last October she welcomed three U of G friends for a visit Lori Davis CSS 85 manager of Jumbo Video Inc in Oakville Ont Pippa Hobbes 84 accountshying manager for Paramount Holidays in Willowda le Ont and Lisa Wilson 84 co-ord inator of membership serv ices for the Metropolitan Toronto Board of Trade
Monica Hrybko HAFA 88 is director of sales for the Ramada Hotel Old Town in San Diego Calif
David Jones HAFA 88 is a con troller at the Holiday Inn Montreal Centre-Ville
Kathleen McLachlin 83 is operating an insurance agency in Kitchener OnL She opened the State Farm Insurance office in March 1988 and says she loves her job
Susan (Goettler) Parker 80 is working in Toronto as benefits administrator for Imshyperial Oil Limited She is married to Donald Parker OAC 79
Mary Jean (Sinnott) Price Mac 7 1 has returned to sc hool at the University of Otshytawa to earn a bachelor of education
Margaret (Richardson) Rankin 75 has been living in Halifax since 1990 and is an account analyst for Central Guaranty Trust
Janet (Wanless) Sutherland 77 is in private practice as a marriage and family therapist in East Kelowna BC
Jean Thomson Mac 37 says 1937 was a long time ago but shes delighted with all the changes that have gone at the college A former hospita l nutritionist she is retired and living in London Ont -
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Olayiwola Layi Adeola MSc 86 and PhD 89 and his wife Mope are living in West Lafayette Indiana where he is an assisshytant professor of pig nutrition at Purdue University
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Bruce Barrie 79 (Eng) graduated last June with an MBA from City Uni ve rsi ty in Washington State and is now a senior adshyviser in strategic planning with Petro-Canada Resources in Calgary He is a professional eng ineer with APEGGA and an ac tive memshyber of the Planning Forum an international society for planning and strategic manageshyment
Barbara Bryce 83 and her husband Ricardo Ramirez 82 are living in Rome Italy She is a landscape architect and he is a communications officer with the Food and Agriculture Organizat ion
Daniel Campbell 81 and his wife SharonshyMarianne are farmin g near Petrolia Onto
Carolyn Closs 82 and her husband Harold operate a beef cowca lf operation in Shawville Que
Luc Cote 83 is an agricullural account manager for the Royal Bank of Canada in Joliette Que
Kerrie Lea Curran 85 plans to graduate this fall from the master of architecture proshygram at McGi ll University
Bruce Dodson 74A is course superinshytendent at Hawd Ridge Golf and Curling Club in Orillia Ont
Richard Donkin OAC 85A originalshyly from Zimbabwe is the manager of Venida Packing Inc in Exeter Calif Situated in central Californias San Joashyquin Valley Venida Packing ships tree fruit throughout the Richard Donkin United States Canada the Pacific Rim and the Far East Products under the brand names Ruby River and Venida include peaches plums nectarines kiwi grapes persimmons and pomegranates In 1988 Donkin married California native Lisa Kolander and they live in Lemon Cove a community in the Sierra foothill s
Brendan Elder 8S A lives in Kelowna BC and works for Dogwood Nursery He plans to be married thi s summer to Rosemary Powell
Robert Fessenden OAC MSc 67 was recently appointed vice-president of devel opshyment and planning at the Alberta Research Council He is responsible for tec hnology management and corporate marketing
John Fitzgerald 86 was married last November to Susan Given a ] 991 indeshypendent study graduate in animal producshytion He is a lecturer at Ridgetown College she works at Centralia College and is work shying on a psychology degree at the University of Waterloo They live in Strathroy Ont
Glenn Helstern 79A is a driver for the Calgary division of Greyhound Bus Lines of Canada Ltd
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She tells a princely tale
For seven miniJtes on Oct 24 199 L Ellen Het1eOAC 76~U1d MSc 80
(ltllked with PIince Charles Invited toopert a newfumaceat
inco Lilniteds Copper Cliff smelter iri Sudbury Ont the Princemiddot of Wales was easy to talk with says Heale ftwasverycxciting
As eiwironmental co-ordinator Of land reclamation andrevegetation at Copper Cliff Healetold theprince middot about Tnc(secosystem rehabilitation
projects Theroyalvisitor was parshyticulatfyiilterestedin the treegrow- ing project in abandoned inines flld in tlpoundrevegetation ()f acres of tailings
and barren rock Planrilig vegetation on the tailings
hasattrlttcled wildlifeto a protected habitat says Beale who has wqrked forIncosincc she graduated in 1976
Ninety~iwo species ofbirds as weil asrodems hares foxes wolves bears andinoQse have been sighted on the 2500 acres of rehabilitated ore waste
One thing about this job is you middot can s~e where youve been effective she says
While an undergraduate student in Prill(e Charles with EIen Heale horticultural science Healea native ofSiidbury worked at Ineo during the sumniers She wasthi tirst woman to
work inrhemining companys agriculture middot department After shegraduated the niekshy el inine hired her full time tcido horticul- turaLfleld research ~ Ineo later granted heT a two-semester leave of absente t6 work
Theodore Jacobs 78 (Eng) is engineering supervisor at Standard Tube in Woodstock Ont
Greg Keast 85 (Eng) is li ving in Mozamshybique in East Africa where he works as a project officer for UNICEF rural water supshyply project s
Richard Kline 74 was appointed partner of the Toronto accounting firm Schwartz Levitsky Feldman Inc last faiL He is presishydent of the film s bankruptcy division a member of the Chartered Accountants of Onshytario and first vice- president of the Ontario Insolvency Association
Christopher Laforest MSc 91 (USRPD) works in planning and economic developshyment for Bruce County Ont
Jean-Paul PhD 90 and Lynn (Hammell) Laforest 82 and MSc 85 are both employed at Laval University in Sainte-Foy Que He is a professor and s he is a research associate
Kenneth Lawless 63 earned a Guelph deshygree in agricultural economics then went on to stud y dentistry at the Uni versity of Toronshyto He is now an oral and manilo-fac ial surshygeon in Kingston Ont
oil her masters at OAC~ In her current PdStion Heale has rnore
administrative and public relations responshyibilities On her own time she sits on the
board of management for the tocal Red Cross and isalllember ofthe Sudbury
Business and Professional Womens Club
Margie Luffman 77 writes that she has happily returned to Ontario after 10 years in New Brunswick to work at the Smithfield Experimental Farm in Trenton She is curator of the Plant Gene Resources of Canada clonal gene bank
Brian MacCulloch MAg 89 is a sa les representative for Springva le Nurseries Ltd in Berwick NS
Daniel Mansell 64 and MSc 68 is Onshytario manager of the eastern habitat joint venture in the wildlife policy branch of the Ministry of Natural Resources He is stashytioned in Midhurst Ont
Peter McEntire 77A writes from County Langford in Ireland to keep in touch with U of G He is farming and work s as an AI techshynician with Bova Genetics Ltd
Darryl Mitchell 78 works at Pioneer HishyBred Limited in Chatham Ont
Hugh ONeil 88 is manager of customer financial services for Ral ston Purina Canada Inc
Umed Panu MSc 72 (Eng) has done a lot of travelling during his career After Guelph he earned a PhD in civil engineering
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David Nedelko OAC 86 and Ljrlda ArmsJrollg CBS 89 (Jurk 011 cemre) were marriediasl SeplemiJer in Bari ~ie OnlTluir weddiIg iiarly illcilldedfiom leli Katy KusmiliskiOA C 88Paul Allgusline GAG 86 Roh Reed OAC 87Carv Belfral1l oAC 8RJIuJ Sa ndimiddoto (CollinI) BerlrCIlII CBS RR Also 1I111ie wedding w(lS Arlllslong s Veal ullcleClarence Fleming OVC 34 The couple (Ire living in
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at the Universit y of Waterloo taught in India and at Mi ss iss ippi State Uni vers ity and worked with Briti sh Columbia Hydro and the Government of Newfoundland In 1986 he jo ined the faculty of c ivil engi neering at Lakehead Uni ve rsity in Thunder Bay Ont and was promoted to full professor in 199 1 He and hi s wife Kashna and the ir children Neeti and Anukud enjoy the outdoor recreashytion ac ti viti es available in Northwestern Onshytario and look forward to visits from U of G alumni trave lling to Thunder Bay
Lyle Pettigrew 61 is a marketin g consulshytant with Harris Kovacs Alderman in Atlanshyta Ga
Helen Prior 88 joined Sheridan Nurseries after graduation then worked for a year as a research tech nic ian in Guelph s Department of Crop Scie nce She is now in her th ird year at Emmanuel College at Victoria University and hopes to be ordained as a United Church min is ter in May
Gregory Scott 83 (Eng) is operations manager for Accuform Gol f Limited in Toronto
Ba rbara (Coordes) Skrypetz 87 is a fi e ld supervisor for the Ontario Dairy Herd Imshyprovement Corporation working out of Guelph He r husband Stephen 88 operates a bulldozing and excavating busi shyness in the Woodstock area
Victor Skidra 6 is re tired f rom his job as a sc ientific evaluator with Hea lth and Welshyfare Canada He and hi s wife Konstance live in Nepean Ont
William Slusarchuk 63 (Eng) and MSc
The way we were in 1902 OAC alumnus Douglas Campbell 60 passes on a bit of col lege hi sto ry that shou ld make us think twice about our con stitutional squabbles in C anad a
Campbell is director of the Latin America and Caribbea n Trade Divis ion of Canada s Department of External Affa irs Last summer he hosted a vi s it by the president of Uruguay Luis Alberto Lacalle Herre ra whose grand fa the r made a simil a r vis it to Canada in 1902
This is what the elde r Herrera reported to his government Gue lph agricultural college enjoys a worldwide reputation and is con shys idered one of the grea t loca l attracshytions
More than 200 young Canadians a long with many foreign youths come together in its lecture rooms There are bursary ho lde rs from Norway and as far away as Mauritius C loser to us
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67 was recently appo inted pres ident of AGRA Eanh and Environmental Group an envi ronme ntal and geotechnica l firm that is a division of AGRA Indu stries Limited
Michael Sullivan 87 A is a pol ice officer with the Wate rloo Regional Police in Cambridge Ont
Argentina has 12 students there We ll then couldnt Uruguay imshy
itate those good exa mples and also se nd a number of worthy youths to Guelph to acquire the professional knowledge which is becoming m ore necessary each day for the deve lopshyment of our agric ulture~
In addition to the sc ienti fic benefits that our compatriots woul d deri ve from entering sLlch a Canadian techni cal in shystitution there would be the inca lcushylable benefit of becoming familiar with the stric t manly and sound habits of these people who are admirable in e ve ry respect
Afte r they have stee ped themse lves in this atmos phere of dem ocracy which fosters the development of all rights and is alien to intolerance thi s legati on w ill have the great honor of sending home not only sc ientists but a lso mode l citizens
Brenda Trask 80 operates he r own comshymunica tion s consulting company in Osshygoode Ont She is marri ed to Ron Ferguso n
Dave Vanden Bosch 89 is manager of operator services and plann ing for Bell Canada in London Ont
J Stallard Skip Waterhouse 54 and hi s wife Li sa are ce lebrating the birth of a daughter Samantha Elizabe th on New Years Day 1992 They live in New York State where Wate rhouse is iI pro fe ssor of bio logical science at the Plattsburgh Sta te Uni versity College of Arts and Science
Jeff 88 and Karen (Burrows) W h ite 87 live in Strathroy Ont Jeff work s for Bell Canada and Kare n is a Lambton County rural orga ni za tion spec ialist with the Ontar io Mini stry of Agriculture and Food
Harold Wright 86 is a development repre shysenta tive for Ci ba-Ge igy Canada Ltd in Mi sshysissauga Ont He and Lori Krieg 84 plan to marry thi s sprin g
Donald Ziraldo 7 I received doubl e honors last winter fro m the Ontario grape and wine industry Preside nt of Inniskillin W ines of Niagara-on -the-Lake Ont he was named to the Royal Order of the Grape for hi s leadership in enhancing the prod uct and its image
In addition Z ira ldo and his partner Karl Kai se r were named 1991 Men of the Year by FoodsCIvice and Hospitalily magazine During the ir 17-year partnership at Inn isk ilshylin the two have been instrumental in shapshying Canada s wine industry the magazine sa id
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ave Barry Burtis 69 was named president of the Ontario Veterinary Medical Association in January after working with the voluntary organization for four years as a director member of its editorial board and chair of its public relations committee Burtis lives in Burlington Ont and practises at the Bay Cities Animal Hospital He also appears on a local cable television program called Pel Tales
William Medway 54 of Blackwood NJ has been named an honorary life member of the International Association for Aquatic Animal Medicine for his contributions on beshyhalf of the association and the field of aquatic medicine He is both a founding member and past president of the associa shytion A professor emeritus of clinical laboratory medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine Medway is a member of the Marine Mammal Commissions committee of scientific advisers
Diane Pickering-Forster 86 is practising at Vander Kraan Veterinary Services in Huntsville Ont She is malTied to Chris Forster and they have one daughter Julia
Julien Proulx 67 has moved from Kapusshykasing Ont to La Pocatiere Que where he is superintendent of Agriculture Canada s Experimental Farm Last year he was feashytured on TVOntarios French network series Personalire Ontarienne for his work as a veterinarian his participation in municipal politics and his support of regional developshyment in Northern Ontario He was also awarded Agriculture Canadas research branch prize Agcellence for extraordinary management during his direction of the reshysearch program at the Kapuskasing Exshyperimental Farm
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middot enseofdejavuwhen he read theslory gastrointesshyabout Bill Naray~i1 OVe 63 il1la~t tinal and carc
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There are amazing simi laritiesbetween surgery the c~reersof t~e two Guyanese wh6b6th says Lord If earnedvefetinary degrees atGueiph someone worked in c1ini(ai practice in)Yestem were to ask Canada then moved to the United States me ioday to work in human medic~lresearch what Tcon~
Narayan heads an AlDSresearchteamsider to be atJohns HopkiflS l1)iversilySchool of my expertise MediCirieinBaltimoreMatyland Lord is I would have retired directorofthdohnsonamp Johnson to saymecli- Geofrey Lord
middot Resear~h Foundalion ill NewJersey cal device lordsays he was influenced by OVC andbioshy
proJessDfs Anthony Kings(Qte and Frank Inaterials evaluation middot SchofieJd~ndwcentnton from GiJelphto pur- lt In the I 950s Lordwaspalt of ale-
sue graduate studies in parasitology auhe se~rch team that pioneered the use of University oJWiscollsin Sevenmorithsin animal tissue tOTeconstructdamagedjr
amixed practice in Drumheller Alta con blocked al1eries in hUl11ansTwenty years vinced him thaldinical medicine wasn6t middot later he drafted the first systematicap-
middot whati w~ted6 do He returned to Wis pr()ach to the safety evaluation of medica con5il110 eanla PhDlll pathologyano devices joined Johnson amp JohnsQri as asenior middot Allsubsequeill guidelines inCiLlding patilol()gistiriI953 those of the Foodaj)q Diug Admlnistrashy
Research at Johnson amp JohDson tiOnand the Canadian Regulatory ~teeredmeinto many interesting and chal- Authority hayeadopteoihis approach he
Jenging fieldsofbio-research includirig says derniiltoi9gy toxicologic pathology Lordand his wife Helen ltIividetheir wound healing surgical pathology iiinebetweel)Ciipe CodandBonita genera toxkology ofi~w drugs andor~ Springs FloriQa
Shane Renwick 77 and MSc 91 works in veterinary services at Agriculture Canada offices in Guelph
Ruth Reuter 61 is a veterinary pathologist in Plympton Australia
Tom Sanderson 6 1 was selected by the Ontario Veterinary Medical Association as Ontario Veterinarian of 1991 CUlTently OVCs co-ordinator of off-campus work terms he spent 20 years in private practice in Listowe1 and Mount Forest before returning to the coll ege in 1982 to manage the veterishynary research stations Sanderson s contribushytions to the profess ion have included many hours of volunteer work in the advancement
of the profession and in the development of veterinary inshysurance programs He is a past pres ident of both the Ontario and Canadian Veterishynary Medical associashytions
Jennifer Troughton 86 is practising in OronoOnt
Simone Woltner 86 is a veterinarian at the Chester Basin Animal Hospital in Chester Basin NS
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by her hu sband William and two sons The fo llowing dea ths have been reported since the las t issue of the Guelph Alumnus Full notices which are usu ally submitted by family or classmates may appear in thi s iss ue or in a later one
James Clement Arts 73 Feb 2 1992
Marilyn (Dyment) Farnan Mac 530 Feb 27 1992
David Fisher OAC 80A in October 1990
Elizabeth (C hristie) Glass Mac 3I D June 2l99 1
Peter Heskey OAC 54A Dec 6 199 1
Richard Ketchell OVC 51 Nov 23 199 1
Edward Kowalski Arts 79 in August 199 1
Pauline (Dixon) MacMillan Mac 240 Jan 2 1992
Catherine MacPherson Arts 83 Dec 11 1990
Marguerite (White) Maybury Mac 3 10 in June 1990
Donald McLeOd CSS 80 Jan 9 1992
Albert Meilus OAC 51 in 1991
Ann (Biggs) Ostler Mac 3 10 in April 1991
Robert Race Arts 73 in 1989
Ralph Sampson OAC 40 in December 1989
Mor ris Sanderson OAC 42 Nov 17 1991
Sir Peter Scott HDSc 8 1 in Au gust 1989
William Setterington OAC 40 Oct 22 1991
George Shoniker OAC 50A in March 199 1
John Somerset OAC 34 Dec 27 199 1
Gregory Van Patter OAC 7 1 in 1990
Frederich Weiland OAC 20A in 1990
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Riccardo Rich Incitti 88 died Jan 5 1992 as the result of an accident near Hami lshyton Ont He was assistant manager at the Toronto-Dominion Bank in St Cathari nes and is survived by his parents Gu igi and Lucia of Cambridge and two sisters Laura and Andrea
Larry McNenly 73 died in October 1991 in Owen Sound Ont He is survived by his wife Marnie CSS 73
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Robert Everett HK 74 died in May 1991 in Burlington Ont A teac her at White Oaks Secondary Schoo l in Oakv ille he is survived by his wife Miche le and brother William CBS 74
James Sandy Fear 75 died Oct I I 199 1 in Toronto He is survi ved by his wi fe Sally (Firth) OAC 75 and hi s children Caitlin Alli son and Mered ith
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Lynn (Dalys) Corby 84 died in Toron to May 6 1990 after a long battIe with cancer
Nancy (Birbeck) Gordon 77 died Oct 20 1991 in Ottawa after a short illness She worked at the Kitchener-Waterl oo Hospital and had previously been plan t accountant at Foseco Canada Incorporated in Guelph
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Jean (Williams) Forward 280 Oct 28 1991 in Calgary She was the widow of Bower Forward OAC 25 and is survived by two sons
Catharine (Bechtel) Fromm 270 died Nov I 199 1 in Cambridge Ont She is surshyvived by three dau ghters Ellen Moore Mac 63 Nancy and Caro l
Alice (Rivaz) Garrard 28 di ed Dec 2 199 1 in Guelph She was an active member of the Mac-FACS Alumni Assoc iat ion and was the Mac 28 class agent for the Alma Mater Fund She is survived by her husband retired professor Edward Garrard OAC 27 and a daughter Betty Nelson
Della Marie (Diamond) Honey 300 of Warkworth Ont died June 29 1991 One ofWarkworths oldest and most respected citizens she served as local li brarian fo r 25 years She is survived by her son John OAC 52A his wife Patric ia and four grandchildren James OAC 84A William OAC 76A Thomas OvC 89 and Patricia Lonergan CSS 68
Barbara (Banigan) Martin 380 died Jan I 1992 in Don Mill s Ont A retired teacher wit h the North York Board of Education she is survived by a son Ted a sister and two brothers
Elizabeth (Burt) Perry 340 died June 28 1991 in Sidney BC and is surv ived by her husband Gordon and son Paul Nartel OAC 62
Jacqueline (Roy) Pote 34D died Dec 2 1 1991 in Willowdale Ont and is is survived
Merrill and Bill
Doroth y (MacFeeters) Scott 260 died Jan 14 1992 in Toronto She is su rvived by two daughters Anne Donaldson and Cynthia Scott
Florence (French) Snyder 370 died May 6 199 1 in Calgary and is survived by her husband Robert and two sons John and William
Katherine (Sweet) Watt Mac 220 died Feb 23 1992 She is survived by her husshyband Leslie a son David and a dau ghter Carol Gi llanders
Mattie (Newman) Widdicombe 240 died Dec 11 1991 in St Catharines Ont Preshydeceased by her husband John she is surshyvived by a bro ther and several nieces and nephews including Virginia Rigby Arts 76
OAC
George Grey Arnup 38 died Feb 2 1992 in Toronto He spent most of his career with the plant protection branch of Agriculture Canada He is survived by his wife Aileen three chi ldren Nancy Jim and Mary Ellen Vincent CBS 79 and four grandchi ldren
Herbert Boyce 28 and MSA 43 died Sept 2 1991 in Amherstburg Onto He is survi ved by his wife Norah a daughter Beverley Med lock and a brother James OAC 32
Jack Reddy Brethet 56 died Nov 4 199 1 in Burlington Ont President of Brethet Barnum Assoc iates Inc he is surshyv ived by his wife Caro l and two daughters Lyn n and Anne
Bruce Foster 28 died Feb 6 1992 in Ridgetown Ont and is survi ved by his daughter Gayle Anderson and son David CBS 69
Allison Gardhouse 49 died Sept 21 1991 in Midland Ont He was re tired supe rshyintendent of schoo ls for the Simcoe County Board of Education and is survi ved by his wife Merle
Kenneth Harrison 24 died Nov 5 199 1 in Kentville NS A distinguished plant patho logist military officer and mycologist he began hi s career in 1926 as assistant plant pathologis t at the Kentvi lle Experimental Farm He worked there until retirement in 1966 wi th the exception of mi litary servi ce du ring the Second World War
Dr Harrison had a lifelong interes t in the study of mushrooms and publ ished numerou s technica l papers on the mu shroom flora of Nova Scotia In addition he enshy
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IN MEMORIAM
couraged interested amateurs and led field trips for student s at Acadia University and the general public from 1929 until 1987 In 1979 he was honored by Acadia wi th the dedication of the Kenneth A Harri son Laboratory of Mycology
During his career he was a member of many professional organizations a charter member of the Mycological Society of America and fe llow of the American Associashytion for the Advancement of Science
He is survived by hi s wife Margaret two brothers Maynard OAC 30 and Arthur OAC 29 two son s Ashley and Kenneth and a daughter Jennie Sheito
William Kellam 4 1 died Oct 19 1991 in Brockville Ont He was retired from the Curb and Gate Co of-Brock ville where he had worked as a lab technician fo r 28 years He is survived by his wife Kathleen a son George and a daughter Mary
William M acMillan 48 died in February 1992 in Winnipeg He was supervisor of Fertilizer marketing for the Manitoba Pool Elevators and is surv ived by hi s wife Edna Jean and brother Harry OAC 5 1 A
Cameron McTaggart 35 died Feb 4 1992 in Aurora Ont After graduating from OAC he became manager of Don Head Farms in Richmond Hill He established the first agricul tural consulting business in Canada in 1947 and later ran an Angus cattle
sales management business from the family farm A life member of the OAC Alumni As shysociat ion and the Class of 35 executive he is survived by his wife Margaret Mac 35 and two sons John OAC 62 of Regina and David of Largo Fla
Douglas Miller 48 of Victoria BC died Nov 24 1991 in Toronto He is survived by hi s wife Ruth and five children
Gregory More 76 was killed Feb 3 1992 in Kitchener Ont at the Ontario Glove Manufacturing Co where he was co-owner and vice-president Following graduation he worked for the Rohrer Drug Co and the Stershyling Drug Co then returned to school ea rnshying an MBA at McMaster University in 1981 More was an avid squash player and golfer Court A at the Northfield Racquet Club in Waterloo was dedicated to his memory in March He is survived by his parents Noreen and Ken a brother Randy and a sister Katherine Keeler
John Jack Pawley 33 died March I 1992 in Guelph He is survived by his wife Ruth son John OAC 62 and daughter-inshylaw Carolyn He was a former director of the Ontario Milk Marketing Board and a past member of the Royal City Lodge of Perfecshytion
Harold Reid 20A died in December 1991 in Burlington Ont During the First World W ar he was one of Canadas premier rad io
experts work ing at the Roya l Canadian Navy shore transmitter in Sydney NS After the war he came to OAC to earn a diploma then went on to QueenS University to comshyplete an arts and theology degree His mini sshytry was mainly in St And rews and Montreal although he spent 13 years teaching Hebrew at the Presbyterian Coll ege before retiring in 1968
Donald Robertson 3 1 died Nov 4 1991 in Iroquois Ont He is survived by hi s wife Caroline (Grisdale) Mac 38 his two son s ScottOAC 65A and Guy and a daughter Sandra McNeil
Thomas Rokeby 48 and MSA 50 died Jan 29 1992 in Fayetteville Ark He was a professional engineer and tau ght for 30 years in the Univers ity of Arkansas engineering department Born in Port Rowan Ont he was a member of the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War the American Society of Agricultural Engineers and the agricultural honor societies of Gamma Sigma Delta and Alpha Epsilon He is surv ived by his wife Helen two sons Robert and Richard a daughter Penny and three brothers Michael Noel and Richard OAC 54
Francis Sweeney OAC 45 died Nov 17 1991 in Oakville Ont He was a longtime employee of Shell Canada and [nternational Shell working in Great Britain Europe and
WALL CUSTANCE MEMORIAL FOREST
The Wall-Custance Memorial Forest located at the Universi ty of Guelphs Arboretum was established in recognition of the severe depletion of our forests It is never too late to be a vital part of the effort to save and improve our air and water for the future of our children by planting trees This program is our small part of the major endeavor to reforest and to reduce the greenhouse effect improve air quality and provide food and cover for wildlife The Memorial Forest Proshygram not only pays a Significant tribute to a loved one but also assures a better environment for generations to come
The purpose of this program is to provide an opporshytuni ty to commemorate the life of a loved one by plantshy
Home of the WALL-CUSTANCE
MEMORIAL FOREST
ing a tree We envision that the Memorial Forest Program will continue for many years to come and our hope is that the solace that nature offers particularly in the depths of a living forest will be of comfort and benefi t to all
For more information or for a brochure call or write to
WALL-CUSTANCE Funeral Home and Chapel 206 Norfolk Street Guelph Ontario N1 H 4K3 (519) 822-0051
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Berna rd Weeks 35 died Oct 16 199 1 After graduation he re turned to his roots in
ew York and Pennsylvannia and worked in 4-H and you th organi zations for a few years He then took over the family farm at Troupsburg NY and built up a dairy operashytion with a sideline of sheep He is surv ived by his wife Ruth and four children
Glenn White 43 of Belleville Onl died Nov 24 199 1 in Florida and is surv ived by hi s wife Marjorie
ave Norman Anderson 39 of Wi nn ipeg died Dec 18 1991 in Arizona He had practised veterinary medicine in Norwood Man and was a member of the American Equine Pracshytitioners Association director of the Canadian Thoroughbred Society and track veterinarian at Assin iboia Downs for 50 years He is survived by his wi fe Peggy and two sons Laurie and James
George Beatty 5 I died Nov 22 1991 in Inverness III He practised in Palatine fo r 36 years and founded the Palatine Animal Hospi tal He was an active member of the American Animal Hospital Assoc iati on and the Chicago Veterinary Association and was a director of the Friends of the University of Guelph He is survived by his wife Mary and fo ur children - Suzanne Patricia Margaret and Tim
John Hamilton 5 L died Dec 15 1991 He had lived in Roslin On where he owned the Bay Regional Veterinary Hospital He is survived by hi s niece Ann Bongard
Nicholas Labzoffsky 39 died Dec 25 1991 in Largo Fla Fonnerly of Toronto he had li ved most recen tl y in Dorse t Ont and is survived by hi s wife Jane
Edgar Langford 49 died March 41992 in Monarch Alta A former research scienshytist with ADRI (Western) he is survived by his wife Norma and two daughters includshying Carolyn OVC 76
Stuart Maude 4 1 died Jan 14 1992 in Rosemead Calif A former Rosemead counshycillor and four-time mayor he operated the Rosemead Animal Hospital with his brother Arthur 52 from 1953 to 1980 He was a trustee for Ingles ide Hospital a past grand patron of both the Rosemead and the Califorshynia Order of Eastern Star and past-president of the local Kiwanis Club and Chamber of Commerce He is survived by his wife Vera two daughters Patricia and Susan Bezner a son Stuart and three brothers
Walter Morley 42 o f Mildmay On died Nov 28 199 1 He ran a large animal pracshytice in the Mild may area for 39 years raised cat tle and raced standardbred horses He was also a pu blic school board trustee and direcshytor of a local te lephone company for more
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than 30 years He is survived by his wife Joyce five sons - two of whom are OVC alumni Dave 68 and Randy 74 - and 10 grandchildren
Lloyd Neily 52 died Jan 3 1992 in Hantsport NS A retired meat inspector w ith the federal Department of Agriculture he had a private veterinary practice in Wind sor NS He is surv ived by hi s wife Mary
Elford Nundal 43 died Jan 7 1992 in Langley BC after a long battle with canshycer He operated a veterinary practice in Langley for 36 years and served as a di strict aldennan for 10 years before being elected mayor in 1982 Last year he received the BC Veterinarian Association s award of merit for a lifetime of veterinary work
Humphrey Rees 55 died Sepl 30 1991 in Amman Jordan while on ass ignment for the Overseas Development Ad ministrat ion as veterinary and animal hu sbandry adviser to the Jordani an government His contemshyporaries at Guelph will remember him as a singer debater raconteur rugby player and bon vivant He is surv ived by his wife Alice of POlt Eynon Wales
William Stinson 40 died Feb 15 1992 in Norwood Ont He is survi ved by his wife Rita a son John OVC 67 a brother Ford OAC 34 and a grandson John CSS 87
Faculty
Patric ia Harney died Dec 191991 in Yarshymouth NS A professor in the Department of Horticultural Science from 1962 to 1988 she developed severa l new variet ies of geraniums and was instru mental in es tabshylishing the Frances Ball rose collection at the Arboretum
Anthony Marston died Feb 3 1992 in Fershygu s ant Retired from the School of Hotel and Food Administration he was an acshycomplished competition chef who received his training in Switzerland and England He then spent severa l years working in the Caribbean before coming to Guelph in 1970 A member of the Canadian Olympic culinary team he held a number of positions in the
Donations given in memory ofGuelph alumni will help support University scholarships ifdirected to the Alumni M emorial Fund In 1991 donations were made in memory of the following alumni
Frank MacDonald OAC 37
Frank King OAC 33 -Robert Allen OAC 56A
Alice (Rivaz) Garrard Mac 28
Stan Vesselinovitch OVC 57
For more infonnation call the Office of Annual Giving at 519-824-4120 Ext 6 183
hote l and food industry until retiring in 1982 He is survived by hi s wife Di ana
Gordon McNally dled Jan 12 1992 in Guelph A professor in the Department of Zoo logy from 1934 to 1971 he served as academic assistant to the dean of CBS until retiring in 1979 While at Guelph he was honorary pres id ent of the classes of OAC 54 58 and 67 He is survived by his daughter Jean two siste rs and two grandchildren Prof McNallys family has established the A Gordon Mc a lly Memorial Fund to support a sc holarship or bursary Contributions may be sent care of the Alma Mater Fund Alumni Hou se University of Guelph Guelph ant N I G 2WI
Friends
Jean (Young) Branion died March 3 1992 in Guelph She was the wife of the late Hugh Branion a physiology professor at U of G and assistant to presidents Bill Winegard and Don Forster Jean Branion was an act ive volunteer on campus for many years and one of the firs t presidents of the College Womens Club She is survived by a son Richard and his wife Marga re t of Vanshycouve r and five grandchi ldren Donati ons may be made to the Hugh D Branion Memorial Scholarship through Alumni House
Davy Alexander Hamilton-Williamson died Feb 4 1992 in Guelph A painter and author of childrens stories he had been a member of the University s Presidents Council s ince it began in 1 985
Marjorie Pinkney wife of J ames Pinkney OVC 3 7 died Dec 151 99 [ at her home in Milton ant
Samuel Wyal died March 15 1992 in Brantford ant He was a partner in the law firm Wyatt Purce ll Will Stillman and Scott He is surv ived by his wife M a bel Mac 39 four sons Peter Michael William and John and two daughters Mary Alderson and Sarah Nadalin Arts 82
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INVmiddotESTMENTS amp
DIVIDENDS
Facts about university education in Canada and how we pay for it
By 2000 half of all new jobs in Canada will require a university degree
But at the current rate of government funding only one in five children
will have a chance to go to university
In the seven years from 1982 to 1989 per-student grants to universities in
Ontario barely kept pace with intlation at five per cent
per-student funding at American public univers ities jumped an average
of 23 per cent in the same period
Those US universities also receive twice the federal research dollars per student as do Ontario universities
In 1987 the average salary of a full-time professor at an Ontario univers ity was $55500
compared with $68200 for a private-sector position of similar education and experience
Lawyers economists and engineers made an average of $71 000
Ontario ranks ninth out of the to provinces in terms of grants to universities
Between 1978 and 1991 enrolment at Ontario univers ities grew by 40 per cent while funding dropped
from 59 to 409 per cent of total government spending
Universities were spending 14 per cent less per student between 1977 and 1988 hospital expenditures
rose 38 per cent per patient in the same period
Ontario universities generate $3 of economic activity for every
$1 invested by government funding
And the number of jobs generated by university activities in
Ontario is greater than the employment impact of the textile
industry the entire paper and pulp industry or utilities
University graduates can look forward to earning 63 per cent more than the average industrial worker
A 1990 survey of U of G alumni found that two years after graduation 97 per cent of Guelph grads
looking for work were employed 62 per cent were earning $25000 or more and 10 per cent were
earning $40000 or more
Unemployment rates in 1990 for those with a university degree was about one-third what it was
for those with only a high school diploma
Every year from 1978 to 1987 Ontario university inves tments in renovating or replacing
aging buildings could not keep pace with the rate at which the buildings depreciated
Graphics by Debbie Thompson Wilson Statistics supplied by th~ Council 01 Ontario UniverSities Statistics Canada and the U01 G Student EnVifonment Study Group
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A salute to sport Alumni Weekend June 19-21 9am Sio-pitch tournament
The tradition Jives on at the south quad diamond s Cooed teams of 12 or more players are encourshyaged to join in the fun
FRIDAY 10 am to 9 pm Registration Lambton Hall
6 pm Kick-off dinner and half-time show
get set and join In the Olympic spirit one of Alumni Creelman Hall will Weekends host the Wonderful most popular World of Sports with events Tours a half-time slide show start from to entertain alumni of Alumni House all ages and are sponshy9 pmshy sored by the Observatory tours CBS Alumni
Association
10 am and 2 pm
SATURDAY 8 am to 5 pm Guided Registration walking tours Lambton Hall
Remember 9 am to 5 pm making s now Alumni House tours sc ulptures on Students will host tours of Alumni House throughshyout the weekend Come and see what the generosity of alumni has accomplished
9 am to noon Alumni association annual meetings
This is the official notice for the annual general meetings of the following alumni associations
CBS - Alumni House starts at 830 am before guided walk MacFACS - HAFA Building Room 209
OVC - OvC Room 1438
OAC - Macdonald Hall Room 149
CSS - MacKinnon Building Room 305
HAFA - Alumni Hou se boardroom
Gryphs Lounge will be open for lunch and afLer the game
930 am Guided nature walk at the Arboretum
On your mark
Noon - OVC luncheon
The OvC Alumni Association will host a luncheon open to all OvC alumni and their guests
2 pm - Campus Showcase 92
Following on the heels of last year s success Campus Showshycase 92 will be bigger and better Come to the University Centre to see exhibits representing all areas on campus The Campus Junction store will also be open
2 pm - Zavitz Hall tour
Alumni are invited to browse through the newly renovated Za vitz Hall and attend a recep shytion sponsored by the Colshylege of Arts Alumni Asshysoc iation
5 pm Golden anniversary dinner
The OAC OvC and MacshyFACS alumni associations will provide complimenshytary tickets for alumni celebrating 50 years or more Additiona l tickets can be purchased Classes
Johnston Green or playing intramural hockey in the old Quonset arena Relive some of the memories by taking a walking tour of campus Tours begin from the lobby ofLambton Hall
Noon - Alumni picnic
This apopular event has new location - the sculpshyture garden beside the Macshydonald Stewart Art Centre Come on your own or reshyserve a group of tables for friends and classmates
Noon - Class reunion lunches
OAC 37 Mac 37 OAC 42 Mac 42 OAC 47 Mac 52 Mac57 Mac 67 FACS 72 FACS 77 FACS 87
OAC 67 FACS 82 OAC 82 OAC 82A CBS 82 FACS 87 OAC 87
SUNDAY 9am Church service and War Memorial Hall rededication
Thanks to a commitment from the Alma Mater Fund renovashytion of the upstairs of War Memorial Hall has been comshypleted Join us for the rededicashytion ceremony commemorating the 1924 opening and the 1952 dedication of an OAC memorial plaque
being honored are OAC 22 OAC 47 OvC 22 Mac 22 OAC 27 OvC 27 Mac 27 OAC 32 OvC 32 Mac 32 OAC 37 OvC 37 Mac 37 OAC 42 OvC 42 Mac 42
6 pm Class reunion dinners
Special dinn e r reunions are planned for OAC 47 OAC 52 OAC 52A OvC 52 Mac 57 OAC 57 OAC 62 Mac 67
10am UGAA annual meeting
All alumni are encouraged to atshytend the UGAA annual meeting in Macdonald Hall Room 149 An amendment to the UGAA Letters Patent and a revised bylaw will be presented for ap shyproval Copies of both are availshyable on request from Alumni House Call 519-824-4120 Ext 6544
11 am - Farewell brunch
The final event of Alumni Weekend will be held in Creelshyman Hall Come and meet the Univers ity S president Brian Segal The Alumnus of Honour medal will be presented at noon
To receive an Alumni Weekshyend brochure or to register for events call Alumni House at 59-824-4120 Ext 6963
Opened July 1991Research Park Centre shy
Where research and industry Dleet
Space available now Exceptional office and research facilities in our multi-tenant Research Park Centre
Research-driven corporations are breaking new ground at the University of Guelph Research Park Centre with exceptional growth opporshytunities in an ideal business setting
This 30-acre Research Park also accommodates tenants who choose to construct their own office and laboratory facilities
Find out why organizations such as Semex Canada Tremco Limited the Ontario Dairy Herd Improvement Corporation George Morris Centre LIPID Analytical Laboratories and Agriculture Canada have chosen the University of Guelph Research Park Call Ralph Eades or Judy Phillips Real Estate Division University of Guelph Telephone (519) 767-5003 or Fax (519) 837-0353
The Research Park is a project oj the Office oj Research and the University S Real Estate Division
RESE bull RCH PARK
CENTRE UNIVERSITY grGUELPH
Of cattle cash and Colvil e Alumni gifts to the University of Guelph come in some pretty interesting packages Over the years alumni have given livestock concrete paintings shythere are two by Canadian painter Alex Colville - furniture land books inshysurance policies and a host of artifacts and antiques And money - a lot of money Almost every building on camshypus has some bricks and mortar paid for by alumni And hundreds of students are helped along the way each year by alumshyni-sponsored scholarships
The Annual Giving Report on the preceding pages shows once again how important alumni gifts are to the Univershysity and provides us with an opportunity to say thank you to those alumni who continue to give on a yearly basis Anshynual giving is however only one of three avenues through which alumni proshyvide financial support to the University The others are major gifts and promoshytional programs
Annual giving
The Alma Mater Fund established in 1969 is the route chosen by most alumshyni faculty and staff who make annual gifts to the University
AMF solicitation and management are handled by a volunteer advisory council On the preceding page chair Tom Sawyer OAC 59A and 64 talks about the funds success over the last two years with AMF scholarships inshycreasing by 25 per cent This year the AMF begins a three-year commitment to funding renovations to War Memorial Hall
In addition to its flagship project AMF provides regular support to athshyletics through Gryphon Club contribushytions to college advancement funds and scholarships and to individual class projects
The AMF supports the camaraderie of university days as alumni work together to plan and complete a project whether its funding a scholarship a painting a tree weight-lifting equipshyment or furniture for Alumni House AMF contributions also ensure that fushyture Guelph students will remember those who have gone before
In addition to AMF donations the anshynual giving program includes gifts to
the OVC Pet Trust Fund the OAC Alumni Foundation the Arboretum the paren ts program and the Li brary Other gifts made directly to the University supshyport memorial funds scholarships musishycal activities and research and academic programs
Major gifts
Major gifts to the University are adshyministered by the Deve lopment Office under the direction of Marilyn Robinson Mac 55 These include beshyquests or life insurance policies shortshyterm pledges (often made during a capital campaign) large donations that might establish an endowment fund or contributions to special University projects like the Heritage Fund or the proposed FACS Building addition
Gifts- in-kind - such as library materials art objects or estate properties - also fall within thi s category Last year alumni gave more than $12 milshylion in such tax-deductible gifts
Promotions
Every Guelph graduate is a member of the University of Guelph Alumni Asshysociation and receives the Guelph Alumshy
nus magazine and many other privishyleges There are no UGAA membership fees but the association does raise money through promotional programs like MasterCard travel packages and the North American Life Assurance proshygram
The UGAA provides serv ices to alumshyni and students - such as the careershyplanning workshop planned for Juneshyand returns many dollars directly to the campus Last year it gave $20000 to the library
In addition to direct financial support through annual giving and major gifts alumni also support the University inshydirectly through membership fees to individual college and program associashytions The fees pay for association acshytivities that help maintain ties between their members and the University
Questions
If you have questions or would like 10
know more about the tax advantages of giving to U of G write to Paulette Samson associate director of annual giving and support services at Alumni House University of Guelph Guelph Ont NIG 2Wl or call 519-824-4120 Ext 6183
When yo~bearrom US
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When we contacenttyou on behalf of iheUriivetsity we lly to give more thiin we ask So tak~advantage ofthe p~1one call o(letter to findoutwhais happenc ing OJrcarnp~s U ofG hasmuchto offer llufnrii professionaldevelcipment courses library privileges travel programs recreation and a link Igt friends and
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Get your career on track
Responding to alumni requests the University of Guelph Alumni Associashytion will sponsor a career-planning workshop on campus June 26 to 28 The weekend program will be led by Sharon Crozier of the University of Calgary counselling service Each participant will receive a careerlifestyle analysis and will develop a personal action plan
The $225 fee includes the StrongshyCampbell Interest Inventory and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator which will be administered and tabulated prior to the weekend Testing dates have been set in Toronto for May 27 and in Guelph for June 4
Sponsored by the UGAA and coshyordinated by Continuing Education and Alumni Affairs the workshop will also draw on the Universitys Counselling and Student Resource Centre
Enrolment is limited to 20 For registration information see page 26 or call Continuing Education at 519-767shy5000
UGAA board report
by Grant Lee CSS 73 MA 80
The UGAA will present a convocation package to each graduate this spring imshymediately following presentation of the degree or diploma Developed by Alumshyni Affairs staff the package is designed to increase awareness of the UGAA and the collegeschool alumni associations encourage membership introduce the Guelph Alumnus and provide an opporshytunity for board members to congratushylate our new alumni
Approval of the new UGAA bylaw is on schedule It will be presented to members at the annual general meeting in June along with an amendment to the
i I UGAA Letters Patent
In addition the UGAA board bull has approved a $400 donation to help
cover costs for two students to represhysent Guelph at the 1992 World Debatshying Championships in Dublin Ireland
bull is looking at a proposal to help alumDl with financial planning There will be more to come on this subject later
bull received thanks from president Brian Segal on behalf of those alumni who attended the October symposium
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Canada Break Up or Restructure The association was a patron of the event
bull is responding to requests from alumni for more social events Aside from the travel program the UGAA sponsored a ski day at Horseshoe Valley in March
bull approved a proposal from the School of Landscape Architecture to research places of historical value on campus Financial support has yet to be resolved
bull accepted an offer to help sponsor the University Centres annual lecture series which invites Canadian and inshyternational public figures to speak on current issues All events in the winter 92 series were free to alumni
bull donated U of G sweatshirts to Canadian Guidance and Counselling for a conference in Ottawa this sumshymer
bull approved the purpose and terms of refshyerence for the new Alumni House Adshyvisory Committee which is charged with overseeing maintenance of the
facility adopted the 199192 budget and finanshycial plan drafted last November This year we expect to generate some $44000 and spend $33000 It has been suggested that we set the 199293 budget and plan in April of this year so the new board wi II start in September with a sound financial program and budget that will only reshyquire adoption or revision
Chapter news
Calgary - About 40 alumni and guests met at the Delta Bow Valley Hotel Feb 3 to view a U of G video and hear a talk by admissions counsellor C hr is tine Toews FACS 87 Co-ordinator of the event was Janet Hutchinson CBS 79
Edmonton - Paul OAC 67 and Anne Valentine CBS 69 hosted a group of 30 alumni and guests at the Ramada Renaissance Hotel
Montreal - U of G welcomed students and their parents - including many
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alumni - to its first Montreal informashytion night for prospective students The event was modelled after a successful program in Toronto that draws more than 800 students each spring
Vancouver - U of G president Brian Segal met with alumni March 5 at the Pan Pacific Hotel Jim Dodds OVC 63 and Sarah Bloom FACS 86 orshyganized the event which attracted about 70 alumni and guests
Halifax- U ofG alumni in Halifax met with Gryphon basketball players during the March 26 to 28 CIAU chamshypionships Despite losing the OUAA west division title to Brock University the Gryphons qualified for a wi ld card spot at the CIAU championships Alumshyni received free tickets to the game that pitted Guelph against Brandon in the consolation final Fan support was enshythusiastic but the Gryphons lost 72 to 64 finishing third overall
Homecoming 1992 Plans are well under way for Homecoming weekend Sept 25 and 26 In addition to the annual Gryphon Hall of Fame dinner and award s ceremony the weekend will feat ure a beach volshyleyball tou rnamen t --~4~=iiiiikshyconcert alumni brunch walk-a-thon pep rally reunions and the traditional homecoming dance following the Saturday afternoon footshyball game This year the Gryphons will play Wil frid Laurier University A complete schedule will appear in the next Guelph Alumnus but you can get
Winners of Ihe Ju SI fo r Fun square dance compelition 01 College Royal were left 10 right Ann Joselin Kelley Allen Joanne Hewirson Brenl McFadden caller Sue MacKinnon Richard Presley Trish Henderson Jason Thompson and Kelly Lillie
in the Homecoming spirit now by helpshying to plan your class reunion or signing up as a scorekeeper for the vo lleyball tournament For infOlmation call alumshyni officer Laurie Malleau HAFA 83 at 519-824-4120 Ext 2102
Swing your partner
Eight squares of alumni took part in the College Royal square dance competition in March Winners of the UGAA alumni square dance plaque were the Crazy 8s Joanne Hewitson Arts 91 Lloyd Hutchinson CBS 87 Sonya Jones CPS 90 Ed Ketchabaw OAC 88 and MSc 91 Carol)n OAC 90 and Brad MacNeil CPS 87 Mike Relf OAC 91 and student Sherry MacNeil Wayne Lowden was the caller
Winners in the Just for Fun category were Junior Farmer alumni who included Hewitson Ann Joselin OAC 90 Brent McFadden CSS 90 Richard Presley OAC 86 and soonshyto-be-alumni Kelley Allen Trish
Henderson Kelly Little and Jason Thompson The caller was Sue MacKinnon OVC 9 1
Florida picnic
The North Port Yacht Club hosted 199 alumni for the annual Florida picnic March 4 On hand to meet them was Trish Walker CSS 77 and MSc 90 director of alumni affairs Judy Phillips of the University s Real Estate Division also attended to talk about the Village by the Arboretum retirement deve lopshyment
Attendance prizes went to Gertrude Stewart Mac 30 and Morley Funston OAC 32 The picnic was sponsored by the UGAA Alumni-In shyAction Committee represented by Ken Gartley OAC 42 and the Florida reunion committee consisting of Mary and Ted Brent OAC 48 Helen and Don Moffatt OAC 46 Stella and Bob Moore OAC 48 and Retis and Bill HasenptlugOAC 39
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A new kind of class reunion
Its the latest fad in alumni circles shymeeting your classmates at the anshynual University of Guelph alumni hockey tournament Twenty-two teams played in the fifth annual tourshynament in December
For most teams tournament standshyings are secondary to the socializing with classmates that they may not see otherwise says Bill Seegmiller OAC 83 who worked with Brian TapscottOAC 8 1 to organize the event We promote the social aspect through two divisions - social and more social - and include family skating and a Saturday evening wine and cheese party he says Trish Walker director ofalumni affairs presents fhe social division lrophy 10 Ihe OAC 79
Dipper Oldies (II the U ofG alumni hockey tournamenl The OAC 79A team defeated the Grey Gryphons to win the more soshycial division The OAC 80 team won the consolation final and the spirit award went to OAC 7778
In the social (a little more competishytive) division it was the Faceoffs in first place over OAC 88 OAC 90 won the consolation trophy and the Valley Vikings took home the spirit award
Organizers plan to add womens exshyhibition games to the 1992 tournament which is scheduled for Dec 5 and 6 For more information call Seegmiller at 519-836-3807 or Rudy Diemer OAC 85 at 519-763-2250
A night at the races
The UGAA Alumni-in-Action group will host a night at Mohawk Raceway May 26 The $30 admission includes a 6 pm buffet parking program taxes and gratuities For detail s call Laurie
~ Malleau at 519-824-4120 Ext 2102
I Alumni directory
A new alumni directory will be ready for delivery in May The deadline for alumni updates has passed but you can still order a copy of the directory at a cost of $40 plus tax Return the order form you received with the special U of G wristwatch offer or write to Rosemary Clark Mac 59 at Alumni House University of Guelph Guelph Ont NIG 2Wl
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Ottawa chapter 50 years young
There was a nostalgic gathering of Guelph alumni in Ottawa last winter to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the city s alumni chapter
Donald Fletcher OAC 36A and 39 who was president of the group in 1953 sent us a historical account of the chapters activities
A small organizing committee first met in February 1941 at Madame Burgers restaurant to plan the chapters first fun ction a skating party at the Ottawa Experimental Farm It attracted 75 people
Over the years the group held an anshynual picnic and a banquet and dance that gave them a chance to invite faculty from Guelph to speak about happenings at the colleges - and later the Univershysi ty Every president from George I Christie to Bill Winegard paid a vi sit
In 1951 alumni from OVC and Macshydonald Institute who had been meeting since 1936 joined the OAC group A crowd of almost 200 celebrated the chapter s 10th anniversary at a picnic at the farm of the late John Bracken OAC 06 During the 1950s they added a get-together at the annual Ottawa-area plowing match which gave way to a curling bon spiel in the 1960s
There have been many special funcshytions - entertaining the Gryphon footshyball teams square dances car rallies golf tournaments theatre parties and raceway evenings - but the event that stands out in Fletchers memory ocshycurred in 1966 when five members of Parliament hosted the group in the parshyliamentary ballroom
The chapter also includes a couples bridge club which has been meeting for 25 years in the homes of its members
Fletcher thanks the 30 people who have served as president of the Ottawa alumni chapter and the dozens more who have helped on committees devot shying years to the executive to promote the institution
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JUNE 26 27 amp 28 ~ The Program This highly successful workshop developed by Sharon Crozier PhD University Counselling Services University of calgary is the first step for an alumnus who is considering a career move The weekend (Friday evening through Sunday afternoon) will consist of group presentations conducted by Dr Crozier with smaller working groups facilitated by profeSSional counsellors from the University of Guelph Counselling and Student Resource Centre
Discussion structured exercises and experiential activities will lead alumni to gain insight into a personal careerllifestyle analYSis and assessment career information resources networking skills and much more
No matter what their age career stage or reason for transition each participant will find this workshop to be an excellent opportunity to develop a personal action plan - and chart their next move
~ Pre-1esting In order to provide individualized career information registrants are required to attend one of two pre-testing sessions The Strongshycampbell Interest Inventory and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator will be administered and results tabulated prior to the workshop Pre-testing dates are as follows
Toronto Wednesday May 27 1992 700 pm - 8 30 pm Holiday Inn Yorkdale
Guelph Thursday June 4 1992 700 pm - 8 30 pm University Centre
~ Fee The registration fee of $225 includes administration and tabulation of the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator materials two lunches and refreshment breaks
Tuition fees in excess of $100 are income tax deductible
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May 2 - The Guelph Spring Festival begins with a 25th-anniversary gala dinshyner in Creelman Hall that will honor founding president Murdo MacKinnon Other festival events run until May 23 For more information call 519-821-7570
May 2 shy An All-Canadian University Asshysociation d inne r w il l be held in Washington DC at the Embassy of Canada Guest speaker is Robert Lanni president of the University of Windsor Entertainment will be provided by Windsors music department For inforshymation call T Chan at 202-543-9111
May 3 - Arboretum Day celebrates spring with family nature walks at 1 and 330 pm and an electrical keyboard concert at 230 pm featuring Canadian comshyposer Carole Anne Burris
May 10 to Aug 30 - Guided nature walks run every Sunday at 230 pm in the Arboretum Topics include wildflowers birds turtles snakes and insects The nature centre is open from 1230 to 430 pm
May 13 - Chancellor Lincoln Alexander is the guest speaker at the Alumni-inmiddotAction annual general meeting which begins at noon in the Arboretum Centre For details call Alumni Affairs 519-824middot 4120 Ext 2102
May 13 - The Human KineticsHuman Biology Alumni Association will hold its inaugural meeting at730 pm at Alumni House with a coffee and dessert social RSVP to 519-824-4120 Ext 6963
May 23 shy FACS 82 is sponsoring a colshylection of Bob Munsch plays performed by the Carousel Players at3 pm at War Memorial Hall Tickets are $8 plus tax and handling To order call the UC box off ice at 519-824-4120 Ext 3940
May 26 - Alumni-in-Action is hosting a night at Mohawk Raceway Cost is $30 To register call 529-824-4120 Ext 2102
May 30 - An Arboretum sale of rare native trees and shrubs at the RJ Hi lton Centre on College Avenue East runs from 9 am to 1 pm For information call 519-824shy4120 Ext 2113
May 30 shy The sixth annual All-Canadian University Dinner in Chicago will be held
in the Henry Crown Space Centre at the Museum of Science and Industry and will include a reception buffet dinner and an Omnivax movie beginning at 6 pm Guest speaker is George Pedersen president of the University of Western Ontario For information call David Cole at 312-372-4404 or Hugh Mackenzie at 708-369-3688
June 2 to 5 shy Spring convocation June 13 - Beginning at 7 am the Arshy
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June 15 to 17 shy U of G will host the 15th annual Guelph Conference on Sexuality With the theme Sexuality New Visions the conference will examine current isshysues in human sexuality counselling strategies for sexual problems and teaching approaches in sexuality educashytion For information call the Office of Continuing Education at 519-767-5000 or fax 519-767-0758
June 19 to 21 - ALUMNI WEEKEND See page 39 for a complete schedule of events and alumni association meetings The UGAA annual meeting is June 21 at 10 am in Macdonald Hall 149
June 26 to 28 shy The UGAA-sponsored alumni career-planning workshop will be held on campus See page 26 for details
July 31 amp Aug 4 shy The National Youth Orchestra will perform in War Memorial Hall at 8 pm as part of its summer program at U of G Tickets at $8 general $6 for stUdents and seniors will be availshyable at the door
Sept 26 - HOMECOMING Rise early for the second ann ual Homecoming charity walkathon At 930 am the Human Kinetics Alumni Association will hold its annual general meeting in the School of Human Biology lounge
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John Boros 88 of Wei land Ont writes that he is impressed by the way U of G keeps records after graduation Thi s gives the graduate a sense of belonging a connection to an important period in hi s or her life he says
Jane Buzza 88 is working as records co-ordinatorarchivist for the Ontario Medishycal Association in Toronto
Jacqueline (Sullivan) DeClerck 86 is a public relations officer at the Canada Trust head office in London Onto
Richard Ely 70 works at the Crown attorneys office in WeIland Ont He has an LLB from the University of Western Ontario in addition to his Guelph degree He says he often talks about U of G to young students trying to decide which university to attend
Paul Genest 81 finished graduate studies at Johns Hopkins Universi ty in Maryland and is now assistant professor of philosophy at Union College in Schenectady NY He is man-ied to Barbara Jessup 8 1
Brian Hogarth 78 is head of interpretashytion at the G1enbow Museum in Calgary
Martha Hooper 9 1 was married last Ocshytober to David Perry They live in Calgary where she is a sw itchboard operator at the Delta Bow Valley Inn
Rene van der Meijden 87 has put his degree in geogshyraphy and internationshyal development to good use with the Christian Reformed World Relief Comshymittce Originally from the Netherlands he is now in Uganda on a three-year asshy Rene van der signment as a rural Meijden development adv iser He sends greetings to his many friend s in Canada and to Guelph grads Stan and Kitty in Bolivia in particular and reminds us that visitors are always welshycome in Uganda
Edward Milliner 85 will graduate this spring from the faculty of education at the University of Windsor
Mark Moore 85 is doing postgraduate work in history at the University of Bristol in England He plans to teach high school
fn response to a letter from Dawn Monroe 69 that appeared in the winter 1992 issue of the Guelph Alumnus Doug Moynihan 69 of Fort McMurray Alta writes Be disapshypointed no more Dawn l I too graduated in 1969 from (the College of) Arts or as it was then called Wellington College and I havent heard from anyone either And I too think it is time to contribute my news
After graduation f headed out to disshycover and sol ve the problems of the world travelling overseas for about three years Since then Ive been working in human resources in a variety of organizations in many different locations in Canada Cun-entshyIy I am the manager of human resources in Fort McMurray
PS Do you remember me Dawn I was the bartender in Creelman Hall I
John Teskey 7 1 began new duties last summer as director of libraries at the University of New Brunsw ick in Fredericton He was head of adshyministrative sershyvices at the University of Albershyta before moving John Teskey across Canada to acshycept the UNB posishytion but had earlier served as chief librarian and was library personnel officer at both Alshyberta and the University of Saskatchewan
Teskey says his biggest challenge is to regain the lost purchasing power that univershysity libraries have suffered as a result of static budge ts and ri sing material costs He is encouraging increased resource-sharing among universities and interlibrary loan programs with shortened turnaround
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Elizabeth (Baxter) Willson 77 a real esshytate agent in Chatham Ont writes to voice a common feeling that the universi ty exshyperience itself is often more important than the degree or diploma received I am really glad I graduated from Guelph she says
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Michelle Bombadier and Mike Caldwell both 92 are two of 50 Canad ian youth selected to work in Guyana for three months with Youth Challenge International (YCI) a non-governmental organization that provides Third-world experience for Canadians They may spend the summer building a school teaching safety or clearing land for Gu ytna s first national park but they need some private support to he lp cover transportation costs Anyone able to help should write to YCI at I I Soho St Toronto M5T IZ6
Jane Coventry 86 writes with accolades for the Guelph Alumnus grad news section and an update on what she and her husband Jaydee Smith 84 and MSc 89 are doing They were married in 1989 while working at U of G - he in the Department of Animal and Poultry Science and she in the Departshyment of Crop Science In February 1991 they moved to England where Smith is doing a PhD at the University of Bristol and working as a research assistant Coventry
works in the technology transfer unit of Nickshyerson Seeds Ltd in Cambridge
Jeffrey Crawford 88 and Leslie Thompson 86 were malTied last October He is an elementary schoolteacher in Mount Forest Ont
Craig Emerson 83 earned a PhD at Dalshyhousie University in Halifax in 1990 and is now a research associate in oceanography
Paul Fleming 85 is a pharmaceutical sales representative for Hoechst Canada Inc and lives in Nepean Ont
David Forsey 80 is an assistant professor of computer science at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver He is marshyried to Lyn Bartram
Michael Gangl 89 is in his third year at the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College
Astrid Harms 87 is a registered nurse in London Ont
Andrew Holmes 85 worked for the Onshytario government as a wildlife biologist for three years but is now back at school in his second year at Northwestern Chiropractic College in Minneapolis
Timothy Johnson 86 works at the Centre for Limnology at the University of Wisconshys in in Madison
Karen Lennard 77 (HK) and her hu sshyband Paul Jackson 79 (HK ) and MSc
82 both went 011 to earn medical degrees from McMaster University in HalTilton Ont Jackson also has a master s in physiology from the University of Virginia and is comshypleting an anesthesiology residency in Hamilshyton Lennard has a part-time family medical practice allowing her to spend more time with the couples two children Matthew and Nicola
Wendy Maltby 74 is an elementary schoolteacher for the Metropolitan Toronto School Board
Sandra OConnor 84 earned a medical degree from the University of Western Onshytario and is now practi sing in Burlington Ont
Linda Owen 81 runs her own business as a consulting exercise physiologist and fitness supervisor in Campbell River BC
Sheryle Tetley 86 is regional sales manager for Glaxo Canada Inc in Mi ss isshysauga Ont where she lives with her husshyband Ian
Rob Tonus 87 is manager of the Black Creek Rehabilitation Project a grassroots enshyvironment program to improve a degraded urban stream in Toronto His office is with the Metropolitan Toronto and Region Conshyservation Authority and he lives in Oakville with his wife Wanda (Knul) 88 (HK) a public health inspector in Hamilton
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Richard Woods 81 is an instructor of xshyray technology at the Easte rn Ontario School of X-ray Technology at Kingston Ge neral Hospital He would like to hear from other members of the 1981 U of G choir wi th whom he travelled to Scandinav ia Write to him at RRI Od essa Ont KOH 2HO
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James Dy nes 84 has comp le ted g raduate studies in chemistry and so il sc ience at the Univers ity of Sas katchewan in Saskatoon
Catherine (McVittie) Clark 88 is a nuclear medica l tech nici an at Howard Counshyty General Hospita l in Columbia Md She and her husband Michae l li ve in Elkridge Md
David Holmes 85 is a systems analyst at Sun Life Assurance Company
RolfKierdorf 84 lives in Guelph with his wife Janet He is se lf-employed as a systems consultant
Donald McFadde n 71 and his wife Carol li ve in A lbany Ga where he pracshyti ses medicine
Donald Ridley 69 and PhD 73 has been appoin ted seni or v ice-presiden t of CibashyGeigy Canada Ltd in Oakvi lle Ont and is responsib le for a ll corpora te serv ices includshy
ing finance human resources safe ty health and the environment He a lso se rves on the board of the Canadian Agricu ltura l Research Council and is a member of the Great Lakes Action Plan Strategi c Advi sory Committee
Kathryn Root Parr is an assoc iate minister at Lorne Park Bapti st Church in Mississhysa uga Ont She was married las t fa ll to Vicshytor Parr
Peter Simpson 85 is dis tric t manager for McNeil Pharmaceutical Ltd in Stouffville Ont He is married to Cynthia (Hamilton) 85 (HK)
Keith Stemshorn 83 is in the Canadian Armed Forces stationed in Calgary
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Nikki Dignard 86 moved to Ottawa last year where her husband Ted Henike pracshyti ses denti stry Dignard is working on an M BA and says she d love to hear from CSS classmates Tom Cam and Kathryn
Bonnie Dunnett 87 and MA 91 works on campus at the Gerontology Research Centre S he and Barry Hallman 9 1 li ve in Guelph
Kathryn Faulkner 80 is a registered nurse in Burling ton Ont where she li ves wi th he r husband John
Ruth Fox 84 is a sta ffing assistant for
Transport Canad a and lives in Toronto w ith her husband Christopher
Shonna Giles 88 is an admiss ions officer at Simon Fraser Unive rs ity in Burnaby BC
Gina Grieco 75 is a hi gh school guidance counsellor in North York Onto
John Harris 82 is manager of financial planning and budgets for th e City of Brampton Ont
Paulette Heppner 76 is a teache r in Vanshycouver
John Johnston 7 1 has been appointed exshyec uti ve vice-pres ident o f Ve rsacold Canada Corp and pres ident of QF Foods Distribushytion Services Versacold Canada is the largest public refri gera ted ware hou sing orshygani za tion in Western Canada
Michael Kral 79 has moved from the Univers ity of Manitoba to the University of Wind sor where he is an assistant professor of psychology
Jeffrey Lozon 76 and his family recently returned to Toronto after 15 years in Western Canada He is executive vice-president and ch ief operat ing officer at St Michael s Hos pital and li ves in Oakville wi th hi s wife Donna and two daughters
Bria n Martin 79 is a real estate appraiser in Portland Ont whe re he li ves w ith hi s wife Margaret (Sheffield) Arts 79
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Leith Mason 90 works in Toronto in the Canadian office of the State of Illinois as a special assistant to the Illinois Department of Food and Agricul ture
Michael McKean 74 of Don Mills Ont was recently appointed president of Wrigley Canada Inc Before joining Wrigley as execushytive v ice-pres ident in 1990 he he ld senior positions in Hong Kong Brazil and the United States
Rick 74 and Vicki (Collard) McTaggart FACS 74 are working in Ottawa He is director of overseas operations for the Unitarian Service Committee a charitable non-governmental organization that supports commun it y and human resou rce developshyment activities in Africa and Asia She is sec tion head of consumer analysis in the agr ifood development branch of Agriculture Canada
Sandra Morrison 86 is an ass istant professhysor in the department of psychiatry at the University of Western Ontario
Stephen Naylor 85 is director of planning and development for the amalgamated municipalities of Alliston Beeton Tecumshyseth and Tottenham
Brian ONeill 68 MA lives in SUITey England where he is managing director of Innovation Management Consultant s
Jodi Parisi 89 is a sales representative for Gillette who says U of Goo was the greatest
Moira Skikavich 81 is completing a PhD in c inematelevision at the University of Southern California
Virginia Sutherland 78 is an air traffic controller at the Toronto Island Airport
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Peggy Bates 88 was recently promoted to sales manager with Sears Canada Inc She lives in Owen Sound Ont
Caroline Begin 86 is working in Singshyapore as a dietitian
Diana Close 87 is a c linical nutri ti onis t at Chedoke McMaster Hospital in Hamilton Ont
Sarah Davenport 90 is a case worker with the Wellington County Social Services office in Guelph She is malTied to Matthew Harvey CBS 90
Timothy Dyck 8 1 is national sales manager for Black amp Decker Canada workshying out of the Corbin Division in Richmond HillOnt
Sharon (Muir) 84 and Richard Ernst CBS 83 are the proud parents of a future Guelph grad uate one-year-old Andrew Graham
Patricia Edwards 78 is food servi ce sushypervisor fo r St Peter s Hospita l in Hamilton Ont
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For the love ofteaching Since she
middot graduated bull from Macshydonald Inshymiddot stitute in
J 963 Nancy Kerr has built a career on teaching and research in telttles The middotheidofthe Uriiveisityof
Albertas department of Clothing and texiiles pursues a middotscientific interest inthepreservashylion of hi stori~lfabricsarid in developing pesticide-proofc1otl1ing But Jler fitstlove i ~ teaching
In 199b shewonone ofU of As four Rutherford AWljrds for excellence ill unshy
dergraduate teat-hing The first member of the faculty middotofliomemiddoteconornicsto receive the award slie was the rcentcipient6f the facultys own underglltiduate teaching award three years earlier
Winning the Rutherford was a gteat honor says Ken who has been on
faculty at Alberta since 1967 She oiscovered she had an aptitude for
middot teaching as a graduate student at the University of California Davis in
196566 After earning her MSc she casr about for afaculty position in Canada and round U of A was the 0111y place I could teach ju t textiles plus have a chance to develop new cQurses and research labs
middot Kerr sa)s she gets a tremelldous sense of satisfaction from teaching and the learning he must do to stay cUlTent She attributes her succe s as a teaCher to middotIec-middot
middot tures that are well organized and clear and to creltting a positive classroom climate
~Thcomfort level of students is reaUy middot ililportanL ~ Kerr eamedherPhD in fibre lnd
polymer science from North Carolina bull Staie University in 1982 Her doctoral work concentrated oil deacidification
techniques to preserve historicatcottOnln 1988 she spent a sabbatical ye~r doing research at the Caliadian Conservation
middot In tirute in OnflW1 middot Originalmiddotly from Ottawa Kerr is a
trarisphlnted -vesterner who enjoys middot hiking anlt sk1ing
From left Diane Ellison Lisa Wilson Lori Davis and Pippa Hobbes
Diane Ellison 84 is liv ing in Osaka Japan where she teaches English to Japanese busishyness people Last October she welcomed three U of G friends for a visit Lori Davis CSS 85 manager of Jumbo Video Inc in Oakville Ont Pippa Hobbes 84 accountshying manager for Paramount Holidays in Willowda le Ont and Lisa Wilson 84 co-ord inator of membership serv ices for the Metropolitan Toronto Board of Trade
Monica Hrybko HAFA 88 is director of sales for the Ramada Hotel Old Town in San Diego Calif
David Jones HAFA 88 is a con troller at the Holiday Inn Montreal Centre-Ville
Kathleen McLachlin 83 is operating an insurance agency in Kitchener OnL She opened the State Farm Insurance office in March 1988 and says she loves her job
Susan (Goettler) Parker 80 is working in Toronto as benefits administrator for Imshyperial Oil Limited She is married to Donald Parker OAC 79
Mary Jean (Sinnott) Price Mac 7 1 has returned to sc hool at the University of Otshytawa to earn a bachelor of education
Margaret (Richardson) Rankin 75 has been living in Halifax since 1990 and is an account analyst for Central Guaranty Trust
Janet (Wanless) Sutherland 77 is in private practice as a marriage and family therapist in East Kelowna BC
Jean Thomson Mac 37 says 1937 was a long time ago but shes delighted with all the changes that have gone at the college A former hospita l nutritionist she is retired and living in London Ont -
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Olayiwola Layi Adeola MSc 86 and PhD 89 and his wife Mope are living in West Lafayette Indiana where he is an assisshytant professor of pig nutrition at Purdue University
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Bruce Barrie 79 (Eng) graduated last June with an MBA from City Uni ve rsi ty in Washington State and is now a senior adshyviser in strategic planning with Petro-Canada Resources in Calgary He is a professional eng ineer with APEGGA and an ac tive memshyber of the Planning Forum an international society for planning and strategic manageshyment
Barbara Bryce 83 and her husband Ricardo Ramirez 82 are living in Rome Italy She is a landscape architect and he is a communications officer with the Food and Agriculture Organizat ion
Daniel Campbell 81 and his wife SharonshyMarianne are farmin g near Petrolia Onto
Carolyn Closs 82 and her husband Harold operate a beef cowca lf operation in Shawville Que
Luc Cote 83 is an agricullural account manager for the Royal Bank of Canada in Joliette Que
Kerrie Lea Curran 85 plans to graduate this fall from the master of architecture proshygram at McGi ll University
Bruce Dodson 74A is course superinshytendent at Hawd Ridge Golf and Curling Club in Orillia Ont
Richard Donkin OAC 85A originalshyly from Zimbabwe is the manager of Venida Packing Inc in Exeter Calif Situated in central Californias San Joashyquin Valley Venida Packing ships tree fruit throughout the Richard Donkin United States Canada the Pacific Rim and the Far East Products under the brand names Ruby River and Venida include peaches plums nectarines kiwi grapes persimmons and pomegranates In 1988 Donkin married California native Lisa Kolander and they live in Lemon Cove a community in the Sierra foothill s
Brendan Elder 8S A lives in Kelowna BC and works for Dogwood Nursery He plans to be married thi s summer to Rosemary Powell
Robert Fessenden OAC MSc 67 was recently appointed vice-president of devel opshyment and planning at the Alberta Research Council He is responsible for tec hnology management and corporate marketing
John Fitzgerald 86 was married last November to Susan Given a ] 991 indeshypendent study graduate in animal producshytion He is a lecturer at Ridgetown College she works at Centralia College and is work shying on a psychology degree at the University of Waterloo They live in Strathroy Ont
Glenn Helstern 79A is a driver for the Calgary division of Greyhound Bus Lines of Canada Ltd
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She tells a princely tale
For seven miniJtes on Oct 24 199 L Ellen Het1eOAC 76~U1d MSc 80
(ltllked with PIince Charles Invited toopert a newfumaceat
inco Lilniteds Copper Cliff smelter iri Sudbury Ont the Princemiddot of Wales was easy to talk with says Heale ftwasverycxciting
As eiwironmental co-ordinator Of land reclamation andrevegetation at Copper Cliff Healetold theprince middot about Tnc(secosystem rehabilitation
projects Theroyalvisitor was parshyticulatfyiilterestedin the treegrow- ing project in abandoned inines flld in tlpoundrevegetation ()f acres of tailings
and barren rock Planrilig vegetation on the tailings
hasattrlttcled wildlifeto a protected habitat says Beale who has wqrked forIncosincc she graduated in 1976
Ninety~iwo species ofbirds as weil asrodems hares foxes wolves bears andinoQse have been sighted on the 2500 acres of rehabilitated ore waste
One thing about this job is you middot can s~e where youve been effective she says
While an undergraduate student in Prill(e Charles with EIen Heale horticultural science Healea native ofSiidbury worked at Ineo during the sumniers She wasthi tirst woman to
work inrhemining companys agriculture middot department After shegraduated the niekshy el inine hired her full time tcido horticul- turaLfleld research ~ Ineo later granted heT a two-semester leave of absente t6 work
Theodore Jacobs 78 (Eng) is engineering supervisor at Standard Tube in Woodstock Ont
Greg Keast 85 (Eng) is li ving in Mozamshybique in East Africa where he works as a project officer for UNICEF rural water supshyply project s
Richard Kline 74 was appointed partner of the Toronto accounting firm Schwartz Levitsky Feldman Inc last faiL He is presishydent of the film s bankruptcy division a member of the Chartered Accountants of Onshytario and first vice- president of the Ontario Insolvency Association
Christopher Laforest MSc 91 (USRPD) works in planning and economic developshyment for Bruce County Ont
Jean-Paul PhD 90 and Lynn (Hammell) Laforest 82 and MSc 85 are both employed at Laval University in Sainte-Foy Que He is a professor and s he is a research associate
Kenneth Lawless 63 earned a Guelph deshygree in agricultural economics then went on to stud y dentistry at the Uni versity of Toronshyto He is now an oral and manilo-fac ial surshygeon in Kingston Ont
oil her masters at OAC~ In her current PdStion Heale has rnore
administrative and public relations responshyibilities On her own time she sits on the
board of management for the tocal Red Cross and isalllember ofthe Sudbury
Business and Professional Womens Club
Margie Luffman 77 writes that she has happily returned to Ontario after 10 years in New Brunswick to work at the Smithfield Experimental Farm in Trenton She is curator of the Plant Gene Resources of Canada clonal gene bank
Brian MacCulloch MAg 89 is a sa les representative for Springva le Nurseries Ltd in Berwick NS
Daniel Mansell 64 and MSc 68 is Onshytario manager of the eastern habitat joint venture in the wildlife policy branch of the Ministry of Natural Resources He is stashytioned in Midhurst Ont
Peter McEntire 77A writes from County Langford in Ireland to keep in touch with U of G He is farming and work s as an AI techshynician with Bova Genetics Ltd
Darryl Mitchell 78 works at Pioneer HishyBred Limited in Chatham Ont
Hugh ONeil 88 is manager of customer financial services for Ral ston Purina Canada Inc
Umed Panu MSc 72 (Eng) has done a lot of travelling during his career After Guelph he earned a PhD in civil engineering
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David Nedelko OAC 86 and Ljrlda ArmsJrollg CBS 89 (Jurk 011 cemre) were marriediasl SeplemiJer in Bari ~ie OnlTluir weddiIg iiarly illcilldedfiom leli Katy KusmiliskiOA C 88Paul Allgusline GAG 86 Roh Reed OAC 87Carv Belfral1l oAC 8RJIuJ Sa ndimiddoto (CollinI) BerlrCIlII CBS RR Also 1I111ie wedding w(lS Arlllslong s Veal ullcleClarence Fleming OVC 34 The couple (Ire living in
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at the Universit y of Waterloo taught in India and at Mi ss iss ippi State Uni vers ity and worked with Briti sh Columbia Hydro and the Government of Newfoundland In 1986 he jo ined the faculty of c ivil engi neering at Lakehead Uni ve rsity in Thunder Bay Ont and was promoted to full professor in 199 1 He and hi s wife Kashna and the ir children Neeti and Anukud enjoy the outdoor recreashytion ac ti viti es available in Northwestern Onshytario and look forward to visits from U of G alumni trave lling to Thunder Bay
Lyle Pettigrew 61 is a marketin g consulshytant with Harris Kovacs Alderman in Atlanshyta Ga
Helen Prior 88 joined Sheridan Nurseries after graduation then worked for a year as a research tech nic ian in Guelph s Department of Crop Scie nce She is now in her th ird year at Emmanuel College at Victoria University and hopes to be ordained as a United Church min is ter in May
Gregory Scott 83 (Eng) is operations manager for Accuform Gol f Limited in Toronto
Ba rbara (Coordes) Skrypetz 87 is a fi e ld supervisor for the Ontario Dairy Herd Imshyprovement Corporation working out of Guelph He r husband Stephen 88 operates a bulldozing and excavating busi shyness in the Woodstock area
Victor Skidra 6 is re tired f rom his job as a sc ientific evaluator with Hea lth and Welshyfare Canada He and hi s wife Konstance live in Nepean Ont
William Slusarchuk 63 (Eng) and MSc
The way we were in 1902 OAC alumnus Douglas Campbell 60 passes on a bit of col lege hi sto ry that shou ld make us think twice about our con stitutional squabbles in C anad a
Campbell is director of the Latin America and Caribbea n Trade Divis ion of Canada s Department of External Affa irs Last summer he hosted a vi s it by the president of Uruguay Luis Alberto Lacalle Herre ra whose grand fa the r made a simil a r vis it to Canada in 1902
This is what the elde r Herrera reported to his government Gue lph agricultural college enjoys a worldwide reputation and is con shys idered one of the grea t loca l attracshytions
More than 200 young Canadians a long with many foreign youths come together in its lecture rooms There are bursary ho lde rs from Norway and as far away as Mauritius C loser to us
Guelph Alumnus
67 was recently appo inted pres ident of AGRA Eanh and Environmental Group an envi ronme ntal and geotechnica l firm that is a division of AGRA Indu stries Limited
Michael Sullivan 87 A is a pol ice officer with the Wate rloo Regional Police in Cambridge Ont
Argentina has 12 students there We ll then couldnt Uruguay imshy
itate those good exa mples and also se nd a number of worthy youths to Guelph to acquire the professional knowledge which is becoming m ore necessary each day for the deve lopshyment of our agric ulture~
In addition to the sc ienti fic benefits that our compatriots woul d deri ve from entering sLlch a Canadian techni cal in shystitution there would be the inca lcushylable benefit of becoming familiar with the stric t manly and sound habits of these people who are admirable in e ve ry respect
Afte r they have stee ped themse lves in this atmos phere of dem ocracy which fosters the development of all rights and is alien to intolerance thi s legati on w ill have the great honor of sending home not only sc ientists but a lso mode l citizens
Brenda Trask 80 operates he r own comshymunica tion s consulting company in Osshygoode Ont She is marri ed to Ron Ferguso n
Dave Vanden Bosch 89 is manager of operator services and plann ing for Bell Canada in London Ont
J Stallard Skip Waterhouse 54 and hi s wife Li sa are ce lebrating the birth of a daughter Samantha Elizabe th on New Years Day 1992 They live in New York State where Wate rhouse is iI pro fe ssor of bio logical science at the Plattsburgh Sta te Uni versity College of Arts and Science
Jeff 88 and Karen (Burrows) W h ite 87 live in Strathroy Ont Jeff work s for Bell Canada and Kare n is a Lambton County rural orga ni za tion spec ialist with the Ontar io Mini stry of Agriculture and Food
Harold Wright 86 is a development repre shysenta tive for Ci ba-Ge igy Canada Ltd in Mi sshysissauga Ont He and Lori Krieg 84 plan to marry thi s sprin g
Donald Ziraldo 7 I received doubl e honors last winter fro m the Ontario grape and wine industry Preside nt of Inniskillin W ines of Niagara-on -the-Lake Ont he was named to the Royal Order of the Grape for hi s leadership in enhancing the prod uct and its image
In addition Z ira ldo and his partner Karl Kai se r were named 1991 Men of the Year by FoodsCIvice and Hospitalily magazine During the ir 17-year partnership at Inn isk ilshylin the two have been instrumental in shapshying Canada s wine industry the magazine sa id
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ave Barry Burtis 69 was named president of the Ontario Veterinary Medical Association in January after working with the voluntary organization for four years as a director member of its editorial board and chair of its public relations committee Burtis lives in Burlington Ont and practises at the Bay Cities Animal Hospital He also appears on a local cable television program called Pel Tales
William Medway 54 of Blackwood NJ has been named an honorary life member of the International Association for Aquatic Animal Medicine for his contributions on beshyhalf of the association and the field of aquatic medicine He is both a founding member and past president of the associa shytion A professor emeritus of clinical laboratory medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine Medway is a member of the Marine Mammal Commissions committee of scientific advisers
Diane Pickering-Forster 86 is practising at Vander Kraan Veterinary Services in Huntsville Ont She is malTied to Chris Forster and they have one daughter Julia
Julien Proulx 67 has moved from Kapusshykasing Ont to La Pocatiere Que where he is superintendent of Agriculture Canada s Experimental Farm Last year he was feashytured on TVOntarios French network series Personalire Ontarienne for his work as a veterinarian his participation in municipal politics and his support of regional developshyment in Northern Ontario He was also awarded Agriculture Canadas research branch prize Agcellence for extraordinary management during his direction of the reshysearch program at the Kapuskasing Exshyperimental Farm
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Twoc~ireers middot on the samepat~ OVCaruninus Geoffrey Lord 49 felt a thopedic
middot enseofdejavuwhen he read theslory gastrointesshyabout Bill Naray~i1 OVe 63 il1la~t tinal and carc
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There are amazing simi laritiesbetween surgery the c~reersof t~e two Guyanese wh6b6th says Lord If earnedvefetinary degrees atGueiph someone worked in c1ini(ai practice in)Yestem were to ask Canada then moved to the United States me ioday to work in human medic~lresearch what Tcon~
Narayan heads an AlDSresearchteamsider to be atJohns HopkiflS l1)iversilySchool of my expertise MediCirieinBaltimoreMatyland Lord is I would have retired directorofthdohnsonamp Johnson to saymecli- Geofrey Lord
middot Resear~h Foundalion ill NewJersey cal device lordsays he was influenced by OVC andbioshy
proJessDfs Anthony Kings(Qte and Frank Inaterials evaluation middot SchofieJd~ndwcentnton from GiJelphto pur- lt In the I 950s Lordwaspalt of ale-
sue graduate studies in parasitology auhe se~rch team that pioneered the use of University oJWiscollsin Sevenmorithsin animal tissue tOTeconstructdamagedjr
amixed practice in Drumheller Alta con blocked al1eries in hUl11ansTwenty years vinced him thaldinical medicine wasn6t middot later he drafted the first systematicap-
middot whati w~ted6 do He returned to Wis pr()ach to the safety evaluation of medica con5il110 eanla PhDlll pathologyano devices joined Johnson amp JohnsQri as asenior middot Allsubsequeill guidelines inCiLlding patilol()gistiriI953 those of the Foodaj)q Diug Admlnistrashy
Research at Johnson amp JohDson tiOnand the Canadian Regulatory ~teeredmeinto many interesting and chal- Authority hayeadopteoihis approach he
Jenging fieldsofbio-research includirig says derniiltoi9gy toxicologic pathology Lordand his wife Helen ltIividetheir wound healing surgical pathology iiinebetweel)Ciipe CodandBonita genera toxkology ofi~w drugs andor~ Springs FloriQa
Shane Renwick 77 and MSc 91 works in veterinary services at Agriculture Canada offices in Guelph
Ruth Reuter 61 is a veterinary pathologist in Plympton Australia
Tom Sanderson 6 1 was selected by the Ontario Veterinary Medical Association as Ontario Veterinarian of 1991 CUlTently OVCs co-ordinator of off-campus work terms he spent 20 years in private practice in Listowe1 and Mount Forest before returning to the coll ege in 1982 to manage the veterishynary research stations Sanderson s contribushytions to the profess ion have included many hours of volunteer work in the advancement
of the profession and in the development of veterinary inshysurance programs He is a past pres ident of both the Ontario and Canadian Veterishynary Medical associashytions
Jennifer Troughton 86 is practising in OronoOnt
Simone Woltner 86 is a veterinarian at the Chester Basin Animal Hospital in Chester Basin NS
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by her hu sband William and two sons The fo llowing dea ths have been reported since the las t issue of the Guelph Alumnus Full notices which are usu ally submitted by family or classmates may appear in thi s iss ue or in a later one
James Clement Arts 73 Feb 2 1992
Marilyn (Dyment) Farnan Mac 530 Feb 27 1992
David Fisher OAC 80A in October 1990
Elizabeth (C hristie) Glass Mac 3I D June 2l99 1
Peter Heskey OAC 54A Dec 6 199 1
Richard Ketchell OVC 51 Nov 23 199 1
Edward Kowalski Arts 79 in August 199 1
Pauline (Dixon) MacMillan Mac 240 Jan 2 1992
Catherine MacPherson Arts 83 Dec 11 1990
Marguerite (White) Maybury Mac 3 10 in June 1990
Donald McLeOd CSS 80 Jan 9 1992
Albert Meilus OAC 51 in 1991
Ann (Biggs) Ostler Mac 3 10 in April 1991
Robert Race Arts 73 in 1989
Ralph Sampson OAC 40 in December 1989
Mor ris Sanderson OAC 42 Nov 17 1991
Sir Peter Scott HDSc 8 1 in Au gust 1989
William Setterington OAC 40 Oct 22 1991
George Shoniker OAC 50A in March 199 1
John Somerset OAC 34 Dec 27 199 1
Gregory Van Patter OAC 7 1 in 1990
Frederich Weiland OAC 20A in 1990
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Riccardo Rich Incitti 88 died Jan 5 1992 as the result of an accident near Hami lshyton Ont He was assistant manager at the Toronto-Dominion Bank in St Cathari nes and is survived by his parents Gu igi and Lucia of Cambridge and two sisters Laura and Andrea
Larry McNenly 73 died in October 1991 in Owen Sound Ont He is survived by his wife Marnie CSS 73
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Robert Everett HK 74 died in May 1991 in Burlington Ont A teac her at White Oaks Secondary Schoo l in Oakv ille he is survived by his wife Miche le and brother William CBS 74
James Sandy Fear 75 died Oct I I 199 1 in Toronto He is survi ved by his wi fe Sally (Firth) OAC 75 and hi s children Caitlin Alli son and Mered ith
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Lynn (Dalys) Corby 84 died in Toron to May 6 1990 after a long battIe with cancer
Nancy (Birbeck) Gordon 77 died Oct 20 1991 in Ottawa after a short illness She worked at the Kitchener-Waterl oo Hospital and had previously been plan t accountant at Foseco Canada Incorporated in Guelph
Mac-FACS
Jean (Williams) Forward 280 Oct 28 1991 in Calgary She was the widow of Bower Forward OAC 25 and is survived by two sons
Catharine (Bechtel) Fromm 270 died Nov I 199 1 in Cambridge Ont She is surshyvived by three dau ghters Ellen Moore Mac 63 Nancy and Caro l
Alice (Rivaz) Garrard 28 di ed Dec 2 199 1 in Guelph She was an active member of the Mac-FACS Alumni Assoc iat ion and was the Mac 28 class agent for the Alma Mater Fund She is survived by her husband retired professor Edward Garrard OAC 27 and a daughter Betty Nelson
Della Marie (Diamond) Honey 300 of Warkworth Ont died June 29 1991 One ofWarkworths oldest and most respected citizens she served as local li brarian fo r 25 years She is survived by her son John OAC 52A his wife Patric ia and four grandchildren James OAC 84A William OAC 76A Thomas OvC 89 and Patricia Lonergan CSS 68
Barbara (Banigan) Martin 380 died Jan I 1992 in Don Mill s Ont A retired teacher wit h the North York Board of Education she is survived by a son Ted a sister and two brothers
Elizabeth (Burt) Perry 340 died June 28 1991 in Sidney BC and is surv ived by her husband Gordon and son Paul Nartel OAC 62
Jacqueline (Roy) Pote 34D died Dec 2 1 1991 in Willowdale Ont and is is survived
Merrill and Bill
Doroth y (MacFeeters) Scott 260 died Jan 14 1992 in Toronto She is su rvived by two daughters Anne Donaldson and Cynthia Scott
Florence (French) Snyder 370 died May 6 199 1 in Calgary and is survived by her husband Robert and two sons John and William
Katherine (Sweet) Watt Mac 220 died Feb 23 1992 She is survived by her husshyband Leslie a son David and a dau ghter Carol Gi llanders
Mattie (Newman) Widdicombe 240 died Dec 11 1991 in St Catharines Ont Preshydeceased by her husband John she is surshyvived by a bro ther and several nieces and nephews including Virginia Rigby Arts 76
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George Grey Arnup 38 died Feb 2 1992 in Toronto He spent most of his career with the plant protection branch of Agriculture Canada He is survived by his wife Aileen three chi ldren Nancy Jim and Mary Ellen Vincent CBS 79 and four grandchi ldren
Herbert Boyce 28 and MSA 43 died Sept 2 1991 in Amherstburg Onto He is survi ved by his wife Norah a daughter Beverley Med lock and a brother James OAC 32
Jack Reddy Brethet 56 died Nov 4 199 1 in Burlington Ont President of Brethet Barnum Assoc iates Inc he is surshyv ived by his wife Caro l and two daughters Lyn n and Anne
Bruce Foster 28 died Feb 6 1992 in Ridgetown Ont and is survi ved by his daughter Gayle Anderson and son David CBS 69
Allison Gardhouse 49 died Sept 21 1991 in Midland Ont He was re tired supe rshyintendent of schoo ls for the Simcoe County Board of Education and is survi ved by his wife Merle
Kenneth Harrison 24 died Nov 5 199 1 in Kentville NS A distinguished plant patho logist military officer and mycologist he began hi s career in 1926 as assistant plant pathologis t at the Kentvi lle Experimental Farm He worked there until retirement in 1966 wi th the exception of mi litary servi ce du ring the Second World War
Dr Harrison had a lifelong interes t in the study of mushrooms and publ ished numerou s technica l papers on the mu shroom flora of Nova Scotia In addition he enshy
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IN MEMORIAM
couraged interested amateurs and led field trips for student s at Acadia University and the general public from 1929 until 1987 In 1979 he was honored by Acadia wi th the dedication of the Kenneth A Harri son Laboratory of Mycology
During his career he was a member of many professional organizations a charter member of the Mycological Society of America and fe llow of the American Associashytion for the Advancement of Science
He is survived by hi s wife Margaret two brothers Maynard OAC 30 and Arthur OAC 29 two son s Ashley and Kenneth and a daughter Jennie Sheito
William Kellam 4 1 died Oct 19 1991 in Brockville Ont He was retired from the Curb and Gate Co of-Brock ville where he had worked as a lab technician fo r 28 years He is survived by his wife Kathleen a son George and a daughter Mary
William M acMillan 48 died in February 1992 in Winnipeg He was supervisor of Fertilizer marketing for the Manitoba Pool Elevators and is surv ived by hi s wife Edna Jean and brother Harry OAC 5 1 A
Cameron McTaggart 35 died Feb 4 1992 in Aurora Ont After graduating from OAC he became manager of Don Head Farms in Richmond Hill He established the first agricul tural consulting business in Canada in 1947 and later ran an Angus cattle
sales management business from the family farm A life member of the OAC Alumni As shysociat ion and the Class of 35 executive he is survived by his wife Margaret Mac 35 and two sons John OAC 62 of Regina and David of Largo Fla
Douglas Miller 48 of Victoria BC died Nov 24 1991 in Toronto He is survived by hi s wife Ruth and five children
Gregory More 76 was killed Feb 3 1992 in Kitchener Ont at the Ontario Glove Manufacturing Co where he was co-owner and vice-president Following graduation he worked for the Rohrer Drug Co and the Stershyling Drug Co then returned to school ea rnshying an MBA at McMaster University in 1981 More was an avid squash player and golfer Court A at the Northfield Racquet Club in Waterloo was dedicated to his memory in March He is survived by his parents Noreen and Ken a brother Randy and a sister Katherine Keeler
John Jack Pawley 33 died March I 1992 in Guelph He is survived by his wife Ruth son John OAC 62 and daughter-inshylaw Carolyn He was a former director of the Ontario Milk Marketing Board and a past member of the Royal City Lodge of Perfecshytion
Harold Reid 20A died in December 1991 in Burlington Ont During the First World W ar he was one of Canadas premier rad io
experts work ing at the Roya l Canadian Navy shore transmitter in Sydney NS After the war he came to OAC to earn a diploma then went on to QueenS University to comshyplete an arts and theology degree His mini sshytry was mainly in St And rews and Montreal although he spent 13 years teaching Hebrew at the Presbyterian Coll ege before retiring in 1968
Donald Robertson 3 1 died Nov 4 1991 in Iroquois Ont He is survived by hi s wife Caroline (Grisdale) Mac 38 his two son s ScottOAC 65A and Guy and a daughter Sandra McNeil
Thomas Rokeby 48 and MSA 50 died Jan 29 1992 in Fayetteville Ark He was a professional engineer and tau ght for 30 years in the Univers ity of Arkansas engineering department Born in Port Rowan Ont he was a member of the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War the American Society of Agricultural Engineers and the agricultural honor societies of Gamma Sigma Delta and Alpha Epsilon He is surv ived by his wife Helen two sons Robert and Richard a daughter Penny and three brothers Michael Noel and Richard OAC 54
Francis Sweeney OAC 45 died Nov 17 1991 in Oakville Ont He was a longtime employee of Shell Canada and [nternational Shell working in Great Britain Europe and
WALL CUSTANCE MEMORIAL FOREST
The Wall-Custance Memorial Forest located at the Universi ty of Guelphs Arboretum was established in recognition of the severe depletion of our forests It is never too late to be a vital part of the effort to save and improve our air and water for the future of our children by planting trees This program is our small part of the major endeavor to reforest and to reduce the greenhouse effect improve air quality and provide food and cover for wildlife The Memorial Forest Proshygram not only pays a Significant tribute to a loved one but also assures a better environment for generations to come
The purpose of this program is to provide an opporshytuni ty to commemorate the life of a loved one by plantshy
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============= IN MEMORIAM ============= Venezuela He is survived by his wife Lynn and two daughters Alyson and Joselyn
Berna rd Weeks 35 died Oct 16 199 1 After graduation he re turned to his roots in
ew York and Pennsylvannia and worked in 4-H and you th organi zations for a few years He then took over the family farm at Troupsburg NY and built up a dairy operashytion with a sideline of sheep He is surv ived by his wife Ruth and four children
Glenn White 43 of Belleville Onl died Nov 24 199 1 in Florida and is surv ived by hi s wife Marjorie
ave Norman Anderson 39 of Wi nn ipeg died Dec 18 1991 in Arizona He had practised veterinary medicine in Norwood Man and was a member of the American Equine Pracshytitioners Association director of the Canadian Thoroughbred Society and track veterinarian at Assin iboia Downs for 50 years He is survived by his wi fe Peggy and two sons Laurie and James
George Beatty 5 I died Nov 22 1991 in Inverness III He practised in Palatine fo r 36 years and founded the Palatine Animal Hospi tal He was an active member of the American Animal Hospital Assoc iati on and the Chicago Veterinary Association and was a director of the Friends of the University of Guelph He is survived by his wife Mary and fo ur children - Suzanne Patricia Margaret and Tim
John Hamilton 5 L died Dec 15 1991 He had lived in Roslin On where he owned the Bay Regional Veterinary Hospital He is survived by hi s niece Ann Bongard
Nicholas Labzoffsky 39 died Dec 25 1991 in Largo Fla Fonnerly of Toronto he had li ved most recen tl y in Dorse t Ont and is survived by hi s wife Jane
Edgar Langford 49 died March 41992 in Monarch Alta A former research scienshytist with ADRI (Western) he is survived by his wife Norma and two daughters includshying Carolyn OVC 76
Stuart Maude 4 1 died Jan 14 1992 in Rosemead Calif A former Rosemead counshycillor and four-time mayor he operated the Rosemead Animal Hospital with his brother Arthur 52 from 1953 to 1980 He was a trustee for Ingles ide Hospital a past grand patron of both the Rosemead and the Califorshynia Order of Eastern Star and past-president of the local Kiwanis Club and Chamber of Commerce He is survived by his wife Vera two daughters Patricia and Susan Bezner a son Stuart and three brothers
Walter Morley 42 o f Mildmay On died Nov 28 199 1 He ran a large animal pracshytice in the Mild may area for 39 years raised cat tle and raced standardbred horses He was also a pu blic school board trustee and direcshytor of a local te lephone company for more
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than 30 years He is survived by his wife Joyce five sons - two of whom are OVC alumni Dave 68 and Randy 74 - and 10 grandchildren
Lloyd Neily 52 died Jan 3 1992 in Hantsport NS A retired meat inspector w ith the federal Department of Agriculture he had a private veterinary practice in Wind sor NS He is surv ived by hi s wife Mary
Elford Nundal 43 died Jan 7 1992 in Langley BC after a long battle with canshycer He operated a veterinary practice in Langley for 36 years and served as a di strict aldennan for 10 years before being elected mayor in 1982 Last year he received the BC Veterinarian Association s award of merit for a lifetime of veterinary work
Humphrey Rees 55 died Sepl 30 1991 in Amman Jordan while on ass ignment for the Overseas Development Ad ministrat ion as veterinary and animal hu sbandry adviser to the Jordani an government His contemshyporaries at Guelph will remember him as a singer debater raconteur rugby player and bon vivant He is surv ived by his wife Alice of POlt Eynon Wales
William Stinson 40 died Feb 15 1992 in Norwood Ont He is survi ved by his wife Rita a son John OVC 67 a brother Ford OAC 34 and a grandson John CSS 87
Faculty
Patric ia Harney died Dec 191991 in Yarshymouth NS A professor in the Department of Horticultural Science from 1962 to 1988 she developed severa l new variet ies of geraniums and was instru mental in es tabshylishing the Frances Ball rose collection at the Arboretum
Anthony Marston died Feb 3 1992 in Fershygu s ant Retired from the School of Hotel and Food Administration he was an acshycomplished competition chef who received his training in Switzerland and England He then spent severa l years working in the Caribbean before coming to Guelph in 1970 A member of the Canadian Olympic culinary team he held a number of positions in the
Donations given in memory ofGuelph alumni will help support University scholarships ifdirected to the Alumni M emorial Fund In 1991 donations were made in memory of the following alumni
Frank MacDonald OAC 37
Frank King OAC 33 -Robert Allen OAC 56A
Alice (Rivaz) Garrard Mac 28
Stan Vesselinovitch OVC 57
For more infonnation call the Office of Annual Giving at 519-824-4120 Ext 6 183
hote l and food industry until retiring in 1982 He is survived by hi s wife Di ana
Gordon McNally dled Jan 12 1992 in Guelph A professor in the Department of Zoo logy from 1934 to 1971 he served as academic assistant to the dean of CBS until retiring in 1979 While at Guelph he was honorary pres id ent of the classes of OAC 54 58 and 67 He is survived by his daughter Jean two siste rs and two grandchildren Prof McNallys family has established the A Gordon Mc a lly Memorial Fund to support a sc holarship or bursary Contributions may be sent care of the Alma Mater Fund Alumni Hou se University of Guelph Guelph ant N I G 2WI
Friends
Jean (Young) Branion died March 3 1992 in Guelph She was the wife of the late Hugh Branion a physiology professor at U of G and assistant to presidents Bill Winegard and Don Forster Jean Branion was an act ive volunteer on campus for many years and one of the firs t presidents of the College Womens Club She is survived by a son Richard and his wife Marga re t of Vanshycouve r and five grandchi ldren Donati ons may be made to the Hugh D Branion Memorial Scholarship through Alumni House
Davy Alexander Hamilton-Williamson died Feb 4 1992 in Guelph A painter and author of childrens stories he had been a member of the University s Presidents Council s ince it began in 1 985
Marjorie Pinkney wife of J ames Pinkney OVC 3 7 died Dec 151 99 [ at her home in Milton ant
Samuel Wyal died March 15 1992 in Brantford ant He was a partner in the law firm Wyatt Purce ll Will Stillman and Scott He is surv ived by his wife M a bel Mac 39 four sons Peter Michael William and John and two daughters Mary Alderson and Sarah Nadalin Arts 82
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Facts about university education in Canada and how we pay for it
By 2000 half of all new jobs in Canada will require a university degree
But at the current rate of government funding only one in five children
will have a chance to go to university
In the seven years from 1982 to 1989 per-student grants to universities in
Ontario barely kept pace with intlation at five per cent
per-student funding at American public univers ities jumped an average
of 23 per cent in the same period
Those US universities also receive twice the federal research dollars per student as do Ontario universities
In 1987 the average salary of a full-time professor at an Ontario univers ity was $55500
compared with $68200 for a private-sector position of similar education and experience
Lawyers economists and engineers made an average of $71 000
Ontario ranks ninth out of the to provinces in terms of grants to universities
Between 1978 and 1991 enrolment at Ontario univers ities grew by 40 per cent while funding dropped
from 59 to 409 per cent of total government spending
Universities were spending 14 per cent less per student between 1977 and 1988 hospital expenditures
rose 38 per cent per patient in the same period
Ontario universities generate $3 of economic activity for every
$1 invested by government funding
And the number of jobs generated by university activities in
Ontario is greater than the employment impact of the textile
industry the entire paper and pulp industry or utilities
University graduates can look forward to earning 63 per cent more than the average industrial worker
A 1990 survey of U of G alumni found that two years after graduation 97 per cent of Guelph grads
looking for work were employed 62 per cent were earning $25000 or more and 10 per cent were
earning $40000 or more
Unemployment rates in 1990 for those with a university degree was about one-third what it was
for those with only a high school diploma
Every year from 1978 to 1987 Ontario university inves tments in renovating or replacing
aging buildings could not keep pace with the rate at which the buildings depreciated
Graphics by Debbie Thompson Wilson Statistics supplied by th~ Council 01 Ontario UniverSities Statistics Canada and the U01 G Student EnVifonment Study Group
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A salute to sport Alumni Weekend June 19-21 9am Sio-pitch tournament
The tradition Jives on at the south quad diamond s Cooed teams of 12 or more players are encourshyaged to join in the fun
FRIDAY 10 am to 9 pm Registration Lambton Hall
6 pm Kick-off dinner and half-time show
get set and join In the Olympic spirit one of Alumni Creelman Hall will Weekends host the Wonderful most popular World of Sports with events Tours a half-time slide show start from to entertain alumni of Alumni House all ages and are sponshy9 pmshy sored by the Observatory tours CBS Alumni
Association
10 am and 2 pm
SATURDAY 8 am to 5 pm Guided Registration walking tours Lambton Hall
Remember 9 am to 5 pm making s now Alumni House tours sc ulptures on Students will host tours of Alumni House throughshyout the weekend Come and see what the generosity of alumni has accomplished
9 am to noon Alumni association annual meetings
This is the official notice for the annual general meetings of the following alumni associations
CBS - Alumni House starts at 830 am before guided walk MacFACS - HAFA Building Room 209
OVC - OvC Room 1438
OAC - Macdonald Hall Room 149
CSS - MacKinnon Building Room 305
HAFA - Alumni Hou se boardroom
Gryphs Lounge will be open for lunch and afLer the game
930 am Guided nature walk at the Arboretum
On your mark
Noon - OVC luncheon
The OvC Alumni Association will host a luncheon open to all OvC alumni and their guests
2 pm - Campus Showcase 92
Following on the heels of last year s success Campus Showshycase 92 will be bigger and better Come to the University Centre to see exhibits representing all areas on campus The Campus Junction store will also be open
2 pm - Zavitz Hall tour
Alumni are invited to browse through the newly renovated Za vitz Hall and attend a recep shytion sponsored by the Colshylege of Arts Alumni Asshysoc iation
5 pm Golden anniversary dinner
The OAC OvC and MacshyFACS alumni associations will provide complimenshytary tickets for alumni celebrating 50 years or more Additiona l tickets can be purchased Classes
Johnston Green or playing intramural hockey in the old Quonset arena Relive some of the memories by taking a walking tour of campus Tours begin from the lobby ofLambton Hall
Noon - Alumni picnic
This apopular event has new location - the sculpshyture garden beside the Macshydonald Stewart Art Centre Come on your own or reshyserve a group of tables for friends and classmates
Noon - Class reunion lunches
OAC 37 Mac 37 OAC 42 Mac 42 OAC 47 Mac 52 Mac57 Mac 67 FACS 72 FACS 77 FACS 87
OAC 67 FACS 82 OAC 82 OAC 82A CBS 82 FACS 87 OAC 87
SUNDAY 9am Church service and War Memorial Hall rededication
Thanks to a commitment from the Alma Mater Fund renovashytion of the upstairs of War Memorial Hall has been comshypleted Join us for the rededicashytion ceremony commemorating the 1924 opening and the 1952 dedication of an OAC memorial plaque
being honored are OAC 22 OAC 47 OvC 22 Mac 22 OAC 27 OvC 27 Mac 27 OAC 32 OvC 32 Mac 32 OAC 37 OvC 37 Mac 37 OAC 42 OvC 42 Mac 42
6 pm Class reunion dinners
Special dinn e r reunions are planned for OAC 47 OAC 52 OAC 52A OvC 52 Mac 57 OAC 57 OAC 62 Mac 67
10am UGAA annual meeting
All alumni are encouraged to atshytend the UGAA annual meeting in Macdonald Hall Room 149 An amendment to the UGAA Letters Patent and a revised bylaw will be presented for ap shyproval Copies of both are availshyable on request from Alumni House Call 519-824-4120 Ext 6544
11 am - Farewell brunch
The final event of Alumni Weekend will be held in Creelshyman Hall Come and meet the Univers ity S president Brian Segal The Alumnus of Honour medal will be presented at noon
To receive an Alumni Weekshyend brochure or to register for events call Alumni House at 59-824-4120 Ext 6963
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Get your career on track
Responding to alumni requests the University of Guelph Alumni Associashytion will sponsor a career-planning workshop on campus June 26 to 28 The weekend program will be led by Sharon Crozier of the University of Calgary counselling service Each participant will receive a careerlifestyle analysis and will develop a personal action plan
The $225 fee includes the StrongshyCampbell Interest Inventory and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator which will be administered and tabulated prior to the weekend Testing dates have been set in Toronto for May 27 and in Guelph for June 4
Sponsored by the UGAA and coshyordinated by Continuing Education and Alumni Affairs the workshop will also draw on the Universitys Counselling and Student Resource Centre
Enrolment is limited to 20 For registration information see page 26 or call Continuing Education at 519-767shy5000
UGAA board report
by Grant Lee CSS 73 MA 80
The UGAA will present a convocation package to each graduate this spring imshymediately following presentation of the degree or diploma Developed by Alumshyni Affairs staff the package is designed to increase awareness of the UGAA and the collegeschool alumni associations encourage membership introduce the Guelph Alumnus and provide an opporshytunity for board members to congratushylate our new alumni
Approval of the new UGAA bylaw is on schedule It will be presented to members at the annual general meeting in June along with an amendment to the
i I UGAA Letters Patent
In addition the UGAA board bull has approved a $400 donation to help
cover costs for two students to represhysent Guelph at the 1992 World Debatshying Championships in Dublin Ireland
bull is looking at a proposal to help alumDl with financial planning There will be more to come on this subject later
bull received thanks from president Brian Segal on behalf of those alumni who attended the October symposium
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Canada Break Up or Restructure The association was a patron of the event
bull is responding to requests from alumni for more social events Aside from the travel program the UGAA sponsored a ski day at Horseshoe Valley in March
bull approved a proposal from the School of Landscape Architecture to research places of historical value on campus Financial support has yet to be resolved
bull accepted an offer to help sponsor the University Centres annual lecture series which invites Canadian and inshyternational public figures to speak on current issues All events in the winter 92 series were free to alumni
bull donated U of G sweatshirts to Canadian Guidance and Counselling for a conference in Ottawa this sumshymer
bull approved the purpose and terms of refshyerence for the new Alumni House Adshyvisory Committee which is charged with overseeing maintenance of the
facility adopted the 199192 budget and finanshycial plan drafted last November This year we expect to generate some $44000 and spend $33000 It has been suggested that we set the 199293 budget and plan in April of this year so the new board wi II start in September with a sound financial program and budget that will only reshyquire adoption or revision
Chapter news
Calgary - About 40 alumni and guests met at the Delta Bow Valley Hotel Feb 3 to view a U of G video and hear a talk by admissions counsellor C hr is tine Toews FACS 87 Co-ordinator of the event was Janet Hutchinson CBS 79
Edmonton - Paul OAC 67 and Anne Valentine CBS 69 hosted a group of 30 alumni and guests at the Ramada Renaissance Hotel
Montreal - U of G welcomed students and their parents - including many
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alumni - to its first Montreal informashytion night for prospective students The event was modelled after a successful program in Toronto that draws more than 800 students each spring
Vancouver - U of G president Brian Segal met with alumni March 5 at the Pan Pacific Hotel Jim Dodds OVC 63 and Sarah Bloom FACS 86 orshyganized the event which attracted about 70 alumni and guests
Halifax- U ofG alumni in Halifax met with Gryphon basketball players during the March 26 to 28 CIAU chamshypionships Despite losing the OUAA west division title to Brock University the Gryphons qualified for a wi ld card spot at the CIAU championships Alumshyni received free tickets to the game that pitted Guelph against Brandon in the consolation final Fan support was enshythusiastic but the Gryphons lost 72 to 64 finishing third overall
Homecoming 1992 Plans are well under way for Homecoming weekend Sept 25 and 26 In addition to the annual Gryphon Hall of Fame dinner and award s ceremony the weekend will feat ure a beach volshyleyball tou rnamen t --~4~=iiiiikshyconcert alumni brunch walk-a-thon pep rally reunions and the traditional homecoming dance following the Saturday afternoon footshyball game This year the Gryphons will play Wil frid Laurier University A complete schedule will appear in the next Guelph Alumnus but you can get
Winners of Ihe Ju SI fo r Fun square dance compelition 01 College Royal were left 10 right Ann Joselin Kelley Allen Joanne Hewirson Brenl McFadden caller Sue MacKinnon Richard Presley Trish Henderson Jason Thompson and Kelly Lillie
in the Homecoming spirit now by helpshying to plan your class reunion or signing up as a scorekeeper for the vo lleyball tournament For infOlmation call alumshyni officer Laurie Malleau HAFA 83 at 519-824-4120 Ext 2102
Swing your partner
Eight squares of alumni took part in the College Royal square dance competition in March Winners of the UGAA alumni square dance plaque were the Crazy 8s Joanne Hewitson Arts 91 Lloyd Hutchinson CBS 87 Sonya Jones CPS 90 Ed Ketchabaw OAC 88 and MSc 91 Carol)n OAC 90 and Brad MacNeil CPS 87 Mike Relf OAC 91 and student Sherry MacNeil Wayne Lowden was the caller
Winners in the Just for Fun category were Junior Farmer alumni who included Hewitson Ann Joselin OAC 90 Brent McFadden CSS 90 Richard Presley OAC 86 and soonshyto-be-alumni Kelley Allen Trish
Henderson Kelly Little and Jason Thompson The caller was Sue MacKinnon OVC 9 1
Florida picnic
The North Port Yacht Club hosted 199 alumni for the annual Florida picnic March 4 On hand to meet them was Trish Walker CSS 77 and MSc 90 director of alumni affairs Judy Phillips of the University s Real Estate Division also attended to talk about the Village by the Arboretum retirement deve lopshyment
Attendance prizes went to Gertrude Stewart Mac 30 and Morley Funston OAC 32 The picnic was sponsored by the UGAA Alumni-In shyAction Committee represented by Ken Gartley OAC 42 and the Florida reunion committee consisting of Mary and Ted Brent OAC 48 Helen and Don Moffatt OAC 46 Stella and Bob Moore OAC 48 and Retis and Bill HasenptlugOAC 39
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A new kind of class reunion
Its the latest fad in alumni circles shymeeting your classmates at the anshynual University of Guelph alumni hockey tournament Twenty-two teams played in the fifth annual tourshynament in December
For most teams tournament standshyings are secondary to the socializing with classmates that they may not see otherwise says Bill Seegmiller OAC 83 who worked with Brian TapscottOAC 8 1 to organize the event We promote the social aspect through two divisions - social and more social - and include family skating and a Saturday evening wine and cheese party he says Trish Walker director ofalumni affairs presents fhe social division lrophy 10 Ihe OAC 79
Dipper Oldies (II the U ofG alumni hockey tournamenl The OAC 79A team defeated the Grey Gryphons to win the more soshycial division The OAC 80 team won the consolation final and the spirit award went to OAC 7778
In the social (a little more competishytive) division it was the Faceoffs in first place over OAC 88 OAC 90 won the consolation trophy and the Valley Vikings took home the spirit award
Organizers plan to add womens exshyhibition games to the 1992 tournament which is scheduled for Dec 5 and 6 For more information call Seegmiller at 519-836-3807 or Rudy Diemer OAC 85 at 519-763-2250
A night at the races
The UGAA Alumni-in-Action group will host a night at Mohawk Raceway May 26 The $30 admission includes a 6 pm buffet parking program taxes and gratuities For detail s call Laurie
~ Malleau at 519-824-4120 Ext 2102
I Alumni directory
A new alumni directory will be ready for delivery in May The deadline for alumni updates has passed but you can still order a copy of the directory at a cost of $40 plus tax Return the order form you received with the special U of G wristwatch offer or write to Rosemary Clark Mac 59 at Alumni House University of Guelph Guelph Ont NIG 2Wl
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Ottawa chapter 50 years young
There was a nostalgic gathering of Guelph alumni in Ottawa last winter to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the city s alumni chapter
Donald Fletcher OAC 36A and 39 who was president of the group in 1953 sent us a historical account of the chapters activities
A small organizing committee first met in February 1941 at Madame Burgers restaurant to plan the chapters first fun ction a skating party at the Ottawa Experimental Farm It attracted 75 people
Over the years the group held an anshynual picnic and a banquet and dance that gave them a chance to invite faculty from Guelph to speak about happenings at the colleges - and later the Univershysi ty Every president from George I Christie to Bill Winegard paid a vi sit
In 1951 alumni from OVC and Macshydonald Institute who had been meeting since 1936 joined the OAC group A crowd of almost 200 celebrated the chapter s 10th anniversary at a picnic at the farm of the late John Bracken OAC 06 During the 1950s they added a get-together at the annual Ottawa-area plowing match which gave way to a curling bon spiel in the 1960s
There have been many special funcshytions - entertaining the Gryphon footshyball teams square dances car rallies golf tournaments theatre parties and raceway evenings - but the event that stands out in Fletchers memory ocshycurred in 1966 when five members of Parliament hosted the group in the parshyliamentary ballroom
The chapter also includes a couples bridge club which has been meeting for 25 years in the homes of its members
Fletcher thanks the 30 people who have served as president of the Ottawa alumni chapter and the dozens more who have helped on committees devot shying years to the executive to promote the institution
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ALUMNI CAREER PLANNING WEEKEND WORKSHOP
JUNE 26 27 amp 28 ~ The Program This highly successful workshop developed by Sharon Crozier PhD University Counselling Services University of calgary is the first step for an alumnus who is considering a career move The weekend (Friday evening through Sunday afternoon) will consist of group presentations conducted by Dr Crozier with smaller working groups facilitated by profeSSional counsellors from the University of Guelph Counselling and Student Resource Centre
Discussion structured exercises and experiential activities will lead alumni to gain insight into a personal careerllifestyle analYSis and assessment career information resources networking skills and much more
No matter what their age career stage or reason for transition each participant will find this workshop to be an excellent opportunity to develop a personal action plan - and chart their next move
~ Pre-1esting In order to provide individualized career information registrants are required to attend one of two pre-testing sessions The Strongshycampbell Interest Inventory and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator will be administered and results tabulated prior to the workshop Pre-testing dates are as follows
Toronto Wednesday May 27 1992 700 pm - 8 30 pm Holiday Inn Yorkdale
Guelph Thursday June 4 1992 700 pm - 8 30 pm University Centre
~ Fee The registration fee of $225 includes administration and tabulation of the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator materials two lunches and refreshment breaks
Tuition fees in excess of $100 are income tax deductible
Enrolment is limited to 20 registrants
Sponsored by University of Guelph Alumni Association
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May 2 - The Guelph Spring Festival begins with a 25th-anniversary gala dinshyner in Creelman Hall that will honor founding president Murdo MacKinnon Other festival events run until May 23 For more information call 519-821-7570
May 2 shy An All-Canadian University Asshysociation d inne r w il l be held in Washington DC at the Embassy of Canada Guest speaker is Robert Lanni president of the University of Windsor Entertainment will be provided by Windsors music department For inforshymation call T Chan at 202-543-9111
May 3 - Arboretum Day celebrates spring with family nature walks at 1 and 330 pm and an electrical keyboard concert at 230 pm featuring Canadian comshyposer Carole Anne Burris
May 10 to Aug 30 - Guided nature walks run every Sunday at 230 pm in the Arboretum Topics include wildflowers birds turtles snakes and insects The nature centre is open from 1230 to 430 pm
May 13 - Chancellor Lincoln Alexander is the guest speaker at the Alumni-inmiddotAction annual general meeting which begins at noon in the Arboretum Centre For details call Alumni Affairs 519-824middot 4120 Ext 2102
May 13 - The Human KineticsHuman Biology Alumni Association will hold its inaugural meeting at730 pm at Alumni House with a coffee and dessert social RSVP to 519-824-4120 Ext 6963
May 23 shy FACS 82 is sponsoring a colshylection of Bob Munsch plays performed by the Carousel Players at3 pm at War Memorial Hall Tickets are $8 plus tax and handling To order call the UC box off ice at 519-824-4120 Ext 3940
May 26 - Alumni-in-Action is hosting a night at Mohawk Raceway Cost is $30 To register call 529-824-4120 Ext 2102
May 30 - An Arboretum sale of rare native trees and shrubs at the RJ Hi lton Centre on College Avenue East runs from 9 am to 1 pm For information call 519-824shy4120 Ext 2113
May 30 shy The sixth annual All-Canadian University Dinner in Chicago will be held
in the Henry Crown Space Centre at the Museum of Science and Industry and will include a reception buffet dinner and an Omnivax movie beginning at 6 pm Guest speaker is George Pedersen president of the University of Western Ontario For information call David Cole at 312-372-4404 or Hugh Mackenzie at 708-369-3688
June 2 to 5 shy Spring convocation June 13 - Beginning at 7 am the Arshy
boretum will hold its summer bird survey The four-hour walk will locate breeding birds and identify their species by sight and song
June 15 to 17 shy U of G will host the 15th annual Guelph Conference on Sexuality With the theme Sexuality New Visions the conference will examine current isshysues in human sexuality counselling strategies for sexual problems and teaching approaches in sexuality educashytion For information call the Office of Continuing Education at 519-767-5000 or fax 519-767-0758
June 19 to 21 - ALUMNI WEEKEND See page 39 for a complete schedule of events and alumni association meetings The UGAA annual meeting is June 21 at 10 am in Macdonald Hall 149
June 26 to 28 shy The UGAA-sponsored alumni career-planning workshop will be held on campus See page 26 for details
July 31 amp Aug 4 shy The National Youth Orchestra will perform in War Memorial Hall at 8 pm as part of its summer program at U of G Tickets at $8 general $6 for stUdents and seniors will be availshyable at the door
Sept 26 - HOMECOMING Rise early for the second ann ual Homecoming charity walkathon At 930 am the Human Kinetics Alumni Association will hold its annual general meeting in the School of Human Biology lounge
Oct 1 - OVCs 1992 Schofield Memorial Lecture will be given by Steven Arnoczky a professor in the department of small animal clin ical sciences at Michigan State Universitys Laboratory for Comparative Orthopedics The 3 pm lecture will be held in War Memorial Hall Admission is free
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John Boros 88 of Wei land Ont writes that he is impressed by the way U of G keeps records after graduation Thi s gives the graduate a sense of belonging a connection to an important period in hi s or her life he says
Jane Buzza 88 is working as records co-ordinatorarchivist for the Ontario Medishycal Association in Toronto
Jacqueline (Sullivan) DeClerck 86 is a public relations officer at the Canada Trust head office in London Onto
Richard Ely 70 works at the Crown attorneys office in WeIland Ont He has an LLB from the University of Western Ontario in addition to his Guelph degree He says he often talks about U of G to young students trying to decide which university to attend
Paul Genest 81 finished graduate studies at Johns Hopkins Universi ty in Maryland and is now assistant professor of philosophy at Union College in Schenectady NY He is man-ied to Barbara Jessup 8 1
Brian Hogarth 78 is head of interpretashytion at the G1enbow Museum in Calgary
Martha Hooper 9 1 was married last Ocshytober to David Perry They live in Calgary where she is a sw itchboard operator at the Delta Bow Valley Inn
Rene van der Meijden 87 has put his degree in geogshyraphy and internationshyal development to good use with the Christian Reformed World Relief Comshymittce Originally from the Netherlands he is now in Uganda on a three-year asshy Rene van der signment as a rural Meijden development adv iser He sends greetings to his many friend s in Canada and to Guelph grads Stan and Kitty in Bolivia in particular and reminds us that visitors are always welshycome in Uganda
Edward Milliner 85 will graduate this spring from the faculty of education at the University of Windsor
Mark Moore 85 is doing postgraduate work in history at the University of Bristol in England He plans to teach high school
fn response to a letter from Dawn Monroe 69 that appeared in the winter 1992 issue of the Guelph Alumnus Doug Moynihan 69 of Fort McMurray Alta writes Be disapshypointed no more Dawn l I too graduated in 1969 from (the College of) Arts or as it was then called Wellington College and I havent heard from anyone either And I too think it is time to contribute my news
After graduation f headed out to disshycover and sol ve the problems of the world travelling overseas for about three years Since then Ive been working in human resources in a variety of organizations in many different locations in Canada Cun-entshyIy I am the manager of human resources in Fort McMurray
PS Do you remember me Dawn I was the bartender in Creelman Hall I
John Teskey 7 1 began new duties last summer as director of libraries at the University of New Brunsw ick in Fredericton He was head of adshyministrative sershyvices at the University of Albershyta before moving John Teskey across Canada to acshycept the UNB posishytion but had earlier served as chief librarian and was library personnel officer at both Alshyberta and the University of Saskatchewan
Teskey says his biggest challenge is to regain the lost purchasing power that univershysity libraries have suffered as a result of static budge ts and ri sing material costs He is encouraging increased resource-sharing among universities and interlibrary loan programs with shortened turnaround
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Elizabeth (Baxter) Willson 77 a real esshytate agent in Chatham Ont writes to voice a common feeling that the universi ty exshyperience itself is often more important than the degree or diploma received I am really glad I graduated from Guelph she says
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Michelle Bombadier and Mike Caldwell both 92 are two of 50 Canad ian youth selected to work in Guyana for three months with Youth Challenge International (YCI) a non-governmental organization that provides Third-world experience for Canadians They may spend the summer building a school teaching safety or clearing land for Gu ytna s first national park but they need some private support to he lp cover transportation costs Anyone able to help should write to YCI at I I Soho St Toronto M5T IZ6
Jane Coventry 86 writes with accolades for the Guelph Alumnus grad news section and an update on what she and her husband Jaydee Smith 84 and MSc 89 are doing They were married in 1989 while working at U of G - he in the Department of Animal and Poultry Science and she in the Departshyment of Crop Science In February 1991 they moved to England where Smith is doing a PhD at the University of Bristol and working as a research assistant Coventry
works in the technology transfer unit of Nickshyerson Seeds Ltd in Cambridge
Jeffrey Crawford 88 and Leslie Thompson 86 were malTied last October He is an elementary schoolteacher in Mount Forest Ont
Craig Emerson 83 earned a PhD at Dalshyhousie University in Halifax in 1990 and is now a research associate in oceanography
Paul Fleming 85 is a pharmaceutical sales representative for Hoechst Canada Inc and lives in Nepean Ont
David Forsey 80 is an assistant professor of computer science at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver He is marshyried to Lyn Bartram
Michael Gangl 89 is in his third year at the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College
Astrid Harms 87 is a registered nurse in London Ont
Andrew Holmes 85 worked for the Onshytario government as a wildlife biologist for three years but is now back at school in his second year at Northwestern Chiropractic College in Minneapolis
Timothy Johnson 86 works at the Centre for Limnology at the University of Wisconshys in in Madison
Karen Lennard 77 (HK) and her hu sshyband Paul Jackson 79 (HK ) and MSc
82 both went 011 to earn medical degrees from McMaster University in HalTilton Ont Jackson also has a master s in physiology from the University of Virginia and is comshypleting an anesthesiology residency in Hamilshyton Lennard has a part-time family medical practice allowing her to spend more time with the couples two children Matthew and Nicola
Wendy Maltby 74 is an elementary schoolteacher for the Metropolitan Toronto School Board
Sandra OConnor 84 earned a medical degree from the University of Western Onshytario and is now practi sing in Burlington Ont
Linda Owen 81 runs her own business as a consulting exercise physiologist and fitness supervisor in Campbell River BC
Sheryle Tetley 86 is regional sales manager for Glaxo Canada Inc in Mi ss isshysauga Ont where she lives with her husshyband Ian
Rob Tonus 87 is manager of the Black Creek Rehabilitation Project a grassroots enshyvironment program to improve a degraded urban stream in Toronto His office is with the Metropolitan Toronto and Region Conshyservation Authority and he lives in Oakville with his wife Wanda (Knul) 88 (HK) a public health inspector in Hamilton
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Richard Woods 81 is an instructor of xshyray technology at the Easte rn Ontario School of X-ray Technology at Kingston Ge neral Hospital He would like to hear from other members of the 1981 U of G choir wi th whom he travelled to Scandinav ia Write to him at RRI Od essa Ont KOH 2HO
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James Dy nes 84 has comp le ted g raduate studies in chemistry and so il sc ience at the Univers ity of Sas katchewan in Saskatoon
Catherine (McVittie) Clark 88 is a nuclear medica l tech nici an at Howard Counshyty General Hospita l in Columbia Md She and her husband Michae l li ve in Elkridge Md
David Holmes 85 is a systems analyst at Sun Life Assurance Company
RolfKierdorf 84 lives in Guelph with his wife Janet He is se lf-employed as a systems consultant
Donald McFadde n 71 and his wife Carol li ve in A lbany Ga where he pracshyti ses medicine
Donald Ridley 69 and PhD 73 has been appoin ted seni or v ice-presiden t of CibashyGeigy Canada Ltd in Oakvi lle Ont and is responsib le for a ll corpora te serv ices includshy
ing finance human resources safe ty health and the environment He a lso se rves on the board of the Canadian Agricu ltura l Research Council and is a member of the Great Lakes Action Plan Strategi c Advi sory Committee
Kathryn Root Parr is an assoc iate minister at Lorne Park Bapti st Church in Mississhysa uga Ont She was married las t fa ll to Vicshytor Parr
Peter Simpson 85 is dis tric t manager for McNeil Pharmaceutical Ltd in Stouffville Ont He is married to Cynthia (Hamilton) 85 (HK)
Keith Stemshorn 83 is in the Canadian Armed Forces stationed in Calgary
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Nikki Dignard 86 moved to Ottawa last year where her husband Ted Henike pracshyti ses denti stry Dignard is working on an M BA and says she d love to hear from CSS classmates Tom Cam and Kathryn
Bonnie Dunnett 87 and MA 91 works on campus at the Gerontology Research Centre S he and Barry Hallman 9 1 li ve in Guelph
Kathryn Faulkner 80 is a registered nurse in Burling ton Ont where she li ves wi th he r husband John
Ruth Fox 84 is a sta ffing assistant for
Transport Canad a and lives in Toronto w ith her husband Christopher
Shonna Giles 88 is an admiss ions officer at Simon Fraser Unive rs ity in Burnaby BC
Gina Grieco 75 is a hi gh school guidance counsellor in North York Onto
John Harris 82 is manager of financial planning and budgets for th e City of Brampton Ont
Paulette Heppner 76 is a teache r in Vanshycouver
John Johnston 7 1 has been appointed exshyec uti ve vice-pres ident o f Ve rsacold Canada Corp and pres ident of QF Foods Distribushytion Services Versacold Canada is the largest public refri gera ted ware hou sing orshygani za tion in Western Canada
Michael Kral 79 has moved from the Univers ity of Manitoba to the University of Wind sor where he is an assistant professor of psychology
Jeffrey Lozon 76 and his family recently returned to Toronto after 15 years in Western Canada He is executive vice-president and ch ief operat ing officer at St Michael s Hos pital and li ves in Oakville wi th hi s wife Donna and two daughters
Bria n Martin 79 is a real estate appraiser in Portland Ont whe re he li ves w ith hi s wife Margaret (Sheffield) Arts 79
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Leith Mason 90 works in Toronto in the Canadian office of the State of Illinois as a special assistant to the Illinois Department of Food and Agricul ture
Michael McKean 74 of Don Mills Ont was recently appointed president of Wrigley Canada Inc Before joining Wrigley as execushytive v ice-pres ident in 1990 he he ld senior positions in Hong Kong Brazil and the United States
Rick 74 and Vicki (Collard) McTaggart FACS 74 are working in Ottawa He is director of overseas operations for the Unitarian Service Committee a charitable non-governmental organization that supports commun it y and human resou rce developshyment activities in Africa and Asia She is sec tion head of consumer analysis in the agr ifood development branch of Agriculture Canada
Sandra Morrison 86 is an ass istant professhysor in the department of psychiatry at the University of Western Ontario
Stephen Naylor 85 is director of planning and development for the amalgamated municipalities of Alliston Beeton Tecumshyseth and Tottenham
Brian ONeill 68 MA lives in SUITey England where he is managing director of Innovation Management Consultant s
Jodi Parisi 89 is a sales representative for Gillette who says U of Goo was the greatest
Moira Skikavich 81 is completing a PhD in c inematelevision at the University of Southern California
Virginia Sutherland 78 is an air traffic controller at the Toronto Island Airport
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Peggy Bates 88 was recently promoted to sales manager with Sears Canada Inc She lives in Owen Sound Ont
Caroline Begin 86 is working in Singshyapore as a dietitian
Diana Close 87 is a c linical nutri ti onis t at Chedoke McMaster Hospital in Hamilton Ont
Sarah Davenport 90 is a case worker with the Wellington County Social Services office in Guelph She is malTied to Matthew Harvey CBS 90
Timothy Dyck 8 1 is national sales manager for Black amp Decker Canada workshying out of the Corbin Division in Richmond HillOnt
Sharon (Muir) 84 and Richard Ernst CBS 83 are the proud parents of a future Guelph grad uate one-year-old Andrew Graham
Patricia Edwards 78 is food servi ce sushypervisor fo r St Peter s Hospita l in Hamilton Ont
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For the love ofteaching Since she
middot graduated bull from Macshydonald Inshymiddot stitute in
J 963 Nancy Kerr has built a career on teaching and research in telttles The middotheidofthe Uriiveisityof
Albertas department of Clothing and texiiles pursues a middotscientific interest inthepreservashylion of hi stori~lfabricsarid in developing pesticide-proofc1otl1ing But Jler fitstlove i ~ teaching
In 199b shewonone ofU of As four Rutherford AWljrds for excellence ill unshy
dergraduate teat-hing The first member of the faculty middotofliomemiddoteconornicsto receive the award slie was the rcentcipient6f the facultys own underglltiduate teaching award three years earlier
Winning the Rutherford was a gteat honor says Ken who has been on
faculty at Alberta since 1967 She oiscovered she had an aptitude for
middot teaching as a graduate student at the University of California Davis in
196566 After earning her MSc she casr about for afaculty position in Canada and round U of A was the 0111y place I could teach ju t textiles plus have a chance to develop new cQurses and research labs
middot Kerr sa)s she gets a tremelldous sense of satisfaction from teaching and the learning he must do to stay cUlTent She attributes her succe s as a teaCher to middotIec-middot
middot tures that are well organized and clear and to creltting a positive classroom climate
~Thcomfort level of students is reaUy middot ililportanL ~ Kerr eamedherPhD in fibre lnd
polymer science from North Carolina bull Staie University in 1982 Her doctoral work concentrated oil deacidification
techniques to preserve historicatcottOnln 1988 she spent a sabbatical ye~r doing research at the Caliadian Conservation
middot In tirute in OnflW1 middot Originalmiddotly from Ottawa Kerr is a
trarisphlnted -vesterner who enjoys middot hiking anlt sk1ing
From left Diane Ellison Lisa Wilson Lori Davis and Pippa Hobbes
Diane Ellison 84 is liv ing in Osaka Japan where she teaches English to Japanese busishyness people Last October she welcomed three U of G friends for a visit Lori Davis CSS 85 manager of Jumbo Video Inc in Oakville Ont Pippa Hobbes 84 accountshying manager for Paramount Holidays in Willowda le Ont and Lisa Wilson 84 co-ord inator of membership serv ices for the Metropolitan Toronto Board of Trade
Monica Hrybko HAFA 88 is director of sales for the Ramada Hotel Old Town in San Diego Calif
David Jones HAFA 88 is a con troller at the Holiday Inn Montreal Centre-Ville
Kathleen McLachlin 83 is operating an insurance agency in Kitchener OnL She opened the State Farm Insurance office in March 1988 and says she loves her job
Susan (Goettler) Parker 80 is working in Toronto as benefits administrator for Imshyperial Oil Limited She is married to Donald Parker OAC 79
Mary Jean (Sinnott) Price Mac 7 1 has returned to sc hool at the University of Otshytawa to earn a bachelor of education
Margaret (Richardson) Rankin 75 has been living in Halifax since 1990 and is an account analyst for Central Guaranty Trust
Janet (Wanless) Sutherland 77 is in private practice as a marriage and family therapist in East Kelowna BC
Jean Thomson Mac 37 says 1937 was a long time ago but shes delighted with all the changes that have gone at the college A former hospita l nutritionist she is retired and living in London Ont -
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Olayiwola Layi Adeola MSc 86 and PhD 89 and his wife Mope are living in West Lafayette Indiana where he is an assisshytant professor of pig nutrition at Purdue University
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Bruce Barrie 79 (Eng) graduated last June with an MBA from City Uni ve rsi ty in Washington State and is now a senior adshyviser in strategic planning with Petro-Canada Resources in Calgary He is a professional eng ineer with APEGGA and an ac tive memshyber of the Planning Forum an international society for planning and strategic manageshyment
Barbara Bryce 83 and her husband Ricardo Ramirez 82 are living in Rome Italy She is a landscape architect and he is a communications officer with the Food and Agriculture Organizat ion
Daniel Campbell 81 and his wife SharonshyMarianne are farmin g near Petrolia Onto
Carolyn Closs 82 and her husband Harold operate a beef cowca lf operation in Shawville Que
Luc Cote 83 is an agricullural account manager for the Royal Bank of Canada in Joliette Que
Kerrie Lea Curran 85 plans to graduate this fall from the master of architecture proshygram at McGi ll University
Bruce Dodson 74A is course superinshytendent at Hawd Ridge Golf and Curling Club in Orillia Ont
Richard Donkin OAC 85A originalshyly from Zimbabwe is the manager of Venida Packing Inc in Exeter Calif Situated in central Californias San Joashyquin Valley Venida Packing ships tree fruit throughout the Richard Donkin United States Canada the Pacific Rim and the Far East Products under the brand names Ruby River and Venida include peaches plums nectarines kiwi grapes persimmons and pomegranates In 1988 Donkin married California native Lisa Kolander and they live in Lemon Cove a community in the Sierra foothill s
Brendan Elder 8S A lives in Kelowna BC and works for Dogwood Nursery He plans to be married thi s summer to Rosemary Powell
Robert Fessenden OAC MSc 67 was recently appointed vice-president of devel opshyment and planning at the Alberta Research Council He is responsible for tec hnology management and corporate marketing
John Fitzgerald 86 was married last November to Susan Given a ] 991 indeshypendent study graduate in animal producshytion He is a lecturer at Ridgetown College she works at Centralia College and is work shying on a psychology degree at the University of Waterloo They live in Strathroy Ont
Glenn Helstern 79A is a driver for the Calgary division of Greyhound Bus Lines of Canada Ltd
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She tells a princely tale
For seven miniJtes on Oct 24 199 L Ellen Het1eOAC 76~U1d MSc 80
(ltllked with PIince Charles Invited toopert a newfumaceat
inco Lilniteds Copper Cliff smelter iri Sudbury Ont the Princemiddot of Wales was easy to talk with says Heale ftwasverycxciting
As eiwironmental co-ordinator Of land reclamation andrevegetation at Copper Cliff Healetold theprince middot about Tnc(secosystem rehabilitation
projects Theroyalvisitor was parshyticulatfyiilterestedin the treegrow- ing project in abandoned inines flld in tlpoundrevegetation ()f acres of tailings
and barren rock Planrilig vegetation on the tailings
hasattrlttcled wildlifeto a protected habitat says Beale who has wqrked forIncosincc she graduated in 1976
Ninety~iwo species ofbirds as weil asrodems hares foxes wolves bears andinoQse have been sighted on the 2500 acres of rehabilitated ore waste
One thing about this job is you middot can s~e where youve been effective she says
While an undergraduate student in Prill(e Charles with EIen Heale horticultural science Healea native ofSiidbury worked at Ineo during the sumniers She wasthi tirst woman to
work inrhemining companys agriculture middot department After shegraduated the niekshy el inine hired her full time tcido horticul- turaLfleld research ~ Ineo later granted heT a two-semester leave of absente t6 work
Theodore Jacobs 78 (Eng) is engineering supervisor at Standard Tube in Woodstock Ont
Greg Keast 85 (Eng) is li ving in Mozamshybique in East Africa where he works as a project officer for UNICEF rural water supshyply project s
Richard Kline 74 was appointed partner of the Toronto accounting firm Schwartz Levitsky Feldman Inc last faiL He is presishydent of the film s bankruptcy division a member of the Chartered Accountants of Onshytario and first vice- president of the Ontario Insolvency Association
Christopher Laforest MSc 91 (USRPD) works in planning and economic developshyment for Bruce County Ont
Jean-Paul PhD 90 and Lynn (Hammell) Laforest 82 and MSc 85 are both employed at Laval University in Sainte-Foy Que He is a professor and s he is a research associate
Kenneth Lawless 63 earned a Guelph deshygree in agricultural economics then went on to stud y dentistry at the Uni versity of Toronshyto He is now an oral and manilo-fac ial surshygeon in Kingston Ont
oil her masters at OAC~ In her current PdStion Heale has rnore
administrative and public relations responshyibilities On her own time she sits on the
board of management for the tocal Red Cross and isalllember ofthe Sudbury
Business and Professional Womens Club
Margie Luffman 77 writes that she has happily returned to Ontario after 10 years in New Brunswick to work at the Smithfield Experimental Farm in Trenton She is curator of the Plant Gene Resources of Canada clonal gene bank
Brian MacCulloch MAg 89 is a sa les representative for Springva le Nurseries Ltd in Berwick NS
Daniel Mansell 64 and MSc 68 is Onshytario manager of the eastern habitat joint venture in the wildlife policy branch of the Ministry of Natural Resources He is stashytioned in Midhurst Ont
Peter McEntire 77A writes from County Langford in Ireland to keep in touch with U of G He is farming and work s as an AI techshynician with Bova Genetics Ltd
Darryl Mitchell 78 works at Pioneer HishyBred Limited in Chatham Ont
Hugh ONeil 88 is manager of customer financial services for Ral ston Purina Canada Inc
Umed Panu MSc 72 (Eng) has done a lot of travelling during his career After Guelph he earned a PhD in civil engineering
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David Nedelko OAC 86 and Ljrlda ArmsJrollg CBS 89 (Jurk 011 cemre) were marriediasl SeplemiJer in Bari ~ie OnlTluir weddiIg iiarly illcilldedfiom leli Katy KusmiliskiOA C 88Paul Allgusline GAG 86 Roh Reed OAC 87Carv Belfral1l oAC 8RJIuJ Sa ndimiddoto (CollinI) BerlrCIlII CBS RR Also 1I111ie wedding w(lS Arlllslong s Veal ullcleClarence Fleming OVC 34 The couple (Ire living in
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at the Universit y of Waterloo taught in India and at Mi ss iss ippi State Uni vers ity and worked with Briti sh Columbia Hydro and the Government of Newfoundland In 1986 he jo ined the faculty of c ivil engi neering at Lakehead Uni ve rsity in Thunder Bay Ont and was promoted to full professor in 199 1 He and hi s wife Kashna and the ir children Neeti and Anukud enjoy the outdoor recreashytion ac ti viti es available in Northwestern Onshytario and look forward to visits from U of G alumni trave lling to Thunder Bay
Lyle Pettigrew 61 is a marketin g consulshytant with Harris Kovacs Alderman in Atlanshyta Ga
Helen Prior 88 joined Sheridan Nurseries after graduation then worked for a year as a research tech nic ian in Guelph s Department of Crop Scie nce She is now in her th ird year at Emmanuel College at Victoria University and hopes to be ordained as a United Church min is ter in May
Gregory Scott 83 (Eng) is operations manager for Accuform Gol f Limited in Toronto
Ba rbara (Coordes) Skrypetz 87 is a fi e ld supervisor for the Ontario Dairy Herd Imshyprovement Corporation working out of Guelph He r husband Stephen 88 operates a bulldozing and excavating busi shyness in the Woodstock area
Victor Skidra 6 is re tired f rom his job as a sc ientific evaluator with Hea lth and Welshyfare Canada He and hi s wife Konstance live in Nepean Ont
William Slusarchuk 63 (Eng) and MSc
The way we were in 1902 OAC alumnus Douglas Campbell 60 passes on a bit of col lege hi sto ry that shou ld make us think twice about our con stitutional squabbles in C anad a
Campbell is director of the Latin America and Caribbea n Trade Divis ion of Canada s Department of External Affa irs Last summer he hosted a vi s it by the president of Uruguay Luis Alberto Lacalle Herre ra whose grand fa the r made a simil a r vis it to Canada in 1902
This is what the elde r Herrera reported to his government Gue lph agricultural college enjoys a worldwide reputation and is con shys idered one of the grea t loca l attracshytions
More than 200 young Canadians a long with many foreign youths come together in its lecture rooms There are bursary ho lde rs from Norway and as far away as Mauritius C loser to us
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67 was recently appo inted pres ident of AGRA Eanh and Environmental Group an envi ronme ntal and geotechnica l firm that is a division of AGRA Indu stries Limited
Michael Sullivan 87 A is a pol ice officer with the Wate rloo Regional Police in Cambridge Ont
Argentina has 12 students there We ll then couldnt Uruguay imshy
itate those good exa mples and also se nd a number of worthy youths to Guelph to acquire the professional knowledge which is becoming m ore necessary each day for the deve lopshyment of our agric ulture~
In addition to the sc ienti fic benefits that our compatriots woul d deri ve from entering sLlch a Canadian techni cal in shystitution there would be the inca lcushylable benefit of becoming familiar with the stric t manly and sound habits of these people who are admirable in e ve ry respect
Afte r they have stee ped themse lves in this atmos phere of dem ocracy which fosters the development of all rights and is alien to intolerance thi s legati on w ill have the great honor of sending home not only sc ientists but a lso mode l citizens
Brenda Trask 80 operates he r own comshymunica tion s consulting company in Osshygoode Ont She is marri ed to Ron Ferguso n
Dave Vanden Bosch 89 is manager of operator services and plann ing for Bell Canada in London Ont
J Stallard Skip Waterhouse 54 and hi s wife Li sa are ce lebrating the birth of a daughter Samantha Elizabe th on New Years Day 1992 They live in New York State where Wate rhouse is iI pro fe ssor of bio logical science at the Plattsburgh Sta te Uni versity College of Arts and Science
Jeff 88 and Karen (Burrows) W h ite 87 live in Strathroy Ont Jeff work s for Bell Canada and Kare n is a Lambton County rural orga ni za tion spec ialist with the Ontar io Mini stry of Agriculture and Food
Harold Wright 86 is a development repre shysenta tive for Ci ba-Ge igy Canada Ltd in Mi sshysissauga Ont He and Lori Krieg 84 plan to marry thi s sprin g
Donald Ziraldo 7 I received doubl e honors last winter fro m the Ontario grape and wine industry Preside nt of Inniskillin W ines of Niagara-on -the-Lake Ont he was named to the Royal Order of the Grape for hi s leadership in enhancing the prod uct and its image
In addition Z ira ldo and his partner Karl Kai se r were named 1991 Men of the Year by FoodsCIvice and Hospitalily magazine During the ir 17-year partnership at Inn isk ilshylin the two have been instrumental in shapshying Canada s wine industry the magazine sa id
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ave Barry Burtis 69 was named president of the Ontario Veterinary Medical Association in January after working with the voluntary organization for four years as a director member of its editorial board and chair of its public relations committee Burtis lives in Burlington Ont and practises at the Bay Cities Animal Hospital He also appears on a local cable television program called Pel Tales
William Medway 54 of Blackwood NJ has been named an honorary life member of the International Association for Aquatic Animal Medicine for his contributions on beshyhalf of the association and the field of aquatic medicine He is both a founding member and past president of the associa shytion A professor emeritus of clinical laboratory medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine Medway is a member of the Marine Mammal Commissions committee of scientific advisers
Diane Pickering-Forster 86 is practising at Vander Kraan Veterinary Services in Huntsville Ont She is malTied to Chris Forster and they have one daughter Julia
Julien Proulx 67 has moved from Kapusshykasing Ont to La Pocatiere Que where he is superintendent of Agriculture Canada s Experimental Farm Last year he was feashytured on TVOntarios French network series Personalire Ontarienne for his work as a veterinarian his participation in municipal politics and his support of regional developshyment in Northern Ontario He was also awarded Agriculture Canadas research branch prize Agcellence for extraordinary management during his direction of the reshysearch program at the Kapuskasing Exshyperimental Farm
A North America-wide
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has been started (in spring 1991) for science professionalsacademics
and others interested in science or nature
Write or phone for information
Science Connection PO Box 389 Port Dover Ontario
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Twoc~ireers middot on the samepat~ OVCaruninus Geoffrey Lord 49 felt a thopedic
middot enseofdejavuwhen he read theslory gastrointesshyabout Bill Naray~i1 OVe 63 il1la~t tinal and carc
springs issue ofthe Guelph Altimnus diovascular
There are amazing simi laritiesbetween surgery the c~reersof t~e two Guyanese wh6b6th says Lord If earnedvefetinary degrees atGueiph someone worked in c1ini(ai practice in)Yestem were to ask Canada then moved to the United States me ioday to work in human medic~lresearch what Tcon~
Narayan heads an AlDSresearchteamsider to be atJohns HopkiflS l1)iversilySchool of my expertise MediCirieinBaltimoreMatyland Lord is I would have retired directorofthdohnsonamp Johnson to saymecli- Geofrey Lord
middot Resear~h Foundalion ill NewJersey cal device lordsays he was influenced by OVC andbioshy
proJessDfs Anthony Kings(Qte and Frank Inaterials evaluation middot SchofieJd~ndwcentnton from GiJelphto pur- lt In the I 950s Lordwaspalt of ale-
sue graduate studies in parasitology auhe se~rch team that pioneered the use of University oJWiscollsin Sevenmorithsin animal tissue tOTeconstructdamagedjr
amixed practice in Drumheller Alta con blocked al1eries in hUl11ansTwenty years vinced him thaldinical medicine wasn6t middot later he drafted the first systematicap-
middot whati w~ted6 do He returned to Wis pr()ach to the safety evaluation of medica con5il110 eanla PhDlll pathologyano devices joined Johnson amp JohnsQri as asenior middot Allsubsequeill guidelines inCiLlding patilol()gistiriI953 those of the Foodaj)q Diug Admlnistrashy
Research at Johnson amp JohDson tiOnand the Canadian Regulatory ~teeredmeinto many interesting and chal- Authority hayeadopteoihis approach he
Jenging fieldsofbio-research includirig says derniiltoi9gy toxicologic pathology Lordand his wife Helen ltIividetheir wound healing surgical pathology iiinebetweel)Ciipe CodandBonita genera toxkology ofi~w drugs andor~ Springs FloriQa
Shane Renwick 77 and MSc 91 works in veterinary services at Agriculture Canada offices in Guelph
Ruth Reuter 61 is a veterinary pathologist in Plympton Australia
Tom Sanderson 6 1 was selected by the Ontario Veterinary Medical Association as Ontario Veterinarian of 1991 CUlTently OVCs co-ordinator of off-campus work terms he spent 20 years in private practice in Listowe1 and Mount Forest before returning to the coll ege in 1982 to manage the veterishynary research stations Sanderson s contribushytions to the profess ion have included many hours of volunteer work in the advancement
of the profession and in the development of veterinary inshysurance programs He is a past pres ident of both the Ontario and Canadian Veterishynary Medical associashytions
Jennifer Troughton 86 is practising in OronoOnt
Simone Woltner 86 is a veterinarian at the Chester Basin Animal Hospital in Chester Basin NS
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by her hu sband William and two sons The fo llowing dea ths have been reported since the las t issue of the Guelph Alumnus Full notices which are usu ally submitted by family or classmates may appear in thi s iss ue or in a later one
James Clement Arts 73 Feb 2 1992
Marilyn (Dyment) Farnan Mac 530 Feb 27 1992
David Fisher OAC 80A in October 1990
Elizabeth (C hristie) Glass Mac 3I D June 2l99 1
Peter Heskey OAC 54A Dec 6 199 1
Richard Ketchell OVC 51 Nov 23 199 1
Edward Kowalski Arts 79 in August 199 1
Pauline (Dixon) MacMillan Mac 240 Jan 2 1992
Catherine MacPherson Arts 83 Dec 11 1990
Marguerite (White) Maybury Mac 3 10 in June 1990
Donald McLeOd CSS 80 Jan 9 1992
Albert Meilus OAC 51 in 1991
Ann (Biggs) Ostler Mac 3 10 in April 1991
Robert Race Arts 73 in 1989
Ralph Sampson OAC 40 in December 1989
Mor ris Sanderson OAC 42 Nov 17 1991
Sir Peter Scott HDSc 8 1 in Au gust 1989
William Setterington OAC 40 Oct 22 1991
George Shoniker OAC 50A in March 199 1
John Somerset OAC 34 Dec 27 199 1
Gregory Van Patter OAC 7 1 in 1990
Frederich Weiland OAC 20A in 1990
Arts
Riccardo Rich Incitti 88 died Jan 5 1992 as the result of an accident near Hami lshyton Ont He was assistant manager at the Toronto-Dominion Bank in St Cathari nes and is survived by his parents Gu igi and Lucia of Cambridge and two sisters Laura and Andrea
Larry McNenly 73 died in October 1991 in Owen Sound Ont He is survived by his wife Marnie CSS 73
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CBS
Robert Everett HK 74 died in May 1991 in Burlington Ont A teac her at White Oaks Secondary Schoo l in Oakv ille he is survived by his wife Miche le and brother William CBS 74
James Sandy Fear 75 died Oct I I 199 1 in Toronto He is survi ved by his wi fe Sally (Firth) OAC 75 and hi s children Caitlin Alli son and Mered ith
CSS
Lynn (Dalys) Corby 84 died in Toron to May 6 1990 after a long battIe with cancer
Nancy (Birbeck) Gordon 77 died Oct 20 1991 in Ottawa after a short illness She worked at the Kitchener-Waterl oo Hospital and had previously been plan t accountant at Foseco Canada Incorporated in Guelph
Mac-FACS
Jean (Williams) Forward 280 Oct 28 1991 in Calgary She was the widow of Bower Forward OAC 25 and is survived by two sons
Catharine (Bechtel) Fromm 270 died Nov I 199 1 in Cambridge Ont She is surshyvived by three dau ghters Ellen Moore Mac 63 Nancy and Caro l
Alice (Rivaz) Garrard 28 di ed Dec 2 199 1 in Guelph She was an active member of the Mac-FACS Alumni Assoc iat ion and was the Mac 28 class agent for the Alma Mater Fund She is survived by her husband retired professor Edward Garrard OAC 27 and a daughter Betty Nelson
Della Marie (Diamond) Honey 300 of Warkworth Ont died June 29 1991 One ofWarkworths oldest and most respected citizens she served as local li brarian fo r 25 years She is survived by her son John OAC 52A his wife Patric ia and four grandchildren James OAC 84A William OAC 76A Thomas OvC 89 and Patricia Lonergan CSS 68
Barbara (Banigan) Martin 380 died Jan I 1992 in Don Mill s Ont A retired teacher wit h the North York Board of Education she is survived by a son Ted a sister and two brothers
Elizabeth (Burt) Perry 340 died June 28 1991 in Sidney BC and is surv ived by her husband Gordon and son Paul Nartel OAC 62
Jacqueline (Roy) Pote 34D died Dec 2 1 1991 in Willowdale Ont and is is survived
Merrill and Bill
Doroth y (MacFeeters) Scott 260 died Jan 14 1992 in Toronto She is su rvived by two daughters Anne Donaldson and Cynthia Scott
Florence (French) Snyder 370 died May 6 199 1 in Calgary and is survived by her husband Robert and two sons John and William
Katherine (Sweet) Watt Mac 220 died Feb 23 1992 She is survived by her husshyband Leslie a son David and a dau ghter Carol Gi llanders
Mattie (Newman) Widdicombe 240 died Dec 11 1991 in St Catharines Ont Preshydeceased by her husband John she is surshyvived by a bro ther and several nieces and nephews including Virginia Rigby Arts 76
OAC
George Grey Arnup 38 died Feb 2 1992 in Toronto He spent most of his career with the plant protection branch of Agriculture Canada He is survived by his wife Aileen three chi ldren Nancy Jim and Mary Ellen Vincent CBS 79 and four grandchi ldren
Herbert Boyce 28 and MSA 43 died Sept 2 1991 in Amherstburg Onto He is survi ved by his wife Norah a daughter Beverley Med lock and a brother James OAC 32
Jack Reddy Brethet 56 died Nov 4 199 1 in Burlington Ont President of Brethet Barnum Assoc iates Inc he is surshyv ived by his wife Caro l and two daughters Lyn n and Anne
Bruce Foster 28 died Feb 6 1992 in Ridgetown Ont and is survi ved by his daughter Gayle Anderson and son David CBS 69
Allison Gardhouse 49 died Sept 21 1991 in Midland Ont He was re tired supe rshyintendent of schoo ls for the Simcoe County Board of Education and is survi ved by his wife Merle
Kenneth Harrison 24 died Nov 5 199 1 in Kentville NS A distinguished plant patho logist military officer and mycologist he began hi s career in 1926 as assistant plant pathologis t at the Kentvi lle Experimental Farm He worked there until retirement in 1966 wi th the exception of mi litary servi ce du ring the Second World War
Dr Harrison had a lifelong interes t in the study of mushrooms and publ ished numerou s technica l papers on the mu shroom flora of Nova Scotia In addition he enshy
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couraged interested amateurs and led field trips for student s at Acadia University and the general public from 1929 until 1987 In 1979 he was honored by Acadia wi th the dedication of the Kenneth A Harri son Laboratory of Mycology
During his career he was a member of many professional organizations a charter member of the Mycological Society of America and fe llow of the American Associashytion for the Advancement of Science
He is survived by hi s wife Margaret two brothers Maynard OAC 30 and Arthur OAC 29 two son s Ashley and Kenneth and a daughter Jennie Sheito
William Kellam 4 1 died Oct 19 1991 in Brockville Ont He was retired from the Curb and Gate Co of-Brock ville where he had worked as a lab technician fo r 28 years He is survived by his wife Kathleen a son George and a daughter Mary
William M acMillan 48 died in February 1992 in Winnipeg He was supervisor of Fertilizer marketing for the Manitoba Pool Elevators and is surv ived by hi s wife Edna Jean and brother Harry OAC 5 1 A
Cameron McTaggart 35 died Feb 4 1992 in Aurora Ont After graduating from OAC he became manager of Don Head Farms in Richmond Hill He established the first agricul tural consulting business in Canada in 1947 and later ran an Angus cattle
sales management business from the family farm A life member of the OAC Alumni As shysociat ion and the Class of 35 executive he is survived by his wife Margaret Mac 35 and two sons John OAC 62 of Regina and David of Largo Fla
Douglas Miller 48 of Victoria BC died Nov 24 1991 in Toronto He is survived by hi s wife Ruth and five children
Gregory More 76 was killed Feb 3 1992 in Kitchener Ont at the Ontario Glove Manufacturing Co where he was co-owner and vice-president Following graduation he worked for the Rohrer Drug Co and the Stershyling Drug Co then returned to school ea rnshying an MBA at McMaster University in 1981 More was an avid squash player and golfer Court A at the Northfield Racquet Club in Waterloo was dedicated to his memory in March He is survived by his parents Noreen and Ken a brother Randy and a sister Katherine Keeler
John Jack Pawley 33 died March I 1992 in Guelph He is survived by his wife Ruth son John OAC 62 and daughter-inshylaw Carolyn He was a former director of the Ontario Milk Marketing Board and a past member of the Royal City Lodge of Perfecshytion
Harold Reid 20A died in December 1991 in Burlington Ont During the First World W ar he was one of Canadas premier rad io
experts work ing at the Roya l Canadian Navy shore transmitter in Sydney NS After the war he came to OAC to earn a diploma then went on to QueenS University to comshyplete an arts and theology degree His mini sshytry was mainly in St And rews and Montreal although he spent 13 years teaching Hebrew at the Presbyterian Coll ege before retiring in 1968
Donald Robertson 3 1 died Nov 4 1991 in Iroquois Ont He is survived by hi s wife Caroline (Grisdale) Mac 38 his two son s ScottOAC 65A and Guy and a daughter Sandra McNeil
Thomas Rokeby 48 and MSA 50 died Jan 29 1992 in Fayetteville Ark He was a professional engineer and tau ght for 30 years in the Univers ity of Arkansas engineering department Born in Port Rowan Ont he was a member of the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War the American Society of Agricultural Engineers and the agricultural honor societies of Gamma Sigma Delta and Alpha Epsilon He is surv ived by his wife Helen two sons Robert and Richard a daughter Penny and three brothers Michael Noel and Richard OAC 54
Francis Sweeney OAC 45 died Nov 17 1991 in Oakville Ont He was a longtime employee of Shell Canada and [nternational Shell working in Great Britain Europe and
WALL CUSTANCE MEMORIAL FOREST
The Wall-Custance Memorial Forest located at the Universi ty of Guelphs Arboretum was established in recognition of the severe depletion of our forests It is never too late to be a vital part of the effort to save and improve our air and water for the future of our children by planting trees This program is our small part of the major endeavor to reforest and to reduce the greenhouse effect improve air quality and provide food and cover for wildlife The Memorial Forest Proshygram not only pays a Significant tribute to a loved one but also assures a better environment for generations to come
The purpose of this program is to provide an opporshytuni ty to commemorate the life of a loved one by plantshy
Home of the WALL-CUSTANCE
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ing a tree We envision that the Memorial Forest Program will continue for many years to come and our hope is that the solace that nature offers particularly in the depths of a living forest will be of comfort and benefi t to all
For more information or for a brochure call or write to
WALL-CUSTANCE Funeral Home and Chapel 206 Norfolk Street Guelph Ontario N1 H 4K3 (519) 822-0051
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Berna rd Weeks 35 died Oct 16 199 1 After graduation he re turned to his roots in
ew York and Pennsylvannia and worked in 4-H and you th organi zations for a few years He then took over the family farm at Troupsburg NY and built up a dairy operashytion with a sideline of sheep He is surv ived by his wife Ruth and four children
Glenn White 43 of Belleville Onl died Nov 24 199 1 in Florida and is surv ived by hi s wife Marjorie
ave Norman Anderson 39 of Wi nn ipeg died Dec 18 1991 in Arizona He had practised veterinary medicine in Norwood Man and was a member of the American Equine Pracshytitioners Association director of the Canadian Thoroughbred Society and track veterinarian at Assin iboia Downs for 50 years He is survived by his wi fe Peggy and two sons Laurie and James
George Beatty 5 I died Nov 22 1991 in Inverness III He practised in Palatine fo r 36 years and founded the Palatine Animal Hospi tal He was an active member of the American Animal Hospital Assoc iati on and the Chicago Veterinary Association and was a director of the Friends of the University of Guelph He is survived by his wife Mary and fo ur children - Suzanne Patricia Margaret and Tim
John Hamilton 5 L died Dec 15 1991 He had lived in Roslin On where he owned the Bay Regional Veterinary Hospital He is survived by hi s niece Ann Bongard
Nicholas Labzoffsky 39 died Dec 25 1991 in Largo Fla Fonnerly of Toronto he had li ved most recen tl y in Dorse t Ont and is survived by hi s wife Jane
Edgar Langford 49 died March 41992 in Monarch Alta A former research scienshytist with ADRI (Western) he is survived by his wife Norma and two daughters includshying Carolyn OVC 76
Stuart Maude 4 1 died Jan 14 1992 in Rosemead Calif A former Rosemead counshycillor and four-time mayor he operated the Rosemead Animal Hospital with his brother Arthur 52 from 1953 to 1980 He was a trustee for Ingles ide Hospital a past grand patron of both the Rosemead and the Califorshynia Order of Eastern Star and past-president of the local Kiwanis Club and Chamber of Commerce He is survived by his wife Vera two daughters Patricia and Susan Bezner a son Stuart and three brothers
Walter Morley 42 o f Mildmay On died Nov 28 199 1 He ran a large animal pracshytice in the Mild may area for 39 years raised cat tle and raced standardbred horses He was also a pu blic school board trustee and direcshytor of a local te lephone company for more
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than 30 years He is survived by his wife Joyce five sons - two of whom are OVC alumni Dave 68 and Randy 74 - and 10 grandchildren
Lloyd Neily 52 died Jan 3 1992 in Hantsport NS A retired meat inspector w ith the federal Department of Agriculture he had a private veterinary practice in Wind sor NS He is surv ived by hi s wife Mary
Elford Nundal 43 died Jan 7 1992 in Langley BC after a long battle with canshycer He operated a veterinary practice in Langley for 36 years and served as a di strict aldennan for 10 years before being elected mayor in 1982 Last year he received the BC Veterinarian Association s award of merit for a lifetime of veterinary work
Humphrey Rees 55 died Sepl 30 1991 in Amman Jordan while on ass ignment for the Overseas Development Ad ministrat ion as veterinary and animal hu sbandry adviser to the Jordani an government His contemshyporaries at Guelph will remember him as a singer debater raconteur rugby player and bon vivant He is surv ived by his wife Alice of POlt Eynon Wales
William Stinson 40 died Feb 15 1992 in Norwood Ont He is survi ved by his wife Rita a son John OVC 67 a brother Ford OAC 34 and a grandson John CSS 87
Faculty
Patric ia Harney died Dec 191991 in Yarshymouth NS A professor in the Department of Horticultural Science from 1962 to 1988 she developed severa l new variet ies of geraniums and was instru mental in es tabshylishing the Frances Ball rose collection at the Arboretum
Anthony Marston died Feb 3 1992 in Fershygu s ant Retired from the School of Hotel and Food Administration he was an acshycomplished competition chef who received his training in Switzerland and England He then spent severa l years working in the Caribbean before coming to Guelph in 1970 A member of the Canadian Olympic culinary team he held a number of positions in the
Donations given in memory ofGuelph alumni will help support University scholarships ifdirected to the Alumni M emorial Fund In 1991 donations were made in memory of the following alumni
Frank MacDonald OAC 37
Frank King OAC 33 -Robert Allen OAC 56A
Alice (Rivaz) Garrard Mac 28
Stan Vesselinovitch OVC 57
For more infonnation call the Office of Annual Giving at 519-824-4120 Ext 6 183
hote l and food industry until retiring in 1982 He is survived by hi s wife Di ana
Gordon McNally dled Jan 12 1992 in Guelph A professor in the Department of Zoo logy from 1934 to 1971 he served as academic assistant to the dean of CBS until retiring in 1979 While at Guelph he was honorary pres id ent of the classes of OAC 54 58 and 67 He is survived by his daughter Jean two siste rs and two grandchildren Prof McNallys family has established the A Gordon Mc a lly Memorial Fund to support a sc holarship or bursary Contributions may be sent care of the Alma Mater Fund Alumni Hou se University of Guelph Guelph ant N I G 2WI
Friends
Jean (Young) Branion died March 3 1992 in Guelph She was the wife of the late Hugh Branion a physiology professor at U of G and assistant to presidents Bill Winegard and Don Forster Jean Branion was an act ive volunteer on campus for many years and one of the firs t presidents of the College Womens Club She is survived by a son Richard and his wife Marga re t of Vanshycouve r and five grandchi ldren Donati ons may be made to the Hugh D Branion Memorial Scholarship through Alumni House
Davy Alexander Hamilton-Williamson died Feb 4 1992 in Guelph A painter and author of childrens stories he had been a member of the University s Presidents Council s ince it began in 1 985
Marjorie Pinkney wife of J ames Pinkney OVC 3 7 died Dec 151 99 [ at her home in Milton ant
Samuel Wyal died March 15 1992 in Brantford ant He was a partner in the law firm Wyatt Purce ll Will Stillman and Scott He is surv ived by his wife M a bel Mac 39 four sons Peter Michael William and John and two daughters Mary Alderson and Sarah Nadalin Arts 82
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INVmiddotESTMENTS amp
DIVIDENDS
Facts about university education in Canada and how we pay for it
By 2000 half of all new jobs in Canada will require a university degree
But at the current rate of government funding only one in five children
will have a chance to go to university
In the seven years from 1982 to 1989 per-student grants to universities in
Ontario barely kept pace with intlation at five per cent
per-student funding at American public univers ities jumped an average
of 23 per cent in the same period
Those US universities also receive twice the federal research dollars per student as do Ontario universities
In 1987 the average salary of a full-time professor at an Ontario univers ity was $55500
compared with $68200 for a private-sector position of similar education and experience
Lawyers economists and engineers made an average of $71 000
Ontario ranks ninth out of the to provinces in terms of grants to universities
Between 1978 and 1991 enrolment at Ontario univers ities grew by 40 per cent while funding dropped
from 59 to 409 per cent of total government spending
Universities were spending 14 per cent less per student between 1977 and 1988 hospital expenditures
rose 38 per cent per patient in the same period
Ontario universities generate $3 of economic activity for every
$1 invested by government funding
And the number of jobs generated by university activities in
Ontario is greater than the employment impact of the textile
industry the entire paper and pulp industry or utilities
University graduates can look forward to earning 63 per cent more than the average industrial worker
A 1990 survey of U of G alumni found that two years after graduation 97 per cent of Guelph grads
looking for work were employed 62 per cent were earning $25000 or more and 10 per cent were
earning $40000 or more
Unemployment rates in 1990 for those with a university degree was about one-third what it was
for those with only a high school diploma
Every year from 1978 to 1987 Ontario university inves tments in renovating or replacing
aging buildings could not keep pace with the rate at which the buildings depreciated
Graphics by Debbie Thompson Wilson Statistics supplied by th~ Council 01 Ontario UniverSities Statistics Canada and the U01 G Student EnVifonment Study Group
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A salute to sport Alumni Weekend June 19-21 9am Sio-pitch tournament
The tradition Jives on at the south quad diamond s Cooed teams of 12 or more players are encourshyaged to join in the fun
FRIDAY 10 am to 9 pm Registration Lambton Hall
6 pm Kick-off dinner and half-time show
get set and join In the Olympic spirit one of Alumni Creelman Hall will Weekends host the Wonderful most popular World of Sports with events Tours a half-time slide show start from to entertain alumni of Alumni House all ages and are sponshy9 pmshy sored by the Observatory tours CBS Alumni
Association
10 am and 2 pm
SATURDAY 8 am to 5 pm Guided Registration walking tours Lambton Hall
Remember 9 am to 5 pm making s now Alumni House tours sc ulptures on Students will host tours of Alumni House throughshyout the weekend Come and see what the generosity of alumni has accomplished
9 am to noon Alumni association annual meetings
This is the official notice for the annual general meetings of the following alumni associations
CBS - Alumni House starts at 830 am before guided walk MacFACS - HAFA Building Room 209
OVC - OvC Room 1438
OAC - Macdonald Hall Room 149
CSS - MacKinnon Building Room 305
HAFA - Alumni Hou se boardroom
Gryphs Lounge will be open for lunch and afLer the game
930 am Guided nature walk at the Arboretum
On your mark
Noon - OVC luncheon
The OvC Alumni Association will host a luncheon open to all OvC alumni and their guests
2 pm - Campus Showcase 92
Following on the heels of last year s success Campus Showshycase 92 will be bigger and better Come to the University Centre to see exhibits representing all areas on campus The Campus Junction store will also be open
2 pm - Zavitz Hall tour
Alumni are invited to browse through the newly renovated Za vitz Hall and attend a recep shytion sponsored by the Colshylege of Arts Alumni Asshysoc iation
5 pm Golden anniversary dinner
The OAC OvC and MacshyFACS alumni associations will provide complimenshytary tickets for alumni celebrating 50 years or more Additiona l tickets can be purchased Classes
Johnston Green or playing intramural hockey in the old Quonset arena Relive some of the memories by taking a walking tour of campus Tours begin from the lobby ofLambton Hall
Noon - Alumni picnic
This apopular event has new location - the sculpshyture garden beside the Macshydonald Stewart Art Centre Come on your own or reshyserve a group of tables for friends and classmates
Noon - Class reunion lunches
OAC 37 Mac 37 OAC 42 Mac 42 OAC 47 Mac 52 Mac57 Mac 67 FACS 72 FACS 77 FACS 87
OAC 67 FACS 82 OAC 82 OAC 82A CBS 82 FACS 87 OAC 87
SUNDAY 9am Church service and War Memorial Hall rededication
Thanks to a commitment from the Alma Mater Fund renovashytion of the upstairs of War Memorial Hall has been comshypleted Join us for the rededicashytion ceremony commemorating the 1924 opening and the 1952 dedication of an OAC memorial plaque
being honored are OAC 22 OAC 47 OvC 22 Mac 22 OAC 27 OvC 27 Mac 27 OAC 32 OvC 32 Mac 32 OAC 37 OvC 37 Mac 37 OAC 42 OvC 42 Mac 42
6 pm Class reunion dinners
Special dinn e r reunions are planned for OAC 47 OAC 52 OAC 52A OvC 52 Mac 57 OAC 57 OAC 62 Mac 67
10am UGAA annual meeting
All alumni are encouraged to atshytend the UGAA annual meeting in Macdonald Hall Room 149 An amendment to the UGAA Letters Patent and a revised bylaw will be presented for ap shyproval Copies of both are availshyable on request from Alumni House Call 519-824-4120 Ext 6544
11 am - Farewell brunch
The final event of Alumni Weekend will be held in Creelshyman Hall Come and meet the Univers ity S president Brian Segal The Alumnus of Honour medal will be presented at noon
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alumni - to its first Montreal informashytion night for prospective students The event was modelled after a successful program in Toronto that draws more than 800 students each spring
Vancouver - U of G president Brian Segal met with alumni March 5 at the Pan Pacific Hotel Jim Dodds OVC 63 and Sarah Bloom FACS 86 orshyganized the event which attracted about 70 alumni and guests
Halifax- U ofG alumni in Halifax met with Gryphon basketball players during the March 26 to 28 CIAU chamshypionships Despite losing the OUAA west division title to Brock University the Gryphons qualified for a wi ld card spot at the CIAU championships Alumshyni received free tickets to the game that pitted Guelph against Brandon in the consolation final Fan support was enshythusiastic but the Gryphons lost 72 to 64 finishing third overall
Homecoming 1992 Plans are well under way for Homecoming weekend Sept 25 and 26 In addition to the annual Gryphon Hall of Fame dinner and award s ceremony the weekend will feat ure a beach volshyleyball tou rnamen t --~4~=iiiiikshyconcert alumni brunch walk-a-thon pep rally reunions and the traditional homecoming dance following the Saturday afternoon footshyball game This year the Gryphons will play Wil frid Laurier University A complete schedule will appear in the next Guelph Alumnus but you can get
Winners of Ihe Ju SI fo r Fun square dance compelition 01 College Royal were left 10 right Ann Joselin Kelley Allen Joanne Hewirson Brenl McFadden caller Sue MacKinnon Richard Presley Trish Henderson Jason Thompson and Kelly Lillie
in the Homecoming spirit now by helpshying to plan your class reunion or signing up as a scorekeeper for the vo lleyball tournament For infOlmation call alumshyni officer Laurie Malleau HAFA 83 at 519-824-4120 Ext 2102
Swing your partner
Eight squares of alumni took part in the College Royal square dance competition in March Winners of the UGAA alumni square dance plaque were the Crazy 8s Joanne Hewitson Arts 91 Lloyd Hutchinson CBS 87 Sonya Jones CPS 90 Ed Ketchabaw OAC 88 and MSc 91 Carol)n OAC 90 and Brad MacNeil CPS 87 Mike Relf OAC 91 and student Sherry MacNeil Wayne Lowden was the caller
Winners in the Just for Fun category were Junior Farmer alumni who included Hewitson Ann Joselin OAC 90 Brent McFadden CSS 90 Richard Presley OAC 86 and soonshyto-be-alumni Kelley Allen Trish
Henderson Kelly Little and Jason Thompson The caller was Sue MacKinnon OVC 9 1
Florida picnic
The North Port Yacht Club hosted 199 alumni for the annual Florida picnic March 4 On hand to meet them was Trish Walker CSS 77 and MSc 90 director of alumni affairs Judy Phillips of the University s Real Estate Division also attended to talk about the Village by the Arboretum retirement deve lopshyment
Attendance prizes went to Gertrude Stewart Mac 30 and Morley Funston OAC 32 The picnic was sponsored by the UGAA Alumni-In shyAction Committee represented by Ken Gartley OAC 42 and the Florida reunion committee consisting of Mary and Ted Brent OAC 48 Helen and Don Moffatt OAC 46 Stella and Bob Moore OAC 48 and Retis and Bill HasenptlugOAC 39
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A new kind of class reunion
Its the latest fad in alumni circles shymeeting your classmates at the anshynual University of Guelph alumni hockey tournament Twenty-two teams played in the fifth annual tourshynament in December
For most teams tournament standshyings are secondary to the socializing with classmates that they may not see otherwise says Bill Seegmiller OAC 83 who worked with Brian TapscottOAC 8 1 to organize the event We promote the social aspect through two divisions - social and more social - and include family skating and a Saturday evening wine and cheese party he says Trish Walker director ofalumni affairs presents fhe social division lrophy 10 Ihe OAC 79
Dipper Oldies (II the U ofG alumni hockey tournamenl The OAC 79A team defeated the Grey Gryphons to win the more soshycial division The OAC 80 team won the consolation final and the spirit award went to OAC 7778
In the social (a little more competishytive) division it was the Faceoffs in first place over OAC 88 OAC 90 won the consolation trophy and the Valley Vikings took home the spirit award
Organizers plan to add womens exshyhibition games to the 1992 tournament which is scheduled for Dec 5 and 6 For more information call Seegmiller at 519-836-3807 or Rudy Diemer OAC 85 at 519-763-2250
A night at the races
The UGAA Alumni-in-Action group will host a night at Mohawk Raceway May 26 The $30 admission includes a 6 pm buffet parking program taxes and gratuities For detail s call Laurie
~ Malleau at 519-824-4120 Ext 2102
I Alumni directory
A new alumni directory will be ready for delivery in May The deadline for alumni updates has passed but you can still order a copy of the directory at a cost of $40 plus tax Return the order form you received with the special U of G wristwatch offer or write to Rosemary Clark Mac 59 at Alumni House University of Guelph Guelph Ont NIG 2Wl
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There was a nostalgic gathering of Guelph alumni in Ottawa last winter to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the city s alumni chapter
Donald Fletcher OAC 36A and 39 who was president of the group in 1953 sent us a historical account of the chapters activities
A small organizing committee first met in February 1941 at Madame Burgers restaurant to plan the chapters first fun ction a skating party at the Ottawa Experimental Farm It attracted 75 people
Over the years the group held an anshynual picnic and a banquet and dance that gave them a chance to invite faculty from Guelph to speak about happenings at the colleges - and later the Univershysi ty Every president from George I Christie to Bill Winegard paid a vi sit
In 1951 alumni from OVC and Macshydonald Institute who had been meeting since 1936 joined the OAC group A crowd of almost 200 celebrated the chapter s 10th anniversary at a picnic at the farm of the late John Bracken OAC 06 During the 1950s they added a get-together at the annual Ottawa-area plowing match which gave way to a curling bon spiel in the 1960s
There have been many special funcshytions - entertaining the Gryphon footshyball teams square dances car rallies golf tournaments theatre parties and raceway evenings - but the event that stands out in Fletchers memory ocshycurred in 1966 when five members of Parliament hosted the group in the parshyliamentary ballroom
The chapter also includes a couples bridge club which has been meeting for 25 years in the homes of its members
Fletcher thanks the 30 people who have served as president of the Ottawa alumni chapter and the dozens more who have helped on committees devot shying years to the executive to promote the institution
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JUNE 26 27 amp 28 ~ The Program This highly successful workshop developed by Sharon Crozier PhD University Counselling Services University of calgary is the first step for an alumnus who is considering a career move The weekend (Friday evening through Sunday afternoon) will consist of group presentations conducted by Dr Crozier with smaller working groups facilitated by profeSSional counsellors from the University of Guelph Counselling and Student Resource Centre
Discussion structured exercises and experiential activities will lead alumni to gain insight into a personal careerllifestyle analYSis and assessment career information resources networking skills and much more
No matter what their age career stage or reason for transition each participant will find this workshop to be an excellent opportunity to develop a personal action plan - and chart their next move
~ Pre-1esting In order to provide individualized career information registrants are required to attend one of two pre-testing sessions The Strongshycampbell Interest Inventory and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator will be administered and results tabulated prior to the workshop Pre-testing dates are as follows
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Guelph Thursday June 4 1992 700 pm - 8 30 pm University Centre
~ Fee The registration fee of $225 includes administration and tabulation of the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator materials two lunches and refreshment breaks
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May 2 - The Guelph Spring Festival begins with a 25th-anniversary gala dinshyner in Creelman Hall that will honor founding president Murdo MacKinnon Other festival events run until May 23 For more information call 519-821-7570
May 2 shy An All-Canadian University Asshysociation d inne r w il l be held in Washington DC at the Embassy of Canada Guest speaker is Robert Lanni president of the University of Windsor Entertainment will be provided by Windsors music department For inforshymation call T Chan at 202-543-9111
May 3 - Arboretum Day celebrates spring with family nature walks at 1 and 330 pm and an electrical keyboard concert at 230 pm featuring Canadian comshyposer Carole Anne Burris
May 10 to Aug 30 - Guided nature walks run every Sunday at 230 pm in the Arboretum Topics include wildflowers birds turtles snakes and insects The nature centre is open from 1230 to 430 pm
May 13 - Chancellor Lincoln Alexander is the guest speaker at the Alumni-inmiddotAction annual general meeting which begins at noon in the Arboretum Centre For details call Alumni Affairs 519-824middot 4120 Ext 2102
May 13 - The Human KineticsHuman Biology Alumni Association will hold its inaugural meeting at730 pm at Alumni House with a coffee and dessert social RSVP to 519-824-4120 Ext 6963
May 23 shy FACS 82 is sponsoring a colshylection of Bob Munsch plays performed by the Carousel Players at3 pm at War Memorial Hall Tickets are $8 plus tax and handling To order call the UC box off ice at 519-824-4120 Ext 3940
May 26 - Alumni-in-Action is hosting a night at Mohawk Raceway Cost is $30 To register call 529-824-4120 Ext 2102
May 30 - An Arboretum sale of rare native trees and shrubs at the RJ Hi lton Centre on College Avenue East runs from 9 am to 1 pm For information call 519-824shy4120 Ext 2113
May 30 shy The sixth annual All-Canadian University Dinner in Chicago will be held
in the Henry Crown Space Centre at the Museum of Science and Industry and will include a reception buffet dinner and an Omnivax movie beginning at 6 pm Guest speaker is George Pedersen president of the University of Western Ontario For information call David Cole at 312-372-4404 or Hugh Mackenzie at 708-369-3688
June 2 to 5 shy Spring convocation June 13 - Beginning at 7 am the Arshy
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June 15 to 17 shy U of G will host the 15th annual Guelph Conference on Sexuality With the theme Sexuality New Visions the conference will examine current isshysues in human sexuality counselling strategies for sexual problems and teaching approaches in sexuality educashytion For information call the Office of Continuing Education at 519-767-5000 or fax 519-767-0758
June 19 to 21 - ALUMNI WEEKEND See page 39 for a complete schedule of events and alumni association meetings The UGAA annual meeting is June 21 at 10 am in Macdonald Hall 149
June 26 to 28 shy The UGAA-sponsored alumni career-planning workshop will be held on campus See page 26 for details
July 31 amp Aug 4 shy The National Youth Orchestra will perform in War Memorial Hall at 8 pm as part of its summer program at U of G Tickets at $8 general $6 for stUdents and seniors will be availshyable at the door
Sept 26 - HOMECOMING Rise early for the second ann ual Homecoming charity walkathon At 930 am the Human Kinetics Alumni Association will hold its annual general meeting in the School of Human Biology lounge
Oct 1 - OVCs 1992 Schofield Memorial Lecture will be given by Steven Arnoczky a professor in the department of small animal clin ical sciences at Michigan State Universitys Laboratory for Comparative Orthopedics The 3 pm lecture will be held in War Memorial Hall Admission is free
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John Boros 88 of Wei land Ont writes that he is impressed by the way U of G keeps records after graduation Thi s gives the graduate a sense of belonging a connection to an important period in hi s or her life he says
Jane Buzza 88 is working as records co-ordinatorarchivist for the Ontario Medishycal Association in Toronto
Jacqueline (Sullivan) DeClerck 86 is a public relations officer at the Canada Trust head office in London Onto
Richard Ely 70 works at the Crown attorneys office in WeIland Ont He has an LLB from the University of Western Ontario in addition to his Guelph degree He says he often talks about U of G to young students trying to decide which university to attend
Paul Genest 81 finished graduate studies at Johns Hopkins Universi ty in Maryland and is now assistant professor of philosophy at Union College in Schenectady NY He is man-ied to Barbara Jessup 8 1
Brian Hogarth 78 is head of interpretashytion at the G1enbow Museum in Calgary
Martha Hooper 9 1 was married last Ocshytober to David Perry They live in Calgary where she is a sw itchboard operator at the Delta Bow Valley Inn
Rene van der Meijden 87 has put his degree in geogshyraphy and internationshyal development to good use with the Christian Reformed World Relief Comshymittce Originally from the Netherlands he is now in Uganda on a three-year asshy Rene van der signment as a rural Meijden development adv iser He sends greetings to his many friend s in Canada and to Guelph grads Stan and Kitty in Bolivia in particular and reminds us that visitors are always welshycome in Uganda
Edward Milliner 85 will graduate this spring from the faculty of education at the University of Windsor
Mark Moore 85 is doing postgraduate work in history at the University of Bristol in England He plans to teach high school
fn response to a letter from Dawn Monroe 69 that appeared in the winter 1992 issue of the Guelph Alumnus Doug Moynihan 69 of Fort McMurray Alta writes Be disapshypointed no more Dawn l I too graduated in 1969 from (the College of) Arts or as it was then called Wellington College and I havent heard from anyone either And I too think it is time to contribute my news
After graduation f headed out to disshycover and sol ve the problems of the world travelling overseas for about three years Since then Ive been working in human resources in a variety of organizations in many different locations in Canada Cun-entshyIy I am the manager of human resources in Fort McMurray
PS Do you remember me Dawn I was the bartender in Creelman Hall I
John Teskey 7 1 began new duties last summer as director of libraries at the University of New Brunsw ick in Fredericton He was head of adshyministrative sershyvices at the University of Albershyta before moving John Teskey across Canada to acshycept the UNB posishytion but had earlier served as chief librarian and was library personnel officer at both Alshyberta and the University of Saskatchewan
Teskey says his biggest challenge is to regain the lost purchasing power that univershysity libraries have suffered as a result of static budge ts and ri sing material costs He is encouraging increased resource-sharing among universities and interlibrary loan programs with shortened turnaround
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Elizabeth (Baxter) Willson 77 a real esshytate agent in Chatham Ont writes to voice a common feeling that the universi ty exshyperience itself is often more important than the degree or diploma received I am really glad I graduated from Guelph she says
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Michelle Bombadier and Mike Caldwell both 92 are two of 50 Canad ian youth selected to work in Guyana for three months with Youth Challenge International (YCI) a non-governmental organization that provides Third-world experience for Canadians They may spend the summer building a school teaching safety or clearing land for Gu ytna s first national park but they need some private support to he lp cover transportation costs Anyone able to help should write to YCI at I I Soho St Toronto M5T IZ6
Jane Coventry 86 writes with accolades for the Guelph Alumnus grad news section and an update on what she and her husband Jaydee Smith 84 and MSc 89 are doing They were married in 1989 while working at U of G - he in the Department of Animal and Poultry Science and she in the Departshyment of Crop Science In February 1991 they moved to England where Smith is doing a PhD at the University of Bristol and working as a research assistant Coventry
works in the technology transfer unit of Nickshyerson Seeds Ltd in Cambridge
Jeffrey Crawford 88 and Leslie Thompson 86 were malTied last October He is an elementary schoolteacher in Mount Forest Ont
Craig Emerson 83 earned a PhD at Dalshyhousie University in Halifax in 1990 and is now a research associate in oceanography
Paul Fleming 85 is a pharmaceutical sales representative for Hoechst Canada Inc and lives in Nepean Ont
David Forsey 80 is an assistant professor of computer science at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver He is marshyried to Lyn Bartram
Michael Gangl 89 is in his third year at the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College
Astrid Harms 87 is a registered nurse in London Ont
Andrew Holmes 85 worked for the Onshytario government as a wildlife biologist for three years but is now back at school in his second year at Northwestern Chiropractic College in Minneapolis
Timothy Johnson 86 works at the Centre for Limnology at the University of Wisconshys in in Madison
Karen Lennard 77 (HK) and her hu sshyband Paul Jackson 79 (HK ) and MSc
82 both went 011 to earn medical degrees from McMaster University in HalTilton Ont Jackson also has a master s in physiology from the University of Virginia and is comshypleting an anesthesiology residency in Hamilshyton Lennard has a part-time family medical practice allowing her to spend more time with the couples two children Matthew and Nicola
Wendy Maltby 74 is an elementary schoolteacher for the Metropolitan Toronto School Board
Sandra OConnor 84 earned a medical degree from the University of Western Onshytario and is now practi sing in Burlington Ont
Linda Owen 81 runs her own business as a consulting exercise physiologist and fitness supervisor in Campbell River BC
Sheryle Tetley 86 is regional sales manager for Glaxo Canada Inc in Mi ss isshysauga Ont where she lives with her husshyband Ian
Rob Tonus 87 is manager of the Black Creek Rehabilitation Project a grassroots enshyvironment program to improve a degraded urban stream in Toronto His office is with the Metropolitan Toronto and Region Conshyservation Authority and he lives in Oakville with his wife Wanda (Knul) 88 (HK) a public health inspector in Hamilton
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Richard Woods 81 is an instructor of xshyray technology at the Easte rn Ontario School of X-ray Technology at Kingston Ge neral Hospital He would like to hear from other members of the 1981 U of G choir wi th whom he travelled to Scandinav ia Write to him at RRI Od essa Ont KOH 2HO
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James Dy nes 84 has comp le ted g raduate studies in chemistry and so il sc ience at the Univers ity of Sas katchewan in Saskatoon
Catherine (McVittie) Clark 88 is a nuclear medica l tech nici an at Howard Counshyty General Hospita l in Columbia Md She and her husband Michae l li ve in Elkridge Md
David Holmes 85 is a systems analyst at Sun Life Assurance Company
RolfKierdorf 84 lives in Guelph with his wife Janet He is se lf-employed as a systems consultant
Donald McFadde n 71 and his wife Carol li ve in A lbany Ga where he pracshyti ses medicine
Donald Ridley 69 and PhD 73 has been appoin ted seni or v ice-presiden t of CibashyGeigy Canada Ltd in Oakvi lle Ont and is responsib le for a ll corpora te serv ices includshy
ing finance human resources safe ty health and the environment He a lso se rves on the board of the Canadian Agricu ltura l Research Council and is a member of the Great Lakes Action Plan Strategi c Advi sory Committee
Kathryn Root Parr is an assoc iate minister at Lorne Park Bapti st Church in Mississhysa uga Ont She was married las t fa ll to Vicshytor Parr
Peter Simpson 85 is dis tric t manager for McNeil Pharmaceutical Ltd in Stouffville Ont He is married to Cynthia (Hamilton) 85 (HK)
Keith Stemshorn 83 is in the Canadian Armed Forces stationed in Calgary
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Nikki Dignard 86 moved to Ottawa last year where her husband Ted Henike pracshyti ses denti stry Dignard is working on an M BA and says she d love to hear from CSS classmates Tom Cam and Kathryn
Bonnie Dunnett 87 and MA 91 works on campus at the Gerontology Research Centre S he and Barry Hallman 9 1 li ve in Guelph
Kathryn Faulkner 80 is a registered nurse in Burling ton Ont where she li ves wi th he r husband John
Ruth Fox 84 is a sta ffing assistant for
Transport Canad a and lives in Toronto w ith her husband Christopher
Shonna Giles 88 is an admiss ions officer at Simon Fraser Unive rs ity in Burnaby BC
Gina Grieco 75 is a hi gh school guidance counsellor in North York Onto
John Harris 82 is manager of financial planning and budgets for th e City of Brampton Ont
Paulette Heppner 76 is a teache r in Vanshycouver
John Johnston 7 1 has been appointed exshyec uti ve vice-pres ident o f Ve rsacold Canada Corp and pres ident of QF Foods Distribushytion Services Versacold Canada is the largest public refri gera ted ware hou sing orshygani za tion in Western Canada
Michael Kral 79 has moved from the Univers ity of Manitoba to the University of Wind sor where he is an assistant professor of psychology
Jeffrey Lozon 76 and his family recently returned to Toronto after 15 years in Western Canada He is executive vice-president and ch ief operat ing officer at St Michael s Hos pital and li ves in Oakville wi th hi s wife Donna and two daughters
Bria n Martin 79 is a real estate appraiser in Portland Ont whe re he li ves w ith hi s wife Margaret (Sheffield) Arts 79
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Leith Mason 90 works in Toronto in the Canadian office of the State of Illinois as a special assistant to the Illinois Department of Food and Agricul ture
Michael McKean 74 of Don Mills Ont was recently appointed president of Wrigley Canada Inc Before joining Wrigley as execushytive v ice-pres ident in 1990 he he ld senior positions in Hong Kong Brazil and the United States
Rick 74 and Vicki (Collard) McTaggart FACS 74 are working in Ottawa He is director of overseas operations for the Unitarian Service Committee a charitable non-governmental organization that supports commun it y and human resou rce developshyment activities in Africa and Asia She is sec tion head of consumer analysis in the agr ifood development branch of Agriculture Canada
Sandra Morrison 86 is an ass istant professhysor in the department of psychiatry at the University of Western Ontario
Stephen Naylor 85 is director of planning and development for the amalgamated municipalities of Alliston Beeton Tecumshyseth and Tottenham
Brian ONeill 68 MA lives in SUITey England where he is managing director of Innovation Management Consultant s
Jodi Parisi 89 is a sales representative for Gillette who says U of Goo was the greatest
Moira Skikavich 81 is completing a PhD in c inematelevision at the University of Southern California
Virginia Sutherland 78 is an air traffic controller at the Toronto Island Airport
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Peggy Bates 88 was recently promoted to sales manager with Sears Canada Inc She lives in Owen Sound Ont
Caroline Begin 86 is working in Singshyapore as a dietitian
Diana Close 87 is a c linical nutri ti onis t at Chedoke McMaster Hospital in Hamilton Ont
Sarah Davenport 90 is a case worker with the Wellington County Social Services office in Guelph She is malTied to Matthew Harvey CBS 90
Timothy Dyck 8 1 is national sales manager for Black amp Decker Canada workshying out of the Corbin Division in Richmond HillOnt
Sharon (Muir) 84 and Richard Ernst CBS 83 are the proud parents of a future Guelph grad uate one-year-old Andrew Graham
Patricia Edwards 78 is food servi ce sushypervisor fo r St Peter s Hospita l in Hamilton Ont
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For the love ofteaching Since she
middot graduated bull from Macshydonald Inshymiddot stitute in
J 963 Nancy Kerr has built a career on teaching and research in telttles The middotheidofthe Uriiveisityof
Albertas department of Clothing and texiiles pursues a middotscientific interest inthepreservashylion of hi stori~lfabricsarid in developing pesticide-proofc1otl1ing But Jler fitstlove i ~ teaching
In 199b shewonone ofU of As four Rutherford AWljrds for excellence ill unshy
dergraduate teat-hing The first member of the faculty middotofliomemiddoteconornicsto receive the award slie was the rcentcipient6f the facultys own underglltiduate teaching award three years earlier
Winning the Rutherford was a gteat honor says Ken who has been on
faculty at Alberta since 1967 She oiscovered she had an aptitude for
middot teaching as a graduate student at the University of California Davis in
196566 After earning her MSc she casr about for afaculty position in Canada and round U of A was the 0111y place I could teach ju t textiles plus have a chance to develop new cQurses and research labs
middot Kerr sa)s she gets a tremelldous sense of satisfaction from teaching and the learning he must do to stay cUlTent She attributes her succe s as a teaCher to middotIec-middot
middot tures that are well organized and clear and to creltting a positive classroom climate
~Thcomfort level of students is reaUy middot ililportanL ~ Kerr eamedherPhD in fibre lnd
polymer science from North Carolina bull Staie University in 1982 Her doctoral work concentrated oil deacidification
techniques to preserve historicatcottOnln 1988 she spent a sabbatical ye~r doing research at the Caliadian Conservation
middot In tirute in OnflW1 middot Originalmiddotly from Ottawa Kerr is a
trarisphlnted -vesterner who enjoys middot hiking anlt sk1ing
From left Diane Ellison Lisa Wilson Lori Davis and Pippa Hobbes
Diane Ellison 84 is liv ing in Osaka Japan where she teaches English to Japanese busishyness people Last October she welcomed three U of G friends for a visit Lori Davis CSS 85 manager of Jumbo Video Inc in Oakville Ont Pippa Hobbes 84 accountshying manager for Paramount Holidays in Willowda le Ont and Lisa Wilson 84 co-ord inator of membership serv ices for the Metropolitan Toronto Board of Trade
Monica Hrybko HAFA 88 is director of sales for the Ramada Hotel Old Town in San Diego Calif
David Jones HAFA 88 is a con troller at the Holiday Inn Montreal Centre-Ville
Kathleen McLachlin 83 is operating an insurance agency in Kitchener OnL She opened the State Farm Insurance office in March 1988 and says she loves her job
Susan (Goettler) Parker 80 is working in Toronto as benefits administrator for Imshyperial Oil Limited She is married to Donald Parker OAC 79
Mary Jean (Sinnott) Price Mac 7 1 has returned to sc hool at the University of Otshytawa to earn a bachelor of education
Margaret (Richardson) Rankin 75 has been living in Halifax since 1990 and is an account analyst for Central Guaranty Trust
Janet (Wanless) Sutherland 77 is in private practice as a marriage and family therapist in East Kelowna BC
Jean Thomson Mac 37 says 1937 was a long time ago but shes delighted with all the changes that have gone at the college A former hospita l nutritionist she is retired and living in London Ont -
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Olayiwola Layi Adeola MSc 86 and PhD 89 and his wife Mope are living in West Lafayette Indiana where he is an assisshytant professor of pig nutrition at Purdue University
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Bruce Barrie 79 (Eng) graduated last June with an MBA from City Uni ve rsi ty in Washington State and is now a senior adshyviser in strategic planning with Petro-Canada Resources in Calgary He is a professional eng ineer with APEGGA and an ac tive memshyber of the Planning Forum an international society for planning and strategic manageshyment
Barbara Bryce 83 and her husband Ricardo Ramirez 82 are living in Rome Italy She is a landscape architect and he is a communications officer with the Food and Agriculture Organizat ion
Daniel Campbell 81 and his wife SharonshyMarianne are farmin g near Petrolia Onto
Carolyn Closs 82 and her husband Harold operate a beef cowca lf operation in Shawville Que
Luc Cote 83 is an agricullural account manager for the Royal Bank of Canada in Joliette Que
Kerrie Lea Curran 85 plans to graduate this fall from the master of architecture proshygram at McGi ll University
Bruce Dodson 74A is course superinshytendent at Hawd Ridge Golf and Curling Club in Orillia Ont
Richard Donkin OAC 85A originalshyly from Zimbabwe is the manager of Venida Packing Inc in Exeter Calif Situated in central Californias San Joashyquin Valley Venida Packing ships tree fruit throughout the Richard Donkin United States Canada the Pacific Rim and the Far East Products under the brand names Ruby River and Venida include peaches plums nectarines kiwi grapes persimmons and pomegranates In 1988 Donkin married California native Lisa Kolander and they live in Lemon Cove a community in the Sierra foothill s
Brendan Elder 8S A lives in Kelowna BC and works for Dogwood Nursery He plans to be married thi s summer to Rosemary Powell
Robert Fessenden OAC MSc 67 was recently appointed vice-president of devel opshyment and planning at the Alberta Research Council He is responsible for tec hnology management and corporate marketing
John Fitzgerald 86 was married last November to Susan Given a ] 991 indeshypendent study graduate in animal producshytion He is a lecturer at Ridgetown College she works at Centralia College and is work shying on a psychology degree at the University of Waterloo They live in Strathroy Ont
Glenn Helstern 79A is a driver for the Calgary division of Greyhound Bus Lines of Canada Ltd
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She tells a princely tale
For seven miniJtes on Oct 24 199 L Ellen Het1eOAC 76~U1d MSc 80
(ltllked with PIince Charles Invited toopert a newfumaceat
inco Lilniteds Copper Cliff smelter iri Sudbury Ont the Princemiddot of Wales was easy to talk with says Heale ftwasverycxciting
As eiwironmental co-ordinator Of land reclamation andrevegetation at Copper Cliff Healetold theprince middot about Tnc(secosystem rehabilitation
projects Theroyalvisitor was parshyticulatfyiilterestedin the treegrow- ing project in abandoned inines flld in tlpoundrevegetation ()f acres of tailings
and barren rock Planrilig vegetation on the tailings
hasattrlttcled wildlifeto a protected habitat says Beale who has wqrked forIncosincc she graduated in 1976
Ninety~iwo species ofbirds as weil asrodems hares foxes wolves bears andinoQse have been sighted on the 2500 acres of rehabilitated ore waste
One thing about this job is you middot can s~e where youve been effective she says
While an undergraduate student in Prill(e Charles with EIen Heale horticultural science Healea native ofSiidbury worked at Ineo during the sumniers She wasthi tirst woman to
work inrhemining companys agriculture middot department After shegraduated the niekshy el inine hired her full time tcido horticul- turaLfleld research ~ Ineo later granted heT a two-semester leave of absente t6 work
Theodore Jacobs 78 (Eng) is engineering supervisor at Standard Tube in Woodstock Ont
Greg Keast 85 (Eng) is li ving in Mozamshybique in East Africa where he works as a project officer for UNICEF rural water supshyply project s
Richard Kline 74 was appointed partner of the Toronto accounting firm Schwartz Levitsky Feldman Inc last faiL He is presishydent of the film s bankruptcy division a member of the Chartered Accountants of Onshytario and first vice- president of the Ontario Insolvency Association
Christopher Laforest MSc 91 (USRPD) works in planning and economic developshyment for Bruce County Ont
Jean-Paul PhD 90 and Lynn (Hammell) Laforest 82 and MSc 85 are both employed at Laval University in Sainte-Foy Que He is a professor and s he is a research associate
Kenneth Lawless 63 earned a Guelph deshygree in agricultural economics then went on to stud y dentistry at the Uni versity of Toronshyto He is now an oral and manilo-fac ial surshygeon in Kingston Ont
oil her masters at OAC~ In her current PdStion Heale has rnore
administrative and public relations responshyibilities On her own time she sits on the
board of management for the tocal Red Cross and isalllember ofthe Sudbury
Business and Professional Womens Club
Margie Luffman 77 writes that she has happily returned to Ontario after 10 years in New Brunswick to work at the Smithfield Experimental Farm in Trenton She is curator of the Plant Gene Resources of Canada clonal gene bank
Brian MacCulloch MAg 89 is a sa les representative for Springva le Nurseries Ltd in Berwick NS
Daniel Mansell 64 and MSc 68 is Onshytario manager of the eastern habitat joint venture in the wildlife policy branch of the Ministry of Natural Resources He is stashytioned in Midhurst Ont
Peter McEntire 77A writes from County Langford in Ireland to keep in touch with U of G He is farming and work s as an AI techshynician with Bova Genetics Ltd
Darryl Mitchell 78 works at Pioneer HishyBred Limited in Chatham Ont
Hugh ONeil 88 is manager of customer financial services for Ral ston Purina Canada Inc
Umed Panu MSc 72 (Eng) has done a lot of travelling during his career After Guelph he earned a PhD in civil engineering
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David Nedelko OAC 86 and Ljrlda ArmsJrollg CBS 89 (Jurk 011 cemre) were marriediasl SeplemiJer in Bari ~ie OnlTluir weddiIg iiarly illcilldedfiom leli Katy KusmiliskiOA C 88Paul Allgusline GAG 86 Roh Reed OAC 87Carv Belfral1l oAC 8RJIuJ Sa ndimiddoto (CollinI) BerlrCIlII CBS RR Also 1I111ie wedding w(lS Arlllslong s Veal ullcleClarence Fleming OVC 34 The couple (Ire living in
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at the Universit y of Waterloo taught in India and at Mi ss iss ippi State Uni vers ity and worked with Briti sh Columbia Hydro and the Government of Newfoundland In 1986 he jo ined the faculty of c ivil engi neering at Lakehead Uni ve rsity in Thunder Bay Ont and was promoted to full professor in 199 1 He and hi s wife Kashna and the ir children Neeti and Anukud enjoy the outdoor recreashytion ac ti viti es available in Northwestern Onshytario and look forward to visits from U of G alumni trave lling to Thunder Bay
Lyle Pettigrew 61 is a marketin g consulshytant with Harris Kovacs Alderman in Atlanshyta Ga
Helen Prior 88 joined Sheridan Nurseries after graduation then worked for a year as a research tech nic ian in Guelph s Department of Crop Scie nce She is now in her th ird year at Emmanuel College at Victoria University and hopes to be ordained as a United Church min is ter in May
Gregory Scott 83 (Eng) is operations manager for Accuform Gol f Limited in Toronto
Ba rbara (Coordes) Skrypetz 87 is a fi e ld supervisor for the Ontario Dairy Herd Imshyprovement Corporation working out of Guelph He r husband Stephen 88 operates a bulldozing and excavating busi shyness in the Woodstock area
Victor Skidra 6 is re tired f rom his job as a sc ientific evaluator with Hea lth and Welshyfare Canada He and hi s wife Konstance live in Nepean Ont
William Slusarchuk 63 (Eng) and MSc
The way we were in 1902 OAC alumnus Douglas Campbell 60 passes on a bit of col lege hi sto ry that shou ld make us think twice about our con stitutional squabbles in C anad a
Campbell is director of the Latin America and Caribbea n Trade Divis ion of Canada s Department of External Affa irs Last summer he hosted a vi s it by the president of Uruguay Luis Alberto Lacalle Herre ra whose grand fa the r made a simil a r vis it to Canada in 1902
This is what the elde r Herrera reported to his government Gue lph agricultural college enjoys a worldwide reputation and is con shys idered one of the grea t loca l attracshytions
More than 200 young Canadians a long with many foreign youths come together in its lecture rooms There are bursary ho lde rs from Norway and as far away as Mauritius C loser to us
Guelph Alumnus
67 was recently appo inted pres ident of AGRA Eanh and Environmental Group an envi ronme ntal and geotechnica l firm that is a division of AGRA Indu stries Limited
Michael Sullivan 87 A is a pol ice officer with the Wate rloo Regional Police in Cambridge Ont
Argentina has 12 students there We ll then couldnt Uruguay imshy
itate those good exa mples and also se nd a number of worthy youths to Guelph to acquire the professional knowledge which is becoming m ore necessary each day for the deve lopshyment of our agric ulture~
In addition to the sc ienti fic benefits that our compatriots woul d deri ve from entering sLlch a Canadian techni cal in shystitution there would be the inca lcushylable benefit of becoming familiar with the stric t manly and sound habits of these people who are admirable in e ve ry respect
Afte r they have stee ped themse lves in this atmos phere of dem ocracy which fosters the development of all rights and is alien to intolerance thi s legati on w ill have the great honor of sending home not only sc ientists but a lso mode l citizens
Brenda Trask 80 operates he r own comshymunica tion s consulting company in Osshygoode Ont She is marri ed to Ron Ferguso n
Dave Vanden Bosch 89 is manager of operator services and plann ing for Bell Canada in London Ont
J Stallard Skip Waterhouse 54 and hi s wife Li sa are ce lebrating the birth of a daughter Samantha Elizabe th on New Years Day 1992 They live in New York State where Wate rhouse is iI pro fe ssor of bio logical science at the Plattsburgh Sta te Uni versity College of Arts and Science
Jeff 88 and Karen (Burrows) W h ite 87 live in Strathroy Ont Jeff work s for Bell Canada and Kare n is a Lambton County rural orga ni za tion spec ialist with the Ontar io Mini stry of Agriculture and Food
Harold Wright 86 is a development repre shysenta tive for Ci ba-Ge igy Canada Ltd in Mi sshysissauga Ont He and Lori Krieg 84 plan to marry thi s sprin g
Donald Ziraldo 7 I received doubl e honors last winter fro m the Ontario grape and wine industry Preside nt of Inniskillin W ines of Niagara-on -the-Lake Ont he was named to the Royal Order of the Grape for hi s leadership in enhancing the prod uct and its image
In addition Z ira ldo and his partner Karl Kai se r were named 1991 Men of the Year by FoodsCIvice and Hospitalily magazine During the ir 17-year partnership at Inn isk ilshylin the two have been instrumental in shapshying Canada s wine industry the magazine sa id
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ave Barry Burtis 69 was named president of the Ontario Veterinary Medical Association in January after working with the voluntary organization for four years as a director member of its editorial board and chair of its public relations committee Burtis lives in Burlington Ont and practises at the Bay Cities Animal Hospital He also appears on a local cable television program called Pel Tales
William Medway 54 of Blackwood NJ has been named an honorary life member of the International Association for Aquatic Animal Medicine for his contributions on beshyhalf of the association and the field of aquatic medicine He is both a founding member and past president of the associa shytion A professor emeritus of clinical laboratory medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine Medway is a member of the Marine Mammal Commissions committee of scientific advisers
Diane Pickering-Forster 86 is practising at Vander Kraan Veterinary Services in Huntsville Ont She is malTied to Chris Forster and they have one daughter Julia
Julien Proulx 67 has moved from Kapusshykasing Ont to La Pocatiere Que where he is superintendent of Agriculture Canada s Experimental Farm Last year he was feashytured on TVOntarios French network series Personalire Ontarienne for his work as a veterinarian his participation in municipal politics and his support of regional developshyment in Northern Ontario He was also awarded Agriculture Canadas research branch prize Agcellence for extraordinary management during his direction of the reshysearch program at the Kapuskasing Exshyperimental Farm
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Twoc~ireers middot on the samepat~ OVCaruninus Geoffrey Lord 49 felt a thopedic
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There are amazing simi laritiesbetween surgery the c~reersof t~e two Guyanese wh6b6th says Lord If earnedvefetinary degrees atGueiph someone worked in c1ini(ai practice in)Yestem were to ask Canada then moved to the United States me ioday to work in human medic~lresearch what Tcon~
Narayan heads an AlDSresearchteamsider to be atJohns HopkiflS l1)iversilySchool of my expertise MediCirieinBaltimoreMatyland Lord is I would have retired directorofthdohnsonamp Johnson to saymecli- Geofrey Lord
middot Resear~h Foundalion ill NewJersey cal device lordsays he was influenced by OVC andbioshy
proJessDfs Anthony Kings(Qte and Frank Inaterials evaluation middot SchofieJd~ndwcentnton from GiJelphto pur- lt In the I 950s Lordwaspalt of ale-
sue graduate studies in parasitology auhe se~rch team that pioneered the use of University oJWiscollsin Sevenmorithsin animal tissue tOTeconstructdamagedjr
amixed practice in Drumheller Alta con blocked al1eries in hUl11ansTwenty years vinced him thaldinical medicine wasn6t middot later he drafted the first systematicap-
middot whati w~ted6 do He returned to Wis pr()ach to the safety evaluation of medica con5il110 eanla PhDlll pathologyano devices joined Johnson amp JohnsQri as asenior middot Allsubsequeill guidelines inCiLlding patilol()gistiriI953 those of the Foodaj)q Diug Admlnistrashy
Research at Johnson amp JohDson tiOnand the Canadian Regulatory ~teeredmeinto many interesting and chal- Authority hayeadopteoihis approach he
Jenging fieldsofbio-research includirig says derniiltoi9gy toxicologic pathology Lordand his wife Helen ltIividetheir wound healing surgical pathology iiinebetweel)Ciipe CodandBonita genera toxkology ofi~w drugs andor~ Springs FloriQa
Shane Renwick 77 and MSc 91 works in veterinary services at Agriculture Canada offices in Guelph
Ruth Reuter 61 is a veterinary pathologist in Plympton Australia
Tom Sanderson 6 1 was selected by the Ontario Veterinary Medical Association as Ontario Veterinarian of 1991 CUlTently OVCs co-ordinator of off-campus work terms he spent 20 years in private practice in Listowe1 and Mount Forest before returning to the coll ege in 1982 to manage the veterishynary research stations Sanderson s contribushytions to the profess ion have included many hours of volunteer work in the advancement
of the profession and in the development of veterinary inshysurance programs He is a past pres ident of both the Ontario and Canadian Veterishynary Medical associashytions
Jennifer Troughton 86 is practising in OronoOnt
Simone Woltner 86 is a veterinarian at the Chester Basin Animal Hospital in Chester Basin NS
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by her hu sband William and two sons The fo llowing dea ths have been reported since the las t issue of the Guelph Alumnus Full notices which are usu ally submitted by family or classmates may appear in thi s iss ue or in a later one
James Clement Arts 73 Feb 2 1992
Marilyn (Dyment) Farnan Mac 530 Feb 27 1992
David Fisher OAC 80A in October 1990
Elizabeth (C hristie) Glass Mac 3I D June 2l99 1
Peter Heskey OAC 54A Dec 6 199 1
Richard Ketchell OVC 51 Nov 23 199 1
Edward Kowalski Arts 79 in August 199 1
Pauline (Dixon) MacMillan Mac 240 Jan 2 1992
Catherine MacPherson Arts 83 Dec 11 1990
Marguerite (White) Maybury Mac 3 10 in June 1990
Donald McLeOd CSS 80 Jan 9 1992
Albert Meilus OAC 51 in 1991
Ann (Biggs) Ostler Mac 3 10 in April 1991
Robert Race Arts 73 in 1989
Ralph Sampson OAC 40 in December 1989
Mor ris Sanderson OAC 42 Nov 17 1991
Sir Peter Scott HDSc 8 1 in Au gust 1989
William Setterington OAC 40 Oct 22 1991
George Shoniker OAC 50A in March 199 1
John Somerset OAC 34 Dec 27 199 1
Gregory Van Patter OAC 7 1 in 1990
Frederich Weiland OAC 20A in 1990
Arts
Riccardo Rich Incitti 88 died Jan 5 1992 as the result of an accident near Hami lshyton Ont He was assistant manager at the Toronto-Dominion Bank in St Cathari nes and is survived by his parents Gu igi and Lucia of Cambridge and two sisters Laura and Andrea
Larry McNenly 73 died in October 1991 in Owen Sound Ont He is survived by his wife Marnie CSS 73
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Robert Everett HK 74 died in May 1991 in Burlington Ont A teac her at White Oaks Secondary Schoo l in Oakv ille he is survived by his wife Miche le and brother William CBS 74
James Sandy Fear 75 died Oct I I 199 1 in Toronto He is survi ved by his wi fe Sally (Firth) OAC 75 and hi s children Caitlin Alli son and Mered ith
CSS
Lynn (Dalys) Corby 84 died in Toron to May 6 1990 after a long battIe with cancer
Nancy (Birbeck) Gordon 77 died Oct 20 1991 in Ottawa after a short illness She worked at the Kitchener-Waterl oo Hospital and had previously been plan t accountant at Foseco Canada Incorporated in Guelph
Mac-FACS
Jean (Williams) Forward 280 Oct 28 1991 in Calgary She was the widow of Bower Forward OAC 25 and is survived by two sons
Catharine (Bechtel) Fromm 270 died Nov I 199 1 in Cambridge Ont She is surshyvived by three dau ghters Ellen Moore Mac 63 Nancy and Caro l
Alice (Rivaz) Garrard 28 di ed Dec 2 199 1 in Guelph She was an active member of the Mac-FACS Alumni Assoc iat ion and was the Mac 28 class agent for the Alma Mater Fund She is survived by her husband retired professor Edward Garrard OAC 27 and a daughter Betty Nelson
Della Marie (Diamond) Honey 300 of Warkworth Ont died June 29 1991 One ofWarkworths oldest and most respected citizens she served as local li brarian fo r 25 years She is survived by her son John OAC 52A his wife Patric ia and four grandchildren James OAC 84A William OAC 76A Thomas OvC 89 and Patricia Lonergan CSS 68
Barbara (Banigan) Martin 380 died Jan I 1992 in Don Mill s Ont A retired teacher wit h the North York Board of Education she is survived by a son Ted a sister and two brothers
Elizabeth (Burt) Perry 340 died June 28 1991 in Sidney BC and is surv ived by her husband Gordon and son Paul Nartel OAC 62
Jacqueline (Roy) Pote 34D died Dec 2 1 1991 in Willowdale Ont and is is survived
Merrill and Bill
Doroth y (MacFeeters) Scott 260 died Jan 14 1992 in Toronto She is su rvived by two daughters Anne Donaldson and Cynthia Scott
Florence (French) Snyder 370 died May 6 199 1 in Calgary and is survived by her husband Robert and two sons John and William
Katherine (Sweet) Watt Mac 220 died Feb 23 1992 She is survived by her husshyband Leslie a son David and a dau ghter Carol Gi llanders
Mattie (Newman) Widdicombe 240 died Dec 11 1991 in St Catharines Ont Preshydeceased by her husband John she is surshyvived by a bro ther and several nieces and nephews including Virginia Rigby Arts 76
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George Grey Arnup 38 died Feb 2 1992 in Toronto He spent most of his career with the plant protection branch of Agriculture Canada He is survived by his wife Aileen three chi ldren Nancy Jim and Mary Ellen Vincent CBS 79 and four grandchi ldren
Herbert Boyce 28 and MSA 43 died Sept 2 1991 in Amherstburg Onto He is survi ved by his wife Norah a daughter Beverley Med lock and a brother James OAC 32
Jack Reddy Brethet 56 died Nov 4 199 1 in Burlington Ont President of Brethet Barnum Assoc iates Inc he is surshyv ived by his wife Caro l and two daughters Lyn n and Anne
Bruce Foster 28 died Feb 6 1992 in Ridgetown Ont and is survi ved by his daughter Gayle Anderson and son David CBS 69
Allison Gardhouse 49 died Sept 21 1991 in Midland Ont He was re tired supe rshyintendent of schoo ls for the Simcoe County Board of Education and is survi ved by his wife Merle
Kenneth Harrison 24 died Nov 5 199 1 in Kentville NS A distinguished plant patho logist military officer and mycologist he began hi s career in 1926 as assistant plant pathologis t at the Kentvi lle Experimental Farm He worked there until retirement in 1966 wi th the exception of mi litary servi ce du ring the Second World War
Dr Harrison had a lifelong interes t in the study of mushrooms and publ ished numerou s technica l papers on the mu shroom flora of Nova Scotia In addition he enshy
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couraged interested amateurs and led field trips for student s at Acadia University and the general public from 1929 until 1987 In 1979 he was honored by Acadia wi th the dedication of the Kenneth A Harri son Laboratory of Mycology
During his career he was a member of many professional organizations a charter member of the Mycological Society of America and fe llow of the American Associashytion for the Advancement of Science
He is survived by hi s wife Margaret two brothers Maynard OAC 30 and Arthur OAC 29 two son s Ashley and Kenneth and a daughter Jennie Sheito
William Kellam 4 1 died Oct 19 1991 in Brockville Ont He was retired from the Curb and Gate Co of-Brock ville where he had worked as a lab technician fo r 28 years He is survived by his wife Kathleen a son George and a daughter Mary
William M acMillan 48 died in February 1992 in Winnipeg He was supervisor of Fertilizer marketing for the Manitoba Pool Elevators and is surv ived by hi s wife Edna Jean and brother Harry OAC 5 1 A
Cameron McTaggart 35 died Feb 4 1992 in Aurora Ont After graduating from OAC he became manager of Don Head Farms in Richmond Hill He established the first agricul tural consulting business in Canada in 1947 and later ran an Angus cattle
sales management business from the family farm A life member of the OAC Alumni As shysociat ion and the Class of 35 executive he is survived by his wife Margaret Mac 35 and two sons John OAC 62 of Regina and David of Largo Fla
Douglas Miller 48 of Victoria BC died Nov 24 1991 in Toronto He is survived by hi s wife Ruth and five children
Gregory More 76 was killed Feb 3 1992 in Kitchener Ont at the Ontario Glove Manufacturing Co where he was co-owner and vice-president Following graduation he worked for the Rohrer Drug Co and the Stershyling Drug Co then returned to school ea rnshying an MBA at McMaster University in 1981 More was an avid squash player and golfer Court A at the Northfield Racquet Club in Waterloo was dedicated to his memory in March He is survived by his parents Noreen and Ken a brother Randy and a sister Katherine Keeler
John Jack Pawley 33 died March I 1992 in Guelph He is survived by his wife Ruth son John OAC 62 and daughter-inshylaw Carolyn He was a former director of the Ontario Milk Marketing Board and a past member of the Royal City Lodge of Perfecshytion
Harold Reid 20A died in December 1991 in Burlington Ont During the First World W ar he was one of Canadas premier rad io
experts work ing at the Roya l Canadian Navy shore transmitter in Sydney NS After the war he came to OAC to earn a diploma then went on to QueenS University to comshyplete an arts and theology degree His mini sshytry was mainly in St And rews and Montreal although he spent 13 years teaching Hebrew at the Presbyterian Coll ege before retiring in 1968
Donald Robertson 3 1 died Nov 4 1991 in Iroquois Ont He is survived by hi s wife Caroline (Grisdale) Mac 38 his two son s ScottOAC 65A and Guy and a daughter Sandra McNeil
Thomas Rokeby 48 and MSA 50 died Jan 29 1992 in Fayetteville Ark He was a professional engineer and tau ght for 30 years in the Univers ity of Arkansas engineering department Born in Port Rowan Ont he was a member of the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War the American Society of Agricultural Engineers and the agricultural honor societies of Gamma Sigma Delta and Alpha Epsilon He is surv ived by his wife Helen two sons Robert and Richard a daughter Penny and three brothers Michael Noel and Richard OAC 54
Francis Sweeney OAC 45 died Nov 17 1991 in Oakville Ont He was a longtime employee of Shell Canada and [nternational Shell working in Great Britain Europe and
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============= IN MEMORIAM ============= Venezuela He is survived by his wife Lynn and two daughters Alyson and Joselyn
Berna rd Weeks 35 died Oct 16 199 1 After graduation he re turned to his roots in
ew York and Pennsylvannia and worked in 4-H and you th organi zations for a few years He then took over the family farm at Troupsburg NY and built up a dairy operashytion with a sideline of sheep He is surv ived by his wife Ruth and four children
Glenn White 43 of Belleville Onl died Nov 24 199 1 in Florida and is surv ived by hi s wife Marjorie
ave Norman Anderson 39 of Wi nn ipeg died Dec 18 1991 in Arizona He had practised veterinary medicine in Norwood Man and was a member of the American Equine Pracshytitioners Association director of the Canadian Thoroughbred Society and track veterinarian at Assin iboia Downs for 50 years He is survived by his wi fe Peggy and two sons Laurie and James
George Beatty 5 I died Nov 22 1991 in Inverness III He practised in Palatine fo r 36 years and founded the Palatine Animal Hospi tal He was an active member of the American Animal Hospital Assoc iati on and the Chicago Veterinary Association and was a director of the Friends of the University of Guelph He is survived by his wife Mary and fo ur children - Suzanne Patricia Margaret and Tim
John Hamilton 5 L died Dec 15 1991 He had lived in Roslin On where he owned the Bay Regional Veterinary Hospital He is survived by hi s niece Ann Bongard
Nicholas Labzoffsky 39 died Dec 25 1991 in Largo Fla Fonnerly of Toronto he had li ved most recen tl y in Dorse t Ont and is survived by hi s wife Jane
Edgar Langford 49 died March 41992 in Monarch Alta A former research scienshytist with ADRI (Western) he is survived by his wife Norma and two daughters includshying Carolyn OVC 76
Stuart Maude 4 1 died Jan 14 1992 in Rosemead Calif A former Rosemead counshycillor and four-time mayor he operated the Rosemead Animal Hospital with his brother Arthur 52 from 1953 to 1980 He was a trustee for Ingles ide Hospital a past grand patron of both the Rosemead and the Califorshynia Order of Eastern Star and past-president of the local Kiwanis Club and Chamber of Commerce He is survived by his wife Vera two daughters Patricia and Susan Bezner a son Stuart and three brothers
Walter Morley 42 o f Mildmay On died Nov 28 199 1 He ran a large animal pracshytice in the Mild may area for 39 years raised cat tle and raced standardbred horses He was also a pu blic school board trustee and direcshytor of a local te lephone company for more
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than 30 years He is survived by his wife Joyce five sons - two of whom are OVC alumni Dave 68 and Randy 74 - and 10 grandchildren
Lloyd Neily 52 died Jan 3 1992 in Hantsport NS A retired meat inspector w ith the federal Department of Agriculture he had a private veterinary practice in Wind sor NS He is surv ived by hi s wife Mary
Elford Nundal 43 died Jan 7 1992 in Langley BC after a long battle with canshycer He operated a veterinary practice in Langley for 36 years and served as a di strict aldennan for 10 years before being elected mayor in 1982 Last year he received the BC Veterinarian Association s award of merit for a lifetime of veterinary work
Humphrey Rees 55 died Sepl 30 1991 in Amman Jordan while on ass ignment for the Overseas Development Ad ministrat ion as veterinary and animal hu sbandry adviser to the Jordani an government His contemshyporaries at Guelph will remember him as a singer debater raconteur rugby player and bon vivant He is surv ived by his wife Alice of POlt Eynon Wales
William Stinson 40 died Feb 15 1992 in Norwood Ont He is survi ved by his wife Rita a son John OVC 67 a brother Ford OAC 34 and a grandson John CSS 87
Faculty
Patric ia Harney died Dec 191991 in Yarshymouth NS A professor in the Department of Horticultural Science from 1962 to 1988 she developed severa l new variet ies of geraniums and was instru mental in es tabshylishing the Frances Ball rose collection at the Arboretum
Anthony Marston died Feb 3 1992 in Fershygu s ant Retired from the School of Hotel and Food Administration he was an acshycomplished competition chef who received his training in Switzerland and England He then spent severa l years working in the Caribbean before coming to Guelph in 1970 A member of the Canadian Olympic culinary team he held a number of positions in the
Donations given in memory ofGuelph alumni will help support University scholarships ifdirected to the Alumni M emorial Fund In 1991 donations were made in memory of the following alumni
Frank MacDonald OAC 37
Frank King OAC 33 -Robert Allen OAC 56A
Alice (Rivaz) Garrard Mac 28
Stan Vesselinovitch OVC 57
For more infonnation call the Office of Annual Giving at 519-824-4120 Ext 6 183
hote l and food industry until retiring in 1982 He is survived by hi s wife Di ana
Gordon McNally dled Jan 12 1992 in Guelph A professor in the Department of Zoo logy from 1934 to 1971 he served as academic assistant to the dean of CBS until retiring in 1979 While at Guelph he was honorary pres id ent of the classes of OAC 54 58 and 67 He is survived by his daughter Jean two siste rs and two grandchildren Prof McNallys family has established the A Gordon Mc a lly Memorial Fund to support a sc holarship or bursary Contributions may be sent care of the Alma Mater Fund Alumni Hou se University of Guelph Guelph ant N I G 2WI
Friends
Jean (Young) Branion died March 3 1992 in Guelph She was the wife of the late Hugh Branion a physiology professor at U of G and assistant to presidents Bill Winegard and Don Forster Jean Branion was an act ive volunteer on campus for many years and one of the firs t presidents of the College Womens Club She is survived by a son Richard and his wife Marga re t of Vanshycouve r and five grandchi ldren Donati ons may be made to the Hugh D Branion Memorial Scholarship through Alumni House
Davy Alexander Hamilton-Williamson died Feb 4 1992 in Guelph A painter and author of childrens stories he had been a member of the University s Presidents Council s ince it began in 1 985
Marjorie Pinkney wife of J ames Pinkney OVC 3 7 died Dec 151 99 [ at her home in Milton ant
Samuel Wyal died March 15 1992 in Brantford ant He was a partner in the law firm Wyatt Purce ll Will Stillman and Scott He is surv ived by his wife M a bel Mac 39 four sons Peter Michael William and John and two daughters Mary Alderson and Sarah Nadalin Arts 82
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DIVIDENDS
Facts about university education in Canada and how we pay for it
By 2000 half of all new jobs in Canada will require a university degree
But at the current rate of government funding only one in five children
will have a chance to go to university
In the seven years from 1982 to 1989 per-student grants to universities in
Ontario barely kept pace with intlation at five per cent
per-student funding at American public univers ities jumped an average
of 23 per cent in the same period
Those US universities also receive twice the federal research dollars per student as do Ontario universities
In 1987 the average salary of a full-time professor at an Ontario univers ity was $55500
compared with $68200 for a private-sector position of similar education and experience
Lawyers economists and engineers made an average of $71 000
Ontario ranks ninth out of the to provinces in terms of grants to universities
Between 1978 and 1991 enrolment at Ontario univers ities grew by 40 per cent while funding dropped
from 59 to 409 per cent of total government spending
Universities were spending 14 per cent less per student between 1977 and 1988 hospital expenditures
rose 38 per cent per patient in the same period
Ontario universities generate $3 of economic activity for every
$1 invested by government funding
And the number of jobs generated by university activities in
Ontario is greater than the employment impact of the textile
industry the entire paper and pulp industry or utilities
University graduates can look forward to earning 63 per cent more than the average industrial worker
A 1990 survey of U of G alumni found that two years after graduation 97 per cent of Guelph grads
looking for work were employed 62 per cent were earning $25000 or more and 10 per cent were
earning $40000 or more
Unemployment rates in 1990 for those with a university degree was about one-third what it was
for those with only a high school diploma
Every year from 1978 to 1987 Ontario university inves tments in renovating or replacing
aging buildings could not keep pace with the rate at which the buildings depreciated
Graphics by Debbie Thompson Wilson Statistics supplied by th~ Council 01 Ontario UniverSities Statistics Canada and the U01 G Student EnVifonment Study Group
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A salute to sport Alumni Weekend June 19-21 9am Sio-pitch tournament
The tradition Jives on at the south quad diamond s Cooed teams of 12 or more players are encourshyaged to join in the fun
FRIDAY 10 am to 9 pm Registration Lambton Hall
6 pm Kick-off dinner and half-time show
get set and join In the Olympic spirit one of Alumni Creelman Hall will Weekends host the Wonderful most popular World of Sports with events Tours a half-time slide show start from to entertain alumni of Alumni House all ages and are sponshy9 pmshy sored by the Observatory tours CBS Alumni
Association
10 am and 2 pm
SATURDAY 8 am to 5 pm Guided Registration walking tours Lambton Hall
Remember 9 am to 5 pm making s now Alumni House tours sc ulptures on Students will host tours of Alumni House throughshyout the weekend Come and see what the generosity of alumni has accomplished
9 am to noon Alumni association annual meetings
This is the official notice for the annual general meetings of the following alumni associations
CBS - Alumni House starts at 830 am before guided walk MacFACS - HAFA Building Room 209
OVC - OvC Room 1438
OAC - Macdonald Hall Room 149
CSS - MacKinnon Building Room 305
HAFA - Alumni Hou se boardroom
Gryphs Lounge will be open for lunch and afLer the game
930 am Guided nature walk at the Arboretum
On your mark
Noon - OVC luncheon
The OvC Alumni Association will host a luncheon open to all OvC alumni and their guests
2 pm - Campus Showcase 92
Following on the heels of last year s success Campus Showshycase 92 will be bigger and better Come to the University Centre to see exhibits representing all areas on campus The Campus Junction store will also be open
2 pm - Zavitz Hall tour
Alumni are invited to browse through the newly renovated Za vitz Hall and attend a recep shytion sponsored by the Colshylege of Arts Alumni Asshysoc iation
5 pm Golden anniversary dinner
The OAC OvC and MacshyFACS alumni associations will provide complimenshytary tickets for alumni celebrating 50 years or more Additiona l tickets can be purchased Classes
Johnston Green or playing intramural hockey in the old Quonset arena Relive some of the memories by taking a walking tour of campus Tours begin from the lobby ofLambton Hall
Noon - Alumni picnic
This apopular event has new location - the sculpshyture garden beside the Macshydonald Stewart Art Centre Come on your own or reshyserve a group of tables for friends and classmates
Noon - Class reunion lunches
OAC 37 Mac 37 OAC 42 Mac 42 OAC 47 Mac 52 Mac57 Mac 67 FACS 72 FACS 77 FACS 87
OAC 67 FACS 82 OAC 82 OAC 82A CBS 82 FACS 87 OAC 87
SUNDAY 9am Church service and War Memorial Hall rededication
Thanks to a commitment from the Alma Mater Fund renovashytion of the upstairs of War Memorial Hall has been comshypleted Join us for the rededicashytion ceremony commemorating the 1924 opening and the 1952 dedication of an OAC memorial plaque
being honored are OAC 22 OAC 47 OvC 22 Mac 22 OAC 27 OvC 27 Mac 27 OAC 32 OvC 32 Mac 32 OAC 37 OvC 37 Mac 37 OAC 42 OvC 42 Mac 42
6 pm Class reunion dinners
Special dinn e r reunions are planned for OAC 47 OAC 52 OAC 52A OvC 52 Mac 57 OAC 57 OAC 62 Mac 67
10am UGAA annual meeting
All alumni are encouraged to atshytend the UGAA annual meeting in Macdonald Hall Room 149 An amendment to the UGAA Letters Patent and a revised bylaw will be presented for ap shyproval Copies of both are availshyable on request from Alumni House Call 519-824-4120 Ext 6544
11 am - Farewell brunch
The final event of Alumni Weekend will be held in Creelshyman Hall Come and meet the Univers ity S president Brian Segal The Alumnus of Honour medal will be presented at noon
To receive an Alumni Weekshyend brochure or to register for events call Alumni House at 59-824-4120 Ext 6963
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Space available now Exceptional office and research facilities in our multi-tenant Research Park Centre
Research-driven corporations are breaking new ground at the University of Guelph Research Park Centre with exceptional growth opporshytunities in an ideal business setting
This 30-acre Research Park also accommodates tenants who choose to construct their own office and laboratory facilities
Find out why organizations such as Semex Canada Tremco Limited the Ontario Dairy Herd Improvement Corporation George Morris Centre LIPID Analytical Laboratories and Agriculture Canada have chosen the University of Guelph Research Park Call Ralph Eades or Judy Phillips Real Estate Division University of Guelph Telephone (519) 767-5003 or Fax (519) 837-0353
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A new kind of class reunion
Its the latest fad in alumni circles shymeeting your classmates at the anshynual University of Guelph alumni hockey tournament Twenty-two teams played in the fifth annual tourshynament in December
For most teams tournament standshyings are secondary to the socializing with classmates that they may not see otherwise says Bill Seegmiller OAC 83 who worked with Brian TapscottOAC 8 1 to organize the event We promote the social aspect through two divisions - social and more social - and include family skating and a Saturday evening wine and cheese party he says Trish Walker director ofalumni affairs presents fhe social division lrophy 10 Ihe OAC 79
Dipper Oldies (II the U ofG alumni hockey tournamenl The OAC 79A team defeated the Grey Gryphons to win the more soshycial division The OAC 80 team won the consolation final and the spirit award went to OAC 7778
In the social (a little more competishytive) division it was the Faceoffs in first place over OAC 88 OAC 90 won the consolation trophy and the Valley Vikings took home the spirit award
Organizers plan to add womens exshyhibition games to the 1992 tournament which is scheduled for Dec 5 and 6 For more information call Seegmiller at 519-836-3807 or Rudy Diemer OAC 85 at 519-763-2250
A night at the races
The UGAA Alumni-in-Action group will host a night at Mohawk Raceway May 26 The $30 admission includes a 6 pm buffet parking program taxes and gratuities For detail s call Laurie
~ Malleau at 519-824-4120 Ext 2102
I Alumni directory
A new alumni directory will be ready for delivery in May The deadline for alumni updates has passed but you can still order a copy of the directory at a cost of $40 plus tax Return the order form you received with the special U of G wristwatch offer or write to Rosemary Clark Mac 59 at Alumni House University of Guelph Guelph Ont NIG 2Wl
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Ottawa chapter 50 years young
There was a nostalgic gathering of Guelph alumni in Ottawa last winter to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the city s alumni chapter
Donald Fletcher OAC 36A and 39 who was president of the group in 1953 sent us a historical account of the chapters activities
A small organizing committee first met in February 1941 at Madame Burgers restaurant to plan the chapters first fun ction a skating party at the Ottawa Experimental Farm It attracted 75 people
Over the years the group held an anshynual picnic and a banquet and dance that gave them a chance to invite faculty from Guelph to speak about happenings at the colleges - and later the Univershysi ty Every president from George I Christie to Bill Winegard paid a vi sit
In 1951 alumni from OVC and Macshydonald Institute who had been meeting since 1936 joined the OAC group A crowd of almost 200 celebrated the chapter s 10th anniversary at a picnic at the farm of the late John Bracken OAC 06 During the 1950s they added a get-together at the annual Ottawa-area plowing match which gave way to a curling bon spiel in the 1960s
There have been many special funcshytions - entertaining the Gryphon footshyball teams square dances car rallies golf tournaments theatre parties and raceway evenings - but the event that stands out in Fletchers memory ocshycurred in 1966 when five members of Parliament hosted the group in the parshyliamentary ballroom
The chapter also includes a couples bridge club which has been meeting for 25 years in the homes of its members
Fletcher thanks the 30 people who have served as president of the Ottawa alumni chapter and the dozens more who have helped on committees devot shying years to the executive to promote the institution
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ALUMNI CAREER PLANNING WEEKEND WORKSHOP
JUNE 26 27 amp 28 ~ The Program This highly successful workshop developed by Sharon Crozier PhD University Counselling Services University of calgary is the first step for an alumnus who is considering a career move The weekend (Friday evening through Sunday afternoon) will consist of group presentations conducted by Dr Crozier with smaller working groups facilitated by profeSSional counsellors from the University of Guelph Counselling and Student Resource Centre
Discussion structured exercises and experiential activities will lead alumni to gain insight into a personal careerllifestyle analYSis and assessment career information resources networking skills and much more
No matter what their age career stage or reason for transition each participant will find this workshop to be an excellent opportunity to develop a personal action plan - and chart their next move
~ Pre-1esting In order to provide individualized career information registrants are required to attend one of two pre-testing sessions The Strongshycampbell Interest Inventory and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator will be administered and results tabulated prior to the workshop Pre-testing dates are as follows
Toronto Wednesday May 27 1992 700 pm - 8 30 pm Holiday Inn Yorkdale
Guelph Thursday June 4 1992 700 pm - 8 30 pm University Centre
~ Fee The registration fee of $225 includes administration and tabulation of the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator materials two lunches and refreshment breaks
Tuition fees in excess of $100 are income tax deductible
Enrolment is limited to 20 registrants
Sponsored by University of Guelph Alumni Association
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May 2 - The Guelph Spring Festival begins with a 25th-anniversary gala dinshyner in Creelman Hall that will honor founding president Murdo MacKinnon Other festival events run until May 23 For more information call 519-821-7570
May 2 shy An All-Canadian University Asshysociation d inne r w il l be held in Washington DC at the Embassy of Canada Guest speaker is Robert Lanni president of the University of Windsor Entertainment will be provided by Windsors music department For inforshymation call T Chan at 202-543-9111
May 3 - Arboretum Day celebrates spring with family nature walks at 1 and 330 pm and an electrical keyboard concert at 230 pm featuring Canadian comshyposer Carole Anne Burris
May 10 to Aug 30 - Guided nature walks run every Sunday at 230 pm in the Arboretum Topics include wildflowers birds turtles snakes and insects The nature centre is open from 1230 to 430 pm
May 13 - Chancellor Lincoln Alexander is the guest speaker at the Alumni-inmiddotAction annual general meeting which begins at noon in the Arboretum Centre For details call Alumni Affairs 519-824middot 4120 Ext 2102
May 13 - The Human KineticsHuman Biology Alumni Association will hold its inaugural meeting at730 pm at Alumni House with a coffee and dessert social RSVP to 519-824-4120 Ext 6963
May 23 shy FACS 82 is sponsoring a colshylection of Bob Munsch plays performed by the Carousel Players at3 pm at War Memorial Hall Tickets are $8 plus tax and handling To order call the UC box off ice at 519-824-4120 Ext 3940
May 26 - Alumni-in-Action is hosting a night at Mohawk Raceway Cost is $30 To register call 529-824-4120 Ext 2102
May 30 - An Arboretum sale of rare native trees and shrubs at the RJ Hi lton Centre on College Avenue East runs from 9 am to 1 pm For information call 519-824shy4120 Ext 2113
May 30 shy The sixth annual All-Canadian University Dinner in Chicago will be held
in the Henry Crown Space Centre at the Museum of Science and Industry and will include a reception buffet dinner and an Omnivax movie beginning at 6 pm Guest speaker is George Pedersen president of the University of Western Ontario For information call David Cole at 312-372-4404 or Hugh Mackenzie at 708-369-3688
June 2 to 5 shy Spring convocation June 13 - Beginning at 7 am the Arshy
boretum will hold its summer bird survey The four-hour walk will locate breeding birds and identify their species by sight and song
June 15 to 17 shy U of G will host the 15th annual Guelph Conference on Sexuality With the theme Sexuality New Visions the conference will examine current isshysues in human sexuality counselling strategies for sexual problems and teaching approaches in sexuality educashytion For information call the Office of Continuing Education at 519-767-5000 or fax 519-767-0758
June 19 to 21 - ALUMNI WEEKEND See page 39 for a complete schedule of events and alumni association meetings The UGAA annual meeting is June 21 at 10 am in Macdonald Hall 149
June 26 to 28 shy The UGAA-sponsored alumni career-planning workshop will be held on campus See page 26 for details
July 31 amp Aug 4 shy The National Youth Orchestra will perform in War Memorial Hall at 8 pm as part of its summer program at U of G Tickets at $8 general $6 for stUdents and seniors will be availshyable at the door
Sept 26 - HOMECOMING Rise early for the second ann ual Homecoming charity walkathon At 930 am the Human Kinetics Alumni Association will hold its annual general meeting in the School of Human Biology lounge
Oct 1 - OVCs 1992 Schofield Memorial Lecture will be given by Steven Arnoczky a professor in the department of small animal clin ical sciences at Michigan State Universitys Laboratory for Comparative Orthopedics The 3 pm lecture will be held in War Memorial Hall Admission is free
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John Boros 88 of Wei land Ont writes that he is impressed by the way U of G keeps records after graduation Thi s gives the graduate a sense of belonging a connection to an important period in hi s or her life he says
Jane Buzza 88 is working as records co-ordinatorarchivist for the Ontario Medishycal Association in Toronto
Jacqueline (Sullivan) DeClerck 86 is a public relations officer at the Canada Trust head office in London Onto
Richard Ely 70 works at the Crown attorneys office in WeIland Ont He has an LLB from the University of Western Ontario in addition to his Guelph degree He says he often talks about U of G to young students trying to decide which university to attend
Paul Genest 81 finished graduate studies at Johns Hopkins Universi ty in Maryland and is now assistant professor of philosophy at Union College in Schenectady NY He is man-ied to Barbara Jessup 8 1
Brian Hogarth 78 is head of interpretashytion at the G1enbow Museum in Calgary
Martha Hooper 9 1 was married last Ocshytober to David Perry They live in Calgary where she is a sw itchboard operator at the Delta Bow Valley Inn
Rene van der Meijden 87 has put his degree in geogshyraphy and internationshyal development to good use with the Christian Reformed World Relief Comshymittce Originally from the Netherlands he is now in Uganda on a three-year asshy Rene van der signment as a rural Meijden development adv iser He sends greetings to his many friend s in Canada and to Guelph grads Stan and Kitty in Bolivia in particular and reminds us that visitors are always welshycome in Uganda
Edward Milliner 85 will graduate this spring from the faculty of education at the University of Windsor
Mark Moore 85 is doing postgraduate work in history at the University of Bristol in England He plans to teach high school
fn response to a letter from Dawn Monroe 69 that appeared in the winter 1992 issue of the Guelph Alumnus Doug Moynihan 69 of Fort McMurray Alta writes Be disapshypointed no more Dawn l I too graduated in 1969 from (the College of) Arts or as it was then called Wellington College and I havent heard from anyone either And I too think it is time to contribute my news
After graduation f headed out to disshycover and sol ve the problems of the world travelling overseas for about three years Since then Ive been working in human resources in a variety of organizations in many different locations in Canada Cun-entshyIy I am the manager of human resources in Fort McMurray
PS Do you remember me Dawn I was the bartender in Creelman Hall I
John Teskey 7 1 began new duties last summer as director of libraries at the University of New Brunsw ick in Fredericton He was head of adshyministrative sershyvices at the University of Albershyta before moving John Teskey across Canada to acshycept the UNB posishytion but had earlier served as chief librarian and was library personnel officer at both Alshyberta and the University of Saskatchewan
Teskey says his biggest challenge is to regain the lost purchasing power that univershysity libraries have suffered as a result of static budge ts and ri sing material costs He is encouraging increased resource-sharing among universities and interlibrary loan programs with shortened turnaround
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Elizabeth (Baxter) Willson 77 a real esshytate agent in Chatham Ont writes to voice a common feeling that the universi ty exshyperience itself is often more important than the degree or diploma received I am really glad I graduated from Guelph she says
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Michelle Bombadier and Mike Caldwell both 92 are two of 50 Canad ian youth selected to work in Guyana for three months with Youth Challenge International (YCI) a non-governmental organization that provides Third-world experience for Canadians They may spend the summer building a school teaching safety or clearing land for Gu ytna s first national park but they need some private support to he lp cover transportation costs Anyone able to help should write to YCI at I I Soho St Toronto M5T IZ6
Jane Coventry 86 writes with accolades for the Guelph Alumnus grad news section and an update on what she and her husband Jaydee Smith 84 and MSc 89 are doing They were married in 1989 while working at U of G - he in the Department of Animal and Poultry Science and she in the Departshyment of Crop Science In February 1991 they moved to England where Smith is doing a PhD at the University of Bristol and working as a research assistant Coventry
works in the technology transfer unit of Nickshyerson Seeds Ltd in Cambridge
Jeffrey Crawford 88 and Leslie Thompson 86 were malTied last October He is an elementary schoolteacher in Mount Forest Ont
Craig Emerson 83 earned a PhD at Dalshyhousie University in Halifax in 1990 and is now a research associate in oceanography
Paul Fleming 85 is a pharmaceutical sales representative for Hoechst Canada Inc and lives in Nepean Ont
David Forsey 80 is an assistant professor of computer science at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver He is marshyried to Lyn Bartram
Michael Gangl 89 is in his third year at the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College
Astrid Harms 87 is a registered nurse in London Ont
Andrew Holmes 85 worked for the Onshytario government as a wildlife biologist for three years but is now back at school in his second year at Northwestern Chiropractic College in Minneapolis
Timothy Johnson 86 works at the Centre for Limnology at the University of Wisconshys in in Madison
Karen Lennard 77 (HK) and her hu sshyband Paul Jackson 79 (HK ) and MSc
82 both went 011 to earn medical degrees from McMaster University in HalTilton Ont Jackson also has a master s in physiology from the University of Virginia and is comshypleting an anesthesiology residency in Hamilshyton Lennard has a part-time family medical practice allowing her to spend more time with the couples two children Matthew and Nicola
Wendy Maltby 74 is an elementary schoolteacher for the Metropolitan Toronto School Board
Sandra OConnor 84 earned a medical degree from the University of Western Onshytario and is now practi sing in Burlington Ont
Linda Owen 81 runs her own business as a consulting exercise physiologist and fitness supervisor in Campbell River BC
Sheryle Tetley 86 is regional sales manager for Glaxo Canada Inc in Mi ss isshysauga Ont where she lives with her husshyband Ian
Rob Tonus 87 is manager of the Black Creek Rehabilitation Project a grassroots enshyvironment program to improve a degraded urban stream in Toronto His office is with the Metropolitan Toronto and Region Conshyservation Authority and he lives in Oakville with his wife Wanda (Knul) 88 (HK) a public health inspector in Hamilton
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Richard Woods 81 is an instructor of xshyray technology at the Easte rn Ontario School of X-ray Technology at Kingston Ge neral Hospital He would like to hear from other members of the 1981 U of G choir wi th whom he travelled to Scandinav ia Write to him at RRI Od essa Ont KOH 2HO
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James Dy nes 84 has comp le ted g raduate studies in chemistry and so il sc ience at the Univers ity of Sas katchewan in Saskatoon
Catherine (McVittie) Clark 88 is a nuclear medica l tech nici an at Howard Counshyty General Hospita l in Columbia Md She and her husband Michae l li ve in Elkridge Md
David Holmes 85 is a systems analyst at Sun Life Assurance Company
RolfKierdorf 84 lives in Guelph with his wife Janet He is se lf-employed as a systems consultant
Donald McFadde n 71 and his wife Carol li ve in A lbany Ga where he pracshyti ses medicine
Donald Ridley 69 and PhD 73 has been appoin ted seni or v ice-presiden t of CibashyGeigy Canada Ltd in Oakvi lle Ont and is responsib le for a ll corpora te serv ices includshy
ing finance human resources safe ty health and the environment He a lso se rves on the board of the Canadian Agricu ltura l Research Council and is a member of the Great Lakes Action Plan Strategi c Advi sory Committee
Kathryn Root Parr is an assoc iate minister at Lorne Park Bapti st Church in Mississhysa uga Ont She was married las t fa ll to Vicshytor Parr
Peter Simpson 85 is dis tric t manager for McNeil Pharmaceutical Ltd in Stouffville Ont He is married to Cynthia (Hamilton) 85 (HK)
Keith Stemshorn 83 is in the Canadian Armed Forces stationed in Calgary
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Nikki Dignard 86 moved to Ottawa last year where her husband Ted Henike pracshyti ses denti stry Dignard is working on an M BA and says she d love to hear from CSS classmates Tom Cam and Kathryn
Bonnie Dunnett 87 and MA 91 works on campus at the Gerontology Research Centre S he and Barry Hallman 9 1 li ve in Guelph
Kathryn Faulkner 80 is a registered nurse in Burling ton Ont where she li ves wi th he r husband John
Ruth Fox 84 is a sta ffing assistant for
Transport Canad a and lives in Toronto w ith her husband Christopher
Shonna Giles 88 is an admiss ions officer at Simon Fraser Unive rs ity in Burnaby BC
Gina Grieco 75 is a hi gh school guidance counsellor in North York Onto
John Harris 82 is manager of financial planning and budgets for th e City of Brampton Ont
Paulette Heppner 76 is a teache r in Vanshycouver
John Johnston 7 1 has been appointed exshyec uti ve vice-pres ident o f Ve rsacold Canada Corp and pres ident of QF Foods Distribushytion Services Versacold Canada is the largest public refri gera ted ware hou sing orshygani za tion in Western Canada
Michael Kral 79 has moved from the Univers ity of Manitoba to the University of Wind sor where he is an assistant professor of psychology
Jeffrey Lozon 76 and his family recently returned to Toronto after 15 years in Western Canada He is executive vice-president and ch ief operat ing officer at St Michael s Hos pital and li ves in Oakville wi th hi s wife Donna and two daughters
Bria n Martin 79 is a real estate appraiser in Portland Ont whe re he li ves w ith hi s wife Margaret (Sheffield) Arts 79
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Leith Mason 90 works in Toronto in the Canadian office of the State of Illinois as a special assistant to the Illinois Department of Food and Agricul ture
Michael McKean 74 of Don Mills Ont was recently appointed president of Wrigley Canada Inc Before joining Wrigley as execushytive v ice-pres ident in 1990 he he ld senior positions in Hong Kong Brazil and the United States
Rick 74 and Vicki (Collard) McTaggart FACS 74 are working in Ottawa He is director of overseas operations for the Unitarian Service Committee a charitable non-governmental organization that supports commun it y and human resou rce developshyment activities in Africa and Asia She is sec tion head of consumer analysis in the agr ifood development branch of Agriculture Canada
Sandra Morrison 86 is an ass istant professhysor in the department of psychiatry at the University of Western Ontario
Stephen Naylor 85 is director of planning and development for the amalgamated municipalities of Alliston Beeton Tecumshyseth and Tottenham
Brian ONeill 68 MA lives in SUITey England where he is managing director of Innovation Management Consultant s
Jodi Parisi 89 is a sales representative for Gillette who says U of Goo was the greatest
Moira Skikavich 81 is completing a PhD in c inematelevision at the University of Southern California
Virginia Sutherland 78 is an air traffic controller at the Toronto Island Airport
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Peggy Bates 88 was recently promoted to sales manager with Sears Canada Inc She lives in Owen Sound Ont
Caroline Begin 86 is working in Singshyapore as a dietitian
Diana Close 87 is a c linical nutri ti onis t at Chedoke McMaster Hospital in Hamilton Ont
Sarah Davenport 90 is a case worker with the Wellington County Social Services office in Guelph She is malTied to Matthew Harvey CBS 90
Timothy Dyck 8 1 is national sales manager for Black amp Decker Canada workshying out of the Corbin Division in Richmond HillOnt
Sharon (Muir) 84 and Richard Ernst CBS 83 are the proud parents of a future Guelph grad uate one-year-old Andrew Graham
Patricia Edwards 78 is food servi ce sushypervisor fo r St Peter s Hospita l in Hamilton Ont
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For the love ofteaching Since she
middot graduated bull from Macshydonald Inshymiddot stitute in
J 963 Nancy Kerr has built a career on teaching and research in telttles The middotheidofthe Uriiveisityof
Albertas department of Clothing and texiiles pursues a middotscientific interest inthepreservashylion of hi stori~lfabricsarid in developing pesticide-proofc1otl1ing But Jler fitstlove i ~ teaching
In 199b shewonone ofU of As four Rutherford AWljrds for excellence ill unshy
dergraduate teat-hing The first member of the faculty middotofliomemiddoteconornicsto receive the award slie was the rcentcipient6f the facultys own underglltiduate teaching award three years earlier
Winning the Rutherford was a gteat honor says Ken who has been on
faculty at Alberta since 1967 She oiscovered she had an aptitude for
middot teaching as a graduate student at the University of California Davis in
196566 After earning her MSc she casr about for afaculty position in Canada and round U of A was the 0111y place I could teach ju t textiles plus have a chance to develop new cQurses and research labs
middot Kerr sa)s she gets a tremelldous sense of satisfaction from teaching and the learning he must do to stay cUlTent She attributes her succe s as a teaCher to middotIec-middot
middot tures that are well organized and clear and to creltting a positive classroom climate
~Thcomfort level of students is reaUy middot ililportanL ~ Kerr eamedherPhD in fibre lnd
polymer science from North Carolina bull Staie University in 1982 Her doctoral work concentrated oil deacidification
techniques to preserve historicatcottOnln 1988 she spent a sabbatical ye~r doing research at the Caliadian Conservation
middot In tirute in OnflW1 middot Originalmiddotly from Ottawa Kerr is a
trarisphlnted -vesterner who enjoys middot hiking anlt sk1ing
From left Diane Ellison Lisa Wilson Lori Davis and Pippa Hobbes
Diane Ellison 84 is liv ing in Osaka Japan where she teaches English to Japanese busishyness people Last October she welcomed three U of G friends for a visit Lori Davis CSS 85 manager of Jumbo Video Inc in Oakville Ont Pippa Hobbes 84 accountshying manager for Paramount Holidays in Willowda le Ont and Lisa Wilson 84 co-ord inator of membership serv ices for the Metropolitan Toronto Board of Trade
Monica Hrybko HAFA 88 is director of sales for the Ramada Hotel Old Town in San Diego Calif
David Jones HAFA 88 is a con troller at the Holiday Inn Montreal Centre-Ville
Kathleen McLachlin 83 is operating an insurance agency in Kitchener OnL She opened the State Farm Insurance office in March 1988 and says she loves her job
Susan (Goettler) Parker 80 is working in Toronto as benefits administrator for Imshyperial Oil Limited She is married to Donald Parker OAC 79
Mary Jean (Sinnott) Price Mac 7 1 has returned to sc hool at the University of Otshytawa to earn a bachelor of education
Margaret (Richardson) Rankin 75 has been living in Halifax since 1990 and is an account analyst for Central Guaranty Trust
Janet (Wanless) Sutherland 77 is in private practice as a marriage and family therapist in East Kelowna BC
Jean Thomson Mac 37 says 1937 was a long time ago but shes delighted with all the changes that have gone at the college A former hospita l nutritionist she is retired and living in London Ont -
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Olayiwola Layi Adeola MSc 86 and PhD 89 and his wife Mope are living in West Lafayette Indiana where he is an assisshytant professor of pig nutrition at Purdue University
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Bruce Barrie 79 (Eng) graduated last June with an MBA from City Uni ve rsi ty in Washington State and is now a senior adshyviser in strategic planning with Petro-Canada Resources in Calgary He is a professional eng ineer with APEGGA and an ac tive memshyber of the Planning Forum an international society for planning and strategic manageshyment
Barbara Bryce 83 and her husband Ricardo Ramirez 82 are living in Rome Italy She is a landscape architect and he is a communications officer with the Food and Agriculture Organizat ion
Daniel Campbell 81 and his wife SharonshyMarianne are farmin g near Petrolia Onto
Carolyn Closs 82 and her husband Harold operate a beef cowca lf operation in Shawville Que
Luc Cote 83 is an agricullural account manager for the Royal Bank of Canada in Joliette Que
Kerrie Lea Curran 85 plans to graduate this fall from the master of architecture proshygram at McGi ll University
Bruce Dodson 74A is course superinshytendent at Hawd Ridge Golf and Curling Club in Orillia Ont
Richard Donkin OAC 85A originalshyly from Zimbabwe is the manager of Venida Packing Inc in Exeter Calif Situated in central Californias San Joashyquin Valley Venida Packing ships tree fruit throughout the Richard Donkin United States Canada the Pacific Rim and the Far East Products under the brand names Ruby River and Venida include peaches plums nectarines kiwi grapes persimmons and pomegranates In 1988 Donkin married California native Lisa Kolander and they live in Lemon Cove a community in the Sierra foothill s
Brendan Elder 8S A lives in Kelowna BC and works for Dogwood Nursery He plans to be married thi s summer to Rosemary Powell
Robert Fessenden OAC MSc 67 was recently appointed vice-president of devel opshyment and planning at the Alberta Research Council He is responsible for tec hnology management and corporate marketing
John Fitzgerald 86 was married last November to Susan Given a ] 991 indeshypendent study graduate in animal producshytion He is a lecturer at Ridgetown College she works at Centralia College and is work shying on a psychology degree at the University of Waterloo They live in Strathroy Ont
Glenn Helstern 79A is a driver for the Calgary division of Greyhound Bus Lines of Canada Ltd
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She tells a princely tale
For seven miniJtes on Oct 24 199 L Ellen Het1eOAC 76~U1d MSc 80
(ltllked with PIince Charles Invited toopert a newfumaceat
inco Lilniteds Copper Cliff smelter iri Sudbury Ont the Princemiddot of Wales was easy to talk with says Heale ftwasverycxciting
As eiwironmental co-ordinator Of land reclamation andrevegetation at Copper Cliff Healetold theprince middot about Tnc(secosystem rehabilitation
projects Theroyalvisitor was parshyticulatfyiilterestedin the treegrow- ing project in abandoned inines flld in tlpoundrevegetation ()f acres of tailings
and barren rock Planrilig vegetation on the tailings
hasattrlttcled wildlifeto a protected habitat says Beale who has wqrked forIncosincc she graduated in 1976
Ninety~iwo species ofbirds as weil asrodems hares foxes wolves bears andinoQse have been sighted on the 2500 acres of rehabilitated ore waste
One thing about this job is you middot can s~e where youve been effective she says
While an undergraduate student in Prill(e Charles with EIen Heale horticultural science Healea native ofSiidbury worked at Ineo during the sumniers She wasthi tirst woman to
work inrhemining companys agriculture middot department After shegraduated the niekshy el inine hired her full time tcido horticul- turaLfleld research ~ Ineo later granted heT a two-semester leave of absente t6 work
Theodore Jacobs 78 (Eng) is engineering supervisor at Standard Tube in Woodstock Ont
Greg Keast 85 (Eng) is li ving in Mozamshybique in East Africa where he works as a project officer for UNICEF rural water supshyply project s
Richard Kline 74 was appointed partner of the Toronto accounting firm Schwartz Levitsky Feldman Inc last faiL He is presishydent of the film s bankruptcy division a member of the Chartered Accountants of Onshytario and first vice- president of the Ontario Insolvency Association
Christopher Laforest MSc 91 (USRPD) works in planning and economic developshyment for Bruce County Ont
Jean-Paul PhD 90 and Lynn (Hammell) Laforest 82 and MSc 85 are both employed at Laval University in Sainte-Foy Que He is a professor and s he is a research associate
Kenneth Lawless 63 earned a Guelph deshygree in agricultural economics then went on to stud y dentistry at the Uni versity of Toronshyto He is now an oral and manilo-fac ial surshygeon in Kingston Ont
oil her masters at OAC~ In her current PdStion Heale has rnore
administrative and public relations responshyibilities On her own time she sits on the
board of management for the tocal Red Cross and isalllember ofthe Sudbury
Business and Professional Womens Club
Margie Luffman 77 writes that she has happily returned to Ontario after 10 years in New Brunswick to work at the Smithfield Experimental Farm in Trenton She is curator of the Plant Gene Resources of Canada clonal gene bank
Brian MacCulloch MAg 89 is a sa les representative for Springva le Nurseries Ltd in Berwick NS
Daniel Mansell 64 and MSc 68 is Onshytario manager of the eastern habitat joint venture in the wildlife policy branch of the Ministry of Natural Resources He is stashytioned in Midhurst Ont
Peter McEntire 77A writes from County Langford in Ireland to keep in touch with U of G He is farming and work s as an AI techshynician with Bova Genetics Ltd
Darryl Mitchell 78 works at Pioneer HishyBred Limited in Chatham Ont
Hugh ONeil 88 is manager of customer financial services for Ral ston Purina Canada Inc
Umed Panu MSc 72 (Eng) has done a lot of travelling during his career After Guelph he earned a PhD in civil engineering
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David Nedelko OAC 86 and Ljrlda ArmsJrollg CBS 89 (Jurk 011 cemre) were marriediasl SeplemiJer in Bari ~ie OnlTluir weddiIg iiarly illcilldedfiom leli Katy KusmiliskiOA C 88Paul Allgusline GAG 86 Roh Reed OAC 87Carv Belfral1l oAC 8RJIuJ Sa ndimiddoto (CollinI) BerlrCIlII CBS RR Also 1I111ie wedding w(lS Arlllslong s Veal ullcleClarence Fleming OVC 34 The couple (Ire living in
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at the Universit y of Waterloo taught in India and at Mi ss iss ippi State Uni vers ity and worked with Briti sh Columbia Hydro and the Government of Newfoundland In 1986 he jo ined the faculty of c ivil engi neering at Lakehead Uni ve rsity in Thunder Bay Ont and was promoted to full professor in 199 1 He and hi s wife Kashna and the ir children Neeti and Anukud enjoy the outdoor recreashytion ac ti viti es available in Northwestern Onshytario and look forward to visits from U of G alumni trave lling to Thunder Bay
Lyle Pettigrew 61 is a marketin g consulshytant with Harris Kovacs Alderman in Atlanshyta Ga
Helen Prior 88 joined Sheridan Nurseries after graduation then worked for a year as a research tech nic ian in Guelph s Department of Crop Scie nce She is now in her th ird year at Emmanuel College at Victoria University and hopes to be ordained as a United Church min is ter in May
Gregory Scott 83 (Eng) is operations manager for Accuform Gol f Limited in Toronto
Ba rbara (Coordes) Skrypetz 87 is a fi e ld supervisor for the Ontario Dairy Herd Imshyprovement Corporation working out of Guelph He r husband Stephen 88 operates a bulldozing and excavating busi shyness in the Woodstock area
Victor Skidra 6 is re tired f rom his job as a sc ientific evaluator with Hea lth and Welshyfare Canada He and hi s wife Konstance live in Nepean Ont
William Slusarchuk 63 (Eng) and MSc
The way we were in 1902 OAC alumnus Douglas Campbell 60 passes on a bit of col lege hi sto ry that shou ld make us think twice about our con stitutional squabbles in C anad a
Campbell is director of the Latin America and Caribbea n Trade Divis ion of Canada s Department of External Affa irs Last summer he hosted a vi s it by the president of Uruguay Luis Alberto Lacalle Herre ra whose grand fa the r made a simil a r vis it to Canada in 1902
This is what the elde r Herrera reported to his government Gue lph agricultural college enjoys a worldwide reputation and is con shys idered one of the grea t loca l attracshytions
More than 200 young Canadians a long with many foreign youths come together in its lecture rooms There are bursary ho lde rs from Norway and as far away as Mauritius C loser to us
Guelph Alumnus
67 was recently appo inted pres ident of AGRA Eanh and Environmental Group an envi ronme ntal and geotechnica l firm that is a division of AGRA Indu stries Limited
Michael Sullivan 87 A is a pol ice officer with the Wate rloo Regional Police in Cambridge Ont
Argentina has 12 students there We ll then couldnt Uruguay imshy
itate those good exa mples and also se nd a number of worthy youths to Guelph to acquire the professional knowledge which is becoming m ore necessary each day for the deve lopshyment of our agric ulture~
In addition to the sc ienti fic benefits that our compatriots woul d deri ve from entering sLlch a Canadian techni cal in shystitution there would be the inca lcushylable benefit of becoming familiar with the stric t manly and sound habits of these people who are admirable in e ve ry respect
Afte r they have stee ped themse lves in this atmos phere of dem ocracy which fosters the development of all rights and is alien to intolerance thi s legati on w ill have the great honor of sending home not only sc ientists but a lso mode l citizens
Brenda Trask 80 operates he r own comshymunica tion s consulting company in Osshygoode Ont She is marri ed to Ron Ferguso n
Dave Vanden Bosch 89 is manager of operator services and plann ing for Bell Canada in London Ont
J Stallard Skip Waterhouse 54 and hi s wife Li sa are ce lebrating the birth of a daughter Samantha Elizabe th on New Years Day 1992 They live in New York State where Wate rhouse is iI pro fe ssor of bio logical science at the Plattsburgh Sta te Uni versity College of Arts and Science
Jeff 88 and Karen (Burrows) W h ite 87 live in Strathroy Ont Jeff work s for Bell Canada and Kare n is a Lambton County rural orga ni za tion spec ialist with the Ontar io Mini stry of Agriculture and Food
Harold Wright 86 is a development repre shysenta tive for Ci ba-Ge igy Canada Ltd in Mi sshysissauga Ont He and Lori Krieg 84 plan to marry thi s sprin g
Donald Ziraldo 7 I received doubl e honors last winter fro m the Ontario grape and wine industry Preside nt of Inniskillin W ines of Niagara-on -the-Lake Ont he was named to the Royal Order of the Grape for hi s leadership in enhancing the prod uct and its image
In addition Z ira ldo and his partner Karl Kai se r were named 1991 Men of the Year by FoodsCIvice and Hospitalily magazine During the ir 17-year partnership at Inn isk ilshylin the two have been instrumental in shapshying Canada s wine industry the magazine sa id
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ave Barry Burtis 69 was named president of the Ontario Veterinary Medical Association in January after working with the voluntary organization for four years as a director member of its editorial board and chair of its public relations committee Burtis lives in Burlington Ont and practises at the Bay Cities Animal Hospital He also appears on a local cable television program called Pel Tales
William Medway 54 of Blackwood NJ has been named an honorary life member of the International Association for Aquatic Animal Medicine for his contributions on beshyhalf of the association and the field of aquatic medicine He is both a founding member and past president of the associa shytion A professor emeritus of clinical laboratory medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine Medway is a member of the Marine Mammal Commissions committee of scientific advisers
Diane Pickering-Forster 86 is practising at Vander Kraan Veterinary Services in Huntsville Ont She is malTied to Chris Forster and they have one daughter Julia
Julien Proulx 67 has moved from Kapusshykasing Ont to La Pocatiere Que where he is superintendent of Agriculture Canada s Experimental Farm Last year he was feashytured on TVOntarios French network series Personalire Ontarienne for his work as a veterinarian his participation in municipal politics and his support of regional developshyment in Northern Ontario He was also awarded Agriculture Canadas research branch prize Agcellence for extraordinary management during his direction of the reshysearch program at the Kapuskasing Exshyperimental Farm
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There are amazing simi laritiesbetween surgery the c~reersof t~e two Guyanese wh6b6th says Lord If earnedvefetinary degrees atGueiph someone worked in c1ini(ai practice in)Yestem were to ask Canada then moved to the United States me ioday to work in human medic~lresearch what Tcon~
Narayan heads an AlDSresearchteamsider to be atJohns HopkiflS l1)iversilySchool of my expertise MediCirieinBaltimoreMatyland Lord is I would have retired directorofthdohnsonamp Johnson to saymecli- Geofrey Lord
middot Resear~h Foundalion ill NewJersey cal device lordsays he was influenced by OVC andbioshy
proJessDfs Anthony Kings(Qte and Frank Inaterials evaluation middot SchofieJd~ndwcentnton from GiJelphto pur- lt In the I 950s Lordwaspalt of ale-
sue graduate studies in parasitology auhe se~rch team that pioneered the use of University oJWiscollsin Sevenmorithsin animal tissue tOTeconstructdamagedjr
amixed practice in Drumheller Alta con blocked al1eries in hUl11ansTwenty years vinced him thaldinical medicine wasn6t middot later he drafted the first systematicap-
middot whati w~ted6 do He returned to Wis pr()ach to the safety evaluation of medica con5il110 eanla PhDlll pathologyano devices joined Johnson amp JohnsQri as asenior middot Allsubsequeill guidelines inCiLlding patilol()gistiriI953 those of the Foodaj)q Diug Admlnistrashy
Research at Johnson amp JohDson tiOnand the Canadian Regulatory ~teeredmeinto many interesting and chal- Authority hayeadopteoihis approach he
Jenging fieldsofbio-research includirig says derniiltoi9gy toxicologic pathology Lordand his wife Helen ltIividetheir wound healing surgical pathology iiinebetweel)Ciipe CodandBonita genera toxkology ofi~w drugs andor~ Springs FloriQa
Shane Renwick 77 and MSc 91 works in veterinary services at Agriculture Canada offices in Guelph
Ruth Reuter 61 is a veterinary pathologist in Plympton Australia
Tom Sanderson 6 1 was selected by the Ontario Veterinary Medical Association as Ontario Veterinarian of 1991 CUlTently OVCs co-ordinator of off-campus work terms he spent 20 years in private practice in Listowe1 and Mount Forest before returning to the coll ege in 1982 to manage the veterishynary research stations Sanderson s contribushytions to the profess ion have included many hours of volunteer work in the advancement
of the profession and in the development of veterinary inshysurance programs He is a past pres ident of both the Ontario and Canadian Veterishynary Medical associashytions
Jennifer Troughton 86 is practising in OronoOnt
Simone Woltner 86 is a veterinarian at the Chester Basin Animal Hospital in Chester Basin NS
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by her hu sband William and two sons The fo llowing dea ths have been reported since the las t issue of the Guelph Alumnus Full notices which are usu ally submitted by family or classmates may appear in thi s iss ue or in a later one
James Clement Arts 73 Feb 2 1992
Marilyn (Dyment) Farnan Mac 530 Feb 27 1992
David Fisher OAC 80A in October 1990
Elizabeth (C hristie) Glass Mac 3I D June 2l99 1
Peter Heskey OAC 54A Dec 6 199 1
Richard Ketchell OVC 51 Nov 23 199 1
Edward Kowalski Arts 79 in August 199 1
Pauline (Dixon) MacMillan Mac 240 Jan 2 1992
Catherine MacPherson Arts 83 Dec 11 1990
Marguerite (White) Maybury Mac 3 10 in June 1990
Donald McLeOd CSS 80 Jan 9 1992
Albert Meilus OAC 51 in 1991
Ann (Biggs) Ostler Mac 3 10 in April 1991
Robert Race Arts 73 in 1989
Ralph Sampson OAC 40 in December 1989
Mor ris Sanderson OAC 42 Nov 17 1991
Sir Peter Scott HDSc 8 1 in Au gust 1989
William Setterington OAC 40 Oct 22 1991
George Shoniker OAC 50A in March 199 1
John Somerset OAC 34 Dec 27 199 1
Gregory Van Patter OAC 7 1 in 1990
Frederich Weiland OAC 20A in 1990
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Riccardo Rich Incitti 88 died Jan 5 1992 as the result of an accident near Hami lshyton Ont He was assistant manager at the Toronto-Dominion Bank in St Cathari nes and is survived by his parents Gu igi and Lucia of Cambridge and two sisters Laura and Andrea
Larry McNenly 73 died in October 1991 in Owen Sound Ont He is survived by his wife Marnie CSS 73
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Robert Everett HK 74 died in May 1991 in Burlington Ont A teac her at White Oaks Secondary Schoo l in Oakv ille he is survived by his wife Miche le and brother William CBS 74
James Sandy Fear 75 died Oct I I 199 1 in Toronto He is survi ved by his wi fe Sally (Firth) OAC 75 and hi s children Caitlin Alli son and Mered ith
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Lynn (Dalys) Corby 84 died in Toron to May 6 1990 after a long battIe with cancer
Nancy (Birbeck) Gordon 77 died Oct 20 1991 in Ottawa after a short illness She worked at the Kitchener-Waterl oo Hospital and had previously been plan t accountant at Foseco Canada Incorporated in Guelph
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Jean (Williams) Forward 280 Oct 28 1991 in Calgary She was the widow of Bower Forward OAC 25 and is survived by two sons
Catharine (Bechtel) Fromm 270 died Nov I 199 1 in Cambridge Ont She is surshyvived by three dau ghters Ellen Moore Mac 63 Nancy and Caro l
Alice (Rivaz) Garrard 28 di ed Dec 2 199 1 in Guelph She was an active member of the Mac-FACS Alumni Assoc iat ion and was the Mac 28 class agent for the Alma Mater Fund She is survived by her husband retired professor Edward Garrard OAC 27 and a daughter Betty Nelson
Della Marie (Diamond) Honey 300 of Warkworth Ont died June 29 1991 One ofWarkworths oldest and most respected citizens she served as local li brarian fo r 25 years She is survived by her son John OAC 52A his wife Patric ia and four grandchildren James OAC 84A William OAC 76A Thomas OvC 89 and Patricia Lonergan CSS 68
Barbara (Banigan) Martin 380 died Jan I 1992 in Don Mill s Ont A retired teacher wit h the North York Board of Education she is survived by a son Ted a sister and two brothers
Elizabeth (Burt) Perry 340 died June 28 1991 in Sidney BC and is surv ived by her husband Gordon and son Paul Nartel OAC 62
Jacqueline (Roy) Pote 34D died Dec 2 1 1991 in Willowdale Ont and is is survived
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Doroth y (MacFeeters) Scott 260 died Jan 14 1992 in Toronto She is su rvived by two daughters Anne Donaldson and Cynthia Scott
Florence (French) Snyder 370 died May 6 199 1 in Calgary and is survived by her husband Robert and two sons John and William
Katherine (Sweet) Watt Mac 220 died Feb 23 1992 She is survived by her husshyband Leslie a son David and a dau ghter Carol Gi llanders
Mattie (Newman) Widdicombe 240 died Dec 11 1991 in St Catharines Ont Preshydeceased by her husband John she is surshyvived by a bro ther and several nieces and nephews including Virginia Rigby Arts 76
OAC
George Grey Arnup 38 died Feb 2 1992 in Toronto He spent most of his career with the plant protection branch of Agriculture Canada He is survived by his wife Aileen three chi ldren Nancy Jim and Mary Ellen Vincent CBS 79 and four grandchi ldren
Herbert Boyce 28 and MSA 43 died Sept 2 1991 in Amherstburg Onto He is survi ved by his wife Norah a daughter Beverley Med lock and a brother James OAC 32
Jack Reddy Brethet 56 died Nov 4 199 1 in Burlington Ont President of Brethet Barnum Assoc iates Inc he is surshyv ived by his wife Caro l and two daughters Lyn n and Anne
Bruce Foster 28 died Feb 6 1992 in Ridgetown Ont and is survi ved by his daughter Gayle Anderson and son David CBS 69
Allison Gardhouse 49 died Sept 21 1991 in Midland Ont He was re tired supe rshyintendent of schoo ls for the Simcoe County Board of Education and is survi ved by his wife Merle
Kenneth Harrison 24 died Nov 5 199 1 in Kentville NS A distinguished plant patho logist military officer and mycologist he began hi s career in 1926 as assistant plant pathologis t at the Kentvi lle Experimental Farm He worked there until retirement in 1966 wi th the exception of mi litary servi ce du ring the Second World War
Dr Harrison had a lifelong interes t in the study of mushrooms and publ ished numerou s technica l papers on the mu shroom flora of Nova Scotia In addition he enshy
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IN MEMORIAM
couraged interested amateurs and led field trips for student s at Acadia University and the general public from 1929 until 1987 In 1979 he was honored by Acadia wi th the dedication of the Kenneth A Harri son Laboratory of Mycology
During his career he was a member of many professional organizations a charter member of the Mycological Society of America and fe llow of the American Associashytion for the Advancement of Science
He is survived by hi s wife Margaret two brothers Maynard OAC 30 and Arthur OAC 29 two son s Ashley and Kenneth and a daughter Jennie Sheito
William Kellam 4 1 died Oct 19 1991 in Brockville Ont He was retired from the Curb and Gate Co of-Brock ville where he had worked as a lab technician fo r 28 years He is survived by his wife Kathleen a son George and a daughter Mary
William M acMillan 48 died in February 1992 in Winnipeg He was supervisor of Fertilizer marketing for the Manitoba Pool Elevators and is surv ived by hi s wife Edna Jean and brother Harry OAC 5 1 A
Cameron McTaggart 35 died Feb 4 1992 in Aurora Ont After graduating from OAC he became manager of Don Head Farms in Richmond Hill He established the first agricul tural consulting business in Canada in 1947 and later ran an Angus cattle
sales management business from the family farm A life member of the OAC Alumni As shysociat ion and the Class of 35 executive he is survived by his wife Margaret Mac 35 and two sons John OAC 62 of Regina and David of Largo Fla
Douglas Miller 48 of Victoria BC died Nov 24 1991 in Toronto He is survived by hi s wife Ruth and five children
Gregory More 76 was killed Feb 3 1992 in Kitchener Ont at the Ontario Glove Manufacturing Co where he was co-owner and vice-president Following graduation he worked for the Rohrer Drug Co and the Stershyling Drug Co then returned to school ea rnshying an MBA at McMaster University in 1981 More was an avid squash player and golfer Court A at the Northfield Racquet Club in Waterloo was dedicated to his memory in March He is survived by his parents Noreen and Ken a brother Randy and a sister Katherine Keeler
John Jack Pawley 33 died March I 1992 in Guelph He is survived by his wife Ruth son John OAC 62 and daughter-inshylaw Carolyn He was a former director of the Ontario Milk Marketing Board and a past member of the Royal City Lodge of Perfecshytion
Harold Reid 20A died in December 1991 in Burlington Ont During the First World W ar he was one of Canadas premier rad io
experts work ing at the Roya l Canadian Navy shore transmitter in Sydney NS After the war he came to OAC to earn a diploma then went on to QueenS University to comshyplete an arts and theology degree His mini sshytry was mainly in St And rews and Montreal although he spent 13 years teaching Hebrew at the Presbyterian Coll ege before retiring in 1968
Donald Robertson 3 1 died Nov 4 1991 in Iroquois Ont He is survived by hi s wife Caroline (Grisdale) Mac 38 his two son s ScottOAC 65A and Guy and a daughter Sandra McNeil
Thomas Rokeby 48 and MSA 50 died Jan 29 1992 in Fayetteville Ark He was a professional engineer and tau ght for 30 years in the Univers ity of Arkansas engineering department Born in Port Rowan Ont he was a member of the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War the American Society of Agricultural Engineers and the agricultural honor societies of Gamma Sigma Delta and Alpha Epsilon He is surv ived by his wife Helen two sons Robert and Richard a daughter Penny and three brothers Michael Noel and Richard OAC 54
Francis Sweeney OAC 45 died Nov 17 1991 in Oakville Ont He was a longtime employee of Shell Canada and [nternational Shell working in Great Britain Europe and
WALL CUSTANCE MEMORIAL FOREST
The Wall-Custance Memorial Forest located at the Universi ty of Guelphs Arboretum was established in recognition of the severe depletion of our forests It is never too late to be a vital part of the effort to save and improve our air and water for the future of our children by planting trees This program is our small part of the major endeavor to reforest and to reduce the greenhouse effect improve air quality and provide food and cover for wildlife The Memorial Forest Proshygram not only pays a Significant tribute to a loved one but also assures a better environment for generations to come
The purpose of this program is to provide an opporshytuni ty to commemorate the life of a loved one by plantshy
Home of the WALL-CUSTANCE
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ing a tree We envision that the Memorial Forest Program will continue for many years to come and our hope is that the solace that nature offers particularly in the depths of a living forest will be of comfort and benefi t to all
For more information or for a brochure call or write to
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============= IN MEMORIAM ============= Venezuela He is survived by his wife Lynn and two daughters Alyson and Joselyn
Berna rd Weeks 35 died Oct 16 199 1 After graduation he re turned to his roots in
ew York and Pennsylvannia and worked in 4-H and you th organi zations for a few years He then took over the family farm at Troupsburg NY and built up a dairy operashytion with a sideline of sheep He is surv ived by his wife Ruth and four children
Glenn White 43 of Belleville Onl died Nov 24 199 1 in Florida and is surv ived by hi s wife Marjorie
ave Norman Anderson 39 of Wi nn ipeg died Dec 18 1991 in Arizona He had practised veterinary medicine in Norwood Man and was a member of the American Equine Pracshytitioners Association director of the Canadian Thoroughbred Society and track veterinarian at Assin iboia Downs for 50 years He is survived by his wi fe Peggy and two sons Laurie and James
George Beatty 5 I died Nov 22 1991 in Inverness III He practised in Palatine fo r 36 years and founded the Palatine Animal Hospi tal He was an active member of the American Animal Hospital Assoc iati on and the Chicago Veterinary Association and was a director of the Friends of the University of Guelph He is survived by his wife Mary and fo ur children - Suzanne Patricia Margaret and Tim
John Hamilton 5 L died Dec 15 1991 He had lived in Roslin On where he owned the Bay Regional Veterinary Hospital He is survived by hi s niece Ann Bongard
Nicholas Labzoffsky 39 died Dec 25 1991 in Largo Fla Fonnerly of Toronto he had li ved most recen tl y in Dorse t Ont and is survived by hi s wife Jane
Edgar Langford 49 died March 41992 in Monarch Alta A former research scienshytist with ADRI (Western) he is survived by his wife Norma and two daughters includshying Carolyn OVC 76
Stuart Maude 4 1 died Jan 14 1992 in Rosemead Calif A former Rosemead counshycillor and four-time mayor he operated the Rosemead Animal Hospital with his brother Arthur 52 from 1953 to 1980 He was a trustee for Ingles ide Hospital a past grand patron of both the Rosemead and the Califorshynia Order of Eastern Star and past-president of the local Kiwanis Club and Chamber of Commerce He is survived by his wife Vera two daughters Patricia and Susan Bezner a son Stuart and three brothers
Walter Morley 42 o f Mildmay On died Nov 28 199 1 He ran a large animal pracshytice in the Mild may area for 39 years raised cat tle and raced standardbred horses He was also a pu blic school board trustee and direcshytor of a local te lephone company for more
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than 30 years He is survived by his wife Joyce five sons - two of whom are OVC alumni Dave 68 and Randy 74 - and 10 grandchildren
Lloyd Neily 52 died Jan 3 1992 in Hantsport NS A retired meat inspector w ith the federal Department of Agriculture he had a private veterinary practice in Wind sor NS He is surv ived by hi s wife Mary
Elford Nundal 43 died Jan 7 1992 in Langley BC after a long battle with canshycer He operated a veterinary practice in Langley for 36 years and served as a di strict aldennan for 10 years before being elected mayor in 1982 Last year he received the BC Veterinarian Association s award of merit for a lifetime of veterinary work
Humphrey Rees 55 died Sepl 30 1991 in Amman Jordan while on ass ignment for the Overseas Development Ad ministrat ion as veterinary and animal hu sbandry adviser to the Jordani an government His contemshyporaries at Guelph will remember him as a singer debater raconteur rugby player and bon vivant He is surv ived by his wife Alice of POlt Eynon Wales
William Stinson 40 died Feb 15 1992 in Norwood Ont He is survi ved by his wife Rita a son John OVC 67 a brother Ford OAC 34 and a grandson John CSS 87
Faculty
Patric ia Harney died Dec 191991 in Yarshymouth NS A professor in the Department of Horticultural Science from 1962 to 1988 she developed severa l new variet ies of geraniums and was instru mental in es tabshylishing the Frances Ball rose collection at the Arboretum
Anthony Marston died Feb 3 1992 in Fershygu s ant Retired from the School of Hotel and Food Administration he was an acshycomplished competition chef who received his training in Switzerland and England He then spent severa l years working in the Caribbean before coming to Guelph in 1970 A member of the Canadian Olympic culinary team he held a number of positions in the
Donations given in memory ofGuelph alumni will help support University scholarships ifdirected to the Alumni M emorial Fund In 1991 donations were made in memory of the following alumni
Frank MacDonald OAC 37
Frank King OAC 33 -Robert Allen OAC 56A
Alice (Rivaz) Garrard Mac 28
Stan Vesselinovitch OVC 57
For more infonnation call the Office of Annual Giving at 519-824-4120 Ext 6 183
hote l and food industry until retiring in 1982 He is survived by hi s wife Di ana
Gordon McNally dled Jan 12 1992 in Guelph A professor in the Department of Zoo logy from 1934 to 1971 he served as academic assistant to the dean of CBS until retiring in 1979 While at Guelph he was honorary pres id ent of the classes of OAC 54 58 and 67 He is survived by his daughter Jean two siste rs and two grandchildren Prof McNallys family has established the A Gordon Mc a lly Memorial Fund to support a sc holarship or bursary Contributions may be sent care of the Alma Mater Fund Alumni Hou se University of Guelph Guelph ant N I G 2WI
Friends
Jean (Young) Branion died March 3 1992 in Guelph She was the wife of the late Hugh Branion a physiology professor at U of G and assistant to presidents Bill Winegard and Don Forster Jean Branion was an act ive volunteer on campus for many years and one of the firs t presidents of the College Womens Club She is survived by a son Richard and his wife Marga re t of Vanshycouve r and five grandchi ldren Donati ons may be made to the Hugh D Branion Memorial Scholarship through Alumni House
Davy Alexander Hamilton-Williamson died Feb 4 1992 in Guelph A painter and author of childrens stories he had been a member of the University s Presidents Council s ince it began in 1 985
Marjorie Pinkney wife of J ames Pinkney OVC 3 7 died Dec 151 99 [ at her home in Milton ant
Samuel Wyal died March 15 1992 in Brantford ant He was a partner in the law firm Wyatt Purce ll Will Stillman and Scott He is surv ived by his wife M a bel Mac 39 four sons Peter Michael William and John and two daughters Mary Alderson and Sarah Nadalin Arts 82
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INVmiddotESTMENTS amp
DIVIDENDS
Facts about university education in Canada and how we pay for it
By 2000 half of all new jobs in Canada will require a university degree
But at the current rate of government funding only one in five children
will have a chance to go to university
In the seven years from 1982 to 1989 per-student grants to universities in
Ontario barely kept pace with intlation at five per cent
per-student funding at American public univers ities jumped an average
of 23 per cent in the same period
Those US universities also receive twice the federal research dollars per student as do Ontario universities
In 1987 the average salary of a full-time professor at an Ontario univers ity was $55500
compared with $68200 for a private-sector position of similar education and experience
Lawyers economists and engineers made an average of $71 000
Ontario ranks ninth out of the to provinces in terms of grants to universities
Between 1978 and 1991 enrolment at Ontario univers ities grew by 40 per cent while funding dropped
from 59 to 409 per cent of total government spending
Universities were spending 14 per cent less per student between 1977 and 1988 hospital expenditures
rose 38 per cent per patient in the same period
Ontario universities generate $3 of economic activity for every
$1 invested by government funding
And the number of jobs generated by university activities in
Ontario is greater than the employment impact of the textile
industry the entire paper and pulp industry or utilities
University graduates can look forward to earning 63 per cent more than the average industrial worker
A 1990 survey of U of G alumni found that two years after graduation 97 per cent of Guelph grads
looking for work were employed 62 per cent were earning $25000 or more and 10 per cent were
earning $40000 or more
Unemployment rates in 1990 for those with a university degree was about one-third what it was
for those with only a high school diploma
Every year from 1978 to 1987 Ontario university inves tments in renovating or replacing
aging buildings could not keep pace with the rate at which the buildings depreciated
Graphics by Debbie Thompson Wilson Statistics supplied by th~ Council 01 Ontario UniverSities Statistics Canada and the U01 G Student EnVifonment Study Group
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A salute to sport Alumni Weekend June 19-21 9am Sio-pitch tournament
The tradition Jives on at the south quad diamond s Cooed teams of 12 or more players are encourshyaged to join in the fun
FRIDAY 10 am to 9 pm Registration Lambton Hall
6 pm Kick-off dinner and half-time show
get set and join In the Olympic spirit one of Alumni Creelman Hall will Weekends host the Wonderful most popular World of Sports with events Tours a half-time slide show start from to entertain alumni of Alumni House all ages and are sponshy9 pmshy sored by the Observatory tours CBS Alumni
Association
10 am and 2 pm
SATURDAY 8 am to 5 pm Guided Registration walking tours Lambton Hall
Remember 9 am to 5 pm making s now Alumni House tours sc ulptures on Students will host tours of Alumni House throughshyout the weekend Come and see what the generosity of alumni has accomplished
9 am to noon Alumni association annual meetings
This is the official notice for the annual general meetings of the following alumni associations
CBS - Alumni House starts at 830 am before guided walk MacFACS - HAFA Building Room 209
OVC - OvC Room 1438
OAC - Macdonald Hall Room 149
CSS - MacKinnon Building Room 305
HAFA - Alumni Hou se boardroom
Gryphs Lounge will be open for lunch and afLer the game
930 am Guided nature walk at the Arboretum
On your mark
Noon - OVC luncheon
The OvC Alumni Association will host a luncheon open to all OvC alumni and their guests
2 pm - Campus Showcase 92
Following on the heels of last year s success Campus Showshycase 92 will be bigger and better Come to the University Centre to see exhibits representing all areas on campus The Campus Junction store will also be open
2 pm - Zavitz Hall tour
Alumni are invited to browse through the newly renovated Za vitz Hall and attend a recep shytion sponsored by the Colshylege of Arts Alumni Asshysoc iation
5 pm Golden anniversary dinner
The OAC OvC and MacshyFACS alumni associations will provide complimenshytary tickets for alumni celebrating 50 years or more Additiona l tickets can be purchased Classes
Johnston Green or playing intramural hockey in the old Quonset arena Relive some of the memories by taking a walking tour of campus Tours begin from the lobby ofLambton Hall
Noon - Alumni picnic
This apopular event has new location - the sculpshyture garden beside the Macshydonald Stewart Art Centre Come on your own or reshyserve a group of tables for friends and classmates
Noon - Class reunion lunches
OAC 37 Mac 37 OAC 42 Mac 42 OAC 47 Mac 52 Mac57 Mac 67 FACS 72 FACS 77 FACS 87
OAC 67 FACS 82 OAC 82 OAC 82A CBS 82 FACS 87 OAC 87
SUNDAY 9am Church service and War Memorial Hall rededication
Thanks to a commitment from the Alma Mater Fund renovashytion of the upstairs of War Memorial Hall has been comshypleted Join us for the rededicashytion ceremony commemorating the 1924 opening and the 1952 dedication of an OAC memorial plaque
being honored are OAC 22 OAC 47 OvC 22 Mac 22 OAC 27 OvC 27 Mac 27 OAC 32 OvC 32 Mac 32 OAC 37 OvC 37 Mac 37 OAC 42 OvC 42 Mac 42
6 pm Class reunion dinners
Special dinn e r reunions are planned for OAC 47 OAC 52 OAC 52A OvC 52 Mac 57 OAC 57 OAC 62 Mac 67
10am UGAA annual meeting
All alumni are encouraged to atshytend the UGAA annual meeting in Macdonald Hall Room 149 An amendment to the UGAA Letters Patent and a revised bylaw will be presented for ap shyproval Copies of both are availshyable on request from Alumni House Call 519-824-4120 Ext 6544
11 am - Farewell brunch
The final event of Alumni Weekend will be held in Creelshyman Hall Come and meet the Univers ity S president Brian Segal The Alumnus of Honour medal will be presented at noon
To receive an Alumni Weekshyend brochure or to register for events call Alumni House at 59-824-4120 Ext 6963
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Where research and industry Dleet
Space available now Exceptional office and research facilities in our multi-tenant Research Park Centre
Research-driven corporations are breaking new ground at the University of Guelph Research Park Centre with exceptional growth opporshytunities in an ideal business setting
This 30-acre Research Park also accommodates tenants who choose to construct their own office and laboratory facilities
Find out why organizations such as Semex Canada Tremco Limited the Ontario Dairy Herd Improvement Corporation George Morris Centre LIPID Analytical Laboratories and Agriculture Canada have chosen the University of Guelph Research Park Call Ralph Eades or Judy Phillips Real Estate Division University of Guelph Telephone (519) 767-5003 or Fax (519) 837-0353
The Research Park is a project oj the Office oj Research and the University S Real Estate Division
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ALUMNI CAREER PLANNING WEEKEND WORKSHOP
JUNE 26 27 amp 28 ~ The Program This highly successful workshop developed by Sharon Crozier PhD University Counselling Services University of calgary is the first step for an alumnus who is considering a career move The weekend (Friday evening through Sunday afternoon) will consist of group presentations conducted by Dr Crozier with smaller working groups facilitated by profeSSional counsellors from the University of Guelph Counselling and Student Resource Centre
Discussion structured exercises and experiential activities will lead alumni to gain insight into a personal careerllifestyle analYSis and assessment career information resources networking skills and much more
No matter what their age career stage or reason for transition each participant will find this workshop to be an excellent opportunity to develop a personal action plan - and chart their next move
~ Pre-1esting In order to provide individualized career information registrants are required to attend one of two pre-testing sessions The Strongshycampbell Interest Inventory and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator will be administered and results tabulated prior to the workshop Pre-testing dates are as follows
Toronto Wednesday May 27 1992 700 pm - 8 30 pm Holiday Inn Yorkdale
Guelph Thursday June 4 1992 700 pm - 8 30 pm University Centre
~ Fee The registration fee of $225 includes administration and tabulation of the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator materials two lunches and refreshment breaks
Tuition fees in excess of $100 are income tax deductible
Enrolment is limited to 20 registrants
Sponsored by University of Guelph Alumni Association
REGISTRATION FORM ~ Alumni Career Planning Weekend Workshop o Register me for the Alumni Career Planning Weekend Workshop June 26 - 28 1992 o I am interested in attending this workshop but am unable to attend on the date offered Please inform me of future workshops Name _______________________________________________________________
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Register by mail telephone or facsim~e Office of Continuing Education 160 Johnston Hall Unive rsity of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2WI Telephone (519) 767-5000 Facsimile (519) 767middot0758
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May 2 - The Guelph Spring Festival begins with a 25th-anniversary gala dinshyner in Creelman Hall that will honor founding president Murdo MacKinnon Other festival events run until May 23 For more information call 519-821-7570
May 2 shy An All-Canadian University Asshysociation d inne r w il l be held in Washington DC at the Embassy of Canada Guest speaker is Robert Lanni president of the University of Windsor Entertainment will be provided by Windsors music department For inforshymation call T Chan at 202-543-9111
May 3 - Arboretum Day celebrates spring with family nature walks at 1 and 330 pm and an electrical keyboard concert at 230 pm featuring Canadian comshyposer Carole Anne Burris
May 10 to Aug 30 - Guided nature walks run every Sunday at 230 pm in the Arboretum Topics include wildflowers birds turtles snakes and insects The nature centre is open from 1230 to 430 pm
May 13 - Chancellor Lincoln Alexander is the guest speaker at the Alumni-inmiddotAction annual general meeting which begins at noon in the Arboretum Centre For details call Alumni Affairs 519-824middot 4120 Ext 2102
May 13 - The Human KineticsHuman Biology Alumni Association will hold its inaugural meeting at730 pm at Alumni House with a coffee and dessert social RSVP to 519-824-4120 Ext 6963
May 23 shy FACS 82 is sponsoring a colshylection of Bob Munsch plays performed by the Carousel Players at3 pm at War Memorial Hall Tickets are $8 plus tax and handling To order call the UC box off ice at 519-824-4120 Ext 3940
May 26 - Alumni-in-Action is hosting a night at Mohawk Raceway Cost is $30 To register call 529-824-4120 Ext 2102
May 30 - An Arboretum sale of rare native trees and shrubs at the RJ Hi lton Centre on College Avenue East runs from 9 am to 1 pm For information call 519-824shy4120 Ext 2113
May 30 shy The sixth annual All-Canadian University Dinner in Chicago will be held
in the Henry Crown Space Centre at the Museum of Science and Industry and will include a reception buffet dinner and an Omnivax movie beginning at 6 pm Guest speaker is George Pedersen president of the University of Western Ontario For information call David Cole at 312-372-4404 or Hugh Mackenzie at 708-369-3688
June 2 to 5 shy Spring convocation June 13 - Beginning at 7 am the Arshy
boretum will hold its summer bird survey The four-hour walk will locate breeding birds and identify their species by sight and song
June 15 to 17 shy U of G will host the 15th annual Guelph Conference on Sexuality With the theme Sexuality New Visions the conference will examine current isshysues in human sexuality counselling strategies for sexual problems and teaching approaches in sexuality educashytion For information call the Office of Continuing Education at 519-767-5000 or fax 519-767-0758
June 19 to 21 - ALUMNI WEEKEND See page 39 for a complete schedule of events and alumni association meetings The UGAA annual meeting is June 21 at 10 am in Macdonald Hall 149
June 26 to 28 shy The UGAA-sponsored alumni career-planning workshop will be held on campus See page 26 for details
July 31 amp Aug 4 shy The National Youth Orchestra will perform in War Memorial Hall at 8 pm as part of its summer program at U of G Tickets at $8 general $6 for stUdents and seniors will be availshyable at the door
Sept 26 - HOMECOMING Rise early for the second ann ual Homecoming charity walkathon At 930 am the Human Kinetics Alumni Association will hold its annual general meeting in the School of Human Biology lounge
Oct 1 - OVCs 1992 Schofield Memorial Lecture will be given by Steven Arnoczky a professor in the department of small animal clin ical sciences at Michigan State Universitys Laboratory for Comparative Orthopedics The 3 pm lecture will be held in War Memorial Hall Admission is free
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John Boros 88 of Wei land Ont writes that he is impressed by the way U of G keeps records after graduation Thi s gives the graduate a sense of belonging a connection to an important period in hi s or her life he says
Jane Buzza 88 is working as records co-ordinatorarchivist for the Ontario Medishycal Association in Toronto
Jacqueline (Sullivan) DeClerck 86 is a public relations officer at the Canada Trust head office in London Onto
Richard Ely 70 works at the Crown attorneys office in WeIland Ont He has an LLB from the University of Western Ontario in addition to his Guelph degree He says he often talks about U of G to young students trying to decide which university to attend
Paul Genest 81 finished graduate studies at Johns Hopkins Universi ty in Maryland and is now assistant professor of philosophy at Union College in Schenectady NY He is man-ied to Barbara Jessup 8 1
Brian Hogarth 78 is head of interpretashytion at the G1enbow Museum in Calgary
Martha Hooper 9 1 was married last Ocshytober to David Perry They live in Calgary where she is a sw itchboard operator at the Delta Bow Valley Inn
Rene van der Meijden 87 has put his degree in geogshyraphy and internationshyal development to good use with the Christian Reformed World Relief Comshymittce Originally from the Netherlands he is now in Uganda on a three-year asshy Rene van der signment as a rural Meijden development adv iser He sends greetings to his many friend s in Canada and to Guelph grads Stan and Kitty in Bolivia in particular and reminds us that visitors are always welshycome in Uganda
Edward Milliner 85 will graduate this spring from the faculty of education at the University of Windsor
Mark Moore 85 is doing postgraduate work in history at the University of Bristol in England He plans to teach high school
fn response to a letter from Dawn Monroe 69 that appeared in the winter 1992 issue of the Guelph Alumnus Doug Moynihan 69 of Fort McMurray Alta writes Be disapshypointed no more Dawn l I too graduated in 1969 from (the College of) Arts or as it was then called Wellington College and I havent heard from anyone either And I too think it is time to contribute my news
After graduation f headed out to disshycover and sol ve the problems of the world travelling overseas for about three years Since then Ive been working in human resources in a variety of organizations in many different locations in Canada Cun-entshyIy I am the manager of human resources in Fort McMurray
PS Do you remember me Dawn I was the bartender in Creelman Hall I
John Teskey 7 1 began new duties last summer as director of libraries at the University of New Brunsw ick in Fredericton He was head of adshyministrative sershyvices at the University of Albershyta before moving John Teskey across Canada to acshycept the UNB posishytion but had earlier served as chief librarian and was library personnel officer at both Alshyberta and the University of Saskatchewan
Teskey says his biggest challenge is to regain the lost purchasing power that univershysity libraries have suffered as a result of static budge ts and ri sing material costs He is encouraging increased resource-sharing among universities and interlibrary loan programs with shortened turnaround
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Elizabeth (Baxter) Willson 77 a real esshytate agent in Chatham Ont writes to voice a common feeling that the universi ty exshyperience itself is often more important than the degree or diploma received I am really glad I graduated from Guelph she says
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Michelle Bombadier and Mike Caldwell both 92 are two of 50 Canad ian youth selected to work in Guyana for three months with Youth Challenge International (YCI) a non-governmental organization that provides Third-world experience for Canadians They may spend the summer building a school teaching safety or clearing land for Gu ytna s first national park but they need some private support to he lp cover transportation costs Anyone able to help should write to YCI at I I Soho St Toronto M5T IZ6
Jane Coventry 86 writes with accolades for the Guelph Alumnus grad news section and an update on what she and her husband Jaydee Smith 84 and MSc 89 are doing They were married in 1989 while working at U of G - he in the Department of Animal and Poultry Science and she in the Departshyment of Crop Science In February 1991 they moved to England where Smith is doing a PhD at the University of Bristol and working as a research assistant Coventry
works in the technology transfer unit of Nickshyerson Seeds Ltd in Cambridge
Jeffrey Crawford 88 and Leslie Thompson 86 were malTied last October He is an elementary schoolteacher in Mount Forest Ont
Craig Emerson 83 earned a PhD at Dalshyhousie University in Halifax in 1990 and is now a research associate in oceanography
Paul Fleming 85 is a pharmaceutical sales representative for Hoechst Canada Inc and lives in Nepean Ont
David Forsey 80 is an assistant professor of computer science at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver He is marshyried to Lyn Bartram
Michael Gangl 89 is in his third year at the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College
Astrid Harms 87 is a registered nurse in London Ont
Andrew Holmes 85 worked for the Onshytario government as a wildlife biologist for three years but is now back at school in his second year at Northwestern Chiropractic College in Minneapolis
Timothy Johnson 86 works at the Centre for Limnology at the University of Wisconshys in in Madison
Karen Lennard 77 (HK) and her hu sshyband Paul Jackson 79 (HK ) and MSc
82 both went 011 to earn medical degrees from McMaster University in HalTilton Ont Jackson also has a master s in physiology from the University of Virginia and is comshypleting an anesthesiology residency in Hamilshyton Lennard has a part-time family medical practice allowing her to spend more time with the couples two children Matthew and Nicola
Wendy Maltby 74 is an elementary schoolteacher for the Metropolitan Toronto School Board
Sandra OConnor 84 earned a medical degree from the University of Western Onshytario and is now practi sing in Burlington Ont
Linda Owen 81 runs her own business as a consulting exercise physiologist and fitness supervisor in Campbell River BC
Sheryle Tetley 86 is regional sales manager for Glaxo Canada Inc in Mi ss isshysauga Ont where she lives with her husshyband Ian
Rob Tonus 87 is manager of the Black Creek Rehabilitation Project a grassroots enshyvironment program to improve a degraded urban stream in Toronto His office is with the Metropolitan Toronto and Region Conshyservation Authority and he lives in Oakville with his wife Wanda (Knul) 88 (HK) a public health inspector in Hamilton
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Richard Woods 81 is an instructor of xshyray technology at the Easte rn Ontario School of X-ray Technology at Kingston Ge neral Hospital He would like to hear from other members of the 1981 U of G choir wi th whom he travelled to Scandinav ia Write to him at RRI Od essa Ont KOH 2HO
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James Dy nes 84 has comp le ted g raduate studies in chemistry and so il sc ience at the Univers ity of Sas katchewan in Saskatoon
Catherine (McVittie) Clark 88 is a nuclear medica l tech nici an at Howard Counshyty General Hospita l in Columbia Md She and her husband Michae l li ve in Elkridge Md
David Holmes 85 is a systems analyst at Sun Life Assurance Company
RolfKierdorf 84 lives in Guelph with his wife Janet He is se lf-employed as a systems consultant
Donald McFadde n 71 and his wife Carol li ve in A lbany Ga where he pracshyti ses medicine
Donald Ridley 69 and PhD 73 has been appoin ted seni or v ice-presiden t of CibashyGeigy Canada Ltd in Oakvi lle Ont and is responsib le for a ll corpora te serv ices includshy
ing finance human resources safe ty health and the environment He a lso se rves on the board of the Canadian Agricu ltura l Research Council and is a member of the Great Lakes Action Plan Strategi c Advi sory Committee
Kathryn Root Parr is an assoc iate minister at Lorne Park Bapti st Church in Mississhysa uga Ont She was married las t fa ll to Vicshytor Parr
Peter Simpson 85 is dis tric t manager for McNeil Pharmaceutical Ltd in Stouffville Ont He is married to Cynthia (Hamilton) 85 (HK)
Keith Stemshorn 83 is in the Canadian Armed Forces stationed in Calgary
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Nikki Dignard 86 moved to Ottawa last year where her husband Ted Henike pracshyti ses denti stry Dignard is working on an M BA and says she d love to hear from CSS classmates Tom Cam and Kathryn
Bonnie Dunnett 87 and MA 91 works on campus at the Gerontology Research Centre S he and Barry Hallman 9 1 li ve in Guelph
Kathryn Faulkner 80 is a registered nurse in Burling ton Ont where she li ves wi th he r husband John
Ruth Fox 84 is a sta ffing assistant for
Transport Canad a and lives in Toronto w ith her husband Christopher
Shonna Giles 88 is an admiss ions officer at Simon Fraser Unive rs ity in Burnaby BC
Gina Grieco 75 is a hi gh school guidance counsellor in North York Onto
John Harris 82 is manager of financial planning and budgets for th e City of Brampton Ont
Paulette Heppner 76 is a teache r in Vanshycouver
John Johnston 7 1 has been appointed exshyec uti ve vice-pres ident o f Ve rsacold Canada Corp and pres ident of QF Foods Distribushytion Services Versacold Canada is the largest public refri gera ted ware hou sing orshygani za tion in Western Canada
Michael Kral 79 has moved from the Univers ity of Manitoba to the University of Wind sor where he is an assistant professor of psychology
Jeffrey Lozon 76 and his family recently returned to Toronto after 15 years in Western Canada He is executive vice-president and ch ief operat ing officer at St Michael s Hos pital and li ves in Oakville wi th hi s wife Donna and two daughters
Bria n Martin 79 is a real estate appraiser in Portland Ont whe re he li ves w ith hi s wife Margaret (Sheffield) Arts 79
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Leith Mason 90 works in Toronto in the Canadian office of the State of Illinois as a special assistant to the Illinois Department of Food and Agricul ture
Michael McKean 74 of Don Mills Ont was recently appointed president of Wrigley Canada Inc Before joining Wrigley as execushytive v ice-pres ident in 1990 he he ld senior positions in Hong Kong Brazil and the United States
Rick 74 and Vicki (Collard) McTaggart FACS 74 are working in Ottawa He is director of overseas operations for the Unitarian Service Committee a charitable non-governmental organization that supports commun it y and human resou rce developshyment activities in Africa and Asia She is sec tion head of consumer analysis in the agr ifood development branch of Agriculture Canada
Sandra Morrison 86 is an ass istant professhysor in the department of psychiatry at the University of Western Ontario
Stephen Naylor 85 is director of planning and development for the amalgamated municipalities of Alliston Beeton Tecumshyseth and Tottenham
Brian ONeill 68 MA lives in SUITey England where he is managing director of Innovation Management Consultant s
Jodi Parisi 89 is a sales representative for Gillette who says U of Goo was the greatest
Moira Skikavich 81 is completing a PhD in c inematelevision at the University of Southern California
Virginia Sutherland 78 is an air traffic controller at the Toronto Island Airport
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Peggy Bates 88 was recently promoted to sales manager with Sears Canada Inc She lives in Owen Sound Ont
Caroline Begin 86 is working in Singshyapore as a dietitian
Diana Close 87 is a c linical nutri ti onis t at Chedoke McMaster Hospital in Hamilton Ont
Sarah Davenport 90 is a case worker with the Wellington County Social Services office in Guelph She is malTied to Matthew Harvey CBS 90
Timothy Dyck 8 1 is national sales manager for Black amp Decker Canada workshying out of the Corbin Division in Richmond HillOnt
Sharon (Muir) 84 and Richard Ernst CBS 83 are the proud parents of a future Guelph grad uate one-year-old Andrew Graham
Patricia Edwards 78 is food servi ce sushypervisor fo r St Peter s Hospita l in Hamilton Ont
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For the love ofteaching Since she
middot graduated bull from Macshydonald Inshymiddot stitute in
J 963 Nancy Kerr has built a career on teaching and research in telttles The middotheidofthe Uriiveisityof
Albertas department of Clothing and texiiles pursues a middotscientific interest inthepreservashylion of hi stori~lfabricsarid in developing pesticide-proofc1otl1ing But Jler fitstlove i ~ teaching
In 199b shewonone ofU of As four Rutherford AWljrds for excellence ill unshy
dergraduate teat-hing The first member of the faculty middotofliomemiddoteconornicsto receive the award slie was the rcentcipient6f the facultys own underglltiduate teaching award three years earlier
Winning the Rutherford was a gteat honor says Ken who has been on
faculty at Alberta since 1967 She oiscovered she had an aptitude for
middot teaching as a graduate student at the University of California Davis in
196566 After earning her MSc she casr about for afaculty position in Canada and round U of A was the 0111y place I could teach ju t textiles plus have a chance to develop new cQurses and research labs
middot Kerr sa)s she gets a tremelldous sense of satisfaction from teaching and the learning he must do to stay cUlTent She attributes her succe s as a teaCher to middotIec-middot
middot tures that are well organized and clear and to creltting a positive classroom climate
~Thcomfort level of students is reaUy middot ililportanL ~ Kerr eamedherPhD in fibre lnd
polymer science from North Carolina bull Staie University in 1982 Her doctoral work concentrated oil deacidification
techniques to preserve historicatcottOnln 1988 she spent a sabbatical ye~r doing research at the Caliadian Conservation
middot In tirute in OnflW1 middot Originalmiddotly from Ottawa Kerr is a
trarisphlnted -vesterner who enjoys middot hiking anlt sk1ing
From left Diane Ellison Lisa Wilson Lori Davis and Pippa Hobbes
Diane Ellison 84 is liv ing in Osaka Japan where she teaches English to Japanese busishyness people Last October she welcomed three U of G friends for a visit Lori Davis CSS 85 manager of Jumbo Video Inc in Oakville Ont Pippa Hobbes 84 accountshying manager for Paramount Holidays in Willowda le Ont and Lisa Wilson 84 co-ord inator of membership serv ices for the Metropolitan Toronto Board of Trade
Monica Hrybko HAFA 88 is director of sales for the Ramada Hotel Old Town in San Diego Calif
David Jones HAFA 88 is a con troller at the Holiday Inn Montreal Centre-Ville
Kathleen McLachlin 83 is operating an insurance agency in Kitchener OnL She opened the State Farm Insurance office in March 1988 and says she loves her job
Susan (Goettler) Parker 80 is working in Toronto as benefits administrator for Imshyperial Oil Limited She is married to Donald Parker OAC 79
Mary Jean (Sinnott) Price Mac 7 1 has returned to sc hool at the University of Otshytawa to earn a bachelor of education
Margaret (Richardson) Rankin 75 has been living in Halifax since 1990 and is an account analyst for Central Guaranty Trust
Janet (Wanless) Sutherland 77 is in private practice as a marriage and family therapist in East Kelowna BC
Jean Thomson Mac 37 says 1937 was a long time ago but shes delighted with all the changes that have gone at the college A former hospita l nutritionist she is retired and living in London Ont -
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Olayiwola Layi Adeola MSc 86 and PhD 89 and his wife Mope are living in West Lafayette Indiana where he is an assisshytant professor of pig nutrition at Purdue University
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Bruce Barrie 79 (Eng) graduated last June with an MBA from City Uni ve rsi ty in Washington State and is now a senior adshyviser in strategic planning with Petro-Canada Resources in Calgary He is a professional eng ineer with APEGGA and an ac tive memshyber of the Planning Forum an international society for planning and strategic manageshyment
Barbara Bryce 83 and her husband Ricardo Ramirez 82 are living in Rome Italy She is a landscape architect and he is a communications officer with the Food and Agriculture Organizat ion
Daniel Campbell 81 and his wife SharonshyMarianne are farmin g near Petrolia Onto
Carolyn Closs 82 and her husband Harold operate a beef cowca lf operation in Shawville Que
Luc Cote 83 is an agricullural account manager for the Royal Bank of Canada in Joliette Que
Kerrie Lea Curran 85 plans to graduate this fall from the master of architecture proshygram at McGi ll University
Bruce Dodson 74A is course superinshytendent at Hawd Ridge Golf and Curling Club in Orillia Ont
Richard Donkin OAC 85A originalshyly from Zimbabwe is the manager of Venida Packing Inc in Exeter Calif Situated in central Californias San Joashyquin Valley Venida Packing ships tree fruit throughout the Richard Donkin United States Canada the Pacific Rim and the Far East Products under the brand names Ruby River and Venida include peaches plums nectarines kiwi grapes persimmons and pomegranates In 1988 Donkin married California native Lisa Kolander and they live in Lemon Cove a community in the Sierra foothill s
Brendan Elder 8S A lives in Kelowna BC and works for Dogwood Nursery He plans to be married thi s summer to Rosemary Powell
Robert Fessenden OAC MSc 67 was recently appointed vice-president of devel opshyment and planning at the Alberta Research Council He is responsible for tec hnology management and corporate marketing
John Fitzgerald 86 was married last November to Susan Given a ] 991 indeshypendent study graduate in animal producshytion He is a lecturer at Ridgetown College she works at Centralia College and is work shying on a psychology degree at the University of Waterloo They live in Strathroy Ont
Glenn Helstern 79A is a driver for the Calgary division of Greyhound Bus Lines of Canada Ltd
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She tells a princely tale
For seven miniJtes on Oct 24 199 L Ellen Het1eOAC 76~U1d MSc 80
(ltllked with PIince Charles Invited toopert a newfumaceat
inco Lilniteds Copper Cliff smelter iri Sudbury Ont the Princemiddot of Wales was easy to talk with says Heale ftwasverycxciting
As eiwironmental co-ordinator Of land reclamation andrevegetation at Copper Cliff Healetold theprince middot about Tnc(secosystem rehabilitation
projects Theroyalvisitor was parshyticulatfyiilterestedin the treegrow- ing project in abandoned inines flld in tlpoundrevegetation ()f acres of tailings
and barren rock Planrilig vegetation on the tailings
hasattrlttcled wildlifeto a protected habitat says Beale who has wqrked forIncosincc she graduated in 1976
Ninety~iwo species ofbirds as weil asrodems hares foxes wolves bears andinoQse have been sighted on the 2500 acres of rehabilitated ore waste
One thing about this job is you middot can s~e where youve been effective she says
While an undergraduate student in Prill(e Charles with EIen Heale horticultural science Healea native ofSiidbury worked at Ineo during the sumniers She wasthi tirst woman to
work inrhemining companys agriculture middot department After shegraduated the niekshy el inine hired her full time tcido horticul- turaLfleld research ~ Ineo later granted heT a two-semester leave of absente t6 work
Theodore Jacobs 78 (Eng) is engineering supervisor at Standard Tube in Woodstock Ont
Greg Keast 85 (Eng) is li ving in Mozamshybique in East Africa where he works as a project officer for UNICEF rural water supshyply project s
Richard Kline 74 was appointed partner of the Toronto accounting firm Schwartz Levitsky Feldman Inc last faiL He is presishydent of the film s bankruptcy division a member of the Chartered Accountants of Onshytario and first vice- president of the Ontario Insolvency Association
Christopher Laforest MSc 91 (USRPD) works in planning and economic developshyment for Bruce County Ont
Jean-Paul PhD 90 and Lynn (Hammell) Laforest 82 and MSc 85 are both employed at Laval University in Sainte-Foy Que He is a professor and s he is a research associate
Kenneth Lawless 63 earned a Guelph deshygree in agricultural economics then went on to stud y dentistry at the Uni versity of Toronshyto He is now an oral and manilo-fac ial surshygeon in Kingston Ont
oil her masters at OAC~ In her current PdStion Heale has rnore
administrative and public relations responshyibilities On her own time she sits on the
board of management for the tocal Red Cross and isalllember ofthe Sudbury
Business and Professional Womens Club
Margie Luffman 77 writes that she has happily returned to Ontario after 10 years in New Brunswick to work at the Smithfield Experimental Farm in Trenton She is curator of the Plant Gene Resources of Canada clonal gene bank
Brian MacCulloch MAg 89 is a sa les representative for Springva le Nurseries Ltd in Berwick NS
Daniel Mansell 64 and MSc 68 is Onshytario manager of the eastern habitat joint venture in the wildlife policy branch of the Ministry of Natural Resources He is stashytioned in Midhurst Ont
Peter McEntire 77A writes from County Langford in Ireland to keep in touch with U of G He is farming and work s as an AI techshynician with Bova Genetics Ltd
Darryl Mitchell 78 works at Pioneer HishyBred Limited in Chatham Ont
Hugh ONeil 88 is manager of customer financial services for Ral ston Purina Canada Inc
Umed Panu MSc 72 (Eng) has done a lot of travelling during his career After Guelph he earned a PhD in civil engineering
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David Nedelko OAC 86 and Ljrlda ArmsJrollg CBS 89 (Jurk 011 cemre) were marriediasl SeplemiJer in Bari ~ie OnlTluir weddiIg iiarly illcilldedfiom leli Katy KusmiliskiOA C 88Paul Allgusline GAG 86 Roh Reed OAC 87Carv Belfral1l oAC 8RJIuJ Sa ndimiddoto (CollinI) BerlrCIlII CBS RR Also 1I111ie wedding w(lS Arlllslong s Veal ullcleClarence Fleming OVC 34 The couple (Ire living in
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at the Universit y of Waterloo taught in India and at Mi ss iss ippi State Uni vers ity and worked with Briti sh Columbia Hydro and the Government of Newfoundland In 1986 he jo ined the faculty of c ivil engi neering at Lakehead Uni ve rsity in Thunder Bay Ont and was promoted to full professor in 199 1 He and hi s wife Kashna and the ir children Neeti and Anukud enjoy the outdoor recreashytion ac ti viti es available in Northwestern Onshytario and look forward to visits from U of G alumni trave lling to Thunder Bay
Lyle Pettigrew 61 is a marketin g consulshytant with Harris Kovacs Alderman in Atlanshyta Ga
Helen Prior 88 joined Sheridan Nurseries after graduation then worked for a year as a research tech nic ian in Guelph s Department of Crop Scie nce She is now in her th ird year at Emmanuel College at Victoria University and hopes to be ordained as a United Church min is ter in May
Gregory Scott 83 (Eng) is operations manager for Accuform Gol f Limited in Toronto
Ba rbara (Coordes) Skrypetz 87 is a fi e ld supervisor for the Ontario Dairy Herd Imshyprovement Corporation working out of Guelph He r husband Stephen 88 operates a bulldozing and excavating busi shyness in the Woodstock area
Victor Skidra 6 is re tired f rom his job as a sc ientific evaluator with Hea lth and Welshyfare Canada He and hi s wife Konstance live in Nepean Ont
William Slusarchuk 63 (Eng) and MSc
The way we were in 1902 OAC alumnus Douglas Campbell 60 passes on a bit of col lege hi sto ry that shou ld make us think twice about our con stitutional squabbles in C anad a
Campbell is director of the Latin America and Caribbea n Trade Divis ion of Canada s Department of External Affa irs Last summer he hosted a vi s it by the president of Uruguay Luis Alberto Lacalle Herre ra whose grand fa the r made a simil a r vis it to Canada in 1902
This is what the elde r Herrera reported to his government Gue lph agricultural college enjoys a worldwide reputation and is con shys idered one of the grea t loca l attracshytions
More than 200 young Canadians a long with many foreign youths come together in its lecture rooms There are bursary ho lde rs from Norway and as far away as Mauritius C loser to us
Guelph Alumnus
67 was recently appo inted pres ident of AGRA Eanh and Environmental Group an envi ronme ntal and geotechnica l firm that is a division of AGRA Indu stries Limited
Michael Sullivan 87 A is a pol ice officer with the Wate rloo Regional Police in Cambridge Ont
Argentina has 12 students there We ll then couldnt Uruguay imshy
itate those good exa mples and also se nd a number of worthy youths to Guelph to acquire the professional knowledge which is becoming m ore necessary each day for the deve lopshyment of our agric ulture~
In addition to the sc ienti fic benefits that our compatriots woul d deri ve from entering sLlch a Canadian techni cal in shystitution there would be the inca lcushylable benefit of becoming familiar with the stric t manly and sound habits of these people who are admirable in e ve ry respect
Afte r they have stee ped themse lves in this atmos phere of dem ocracy which fosters the development of all rights and is alien to intolerance thi s legati on w ill have the great honor of sending home not only sc ientists but a lso mode l citizens
Brenda Trask 80 operates he r own comshymunica tion s consulting company in Osshygoode Ont She is marri ed to Ron Ferguso n
Dave Vanden Bosch 89 is manager of operator services and plann ing for Bell Canada in London Ont
J Stallard Skip Waterhouse 54 and hi s wife Li sa are ce lebrating the birth of a daughter Samantha Elizabe th on New Years Day 1992 They live in New York State where Wate rhouse is iI pro fe ssor of bio logical science at the Plattsburgh Sta te Uni versity College of Arts and Science
Jeff 88 and Karen (Burrows) W h ite 87 live in Strathroy Ont Jeff work s for Bell Canada and Kare n is a Lambton County rural orga ni za tion spec ialist with the Ontar io Mini stry of Agriculture and Food
Harold Wright 86 is a development repre shysenta tive for Ci ba-Ge igy Canada Ltd in Mi sshysissauga Ont He and Lori Krieg 84 plan to marry thi s sprin g
Donald Ziraldo 7 I received doubl e honors last winter fro m the Ontario grape and wine industry Preside nt of Inniskillin W ines of Niagara-on -the-Lake Ont he was named to the Royal Order of the Grape for hi s leadership in enhancing the prod uct and its image
In addition Z ira ldo and his partner Karl Kai se r were named 1991 Men of the Year by FoodsCIvice and Hospitalily magazine During the ir 17-year partnership at Inn isk ilshylin the two have been instrumental in shapshying Canada s wine industry the magazine sa id
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ave Barry Burtis 69 was named president of the Ontario Veterinary Medical Association in January after working with the voluntary organization for four years as a director member of its editorial board and chair of its public relations committee Burtis lives in Burlington Ont and practises at the Bay Cities Animal Hospital He also appears on a local cable television program called Pel Tales
William Medway 54 of Blackwood NJ has been named an honorary life member of the International Association for Aquatic Animal Medicine for his contributions on beshyhalf of the association and the field of aquatic medicine He is both a founding member and past president of the associa shytion A professor emeritus of clinical laboratory medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine Medway is a member of the Marine Mammal Commissions committee of scientific advisers
Diane Pickering-Forster 86 is practising at Vander Kraan Veterinary Services in Huntsville Ont She is malTied to Chris Forster and they have one daughter Julia
Julien Proulx 67 has moved from Kapusshykasing Ont to La Pocatiere Que where he is superintendent of Agriculture Canada s Experimental Farm Last year he was feashytured on TVOntarios French network series Personalire Ontarienne for his work as a veterinarian his participation in municipal politics and his support of regional developshyment in Northern Ontario He was also awarded Agriculture Canadas research branch prize Agcellence for extraordinary management during his direction of the reshysearch program at the Kapuskasing Exshyperimental Farm
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There are amazing simi laritiesbetween surgery the c~reersof t~e two Guyanese wh6b6th says Lord If earnedvefetinary degrees atGueiph someone worked in c1ini(ai practice in)Yestem were to ask Canada then moved to the United States me ioday to work in human medic~lresearch what Tcon~
Narayan heads an AlDSresearchteamsider to be atJohns HopkiflS l1)iversilySchool of my expertise MediCirieinBaltimoreMatyland Lord is I would have retired directorofthdohnsonamp Johnson to saymecli- Geofrey Lord
middot Resear~h Foundalion ill NewJersey cal device lordsays he was influenced by OVC andbioshy
proJessDfs Anthony Kings(Qte and Frank Inaterials evaluation middot SchofieJd~ndwcentnton from GiJelphto pur- lt In the I 950s Lordwaspalt of ale-
sue graduate studies in parasitology auhe se~rch team that pioneered the use of University oJWiscollsin Sevenmorithsin animal tissue tOTeconstructdamagedjr
amixed practice in Drumheller Alta con blocked al1eries in hUl11ansTwenty years vinced him thaldinical medicine wasn6t middot later he drafted the first systematicap-
middot whati w~ted6 do He returned to Wis pr()ach to the safety evaluation of medica con5il110 eanla PhDlll pathologyano devices joined Johnson amp JohnsQri as asenior middot Allsubsequeill guidelines inCiLlding patilol()gistiriI953 those of the Foodaj)q Diug Admlnistrashy
Research at Johnson amp JohDson tiOnand the Canadian Regulatory ~teeredmeinto many interesting and chal- Authority hayeadopteoihis approach he
Jenging fieldsofbio-research includirig says derniiltoi9gy toxicologic pathology Lordand his wife Helen ltIividetheir wound healing surgical pathology iiinebetweel)Ciipe CodandBonita genera toxkology ofi~w drugs andor~ Springs FloriQa
Shane Renwick 77 and MSc 91 works in veterinary services at Agriculture Canada offices in Guelph
Ruth Reuter 61 is a veterinary pathologist in Plympton Australia
Tom Sanderson 6 1 was selected by the Ontario Veterinary Medical Association as Ontario Veterinarian of 1991 CUlTently OVCs co-ordinator of off-campus work terms he spent 20 years in private practice in Listowe1 and Mount Forest before returning to the coll ege in 1982 to manage the veterishynary research stations Sanderson s contribushytions to the profess ion have included many hours of volunteer work in the advancement
of the profession and in the development of veterinary inshysurance programs He is a past pres ident of both the Ontario and Canadian Veterishynary Medical associashytions
Jennifer Troughton 86 is practising in OronoOnt
Simone Woltner 86 is a veterinarian at the Chester Basin Animal Hospital in Chester Basin NS
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by her hu sband William and two sons The fo llowing dea ths have been reported since the las t issue of the Guelph Alumnus Full notices which are usu ally submitted by family or classmates may appear in thi s iss ue or in a later one
James Clement Arts 73 Feb 2 1992
Marilyn (Dyment) Farnan Mac 530 Feb 27 1992
David Fisher OAC 80A in October 1990
Elizabeth (C hristie) Glass Mac 3I D June 2l99 1
Peter Heskey OAC 54A Dec 6 199 1
Richard Ketchell OVC 51 Nov 23 199 1
Edward Kowalski Arts 79 in August 199 1
Pauline (Dixon) MacMillan Mac 240 Jan 2 1992
Catherine MacPherson Arts 83 Dec 11 1990
Marguerite (White) Maybury Mac 3 10 in June 1990
Donald McLeOd CSS 80 Jan 9 1992
Albert Meilus OAC 51 in 1991
Ann (Biggs) Ostler Mac 3 10 in April 1991
Robert Race Arts 73 in 1989
Ralph Sampson OAC 40 in December 1989
Mor ris Sanderson OAC 42 Nov 17 1991
Sir Peter Scott HDSc 8 1 in Au gust 1989
William Setterington OAC 40 Oct 22 1991
George Shoniker OAC 50A in March 199 1
John Somerset OAC 34 Dec 27 199 1
Gregory Van Patter OAC 7 1 in 1990
Frederich Weiland OAC 20A in 1990
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Riccardo Rich Incitti 88 died Jan 5 1992 as the result of an accident near Hami lshyton Ont He was assistant manager at the Toronto-Dominion Bank in St Cathari nes and is survived by his parents Gu igi and Lucia of Cambridge and two sisters Laura and Andrea
Larry McNenly 73 died in October 1991 in Owen Sound Ont He is survived by his wife Marnie CSS 73
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CBS
Robert Everett HK 74 died in May 1991 in Burlington Ont A teac her at White Oaks Secondary Schoo l in Oakv ille he is survived by his wife Miche le and brother William CBS 74
James Sandy Fear 75 died Oct I I 199 1 in Toronto He is survi ved by his wi fe Sally (Firth) OAC 75 and hi s children Caitlin Alli son and Mered ith
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Lynn (Dalys) Corby 84 died in Toron to May 6 1990 after a long battIe with cancer
Nancy (Birbeck) Gordon 77 died Oct 20 1991 in Ottawa after a short illness She worked at the Kitchener-Waterl oo Hospital and had previously been plan t accountant at Foseco Canada Incorporated in Guelph
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Jean (Williams) Forward 280 Oct 28 1991 in Calgary She was the widow of Bower Forward OAC 25 and is survived by two sons
Catharine (Bechtel) Fromm 270 died Nov I 199 1 in Cambridge Ont She is surshyvived by three dau ghters Ellen Moore Mac 63 Nancy and Caro l
Alice (Rivaz) Garrard 28 di ed Dec 2 199 1 in Guelph She was an active member of the Mac-FACS Alumni Assoc iat ion and was the Mac 28 class agent for the Alma Mater Fund She is survived by her husband retired professor Edward Garrard OAC 27 and a daughter Betty Nelson
Della Marie (Diamond) Honey 300 of Warkworth Ont died June 29 1991 One ofWarkworths oldest and most respected citizens she served as local li brarian fo r 25 years She is survived by her son John OAC 52A his wife Patric ia and four grandchildren James OAC 84A William OAC 76A Thomas OvC 89 and Patricia Lonergan CSS 68
Barbara (Banigan) Martin 380 died Jan I 1992 in Don Mill s Ont A retired teacher wit h the North York Board of Education she is survived by a son Ted a sister and two brothers
Elizabeth (Burt) Perry 340 died June 28 1991 in Sidney BC and is surv ived by her husband Gordon and son Paul Nartel OAC 62
Jacqueline (Roy) Pote 34D died Dec 2 1 1991 in Willowdale Ont and is is survived
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Doroth y (MacFeeters) Scott 260 died Jan 14 1992 in Toronto She is su rvived by two daughters Anne Donaldson and Cynthia Scott
Florence (French) Snyder 370 died May 6 199 1 in Calgary and is survived by her husband Robert and two sons John and William
Katherine (Sweet) Watt Mac 220 died Feb 23 1992 She is survived by her husshyband Leslie a son David and a dau ghter Carol Gi llanders
Mattie (Newman) Widdicombe 240 died Dec 11 1991 in St Catharines Ont Preshydeceased by her husband John she is surshyvived by a bro ther and several nieces and nephews including Virginia Rigby Arts 76
OAC
George Grey Arnup 38 died Feb 2 1992 in Toronto He spent most of his career with the plant protection branch of Agriculture Canada He is survived by his wife Aileen three chi ldren Nancy Jim and Mary Ellen Vincent CBS 79 and four grandchi ldren
Herbert Boyce 28 and MSA 43 died Sept 2 1991 in Amherstburg Onto He is survi ved by his wife Norah a daughter Beverley Med lock and a brother James OAC 32
Jack Reddy Brethet 56 died Nov 4 199 1 in Burlington Ont President of Brethet Barnum Assoc iates Inc he is surshyv ived by his wife Caro l and two daughters Lyn n and Anne
Bruce Foster 28 died Feb 6 1992 in Ridgetown Ont and is survi ved by his daughter Gayle Anderson and son David CBS 69
Allison Gardhouse 49 died Sept 21 1991 in Midland Ont He was re tired supe rshyintendent of schoo ls for the Simcoe County Board of Education and is survi ved by his wife Merle
Kenneth Harrison 24 died Nov 5 199 1 in Kentville NS A distinguished plant patho logist military officer and mycologist he began hi s career in 1926 as assistant plant pathologis t at the Kentvi lle Experimental Farm He worked there until retirement in 1966 wi th the exception of mi litary servi ce du ring the Second World War
Dr Harrison had a lifelong interes t in the study of mushrooms and publ ished numerou s technica l papers on the mu shroom flora of Nova Scotia In addition he enshy
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IN MEMORIAM
couraged interested amateurs and led field trips for student s at Acadia University and the general public from 1929 until 1987 In 1979 he was honored by Acadia wi th the dedication of the Kenneth A Harri son Laboratory of Mycology
During his career he was a member of many professional organizations a charter member of the Mycological Society of America and fe llow of the American Associashytion for the Advancement of Science
He is survived by hi s wife Margaret two brothers Maynard OAC 30 and Arthur OAC 29 two son s Ashley and Kenneth and a daughter Jennie Sheito
William Kellam 4 1 died Oct 19 1991 in Brockville Ont He was retired from the Curb and Gate Co of-Brock ville where he had worked as a lab technician fo r 28 years He is survived by his wife Kathleen a son George and a daughter Mary
William M acMillan 48 died in February 1992 in Winnipeg He was supervisor of Fertilizer marketing for the Manitoba Pool Elevators and is surv ived by hi s wife Edna Jean and brother Harry OAC 5 1 A
Cameron McTaggart 35 died Feb 4 1992 in Aurora Ont After graduating from OAC he became manager of Don Head Farms in Richmond Hill He established the first agricul tural consulting business in Canada in 1947 and later ran an Angus cattle
sales management business from the family farm A life member of the OAC Alumni As shysociat ion and the Class of 35 executive he is survived by his wife Margaret Mac 35 and two sons John OAC 62 of Regina and David of Largo Fla
Douglas Miller 48 of Victoria BC died Nov 24 1991 in Toronto He is survived by hi s wife Ruth and five children
Gregory More 76 was killed Feb 3 1992 in Kitchener Ont at the Ontario Glove Manufacturing Co where he was co-owner and vice-president Following graduation he worked for the Rohrer Drug Co and the Stershyling Drug Co then returned to school ea rnshying an MBA at McMaster University in 1981 More was an avid squash player and golfer Court A at the Northfield Racquet Club in Waterloo was dedicated to his memory in March He is survived by his parents Noreen and Ken a brother Randy and a sister Katherine Keeler
John Jack Pawley 33 died March I 1992 in Guelph He is survived by his wife Ruth son John OAC 62 and daughter-inshylaw Carolyn He was a former director of the Ontario Milk Marketing Board and a past member of the Royal City Lodge of Perfecshytion
Harold Reid 20A died in December 1991 in Burlington Ont During the First World W ar he was one of Canadas premier rad io
experts work ing at the Roya l Canadian Navy shore transmitter in Sydney NS After the war he came to OAC to earn a diploma then went on to QueenS University to comshyplete an arts and theology degree His mini sshytry was mainly in St And rews and Montreal although he spent 13 years teaching Hebrew at the Presbyterian Coll ege before retiring in 1968
Donald Robertson 3 1 died Nov 4 1991 in Iroquois Ont He is survived by hi s wife Caroline (Grisdale) Mac 38 his two son s ScottOAC 65A and Guy and a daughter Sandra McNeil
Thomas Rokeby 48 and MSA 50 died Jan 29 1992 in Fayetteville Ark He was a professional engineer and tau ght for 30 years in the Univers ity of Arkansas engineering department Born in Port Rowan Ont he was a member of the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War the American Society of Agricultural Engineers and the agricultural honor societies of Gamma Sigma Delta and Alpha Epsilon He is surv ived by his wife Helen two sons Robert and Richard a daughter Penny and three brothers Michael Noel and Richard OAC 54
Francis Sweeney OAC 45 died Nov 17 1991 in Oakville Ont He was a longtime employee of Shell Canada and [nternational Shell working in Great Britain Europe and
WALL CUSTANCE MEMORIAL FOREST
The Wall-Custance Memorial Forest located at the Universi ty of Guelphs Arboretum was established in recognition of the severe depletion of our forests It is never too late to be a vital part of the effort to save and improve our air and water for the future of our children by planting trees This program is our small part of the major endeavor to reforest and to reduce the greenhouse effect improve air quality and provide food and cover for wildlife The Memorial Forest Proshygram not only pays a Significant tribute to a loved one but also assures a better environment for generations to come
The purpose of this program is to provide an opporshytuni ty to commemorate the life of a loved one by plantshy
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ing a tree We envision that the Memorial Forest Program will continue for many years to come and our hope is that the solace that nature offers particularly in the depths of a living forest will be of comfort and benefi t to all
For more information or for a brochure call or write to
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Berna rd Weeks 35 died Oct 16 199 1 After graduation he re turned to his roots in
ew York and Pennsylvannia and worked in 4-H and you th organi zations for a few years He then took over the family farm at Troupsburg NY and built up a dairy operashytion with a sideline of sheep He is surv ived by his wife Ruth and four children
Glenn White 43 of Belleville Onl died Nov 24 199 1 in Florida and is surv ived by hi s wife Marjorie
ave Norman Anderson 39 of Wi nn ipeg died Dec 18 1991 in Arizona He had practised veterinary medicine in Norwood Man and was a member of the American Equine Pracshytitioners Association director of the Canadian Thoroughbred Society and track veterinarian at Assin iboia Downs for 50 years He is survived by his wi fe Peggy and two sons Laurie and James
George Beatty 5 I died Nov 22 1991 in Inverness III He practised in Palatine fo r 36 years and founded the Palatine Animal Hospi tal He was an active member of the American Animal Hospital Assoc iati on and the Chicago Veterinary Association and was a director of the Friends of the University of Guelph He is survived by his wife Mary and fo ur children - Suzanne Patricia Margaret and Tim
John Hamilton 5 L died Dec 15 1991 He had lived in Roslin On where he owned the Bay Regional Veterinary Hospital He is survived by hi s niece Ann Bongard
Nicholas Labzoffsky 39 died Dec 25 1991 in Largo Fla Fonnerly of Toronto he had li ved most recen tl y in Dorse t Ont and is survived by hi s wife Jane
Edgar Langford 49 died March 41992 in Monarch Alta A former research scienshytist with ADRI (Western) he is survived by his wife Norma and two daughters includshying Carolyn OVC 76
Stuart Maude 4 1 died Jan 14 1992 in Rosemead Calif A former Rosemead counshycillor and four-time mayor he operated the Rosemead Animal Hospital with his brother Arthur 52 from 1953 to 1980 He was a trustee for Ingles ide Hospital a past grand patron of both the Rosemead and the Califorshynia Order of Eastern Star and past-president of the local Kiwanis Club and Chamber of Commerce He is survived by his wife Vera two daughters Patricia and Susan Bezner a son Stuart and three brothers
Walter Morley 42 o f Mildmay On died Nov 28 199 1 He ran a large animal pracshytice in the Mild may area for 39 years raised cat tle and raced standardbred horses He was also a pu blic school board trustee and direcshytor of a local te lephone company for more
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than 30 years He is survived by his wife Joyce five sons - two of whom are OVC alumni Dave 68 and Randy 74 - and 10 grandchildren
Lloyd Neily 52 died Jan 3 1992 in Hantsport NS A retired meat inspector w ith the federal Department of Agriculture he had a private veterinary practice in Wind sor NS He is surv ived by hi s wife Mary
Elford Nundal 43 died Jan 7 1992 in Langley BC after a long battle with canshycer He operated a veterinary practice in Langley for 36 years and served as a di strict aldennan for 10 years before being elected mayor in 1982 Last year he received the BC Veterinarian Association s award of merit for a lifetime of veterinary work
Humphrey Rees 55 died Sepl 30 1991 in Amman Jordan while on ass ignment for the Overseas Development Ad ministrat ion as veterinary and animal hu sbandry adviser to the Jordani an government His contemshyporaries at Guelph will remember him as a singer debater raconteur rugby player and bon vivant He is surv ived by his wife Alice of POlt Eynon Wales
William Stinson 40 died Feb 15 1992 in Norwood Ont He is survi ved by his wife Rita a son John OVC 67 a brother Ford OAC 34 and a grandson John CSS 87
Faculty
Patric ia Harney died Dec 191991 in Yarshymouth NS A professor in the Department of Horticultural Science from 1962 to 1988 she developed severa l new variet ies of geraniums and was instru mental in es tabshylishing the Frances Ball rose collection at the Arboretum
Anthony Marston died Feb 3 1992 in Fershygu s ant Retired from the School of Hotel and Food Administration he was an acshycomplished competition chef who received his training in Switzerland and England He then spent severa l years working in the Caribbean before coming to Guelph in 1970 A member of the Canadian Olympic culinary team he held a number of positions in the
Donations given in memory ofGuelph alumni will help support University scholarships ifdirected to the Alumni M emorial Fund In 1991 donations were made in memory of the following alumni
Frank MacDonald OAC 37
Frank King OAC 33 -Robert Allen OAC 56A
Alice (Rivaz) Garrard Mac 28
Stan Vesselinovitch OVC 57
For more infonnation call the Office of Annual Giving at 519-824-4120 Ext 6 183
hote l and food industry until retiring in 1982 He is survived by hi s wife Di ana
Gordon McNally dled Jan 12 1992 in Guelph A professor in the Department of Zoo logy from 1934 to 1971 he served as academic assistant to the dean of CBS until retiring in 1979 While at Guelph he was honorary pres id ent of the classes of OAC 54 58 and 67 He is survived by his daughter Jean two siste rs and two grandchildren Prof McNallys family has established the A Gordon Mc a lly Memorial Fund to support a sc holarship or bursary Contributions may be sent care of the Alma Mater Fund Alumni Hou se University of Guelph Guelph ant N I G 2WI
Friends
Jean (Young) Branion died March 3 1992 in Guelph She was the wife of the late Hugh Branion a physiology professor at U of G and assistant to presidents Bill Winegard and Don Forster Jean Branion was an act ive volunteer on campus for many years and one of the firs t presidents of the College Womens Club She is survived by a son Richard and his wife Marga re t of Vanshycouve r and five grandchi ldren Donati ons may be made to the Hugh D Branion Memorial Scholarship through Alumni House
Davy Alexander Hamilton-Williamson died Feb 4 1992 in Guelph A painter and author of childrens stories he had been a member of the University s Presidents Council s ince it began in 1 985
Marjorie Pinkney wife of J ames Pinkney OVC 3 7 died Dec 151 99 [ at her home in Milton ant
Samuel Wyal died March 15 1992 in Brantford ant He was a partner in the law firm Wyatt Purce ll Will Stillman and Scott He is surv ived by his wife M a bel Mac 39 four sons Peter Michael William and John and two daughters Mary Alderson and Sarah Nadalin Arts 82
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INVmiddotESTMENTS amp
DIVIDENDS
Facts about university education in Canada and how we pay for it
By 2000 half of all new jobs in Canada will require a university degree
But at the current rate of government funding only one in five children
will have a chance to go to university
In the seven years from 1982 to 1989 per-student grants to universities in
Ontario barely kept pace with intlation at five per cent
per-student funding at American public univers ities jumped an average
of 23 per cent in the same period
Those US universities also receive twice the federal research dollars per student as do Ontario universities
In 1987 the average salary of a full-time professor at an Ontario univers ity was $55500
compared with $68200 for a private-sector position of similar education and experience
Lawyers economists and engineers made an average of $71 000
Ontario ranks ninth out of the to provinces in terms of grants to universities
Between 1978 and 1991 enrolment at Ontario univers ities grew by 40 per cent while funding dropped
from 59 to 409 per cent of total government spending
Universities were spending 14 per cent less per student between 1977 and 1988 hospital expenditures
rose 38 per cent per patient in the same period
Ontario universities generate $3 of economic activity for every
$1 invested by government funding
And the number of jobs generated by university activities in
Ontario is greater than the employment impact of the textile
industry the entire paper and pulp industry or utilities
University graduates can look forward to earning 63 per cent more than the average industrial worker
A 1990 survey of U of G alumni found that two years after graduation 97 per cent of Guelph grads
looking for work were employed 62 per cent were earning $25000 or more and 10 per cent were
earning $40000 or more
Unemployment rates in 1990 for those with a university degree was about one-third what it was
for those with only a high school diploma
Every year from 1978 to 1987 Ontario university inves tments in renovating or replacing
aging buildings could not keep pace with the rate at which the buildings depreciated
Graphics by Debbie Thompson Wilson Statistics supplied by th~ Council 01 Ontario UniverSities Statistics Canada and the U01 G Student EnVifonment Study Group
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A salute to sport Alumni Weekend June 19-21 9am Sio-pitch tournament
The tradition Jives on at the south quad diamond s Cooed teams of 12 or more players are encourshyaged to join in the fun
FRIDAY 10 am to 9 pm Registration Lambton Hall
6 pm Kick-off dinner and half-time show
get set and join In the Olympic spirit one of Alumni Creelman Hall will Weekends host the Wonderful most popular World of Sports with events Tours a half-time slide show start from to entertain alumni of Alumni House all ages and are sponshy9 pmshy sored by the Observatory tours CBS Alumni
Association
10 am and 2 pm
SATURDAY 8 am to 5 pm Guided Registration walking tours Lambton Hall
Remember 9 am to 5 pm making s now Alumni House tours sc ulptures on Students will host tours of Alumni House throughshyout the weekend Come and see what the generosity of alumni has accomplished
9 am to noon Alumni association annual meetings
This is the official notice for the annual general meetings of the following alumni associations
CBS - Alumni House starts at 830 am before guided walk MacFACS - HAFA Building Room 209
OVC - OvC Room 1438
OAC - Macdonald Hall Room 149
CSS - MacKinnon Building Room 305
HAFA - Alumni Hou se boardroom
Gryphs Lounge will be open for lunch and afLer the game
930 am Guided nature walk at the Arboretum
On your mark
Noon - OVC luncheon
The OvC Alumni Association will host a luncheon open to all OvC alumni and their guests
2 pm - Campus Showcase 92
Following on the heels of last year s success Campus Showshycase 92 will be bigger and better Come to the University Centre to see exhibits representing all areas on campus The Campus Junction store will also be open
2 pm - Zavitz Hall tour
Alumni are invited to browse through the newly renovated Za vitz Hall and attend a recep shytion sponsored by the Colshylege of Arts Alumni Asshysoc iation
5 pm Golden anniversary dinner
The OAC OvC and MacshyFACS alumni associations will provide complimenshytary tickets for alumni celebrating 50 years or more Additiona l tickets can be purchased Classes
Johnston Green or playing intramural hockey in the old Quonset arena Relive some of the memories by taking a walking tour of campus Tours begin from the lobby ofLambton Hall
Noon - Alumni picnic
This apopular event has new location - the sculpshyture garden beside the Macshydonald Stewart Art Centre Come on your own or reshyserve a group of tables for friends and classmates
Noon - Class reunion lunches
OAC 37 Mac 37 OAC 42 Mac 42 OAC 47 Mac 52 Mac57 Mac 67 FACS 72 FACS 77 FACS 87
OAC 67 FACS 82 OAC 82 OAC 82A CBS 82 FACS 87 OAC 87
SUNDAY 9am Church service and War Memorial Hall rededication
Thanks to a commitment from the Alma Mater Fund renovashytion of the upstairs of War Memorial Hall has been comshypleted Join us for the rededicashytion ceremony commemorating the 1924 opening and the 1952 dedication of an OAC memorial plaque
being honored are OAC 22 OAC 47 OvC 22 Mac 22 OAC 27 OvC 27 Mac 27 OAC 32 OvC 32 Mac 32 OAC 37 OvC 37 Mac 37 OAC 42 OvC 42 Mac 42
6 pm Class reunion dinners
Special dinn e r reunions are planned for OAC 47 OAC 52 OAC 52A OvC 52 Mac 57 OAC 57 OAC 62 Mac 67
10am UGAA annual meeting
All alumni are encouraged to atshytend the UGAA annual meeting in Macdonald Hall Room 149 An amendment to the UGAA Letters Patent and a revised bylaw will be presented for ap shyproval Copies of both are availshyable on request from Alumni House Call 519-824-4120 Ext 6544
11 am - Farewell brunch
The final event of Alumni Weekend will be held in Creelshyman Hall Come and meet the Univers ity S president Brian Segal The Alumnus of Honour medal will be presented at noon
To receive an Alumni Weekshyend brochure or to register for events call Alumni House at 59-824-4120 Ext 6963
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Space available now Exceptional office and research facilities in our multi-tenant Research Park Centre
Research-driven corporations are breaking new ground at the University of Guelph Research Park Centre with exceptional growth opporshytunities in an ideal business setting
This 30-acre Research Park also accommodates tenants who choose to construct their own office and laboratory facilities
Find out why organizations such as Semex Canada Tremco Limited the Ontario Dairy Herd Improvement Corporation George Morris Centre LIPID Analytical Laboratories and Agriculture Canada have chosen the University of Guelph Research Park Call Ralph Eades or Judy Phillips Real Estate Division University of Guelph Telephone (519) 767-5003 or Fax (519) 837-0353
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May 2 - The Guelph Spring Festival begins with a 25th-anniversary gala dinshyner in Creelman Hall that will honor founding president Murdo MacKinnon Other festival events run until May 23 For more information call 519-821-7570
May 2 shy An All-Canadian University Asshysociation d inne r w il l be held in Washington DC at the Embassy of Canada Guest speaker is Robert Lanni president of the University of Windsor Entertainment will be provided by Windsors music department For inforshymation call T Chan at 202-543-9111
May 3 - Arboretum Day celebrates spring with family nature walks at 1 and 330 pm and an electrical keyboard concert at 230 pm featuring Canadian comshyposer Carole Anne Burris
May 10 to Aug 30 - Guided nature walks run every Sunday at 230 pm in the Arboretum Topics include wildflowers birds turtles snakes and insects The nature centre is open from 1230 to 430 pm
May 13 - Chancellor Lincoln Alexander is the guest speaker at the Alumni-inmiddotAction annual general meeting which begins at noon in the Arboretum Centre For details call Alumni Affairs 519-824middot 4120 Ext 2102
May 13 - The Human KineticsHuman Biology Alumni Association will hold its inaugural meeting at730 pm at Alumni House with a coffee and dessert social RSVP to 519-824-4120 Ext 6963
May 23 shy FACS 82 is sponsoring a colshylection of Bob Munsch plays performed by the Carousel Players at3 pm at War Memorial Hall Tickets are $8 plus tax and handling To order call the UC box off ice at 519-824-4120 Ext 3940
May 26 - Alumni-in-Action is hosting a night at Mohawk Raceway Cost is $30 To register call 529-824-4120 Ext 2102
May 30 - An Arboretum sale of rare native trees and shrubs at the RJ Hi lton Centre on College Avenue East runs from 9 am to 1 pm For information call 519-824shy4120 Ext 2113
May 30 shy The sixth annual All-Canadian University Dinner in Chicago will be held
in the Henry Crown Space Centre at the Museum of Science and Industry and will include a reception buffet dinner and an Omnivax movie beginning at 6 pm Guest speaker is George Pedersen president of the University of Western Ontario For information call David Cole at 312-372-4404 or Hugh Mackenzie at 708-369-3688
June 2 to 5 shy Spring convocation June 13 - Beginning at 7 am the Arshy
boretum will hold its summer bird survey The four-hour walk will locate breeding birds and identify their species by sight and song
June 15 to 17 shy U of G will host the 15th annual Guelph Conference on Sexuality With the theme Sexuality New Visions the conference will examine current isshysues in human sexuality counselling strategies for sexual problems and teaching approaches in sexuality educashytion For information call the Office of Continuing Education at 519-767-5000 or fax 519-767-0758
June 19 to 21 - ALUMNI WEEKEND See page 39 for a complete schedule of events and alumni association meetings The UGAA annual meeting is June 21 at 10 am in Macdonald Hall 149
June 26 to 28 shy The UGAA-sponsored alumni career-planning workshop will be held on campus See page 26 for details
July 31 amp Aug 4 shy The National Youth Orchestra will perform in War Memorial Hall at 8 pm as part of its summer program at U of G Tickets at $8 general $6 for stUdents and seniors will be availshyable at the door
Sept 26 - HOMECOMING Rise early for the second ann ual Homecoming charity walkathon At 930 am the Human Kinetics Alumni Association will hold its annual general meeting in the School of Human Biology lounge
Oct 1 - OVCs 1992 Schofield Memorial Lecture will be given by Steven Arnoczky a professor in the department of small animal clin ical sciences at Michigan State Universitys Laboratory for Comparative Orthopedics The 3 pm lecture will be held in War Memorial Hall Admission is free
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wriies a weekly newspaper colllnin years ofmy life when hewas a stlderit at devoted 10 firesafetyalldpreventioll and is Guelph He lived in La Maison Frailcaise eaptilinof training Fbrtbe Hudson Fire - orfivesemestersand was house adviser in Department This summer he wiHspeak to 197677 the international Fire Buffs Associatioriin middot Hewrites Houseadvisers middotwerdofne shyclevelarid Ohio limes looked down on as sorneliOft6f
Aithb~ghHodgsonsgeography degree middot prefectorsemi-cop but we tried our best neverreaIly helped me in gettingajob it among some very hard times and r(stless was useful wheri he was amembefbf ()f1estoo Buiit was fun and a great learnshy
H~ds()ns town planning committee His ing experience for all of us history courses however translated i)ib U The experiencetaughthim how toJielp keen involvement-as president middot- in tl1e others through difficulties I have leVer Hudson HistoricaLS()Ciet)lt He recently co- take) any psychology courses but the year ljuthoredand pllbfishedtwoboQks onhismiddotill Guelph as house adviser helpedpreparc
toricHudsoll which is near Montreal mea greatdealJor later problenisin life He may cine day writeanQther book on Jny ownincJuded
hisobservationsofrhe 1990 O)(ii crisis The experience was also linguistically bull TheOkaresejVe is just acros$theTiver middot valuable_In Hudson Utmbilinguai and
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John Boros 88 of Wei land Ont writes that he is impressed by the way U of G keeps records after graduation Thi s gives the graduate a sense of belonging a connection to an important period in hi s or her life he says
Jane Buzza 88 is working as records co-ordinatorarchivist for the Ontario Medishycal Association in Toronto
Jacqueline (Sullivan) DeClerck 86 is a public relations officer at the Canada Trust head office in London Onto
Richard Ely 70 works at the Crown attorneys office in WeIland Ont He has an LLB from the University of Western Ontario in addition to his Guelph degree He says he often talks about U of G to young students trying to decide which university to attend
Paul Genest 81 finished graduate studies at Johns Hopkins Universi ty in Maryland and is now assistant professor of philosophy at Union College in Schenectady NY He is man-ied to Barbara Jessup 8 1
Brian Hogarth 78 is head of interpretashytion at the G1enbow Museum in Calgary
Martha Hooper 9 1 was married last Ocshytober to David Perry They live in Calgary where she is a sw itchboard operator at the Delta Bow Valley Inn
Rene van der Meijden 87 has put his degree in geogshyraphy and internationshyal development to good use with the Christian Reformed World Relief Comshymittce Originally from the Netherlands he is now in Uganda on a three-year asshy Rene van der signment as a rural Meijden development adv iser He sends greetings to his many friend s in Canada and to Guelph grads Stan and Kitty in Bolivia in particular and reminds us that visitors are always welshycome in Uganda
Edward Milliner 85 will graduate this spring from the faculty of education at the University of Windsor
Mark Moore 85 is doing postgraduate work in history at the University of Bristol in England He plans to teach high school
fn response to a letter from Dawn Monroe 69 that appeared in the winter 1992 issue of the Guelph Alumnus Doug Moynihan 69 of Fort McMurray Alta writes Be disapshypointed no more Dawn l I too graduated in 1969 from (the College of) Arts or as it was then called Wellington College and I havent heard from anyone either And I too think it is time to contribute my news
After graduation f headed out to disshycover and sol ve the problems of the world travelling overseas for about three years Since then Ive been working in human resources in a variety of organizations in many different locations in Canada Cun-entshyIy I am the manager of human resources in Fort McMurray
PS Do you remember me Dawn I was the bartender in Creelman Hall I
John Teskey 7 1 began new duties last summer as director of libraries at the University of New Brunsw ick in Fredericton He was head of adshyministrative sershyvices at the University of Albershyta before moving John Teskey across Canada to acshycept the UNB posishytion but had earlier served as chief librarian and was library personnel officer at both Alshyberta and the University of Saskatchewan
Teskey says his biggest challenge is to regain the lost purchasing power that univershysity libraries have suffered as a result of static budge ts and ri sing material costs He is encouraging increased resource-sharing among universities and interlibrary loan programs with shortened turnaround
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Elizabeth (Baxter) Willson 77 a real esshytate agent in Chatham Ont writes to voice a common feeling that the universi ty exshyperience itself is often more important than the degree or diploma received I am really glad I graduated from Guelph she says
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Michelle Bombadier and Mike Caldwell both 92 are two of 50 Canad ian youth selected to work in Guyana for three months with Youth Challenge International (YCI) a non-governmental organization that provides Third-world experience for Canadians They may spend the summer building a school teaching safety or clearing land for Gu ytna s first national park but they need some private support to he lp cover transportation costs Anyone able to help should write to YCI at I I Soho St Toronto M5T IZ6
Jane Coventry 86 writes with accolades for the Guelph Alumnus grad news section and an update on what she and her husband Jaydee Smith 84 and MSc 89 are doing They were married in 1989 while working at U of G - he in the Department of Animal and Poultry Science and she in the Departshyment of Crop Science In February 1991 they moved to England where Smith is doing a PhD at the University of Bristol and working as a research assistant Coventry
works in the technology transfer unit of Nickshyerson Seeds Ltd in Cambridge
Jeffrey Crawford 88 and Leslie Thompson 86 were malTied last October He is an elementary schoolteacher in Mount Forest Ont
Craig Emerson 83 earned a PhD at Dalshyhousie University in Halifax in 1990 and is now a research associate in oceanography
Paul Fleming 85 is a pharmaceutical sales representative for Hoechst Canada Inc and lives in Nepean Ont
David Forsey 80 is an assistant professor of computer science at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver He is marshyried to Lyn Bartram
Michael Gangl 89 is in his third year at the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College
Astrid Harms 87 is a registered nurse in London Ont
Andrew Holmes 85 worked for the Onshytario government as a wildlife biologist for three years but is now back at school in his second year at Northwestern Chiropractic College in Minneapolis
Timothy Johnson 86 works at the Centre for Limnology at the University of Wisconshys in in Madison
Karen Lennard 77 (HK) and her hu sshyband Paul Jackson 79 (HK ) and MSc
82 both went 011 to earn medical degrees from McMaster University in HalTilton Ont Jackson also has a master s in physiology from the University of Virginia and is comshypleting an anesthesiology residency in Hamilshyton Lennard has a part-time family medical practice allowing her to spend more time with the couples two children Matthew and Nicola
Wendy Maltby 74 is an elementary schoolteacher for the Metropolitan Toronto School Board
Sandra OConnor 84 earned a medical degree from the University of Western Onshytario and is now practi sing in Burlington Ont
Linda Owen 81 runs her own business as a consulting exercise physiologist and fitness supervisor in Campbell River BC
Sheryle Tetley 86 is regional sales manager for Glaxo Canada Inc in Mi ss isshysauga Ont where she lives with her husshyband Ian
Rob Tonus 87 is manager of the Black Creek Rehabilitation Project a grassroots enshyvironment program to improve a degraded urban stream in Toronto His office is with the Metropolitan Toronto and Region Conshyservation Authority and he lives in Oakville with his wife Wanda (Knul) 88 (HK) a public health inspector in Hamilton
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Richard Woods 81 is an instructor of xshyray technology at the Easte rn Ontario School of X-ray Technology at Kingston Ge neral Hospital He would like to hear from other members of the 1981 U of G choir wi th whom he travelled to Scandinav ia Write to him at RRI Od essa Ont KOH 2HO
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James Dy nes 84 has comp le ted g raduate studies in chemistry and so il sc ience at the Univers ity of Sas katchewan in Saskatoon
Catherine (McVittie) Clark 88 is a nuclear medica l tech nici an at Howard Counshyty General Hospita l in Columbia Md She and her husband Michae l li ve in Elkridge Md
David Holmes 85 is a systems analyst at Sun Life Assurance Company
RolfKierdorf 84 lives in Guelph with his wife Janet He is se lf-employed as a systems consultant
Donald McFadde n 71 and his wife Carol li ve in A lbany Ga where he pracshyti ses medicine
Donald Ridley 69 and PhD 73 has been appoin ted seni or v ice-presiden t of CibashyGeigy Canada Ltd in Oakvi lle Ont and is responsib le for a ll corpora te serv ices includshy
ing finance human resources safe ty health and the environment He a lso se rves on the board of the Canadian Agricu ltura l Research Council and is a member of the Great Lakes Action Plan Strategi c Advi sory Committee
Kathryn Root Parr is an assoc iate minister at Lorne Park Bapti st Church in Mississhysa uga Ont She was married las t fa ll to Vicshytor Parr
Peter Simpson 85 is dis tric t manager for McNeil Pharmaceutical Ltd in Stouffville Ont He is married to Cynthia (Hamilton) 85 (HK)
Keith Stemshorn 83 is in the Canadian Armed Forces stationed in Calgary
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Nikki Dignard 86 moved to Ottawa last year where her husband Ted Henike pracshyti ses denti stry Dignard is working on an M BA and says she d love to hear from CSS classmates Tom Cam and Kathryn
Bonnie Dunnett 87 and MA 91 works on campus at the Gerontology Research Centre S he and Barry Hallman 9 1 li ve in Guelph
Kathryn Faulkner 80 is a registered nurse in Burling ton Ont where she li ves wi th he r husband John
Ruth Fox 84 is a sta ffing assistant for
Transport Canad a and lives in Toronto w ith her husband Christopher
Shonna Giles 88 is an admiss ions officer at Simon Fraser Unive rs ity in Burnaby BC
Gina Grieco 75 is a hi gh school guidance counsellor in North York Onto
John Harris 82 is manager of financial planning and budgets for th e City of Brampton Ont
Paulette Heppner 76 is a teache r in Vanshycouver
John Johnston 7 1 has been appointed exshyec uti ve vice-pres ident o f Ve rsacold Canada Corp and pres ident of QF Foods Distribushytion Services Versacold Canada is the largest public refri gera ted ware hou sing orshygani za tion in Western Canada
Michael Kral 79 has moved from the Univers ity of Manitoba to the University of Wind sor where he is an assistant professor of psychology
Jeffrey Lozon 76 and his family recently returned to Toronto after 15 years in Western Canada He is executive vice-president and ch ief operat ing officer at St Michael s Hos pital and li ves in Oakville wi th hi s wife Donna and two daughters
Bria n Martin 79 is a real estate appraiser in Portland Ont whe re he li ves w ith hi s wife Margaret (Sheffield) Arts 79
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Leith Mason 90 works in Toronto in the Canadian office of the State of Illinois as a special assistant to the Illinois Department of Food and Agricul ture
Michael McKean 74 of Don Mills Ont was recently appointed president of Wrigley Canada Inc Before joining Wrigley as execushytive v ice-pres ident in 1990 he he ld senior positions in Hong Kong Brazil and the United States
Rick 74 and Vicki (Collard) McTaggart FACS 74 are working in Ottawa He is director of overseas operations for the Unitarian Service Committee a charitable non-governmental organization that supports commun it y and human resou rce developshyment activities in Africa and Asia She is sec tion head of consumer analysis in the agr ifood development branch of Agriculture Canada
Sandra Morrison 86 is an ass istant professhysor in the department of psychiatry at the University of Western Ontario
Stephen Naylor 85 is director of planning and development for the amalgamated municipalities of Alliston Beeton Tecumshyseth and Tottenham
Brian ONeill 68 MA lives in SUITey England where he is managing director of Innovation Management Consultant s
Jodi Parisi 89 is a sales representative for Gillette who says U of Goo was the greatest
Moira Skikavich 81 is completing a PhD in c inematelevision at the University of Southern California
Virginia Sutherland 78 is an air traffic controller at the Toronto Island Airport
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Peggy Bates 88 was recently promoted to sales manager with Sears Canada Inc She lives in Owen Sound Ont
Caroline Begin 86 is working in Singshyapore as a dietitian
Diana Close 87 is a c linical nutri ti onis t at Chedoke McMaster Hospital in Hamilton Ont
Sarah Davenport 90 is a case worker with the Wellington County Social Services office in Guelph She is malTied to Matthew Harvey CBS 90
Timothy Dyck 8 1 is national sales manager for Black amp Decker Canada workshying out of the Corbin Division in Richmond HillOnt
Sharon (Muir) 84 and Richard Ernst CBS 83 are the proud parents of a future Guelph grad uate one-year-old Andrew Graham
Patricia Edwards 78 is food servi ce sushypervisor fo r St Peter s Hospita l in Hamilton Ont
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For the love ofteaching Since she
middot graduated bull from Macshydonald Inshymiddot stitute in
J 963 Nancy Kerr has built a career on teaching and research in telttles The middotheidofthe Uriiveisityof
Albertas department of Clothing and texiiles pursues a middotscientific interest inthepreservashylion of hi stori~lfabricsarid in developing pesticide-proofc1otl1ing But Jler fitstlove i ~ teaching
In 199b shewonone ofU of As four Rutherford AWljrds for excellence ill unshy
dergraduate teat-hing The first member of the faculty middotofliomemiddoteconornicsto receive the award slie was the rcentcipient6f the facultys own underglltiduate teaching award three years earlier
Winning the Rutherford was a gteat honor says Ken who has been on
faculty at Alberta since 1967 She oiscovered she had an aptitude for
middot teaching as a graduate student at the University of California Davis in
196566 After earning her MSc she casr about for afaculty position in Canada and round U of A was the 0111y place I could teach ju t textiles plus have a chance to develop new cQurses and research labs
middot Kerr sa)s she gets a tremelldous sense of satisfaction from teaching and the learning he must do to stay cUlTent She attributes her succe s as a teaCher to middotIec-middot
middot tures that are well organized and clear and to creltting a positive classroom climate
~Thcomfort level of students is reaUy middot ililportanL ~ Kerr eamedherPhD in fibre lnd
polymer science from North Carolina bull Staie University in 1982 Her doctoral work concentrated oil deacidification
techniques to preserve historicatcottOnln 1988 she spent a sabbatical ye~r doing research at the Caliadian Conservation
middot In tirute in OnflW1 middot Originalmiddotly from Ottawa Kerr is a
trarisphlnted -vesterner who enjoys middot hiking anlt sk1ing
From left Diane Ellison Lisa Wilson Lori Davis and Pippa Hobbes
Diane Ellison 84 is liv ing in Osaka Japan where she teaches English to Japanese busishyness people Last October she welcomed three U of G friends for a visit Lori Davis CSS 85 manager of Jumbo Video Inc in Oakville Ont Pippa Hobbes 84 accountshying manager for Paramount Holidays in Willowda le Ont and Lisa Wilson 84 co-ord inator of membership serv ices for the Metropolitan Toronto Board of Trade
Monica Hrybko HAFA 88 is director of sales for the Ramada Hotel Old Town in San Diego Calif
David Jones HAFA 88 is a con troller at the Holiday Inn Montreal Centre-Ville
Kathleen McLachlin 83 is operating an insurance agency in Kitchener OnL She opened the State Farm Insurance office in March 1988 and says she loves her job
Susan (Goettler) Parker 80 is working in Toronto as benefits administrator for Imshyperial Oil Limited She is married to Donald Parker OAC 79
Mary Jean (Sinnott) Price Mac 7 1 has returned to sc hool at the University of Otshytawa to earn a bachelor of education
Margaret (Richardson) Rankin 75 has been living in Halifax since 1990 and is an account analyst for Central Guaranty Trust
Janet (Wanless) Sutherland 77 is in private practice as a marriage and family therapist in East Kelowna BC
Jean Thomson Mac 37 says 1937 was a long time ago but shes delighted with all the changes that have gone at the college A former hospita l nutritionist she is retired and living in London Ont -
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Olayiwola Layi Adeola MSc 86 and PhD 89 and his wife Mope are living in West Lafayette Indiana where he is an assisshytant professor of pig nutrition at Purdue University
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Bruce Barrie 79 (Eng) graduated last June with an MBA from City Uni ve rsi ty in Washington State and is now a senior adshyviser in strategic planning with Petro-Canada Resources in Calgary He is a professional eng ineer with APEGGA and an ac tive memshyber of the Planning Forum an international society for planning and strategic manageshyment
Barbara Bryce 83 and her husband Ricardo Ramirez 82 are living in Rome Italy She is a landscape architect and he is a communications officer with the Food and Agriculture Organizat ion
Daniel Campbell 81 and his wife SharonshyMarianne are farmin g near Petrolia Onto
Carolyn Closs 82 and her husband Harold operate a beef cowca lf operation in Shawville Que
Luc Cote 83 is an agricullural account manager for the Royal Bank of Canada in Joliette Que
Kerrie Lea Curran 85 plans to graduate this fall from the master of architecture proshygram at McGi ll University
Bruce Dodson 74A is course superinshytendent at Hawd Ridge Golf and Curling Club in Orillia Ont
Richard Donkin OAC 85A originalshyly from Zimbabwe is the manager of Venida Packing Inc in Exeter Calif Situated in central Californias San Joashyquin Valley Venida Packing ships tree fruit throughout the Richard Donkin United States Canada the Pacific Rim and the Far East Products under the brand names Ruby River and Venida include peaches plums nectarines kiwi grapes persimmons and pomegranates In 1988 Donkin married California native Lisa Kolander and they live in Lemon Cove a community in the Sierra foothill s
Brendan Elder 8S A lives in Kelowna BC and works for Dogwood Nursery He plans to be married thi s summer to Rosemary Powell
Robert Fessenden OAC MSc 67 was recently appointed vice-president of devel opshyment and planning at the Alberta Research Council He is responsible for tec hnology management and corporate marketing
John Fitzgerald 86 was married last November to Susan Given a ] 991 indeshypendent study graduate in animal producshytion He is a lecturer at Ridgetown College she works at Centralia College and is work shying on a psychology degree at the University of Waterloo They live in Strathroy Ont
Glenn Helstern 79A is a driver for the Calgary division of Greyhound Bus Lines of Canada Ltd
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She tells a princely tale
For seven miniJtes on Oct 24 199 L Ellen Het1eOAC 76~U1d MSc 80
(ltllked with PIince Charles Invited toopert a newfumaceat
inco Lilniteds Copper Cliff smelter iri Sudbury Ont the Princemiddot of Wales was easy to talk with says Heale ftwasverycxciting
As eiwironmental co-ordinator Of land reclamation andrevegetation at Copper Cliff Healetold theprince middot about Tnc(secosystem rehabilitation
projects Theroyalvisitor was parshyticulatfyiilterestedin the treegrow- ing project in abandoned inines flld in tlpoundrevegetation ()f acres of tailings
and barren rock Planrilig vegetation on the tailings
hasattrlttcled wildlifeto a protected habitat says Beale who has wqrked forIncosincc she graduated in 1976
Ninety~iwo species ofbirds as weil asrodems hares foxes wolves bears andinoQse have been sighted on the 2500 acres of rehabilitated ore waste
One thing about this job is you middot can s~e where youve been effective she says
While an undergraduate student in Prill(e Charles with EIen Heale horticultural science Healea native ofSiidbury worked at Ineo during the sumniers She wasthi tirst woman to
work inrhemining companys agriculture middot department After shegraduated the niekshy el inine hired her full time tcido horticul- turaLfleld research ~ Ineo later granted heT a two-semester leave of absente t6 work
Theodore Jacobs 78 (Eng) is engineering supervisor at Standard Tube in Woodstock Ont
Greg Keast 85 (Eng) is li ving in Mozamshybique in East Africa where he works as a project officer for UNICEF rural water supshyply project s
Richard Kline 74 was appointed partner of the Toronto accounting firm Schwartz Levitsky Feldman Inc last faiL He is presishydent of the film s bankruptcy division a member of the Chartered Accountants of Onshytario and first vice- president of the Ontario Insolvency Association
Christopher Laforest MSc 91 (USRPD) works in planning and economic developshyment for Bruce County Ont
Jean-Paul PhD 90 and Lynn (Hammell) Laforest 82 and MSc 85 are both employed at Laval University in Sainte-Foy Que He is a professor and s he is a research associate
Kenneth Lawless 63 earned a Guelph deshygree in agricultural economics then went on to stud y dentistry at the Uni versity of Toronshyto He is now an oral and manilo-fac ial surshygeon in Kingston Ont
oil her masters at OAC~ In her current PdStion Heale has rnore
administrative and public relations responshyibilities On her own time she sits on the
board of management for the tocal Red Cross and isalllember ofthe Sudbury
Business and Professional Womens Club
Margie Luffman 77 writes that she has happily returned to Ontario after 10 years in New Brunswick to work at the Smithfield Experimental Farm in Trenton She is curator of the Plant Gene Resources of Canada clonal gene bank
Brian MacCulloch MAg 89 is a sa les representative for Springva le Nurseries Ltd in Berwick NS
Daniel Mansell 64 and MSc 68 is Onshytario manager of the eastern habitat joint venture in the wildlife policy branch of the Ministry of Natural Resources He is stashytioned in Midhurst Ont
Peter McEntire 77A writes from County Langford in Ireland to keep in touch with U of G He is farming and work s as an AI techshynician with Bova Genetics Ltd
Darryl Mitchell 78 works at Pioneer HishyBred Limited in Chatham Ont
Hugh ONeil 88 is manager of customer financial services for Ral ston Purina Canada Inc
Umed Panu MSc 72 (Eng) has done a lot of travelling during his career After Guelph he earned a PhD in civil engineering
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David Nedelko OAC 86 and Ljrlda ArmsJrollg CBS 89 (Jurk 011 cemre) were marriediasl SeplemiJer in Bari ~ie OnlTluir weddiIg iiarly illcilldedfiom leli Katy KusmiliskiOA C 88Paul Allgusline GAG 86 Roh Reed OAC 87Carv Belfral1l oAC 8RJIuJ Sa ndimiddoto (CollinI) BerlrCIlII CBS RR Also 1I111ie wedding w(lS Arlllslong s Veal ullcleClarence Fleming OVC 34 The couple (Ire living in
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at the Universit y of Waterloo taught in India and at Mi ss iss ippi State Uni vers ity and worked with Briti sh Columbia Hydro and the Government of Newfoundland In 1986 he jo ined the faculty of c ivil engi neering at Lakehead Uni ve rsity in Thunder Bay Ont and was promoted to full professor in 199 1 He and hi s wife Kashna and the ir children Neeti and Anukud enjoy the outdoor recreashytion ac ti viti es available in Northwestern Onshytario and look forward to visits from U of G alumni trave lling to Thunder Bay
Lyle Pettigrew 61 is a marketin g consulshytant with Harris Kovacs Alderman in Atlanshyta Ga
Helen Prior 88 joined Sheridan Nurseries after graduation then worked for a year as a research tech nic ian in Guelph s Department of Crop Scie nce She is now in her th ird year at Emmanuel College at Victoria University and hopes to be ordained as a United Church min is ter in May
Gregory Scott 83 (Eng) is operations manager for Accuform Gol f Limited in Toronto
Ba rbara (Coordes) Skrypetz 87 is a fi e ld supervisor for the Ontario Dairy Herd Imshyprovement Corporation working out of Guelph He r husband Stephen 88 operates a bulldozing and excavating busi shyness in the Woodstock area
Victor Skidra 6 is re tired f rom his job as a sc ientific evaluator with Hea lth and Welshyfare Canada He and hi s wife Konstance live in Nepean Ont
William Slusarchuk 63 (Eng) and MSc
The way we were in 1902 OAC alumnus Douglas Campbell 60 passes on a bit of col lege hi sto ry that shou ld make us think twice about our con stitutional squabbles in C anad a
Campbell is director of the Latin America and Caribbea n Trade Divis ion of Canada s Department of External Affa irs Last summer he hosted a vi s it by the president of Uruguay Luis Alberto Lacalle Herre ra whose grand fa the r made a simil a r vis it to Canada in 1902
This is what the elde r Herrera reported to his government Gue lph agricultural college enjoys a worldwide reputation and is con shys idered one of the grea t loca l attracshytions
More than 200 young Canadians a long with many foreign youths come together in its lecture rooms There are bursary ho lde rs from Norway and as far away as Mauritius C loser to us
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67 was recently appo inted pres ident of AGRA Eanh and Environmental Group an envi ronme ntal and geotechnica l firm that is a division of AGRA Indu stries Limited
Michael Sullivan 87 A is a pol ice officer with the Wate rloo Regional Police in Cambridge Ont
Argentina has 12 students there We ll then couldnt Uruguay imshy
itate those good exa mples and also se nd a number of worthy youths to Guelph to acquire the professional knowledge which is becoming m ore necessary each day for the deve lopshyment of our agric ulture~
In addition to the sc ienti fic benefits that our compatriots woul d deri ve from entering sLlch a Canadian techni cal in shystitution there would be the inca lcushylable benefit of becoming familiar with the stric t manly and sound habits of these people who are admirable in e ve ry respect
Afte r they have stee ped themse lves in this atmos phere of dem ocracy which fosters the development of all rights and is alien to intolerance thi s legati on w ill have the great honor of sending home not only sc ientists but a lso mode l citizens
Brenda Trask 80 operates he r own comshymunica tion s consulting company in Osshygoode Ont She is marri ed to Ron Ferguso n
Dave Vanden Bosch 89 is manager of operator services and plann ing for Bell Canada in London Ont
J Stallard Skip Waterhouse 54 and hi s wife Li sa are ce lebrating the birth of a daughter Samantha Elizabe th on New Years Day 1992 They live in New York State where Wate rhouse is iI pro fe ssor of bio logical science at the Plattsburgh Sta te Uni versity College of Arts and Science
Jeff 88 and Karen (Burrows) W h ite 87 live in Strathroy Ont Jeff work s for Bell Canada and Kare n is a Lambton County rural orga ni za tion spec ialist with the Ontar io Mini stry of Agriculture and Food
Harold Wright 86 is a development repre shysenta tive for Ci ba-Ge igy Canada Ltd in Mi sshysissauga Ont He and Lori Krieg 84 plan to marry thi s sprin g
Donald Ziraldo 7 I received doubl e honors last winter fro m the Ontario grape and wine industry Preside nt of Inniskillin W ines of Niagara-on -the-Lake Ont he was named to the Royal Order of the Grape for hi s leadership in enhancing the prod uct and its image
In addition Z ira ldo and his partner Karl Kai se r were named 1991 Men of the Year by FoodsCIvice and Hospitalily magazine During the ir 17-year partnership at Inn isk ilshylin the two have been instrumental in shapshying Canada s wine industry the magazine sa id
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ave Barry Burtis 69 was named president of the Ontario Veterinary Medical Association in January after working with the voluntary organization for four years as a director member of its editorial board and chair of its public relations committee Burtis lives in Burlington Ont and practises at the Bay Cities Animal Hospital He also appears on a local cable television program called Pel Tales
William Medway 54 of Blackwood NJ has been named an honorary life member of the International Association for Aquatic Animal Medicine for his contributions on beshyhalf of the association and the field of aquatic medicine He is both a founding member and past president of the associa shytion A professor emeritus of clinical laboratory medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine Medway is a member of the Marine Mammal Commissions committee of scientific advisers
Diane Pickering-Forster 86 is practising at Vander Kraan Veterinary Services in Huntsville Ont She is malTied to Chris Forster and they have one daughter Julia
Julien Proulx 67 has moved from Kapusshykasing Ont to La Pocatiere Que where he is superintendent of Agriculture Canada s Experimental Farm Last year he was feashytured on TVOntarios French network series Personalire Ontarienne for his work as a veterinarian his participation in municipal politics and his support of regional developshyment in Northern Ontario He was also awarded Agriculture Canadas research branch prize Agcellence for extraordinary management during his direction of the reshysearch program at the Kapuskasing Exshyperimental Farm
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and others interested in science or nature
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Twoc~ireers middot on the samepat~ OVCaruninus Geoffrey Lord 49 felt a thopedic
middot enseofdejavuwhen he read theslory gastrointesshyabout Bill Naray~i1 OVe 63 il1la~t tinal and carc
springs issue ofthe Guelph Altimnus diovascular
There are amazing simi laritiesbetween surgery the c~reersof t~e two Guyanese wh6b6th says Lord If earnedvefetinary degrees atGueiph someone worked in c1ini(ai practice in)Yestem were to ask Canada then moved to the United States me ioday to work in human medic~lresearch what Tcon~
Narayan heads an AlDSresearchteamsider to be atJohns HopkiflS l1)iversilySchool of my expertise MediCirieinBaltimoreMatyland Lord is I would have retired directorofthdohnsonamp Johnson to saymecli- Geofrey Lord
middot Resear~h Foundalion ill NewJersey cal device lordsays he was influenced by OVC andbioshy
proJessDfs Anthony Kings(Qte and Frank Inaterials evaluation middot SchofieJd~ndwcentnton from GiJelphto pur- lt In the I 950s Lordwaspalt of ale-
sue graduate studies in parasitology auhe se~rch team that pioneered the use of University oJWiscollsin Sevenmorithsin animal tissue tOTeconstructdamagedjr
amixed practice in Drumheller Alta con blocked al1eries in hUl11ansTwenty years vinced him thaldinical medicine wasn6t middot later he drafted the first systematicap-
middot whati w~ted6 do He returned to Wis pr()ach to the safety evaluation of medica con5il110 eanla PhDlll pathologyano devices joined Johnson amp JohnsQri as asenior middot Allsubsequeill guidelines inCiLlding patilol()gistiriI953 those of the Foodaj)q Diug Admlnistrashy
Research at Johnson amp JohDson tiOnand the Canadian Regulatory ~teeredmeinto many interesting and chal- Authority hayeadopteoihis approach he
Jenging fieldsofbio-research includirig says derniiltoi9gy toxicologic pathology Lordand his wife Helen ltIividetheir wound healing surgical pathology iiinebetweel)Ciipe CodandBonita genera toxkology ofi~w drugs andor~ Springs FloriQa
Shane Renwick 77 and MSc 91 works in veterinary services at Agriculture Canada offices in Guelph
Ruth Reuter 61 is a veterinary pathologist in Plympton Australia
Tom Sanderson 6 1 was selected by the Ontario Veterinary Medical Association as Ontario Veterinarian of 1991 CUlTently OVCs co-ordinator of off-campus work terms he spent 20 years in private practice in Listowe1 and Mount Forest before returning to the coll ege in 1982 to manage the veterishynary research stations Sanderson s contribushytions to the profess ion have included many hours of volunteer work in the advancement
of the profession and in the development of veterinary inshysurance programs He is a past pres ident of both the Ontario and Canadian Veterishynary Medical associashytions
Jennifer Troughton 86 is practising in OronoOnt
Simone Woltner 86 is a veterinarian at the Chester Basin Animal Hospital in Chester Basin NS
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by her hu sband William and two sons The fo llowing dea ths have been reported since the las t issue of the Guelph Alumnus Full notices which are usu ally submitted by family or classmates may appear in thi s iss ue or in a later one
James Clement Arts 73 Feb 2 1992
Marilyn (Dyment) Farnan Mac 530 Feb 27 1992
David Fisher OAC 80A in October 1990
Elizabeth (C hristie) Glass Mac 3I D June 2l99 1
Peter Heskey OAC 54A Dec 6 199 1
Richard Ketchell OVC 51 Nov 23 199 1
Edward Kowalski Arts 79 in August 199 1
Pauline (Dixon) MacMillan Mac 240 Jan 2 1992
Catherine MacPherson Arts 83 Dec 11 1990
Marguerite (White) Maybury Mac 3 10 in June 1990
Donald McLeOd CSS 80 Jan 9 1992
Albert Meilus OAC 51 in 1991
Ann (Biggs) Ostler Mac 3 10 in April 1991
Robert Race Arts 73 in 1989
Ralph Sampson OAC 40 in December 1989
Mor ris Sanderson OAC 42 Nov 17 1991
Sir Peter Scott HDSc 8 1 in Au gust 1989
William Setterington OAC 40 Oct 22 1991
George Shoniker OAC 50A in March 199 1
John Somerset OAC 34 Dec 27 199 1
Gregory Van Patter OAC 7 1 in 1990
Frederich Weiland OAC 20A in 1990
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Riccardo Rich Incitti 88 died Jan 5 1992 as the result of an accident near Hami lshyton Ont He was assistant manager at the Toronto-Dominion Bank in St Cathari nes and is survived by his parents Gu igi and Lucia of Cambridge and two sisters Laura and Andrea
Larry McNenly 73 died in October 1991 in Owen Sound Ont He is survived by his wife Marnie CSS 73
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Robert Everett HK 74 died in May 1991 in Burlington Ont A teac her at White Oaks Secondary Schoo l in Oakv ille he is survived by his wife Miche le and brother William CBS 74
James Sandy Fear 75 died Oct I I 199 1 in Toronto He is survi ved by his wi fe Sally (Firth) OAC 75 and hi s children Caitlin Alli son and Mered ith
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Lynn (Dalys) Corby 84 died in Toron to May 6 1990 after a long battIe with cancer
Nancy (Birbeck) Gordon 77 died Oct 20 1991 in Ottawa after a short illness She worked at the Kitchener-Waterl oo Hospital and had previously been plan t accountant at Foseco Canada Incorporated in Guelph
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Jean (Williams) Forward 280 Oct 28 1991 in Calgary She was the widow of Bower Forward OAC 25 and is survived by two sons
Catharine (Bechtel) Fromm 270 died Nov I 199 1 in Cambridge Ont She is surshyvived by three dau ghters Ellen Moore Mac 63 Nancy and Caro l
Alice (Rivaz) Garrard 28 di ed Dec 2 199 1 in Guelph She was an active member of the Mac-FACS Alumni Assoc iat ion and was the Mac 28 class agent for the Alma Mater Fund She is survived by her husband retired professor Edward Garrard OAC 27 and a daughter Betty Nelson
Della Marie (Diamond) Honey 300 of Warkworth Ont died June 29 1991 One ofWarkworths oldest and most respected citizens she served as local li brarian fo r 25 years She is survived by her son John OAC 52A his wife Patric ia and four grandchildren James OAC 84A William OAC 76A Thomas OvC 89 and Patricia Lonergan CSS 68
Barbara (Banigan) Martin 380 died Jan I 1992 in Don Mill s Ont A retired teacher wit h the North York Board of Education she is survived by a son Ted a sister and two brothers
Elizabeth (Burt) Perry 340 died June 28 1991 in Sidney BC and is surv ived by her husband Gordon and son Paul Nartel OAC 62
Jacqueline (Roy) Pote 34D died Dec 2 1 1991 in Willowdale Ont and is is survived
Merrill and Bill
Doroth y (MacFeeters) Scott 260 died Jan 14 1992 in Toronto She is su rvived by two daughters Anne Donaldson and Cynthia Scott
Florence (French) Snyder 370 died May 6 199 1 in Calgary and is survived by her husband Robert and two sons John and William
Katherine (Sweet) Watt Mac 220 died Feb 23 1992 She is survived by her husshyband Leslie a son David and a dau ghter Carol Gi llanders
Mattie (Newman) Widdicombe 240 died Dec 11 1991 in St Catharines Ont Preshydeceased by her husband John she is surshyvived by a bro ther and several nieces and nephews including Virginia Rigby Arts 76
OAC
George Grey Arnup 38 died Feb 2 1992 in Toronto He spent most of his career with the plant protection branch of Agriculture Canada He is survived by his wife Aileen three chi ldren Nancy Jim and Mary Ellen Vincent CBS 79 and four grandchi ldren
Herbert Boyce 28 and MSA 43 died Sept 2 1991 in Amherstburg Onto He is survi ved by his wife Norah a daughter Beverley Med lock and a brother James OAC 32
Jack Reddy Brethet 56 died Nov 4 199 1 in Burlington Ont President of Brethet Barnum Assoc iates Inc he is surshyv ived by his wife Caro l and two daughters Lyn n and Anne
Bruce Foster 28 died Feb 6 1992 in Ridgetown Ont and is survi ved by his daughter Gayle Anderson and son David CBS 69
Allison Gardhouse 49 died Sept 21 1991 in Midland Ont He was re tired supe rshyintendent of schoo ls for the Simcoe County Board of Education and is survi ved by his wife Merle
Kenneth Harrison 24 died Nov 5 199 1 in Kentville NS A distinguished plant patho logist military officer and mycologist he began hi s career in 1926 as assistant plant pathologis t at the Kentvi lle Experimental Farm He worked there until retirement in 1966 wi th the exception of mi litary servi ce du ring the Second World War
Dr Harrison had a lifelong interes t in the study of mushrooms and publ ished numerou s technica l papers on the mu shroom flora of Nova Scotia In addition he enshy
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couraged interested amateurs and led field trips for student s at Acadia University and the general public from 1929 until 1987 In 1979 he was honored by Acadia wi th the dedication of the Kenneth A Harri son Laboratory of Mycology
During his career he was a member of many professional organizations a charter member of the Mycological Society of America and fe llow of the American Associashytion for the Advancement of Science
He is survived by hi s wife Margaret two brothers Maynard OAC 30 and Arthur OAC 29 two son s Ashley and Kenneth and a daughter Jennie Sheito
William Kellam 4 1 died Oct 19 1991 in Brockville Ont He was retired from the Curb and Gate Co of-Brock ville where he had worked as a lab technician fo r 28 years He is survived by his wife Kathleen a son George and a daughter Mary
William M acMillan 48 died in February 1992 in Winnipeg He was supervisor of Fertilizer marketing for the Manitoba Pool Elevators and is surv ived by hi s wife Edna Jean and brother Harry OAC 5 1 A
Cameron McTaggart 35 died Feb 4 1992 in Aurora Ont After graduating from OAC he became manager of Don Head Farms in Richmond Hill He established the first agricul tural consulting business in Canada in 1947 and later ran an Angus cattle
sales management business from the family farm A life member of the OAC Alumni As shysociat ion and the Class of 35 executive he is survived by his wife Margaret Mac 35 and two sons John OAC 62 of Regina and David of Largo Fla
Douglas Miller 48 of Victoria BC died Nov 24 1991 in Toronto He is survived by hi s wife Ruth and five children
Gregory More 76 was killed Feb 3 1992 in Kitchener Ont at the Ontario Glove Manufacturing Co where he was co-owner and vice-president Following graduation he worked for the Rohrer Drug Co and the Stershyling Drug Co then returned to school ea rnshying an MBA at McMaster University in 1981 More was an avid squash player and golfer Court A at the Northfield Racquet Club in Waterloo was dedicated to his memory in March He is survived by his parents Noreen and Ken a brother Randy and a sister Katherine Keeler
John Jack Pawley 33 died March I 1992 in Guelph He is survived by his wife Ruth son John OAC 62 and daughter-inshylaw Carolyn He was a former director of the Ontario Milk Marketing Board and a past member of the Royal City Lodge of Perfecshytion
Harold Reid 20A died in December 1991 in Burlington Ont During the First World W ar he was one of Canadas premier rad io
experts work ing at the Roya l Canadian Navy shore transmitter in Sydney NS After the war he came to OAC to earn a diploma then went on to QueenS University to comshyplete an arts and theology degree His mini sshytry was mainly in St And rews and Montreal although he spent 13 years teaching Hebrew at the Presbyterian Coll ege before retiring in 1968
Donald Robertson 3 1 died Nov 4 1991 in Iroquois Ont He is survived by hi s wife Caroline (Grisdale) Mac 38 his two son s ScottOAC 65A and Guy and a daughter Sandra McNeil
Thomas Rokeby 48 and MSA 50 died Jan 29 1992 in Fayetteville Ark He was a professional engineer and tau ght for 30 years in the Univers ity of Arkansas engineering department Born in Port Rowan Ont he was a member of the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War the American Society of Agricultural Engineers and the agricultural honor societies of Gamma Sigma Delta and Alpha Epsilon He is surv ived by his wife Helen two sons Robert and Richard a daughter Penny and three brothers Michael Noel and Richard OAC 54
Francis Sweeney OAC 45 died Nov 17 1991 in Oakville Ont He was a longtime employee of Shell Canada and [nternational Shell working in Great Britain Europe and
WALL CUSTANCE MEMORIAL FOREST
The Wall-Custance Memorial Forest located at the Universi ty of Guelphs Arboretum was established in recognition of the severe depletion of our forests It is never too late to be a vital part of the effort to save and improve our air and water for the future of our children by planting trees This program is our small part of the major endeavor to reforest and to reduce the greenhouse effect improve air quality and provide food and cover for wildlife The Memorial Forest Proshygram not only pays a Significant tribute to a loved one but also assures a better environment for generations to come
The purpose of this program is to provide an opporshytuni ty to commemorate the life of a loved one by plantshy
Home of the WALL-CUSTANCE
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ing a tree We envision that the Memorial Forest Program will continue for many years to come and our hope is that the solace that nature offers particularly in the depths of a living forest will be of comfort and benefi t to all
For more information or for a brochure call or write to
WALL-CUSTANCE Funeral Home and Chapel 206 Norfolk Street Guelph Ontario N1 H 4K3 (519) 822-0051
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Berna rd Weeks 35 died Oct 16 199 1 After graduation he re turned to his roots in
ew York and Pennsylvannia and worked in 4-H and you th organi zations for a few years He then took over the family farm at Troupsburg NY and built up a dairy operashytion with a sideline of sheep He is surv ived by his wife Ruth and four children
Glenn White 43 of Belleville Onl died Nov 24 199 1 in Florida and is surv ived by hi s wife Marjorie
ave Norman Anderson 39 of Wi nn ipeg died Dec 18 1991 in Arizona He had practised veterinary medicine in Norwood Man and was a member of the American Equine Pracshytitioners Association director of the Canadian Thoroughbred Society and track veterinarian at Assin iboia Downs for 50 years He is survived by his wi fe Peggy and two sons Laurie and James
George Beatty 5 I died Nov 22 1991 in Inverness III He practised in Palatine fo r 36 years and founded the Palatine Animal Hospi tal He was an active member of the American Animal Hospital Assoc iati on and the Chicago Veterinary Association and was a director of the Friends of the University of Guelph He is survived by his wife Mary and fo ur children - Suzanne Patricia Margaret and Tim
John Hamilton 5 L died Dec 15 1991 He had lived in Roslin On where he owned the Bay Regional Veterinary Hospital He is survived by hi s niece Ann Bongard
Nicholas Labzoffsky 39 died Dec 25 1991 in Largo Fla Fonnerly of Toronto he had li ved most recen tl y in Dorse t Ont and is survived by hi s wife Jane
Edgar Langford 49 died March 41992 in Monarch Alta A former research scienshytist with ADRI (Western) he is survived by his wife Norma and two daughters includshying Carolyn OVC 76
Stuart Maude 4 1 died Jan 14 1992 in Rosemead Calif A former Rosemead counshycillor and four-time mayor he operated the Rosemead Animal Hospital with his brother Arthur 52 from 1953 to 1980 He was a trustee for Ingles ide Hospital a past grand patron of both the Rosemead and the Califorshynia Order of Eastern Star and past-president of the local Kiwanis Club and Chamber of Commerce He is survived by his wife Vera two daughters Patricia and Susan Bezner a son Stuart and three brothers
Walter Morley 42 o f Mildmay On died Nov 28 199 1 He ran a large animal pracshytice in the Mild may area for 39 years raised cat tle and raced standardbred horses He was also a pu blic school board trustee and direcshytor of a local te lephone company for more
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than 30 years He is survived by his wife Joyce five sons - two of whom are OVC alumni Dave 68 and Randy 74 - and 10 grandchildren
Lloyd Neily 52 died Jan 3 1992 in Hantsport NS A retired meat inspector w ith the federal Department of Agriculture he had a private veterinary practice in Wind sor NS He is surv ived by hi s wife Mary
Elford Nundal 43 died Jan 7 1992 in Langley BC after a long battle with canshycer He operated a veterinary practice in Langley for 36 years and served as a di strict aldennan for 10 years before being elected mayor in 1982 Last year he received the BC Veterinarian Association s award of merit for a lifetime of veterinary work
Humphrey Rees 55 died Sepl 30 1991 in Amman Jordan while on ass ignment for the Overseas Development Ad ministrat ion as veterinary and animal hu sbandry adviser to the Jordani an government His contemshyporaries at Guelph will remember him as a singer debater raconteur rugby player and bon vivant He is surv ived by his wife Alice of POlt Eynon Wales
William Stinson 40 died Feb 15 1992 in Norwood Ont He is survi ved by his wife Rita a son John OVC 67 a brother Ford OAC 34 and a grandson John CSS 87
Faculty
Patric ia Harney died Dec 191991 in Yarshymouth NS A professor in the Department of Horticultural Science from 1962 to 1988 she developed severa l new variet ies of geraniums and was instru mental in es tabshylishing the Frances Ball rose collection at the Arboretum
Anthony Marston died Feb 3 1992 in Fershygu s ant Retired from the School of Hotel and Food Administration he was an acshycomplished competition chef who received his training in Switzerland and England He then spent severa l years working in the Caribbean before coming to Guelph in 1970 A member of the Canadian Olympic culinary team he held a number of positions in the
Donations given in memory ofGuelph alumni will help support University scholarships ifdirected to the Alumni M emorial Fund In 1991 donations were made in memory of the following alumni
Frank MacDonald OAC 37
Frank King OAC 33 -Robert Allen OAC 56A
Alice (Rivaz) Garrard Mac 28
Stan Vesselinovitch OVC 57
For more infonnation call the Office of Annual Giving at 519-824-4120 Ext 6 183
hote l and food industry until retiring in 1982 He is survived by hi s wife Di ana
Gordon McNally dled Jan 12 1992 in Guelph A professor in the Department of Zoo logy from 1934 to 1971 he served as academic assistant to the dean of CBS until retiring in 1979 While at Guelph he was honorary pres id ent of the classes of OAC 54 58 and 67 He is survived by his daughter Jean two siste rs and two grandchildren Prof McNallys family has established the A Gordon Mc a lly Memorial Fund to support a sc holarship or bursary Contributions may be sent care of the Alma Mater Fund Alumni Hou se University of Guelph Guelph ant N I G 2WI
Friends
Jean (Young) Branion died March 3 1992 in Guelph She was the wife of the late Hugh Branion a physiology professor at U of G and assistant to presidents Bill Winegard and Don Forster Jean Branion was an act ive volunteer on campus for many years and one of the firs t presidents of the College Womens Club She is survived by a son Richard and his wife Marga re t of Vanshycouve r and five grandchi ldren Donati ons may be made to the Hugh D Branion Memorial Scholarship through Alumni House
Davy Alexander Hamilton-Williamson died Feb 4 1992 in Guelph A painter and author of childrens stories he had been a member of the University s Presidents Council s ince it began in 1 985
Marjorie Pinkney wife of J ames Pinkney OVC 3 7 died Dec 151 99 [ at her home in Milton ant
Samuel Wyal died March 15 1992 in Brantford ant He was a partner in the law firm Wyatt Purce ll Will Stillman and Scott He is surv ived by his wife M a bel Mac 39 four sons Peter Michael William and John and two daughters Mary Alderson and Sarah Nadalin Arts 82
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INVmiddotESTMENTS amp
DIVIDENDS
Facts about university education in Canada and how we pay for it
By 2000 half of all new jobs in Canada will require a university degree
But at the current rate of government funding only one in five children
will have a chance to go to university
In the seven years from 1982 to 1989 per-student grants to universities in
Ontario barely kept pace with intlation at five per cent
per-student funding at American public univers ities jumped an average
of 23 per cent in the same period
Those US universities also receive twice the federal research dollars per student as do Ontario universities
In 1987 the average salary of a full-time professor at an Ontario univers ity was $55500
compared with $68200 for a private-sector position of similar education and experience
Lawyers economists and engineers made an average of $71 000
Ontario ranks ninth out of the to provinces in terms of grants to universities
Between 1978 and 1991 enrolment at Ontario univers ities grew by 40 per cent while funding dropped
from 59 to 409 per cent of total government spending
Universities were spending 14 per cent less per student between 1977 and 1988 hospital expenditures
rose 38 per cent per patient in the same period
Ontario universities generate $3 of economic activity for every
$1 invested by government funding
And the number of jobs generated by university activities in
Ontario is greater than the employment impact of the textile
industry the entire paper and pulp industry or utilities
University graduates can look forward to earning 63 per cent more than the average industrial worker
A 1990 survey of U of G alumni found that two years after graduation 97 per cent of Guelph grads
looking for work were employed 62 per cent were earning $25000 or more and 10 per cent were
earning $40000 or more
Unemployment rates in 1990 for those with a university degree was about one-third what it was
for those with only a high school diploma
Every year from 1978 to 1987 Ontario university inves tments in renovating or replacing
aging buildings could not keep pace with the rate at which the buildings depreciated
Graphics by Debbie Thompson Wilson Statistics supplied by th~ Council 01 Ontario UniverSities Statistics Canada and the U01 G Student EnVifonment Study Group
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A salute to sport Alumni Weekend June 19-21 9am Sio-pitch tournament
The tradition Jives on at the south quad diamond s Cooed teams of 12 or more players are encourshyaged to join in the fun
FRIDAY 10 am to 9 pm Registration Lambton Hall
6 pm Kick-off dinner and half-time show
get set and join In the Olympic spirit one of Alumni Creelman Hall will Weekends host the Wonderful most popular World of Sports with events Tours a half-time slide show start from to entertain alumni of Alumni House all ages and are sponshy9 pmshy sored by the Observatory tours CBS Alumni
Association
10 am and 2 pm
SATURDAY 8 am to 5 pm Guided Registration walking tours Lambton Hall
Remember 9 am to 5 pm making s now Alumni House tours sc ulptures on Students will host tours of Alumni House throughshyout the weekend Come and see what the generosity of alumni has accomplished
9 am to noon Alumni association annual meetings
This is the official notice for the annual general meetings of the following alumni associations
CBS - Alumni House starts at 830 am before guided walk MacFACS - HAFA Building Room 209
OVC - OvC Room 1438
OAC - Macdonald Hall Room 149
CSS - MacKinnon Building Room 305
HAFA - Alumni Hou se boardroom
Gryphs Lounge will be open for lunch and afLer the game
930 am Guided nature walk at the Arboretum
On your mark
Noon - OVC luncheon
The OvC Alumni Association will host a luncheon open to all OvC alumni and their guests
2 pm - Campus Showcase 92
Following on the heels of last year s success Campus Showshycase 92 will be bigger and better Come to the University Centre to see exhibits representing all areas on campus The Campus Junction store will also be open
2 pm - Zavitz Hall tour
Alumni are invited to browse through the newly renovated Za vitz Hall and attend a recep shytion sponsored by the Colshylege of Arts Alumni Asshysoc iation
5 pm Golden anniversary dinner
The OAC OvC and MacshyFACS alumni associations will provide complimenshytary tickets for alumni celebrating 50 years or more Additiona l tickets can be purchased Classes
Johnston Green or playing intramural hockey in the old Quonset arena Relive some of the memories by taking a walking tour of campus Tours begin from the lobby ofLambton Hall
Noon - Alumni picnic
This apopular event has new location - the sculpshyture garden beside the Macshydonald Stewart Art Centre Come on your own or reshyserve a group of tables for friends and classmates
Noon - Class reunion lunches
OAC 37 Mac 37 OAC 42 Mac 42 OAC 47 Mac 52 Mac57 Mac 67 FACS 72 FACS 77 FACS 87
OAC 67 FACS 82 OAC 82 OAC 82A CBS 82 FACS 87 OAC 87
SUNDAY 9am Church service and War Memorial Hall rededication
Thanks to a commitment from the Alma Mater Fund renovashytion of the upstairs of War Memorial Hall has been comshypleted Join us for the rededicashytion ceremony commemorating the 1924 opening and the 1952 dedication of an OAC memorial plaque
being honored are OAC 22 OAC 47 OvC 22 Mac 22 OAC 27 OvC 27 Mac 27 OAC 32 OvC 32 Mac 32 OAC 37 OvC 37 Mac 37 OAC 42 OvC 42 Mac 42
6 pm Class reunion dinners
Special dinn e r reunions are planned for OAC 47 OAC 52 OAC 52A OvC 52 Mac 57 OAC 57 OAC 62 Mac 67
10am UGAA annual meeting
All alumni are encouraged to atshytend the UGAA annual meeting in Macdonald Hall Room 149 An amendment to the UGAA Letters Patent and a revised bylaw will be presented for ap shyproval Copies of both are availshyable on request from Alumni House Call 519-824-4120 Ext 6544
11 am - Farewell brunch
The final event of Alumni Weekend will be held in Creelshyman Hall Come and meet the Univers ity S president Brian Segal The Alumnus of Honour medal will be presented at noon
To receive an Alumni Weekshyend brochure or to register for events call Alumni House at 59-824-4120 Ext 6963
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Where research and industry Dleet
Space available now Exceptional office and research facilities in our multi-tenant Research Park Centre
Research-driven corporations are breaking new ground at the University of Guelph Research Park Centre with exceptional growth opporshytunities in an ideal business setting
This 30-acre Research Park also accommodates tenants who choose to construct their own office and laboratory facilities
Find out why organizations such as Semex Canada Tremco Limited the Ontario Dairy Herd Improvement Corporation George Morris Centre LIPID Analytical Laboratories and Agriculture Canada have chosen the University of Guelph Research Park Call Ralph Eades or Judy Phillips Real Estate Division University of Guelph Telephone (519) 767-5003 or Fax (519) 837-0353
The Research Park is a project oj the Office oj Research and the University S Real Estate Division
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John Boros 88 of Wei land Ont writes that he is impressed by the way U of G keeps records after graduation Thi s gives the graduate a sense of belonging a connection to an important period in hi s or her life he says
Jane Buzza 88 is working as records co-ordinatorarchivist for the Ontario Medishycal Association in Toronto
Jacqueline (Sullivan) DeClerck 86 is a public relations officer at the Canada Trust head office in London Onto
Richard Ely 70 works at the Crown attorneys office in WeIland Ont He has an LLB from the University of Western Ontario in addition to his Guelph degree He says he often talks about U of G to young students trying to decide which university to attend
Paul Genest 81 finished graduate studies at Johns Hopkins Universi ty in Maryland and is now assistant professor of philosophy at Union College in Schenectady NY He is man-ied to Barbara Jessup 8 1
Brian Hogarth 78 is head of interpretashytion at the G1enbow Museum in Calgary
Martha Hooper 9 1 was married last Ocshytober to David Perry They live in Calgary where she is a sw itchboard operator at the Delta Bow Valley Inn
Rene van der Meijden 87 has put his degree in geogshyraphy and internationshyal development to good use with the Christian Reformed World Relief Comshymittce Originally from the Netherlands he is now in Uganda on a three-year asshy Rene van der signment as a rural Meijden development adv iser He sends greetings to his many friend s in Canada and to Guelph grads Stan and Kitty in Bolivia in particular and reminds us that visitors are always welshycome in Uganda
Edward Milliner 85 will graduate this spring from the faculty of education at the University of Windsor
Mark Moore 85 is doing postgraduate work in history at the University of Bristol in England He plans to teach high school
fn response to a letter from Dawn Monroe 69 that appeared in the winter 1992 issue of the Guelph Alumnus Doug Moynihan 69 of Fort McMurray Alta writes Be disapshypointed no more Dawn l I too graduated in 1969 from (the College of) Arts or as it was then called Wellington College and I havent heard from anyone either And I too think it is time to contribute my news
After graduation f headed out to disshycover and sol ve the problems of the world travelling overseas for about three years Since then Ive been working in human resources in a variety of organizations in many different locations in Canada Cun-entshyIy I am the manager of human resources in Fort McMurray
PS Do you remember me Dawn I was the bartender in Creelman Hall I
John Teskey 7 1 began new duties last summer as director of libraries at the University of New Brunsw ick in Fredericton He was head of adshyministrative sershyvices at the University of Albershyta before moving John Teskey across Canada to acshycept the UNB posishytion but had earlier served as chief librarian and was library personnel officer at both Alshyberta and the University of Saskatchewan
Teskey says his biggest challenge is to regain the lost purchasing power that univershysity libraries have suffered as a result of static budge ts and ri sing material costs He is encouraging increased resource-sharing among universities and interlibrary loan programs with shortened turnaround
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Elizabeth (Baxter) Willson 77 a real esshytate agent in Chatham Ont writes to voice a common feeling that the universi ty exshyperience itself is often more important than the degree or diploma received I am really glad I graduated from Guelph she says
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Michelle Bombadier and Mike Caldwell both 92 are two of 50 Canad ian youth selected to work in Guyana for three months with Youth Challenge International (YCI) a non-governmental organization that provides Third-world experience for Canadians They may spend the summer building a school teaching safety or clearing land for Gu ytna s first national park but they need some private support to he lp cover transportation costs Anyone able to help should write to YCI at I I Soho St Toronto M5T IZ6
Jane Coventry 86 writes with accolades for the Guelph Alumnus grad news section and an update on what she and her husband Jaydee Smith 84 and MSc 89 are doing They were married in 1989 while working at U of G - he in the Department of Animal and Poultry Science and she in the Departshyment of Crop Science In February 1991 they moved to England where Smith is doing a PhD at the University of Bristol and working as a research assistant Coventry
works in the technology transfer unit of Nickshyerson Seeds Ltd in Cambridge
Jeffrey Crawford 88 and Leslie Thompson 86 were malTied last October He is an elementary schoolteacher in Mount Forest Ont
Craig Emerson 83 earned a PhD at Dalshyhousie University in Halifax in 1990 and is now a research associate in oceanography
Paul Fleming 85 is a pharmaceutical sales representative for Hoechst Canada Inc and lives in Nepean Ont
David Forsey 80 is an assistant professor of computer science at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver He is marshyried to Lyn Bartram
Michael Gangl 89 is in his third year at the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College
Astrid Harms 87 is a registered nurse in London Ont
Andrew Holmes 85 worked for the Onshytario government as a wildlife biologist for three years but is now back at school in his second year at Northwestern Chiropractic College in Minneapolis
Timothy Johnson 86 works at the Centre for Limnology at the University of Wisconshys in in Madison
Karen Lennard 77 (HK) and her hu sshyband Paul Jackson 79 (HK ) and MSc
82 both went 011 to earn medical degrees from McMaster University in HalTilton Ont Jackson also has a master s in physiology from the University of Virginia and is comshypleting an anesthesiology residency in Hamilshyton Lennard has a part-time family medical practice allowing her to spend more time with the couples two children Matthew and Nicola
Wendy Maltby 74 is an elementary schoolteacher for the Metropolitan Toronto School Board
Sandra OConnor 84 earned a medical degree from the University of Western Onshytario and is now practi sing in Burlington Ont
Linda Owen 81 runs her own business as a consulting exercise physiologist and fitness supervisor in Campbell River BC
Sheryle Tetley 86 is regional sales manager for Glaxo Canada Inc in Mi ss isshysauga Ont where she lives with her husshyband Ian
Rob Tonus 87 is manager of the Black Creek Rehabilitation Project a grassroots enshyvironment program to improve a degraded urban stream in Toronto His office is with the Metropolitan Toronto and Region Conshyservation Authority and he lives in Oakville with his wife Wanda (Knul) 88 (HK) a public health inspector in Hamilton
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Richard Woods 81 is an instructor of xshyray technology at the Easte rn Ontario School of X-ray Technology at Kingston Ge neral Hospital He would like to hear from other members of the 1981 U of G choir wi th whom he travelled to Scandinav ia Write to him at RRI Od essa Ont KOH 2HO
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James Dy nes 84 has comp le ted g raduate studies in chemistry and so il sc ience at the Univers ity of Sas katchewan in Saskatoon
Catherine (McVittie) Clark 88 is a nuclear medica l tech nici an at Howard Counshyty General Hospita l in Columbia Md She and her husband Michae l li ve in Elkridge Md
David Holmes 85 is a systems analyst at Sun Life Assurance Company
RolfKierdorf 84 lives in Guelph with his wife Janet He is se lf-employed as a systems consultant
Donald McFadde n 71 and his wife Carol li ve in A lbany Ga where he pracshyti ses medicine
Donald Ridley 69 and PhD 73 has been appoin ted seni or v ice-presiden t of CibashyGeigy Canada Ltd in Oakvi lle Ont and is responsib le for a ll corpora te serv ices includshy
ing finance human resources safe ty health and the environment He a lso se rves on the board of the Canadian Agricu ltura l Research Council and is a member of the Great Lakes Action Plan Strategi c Advi sory Committee
Kathryn Root Parr is an assoc iate minister at Lorne Park Bapti st Church in Mississhysa uga Ont She was married las t fa ll to Vicshytor Parr
Peter Simpson 85 is dis tric t manager for McNeil Pharmaceutical Ltd in Stouffville Ont He is married to Cynthia (Hamilton) 85 (HK)
Keith Stemshorn 83 is in the Canadian Armed Forces stationed in Calgary
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Nikki Dignard 86 moved to Ottawa last year where her husband Ted Henike pracshyti ses denti stry Dignard is working on an M BA and says she d love to hear from CSS classmates Tom Cam and Kathryn
Bonnie Dunnett 87 and MA 91 works on campus at the Gerontology Research Centre S he and Barry Hallman 9 1 li ve in Guelph
Kathryn Faulkner 80 is a registered nurse in Burling ton Ont where she li ves wi th he r husband John
Ruth Fox 84 is a sta ffing assistant for
Transport Canad a and lives in Toronto w ith her husband Christopher
Shonna Giles 88 is an admiss ions officer at Simon Fraser Unive rs ity in Burnaby BC
Gina Grieco 75 is a hi gh school guidance counsellor in North York Onto
John Harris 82 is manager of financial planning and budgets for th e City of Brampton Ont
Paulette Heppner 76 is a teache r in Vanshycouver
John Johnston 7 1 has been appointed exshyec uti ve vice-pres ident o f Ve rsacold Canada Corp and pres ident of QF Foods Distribushytion Services Versacold Canada is the largest public refri gera ted ware hou sing orshygani za tion in Western Canada
Michael Kral 79 has moved from the Univers ity of Manitoba to the University of Wind sor where he is an assistant professor of psychology
Jeffrey Lozon 76 and his family recently returned to Toronto after 15 years in Western Canada He is executive vice-president and ch ief operat ing officer at St Michael s Hos pital and li ves in Oakville wi th hi s wife Donna and two daughters
Bria n Martin 79 is a real estate appraiser in Portland Ont whe re he li ves w ith hi s wife Margaret (Sheffield) Arts 79
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Leith Mason 90 works in Toronto in the Canadian office of the State of Illinois as a special assistant to the Illinois Department of Food and Agricul ture
Michael McKean 74 of Don Mills Ont was recently appointed president of Wrigley Canada Inc Before joining Wrigley as execushytive v ice-pres ident in 1990 he he ld senior positions in Hong Kong Brazil and the United States
Rick 74 and Vicki (Collard) McTaggart FACS 74 are working in Ottawa He is director of overseas operations for the Unitarian Service Committee a charitable non-governmental organization that supports commun it y and human resou rce developshyment activities in Africa and Asia She is sec tion head of consumer analysis in the agr ifood development branch of Agriculture Canada
Sandra Morrison 86 is an ass istant professhysor in the department of psychiatry at the University of Western Ontario
Stephen Naylor 85 is director of planning and development for the amalgamated municipalities of Alliston Beeton Tecumshyseth and Tottenham
Brian ONeill 68 MA lives in SUITey England where he is managing director of Innovation Management Consultant s
Jodi Parisi 89 is a sales representative for Gillette who says U of Goo was the greatest
Moira Skikavich 81 is completing a PhD in c inematelevision at the University of Southern California
Virginia Sutherland 78 is an air traffic controller at the Toronto Island Airport
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Peggy Bates 88 was recently promoted to sales manager with Sears Canada Inc She lives in Owen Sound Ont
Caroline Begin 86 is working in Singshyapore as a dietitian
Diana Close 87 is a c linical nutri ti onis t at Chedoke McMaster Hospital in Hamilton Ont
Sarah Davenport 90 is a case worker with the Wellington County Social Services office in Guelph She is malTied to Matthew Harvey CBS 90
Timothy Dyck 8 1 is national sales manager for Black amp Decker Canada workshying out of the Corbin Division in Richmond HillOnt
Sharon (Muir) 84 and Richard Ernst CBS 83 are the proud parents of a future Guelph grad uate one-year-old Andrew Graham
Patricia Edwards 78 is food servi ce sushypervisor fo r St Peter s Hospita l in Hamilton Ont
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For the love ofteaching Since she
middot graduated bull from Macshydonald Inshymiddot stitute in
J 963 Nancy Kerr has built a career on teaching and research in telttles The middotheidofthe Uriiveisityof
Albertas department of Clothing and texiiles pursues a middotscientific interest inthepreservashylion of hi stori~lfabricsarid in developing pesticide-proofc1otl1ing But Jler fitstlove i ~ teaching
In 199b shewonone ofU of As four Rutherford AWljrds for excellence ill unshy
dergraduate teat-hing The first member of the faculty middotofliomemiddoteconornicsto receive the award slie was the rcentcipient6f the facultys own underglltiduate teaching award three years earlier
Winning the Rutherford was a gteat honor says Ken who has been on
faculty at Alberta since 1967 She oiscovered she had an aptitude for
middot teaching as a graduate student at the University of California Davis in
196566 After earning her MSc she casr about for afaculty position in Canada and round U of A was the 0111y place I could teach ju t textiles plus have a chance to develop new cQurses and research labs
middot Kerr sa)s she gets a tremelldous sense of satisfaction from teaching and the learning he must do to stay cUlTent She attributes her succe s as a teaCher to middotIec-middot
middot tures that are well organized and clear and to creltting a positive classroom climate
~Thcomfort level of students is reaUy middot ililportanL ~ Kerr eamedherPhD in fibre lnd
polymer science from North Carolina bull Staie University in 1982 Her doctoral work concentrated oil deacidification
techniques to preserve historicatcottOnln 1988 she spent a sabbatical ye~r doing research at the Caliadian Conservation
middot In tirute in OnflW1 middot Originalmiddotly from Ottawa Kerr is a
trarisphlnted -vesterner who enjoys middot hiking anlt sk1ing
From left Diane Ellison Lisa Wilson Lori Davis and Pippa Hobbes
Diane Ellison 84 is liv ing in Osaka Japan where she teaches English to Japanese busishyness people Last October she welcomed three U of G friends for a visit Lori Davis CSS 85 manager of Jumbo Video Inc in Oakville Ont Pippa Hobbes 84 accountshying manager for Paramount Holidays in Willowda le Ont and Lisa Wilson 84 co-ord inator of membership serv ices for the Metropolitan Toronto Board of Trade
Monica Hrybko HAFA 88 is director of sales for the Ramada Hotel Old Town in San Diego Calif
David Jones HAFA 88 is a con troller at the Holiday Inn Montreal Centre-Ville
Kathleen McLachlin 83 is operating an insurance agency in Kitchener OnL She opened the State Farm Insurance office in March 1988 and says she loves her job
Susan (Goettler) Parker 80 is working in Toronto as benefits administrator for Imshyperial Oil Limited She is married to Donald Parker OAC 79
Mary Jean (Sinnott) Price Mac 7 1 has returned to sc hool at the University of Otshytawa to earn a bachelor of education
Margaret (Richardson) Rankin 75 has been living in Halifax since 1990 and is an account analyst for Central Guaranty Trust
Janet (Wanless) Sutherland 77 is in private practice as a marriage and family therapist in East Kelowna BC
Jean Thomson Mac 37 says 1937 was a long time ago but shes delighted with all the changes that have gone at the college A former hospita l nutritionist she is retired and living in London Ont -
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Olayiwola Layi Adeola MSc 86 and PhD 89 and his wife Mope are living in West Lafayette Indiana where he is an assisshytant professor of pig nutrition at Purdue University
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Bruce Barrie 79 (Eng) graduated last June with an MBA from City Uni ve rsi ty in Washington State and is now a senior adshyviser in strategic planning with Petro-Canada Resources in Calgary He is a professional eng ineer with APEGGA and an ac tive memshyber of the Planning Forum an international society for planning and strategic manageshyment
Barbara Bryce 83 and her husband Ricardo Ramirez 82 are living in Rome Italy She is a landscape architect and he is a communications officer with the Food and Agriculture Organizat ion
Daniel Campbell 81 and his wife SharonshyMarianne are farmin g near Petrolia Onto
Carolyn Closs 82 and her husband Harold operate a beef cowca lf operation in Shawville Que
Luc Cote 83 is an agricullural account manager for the Royal Bank of Canada in Joliette Que
Kerrie Lea Curran 85 plans to graduate this fall from the master of architecture proshygram at McGi ll University
Bruce Dodson 74A is course superinshytendent at Hawd Ridge Golf and Curling Club in Orillia Ont
Richard Donkin OAC 85A originalshyly from Zimbabwe is the manager of Venida Packing Inc in Exeter Calif Situated in central Californias San Joashyquin Valley Venida Packing ships tree fruit throughout the Richard Donkin United States Canada the Pacific Rim and the Far East Products under the brand names Ruby River and Venida include peaches plums nectarines kiwi grapes persimmons and pomegranates In 1988 Donkin married California native Lisa Kolander and they live in Lemon Cove a community in the Sierra foothill s
Brendan Elder 8S A lives in Kelowna BC and works for Dogwood Nursery He plans to be married thi s summer to Rosemary Powell
Robert Fessenden OAC MSc 67 was recently appointed vice-president of devel opshyment and planning at the Alberta Research Council He is responsible for tec hnology management and corporate marketing
John Fitzgerald 86 was married last November to Susan Given a ] 991 indeshypendent study graduate in animal producshytion He is a lecturer at Ridgetown College she works at Centralia College and is work shying on a psychology degree at the University of Waterloo They live in Strathroy Ont
Glenn Helstern 79A is a driver for the Calgary division of Greyhound Bus Lines of Canada Ltd
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She tells a princely tale
For seven miniJtes on Oct 24 199 L Ellen Het1eOAC 76~U1d MSc 80
(ltllked with PIince Charles Invited toopert a newfumaceat
inco Lilniteds Copper Cliff smelter iri Sudbury Ont the Princemiddot of Wales was easy to talk with says Heale ftwasverycxciting
As eiwironmental co-ordinator Of land reclamation andrevegetation at Copper Cliff Healetold theprince middot about Tnc(secosystem rehabilitation
projects Theroyalvisitor was parshyticulatfyiilterestedin the treegrow- ing project in abandoned inines flld in tlpoundrevegetation ()f acres of tailings
and barren rock Planrilig vegetation on the tailings
hasattrlttcled wildlifeto a protected habitat says Beale who has wqrked forIncosincc she graduated in 1976
Ninety~iwo species ofbirds as weil asrodems hares foxes wolves bears andinoQse have been sighted on the 2500 acres of rehabilitated ore waste
One thing about this job is you middot can s~e where youve been effective she says
While an undergraduate student in Prill(e Charles with EIen Heale horticultural science Healea native ofSiidbury worked at Ineo during the sumniers She wasthi tirst woman to
work inrhemining companys agriculture middot department After shegraduated the niekshy el inine hired her full time tcido horticul- turaLfleld research ~ Ineo later granted heT a two-semester leave of absente t6 work
Theodore Jacobs 78 (Eng) is engineering supervisor at Standard Tube in Woodstock Ont
Greg Keast 85 (Eng) is li ving in Mozamshybique in East Africa where he works as a project officer for UNICEF rural water supshyply project s
Richard Kline 74 was appointed partner of the Toronto accounting firm Schwartz Levitsky Feldman Inc last faiL He is presishydent of the film s bankruptcy division a member of the Chartered Accountants of Onshytario and first vice- president of the Ontario Insolvency Association
Christopher Laforest MSc 91 (USRPD) works in planning and economic developshyment for Bruce County Ont
Jean-Paul PhD 90 and Lynn (Hammell) Laforest 82 and MSc 85 are both employed at Laval University in Sainte-Foy Que He is a professor and s he is a research associate
Kenneth Lawless 63 earned a Guelph deshygree in agricultural economics then went on to stud y dentistry at the Uni versity of Toronshyto He is now an oral and manilo-fac ial surshygeon in Kingston Ont
oil her masters at OAC~ In her current PdStion Heale has rnore
administrative and public relations responshyibilities On her own time she sits on the
board of management for the tocal Red Cross and isalllember ofthe Sudbury
Business and Professional Womens Club
Margie Luffman 77 writes that she has happily returned to Ontario after 10 years in New Brunswick to work at the Smithfield Experimental Farm in Trenton She is curator of the Plant Gene Resources of Canada clonal gene bank
Brian MacCulloch MAg 89 is a sa les representative for Springva le Nurseries Ltd in Berwick NS
Daniel Mansell 64 and MSc 68 is Onshytario manager of the eastern habitat joint venture in the wildlife policy branch of the Ministry of Natural Resources He is stashytioned in Midhurst Ont
Peter McEntire 77A writes from County Langford in Ireland to keep in touch with U of G He is farming and work s as an AI techshynician with Bova Genetics Ltd
Darryl Mitchell 78 works at Pioneer HishyBred Limited in Chatham Ont
Hugh ONeil 88 is manager of customer financial services for Ral ston Purina Canada Inc
Umed Panu MSc 72 (Eng) has done a lot of travelling during his career After Guelph he earned a PhD in civil engineering
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David Nedelko OAC 86 and Ljrlda ArmsJrollg CBS 89 (Jurk 011 cemre) were marriediasl SeplemiJer in Bari ~ie OnlTluir weddiIg iiarly illcilldedfiom leli Katy KusmiliskiOA C 88Paul Allgusline GAG 86 Roh Reed OAC 87Carv Belfral1l oAC 8RJIuJ Sa ndimiddoto (CollinI) BerlrCIlII CBS RR Also 1I111ie wedding w(lS Arlllslong s Veal ullcleClarence Fleming OVC 34 The couple (Ire living in
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at the Universit y of Waterloo taught in India and at Mi ss iss ippi State Uni vers ity and worked with Briti sh Columbia Hydro and the Government of Newfoundland In 1986 he jo ined the faculty of c ivil engi neering at Lakehead Uni ve rsity in Thunder Bay Ont and was promoted to full professor in 199 1 He and hi s wife Kashna and the ir children Neeti and Anukud enjoy the outdoor recreashytion ac ti viti es available in Northwestern Onshytario and look forward to visits from U of G alumni trave lling to Thunder Bay
Lyle Pettigrew 61 is a marketin g consulshytant with Harris Kovacs Alderman in Atlanshyta Ga
Helen Prior 88 joined Sheridan Nurseries after graduation then worked for a year as a research tech nic ian in Guelph s Department of Crop Scie nce She is now in her th ird year at Emmanuel College at Victoria University and hopes to be ordained as a United Church min is ter in May
Gregory Scott 83 (Eng) is operations manager for Accuform Gol f Limited in Toronto
Ba rbara (Coordes) Skrypetz 87 is a fi e ld supervisor for the Ontario Dairy Herd Imshyprovement Corporation working out of Guelph He r husband Stephen 88 operates a bulldozing and excavating busi shyness in the Woodstock area
Victor Skidra 6 is re tired f rom his job as a sc ientific evaluator with Hea lth and Welshyfare Canada He and hi s wife Konstance live in Nepean Ont
William Slusarchuk 63 (Eng) and MSc
The way we were in 1902 OAC alumnus Douglas Campbell 60 passes on a bit of col lege hi sto ry that shou ld make us think twice about our con stitutional squabbles in C anad a
Campbell is director of the Latin America and Caribbea n Trade Divis ion of Canada s Department of External Affa irs Last summer he hosted a vi s it by the president of Uruguay Luis Alberto Lacalle Herre ra whose grand fa the r made a simil a r vis it to Canada in 1902
This is what the elde r Herrera reported to his government Gue lph agricultural college enjoys a worldwide reputation and is con shys idered one of the grea t loca l attracshytions
More than 200 young Canadians a long with many foreign youths come together in its lecture rooms There are bursary ho lde rs from Norway and as far away as Mauritius C loser to us
Guelph Alumnus
67 was recently appo inted pres ident of AGRA Eanh and Environmental Group an envi ronme ntal and geotechnica l firm that is a division of AGRA Indu stries Limited
Michael Sullivan 87 A is a pol ice officer with the Wate rloo Regional Police in Cambridge Ont
Argentina has 12 students there We ll then couldnt Uruguay imshy
itate those good exa mples and also se nd a number of worthy youths to Guelph to acquire the professional knowledge which is becoming m ore necessary each day for the deve lopshyment of our agric ulture~
In addition to the sc ienti fic benefits that our compatriots woul d deri ve from entering sLlch a Canadian techni cal in shystitution there would be the inca lcushylable benefit of becoming familiar with the stric t manly and sound habits of these people who are admirable in e ve ry respect
Afte r they have stee ped themse lves in this atmos phere of dem ocracy which fosters the development of all rights and is alien to intolerance thi s legati on w ill have the great honor of sending home not only sc ientists but a lso mode l citizens
Brenda Trask 80 operates he r own comshymunica tion s consulting company in Osshygoode Ont She is marri ed to Ron Ferguso n
Dave Vanden Bosch 89 is manager of operator services and plann ing for Bell Canada in London Ont
J Stallard Skip Waterhouse 54 and hi s wife Li sa are ce lebrating the birth of a daughter Samantha Elizabe th on New Years Day 1992 They live in New York State where Wate rhouse is iI pro fe ssor of bio logical science at the Plattsburgh Sta te Uni versity College of Arts and Science
Jeff 88 and Karen (Burrows) W h ite 87 live in Strathroy Ont Jeff work s for Bell Canada and Kare n is a Lambton County rural orga ni za tion spec ialist with the Ontar io Mini stry of Agriculture and Food
Harold Wright 86 is a development repre shysenta tive for Ci ba-Ge igy Canada Ltd in Mi sshysissauga Ont He and Lori Krieg 84 plan to marry thi s sprin g
Donald Ziraldo 7 I received doubl e honors last winter fro m the Ontario grape and wine industry Preside nt of Inniskillin W ines of Niagara-on -the-Lake Ont he was named to the Royal Order of the Grape for hi s leadership in enhancing the prod uct and its image
In addition Z ira ldo and his partner Karl Kai se r were named 1991 Men of the Year by FoodsCIvice and Hospitalily magazine During the ir 17-year partnership at Inn isk ilshylin the two have been instrumental in shapshying Canada s wine industry the magazine sa id
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ave Barry Burtis 69 was named president of the Ontario Veterinary Medical Association in January after working with the voluntary organization for four years as a director member of its editorial board and chair of its public relations committee Burtis lives in Burlington Ont and practises at the Bay Cities Animal Hospital He also appears on a local cable television program called Pel Tales
William Medway 54 of Blackwood NJ has been named an honorary life member of the International Association for Aquatic Animal Medicine for his contributions on beshyhalf of the association and the field of aquatic medicine He is both a founding member and past president of the associa shytion A professor emeritus of clinical laboratory medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine Medway is a member of the Marine Mammal Commissions committee of scientific advisers
Diane Pickering-Forster 86 is practising at Vander Kraan Veterinary Services in Huntsville Ont She is malTied to Chris Forster and they have one daughter Julia
Julien Proulx 67 has moved from Kapusshykasing Ont to La Pocatiere Que where he is superintendent of Agriculture Canada s Experimental Farm Last year he was feashytured on TVOntarios French network series Personalire Ontarienne for his work as a veterinarian his participation in municipal politics and his support of regional developshyment in Northern Ontario He was also awarded Agriculture Canadas research branch prize Agcellence for extraordinary management during his direction of the reshysearch program at the Kapuskasing Exshyperimental Farm
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There are amazing simi laritiesbetween surgery the c~reersof t~e two Guyanese wh6b6th says Lord If earnedvefetinary degrees atGueiph someone worked in c1ini(ai practice in)Yestem were to ask Canada then moved to the United States me ioday to work in human medic~lresearch what Tcon~
Narayan heads an AlDSresearchteamsider to be atJohns HopkiflS l1)iversilySchool of my expertise MediCirieinBaltimoreMatyland Lord is I would have retired directorofthdohnsonamp Johnson to saymecli- Geofrey Lord
middot Resear~h Foundalion ill NewJersey cal device lordsays he was influenced by OVC andbioshy
proJessDfs Anthony Kings(Qte and Frank Inaterials evaluation middot SchofieJd~ndwcentnton from GiJelphto pur- lt In the I 950s Lordwaspalt of ale-
sue graduate studies in parasitology auhe se~rch team that pioneered the use of University oJWiscollsin Sevenmorithsin animal tissue tOTeconstructdamagedjr
amixed practice in Drumheller Alta con blocked al1eries in hUl11ansTwenty years vinced him thaldinical medicine wasn6t middot later he drafted the first systematicap-
middot whati w~ted6 do He returned to Wis pr()ach to the safety evaluation of medica con5il110 eanla PhDlll pathologyano devices joined Johnson amp JohnsQri as asenior middot Allsubsequeill guidelines inCiLlding patilol()gistiriI953 those of the Foodaj)q Diug Admlnistrashy
Research at Johnson amp JohDson tiOnand the Canadian Regulatory ~teeredmeinto many interesting and chal- Authority hayeadopteoihis approach he
Jenging fieldsofbio-research includirig says derniiltoi9gy toxicologic pathology Lordand his wife Helen ltIividetheir wound healing surgical pathology iiinebetweel)Ciipe CodandBonita genera toxkology ofi~w drugs andor~ Springs FloriQa
Shane Renwick 77 and MSc 91 works in veterinary services at Agriculture Canada offices in Guelph
Ruth Reuter 61 is a veterinary pathologist in Plympton Australia
Tom Sanderson 6 1 was selected by the Ontario Veterinary Medical Association as Ontario Veterinarian of 1991 CUlTently OVCs co-ordinator of off-campus work terms he spent 20 years in private practice in Listowe1 and Mount Forest before returning to the coll ege in 1982 to manage the veterishynary research stations Sanderson s contribushytions to the profess ion have included many hours of volunteer work in the advancement
of the profession and in the development of veterinary inshysurance programs He is a past pres ident of both the Ontario and Canadian Veterishynary Medical associashytions
Jennifer Troughton 86 is practising in OronoOnt
Simone Woltner 86 is a veterinarian at the Chester Basin Animal Hospital in Chester Basin NS
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by her hu sband William and two sons The fo llowing dea ths have been reported since the las t issue of the Guelph Alumnus Full notices which are usu ally submitted by family or classmates may appear in thi s iss ue or in a later one
James Clement Arts 73 Feb 2 1992
Marilyn (Dyment) Farnan Mac 530 Feb 27 1992
David Fisher OAC 80A in October 1990
Elizabeth (C hristie) Glass Mac 3I D June 2l99 1
Peter Heskey OAC 54A Dec 6 199 1
Richard Ketchell OVC 51 Nov 23 199 1
Edward Kowalski Arts 79 in August 199 1
Pauline (Dixon) MacMillan Mac 240 Jan 2 1992
Catherine MacPherson Arts 83 Dec 11 1990
Marguerite (White) Maybury Mac 3 10 in June 1990
Donald McLeOd CSS 80 Jan 9 1992
Albert Meilus OAC 51 in 1991
Ann (Biggs) Ostler Mac 3 10 in April 1991
Robert Race Arts 73 in 1989
Ralph Sampson OAC 40 in December 1989
Mor ris Sanderson OAC 42 Nov 17 1991
Sir Peter Scott HDSc 8 1 in Au gust 1989
William Setterington OAC 40 Oct 22 1991
George Shoniker OAC 50A in March 199 1
John Somerset OAC 34 Dec 27 199 1
Gregory Van Patter OAC 7 1 in 1990
Frederich Weiland OAC 20A in 1990
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Riccardo Rich Incitti 88 died Jan 5 1992 as the result of an accident near Hami lshyton Ont He was assistant manager at the Toronto-Dominion Bank in St Cathari nes and is survived by his parents Gu igi and Lucia of Cambridge and two sisters Laura and Andrea
Larry McNenly 73 died in October 1991 in Owen Sound Ont He is survived by his wife Marnie CSS 73
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Robert Everett HK 74 died in May 1991 in Burlington Ont A teac her at White Oaks Secondary Schoo l in Oakv ille he is survived by his wife Miche le and brother William CBS 74
James Sandy Fear 75 died Oct I I 199 1 in Toronto He is survi ved by his wi fe Sally (Firth) OAC 75 and hi s children Caitlin Alli son and Mered ith
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Lynn (Dalys) Corby 84 died in Toron to May 6 1990 after a long battIe with cancer
Nancy (Birbeck) Gordon 77 died Oct 20 1991 in Ottawa after a short illness She worked at the Kitchener-Waterl oo Hospital and had previously been plan t accountant at Foseco Canada Incorporated in Guelph
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Jean (Williams) Forward 280 Oct 28 1991 in Calgary She was the widow of Bower Forward OAC 25 and is survived by two sons
Catharine (Bechtel) Fromm 270 died Nov I 199 1 in Cambridge Ont She is surshyvived by three dau ghters Ellen Moore Mac 63 Nancy and Caro l
Alice (Rivaz) Garrard 28 di ed Dec 2 199 1 in Guelph She was an active member of the Mac-FACS Alumni Assoc iat ion and was the Mac 28 class agent for the Alma Mater Fund She is survived by her husband retired professor Edward Garrard OAC 27 and a daughter Betty Nelson
Della Marie (Diamond) Honey 300 of Warkworth Ont died June 29 1991 One ofWarkworths oldest and most respected citizens she served as local li brarian fo r 25 years She is survived by her son John OAC 52A his wife Patric ia and four grandchildren James OAC 84A William OAC 76A Thomas OvC 89 and Patricia Lonergan CSS 68
Barbara (Banigan) Martin 380 died Jan I 1992 in Don Mill s Ont A retired teacher wit h the North York Board of Education she is survived by a son Ted a sister and two brothers
Elizabeth (Burt) Perry 340 died June 28 1991 in Sidney BC and is surv ived by her husband Gordon and son Paul Nartel OAC 62
Jacqueline (Roy) Pote 34D died Dec 2 1 1991 in Willowdale Ont and is is survived
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Doroth y (MacFeeters) Scott 260 died Jan 14 1992 in Toronto She is su rvived by two daughters Anne Donaldson and Cynthia Scott
Florence (French) Snyder 370 died May 6 199 1 in Calgary and is survived by her husband Robert and two sons John and William
Katherine (Sweet) Watt Mac 220 died Feb 23 1992 She is survived by her husshyband Leslie a son David and a dau ghter Carol Gi llanders
Mattie (Newman) Widdicombe 240 died Dec 11 1991 in St Catharines Ont Preshydeceased by her husband John she is surshyvived by a bro ther and several nieces and nephews including Virginia Rigby Arts 76
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George Grey Arnup 38 died Feb 2 1992 in Toronto He spent most of his career with the plant protection branch of Agriculture Canada He is survived by his wife Aileen three chi ldren Nancy Jim and Mary Ellen Vincent CBS 79 and four grandchi ldren
Herbert Boyce 28 and MSA 43 died Sept 2 1991 in Amherstburg Onto He is survi ved by his wife Norah a daughter Beverley Med lock and a brother James OAC 32
Jack Reddy Brethet 56 died Nov 4 199 1 in Burlington Ont President of Brethet Barnum Assoc iates Inc he is surshyv ived by his wife Caro l and two daughters Lyn n and Anne
Bruce Foster 28 died Feb 6 1992 in Ridgetown Ont and is survi ved by his daughter Gayle Anderson and son David CBS 69
Allison Gardhouse 49 died Sept 21 1991 in Midland Ont He was re tired supe rshyintendent of schoo ls for the Simcoe County Board of Education and is survi ved by his wife Merle
Kenneth Harrison 24 died Nov 5 199 1 in Kentville NS A distinguished plant patho logist military officer and mycologist he began hi s career in 1926 as assistant plant pathologis t at the Kentvi lle Experimental Farm He worked there until retirement in 1966 wi th the exception of mi litary servi ce du ring the Second World War
Dr Harrison had a lifelong interes t in the study of mushrooms and publ ished numerou s technica l papers on the mu shroom flora of Nova Scotia In addition he enshy
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couraged interested amateurs and led field trips for student s at Acadia University and the general public from 1929 until 1987 In 1979 he was honored by Acadia wi th the dedication of the Kenneth A Harri son Laboratory of Mycology
During his career he was a member of many professional organizations a charter member of the Mycological Society of America and fe llow of the American Associashytion for the Advancement of Science
He is survived by hi s wife Margaret two brothers Maynard OAC 30 and Arthur OAC 29 two son s Ashley and Kenneth and a daughter Jennie Sheito
William Kellam 4 1 died Oct 19 1991 in Brockville Ont He was retired from the Curb and Gate Co of-Brock ville where he had worked as a lab technician fo r 28 years He is survived by his wife Kathleen a son George and a daughter Mary
William M acMillan 48 died in February 1992 in Winnipeg He was supervisor of Fertilizer marketing for the Manitoba Pool Elevators and is surv ived by hi s wife Edna Jean and brother Harry OAC 5 1 A
Cameron McTaggart 35 died Feb 4 1992 in Aurora Ont After graduating from OAC he became manager of Don Head Farms in Richmond Hill He established the first agricul tural consulting business in Canada in 1947 and later ran an Angus cattle
sales management business from the family farm A life member of the OAC Alumni As shysociat ion and the Class of 35 executive he is survived by his wife Margaret Mac 35 and two sons John OAC 62 of Regina and David of Largo Fla
Douglas Miller 48 of Victoria BC died Nov 24 1991 in Toronto He is survived by hi s wife Ruth and five children
Gregory More 76 was killed Feb 3 1992 in Kitchener Ont at the Ontario Glove Manufacturing Co where he was co-owner and vice-president Following graduation he worked for the Rohrer Drug Co and the Stershyling Drug Co then returned to school ea rnshying an MBA at McMaster University in 1981 More was an avid squash player and golfer Court A at the Northfield Racquet Club in Waterloo was dedicated to his memory in March He is survived by his parents Noreen and Ken a brother Randy and a sister Katherine Keeler
John Jack Pawley 33 died March I 1992 in Guelph He is survived by his wife Ruth son John OAC 62 and daughter-inshylaw Carolyn He was a former director of the Ontario Milk Marketing Board and a past member of the Royal City Lodge of Perfecshytion
Harold Reid 20A died in December 1991 in Burlington Ont During the First World W ar he was one of Canadas premier rad io
experts work ing at the Roya l Canadian Navy shore transmitter in Sydney NS After the war he came to OAC to earn a diploma then went on to QueenS University to comshyplete an arts and theology degree His mini sshytry was mainly in St And rews and Montreal although he spent 13 years teaching Hebrew at the Presbyterian Coll ege before retiring in 1968
Donald Robertson 3 1 died Nov 4 1991 in Iroquois Ont He is survived by hi s wife Caroline (Grisdale) Mac 38 his two son s ScottOAC 65A and Guy and a daughter Sandra McNeil
Thomas Rokeby 48 and MSA 50 died Jan 29 1992 in Fayetteville Ark He was a professional engineer and tau ght for 30 years in the Univers ity of Arkansas engineering department Born in Port Rowan Ont he was a member of the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War the American Society of Agricultural Engineers and the agricultural honor societies of Gamma Sigma Delta and Alpha Epsilon He is surv ived by his wife Helen two sons Robert and Richard a daughter Penny and three brothers Michael Noel and Richard OAC 54
Francis Sweeney OAC 45 died Nov 17 1991 in Oakville Ont He was a longtime employee of Shell Canada and [nternational Shell working in Great Britain Europe and
WALL CUSTANCE MEMORIAL FOREST
The Wall-Custance Memorial Forest located at the Universi ty of Guelphs Arboretum was established in recognition of the severe depletion of our forests It is never too late to be a vital part of the effort to save and improve our air and water for the future of our children by planting trees This program is our small part of the major endeavor to reforest and to reduce the greenhouse effect improve air quality and provide food and cover for wildlife The Memorial Forest Proshygram not only pays a Significant tribute to a loved one but also assures a better environment for generations to come
The purpose of this program is to provide an opporshytuni ty to commemorate the life of a loved one by plantshy
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ing a tree We envision that the Memorial Forest Program will continue for many years to come and our hope is that the solace that nature offers particularly in the depths of a living forest will be of comfort and benefi t to all
For more information or for a brochure call or write to
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Berna rd Weeks 35 died Oct 16 199 1 After graduation he re turned to his roots in
ew York and Pennsylvannia and worked in 4-H and you th organi zations for a few years He then took over the family farm at Troupsburg NY and built up a dairy operashytion with a sideline of sheep He is surv ived by his wife Ruth and four children
Glenn White 43 of Belleville Onl died Nov 24 199 1 in Florida and is surv ived by hi s wife Marjorie
ave Norman Anderson 39 of Wi nn ipeg died Dec 18 1991 in Arizona He had practised veterinary medicine in Norwood Man and was a member of the American Equine Pracshytitioners Association director of the Canadian Thoroughbred Society and track veterinarian at Assin iboia Downs for 50 years He is survived by his wi fe Peggy and two sons Laurie and James
George Beatty 5 I died Nov 22 1991 in Inverness III He practised in Palatine fo r 36 years and founded the Palatine Animal Hospi tal He was an active member of the American Animal Hospital Assoc iati on and the Chicago Veterinary Association and was a director of the Friends of the University of Guelph He is survived by his wife Mary and fo ur children - Suzanne Patricia Margaret and Tim
John Hamilton 5 L died Dec 15 1991 He had lived in Roslin On where he owned the Bay Regional Veterinary Hospital He is survived by hi s niece Ann Bongard
Nicholas Labzoffsky 39 died Dec 25 1991 in Largo Fla Fonnerly of Toronto he had li ved most recen tl y in Dorse t Ont and is survived by hi s wife Jane
Edgar Langford 49 died March 41992 in Monarch Alta A former research scienshytist with ADRI (Western) he is survived by his wife Norma and two daughters includshying Carolyn OVC 76
Stuart Maude 4 1 died Jan 14 1992 in Rosemead Calif A former Rosemead counshycillor and four-time mayor he operated the Rosemead Animal Hospital with his brother Arthur 52 from 1953 to 1980 He was a trustee for Ingles ide Hospital a past grand patron of both the Rosemead and the Califorshynia Order of Eastern Star and past-president of the local Kiwanis Club and Chamber of Commerce He is survived by his wife Vera two daughters Patricia and Susan Bezner a son Stuart and three brothers
Walter Morley 42 o f Mildmay On died Nov 28 199 1 He ran a large animal pracshytice in the Mild may area for 39 years raised cat tle and raced standardbred horses He was also a pu blic school board trustee and direcshytor of a local te lephone company for more
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than 30 years He is survived by his wife Joyce five sons - two of whom are OVC alumni Dave 68 and Randy 74 - and 10 grandchildren
Lloyd Neily 52 died Jan 3 1992 in Hantsport NS A retired meat inspector w ith the federal Department of Agriculture he had a private veterinary practice in Wind sor NS He is surv ived by hi s wife Mary
Elford Nundal 43 died Jan 7 1992 in Langley BC after a long battle with canshycer He operated a veterinary practice in Langley for 36 years and served as a di strict aldennan for 10 years before being elected mayor in 1982 Last year he received the BC Veterinarian Association s award of merit for a lifetime of veterinary work
Humphrey Rees 55 died Sepl 30 1991 in Amman Jordan while on ass ignment for the Overseas Development Ad ministrat ion as veterinary and animal hu sbandry adviser to the Jordani an government His contemshyporaries at Guelph will remember him as a singer debater raconteur rugby player and bon vivant He is surv ived by his wife Alice of POlt Eynon Wales
William Stinson 40 died Feb 15 1992 in Norwood Ont He is survi ved by his wife Rita a son John OVC 67 a brother Ford OAC 34 and a grandson John CSS 87
Faculty
Patric ia Harney died Dec 191991 in Yarshymouth NS A professor in the Department of Horticultural Science from 1962 to 1988 she developed severa l new variet ies of geraniums and was instru mental in es tabshylishing the Frances Ball rose collection at the Arboretum
Anthony Marston died Feb 3 1992 in Fershygu s ant Retired from the School of Hotel and Food Administration he was an acshycomplished competition chef who received his training in Switzerland and England He then spent severa l years working in the Caribbean before coming to Guelph in 1970 A member of the Canadian Olympic culinary team he held a number of positions in the
Donations given in memory ofGuelph alumni will help support University scholarships ifdirected to the Alumni M emorial Fund In 1991 donations were made in memory of the following alumni
Frank MacDonald OAC 37
Frank King OAC 33 -Robert Allen OAC 56A
Alice (Rivaz) Garrard Mac 28
Stan Vesselinovitch OVC 57
For more infonnation call the Office of Annual Giving at 519-824-4120 Ext 6 183
hote l and food industry until retiring in 1982 He is survived by hi s wife Di ana
Gordon McNally dled Jan 12 1992 in Guelph A professor in the Department of Zoo logy from 1934 to 1971 he served as academic assistant to the dean of CBS until retiring in 1979 While at Guelph he was honorary pres id ent of the classes of OAC 54 58 and 67 He is survived by his daughter Jean two siste rs and two grandchildren Prof McNallys family has established the A Gordon Mc a lly Memorial Fund to support a sc holarship or bursary Contributions may be sent care of the Alma Mater Fund Alumni Hou se University of Guelph Guelph ant N I G 2WI
Friends
Jean (Young) Branion died March 3 1992 in Guelph She was the wife of the late Hugh Branion a physiology professor at U of G and assistant to presidents Bill Winegard and Don Forster Jean Branion was an act ive volunteer on campus for many years and one of the firs t presidents of the College Womens Club She is survived by a son Richard and his wife Marga re t of Vanshycouve r and five grandchi ldren Donati ons may be made to the Hugh D Branion Memorial Scholarship through Alumni House
Davy Alexander Hamilton-Williamson died Feb 4 1992 in Guelph A painter and author of childrens stories he had been a member of the University s Presidents Council s ince it began in 1 985
Marjorie Pinkney wife of J ames Pinkney OVC 3 7 died Dec 151 99 [ at her home in Milton ant
Samuel Wyal died March 15 1992 in Brantford ant He was a partner in the law firm Wyatt Purce ll Will Stillman and Scott He is surv ived by his wife M a bel Mac 39 four sons Peter Michael William and John and two daughters Mary Alderson and Sarah Nadalin Arts 82
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DIVIDENDS
Facts about university education in Canada and how we pay for it
By 2000 half of all new jobs in Canada will require a university degree
But at the current rate of government funding only one in five children
will have a chance to go to university
In the seven years from 1982 to 1989 per-student grants to universities in
Ontario barely kept pace with intlation at five per cent
per-student funding at American public univers ities jumped an average
of 23 per cent in the same period
Those US universities also receive twice the federal research dollars per student as do Ontario universities
In 1987 the average salary of a full-time professor at an Ontario univers ity was $55500
compared with $68200 for a private-sector position of similar education and experience
Lawyers economists and engineers made an average of $71 000
Ontario ranks ninth out of the to provinces in terms of grants to universities
Between 1978 and 1991 enrolment at Ontario univers ities grew by 40 per cent while funding dropped
from 59 to 409 per cent of total government spending
Universities were spending 14 per cent less per student between 1977 and 1988 hospital expenditures
rose 38 per cent per patient in the same period
Ontario universities generate $3 of economic activity for every
$1 invested by government funding
And the number of jobs generated by university activities in
Ontario is greater than the employment impact of the textile
industry the entire paper and pulp industry or utilities
University graduates can look forward to earning 63 per cent more than the average industrial worker
A 1990 survey of U of G alumni found that two years after graduation 97 per cent of Guelph grads
looking for work were employed 62 per cent were earning $25000 or more and 10 per cent were
earning $40000 or more
Unemployment rates in 1990 for those with a university degree was about one-third what it was
for those with only a high school diploma
Every year from 1978 to 1987 Ontario university inves tments in renovating or replacing
aging buildings could not keep pace with the rate at which the buildings depreciated
Graphics by Debbie Thompson Wilson Statistics supplied by th~ Council 01 Ontario UniverSities Statistics Canada and the U01 G Student EnVifonment Study Group
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A salute to sport Alumni Weekend June 19-21 9am Sio-pitch tournament
The tradition Jives on at the south quad diamond s Cooed teams of 12 or more players are encourshyaged to join in the fun
FRIDAY 10 am to 9 pm Registration Lambton Hall
6 pm Kick-off dinner and half-time show
get set and join In the Olympic spirit one of Alumni Creelman Hall will Weekends host the Wonderful most popular World of Sports with events Tours a half-time slide show start from to entertain alumni of Alumni House all ages and are sponshy9 pmshy sored by the Observatory tours CBS Alumni
Association
10 am and 2 pm
SATURDAY 8 am to 5 pm Guided Registration walking tours Lambton Hall
Remember 9 am to 5 pm making s now Alumni House tours sc ulptures on Students will host tours of Alumni House throughshyout the weekend Come and see what the generosity of alumni has accomplished
9 am to noon Alumni association annual meetings
This is the official notice for the annual general meetings of the following alumni associations
CBS - Alumni House starts at 830 am before guided walk MacFACS - HAFA Building Room 209
OVC - OvC Room 1438
OAC - Macdonald Hall Room 149
CSS - MacKinnon Building Room 305
HAFA - Alumni Hou se boardroom
Gryphs Lounge will be open for lunch and afLer the game
930 am Guided nature walk at the Arboretum
On your mark
Noon - OVC luncheon
The OvC Alumni Association will host a luncheon open to all OvC alumni and their guests
2 pm - Campus Showcase 92
Following on the heels of last year s success Campus Showshycase 92 will be bigger and better Come to the University Centre to see exhibits representing all areas on campus The Campus Junction store will also be open
2 pm - Zavitz Hall tour
Alumni are invited to browse through the newly renovated Za vitz Hall and attend a recep shytion sponsored by the Colshylege of Arts Alumni Asshysoc iation
5 pm Golden anniversary dinner
The OAC OvC and MacshyFACS alumni associations will provide complimenshytary tickets for alumni celebrating 50 years or more Additiona l tickets can be purchased Classes
Johnston Green or playing intramural hockey in the old Quonset arena Relive some of the memories by taking a walking tour of campus Tours begin from the lobby ofLambton Hall
Noon - Alumni picnic
This apopular event has new location - the sculpshyture garden beside the Macshydonald Stewart Art Centre Come on your own or reshyserve a group of tables for friends and classmates
Noon - Class reunion lunches
OAC 37 Mac 37 OAC 42 Mac 42 OAC 47 Mac 52 Mac57 Mac 67 FACS 72 FACS 77 FACS 87
OAC 67 FACS 82 OAC 82 OAC 82A CBS 82 FACS 87 OAC 87
SUNDAY 9am Church service and War Memorial Hall rededication
Thanks to a commitment from the Alma Mater Fund renovashytion of the upstairs of War Memorial Hall has been comshypleted Join us for the rededicashytion ceremony commemorating the 1924 opening and the 1952 dedication of an OAC memorial plaque
being honored are OAC 22 OAC 47 OvC 22 Mac 22 OAC 27 OvC 27 Mac 27 OAC 32 OvC 32 Mac 32 OAC 37 OvC 37 Mac 37 OAC 42 OvC 42 Mac 42
6 pm Class reunion dinners
Special dinn e r reunions are planned for OAC 47 OAC 52 OAC 52A OvC 52 Mac 57 OAC 57 OAC 62 Mac 67
10am UGAA annual meeting
All alumni are encouraged to atshytend the UGAA annual meeting in Macdonald Hall Room 149 An amendment to the UGAA Letters Patent and a revised bylaw will be presented for ap shyproval Copies of both are availshyable on request from Alumni House Call 519-824-4120 Ext 6544
11 am - Farewell brunch
The final event of Alumni Weekend will be held in Creelshyman Hall Come and meet the Univers ity S president Brian Segal The Alumnus of Honour medal will be presented at noon
To receive an Alumni Weekshyend brochure or to register for events call Alumni House at 59-824-4120 Ext 6963
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Space available now Exceptional office and research facilities in our multi-tenant Research Park Centre
Research-driven corporations are breaking new ground at the University of Guelph Research Park Centre with exceptional growth opporshytunities in an ideal business setting
This 30-acre Research Park also accommodates tenants who choose to construct their own office and laboratory facilities
Find out why organizations such as Semex Canada Tremco Limited the Ontario Dairy Herd Improvement Corporation George Morris Centre LIPID Analytical Laboratories and Agriculture Canada have chosen the University of Guelph Research Park Call Ralph Eades or Judy Phillips Real Estate Division University of Guelph Telephone (519) 767-5003 or Fax (519) 837-0353
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Elizabeth (Baxter) Willson 77 a real esshytate agent in Chatham Ont writes to voice a common feeling that the universi ty exshyperience itself is often more important than the degree or diploma received I am really glad I graduated from Guelph she says
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Michelle Bombadier and Mike Caldwell both 92 are two of 50 Canad ian youth selected to work in Guyana for three months with Youth Challenge International (YCI) a non-governmental organization that provides Third-world experience for Canadians They may spend the summer building a school teaching safety or clearing land for Gu ytna s first national park but they need some private support to he lp cover transportation costs Anyone able to help should write to YCI at I I Soho St Toronto M5T IZ6
Jane Coventry 86 writes with accolades for the Guelph Alumnus grad news section and an update on what she and her husband Jaydee Smith 84 and MSc 89 are doing They were married in 1989 while working at U of G - he in the Department of Animal and Poultry Science and she in the Departshyment of Crop Science In February 1991 they moved to England where Smith is doing a PhD at the University of Bristol and working as a research assistant Coventry
works in the technology transfer unit of Nickshyerson Seeds Ltd in Cambridge
Jeffrey Crawford 88 and Leslie Thompson 86 were malTied last October He is an elementary schoolteacher in Mount Forest Ont
Craig Emerson 83 earned a PhD at Dalshyhousie University in Halifax in 1990 and is now a research associate in oceanography
Paul Fleming 85 is a pharmaceutical sales representative for Hoechst Canada Inc and lives in Nepean Ont
David Forsey 80 is an assistant professor of computer science at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver He is marshyried to Lyn Bartram
Michael Gangl 89 is in his third year at the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College
Astrid Harms 87 is a registered nurse in London Ont
Andrew Holmes 85 worked for the Onshytario government as a wildlife biologist for three years but is now back at school in his second year at Northwestern Chiropractic College in Minneapolis
Timothy Johnson 86 works at the Centre for Limnology at the University of Wisconshys in in Madison
Karen Lennard 77 (HK) and her hu sshyband Paul Jackson 79 (HK ) and MSc
82 both went 011 to earn medical degrees from McMaster University in HalTilton Ont Jackson also has a master s in physiology from the University of Virginia and is comshypleting an anesthesiology residency in Hamilshyton Lennard has a part-time family medical practice allowing her to spend more time with the couples two children Matthew and Nicola
Wendy Maltby 74 is an elementary schoolteacher for the Metropolitan Toronto School Board
Sandra OConnor 84 earned a medical degree from the University of Western Onshytario and is now practi sing in Burlington Ont
Linda Owen 81 runs her own business as a consulting exercise physiologist and fitness supervisor in Campbell River BC
Sheryle Tetley 86 is regional sales manager for Glaxo Canada Inc in Mi ss isshysauga Ont where she lives with her husshyband Ian
Rob Tonus 87 is manager of the Black Creek Rehabilitation Project a grassroots enshyvironment program to improve a degraded urban stream in Toronto His office is with the Metropolitan Toronto and Region Conshyservation Authority and he lives in Oakville with his wife Wanda (Knul) 88 (HK) a public health inspector in Hamilton
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Richard Woods 81 is an instructor of xshyray technology at the Easte rn Ontario School of X-ray Technology at Kingston Ge neral Hospital He would like to hear from other members of the 1981 U of G choir wi th whom he travelled to Scandinav ia Write to him at RRI Od essa Ont KOH 2HO
CPES
James Dy nes 84 has comp le ted g raduate studies in chemistry and so il sc ience at the Univers ity of Sas katchewan in Saskatoon
Catherine (McVittie) Clark 88 is a nuclear medica l tech nici an at Howard Counshyty General Hospita l in Columbia Md She and her husband Michae l li ve in Elkridge Md
David Holmes 85 is a systems analyst at Sun Life Assurance Company
RolfKierdorf 84 lives in Guelph with his wife Janet He is se lf-employed as a systems consultant
Donald McFadde n 71 and his wife Carol li ve in A lbany Ga where he pracshyti ses medicine
Donald Ridley 69 and PhD 73 has been appoin ted seni or v ice-presiden t of CibashyGeigy Canada Ltd in Oakvi lle Ont and is responsib le for a ll corpora te serv ices includshy
ing finance human resources safe ty health and the environment He a lso se rves on the board of the Canadian Agricu ltura l Research Council and is a member of the Great Lakes Action Plan Strategi c Advi sory Committee
Kathryn Root Parr is an assoc iate minister at Lorne Park Bapti st Church in Mississhysa uga Ont She was married las t fa ll to Vicshytor Parr
Peter Simpson 85 is dis tric t manager for McNeil Pharmaceutical Ltd in Stouffville Ont He is married to Cynthia (Hamilton) 85 (HK)
Keith Stemshorn 83 is in the Canadian Armed Forces stationed in Calgary
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Nikki Dignard 86 moved to Ottawa last year where her husband Ted Henike pracshyti ses denti stry Dignard is working on an M BA and says she d love to hear from CSS classmates Tom Cam and Kathryn
Bonnie Dunnett 87 and MA 91 works on campus at the Gerontology Research Centre S he and Barry Hallman 9 1 li ve in Guelph
Kathryn Faulkner 80 is a registered nurse in Burling ton Ont where she li ves wi th he r husband John
Ruth Fox 84 is a sta ffing assistant for
Transport Canad a and lives in Toronto w ith her husband Christopher
Shonna Giles 88 is an admiss ions officer at Simon Fraser Unive rs ity in Burnaby BC
Gina Grieco 75 is a hi gh school guidance counsellor in North York Onto
John Harris 82 is manager of financial planning and budgets for th e City of Brampton Ont
Paulette Heppner 76 is a teache r in Vanshycouver
John Johnston 7 1 has been appointed exshyec uti ve vice-pres ident o f Ve rsacold Canada Corp and pres ident of QF Foods Distribushytion Services Versacold Canada is the largest public refri gera ted ware hou sing orshygani za tion in Western Canada
Michael Kral 79 has moved from the Univers ity of Manitoba to the University of Wind sor where he is an assistant professor of psychology
Jeffrey Lozon 76 and his family recently returned to Toronto after 15 years in Western Canada He is executive vice-president and ch ief operat ing officer at St Michael s Hos pital and li ves in Oakville wi th hi s wife Donna and two daughters
Bria n Martin 79 is a real estate appraiser in Portland Ont whe re he li ves w ith hi s wife Margaret (Sheffield) Arts 79
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Leith Mason 90 works in Toronto in the Canadian office of the State of Illinois as a special assistant to the Illinois Department of Food and Agricul ture
Michael McKean 74 of Don Mills Ont was recently appointed president of Wrigley Canada Inc Before joining Wrigley as execushytive v ice-pres ident in 1990 he he ld senior positions in Hong Kong Brazil and the United States
Rick 74 and Vicki (Collard) McTaggart FACS 74 are working in Ottawa He is director of overseas operations for the Unitarian Service Committee a charitable non-governmental organization that supports commun it y and human resou rce developshyment activities in Africa and Asia She is sec tion head of consumer analysis in the agr ifood development branch of Agriculture Canada
Sandra Morrison 86 is an ass istant professhysor in the department of psychiatry at the University of Western Ontario
Stephen Naylor 85 is director of planning and development for the amalgamated municipalities of Alliston Beeton Tecumshyseth and Tottenham
Brian ONeill 68 MA lives in SUITey England where he is managing director of Innovation Management Consultant s
Jodi Parisi 89 is a sales representative for Gillette who says U of Goo was the greatest
Moira Skikavich 81 is completing a PhD in c inematelevision at the University of Southern California
Virginia Sutherland 78 is an air traffic controller at the Toronto Island Airport
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Peggy Bates 88 was recently promoted to sales manager with Sears Canada Inc She lives in Owen Sound Ont
Caroline Begin 86 is working in Singshyapore as a dietitian
Diana Close 87 is a c linical nutri ti onis t at Chedoke McMaster Hospital in Hamilton Ont
Sarah Davenport 90 is a case worker with the Wellington County Social Services office in Guelph She is malTied to Matthew Harvey CBS 90
Timothy Dyck 8 1 is national sales manager for Black amp Decker Canada workshying out of the Corbin Division in Richmond HillOnt
Sharon (Muir) 84 and Richard Ernst CBS 83 are the proud parents of a future Guelph grad uate one-year-old Andrew Graham
Patricia Edwards 78 is food servi ce sushypervisor fo r St Peter s Hospita l in Hamilton Ont
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For the love ofteaching Since she
middot graduated bull from Macshydonald Inshymiddot stitute in
J 963 Nancy Kerr has built a career on teaching and research in telttles The middotheidofthe Uriiveisityof
Albertas department of Clothing and texiiles pursues a middotscientific interest inthepreservashylion of hi stori~lfabricsarid in developing pesticide-proofc1otl1ing But Jler fitstlove i ~ teaching
In 199b shewonone ofU of As four Rutherford AWljrds for excellence ill unshy
dergraduate teat-hing The first member of the faculty middotofliomemiddoteconornicsto receive the award slie was the rcentcipient6f the facultys own underglltiduate teaching award three years earlier
Winning the Rutherford was a gteat honor says Ken who has been on
faculty at Alberta since 1967 She oiscovered she had an aptitude for
middot teaching as a graduate student at the University of California Davis in
196566 After earning her MSc she casr about for afaculty position in Canada and round U of A was the 0111y place I could teach ju t textiles plus have a chance to develop new cQurses and research labs
middot Kerr sa)s she gets a tremelldous sense of satisfaction from teaching and the learning he must do to stay cUlTent She attributes her succe s as a teaCher to middotIec-middot
middot tures that are well organized and clear and to creltting a positive classroom climate
~Thcomfort level of students is reaUy middot ililportanL ~ Kerr eamedherPhD in fibre lnd
polymer science from North Carolina bull Staie University in 1982 Her doctoral work concentrated oil deacidification
techniques to preserve historicatcottOnln 1988 she spent a sabbatical ye~r doing research at the Caliadian Conservation
middot In tirute in OnflW1 middot Originalmiddotly from Ottawa Kerr is a
trarisphlnted -vesterner who enjoys middot hiking anlt sk1ing
From left Diane Ellison Lisa Wilson Lori Davis and Pippa Hobbes
Diane Ellison 84 is liv ing in Osaka Japan where she teaches English to Japanese busishyness people Last October she welcomed three U of G friends for a visit Lori Davis CSS 85 manager of Jumbo Video Inc in Oakville Ont Pippa Hobbes 84 accountshying manager for Paramount Holidays in Willowda le Ont and Lisa Wilson 84 co-ord inator of membership serv ices for the Metropolitan Toronto Board of Trade
Monica Hrybko HAFA 88 is director of sales for the Ramada Hotel Old Town in San Diego Calif
David Jones HAFA 88 is a con troller at the Holiday Inn Montreal Centre-Ville
Kathleen McLachlin 83 is operating an insurance agency in Kitchener OnL She opened the State Farm Insurance office in March 1988 and says she loves her job
Susan (Goettler) Parker 80 is working in Toronto as benefits administrator for Imshyperial Oil Limited She is married to Donald Parker OAC 79
Mary Jean (Sinnott) Price Mac 7 1 has returned to sc hool at the University of Otshytawa to earn a bachelor of education
Margaret (Richardson) Rankin 75 has been living in Halifax since 1990 and is an account analyst for Central Guaranty Trust
Janet (Wanless) Sutherland 77 is in private practice as a marriage and family therapist in East Kelowna BC
Jean Thomson Mac 37 says 1937 was a long time ago but shes delighted with all the changes that have gone at the college A former hospita l nutritionist she is retired and living in London Ont -
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Olayiwola Layi Adeola MSc 86 and PhD 89 and his wife Mope are living in West Lafayette Indiana where he is an assisshytant professor of pig nutrition at Purdue University
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Bruce Barrie 79 (Eng) graduated last June with an MBA from City Uni ve rsi ty in Washington State and is now a senior adshyviser in strategic planning with Petro-Canada Resources in Calgary He is a professional eng ineer with APEGGA and an ac tive memshyber of the Planning Forum an international society for planning and strategic manageshyment
Barbara Bryce 83 and her husband Ricardo Ramirez 82 are living in Rome Italy She is a landscape architect and he is a communications officer with the Food and Agriculture Organizat ion
Daniel Campbell 81 and his wife SharonshyMarianne are farmin g near Petrolia Onto
Carolyn Closs 82 and her husband Harold operate a beef cowca lf operation in Shawville Que
Luc Cote 83 is an agricullural account manager for the Royal Bank of Canada in Joliette Que
Kerrie Lea Curran 85 plans to graduate this fall from the master of architecture proshygram at McGi ll University
Bruce Dodson 74A is course superinshytendent at Hawd Ridge Golf and Curling Club in Orillia Ont
Richard Donkin OAC 85A originalshyly from Zimbabwe is the manager of Venida Packing Inc in Exeter Calif Situated in central Californias San Joashyquin Valley Venida Packing ships tree fruit throughout the Richard Donkin United States Canada the Pacific Rim and the Far East Products under the brand names Ruby River and Venida include peaches plums nectarines kiwi grapes persimmons and pomegranates In 1988 Donkin married California native Lisa Kolander and they live in Lemon Cove a community in the Sierra foothill s
Brendan Elder 8S A lives in Kelowna BC and works for Dogwood Nursery He plans to be married thi s summer to Rosemary Powell
Robert Fessenden OAC MSc 67 was recently appointed vice-president of devel opshyment and planning at the Alberta Research Council He is responsible for tec hnology management and corporate marketing
John Fitzgerald 86 was married last November to Susan Given a ] 991 indeshypendent study graduate in animal producshytion He is a lecturer at Ridgetown College she works at Centralia College and is work shying on a psychology degree at the University of Waterloo They live in Strathroy Ont
Glenn Helstern 79A is a driver for the Calgary division of Greyhound Bus Lines of Canada Ltd
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She tells a princely tale
For seven miniJtes on Oct 24 199 L Ellen Het1eOAC 76~U1d MSc 80
(ltllked with PIince Charles Invited toopert a newfumaceat
inco Lilniteds Copper Cliff smelter iri Sudbury Ont the Princemiddot of Wales was easy to talk with says Heale ftwasverycxciting
As eiwironmental co-ordinator Of land reclamation andrevegetation at Copper Cliff Healetold theprince middot about Tnc(secosystem rehabilitation
projects Theroyalvisitor was parshyticulatfyiilterestedin the treegrow- ing project in abandoned inines flld in tlpoundrevegetation ()f acres of tailings
and barren rock Planrilig vegetation on the tailings
hasattrlttcled wildlifeto a protected habitat says Beale who has wqrked forIncosincc she graduated in 1976
Ninety~iwo species ofbirds as weil asrodems hares foxes wolves bears andinoQse have been sighted on the 2500 acres of rehabilitated ore waste
One thing about this job is you middot can s~e where youve been effective she says
While an undergraduate student in Prill(e Charles with EIen Heale horticultural science Healea native ofSiidbury worked at Ineo during the sumniers She wasthi tirst woman to
work inrhemining companys agriculture middot department After shegraduated the niekshy el inine hired her full time tcido horticul- turaLfleld research ~ Ineo later granted heT a two-semester leave of absente t6 work
Theodore Jacobs 78 (Eng) is engineering supervisor at Standard Tube in Woodstock Ont
Greg Keast 85 (Eng) is li ving in Mozamshybique in East Africa where he works as a project officer for UNICEF rural water supshyply project s
Richard Kline 74 was appointed partner of the Toronto accounting firm Schwartz Levitsky Feldman Inc last faiL He is presishydent of the film s bankruptcy division a member of the Chartered Accountants of Onshytario and first vice- president of the Ontario Insolvency Association
Christopher Laforest MSc 91 (USRPD) works in planning and economic developshyment for Bruce County Ont
Jean-Paul PhD 90 and Lynn (Hammell) Laforest 82 and MSc 85 are both employed at Laval University in Sainte-Foy Que He is a professor and s he is a research associate
Kenneth Lawless 63 earned a Guelph deshygree in agricultural economics then went on to stud y dentistry at the Uni versity of Toronshyto He is now an oral and manilo-fac ial surshygeon in Kingston Ont
oil her masters at OAC~ In her current PdStion Heale has rnore
administrative and public relations responshyibilities On her own time she sits on the
board of management for the tocal Red Cross and isalllember ofthe Sudbury
Business and Professional Womens Club
Margie Luffman 77 writes that she has happily returned to Ontario after 10 years in New Brunswick to work at the Smithfield Experimental Farm in Trenton She is curator of the Plant Gene Resources of Canada clonal gene bank
Brian MacCulloch MAg 89 is a sa les representative for Springva le Nurseries Ltd in Berwick NS
Daniel Mansell 64 and MSc 68 is Onshytario manager of the eastern habitat joint venture in the wildlife policy branch of the Ministry of Natural Resources He is stashytioned in Midhurst Ont
Peter McEntire 77A writes from County Langford in Ireland to keep in touch with U of G He is farming and work s as an AI techshynician with Bova Genetics Ltd
Darryl Mitchell 78 works at Pioneer HishyBred Limited in Chatham Ont
Hugh ONeil 88 is manager of customer financial services for Ral ston Purina Canada Inc
Umed Panu MSc 72 (Eng) has done a lot of travelling during his career After Guelph he earned a PhD in civil engineering
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David Nedelko OAC 86 and Ljrlda ArmsJrollg CBS 89 (Jurk 011 cemre) were marriediasl SeplemiJer in Bari ~ie OnlTluir weddiIg iiarly illcilldedfiom leli Katy KusmiliskiOA C 88Paul Allgusline GAG 86 Roh Reed OAC 87Carv Belfral1l oAC 8RJIuJ Sa ndimiddoto (CollinI) BerlrCIlII CBS RR Also 1I111ie wedding w(lS Arlllslong s Veal ullcleClarence Fleming OVC 34 The couple (Ire living in
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at the Universit y of Waterloo taught in India and at Mi ss iss ippi State Uni vers ity and worked with Briti sh Columbia Hydro and the Government of Newfoundland In 1986 he jo ined the faculty of c ivil engi neering at Lakehead Uni ve rsity in Thunder Bay Ont and was promoted to full professor in 199 1 He and hi s wife Kashna and the ir children Neeti and Anukud enjoy the outdoor recreashytion ac ti viti es available in Northwestern Onshytario and look forward to visits from U of G alumni trave lling to Thunder Bay
Lyle Pettigrew 61 is a marketin g consulshytant with Harris Kovacs Alderman in Atlanshyta Ga
Helen Prior 88 joined Sheridan Nurseries after graduation then worked for a year as a research tech nic ian in Guelph s Department of Crop Scie nce She is now in her th ird year at Emmanuel College at Victoria University and hopes to be ordained as a United Church min is ter in May
Gregory Scott 83 (Eng) is operations manager for Accuform Gol f Limited in Toronto
Ba rbara (Coordes) Skrypetz 87 is a fi e ld supervisor for the Ontario Dairy Herd Imshyprovement Corporation working out of Guelph He r husband Stephen 88 operates a bulldozing and excavating busi shyness in the Woodstock area
Victor Skidra 6 is re tired f rom his job as a sc ientific evaluator with Hea lth and Welshyfare Canada He and hi s wife Konstance live in Nepean Ont
William Slusarchuk 63 (Eng) and MSc
The way we were in 1902 OAC alumnus Douglas Campbell 60 passes on a bit of col lege hi sto ry that shou ld make us think twice about our con stitutional squabbles in C anad a
Campbell is director of the Latin America and Caribbea n Trade Divis ion of Canada s Department of External Affa irs Last summer he hosted a vi s it by the president of Uruguay Luis Alberto Lacalle Herre ra whose grand fa the r made a simil a r vis it to Canada in 1902
This is what the elde r Herrera reported to his government Gue lph agricultural college enjoys a worldwide reputation and is con shys idered one of the grea t loca l attracshytions
More than 200 young Canadians a long with many foreign youths come together in its lecture rooms There are bursary ho lde rs from Norway and as far away as Mauritius C loser to us
Guelph Alumnus
67 was recently appo inted pres ident of AGRA Eanh and Environmental Group an envi ronme ntal and geotechnica l firm that is a division of AGRA Indu stries Limited
Michael Sullivan 87 A is a pol ice officer with the Wate rloo Regional Police in Cambridge Ont
Argentina has 12 students there We ll then couldnt Uruguay imshy
itate those good exa mples and also se nd a number of worthy youths to Guelph to acquire the professional knowledge which is becoming m ore necessary each day for the deve lopshyment of our agric ulture~
In addition to the sc ienti fic benefits that our compatriots woul d deri ve from entering sLlch a Canadian techni cal in shystitution there would be the inca lcushylable benefit of becoming familiar with the stric t manly and sound habits of these people who are admirable in e ve ry respect
Afte r they have stee ped themse lves in this atmos phere of dem ocracy which fosters the development of all rights and is alien to intolerance thi s legati on w ill have the great honor of sending home not only sc ientists but a lso mode l citizens
Brenda Trask 80 operates he r own comshymunica tion s consulting company in Osshygoode Ont She is marri ed to Ron Ferguso n
Dave Vanden Bosch 89 is manager of operator services and plann ing for Bell Canada in London Ont
J Stallard Skip Waterhouse 54 and hi s wife Li sa are ce lebrating the birth of a daughter Samantha Elizabe th on New Years Day 1992 They live in New York State where Wate rhouse is iI pro fe ssor of bio logical science at the Plattsburgh Sta te Uni versity College of Arts and Science
Jeff 88 and Karen (Burrows) W h ite 87 live in Strathroy Ont Jeff work s for Bell Canada and Kare n is a Lambton County rural orga ni za tion spec ialist with the Ontar io Mini stry of Agriculture and Food
Harold Wright 86 is a development repre shysenta tive for Ci ba-Ge igy Canada Ltd in Mi sshysissauga Ont He and Lori Krieg 84 plan to marry thi s sprin g
Donald Ziraldo 7 I received doubl e honors last winter fro m the Ontario grape and wine industry Preside nt of Inniskillin W ines of Niagara-on -the-Lake Ont he was named to the Royal Order of the Grape for hi s leadership in enhancing the prod uct and its image
In addition Z ira ldo and his partner Karl Kai se r were named 1991 Men of the Year by FoodsCIvice and Hospitalily magazine During the ir 17-year partnership at Inn isk ilshylin the two have been instrumental in shapshying Canada s wine industry the magazine sa id
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ave Barry Burtis 69 was named president of the Ontario Veterinary Medical Association in January after working with the voluntary organization for four years as a director member of its editorial board and chair of its public relations committee Burtis lives in Burlington Ont and practises at the Bay Cities Animal Hospital He also appears on a local cable television program called Pel Tales
William Medway 54 of Blackwood NJ has been named an honorary life member of the International Association for Aquatic Animal Medicine for his contributions on beshyhalf of the association and the field of aquatic medicine He is both a founding member and past president of the associa shytion A professor emeritus of clinical laboratory medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine Medway is a member of the Marine Mammal Commissions committee of scientific advisers
Diane Pickering-Forster 86 is practising at Vander Kraan Veterinary Services in Huntsville Ont She is malTied to Chris Forster and they have one daughter Julia
Julien Proulx 67 has moved from Kapusshykasing Ont to La Pocatiere Que where he is superintendent of Agriculture Canada s Experimental Farm Last year he was feashytured on TVOntarios French network series Personalire Ontarienne for his work as a veterinarian his participation in municipal politics and his support of regional developshyment in Northern Ontario He was also awarded Agriculture Canadas research branch prize Agcellence for extraordinary management during his direction of the reshysearch program at the Kapuskasing Exshyperimental Farm
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Twoc~ireers middot on the samepat~ OVCaruninus Geoffrey Lord 49 felt a thopedic
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There are amazing simi laritiesbetween surgery the c~reersof t~e two Guyanese wh6b6th says Lord If earnedvefetinary degrees atGueiph someone worked in c1ini(ai practice in)Yestem were to ask Canada then moved to the United States me ioday to work in human medic~lresearch what Tcon~
Narayan heads an AlDSresearchteamsider to be atJohns HopkiflS l1)iversilySchool of my expertise MediCirieinBaltimoreMatyland Lord is I would have retired directorofthdohnsonamp Johnson to saymecli- Geofrey Lord
middot Resear~h Foundalion ill NewJersey cal device lordsays he was influenced by OVC andbioshy
proJessDfs Anthony Kings(Qte and Frank Inaterials evaluation middot SchofieJd~ndwcentnton from GiJelphto pur- lt In the I 950s Lordwaspalt of ale-
sue graduate studies in parasitology auhe se~rch team that pioneered the use of University oJWiscollsin Sevenmorithsin animal tissue tOTeconstructdamagedjr
amixed practice in Drumheller Alta con blocked al1eries in hUl11ansTwenty years vinced him thaldinical medicine wasn6t middot later he drafted the first systematicap-
middot whati w~ted6 do He returned to Wis pr()ach to the safety evaluation of medica con5il110 eanla PhDlll pathologyano devices joined Johnson amp JohnsQri as asenior middot Allsubsequeill guidelines inCiLlding patilol()gistiriI953 those of the Foodaj)q Diug Admlnistrashy
Research at Johnson amp JohDson tiOnand the Canadian Regulatory ~teeredmeinto many interesting and chal- Authority hayeadopteoihis approach he
Jenging fieldsofbio-research includirig says derniiltoi9gy toxicologic pathology Lordand his wife Helen ltIividetheir wound healing surgical pathology iiinebetweel)Ciipe CodandBonita genera toxkology ofi~w drugs andor~ Springs FloriQa
Shane Renwick 77 and MSc 91 works in veterinary services at Agriculture Canada offices in Guelph
Ruth Reuter 61 is a veterinary pathologist in Plympton Australia
Tom Sanderson 6 1 was selected by the Ontario Veterinary Medical Association as Ontario Veterinarian of 1991 CUlTently OVCs co-ordinator of off-campus work terms he spent 20 years in private practice in Listowe1 and Mount Forest before returning to the coll ege in 1982 to manage the veterishynary research stations Sanderson s contribushytions to the profess ion have included many hours of volunteer work in the advancement
of the profession and in the development of veterinary inshysurance programs He is a past pres ident of both the Ontario and Canadian Veterishynary Medical associashytions
Jennifer Troughton 86 is practising in OronoOnt
Simone Woltner 86 is a veterinarian at the Chester Basin Animal Hospital in Chester Basin NS
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by her hu sband William and two sons The fo llowing dea ths have been reported since the las t issue of the Guelph Alumnus Full notices which are usu ally submitted by family or classmates may appear in thi s iss ue or in a later one
James Clement Arts 73 Feb 2 1992
Marilyn (Dyment) Farnan Mac 530 Feb 27 1992
David Fisher OAC 80A in October 1990
Elizabeth (C hristie) Glass Mac 3I D June 2l99 1
Peter Heskey OAC 54A Dec 6 199 1
Richard Ketchell OVC 51 Nov 23 199 1
Edward Kowalski Arts 79 in August 199 1
Pauline (Dixon) MacMillan Mac 240 Jan 2 1992
Catherine MacPherson Arts 83 Dec 11 1990
Marguerite (White) Maybury Mac 3 10 in June 1990
Donald McLeOd CSS 80 Jan 9 1992
Albert Meilus OAC 51 in 1991
Ann (Biggs) Ostler Mac 3 10 in April 1991
Robert Race Arts 73 in 1989
Ralph Sampson OAC 40 in December 1989
Mor ris Sanderson OAC 42 Nov 17 1991
Sir Peter Scott HDSc 8 1 in Au gust 1989
William Setterington OAC 40 Oct 22 1991
George Shoniker OAC 50A in March 199 1
John Somerset OAC 34 Dec 27 199 1
Gregory Van Patter OAC 7 1 in 1990
Frederich Weiland OAC 20A in 1990
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Riccardo Rich Incitti 88 died Jan 5 1992 as the result of an accident near Hami lshyton Ont He was assistant manager at the Toronto-Dominion Bank in St Cathari nes and is survived by his parents Gu igi and Lucia of Cambridge and two sisters Laura and Andrea
Larry McNenly 73 died in October 1991 in Owen Sound Ont He is survived by his wife Marnie CSS 73
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Robert Everett HK 74 died in May 1991 in Burlington Ont A teac her at White Oaks Secondary Schoo l in Oakv ille he is survived by his wife Miche le and brother William CBS 74
James Sandy Fear 75 died Oct I I 199 1 in Toronto He is survi ved by his wi fe Sally (Firth) OAC 75 and hi s children Caitlin Alli son and Mered ith
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Lynn (Dalys) Corby 84 died in Toron to May 6 1990 after a long battIe with cancer
Nancy (Birbeck) Gordon 77 died Oct 20 1991 in Ottawa after a short illness She worked at the Kitchener-Waterl oo Hospital and had previously been plan t accountant at Foseco Canada Incorporated in Guelph
Mac-FACS
Jean (Williams) Forward 280 Oct 28 1991 in Calgary She was the widow of Bower Forward OAC 25 and is survived by two sons
Catharine (Bechtel) Fromm 270 died Nov I 199 1 in Cambridge Ont She is surshyvived by three dau ghters Ellen Moore Mac 63 Nancy and Caro l
Alice (Rivaz) Garrard 28 di ed Dec 2 199 1 in Guelph She was an active member of the Mac-FACS Alumni Assoc iat ion and was the Mac 28 class agent for the Alma Mater Fund She is survived by her husband retired professor Edward Garrard OAC 27 and a daughter Betty Nelson
Della Marie (Diamond) Honey 300 of Warkworth Ont died June 29 1991 One ofWarkworths oldest and most respected citizens she served as local li brarian fo r 25 years She is survived by her son John OAC 52A his wife Patric ia and four grandchildren James OAC 84A William OAC 76A Thomas OvC 89 and Patricia Lonergan CSS 68
Barbara (Banigan) Martin 380 died Jan I 1992 in Don Mill s Ont A retired teacher wit h the North York Board of Education she is survived by a son Ted a sister and two brothers
Elizabeth (Burt) Perry 340 died June 28 1991 in Sidney BC and is surv ived by her husband Gordon and son Paul Nartel OAC 62
Jacqueline (Roy) Pote 34D died Dec 2 1 1991 in Willowdale Ont and is is survived
Merrill and Bill
Doroth y (MacFeeters) Scott 260 died Jan 14 1992 in Toronto She is su rvived by two daughters Anne Donaldson and Cynthia Scott
Florence (French) Snyder 370 died May 6 199 1 in Calgary and is survived by her husband Robert and two sons John and William
Katherine (Sweet) Watt Mac 220 died Feb 23 1992 She is survived by her husshyband Leslie a son David and a dau ghter Carol Gi llanders
Mattie (Newman) Widdicombe 240 died Dec 11 1991 in St Catharines Ont Preshydeceased by her husband John she is surshyvived by a bro ther and several nieces and nephews including Virginia Rigby Arts 76
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George Grey Arnup 38 died Feb 2 1992 in Toronto He spent most of his career with the plant protection branch of Agriculture Canada He is survived by his wife Aileen three chi ldren Nancy Jim and Mary Ellen Vincent CBS 79 and four grandchi ldren
Herbert Boyce 28 and MSA 43 died Sept 2 1991 in Amherstburg Onto He is survi ved by his wife Norah a daughter Beverley Med lock and a brother James OAC 32
Jack Reddy Brethet 56 died Nov 4 199 1 in Burlington Ont President of Brethet Barnum Assoc iates Inc he is surshyv ived by his wife Caro l and two daughters Lyn n and Anne
Bruce Foster 28 died Feb 6 1992 in Ridgetown Ont and is survi ved by his daughter Gayle Anderson and son David CBS 69
Allison Gardhouse 49 died Sept 21 1991 in Midland Ont He was re tired supe rshyintendent of schoo ls for the Simcoe County Board of Education and is survi ved by his wife Merle
Kenneth Harrison 24 died Nov 5 199 1 in Kentville NS A distinguished plant patho logist military officer and mycologist he began hi s career in 1926 as assistant plant pathologis t at the Kentvi lle Experimental Farm He worked there until retirement in 1966 wi th the exception of mi litary servi ce du ring the Second World War
Dr Harrison had a lifelong interes t in the study of mushrooms and publ ished numerou s technica l papers on the mu shroom flora of Nova Scotia In addition he enshy
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IN MEMORIAM
couraged interested amateurs and led field trips for student s at Acadia University and the general public from 1929 until 1987 In 1979 he was honored by Acadia wi th the dedication of the Kenneth A Harri son Laboratory of Mycology
During his career he was a member of many professional organizations a charter member of the Mycological Society of America and fe llow of the American Associashytion for the Advancement of Science
He is survived by hi s wife Margaret two brothers Maynard OAC 30 and Arthur OAC 29 two son s Ashley and Kenneth and a daughter Jennie Sheito
William Kellam 4 1 died Oct 19 1991 in Brockville Ont He was retired from the Curb and Gate Co of-Brock ville where he had worked as a lab technician fo r 28 years He is survived by his wife Kathleen a son George and a daughter Mary
William M acMillan 48 died in February 1992 in Winnipeg He was supervisor of Fertilizer marketing for the Manitoba Pool Elevators and is surv ived by hi s wife Edna Jean and brother Harry OAC 5 1 A
Cameron McTaggart 35 died Feb 4 1992 in Aurora Ont After graduating from OAC he became manager of Don Head Farms in Richmond Hill He established the first agricul tural consulting business in Canada in 1947 and later ran an Angus cattle
sales management business from the family farm A life member of the OAC Alumni As shysociat ion and the Class of 35 executive he is survived by his wife Margaret Mac 35 and two sons John OAC 62 of Regina and David of Largo Fla
Douglas Miller 48 of Victoria BC died Nov 24 1991 in Toronto He is survived by hi s wife Ruth and five children
Gregory More 76 was killed Feb 3 1992 in Kitchener Ont at the Ontario Glove Manufacturing Co where he was co-owner and vice-president Following graduation he worked for the Rohrer Drug Co and the Stershyling Drug Co then returned to school ea rnshying an MBA at McMaster University in 1981 More was an avid squash player and golfer Court A at the Northfield Racquet Club in Waterloo was dedicated to his memory in March He is survived by his parents Noreen and Ken a brother Randy and a sister Katherine Keeler
John Jack Pawley 33 died March I 1992 in Guelph He is survived by his wife Ruth son John OAC 62 and daughter-inshylaw Carolyn He was a former director of the Ontario Milk Marketing Board and a past member of the Royal City Lodge of Perfecshytion
Harold Reid 20A died in December 1991 in Burlington Ont During the First World W ar he was one of Canadas premier rad io
experts work ing at the Roya l Canadian Navy shore transmitter in Sydney NS After the war he came to OAC to earn a diploma then went on to QueenS University to comshyplete an arts and theology degree His mini sshytry was mainly in St And rews and Montreal although he spent 13 years teaching Hebrew at the Presbyterian Coll ege before retiring in 1968
Donald Robertson 3 1 died Nov 4 1991 in Iroquois Ont He is survived by hi s wife Caroline (Grisdale) Mac 38 his two son s ScottOAC 65A and Guy and a daughter Sandra McNeil
Thomas Rokeby 48 and MSA 50 died Jan 29 1992 in Fayetteville Ark He was a professional engineer and tau ght for 30 years in the Univers ity of Arkansas engineering department Born in Port Rowan Ont he was a member of the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War the American Society of Agricultural Engineers and the agricultural honor societies of Gamma Sigma Delta and Alpha Epsilon He is surv ived by his wife Helen two sons Robert and Richard a daughter Penny and three brothers Michael Noel and Richard OAC 54
Francis Sweeney OAC 45 died Nov 17 1991 in Oakville Ont He was a longtime employee of Shell Canada and [nternational Shell working in Great Britain Europe and
WALL CUSTANCE MEMORIAL FOREST
The Wall-Custance Memorial Forest located at the Universi ty of Guelphs Arboretum was established in recognition of the severe depletion of our forests It is never too late to be a vital part of the effort to save and improve our air and water for the future of our children by planting trees This program is our small part of the major endeavor to reforest and to reduce the greenhouse effect improve air quality and provide food and cover for wildlife The Memorial Forest Proshygram not only pays a Significant tribute to a loved one but also assures a better environment for generations to come
The purpose of this program is to provide an opporshytuni ty to commemorate the life of a loved one by plantshy
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ing a tree We envision that the Memorial Forest Program will continue for many years to come and our hope is that the solace that nature offers particularly in the depths of a living forest will be of comfort and benefi t to all
For more information or for a brochure call or write to
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============= IN MEMORIAM ============= Venezuela He is survived by his wife Lynn and two daughters Alyson and Joselyn
Berna rd Weeks 35 died Oct 16 199 1 After graduation he re turned to his roots in
ew York and Pennsylvannia and worked in 4-H and you th organi zations for a few years He then took over the family farm at Troupsburg NY and built up a dairy operashytion with a sideline of sheep He is surv ived by his wife Ruth and four children
Glenn White 43 of Belleville Onl died Nov 24 199 1 in Florida and is surv ived by hi s wife Marjorie
ave Norman Anderson 39 of Wi nn ipeg died Dec 18 1991 in Arizona He had practised veterinary medicine in Norwood Man and was a member of the American Equine Pracshytitioners Association director of the Canadian Thoroughbred Society and track veterinarian at Assin iboia Downs for 50 years He is survived by his wi fe Peggy and two sons Laurie and James
George Beatty 5 I died Nov 22 1991 in Inverness III He practised in Palatine fo r 36 years and founded the Palatine Animal Hospi tal He was an active member of the American Animal Hospital Assoc iati on and the Chicago Veterinary Association and was a director of the Friends of the University of Guelph He is survived by his wife Mary and fo ur children - Suzanne Patricia Margaret and Tim
John Hamilton 5 L died Dec 15 1991 He had lived in Roslin On where he owned the Bay Regional Veterinary Hospital He is survived by hi s niece Ann Bongard
Nicholas Labzoffsky 39 died Dec 25 1991 in Largo Fla Fonnerly of Toronto he had li ved most recen tl y in Dorse t Ont and is survived by hi s wife Jane
Edgar Langford 49 died March 41992 in Monarch Alta A former research scienshytist with ADRI (Western) he is survived by his wife Norma and two daughters includshying Carolyn OVC 76
Stuart Maude 4 1 died Jan 14 1992 in Rosemead Calif A former Rosemead counshycillor and four-time mayor he operated the Rosemead Animal Hospital with his brother Arthur 52 from 1953 to 1980 He was a trustee for Ingles ide Hospital a past grand patron of both the Rosemead and the Califorshynia Order of Eastern Star and past-president of the local Kiwanis Club and Chamber of Commerce He is survived by his wife Vera two daughters Patricia and Susan Bezner a son Stuart and three brothers
Walter Morley 42 o f Mildmay On died Nov 28 199 1 He ran a large animal pracshytice in the Mild may area for 39 years raised cat tle and raced standardbred horses He was also a pu blic school board trustee and direcshytor of a local te lephone company for more
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than 30 years He is survived by his wife Joyce five sons - two of whom are OVC alumni Dave 68 and Randy 74 - and 10 grandchildren
Lloyd Neily 52 died Jan 3 1992 in Hantsport NS A retired meat inspector w ith the federal Department of Agriculture he had a private veterinary practice in Wind sor NS He is surv ived by hi s wife Mary
Elford Nundal 43 died Jan 7 1992 in Langley BC after a long battle with canshycer He operated a veterinary practice in Langley for 36 years and served as a di strict aldennan for 10 years before being elected mayor in 1982 Last year he received the BC Veterinarian Association s award of merit for a lifetime of veterinary work
Humphrey Rees 55 died Sepl 30 1991 in Amman Jordan while on ass ignment for the Overseas Development Ad ministrat ion as veterinary and animal hu sbandry adviser to the Jordani an government His contemshyporaries at Guelph will remember him as a singer debater raconteur rugby player and bon vivant He is surv ived by his wife Alice of POlt Eynon Wales
William Stinson 40 died Feb 15 1992 in Norwood Ont He is survi ved by his wife Rita a son John OVC 67 a brother Ford OAC 34 and a grandson John CSS 87
Faculty
Patric ia Harney died Dec 191991 in Yarshymouth NS A professor in the Department of Horticultural Science from 1962 to 1988 she developed severa l new variet ies of geraniums and was instru mental in es tabshylishing the Frances Ball rose collection at the Arboretum
Anthony Marston died Feb 3 1992 in Fershygu s ant Retired from the School of Hotel and Food Administration he was an acshycomplished competition chef who received his training in Switzerland and England He then spent severa l years working in the Caribbean before coming to Guelph in 1970 A member of the Canadian Olympic culinary team he held a number of positions in the
Donations given in memory ofGuelph alumni will help support University scholarships ifdirected to the Alumni M emorial Fund In 1991 donations were made in memory of the following alumni
Frank MacDonald OAC 37
Frank King OAC 33 -Robert Allen OAC 56A
Alice (Rivaz) Garrard Mac 28
Stan Vesselinovitch OVC 57
For more infonnation call the Office of Annual Giving at 519-824-4120 Ext 6 183
hote l and food industry until retiring in 1982 He is survived by hi s wife Di ana
Gordon McNally dled Jan 12 1992 in Guelph A professor in the Department of Zoo logy from 1934 to 1971 he served as academic assistant to the dean of CBS until retiring in 1979 While at Guelph he was honorary pres id ent of the classes of OAC 54 58 and 67 He is survived by his daughter Jean two siste rs and two grandchildren Prof McNallys family has established the A Gordon Mc a lly Memorial Fund to support a sc holarship or bursary Contributions may be sent care of the Alma Mater Fund Alumni Hou se University of Guelph Guelph ant N I G 2WI
Friends
Jean (Young) Branion died March 3 1992 in Guelph She was the wife of the late Hugh Branion a physiology professor at U of G and assistant to presidents Bill Winegard and Don Forster Jean Branion was an act ive volunteer on campus for many years and one of the firs t presidents of the College Womens Club She is survived by a son Richard and his wife Marga re t of Vanshycouve r and five grandchi ldren Donati ons may be made to the Hugh D Branion Memorial Scholarship through Alumni House
Davy Alexander Hamilton-Williamson died Feb 4 1992 in Guelph A painter and author of childrens stories he had been a member of the University s Presidents Council s ince it began in 1 985
Marjorie Pinkney wife of J ames Pinkney OVC 3 7 died Dec 151 99 [ at her home in Milton ant
Samuel Wyal died March 15 1992 in Brantford ant He was a partner in the law firm Wyatt Purce ll Will Stillman and Scott He is surv ived by his wife M a bel Mac 39 four sons Peter Michael William and John and two daughters Mary Alderson and Sarah Nadalin Arts 82
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INVmiddotESTMENTS amp
DIVIDENDS
Facts about university education in Canada and how we pay for it
By 2000 half of all new jobs in Canada will require a university degree
But at the current rate of government funding only one in five children
will have a chance to go to university
In the seven years from 1982 to 1989 per-student grants to universities in
Ontario barely kept pace with intlation at five per cent
per-student funding at American public univers ities jumped an average
of 23 per cent in the same period
Those US universities also receive twice the federal research dollars per student as do Ontario universities
In 1987 the average salary of a full-time professor at an Ontario univers ity was $55500
compared with $68200 for a private-sector position of similar education and experience
Lawyers economists and engineers made an average of $71 000
Ontario ranks ninth out of the to provinces in terms of grants to universities
Between 1978 and 1991 enrolment at Ontario univers ities grew by 40 per cent while funding dropped
from 59 to 409 per cent of total government spending
Universities were spending 14 per cent less per student between 1977 and 1988 hospital expenditures
rose 38 per cent per patient in the same period
Ontario universities generate $3 of economic activity for every
$1 invested by government funding
And the number of jobs generated by university activities in
Ontario is greater than the employment impact of the textile
industry the entire paper and pulp industry or utilities
University graduates can look forward to earning 63 per cent more than the average industrial worker
A 1990 survey of U of G alumni found that two years after graduation 97 per cent of Guelph grads
looking for work were employed 62 per cent were earning $25000 or more and 10 per cent were
earning $40000 or more
Unemployment rates in 1990 for those with a university degree was about one-third what it was
for those with only a high school diploma
Every year from 1978 to 1987 Ontario university inves tments in renovating or replacing
aging buildings could not keep pace with the rate at which the buildings depreciated
Graphics by Debbie Thompson Wilson Statistics supplied by th~ Council 01 Ontario UniverSities Statistics Canada and the U01 G Student EnVifonment Study Group
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A salute to sport Alumni Weekend June 19-21 9am Sio-pitch tournament
The tradition Jives on at the south quad diamond s Cooed teams of 12 or more players are encourshyaged to join in the fun
FRIDAY 10 am to 9 pm Registration Lambton Hall
6 pm Kick-off dinner and half-time show
get set and join In the Olympic spirit one of Alumni Creelman Hall will Weekends host the Wonderful most popular World of Sports with events Tours a half-time slide show start from to entertain alumni of Alumni House all ages and are sponshy9 pmshy sored by the Observatory tours CBS Alumni
Association
10 am and 2 pm
SATURDAY 8 am to 5 pm Guided Registration walking tours Lambton Hall
Remember 9 am to 5 pm making s now Alumni House tours sc ulptures on Students will host tours of Alumni House throughshyout the weekend Come and see what the generosity of alumni has accomplished
9 am to noon Alumni association annual meetings
This is the official notice for the annual general meetings of the following alumni associations
CBS - Alumni House starts at 830 am before guided walk MacFACS - HAFA Building Room 209
OVC - OvC Room 1438
OAC - Macdonald Hall Room 149
CSS - MacKinnon Building Room 305
HAFA - Alumni Hou se boardroom
Gryphs Lounge will be open for lunch and afLer the game
930 am Guided nature walk at the Arboretum
On your mark
Noon - OVC luncheon
The OvC Alumni Association will host a luncheon open to all OvC alumni and their guests
2 pm - Campus Showcase 92
Following on the heels of last year s success Campus Showshycase 92 will be bigger and better Come to the University Centre to see exhibits representing all areas on campus The Campus Junction store will also be open
2 pm - Zavitz Hall tour
Alumni are invited to browse through the newly renovated Za vitz Hall and attend a recep shytion sponsored by the Colshylege of Arts Alumni Asshysoc iation
5 pm Golden anniversary dinner
The OAC OvC and MacshyFACS alumni associations will provide complimenshytary tickets for alumni celebrating 50 years or more Additiona l tickets can be purchased Classes
Johnston Green or playing intramural hockey in the old Quonset arena Relive some of the memories by taking a walking tour of campus Tours begin from the lobby ofLambton Hall
Noon - Alumni picnic
This apopular event has new location - the sculpshyture garden beside the Macshydonald Stewart Art Centre Come on your own or reshyserve a group of tables for friends and classmates
Noon - Class reunion lunches
OAC 37 Mac 37 OAC 42 Mac 42 OAC 47 Mac 52 Mac57 Mac 67 FACS 72 FACS 77 FACS 87
OAC 67 FACS 82 OAC 82 OAC 82A CBS 82 FACS 87 OAC 87
SUNDAY 9am Church service and War Memorial Hall rededication
Thanks to a commitment from the Alma Mater Fund renovashytion of the upstairs of War Memorial Hall has been comshypleted Join us for the rededicashytion ceremony commemorating the 1924 opening and the 1952 dedication of an OAC memorial plaque
being honored are OAC 22 OAC 47 OvC 22 Mac 22 OAC 27 OvC 27 Mac 27 OAC 32 OvC 32 Mac 32 OAC 37 OvC 37 Mac 37 OAC 42 OvC 42 Mac 42
6 pm Class reunion dinners
Special dinn e r reunions are planned for OAC 47 OAC 52 OAC 52A OvC 52 Mac 57 OAC 57 OAC 62 Mac 67
10am UGAA annual meeting
All alumni are encouraged to atshytend the UGAA annual meeting in Macdonald Hall Room 149 An amendment to the UGAA Letters Patent and a revised bylaw will be presented for ap shyproval Copies of both are availshyable on request from Alumni House Call 519-824-4120 Ext 6544
11 am - Farewell brunch
The final event of Alumni Weekend will be held in Creelshyman Hall Come and meet the Univers ity S president Brian Segal The Alumnus of Honour medal will be presented at noon
To receive an Alumni Weekshyend brochure or to register for events call Alumni House at 59-824-4120 Ext 6963
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Research-driven corporations are breaking new ground at the University of Guelph Research Park Centre with exceptional growth opporshytunities in an ideal business setting
This 30-acre Research Park also accommodates tenants who choose to construct their own office and laboratory facilities
Find out why organizations such as Semex Canada Tremco Limited the Ontario Dairy Herd Improvement Corporation George Morris Centre LIPID Analytical Laboratories and Agriculture Canada have chosen the University of Guelph Research Park Call Ralph Eades or Judy Phillips Real Estate Division University of Guelph Telephone (519) 767-5003 or Fax (519) 837-0353
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Richard Woods 81 is an instructor of xshyray technology at the Easte rn Ontario School of X-ray Technology at Kingston Ge neral Hospital He would like to hear from other members of the 1981 U of G choir wi th whom he travelled to Scandinav ia Write to him at RRI Od essa Ont KOH 2HO
CPES
James Dy nes 84 has comp le ted g raduate studies in chemistry and so il sc ience at the Univers ity of Sas katchewan in Saskatoon
Catherine (McVittie) Clark 88 is a nuclear medica l tech nici an at Howard Counshyty General Hospita l in Columbia Md She and her husband Michae l li ve in Elkridge Md
David Holmes 85 is a systems analyst at Sun Life Assurance Company
RolfKierdorf 84 lives in Guelph with his wife Janet He is se lf-employed as a systems consultant
Donald McFadde n 71 and his wife Carol li ve in A lbany Ga where he pracshyti ses medicine
Donald Ridley 69 and PhD 73 has been appoin ted seni or v ice-presiden t of CibashyGeigy Canada Ltd in Oakvi lle Ont and is responsib le for a ll corpora te serv ices includshy
ing finance human resources safe ty health and the environment He a lso se rves on the board of the Canadian Agricu ltura l Research Council and is a member of the Great Lakes Action Plan Strategi c Advi sory Committee
Kathryn Root Parr is an assoc iate minister at Lorne Park Bapti st Church in Mississhysa uga Ont She was married las t fa ll to Vicshytor Parr
Peter Simpson 85 is dis tric t manager for McNeil Pharmaceutical Ltd in Stouffville Ont He is married to Cynthia (Hamilton) 85 (HK)
Keith Stemshorn 83 is in the Canadian Armed Forces stationed in Calgary
CSS
Nikki Dignard 86 moved to Ottawa last year where her husband Ted Henike pracshyti ses denti stry Dignard is working on an M BA and says she d love to hear from CSS classmates Tom Cam and Kathryn
Bonnie Dunnett 87 and MA 91 works on campus at the Gerontology Research Centre S he and Barry Hallman 9 1 li ve in Guelph
Kathryn Faulkner 80 is a registered nurse in Burling ton Ont where she li ves wi th he r husband John
Ruth Fox 84 is a sta ffing assistant for
Transport Canad a and lives in Toronto w ith her husband Christopher
Shonna Giles 88 is an admiss ions officer at Simon Fraser Unive rs ity in Burnaby BC
Gina Grieco 75 is a hi gh school guidance counsellor in North York Onto
John Harris 82 is manager of financial planning and budgets for th e City of Brampton Ont
Paulette Heppner 76 is a teache r in Vanshycouver
John Johnston 7 1 has been appointed exshyec uti ve vice-pres ident o f Ve rsacold Canada Corp and pres ident of QF Foods Distribushytion Services Versacold Canada is the largest public refri gera ted ware hou sing orshygani za tion in Western Canada
Michael Kral 79 has moved from the Univers ity of Manitoba to the University of Wind sor where he is an assistant professor of psychology
Jeffrey Lozon 76 and his family recently returned to Toronto after 15 years in Western Canada He is executive vice-president and ch ief operat ing officer at St Michael s Hos pital and li ves in Oakville wi th hi s wife Donna and two daughters
Bria n Martin 79 is a real estate appraiser in Portland Ont whe re he li ves w ith hi s wife Margaret (Sheffield) Arts 79
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Leith Mason 90 works in Toronto in the Canadian office of the State of Illinois as a special assistant to the Illinois Department of Food and Agricul ture
Michael McKean 74 of Don Mills Ont was recently appointed president of Wrigley Canada Inc Before joining Wrigley as execushytive v ice-pres ident in 1990 he he ld senior positions in Hong Kong Brazil and the United States
Rick 74 and Vicki (Collard) McTaggart FACS 74 are working in Ottawa He is director of overseas operations for the Unitarian Service Committee a charitable non-governmental organization that supports commun it y and human resou rce developshyment activities in Africa and Asia She is sec tion head of consumer analysis in the agr ifood development branch of Agriculture Canada
Sandra Morrison 86 is an ass istant professhysor in the department of psychiatry at the University of Western Ontario
Stephen Naylor 85 is director of planning and development for the amalgamated municipalities of Alliston Beeton Tecumshyseth and Tottenham
Brian ONeill 68 MA lives in SUITey England where he is managing director of Innovation Management Consultant s
Jodi Parisi 89 is a sales representative for Gillette who says U of Goo was the greatest
Moira Skikavich 81 is completing a PhD in c inematelevision at the University of Southern California
Virginia Sutherland 78 is an air traffic controller at the Toronto Island Airport
Mac-FACS
Peggy Bates 88 was recently promoted to sales manager with Sears Canada Inc She lives in Owen Sound Ont
Caroline Begin 86 is working in Singshyapore as a dietitian
Diana Close 87 is a c linical nutri ti onis t at Chedoke McMaster Hospital in Hamilton Ont
Sarah Davenport 90 is a case worker with the Wellington County Social Services office in Guelph She is malTied to Matthew Harvey CBS 90
Timothy Dyck 8 1 is national sales manager for Black amp Decker Canada workshying out of the Corbin Division in Richmond HillOnt
Sharon (Muir) 84 and Richard Ernst CBS 83 are the proud parents of a future Guelph grad uate one-year-old Andrew Graham
Patricia Edwards 78 is food servi ce sushypervisor fo r St Peter s Hospita l in Hamilton Ont
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For the love ofteaching Since she
middot graduated bull from Macshydonald Inshymiddot stitute in
J 963 Nancy Kerr has built a career on teaching and research in telttles The middotheidofthe Uriiveisityof
Albertas department of Clothing and texiiles pursues a middotscientific interest inthepreservashylion of hi stori~lfabricsarid in developing pesticide-proofc1otl1ing But Jler fitstlove i ~ teaching
In 199b shewonone ofU of As four Rutherford AWljrds for excellence ill unshy
dergraduate teat-hing The first member of the faculty middotofliomemiddoteconornicsto receive the award slie was the rcentcipient6f the facultys own underglltiduate teaching award three years earlier
Winning the Rutherford was a gteat honor says Ken who has been on
faculty at Alberta since 1967 She oiscovered she had an aptitude for
middot teaching as a graduate student at the University of California Davis in
196566 After earning her MSc she casr about for afaculty position in Canada and round U of A was the 0111y place I could teach ju t textiles plus have a chance to develop new cQurses and research labs
middot Kerr sa)s she gets a tremelldous sense of satisfaction from teaching and the learning he must do to stay cUlTent She attributes her succe s as a teaCher to middotIec-middot
middot tures that are well organized and clear and to creltting a positive classroom climate
~Thcomfort level of students is reaUy middot ililportanL ~ Kerr eamedherPhD in fibre lnd
polymer science from North Carolina bull Staie University in 1982 Her doctoral work concentrated oil deacidification
techniques to preserve historicatcottOnln 1988 she spent a sabbatical ye~r doing research at the Caliadian Conservation
middot In tirute in OnflW1 middot Originalmiddotly from Ottawa Kerr is a
trarisphlnted -vesterner who enjoys middot hiking anlt sk1ing
From left Diane Ellison Lisa Wilson Lori Davis and Pippa Hobbes
Diane Ellison 84 is liv ing in Osaka Japan where she teaches English to Japanese busishyness people Last October she welcomed three U of G friends for a visit Lori Davis CSS 85 manager of Jumbo Video Inc in Oakville Ont Pippa Hobbes 84 accountshying manager for Paramount Holidays in Willowda le Ont and Lisa Wilson 84 co-ord inator of membership serv ices for the Metropolitan Toronto Board of Trade
Monica Hrybko HAFA 88 is director of sales for the Ramada Hotel Old Town in San Diego Calif
David Jones HAFA 88 is a con troller at the Holiday Inn Montreal Centre-Ville
Kathleen McLachlin 83 is operating an insurance agency in Kitchener OnL She opened the State Farm Insurance office in March 1988 and says she loves her job
Susan (Goettler) Parker 80 is working in Toronto as benefits administrator for Imshyperial Oil Limited She is married to Donald Parker OAC 79
Mary Jean (Sinnott) Price Mac 7 1 has returned to sc hool at the University of Otshytawa to earn a bachelor of education
Margaret (Richardson) Rankin 75 has been living in Halifax since 1990 and is an account analyst for Central Guaranty Trust
Janet (Wanless) Sutherland 77 is in private practice as a marriage and family therapist in East Kelowna BC
Jean Thomson Mac 37 says 1937 was a long time ago but shes delighted with all the changes that have gone at the college A former hospita l nutritionist she is retired and living in London Ont -
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Olayiwola Layi Adeola MSc 86 and PhD 89 and his wife Mope are living in West Lafayette Indiana where he is an assisshytant professor of pig nutrition at Purdue University
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Bruce Barrie 79 (Eng) graduated last June with an MBA from City Uni ve rsi ty in Washington State and is now a senior adshyviser in strategic planning with Petro-Canada Resources in Calgary He is a professional eng ineer with APEGGA and an ac tive memshyber of the Planning Forum an international society for planning and strategic manageshyment
Barbara Bryce 83 and her husband Ricardo Ramirez 82 are living in Rome Italy She is a landscape architect and he is a communications officer with the Food and Agriculture Organizat ion
Daniel Campbell 81 and his wife SharonshyMarianne are farmin g near Petrolia Onto
Carolyn Closs 82 and her husband Harold operate a beef cowca lf operation in Shawville Que
Luc Cote 83 is an agricullural account manager for the Royal Bank of Canada in Joliette Que
Kerrie Lea Curran 85 plans to graduate this fall from the master of architecture proshygram at McGi ll University
Bruce Dodson 74A is course superinshytendent at Hawd Ridge Golf and Curling Club in Orillia Ont
Richard Donkin OAC 85A originalshyly from Zimbabwe is the manager of Venida Packing Inc in Exeter Calif Situated in central Californias San Joashyquin Valley Venida Packing ships tree fruit throughout the Richard Donkin United States Canada the Pacific Rim and the Far East Products under the brand names Ruby River and Venida include peaches plums nectarines kiwi grapes persimmons and pomegranates In 1988 Donkin married California native Lisa Kolander and they live in Lemon Cove a community in the Sierra foothill s
Brendan Elder 8S A lives in Kelowna BC and works for Dogwood Nursery He plans to be married thi s summer to Rosemary Powell
Robert Fessenden OAC MSc 67 was recently appointed vice-president of devel opshyment and planning at the Alberta Research Council He is responsible for tec hnology management and corporate marketing
John Fitzgerald 86 was married last November to Susan Given a ] 991 indeshypendent study graduate in animal producshytion He is a lecturer at Ridgetown College she works at Centralia College and is work shying on a psychology degree at the University of Waterloo They live in Strathroy Ont
Glenn Helstern 79A is a driver for the Calgary division of Greyhound Bus Lines of Canada Ltd
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She tells a princely tale
For seven miniJtes on Oct 24 199 L Ellen Het1eOAC 76~U1d MSc 80
(ltllked with PIince Charles Invited toopert a newfumaceat
inco Lilniteds Copper Cliff smelter iri Sudbury Ont the Princemiddot of Wales was easy to talk with says Heale ftwasverycxciting
As eiwironmental co-ordinator Of land reclamation andrevegetation at Copper Cliff Healetold theprince middot about Tnc(secosystem rehabilitation
projects Theroyalvisitor was parshyticulatfyiilterestedin the treegrow- ing project in abandoned inines flld in tlpoundrevegetation ()f acres of tailings
and barren rock Planrilig vegetation on the tailings
hasattrlttcled wildlifeto a protected habitat says Beale who has wqrked forIncosincc she graduated in 1976
Ninety~iwo species ofbirds as weil asrodems hares foxes wolves bears andinoQse have been sighted on the 2500 acres of rehabilitated ore waste
One thing about this job is you middot can s~e where youve been effective she says
While an undergraduate student in Prill(e Charles with EIen Heale horticultural science Healea native ofSiidbury worked at Ineo during the sumniers She wasthi tirst woman to
work inrhemining companys agriculture middot department After shegraduated the niekshy el inine hired her full time tcido horticul- turaLfleld research ~ Ineo later granted heT a two-semester leave of absente t6 work
Theodore Jacobs 78 (Eng) is engineering supervisor at Standard Tube in Woodstock Ont
Greg Keast 85 (Eng) is li ving in Mozamshybique in East Africa where he works as a project officer for UNICEF rural water supshyply project s
Richard Kline 74 was appointed partner of the Toronto accounting firm Schwartz Levitsky Feldman Inc last faiL He is presishydent of the film s bankruptcy division a member of the Chartered Accountants of Onshytario and first vice- president of the Ontario Insolvency Association
Christopher Laforest MSc 91 (USRPD) works in planning and economic developshyment for Bruce County Ont
Jean-Paul PhD 90 and Lynn (Hammell) Laforest 82 and MSc 85 are both employed at Laval University in Sainte-Foy Que He is a professor and s he is a research associate
Kenneth Lawless 63 earned a Guelph deshygree in agricultural economics then went on to stud y dentistry at the Uni versity of Toronshyto He is now an oral and manilo-fac ial surshygeon in Kingston Ont
oil her masters at OAC~ In her current PdStion Heale has rnore
administrative and public relations responshyibilities On her own time she sits on the
board of management for the tocal Red Cross and isalllember ofthe Sudbury
Business and Professional Womens Club
Margie Luffman 77 writes that she has happily returned to Ontario after 10 years in New Brunswick to work at the Smithfield Experimental Farm in Trenton She is curator of the Plant Gene Resources of Canada clonal gene bank
Brian MacCulloch MAg 89 is a sa les representative for Springva le Nurseries Ltd in Berwick NS
Daniel Mansell 64 and MSc 68 is Onshytario manager of the eastern habitat joint venture in the wildlife policy branch of the Ministry of Natural Resources He is stashytioned in Midhurst Ont
Peter McEntire 77A writes from County Langford in Ireland to keep in touch with U of G He is farming and work s as an AI techshynician with Bova Genetics Ltd
Darryl Mitchell 78 works at Pioneer HishyBred Limited in Chatham Ont
Hugh ONeil 88 is manager of customer financial services for Ral ston Purina Canada Inc
Umed Panu MSc 72 (Eng) has done a lot of travelling during his career After Guelph he earned a PhD in civil engineering
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David Nedelko OAC 86 and Ljrlda ArmsJrollg CBS 89 (Jurk 011 cemre) were marriediasl SeplemiJer in Bari ~ie OnlTluir weddiIg iiarly illcilldedfiom leli Katy KusmiliskiOA C 88Paul Allgusline GAG 86 Roh Reed OAC 87Carv Belfral1l oAC 8RJIuJ Sa ndimiddoto (CollinI) BerlrCIlII CBS RR Also 1I111ie wedding w(lS Arlllslong s Veal ullcleClarence Fleming OVC 34 The couple (Ire living in
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at the Universit y of Waterloo taught in India and at Mi ss iss ippi State Uni vers ity and worked with Briti sh Columbia Hydro and the Government of Newfoundland In 1986 he jo ined the faculty of c ivil engi neering at Lakehead Uni ve rsity in Thunder Bay Ont and was promoted to full professor in 199 1 He and hi s wife Kashna and the ir children Neeti and Anukud enjoy the outdoor recreashytion ac ti viti es available in Northwestern Onshytario and look forward to visits from U of G alumni trave lling to Thunder Bay
Lyle Pettigrew 61 is a marketin g consulshytant with Harris Kovacs Alderman in Atlanshyta Ga
Helen Prior 88 joined Sheridan Nurseries after graduation then worked for a year as a research tech nic ian in Guelph s Department of Crop Scie nce She is now in her th ird year at Emmanuel College at Victoria University and hopes to be ordained as a United Church min is ter in May
Gregory Scott 83 (Eng) is operations manager for Accuform Gol f Limited in Toronto
Ba rbara (Coordes) Skrypetz 87 is a fi e ld supervisor for the Ontario Dairy Herd Imshyprovement Corporation working out of Guelph He r husband Stephen 88 operates a bulldozing and excavating busi shyness in the Woodstock area
Victor Skidra 6 is re tired f rom his job as a sc ientific evaluator with Hea lth and Welshyfare Canada He and hi s wife Konstance live in Nepean Ont
William Slusarchuk 63 (Eng) and MSc
The way we were in 1902 OAC alumnus Douglas Campbell 60 passes on a bit of col lege hi sto ry that shou ld make us think twice about our con stitutional squabbles in C anad a
Campbell is director of the Latin America and Caribbea n Trade Divis ion of Canada s Department of External Affa irs Last summer he hosted a vi s it by the president of Uruguay Luis Alberto Lacalle Herre ra whose grand fa the r made a simil a r vis it to Canada in 1902
This is what the elde r Herrera reported to his government Gue lph agricultural college enjoys a worldwide reputation and is con shys idered one of the grea t loca l attracshytions
More than 200 young Canadians a long with many foreign youths come together in its lecture rooms There are bursary ho lde rs from Norway and as far away as Mauritius C loser to us
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67 was recently appo inted pres ident of AGRA Eanh and Environmental Group an envi ronme ntal and geotechnica l firm that is a division of AGRA Indu stries Limited
Michael Sullivan 87 A is a pol ice officer with the Wate rloo Regional Police in Cambridge Ont
Argentina has 12 students there We ll then couldnt Uruguay imshy
itate those good exa mples and also se nd a number of worthy youths to Guelph to acquire the professional knowledge which is becoming m ore necessary each day for the deve lopshyment of our agric ulture~
In addition to the sc ienti fic benefits that our compatriots woul d deri ve from entering sLlch a Canadian techni cal in shystitution there would be the inca lcushylable benefit of becoming familiar with the stric t manly and sound habits of these people who are admirable in e ve ry respect
Afte r they have stee ped themse lves in this atmos phere of dem ocracy which fosters the development of all rights and is alien to intolerance thi s legati on w ill have the great honor of sending home not only sc ientists but a lso mode l citizens
Brenda Trask 80 operates he r own comshymunica tion s consulting company in Osshygoode Ont She is marri ed to Ron Ferguso n
Dave Vanden Bosch 89 is manager of operator services and plann ing for Bell Canada in London Ont
J Stallard Skip Waterhouse 54 and hi s wife Li sa are ce lebrating the birth of a daughter Samantha Elizabe th on New Years Day 1992 They live in New York State where Wate rhouse is iI pro fe ssor of bio logical science at the Plattsburgh Sta te Uni versity College of Arts and Science
Jeff 88 and Karen (Burrows) W h ite 87 live in Strathroy Ont Jeff work s for Bell Canada and Kare n is a Lambton County rural orga ni za tion spec ialist with the Ontar io Mini stry of Agriculture and Food
Harold Wright 86 is a development repre shysenta tive for Ci ba-Ge igy Canada Ltd in Mi sshysissauga Ont He and Lori Krieg 84 plan to marry thi s sprin g
Donald Ziraldo 7 I received doubl e honors last winter fro m the Ontario grape and wine industry Preside nt of Inniskillin W ines of Niagara-on -the-Lake Ont he was named to the Royal Order of the Grape for hi s leadership in enhancing the prod uct and its image
In addition Z ira ldo and his partner Karl Kai se r were named 1991 Men of the Year by FoodsCIvice and Hospitalily magazine During the ir 17-year partnership at Inn isk ilshylin the two have been instrumental in shapshying Canada s wine industry the magazine sa id
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ave Barry Burtis 69 was named president of the Ontario Veterinary Medical Association in January after working with the voluntary organization for four years as a director member of its editorial board and chair of its public relations committee Burtis lives in Burlington Ont and practises at the Bay Cities Animal Hospital He also appears on a local cable television program called Pel Tales
William Medway 54 of Blackwood NJ has been named an honorary life member of the International Association for Aquatic Animal Medicine for his contributions on beshyhalf of the association and the field of aquatic medicine He is both a founding member and past president of the associa shytion A professor emeritus of clinical laboratory medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine Medway is a member of the Marine Mammal Commissions committee of scientific advisers
Diane Pickering-Forster 86 is practising at Vander Kraan Veterinary Services in Huntsville Ont She is malTied to Chris Forster and they have one daughter Julia
Julien Proulx 67 has moved from Kapusshykasing Ont to La Pocatiere Que where he is superintendent of Agriculture Canada s Experimental Farm Last year he was feashytured on TVOntarios French network series Personalire Ontarienne for his work as a veterinarian his participation in municipal politics and his support of regional developshyment in Northern Ontario He was also awarded Agriculture Canadas research branch prize Agcellence for extraordinary management during his direction of the reshysearch program at the Kapuskasing Exshyperimental Farm
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Twoc~ireers middot on the samepat~ OVCaruninus Geoffrey Lord 49 felt a thopedic
middot enseofdejavuwhen he read theslory gastrointesshyabout Bill Naray~i1 OVe 63 il1la~t tinal and carc
springs issue ofthe Guelph Altimnus diovascular
There are amazing simi laritiesbetween surgery the c~reersof t~e two Guyanese wh6b6th says Lord If earnedvefetinary degrees atGueiph someone worked in c1ini(ai practice in)Yestem were to ask Canada then moved to the United States me ioday to work in human medic~lresearch what Tcon~
Narayan heads an AlDSresearchteamsider to be atJohns HopkiflS l1)iversilySchool of my expertise MediCirieinBaltimoreMatyland Lord is I would have retired directorofthdohnsonamp Johnson to saymecli- Geofrey Lord
middot Resear~h Foundalion ill NewJersey cal device lordsays he was influenced by OVC andbioshy
proJessDfs Anthony Kings(Qte and Frank Inaterials evaluation middot SchofieJd~ndwcentnton from GiJelphto pur- lt In the I 950s Lordwaspalt of ale-
sue graduate studies in parasitology auhe se~rch team that pioneered the use of University oJWiscollsin Sevenmorithsin animal tissue tOTeconstructdamagedjr
amixed practice in Drumheller Alta con blocked al1eries in hUl11ansTwenty years vinced him thaldinical medicine wasn6t middot later he drafted the first systematicap-
middot whati w~ted6 do He returned to Wis pr()ach to the safety evaluation of medica con5il110 eanla PhDlll pathologyano devices joined Johnson amp JohnsQri as asenior middot Allsubsequeill guidelines inCiLlding patilol()gistiriI953 those of the Foodaj)q Diug Admlnistrashy
Research at Johnson amp JohDson tiOnand the Canadian Regulatory ~teeredmeinto many interesting and chal- Authority hayeadopteoihis approach he
Jenging fieldsofbio-research includirig says derniiltoi9gy toxicologic pathology Lordand his wife Helen ltIividetheir wound healing surgical pathology iiinebetweel)Ciipe CodandBonita genera toxkology ofi~w drugs andor~ Springs FloriQa
Shane Renwick 77 and MSc 91 works in veterinary services at Agriculture Canada offices in Guelph
Ruth Reuter 61 is a veterinary pathologist in Plympton Australia
Tom Sanderson 6 1 was selected by the Ontario Veterinary Medical Association as Ontario Veterinarian of 1991 CUlTently OVCs co-ordinator of off-campus work terms he spent 20 years in private practice in Listowe1 and Mount Forest before returning to the coll ege in 1982 to manage the veterishynary research stations Sanderson s contribushytions to the profess ion have included many hours of volunteer work in the advancement
of the profession and in the development of veterinary inshysurance programs He is a past pres ident of both the Ontario and Canadian Veterishynary Medical associashytions
Jennifer Troughton 86 is practising in OronoOnt
Simone Woltner 86 is a veterinarian at the Chester Basin Animal Hospital in Chester Basin NS
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by her hu sband William and two sons The fo llowing dea ths have been reported since the las t issue of the Guelph Alumnus Full notices which are usu ally submitted by family or classmates may appear in thi s iss ue or in a later one
James Clement Arts 73 Feb 2 1992
Marilyn (Dyment) Farnan Mac 530 Feb 27 1992
David Fisher OAC 80A in October 1990
Elizabeth (C hristie) Glass Mac 3I D June 2l99 1
Peter Heskey OAC 54A Dec 6 199 1
Richard Ketchell OVC 51 Nov 23 199 1
Edward Kowalski Arts 79 in August 199 1
Pauline (Dixon) MacMillan Mac 240 Jan 2 1992
Catherine MacPherson Arts 83 Dec 11 1990
Marguerite (White) Maybury Mac 3 10 in June 1990
Donald McLeOd CSS 80 Jan 9 1992
Albert Meilus OAC 51 in 1991
Ann (Biggs) Ostler Mac 3 10 in April 1991
Robert Race Arts 73 in 1989
Ralph Sampson OAC 40 in December 1989
Mor ris Sanderson OAC 42 Nov 17 1991
Sir Peter Scott HDSc 8 1 in Au gust 1989
William Setterington OAC 40 Oct 22 1991
George Shoniker OAC 50A in March 199 1
John Somerset OAC 34 Dec 27 199 1
Gregory Van Patter OAC 7 1 in 1990
Frederich Weiland OAC 20A in 1990
Arts
Riccardo Rich Incitti 88 died Jan 5 1992 as the result of an accident near Hami lshyton Ont He was assistant manager at the Toronto-Dominion Bank in St Cathari nes and is survived by his parents Gu igi and Lucia of Cambridge and two sisters Laura and Andrea
Larry McNenly 73 died in October 1991 in Owen Sound Ont He is survived by his wife Marnie CSS 73
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Robert Everett HK 74 died in May 1991 in Burlington Ont A teac her at White Oaks Secondary Schoo l in Oakv ille he is survived by his wife Miche le and brother William CBS 74
James Sandy Fear 75 died Oct I I 199 1 in Toronto He is survi ved by his wi fe Sally (Firth) OAC 75 and hi s children Caitlin Alli son and Mered ith
CSS
Lynn (Dalys) Corby 84 died in Toron to May 6 1990 after a long battIe with cancer
Nancy (Birbeck) Gordon 77 died Oct 20 1991 in Ottawa after a short illness She worked at the Kitchener-Waterl oo Hospital and had previously been plan t accountant at Foseco Canada Incorporated in Guelph
Mac-FACS
Jean (Williams) Forward 280 Oct 28 1991 in Calgary She was the widow of Bower Forward OAC 25 and is survived by two sons
Catharine (Bechtel) Fromm 270 died Nov I 199 1 in Cambridge Ont She is surshyvived by three dau ghters Ellen Moore Mac 63 Nancy and Caro l
Alice (Rivaz) Garrard 28 di ed Dec 2 199 1 in Guelph She was an active member of the Mac-FACS Alumni Assoc iat ion and was the Mac 28 class agent for the Alma Mater Fund She is survived by her husband retired professor Edward Garrard OAC 27 and a daughter Betty Nelson
Della Marie (Diamond) Honey 300 of Warkworth Ont died June 29 1991 One ofWarkworths oldest and most respected citizens she served as local li brarian fo r 25 years She is survived by her son John OAC 52A his wife Patric ia and four grandchildren James OAC 84A William OAC 76A Thomas OvC 89 and Patricia Lonergan CSS 68
Barbara (Banigan) Martin 380 died Jan I 1992 in Don Mill s Ont A retired teacher wit h the North York Board of Education she is survived by a son Ted a sister and two brothers
Elizabeth (Burt) Perry 340 died June 28 1991 in Sidney BC and is surv ived by her husband Gordon and son Paul Nartel OAC 62
Jacqueline (Roy) Pote 34D died Dec 2 1 1991 in Willowdale Ont and is is survived
Merrill and Bill
Doroth y (MacFeeters) Scott 260 died Jan 14 1992 in Toronto She is su rvived by two daughters Anne Donaldson and Cynthia Scott
Florence (French) Snyder 370 died May 6 199 1 in Calgary and is survived by her husband Robert and two sons John and William
Katherine (Sweet) Watt Mac 220 died Feb 23 1992 She is survived by her husshyband Leslie a son David and a dau ghter Carol Gi llanders
Mattie (Newman) Widdicombe 240 died Dec 11 1991 in St Catharines Ont Preshydeceased by her husband John she is surshyvived by a bro ther and several nieces and nephews including Virginia Rigby Arts 76
OAC
George Grey Arnup 38 died Feb 2 1992 in Toronto He spent most of his career with the plant protection branch of Agriculture Canada He is survived by his wife Aileen three chi ldren Nancy Jim and Mary Ellen Vincent CBS 79 and four grandchi ldren
Herbert Boyce 28 and MSA 43 died Sept 2 1991 in Amherstburg Onto He is survi ved by his wife Norah a daughter Beverley Med lock and a brother James OAC 32
Jack Reddy Brethet 56 died Nov 4 199 1 in Burlington Ont President of Brethet Barnum Assoc iates Inc he is surshyv ived by his wife Caro l and two daughters Lyn n and Anne
Bruce Foster 28 died Feb 6 1992 in Ridgetown Ont and is survi ved by his daughter Gayle Anderson and son David CBS 69
Allison Gardhouse 49 died Sept 21 1991 in Midland Ont He was re tired supe rshyintendent of schoo ls for the Simcoe County Board of Education and is survi ved by his wife Merle
Kenneth Harrison 24 died Nov 5 199 1 in Kentville NS A distinguished plant patho logist military officer and mycologist he began hi s career in 1926 as assistant plant pathologis t at the Kentvi lle Experimental Farm He worked there until retirement in 1966 wi th the exception of mi litary servi ce du ring the Second World War
Dr Harrison had a lifelong interes t in the study of mushrooms and publ ished numerou s technica l papers on the mu shroom flora of Nova Scotia In addition he enshy
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couraged interested amateurs and led field trips for student s at Acadia University and the general public from 1929 until 1987 In 1979 he was honored by Acadia wi th the dedication of the Kenneth A Harri son Laboratory of Mycology
During his career he was a member of many professional organizations a charter member of the Mycological Society of America and fe llow of the American Associashytion for the Advancement of Science
He is survived by hi s wife Margaret two brothers Maynard OAC 30 and Arthur OAC 29 two son s Ashley and Kenneth and a daughter Jennie Sheito
William Kellam 4 1 died Oct 19 1991 in Brockville Ont He was retired from the Curb and Gate Co of-Brock ville where he had worked as a lab technician fo r 28 years He is survived by his wife Kathleen a son George and a daughter Mary
William M acMillan 48 died in February 1992 in Winnipeg He was supervisor of Fertilizer marketing for the Manitoba Pool Elevators and is surv ived by hi s wife Edna Jean and brother Harry OAC 5 1 A
Cameron McTaggart 35 died Feb 4 1992 in Aurora Ont After graduating from OAC he became manager of Don Head Farms in Richmond Hill He established the first agricul tural consulting business in Canada in 1947 and later ran an Angus cattle
sales management business from the family farm A life member of the OAC Alumni As shysociat ion and the Class of 35 executive he is survived by his wife Margaret Mac 35 and two sons John OAC 62 of Regina and David of Largo Fla
Douglas Miller 48 of Victoria BC died Nov 24 1991 in Toronto He is survived by hi s wife Ruth and five children
Gregory More 76 was killed Feb 3 1992 in Kitchener Ont at the Ontario Glove Manufacturing Co where he was co-owner and vice-president Following graduation he worked for the Rohrer Drug Co and the Stershyling Drug Co then returned to school ea rnshying an MBA at McMaster University in 1981 More was an avid squash player and golfer Court A at the Northfield Racquet Club in Waterloo was dedicated to his memory in March He is survived by his parents Noreen and Ken a brother Randy and a sister Katherine Keeler
John Jack Pawley 33 died March I 1992 in Guelph He is survived by his wife Ruth son John OAC 62 and daughter-inshylaw Carolyn He was a former director of the Ontario Milk Marketing Board and a past member of the Royal City Lodge of Perfecshytion
Harold Reid 20A died in December 1991 in Burlington Ont During the First World W ar he was one of Canadas premier rad io
experts work ing at the Roya l Canadian Navy shore transmitter in Sydney NS After the war he came to OAC to earn a diploma then went on to QueenS University to comshyplete an arts and theology degree His mini sshytry was mainly in St And rews and Montreal although he spent 13 years teaching Hebrew at the Presbyterian Coll ege before retiring in 1968
Donald Robertson 3 1 died Nov 4 1991 in Iroquois Ont He is survived by hi s wife Caroline (Grisdale) Mac 38 his two son s ScottOAC 65A and Guy and a daughter Sandra McNeil
Thomas Rokeby 48 and MSA 50 died Jan 29 1992 in Fayetteville Ark He was a professional engineer and tau ght for 30 years in the Univers ity of Arkansas engineering department Born in Port Rowan Ont he was a member of the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War the American Society of Agricultural Engineers and the agricultural honor societies of Gamma Sigma Delta and Alpha Epsilon He is surv ived by his wife Helen two sons Robert and Richard a daughter Penny and three brothers Michael Noel and Richard OAC 54
Francis Sweeney OAC 45 died Nov 17 1991 in Oakville Ont He was a longtime employee of Shell Canada and [nternational Shell working in Great Britain Europe and
WALL CUSTANCE MEMORIAL FOREST
The Wall-Custance Memorial Forest located at the Universi ty of Guelphs Arboretum was established in recognition of the severe depletion of our forests It is never too late to be a vital part of the effort to save and improve our air and water for the future of our children by planting trees This program is our small part of the major endeavor to reforest and to reduce the greenhouse effect improve air quality and provide food and cover for wildlife The Memorial Forest Proshygram not only pays a Significant tribute to a loved one but also assures a better environment for generations to come
The purpose of this program is to provide an opporshytuni ty to commemorate the life of a loved one by plantshy
Home of the WALL-CUSTANCE
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ing a tree We envision that the Memorial Forest Program will continue for many years to come and our hope is that the solace that nature offers particularly in the depths of a living forest will be of comfort and benefi t to all
For more information or for a brochure call or write to
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Berna rd Weeks 35 died Oct 16 199 1 After graduation he re turned to his roots in
ew York and Pennsylvannia and worked in 4-H and you th organi zations for a few years He then took over the family farm at Troupsburg NY and built up a dairy operashytion with a sideline of sheep He is surv ived by his wife Ruth and four children
Glenn White 43 of Belleville Onl died Nov 24 199 1 in Florida and is surv ived by hi s wife Marjorie
ave Norman Anderson 39 of Wi nn ipeg died Dec 18 1991 in Arizona He had practised veterinary medicine in Norwood Man and was a member of the American Equine Pracshytitioners Association director of the Canadian Thoroughbred Society and track veterinarian at Assin iboia Downs for 50 years He is survived by his wi fe Peggy and two sons Laurie and James
George Beatty 5 I died Nov 22 1991 in Inverness III He practised in Palatine fo r 36 years and founded the Palatine Animal Hospi tal He was an active member of the American Animal Hospital Assoc iati on and the Chicago Veterinary Association and was a director of the Friends of the University of Guelph He is survived by his wife Mary and fo ur children - Suzanne Patricia Margaret and Tim
John Hamilton 5 L died Dec 15 1991 He had lived in Roslin On where he owned the Bay Regional Veterinary Hospital He is survived by hi s niece Ann Bongard
Nicholas Labzoffsky 39 died Dec 25 1991 in Largo Fla Fonnerly of Toronto he had li ved most recen tl y in Dorse t Ont and is survived by hi s wife Jane
Edgar Langford 49 died March 41992 in Monarch Alta A former research scienshytist with ADRI (Western) he is survived by his wife Norma and two daughters includshying Carolyn OVC 76
Stuart Maude 4 1 died Jan 14 1992 in Rosemead Calif A former Rosemead counshycillor and four-time mayor he operated the Rosemead Animal Hospital with his brother Arthur 52 from 1953 to 1980 He was a trustee for Ingles ide Hospital a past grand patron of both the Rosemead and the Califorshynia Order of Eastern Star and past-president of the local Kiwanis Club and Chamber of Commerce He is survived by his wife Vera two daughters Patricia and Susan Bezner a son Stuart and three brothers
Walter Morley 42 o f Mildmay On died Nov 28 199 1 He ran a large animal pracshytice in the Mild may area for 39 years raised cat tle and raced standardbred horses He was also a pu blic school board trustee and direcshytor of a local te lephone company for more
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than 30 years He is survived by his wife Joyce five sons - two of whom are OVC alumni Dave 68 and Randy 74 - and 10 grandchildren
Lloyd Neily 52 died Jan 3 1992 in Hantsport NS A retired meat inspector w ith the federal Department of Agriculture he had a private veterinary practice in Wind sor NS He is surv ived by hi s wife Mary
Elford Nundal 43 died Jan 7 1992 in Langley BC after a long battle with canshycer He operated a veterinary practice in Langley for 36 years and served as a di strict aldennan for 10 years before being elected mayor in 1982 Last year he received the BC Veterinarian Association s award of merit for a lifetime of veterinary work
Humphrey Rees 55 died Sepl 30 1991 in Amman Jordan while on ass ignment for the Overseas Development Ad ministrat ion as veterinary and animal hu sbandry adviser to the Jordani an government His contemshyporaries at Guelph will remember him as a singer debater raconteur rugby player and bon vivant He is surv ived by his wife Alice of POlt Eynon Wales
William Stinson 40 died Feb 15 1992 in Norwood Ont He is survi ved by his wife Rita a son John OVC 67 a brother Ford OAC 34 and a grandson John CSS 87
Faculty
Patric ia Harney died Dec 191991 in Yarshymouth NS A professor in the Department of Horticultural Science from 1962 to 1988 she developed severa l new variet ies of geraniums and was instru mental in es tabshylishing the Frances Ball rose collection at the Arboretum
Anthony Marston died Feb 3 1992 in Fershygu s ant Retired from the School of Hotel and Food Administration he was an acshycomplished competition chef who received his training in Switzerland and England He then spent severa l years working in the Caribbean before coming to Guelph in 1970 A member of the Canadian Olympic culinary team he held a number of positions in the
Donations given in memory ofGuelph alumni will help support University scholarships ifdirected to the Alumni M emorial Fund In 1991 donations were made in memory of the following alumni
Frank MacDonald OAC 37
Frank King OAC 33 -Robert Allen OAC 56A
Alice (Rivaz) Garrard Mac 28
Stan Vesselinovitch OVC 57
For more infonnation call the Office of Annual Giving at 519-824-4120 Ext 6 183
hote l and food industry until retiring in 1982 He is survived by hi s wife Di ana
Gordon McNally dled Jan 12 1992 in Guelph A professor in the Department of Zoo logy from 1934 to 1971 he served as academic assistant to the dean of CBS until retiring in 1979 While at Guelph he was honorary pres id ent of the classes of OAC 54 58 and 67 He is survived by his daughter Jean two siste rs and two grandchildren Prof McNallys family has established the A Gordon Mc a lly Memorial Fund to support a sc holarship or bursary Contributions may be sent care of the Alma Mater Fund Alumni Hou se University of Guelph Guelph ant N I G 2WI
Friends
Jean (Young) Branion died March 3 1992 in Guelph She was the wife of the late Hugh Branion a physiology professor at U of G and assistant to presidents Bill Winegard and Don Forster Jean Branion was an act ive volunteer on campus for many years and one of the firs t presidents of the College Womens Club She is survived by a son Richard and his wife Marga re t of Vanshycouve r and five grandchi ldren Donati ons may be made to the Hugh D Branion Memorial Scholarship through Alumni House
Davy Alexander Hamilton-Williamson died Feb 4 1992 in Guelph A painter and author of childrens stories he had been a member of the University s Presidents Council s ince it began in 1 985
Marjorie Pinkney wife of J ames Pinkney OVC 3 7 died Dec 151 99 [ at her home in Milton ant
Samuel Wyal died March 15 1992 in Brantford ant He was a partner in the law firm Wyatt Purce ll Will Stillman and Scott He is surv ived by his wife M a bel Mac 39 four sons Peter Michael William and John and two daughters Mary Alderson and Sarah Nadalin Arts 82
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INVmiddotESTMENTS amp
DIVIDENDS
Facts about university education in Canada and how we pay for it
By 2000 half of all new jobs in Canada will require a university degree
But at the current rate of government funding only one in five children
will have a chance to go to university
In the seven years from 1982 to 1989 per-student grants to universities in
Ontario barely kept pace with intlation at five per cent
per-student funding at American public univers ities jumped an average
of 23 per cent in the same period
Those US universities also receive twice the federal research dollars per student as do Ontario universities
In 1987 the average salary of a full-time professor at an Ontario univers ity was $55500
compared with $68200 for a private-sector position of similar education and experience
Lawyers economists and engineers made an average of $71 000
Ontario ranks ninth out of the to provinces in terms of grants to universities
Between 1978 and 1991 enrolment at Ontario univers ities grew by 40 per cent while funding dropped
from 59 to 409 per cent of total government spending
Universities were spending 14 per cent less per student between 1977 and 1988 hospital expenditures
rose 38 per cent per patient in the same period
Ontario universities generate $3 of economic activity for every
$1 invested by government funding
And the number of jobs generated by university activities in
Ontario is greater than the employment impact of the textile
industry the entire paper and pulp industry or utilities
University graduates can look forward to earning 63 per cent more than the average industrial worker
A 1990 survey of U of G alumni found that two years after graduation 97 per cent of Guelph grads
looking for work were employed 62 per cent were earning $25000 or more and 10 per cent were
earning $40000 or more
Unemployment rates in 1990 for those with a university degree was about one-third what it was
for those with only a high school diploma
Every year from 1978 to 1987 Ontario university inves tments in renovating or replacing
aging buildings could not keep pace with the rate at which the buildings depreciated
Graphics by Debbie Thompson Wilson Statistics supplied by th~ Council 01 Ontario UniverSities Statistics Canada and the U01 G Student EnVifonment Study Group
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A salute to sport Alumni Weekend June 19-21 9am Sio-pitch tournament
The tradition Jives on at the south quad diamond s Cooed teams of 12 or more players are encourshyaged to join in the fun
FRIDAY 10 am to 9 pm Registration Lambton Hall
6 pm Kick-off dinner and half-time show
get set and join In the Olympic spirit one of Alumni Creelman Hall will Weekends host the Wonderful most popular World of Sports with events Tours a half-time slide show start from to entertain alumni of Alumni House all ages and are sponshy9 pmshy sored by the Observatory tours CBS Alumni
Association
10 am and 2 pm
SATURDAY 8 am to 5 pm Guided Registration walking tours Lambton Hall
Remember 9 am to 5 pm making s now Alumni House tours sc ulptures on Students will host tours of Alumni House throughshyout the weekend Come and see what the generosity of alumni has accomplished
9 am to noon Alumni association annual meetings
This is the official notice for the annual general meetings of the following alumni associations
CBS - Alumni House starts at 830 am before guided walk MacFACS - HAFA Building Room 209
OVC - OvC Room 1438
OAC - Macdonald Hall Room 149
CSS - MacKinnon Building Room 305
HAFA - Alumni Hou se boardroom
Gryphs Lounge will be open for lunch and afLer the game
930 am Guided nature walk at the Arboretum
On your mark
Noon - OVC luncheon
The OvC Alumni Association will host a luncheon open to all OvC alumni and their guests
2 pm - Campus Showcase 92
Following on the heels of last year s success Campus Showshycase 92 will be bigger and better Come to the University Centre to see exhibits representing all areas on campus The Campus Junction store will also be open
2 pm - Zavitz Hall tour
Alumni are invited to browse through the newly renovated Za vitz Hall and attend a recep shytion sponsored by the Colshylege of Arts Alumni Asshysoc iation
5 pm Golden anniversary dinner
The OAC OvC and MacshyFACS alumni associations will provide complimenshytary tickets for alumni celebrating 50 years or more Additiona l tickets can be purchased Classes
Johnston Green or playing intramural hockey in the old Quonset arena Relive some of the memories by taking a walking tour of campus Tours begin from the lobby ofLambton Hall
Noon - Alumni picnic
This apopular event has new location - the sculpshyture garden beside the Macshydonald Stewart Art Centre Come on your own or reshyserve a group of tables for friends and classmates
Noon - Class reunion lunches
OAC 37 Mac 37 OAC 42 Mac 42 OAC 47 Mac 52 Mac57 Mac 67 FACS 72 FACS 77 FACS 87
OAC 67 FACS 82 OAC 82 OAC 82A CBS 82 FACS 87 OAC 87
SUNDAY 9am Church service and War Memorial Hall rededication
Thanks to a commitment from the Alma Mater Fund renovashytion of the upstairs of War Memorial Hall has been comshypleted Join us for the rededicashytion ceremony commemorating the 1924 opening and the 1952 dedication of an OAC memorial plaque
being honored are OAC 22 OAC 47 OvC 22 Mac 22 OAC 27 OvC 27 Mac 27 OAC 32 OvC 32 Mac 32 OAC 37 OvC 37 Mac 37 OAC 42 OvC 42 Mac 42
6 pm Class reunion dinners
Special dinn e r reunions are planned for OAC 47 OAC 52 OAC 52A OvC 52 Mac 57 OAC 57 OAC 62 Mac 67
10am UGAA annual meeting
All alumni are encouraged to atshytend the UGAA annual meeting in Macdonald Hall Room 149 An amendment to the UGAA Letters Patent and a revised bylaw will be presented for ap shyproval Copies of both are availshyable on request from Alumni House Call 519-824-4120 Ext 6544
11 am - Farewell brunch
The final event of Alumni Weekend will be held in Creelshyman Hall Come and meet the Univers ity S president Brian Segal The Alumnus of Honour medal will be presented at noon
To receive an Alumni Weekshyend brochure or to register for events call Alumni House at 59-824-4120 Ext 6963
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Leith Mason 90 works in Toronto in the Canadian office of the State of Illinois as a special assistant to the Illinois Department of Food and Agricul ture
Michael McKean 74 of Don Mills Ont was recently appointed president of Wrigley Canada Inc Before joining Wrigley as execushytive v ice-pres ident in 1990 he he ld senior positions in Hong Kong Brazil and the United States
Rick 74 and Vicki (Collard) McTaggart FACS 74 are working in Ottawa He is director of overseas operations for the Unitarian Service Committee a charitable non-governmental organization that supports commun it y and human resou rce developshyment activities in Africa and Asia She is sec tion head of consumer analysis in the agr ifood development branch of Agriculture Canada
Sandra Morrison 86 is an ass istant professhysor in the department of psychiatry at the University of Western Ontario
Stephen Naylor 85 is director of planning and development for the amalgamated municipalities of Alliston Beeton Tecumshyseth and Tottenham
Brian ONeill 68 MA lives in SUITey England where he is managing director of Innovation Management Consultant s
Jodi Parisi 89 is a sales representative for Gillette who says U of Goo was the greatest
Moira Skikavich 81 is completing a PhD in c inematelevision at the University of Southern California
Virginia Sutherland 78 is an air traffic controller at the Toronto Island Airport
Mac-FACS
Peggy Bates 88 was recently promoted to sales manager with Sears Canada Inc She lives in Owen Sound Ont
Caroline Begin 86 is working in Singshyapore as a dietitian
Diana Close 87 is a c linical nutri ti onis t at Chedoke McMaster Hospital in Hamilton Ont
Sarah Davenport 90 is a case worker with the Wellington County Social Services office in Guelph She is malTied to Matthew Harvey CBS 90
Timothy Dyck 8 1 is national sales manager for Black amp Decker Canada workshying out of the Corbin Division in Richmond HillOnt
Sharon (Muir) 84 and Richard Ernst CBS 83 are the proud parents of a future Guelph grad uate one-year-old Andrew Graham
Patricia Edwards 78 is food servi ce sushypervisor fo r St Peter s Hospita l in Hamilton Ont
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For the love ofteaching Since she
middot graduated bull from Macshydonald Inshymiddot stitute in
J 963 Nancy Kerr has built a career on teaching and research in telttles The middotheidofthe Uriiveisityof
Albertas department of Clothing and texiiles pursues a middotscientific interest inthepreservashylion of hi stori~lfabricsarid in developing pesticide-proofc1otl1ing But Jler fitstlove i ~ teaching
In 199b shewonone ofU of As four Rutherford AWljrds for excellence ill unshy
dergraduate teat-hing The first member of the faculty middotofliomemiddoteconornicsto receive the award slie was the rcentcipient6f the facultys own underglltiduate teaching award three years earlier
Winning the Rutherford was a gteat honor says Ken who has been on
faculty at Alberta since 1967 She oiscovered she had an aptitude for
middot teaching as a graduate student at the University of California Davis in
196566 After earning her MSc she casr about for afaculty position in Canada and round U of A was the 0111y place I could teach ju t textiles plus have a chance to develop new cQurses and research labs
middot Kerr sa)s she gets a tremelldous sense of satisfaction from teaching and the learning he must do to stay cUlTent She attributes her succe s as a teaCher to middotIec-middot
middot tures that are well organized and clear and to creltting a positive classroom climate
~Thcomfort level of students is reaUy middot ililportanL ~ Kerr eamedherPhD in fibre lnd
polymer science from North Carolina bull Staie University in 1982 Her doctoral work concentrated oil deacidification
techniques to preserve historicatcottOnln 1988 she spent a sabbatical ye~r doing research at the Caliadian Conservation
middot In tirute in OnflW1 middot Originalmiddotly from Ottawa Kerr is a
trarisphlnted -vesterner who enjoys middot hiking anlt sk1ing
From left Diane Ellison Lisa Wilson Lori Davis and Pippa Hobbes
Diane Ellison 84 is liv ing in Osaka Japan where she teaches English to Japanese busishyness people Last October she welcomed three U of G friends for a visit Lori Davis CSS 85 manager of Jumbo Video Inc in Oakville Ont Pippa Hobbes 84 accountshying manager for Paramount Holidays in Willowda le Ont and Lisa Wilson 84 co-ord inator of membership serv ices for the Metropolitan Toronto Board of Trade
Monica Hrybko HAFA 88 is director of sales for the Ramada Hotel Old Town in San Diego Calif
David Jones HAFA 88 is a con troller at the Holiday Inn Montreal Centre-Ville
Kathleen McLachlin 83 is operating an insurance agency in Kitchener OnL She opened the State Farm Insurance office in March 1988 and says she loves her job
Susan (Goettler) Parker 80 is working in Toronto as benefits administrator for Imshyperial Oil Limited She is married to Donald Parker OAC 79
Mary Jean (Sinnott) Price Mac 7 1 has returned to sc hool at the University of Otshytawa to earn a bachelor of education
Margaret (Richardson) Rankin 75 has been living in Halifax since 1990 and is an account analyst for Central Guaranty Trust
Janet (Wanless) Sutherland 77 is in private practice as a marriage and family therapist in East Kelowna BC
Jean Thomson Mac 37 says 1937 was a long time ago but shes delighted with all the changes that have gone at the college A former hospita l nutritionist she is retired and living in London Ont -
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Olayiwola Layi Adeola MSc 86 and PhD 89 and his wife Mope are living in West Lafayette Indiana where he is an assisshytant professor of pig nutrition at Purdue University
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Bruce Barrie 79 (Eng) graduated last June with an MBA from City Uni ve rsi ty in Washington State and is now a senior adshyviser in strategic planning with Petro-Canada Resources in Calgary He is a professional eng ineer with APEGGA and an ac tive memshyber of the Planning Forum an international society for planning and strategic manageshyment
Barbara Bryce 83 and her husband Ricardo Ramirez 82 are living in Rome Italy She is a landscape architect and he is a communications officer with the Food and Agriculture Organizat ion
Daniel Campbell 81 and his wife SharonshyMarianne are farmin g near Petrolia Onto
Carolyn Closs 82 and her husband Harold operate a beef cowca lf operation in Shawville Que
Luc Cote 83 is an agricullural account manager for the Royal Bank of Canada in Joliette Que
Kerrie Lea Curran 85 plans to graduate this fall from the master of architecture proshygram at McGi ll University
Bruce Dodson 74A is course superinshytendent at Hawd Ridge Golf and Curling Club in Orillia Ont
Richard Donkin OAC 85A originalshyly from Zimbabwe is the manager of Venida Packing Inc in Exeter Calif Situated in central Californias San Joashyquin Valley Venida Packing ships tree fruit throughout the Richard Donkin United States Canada the Pacific Rim and the Far East Products under the brand names Ruby River and Venida include peaches plums nectarines kiwi grapes persimmons and pomegranates In 1988 Donkin married California native Lisa Kolander and they live in Lemon Cove a community in the Sierra foothill s
Brendan Elder 8S A lives in Kelowna BC and works for Dogwood Nursery He plans to be married thi s summer to Rosemary Powell
Robert Fessenden OAC MSc 67 was recently appointed vice-president of devel opshyment and planning at the Alberta Research Council He is responsible for tec hnology management and corporate marketing
John Fitzgerald 86 was married last November to Susan Given a ] 991 indeshypendent study graduate in animal producshytion He is a lecturer at Ridgetown College she works at Centralia College and is work shying on a psychology degree at the University of Waterloo They live in Strathroy Ont
Glenn Helstern 79A is a driver for the Calgary division of Greyhound Bus Lines of Canada Ltd
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She tells a princely tale
For seven miniJtes on Oct 24 199 L Ellen Het1eOAC 76~U1d MSc 80
(ltllked with PIince Charles Invited toopert a newfumaceat
inco Lilniteds Copper Cliff smelter iri Sudbury Ont the Princemiddot of Wales was easy to talk with says Heale ftwasverycxciting
As eiwironmental co-ordinator Of land reclamation andrevegetation at Copper Cliff Healetold theprince middot about Tnc(secosystem rehabilitation
projects Theroyalvisitor was parshyticulatfyiilterestedin the treegrow- ing project in abandoned inines flld in tlpoundrevegetation ()f acres of tailings
and barren rock Planrilig vegetation on the tailings
hasattrlttcled wildlifeto a protected habitat says Beale who has wqrked forIncosincc she graduated in 1976
Ninety~iwo species ofbirds as weil asrodems hares foxes wolves bears andinoQse have been sighted on the 2500 acres of rehabilitated ore waste
One thing about this job is you middot can s~e where youve been effective she says
While an undergraduate student in Prill(e Charles with EIen Heale horticultural science Healea native ofSiidbury worked at Ineo during the sumniers She wasthi tirst woman to
work inrhemining companys agriculture middot department After shegraduated the niekshy el inine hired her full time tcido horticul- turaLfleld research ~ Ineo later granted heT a two-semester leave of absente t6 work
Theodore Jacobs 78 (Eng) is engineering supervisor at Standard Tube in Woodstock Ont
Greg Keast 85 (Eng) is li ving in Mozamshybique in East Africa where he works as a project officer for UNICEF rural water supshyply project s
Richard Kline 74 was appointed partner of the Toronto accounting firm Schwartz Levitsky Feldman Inc last faiL He is presishydent of the film s bankruptcy division a member of the Chartered Accountants of Onshytario and first vice- president of the Ontario Insolvency Association
Christopher Laforest MSc 91 (USRPD) works in planning and economic developshyment for Bruce County Ont
Jean-Paul PhD 90 and Lynn (Hammell) Laforest 82 and MSc 85 are both employed at Laval University in Sainte-Foy Que He is a professor and s he is a research associate
Kenneth Lawless 63 earned a Guelph deshygree in agricultural economics then went on to stud y dentistry at the Uni versity of Toronshyto He is now an oral and manilo-fac ial surshygeon in Kingston Ont
oil her masters at OAC~ In her current PdStion Heale has rnore
administrative and public relations responshyibilities On her own time she sits on the
board of management for the tocal Red Cross and isalllember ofthe Sudbury
Business and Professional Womens Club
Margie Luffman 77 writes that she has happily returned to Ontario after 10 years in New Brunswick to work at the Smithfield Experimental Farm in Trenton She is curator of the Plant Gene Resources of Canada clonal gene bank
Brian MacCulloch MAg 89 is a sa les representative for Springva le Nurseries Ltd in Berwick NS
Daniel Mansell 64 and MSc 68 is Onshytario manager of the eastern habitat joint venture in the wildlife policy branch of the Ministry of Natural Resources He is stashytioned in Midhurst Ont
Peter McEntire 77A writes from County Langford in Ireland to keep in touch with U of G He is farming and work s as an AI techshynician with Bova Genetics Ltd
Darryl Mitchell 78 works at Pioneer HishyBred Limited in Chatham Ont
Hugh ONeil 88 is manager of customer financial services for Ral ston Purina Canada Inc
Umed Panu MSc 72 (Eng) has done a lot of travelling during his career After Guelph he earned a PhD in civil engineering
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David Nedelko OAC 86 and Ljrlda ArmsJrollg CBS 89 (Jurk 011 cemre) were marriediasl SeplemiJer in Bari ~ie OnlTluir weddiIg iiarly illcilldedfiom leli Katy KusmiliskiOA C 88Paul Allgusline GAG 86 Roh Reed OAC 87Carv Belfral1l oAC 8RJIuJ Sa ndimiddoto (CollinI) BerlrCIlII CBS RR Also 1I111ie wedding w(lS Arlllslong s Veal ullcleClarence Fleming OVC 34 The couple (Ire living in
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at the Universit y of Waterloo taught in India and at Mi ss iss ippi State Uni vers ity and worked with Briti sh Columbia Hydro and the Government of Newfoundland In 1986 he jo ined the faculty of c ivil engi neering at Lakehead Uni ve rsity in Thunder Bay Ont and was promoted to full professor in 199 1 He and hi s wife Kashna and the ir children Neeti and Anukud enjoy the outdoor recreashytion ac ti viti es available in Northwestern Onshytario and look forward to visits from U of G alumni trave lling to Thunder Bay
Lyle Pettigrew 61 is a marketin g consulshytant with Harris Kovacs Alderman in Atlanshyta Ga
Helen Prior 88 joined Sheridan Nurseries after graduation then worked for a year as a research tech nic ian in Guelph s Department of Crop Scie nce She is now in her th ird year at Emmanuel College at Victoria University and hopes to be ordained as a United Church min is ter in May
Gregory Scott 83 (Eng) is operations manager for Accuform Gol f Limited in Toronto
Ba rbara (Coordes) Skrypetz 87 is a fi e ld supervisor for the Ontario Dairy Herd Imshyprovement Corporation working out of Guelph He r husband Stephen 88 operates a bulldozing and excavating busi shyness in the Woodstock area
Victor Skidra 6 is re tired f rom his job as a sc ientific evaluator with Hea lth and Welshyfare Canada He and hi s wife Konstance live in Nepean Ont
William Slusarchuk 63 (Eng) and MSc
The way we were in 1902 OAC alumnus Douglas Campbell 60 passes on a bit of col lege hi sto ry that shou ld make us think twice about our con stitutional squabbles in C anad a
Campbell is director of the Latin America and Caribbea n Trade Divis ion of Canada s Department of External Affa irs Last summer he hosted a vi s it by the president of Uruguay Luis Alberto Lacalle Herre ra whose grand fa the r made a simil a r vis it to Canada in 1902
This is what the elde r Herrera reported to his government Gue lph agricultural college enjoys a worldwide reputation and is con shys idered one of the grea t loca l attracshytions
More than 200 young Canadians a long with many foreign youths come together in its lecture rooms There are bursary ho lde rs from Norway and as far away as Mauritius C loser to us
Guelph Alumnus
67 was recently appo inted pres ident of AGRA Eanh and Environmental Group an envi ronme ntal and geotechnica l firm that is a division of AGRA Indu stries Limited
Michael Sullivan 87 A is a pol ice officer with the Wate rloo Regional Police in Cambridge Ont
Argentina has 12 students there We ll then couldnt Uruguay imshy
itate those good exa mples and also se nd a number of worthy youths to Guelph to acquire the professional knowledge which is becoming m ore necessary each day for the deve lopshyment of our agric ulture~
In addition to the sc ienti fic benefits that our compatriots woul d deri ve from entering sLlch a Canadian techni cal in shystitution there would be the inca lcushylable benefit of becoming familiar with the stric t manly and sound habits of these people who are admirable in e ve ry respect
Afte r they have stee ped themse lves in this atmos phere of dem ocracy which fosters the development of all rights and is alien to intolerance thi s legati on w ill have the great honor of sending home not only sc ientists but a lso mode l citizens
Brenda Trask 80 operates he r own comshymunica tion s consulting company in Osshygoode Ont She is marri ed to Ron Ferguso n
Dave Vanden Bosch 89 is manager of operator services and plann ing for Bell Canada in London Ont
J Stallard Skip Waterhouse 54 and hi s wife Li sa are ce lebrating the birth of a daughter Samantha Elizabe th on New Years Day 1992 They live in New York State where Wate rhouse is iI pro fe ssor of bio logical science at the Plattsburgh Sta te Uni versity College of Arts and Science
Jeff 88 and Karen (Burrows) W h ite 87 live in Strathroy Ont Jeff work s for Bell Canada and Kare n is a Lambton County rural orga ni za tion spec ialist with the Ontar io Mini stry of Agriculture and Food
Harold Wright 86 is a development repre shysenta tive for Ci ba-Ge igy Canada Ltd in Mi sshysissauga Ont He and Lori Krieg 84 plan to marry thi s sprin g
Donald Ziraldo 7 I received doubl e honors last winter fro m the Ontario grape and wine industry Preside nt of Inniskillin W ines of Niagara-on -the-Lake Ont he was named to the Royal Order of the Grape for hi s leadership in enhancing the prod uct and its image
In addition Z ira ldo and his partner Karl Kai se r were named 1991 Men of the Year by FoodsCIvice and Hospitalily magazine During the ir 17-year partnership at Inn isk ilshylin the two have been instrumental in shapshying Canada s wine industry the magazine sa id
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ave Barry Burtis 69 was named president of the Ontario Veterinary Medical Association in January after working with the voluntary organization for four years as a director member of its editorial board and chair of its public relations committee Burtis lives in Burlington Ont and practises at the Bay Cities Animal Hospital He also appears on a local cable television program called Pel Tales
William Medway 54 of Blackwood NJ has been named an honorary life member of the International Association for Aquatic Animal Medicine for his contributions on beshyhalf of the association and the field of aquatic medicine He is both a founding member and past president of the associa shytion A professor emeritus of clinical laboratory medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine Medway is a member of the Marine Mammal Commissions committee of scientific advisers
Diane Pickering-Forster 86 is practising at Vander Kraan Veterinary Services in Huntsville Ont She is malTied to Chris Forster and they have one daughter Julia
Julien Proulx 67 has moved from Kapusshykasing Ont to La Pocatiere Que where he is superintendent of Agriculture Canada s Experimental Farm Last year he was feashytured on TVOntarios French network series Personalire Ontarienne for his work as a veterinarian his participation in municipal politics and his support of regional developshyment in Northern Ontario He was also awarded Agriculture Canadas research branch prize Agcellence for extraordinary management during his direction of the reshysearch program at the Kapuskasing Exshyperimental Farm
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Twoc~ireers middot on the samepat~ OVCaruninus Geoffrey Lord 49 felt a thopedic
middot enseofdejavuwhen he read theslory gastrointesshyabout Bill Naray~i1 OVe 63 il1la~t tinal and carc
springs issue ofthe Guelph Altimnus diovascular
There are amazing simi laritiesbetween surgery the c~reersof t~e two Guyanese wh6b6th says Lord If earnedvefetinary degrees atGueiph someone worked in c1ini(ai practice in)Yestem were to ask Canada then moved to the United States me ioday to work in human medic~lresearch what Tcon~
Narayan heads an AlDSresearchteamsider to be atJohns HopkiflS l1)iversilySchool of my expertise MediCirieinBaltimoreMatyland Lord is I would have retired directorofthdohnsonamp Johnson to saymecli- Geofrey Lord
middot Resear~h Foundalion ill NewJersey cal device lordsays he was influenced by OVC andbioshy
proJessDfs Anthony Kings(Qte and Frank Inaterials evaluation middot SchofieJd~ndwcentnton from GiJelphto pur- lt In the I 950s Lordwaspalt of ale-
sue graduate studies in parasitology auhe se~rch team that pioneered the use of University oJWiscollsin Sevenmorithsin animal tissue tOTeconstructdamagedjr
amixed practice in Drumheller Alta con blocked al1eries in hUl11ansTwenty years vinced him thaldinical medicine wasn6t middot later he drafted the first systematicap-
middot whati w~ted6 do He returned to Wis pr()ach to the safety evaluation of medica con5il110 eanla PhDlll pathologyano devices joined Johnson amp JohnsQri as asenior middot Allsubsequeill guidelines inCiLlding patilol()gistiriI953 those of the Foodaj)q Diug Admlnistrashy
Research at Johnson amp JohDson tiOnand the Canadian Regulatory ~teeredmeinto many interesting and chal- Authority hayeadopteoihis approach he
Jenging fieldsofbio-research includirig says derniiltoi9gy toxicologic pathology Lordand his wife Helen ltIividetheir wound healing surgical pathology iiinebetweel)Ciipe CodandBonita genera toxkology ofi~w drugs andor~ Springs FloriQa
Shane Renwick 77 and MSc 91 works in veterinary services at Agriculture Canada offices in Guelph
Ruth Reuter 61 is a veterinary pathologist in Plympton Australia
Tom Sanderson 6 1 was selected by the Ontario Veterinary Medical Association as Ontario Veterinarian of 1991 CUlTently OVCs co-ordinator of off-campus work terms he spent 20 years in private practice in Listowe1 and Mount Forest before returning to the coll ege in 1982 to manage the veterishynary research stations Sanderson s contribushytions to the profess ion have included many hours of volunteer work in the advancement
of the profession and in the development of veterinary inshysurance programs He is a past pres ident of both the Ontario and Canadian Veterishynary Medical associashytions
Jennifer Troughton 86 is practising in OronoOnt
Simone Woltner 86 is a veterinarian at the Chester Basin Animal Hospital in Chester Basin NS
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by her hu sband William and two sons The fo llowing dea ths have been reported since the las t issue of the Guelph Alumnus Full notices which are usu ally submitted by family or classmates may appear in thi s iss ue or in a later one
James Clement Arts 73 Feb 2 1992
Marilyn (Dyment) Farnan Mac 530 Feb 27 1992
David Fisher OAC 80A in October 1990
Elizabeth (C hristie) Glass Mac 3I D June 2l99 1
Peter Heskey OAC 54A Dec 6 199 1
Richard Ketchell OVC 51 Nov 23 199 1
Edward Kowalski Arts 79 in August 199 1
Pauline (Dixon) MacMillan Mac 240 Jan 2 1992
Catherine MacPherson Arts 83 Dec 11 1990
Marguerite (White) Maybury Mac 3 10 in June 1990
Donald McLeOd CSS 80 Jan 9 1992
Albert Meilus OAC 51 in 1991
Ann (Biggs) Ostler Mac 3 10 in April 1991
Robert Race Arts 73 in 1989
Ralph Sampson OAC 40 in December 1989
Mor ris Sanderson OAC 42 Nov 17 1991
Sir Peter Scott HDSc 8 1 in Au gust 1989
William Setterington OAC 40 Oct 22 1991
George Shoniker OAC 50A in March 199 1
John Somerset OAC 34 Dec 27 199 1
Gregory Van Patter OAC 7 1 in 1990
Frederich Weiland OAC 20A in 1990
Arts
Riccardo Rich Incitti 88 died Jan 5 1992 as the result of an accident near Hami lshyton Ont He was assistant manager at the Toronto-Dominion Bank in St Cathari nes and is survived by his parents Gu igi and Lucia of Cambridge and two sisters Laura and Andrea
Larry McNenly 73 died in October 1991 in Owen Sound Ont He is survived by his wife Marnie CSS 73
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Robert Everett HK 74 died in May 1991 in Burlington Ont A teac her at White Oaks Secondary Schoo l in Oakv ille he is survived by his wife Miche le and brother William CBS 74
James Sandy Fear 75 died Oct I I 199 1 in Toronto He is survi ved by his wi fe Sally (Firth) OAC 75 and hi s children Caitlin Alli son and Mered ith
CSS
Lynn (Dalys) Corby 84 died in Toron to May 6 1990 after a long battIe with cancer
Nancy (Birbeck) Gordon 77 died Oct 20 1991 in Ottawa after a short illness She worked at the Kitchener-Waterl oo Hospital and had previously been plan t accountant at Foseco Canada Incorporated in Guelph
Mac-FACS
Jean (Williams) Forward 280 Oct 28 1991 in Calgary She was the widow of Bower Forward OAC 25 and is survived by two sons
Catharine (Bechtel) Fromm 270 died Nov I 199 1 in Cambridge Ont She is surshyvived by three dau ghters Ellen Moore Mac 63 Nancy and Caro l
Alice (Rivaz) Garrard 28 di ed Dec 2 199 1 in Guelph She was an active member of the Mac-FACS Alumni Assoc iat ion and was the Mac 28 class agent for the Alma Mater Fund She is survived by her husband retired professor Edward Garrard OAC 27 and a daughter Betty Nelson
Della Marie (Diamond) Honey 300 of Warkworth Ont died June 29 1991 One ofWarkworths oldest and most respected citizens she served as local li brarian fo r 25 years She is survived by her son John OAC 52A his wife Patric ia and four grandchildren James OAC 84A William OAC 76A Thomas OvC 89 and Patricia Lonergan CSS 68
Barbara (Banigan) Martin 380 died Jan I 1992 in Don Mill s Ont A retired teacher wit h the North York Board of Education she is survived by a son Ted a sister and two brothers
Elizabeth (Burt) Perry 340 died June 28 1991 in Sidney BC and is surv ived by her husband Gordon and son Paul Nartel OAC 62
Jacqueline (Roy) Pote 34D died Dec 2 1 1991 in Willowdale Ont and is is survived
Merrill and Bill
Doroth y (MacFeeters) Scott 260 died Jan 14 1992 in Toronto She is su rvived by two daughters Anne Donaldson and Cynthia Scott
Florence (French) Snyder 370 died May 6 199 1 in Calgary and is survived by her husband Robert and two sons John and William
Katherine (Sweet) Watt Mac 220 died Feb 23 1992 She is survived by her husshyband Leslie a son David and a dau ghter Carol Gi llanders
Mattie (Newman) Widdicombe 240 died Dec 11 1991 in St Catharines Ont Preshydeceased by her husband John she is surshyvived by a bro ther and several nieces and nephews including Virginia Rigby Arts 76
OAC
George Grey Arnup 38 died Feb 2 1992 in Toronto He spent most of his career with the plant protection branch of Agriculture Canada He is survived by his wife Aileen three chi ldren Nancy Jim and Mary Ellen Vincent CBS 79 and four grandchi ldren
Herbert Boyce 28 and MSA 43 died Sept 2 1991 in Amherstburg Onto He is survi ved by his wife Norah a daughter Beverley Med lock and a brother James OAC 32
Jack Reddy Brethet 56 died Nov 4 199 1 in Burlington Ont President of Brethet Barnum Assoc iates Inc he is surshyv ived by his wife Caro l and two daughters Lyn n and Anne
Bruce Foster 28 died Feb 6 1992 in Ridgetown Ont and is survi ved by his daughter Gayle Anderson and son David CBS 69
Allison Gardhouse 49 died Sept 21 1991 in Midland Ont He was re tired supe rshyintendent of schoo ls for the Simcoe County Board of Education and is survi ved by his wife Merle
Kenneth Harrison 24 died Nov 5 199 1 in Kentville NS A distinguished plant patho logist military officer and mycologist he began hi s career in 1926 as assistant plant pathologis t at the Kentvi lle Experimental Farm He worked there until retirement in 1966 wi th the exception of mi litary servi ce du ring the Second World War
Dr Harrison had a lifelong interes t in the study of mushrooms and publ ished numerou s technica l papers on the mu shroom flora of Nova Scotia In addition he enshy
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couraged interested amateurs and led field trips for student s at Acadia University and the general public from 1929 until 1987 In 1979 he was honored by Acadia wi th the dedication of the Kenneth A Harri son Laboratory of Mycology
During his career he was a member of many professional organizations a charter member of the Mycological Society of America and fe llow of the American Associashytion for the Advancement of Science
He is survived by hi s wife Margaret two brothers Maynard OAC 30 and Arthur OAC 29 two son s Ashley and Kenneth and a daughter Jennie Sheito
William Kellam 4 1 died Oct 19 1991 in Brockville Ont He was retired from the Curb and Gate Co of-Brock ville where he had worked as a lab technician fo r 28 years He is survived by his wife Kathleen a son George and a daughter Mary
William M acMillan 48 died in February 1992 in Winnipeg He was supervisor of Fertilizer marketing for the Manitoba Pool Elevators and is surv ived by hi s wife Edna Jean and brother Harry OAC 5 1 A
Cameron McTaggart 35 died Feb 4 1992 in Aurora Ont After graduating from OAC he became manager of Don Head Farms in Richmond Hill He established the first agricul tural consulting business in Canada in 1947 and later ran an Angus cattle
sales management business from the family farm A life member of the OAC Alumni As shysociat ion and the Class of 35 executive he is survived by his wife Margaret Mac 35 and two sons John OAC 62 of Regina and David of Largo Fla
Douglas Miller 48 of Victoria BC died Nov 24 1991 in Toronto He is survived by hi s wife Ruth and five children
Gregory More 76 was killed Feb 3 1992 in Kitchener Ont at the Ontario Glove Manufacturing Co where he was co-owner and vice-president Following graduation he worked for the Rohrer Drug Co and the Stershyling Drug Co then returned to school ea rnshying an MBA at McMaster University in 1981 More was an avid squash player and golfer Court A at the Northfield Racquet Club in Waterloo was dedicated to his memory in March He is survived by his parents Noreen and Ken a brother Randy and a sister Katherine Keeler
John Jack Pawley 33 died March I 1992 in Guelph He is survived by his wife Ruth son John OAC 62 and daughter-inshylaw Carolyn He was a former director of the Ontario Milk Marketing Board and a past member of the Royal City Lodge of Perfecshytion
Harold Reid 20A died in December 1991 in Burlington Ont During the First World W ar he was one of Canadas premier rad io
experts work ing at the Roya l Canadian Navy shore transmitter in Sydney NS After the war he came to OAC to earn a diploma then went on to QueenS University to comshyplete an arts and theology degree His mini sshytry was mainly in St And rews and Montreal although he spent 13 years teaching Hebrew at the Presbyterian Coll ege before retiring in 1968
Donald Robertson 3 1 died Nov 4 1991 in Iroquois Ont He is survived by hi s wife Caroline (Grisdale) Mac 38 his two son s ScottOAC 65A and Guy and a daughter Sandra McNeil
Thomas Rokeby 48 and MSA 50 died Jan 29 1992 in Fayetteville Ark He was a professional engineer and tau ght for 30 years in the Univers ity of Arkansas engineering department Born in Port Rowan Ont he was a member of the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War the American Society of Agricultural Engineers and the agricultural honor societies of Gamma Sigma Delta and Alpha Epsilon He is surv ived by his wife Helen two sons Robert and Richard a daughter Penny and three brothers Michael Noel and Richard OAC 54
Francis Sweeney OAC 45 died Nov 17 1991 in Oakville Ont He was a longtime employee of Shell Canada and [nternational Shell working in Great Britain Europe and
WALL CUSTANCE MEMORIAL FOREST
The Wall-Custance Memorial Forest located at the Universi ty of Guelphs Arboretum was established in recognition of the severe depletion of our forests It is never too late to be a vital part of the effort to save and improve our air and water for the future of our children by planting trees This program is our small part of the major endeavor to reforest and to reduce the greenhouse effect improve air quality and provide food and cover for wildlife The Memorial Forest Proshygram not only pays a Significant tribute to a loved one but also assures a better environment for generations to come
The purpose of this program is to provide an opporshytuni ty to commemorate the life of a loved one by plantshy
Home of the WALL-CUSTANCE
MEMORIAL FOREST
ing a tree We envision that the Memorial Forest Program will continue for many years to come and our hope is that the solace that nature offers particularly in the depths of a living forest will be of comfort and benefi t to all
For more information or for a brochure call or write to
WALL-CUSTANCE Funeral Home and Chapel 206 Norfolk Street Guelph Ontario N1 H 4K3 (519) 822-0051
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Berna rd Weeks 35 died Oct 16 199 1 After graduation he re turned to his roots in
ew York and Pennsylvannia and worked in 4-H and you th organi zations for a few years He then took over the family farm at Troupsburg NY and built up a dairy operashytion with a sideline of sheep He is surv ived by his wife Ruth and four children
Glenn White 43 of Belleville Onl died Nov 24 199 1 in Florida and is surv ived by hi s wife Marjorie
ave Norman Anderson 39 of Wi nn ipeg died Dec 18 1991 in Arizona He had practised veterinary medicine in Norwood Man and was a member of the American Equine Pracshytitioners Association director of the Canadian Thoroughbred Society and track veterinarian at Assin iboia Downs for 50 years He is survived by his wi fe Peggy and two sons Laurie and James
George Beatty 5 I died Nov 22 1991 in Inverness III He practised in Palatine fo r 36 years and founded the Palatine Animal Hospi tal He was an active member of the American Animal Hospital Assoc iati on and the Chicago Veterinary Association and was a director of the Friends of the University of Guelph He is survived by his wife Mary and fo ur children - Suzanne Patricia Margaret and Tim
John Hamilton 5 L died Dec 15 1991 He had lived in Roslin On where he owned the Bay Regional Veterinary Hospital He is survived by hi s niece Ann Bongard
Nicholas Labzoffsky 39 died Dec 25 1991 in Largo Fla Fonnerly of Toronto he had li ved most recen tl y in Dorse t Ont and is survived by hi s wife Jane
Edgar Langford 49 died March 41992 in Monarch Alta A former research scienshytist with ADRI (Western) he is survived by his wife Norma and two daughters includshying Carolyn OVC 76
Stuart Maude 4 1 died Jan 14 1992 in Rosemead Calif A former Rosemead counshycillor and four-time mayor he operated the Rosemead Animal Hospital with his brother Arthur 52 from 1953 to 1980 He was a trustee for Ingles ide Hospital a past grand patron of both the Rosemead and the Califorshynia Order of Eastern Star and past-president of the local Kiwanis Club and Chamber of Commerce He is survived by his wife Vera two daughters Patricia and Susan Bezner a son Stuart and three brothers
Walter Morley 42 o f Mildmay On died Nov 28 199 1 He ran a large animal pracshytice in the Mild may area for 39 years raised cat tle and raced standardbred horses He was also a pu blic school board trustee and direcshytor of a local te lephone company for more
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than 30 years He is survived by his wife Joyce five sons - two of whom are OVC alumni Dave 68 and Randy 74 - and 10 grandchildren
Lloyd Neily 52 died Jan 3 1992 in Hantsport NS A retired meat inspector w ith the federal Department of Agriculture he had a private veterinary practice in Wind sor NS He is surv ived by hi s wife Mary
Elford Nundal 43 died Jan 7 1992 in Langley BC after a long battle with canshycer He operated a veterinary practice in Langley for 36 years and served as a di strict aldennan for 10 years before being elected mayor in 1982 Last year he received the BC Veterinarian Association s award of merit for a lifetime of veterinary work
Humphrey Rees 55 died Sepl 30 1991 in Amman Jordan while on ass ignment for the Overseas Development Ad ministrat ion as veterinary and animal hu sbandry adviser to the Jordani an government His contemshyporaries at Guelph will remember him as a singer debater raconteur rugby player and bon vivant He is surv ived by his wife Alice of POlt Eynon Wales
William Stinson 40 died Feb 15 1992 in Norwood Ont He is survi ved by his wife Rita a son John OVC 67 a brother Ford OAC 34 and a grandson John CSS 87
Faculty
Patric ia Harney died Dec 191991 in Yarshymouth NS A professor in the Department of Horticultural Science from 1962 to 1988 she developed severa l new variet ies of geraniums and was instru mental in es tabshylishing the Frances Ball rose collection at the Arboretum
Anthony Marston died Feb 3 1992 in Fershygu s ant Retired from the School of Hotel and Food Administration he was an acshycomplished competition chef who received his training in Switzerland and England He then spent severa l years working in the Caribbean before coming to Guelph in 1970 A member of the Canadian Olympic culinary team he held a number of positions in the
Donations given in memory ofGuelph alumni will help support University scholarships ifdirected to the Alumni M emorial Fund In 1991 donations were made in memory of the following alumni
Frank MacDonald OAC 37
Frank King OAC 33 -Robert Allen OAC 56A
Alice (Rivaz) Garrard Mac 28
Stan Vesselinovitch OVC 57
For more infonnation call the Office of Annual Giving at 519-824-4120 Ext 6 183
hote l and food industry until retiring in 1982 He is survived by hi s wife Di ana
Gordon McNally dled Jan 12 1992 in Guelph A professor in the Department of Zoo logy from 1934 to 1971 he served as academic assistant to the dean of CBS until retiring in 1979 While at Guelph he was honorary pres id ent of the classes of OAC 54 58 and 67 He is survived by his daughter Jean two siste rs and two grandchildren Prof McNallys family has established the A Gordon Mc a lly Memorial Fund to support a sc holarship or bursary Contributions may be sent care of the Alma Mater Fund Alumni Hou se University of Guelph Guelph ant N I G 2WI
Friends
Jean (Young) Branion died March 3 1992 in Guelph She was the wife of the late Hugh Branion a physiology professor at U of G and assistant to presidents Bill Winegard and Don Forster Jean Branion was an act ive volunteer on campus for many years and one of the firs t presidents of the College Womens Club She is survived by a son Richard and his wife Marga re t of Vanshycouve r and five grandchi ldren Donati ons may be made to the Hugh D Branion Memorial Scholarship through Alumni House
Davy Alexander Hamilton-Williamson died Feb 4 1992 in Guelph A painter and author of childrens stories he had been a member of the University s Presidents Council s ince it began in 1 985
Marjorie Pinkney wife of J ames Pinkney OVC 3 7 died Dec 151 99 [ at her home in Milton ant
Samuel Wyal died March 15 1992 in Brantford ant He was a partner in the law firm Wyatt Purce ll Will Stillman and Scott He is surv ived by his wife M a bel Mac 39 four sons Peter Michael William and John and two daughters Mary Alderson and Sarah Nadalin Arts 82
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INVmiddotESTMENTS amp
DIVIDENDS
Facts about university education in Canada and how we pay for it
By 2000 half of all new jobs in Canada will require a university degree
But at the current rate of government funding only one in five children
will have a chance to go to university
In the seven years from 1982 to 1989 per-student grants to universities in
Ontario barely kept pace with intlation at five per cent
per-student funding at American public univers ities jumped an average
of 23 per cent in the same period
Those US universities also receive twice the federal research dollars per student as do Ontario universities
In 1987 the average salary of a full-time professor at an Ontario univers ity was $55500
compared with $68200 for a private-sector position of similar education and experience
Lawyers economists and engineers made an average of $71 000
Ontario ranks ninth out of the to provinces in terms of grants to universities
Between 1978 and 1991 enrolment at Ontario univers ities grew by 40 per cent while funding dropped
from 59 to 409 per cent of total government spending
Universities were spending 14 per cent less per student between 1977 and 1988 hospital expenditures
rose 38 per cent per patient in the same period
Ontario universities generate $3 of economic activity for every
$1 invested by government funding
And the number of jobs generated by university activities in
Ontario is greater than the employment impact of the textile
industry the entire paper and pulp industry or utilities
University graduates can look forward to earning 63 per cent more than the average industrial worker
A 1990 survey of U of G alumni found that two years after graduation 97 per cent of Guelph grads
looking for work were employed 62 per cent were earning $25000 or more and 10 per cent were
earning $40000 or more
Unemployment rates in 1990 for those with a university degree was about one-third what it was
for those with only a high school diploma
Every year from 1978 to 1987 Ontario university inves tments in renovating or replacing
aging buildings could not keep pace with the rate at which the buildings depreciated
Graphics by Debbie Thompson Wilson Statistics supplied by th~ Council 01 Ontario UniverSities Statistics Canada and the U01 G Student EnVifonment Study Group
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A salute to sport Alumni Weekend June 19-21 9am Sio-pitch tournament
The tradition Jives on at the south quad diamond s Cooed teams of 12 or more players are encourshyaged to join in the fun
FRIDAY 10 am to 9 pm Registration Lambton Hall
6 pm Kick-off dinner and half-time show
get set and join In the Olympic spirit one of Alumni Creelman Hall will Weekends host the Wonderful most popular World of Sports with events Tours a half-time slide show start from to entertain alumni of Alumni House all ages and are sponshy9 pmshy sored by the Observatory tours CBS Alumni
Association
10 am and 2 pm
SATURDAY 8 am to 5 pm Guided Registration walking tours Lambton Hall
Remember 9 am to 5 pm making s now Alumni House tours sc ulptures on Students will host tours of Alumni House throughshyout the weekend Come and see what the generosity of alumni has accomplished
9 am to noon Alumni association annual meetings
This is the official notice for the annual general meetings of the following alumni associations
CBS - Alumni House starts at 830 am before guided walk MacFACS - HAFA Building Room 209
OVC - OvC Room 1438
OAC - Macdonald Hall Room 149
CSS - MacKinnon Building Room 305
HAFA - Alumni Hou se boardroom
Gryphs Lounge will be open for lunch and afLer the game
930 am Guided nature walk at the Arboretum
On your mark
Noon - OVC luncheon
The OvC Alumni Association will host a luncheon open to all OvC alumni and their guests
2 pm - Campus Showcase 92
Following on the heels of last year s success Campus Showshycase 92 will be bigger and better Come to the University Centre to see exhibits representing all areas on campus The Campus Junction store will also be open
2 pm - Zavitz Hall tour
Alumni are invited to browse through the newly renovated Za vitz Hall and attend a recep shytion sponsored by the Colshylege of Arts Alumni Asshysoc iation
5 pm Golden anniversary dinner
The OAC OvC and MacshyFACS alumni associations will provide complimenshytary tickets for alumni celebrating 50 years or more Additiona l tickets can be purchased Classes
Johnston Green or playing intramural hockey in the old Quonset arena Relive some of the memories by taking a walking tour of campus Tours begin from the lobby ofLambton Hall
Noon - Alumni picnic
This apopular event has new location - the sculpshyture garden beside the Macshydonald Stewart Art Centre Come on your own or reshyserve a group of tables for friends and classmates
Noon - Class reunion lunches
OAC 37 Mac 37 OAC 42 Mac 42 OAC 47 Mac 52 Mac57 Mac 67 FACS 72 FACS 77 FACS 87
OAC 67 FACS 82 OAC 82 OAC 82A CBS 82 FACS 87 OAC 87
SUNDAY 9am Church service and War Memorial Hall rededication
Thanks to a commitment from the Alma Mater Fund renovashytion of the upstairs of War Memorial Hall has been comshypleted Join us for the rededicashytion ceremony commemorating the 1924 opening and the 1952 dedication of an OAC memorial plaque
being honored are OAC 22 OAC 47 OvC 22 Mac 22 OAC 27 OvC 27 Mac 27 OAC 32 OvC 32 Mac 32 OAC 37 OvC 37 Mac 37 OAC 42 OvC 42 Mac 42
6 pm Class reunion dinners
Special dinn e r reunions are planned for OAC 47 OAC 52 OAC 52A OvC 52 Mac 57 OAC 57 OAC 62 Mac 67
10am UGAA annual meeting
All alumni are encouraged to atshytend the UGAA annual meeting in Macdonald Hall Room 149 An amendment to the UGAA Letters Patent and a revised bylaw will be presented for ap shyproval Copies of both are availshyable on request from Alumni House Call 519-824-4120 Ext 6544
11 am - Farewell brunch
The final event of Alumni Weekend will be held in Creelshyman Hall Come and meet the Univers ity S president Brian Segal The Alumnus of Honour medal will be presented at noon
To receive an Alumni Weekshyend brochure or to register for events call Alumni House at 59-824-4120 Ext 6963
Opened July 1991Research Park Centre shy
Where research and industry Dleet
Space available now Exceptional office and research facilities in our multi-tenant Research Park Centre
Research-driven corporations are breaking new ground at the University of Guelph Research Park Centre with exceptional growth opporshytunities in an ideal business setting
This 30-acre Research Park also accommodates tenants who choose to construct their own office and laboratory facilities
Find out why organizations such as Semex Canada Tremco Limited the Ontario Dairy Herd Improvement Corporation George Morris Centre LIPID Analytical Laboratories and Agriculture Canada have chosen the University of Guelph Research Park Call Ralph Eades or Judy Phillips Real Estate Division University of Guelph Telephone (519) 767-5003 or Fax (519) 837-0353
The Research Park is a project oj the Office oj Research and the University S Real Estate Division
RESE bull RCH PARK
CENTRE UNIVERSITY grGUELPH
Bruce Barrie 79 (Eng) graduated last June with an MBA from City Uni ve rsi ty in Washington State and is now a senior adshyviser in strategic planning with Petro-Canada Resources in Calgary He is a professional eng ineer with APEGGA and an ac tive memshyber of the Planning Forum an international society for planning and strategic manageshyment
Barbara Bryce 83 and her husband Ricardo Ramirez 82 are living in Rome Italy She is a landscape architect and he is a communications officer with the Food and Agriculture Organizat ion
Daniel Campbell 81 and his wife SharonshyMarianne are farmin g near Petrolia Onto
Carolyn Closs 82 and her husband Harold operate a beef cowca lf operation in Shawville Que
Luc Cote 83 is an agricullural account manager for the Royal Bank of Canada in Joliette Que
Kerrie Lea Curran 85 plans to graduate this fall from the master of architecture proshygram at McGi ll University
Bruce Dodson 74A is course superinshytendent at Hawd Ridge Golf and Curling Club in Orillia Ont
Richard Donkin OAC 85A originalshyly from Zimbabwe is the manager of Venida Packing Inc in Exeter Calif Situated in central Californias San Joashyquin Valley Venida Packing ships tree fruit throughout the Richard Donkin United States Canada the Pacific Rim and the Far East Products under the brand names Ruby River and Venida include peaches plums nectarines kiwi grapes persimmons and pomegranates In 1988 Donkin married California native Lisa Kolander and they live in Lemon Cove a community in the Sierra foothill s
Brendan Elder 8S A lives in Kelowna BC and works for Dogwood Nursery He plans to be married thi s summer to Rosemary Powell
Robert Fessenden OAC MSc 67 was recently appointed vice-president of devel opshyment and planning at the Alberta Research Council He is responsible for tec hnology management and corporate marketing
John Fitzgerald 86 was married last November to Susan Given a ] 991 indeshypendent study graduate in animal producshytion He is a lecturer at Ridgetown College she works at Centralia College and is work shying on a psychology degree at the University of Waterloo They live in Strathroy Ont
Glenn Helstern 79A is a driver for the Calgary division of Greyhound Bus Lines of Canada Ltd
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She tells a princely tale
For seven miniJtes on Oct 24 199 L Ellen Het1eOAC 76~U1d MSc 80
(ltllked with PIince Charles Invited toopert a newfumaceat
inco Lilniteds Copper Cliff smelter iri Sudbury Ont the Princemiddot of Wales was easy to talk with says Heale ftwasverycxciting
As eiwironmental co-ordinator Of land reclamation andrevegetation at Copper Cliff Healetold theprince middot about Tnc(secosystem rehabilitation
projects Theroyalvisitor was parshyticulatfyiilterestedin the treegrow- ing project in abandoned inines flld in tlpoundrevegetation ()f acres of tailings
and barren rock Planrilig vegetation on the tailings
hasattrlttcled wildlifeto a protected habitat says Beale who has wqrked forIncosincc she graduated in 1976
Ninety~iwo species ofbirds as weil asrodems hares foxes wolves bears andinoQse have been sighted on the 2500 acres of rehabilitated ore waste
One thing about this job is you middot can s~e where youve been effective she says
While an undergraduate student in Prill(e Charles with EIen Heale horticultural science Healea native ofSiidbury worked at Ineo during the sumniers She wasthi tirst woman to
work inrhemining companys agriculture middot department After shegraduated the niekshy el inine hired her full time tcido horticul- turaLfleld research ~ Ineo later granted heT a two-semester leave of absente t6 work
Theodore Jacobs 78 (Eng) is engineering supervisor at Standard Tube in Woodstock Ont
Greg Keast 85 (Eng) is li ving in Mozamshybique in East Africa where he works as a project officer for UNICEF rural water supshyply project s
Richard Kline 74 was appointed partner of the Toronto accounting firm Schwartz Levitsky Feldman Inc last faiL He is presishydent of the film s bankruptcy division a member of the Chartered Accountants of Onshytario and first vice- president of the Ontario Insolvency Association
Christopher Laforest MSc 91 (USRPD) works in planning and economic developshyment for Bruce County Ont
Jean-Paul PhD 90 and Lynn (Hammell) Laforest 82 and MSc 85 are both employed at Laval University in Sainte-Foy Que He is a professor and s he is a research associate
Kenneth Lawless 63 earned a Guelph deshygree in agricultural economics then went on to stud y dentistry at the Uni versity of Toronshyto He is now an oral and manilo-fac ial surshygeon in Kingston Ont
oil her masters at OAC~ In her current PdStion Heale has rnore
administrative and public relations responshyibilities On her own time she sits on the
board of management for the tocal Red Cross and isalllember ofthe Sudbury
Business and Professional Womens Club
Margie Luffman 77 writes that she has happily returned to Ontario after 10 years in New Brunswick to work at the Smithfield Experimental Farm in Trenton She is curator of the Plant Gene Resources of Canada clonal gene bank
Brian MacCulloch MAg 89 is a sa les representative for Springva le Nurseries Ltd in Berwick NS
Daniel Mansell 64 and MSc 68 is Onshytario manager of the eastern habitat joint venture in the wildlife policy branch of the Ministry of Natural Resources He is stashytioned in Midhurst Ont
Peter McEntire 77A writes from County Langford in Ireland to keep in touch with U of G He is farming and work s as an AI techshynician with Bova Genetics Ltd
Darryl Mitchell 78 works at Pioneer HishyBred Limited in Chatham Ont
Hugh ONeil 88 is manager of customer financial services for Ral ston Purina Canada Inc
Umed Panu MSc 72 (Eng) has done a lot of travelling during his career After Guelph he earned a PhD in civil engineering
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David Nedelko OAC 86 and Ljrlda ArmsJrollg CBS 89 (Jurk 011 cemre) were marriediasl SeplemiJer in Bari ~ie OnlTluir weddiIg iiarly illcilldedfiom leli Katy KusmiliskiOA C 88Paul Allgusline GAG 86 Roh Reed OAC 87Carv Belfral1l oAC 8RJIuJ Sa ndimiddoto (CollinI) BerlrCIlII CBS RR Also 1I111ie wedding w(lS Arlllslong s Veal ullcleClarence Fleming OVC 34 The couple (Ire living in
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at the Universit y of Waterloo taught in India and at Mi ss iss ippi State Uni vers ity and worked with Briti sh Columbia Hydro and the Government of Newfoundland In 1986 he jo ined the faculty of c ivil engi neering at Lakehead Uni ve rsity in Thunder Bay Ont and was promoted to full professor in 199 1 He and hi s wife Kashna and the ir children Neeti and Anukud enjoy the outdoor recreashytion ac ti viti es available in Northwestern Onshytario and look forward to visits from U of G alumni trave lling to Thunder Bay
Lyle Pettigrew 61 is a marketin g consulshytant with Harris Kovacs Alderman in Atlanshyta Ga
Helen Prior 88 joined Sheridan Nurseries after graduation then worked for a year as a research tech nic ian in Guelph s Department of Crop Scie nce She is now in her th ird year at Emmanuel College at Victoria University and hopes to be ordained as a United Church min is ter in May
Gregory Scott 83 (Eng) is operations manager for Accuform Gol f Limited in Toronto
Ba rbara (Coordes) Skrypetz 87 is a fi e ld supervisor for the Ontario Dairy Herd Imshyprovement Corporation working out of Guelph He r husband Stephen 88 operates a bulldozing and excavating busi shyness in the Woodstock area
Victor Skidra 6 is re tired f rom his job as a sc ientific evaluator with Hea lth and Welshyfare Canada He and hi s wife Konstance live in Nepean Ont
William Slusarchuk 63 (Eng) and MSc
The way we were in 1902 OAC alumnus Douglas Campbell 60 passes on a bit of col lege hi sto ry that shou ld make us think twice about our con stitutional squabbles in C anad a
Campbell is director of the Latin America and Caribbea n Trade Divis ion of Canada s Department of External Affa irs Last summer he hosted a vi s it by the president of Uruguay Luis Alberto Lacalle Herre ra whose grand fa the r made a simil a r vis it to Canada in 1902
This is what the elde r Herrera reported to his government Gue lph agricultural college enjoys a worldwide reputation and is con shys idered one of the grea t loca l attracshytions
More than 200 young Canadians a long with many foreign youths come together in its lecture rooms There are bursary ho lde rs from Norway and as far away as Mauritius C loser to us
Guelph Alumnus
67 was recently appo inted pres ident of AGRA Eanh and Environmental Group an envi ronme ntal and geotechnica l firm that is a division of AGRA Indu stries Limited
Michael Sullivan 87 A is a pol ice officer with the Wate rloo Regional Police in Cambridge Ont
Argentina has 12 students there We ll then couldnt Uruguay imshy
itate those good exa mples and also se nd a number of worthy youths to Guelph to acquire the professional knowledge which is becoming m ore necessary each day for the deve lopshyment of our agric ulture~
In addition to the sc ienti fic benefits that our compatriots woul d deri ve from entering sLlch a Canadian techni cal in shystitution there would be the inca lcushylable benefit of becoming familiar with the stric t manly and sound habits of these people who are admirable in e ve ry respect
Afte r they have stee ped themse lves in this atmos phere of dem ocracy which fosters the development of all rights and is alien to intolerance thi s legati on w ill have the great honor of sending home not only sc ientists but a lso mode l citizens
Brenda Trask 80 operates he r own comshymunica tion s consulting company in Osshygoode Ont She is marri ed to Ron Ferguso n
Dave Vanden Bosch 89 is manager of operator services and plann ing for Bell Canada in London Ont
J Stallard Skip Waterhouse 54 and hi s wife Li sa are ce lebrating the birth of a daughter Samantha Elizabe th on New Years Day 1992 They live in New York State where Wate rhouse is iI pro fe ssor of bio logical science at the Plattsburgh Sta te Uni versity College of Arts and Science
Jeff 88 and Karen (Burrows) W h ite 87 live in Strathroy Ont Jeff work s for Bell Canada and Kare n is a Lambton County rural orga ni za tion spec ialist with the Ontar io Mini stry of Agriculture and Food
Harold Wright 86 is a development repre shysenta tive for Ci ba-Ge igy Canada Ltd in Mi sshysissauga Ont He and Lori Krieg 84 plan to marry thi s sprin g
Donald Ziraldo 7 I received doubl e honors last winter fro m the Ontario grape and wine industry Preside nt of Inniskillin W ines of Niagara-on -the-Lake Ont he was named to the Royal Order of the Grape for hi s leadership in enhancing the prod uct and its image
In addition Z ira ldo and his partner Karl Kai se r were named 1991 Men of the Year by FoodsCIvice and Hospitalily magazine During the ir 17-year partnership at Inn isk ilshylin the two have been instrumental in shapshying Canada s wine industry the magazine sa id
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ave Barry Burtis 69 was named president of the Ontario Veterinary Medical Association in January after working with the voluntary organization for four years as a director member of its editorial board and chair of its public relations committee Burtis lives in Burlington Ont and practises at the Bay Cities Animal Hospital He also appears on a local cable television program called Pel Tales
William Medway 54 of Blackwood NJ has been named an honorary life member of the International Association for Aquatic Animal Medicine for his contributions on beshyhalf of the association and the field of aquatic medicine He is both a founding member and past president of the associa shytion A professor emeritus of clinical laboratory medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine Medway is a member of the Marine Mammal Commissions committee of scientific advisers
Diane Pickering-Forster 86 is practising at Vander Kraan Veterinary Services in Huntsville Ont She is malTied to Chris Forster and they have one daughter Julia
Julien Proulx 67 has moved from Kapusshykasing Ont to La Pocatiere Que where he is superintendent of Agriculture Canada s Experimental Farm Last year he was feashytured on TVOntarios French network series Personalire Ontarienne for his work as a veterinarian his participation in municipal politics and his support of regional developshyment in Northern Ontario He was also awarded Agriculture Canadas research branch prize Agcellence for extraordinary management during his direction of the reshysearch program at the Kapuskasing Exshyperimental Farm
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and others interested in science or nature
Write or phone for information
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Twoc~ireers middot on the samepat~ OVCaruninus Geoffrey Lord 49 felt a thopedic
middot enseofdejavuwhen he read theslory gastrointesshyabout Bill Naray~i1 OVe 63 il1la~t tinal and carc
springs issue ofthe Guelph Altimnus diovascular
There are amazing simi laritiesbetween surgery the c~reersof t~e two Guyanese wh6b6th says Lord If earnedvefetinary degrees atGueiph someone worked in c1ini(ai practice in)Yestem were to ask Canada then moved to the United States me ioday to work in human medic~lresearch what Tcon~
Narayan heads an AlDSresearchteamsider to be atJohns HopkiflS l1)iversilySchool of my expertise MediCirieinBaltimoreMatyland Lord is I would have retired directorofthdohnsonamp Johnson to saymecli- Geofrey Lord
middot Resear~h Foundalion ill NewJersey cal device lordsays he was influenced by OVC andbioshy
proJessDfs Anthony Kings(Qte and Frank Inaterials evaluation middot SchofieJd~ndwcentnton from GiJelphto pur- lt In the I 950s Lordwaspalt of ale-
sue graduate studies in parasitology auhe se~rch team that pioneered the use of University oJWiscollsin Sevenmorithsin animal tissue tOTeconstructdamagedjr
amixed practice in Drumheller Alta con blocked al1eries in hUl11ansTwenty years vinced him thaldinical medicine wasn6t middot later he drafted the first systematicap-
middot whati w~ted6 do He returned to Wis pr()ach to the safety evaluation of medica con5il110 eanla PhDlll pathologyano devices joined Johnson amp JohnsQri as asenior middot Allsubsequeill guidelines inCiLlding patilol()gistiriI953 those of the Foodaj)q Diug Admlnistrashy
Research at Johnson amp JohDson tiOnand the Canadian Regulatory ~teeredmeinto many interesting and chal- Authority hayeadopteoihis approach he
Jenging fieldsofbio-research includirig says derniiltoi9gy toxicologic pathology Lordand his wife Helen ltIividetheir wound healing surgical pathology iiinebetweel)Ciipe CodandBonita genera toxkology ofi~w drugs andor~ Springs FloriQa
Shane Renwick 77 and MSc 91 works in veterinary services at Agriculture Canada offices in Guelph
Ruth Reuter 61 is a veterinary pathologist in Plympton Australia
Tom Sanderson 6 1 was selected by the Ontario Veterinary Medical Association as Ontario Veterinarian of 1991 CUlTently OVCs co-ordinator of off-campus work terms he spent 20 years in private practice in Listowe1 and Mount Forest before returning to the coll ege in 1982 to manage the veterishynary research stations Sanderson s contribushytions to the profess ion have included many hours of volunteer work in the advancement
of the profession and in the development of veterinary inshysurance programs He is a past pres ident of both the Ontario and Canadian Veterishynary Medical associashytions
Jennifer Troughton 86 is practising in OronoOnt
Simone Woltner 86 is a veterinarian at the Chester Basin Animal Hospital in Chester Basin NS
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by her hu sband William and two sons The fo llowing dea ths have been reported since the las t issue of the Guelph Alumnus Full notices which are usu ally submitted by family or classmates may appear in thi s iss ue or in a later one
James Clement Arts 73 Feb 2 1992
Marilyn (Dyment) Farnan Mac 530 Feb 27 1992
David Fisher OAC 80A in October 1990
Elizabeth (C hristie) Glass Mac 3I D June 2l99 1
Peter Heskey OAC 54A Dec 6 199 1
Richard Ketchell OVC 51 Nov 23 199 1
Edward Kowalski Arts 79 in August 199 1
Pauline (Dixon) MacMillan Mac 240 Jan 2 1992
Catherine MacPherson Arts 83 Dec 11 1990
Marguerite (White) Maybury Mac 3 10 in June 1990
Donald McLeOd CSS 80 Jan 9 1992
Albert Meilus OAC 51 in 1991
Ann (Biggs) Ostler Mac 3 10 in April 1991
Robert Race Arts 73 in 1989
Ralph Sampson OAC 40 in December 1989
Mor ris Sanderson OAC 42 Nov 17 1991
Sir Peter Scott HDSc 8 1 in Au gust 1989
William Setterington OAC 40 Oct 22 1991
George Shoniker OAC 50A in March 199 1
John Somerset OAC 34 Dec 27 199 1
Gregory Van Patter OAC 7 1 in 1990
Frederich Weiland OAC 20A in 1990
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Riccardo Rich Incitti 88 died Jan 5 1992 as the result of an accident near Hami lshyton Ont He was assistant manager at the Toronto-Dominion Bank in St Cathari nes and is survived by his parents Gu igi and Lucia of Cambridge and two sisters Laura and Andrea
Larry McNenly 73 died in October 1991 in Owen Sound Ont He is survived by his wife Marnie CSS 73
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CBS
Robert Everett HK 74 died in May 1991 in Burlington Ont A teac her at White Oaks Secondary Schoo l in Oakv ille he is survived by his wife Miche le and brother William CBS 74
James Sandy Fear 75 died Oct I I 199 1 in Toronto He is survi ved by his wi fe Sally (Firth) OAC 75 and hi s children Caitlin Alli son and Mered ith
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Lynn (Dalys) Corby 84 died in Toron to May 6 1990 after a long battIe with cancer
Nancy (Birbeck) Gordon 77 died Oct 20 1991 in Ottawa after a short illness She worked at the Kitchener-Waterl oo Hospital and had previously been plan t accountant at Foseco Canada Incorporated in Guelph
Mac-FACS
Jean (Williams) Forward 280 Oct 28 1991 in Calgary She was the widow of Bower Forward OAC 25 and is survived by two sons
Catharine (Bechtel) Fromm 270 died Nov I 199 1 in Cambridge Ont She is surshyvived by three dau ghters Ellen Moore Mac 63 Nancy and Caro l
Alice (Rivaz) Garrard 28 di ed Dec 2 199 1 in Guelph She was an active member of the Mac-FACS Alumni Assoc iat ion and was the Mac 28 class agent for the Alma Mater Fund She is survived by her husband retired professor Edward Garrard OAC 27 and a daughter Betty Nelson
Della Marie (Diamond) Honey 300 of Warkworth Ont died June 29 1991 One ofWarkworths oldest and most respected citizens she served as local li brarian fo r 25 years She is survived by her son John OAC 52A his wife Patric ia and four grandchildren James OAC 84A William OAC 76A Thomas OvC 89 and Patricia Lonergan CSS 68
Barbara (Banigan) Martin 380 died Jan I 1992 in Don Mill s Ont A retired teacher wit h the North York Board of Education she is survived by a son Ted a sister and two brothers
Elizabeth (Burt) Perry 340 died June 28 1991 in Sidney BC and is surv ived by her husband Gordon and son Paul Nartel OAC 62
Jacqueline (Roy) Pote 34D died Dec 2 1 1991 in Willowdale Ont and is is survived
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Doroth y (MacFeeters) Scott 260 died Jan 14 1992 in Toronto She is su rvived by two daughters Anne Donaldson and Cynthia Scott
Florence (French) Snyder 370 died May 6 199 1 in Calgary and is survived by her husband Robert and two sons John and William
Katherine (Sweet) Watt Mac 220 died Feb 23 1992 She is survived by her husshyband Leslie a son David and a dau ghter Carol Gi llanders
Mattie (Newman) Widdicombe 240 died Dec 11 1991 in St Catharines Ont Preshydeceased by her husband John she is surshyvived by a bro ther and several nieces and nephews including Virginia Rigby Arts 76
OAC
George Grey Arnup 38 died Feb 2 1992 in Toronto He spent most of his career with the plant protection branch of Agriculture Canada He is survived by his wife Aileen three chi ldren Nancy Jim and Mary Ellen Vincent CBS 79 and four grandchi ldren
Herbert Boyce 28 and MSA 43 died Sept 2 1991 in Amherstburg Onto He is survi ved by his wife Norah a daughter Beverley Med lock and a brother James OAC 32
Jack Reddy Brethet 56 died Nov 4 199 1 in Burlington Ont President of Brethet Barnum Assoc iates Inc he is surshyv ived by his wife Caro l and two daughters Lyn n and Anne
Bruce Foster 28 died Feb 6 1992 in Ridgetown Ont and is survi ved by his daughter Gayle Anderson and son David CBS 69
Allison Gardhouse 49 died Sept 21 1991 in Midland Ont He was re tired supe rshyintendent of schoo ls for the Simcoe County Board of Education and is survi ved by his wife Merle
Kenneth Harrison 24 died Nov 5 199 1 in Kentville NS A distinguished plant patho logist military officer and mycologist he began hi s career in 1926 as assistant plant pathologis t at the Kentvi lle Experimental Farm He worked there until retirement in 1966 wi th the exception of mi litary servi ce du ring the Second World War
Dr Harrison had a lifelong interes t in the study of mushrooms and publ ished numerou s technica l papers on the mu shroom flora of Nova Scotia In addition he enshy
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couraged interested amateurs and led field trips for student s at Acadia University and the general public from 1929 until 1987 In 1979 he was honored by Acadia wi th the dedication of the Kenneth A Harri son Laboratory of Mycology
During his career he was a member of many professional organizations a charter member of the Mycological Society of America and fe llow of the American Associashytion for the Advancement of Science
He is survived by hi s wife Margaret two brothers Maynard OAC 30 and Arthur OAC 29 two son s Ashley and Kenneth and a daughter Jennie Sheito
William Kellam 4 1 died Oct 19 1991 in Brockville Ont He was retired from the Curb and Gate Co of-Brock ville where he had worked as a lab technician fo r 28 years He is survived by his wife Kathleen a son George and a daughter Mary
William M acMillan 48 died in February 1992 in Winnipeg He was supervisor of Fertilizer marketing for the Manitoba Pool Elevators and is surv ived by hi s wife Edna Jean and brother Harry OAC 5 1 A
Cameron McTaggart 35 died Feb 4 1992 in Aurora Ont After graduating from OAC he became manager of Don Head Farms in Richmond Hill He established the first agricul tural consulting business in Canada in 1947 and later ran an Angus cattle
sales management business from the family farm A life member of the OAC Alumni As shysociat ion and the Class of 35 executive he is survived by his wife Margaret Mac 35 and two sons John OAC 62 of Regina and David of Largo Fla
Douglas Miller 48 of Victoria BC died Nov 24 1991 in Toronto He is survived by hi s wife Ruth and five children
Gregory More 76 was killed Feb 3 1992 in Kitchener Ont at the Ontario Glove Manufacturing Co where he was co-owner and vice-president Following graduation he worked for the Rohrer Drug Co and the Stershyling Drug Co then returned to school ea rnshying an MBA at McMaster University in 1981 More was an avid squash player and golfer Court A at the Northfield Racquet Club in Waterloo was dedicated to his memory in March He is survived by his parents Noreen and Ken a brother Randy and a sister Katherine Keeler
John Jack Pawley 33 died March I 1992 in Guelph He is survived by his wife Ruth son John OAC 62 and daughter-inshylaw Carolyn He was a former director of the Ontario Milk Marketing Board and a past member of the Royal City Lodge of Perfecshytion
Harold Reid 20A died in December 1991 in Burlington Ont During the First World W ar he was one of Canadas premier rad io
experts work ing at the Roya l Canadian Navy shore transmitter in Sydney NS After the war he came to OAC to earn a diploma then went on to QueenS University to comshyplete an arts and theology degree His mini sshytry was mainly in St And rews and Montreal although he spent 13 years teaching Hebrew at the Presbyterian Coll ege before retiring in 1968
Donald Robertson 3 1 died Nov 4 1991 in Iroquois Ont He is survived by hi s wife Caroline (Grisdale) Mac 38 his two son s ScottOAC 65A and Guy and a daughter Sandra McNeil
Thomas Rokeby 48 and MSA 50 died Jan 29 1992 in Fayetteville Ark He was a professional engineer and tau ght for 30 years in the Univers ity of Arkansas engineering department Born in Port Rowan Ont he was a member of the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War the American Society of Agricultural Engineers and the agricultural honor societies of Gamma Sigma Delta and Alpha Epsilon He is surv ived by his wife Helen two sons Robert and Richard a daughter Penny and three brothers Michael Noel and Richard OAC 54
Francis Sweeney OAC 45 died Nov 17 1991 in Oakville Ont He was a longtime employee of Shell Canada and [nternational Shell working in Great Britain Europe and
WALL CUSTANCE MEMORIAL FOREST
The Wall-Custance Memorial Forest located at the Universi ty of Guelphs Arboretum was established in recognition of the severe depletion of our forests It is never too late to be a vital part of the effort to save and improve our air and water for the future of our children by planting trees This program is our small part of the major endeavor to reforest and to reduce the greenhouse effect improve air quality and provide food and cover for wildlife The Memorial Forest Proshygram not only pays a Significant tribute to a loved one but also assures a better environment for generations to come
The purpose of this program is to provide an opporshytuni ty to commemorate the life of a loved one by plantshy
Home of the WALL-CUSTANCE
MEMORIAL FOREST
ing a tree We envision that the Memorial Forest Program will continue for many years to come and our hope is that the solace that nature offers particularly in the depths of a living forest will be of comfort and benefi t to all
For more information or for a brochure call or write to
WALL-CUSTANCE Funeral Home and Chapel 206 Norfolk Street Guelph Ontario N1 H 4K3 (519) 822-0051
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Berna rd Weeks 35 died Oct 16 199 1 After graduation he re turned to his roots in
ew York and Pennsylvannia and worked in 4-H and you th organi zations for a few years He then took over the family farm at Troupsburg NY and built up a dairy operashytion with a sideline of sheep He is surv ived by his wife Ruth and four children
Glenn White 43 of Belleville Onl died Nov 24 199 1 in Florida and is surv ived by hi s wife Marjorie
ave Norman Anderson 39 of Wi nn ipeg died Dec 18 1991 in Arizona He had practised veterinary medicine in Norwood Man and was a member of the American Equine Pracshytitioners Association director of the Canadian Thoroughbred Society and track veterinarian at Assin iboia Downs for 50 years He is survived by his wi fe Peggy and two sons Laurie and James
George Beatty 5 I died Nov 22 1991 in Inverness III He practised in Palatine fo r 36 years and founded the Palatine Animal Hospi tal He was an active member of the American Animal Hospital Assoc iati on and the Chicago Veterinary Association and was a director of the Friends of the University of Guelph He is survived by his wife Mary and fo ur children - Suzanne Patricia Margaret and Tim
John Hamilton 5 L died Dec 15 1991 He had lived in Roslin On where he owned the Bay Regional Veterinary Hospital He is survived by hi s niece Ann Bongard
Nicholas Labzoffsky 39 died Dec 25 1991 in Largo Fla Fonnerly of Toronto he had li ved most recen tl y in Dorse t Ont and is survived by hi s wife Jane
Edgar Langford 49 died March 41992 in Monarch Alta A former research scienshytist with ADRI (Western) he is survived by his wife Norma and two daughters includshying Carolyn OVC 76
Stuart Maude 4 1 died Jan 14 1992 in Rosemead Calif A former Rosemead counshycillor and four-time mayor he operated the Rosemead Animal Hospital with his brother Arthur 52 from 1953 to 1980 He was a trustee for Ingles ide Hospital a past grand patron of both the Rosemead and the Califorshynia Order of Eastern Star and past-president of the local Kiwanis Club and Chamber of Commerce He is survived by his wife Vera two daughters Patricia and Susan Bezner a son Stuart and three brothers
Walter Morley 42 o f Mildmay On died Nov 28 199 1 He ran a large animal pracshytice in the Mild may area for 39 years raised cat tle and raced standardbred horses He was also a pu blic school board trustee and direcshytor of a local te lephone company for more
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than 30 years He is survived by his wife Joyce five sons - two of whom are OVC alumni Dave 68 and Randy 74 - and 10 grandchildren
Lloyd Neily 52 died Jan 3 1992 in Hantsport NS A retired meat inspector w ith the federal Department of Agriculture he had a private veterinary practice in Wind sor NS He is surv ived by hi s wife Mary
Elford Nundal 43 died Jan 7 1992 in Langley BC after a long battle with canshycer He operated a veterinary practice in Langley for 36 years and served as a di strict aldennan for 10 years before being elected mayor in 1982 Last year he received the BC Veterinarian Association s award of merit for a lifetime of veterinary work
Humphrey Rees 55 died Sepl 30 1991 in Amman Jordan while on ass ignment for the Overseas Development Ad ministrat ion as veterinary and animal hu sbandry adviser to the Jordani an government His contemshyporaries at Guelph will remember him as a singer debater raconteur rugby player and bon vivant He is surv ived by his wife Alice of POlt Eynon Wales
William Stinson 40 died Feb 15 1992 in Norwood Ont He is survi ved by his wife Rita a son John OVC 67 a brother Ford OAC 34 and a grandson John CSS 87
Faculty
Patric ia Harney died Dec 191991 in Yarshymouth NS A professor in the Department of Horticultural Science from 1962 to 1988 she developed severa l new variet ies of geraniums and was instru mental in es tabshylishing the Frances Ball rose collection at the Arboretum
Anthony Marston died Feb 3 1992 in Fershygu s ant Retired from the School of Hotel and Food Administration he was an acshycomplished competition chef who received his training in Switzerland and England He then spent severa l years working in the Caribbean before coming to Guelph in 1970 A member of the Canadian Olympic culinary team he held a number of positions in the
Donations given in memory ofGuelph alumni will help support University scholarships ifdirected to the Alumni M emorial Fund In 1991 donations were made in memory of the following alumni
Frank MacDonald OAC 37
Frank King OAC 33 -Robert Allen OAC 56A
Alice (Rivaz) Garrard Mac 28
Stan Vesselinovitch OVC 57
For more infonnation call the Office of Annual Giving at 519-824-4120 Ext 6 183
hote l and food industry until retiring in 1982 He is survived by hi s wife Di ana
Gordon McNally dled Jan 12 1992 in Guelph A professor in the Department of Zoo logy from 1934 to 1971 he served as academic assistant to the dean of CBS until retiring in 1979 While at Guelph he was honorary pres id ent of the classes of OAC 54 58 and 67 He is survived by his daughter Jean two siste rs and two grandchildren Prof McNallys family has established the A Gordon Mc a lly Memorial Fund to support a sc holarship or bursary Contributions may be sent care of the Alma Mater Fund Alumni Hou se University of Guelph Guelph ant N I G 2WI
Friends
Jean (Young) Branion died March 3 1992 in Guelph She was the wife of the late Hugh Branion a physiology professor at U of G and assistant to presidents Bill Winegard and Don Forster Jean Branion was an act ive volunteer on campus for many years and one of the firs t presidents of the College Womens Club She is survived by a son Richard and his wife Marga re t of Vanshycouve r and five grandchi ldren Donati ons may be made to the Hugh D Branion Memorial Scholarship through Alumni House
Davy Alexander Hamilton-Williamson died Feb 4 1992 in Guelph A painter and author of childrens stories he had been a member of the University s Presidents Council s ince it began in 1 985
Marjorie Pinkney wife of J ames Pinkney OVC 3 7 died Dec 151 99 [ at her home in Milton ant
Samuel Wyal died March 15 1992 in Brantford ant He was a partner in the law firm Wyatt Purce ll Will Stillman and Scott He is surv ived by his wife M a bel Mac 39 four sons Peter Michael William and John and two daughters Mary Alderson and Sarah Nadalin Arts 82
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INVmiddotESTMENTS amp
DIVIDENDS
Facts about university education in Canada and how we pay for it
By 2000 half of all new jobs in Canada will require a university degree
But at the current rate of government funding only one in five children
will have a chance to go to university
In the seven years from 1982 to 1989 per-student grants to universities in
Ontario barely kept pace with intlation at five per cent
per-student funding at American public univers ities jumped an average
of 23 per cent in the same period
Those US universities also receive twice the federal research dollars per student as do Ontario universities
In 1987 the average salary of a full-time professor at an Ontario univers ity was $55500
compared with $68200 for a private-sector position of similar education and experience
Lawyers economists and engineers made an average of $71 000
Ontario ranks ninth out of the to provinces in terms of grants to universities
Between 1978 and 1991 enrolment at Ontario univers ities grew by 40 per cent while funding dropped
from 59 to 409 per cent of total government spending
Universities were spending 14 per cent less per student between 1977 and 1988 hospital expenditures
rose 38 per cent per patient in the same period
Ontario universities generate $3 of economic activity for every
$1 invested by government funding
And the number of jobs generated by university activities in
Ontario is greater than the employment impact of the textile
industry the entire paper and pulp industry or utilities
University graduates can look forward to earning 63 per cent more than the average industrial worker
A 1990 survey of U of G alumni found that two years after graduation 97 per cent of Guelph grads
looking for work were employed 62 per cent were earning $25000 or more and 10 per cent were
earning $40000 or more
Unemployment rates in 1990 for those with a university degree was about one-third what it was
for those with only a high school diploma
Every year from 1978 to 1987 Ontario university inves tments in renovating or replacing
aging buildings could not keep pace with the rate at which the buildings depreciated
Graphics by Debbie Thompson Wilson Statistics supplied by th~ Council 01 Ontario UniverSities Statistics Canada and the U01 G Student EnVifonment Study Group
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A salute to sport Alumni Weekend June 19-21 9am Sio-pitch tournament
The tradition Jives on at the south quad diamond s Cooed teams of 12 or more players are encourshyaged to join in the fun
FRIDAY 10 am to 9 pm Registration Lambton Hall
6 pm Kick-off dinner and half-time show
get set and join In the Olympic spirit one of Alumni Creelman Hall will Weekends host the Wonderful most popular World of Sports with events Tours a half-time slide show start from to entertain alumni of Alumni House all ages and are sponshy9 pmshy sored by the Observatory tours CBS Alumni
Association
10 am and 2 pm
SATURDAY 8 am to 5 pm Guided Registration walking tours Lambton Hall
Remember 9 am to 5 pm making s now Alumni House tours sc ulptures on Students will host tours of Alumni House throughshyout the weekend Come and see what the generosity of alumni has accomplished
9 am to noon Alumni association annual meetings
This is the official notice for the annual general meetings of the following alumni associations
CBS - Alumni House starts at 830 am before guided walk MacFACS - HAFA Building Room 209
OVC - OvC Room 1438
OAC - Macdonald Hall Room 149
CSS - MacKinnon Building Room 305
HAFA - Alumni Hou se boardroom
Gryphs Lounge will be open for lunch and afLer the game
930 am Guided nature walk at the Arboretum
On your mark
Noon - OVC luncheon
The OvC Alumni Association will host a luncheon open to all OvC alumni and their guests
2 pm - Campus Showcase 92
Following on the heels of last year s success Campus Showshycase 92 will be bigger and better Come to the University Centre to see exhibits representing all areas on campus The Campus Junction store will also be open
2 pm - Zavitz Hall tour
Alumni are invited to browse through the newly renovated Za vitz Hall and attend a recep shytion sponsored by the Colshylege of Arts Alumni Asshysoc iation
5 pm Golden anniversary dinner
The OAC OvC and MacshyFACS alumni associations will provide complimenshytary tickets for alumni celebrating 50 years or more Additiona l tickets can be purchased Classes
Johnston Green or playing intramural hockey in the old Quonset arena Relive some of the memories by taking a walking tour of campus Tours begin from the lobby ofLambton Hall
Noon - Alumni picnic
This apopular event has new location - the sculpshyture garden beside the Macshydonald Stewart Art Centre Come on your own or reshyserve a group of tables for friends and classmates
Noon - Class reunion lunches
OAC 37 Mac 37 OAC 42 Mac 42 OAC 47 Mac 52 Mac57 Mac 67 FACS 72 FACS 77 FACS 87
OAC 67 FACS 82 OAC 82 OAC 82A CBS 82 FACS 87 OAC 87
SUNDAY 9am Church service and War Memorial Hall rededication
Thanks to a commitment from the Alma Mater Fund renovashytion of the upstairs of War Memorial Hall has been comshypleted Join us for the rededicashytion ceremony commemorating the 1924 opening and the 1952 dedication of an OAC memorial plaque
being honored are OAC 22 OAC 47 OvC 22 Mac 22 OAC 27 OvC 27 Mac 27 OAC 32 OvC 32 Mac 32 OAC 37 OvC 37 Mac 37 OAC 42 OvC 42 Mac 42
6 pm Class reunion dinners
Special dinn e r reunions are planned for OAC 47 OAC 52 OAC 52A OvC 52 Mac 57 OAC 57 OAC 62 Mac 67
10am UGAA annual meeting
All alumni are encouraged to atshytend the UGAA annual meeting in Macdonald Hall Room 149 An amendment to the UGAA Letters Patent and a revised bylaw will be presented for ap shyproval Copies of both are availshyable on request from Alumni House Call 519-824-4120 Ext 6544
11 am - Farewell brunch
The final event of Alumni Weekend will be held in Creelshyman Hall Come and meet the Univers ity S president Brian Segal The Alumnus of Honour medal will be presented at noon
To receive an Alumni Weekshyend brochure or to register for events call Alumni House at 59-824-4120 Ext 6963
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Where research and industry Dleet
Space available now Exceptional office and research facilities in our multi-tenant Research Park Centre
Research-driven corporations are breaking new ground at the University of Guelph Research Park Centre with exceptional growth opporshytunities in an ideal business setting
This 30-acre Research Park also accommodates tenants who choose to construct their own office and laboratory facilities
Find out why organizations such as Semex Canada Tremco Limited the Ontario Dairy Herd Improvement Corporation George Morris Centre LIPID Analytical Laboratories and Agriculture Canada have chosen the University of Guelph Research Park Call Ralph Eades or Judy Phillips Real Estate Division University of Guelph Telephone (519) 767-5003 or Fax (519) 837-0353
The Research Park is a project oj the Office oj Research and the University S Real Estate Division
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David Nedelko OAC 86 and Ljrlda ArmsJrollg CBS 89 (Jurk 011 cemre) were marriediasl SeplemiJer in Bari ~ie OnlTluir weddiIg iiarly illcilldedfiom leli Katy KusmiliskiOA C 88Paul Allgusline GAG 86 Roh Reed OAC 87Carv Belfral1l oAC 8RJIuJ Sa ndimiddoto (CollinI) BerlrCIlII CBS RR Also 1I111ie wedding w(lS Arlllslong s Veal ullcleClarence Fleming OVC 34 The couple (Ire living in
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at the Universit y of Waterloo taught in India and at Mi ss iss ippi State Uni vers ity and worked with Briti sh Columbia Hydro and the Government of Newfoundland In 1986 he jo ined the faculty of c ivil engi neering at Lakehead Uni ve rsity in Thunder Bay Ont and was promoted to full professor in 199 1 He and hi s wife Kashna and the ir children Neeti and Anukud enjoy the outdoor recreashytion ac ti viti es available in Northwestern Onshytario and look forward to visits from U of G alumni trave lling to Thunder Bay
Lyle Pettigrew 61 is a marketin g consulshytant with Harris Kovacs Alderman in Atlanshyta Ga
Helen Prior 88 joined Sheridan Nurseries after graduation then worked for a year as a research tech nic ian in Guelph s Department of Crop Scie nce She is now in her th ird year at Emmanuel College at Victoria University and hopes to be ordained as a United Church min is ter in May
Gregory Scott 83 (Eng) is operations manager for Accuform Gol f Limited in Toronto
Ba rbara (Coordes) Skrypetz 87 is a fi e ld supervisor for the Ontario Dairy Herd Imshyprovement Corporation working out of Guelph He r husband Stephen 88 operates a bulldozing and excavating busi shyness in the Woodstock area
Victor Skidra 6 is re tired f rom his job as a sc ientific evaluator with Hea lth and Welshyfare Canada He and hi s wife Konstance live in Nepean Ont
William Slusarchuk 63 (Eng) and MSc
The way we were in 1902 OAC alumnus Douglas Campbell 60 passes on a bit of col lege hi sto ry that shou ld make us think twice about our con stitutional squabbles in C anad a
Campbell is director of the Latin America and Caribbea n Trade Divis ion of Canada s Department of External Affa irs Last summer he hosted a vi s it by the president of Uruguay Luis Alberto Lacalle Herre ra whose grand fa the r made a simil a r vis it to Canada in 1902
This is what the elde r Herrera reported to his government Gue lph agricultural college enjoys a worldwide reputation and is con shys idered one of the grea t loca l attracshytions
More than 200 young Canadians a long with many foreign youths come together in its lecture rooms There are bursary ho lde rs from Norway and as far away as Mauritius C loser to us
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67 was recently appo inted pres ident of AGRA Eanh and Environmental Group an envi ronme ntal and geotechnica l firm that is a division of AGRA Indu stries Limited
Michael Sullivan 87 A is a pol ice officer with the Wate rloo Regional Police in Cambridge Ont
Argentina has 12 students there We ll then couldnt Uruguay imshy
itate those good exa mples and also se nd a number of worthy youths to Guelph to acquire the professional knowledge which is becoming m ore necessary each day for the deve lopshyment of our agric ulture~
In addition to the sc ienti fic benefits that our compatriots woul d deri ve from entering sLlch a Canadian techni cal in shystitution there would be the inca lcushylable benefit of becoming familiar with the stric t manly and sound habits of these people who are admirable in e ve ry respect
Afte r they have stee ped themse lves in this atmos phere of dem ocracy which fosters the development of all rights and is alien to intolerance thi s legati on w ill have the great honor of sending home not only sc ientists but a lso mode l citizens
Brenda Trask 80 operates he r own comshymunica tion s consulting company in Osshygoode Ont She is marri ed to Ron Ferguso n
Dave Vanden Bosch 89 is manager of operator services and plann ing for Bell Canada in London Ont
J Stallard Skip Waterhouse 54 and hi s wife Li sa are ce lebrating the birth of a daughter Samantha Elizabe th on New Years Day 1992 They live in New York State where Wate rhouse is iI pro fe ssor of bio logical science at the Plattsburgh Sta te Uni versity College of Arts and Science
Jeff 88 and Karen (Burrows) W h ite 87 live in Strathroy Ont Jeff work s for Bell Canada and Kare n is a Lambton County rural orga ni za tion spec ialist with the Ontar io Mini stry of Agriculture and Food
Harold Wright 86 is a development repre shysenta tive for Ci ba-Ge igy Canada Ltd in Mi sshysissauga Ont He and Lori Krieg 84 plan to marry thi s sprin g
Donald Ziraldo 7 I received doubl e honors last winter fro m the Ontario grape and wine industry Preside nt of Inniskillin W ines of Niagara-on -the-Lake Ont he was named to the Royal Order of the Grape for hi s leadership in enhancing the prod uct and its image
In addition Z ira ldo and his partner Karl Kai se r were named 1991 Men of the Year by FoodsCIvice and Hospitalily magazine During the ir 17-year partnership at Inn isk ilshylin the two have been instrumental in shapshying Canada s wine industry the magazine sa id
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ave Barry Burtis 69 was named president of the Ontario Veterinary Medical Association in January after working with the voluntary organization for four years as a director member of its editorial board and chair of its public relations committee Burtis lives in Burlington Ont and practises at the Bay Cities Animal Hospital He also appears on a local cable television program called Pel Tales
William Medway 54 of Blackwood NJ has been named an honorary life member of the International Association for Aquatic Animal Medicine for his contributions on beshyhalf of the association and the field of aquatic medicine He is both a founding member and past president of the associa shytion A professor emeritus of clinical laboratory medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine Medway is a member of the Marine Mammal Commissions committee of scientific advisers
Diane Pickering-Forster 86 is practising at Vander Kraan Veterinary Services in Huntsville Ont She is malTied to Chris Forster and they have one daughter Julia
Julien Proulx 67 has moved from Kapusshykasing Ont to La Pocatiere Que where he is superintendent of Agriculture Canada s Experimental Farm Last year he was feashytured on TVOntarios French network series Personalire Ontarienne for his work as a veterinarian his participation in municipal politics and his support of regional developshyment in Northern Ontario He was also awarded Agriculture Canadas research branch prize Agcellence for extraordinary management during his direction of the reshysearch program at the Kapuskasing Exshyperimental Farm
A North America-wide
SINGLES NETWORK
has been started (in spring 1991) for science professionalsacademics
and others interested in science or nature
Write or phone for information
Science Connection PO Box 389 Port Dover Ontario
NOA 1NO
(519) 583-2858
Twoc~ireers middot on the samepat~ OVCaruninus Geoffrey Lord 49 felt a thopedic
middot enseofdejavuwhen he read theslory gastrointesshyabout Bill Naray~i1 OVe 63 il1la~t tinal and carc
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There are amazing simi laritiesbetween surgery the c~reersof t~e two Guyanese wh6b6th says Lord If earnedvefetinary degrees atGueiph someone worked in c1ini(ai practice in)Yestem were to ask Canada then moved to the United States me ioday to work in human medic~lresearch what Tcon~
Narayan heads an AlDSresearchteamsider to be atJohns HopkiflS l1)iversilySchool of my expertise MediCirieinBaltimoreMatyland Lord is I would have retired directorofthdohnsonamp Johnson to saymecli- Geofrey Lord
middot Resear~h Foundalion ill NewJersey cal device lordsays he was influenced by OVC andbioshy
proJessDfs Anthony Kings(Qte and Frank Inaterials evaluation middot SchofieJd~ndwcentnton from GiJelphto pur- lt In the I 950s Lordwaspalt of ale-
sue graduate studies in parasitology auhe se~rch team that pioneered the use of University oJWiscollsin Sevenmorithsin animal tissue tOTeconstructdamagedjr
amixed practice in Drumheller Alta con blocked al1eries in hUl11ansTwenty years vinced him thaldinical medicine wasn6t middot later he drafted the first systematicap-
middot whati w~ted6 do He returned to Wis pr()ach to the safety evaluation of medica con5il110 eanla PhDlll pathologyano devices joined Johnson amp JohnsQri as asenior middot Allsubsequeill guidelines inCiLlding patilol()gistiriI953 those of the Foodaj)q Diug Admlnistrashy
Research at Johnson amp JohDson tiOnand the Canadian Regulatory ~teeredmeinto many interesting and chal- Authority hayeadopteoihis approach he
Jenging fieldsofbio-research includirig says derniiltoi9gy toxicologic pathology Lordand his wife Helen ltIividetheir wound healing surgical pathology iiinebetweel)Ciipe CodandBonita genera toxkology ofi~w drugs andor~ Springs FloriQa
Shane Renwick 77 and MSc 91 works in veterinary services at Agriculture Canada offices in Guelph
Ruth Reuter 61 is a veterinary pathologist in Plympton Australia
Tom Sanderson 6 1 was selected by the Ontario Veterinary Medical Association as Ontario Veterinarian of 1991 CUlTently OVCs co-ordinator of off-campus work terms he spent 20 years in private practice in Listowe1 and Mount Forest before returning to the coll ege in 1982 to manage the veterishynary research stations Sanderson s contribushytions to the profess ion have included many hours of volunteer work in the advancement
of the profession and in the development of veterinary inshysurance programs He is a past pres ident of both the Ontario and Canadian Veterishynary Medical associashytions
Jennifer Troughton 86 is practising in OronoOnt
Simone Woltner 86 is a veterinarian at the Chester Basin Animal Hospital in Chester Basin NS
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by her hu sband William and two sons The fo llowing dea ths have been reported since the las t issue of the Guelph Alumnus Full notices which are usu ally submitted by family or classmates may appear in thi s iss ue or in a later one
James Clement Arts 73 Feb 2 1992
Marilyn (Dyment) Farnan Mac 530 Feb 27 1992
David Fisher OAC 80A in October 1990
Elizabeth (C hristie) Glass Mac 3I D June 2l99 1
Peter Heskey OAC 54A Dec 6 199 1
Richard Ketchell OVC 51 Nov 23 199 1
Edward Kowalski Arts 79 in August 199 1
Pauline (Dixon) MacMillan Mac 240 Jan 2 1992
Catherine MacPherson Arts 83 Dec 11 1990
Marguerite (White) Maybury Mac 3 10 in June 1990
Donald McLeOd CSS 80 Jan 9 1992
Albert Meilus OAC 51 in 1991
Ann (Biggs) Ostler Mac 3 10 in April 1991
Robert Race Arts 73 in 1989
Ralph Sampson OAC 40 in December 1989
Mor ris Sanderson OAC 42 Nov 17 1991
Sir Peter Scott HDSc 8 1 in Au gust 1989
William Setterington OAC 40 Oct 22 1991
George Shoniker OAC 50A in March 199 1
John Somerset OAC 34 Dec 27 199 1
Gregory Van Patter OAC 7 1 in 1990
Frederich Weiland OAC 20A in 1990
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Riccardo Rich Incitti 88 died Jan 5 1992 as the result of an accident near Hami lshyton Ont He was assistant manager at the Toronto-Dominion Bank in St Cathari nes and is survived by his parents Gu igi and Lucia of Cambridge and two sisters Laura and Andrea
Larry McNenly 73 died in October 1991 in Owen Sound Ont He is survived by his wife Marnie CSS 73
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Robert Everett HK 74 died in May 1991 in Burlington Ont A teac her at White Oaks Secondary Schoo l in Oakv ille he is survived by his wife Miche le and brother William CBS 74
James Sandy Fear 75 died Oct I I 199 1 in Toronto He is survi ved by his wi fe Sally (Firth) OAC 75 and hi s children Caitlin Alli son and Mered ith
CSS
Lynn (Dalys) Corby 84 died in Toron to May 6 1990 after a long battIe with cancer
Nancy (Birbeck) Gordon 77 died Oct 20 1991 in Ottawa after a short illness She worked at the Kitchener-Waterl oo Hospital and had previously been plan t accountant at Foseco Canada Incorporated in Guelph
Mac-FACS
Jean (Williams) Forward 280 Oct 28 1991 in Calgary She was the widow of Bower Forward OAC 25 and is survived by two sons
Catharine (Bechtel) Fromm 270 died Nov I 199 1 in Cambridge Ont She is surshyvived by three dau ghters Ellen Moore Mac 63 Nancy and Caro l
Alice (Rivaz) Garrard 28 di ed Dec 2 199 1 in Guelph She was an active member of the Mac-FACS Alumni Assoc iat ion and was the Mac 28 class agent for the Alma Mater Fund She is survived by her husband retired professor Edward Garrard OAC 27 and a daughter Betty Nelson
Della Marie (Diamond) Honey 300 of Warkworth Ont died June 29 1991 One ofWarkworths oldest and most respected citizens she served as local li brarian fo r 25 years She is survived by her son John OAC 52A his wife Patric ia and four grandchildren James OAC 84A William OAC 76A Thomas OvC 89 and Patricia Lonergan CSS 68
Barbara (Banigan) Martin 380 died Jan I 1992 in Don Mill s Ont A retired teacher wit h the North York Board of Education she is survived by a son Ted a sister and two brothers
Elizabeth (Burt) Perry 340 died June 28 1991 in Sidney BC and is surv ived by her husband Gordon and son Paul Nartel OAC 62
Jacqueline (Roy) Pote 34D died Dec 2 1 1991 in Willowdale Ont and is is survived
Merrill and Bill
Doroth y (MacFeeters) Scott 260 died Jan 14 1992 in Toronto She is su rvived by two daughters Anne Donaldson and Cynthia Scott
Florence (French) Snyder 370 died May 6 199 1 in Calgary and is survived by her husband Robert and two sons John and William
Katherine (Sweet) Watt Mac 220 died Feb 23 1992 She is survived by her husshyband Leslie a son David and a dau ghter Carol Gi llanders
Mattie (Newman) Widdicombe 240 died Dec 11 1991 in St Catharines Ont Preshydeceased by her husband John she is surshyvived by a bro ther and several nieces and nephews including Virginia Rigby Arts 76
OAC
George Grey Arnup 38 died Feb 2 1992 in Toronto He spent most of his career with the plant protection branch of Agriculture Canada He is survived by his wife Aileen three chi ldren Nancy Jim and Mary Ellen Vincent CBS 79 and four grandchi ldren
Herbert Boyce 28 and MSA 43 died Sept 2 1991 in Amherstburg Onto He is survi ved by his wife Norah a daughter Beverley Med lock and a brother James OAC 32
Jack Reddy Brethet 56 died Nov 4 199 1 in Burlington Ont President of Brethet Barnum Assoc iates Inc he is surshyv ived by his wife Caro l and two daughters Lyn n and Anne
Bruce Foster 28 died Feb 6 1992 in Ridgetown Ont and is survi ved by his daughter Gayle Anderson and son David CBS 69
Allison Gardhouse 49 died Sept 21 1991 in Midland Ont He was re tired supe rshyintendent of schoo ls for the Simcoe County Board of Education and is survi ved by his wife Merle
Kenneth Harrison 24 died Nov 5 199 1 in Kentville NS A distinguished plant patho logist military officer and mycologist he began hi s career in 1926 as assistant plant pathologis t at the Kentvi lle Experimental Farm He worked there until retirement in 1966 wi th the exception of mi litary servi ce du ring the Second World War
Dr Harrison had a lifelong interes t in the study of mushrooms and publ ished numerou s technica l papers on the mu shroom flora of Nova Scotia In addition he enshy
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couraged interested amateurs and led field trips for student s at Acadia University and the general public from 1929 until 1987 In 1979 he was honored by Acadia wi th the dedication of the Kenneth A Harri son Laboratory of Mycology
During his career he was a member of many professional organizations a charter member of the Mycological Society of America and fe llow of the American Associashytion for the Advancement of Science
He is survived by hi s wife Margaret two brothers Maynard OAC 30 and Arthur OAC 29 two son s Ashley and Kenneth and a daughter Jennie Sheito
William Kellam 4 1 died Oct 19 1991 in Brockville Ont He was retired from the Curb and Gate Co of-Brock ville where he had worked as a lab technician fo r 28 years He is survived by his wife Kathleen a son George and a daughter Mary
William M acMillan 48 died in February 1992 in Winnipeg He was supervisor of Fertilizer marketing for the Manitoba Pool Elevators and is surv ived by hi s wife Edna Jean and brother Harry OAC 5 1 A
Cameron McTaggart 35 died Feb 4 1992 in Aurora Ont After graduating from OAC he became manager of Don Head Farms in Richmond Hill He established the first agricul tural consulting business in Canada in 1947 and later ran an Angus cattle
sales management business from the family farm A life member of the OAC Alumni As shysociat ion and the Class of 35 executive he is survived by his wife Margaret Mac 35 and two sons John OAC 62 of Regina and David of Largo Fla
Douglas Miller 48 of Victoria BC died Nov 24 1991 in Toronto He is survived by hi s wife Ruth and five children
Gregory More 76 was killed Feb 3 1992 in Kitchener Ont at the Ontario Glove Manufacturing Co where he was co-owner and vice-president Following graduation he worked for the Rohrer Drug Co and the Stershyling Drug Co then returned to school ea rnshying an MBA at McMaster University in 1981 More was an avid squash player and golfer Court A at the Northfield Racquet Club in Waterloo was dedicated to his memory in March He is survived by his parents Noreen and Ken a brother Randy and a sister Katherine Keeler
John Jack Pawley 33 died March I 1992 in Guelph He is survived by his wife Ruth son John OAC 62 and daughter-inshylaw Carolyn He was a former director of the Ontario Milk Marketing Board and a past member of the Royal City Lodge of Perfecshytion
Harold Reid 20A died in December 1991 in Burlington Ont During the First World W ar he was one of Canadas premier rad io
experts work ing at the Roya l Canadian Navy shore transmitter in Sydney NS After the war he came to OAC to earn a diploma then went on to QueenS University to comshyplete an arts and theology degree His mini sshytry was mainly in St And rews and Montreal although he spent 13 years teaching Hebrew at the Presbyterian Coll ege before retiring in 1968
Donald Robertson 3 1 died Nov 4 1991 in Iroquois Ont He is survived by hi s wife Caroline (Grisdale) Mac 38 his two son s ScottOAC 65A and Guy and a daughter Sandra McNeil
Thomas Rokeby 48 and MSA 50 died Jan 29 1992 in Fayetteville Ark He was a professional engineer and tau ght for 30 years in the Univers ity of Arkansas engineering department Born in Port Rowan Ont he was a member of the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War the American Society of Agricultural Engineers and the agricultural honor societies of Gamma Sigma Delta and Alpha Epsilon He is surv ived by his wife Helen two sons Robert and Richard a daughter Penny and three brothers Michael Noel and Richard OAC 54
Francis Sweeney OAC 45 died Nov 17 1991 in Oakville Ont He was a longtime employee of Shell Canada and [nternational Shell working in Great Britain Europe and
WALL CUSTANCE MEMORIAL FOREST
The Wall-Custance Memorial Forest located at the Universi ty of Guelphs Arboretum was established in recognition of the severe depletion of our forests It is never too late to be a vital part of the effort to save and improve our air and water for the future of our children by planting trees This program is our small part of the major endeavor to reforest and to reduce the greenhouse effect improve air quality and provide food and cover for wildlife The Memorial Forest Proshygram not only pays a Significant tribute to a loved one but also assures a better environment for generations to come
The purpose of this program is to provide an opporshytuni ty to commemorate the life of a loved one by plantshy
Home of the WALL-CUSTANCE
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ing a tree We envision that the Memorial Forest Program will continue for many years to come and our hope is that the solace that nature offers particularly in the depths of a living forest will be of comfort and benefi t to all
For more information or for a brochure call or write to
WALL-CUSTANCE Funeral Home and Chapel 206 Norfolk Street Guelph Ontario N1 H 4K3 (519) 822-0051
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Berna rd Weeks 35 died Oct 16 199 1 After graduation he re turned to his roots in
ew York and Pennsylvannia and worked in 4-H and you th organi zations for a few years He then took over the family farm at Troupsburg NY and built up a dairy operashytion with a sideline of sheep He is surv ived by his wife Ruth and four children
Glenn White 43 of Belleville Onl died Nov 24 199 1 in Florida and is surv ived by hi s wife Marjorie
ave Norman Anderson 39 of Wi nn ipeg died Dec 18 1991 in Arizona He had practised veterinary medicine in Norwood Man and was a member of the American Equine Pracshytitioners Association director of the Canadian Thoroughbred Society and track veterinarian at Assin iboia Downs for 50 years He is survived by his wi fe Peggy and two sons Laurie and James
George Beatty 5 I died Nov 22 1991 in Inverness III He practised in Palatine fo r 36 years and founded the Palatine Animal Hospi tal He was an active member of the American Animal Hospital Assoc iati on and the Chicago Veterinary Association and was a director of the Friends of the University of Guelph He is survived by his wife Mary and fo ur children - Suzanne Patricia Margaret and Tim
John Hamilton 5 L died Dec 15 1991 He had lived in Roslin On where he owned the Bay Regional Veterinary Hospital He is survived by hi s niece Ann Bongard
Nicholas Labzoffsky 39 died Dec 25 1991 in Largo Fla Fonnerly of Toronto he had li ved most recen tl y in Dorse t Ont and is survived by hi s wife Jane
Edgar Langford 49 died March 41992 in Monarch Alta A former research scienshytist with ADRI (Western) he is survived by his wife Norma and two daughters includshying Carolyn OVC 76
Stuart Maude 4 1 died Jan 14 1992 in Rosemead Calif A former Rosemead counshycillor and four-time mayor he operated the Rosemead Animal Hospital with his brother Arthur 52 from 1953 to 1980 He was a trustee for Ingles ide Hospital a past grand patron of both the Rosemead and the Califorshynia Order of Eastern Star and past-president of the local Kiwanis Club and Chamber of Commerce He is survived by his wife Vera two daughters Patricia and Susan Bezner a son Stuart and three brothers
Walter Morley 42 o f Mildmay On died Nov 28 199 1 He ran a large animal pracshytice in the Mild may area for 39 years raised cat tle and raced standardbred horses He was also a pu blic school board trustee and direcshytor of a local te lephone company for more
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than 30 years He is survived by his wife Joyce five sons - two of whom are OVC alumni Dave 68 and Randy 74 - and 10 grandchildren
Lloyd Neily 52 died Jan 3 1992 in Hantsport NS A retired meat inspector w ith the federal Department of Agriculture he had a private veterinary practice in Wind sor NS He is surv ived by hi s wife Mary
Elford Nundal 43 died Jan 7 1992 in Langley BC after a long battle with canshycer He operated a veterinary practice in Langley for 36 years and served as a di strict aldennan for 10 years before being elected mayor in 1982 Last year he received the BC Veterinarian Association s award of merit for a lifetime of veterinary work
Humphrey Rees 55 died Sepl 30 1991 in Amman Jordan while on ass ignment for the Overseas Development Ad ministrat ion as veterinary and animal hu sbandry adviser to the Jordani an government His contemshyporaries at Guelph will remember him as a singer debater raconteur rugby player and bon vivant He is surv ived by his wife Alice of POlt Eynon Wales
William Stinson 40 died Feb 15 1992 in Norwood Ont He is survi ved by his wife Rita a son John OVC 67 a brother Ford OAC 34 and a grandson John CSS 87
Faculty
Patric ia Harney died Dec 191991 in Yarshymouth NS A professor in the Department of Horticultural Science from 1962 to 1988 she developed severa l new variet ies of geraniums and was instru mental in es tabshylishing the Frances Ball rose collection at the Arboretum
Anthony Marston died Feb 3 1992 in Fershygu s ant Retired from the School of Hotel and Food Administration he was an acshycomplished competition chef who received his training in Switzerland and England He then spent severa l years working in the Caribbean before coming to Guelph in 1970 A member of the Canadian Olympic culinary team he held a number of positions in the
Donations given in memory ofGuelph alumni will help support University scholarships ifdirected to the Alumni M emorial Fund In 1991 donations were made in memory of the following alumni
Frank MacDonald OAC 37
Frank King OAC 33 -Robert Allen OAC 56A
Alice (Rivaz) Garrard Mac 28
Stan Vesselinovitch OVC 57
For more infonnation call the Office of Annual Giving at 519-824-4120 Ext 6 183
hote l and food industry until retiring in 1982 He is survived by hi s wife Di ana
Gordon McNally dled Jan 12 1992 in Guelph A professor in the Department of Zoo logy from 1934 to 1971 he served as academic assistant to the dean of CBS until retiring in 1979 While at Guelph he was honorary pres id ent of the classes of OAC 54 58 and 67 He is survived by his daughter Jean two siste rs and two grandchildren Prof McNallys family has established the A Gordon Mc a lly Memorial Fund to support a sc holarship or bursary Contributions may be sent care of the Alma Mater Fund Alumni Hou se University of Guelph Guelph ant N I G 2WI
Friends
Jean (Young) Branion died March 3 1992 in Guelph She was the wife of the late Hugh Branion a physiology professor at U of G and assistant to presidents Bill Winegard and Don Forster Jean Branion was an act ive volunteer on campus for many years and one of the firs t presidents of the College Womens Club She is survived by a son Richard and his wife Marga re t of Vanshycouve r and five grandchi ldren Donati ons may be made to the Hugh D Branion Memorial Scholarship through Alumni House
Davy Alexander Hamilton-Williamson died Feb 4 1992 in Guelph A painter and author of childrens stories he had been a member of the University s Presidents Council s ince it began in 1 985
Marjorie Pinkney wife of J ames Pinkney OVC 3 7 died Dec 151 99 [ at her home in Milton ant
Samuel Wyal died March 15 1992 in Brantford ant He was a partner in the law firm Wyatt Purce ll Will Stillman and Scott He is surv ived by his wife M a bel Mac 39 four sons Peter Michael William and John and two daughters Mary Alderson and Sarah Nadalin Arts 82
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INVmiddotESTMENTS amp
DIVIDENDS
Facts about university education in Canada and how we pay for it
By 2000 half of all new jobs in Canada will require a university degree
But at the current rate of government funding only one in five children
will have a chance to go to university
In the seven years from 1982 to 1989 per-student grants to universities in
Ontario barely kept pace with intlation at five per cent
per-student funding at American public univers ities jumped an average
of 23 per cent in the same period
Those US universities also receive twice the federal research dollars per student as do Ontario universities
In 1987 the average salary of a full-time professor at an Ontario univers ity was $55500
compared with $68200 for a private-sector position of similar education and experience
Lawyers economists and engineers made an average of $71 000
Ontario ranks ninth out of the to provinces in terms of grants to universities
Between 1978 and 1991 enrolment at Ontario univers ities grew by 40 per cent while funding dropped
from 59 to 409 per cent of total government spending
Universities were spending 14 per cent less per student between 1977 and 1988 hospital expenditures
rose 38 per cent per patient in the same period
Ontario universities generate $3 of economic activity for every
$1 invested by government funding
And the number of jobs generated by university activities in
Ontario is greater than the employment impact of the textile
industry the entire paper and pulp industry or utilities
University graduates can look forward to earning 63 per cent more than the average industrial worker
A 1990 survey of U of G alumni found that two years after graduation 97 per cent of Guelph grads
looking for work were employed 62 per cent were earning $25000 or more and 10 per cent were
earning $40000 or more
Unemployment rates in 1990 for those with a university degree was about one-third what it was
for those with only a high school diploma
Every year from 1978 to 1987 Ontario university inves tments in renovating or replacing
aging buildings could not keep pace with the rate at which the buildings depreciated
Graphics by Debbie Thompson Wilson Statistics supplied by th~ Council 01 Ontario UniverSities Statistics Canada and the U01 G Student EnVifonment Study Group
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A salute to sport Alumni Weekend June 19-21 9am Sio-pitch tournament
The tradition Jives on at the south quad diamond s Cooed teams of 12 or more players are encourshyaged to join in the fun
FRIDAY 10 am to 9 pm Registration Lambton Hall
6 pm Kick-off dinner and half-time show
get set and join In the Olympic spirit one of Alumni Creelman Hall will Weekends host the Wonderful most popular World of Sports with events Tours a half-time slide show start from to entertain alumni of Alumni House all ages and are sponshy9 pmshy sored by the Observatory tours CBS Alumni
Association
10 am and 2 pm
SATURDAY 8 am to 5 pm Guided Registration walking tours Lambton Hall
Remember 9 am to 5 pm making s now Alumni House tours sc ulptures on Students will host tours of Alumni House throughshyout the weekend Come and see what the generosity of alumni has accomplished
9 am to noon Alumni association annual meetings
This is the official notice for the annual general meetings of the following alumni associations
CBS - Alumni House starts at 830 am before guided walk MacFACS - HAFA Building Room 209
OVC - OvC Room 1438
OAC - Macdonald Hall Room 149
CSS - MacKinnon Building Room 305
HAFA - Alumni Hou se boardroom
Gryphs Lounge will be open for lunch and afLer the game
930 am Guided nature walk at the Arboretum
On your mark
Noon - OVC luncheon
The OvC Alumni Association will host a luncheon open to all OvC alumni and their guests
2 pm - Campus Showcase 92
Following on the heels of last year s success Campus Showshycase 92 will be bigger and better Come to the University Centre to see exhibits representing all areas on campus The Campus Junction store will also be open
2 pm - Zavitz Hall tour
Alumni are invited to browse through the newly renovated Za vitz Hall and attend a recep shytion sponsored by the Colshylege of Arts Alumni Asshysoc iation
5 pm Golden anniversary dinner
The OAC OvC and MacshyFACS alumni associations will provide complimenshytary tickets for alumni celebrating 50 years or more Additiona l tickets can be purchased Classes
Johnston Green or playing intramural hockey in the old Quonset arena Relive some of the memories by taking a walking tour of campus Tours begin from the lobby ofLambton Hall
Noon - Alumni picnic
This apopular event has new location - the sculpshyture garden beside the Macshydonald Stewart Art Centre Come on your own or reshyserve a group of tables for friends and classmates
Noon - Class reunion lunches
OAC 37 Mac 37 OAC 42 Mac 42 OAC 47 Mac 52 Mac57 Mac 67 FACS 72 FACS 77 FACS 87
OAC 67 FACS 82 OAC 82 OAC 82A CBS 82 FACS 87 OAC 87
SUNDAY 9am Church service and War Memorial Hall rededication
Thanks to a commitment from the Alma Mater Fund renovashytion of the upstairs of War Memorial Hall has been comshypleted Join us for the rededicashytion ceremony commemorating the 1924 opening and the 1952 dedication of an OAC memorial plaque
being honored are OAC 22 OAC 47 OvC 22 Mac 22 OAC 27 OvC 27 Mac 27 OAC 32 OvC 32 Mac 32 OAC 37 OvC 37 Mac 37 OAC 42 OvC 42 Mac 42
6 pm Class reunion dinners
Special dinn e r reunions are planned for OAC 47 OAC 52 OAC 52A OvC 52 Mac 57 OAC 57 OAC 62 Mac 67
10am UGAA annual meeting
All alumni are encouraged to atshytend the UGAA annual meeting in Macdonald Hall Room 149 An amendment to the UGAA Letters Patent and a revised bylaw will be presented for ap shyproval Copies of both are availshyable on request from Alumni House Call 519-824-4120 Ext 6544
11 am - Farewell brunch
The final event of Alumni Weekend will be held in Creelshyman Hall Come and meet the Univers ity S president Brian Segal The Alumnus of Honour medal will be presented at noon
To receive an Alumni Weekshyend brochure or to register for events call Alumni House at 59-824-4120 Ext 6963
Opened July 1991Research Park Centre shy
Where research and industry Dleet
Space available now Exceptional office and research facilities in our multi-tenant Research Park Centre
Research-driven corporations are breaking new ground at the University of Guelph Research Park Centre with exceptional growth opporshytunities in an ideal business setting
This 30-acre Research Park also accommodates tenants who choose to construct their own office and laboratory facilities
Find out why organizations such as Semex Canada Tremco Limited the Ontario Dairy Herd Improvement Corporation George Morris Centre LIPID Analytical Laboratories and Agriculture Canada have chosen the University of Guelph Research Park Call Ralph Eades or Judy Phillips Real Estate Division University of Guelph Telephone (519) 767-5003 or Fax (519) 837-0353
The Research Park is a project oj the Office oj Research and the University S Real Estate Division
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ave Barry Burtis 69 was named president of the Ontario Veterinary Medical Association in January after working with the voluntary organization for four years as a director member of its editorial board and chair of its public relations committee Burtis lives in Burlington Ont and practises at the Bay Cities Animal Hospital He also appears on a local cable television program called Pel Tales
William Medway 54 of Blackwood NJ has been named an honorary life member of the International Association for Aquatic Animal Medicine for his contributions on beshyhalf of the association and the field of aquatic medicine He is both a founding member and past president of the associa shytion A professor emeritus of clinical laboratory medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine Medway is a member of the Marine Mammal Commissions committee of scientific advisers
Diane Pickering-Forster 86 is practising at Vander Kraan Veterinary Services in Huntsville Ont She is malTied to Chris Forster and they have one daughter Julia
Julien Proulx 67 has moved from Kapusshykasing Ont to La Pocatiere Que where he is superintendent of Agriculture Canada s Experimental Farm Last year he was feashytured on TVOntarios French network series Personalire Ontarienne for his work as a veterinarian his participation in municipal politics and his support of regional developshyment in Northern Ontario He was also awarded Agriculture Canadas research branch prize Agcellence for extraordinary management during his direction of the reshysearch program at the Kapuskasing Exshyperimental Farm
A North America-wide
SINGLES NETWORK
has been started (in spring 1991) for science professionalsacademics
and others interested in science or nature
Write or phone for information
Science Connection PO Box 389 Port Dover Ontario
NOA 1NO
(519) 583-2858
Twoc~ireers middot on the samepat~ OVCaruninus Geoffrey Lord 49 felt a thopedic
middot enseofdejavuwhen he read theslory gastrointesshyabout Bill Naray~i1 OVe 63 il1la~t tinal and carc
springs issue ofthe Guelph Altimnus diovascular
There are amazing simi laritiesbetween surgery the c~reersof t~e two Guyanese wh6b6th says Lord If earnedvefetinary degrees atGueiph someone worked in c1ini(ai practice in)Yestem were to ask Canada then moved to the United States me ioday to work in human medic~lresearch what Tcon~
Narayan heads an AlDSresearchteamsider to be atJohns HopkiflS l1)iversilySchool of my expertise MediCirieinBaltimoreMatyland Lord is I would have retired directorofthdohnsonamp Johnson to saymecli- Geofrey Lord
middot Resear~h Foundalion ill NewJersey cal device lordsays he was influenced by OVC andbioshy
proJessDfs Anthony Kings(Qte and Frank Inaterials evaluation middot SchofieJd~ndwcentnton from GiJelphto pur- lt In the I 950s Lordwaspalt of ale-
sue graduate studies in parasitology auhe se~rch team that pioneered the use of University oJWiscollsin Sevenmorithsin animal tissue tOTeconstructdamagedjr
amixed practice in Drumheller Alta con blocked al1eries in hUl11ansTwenty years vinced him thaldinical medicine wasn6t middot later he drafted the first systematicap-
middot whati w~ted6 do He returned to Wis pr()ach to the safety evaluation of medica con5il110 eanla PhDlll pathologyano devices joined Johnson amp JohnsQri as asenior middot Allsubsequeill guidelines inCiLlding patilol()gistiriI953 those of the Foodaj)q Diug Admlnistrashy
Research at Johnson amp JohDson tiOnand the Canadian Regulatory ~teeredmeinto many interesting and chal- Authority hayeadopteoihis approach he
Jenging fieldsofbio-research includirig says derniiltoi9gy toxicologic pathology Lordand his wife Helen ltIividetheir wound healing surgical pathology iiinebetweel)Ciipe CodandBonita genera toxkology ofi~w drugs andor~ Springs FloriQa
Shane Renwick 77 and MSc 91 works in veterinary services at Agriculture Canada offices in Guelph
Ruth Reuter 61 is a veterinary pathologist in Plympton Australia
Tom Sanderson 6 1 was selected by the Ontario Veterinary Medical Association as Ontario Veterinarian of 1991 CUlTently OVCs co-ordinator of off-campus work terms he spent 20 years in private practice in Listowe1 and Mount Forest before returning to the coll ege in 1982 to manage the veterishynary research stations Sanderson s contribushytions to the profess ion have included many hours of volunteer work in the advancement
of the profession and in the development of veterinary inshysurance programs He is a past pres ident of both the Ontario and Canadian Veterishynary Medical associashytions
Jennifer Troughton 86 is practising in OronoOnt
Simone Woltner 86 is a veterinarian at the Chester Basin Animal Hospital in Chester Basin NS
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by her hu sband William and two sons The fo llowing dea ths have been reported since the las t issue of the Guelph Alumnus Full notices which are usu ally submitted by family or classmates may appear in thi s iss ue or in a later one
James Clement Arts 73 Feb 2 1992
Marilyn (Dyment) Farnan Mac 530 Feb 27 1992
David Fisher OAC 80A in October 1990
Elizabeth (C hristie) Glass Mac 3I D June 2l99 1
Peter Heskey OAC 54A Dec 6 199 1
Richard Ketchell OVC 51 Nov 23 199 1
Edward Kowalski Arts 79 in August 199 1
Pauline (Dixon) MacMillan Mac 240 Jan 2 1992
Catherine MacPherson Arts 83 Dec 11 1990
Marguerite (White) Maybury Mac 3 10 in June 1990
Donald McLeOd CSS 80 Jan 9 1992
Albert Meilus OAC 51 in 1991
Ann (Biggs) Ostler Mac 3 10 in April 1991
Robert Race Arts 73 in 1989
Ralph Sampson OAC 40 in December 1989
Mor ris Sanderson OAC 42 Nov 17 1991
Sir Peter Scott HDSc 8 1 in Au gust 1989
William Setterington OAC 40 Oct 22 1991
George Shoniker OAC 50A in March 199 1
John Somerset OAC 34 Dec 27 199 1
Gregory Van Patter OAC 7 1 in 1990
Frederich Weiland OAC 20A in 1990
Arts
Riccardo Rich Incitti 88 died Jan 5 1992 as the result of an accident near Hami lshyton Ont He was assistant manager at the Toronto-Dominion Bank in St Cathari nes and is survived by his parents Gu igi and Lucia of Cambridge and two sisters Laura and Andrea
Larry McNenly 73 died in October 1991 in Owen Sound Ont He is survived by his wife Marnie CSS 73
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CBS
Robert Everett HK 74 died in May 1991 in Burlington Ont A teac her at White Oaks Secondary Schoo l in Oakv ille he is survived by his wife Miche le and brother William CBS 74
James Sandy Fear 75 died Oct I I 199 1 in Toronto He is survi ved by his wi fe Sally (Firth) OAC 75 and hi s children Caitlin Alli son and Mered ith
CSS
Lynn (Dalys) Corby 84 died in Toron to May 6 1990 after a long battIe with cancer
Nancy (Birbeck) Gordon 77 died Oct 20 1991 in Ottawa after a short illness She worked at the Kitchener-Waterl oo Hospital and had previously been plan t accountant at Foseco Canada Incorporated in Guelph
Mac-FACS
Jean (Williams) Forward 280 Oct 28 1991 in Calgary She was the widow of Bower Forward OAC 25 and is survived by two sons
Catharine (Bechtel) Fromm 270 died Nov I 199 1 in Cambridge Ont She is surshyvived by three dau ghters Ellen Moore Mac 63 Nancy and Caro l
Alice (Rivaz) Garrard 28 di ed Dec 2 199 1 in Guelph She was an active member of the Mac-FACS Alumni Assoc iat ion and was the Mac 28 class agent for the Alma Mater Fund She is survived by her husband retired professor Edward Garrard OAC 27 and a daughter Betty Nelson
Della Marie (Diamond) Honey 300 of Warkworth Ont died June 29 1991 One ofWarkworths oldest and most respected citizens she served as local li brarian fo r 25 years She is survived by her son John OAC 52A his wife Patric ia and four grandchildren James OAC 84A William OAC 76A Thomas OvC 89 and Patricia Lonergan CSS 68
Barbara (Banigan) Martin 380 died Jan I 1992 in Don Mill s Ont A retired teacher wit h the North York Board of Education she is survived by a son Ted a sister and two brothers
Elizabeth (Burt) Perry 340 died June 28 1991 in Sidney BC and is surv ived by her husband Gordon and son Paul Nartel OAC 62
Jacqueline (Roy) Pote 34D died Dec 2 1 1991 in Willowdale Ont and is is survived
Merrill and Bill
Doroth y (MacFeeters) Scott 260 died Jan 14 1992 in Toronto She is su rvived by two daughters Anne Donaldson and Cynthia Scott
Florence (French) Snyder 370 died May 6 199 1 in Calgary and is survived by her husband Robert and two sons John and William
Katherine (Sweet) Watt Mac 220 died Feb 23 1992 She is survived by her husshyband Leslie a son David and a dau ghter Carol Gi llanders
Mattie (Newman) Widdicombe 240 died Dec 11 1991 in St Catharines Ont Preshydeceased by her husband John she is surshyvived by a bro ther and several nieces and nephews including Virginia Rigby Arts 76
OAC
George Grey Arnup 38 died Feb 2 1992 in Toronto He spent most of his career with the plant protection branch of Agriculture Canada He is survived by his wife Aileen three chi ldren Nancy Jim and Mary Ellen Vincent CBS 79 and four grandchi ldren
Herbert Boyce 28 and MSA 43 died Sept 2 1991 in Amherstburg Onto He is survi ved by his wife Norah a daughter Beverley Med lock and a brother James OAC 32
Jack Reddy Brethet 56 died Nov 4 199 1 in Burlington Ont President of Brethet Barnum Assoc iates Inc he is surshyv ived by his wife Caro l and two daughters Lyn n and Anne
Bruce Foster 28 died Feb 6 1992 in Ridgetown Ont and is survi ved by his daughter Gayle Anderson and son David CBS 69
Allison Gardhouse 49 died Sept 21 1991 in Midland Ont He was re tired supe rshyintendent of schoo ls for the Simcoe County Board of Education and is survi ved by his wife Merle
Kenneth Harrison 24 died Nov 5 199 1 in Kentville NS A distinguished plant patho logist military officer and mycologist he began hi s career in 1926 as assistant plant pathologis t at the Kentvi lle Experimental Farm He worked there until retirement in 1966 wi th the exception of mi litary servi ce du ring the Second World War
Dr Harrison had a lifelong interes t in the study of mushrooms and publ ished numerou s technica l papers on the mu shroom flora of Nova Scotia In addition he enshy
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IN MEMORIAM
couraged interested amateurs and led field trips for student s at Acadia University and the general public from 1929 until 1987 In 1979 he was honored by Acadia wi th the dedication of the Kenneth A Harri son Laboratory of Mycology
During his career he was a member of many professional organizations a charter member of the Mycological Society of America and fe llow of the American Associashytion for the Advancement of Science
He is survived by hi s wife Margaret two brothers Maynard OAC 30 and Arthur OAC 29 two son s Ashley and Kenneth and a daughter Jennie Sheito
William Kellam 4 1 died Oct 19 1991 in Brockville Ont He was retired from the Curb and Gate Co of-Brock ville where he had worked as a lab technician fo r 28 years He is survived by his wife Kathleen a son George and a daughter Mary
William M acMillan 48 died in February 1992 in Winnipeg He was supervisor of Fertilizer marketing for the Manitoba Pool Elevators and is surv ived by hi s wife Edna Jean and brother Harry OAC 5 1 A
Cameron McTaggart 35 died Feb 4 1992 in Aurora Ont After graduating from OAC he became manager of Don Head Farms in Richmond Hill He established the first agricul tural consulting business in Canada in 1947 and later ran an Angus cattle
sales management business from the family farm A life member of the OAC Alumni As shysociat ion and the Class of 35 executive he is survived by his wife Margaret Mac 35 and two sons John OAC 62 of Regina and David of Largo Fla
Douglas Miller 48 of Victoria BC died Nov 24 1991 in Toronto He is survived by hi s wife Ruth and five children
Gregory More 76 was killed Feb 3 1992 in Kitchener Ont at the Ontario Glove Manufacturing Co where he was co-owner and vice-president Following graduation he worked for the Rohrer Drug Co and the Stershyling Drug Co then returned to school ea rnshying an MBA at McMaster University in 1981 More was an avid squash player and golfer Court A at the Northfield Racquet Club in Waterloo was dedicated to his memory in March He is survived by his parents Noreen and Ken a brother Randy and a sister Katherine Keeler
John Jack Pawley 33 died March I 1992 in Guelph He is survived by his wife Ruth son John OAC 62 and daughter-inshylaw Carolyn He was a former director of the Ontario Milk Marketing Board and a past member of the Royal City Lodge of Perfecshytion
Harold Reid 20A died in December 1991 in Burlington Ont During the First World W ar he was one of Canadas premier rad io
experts work ing at the Roya l Canadian Navy shore transmitter in Sydney NS After the war he came to OAC to earn a diploma then went on to QueenS University to comshyplete an arts and theology degree His mini sshytry was mainly in St And rews and Montreal although he spent 13 years teaching Hebrew at the Presbyterian Coll ege before retiring in 1968
Donald Robertson 3 1 died Nov 4 1991 in Iroquois Ont He is survived by hi s wife Caroline (Grisdale) Mac 38 his two son s ScottOAC 65A and Guy and a daughter Sandra McNeil
Thomas Rokeby 48 and MSA 50 died Jan 29 1992 in Fayetteville Ark He was a professional engineer and tau ght for 30 years in the Univers ity of Arkansas engineering department Born in Port Rowan Ont he was a member of the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War the American Society of Agricultural Engineers and the agricultural honor societies of Gamma Sigma Delta and Alpha Epsilon He is surv ived by his wife Helen two sons Robert and Richard a daughter Penny and three brothers Michael Noel and Richard OAC 54
Francis Sweeney OAC 45 died Nov 17 1991 in Oakville Ont He was a longtime employee of Shell Canada and [nternational Shell working in Great Britain Europe and
WALL CUSTANCE MEMORIAL FOREST
The Wall-Custance Memorial Forest located at the Universi ty of Guelphs Arboretum was established in recognition of the severe depletion of our forests It is never too late to be a vital part of the effort to save and improve our air and water for the future of our children by planting trees This program is our small part of the major endeavor to reforest and to reduce the greenhouse effect improve air quality and provide food and cover for wildlife The Memorial Forest Proshygram not only pays a Significant tribute to a loved one but also assures a better environment for generations to come
The purpose of this program is to provide an opporshytuni ty to commemorate the life of a loved one by plantshy
Home of the WALL-CUSTANCE
MEMORIAL FOREST
ing a tree We envision that the Memorial Forest Program will continue for many years to come and our hope is that the solace that nature offers particularly in the depths of a living forest will be of comfort and benefi t to all
For more information or for a brochure call or write to
WALL-CUSTANCE Funeral Home and Chapel 206 Norfolk Street Guelph Ontario N1 H 4K3 (519) 822-0051
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============= IN MEMORIAM ============= Venezuela He is survived by his wife Lynn and two daughters Alyson and Joselyn
Berna rd Weeks 35 died Oct 16 199 1 After graduation he re turned to his roots in
ew York and Pennsylvannia and worked in 4-H and you th organi zations for a few years He then took over the family farm at Troupsburg NY and built up a dairy operashytion with a sideline of sheep He is surv ived by his wife Ruth and four children
Glenn White 43 of Belleville Onl died Nov 24 199 1 in Florida and is surv ived by hi s wife Marjorie
ave Norman Anderson 39 of Wi nn ipeg died Dec 18 1991 in Arizona He had practised veterinary medicine in Norwood Man and was a member of the American Equine Pracshytitioners Association director of the Canadian Thoroughbred Society and track veterinarian at Assin iboia Downs for 50 years He is survived by his wi fe Peggy and two sons Laurie and James
George Beatty 5 I died Nov 22 1991 in Inverness III He practised in Palatine fo r 36 years and founded the Palatine Animal Hospi tal He was an active member of the American Animal Hospital Assoc iati on and the Chicago Veterinary Association and was a director of the Friends of the University of Guelph He is survived by his wife Mary and fo ur children - Suzanne Patricia Margaret and Tim
John Hamilton 5 L died Dec 15 1991 He had lived in Roslin On where he owned the Bay Regional Veterinary Hospital He is survived by hi s niece Ann Bongard
Nicholas Labzoffsky 39 died Dec 25 1991 in Largo Fla Fonnerly of Toronto he had li ved most recen tl y in Dorse t Ont and is survived by hi s wife Jane
Edgar Langford 49 died March 41992 in Monarch Alta A former research scienshytist with ADRI (Western) he is survived by his wife Norma and two daughters includshying Carolyn OVC 76
Stuart Maude 4 1 died Jan 14 1992 in Rosemead Calif A former Rosemead counshycillor and four-time mayor he operated the Rosemead Animal Hospital with his brother Arthur 52 from 1953 to 1980 He was a trustee for Ingles ide Hospital a past grand patron of both the Rosemead and the Califorshynia Order of Eastern Star and past-president of the local Kiwanis Club and Chamber of Commerce He is survived by his wife Vera two daughters Patricia and Susan Bezner a son Stuart and three brothers
Walter Morley 42 o f Mildmay On died Nov 28 199 1 He ran a large animal pracshytice in the Mild may area for 39 years raised cat tle and raced standardbred horses He was also a pu blic school board trustee and direcshytor of a local te lephone company for more
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than 30 years He is survived by his wife Joyce five sons - two of whom are OVC alumni Dave 68 and Randy 74 - and 10 grandchildren
Lloyd Neily 52 died Jan 3 1992 in Hantsport NS A retired meat inspector w ith the federal Department of Agriculture he had a private veterinary practice in Wind sor NS He is surv ived by hi s wife Mary
Elford Nundal 43 died Jan 7 1992 in Langley BC after a long battle with canshycer He operated a veterinary practice in Langley for 36 years and served as a di strict aldennan for 10 years before being elected mayor in 1982 Last year he received the BC Veterinarian Association s award of merit for a lifetime of veterinary work
Humphrey Rees 55 died Sepl 30 1991 in Amman Jordan while on ass ignment for the Overseas Development Ad ministrat ion as veterinary and animal hu sbandry adviser to the Jordani an government His contemshyporaries at Guelph will remember him as a singer debater raconteur rugby player and bon vivant He is surv ived by his wife Alice of POlt Eynon Wales
William Stinson 40 died Feb 15 1992 in Norwood Ont He is survi ved by his wife Rita a son John OVC 67 a brother Ford OAC 34 and a grandson John CSS 87
Faculty
Patric ia Harney died Dec 191991 in Yarshymouth NS A professor in the Department of Horticultural Science from 1962 to 1988 she developed severa l new variet ies of geraniums and was instru mental in es tabshylishing the Frances Ball rose collection at the Arboretum
Anthony Marston died Feb 3 1992 in Fershygu s ant Retired from the School of Hotel and Food Administration he was an acshycomplished competition chef who received his training in Switzerland and England He then spent severa l years working in the Caribbean before coming to Guelph in 1970 A member of the Canadian Olympic culinary team he held a number of positions in the
Donations given in memory ofGuelph alumni will help support University scholarships ifdirected to the Alumni M emorial Fund In 1991 donations were made in memory of the following alumni
Frank MacDonald OAC 37
Frank King OAC 33 -Robert Allen OAC 56A
Alice (Rivaz) Garrard Mac 28
Stan Vesselinovitch OVC 57
For more infonnation call the Office of Annual Giving at 519-824-4120 Ext 6 183
hote l and food industry until retiring in 1982 He is survived by hi s wife Di ana
Gordon McNally dled Jan 12 1992 in Guelph A professor in the Department of Zoo logy from 1934 to 1971 he served as academic assistant to the dean of CBS until retiring in 1979 While at Guelph he was honorary pres id ent of the classes of OAC 54 58 and 67 He is survived by his daughter Jean two siste rs and two grandchildren Prof McNallys family has established the A Gordon Mc a lly Memorial Fund to support a sc holarship or bursary Contributions may be sent care of the Alma Mater Fund Alumni Hou se University of Guelph Guelph ant N I G 2WI
Friends
Jean (Young) Branion died March 3 1992 in Guelph She was the wife of the late Hugh Branion a physiology professor at U of G and assistant to presidents Bill Winegard and Don Forster Jean Branion was an act ive volunteer on campus for many years and one of the firs t presidents of the College Womens Club She is survived by a son Richard and his wife Marga re t of Vanshycouve r and five grandchi ldren Donati ons may be made to the Hugh D Branion Memorial Scholarship through Alumni House
Davy Alexander Hamilton-Williamson died Feb 4 1992 in Guelph A painter and author of childrens stories he had been a member of the University s Presidents Council s ince it began in 1 985
Marjorie Pinkney wife of J ames Pinkney OVC 3 7 died Dec 151 99 [ at her home in Milton ant
Samuel Wyal died March 15 1992 in Brantford ant He was a partner in the law firm Wyatt Purce ll Will Stillman and Scott He is surv ived by his wife M a bel Mac 39 four sons Peter Michael William and John and two daughters Mary Alderson and Sarah Nadalin Arts 82
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INVmiddotESTMENTS amp
DIVIDENDS
Facts about university education in Canada and how we pay for it
By 2000 half of all new jobs in Canada will require a university degree
But at the current rate of government funding only one in five children
will have a chance to go to university
In the seven years from 1982 to 1989 per-student grants to universities in
Ontario barely kept pace with intlation at five per cent
per-student funding at American public univers ities jumped an average
of 23 per cent in the same period
Those US universities also receive twice the federal research dollars per student as do Ontario universities
In 1987 the average salary of a full-time professor at an Ontario univers ity was $55500
compared with $68200 for a private-sector position of similar education and experience
Lawyers economists and engineers made an average of $71 000
Ontario ranks ninth out of the to provinces in terms of grants to universities
Between 1978 and 1991 enrolment at Ontario univers ities grew by 40 per cent while funding dropped
from 59 to 409 per cent of total government spending
Universities were spending 14 per cent less per student between 1977 and 1988 hospital expenditures
rose 38 per cent per patient in the same period
Ontario universities generate $3 of economic activity for every
$1 invested by government funding
And the number of jobs generated by university activities in
Ontario is greater than the employment impact of the textile
industry the entire paper and pulp industry or utilities
University graduates can look forward to earning 63 per cent more than the average industrial worker
A 1990 survey of U of G alumni found that two years after graduation 97 per cent of Guelph grads
looking for work were employed 62 per cent were earning $25000 or more and 10 per cent were
earning $40000 or more
Unemployment rates in 1990 for those with a university degree was about one-third what it was
for those with only a high school diploma
Every year from 1978 to 1987 Ontario university inves tments in renovating or replacing
aging buildings could not keep pace with the rate at which the buildings depreciated
Graphics by Debbie Thompson Wilson Statistics supplied by th~ Council 01 Ontario UniverSities Statistics Canada and the U01 G Student EnVifonment Study Group
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A salute to sport Alumni Weekend June 19-21 9am Sio-pitch tournament
The tradition Jives on at the south quad diamond s Cooed teams of 12 or more players are encourshyaged to join in the fun
FRIDAY 10 am to 9 pm Registration Lambton Hall
6 pm Kick-off dinner and half-time show
get set and join In the Olympic spirit one of Alumni Creelman Hall will Weekends host the Wonderful most popular World of Sports with events Tours a half-time slide show start from to entertain alumni of Alumni House all ages and are sponshy9 pmshy sored by the Observatory tours CBS Alumni
Association
10 am and 2 pm
SATURDAY 8 am to 5 pm Guided Registration walking tours Lambton Hall
Remember 9 am to 5 pm making s now Alumni House tours sc ulptures on Students will host tours of Alumni House throughshyout the weekend Come and see what the generosity of alumni has accomplished
9 am to noon Alumni association annual meetings
This is the official notice for the annual general meetings of the following alumni associations
CBS - Alumni House starts at 830 am before guided walk MacFACS - HAFA Building Room 209
OVC - OvC Room 1438
OAC - Macdonald Hall Room 149
CSS - MacKinnon Building Room 305
HAFA - Alumni Hou se boardroom
Gryphs Lounge will be open for lunch and afLer the game
930 am Guided nature walk at the Arboretum
On your mark
Noon - OVC luncheon
The OvC Alumni Association will host a luncheon open to all OvC alumni and their guests
2 pm - Campus Showcase 92
Following on the heels of last year s success Campus Showshycase 92 will be bigger and better Come to the University Centre to see exhibits representing all areas on campus The Campus Junction store will also be open
2 pm - Zavitz Hall tour
Alumni are invited to browse through the newly renovated Za vitz Hall and attend a recep shytion sponsored by the Colshylege of Arts Alumni Asshysoc iation
5 pm Golden anniversary dinner
The OAC OvC and MacshyFACS alumni associations will provide complimenshytary tickets for alumni celebrating 50 years or more Additiona l tickets can be purchased Classes
Johnston Green or playing intramural hockey in the old Quonset arena Relive some of the memories by taking a walking tour of campus Tours begin from the lobby ofLambton Hall
Noon - Alumni picnic
This apopular event has new location - the sculpshyture garden beside the Macshydonald Stewart Art Centre Come on your own or reshyserve a group of tables for friends and classmates
Noon - Class reunion lunches
OAC 37 Mac 37 OAC 42 Mac 42 OAC 47 Mac 52 Mac57 Mac 67 FACS 72 FACS 77 FACS 87
OAC 67 FACS 82 OAC 82 OAC 82A CBS 82 FACS 87 OAC 87
SUNDAY 9am Church service and War Memorial Hall rededication
Thanks to a commitment from the Alma Mater Fund renovashytion of the upstairs of War Memorial Hall has been comshypleted Join us for the rededicashytion ceremony commemorating the 1924 opening and the 1952 dedication of an OAC memorial plaque
being honored are OAC 22 OAC 47 OvC 22 Mac 22 OAC 27 OvC 27 Mac 27 OAC 32 OvC 32 Mac 32 OAC 37 OvC 37 Mac 37 OAC 42 OvC 42 Mac 42
6 pm Class reunion dinners
Special dinn e r reunions are planned for OAC 47 OAC 52 OAC 52A OvC 52 Mac 57 OAC 57 OAC 62 Mac 67
10am UGAA annual meeting
All alumni are encouraged to atshytend the UGAA annual meeting in Macdonald Hall Room 149 An amendment to the UGAA Letters Patent and a revised bylaw will be presented for ap shyproval Copies of both are availshyable on request from Alumni House Call 519-824-4120 Ext 6544
11 am - Farewell brunch
The final event of Alumni Weekend will be held in Creelshyman Hall Come and meet the Univers ity S president Brian Segal The Alumnus of Honour medal will be presented at noon
To receive an Alumni Weekshyend brochure or to register for events call Alumni House at 59-824-4120 Ext 6963
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Where research and industry Dleet
Space available now Exceptional office and research facilities in our multi-tenant Research Park Centre
Research-driven corporations are breaking new ground at the University of Guelph Research Park Centre with exceptional growth opporshytunities in an ideal business setting
This 30-acre Research Park also accommodates tenants who choose to construct their own office and laboratory facilities
Find out why organizations such as Semex Canada Tremco Limited the Ontario Dairy Herd Improvement Corporation George Morris Centre LIPID Analytical Laboratories and Agriculture Canada have chosen the University of Guelph Research Park Call Ralph Eades or Judy Phillips Real Estate Division University of Guelph Telephone (519) 767-5003 or Fax (519) 837-0353
The Research Park is a project oj the Office oj Research and the University S Real Estate Division
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by her hu sband William and two sons The fo llowing dea ths have been reported since the las t issue of the Guelph Alumnus Full notices which are usu ally submitted by family or classmates may appear in thi s iss ue or in a later one
James Clement Arts 73 Feb 2 1992
Marilyn (Dyment) Farnan Mac 530 Feb 27 1992
David Fisher OAC 80A in October 1990
Elizabeth (C hristie) Glass Mac 3I D June 2l99 1
Peter Heskey OAC 54A Dec 6 199 1
Richard Ketchell OVC 51 Nov 23 199 1
Edward Kowalski Arts 79 in August 199 1
Pauline (Dixon) MacMillan Mac 240 Jan 2 1992
Catherine MacPherson Arts 83 Dec 11 1990
Marguerite (White) Maybury Mac 3 10 in June 1990
Donald McLeOd CSS 80 Jan 9 1992
Albert Meilus OAC 51 in 1991
Ann (Biggs) Ostler Mac 3 10 in April 1991
Robert Race Arts 73 in 1989
Ralph Sampson OAC 40 in December 1989
Mor ris Sanderson OAC 42 Nov 17 1991
Sir Peter Scott HDSc 8 1 in Au gust 1989
William Setterington OAC 40 Oct 22 1991
George Shoniker OAC 50A in March 199 1
John Somerset OAC 34 Dec 27 199 1
Gregory Van Patter OAC 7 1 in 1990
Frederich Weiland OAC 20A in 1990
Arts
Riccardo Rich Incitti 88 died Jan 5 1992 as the result of an accident near Hami lshyton Ont He was assistant manager at the Toronto-Dominion Bank in St Cathari nes and is survived by his parents Gu igi and Lucia of Cambridge and two sisters Laura and Andrea
Larry McNenly 73 died in October 1991 in Owen Sound Ont He is survived by his wife Marnie CSS 73
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CBS
Robert Everett HK 74 died in May 1991 in Burlington Ont A teac her at White Oaks Secondary Schoo l in Oakv ille he is survived by his wife Miche le and brother William CBS 74
James Sandy Fear 75 died Oct I I 199 1 in Toronto He is survi ved by his wi fe Sally (Firth) OAC 75 and hi s children Caitlin Alli son and Mered ith
CSS
Lynn (Dalys) Corby 84 died in Toron to May 6 1990 after a long battIe with cancer
Nancy (Birbeck) Gordon 77 died Oct 20 1991 in Ottawa after a short illness She worked at the Kitchener-Waterl oo Hospital and had previously been plan t accountant at Foseco Canada Incorporated in Guelph
Mac-FACS
Jean (Williams) Forward 280 Oct 28 1991 in Calgary She was the widow of Bower Forward OAC 25 and is survived by two sons
Catharine (Bechtel) Fromm 270 died Nov I 199 1 in Cambridge Ont She is surshyvived by three dau ghters Ellen Moore Mac 63 Nancy and Caro l
Alice (Rivaz) Garrard 28 di ed Dec 2 199 1 in Guelph She was an active member of the Mac-FACS Alumni Assoc iat ion and was the Mac 28 class agent for the Alma Mater Fund She is survived by her husband retired professor Edward Garrard OAC 27 and a daughter Betty Nelson
Della Marie (Diamond) Honey 300 of Warkworth Ont died June 29 1991 One ofWarkworths oldest and most respected citizens she served as local li brarian fo r 25 years She is survived by her son John OAC 52A his wife Patric ia and four grandchildren James OAC 84A William OAC 76A Thomas OvC 89 and Patricia Lonergan CSS 68
Barbara (Banigan) Martin 380 died Jan I 1992 in Don Mill s Ont A retired teacher wit h the North York Board of Education she is survived by a son Ted a sister and two brothers
Elizabeth (Burt) Perry 340 died June 28 1991 in Sidney BC and is surv ived by her husband Gordon and son Paul Nartel OAC 62
Jacqueline (Roy) Pote 34D died Dec 2 1 1991 in Willowdale Ont and is is survived
Merrill and Bill
Doroth y (MacFeeters) Scott 260 died Jan 14 1992 in Toronto She is su rvived by two daughters Anne Donaldson and Cynthia Scott
Florence (French) Snyder 370 died May 6 199 1 in Calgary and is survived by her husband Robert and two sons John and William
Katherine (Sweet) Watt Mac 220 died Feb 23 1992 She is survived by her husshyband Leslie a son David and a dau ghter Carol Gi llanders
Mattie (Newman) Widdicombe 240 died Dec 11 1991 in St Catharines Ont Preshydeceased by her husband John she is surshyvived by a bro ther and several nieces and nephews including Virginia Rigby Arts 76
OAC
George Grey Arnup 38 died Feb 2 1992 in Toronto He spent most of his career with the plant protection branch of Agriculture Canada He is survived by his wife Aileen three chi ldren Nancy Jim and Mary Ellen Vincent CBS 79 and four grandchi ldren
Herbert Boyce 28 and MSA 43 died Sept 2 1991 in Amherstburg Onto He is survi ved by his wife Norah a daughter Beverley Med lock and a brother James OAC 32
Jack Reddy Brethet 56 died Nov 4 199 1 in Burlington Ont President of Brethet Barnum Assoc iates Inc he is surshyv ived by his wife Caro l and two daughters Lyn n and Anne
Bruce Foster 28 died Feb 6 1992 in Ridgetown Ont and is survi ved by his daughter Gayle Anderson and son David CBS 69
Allison Gardhouse 49 died Sept 21 1991 in Midland Ont He was re tired supe rshyintendent of schoo ls for the Simcoe County Board of Education and is survi ved by his wife Merle
Kenneth Harrison 24 died Nov 5 199 1 in Kentville NS A distinguished plant patho logist military officer and mycologist he began hi s career in 1926 as assistant plant pathologis t at the Kentvi lle Experimental Farm He worked there until retirement in 1966 wi th the exception of mi litary servi ce du ring the Second World War
Dr Harrison had a lifelong interes t in the study of mushrooms and publ ished numerou s technica l papers on the mu shroom flora of Nova Scotia In addition he enshy
35
IN MEMORIAM
couraged interested amateurs and led field trips for student s at Acadia University and the general public from 1929 until 1987 In 1979 he was honored by Acadia wi th the dedication of the Kenneth A Harri son Laboratory of Mycology
During his career he was a member of many professional organizations a charter member of the Mycological Society of America and fe llow of the American Associashytion for the Advancement of Science
He is survived by hi s wife Margaret two brothers Maynard OAC 30 and Arthur OAC 29 two son s Ashley and Kenneth and a daughter Jennie Sheito
William Kellam 4 1 died Oct 19 1991 in Brockville Ont He was retired from the Curb and Gate Co of-Brock ville where he had worked as a lab technician fo r 28 years He is survived by his wife Kathleen a son George and a daughter Mary
William M acMillan 48 died in February 1992 in Winnipeg He was supervisor of Fertilizer marketing for the Manitoba Pool Elevators and is surv ived by hi s wife Edna Jean and brother Harry OAC 5 1 A
Cameron McTaggart 35 died Feb 4 1992 in Aurora Ont After graduating from OAC he became manager of Don Head Farms in Richmond Hill He established the first agricul tural consulting business in Canada in 1947 and later ran an Angus cattle
sales management business from the family farm A life member of the OAC Alumni As shysociat ion and the Class of 35 executive he is survived by his wife Margaret Mac 35 and two sons John OAC 62 of Regina and David of Largo Fla
Douglas Miller 48 of Victoria BC died Nov 24 1991 in Toronto He is survived by hi s wife Ruth and five children
Gregory More 76 was killed Feb 3 1992 in Kitchener Ont at the Ontario Glove Manufacturing Co where he was co-owner and vice-president Following graduation he worked for the Rohrer Drug Co and the Stershyling Drug Co then returned to school ea rnshying an MBA at McMaster University in 1981 More was an avid squash player and golfer Court A at the Northfield Racquet Club in Waterloo was dedicated to his memory in March He is survived by his parents Noreen and Ken a brother Randy and a sister Katherine Keeler
John Jack Pawley 33 died March I 1992 in Guelph He is survived by his wife Ruth son John OAC 62 and daughter-inshylaw Carolyn He was a former director of the Ontario Milk Marketing Board and a past member of the Royal City Lodge of Perfecshytion
Harold Reid 20A died in December 1991 in Burlington Ont During the First World W ar he was one of Canadas premier rad io
experts work ing at the Roya l Canadian Navy shore transmitter in Sydney NS After the war he came to OAC to earn a diploma then went on to QueenS University to comshyplete an arts and theology degree His mini sshytry was mainly in St And rews and Montreal although he spent 13 years teaching Hebrew at the Presbyterian Coll ege before retiring in 1968
Donald Robertson 3 1 died Nov 4 1991 in Iroquois Ont He is survived by hi s wife Caroline (Grisdale) Mac 38 his two son s ScottOAC 65A and Guy and a daughter Sandra McNeil
Thomas Rokeby 48 and MSA 50 died Jan 29 1992 in Fayetteville Ark He was a professional engineer and tau ght for 30 years in the Univers ity of Arkansas engineering department Born in Port Rowan Ont he was a member of the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War the American Society of Agricultural Engineers and the agricultural honor societies of Gamma Sigma Delta and Alpha Epsilon He is surv ived by his wife Helen two sons Robert and Richard a daughter Penny and three brothers Michael Noel and Richard OAC 54
Francis Sweeney OAC 45 died Nov 17 1991 in Oakville Ont He was a longtime employee of Shell Canada and [nternational Shell working in Great Britain Europe and
WALL CUSTANCE MEMORIAL FOREST
The Wall-Custance Memorial Forest located at the Universi ty of Guelphs Arboretum was established in recognition of the severe depletion of our forests It is never too late to be a vital part of the effort to save and improve our air and water for the future of our children by planting trees This program is our small part of the major endeavor to reforest and to reduce the greenhouse effect improve air quality and provide food and cover for wildlife The Memorial Forest Proshygram not only pays a Significant tribute to a loved one but also assures a better environment for generations to come
The purpose of this program is to provide an opporshytuni ty to commemorate the life of a loved one by plantshy
Home of the WALL-CUSTANCE
MEMORIAL FOREST
ing a tree We envision that the Memorial Forest Program will continue for many years to come and our hope is that the solace that nature offers particularly in the depths of a living forest will be of comfort and benefi t to all
For more information or for a brochure call or write to
WALL-CUSTANCE Funeral Home and Chapel 206 Norfolk Street Guelph Ontario N1 H 4K3 (519) 822-0051
Guelph Alumnus 36
============= IN MEMORIAM ============= Venezuela He is survived by his wife Lynn and two daughters Alyson and Joselyn
Berna rd Weeks 35 died Oct 16 199 1 After graduation he re turned to his roots in
ew York and Pennsylvannia and worked in 4-H and you th organi zations for a few years He then took over the family farm at Troupsburg NY and built up a dairy operashytion with a sideline of sheep He is surv ived by his wife Ruth and four children
Glenn White 43 of Belleville Onl died Nov 24 199 1 in Florida and is surv ived by hi s wife Marjorie
ave Norman Anderson 39 of Wi nn ipeg died Dec 18 1991 in Arizona He had practised veterinary medicine in Norwood Man and was a member of the American Equine Pracshytitioners Association director of the Canadian Thoroughbred Society and track veterinarian at Assin iboia Downs for 50 years He is survived by his wi fe Peggy and two sons Laurie and James
George Beatty 5 I died Nov 22 1991 in Inverness III He practised in Palatine fo r 36 years and founded the Palatine Animal Hospi tal He was an active member of the American Animal Hospital Assoc iati on and the Chicago Veterinary Association and was a director of the Friends of the University of Guelph He is survived by his wife Mary and fo ur children - Suzanne Patricia Margaret and Tim
John Hamilton 5 L died Dec 15 1991 He had lived in Roslin On where he owned the Bay Regional Veterinary Hospital He is survived by hi s niece Ann Bongard
Nicholas Labzoffsky 39 died Dec 25 1991 in Largo Fla Fonnerly of Toronto he had li ved most recen tl y in Dorse t Ont and is survived by hi s wife Jane
Edgar Langford 49 died March 41992 in Monarch Alta A former research scienshytist with ADRI (Western) he is survived by his wife Norma and two daughters includshying Carolyn OVC 76
Stuart Maude 4 1 died Jan 14 1992 in Rosemead Calif A former Rosemead counshycillor and four-time mayor he operated the Rosemead Animal Hospital with his brother Arthur 52 from 1953 to 1980 He was a trustee for Ingles ide Hospital a past grand patron of both the Rosemead and the Califorshynia Order of Eastern Star and past-president of the local Kiwanis Club and Chamber of Commerce He is survived by his wife Vera two daughters Patricia and Susan Bezner a son Stuart and three brothers
Walter Morley 42 o f Mildmay On died Nov 28 199 1 He ran a large animal pracshytice in the Mild may area for 39 years raised cat tle and raced standardbred horses He was also a pu blic school board trustee and direcshytor of a local te lephone company for more
Guelph Alumnus
than 30 years He is survived by his wife Joyce five sons - two of whom are OVC alumni Dave 68 and Randy 74 - and 10 grandchildren
Lloyd Neily 52 died Jan 3 1992 in Hantsport NS A retired meat inspector w ith the federal Department of Agriculture he had a private veterinary practice in Wind sor NS He is surv ived by hi s wife Mary
Elford Nundal 43 died Jan 7 1992 in Langley BC after a long battle with canshycer He operated a veterinary practice in Langley for 36 years and served as a di strict aldennan for 10 years before being elected mayor in 1982 Last year he received the BC Veterinarian Association s award of merit for a lifetime of veterinary work
Humphrey Rees 55 died Sepl 30 1991 in Amman Jordan while on ass ignment for the Overseas Development Ad ministrat ion as veterinary and animal hu sbandry adviser to the Jordani an government His contemshyporaries at Guelph will remember him as a singer debater raconteur rugby player and bon vivant He is surv ived by his wife Alice of POlt Eynon Wales
William Stinson 40 died Feb 15 1992 in Norwood Ont He is survi ved by his wife Rita a son John OVC 67 a brother Ford OAC 34 and a grandson John CSS 87
Faculty
Patric ia Harney died Dec 191991 in Yarshymouth NS A professor in the Department of Horticultural Science from 1962 to 1988 she developed severa l new variet ies of geraniums and was instru mental in es tabshylishing the Frances Ball rose collection at the Arboretum
Anthony Marston died Feb 3 1992 in Fershygu s ant Retired from the School of Hotel and Food Administration he was an acshycomplished competition chef who received his training in Switzerland and England He then spent severa l years working in the Caribbean before coming to Guelph in 1970 A member of the Canadian Olympic culinary team he held a number of positions in the
Donations given in memory ofGuelph alumni will help support University scholarships ifdirected to the Alumni M emorial Fund In 1991 donations were made in memory of the following alumni
Frank MacDonald OAC 37
Frank King OAC 33 -Robert Allen OAC 56A
Alice (Rivaz) Garrard Mac 28
Stan Vesselinovitch OVC 57
For more infonnation call the Office of Annual Giving at 519-824-4120 Ext 6 183
hote l and food industry until retiring in 1982 He is survived by hi s wife Di ana
Gordon McNally dled Jan 12 1992 in Guelph A professor in the Department of Zoo logy from 1934 to 1971 he served as academic assistant to the dean of CBS until retiring in 1979 While at Guelph he was honorary pres id ent of the classes of OAC 54 58 and 67 He is survived by his daughter Jean two siste rs and two grandchildren Prof McNallys family has established the A Gordon Mc a lly Memorial Fund to support a sc holarship or bursary Contributions may be sent care of the Alma Mater Fund Alumni Hou se University of Guelph Guelph ant N I G 2WI
Friends
Jean (Young) Branion died March 3 1992 in Guelph She was the wife of the late Hugh Branion a physiology professor at U of G and assistant to presidents Bill Winegard and Don Forster Jean Branion was an act ive volunteer on campus for many years and one of the firs t presidents of the College Womens Club She is survived by a son Richard and his wife Marga re t of Vanshycouve r and five grandchi ldren Donati ons may be made to the Hugh D Branion Memorial Scholarship through Alumni House
Davy Alexander Hamilton-Williamson died Feb 4 1992 in Guelph A painter and author of childrens stories he had been a member of the University s Presidents Council s ince it began in 1 985
Marjorie Pinkney wife of J ames Pinkney OVC 3 7 died Dec 151 99 [ at her home in Milton ant
Samuel Wyal died March 15 1992 in Brantford ant He was a partner in the law firm Wyatt Purce ll Will Stillman and Scott He is surv ived by his wife M a bel Mac 39 four sons Peter Michael William and John and two daughters Mary Alderson and Sarah Nadalin Arts 82
37
INVmiddotESTMENTS amp
DIVIDENDS
Facts about university education in Canada and how we pay for it
By 2000 half of all new jobs in Canada will require a university degree
But at the current rate of government funding only one in five children
will have a chance to go to university
In the seven years from 1982 to 1989 per-student grants to universities in
Ontario barely kept pace with intlation at five per cent
per-student funding at American public univers ities jumped an average
of 23 per cent in the same period
Those US universities also receive twice the federal research dollars per student as do Ontario universities
In 1987 the average salary of a full-time professor at an Ontario univers ity was $55500
compared with $68200 for a private-sector position of similar education and experience
Lawyers economists and engineers made an average of $71 000
Ontario ranks ninth out of the to provinces in terms of grants to universities
Between 1978 and 1991 enrolment at Ontario univers ities grew by 40 per cent while funding dropped
from 59 to 409 per cent of total government spending
Universities were spending 14 per cent less per student between 1977 and 1988 hospital expenditures
rose 38 per cent per patient in the same period
Ontario universities generate $3 of economic activity for every
$1 invested by government funding
And the number of jobs generated by university activities in
Ontario is greater than the employment impact of the textile
industry the entire paper and pulp industry or utilities
University graduates can look forward to earning 63 per cent more than the average industrial worker
A 1990 survey of U of G alumni found that two years after graduation 97 per cent of Guelph grads
looking for work were employed 62 per cent were earning $25000 or more and 10 per cent were
earning $40000 or more
Unemployment rates in 1990 for those with a university degree was about one-third what it was
for those with only a high school diploma
Every year from 1978 to 1987 Ontario university inves tments in renovating or replacing
aging buildings could not keep pace with the rate at which the buildings depreciated
Graphics by Debbie Thompson Wilson Statistics supplied by th~ Council 01 Ontario UniverSities Statistics Canada and the U01 G Student EnVifonment Study Group
Guelph Alumnus 38
A salute to sport Alumni Weekend June 19-21 9am Sio-pitch tournament
The tradition Jives on at the south quad diamond s Cooed teams of 12 or more players are encourshyaged to join in the fun
FRIDAY 10 am to 9 pm Registration Lambton Hall
6 pm Kick-off dinner and half-time show
get set and join In the Olympic spirit one of Alumni Creelman Hall will Weekends host the Wonderful most popular World of Sports with events Tours a half-time slide show start from to entertain alumni of Alumni House all ages and are sponshy9 pmshy sored by the Observatory tours CBS Alumni
Association
10 am and 2 pm
SATURDAY 8 am to 5 pm Guided Registration walking tours Lambton Hall
Remember 9 am to 5 pm making s now Alumni House tours sc ulptures on Students will host tours of Alumni House throughshyout the weekend Come and see what the generosity of alumni has accomplished
9 am to noon Alumni association annual meetings
This is the official notice for the annual general meetings of the following alumni associations
CBS - Alumni House starts at 830 am before guided walk MacFACS - HAFA Building Room 209
OVC - OvC Room 1438
OAC - Macdonald Hall Room 149
CSS - MacKinnon Building Room 305
HAFA - Alumni Hou se boardroom
Gryphs Lounge will be open for lunch and afLer the game
930 am Guided nature walk at the Arboretum
On your mark
Noon - OVC luncheon
The OvC Alumni Association will host a luncheon open to all OvC alumni and their guests
2 pm - Campus Showcase 92
Following on the heels of last year s success Campus Showshycase 92 will be bigger and better Come to the University Centre to see exhibits representing all areas on campus The Campus Junction store will also be open
2 pm - Zavitz Hall tour
Alumni are invited to browse through the newly renovated Za vitz Hall and attend a recep shytion sponsored by the Colshylege of Arts Alumni Asshysoc iation
5 pm Golden anniversary dinner
The OAC OvC and MacshyFACS alumni associations will provide complimenshytary tickets for alumni celebrating 50 years or more Additiona l tickets can be purchased Classes
Johnston Green or playing intramural hockey in the old Quonset arena Relive some of the memories by taking a walking tour of campus Tours begin from the lobby ofLambton Hall
Noon - Alumni picnic
This apopular event has new location - the sculpshyture garden beside the Macshydonald Stewart Art Centre Come on your own or reshyserve a group of tables for friends and classmates
Noon - Class reunion lunches
OAC 37 Mac 37 OAC 42 Mac 42 OAC 47 Mac 52 Mac57 Mac 67 FACS 72 FACS 77 FACS 87
OAC 67 FACS 82 OAC 82 OAC 82A CBS 82 FACS 87 OAC 87
SUNDAY 9am Church service and War Memorial Hall rededication
Thanks to a commitment from the Alma Mater Fund renovashytion of the upstairs of War Memorial Hall has been comshypleted Join us for the rededicashytion ceremony commemorating the 1924 opening and the 1952 dedication of an OAC memorial plaque
being honored are OAC 22 OAC 47 OvC 22 Mac 22 OAC 27 OvC 27 Mac 27 OAC 32 OvC 32 Mac 32 OAC 37 OvC 37 Mac 37 OAC 42 OvC 42 Mac 42
6 pm Class reunion dinners
Special dinn e r reunions are planned for OAC 47 OAC 52 OAC 52A OvC 52 Mac 57 OAC 57 OAC 62 Mac 67
10am UGAA annual meeting
All alumni are encouraged to atshytend the UGAA annual meeting in Macdonald Hall Room 149 An amendment to the UGAA Letters Patent and a revised bylaw will be presented for ap shyproval Copies of both are availshyable on request from Alumni House Call 519-824-4120 Ext 6544
11 am - Farewell brunch
The final event of Alumni Weekend will be held in Creelshyman Hall Come and meet the Univers ity S president Brian Segal The Alumnus of Honour medal will be presented at noon
To receive an Alumni Weekshyend brochure or to register for events call Alumni House at 59-824-4120 Ext 6963
Opened July 1991Research Park Centre shy
Where research and industry Dleet
Space available now Exceptional office and research facilities in our multi-tenant Research Park Centre
Research-driven corporations are breaking new ground at the University of Guelph Research Park Centre with exceptional growth opporshytunities in an ideal business setting
This 30-acre Research Park also accommodates tenants who choose to construct their own office and laboratory facilities
Find out why organizations such as Semex Canada Tremco Limited the Ontario Dairy Herd Improvement Corporation George Morris Centre LIPID Analytical Laboratories and Agriculture Canada have chosen the University of Guelph Research Park Call Ralph Eades or Judy Phillips Real Estate Division University of Guelph Telephone (519) 767-5003 or Fax (519) 837-0353
The Research Park is a project oj the Office oj Research and the University S Real Estate Division
RESE bull RCH PARK
CENTRE UNIVERSITY grGUELPH
IN MEMORIAM
couraged interested amateurs and led field trips for student s at Acadia University and the general public from 1929 until 1987 In 1979 he was honored by Acadia wi th the dedication of the Kenneth A Harri son Laboratory of Mycology
During his career he was a member of many professional organizations a charter member of the Mycological Society of America and fe llow of the American Associashytion for the Advancement of Science
He is survived by hi s wife Margaret two brothers Maynard OAC 30 and Arthur OAC 29 two son s Ashley and Kenneth and a daughter Jennie Sheito
William Kellam 4 1 died Oct 19 1991 in Brockville Ont He was retired from the Curb and Gate Co of-Brock ville where he had worked as a lab technician fo r 28 years He is survived by his wife Kathleen a son George and a daughter Mary
William M acMillan 48 died in February 1992 in Winnipeg He was supervisor of Fertilizer marketing for the Manitoba Pool Elevators and is surv ived by hi s wife Edna Jean and brother Harry OAC 5 1 A
Cameron McTaggart 35 died Feb 4 1992 in Aurora Ont After graduating from OAC he became manager of Don Head Farms in Richmond Hill He established the first agricul tural consulting business in Canada in 1947 and later ran an Angus cattle
sales management business from the family farm A life member of the OAC Alumni As shysociat ion and the Class of 35 executive he is survived by his wife Margaret Mac 35 and two sons John OAC 62 of Regina and David of Largo Fla
Douglas Miller 48 of Victoria BC died Nov 24 1991 in Toronto He is survived by hi s wife Ruth and five children
Gregory More 76 was killed Feb 3 1992 in Kitchener Ont at the Ontario Glove Manufacturing Co where he was co-owner and vice-president Following graduation he worked for the Rohrer Drug Co and the Stershyling Drug Co then returned to school ea rnshying an MBA at McMaster University in 1981 More was an avid squash player and golfer Court A at the Northfield Racquet Club in Waterloo was dedicated to his memory in March He is survived by his parents Noreen and Ken a brother Randy and a sister Katherine Keeler
John Jack Pawley 33 died March I 1992 in Guelph He is survived by his wife Ruth son John OAC 62 and daughter-inshylaw Carolyn He was a former director of the Ontario Milk Marketing Board and a past member of the Royal City Lodge of Perfecshytion
Harold Reid 20A died in December 1991 in Burlington Ont During the First World W ar he was one of Canadas premier rad io
experts work ing at the Roya l Canadian Navy shore transmitter in Sydney NS After the war he came to OAC to earn a diploma then went on to QueenS University to comshyplete an arts and theology degree His mini sshytry was mainly in St And rews and Montreal although he spent 13 years teaching Hebrew at the Presbyterian Coll ege before retiring in 1968
Donald Robertson 3 1 died Nov 4 1991 in Iroquois Ont He is survived by hi s wife Caroline (Grisdale) Mac 38 his two son s ScottOAC 65A and Guy and a daughter Sandra McNeil
Thomas Rokeby 48 and MSA 50 died Jan 29 1992 in Fayetteville Ark He was a professional engineer and tau ght for 30 years in the Univers ity of Arkansas engineering department Born in Port Rowan Ont he was a member of the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War the American Society of Agricultural Engineers and the agricultural honor societies of Gamma Sigma Delta and Alpha Epsilon He is surv ived by his wife Helen two sons Robert and Richard a daughter Penny and three brothers Michael Noel and Richard OAC 54
Francis Sweeney OAC 45 died Nov 17 1991 in Oakville Ont He was a longtime employee of Shell Canada and [nternational Shell working in Great Britain Europe and
WALL CUSTANCE MEMORIAL FOREST
The Wall-Custance Memorial Forest located at the Universi ty of Guelphs Arboretum was established in recognition of the severe depletion of our forests It is never too late to be a vital part of the effort to save and improve our air and water for the future of our children by planting trees This program is our small part of the major endeavor to reforest and to reduce the greenhouse effect improve air quality and provide food and cover for wildlife The Memorial Forest Proshygram not only pays a Significant tribute to a loved one but also assures a better environment for generations to come
The purpose of this program is to provide an opporshytuni ty to commemorate the life of a loved one by plantshy
Home of the WALL-CUSTANCE
MEMORIAL FOREST
ing a tree We envision that the Memorial Forest Program will continue for many years to come and our hope is that the solace that nature offers particularly in the depths of a living forest will be of comfort and benefi t to all
For more information or for a brochure call or write to
WALL-CUSTANCE Funeral Home and Chapel 206 Norfolk Street Guelph Ontario N1 H 4K3 (519) 822-0051
Guelph Alumnus 36
============= IN MEMORIAM ============= Venezuela He is survived by his wife Lynn and two daughters Alyson and Joselyn
Berna rd Weeks 35 died Oct 16 199 1 After graduation he re turned to his roots in
ew York and Pennsylvannia and worked in 4-H and you th organi zations for a few years He then took over the family farm at Troupsburg NY and built up a dairy operashytion with a sideline of sheep He is surv ived by his wife Ruth and four children
Glenn White 43 of Belleville Onl died Nov 24 199 1 in Florida and is surv ived by hi s wife Marjorie
ave Norman Anderson 39 of Wi nn ipeg died Dec 18 1991 in Arizona He had practised veterinary medicine in Norwood Man and was a member of the American Equine Pracshytitioners Association director of the Canadian Thoroughbred Society and track veterinarian at Assin iboia Downs for 50 years He is survived by his wi fe Peggy and two sons Laurie and James
George Beatty 5 I died Nov 22 1991 in Inverness III He practised in Palatine fo r 36 years and founded the Palatine Animal Hospi tal He was an active member of the American Animal Hospital Assoc iati on and the Chicago Veterinary Association and was a director of the Friends of the University of Guelph He is survived by his wife Mary and fo ur children - Suzanne Patricia Margaret and Tim
John Hamilton 5 L died Dec 15 1991 He had lived in Roslin On where he owned the Bay Regional Veterinary Hospital He is survived by hi s niece Ann Bongard
Nicholas Labzoffsky 39 died Dec 25 1991 in Largo Fla Fonnerly of Toronto he had li ved most recen tl y in Dorse t Ont and is survived by hi s wife Jane
Edgar Langford 49 died March 41992 in Monarch Alta A former research scienshytist with ADRI (Western) he is survived by his wife Norma and two daughters includshying Carolyn OVC 76
Stuart Maude 4 1 died Jan 14 1992 in Rosemead Calif A former Rosemead counshycillor and four-time mayor he operated the Rosemead Animal Hospital with his brother Arthur 52 from 1953 to 1980 He was a trustee for Ingles ide Hospital a past grand patron of both the Rosemead and the Califorshynia Order of Eastern Star and past-president of the local Kiwanis Club and Chamber of Commerce He is survived by his wife Vera two daughters Patricia and Susan Bezner a son Stuart and three brothers
Walter Morley 42 o f Mildmay On died Nov 28 199 1 He ran a large animal pracshytice in the Mild may area for 39 years raised cat tle and raced standardbred horses He was also a pu blic school board trustee and direcshytor of a local te lephone company for more
Guelph Alumnus
than 30 years He is survived by his wife Joyce five sons - two of whom are OVC alumni Dave 68 and Randy 74 - and 10 grandchildren
Lloyd Neily 52 died Jan 3 1992 in Hantsport NS A retired meat inspector w ith the federal Department of Agriculture he had a private veterinary practice in Wind sor NS He is surv ived by hi s wife Mary
Elford Nundal 43 died Jan 7 1992 in Langley BC after a long battle with canshycer He operated a veterinary practice in Langley for 36 years and served as a di strict aldennan for 10 years before being elected mayor in 1982 Last year he received the BC Veterinarian Association s award of merit for a lifetime of veterinary work
Humphrey Rees 55 died Sepl 30 1991 in Amman Jordan while on ass ignment for the Overseas Development Ad ministrat ion as veterinary and animal hu sbandry adviser to the Jordani an government His contemshyporaries at Guelph will remember him as a singer debater raconteur rugby player and bon vivant He is surv ived by his wife Alice of POlt Eynon Wales
William Stinson 40 died Feb 15 1992 in Norwood Ont He is survi ved by his wife Rita a son John OVC 67 a brother Ford OAC 34 and a grandson John CSS 87
Faculty
Patric ia Harney died Dec 191991 in Yarshymouth NS A professor in the Department of Horticultural Science from 1962 to 1988 she developed severa l new variet ies of geraniums and was instru mental in es tabshylishing the Frances Ball rose collection at the Arboretum
Anthony Marston died Feb 3 1992 in Fershygu s ant Retired from the School of Hotel and Food Administration he was an acshycomplished competition chef who received his training in Switzerland and England He then spent severa l years working in the Caribbean before coming to Guelph in 1970 A member of the Canadian Olympic culinary team he held a number of positions in the
Donations given in memory ofGuelph alumni will help support University scholarships ifdirected to the Alumni M emorial Fund In 1991 donations were made in memory of the following alumni
Frank MacDonald OAC 37
Frank King OAC 33 -Robert Allen OAC 56A
Alice (Rivaz) Garrard Mac 28
Stan Vesselinovitch OVC 57
For more infonnation call the Office of Annual Giving at 519-824-4120 Ext 6 183
hote l and food industry until retiring in 1982 He is survived by hi s wife Di ana
Gordon McNally dled Jan 12 1992 in Guelph A professor in the Department of Zoo logy from 1934 to 1971 he served as academic assistant to the dean of CBS until retiring in 1979 While at Guelph he was honorary pres id ent of the classes of OAC 54 58 and 67 He is survived by his daughter Jean two siste rs and two grandchildren Prof McNallys family has established the A Gordon Mc a lly Memorial Fund to support a sc holarship or bursary Contributions may be sent care of the Alma Mater Fund Alumni Hou se University of Guelph Guelph ant N I G 2WI
Friends
Jean (Young) Branion died March 3 1992 in Guelph She was the wife of the late Hugh Branion a physiology professor at U of G and assistant to presidents Bill Winegard and Don Forster Jean Branion was an act ive volunteer on campus for many years and one of the firs t presidents of the College Womens Club She is survived by a son Richard and his wife Marga re t of Vanshycouve r and five grandchi ldren Donati ons may be made to the Hugh D Branion Memorial Scholarship through Alumni House
Davy Alexander Hamilton-Williamson died Feb 4 1992 in Guelph A painter and author of childrens stories he had been a member of the University s Presidents Council s ince it began in 1 985
Marjorie Pinkney wife of J ames Pinkney OVC 3 7 died Dec 151 99 [ at her home in Milton ant
Samuel Wyal died March 15 1992 in Brantford ant He was a partner in the law firm Wyatt Purce ll Will Stillman and Scott He is surv ived by his wife M a bel Mac 39 four sons Peter Michael William and John and two daughters Mary Alderson and Sarah Nadalin Arts 82
37
INVmiddotESTMENTS amp
DIVIDENDS
Facts about university education in Canada and how we pay for it
By 2000 half of all new jobs in Canada will require a university degree
But at the current rate of government funding only one in five children
will have a chance to go to university
In the seven years from 1982 to 1989 per-student grants to universities in
Ontario barely kept pace with intlation at five per cent
per-student funding at American public univers ities jumped an average
of 23 per cent in the same period
Those US universities also receive twice the federal research dollars per student as do Ontario universities
In 1987 the average salary of a full-time professor at an Ontario univers ity was $55500
compared with $68200 for a private-sector position of similar education and experience
Lawyers economists and engineers made an average of $71 000
Ontario ranks ninth out of the to provinces in terms of grants to universities
Between 1978 and 1991 enrolment at Ontario univers ities grew by 40 per cent while funding dropped
from 59 to 409 per cent of total government spending
Universities were spending 14 per cent less per student between 1977 and 1988 hospital expenditures
rose 38 per cent per patient in the same period
Ontario universities generate $3 of economic activity for every
$1 invested by government funding
And the number of jobs generated by university activities in
Ontario is greater than the employment impact of the textile
industry the entire paper and pulp industry or utilities
University graduates can look forward to earning 63 per cent more than the average industrial worker
A 1990 survey of U of G alumni found that two years after graduation 97 per cent of Guelph grads
looking for work were employed 62 per cent were earning $25000 or more and 10 per cent were
earning $40000 or more
Unemployment rates in 1990 for those with a university degree was about one-third what it was
for those with only a high school diploma
Every year from 1978 to 1987 Ontario university inves tments in renovating or replacing
aging buildings could not keep pace with the rate at which the buildings depreciated
Graphics by Debbie Thompson Wilson Statistics supplied by th~ Council 01 Ontario UniverSities Statistics Canada and the U01 G Student EnVifonment Study Group
Guelph Alumnus 38
A salute to sport Alumni Weekend June 19-21 9am Sio-pitch tournament
The tradition Jives on at the south quad diamond s Cooed teams of 12 or more players are encourshyaged to join in the fun
FRIDAY 10 am to 9 pm Registration Lambton Hall
6 pm Kick-off dinner and half-time show
get set and join In the Olympic spirit one of Alumni Creelman Hall will Weekends host the Wonderful most popular World of Sports with events Tours a half-time slide show start from to entertain alumni of Alumni House all ages and are sponshy9 pmshy sored by the Observatory tours CBS Alumni
Association
10 am and 2 pm
SATURDAY 8 am to 5 pm Guided Registration walking tours Lambton Hall
Remember 9 am to 5 pm making s now Alumni House tours sc ulptures on Students will host tours of Alumni House throughshyout the weekend Come and see what the generosity of alumni has accomplished
9 am to noon Alumni association annual meetings
This is the official notice for the annual general meetings of the following alumni associations
CBS - Alumni House starts at 830 am before guided walk MacFACS - HAFA Building Room 209
OVC - OvC Room 1438
OAC - Macdonald Hall Room 149
CSS - MacKinnon Building Room 305
HAFA - Alumni Hou se boardroom
Gryphs Lounge will be open for lunch and afLer the game
930 am Guided nature walk at the Arboretum
On your mark
Noon - OVC luncheon
The OvC Alumni Association will host a luncheon open to all OvC alumni and their guests
2 pm - Campus Showcase 92
Following on the heels of last year s success Campus Showshycase 92 will be bigger and better Come to the University Centre to see exhibits representing all areas on campus The Campus Junction store will also be open
2 pm - Zavitz Hall tour
Alumni are invited to browse through the newly renovated Za vitz Hall and attend a recep shytion sponsored by the Colshylege of Arts Alumni Asshysoc iation
5 pm Golden anniversary dinner
The OAC OvC and MacshyFACS alumni associations will provide complimenshytary tickets for alumni celebrating 50 years or more Additiona l tickets can be purchased Classes
Johnston Green or playing intramural hockey in the old Quonset arena Relive some of the memories by taking a walking tour of campus Tours begin from the lobby ofLambton Hall
Noon - Alumni picnic
This apopular event has new location - the sculpshyture garden beside the Macshydonald Stewart Art Centre Come on your own or reshyserve a group of tables for friends and classmates
Noon - Class reunion lunches
OAC 37 Mac 37 OAC 42 Mac 42 OAC 47 Mac 52 Mac57 Mac 67 FACS 72 FACS 77 FACS 87
OAC 67 FACS 82 OAC 82 OAC 82A CBS 82 FACS 87 OAC 87
SUNDAY 9am Church service and War Memorial Hall rededication
Thanks to a commitment from the Alma Mater Fund renovashytion of the upstairs of War Memorial Hall has been comshypleted Join us for the rededicashytion ceremony commemorating the 1924 opening and the 1952 dedication of an OAC memorial plaque
being honored are OAC 22 OAC 47 OvC 22 Mac 22 OAC 27 OvC 27 Mac 27 OAC 32 OvC 32 Mac 32 OAC 37 OvC 37 Mac 37 OAC 42 OvC 42 Mac 42
6 pm Class reunion dinners
Special dinn e r reunions are planned for OAC 47 OAC 52 OAC 52A OvC 52 Mac 57 OAC 57 OAC 62 Mac 67
10am UGAA annual meeting
All alumni are encouraged to atshytend the UGAA annual meeting in Macdonald Hall Room 149 An amendment to the UGAA Letters Patent and a revised bylaw will be presented for ap shyproval Copies of both are availshyable on request from Alumni House Call 519-824-4120 Ext 6544
11 am - Farewell brunch
The final event of Alumni Weekend will be held in Creelshyman Hall Come and meet the Univers ity S president Brian Segal The Alumnus of Honour medal will be presented at noon
To receive an Alumni Weekshyend brochure or to register for events call Alumni House at 59-824-4120 Ext 6963
Opened July 1991Research Park Centre shy
Where research and industry Dleet
Space available now Exceptional office and research facilities in our multi-tenant Research Park Centre
Research-driven corporations are breaking new ground at the University of Guelph Research Park Centre with exceptional growth opporshytunities in an ideal business setting
This 30-acre Research Park also accommodates tenants who choose to construct their own office and laboratory facilities
Find out why organizations such as Semex Canada Tremco Limited the Ontario Dairy Herd Improvement Corporation George Morris Centre LIPID Analytical Laboratories and Agriculture Canada have chosen the University of Guelph Research Park Call Ralph Eades or Judy Phillips Real Estate Division University of Guelph Telephone (519) 767-5003 or Fax (519) 837-0353
The Research Park is a project oj the Office oj Research and the University S Real Estate Division
RESE bull RCH PARK
CENTRE UNIVERSITY grGUELPH
============= IN MEMORIAM ============= Venezuela He is survived by his wife Lynn and two daughters Alyson and Joselyn
Berna rd Weeks 35 died Oct 16 199 1 After graduation he re turned to his roots in
ew York and Pennsylvannia and worked in 4-H and you th organi zations for a few years He then took over the family farm at Troupsburg NY and built up a dairy operashytion with a sideline of sheep He is surv ived by his wife Ruth and four children
Glenn White 43 of Belleville Onl died Nov 24 199 1 in Florida and is surv ived by hi s wife Marjorie
ave Norman Anderson 39 of Wi nn ipeg died Dec 18 1991 in Arizona He had practised veterinary medicine in Norwood Man and was a member of the American Equine Pracshytitioners Association director of the Canadian Thoroughbred Society and track veterinarian at Assin iboia Downs for 50 years He is survived by his wi fe Peggy and two sons Laurie and James
George Beatty 5 I died Nov 22 1991 in Inverness III He practised in Palatine fo r 36 years and founded the Palatine Animal Hospi tal He was an active member of the American Animal Hospital Assoc iati on and the Chicago Veterinary Association and was a director of the Friends of the University of Guelph He is survived by his wife Mary and fo ur children - Suzanne Patricia Margaret and Tim
John Hamilton 5 L died Dec 15 1991 He had lived in Roslin On where he owned the Bay Regional Veterinary Hospital He is survived by hi s niece Ann Bongard
Nicholas Labzoffsky 39 died Dec 25 1991 in Largo Fla Fonnerly of Toronto he had li ved most recen tl y in Dorse t Ont and is survived by hi s wife Jane
Edgar Langford 49 died March 41992 in Monarch Alta A former research scienshytist with ADRI (Western) he is survived by his wife Norma and two daughters includshying Carolyn OVC 76
Stuart Maude 4 1 died Jan 14 1992 in Rosemead Calif A former Rosemead counshycillor and four-time mayor he operated the Rosemead Animal Hospital with his brother Arthur 52 from 1953 to 1980 He was a trustee for Ingles ide Hospital a past grand patron of both the Rosemead and the Califorshynia Order of Eastern Star and past-president of the local Kiwanis Club and Chamber of Commerce He is survived by his wife Vera two daughters Patricia and Susan Bezner a son Stuart and three brothers
Walter Morley 42 o f Mildmay On died Nov 28 199 1 He ran a large animal pracshytice in the Mild may area for 39 years raised cat tle and raced standardbred horses He was also a pu blic school board trustee and direcshytor of a local te lephone company for more
Guelph Alumnus
than 30 years He is survived by his wife Joyce five sons - two of whom are OVC alumni Dave 68 and Randy 74 - and 10 grandchildren
Lloyd Neily 52 died Jan 3 1992 in Hantsport NS A retired meat inspector w ith the federal Department of Agriculture he had a private veterinary practice in Wind sor NS He is surv ived by hi s wife Mary
Elford Nundal 43 died Jan 7 1992 in Langley BC after a long battle with canshycer He operated a veterinary practice in Langley for 36 years and served as a di strict aldennan for 10 years before being elected mayor in 1982 Last year he received the BC Veterinarian Association s award of merit for a lifetime of veterinary work
Humphrey Rees 55 died Sepl 30 1991 in Amman Jordan while on ass ignment for the Overseas Development Ad ministrat ion as veterinary and animal hu sbandry adviser to the Jordani an government His contemshyporaries at Guelph will remember him as a singer debater raconteur rugby player and bon vivant He is surv ived by his wife Alice of POlt Eynon Wales
William Stinson 40 died Feb 15 1992 in Norwood Ont He is survi ved by his wife Rita a son John OVC 67 a brother Ford OAC 34 and a grandson John CSS 87
Faculty
Patric ia Harney died Dec 191991 in Yarshymouth NS A professor in the Department of Horticultural Science from 1962 to 1988 she developed severa l new variet ies of geraniums and was instru mental in es tabshylishing the Frances Ball rose collection at the Arboretum
Anthony Marston died Feb 3 1992 in Fershygu s ant Retired from the School of Hotel and Food Administration he was an acshycomplished competition chef who received his training in Switzerland and England He then spent severa l years working in the Caribbean before coming to Guelph in 1970 A member of the Canadian Olympic culinary team he held a number of positions in the
Donations given in memory ofGuelph alumni will help support University scholarships ifdirected to the Alumni M emorial Fund In 1991 donations were made in memory of the following alumni
Frank MacDonald OAC 37
Frank King OAC 33 -Robert Allen OAC 56A
Alice (Rivaz) Garrard Mac 28
Stan Vesselinovitch OVC 57
For more infonnation call the Office of Annual Giving at 519-824-4120 Ext 6 183
hote l and food industry until retiring in 1982 He is survived by hi s wife Di ana
Gordon McNally dled Jan 12 1992 in Guelph A professor in the Department of Zoo logy from 1934 to 1971 he served as academic assistant to the dean of CBS until retiring in 1979 While at Guelph he was honorary pres id ent of the classes of OAC 54 58 and 67 He is survived by his daughter Jean two siste rs and two grandchildren Prof McNallys family has established the A Gordon Mc a lly Memorial Fund to support a sc holarship or bursary Contributions may be sent care of the Alma Mater Fund Alumni Hou se University of Guelph Guelph ant N I G 2WI
Friends
Jean (Young) Branion died March 3 1992 in Guelph She was the wife of the late Hugh Branion a physiology professor at U of G and assistant to presidents Bill Winegard and Don Forster Jean Branion was an act ive volunteer on campus for many years and one of the firs t presidents of the College Womens Club She is survived by a son Richard and his wife Marga re t of Vanshycouve r and five grandchi ldren Donati ons may be made to the Hugh D Branion Memorial Scholarship through Alumni House
Davy Alexander Hamilton-Williamson died Feb 4 1992 in Guelph A painter and author of childrens stories he had been a member of the University s Presidents Council s ince it began in 1 985
Marjorie Pinkney wife of J ames Pinkney OVC 3 7 died Dec 151 99 [ at her home in Milton ant
Samuel Wyal died March 15 1992 in Brantford ant He was a partner in the law firm Wyatt Purce ll Will Stillman and Scott He is surv ived by his wife M a bel Mac 39 four sons Peter Michael William and John and two daughters Mary Alderson and Sarah Nadalin Arts 82
37
INVmiddotESTMENTS amp
DIVIDENDS
Facts about university education in Canada and how we pay for it
By 2000 half of all new jobs in Canada will require a university degree
But at the current rate of government funding only one in five children
will have a chance to go to university
In the seven years from 1982 to 1989 per-student grants to universities in
Ontario barely kept pace with intlation at five per cent
per-student funding at American public univers ities jumped an average
of 23 per cent in the same period
Those US universities also receive twice the federal research dollars per student as do Ontario universities
In 1987 the average salary of a full-time professor at an Ontario univers ity was $55500
compared with $68200 for a private-sector position of similar education and experience
Lawyers economists and engineers made an average of $71 000
Ontario ranks ninth out of the to provinces in terms of grants to universities
Between 1978 and 1991 enrolment at Ontario univers ities grew by 40 per cent while funding dropped
from 59 to 409 per cent of total government spending
Universities were spending 14 per cent less per student between 1977 and 1988 hospital expenditures
rose 38 per cent per patient in the same period
Ontario universities generate $3 of economic activity for every
$1 invested by government funding
And the number of jobs generated by university activities in
Ontario is greater than the employment impact of the textile
industry the entire paper and pulp industry or utilities
University graduates can look forward to earning 63 per cent more than the average industrial worker
A 1990 survey of U of G alumni found that two years after graduation 97 per cent of Guelph grads
looking for work were employed 62 per cent were earning $25000 or more and 10 per cent were
earning $40000 or more
Unemployment rates in 1990 for those with a university degree was about one-third what it was
for those with only a high school diploma
Every year from 1978 to 1987 Ontario university inves tments in renovating or replacing
aging buildings could not keep pace with the rate at which the buildings depreciated
Graphics by Debbie Thompson Wilson Statistics supplied by th~ Council 01 Ontario UniverSities Statistics Canada and the U01 G Student EnVifonment Study Group
Guelph Alumnus 38
A salute to sport Alumni Weekend June 19-21 9am Sio-pitch tournament
The tradition Jives on at the south quad diamond s Cooed teams of 12 or more players are encourshyaged to join in the fun
FRIDAY 10 am to 9 pm Registration Lambton Hall
6 pm Kick-off dinner and half-time show
get set and join In the Olympic spirit one of Alumni Creelman Hall will Weekends host the Wonderful most popular World of Sports with events Tours a half-time slide show start from to entertain alumni of Alumni House all ages and are sponshy9 pmshy sored by the Observatory tours CBS Alumni
Association
10 am and 2 pm
SATURDAY 8 am to 5 pm Guided Registration walking tours Lambton Hall
Remember 9 am to 5 pm making s now Alumni House tours sc ulptures on Students will host tours of Alumni House throughshyout the weekend Come and see what the generosity of alumni has accomplished
9 am to noon Alumni association annual meetings
This is the official notice for the annual general meetings of the following alumni associations
CBS - Alumni House starts at 830 am before guided walk MacFACS - HAFA Building Room 209
OVC - OvC Room 1438
OAC - Macdonald Hall Room 149
CSS - MacKinnon Building Room 305
HAFA - Alumni Hou se boardroom
Gryphs Lounge will be open for lunch and afLer the game
930 am Guided nature walk at the Arboretum
On your mark
Noon - OVC luncheon
The OvC Alumni Association will host a luncheon open to all OvC alumni and their guests
2 pm - Campus Showcase 92
Following on the heels of last year s success Campus Showshycase 92 will be bigger and better Come to the University Centre to see exhibits representing all areas on campus The Campus Junction store will also be open
2 pm - Zavitz Hall tour
Alumni are invited to browse through the newly renovated Za vitz Hall and attend a recep shytion sponsored by the Colshylege of Arts Alumni Asshysoc iation
5 pm Golden anniversary dinner
The OAC OvC and MacshyFACS alumni associations will provide complimenshytary tickets for alumni celebrating 50 years or more Additiona l tickets can be purchased Classes
Johnston Green or playing intramural hockey in the old Quonset arena Relive some of the memories by taking a walking tour of campus Tours begin from the lobby ofLambton Hall
Noon - Alumni picnic
This apopular event has new location - the sculpshyture garden beside the Macshydonald Stewart Art Centre Come on your own or reshyserve a group of tables for friends and classmates
Noon - Class reunion lunches
OAC 37 Mac 37 OAC 42 Mac 42 OAC 47 Mac 52 Mac57 Mac 67 FACS 72 FACS 77 FACS 87
OAC 67 FACS 82 OAC 82 OAC 82A CBS 82 FACS 87 OAC 87
SUNDAY 9am Church service and War Memorial Hall rededication
Thanks to a commitment from the Alma Mater Fund renovashytion of the upstairs of War Memorial Hall has been comshypleted Join us for the rededicashytion ceremony commemorating the 1924 opening and the 1952 dedication of an OAC memorial plaque
being honored are OAC 22 OAC 47 OvC 22 Mac 22 OAC 27 OvC 27 Mac 27 OAC 32 OvC 32 Mac 32 OAC 37 OvC 37 Mac 37 OAC 42 OvC 42 Mac 42
6 pm Class reunion dinners
Special dinn e r reunions are planned for OAC 47 OAC 52 OAC 52A OvC 52 Mac 57 OAC 57 OAC 62 Mac 67
10am UGAA annual meeting
All alumni are encouraged to atshytend the UGAA annual meeting in Macdonald Hall Room 149 An amendment to the UGAA Letters Patent and a revised bylaw will be presented for ap shyproval Copies of both are availshyable on request from Alumni House Call 519-824-4120 Ext 6544
11 am - Farewell brunch
The final event of Alumni Weekend will be held in Creelshyman Hall Come and meet the Univers ity S president Brian Segal The Alumnus of Honour medal will be presented at noon
To receive an Alumni Weekshyend brochure or to register for events call Alumni House at 59-824-4120 Ext 6963
Opened July 1991Research Park Centre shy
Where research and industry Dleet
Space available now Exceptional office and research facilities in our multi-tenant Research Park Centre
Research-driven corporations are breaking new ground at the University of Guelph Research Park Centre with exceptional growth opporshytunities in an ideal business setting
This 30-acre Research Park also accommodates tenants who choose to construct their own office and laboratory facilities
Find out why organizations such as Semex Canada Tremco Limited the Ontario Dairy Herd Improvement Corporation George Morris Centre LIPID Analytical Laboratories and Agriculture Canada have chosen the University of Guelph Research Park Call Ralph Eades or Judy Phillips Real Estate Division University of Guelph Telephone (519) 767-5003 or Fax (519) 837-0353
The Research Park is a project oj the Office oj Research and the University S Real Estate Division
RESE bull RCH PARK
CENTRE UNIVERSITY grGUELPH
INVmiddotESTMENTS amp
DIVIDENDS
Facts about university education in Canada and how we pay for it
By 2000 half of all new jobs in Canada will require a university degree
But at the current rate of government funding only one in five children
will have a chance to go to university
In the seven years from 1982 to 1989 per-student grants to universities in
Ontario barely kept pace with intlation at five per cent
per-student funding at American public univers ities jumped an average
of 23 per cent in the same period
Those US universities also receive twice the federal research dollars per student as do Ontario universities
In 1987 the average salary of a full-time professor at an Ontario univers ity was $55500
compared with $68200 for a private-sector position of similar education and experience
Lawyers economists and engineers made an average of $71 000
Ontario ranks ninth out of the to provinces in terms of grants to universities
Between 1978 and 1991 enrolment at Ontario univers ities grew by 40 per cent while funding dropped
from 59 to 409 per cent of total government spending
Universities were spending 14 per cent less per student between 1977 and 1988 hospital expenditures
rose 38 per cent per patient in the same period
Ontario universities generate $3 of economic activity for every
$1 invested by government funding
And the number of jobs generated by university activities in
Ontario is greater than the employment impact of the textile
industry the entire paper and pulp industry or utilities
University graduates can look forward to earning 63 per cent more than the average industrial worker
A 1990 survey of U of G alumni found that two years after graduation 97 per cent of Guelph grads
looking for work were employed 62 per cent were earning $25000 or more and 10 per cent were
earning $40000 or more
Unemployment rates in 1990 for those with a university degree was about one-third what it was
for those with only a high school diploma
Every year from 1978 to 1987 Ontario university inves tments in renovating or replacing
aging buildings could not keep pace with the rate at which the buildings depreciated
Graphics by Debbie Thompson Wilson Statistics supplied by th~ Council 01 Ontario UniverSities Statistics Canada and the U01 G Student EnVifonment Study Group
Guelph Alumnus 38
A salute to sport Alumni Weekend June 19-21 9am Sio-pitch tournament
The tradition Jives on at the south quad diamond s Cooed teams of 12 or more players are encourshyaged to join in the fun
FRIDAY 10 am to 9 pm Registration Lambton Hall
6 pm Kick-off dinner and half-time show
get set and join In the Olympic spirit one of Alumni Creelman Hall will Weekends host the Wonderful most popular World of Sports with events Tours a half-time slide show start from to entertain alumni of Alumni House all ages and are sponshy9 pmshy sored by the Observatory tours CBS Alumni
Association
10 am and 2 pm
SATURDAY 8 am to 5 pm Guided Registration walking tours Lambton Hall
Remember 9 am to 5 pm making s now Alumni House tours sc ulptures on Students will host tours of Alumni House throughshyout the weekend Come and see what the generosity of alumni has accomplished
9 am to noon Alumni association annual meetings
This is the official notice for the annual general meetings of the following alumni associations
CBS - Alumni House starts at 830 am before guided walk MacFACS - HAFA Building Room 209
OVC - OvC Room 1438
OAC - Macdonald Hall Room 149
CSS - MacKinnon Building Room 305
HAFA - Alumni Hou se boardroom
Gryphs Lounge will be open for lunch and afLer the game
930 am Guided nature walk at the Arboretum
On your mark
Noon - OVC luncheon
The OvC Alumni Association will host a luncheon open to all OvC alumni and their guests
2 pm - Campus Showcase 92
Following on the heels of last year s success Campus Showshycase 92 will be bigger and better Come to the University Centre to see exhibits representing all areas on campus The Campus Junction store will also be open
2 pm - Zavitz Hall tour
Alumni are invited to browse through the newly renovated Za vitz Hall and attend a recep shytion sponsored by the Colshylege of Arts Alumni Asshysoc iation
5 pm Golden anniversary dinner
The OAC OvC and MacshyFACS alumni associations will provide complimenshytary tickets for alumni celebrating 50 years or more Additiona l tickets can be purchased Classes
Johnston Green or playing intramural hockey in the old Quonset arena Relive some of the memories by taking a walking tour of campus Tours begin from the lobby ofLambton Hall
Noon - Alumni picnic
This apopular event has new location - the sculpshyture garden beside the Macshydonald Stewart Art Centre Come on your own or reshyserve a group of tables for friends and classmates
Noon - Class reunion lunches
OAC 37 Mac 37 OAC 42 Mac 42 OAC 47 Mac 52 Mac57 Mac 67 FACS 72 FACS 77 FACS 87
OAC 67 FACS 82 OAC 82 OAC 82A CBS 82 FACS 87 OAC 87
SUNDAY 9am Church service and War Memorial Hall rededication
Thanks to a commitment from the Alma Mater Fund renovashytion of the upstairs of War Memorial Hall has been comshypleted Join us for the rededicashytion ceremony commemorating the 1924 opening and the 1952 dedication of an OAC memorial plaque
being honored are OAC 22 OAC 47 OvC 22 Mac 22 OAC 27 OvC 27 Mac 27 OAC 32 OvC 32 Mac 32 OAC 37 OvC 37 Mac 37 OAC 42 OvC 42 Mac 42
6 pm Class reunion dinners
Special dinn e r reunions are planned for OAC 47 OAC 52 OAC 52A OvC 52 Mac 57 OAC 57 OAC 62 Mac 67
10am UGAA annual meeting
All alumni are encouraged to atshytend the UGAA annual meeting in Macdonald Hall Room 149 An amendment to the UGAA Letters Patent and a revised bylaw will be presented for ap shyproval Copies of both are availshyable on request from Alumni House Call 519-824-4120 Ext 6544
11 am - Farewell brunch
The final event of Alumni Weekend will be held in Creelshyman Hall Come and meet the Univers ity S president Brian Segal The Alumnus of Honour medal will be presented at noon
To receive an Alumni Weekshyend brochure or to register for events call Alumni House at 59-824-4120 Ext 6963
Opened July 1991Research Park Centre shy
Where research and industry Dleet
Space available now Exceptional office and research facilities in our multi-tenant Research Park Centre
Research-driven corporations are breaking new ground at the University of Guelph Research Park Centre with exceptional growth opporshytunities in an ideal business setting
This 30-acre Research Park also accommodates tenants who choose to construct their own office and laboratory facilities
Find out why organizations such as Semex Canada Tremco Limited the Ontario Dairy Herd Improvement Corporation George Morris Centre LIPID Analytical Laboratories and Agriculture Canada have chosen the University of Guelph Research Park Call Ralph Eades or Judy Phillips Real Estate Division University of Guelph Telephone (519) 767-5003 or Fax (519) 837-0353
The Research Park is a project oj the Office oj Research and the University S Real Estate Division
RESE bull RCH PARK
CENTRE UNIVERSITY grGUELPH
A salute to sport Alumni Weekend June 19-21 9am Sio-pitch tournament
The tradition Jives on at the south quad diamond s Cooed teams of 12 or more players are encourshyaged to join in the fun
FRIDAY 10 am to 9 pm Registration Lambton Hall
6 pm Kick-off dinner and half-time show
get set and join In the Olympic spirit one of Alumni Creelman Hall will Weekends host the Wonderful most popular World of Sports with events Tours a half-time slide show start from to entertain alumni of Alumni House all ages and are sponshy9 pmshy sored by the Observatory tours CBS Alumni
Association
10 am and 2 pm
SATURDAY 8 am to 5 pm Guided Registration walking tours Lambton Hall
Remember 9 am to 5 pm making s now Alumni House tours sc ulptures on Students will host tours of Alumni House throughshyout the weekend Come and see what the generosity of alumni has accomplished
9 am to noon Alumni association annual meetings
This is the official notice for the annual general meetings of the following alumni associations
CBS - Alumni House starts at 830 am before guided walk MacFACS - HAFA Building Room 209
OVC - OvC Room 1438
OAC - Macdonald Hall Room 149
CSS - MacKinnon Building Room 305
HAFA - Alumni Hou se boardroom
Gryphs Lounge will be open for lunch and afLer the game
930 am Guided nature walk at the Arboretum
On your mark
Noon - OVC luncheon
The OvC Alumni Association will host a luncheon open to all OvC alumni and their guests
2 pm - Campus Showcase 92
Following on the heels of last year s success Campus Showshycase 92 will be bigger and better Come to the University Centre to see exhibits representing all areas on campus The Campus Junction store will also be open
2 pm - Zavitz Hall tour
Alumni are invited to browse through the newly renovated Za vitz Hall and attend a recep shytion sponsored by the Colshylege of Arts Alumni Asshysoc iation
5 pm Golden anniversary dinner
The OAC OvC and MacshyFACS alumni associations will provide complimenshytary tickets for alumni celebrating 50 years or more Additiona l tickets can be purchased Classes
Johnston Green or playing intramural hockey in the old Quonset arena Relive some of the memories by taking a walking tour of campus Tours begin from the lobby ofLambton Hall
Noon - Alumni picnic
This apopular event has new location - the sculpshyture garden beside the Macshydonald Stewart Art Centre Come on your own or reshyserve a group of tables for friends and classmates
Noon - Class reunion lunches
OAC 37 Mac 37 OAC 42 Mac 42 OAC 47 Mac 52 Mac57 Mac 67 FACS 72 FACS 77 FACS 87
OAC 67 FACS 82 OAC 82 OAC 82A CBS 82 FACS 87 OAC 87
SUNDAY 9am Church service and War Memorial Hall rededication
Thanks to a commitment from the Alma Mater Fund renovashytion of the upstairs of War Memorial Hall has been comshypleted Join us for the rededicashytion ceremony commemorating the 1924 opening and the 1952 dedication of an OAC memorial plaque
being honored are OAC 22 OAC 47 OvC 22 Mac 22 OAC 27 OvC 27 Mac 27 OAC 32 OvC 32 Mac 32 OAC 37 OvC 37 Mac 37 OAC 42 OvC 42 Mac 42
6 pm Class reunion dinners
Special dinn e r reunions are planned for OAC 47 OAC 52 OAC 52A OvC 52 Mac 57 OAC 57 OAC 62 Mac 67
10am UGAA annual meeting
All alumni are encouraged to atshytend the UGAA annual meeting in Macdonald Hall Room 149 An amendment to the UGAA Letters Patent and a revised bylaw will be presented for ap shyproval Copies of both are availshyable on request from Alumni House Call 519-824-4120 Ext 6544
11 am - Farewell brunch
The final event of Alumni Weekend will be held in Creelshyman Hall Come and meet the Univers ity S president Brian Segal The Alumnus of Honour medal will be presented at noon
To receive an Alumni Weekshyend brochure or to register for events call Alumni House at 59-824-4120 Ext 6963
Opened July 1991Research Park Centre shy
Where research and industry Dleet
Space available now Exceptional office and research facilities in our multi-tenant Research Park Centre
Research-driven corporations are breaking new ground at the University of Guelph Research Park Centre with exceptional growth opporshytunities in an ideal business setting
This 30-acre Research Park also accommodates tenants who choose to construct their own office and laboratory facilities
Find out why organizations such as Semex Canada Tremco Limited the Ontario Dairy Herd Improvement Corporation George Morris Centre LIPID Analytical Laboratories and Agriculture Canada have chosen the University of Guelph Research Park Call Ralph Eades or Judy Phillips Real Estate Division University of Guelph Telephone (519) 767-5003 or Fax (519) 837-0353
The Research Park is a project oj the Office oj Research and the University S Real Estate Division
RESE bull RCH PARK
CENTRE UNIVERSITY grGUELPH
Opened July 1991Research Park Centre shy
Where research and industry Dleet
Space available now Exceptional office and research facilities in our multi-tenant Research Park Centre
Research-driven corporations are breaking new ground at the University of Guelph Research Park Centre with exceptional growth opporshytunities in an ideal business setting
This 30-acre Research Park also accommodates tenants who choose to construct their own office and laboratory facilities
Find out why organizations such as Semex Canada Tremco Limited the Ontario Dairy Herd Improvement Corporation George Morris Centre LIPID Analytical Laboratories and Agriculture Canada have chosen the University of Guelph Research Park Call Ralph Eades or Judy Phillips Real Estate Division University of Guelph Telephone (519) 767-5003 or Fax (519) 837-0353
The Research Park is a project oj the Office oj Research and the University S Real Estate Division
RESE bull RCH PARK
CENTRE UNIVERSITY grGUELPH
