W. J. EVA RETIRES AS INSTITUTE AFFAIRS EDITOR Bill Eva is one of the pioneers and founding fathers of our Institute. He

has served with great enthusiasm and dedication in a variety of functions. The optimism and energy of people like Bill Eva has made the Institute what it is today, a respected and active professional organization of food technologists in Canada. In the early years of the Institute a great deal of volunteer effort was needed to establish the organizational structure that we now take for granted. One of the major steps in the development of our Institute was the launching of our own Journal. In spite of the fact that Canada has no means of publication of the results of research and develop­ment in food science and technology, there were many who doubted that the country could support such a journal. The Journal was launched and became a successful venture. It was natural to ask Bill Eva to serve as Insti­tute Affairs Editor because of his extensive knowledge of the Institute and his familiarity with food science and technology in Canada. As we came to expect from him, Bill Eva has served the Journal well and now he is turning over these duties to younger members. The Institute has honored Bill on many occasions and at this time we can only say thanks. We know that Bill is not going to rest on his laurels and we all wish him well for the years to come. His efforts have been vital to the development of the Journal and his friendliness and good cheer will serve as an inspiration for those who carry on his good work.

J. M. deMan

NEWS FROM THE SECTIONS As only a very few of you will know until this moment, "News from the

Sections" has come to the end of an era. Bill Eva has found it necessary to retire from his active role in writing and managing this column. Failing sight is the reason for Bill's retirement and I can assure you that he is sorry to leave his post. We should be even sorrier to see him go. His knowledge of the history of CIFST and personal acquaintance with many of our members has allowed this column to be something more than a place to report upcom­ing meetings. Bill could always flesh out our section reports to give them human interest and a personal touch. Many thanks Bill.

I can assure you that as I take over the duties of "News from the Sec­tions" I will need considerable help from each and every CIFST member, especially the News Gatherers, in order to put together a worthwhile col­umn. I have every confidence that your support will be forthcoming. As most of you are probably aware, Bill wrote the column-incorporating the information received. This was the policy and in the interest of uniformity of style I intend to continue with it. My own history with CIFST and knowl­edge of it is becoming greater all the time but I can't begin to compare myself with Bill Eva. I am therefore asking you right now, at this time of change, for any suggestions you may have regarding "News from the Sec­tions."

You will find a proper tribute to Bill Eva and a small description of who I am elsewhere in this issue. With that in mind it would seem to be time to get on with the business at hand.

The British Columbia Section appears as always to be preparing for a very active and interesting year. They report, "Our chairman-elect for this year, Tim Garland has done his part well in setting out an outline of 'star­studded' events." Those west-coasters seem to have a real sense of the theat­rical. To kick the year off they will be taking a harbor cruise (dining and dancing included). That sounded pretty formal until I noticed that dress was described as "T-shirt". That most enjoyable beginning to the year will be followed by some slightly more serious endeavors including a tour on October 24 of Lawson Graphics, reputed to be B.c.'s largest, most modern packaging plant. November 30 will see the B.C. section on a visitation to Seattle to meet jointly with the Puget Sound Section of 1FT. This meeting includes a tour of the Boeing Aerospace Center. The main topic of discus­sion will be a very 'Buck Rogers' type subject. Personnel from the solar power project will be demonstrating the type of vegetables which may be sent into space to grow in outerspace greenhouses. (If you think current transportation costs are high wait until you see what these vegies cost on the fresh market!)

January 16, 1980 has been set aside as Student Night. No details are given but unless things have changed this meeting will be totally planned and operated by the students and may just turn out to be one of the high­lights of the year. February 15 will provide the opportunity for the B.c. Section to return the hospitality of the Puget Sound 1FT Section. This sec­ond joint meeting appears to be one which could interest many of us. Mr. Chris Koffler from Continental Group (Toronto) will speak on develop­ments in the retort pouch field. He will be joined in a panel discussion by Dr. Marvin Tung (UBC Food Science) and Ms. Arlene Gelder (Swan Valley Foods, Ltd.). It sounds like a meeting that anybody travelling through the area might just want to try to attend.

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As most of you know, B.C. Section is also a section of 1FT. They sel­dom miss the opportunity to make use of the 1FT Lecturer. This year is no exception and on March 19 Ms. Elizabeth Sloan of General Mills will dis­cuss "The American Diet".

The final meeting of the year will be the Annual Banquet. The date is as yet unset. From personal experience I think I can say that a good time will be had by all.

The B.C. Section wants to take this opportunity to officially offer their congratulations to Dr. Bill Powrie on being named as recipient of this year's W. J. Eva award. The section reports that Norm Duncan (Section Secre­tary) will be moving to Toronto. His duties will be assumed by Cornelious Yeung of Nabob Foods Ltd.

It occurs to me that this is a rather lengthy coverage of the B.C. Sec­tion activities. This is largely due to the fact that they have reported their entire year's outline. Many sections do plan their year very early but for those that don't it is something to consider. There are many advantages including getting the people and places when you want them as well as giving your membership plenty of time to plan attendance at meetings of interest.

Things have not been quiet this summer in the Alberta Section. The new executive held its first meeting in June. A "Spring Quality Control Workshop" was presented at U. of A. in conjunction with the Food Science Department. Apparently it was a great success with 22 people in attend­ance.

The Alberta Section takes an active interest in the Youth Science Fair movement and the following award plaques were presented in 2 regions of Alberta.

Nicole Duteau and Arlene Birnie-Grade 6, Westlock Elementary School for a project "Cheese and Cheese Making". Anthony Davis-Grade 6, Hazel Cameron School, Vulcan for a project "Beer", stressing the malting process. The section is to be commended for its direct involvement. CIFST is a

supporting member of the Youth Science Foundation but direct encourage­ment at the local level will do a great deal more to interest youngsters in careers in the world of food. Perhaps other sections will consider this type of support as something with which they might wish to involve themselves.

It appears that the Alberta Section will have a full fall program with four meetings. On September 13 they are importing a speaker in the person of Bill Humphreys of Labatts to speak on "Microbial Standards". Bill will be making his presentation at Labatts Brewery in Edmonton. Waiter Maka­wecki (Heritage Foods Ltd.) will speak on "Food Processing-Food Ser­vice, Industrial Partnership," at the U. of A. Faculty Club on October 3. One month later (Nov. 8) they will welcome President Jack Meyers to the annual "President's Night" to be held at the Convention Inn South. It appears that Jack will have a relatively easy time of it since a speaker is also on tap. Ms. Bev Browne will speak on the "Status of Legal Rights of Women in Alberta."

These Albertans are hard workers and are scheduling a meeting in December. On December 4 they will make a tour of the N.A.D.P. Dairy. Included will be a discussion of the "Construction and Engineering of the New Plant". Hard working as they may be, the section is going to indulge itself in some fun and frivolity at this final meeting of 1979. In addition to the tour and talk there will also be a wine and cheese party which will no doubt set the mood of many section members for the upcoming Yuletide Season.

The Atlantic Section, which will henceforth have absolutely no excuse for missing this column, reports a busy and interesting season ahead. A format change for meeting dates is going to be tested. For several years the meeting night has been fixed as the third Wednesday of the month. This year meetings will alternate between Tuesday and Wednesday of the third week, thus giving those committed to night classes, etc., a chance to attend some meetings. Normal attendance is already good, perhaps this idea will make it better. Although details are not firm on all meetings, the year will start off with what has become the traditional family picnic to be held Sep­tember 16 at the home of section chairman, Fred Dolbel. The line-up for the coming year includes "plant" tours of a large food distribution centre, meat packing plant and the new facilities for marine and fisheries engineering at Nova Scotia Technical College.

Last year's open forum (a la the Edmonton Conference) was such a success that a repeat performance is scheduled for this year, likely on March 19. As part of the newness of the program the Atlantic Section will hold a dinner-dance. Any sections with experience are more than welcome to contact Fred Dolbel with any suggestions that may help to make this endeavor a great success. Included in the year's program is a dinner meeting to be held at Twin Cities Co-operative Dairy with a speaker and discussion

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centering on "transfer of technology in sanitation methods". It appears that Atlantic Section members can look forward to an interesting and diverse program. As is true with all sections, "visiting firemen" are more than wel­come to drop in on meetings if they are in the area.

Apres une conference couronnee de succes et re9ue d'une maniere tres enthousiaste por les particip~nts, la SECfION DE QUEBEC se prepare pour une annee interessante. A ce moment la cedule n'est pas complete mais voici le programme tentatif:

A la fin de septembre une excursion a la ferme experimentale de St­Augustin s'est terminee avec une epluchette de ble-d'lude. Au mois de jan­vier le colloque bi-annuel presente par le departement des vivres aura lieu a I'Universite Laval. Ensuite en avril it y aura l'assemblee annuelle qui termi­nera agreablement avec une degustation de vin et fromage.

Sans doute d'autres evenements imaginatifs seront organises aux mois de novembre et mars pour les membres de la section de Quebec.

This brings to a close the first edition of "News from the Sections" under my hand. The number of sections reporting is a little disappointing but with people on vacation and new executives attempting to set up pro­grams I suppose it might be expected. Hopefully the first issue of our Jour­nal published by our new publisher will see every section represented. This next issue will represent a real milestone in our history and I am sure that each and every section of CIFST will want to go on record as being an active part of our Institute at that point in time.

D.B.C.

The Montreal Section will begin the new year with a mini-symposium entitled "Innovations in Dairy Products". There will be three speakers, Doc­tors Jacques Rolland, Jean-Luc Biely and Richard Bell. The formal pro­gram will be followed by dinner.

Nous souhaitons la bienvenue a tous les nouveaux membres et membres transferes de la Section de Montreal et nous felicitons les membres reclassifies. La nombre de membres-408 (aout 1979) est tres impressionante! Les membres qui viennent d'autres sections trouveront sans doute que la section de Montreal leur fera un accueil hospitalier, et, pour leur part, ils pourront peut-etre apporter de nouvelles idees a la section. Members

Name

William Abounassar Joseph Szewczyk Jean-Claude Richer Jacques Mg-Kwai-Hang Laurent Laflamme Jacques E. Morin Jahan Khattack Roger Corbeil Ghislaine Vincent Serge Talbot Linda Therman Robert Langley Claude Des Rochers Marcel I. Kenchomeh Jaromir Vajgent

Clifton Thompson

Donald R. Boyd Marie Dionne

New Affiliation

Bonbons Expert Ltee. Lowney's Ltee. Universite de Montreal

Confiserie Comete Ltee. Demo Canada Ltd. K. K. Co. Ltd. Robin Hood Multifoods Ltee.

Gouvernment du Canada Student Delmar Chemicals Ltd. Les Produits Roberto Inc. Student Steinberg Foods Ltd.

Reclassified S. Coorsh & Sons

Transfers Norda from Toronto Etudiante de Quebec

The upcoming year looks rather interesting and it would appear that Chris Findlay, Technical Director, and Al Cleary, Director of Social Activi­ties have done their jobs well to date. October 24 will see Or. Zak Sabry leading a discussion on "Feeding the children of the world".

Le 14 et 15 novembre, le seminaire annuel sera offert par la Section de Montreal. Le theme cette annee est "Les Phases du Developpment de Nou­veaux Produits".

The remainder of the program looks very inviting though detail is not presently available. December 8 will see a "Gala Christmas Party" at Mont Gabriel Lodge and later in the month in a more technical vein, there will be an all day meat workshop. In the new year (January 8) Dr. Fergus Clydes­dale is expected to speak on "Micronutrients and Contaminants in Pro­cessed Foods". The workshop seems popular in Montreal and February 15 will be the date of another all day workshop on Sweeteners. This will be

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followed by a wine and cheese party, Also in February will be a mini exposi­tion for the food industry staged by the students of Macdonald College and l'Institut de Technologie Agricole de St-Hyacinthe.

March will be no less busy than the preceding months with two events, a meeting featuring the topic "Advances in Process Controls" (March 13) and a Sugaring-Off Party (March 31). April seems a popular month for Annual Meetings and Montreal joins several other sections in this regard. Their meeting will be April 18 and includes a discussion of "Food Products for the 80's". The "year" will conclude in May with the Annual Golf Tour­nament. One question pops to mind when a golf tournament is mentioned. Now that Art Greene is officially our Executive Director, will he show up for all the section tournaments?

Our deepest sympathies are sent to Past President George Andrich on the death of his wife after a very short illness on September I, 1979.

NEW NATIONAL OFFICE SET UP-SERVICE TO MEMBERS

During the past nine years the Management Services required by the Institute have been provided by contract with John Doherty and Company, Ottawa. Council recommended and this year's Annual Meeting in Quebec City decided to terminate the Management Services contract and create at National Headquarters a part-time Executive Director position. The con­tract is to be terminated effective December 31, 1979 while the Executive Director was appointed effective June I, 1979. During the intervening period the various duties performed are to be transferred to the Executive Director, Mr. A. H. M. Greene, a Past President of the Institute. In the interest of continuity and back-up support to the Executive Director, space has been rented for CIFST in the suite of offices occupied by John Doherty and Company. Therefore, the Institute's address will continue to be 46 Elgin St., Suite 38, Ottawa, Ontario, KI P 5K6, but a new, separate tele­phone has been installed. The telephone number is 233-8992, Area Code 613.

One of the primary tasks assigned to the Executive Director is "liaison with all CIFST members." To better meet the needs of individual members and encourage improved communication within the Institute, you are asked to write to the Executive Director on any matter concerning your member­ship or Institute matter. Your correspondence will be answered without delay although a final answer may require time in consulting those respon­sible for a particular subject. Writing or phoning the Executive Director is not intended to by-pass Section Executives, National Committee Chairper­sons or the National Officers but as a supplement to such communication, This "Service to Members" is not a one-shot effort but an on-going service for as long as you are a CIFST member.

Is there anything that is "bugging you" about Institute administration or operation? If there is "sing out loud and clear." Let's try to get the matter or situation rectified in the best interests of all concerned.

SPEAKERS BUREAU The Speakers Bureau Committee annually prepares a very extensive

list of speakers who are prepared to address your meetings on a wide range of topics of interest to Food Technologists. This list is distributed to each of the regional sections to assist them in the preparation of their technical pro­grams.

The Speakers Bureau has an annual budget of $1000, which is used to support the cost of travel and accommodation for speakers.

Any members wishing to provide their services as a speaker should con­tact Clary Jensen, Chairman of the Speakers Bureau Committee, Nabob Foods Ltd., P.O. Box 2170, Vancouver, B.C. V6B 3V6. If a speaker is con­tacted, please direct copies of all correspondence to the chairman.

The speakers for 1979-80 include: BLIGH, Dr. E. G., Director, Fisheries Research and Tech. Laboratory,

Nova Scotia Technical College, P.O. Box 1000, 1360 Barrington St., Halifax, Nova Scotia B3J 2X4 (902) 429-8300 I. New Challenges in Seafood Research.

BRISSON, Dr. G. J., Nutritional Research Centre, Laval University, Ste. Foy, Quebec GIK 7P4 (418) 656-7660 I. Nutritional Value in New Protein Sources. 2. Problems with Additives in Animal Feed and with Residues in Meats. 3. Role of Industry in the Nutritional Quality of Foods.

CLARK, Or. D. S., Director, Bureau of Microbial Hazards, Food Directo­rate, Health Protection Branch, Dept. of National Health and Wel­fare, New Research Centre, Tunney's Pasture, Ottawa, Ontario KIA OL2 (613) 593-7071

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