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UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

GUELPH ALUMNUS Fall 1985 Vol 18 No 4

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

HON ORARY PR ESIDENT Dr Burt Mallhews OAC 47

PRESID ENT Ross Parry CSS 80

PAST PRESIDENT Glenn Powe ll OAC 62

SENIOR VICE-PR ES IDENT Dt Ro n [)(wmey OVC 6 1

SECRETARY Dr Wendy Parker OVC 71

TREASURER Keith Harris CBS 76

ASSOCIATE SECRETA RY Rose mary Clark Mac 59

VICE-PRESIDENTS Sue (Beatty) Davidson CSS 82 Jean (Fuller) Hume Mac 64 Art Peppin OAC 41 Wendy Parker OVC 71 Margo Shoemaker A~ s 79 Barry Smi th CPS 79

DIRECTORS Rob Barron CSS 78 Nan Chapman FACS 74 Dr Tony Van Dreume l OVC 63 Grant Lee CSS 73 Bill Macdonald A~s 78 Rob Milne CBS 81 A~ Peppin OAC 41 Dan Rose OAC 60 Rosemary (Schmidt) Smith FACS 79 Karin Davidson-Taylor CBS 83 Dr Don Wil son OVC 66

EX-OFFICIO DIRECTORS Marjorie E Mill ar director De pa rtment of Alumni AITairs and Development Marion McGee CSS 71 president College of Social Science Alumni Association Carole Rowsell HAFA 74 president Hotel and Food Administration Alumni Association Connie (Hauka) Jasinskas HK 76 president Human Kinetics Alumni Association Dave Barrie OAC 5 3A president OAC Alumni Association Jaye Robinson preSident Central Student Association Bonnie Kerslake FACS 82 president Mac-FACS Alumni Association Or Kennet h Gadd OVC 56 president OVC Alumni Association Michael Bedford president Graduate Students Association Linda McKenzie-Cordick A~ s 8 1 president College of Arts Alumni Association Lucas Van Vee n CPS 74 president CPS Alumni Association David Airdrie CBS 8 2 president College of Biological Science Alumni Association

The Guelph Alumnus is publi shed four tim es each yea r in February May August and November by the Depa~menl of Alumni Affairs and Developmenl in co-operation with Information Services University of Guelph

EDITOR Derek J Wing publication s manager Depa~menl of Alumni Affai rs and Developme nl

The Edilorial Commillce is comprised of Derek Wing ed ilo r Majorie E Millar director Rosemary C lark Mac 59 assiSlant director all with the Depa~ment of Alumni Affai rs and Deve lopmenl and Erich Ba~h

a~ director Donald Jose OAC 49 media rela tions and Douglas Waterston director all with Information Services

Undelivered copies should be returned to the Department of Alumni AlTairs and Development University of Guelph Guelph Ontario NIG 2Wl Canada

Towards Challenges and

AiDlS of the Universitv

T he Ad hoc Committee to Review the Aim s and Objectives or the University of Guelph recommends the adoption of the

following basic aims

bull We the Univers ity of Guelph will strive for excellence in all our activ ities and sustain exceJlence when it is achieved We are especiall y committed to excellence in our areas of special

respons ibility

bull As teaching research and service are integral to university educat ion we will strive to integrate these function s into every academic unit

bull We will co ntinue to place fund ame ntal emphasis on highshyquality undergraduate ed ucation as characterized in the aims

and objectives document

bull We will maintain an environment for teaching and learn ing that advances bothmiddot inte llectual and personal growth

bull We will emphasize grad uate studies in our areas of specia l responsibility and in those areas of need in whic h we have the

necessary leve l of excellence

bull We will encourage researc h including scholarship and creative activities on an individual and group bas is in areas both fundamental and applied within and across academic discishy

plines

bull We will strengthen our interaction with the wide range of com munities we serve so that we may be more responsive to

societys needs -bull We will continue to develop imaginative and inventive

programs for education throughout life

bull We will increasingly incorporate an appropriate international perspective into all parts of the Univers ity

bull We will foster a more collegial environment and be sens iti ve to the well -being and integrity of o ur students faculty and staff

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2000 Responses

_of Guelph

Chall enges changes opportunity renewal - these are some of the key words in an

aims and objectives document the University community read and discussed over the sumshymcr The doc ument Towards 2000 Challenges and Responses Aims of Ihe UnishyIersily of Guelph says that this University must collectively know it self and undergo some changes in in stitutional attitudes if it is to reflect the future and thrive in it

Two years in the making the 31-page doc ument was received for information by Senate in June and its ten-point statement of aims and 40 recommendations were accepted as notices of motions for resolution at a Septembe r 17 Senate meeting The document was passed at a meeting of September 24

Vice-President Academic Howard Clark chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee to Review the Aims and Objecti ves of the Ufli versity of Guelph told senators that the committee has tried to do three things in the report - describe Guelph as it is now offer opinions and comments about the future and emphasize th at change will be necessary

The Uni versity must be willing to disshycuss recognize and agree on what is Guelph he sa id for this is at the heart of its planning

We mu st be willing to di scuss what is unique about Guelph and Guelph must get to know itse lf in detail

The aims and objec ti ves document should rel ate to the future Dr Clark said Whatever the fu ture it will be different and the Uni versity will need to change appropri shyately The las t pas t decade was a period of entrenchment he said and the future involves opportunity renewal and challenge Those universities who are proactive are going to be the ones who wil l fl ourish and prosper

The document is a complete rewrite of the tirst draft presented to Senate last fall It

was revised followin g invited comments from fac ulty students and staff an open session with the University community and sessions with people outside the Uni versity The docushyment disc usses the aims of a university exshyamines Guelph and its future role ex plores its response to that role and concludes with a set of aims and recommendations

The report emphas izes four aspects said Dr Clark The underlying theme is that the University has a single educati onal goal Education encompasses three activ ities shyteaching research and service Teac hing and research are not competitive but com pl emenshytary he said and service to soc iety supports teac hing and research roles

The report al so says that if the Uni versity is to achieve excellence in research and teaching it must recognize that changes are necessary Discipline boundaries must beshycome less ri gid the institution must enter into a closer rel ationship with its various commu shynities parts of the University will need to coshyoperate with the Library to use the most recent developments in information tec hshynology there must be closer co ll aboration between the academic and non-academic units of the in stitution in shaping the learning and teac hing environment and there will have to be innovative patterns of research and internal in volvement

One of the most important changes will concern the concepts of institutional neushytrality academic freedom and institutional responsibility There must be a willingness to be concerned with matters outside of the departments to share and address multishydi sc iplinary questions to reach an agreement on what service to society means and to pay far greater attention to what the goals of the institut ion are to be said Dr Clark

The report al so speaks of excellence and

the University s spec ial responsibilities Its easy to say we will strive for and sustain excellence he said but what does it mean) The report notes th at excellence does not impl y more resources Although resources are necessary for exce llence they are not enough - excellence also requires motivashytion initi ative and an espril de corps

Dr Clark sa id th at Guelph has a special responsibility for ag ri culture and veterinary medicine Collec tive ly we have a responshysibility to society to ensure there is excellence in these areas

He al so said th at Guelph mu st spend more time collectively to better understand what its educational objecti ves are The University needs to establi sh general educashytional objec ti ves that prov ide the kind of student that soc iety needs in the future work place It mu st also deve lop qualities and skills for careers and occ upations that cant even be identified today he sa id

The report is one of optimism believes Dr Clark It proposes renewal and a change of attitudes It issues the cha llenge to collecshytyely spend more time in di scuss ion about what our common purposes rea ll y are

We have spent ten yea rs worrying about budgets We have to start looking at opportushynity The committee genuinely believes that the nex t decade will be one of opportunity

The Aims and Alumni -The review committee made a number of

recommendations as measures that should be taken to achieve its Universi ty s bas ic aims One of the recommendations was

That the Department of Alumni Affairs and Development offer suggestions to the appropriate units of the Uni versity on ways in which our alumni can become more in volved in the life of the institut ion 0

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Fine Art is 20

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~ By Dr George Todd Chairman ~ Department of Fine Art

There is a di sc ipline with roots deep in theEi ltgt soil which nurtered the University of

00 Guelph which is being examined uneasily bya

lr) its faculty in anticipation of the fact that ~

0 lr) against all odds the discipline may be thmst

-c into the foreground as the University moves (- 0 toward the year 2000 (Towards 2000 Chalshy

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of Guelph See pages 2 and 3 this issue) ~ The faculty are uneasy because it is v somewhat uncertain about what role to play

should this happen The di sc ipline surprisshy 9 ~ ingly is Fine Art

To many Fine Art within the University at leas t is that bizarre academic activity ~ 0 which eventuates in such questionable pracshyltgt

tices as the exhibition of life-size nude se Jt~ ~ portraits with all appendages intact in the

0 very-public student gallery on the main floor Ei of the McLaughlin Library That is when it ltgt

00 doesnt eventuate in something even more ~ 0 bizarre ~ Thus the very thought of Fine Arts

being thrust into the foreground may excite8 0- hilarity 00 0 But consider the matter Consider the

challenge confronting the University and the

girding up to meet this chaJlenge Within the shy

ltgt revised statement of the Aims and Objectives of the University the principle demand will beltgt

-Sl ~ to educate for change s This sort of talk occasions the uneasy examination The direct cause is an awareness 0

that Fine Art is and always has been literally C

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~ an education for change With good reashy

son too for art has as a defining characterisshysO tic - the logical necess ity for change Is this ~ so for any other discipline

~ Consider again Within context the ~ Aims and Objectives document warns that

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the only constant will be an acceleration of the rate of change Yet one trusts there will be another constant - the self How important then to know onese lf if one knows anything There is an uneasy awareness that art also has a peculi ar facility for ge nerating such knowledge

Thus it is that the Department of Fine Art just at the moment when it is celebrating with satisfaction its 20th anniversary finds itself pondering what it should be if it is to be all that it should be

The Department (m sure had hoped to bask awhile in the afterglow of breathless development It sprang into being in 1965 in cramped quarters in the basement of the Macdonald Institute Yet the one studio and the one part-time lecture hall were able to accommodate the barely 200 course regisshytrants that first year mOSl of those not Fine Art students

From such a modest beginning the Unishyversitys Fine Art program has developed into one of the most respected programs in the country Today there are some 275 students registered as Fine Art majors and the studios and offices of the Department occ upy all of the usable space in Zavitz Hall (wiley minds constantly seek new ways to persuade the administration to renovate the top floor potentially some of the finest art stud y space anywhere) Art history courses keep a speshycially-equipped lecture room in the MacKinnon Building occupied most days and evenings

Often however the real tes t of a process is its product There is room here for satisshyfaction Graduates of the Guelph program hold down many of the primary and secondshyary school art teaching posts in the province Others fill executive curatorial and similar positions in Canadian public galleries (such as the National the Ontario and the Hamilton) in private galleries presses govshyernment agencies and other bodies There are still man y wrestling one-on-one with artshymaking as in the good old days (and nights) of self-discovery in Zavitz But a surpri sing number are to be found working outside the art world entirely

On the initiative of Judy Nasby director - of the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre an art

show of work by past and present regular faculty and selected sessional faculty will be mounted at the Centre in recognition of 20 years of growth of Fine Art It will open

man of vis ion large ly responsible for initiatshying the Department determining its nature and steering it through its formative years Professor Couling was able in the summer of 1984 just months before his death to present the first Gordon Couling Scholarship donated by the Guelph Creative Arts Association Typically though unwel L he talked with bright-eyed enthusiasm about art and its future with Fine Art students at a College of Arts Recognition Luncheon

The Fine Art program was moulded to offer the province a desirable alternative to existing post-secondary programs one comshybining equal strenghts in art media and art history A student could emphas ize one or the other but would be req uired to work in both

It was judged that this would be idea l for future teachers The results confi rm the ex pecshytation But the contribution elsewhere of graduates steeped in Western culture may

The late Gordon Couling first chairshyman Department of Fine Art

prove to be even more important Yet the moulders cannot lay claim to

originating this philosophy on campus As far back as 1903 the Macdonald Institute trained

history and one in drawing and painting The stage was set for a fine art program In effect fine art is a founding discipline

Art is rooted in the hi story of the Unishyversity in another sense that of co llecting and enjoying In 1926 after five patie nt years of saving an Ontario Agricultural College grou p of faculty staff and stud ent s purchased Tom Thompons pai nting The Drive TIlat entershypri se initiated a campaign to build a Univershysity collection of Canadian art One class after another from the three founding colleges added pieces

Appropriately Fine Art student s have contributed in turn the funds to purchase the

master prints in what is known as the printshystudy collection Containing origi nal works by masters such as Rembrandt Goya and Picasso as well as Canadian printmakers the collection is valued at well over $100000 The funds came entirely from the sale of student prints

The print-study collection is on ly one of the features which gives the program its lustre Another is the slide library with its more than 120 000 slides that supports the so lid art history program The collection stacks up favorably aga inst any other in the country

But the secret of the program is more imponderable Certainly it has to do with the emphasis upon the traditional means of artshymaking and understanding The in stant dedishycation of the top professional art is ts who teach sessionally is a clear factor It owes much to the camaraderie among stud ents staff and faCUlty Then there is Zavitz Hal l itse lf Something quite magical seems to happen to its people when they step through its doors

Normall y Zavitz Hall is a welcoming place President Matthews found it otherw ise on hi s first visit Unannounced and unshywelcomed the President eventuall y found himse lf in a life drawing class Challenged by a student and the instructor in turn the Pres ident indicated he did not want to disturb the class that he would just watch quietly

This e licited a testy Well just who the hell do you think you are) from the instructor

Whi ch elicited a surprised Why Im the Pres ident from the President Two sheepish men retreated to the hall to talk it over

But there isnt time to worry about such -things now There are more pressing issues Is November 21 and conclude January 5 To recshy

ognize the art hi story half of the program the Department is sponsoring a short series of lectures by distinguished visitors on the theme Art Hi story Past and Future (See p 15 for Centre viewing hours and lecture dates locations and times)

The celebration also wil ~ be an occasion for honouring the late Gordon Couling the

teac hers in part through a program of applied art in an art-historical context

When the Institute was re-established following the Second World War two courses were made an essential part of the B H Sc cu rriculum one in design and one in art hi story The teacher was Gordon Couling In the early 60s two more specialist courses were added one in 19th and 20th century art

the program taki ng suffi cient advantage of the intellectual wealth of the University Is the program doing enough to prepare students to prepare for the wider world ) [s the program doing all that it can to educate others to be creative ly adaptable)

Or alternative ly are the folks in Zavitz Hall taking themse lves too seriously 0

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Ian C AIridge OAC BSc(Agr)85

Ian C Attridge OAC 85 of Markham is the recipient of the Winegard Medal for 1985 Awarded annually to the graduand judged to be the most outstanding student the Winegard Medal is the Universitys most prestigious undergraduate award Its winner must combine an outstanding academic recshyord and participation in extra-curricular activities with the personal attributes of leadership and citizenship

Ian graduated in June from the OAC resources management program with an average over eight semesters above 80 per cent This academic standing is noteworthy for two reasons the long list of extra-curricshyular activities in which he took part and in the words of a senior faculty member his major was one in which high marks are tough to achieve

The medalists on-campus extra-curricshyular activities included several student clubs his College year executive the Colshylege Royal committee musical activities the Gryphon team in Nordic skiing and intramural teams in five other sports

Off-campus he was active in the Onshytario Public Interest Research Group of Guelph the Federation of Ontario Natushyralists Friends of the Wye Marsh the Guelph Environmental Council Guelph Field Naturalists the Coalition in support of Environmental Programs and the Guelph Peace and Disarmament Conference of 1984 He was also involved in a number of youth and lay programs in the United Church

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The Winegard

Medal

A Tale Of Ten

Winners While at Guelph he won two entrance

scholarships a number of in-course prizes and scholarships and two summer undershygraduate research awards from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Counshycil In 1984 he won a Soil Conservation Society of America (SCSA) scholarshipshyone of only 18 offered in North America by the SCSA to students in conservation-orishyented programs He was the top Canadian student

Within the Department of Land Reshysource Science Ian was a member of the undergraduate teaching committee During his final semester he co-ordinated a student review of the academic program in resources management which made recommendashytions that will be incorporated into future program changes

One of his teachers notes that Ian has a deep interest in soc ial issues and a commitshyment to environmental concerns He attended Markham District High School and completed his secondary schooling in Lahr West Germany

Each of Guelphs seven colleges nomishynates one student each year for considerashytion for the Winegard Meda l The other nominees for 1985 were Sally Ann Lawshyrence Bell-Knight Arts Rebecca Elizabeth Jane Rodgers CBS Lisa Jane Martin FACS Margot Joan Finstad CPS David Douglas Langlotz CSS and Janet Kashytherine Pegrum OVe

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the presentation of the Winegard Medal Ian

Dr William Winegard

Attridge is joining a select group of Guelph graduates who are a source of pride and inspiration to the University community

Former University of Guelph president Dr William Winegard marked the annivershysary with a letter from the House of Comshymons where he is Guelphs member of Parliament In it he writes

It is not ofien that one has the opporshytunity fO suggest terms of reference for the Universitys most pres tigious student award Such was my good fortulle ten years ago and over the years I have become inshycreasingly grateful that Senute accepted the proposed terms A University-wide compeshytition always stimlliates interest especially when academic excellence and extra-curshyricular activities form the basis of the comshypetition The men and women who have won the medal have been Guelph at its best I have been proud to know them

Where are They Now

What are They Doing

The previous winners of the Winegard -Medal were contacted recently and replies were received from seven of the nine gold medalists Peter Taylor Arts BA 76 Christine Zink OVC DVM 78 Timothy Henshaw OVC DVM 79 John Root CPS BSc 81 Anne-Frances Miller CBS BSc 82 Nicole Didicher Arts BA 83 and James Sidlofsky Arts SA 84 There was no response from Mary Saunshy

ders CBS BSe 77 and Elaine Courtice CBS BSe 80

Some of their achievements both proshyfessional and personal and some of their future hopes and plans are recorded here

Peter Taylor (1916) The first recipient of the Winega rd

Medal now with the University s Office for Educational Practice as manager of print publications is responsible for providing centralized graphic design typeselling and print publications cocordination to the Unishyversity community

Following graduation from Guelph Peter continued his education at the Uni-

Peter Taylor Arts 76

Christine Zinc Tim Henshaw John RoO Anne Miller OVC 7S

versity of Waterloo where he obtained an MA in English in 1981

Peter is also a poet - his first book First Epistle to Dr Torr was published by Gryphon Press in 1976 He printed and bound the book himself andsome copies are still ava ilable

7iaino which he considers his most important work to date was published by Paget Press in 1980 and a second chapbook The Masons came out that same year A third chapbook Aphorisms was printed in 1982

Being a ca reeri st and a poet is someshytimes a sc hi zophreni c existence says Pete r I never seem to have enough energy or time to do both as well as I might like to Regrettabl y my writing has played second fiddle to my career

Christine Zink (1918) In 1978 when Chnstine first joined a

large animal practice in Drayton Ontario the idea of a woman ve terin ar ian working with farm an imals was so inconceivable to farmers in the area that some of them called her young man she writes She reca lls many a midnight drive over desel1ed farm roads to help a cow give bil1h return shying home at su nri se know ing there was still a full days work ahead

After two years of practice Dr Zink returned to the OVC for pos t-graduate work and is now doing research on The Pathoshygenesis of Corynehacterium equi Pneushymonia in FoaJs In 1983 she passed the

American Collcge of Veterinary Patholshyogists spec iality boa rd exa minati on She expects to graduate with a Ph D thi s yea r and is deciding bet~een a position on faculty at a veterinary sc hool or post-doctoral reshysearch at a medica l sc hool in the United States

Tim Henshaw (1919) After three years in a private veterinary

prac tice in BalTie Tim became a staff vetshyerinari an with Unit ed Breede rs Inc of Guelph and now works out of the Alliston office His responsi bilities inc lude field sershyvice education and research He has reshyturned to campus as guest lect urer at the

to chemistry from her undergraduate studies in molecular genetics and biophysics has been good for me she says The chemisshytry I am learning helps me to better undershystand how enzymes work and macromoleshycules interact with their environment

Last year she married Ganpathy Murshythy a fellow Yale graduate student in ph ys shyics Together they enjoy hiking camping and reading and at the time of writing were planning a trip to India this year

J have told Ganpath y a lot about Gue lph she says and were looking forshyward to visiting the University on a sunny autumn day when the maples along Wineshygard Walk are all aflame

OVC 79 CPSSI CSSS2

OVC and the OAC and has done extensi ve speaking throughout the province for the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food

Dr He ~shaw is peoples warden of St Peters Anglican Church in Minesi ng presishydent of the Ontario Association of Bovine Practitioners secretary of the Simcoe County Holstein Club and a live-s toc k Judge

In 1980 he marri ed Jane Si nclair FACS 78 and they have a dau ghter Chrisshytenltt future University of Guelph class of 2005

John Root (1981) John continues to stud y at Guelph shy

he received an MSc in liquid state physics in 1983 and is now working on his Ph D Hi s thesis is on the Quantum Effects in the Structure of Liquid Water under the supershyvision of Department of Phys ics professor Peter Ege lstaff

In 1982 he married Darlene Maurer and their daughter Athena Catherine-Beth was born earlier this year

John is a youth group leader in the First Baptist Church in Guelph and was presishydent of the Baptist Youth of Ontario and Quebec in 1983-1984

Anne-Frances (MiUer) Murthy (1982)

From New Haven Connecticut USA Anne-Frances writes to say she is at Yale University in the Depal1ment of Chemshyistry doing research on photosynthetic oxyshygen evolution for her Ph D thesis The move

Nicole Didicher Jamie Sidlofsh Arts 83 ArtsS4

Nicole Didicher (1983) Nico le is finishing the first year of her

PhD studies at Queens University where she obtained her M A last year

Her Masters degree work centred on the medieva l period of English literature and she plans to do doc toral research in 18t h-ce ntury literature

Nicole reports that her cu rrent studies are supported by two Ontario Graduate Sc holars hips and a Queens Graduate Awa rd Thi s should come as no surprise to th ose who witnessed her dedication at Guelph

On the social scene in Kingston she s one of the 100 to 150 voices of the Queens Choral Ensemble and rece ntl y she acquired an apartment mate ca ll ed Mole a young white rat Hes a good companion and quiet sa id Ni co le Im absolu tely no good with plants so hes my al ternat ive

Jamie Sidlofsky (1984) Jam ie is a student in the LL B program

at the University of Toron tos Faculty of Law He is the University of Toronto represhy

sentative on the Canadian Bar Association -a member of the Faculty of Law arti cling and summer Jobs committee and direc tor Unishyversity of Toronto student lega l aid program Centre for Spanish-speaking Peoples

This summer he work ed with Diashymond Fairbairn amp Steinberg barri sters and solicitors in Toronto and as a research as shysistant for University of Toronto law proshyfessor Bernard Green 0

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Butthe Melody Lingers On By John Hearn Information Services

S tanley Saunders left Guelph this summer

for a year of administrative leave after II years as the Universitys Director of Music

College of Arts When Dr Saunders joined the Division

of Mu sic in 1974 he inherited a strong

musical tradition reaching back to the earliest

days of the Ontario Agricultural College which was always famous for its choirs

[t fell to Dr Saunders to take the fledgling

Division of Music introduce its first degree programs and build the solid reputation which it enjoys today

Dr Saunders completed his undershy

graduate studies at the University of Wales and twice won the First Award Open Instrushy

mental Solo at the Ei steddfod He was a

member of the National Youth Orchestra of Wales and later performed as a clarinetist with the SSCs radio and TV sy mphony

orchestras

Soon after coming to Guelph Dr Saunshy

ders founded the University of Guelph Civic Orchestra which under his direction achieved an enviable reputation in the ensuing

years The revival of the U of G Aggie Band

followed as did the U of G Concert Band By 1979 Dr Saunders had built a faculty

of some 16 members including Dr Charles

Wilson and Gerald and Elizabeth Neufeld

The same year also saw performances by

the U ofG Choir the U ofG Chamber Singers and the Summer Chorale The Noon-Hour

Concerts were adding to their already unique reputation while the newly formed U ofG

Trio consisting of Elizabeth Neufeld voice Sylvia Hunter piano and Stanley Saunders clarinet was beginning the series of tours which would take it to many parts of Canada and Great Britain

Before the end of the 70s we saw the

first of the successful Music of the Arboreshytum series of concerts the formation of the Aggie Choir under the direction of Gerald

Neufeld and in partnership with the Guelph Spong Festival welcomed such luminaries as the great contemporary Polish composer Penshyderecki Gian Carlo Menotti Ruby Mercer editor of Opera Canada and Bori s Brott

The early 80s have been gala years both for Dr Saunders and the Division

Dr Stanley Saunders

(retitled the Department of Music in 1984) The decade began with the presentation of

two world premieres by the U of G Civic Orchestra and the appointment of Dr Saunshy

ders as president of the National Youth Orchestra of Canada and vice-chairman of the Council of Ontario Music Administrators

The growing stature of the Department of

Music was also reflected in student registrashytion both credit and non-credit in vocal keyboard classical guitar and orchestral inshy

struments

The year 1981 saw a brilliant tour of Sweden and West Germany by the Univers ity of Guelph Choir under the direction of Gerald Neufeld and conducting engagements by Dr

Saunders in Toronto Ottawa Montreal Boston and Washington D C The same year

saw the formation of the U ofG Jazz Ensemshyble and the U ofG Pep Band both led by Kenneth Tinnish

II was a very good year As Dr Saunders said External evidence of scholarship is not necessarily obvious from performance but

creativity is itself a form of research and all these perform ances are not only enlightened by the students studies in history literature

and theory they are also heightened by their

awareness of the aesthetic factors that give significance to mu sic through their intershyrelated studies at the University

Another substantial increase in student

enrolment was witnessed in 1982-1983 deshysp ite the tightening of admission standards

and regulation for the continuance of studies

The University of Guelph Choir still under direc tor Gerald Neufeld won second prize in

the 1982 CSC national choral competition

Stanley Saunders can afford to look back on his Guelph years with considerable satisshyfaction The division which he inherited in 1974 with its three-member faculty had

grown by this year to a full department with

faculty and staff numbering 29 persons and with an enrollment of 300 students plus -another 126 students registered in the nonshycredit applied program

He has been a very bu sy and productive man commuting to and fro between Guelph and Sault Ste Marie to administer the joint

Univers ity of GuelphAlgoma University Colshylege music program - as well as keeping up

a steady schedule of scholastic publications He will be missed 0

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University of Guelph Licences Software to McGraw-Hili By Mary Cocivera

Information Services

The University of Gue lph and the US publi shing giant McGraw- Hili Inc are fishynalizing a non-exclusive licence for CoSy computer conferenc ing software developed at the University

Publi shed by McGraw-Hili BYTE Magazine is using the CoSy software to set up BIX the BYTE Information Exchange Phil Lemmons BYTEs editor-in-chief deshyscribes BIX as a living database The comshypany plans to set up conferences on every aspect of microcomputer use

Through the conferences users will be able to share information with each other and to communicate direc tly with the edi shytors of the magazine A four-ci ty commershycial te st began in September and a BYTE spokesman projects that a full international information exchange will be operating by early 1986

In addition to BIX McGraw-Hili will use the CoSy so ftware for internal comshymunications CoSy was installed by BYTE editorial offices in New Hampshire several months ago for evaluation by staffers They soon became confirmed users and CoS y beshycame a permanent part of the office The conference system was particularly sucshycessful in linking editorial headq uarters in the east with the west coast office

CoSy is already familiar to more than one thousand users world-wide who subshyscribe to a service oftered by the Univers ity of Guelph The licence to McGraw-Hili marks the first time the software will be operated and managed elsewhere The Unishyversity will continue to offer a CoSy se rvice and will continue to market the software to other potential users

CoSy was developed by a team of softshyware designers in Computing and Comshymunications Services at the Univers ity over a 16-month period Alastair Mayer was the chief architect of the code The software was written in C a high-level programming language to run under the Uni x operating system This feature makes CoS y highly portable and capable of running on any micro-computer or a mainframe with the Unix operating sys tem

George Bond BYTEs managing editor for e lectronic publishing and communicashytion says that ease of use and the Unix operating system were important fac tors in their choice of CoSy He also cited the skills and co-operative attitudes of the peopl e at

CoSy th e University of Guelph who are involved with CoSy

The University of Guelph was a parshyticularly hospita ble environment for deshyvelopment of a computer conferencing system according to Dr Ken MacKay assoshyciate director of Institutional An alysis and Pl anning Electronic mail was well estabshylished on campus so there were many peoshyple already committed to e lectronic commushynications Home-grown APL mail is arguashybly the best mail system anywhere because its easy to use and very robust CoSy is a separate system but is a descendant of earshylie r electronic mail systems

We had three basic design ideas for CoSy explains Alastair Mayer It should req uire few co mm ands the user should be able to learn without a manual and it should be accessible fro m any terminal The se goa ls have been reali zed to a great extent A manual is available but by refe rring to the help instructions within CoSy users can learn enough commands to become funcshytional very quickly

Dr Edward Swart acting director of Computing and Communication Services points out that CoSy is offered as a free service to the University com munity He beshylieves that this enlightened decision conshytributed to CoSys ne arly immediate success on campus From the early development stages users were invited to make comshyments and suggestions Their feedback inshynuenced the design of the current CoSy sysshytem to a substantial extent

Computer conferenc ing is a powerful concept as CoSy users soon discover Marshygaret Bec kman the Univers itys executive direc tor of Information Technology says there is no doubt that computer con ferencshying reduces the number of meetings and enables decisions to be made more quickl y CoSy is heavily used by University adminshyistrators and members of facu lty are ex plorshy

ing applications of computer co nferencing in teaching and lea rning

Proceeds from licences and from subshyscriptions to the campus conferencing sysshytem will fund furth er development of CoSy Dr Swart says a not-too-distant developshyment will be a distributed conference cashypability permitting a free exc hange of information from one conference systelll to another A second deve loplllent will be to activate what Dr Swa11 calls CoSys Jashytent graphics capability In CoSy a messhysage ca n contain anything even NAPLPS codes for graphics Graphs sketches and charts will thus soon become part of CoSy confe rences 0

A Letter Dear MI~ Wing

My wife (lnd I WOIII vou to know hml we enjoyed LM Mont gomerys storr The Strike at Putney ill the Spring 85 GueJph Alumnu s

Visiting Green Gables in P EI wos one of the highlights of our Trans-Canada vocmion 0 few years ago

We hope you I publish one ofher short stories in each issue of th e maga zine selectedjiom the U ofGs LM Montgomshyery Collectionfrom now on and make each issue a colleclOrs item shyCordially

Doug Marrin OAC 39 107 Waverly Place Mountain View Calif 94040 USA

Thanks for your letter Doug we will do our very best to bri ng you more L M M Ed

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P rofessional golfer philosopher oenologist would-be film maker and

now restaurateur Robert Harcourt Bob Desautels HAFA 75 Arts 84 is a man of many facets one who seeks his own sty le of excellence in many directions This summer he opened a new restaurant La Maisonmiddot in downtown Guelph which is already drawing patrons from a wide area in search of the gourmet delights promised by a very disshytinguished menu and delivered by chefs accomplished in the arts of haute cuisine

Bob works outward from a central conshyviction that there is always a market for excellence Born in Toronto he has lived in Ottawa Montreal - and Guelph He studied at Sir George Williams University Montreal Que (now pan of Concordia University) before attending the College of Family and Consumer Studies School of Hotel and Food Administration (HAFA) where he graduated with a BComm degree

He will be remem bered on campus as manager of the Faculty Club a position

The Eclectic

Bob Desautels

which he held for nearly three years after graduating and before he launched on a whole new career as a profess ional golfer He played Canadian and Australian circuits for a while and then accepted the position of manager and golf pro at the Cedarhurst Golf Club on Lake Simcoe

Two years later he was back at the Unishyversity of Guelphs hotel sc hool as a research assistant preparing for HAFAs first Advanced Management Program for the Hospitality Industry (AMPHI) course - an unrepentantly elitist institution offering advanced manageshyment training only to very se nior executives in the hospitality industry

Bob se rved as logistics manager to AMPHI for two years with responsibility for the health and welfare of a clientele whose expectations as far as hospitality is conshycerned are of the very highest

As a member of the HAFA faculty he was a more than occasional lecturer primarily on the subject of wine - whi ch he describes in reverential tones He is married (the pursuit of excellence again) his wife Susan hail s from Australia They have two children Coun age 7 and Emily 5

At the end of two years with HAFA Bob Desautels was faced with one of those critical life decisions - a choice between two paths leading in significantly different directions He might have accepted a tenure track position for whichit would have made sense to seek a PhD in business admini stration or

HAFA 75 By John Hearn Information Services

Mine host Bob Desautels HAFA 75 at La Maison

pursue an old love for philosophy He chose the latter and earned hi s Masters degree from Guelphs College of Ans in the fall of 1984

I suppose it arises from an old interest in religion he explains Metaphysical quesshytions have always fascinated me Scientific materialism the notion that mind is no more than a function of brain has neve r satisfied me There are too many loose ends - mind contemplating itself for example introshyspection Focu ss ing on philosophy of the mind for my degree gave me one of the answers - but may be Im beginning to understand some of the questions

So in the Fall of 84 philoso pher wine connoisseur goller Bob Desautels inventoried his assets - and took a course in film making at the Ryerson Poly technica l Institute Im interested in the creative end of film making he says Writing andor directing Ive fini shed one film script and working on another But it takes mucho dinero

Then early this Spring the main floor of one of Guelph s distinguished old homes beca me available Strategically located at the corner of Woolwich and Yarmouth Streets in an area already known for fine dining the housc is owned by Guelph bu sinessman Paul Starr A pannership was struck and Bob found himsel f bringing the whole wealth of hi s re staurant management know-how and his own drive for excellence to bear on La

Maison It was conceived planned and exshyecuted from the beginning as a shrine conseshycrated to the worshippers of superlative cuishysine enjoyed in the most distinguished of atmospheres

The concept has two major aspects One large room is given over to a wine bar where the connoisseur - or those who enjoy the fermented grape of any age or colour - can select from more than 20 splendid vintages by the glass or the bottle A parallel selection of native and imponed cheeses activate the tastebuds while intimates can order a delectashyble cheese fondue for two The wine-bar is a casual drop-in kind of place open from noon until midnight for enjoyment relaxation and con versation

The other main room is for the serious diner There is a modest economically-priced luncheon available for business people but the evening meal is designed to attract those for whom dining is a rei igious experience

You make your market study says bullBob but then you add your own secret ingredient - call it gut feeling There are some very good restaurants in Guelph but none that target this panicular niche

l may be that not the least of La Maisons attractions will be the possibility of conversation with mine host Choose your own subject - golf metaphysics pragshymatism - or the an of Woody Allen Bob Desautels is nothing if not eclectic 0

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Newly Elected as

A1uDlni Senators Following the annual election of three of the nine alumni seats on Senate at the University the following alumni were elected to replace those who fulfilled three-year terms on August 31 1985

Norman Hawkins OVC 57

Rita Weigel James White FACS 77 OAC 6 1

James White OAC 55A and 61 lives in Brampton and is the owner of InfoResults Limited information research consultants Brampton He completed Masters and Docshytoral degrees at Michigan State University Department of Communication He has opshyerated InfoResults for 15 years specializing in agricultural economics social policy and communication issues

He is a past president of the Canadian Consulting Agrologists Association has served on the provincial council of the Ontario Institute of Agrologists and was a director of the Canadian Society of Agrishycultural Economic s and Farm Manageshyment 0

Dr Norman Hawkins OVC 57 estabshyIlished the Guelph Animal Hospital on Elizshyabeth Street in 1957 and has continued his practice there as a partner

An active member of the Ontario Vetshyerinary Association council and a commitshytee worker he is also a member of the Canadian Veterinary Medical Association national examination board

His earlier work with the American Veterinary Medical Association involved the examination of overseas veterinary gradshyuates and inspection of North American vetshyerinary sc hools

He is a member of the Guelph Public Library Board and Board chairman of St

Margaret s School Elora

Rita (Klassen) Weigel FACS 77 gradushyated from the College of Family and Conshysumer Studies with a BASc in Con su mer Studies She was president of the Mac-FACS Alumni Association 1983-84 and has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Universi ty of Guelph Alumni Association

A member of the Canadian Marketing and Research Society Rita was employed in the research and product management field for a number of years A Guelph res ident her concerns include those of a mother of a son and twin one-year-old daughters

New Chairman Board of Governors

Edmond Bovey

Edmund C Bovey the man who headed the Commission on the Future Development of the Universities of Ontario has been named chairman of the Board of Governors at the Universi ty of Guelph A member of the Board since 1976 he succeeds Cecil Franklin who retired July I after three years as chairman and who also joined the Board in 1976

Edmund Bovey was chairman of the three-man commission that held hearings

for the Ontario public and university comshymunity in 19831984 before developing and recommending to the Mini stry of Colleges and Universities a future plan for Ontario universities

Retired as director chairman of the board and member of the executive committee of Norcen Energy Reso urces Toronto he was recently named to chair a task force on funding the arts in Canada an area where he has long experience A past president and trustee of the Ali Gallery of Ontario and its Foundation he is also a member of the Board of Governors of Roy Thomson Hall and vice-chairman of the International Council of the Museum of Modern Art in New York He is a past chairshyman of the Council for Business and Arts in Canada

In addition he is a director of a number of companies including Hollinger Argus Abitibi Price Canada Packers and the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce as well as MONY Life Insurance PPG Indusshytries and PPG Industries Canada

He is a member of the Canadian Ecoshynomic Policy Committee a director of the Canadian Executive Service Overseas and a past president of the Canadian Gas Associashytion He is also currently chairman of the Board of Wellesley Hospital Toronto

He was born in Calgary Alta and edushycated in Victoria BC 0

Appointments

Ab Moore Harry Downie OVC 48

Dr Ab Moore took up the responsibilities of chairman of the Department of Rural Extension Studies on September I for a fiveshy shyyear term He was previously director of the Office of Educational Practice

Dr Harry Downie OVC48 became actshying chairman of the Department of Bioshymedical Sciences on July I He continues until December 3 1 or until a new chairman is named 0

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Available for Immediate Possession Space in Prestige Campus Home (for baby grand piano)

The Presidents House dedicated as a building of historical and architectural significance has been without a piano since President Maclachlan retired in 1967

This could be the chance of a lifetime if you are seeking a unique and extremely worthwhile Class Project Perhaps your class would like to buy a new piano to be used in this centre for campus entertaining to be viewed by more than 5 000 visitors a year A recognition plaque would be located either on or adjacent to the instrument

A Bequest

Charles S Humphrey

A former partner and president from 1947

to 1963 of Guelphs Hart Chemical Comshy

pany Canada Ltd the late Charles S Humphrey se lected the Universit y of

Guelph as one of the benefic iaries of his estate

Hi s bequest to the Unive rs it y of

$130000 received last June is to be used at the discretion of the University pres ident

in the University s scholarships and burshy

saries program A resident of Victoria BC since his

retirement in 1963 Charles Humphrey died on August29 1984 at the age of81 He was an emeritus member of the Canadian Assoshy

ciation of Textile Colourists and Chemists Born at Hornell NY USA he came to Canada in 1936

This is the second time that Charles

Humphrey has given financial support to the Univers ity In 1979 he generously provided a $50000 endowment gift to support an annual $5000 graduate fellowship in Chemistry

The fellowship is designed to ease the financial burdens of outstanding students in

organic chemistry registered in the PhD

program at the Guelph-Waterloo Centre for Graduate Work in Chemistry (GWC)2 0

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CODling Events 86 Jan 7-9

Mar 5

8-9

13-15

April 4middot5

June 9middot13

20-22

OAC Agricultural Conference

Alumni Florida Reunion (See below)

College Royal Open House

Ontario Institute of Agrologists Annual Conference Agricultural Trade To be he ld

in Cornwall Ont

OAC Alumni Association Curling Bonspiel

U of 6s 8tb Annual Human Sexuality Conference Changing Nature of Sexual Relationships Sexual Scripts and Lifestyles Today

ALUMNI WEEKEND 86

Alumni Florida Reunion If you missed the Alumni Flo rida Reunion Picnic in March 85 you missed a great gathering About 90 alumni and

friends met for a very pleasant pot luck meal Ross Cavers OAC 29 the organizing committee chairman hopes it will

become an annual affair Ruth and Gordon Wright Mac

37 and OAC 33 and Willa and Morley Funston Mac and OAC 32 made the loc al arrangements the affair was sponshysored by the Universitys Alumni-in Action group Make

plans to attend the second annual Florida Alumni Reunion Picnic at 12 noon on Wednesday March 51986 at Harbour Heights Park near Port Charlotte Florida two miles east of

Interstate Highway 75 Please respond by March 11986 to Ruth and Gordon Wright General Delivery Warm Mineral

Springs Florida 33596 US A

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College of Arts Alumni Association DELPHA

Editor Terry Ayer 84

Executive 1985-86 HONORARY PRESIDENT Dr David R Murray Dean

PRESIDENT Linda McKenzie-Cordick 81

PAST PRESIDENT Margo Shoemaker 79

VICE-PRESIDENT Wm Macdonald 78

SECRETARY-TREASURER

Marilyn Armstrong 78

DIRECTORS Debbie (Nash) Chambers 77 Edith LeLacheur 72 Janice (Robertshy

son) Partlow 79

UGAA REPS Wm Macdonald 78 Margo Shoemaker 79

EDITOR DELPHA Terry Ayer 84

Appointed

Dr Edward Phillips

Edward Phillips began a five-year term as chairman of the Department of Music July I He obtained his BA in mu sic at Amherst College

Massachusetts and his M A Masshyter of Philosophy and Ph D all in music theory from Yale Univers ity Married to Patricia who has a DM A in organ performance from Yale he has two sons Stewart 7 and Andrew 3 Edward who is also an organist enjoys cooking 0

Literary Heritage Preserved in Africa Most Canadian children are exposed to their cultural heritage at an early age through legendary stories brought from Eushy

rope or about Canadian pioneering and through stories about Indian or Inuit myths

and fables In developing countries however

where paper and printed materials are in

shon supply cultural heritage is usually passed on orally and children have little

opportunity to read about their past A Canashydian project involving the Universities of Guelph and Yaounde in Cameroon West

Africa is doing something to keep that countrys heritage alive

The project now entering its fourth year is a collaborative effort of the De partshy

ment of English Language and Literature at Guelph and the Department of African Litshyerature at the Univers ity of Yaounde It is

sponsored by the Canadian International Development Agency with Guelphs Deshy

partment of English Language and Litershy

ature Chairman Doug Killam serving as co-ordinator and Elizabeth (Wildman)

Cockburn CSS 81 as Canadian project consultant

Dr Killam is well-known for his work in the field of Commonwealth literature and

has taught at several African universities

EI izabeth Cock burn a primary sc hool teacher taught at the Government Teachers Training College in the North West Province

of Cameroon from 1969 to 1971 It was then

that she became aware of the shortage of relevent reading material for Cameroon schoolchildren

However it was some ten years later

that the project was born when she and Professor Kilian consulted with Dr Bernard

Fonlon then head of the Department of Afshyrican Literature at Yaounde Deeply comshy

mitted to saving African oral traditions as literatore Dr Fonlon although now retired remains a driving force in promoting creativity in the schools and scholarship on oral literature at the university

Last January Professor Killam and Elizabeth Cockburn were in Yaounde at a

conference where 80 papers were presented on the theory and practice of oral literature for West African educators - the first major attempt to marry theory and practice

As are children in the Canadian Indian

and Inuit communities African children are often exposed to texts that portray children of cultures different from their own To

counteract thi s influence simple African s tories with lifelike illustrations are being

Local stories come alive

mimeographed and turned into booklets by simply folding stand ard letter-size paper in half A collections of these stories will evenshytually be produced in textbook form when

fund s become available One such s tory The Marriage Feast

describes the marriage meal of the cat who invites all the domestic animals and birds to

the celebration

The dogs who know much about meat were asked 10 cook the food 8U1 they decided 10

playa trick They cooked the meat in the bOlom of the pot with the vegetables on lOp They said they would be the last to eat

In true fable form the hens who ate first discovered when they were too full to eat any more that there was meat deep

inside the pOI So they

Swore never to eat from the surface again and that is why hens always scratch deep into the soil in search offood

Although story-telling is becoming a lost art in Canada it is still a lively part of

life in Cameroon But as Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe said when he was in Guelph last year when a member of the older genshyeration dies its as if a whole library was destroyed -

Time is running short and fund s are needed to keep alive this project in Camshyeroon Anyone seeking further information

on the project may address their inquiries to Professor Killam at the University He hopes to receive funding from the Commonwealth

Foundation for similar work in other counshytries which have expressed an interest in

recording their heritage 0

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The Limners How do art students continue to find stimshyulation and motivation following graduation when they are no longer under the pressure of course requirements and without the critshyicism of an instructor

Four Fine Art graduates and one inshycourse student solved the problem by formshying a support group called The Limners (Limn an archaic word meaning paint deshypict portray Hence - Limner) Last Sepshytember the group held a success ful exhishybition of their recent works at the Halton Hills Cultural Centre Georgetown The Limners are

Dorothy Hart 81 of Georgetown She works with oil s pas tel s and graphite b4t is very interested in character fi gures made of cellu-clay which requires enormous pashytience to produce Her latest interest is pastel portraits of children

Dimensions 85 The fourth annual College of Arts Ailimni Association juried art show DIMENSIONS 85 was a success once again The jury members Marlene Jofriet well-known water colourist _ Michael OKeefe 76 practising artist and teacher and George Todd chairman Department of Fine Art selected 30 entries to hang

The jury awarded the following $100 $75 $50 prizes and designated three honshyourable -mentions

First pri ze Sheila Vollmer 85 Woman in Veil intaglio print

Second prize Wendy Maki 83 Pears Plums Apples and Grapes oil on canvas

Sue Knox 81 Formerly she was interested in the landscapes of Northern Ontario where she used to work Now back in Guelph Sue has rediscovered her urban surshyroundings including people

Betty Ketcheson 83 of Frankford Ontario to where her husband lack has retired Watercolour is her favorite medium however Betty also has an interest in enshycaustic painting with beeswax as a medium

Jane Graham 83 of Guelph lane tries to communicate her own brand of optimism through her waterco lours by using the figure in the land scape most often a child

Nan Hogg an undergraduate Nan is intershyested in making art that is feminist A memshyber of th e Guelph Embroiderers Guild Nans recent work displays a combination of watercolours or etchings with coil aged fabshyric that has been embroidered 0

The Limners L to r Sue Knox 81 Belly Ketcheson 83 Nan Hogg Dorothy Hart 81 and Jane Graham 83

Third pri ze Doreen Schaub 70 Rushing Waters watercolour

Honourable Mentions Sheila Volshylmer 85 Embracing Figures sculpture in pl aster Scott Abbot 79 Fields Near Maryhill oil on masonite Margaret Peter 74 Impressions Fossil Series collagraphsi Ikscreen

An innovation at DIMENSIONS 85 was the presentation of selected works of a featured artist Our first selected arti st was Evan MacDonald no stranger to the Univershysity of Guelph Many of his works are part of the Universitys collection of Canadian art hi s portraits hang in various buildings on campus and he was awarded an honorary doctorate of laws in 1979

We extend our sincere thanks to Ingrid

At DIMENSIONS 85 ColeRe oj Arts art sholl at Alllmni Wefkllld 85 L to r Marlene Jojriet juror Dr GeorRe 7iJdd chairman Department oj Fine Art jllror Wencil Maki 83 second-prize winner Doreen Schauh 70 third-prize willner Michael 0 Keeji 76

juror Own David Murray

Jenkner curatorexhibitions at the Macshydonald Stewart Art Centre and Mary MacshyDonald Evans wife for making it possible for us to feature the works of Evan

We also expre ss our gratitude and appreciation to all those who were instrushymental in making the show a success A special thank you is extended to this years participants without whom the show coulll not have been mounted 0

Art Show and Lecture Series Recognizing the 20th anniversary of the Department of Fine Art a facshyulty art show will be presented at the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre Nov 21 to lan 5 Viewing Tue to Fri and Sun noon to 500 pm Sat 1000 am to 500 pm A lecture se ries will present Dr Alan Gowans professor of art history University of Victoria B c on Art History and the Social Function Nov 18 at 800 -pm Rm 113 Physics Bldg Dr Ronald Nasgaard chief curator Art Gallery of Ontario wi II present Cushyratorship Today and Social Political Economic Pressures on Nov 27 at 400 pm in the Dept of Fine Art A third speaker is slated for early in the New Year

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Ontario Veterinary College Alumni Assoc OVC ALUMNI NEWS

Editor Dr Cliff Barker 41

OVC Alumni Association Executive 1985middot86

HONORARY PRESIDENT Dr Ole Niel sen 56 PRESIDENT Dr Ken Gadd 56 PAST PRESIDENT Dr Wendy Parker 7 1 VICE-PRESIDENT Dr Mary (Hawkins) Wiltshire 74 SECRETARY-TREASURER Dr Gordon Boylan 46 DIRECTORS Dr Bob Buck 46 Dr Archie MacKinnon 43 Dr Norm McAninch 39 Dr Bruce Robb 7 1 Dr Bruce Robinson 76 Dr Noni Sman 80 EDITOR avc Alumni News Dr Cliff Barker 41

Mailbag Dear Cliff

We were over to Vancouver Island recel11ly and went up to Qualicum Beach to see 0 Howard Taylor 13 He broke me in on meat inspection in 42 at the old Burns plant on Logan Avenue in Winnipeg

He is in great shape Qlid outside of a gimpy knee has no problems It was a real pleasure to see him again - still the same sparkle and quick wit that I had remembered from the Winnipeg years

I had not seen Howardfor 40 years bw outside of him thinking I had aged someshywhat had no trouble with identification Thought you might be il7lerested in this bit of news - not too many vets make it to age 98

We are fine and enjoying a complete reversal of what Vancouver weather is supshyposed to be bUi sure would like to see aboUl a week of rain Regards Bud Ellis 41 1410 Gordon Avenue West Vancouver Sc V7T IR6

From the Dean

Dr Ole Nielsen 56

In this my first opponunity to address our alumni through this medium I would like to express my pleasure at having the privilege of serving the Ontario Veterinary College and the University of Guelph

At the outset I acknowledge my debt to those many faculty students and staff who have labored to make this College a great inshystitution Being mindful of this heritage I am excited by the challenge of helping move the College to new levels of excellence One has to be impressed with the potential of the OVe Heres why

By the time this publication has gone to press I expect tenders for the first phase of a new OVC building program will have been called and possibly awarded This project costing over $13 million will provide modshyem facilities for the Depanments of Clinical Studies and of Biomedical Sciences and the Veterinary Teaching Hospital

The culmination of a great deal of effon led by former Dean Doug Maplesshyden 50 and President Burt Matthews OAC 47 the project is jointly funded by the Federal Government (Departments of Agrishyculture and Regional Industrial Expansion) and the Province of Ontario (OMAF)

The new facility will allow the College to press forward with new teaching research and service programs that include such vital newareas as biotechnology computer as istshyed health management and expanded proshygrams in toxicology

The second phase of the OVC building program which is largely related to teachshying spaces remains to be funded A good share of this project is expected to be includshyed in the fonhcoming capital campaign of the University The panicipation of you the alumni will be crucial to its success The governments of Ontario and Canada have done their part despite difficult circumshystances The rest is up to us

I have found the faculty of the OVC to be -a group of strong and vigorous academshyics and many young talented faculty have been appointed recently In passing one notes the retirement of many of those who led the renaissance in veterinary education in Canada in the post-war years The new generation of faculty has a real challenge in

trying to do as well as their predecessors shyand it will

I believe the graduate students are the sou I of the College Therefore another cause for optimism is the strength of the graduate and research programs at the OVe Presently the College has about 130 gradushyate students who at this most creative period of their lives are striving to provide new knowledge and skills for veterinary medishycine In 1950 there were none

There has been a significant expansion in the D YSc program a comparatively new doctoral program that gives priority to the acquisition of clinical sk ill s in addition to training in research The D VSc degree is unique in the world and how its graduates will be received remains to be determined I am confident it will be favourably

Believing in the imponance of reshysearch OMAF recently committed itself to provide the College with a new research farm at Ponsonby This nO-acre site located some ten miles from Guelph will provide farm-type facilities for hous ing dairy cattle beef cattle sheep pigs and laboratory anishymals will replace existing facilities at Eramosa and Plislinch and will cost in excess of $3 million

The application rate and quality of stushydents seeking admision to the D YM proshygram remains high

I am delighted to be assisted in the work of the Deans office by Associate Dean Ted Valli 62 and Academic Counsellor Ron Downey 61 and given the above is it any wonder I am optimistic

I have always been a bit smug in believshying that those of us from western Canada were the most friendly in the nation My exshyperience since coming to Guelph proves me wrong Everyone including students facshyulty staff the University administration and the local community could not have been more friendly and helpful 0

OVCAA Membership Report-Summer 1985

Life Membership 1 103 Honorary Life Membership 3 Life Me m Instalment Plan 241 Annual Membership 42 -Total Membership 1389 Total Alumni 3537 Membership

of Total Alumni 3930 Membership

of Known Alumni 40 06

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Inch in KatDlandu The following letter to the editor from Or

Carolyn Inch 81 was sent to Ornella Osborne editor of Update the newsletter

published by the Ontario Veterinary Assoshyciation Were grateful to Omelia for passing it on to us

While trekking through the north central region of the Himalayan mountains in

Nepal I was surprised to see the words vetshy

erinary office added to the bottom of it sign written in Nepalese

The village Chame contained the

headquarters of the government veterinary operations for the region of Manang Borshy

dering on China in the north the region covers about 2000 square kilometres and

has the lowest population density in Nepal The average altitude of the region is above

3048 metres Annapurna towers at 8091

metres The logistics behind launching a vetshy

erinary program in an area that is entirely inaccessible except by foot or aircraft had

me intrigued Dr Koshori Jha greeted us warmly and

in the polite manner wed received at the hands of all the Nepalese tea was served

The bulk of his practice is in sheep and goats as well as cattle yak horse mules and chickens On a daily basis he deals most frequently with footrot a problem that

is compounded by the fact that most of the bovine and equine species are bred pri-

During the recent avc AA Annual Meeting retired Deal Doug Maplesden 50 righl received ( plaque embodying newsclippings puhlished during his lenure Dean OIl Nieletl 56 made the presentalion

marily for use as pack animals the terrain is

rough and whether goats are grazing beshy

tween rocks or mules are carrying 80-kiloshygram loads up mountainsides their hooves are exposed to a lot of strain

Dr Koshori Jhas pharmacy contained various disinfectants and as tringents and

many herbal remedies from India retained placenta and anti-bloat preparation for

example

The only vaccine available to him was against Hemorrhagic Septicemia and he

used it when faced with a diagnosed herd

outbreak Dr Koshori Jha pointed out phenol

which was used on feet during July August and Septembers annual FMD outbreak

coinciding with the rainy season Day-to-day treatment is a sma ll part of

the government veterinarian s job He recently received approval for his five-year

plan which began last spring The main eleshyments of the plan are training increasi ng egg production mule breeding Jhopa

breeding (cross between a cow and male yak) and improving cattle feed by the introshyduction of a Phillipine variety of cattle grass

For the livestock assistance training

three farmers from each of 12 panchayats (districts) in Manang will come to Chame

for training and to discuss local problems These men will be involved in a serv ice

centre to be se t up in each panchayat for common treatment He also plans to hold a yearly lives tock exhibitio n with pri ze shy

money for healthy livestock

Plans to increase egg production include a new brooding unit and the introshy

duction of a hybrid of Leghorn New Hampshyshire and Rhode Island Red poultry In an effort to upgrade the quality of pack anishy

mals local ponies will be crossed with donshykeys brought from northern India Similarly

Missing in India Dr Ohiroobhai K Desai 46 61 Sharda Society Paldi Ahmedabad 380007 India has written of hi s attempts to gather inforshy

mation on Drs VD Alaga Raju 36 and

K B Nair 36 both of India He repol1s having bee n with Dr Nair from 1952 to 1956 at the Bombay Veterinary College as an exshyaminer in Veterinary Medicine However he

has been unable to provide up-to-date inforshymation on thesc two alumni Any alumni

with information please write to your avc Alumni Bulletin editor 0

male yaks will be crossed with local cows

and their offspring Jhopa will be used as high-altitude pack animals

Dr Jha plans to distribute these breedshying animals to the more remote region s so

that bloodlines can be upgraded In so me of these areas the native dialect is related to ancestral Tibetan languge rather thall Nepashy

lese which compounds hi s difficult task of education

Pack animals are the lifeline of the

high-altitude people as much today as they

have been for centuries I very much appreshy

ciate the time taken by Dr Koshori Jha to explain the role of domestic animals in the

Himalaya and share with me his ambitious plans for the future 0

AI Ihe recem CVMA Conference in Pelllicshylon Dr Bob Dunbar 12 leji with Dr ROI Downey 6 Bob has reached his 961h birlhday and resides in a PellliClol1 nursing home

In Memoriam Or John N Campbell 15 545 Scripps Drive Davis California 59616 USA

died May 4 1985

Dr Ra)mond E Pinkert 36 440 NOl1h Pine Street Reedsburg Wisconsin 53959 USA died April 13 1985

Or Roderick S MacDonald 37 3003 Oliver Street Apt 203A Halifax NS -B3L 4AI died June 12 1985

Dr John J Carney 44 3531 West 33rd Avenue Vancouver B C V6S IZ2 Date of

death unknown

Or Kenneth R Lachapelle 54 1635 Ranvoyze Ave St Foy Que GIW 3K2

died June 26 1985 0

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College of Social Science Alumni Assoc PEGASmiddotUS

Editor Dorothy Barnes 78

Our Annual Picnic We Illissed you I All of you who didnt make it to our CSSAA picnic during Alumni Weekend 85 But despite the few members and families that did attend we had a good time The pictures tell the story

Here are some of us arriving (l) and setting up the eats We had good food and why not It was a tillle to enjoy relax and have some fun We had games for all ages including catch-the-eggs (2) with real raw eggs

AmI of course whats a picnic without a drop of rain) But President John came prepared with a tarpaulin (3) for those afrnid ofilleiting The k)od and the day were saved Hurrah for our presidenl

Thcre were some brave soul s who unshydaunted by the weather carried on with their baseball game Then of course there was one young partiCipant (4) who was seen scratching hcr head 1I1d wondering what was going on

All in all we had a great time You would have too if youd bcen thcre So makc a mental notc or tic a string around your tingcr toc anywhere that will reillind you that you missed a good outing at th e Aluillni Wcckend 85 CSSAA picnic and that you should makc pl ans now to join us in June 86 at Alumni Wcekend 86 0

A Joy to Behold Her work has the shi mmer of life Such is said of artist Joy Elizabeth (Snihur) Laking Fine Art CSS 72 Joys art is intimately tied to the seasons In spring and summer she works against the perilous fadshying of fresh flowers capturing them in clean powerful designs

Fa ll afternoons on the grassy salt marshes around her home in Portaupigue Nova Scotia inspire wider scenes of rich changing colours

The respite of winter is her time for land and peoplescapes evolved from her ow n photography Her art is created within the context of family community and nature

Joy was introduced to hcr chosen lifeshystyle by her mother - they used to go sketching while Joy was a child in Owen Sound on Lake Huron s Georgian Bay shyand has painted since she can remember She now lives on the edge of the Bay of Fundy with husband Ronald OAC 72 and two cherubs where she can paint every day and capture the beauty she sees around her Whether it be mud and Illarsh a rusted truck and some farmyard geese or caterpillar holes in azalea leaves Joy is able to capture in watercolour the essence and beauty of all she sees

She is noted for her special ability to create white flowers on white paper by givshying the petals shape and vivid life with only a whisper of colour and shadow Light delishycate handling and mcticulous control fused with a powerful design se nse distinguishes her art

Joy is a well established artist and has had se lected exhibitions of her paintings at the Tom Thompson Memorial Art Gallery Owen Sound 1981 Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery Halifax NS 1982 Gallery 1889 Tatamagouche NS 1983

Daffodils By Joy (Snihur) Laking 72

Truro Art Society Truro NS 1984 and the Royal Botanical Gardens Burlington Onl 14

She was deservedly honoured to have the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia purchase one of her paintings for its collection and the Maritime Tel amp Tel chose a Laking painting for the cover of Nova Scotias 1985 telephone directory

Joy says I paint what I live what I see and what touches me It s no wonder then that Joy has been able to successfully transshyfer such sensitivity to her work in a way that has produced tine work s of art as demonshystrated in Daffodils reproduced here 0

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Grad News Terry Goddard 76 wrote to let us know

where he is and what hes doing After gradshyuation Terry turned to the world of engishy

neering and worked at the Bechtel Intershy

national Syncrude project in northern Alberta for a year He retu rned to school and obtained a Masters degree in Politi cal Theshyory in 1978 at the University of Toronto

TIle next nine months were spent workshying at Dhaharan Saudi Arabi a While the re

Terry contemplated the action which would

give him the best career move His deci s ion to go into teach ing led him back to the Unishy

versity of Toronto to obtai n his BEd His teachin g career took hi m to northshy

e rn Saskatchewan whe re he taug ht at a village which if not actually at the end of

the world was situated close enough that the end was plainly visible from the nOI1hern

outskirts He returned to Toronto someshywhat sated with academe and once again

turned to engineering He has been director of maintenance for the Jewi sh Com munity

Centres of Toronto for the past five years He has fou nd it difficult to keep in

touch with fellow grad s Especia lly th ose who studied in Professor Melby s Chinese

poIitic s courses and who were known as the Shanghai Mafia - they are all over the

world now Hes sure they often recall with fondness their days at Unigoo

Where are you former students of Proshyfessors Simmo ns and MelbYTerry would be interested in hearing from you - and so would we

Robin-Lee Norris 80 has been awarded

a $19000 Rot ary Foundation Scholarship to

pursue g radua te studi es in the Masters of Business Administration program at the

Univers ity of Adelaide Adelaide Australia Robin-Lee went o n to graduate from

Osgoode Hall Law School with an LLB

was called to the Ontario Bar in ApriJ of 1982 and has practised law with the tirm of

Kearns McKin non inGuelph since herca ll She took a ten-mo nth leave of absence

commenc ing in February 1985 from her positi on with Kearns McKinno n in o rder to take ad vantage of the sc holarship

During her months in Australia her mandate from Rotary Internatio nal in addishy

tion to pursuing her stud ies is to act as a Rotary and Canadian Ambassador in proshy

moting good will and understanding beshytween Australians and Canadians

A thank you goes to Cliff Hardy buildshying mechanic superv isor Main tenance Deshypartment Physical Resources for supplying us with thi s information and an aside to Robin-Lee when she reads this I was unable

to reach you betore you left to congratulate

you and get more informati on on your award If you have some free time we wOllld love to hea r from you about your studi es

what a Rotary and Canadian ambassador

does and to have you share your ex perience of being down-under

Marilyn Kernohan Morrison 78 has taken the time to Jet us know that shes living in Napanee with hu sba nd Brian She has

tempora ril y se t aside her ca reer to be a home-maker tor Brian and their four-monthshy

old son

Prior to their move to Napanee to acshycommodate Brians tran sfer - he work s with the Ministry of Natural Resources shy

Marilyn and family lived in a small comshymunity northwest of Thunder Bay After

Gue lph Marilyn continued her ed ucation at the comm unity college level and com pleted

a program for counse llors of the mentally

retarded SheJI be returnin g to thi s fi e ld when she again becomes a wage earner

Doris E (Trachsel) OKeefe 74 is deshy

scribed by husband John Paul 74 as a household engineer John Paul is a reshy

source teacher with the Waterloo County Board of Education With such a title I

couldnt resis t phon ing Doris to find out exactly what the duti es of a household enshy

gi neer are

While Doris decl ined to give a cletinishytion of the titl e l detected some surprise and delight that John Paul appreciates what it

takes to look after a famil y and a home

Doris is trying to re turn to teaching but is findin g it difficult in the Cambridge

Waterloo area If she isnt successful shes planning alternatives such as enrolment at Guelph in a Masters program o r failing that enrolment in courses that will he lp her

ac hieve her long-range goa ls She and John Paul recen tly moved from

London Ont to Cambridge Prior to the

birth of Erin now a two-year-old Doris was teac hing boys with behaviourial problems

and she sees thi s as an asset when applying for teaching positions Erin has a six-yearshyold brother Sean so you can understand

perhaps that Doris has been bu sy and maybe she is aptly described as a houseshy

hold engi neer

J Barry Baldwin 69 is a teac her with the Elgin County Board of Education S t Thomas Barry married Linda Janet Wii son They live in Aylmer West

M Rachel (Curtis) Towe 69 is manager customer systems Bell Canada She and

husband Ken live in Guelph

M Lois (Robinson) Harris 70 li ves in Newmarket with husband Fred

B Hugh Schofield 72 is an industrial engi neer with Rockwell Int e rnati o nal C hat ham He and wife Susan (Haslelt)

FACS 78 live in Chatham

Paul Davis 73 is an underwrite r analyst with Co-opera tors General In sura n ce

Guelph Paul and wife Linda (DozeH) 73 and 81 live at Brookhaven Court Guelph

Carol Finlayson 74 is a letter carrier lor Canada Post Carol and husband John Balch live in Toronto

Pal Hamilton 74 is an expon market deshyvelopment specialist with the O ntario Minshyistry of A gricu lture and Foo cl mark et

development branch Toronto He and his wife Diane (Coates) OAC 72 live in

Toronto

Kerrie Sirathy MA 78 advises us that

she is a s tud en t at th e Univcrsity of Sakatchewan Sas katoon

Vicky Sutherland 78 is an air trartie conshy

troller with Air Canada at FoI1 McMurray Airpo l1 Alta and lives in F0I1 McMurray

Sounds like an intercsting job - perhaps youl l share SOIllC experie nces with us Vicky

Marlin Thissen 78 is a foreman with the

region or Halton at ih Milton wa ter po llushytion control plant

Evelyn Evie (Isaacs) Whilwham 80 is a planning ass istant with Union Gas Co Ltd Chatham She and hu sba nd Bob have

c hanged their address They are at 70 Ottawa Drive C ha tham Ont N7L 216 0

In Memoriam A lormer faculty mcmber in the DeshypaI1ment of Geography Barsa Kelly was among the victims of the Air India Hight 182 disaster that occ urred

off the coas t of Irel and las t June ~ mr(sa Vas headed tor India on a reshy

search project at the time of her

death S he was the wife of Protessor Kenneth Kelly Department of Geogshyra phy On behalf of its members and all those who chc ri shed their con tacts with Barsa the Board of Directors of the College of Social Science Alumni Association extend their s incere symshy

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College of Biological Science Alumni Assoc BIOmiddotALUMNI NEWS

Editor Marie (Boissonneault) Rush 80

HONORARY PRESIDENT Professor Bruce Sells Dean

PRESIDENT David Airdrie BSc 82 Microbiology

PAST PRESIDENT Dr Chris Wren BSc 77 Marine Biology PhD 83

VICE-PRESIDENT Dee Britney BSc 74 Fisheries amp Wildlife MSc 81

SECRETARY-TREASURER Kclly Munkittrick BSc 80 Fisheries amp Wildshylife MSc 83

DIRECTORS Lorraine Bruce-Allen BSc 80 Zoology MSc 84 Jim Elliott BSc 79 Marine Biology Keith Harris BSc 76 Marine Biology Dr Doug Holdway BSc 76 Marine Biology MSc 78 Aquatic Toxicology PhD 83 Krista (McAuley) Soper BSc 79 Marine Biolshyogy Karin Davidson-Taylor BSc 83 Zoology

From Dave Airdrie 82 the

President How time flies when youre having fun Your editor Marie (Boissonneault) Rush 80 tell s me that this note to you will be in the Fall issue of the Guelph Alumnus so Ill bring you up to date on happenings since your 1985-86 Board of Directors was inshystalled in June

The CBS Alumni Association was parshyticularly busy during June Alumni Weekshyend events including the Wildlife Art Show and Sale and the barbecue at the Rockwood Conservation Area were well attended

Thanks must go to Krista (McAuley) Soper 79 and Lorraine Bruce-Allen 84 for their first-rate efforts in organizing and running the art show From all accounts it was ex tremely well done and is sure to be repeated in 1986

Further thanks mu st go to Keith Harshyris 76 for his efforts in once again organizing the barbecue at Rockwood Keith has done a terrifi c job with this event s ince its inception Hopefully these two events will be expanded in the coming year

Last spring the objective of $10 000 for the Keith Ronald Fellowship Fund was reached and we thank all who generously contributed to this fund Its to be hoped that this is only the first of many scholarships initiated through the CBSAA

Many of you will now be aware of the changes which the Universitys Department of Alumni Affairs has undergone in rece nt months Most important is the arrival of Marjorie Millar as director of the Departshyment It seems that President Matthews is placing greater emphasis on the importance of the Department due in part to the impenshyding capital campaign I am sure that youll all notice many beneficial innovations

The CBSAA has I feel reached a point in its development where we must heighten our profile both among alumni and undershygraduates In order to increase the awareness of the Association the Board has plans to embark on some new programs

The goals are as I see them two-fold first of all we need YOU to get more inshyvolved whether its participation in our proshygrams or s upport for the Assoc iation through your membership The fact that youre reading this demonstrates an interest which we would like to heighten

Secondly we re working at helpin g undergraduates before graduation to beshycome more aware of our Association Hopeshyfully we ll get helpful input and suggestions from many of you in the near future Reshymember - YOUR alumni association is what YOU make it

Dave Airdrie BSc 82 President Colshylege of Biological Science AA

FACULTY ADVISORS Dr Denis Lynn Zoology Dr Margaret Hauser M icroshybiology Dr John Hilton Nutrition Dr John Sandys Award Phillips Botany amp Genetics Dr Brian Wilson Human BiologyKinetics The Ontario Confederation of University

Faculty Associations (OCUFA) has awarded UGAA REPRESENTATIVES Karin Dr Alexander Sandy Middleton DepartshyDavidsonTaylor BSe X) Zoology Keith ment of Zoology one of the nine OCUFA Harris BSc 76 Marinc Biology Rob Teaching Awards for 1984 Milnc BSe XI MSe 84 Marine Bio Dr Middleton was nominated for this -award by colleagues students administrashyEX-OFFICIO DIRECTORS Ed Berdusco tors alumni and faculty It acknowledges president CBSSC Steve Spring past presishy outstanding ability and is considered to be dent CBSSC the provinces highest honour for excellence

in university teaching HKAA REPRESENTATIVE Nick Dalton I think there are two keys to being an BSe 77 Human Kinetics effective teacher Sandy says One is to

have respect for the student the other is to EDITOR RIO-ALUMNI NEWS Marie make a genuine intellectual and time comshy(Boissonneault) Rush B Se XO Marine mitmcnt to the course Biology 0 Dr Alexander Middleton Congratulations Dr Middleton 0

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Grad News Human Biology

Cathy Knipe BSc 79 MSc 83 is a Ph D st ud ent at Iowa State University Ames Iowa USA She is studying Moshylecular Biology

Shelly Lugg BSc 83 is a stude nt at Simon Fraser University Burnaby BC

Human Kinetics

Susan (Wright) Kwiatkowski BSc 80 is a recreation therapist at York Central Hosshypital Toronto Her spouse Ed graduated from Ryerson in 1979

Donna Marie (Kadwell) 1vose BSc 79 and husband John ji ve in Thorold Shes a physica l education supervisor at the Niagara Peninsula Crippled Childrens Centre

Mary Ellen (Mew) Walker BSc 83 is the activity co-ordinator at Spruce Lodge Stratford

Dr Ken Danylchuk BSc(PE) 73 is a s ur ge ry re s ident at the H itchcockshyDartmouth Medical Center Hanover N H USA

Kathryn (Tarry) Myers BSc 78 is a teacher with the Middlesex COunty Board of Educati on Hyde Park

WildUfe

Vicky Johnston 84 bega n an MSc at Lakehead University Thunder Bay in May Shes working on the reprodu ctive biology of Lake Superior rin g-billed gull s

Nutrition

Or 0010 Ohiokpehai 77 lectures in food and nutrition at the Unive rs ity of Ife Nigeria

Microbiology

John Semple 78 is a PhD ca ndidate in the Department of Mic rob iology amp Immushynology at Queens Uni vers ity Kingston He will be doing a post-doctora l at the Banting amp Best Depattment of Medica l Research University of Toronto

Unspecialized

Peter Adams 79 and Beth (Sarjeant) 79 are happy to announce their recent marshyriage Beth is a research technici an with the Depanment of Medicine Univers ity of Ca lshygary Alta and Peter operates a business with the se ismic service industry

Marine Biology

Jorgen Hansen 75 and his wife Drusilla (Dol be) Arts 75 live in Gloucester Jorge n is a staff officer with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Ottawa

CoUege Honour RoU - Winter 85 Semester 06

Margorie Fe rgusson 894 Human Biology JoAnna Milan 860 Biology

Semester 07 Sandra Noble 856 Microbiology

Semester 08 Marga ret Docker 876 Marine Biology Thomas Johnston 87 0 Fi sheries Biology Debra Underhill 858 Microbi ology

James Wright 858 Biology Tobin Peever 854 Botany

Alexander Hanke 852 Zoology Rebecca Rodgers 852 Human Bi ology

Tracey Robin son 882 BSc( HK ) Rebecca Halonen 880 BSc(HK )

Swdent has obtained standing for second time Student has obtaincd standing for third time

Home Town

Oakville Ottawa

Dorchester

Guelph New Liskeard Kingston Thunder Bay Bracebridge Grafton Calgary Alta Guelph Georgetown

Donald MacLennan 75 and hi s wife Katherine live in Chatham Donald is a biologi st-supervisor with the Ministry of Natural Resources Lake SI Clair Fisheries Assessmen t Unit Tilbury 0

College of Biological Science

Alumni Association

Wildlife Art Show

Well it happened June 15 and 16 have come and gone but not withshyout event The Graduate Students Lounge was transformed from a cozy meeting place into an an gallery There was much movi ng of furniture and hanging of an work with the end product being our fi rst ever CBSAA Wildlife Art Show

In total there were 20 wildlite artists partic ipating all tine ani sts in their own right Maybe you reshymember Ut a Stre live a nd Dr Ed Bailey Wow I You should see their wood works

Rick Beaver 73 also showed some of his work hes a wildlife imshypressionist and the colour and move shyment he paint s into each piece is eloquent Donald Dority 76 showed us the line photographer he has become There were other ani sts - too many to mention but all of extremely high calibre

Id like to mention one las t name though - Cindy Hayward manager of the Graduate Students Lounge If you ever need a steady hand to get an event off the ground shes the one to co ntact Without her hel p there would have been a whole heap of orshyga ni za tional problems From which we would have been unable to escape

All in all we had a successful show Thanks artists and viewers for making our efforts worthwhile 0

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New Minister of AgricultureOntario Agricultural College Alumni Assoc OAC ALUMNI NEWS

Editor Dr Harvey W Caldwell 51

Ontari OS new mini ster of ag riculture Jack Riddell 52A and 57 a cash crop farmer from the Exeter area comes to the position of Ontario s Mini ster of Agriculture and Food with ten years of expe rience as Liberal caucus cr itic for agriculture

The min is ter sa id that life under a Libshyeral government will give agriculture a higher priority than it has ex perienced in the past It will be considered one of the major industries in this province

Jack also pro mi sed to consult a great

Basic Technology in Action shyTurning Stones Into Bread By Ann Middleton Information Services

A new University of Guelph projec t in Tanza nia Africa should aid th e Third Wo rld s ubsistence leve l farmer The $400000 three-year projec t funded by the International Development Resea rch Centre (IDRC) will invol ve fltlculty of the Uni vershysitys Department of Land Resou rce Sc ience and Soko ine Uni versity of Ag riculture in Morogoro Central Tanza ni a Aim of the enterpri se is to use loca lly ava il ab le rock materials as soil amendm en ts and con shyditioners

The project came about when Ott awas IDRC brought together a team of two geo logists with an interest in improving co nshyditions for African farmers Professor Ward Chesworth with the Department of Land Resource Science has a long-standing intershyes t in turning rock s into fertili zers deshyve loped during work in West Africa and the Canltlry Islands where local farmers have spread volcanic rock on their field s for two centu ries In his lab and in the Blue Springs basin near Acton Ontario Professor Chesshyworth has been conducting experiment s on the levels at which common rocks re lease nutri ents into soil solutions

The other team member Dr Peter van Straltl ten is ori ginally from Germany but spe nt e ight years with the United Nations in Tan zania looking for metals and metal deshyposi ts and working on an in ve ntory of ferti shyli zer raw materials in south-east Africa

During thi s period Tanza nian food production per capita fell dramaticall y leadshying Dr van Strltlaten to try to find ways to help the food situation In ex periments in his garden in Dodomo Tanzaniltl he was able to increase yields of vegetables using locally

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available geological materia ls and organic wastes

Noting the common interes ts of the two men the Canadian age ncy introd uced them and Dr van Straaten relocated in Guelph Co-ordinators of the project are Professor Cheswo rth and Tan za ni an sc ie nti st Dr Johnson Semoka of Sokoine University coshyauthor of a text on so il sc ience much used in agricultural circles in Africa

Technical assistant Peter Sl11i th is working with Tanzanian rock specimens in the Land Resource Science lab and two other Tanzanian scientists will be involved

In addition to academics from bo th institutions members of the Geological Survey of Tanzania will also work on the project both in the Morogoro area and at Mbeya station in south-western Tanzania

Roc k sa mples will be collected and crushed and field tests and pot ex periments carried out here and on location When reshysu lt s have bee n obtained extension work will begin in Africa under the direc tion of Dr Semoka It is hoped that members of a Me nnonite Central Committee group workshying at Mbeya will design a simple rock crusher for the use of local farmers

Tanzania has a major phosphate deshyposi t wh ich will be tapped by the project as well as ground s ilicates including volcanic ash Liming materials such as limestone dolomite marl and ca rbonatite will also be evaluated

Professor Chesworth points out that alshythough No rth Americans place much emshyphasi s on the big three of soil nutrition shynitrogen phosphorus and potassium (NPK) - there are actually about 20 necessary

deal with the farm organizations on the direction his ministry should be taki ng

I dont believe that we can sit in our so-ca ll ed ivory towers and introduce the kind of programs that are go ing to be mea nshyingful unless we get consultation from the farmers and their spokes people

He has been a member of the provincial legislature for 12 years He spent his first two years as energy cri tic and later environshyment critic before mov ing into agriculture Jack and Anit a have a family of five 0

nutrie nts including the minor ones In some areas of Tanza nia the decline

in soil fe rtility is in part due to the settling of widespread populations into villages where land has been used without concern for nutrients Tn other part s of the country productivity has declined because of leachshying of plant nutrie nts durin g normal rainfall and also from the continuous use of acidifyshying fertilizers such as ammo nium su lphate Dr Chesworth point s out that the current practice of NPK fe rtili zation totally ignores secondary and micronut rient requirements of plants It is hoped that the projec t wilt address thi s problem

Our approac h is basic tec hn ology our target group the poorest far mers Dr van Straaten explains One of the problems in the past Dr Ches worth says has been convincing agronomists that it s worth purshysuing this kind of elementary tec hnology approach Theyre very skeptical that you can take common roc ks wi thou t major inshydustrial proces ing and use them to advanshytage on tropical soils

A s ideline area of research is work with zeolites open framework si licates that often occ ur in volcanic rocks Some zeolites can be used to trap nitrogen in the form of ammonia which would otherwise be los t in gaseous form When added to cow manure for exampl e and stomped in by the beasts themselves zeolites enrich an already valushyabl e fertil ize r Dr van Straaten explains

The zeolite research is being carried out in co njunction with Professor Colin Fyfe Department of Chemistry an intershynat io na ll y kn ow n authority o n zeo lit e -che mi stry

Orie result of the work of the Un ive rs ity of Guelph geo logists is an ag rogeology ne tshywork currentl y being set up bya number of African cou ntries as the result of di sc usshysions following a paper by Dr van Straaten and Professor Chesworth The paper was given recently at meetings of the UN Ecoshynomic Commiss ion for Africa in Zambia 0

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A Designing Grad The need for a summer job six years ago has ended in a Guelph grad des igning golf courses

When in 1979 Lisa Maki now

BLA 84 was searching for a job that would assist her in her studies at the Univershysity she applied to the city of Kitchener

She could have wound up in any

number of areas in the parks and recreation department but Rockway and Doon Valley

course superintendent Ed Ortlieb gave her the chance to join the work crew at Rockway fltor the first couple of years it was just a job that got her outdoors in the summer then by chance she got interested in the game itself

And now shes embarked on a career in golf course design

Lisa the 24-year-old oldest daughter of Ted Maki a former general manager of the

Lisa Maki BLA 84 Kitchener Rangers left last July for Lakeshyland Florida where she Joined Links Deshysign which de sig ns and oversees golf course construction throughout the United 1983 and a friend of the family who knew States The company is considered the sec shy was interested in golf course work arranged ond-largest of its type behind the one run by a meeting with Ronald Garl said Lisa I US golf legend Jack Nicklaus who deshy had an official job interview in April of 84 signed the Glen Abbey course in Oakville and then went to Florida in August of the

How does a young Kitchener woman same year to familiarize myself with the

end up working for Ronald Garl a 40-yearshy firms projects

old graduate of the University of Florida Because I had focused much of my who apprenticed under such well-known deshy University work on such things as turf man shy

signers as Roben Trent Jones and Joseph agement and had done pan of my bachelor Lee Again it was just a chance opportunity of landscape architecture thes is on what

We were in Florida in December of makes British golf courses great and the

Sisters of Accident Victims Receive Diplomas

A tragic accident just prior to Spring Convocation resulted in the deaths oftwo graduands of the Associate Diploma in Agriculture Program Jeff Bikus 85A of West Lome and Nick Davidson 85Afrom Zimbabwe Joy Davidson sister ofNick came from Zimbabwefor the Convocation She was sponsored by the OAC Alumni Association Classes of85A alld 86A Norm McCollulIl 66A honorary class president 85A Don and MiidredMcCollum Jenny Ballentine and her parents Dr Steve Bowley 78 and80 honorary class president 86A and the University Centre Administration Our sympathy is extended to the families and friends of these two popular studel1ls Pictured are Ito r Jenny Ballantine friend ofJeff Bikus Lealln Bikus sister of Jeff Joy Davidson sister of Nick and Klaus Kristiansen a studellt from Zimbabwe

other on golf course residential design he was impressed

In order to learn what made British

courses great Lisa spent a semester in Engshyland and Scotland visiting researching sketching photographing and playing 16 historic courses including the famous links courses which by tradition are the

only clubs to host the British Open Links layouts are courses that border the sea and have been built or developed over sand

bases

Approximately 15 students a year take

advantage of the School of Land scape Arshychitectures Semester Abroad Program fi shynancing the trips themselves However the program is supported by an annual $5000 grant from the Alma Mater Fund so alumni can claim a cenain amount of credit for Lisas success She was a recipient in 1983

of part of that years AMF grant Im not sure my mother and father

were very keen about my trave lling around England and Scot lane all alone but it was a truly great experience she said middot1 not only met many wonderful and helpful peoshyple got to play the great courses like St

Andrew s Royal Troon Turnberry and my favorite of all Royal Dornoch

After a complicated and lengthy US immigration process which took nearly a year she was granted her permanent work

visa She was in regular contact with her new

boss after returning to Kitchen er - she re turned to work at Rockway and Doon while awaiting the vi sa approval - and then last July plunged immediately into

projects including work at a mens tournashyment players 36-hole complex in Sarasota and a Ladies Professional Golf Assoc iation course in Melbourne where she worked in association with LPGA tour players Beth Daniels and Sally Little

Despite the fact that the job involves

vy ing with rattlesnakes alligators and Iild

pigs when I have to tramp through forests and swamps in applying my design work to certain areas I love the outdoor work Lisa

said At the same time she doesnt have any

probleIl1s giving orders to hard-hatted heavy-machinery construction workers when she is the field supervisor for on-site

work think I may have raised a few eye shy

brows when I staned work at Rockway but I was accepted

Lisa isnt sure how long this pan of her life will last and she has no way of knowing whether any of her courses will eve r be known as Lisa Maki layouts But that doesnt

concern her They may be Links Design projects but Ill know they were basically my courses 0

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Klink Lecture Dr Doug Morrison 49 Department of Poultry Science was chosen to deliver the 1985 Klink Lecture

The Klink lecture is ~ponsored by the Agricultural Inst itute of Canada and named after the Institute s founding president Preshysented by an outstanding lecture r the lecture is delivered through a coast-to-coast tour and concerns a topic of current significance to the agricultural industry and the nation

Dr Morri son stated that there is a need for professionalization in an imal agriculshyture in order to give it an improved image and make it more acceptable to the conshysumer

Address ing members of the Ontario Inshystitute of Agrologists in London Ontario he told his audience that the agriculture inshydustry in Canada ranks among the best in the world and producers have to ensure thi s is shown and make sure that peer pressure prevents producers from doing things that we cant defend

He suggested some type of professhysiona l approach established by the farming organization whereby expertise would be required instead of merely encouraged

This is a mu ch beller ap proach th an some edict from society through governshyment legi slation I strong ly object to legislashytion designed to protect me from myself he said adding that there are currently enough regulations existent through legislation that dictate what farmers can and cannot do

If a farmer were a profess ional hi s reward wou Id be in profits - about as meanshyingful a reward as has ye t been devised

Benefits of a more professionalized approach would include an improved image of the farmer to the consumer an increase in communication a more efficient industry

which is essential for competition improved knowledge on the fa rmers part of health nutrition care markets etc and more awareness of soc ietys concerns

In turn it would also be necessary to provide beller information to the consumer through an educational process because if soc iety is to pay for increased inputs for the long- term good of the nat ion then it is essential society be adequately informed

Morrison remarked that he fee ls the maj ori ty of animal agriculturists are in fact professionals but there has to be a concerted e ffort to at tract as lew people as possible in to the business who do not understa nd farmshying or who are doing things that are unacshyceptable

Consumer concern over dietary value or the amount of drugs contained in animal product s is also reason for farmers to tak e a professional approach They should work to alleviate any misreprese ntations and misin shyformation the public is receiving the proshyfessor noted s tating that farm ers have never produced food as safe and as wholeshysome as it is today

By the turn of the century on a world basis meat consumption is predicted to in shy

crease by abou t 60 per cent while the intake of milk is expected to increase by almost 40 per cent

A major fac tor for this rise in intake result s from th e fact that developing nations will begin to consume animal products as soon as they can afford them China is an excellent exa mple of this said the professor who commented that nation is now movshying as rapidly as possible to increase animal production

With all these factors is mind Dr Morshyri son sa id he is optimistic for the future of the Canad ian animal agriculture industry

Weve got the opportunities and can take advantage of them he said 0

Mark Bernards 85 cenlre was the recipienl oftwo OAC Alumni Foundation awards the OAC Alumni Graduate Award and the Beth Duncan Gold Medal Left is Gord Nixon 37 Foundashytion chairman and director and right NR Rick Richards 38 treasurer

Entrepreneur in Residence

Dr Donald Shaver

Dean Freeman McEwen is pleased to be working with Dr Donald McQueen Shaver the Universitys first Agricultural Entreshypreneur-i n-Res idence

Dr Shaver a native of Cambt idge Onshytari o is found er chairman and chief exshyecutive officer of Shaver Poultry Breed ing Farms Limited The compan y distributes chicken breeding stock to 90 countries from its head office in Cambridge and three subshysid iaries in the United States Britain and France He retired from his executive reshysponsib ilities on August 30 but is conshytinuing as director and adv isor to the company

From 1940 to 1945 Dr Shaver served with the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps in Africa and Europe retiring as regimental commanding officer He is past president of the Canadian Hatchery Federation the Poulshytry Products Institute of Canada the Canashydian Lincoln Red Society and Maine-Anjou Association He is a member of the Order of Canada Honorary Life Member of the Worlds Poultry Science Association and the Ontario Institute of Agrologi sts He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Science by McGill University and the Centennial Medal by the OAC

The Entrepreneu r-in-Reside nce pro shygram was initiated and financially supshyported by OAC Class of 58 to champion -the role of private enterpri se within soc iety The appointment is for a two-year period during which time Dr Shaver will present lectures lead workshops and consult with faculty and students

The Agricultural Entrepreneur-in-Resishydence program at the University is believed to be a first in agr icultural education around the world 0

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University Of Guelph Involved in $68 Million Chinese Project The University of Guelph has embarked on a co-operative $68 million project that will ~ink five Canadian and Chinese universities and agricultural institutions

The four-year Black Dragon River Proshyjeo supported by the Canadian Internashytional Deve lopment Agency (C IDA) involves Guelph the University of Alberta Olds College in AlbeI1a and two Chinese institutions - Heilongjiang Land Reclamashytion University and Liu He Training College in northeastern Heilongjiang Province

Under th e term s of the agreement training will be provided at the three Canashydian institutions for personnel from the two Chinese university institutions

The Liu He Training College is respo nshysible for educating state farm employees Training will range from short courses to undergraduate and graduate level programs

Faculty from the Canadian universities and Olds College will travel to China during the summer months to give lectures and

short courses The area borderi ng on Russia has treshy

mendou s potential for agricultural deve lopshyment Professor Neal Stos~opf 57 direct or of OACs diploma courses is Guelphs co-ordinator for the Chinese projshyect He was part of the Canadian gove rnment planning miss ion and ex plains that although the climate combines the cold winters and hot summers of Alberta most of the moisshyture is rain that falls between Jul y and Sepshytember

Although latitude is the sa me as Edmontons at 52 degrees north the area grows soybeans and corn as well as wheat The land has two to four feet of black topsoil waiting to be drained and planted he says with potential for livestock proshyduction

The proj ec t centre is located at the Unishyversity of Alberta with administration in Guelph being carried out by the Centre for International Programs 0

Provincial apiarist retires after 19 years You might say Philip Burkes job brought sweet rewards

Until his retirement recently Philip was the provincial apiarist - sort of Onshytarios chief of bees - while working at the University of Guelphs Department of Environmental Biology

He joined the University as a lectu rer in 1943 and then became assistant professor and later associate professor

At the same time the Ontario Departshyment of Agriculture (as the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food was known then) made him the assistant provincial apiarist In 1966 he became provincial apiarist

Of course he advised beekee pers on ways they could make their colonies more productive and efficient and fielded many apiary management question s - including how to prevent bees from swarming

If they swarm one-third to one-half of th e colony takes off so you lose a big source of your honey crop Swarming is trigshygered when the hive becomes overcrowded so the beekeeper mu st stay ahead of them It involves a whole manipulation of the hive through the season visiting each colony at least once every ten to 14 days he says Philip also worked with farmers whose

crops depended on pollination by bees At one time bees were needed for

pollin ating greenhouse produce such as cucumbers But in the past 15 years the trend has been toward new types that are self fruiting he says

But the biggest change in the industry over the years was the trend towards Illakshying corn king in Ontario - a trend that is now being reversed he says

From 1949 and on a lot of bee coloshynies were moved to the western provinces tollowi ng th e reduction in alfalfa production in Ontario and the increased corn acreage he says

Now prospec ts for honey production in Ontario are better than in past years beshycause of the increased alfalfa acreage and other legumes and the trend towards more diversified cropping

Not surpris ingly prices have changed in the industry over the years too Back in the 1920s it cost about $10 to start a bee colony today start-up costs are about $100 to $125 per colony

Much of his work at the University looked at ways to prevent di seases in bees using selected antibiotics

He was secretary for the Ontario Beekeepers Association for 15 yea rs and now acts as a consu It ant for the group 0

Wins Crampton Award

Dr Stanley J Slinger 37 the most recent rec ipient of the Earl e W Crampton Award for distingui shed service in nutrition is ProshyFessor Emeritus of the Depal1ment of Nutrishytion College of Biolog ica l Science at Guelph

Born in Lowell Ontario Dr Slinger received his BSc from the Ontario Agrishycultural College hi s MSc fro111 the Univershysity of Toronto and a PhD from Cornell University From 1941 to 1965 he was in the Departillent of Poultry Science at the OAC and since 1965 has been in the Department of Nutrition at Guelph serving as chairJl1an from 1965 to 1974

Dr Slinger conducted re sea rch in sevshyeral areas of pou Itry nutrition for Jl10re than 30 years In 1972- 73 a fi sh nutrition laborashytory was set up and thi s laboratory has conshytinued to grow and iJl1prove s i nee One of the primary objectives in both poultry and fi sh nutrition research has been to develop feed to rmulas using feedstuffs of Canadian orishygin 111ese tannulas have been publi shed and continuall y revi sed and have been used extensively by teed manufacturers through shyout Canada Dr Slinger continues to be active in research

Dr Slinger taught poultry nutrition in Poultry Science for 27 years gave seminar courses in nutrition and physiology taught Fundamentals of Nutrition in the Depal1shyment of Nutrition and deve loped and taught courses in fi sh and wildlite nutrition

He has supervi sed the work of Jl1any graduates and it is interesting to note that the Department of Nutrition at Guelph is the only depailment in Canada - and there are very few in the United States - turning out graduates in Fish Nutrition at the PhD leve l

He has helped to establi sh modern poultry industries in Mexico and the areas of South East Asia Africa the Middle East Eastern and Western Europe and the United Kingdom Lectures conlerences and other consultative work have also taken hilll to Jl1any coul1tries over the years

The recipient of numerous honours and awards Dr S linger was made Professor Emeritus of the University in Ino and reshy -ceived the Earl e W Crampton award in 19B4 at Macdonald College Que Thi s award is given by the Faculty of Agriculture in recogshyniti on of significant co ntributions in the field of nutrition through research andlor service The award is named for Dr Earle W Crampton a renowned nutritionist whose career at Macd onald bega n in 1922 and lasted far 51 years 0

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cialist having spent four months in the latter John Reid 84 is technical sales rep Agrico Grad News part of 1984 in Bloemfontein South Africa Sales Ltd Richmond BC

Earl Johnston 46 is president Earl-John Brokers Ltd Delhi

Joe Knox 48 is secretary-treasurer Annco Westeellnc Guelph

Ralph Hills 54 is pastor United Church of Canada Smith Falls Ralph left Zambia last October spending some time in Kenya Israel England and Scotland on the way home He was surprised to meet Charlie Broadwell also 54 on Oxford Street in London Charlie was giving a reception at a large castle for the white bean buyers who purchase beans from Charlies Bean Growers of Ontario Ralph also passes along the word from Louise (Fershyguson) Hope Mac 54 that her husband Don 54 preparing for some future possible social work is studying drug addiction at George Brown College of Applied Ans and Technology Toronto

Joseph Leach 54 is a research scientist Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources Lake Erie Research station Wheatley

Ken Edwards 59 is an industrial engineer Prince George Pulp and Paper Vancouver BC

Fred Theaker 62 is a teacher-biologist Ren frew County Board of Education Aruprior

Howard Lang 67 is senior so il conshyservation advisor for OMAF Cambridge

John Lawrence 69 has been appointed vice-president and ge neral manager De kalb Canada Inc Chatham John is a lso president of the Canadian Agri-marketing Assoc iation

Robert Brooksbank 70 is manager Agrishycultural Department Simcoe area Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce

Alan Duncan BLA 73 is project coshyordinator Groupe d intervention urban de Montreal Montreal Que

Martha (Weir) Collins 75 reports that Anne (Walton) Bayler 75 is at teac hers college in Toronto after spending several years teaching in the Bahamas Martha lives at I Braid Place Guelph and would like to hear news of her classmates

Jim Dyer MSc 75 is a senior resource and environmental officer with the crop producshytion division of Agriculture Canada Ottawa He is on loan as a drought monitoring spe shy

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His wife Barb (Newell) Arts 75 who is a technical editor with Public Works Canada joined him in Bloemfontein for a month

Elizabeth Fedorkow 75 is a market reshysearcher Tetra Pak Inc Markham

Roy Maxwell 75 is an agricultural comshymentator CBC Radio Noon Toronto

Gary Ball 76 is vice-president manufacturshying Mitten Vinyl Inc Cambridge

Garnet McConney 77 is feed lot manager Catllel and Ontario Inc Petersburg

Patrick Meyers 77 OVC 84 is a vetshyerinarian with the Grenville-Dundas Veterinshyary Clinic Kemptville

Martha Frey 78 is secretaryass istant edishytor Canadians for Health Research Wes tshymount Que

Wayne Harrison 79 is assi stant manager Toronto Dominion Bank Elmira His wife is Katherine (McLeod) 77

Sharon Helynk 79 is with the Woodbury Animal Hospital Halifax NS

Jeffery Goebel 80 is resident engineer ACF Canada Ltd Georgetown

Mary Lynn Prong 80 is assistant manager Royal Bank Watford She reports that Bruno Soucy 8Q has changed jobs from OMAF farm ma nagement advisor to agrolog ist London region Royal Bank

Corrie Almack 81 is presidentowner Agshyriculturai Soil and Nutrition Consultants Freelton

Edward Bolton 81 is research farm manshyager AJle lix Inc M ississauga

William Summers 82 MSc 84 is prodshyuct deve lopment rep Du-Pont Canada Streetsville

Dianne (Coker) McDowell 83 is quality assurance supervisor Richardson Foods Ltd Glanw0I1h

John Ross 83 is a program officer Agrishyculture Canada Edmonton Alta

Jeff Burke 84 is a customer service rep Griffith Lab Toronto

Julie Fowler 84 is working for Embury Bros Farms Ltd Newburgh

Karen Rodman 84 is a farm management specialist OMAF Nepean

James Simonds 84 is a crop specialist Cavendi sh Fanns Summerside P E1

Richard West PhD 84 is a research scishyentist Canadian Forestry Service SI John s Nftdo

In Memoriam We regret to report the following deaths

Marie Honsberger 17A died March 1985

Esmond D Clipsham 2IA died on April 6 1985 Esmond had been the proprietor Uneeda Rest Hotel Kilwonhy and was a life member of the OAC Alumni Association

Stanley Ewart Keillor 21 died on February 27 1985 He was a crop farmer at Walshylacetown

John Edward Chalmers 23A died on Febshyru ary 15 1985

Jacobus Van Haarlem 23 at age 85 on July 2 1985 in Vineland He retired as ex shyecutive director of the Hor1icultural Experishymental Station at Vineland in 1970 after 47 years of service there

Hugh Lacklin Paterson 32A died in May 1985 of a heart attack at Rockwood

Murray Cameron Macklin 33A 35 died January n 1985 in Toronto

Garland Alfred Fisk 35 Date of deat h unknown

Gordon Elgin Young 35 died on June 12 1985 at Ing leside

John Miller Fargery 37 on March 22 1985 in Toronto John had been an insurance salesman Farm Credit Corp and was a life member of the OAC Alumni Assoc iation

William Thomson 40 in 1982 in Lonshy shygueuil Que His death was reported recen tl y

Robert Fletcher Madden 54A died on November 26 1984 at age 52 at Napanee

Vera (Mod ric) Kozamplik MSc 73 in Yugoslavia She was the wife of Vinko Kozumplik M Sc 71 0

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From the Dean

Dr Barham

In some of my lellers I have aimed to share

information on some special program or theme with you On this occasion I want to

keep you in touch through a number of lillie items so I shall hold onto some of the bigshy

ger interests for future issues of the Guelph Alumnus

As I write this leller Alumni Weekend 85 is behind us I found it a great weekend

and I thoroughly enjoyed meeting more of our alumni for the first time while

especially appreciating recognizing more

and more familiar faces and names from previous occasions

This year the Classes of 65 and 75 requested an up-date on our programs and

the developments we have experienced together in the College over the last few

years I guess that we were able to demonshy

strate much more development in our research and teaching programs than we could in some parts of the physical facilities within the buildings Still we had thorshyoughly congenial and I think very useful

meetings with both of these classes and added a nostalgic tour of our facilities

It was splendid to meet both of these groups I confess however that I had not

foreseen that a large part of the interest of the Class of 65 rested on the fact that many of their children are now gearing up to enter FACS

I was able to remind them that the BASc and B Comm degrees both lead

into fascinating and challenging careers for sons and nephews as well as daughters and

nieces Some of you coming to Alumni Weekend 86 might wish to get in touch with me to arrange an up-date on our acti vities then too

One of my special pleasures of Alumni Weekend was to join with the Class of 35 at the Golden Anniversary Dinner This occashy

sion is always a particular delight given the special personal pleasures reflected in the

friendships shared on this anniversary And I do want members of the Class of

35 to know that their gift of the magnificent Terry Legault Roman Festival print looks really outstanding and just right amidst the

contemporary decor of the FACS lounge

One last item of alumni news which I want to mention is the fact that I met with

Jean (Nairn) Carter 38 and some of her committee recently I learned that they have

been making quite outstanding progress in establishing the trust fund that will support their new graduate student award in geronshy

tology The first award presentation of $1000 is being made this fall but members of the Class of 38 are still pushing on with their fund raising in order to bring the

annual trust-fund yield to a level of $2 000 We all think that the Class of 38 grads

have been quite remarkable in their detershymination to build up a significant fund to

support work in this important new field of scholarship and research I know that we

shall all appreciate your support for them in reaching their target

I met with Audrey Warner and Annette

Yeager 62 recently They advised me of their concern for the needs of teachers wantshy

ing to prepare themselves for adding Family Studies to their fields of professional speshy

cialization and of other teachers already working in that field who find themselves in need of some up-dating especially in view of the curriculum changes which appear to be around the corner

In this regard I want to mention two

items which might be of interest First our faculty in FACS have been

quite heavily engaged in working with

teachers and others in thinking planning debating and writing for the curriculum developme~ts envisaged for the Ontario Academic High School Credits

Most especially we have had as memshybers of the Canadian Family in Perspective group Dr Jean Sabry with her own special

interest in human nutrition Dr Grant

McCracken in clothing Drs Marshall Fine and Claude Guldner with their expertise in family relations and Drs Anne Martin Matshythews and Joe Tindale with their special strengths in life-span development and

aging - quite a team of contributors Secondly I want to mention in relation

to my meeting with Audrey and Annette that we now have a number of courses avai 1shy

able in a six-week format offered in summer sessions provided on campus

Perhaps of even more interest to those of you who wont find it practical to take

classes on campus at Guelph we have an annual offering of distance or corresponshy

dence-type courses Many of these will be of very pertinent

interest to a number of teachers The current list includes Human Development Marital and Family Dynamics Personal and Family Finance Development of Human Sexuality Nutrition and Man and the Exceptional Child in the Family

You can find out more about these

offerings by writing directly to Guelph Disshytance Education University of Guelph

Macdonald Institute shyFamily and Consumer Studies Alumni Assoc

Editor Carol Telford-Pittman 75

Guelph Ont NIG 2WI or by getting in touch with my office

One of the reasons that we have put

ourselves so significantly behind the development of these distance courses is that we did not have the resources to meet

the demand for providing our courses in the more traditional class format at locations

away from the Guelph campus As usual there is much more to share

with you but it will just have to hold until

my next letter I look forward to being in touch with you again then 0

Olive Thompson Honoured

Olive (Thompson) Thompson 35

-The Mac-FACS Alumni Association was very pleased to present a Citation of Appreshyciation to Olive (Thompson) Thompson

35 during Alumni Weekend 85 festivities Olive has given much time energy

support and leadership to the College and to the University through her years of involveshyment with the Mac-FACS Alumni Associashytion Class of Mac 35 activities and the University of Guelph Alumni Association

Our University s alumni organizations are stronger and more effective because of

the years of commitment and personal sershyvice that Olive has contributed

Olive - We salute you 0

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New at HAFA By John Hearn

Infonnation Services

An innovative course developed by the School of Hotel and Food Administration (HAFA) is focussing the attention of undershygraduates on the analysis of operational problems in the hospitality industry and the writing skills required to express and comshymunicate that analysis

Students are required to find summer jobs in the hospitality industry and then to write five papers of ascending complexity during the first semester of their second year using text readings specially edited for this course by the Schools Director Proshyfessor Tom Powers

We have a unique responsibility to prepare students not just for their first job but for future jobs further down the line says Dr Powers Possession of a university degree should imply an ability both to anashylyse problems and to communicate observashytions and recommendations In todays corporate world reports papers and letters are management tools and written comshymunication is a survival skill

The HAFA faculty decided further to emphasize writing skills by adopting a style manual developed by Professor Margaret Hund leby Department of Engl ish Language and Literature for this course as an integral part of the Schools other courses

In order to familiarize faculty with the use of the manual and the grading of student writing Professor Hundleby was invited to conduct a two-day workshop which atshytracted the attention of Vice-President Howard Clark and Associate Vice-President Janet Wardlaw as well as faculty from other disciplines s uch as psychology land resource science microbiology and history

The program Professor Hundleby told the seminar requires students to complete five report papers based on their own obsershyvations

The first paper requires a detailed description of the physical layout of the host operation plus an appraisal and operating cost analysis of its heating air-conditioning and ventilation systems

A second paper asks the student to describe and evaluate staff structure funcshytion compensation package and efficiency

Cost control is the subject of a third paper Purchasing practices food producshytion cost traCking and inventory manageshyment all come under this heading

Marketing is the fourth subject area What market segment is the operation aimed at What consumer need does the operation satisfy What is the nature of the

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Left to right- Professors Cathy Schrye Writing Centre Tom Muller HAFA Belty Upton HAFA Mike Jenkinson OAC 63 OAC dean s office Mary Rogers History and back to camera Bernie Katz Library reviewing cases drawn from studefll papers in a two-day workshop Evaluating Students Writing conducted by Professor Margaret Hundleby

competition in the target market

The fifth paper examines the intangishybles of management sty Ie How does the role of the manager affect relations with customshyers staff and head office

Professor Hundleby commenting on some of the problems of the course says whatever we call it students tend to conshyclude that what they re writing is an acashydemic paper of some kind - which of course it is - but we need to make the connection in their minds with the real the corporate world out there They also tend to think that longer is better and write about what they know - rather than what is import ant The development of a proper sense of for whom they are writing is itself a problem-solving skill

Another problem according to Proshyfessor Hundleby is what she calls the new illiteracy - a verbal dysfunction resulting from an impoverished vocabulary

Style too is a matter of considerable

AMPHI Spin-offs The School of Hotel and Food Administra shytions annual Advanced Management Pro shygram for the Hospitality Industry (AMPHI) now in its third year is spinning off new management development activities says HAFA Director Tom Powers Earlier this year 20 people attended a workshop on accounting and finance presented by Proshyfes sor William Braithwaite School of Agrishycultural Economics and Extension Educashytion and three similar programs will be offered in different parts of the country over the next year and a half

Another program still in the planning stage is a six-day hospitality managers development course designed for middle management by AMPHIs associate direcshy

concern She also mentioned careless senshytence structure style that is inappropriate to the content lack of connective logic failure to understand the nature of a paragraph as a literary entity the frivolous use of colloshyquiali sms an absence of any sense of the harmonious sound of words on paper and of course a growing list of commonly misused words - e g it could of had that affect

There s a tendency to see s tyle as a decorative flourish rather than as an aspect of content she concluded

Professor Powers sees the development of verbal communication skills as central to the whole idea of liberal education Cershytainly he says its useful for HAFA stushydents to understand how a cost control system works - but its at least as important to be able to think logically analyse logshyically and communicate conclusions in a way that is credible informative coherent and complete in fact these are the classic goals of a liberal education 0

tor Professor John Patterson and a consulshytant group of AMPHI alumni

AMPHI continues to attract internashytional attention participants in thi s years program which began in April include senior executives from many of North Americas most distinguished hotels and restaurants The four-week course offers an intensive program based primarily on case studies written by Professo rs Patterson -Braithwaite Carl Riegel and Tom Muller

The growing volume of AMPHI cases indicates that thi s is the largest s ingle research program currently under way in any hotel school in North America says Proshyfessor Powers AMPHls network of conshytacts is giving us access to a senior-level view of the industrys current problems and prospects 0

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Research AssociateComing Soon A AppointedModel Play Facility

Dr Joan Norris

Dr Joan Norris has held the position of Research Associate at the Gerontology Research Centre since last spring

Joan is working with faculty to develop and promote research related to population aging and is available for consultation with faculty on research design funding sources and publication

In addition to this development work she is continuing her personal program of research She works for the Gerontology Censhytre two days per week and the balance of her

The Family Studies Laboratory Schools pre-school play facility fell 10 a Grounds time is spent in the Department of Family Department wrecking machine recently Studies where she has held a faculty appointshy

ment since 1980 Joan holds a Ph D in Psychology from

the University of Waterloo and is also a regisshytered psychologist Her personal research

The Mllc-FACS Special Projects Commitshyinterests include social competence in older

tee Ito r Bonnie Kerslake 82 Association adults peer relationships and grandshy

president Linda (Wo[e) Markle 73 chairshyparenting 0

man and Gail Murray 78 Missing comshymillee member is Rita (Klassen) Weigel 77 The aim of the committee is to raise funds to redevelop the Family Studies Laboshy In Memoriam ratory Schools and raise itto the level where it will be regarded as a model pre-school

Eileen Margaret (Manahan) Alwayplay facility

390 October 21984 in Vancouver BC

Jean (Horrell) Atkinson 240 March 5 1985 in Aurora

Class of 35 Gift Oorothy (Lockard) Honsberger 300Centre panel Roman Carnival

In order to commemorate their anniversary July 51985 in Weiland Mac 35 has traditionally given a scholshyarship to a FACS student once every five Isabel J Lockerbie 300 March 31 years This year on the 50th anniversary of 1985 in Toronto their graduation and in addition to the scholarship an etching entitled Roman Patricia G (Smith) McKay-Barry 55 Carnival by Terry Legault has been added March 17 1985 in London Ont to the Universitys collection of Canadian alt The etching is hanging in the FACS Velma E (Conn) Partridge 260 April faculty lounge 29 1985 in Niagara Falls Ont shy

The theme of Roman Carnival was favoured by neo-clas sical and romantic Helen E (Kelly) Robinson 220 April painters during the 19th century The etching 30 1985 in Dundas captures the moment at which wild horses are released to race through the streets of Norma I (Motherwell) Roy 350 in Rome The artist has chosen to represent the Moosejaw Sask wild chaotic motion ot the horses rather than explicitly depict in detail the animals Lillian S (Moore) Usher 340 March 28 and the architectural background 0 1985 in Cobourg 0

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College of Physical Science Alumni Assoc SCIMP

Editor Bob Winkel

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Yes Dr Earl MacNaughtoll has relired alshylogelher bUI Ihis wonl be Ih e lasl you I hear from him reSI assured Before he and his wife Jean lOok oJf for Auslralia and New Zealand Deparlmenl of Physics slaf and faculty held a galhering al Ihe FacullY Club and presenled Ihe couple wilh an alumni clock

Back to Guelph

The headquarters for (GWC)2 came

back to Guelph in July for a threeshy

year period while Professor Robert Balahura Chemistry and Biochemisshy

try serves as director (GWC)2 offices have been set up

in Room 122 and 123 Physical Scishyences building The University of

Waterloo will maintain a satellite office during the three-year Guelph

rotation Dr Balahura and adminshy

istrative assistant Andrea Turner may

be reached at Ext 3865 0

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Physics Professor Elected to Royal Society

Bernhard Nickel

Department of Phy s ics Professor Bernhard Nickel has been elected a Fellow

of the Royal Society of Canada and was formally inducted into the Society at its

annual meeting in Montreal in June

A member of the Physics faculty since

1974 Professor Nickel is no stranger to

prizes and awards In 1981 he received the Herzberg Medal the Canadian Associashy

tion of Physicists award to a promising young scienti st In 1978 he won a Sloan

Fellowship from the New York-based Sloan Foundation

He achieved recognition by navigating

the esoteric seas of condensed matter physshy

ics Hi s co lleagues call him a leading masshyter in the art of mathematical physics By

exploiting the existing mathematical frameshywork in subtle ways he has worked through

thickets that have stopped other physic ists

High order perturbation calculations

done by him played a key role in verifying

the quantitative reliability of the theory of

underlying continuous phase transitions in systems

He earned BScE and MSc degrees from the University of Saskatchewan and a

PhD from the University of California at

San Diego He was a research associate at

Cornell and Oxford Universities and a postshy

doctoral research Fellow at the Univers itY of Alberta before coming to Guelph in 1974

He has been a visiting fellow at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory at the Univershy

sity of California at San Diego at Harvard

and at the Schlumberger-Doll Re searc h In stitute in Connecticut

With his election he becomes one of

six Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada at

Guelph The others are Professors Howard

Clark Peter Egelstaff Gabriel Karl Bruce Sells and Herbert Armstrong And it brings to five the number of me mbers of the

Guelph-Waterloo Program for Graduate Work in Physics (GWP)2 who can put the

coveted FRSC after their names 0

Halleys Comet and the Babylonians By Professors Nigel Bunce and Jim Hunt

The winter of 1985 and the spring of 1986 will lon g be remembered as the year of

Comet Halley No comet in history has so

stirred the imagination of man or been the

object of suc h intensive investigation Its easy to understand this interest when its

appreciated that Halleys Comet is the only recurring comet that is bright enough to be

seen with the naked eye ft was the g reat astronomer Edmund

Halley who in 1705 recognized the s imilarshy

ity of the appearances of the great comets of 1456 1531 1607 and 1682 He speculated that these were in fact one and the sa me

comet with a period of 75 or 76 years

He predicted that the comet would reshyturn in 175 8 a return he could not live to see With thi s Halley discovered the phenomeshy

non of periodic comets and thus showed

that they were members of our solar system

The comet dutifully returned in 1835

and spectacularly so in 1910 In the latter

year circumstances were such that after its

perhelion passage (the point closest to the

Sun) the Earth and the comet approached

each other very closely The comet was so close that at one time its tail spread from

horizon to horizon The return in 1985-86 will be considshy

erably less spectacular In fact for Canadishyans it will not be easy to observe s ince the

time of perhelion is in Febnlary when the

Sun is very low in the sky The view will be -much better from more southerl y latitudes Over the years historica l records have

been found which record every passage of the comet back to 12 BC M any of these obshy

servations come from Chinese records first published in 1846 A well-authenticated

passage was that of 1066 which was reshy

corded on the Bayeux tapestry by the mother

of William of Nonnand y and taken as an cOllld on righl

Grad News Paul Ferguson BSc 67 of Ede n Mill s is president of EIS Systems Ltd and travelled in New Zealand this summer

Walter Lock BSc 67 of Denfield is practising medicine in Lucan

Tjeerd Homan BSc 69 of Calgary Alta is manager research and development services for Petro-Can He is enjoying his family Carla Sarah and John Menno and his hobbies of golf curling and skiing

(GWP)2 Poster Session a First

Earlier this year the Guelph- Waterloo Proshygram for Graduate Work in Physics (GWP)2 staged its first annual poster session for graduate s tudents Poster sessions which are becoming increasingly popular in scienshytific circles allow interaction between researchers and delegates without the time pressures encountered when presenting con shyventional papers at meetings says (GWP)2 Director lain Campbell

The first annual (GWP)2 poste r sesshysion which was followed by a soc ial hour and banquet was highly successful in genershyating interaction says Campbell By the end of the session there were still clusters of people arguing the finer points of scientific interpretation on many of the posters These exchanges continued right through the soshycial hour and into dinner Interaction is what science is all about

Encouraging interaction between stushydents and faculty is one of Campbells prishyorities as Director It is too easy for students to tuck themselves into a corner and work away in isolation They need to get out and ex plain their work both to experts and to

omen of his victory over the Saxons Based on this long record various

mathematical analyses of the orbit of the comet have been produced These account very accurately for the known passages of the comet However when these various anshyalyses are pushed back beyond 12 BC they predict widely varying dates for the previous appearances Before 12 B c there are ani y two vague Chinese records in 87 BC and 240 B c which mayor may not have been Halleys comet

In a recent issue of Nature a team of

Ernest Campbell BSc 69 lives in Campbell ville and teaches science for the Halton Board in Burlington

Richard Davis BSc 77 having comshypleted his MD University of Toronto 83 and his internship at Womens College Hosshypital will be setting up his practice in family medicine in his home town of Guelph

Larry Meek BSc 77 of Ottawa is pashytient administrator and computing officer for the National Defence Medical Centre His hobbies include sailing and skiing

Andre Brunet BA 81 is working for Amdahl Ltd as fieldsystems engineer and lives in Sudbury with his wife Monique (Puellette) FACS 80

Cathy Deakin BSc 81 is presently articshyling with the law firm of Little Reeves Mahoney Jarrett amp Hart of London

Andrew Dubrawski BSc 82 and his wife Alicia (Wodecka) BSc 81 live in Toronto where he works as a communicashytions systems analyst for CNCP Telecomshymunications 0

10hn Root 81 a (GWP)2 PhD s tudent left aflracts an audience

non-experts It takes a deliberate effort on our part to generate and maintain this intershychange

The poster session was the largest scishyentific or social event yet staged by (GWP)2 Some 18 students presented posters and about 90 students faculty and prospective students attended

The posters are on display in the two departments of physics to give others an opportunity to view them At Gue lph they are in the second floor corridor of the Physshyical Science Building near the Department

scholars from England and Vienna reported the finding of two fragments of Babylonian tablets in the British Museum that clearly report the appearance of the comet in 87 BC and 164 B C The records are so clear that by calculation not only the year but the time of year for the perhelion passage can be determined

For example the 164 BC apparition has been narrowed down to a date someshywhere between November 5 and 25 of that year The 87 BC record is not as accurate nevertheless its perhelion passage can be

of Physics office Encouraged by the s uccess of the

poster sess ion lain Campbell is planning another high-profile event for (GWP)2 to recognize award-winning faculty He plans a fall symposium at which three (GWP)2 members who received major honours durshying 1985 will give short lectures to be folshylowed by a sherry reception The three honoured faculty are Gicinto Scoles Killam Fellowship winner Bernhard Nickel Felshylow of the Royal Society of Canada and John Simpson Rutherford medalist 0

narrowed down to July 25 to August 15 These observations while inaccurate

to the extent of 20 days are still accurate enough to eliminate three of the four leading -calculations of the motion of Comet Halley This is a striking example of how archaeoshylogical investigations may have a strong effect on many diverse subjects in this case com~tary astronomy 0

We welcome questions and ideas for future articles Write to the authors clo the Deans Office Cole fe ofPhysical Science Univershysity of Guelph Guelph Ontario NIG 2WI

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UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

GUELPH ALUMNUS Fall 1985 Vol 18 No 4

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

HON ORARY PR ESIDENT Dr Burt Mallhews OAC 47

PRESID ENT Ross Parry CSS 80

PAST PRESIDENT Glenn Powe ll OAC 62

SENIOR VICE-PR ES IDENT Dt Ro n [)(wmey OVC 6 1

SECRETARY Dr Wendy Parker OVC 71

TREASURER Keith Harris CBS 76

ASSOCIATE SECRETA RY Rose mary Clark Mac 59

VICE-PRESIDENTS Sue (Beatty) Davidson CSS 82 Jean (Fuller) Hume Mac 64 Art Peppin OAC 41 Wendy Parker OVC 71 Margo Shoemaker A~ s 79 Barry Smi th CPS 79

DIRECTORS Rob Barron CSS 78 Nan Chapman FACS 74 Dr Tony Van Dreume l OVC 63 Grant Lee CSS 73 Bill Macdonald A~s 78 Rob Milne CBS 81 A~ Peppin OAC 41 Dan Rose OAC 60 Rosemary (Schmidt) Smith FACS 79 Karin Davidson-Taylor CBS 83 Dr Don Wil son OVC 66

EX-OFFICIO DIRECTORS Marjorie E Mill ar director De pa rtment of Alumni AITairs and Development Marion McGee CSS 71 president College of Social Science Alumni Association Carole Rowsell HAFA 74 president Hotel and Food Administration Alumni Association Connie (Hauka) Jasinskas HK 76 president Human Kinetics Alumni Association Dave Barrie OAC 5 3A president OAC Alumni Association Jaye Robinson preSident Central Student Association Bonnie Kerslake FACS 82 president Mac-FACS Alumni Association Or Kennet h Gadd OVC 56 president OVC Alumni Association Michael Bedford president Graduate Students Association Linda McKenzie-Cordick A~ s 8 1 president College of Arts Alumni Association Lucas Van Vee n CPS 74 president CPS Alumni Association David Airdrie CBS 8 2 president College of Biological Science Alumni Association

The Guelph Alumnus is publi shed four tim es each yea r in February May August and November by the Depa~menl of Alumni Affairs and Developmenl in co-operation with Information Services University of Guelph

EDITOR Derek J Wing publication s manager Depa~menl of Alumni Affai rs and Developme nl

The Edilorial Commillce is comprised of Derek Wing ed ilo r Majorie E Millar director Rosemary C lark Mac 59 assiSlant director all with the Depa~ment of Alumni Affai rs and Deve lopmenl and Erich Ba~h

a~ director Donald Jose OAC 49 media rela tions and Douglas Waterston director all with Information Services

Undelivered copies should be returned to the Department of Alumni AlTairs and Development University of Guelph Guelph Ontario NIG 2Wl Canada

Towards Challenges and

AiDlS of the Universitv

T he Ad hoc Committee to Review the Aim s and Objectives or the University of Guelph recommends the adoption of the

following basic aims

bull We the Univers ity of Guelph will strive for excellence in all our activ ities and sustain exceJlence when it is achieved We are especiall y committed to excellence in our areas of special

respons ibility

bull As teaching research and service are integral to university educat ion we will strive to integrate these function s into every academic unit

bull We will co ntinue to place fund ame ntal emphasis on highshyquality undergraduate ed ucation as characterized in the aims

and objectives document

bull We will maintain an environment for teaching and learn ing that advances bothmiddot inte llectual and personal growth

bull We will emphasize grad uate studies in our areas of specia l responsibility and in those areas of need in whic h we have the

necessary leve l of excellence

bull We will encourage researc h including scholarship and creative activities on an individual and group bas is in areas both fundamental and applied within and across academic discishy

plines

bull We will strengthen our interaction with the wide range of com munities we serve so that we may be more responsive to

societys needs -bull We will continue to develop imaginative and inventive

programs for education throughout life

bull We will increasingly incorporate an appropriate international perspective into all parts of the Univers ity

bull We will foster a more collegial environment and be sens iti ve to the well -being and integrity of o ur students faculty and staff

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2000 Responses

_of Guelph

Chall enges changes opportunity renewal - these are some of the key words in an

aims and objectives document the University community read and discussed over the sumshymcr The doc ument Towards 2000 Challenges and Responses Aims of Ihe UnishyIersily of Guelph says that this University must collectively know it self and undergo some changes in in stitutional attitudes if it is to reflect the future and thrive in it

Two years in the making the 31-page doc ument was received for information by Senate in June and its ten-point statement of aims and 40 recommendations were accepted as notices of motions for resolution at a Septembe r 17 Senate meeting The document was passed at a meeting of September 24

Vice-President Academic Howard Clark chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee to Review the Aims and Objecti ves of the Ufli versity of Guelph told senators that the committee has tried to do three things in the report - describe Guelph as it is now offer opinions and comments about the future and emphasize th at change will be necessary

The Uni versity must be willing to disshycuss recognize and agree on what is Guelph he sa id for this is at the heart of its planning

We mu st be willing to di scuss what is unique about Guelph and Guelph must get to know itse lf in detail

The aims and objec ti ves document should rel ate to the future Dr Clark said Whatever the fu ture it will be different and the Uni versity will need to change appropri shyately The las t pas t decade was a period of entrenchment he said and the future involves opportunity renewal and challenge Those universities who are proactive are going to be the ones who wil l fl ourish and prosper

The document is a complete rewrite of the tirst draft presented to Senate last fall It

was revised followin g invited comments from fac ulty students and staff an open session with the University community and sessions with people outside the Uni versity The docushyment disc usses the aims of a university exshyamines Guelph and its future role ex plores its response to that role and concludes with a set of aims and recommendations

The report emphas izes four aspects said Dr Clark The underlying theme is that the University has a single educati onal goal Education encompasses three activ ities shyteaching research and service Teac hing and research are not competitive but com pl emenshytary he said and service to soc iety supports teac hing and research roles

The report al so says that if the Uni versity is to achieve excellence in research and teaching it must recognize that changes are necessary Discipline boundaries must beshycome less ri gid the institution must enter into a closer rel ationship with its various commu shynities parts of the University will need to coshyoperate with the Library to use the most recent developments in information tec hshynology there must be closer co ll aboration between the academic and non-academic units of the in stitution in shaping the learning and teac hing environment and there will have to be innovative patterns of research and internal in volvement

One of the most important changes will concern the concepts of institutional neushytrality academic freedom and institutional responsibility There must be a willingness to be concerned with matters outside of the departments to share and address multishydi sc iplinary questions to reach an agreement on what service to society means and to pay far greater attention to what the goals of the institut ion are to be said Dr Clark

The report al so speaks of excellence and

the University s spec ial responsibilities Its easy to say we will strive for and sustain excellence he said but what does it mean) The report notes th at excellence does not impl y more resources Although resources are necessary for exce llence they are not enough - excellence also requires motivashytion initi ative and an espril de corps

Dr Clark sa id th at Guelph has a special responsibility for ag ri culture and veterinary medicine Collec tive ly we have a responshysibility to society to ensure there is excellence in these areas

He al so said th at Guelph mu st spend more time collectively to better understand what its educational objecti ves are The University needs to establi sh general educashytional objec ti ves that prov ide the kind of student that soc iety needs in the future work place It mu st also deve lop qualities and skills for careers and occ upations that cant even be identified today he sa id

The report is one of optimism believes Dr Clark It proposes renewal and a change of attitudes It issues the cha llenge to collecshytyely spend more time in di scuss ion about what our common purposes rea ll y are

We have spent ten yea rs worrying about budgets We have to start looking at opportushynity The committee genuinely believes that the nex t decade will be one of opportunity

The Aims and Alumni -The review committee made a number of

recommendations as measures that should be taken to achieve its Universi ty s bas ic aims One of the recommendations was

That the Department of Alumni Affairs and Development offer suggestions to the appropriate units of the Uni versity on ways in which our alumni can become more in volved in the life of the institut ion 0

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Fine Art is 20

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~ By Dr George Todd Chairman ~ Department of Fine Art

There is a di sc ipline with roots deep in theEi ltgt soil which nurtered the University of

00 Guelph which is being examined uneasily bya

lr) its faculty in anticipation of the fact that ~

0 lr) against all odds the discipline may be thmst

-c into the foreground as the University moves (- 0 toward the year 2000 (Towards 2000 Chalshy

lenges and Responses Aims of the University ~

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of Guelph See pages 2 and 3 this issue) ~ The faculty are uneasy because it is v somewhat uncertain about what role to play

should this happen The di sc ipline surprisshy 9 ~ ingly is Fine Art

To many Fine Art within the University at leas t is that bizarre academic activity ~ 0 which eventuates in such questionable pracshyltgt

tices as the exhibition of life-size nude se Jt~ ~ portraits with all appendages intact in the

0 very-public student gallery on the main floor Ei of the McLaughlin Library That is when it ltgt

00 doesnt eventuate in something even more ~ 0 bizarre ~ Thus the very thought of Fine Arts

being thrust into the foreground may excite8 0- hilarity 00 0 But consider the matter Consider the

challenge confronting the University and the

girding up to meet this chaJlenge Within the shy

ltgt revised statement of the Aims and Objectives of the University the principle demand will beltgt

-Sl ~ to educate for change s This sort of talk occasions the uneasy examination The direct cause is an awareness 0

that Fine Art is and always has been literally C

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~ an education for change With good reashy

son too for art has as a defining characterisshysO tic - the logical necess ity for change Is this ~ so for any other discipline

~ Consider again Within context the ~ Aims and Objectives document warns that

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the only constant will be an acceleration of the rate of change Yet one trusts there will be another constant - the self How important then to know onese lf if one knows anything There is an uneasy awareness that art also has a peculi ar facility for ge nerating such knowledge

Thus it is that the Department of Fine Art just at the moment when it is celebrating with satisfaction its 20th anniversary finds itself pondering what it should be if it is to be all that it should be

The Department (m sure had hoped to bask awhile in the afterglow of breathless development It sprang into being in 1965 in cramped quarters in the basement of the Macdonald Institute Yet the one studio and the one part-time lecture hall were able to accommodate the barely 200 course regisshytrants that first year mOSl of those not Fine Art students

From such a modest beginning the Unishyversitys Fine Art program has developed into one of the most respected programs in the country Today there are some 275 students registered as Fine Art majors and the studios and offices of the Department occ upy all of the usable space in Zavitz Hall (wiley minds constantly seek new ways to persuade the administration to renovate the top floor potentially some of the finest art stud y space anywhere) Art history courses keep a speshycially-equipped lecture room in the MacKinnon Building occupied most days and evenings

Often however the real tes t of a process is its product There is room here for satisshyfaction Graduates of the Guelph program hold down many of the primary and secondshyary school art teaching posts in the province Others fill executive curatorial and similar positions in Canadian public galleries (such as the National the Ontario and the Hamilton) in private galleries presses govshyernment agencies and other bodies There are still man y wrestling one-on-one with artshymaking as in the good old days (and nights) of self-discovery in Zavitz But a surpri sing number are to be found working outside the art world entirely

On the initiative of Judy Nasby director - of the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre an art

show of work by past and present regular faculty and selected sessional faculty will be mounted at the Centre in recognition of 20 years of growth of Fine Art It will open

man of vis ion large ly responsible for initiatshying the Department determining its nature and steering it through its formative years Professor Couling was able in the summer of 1984 just months before his death to present the first Gordon Couling Scholarship donated by the Guelph Creative Arts Association Typically though unwel L he talked with bright-eyed enthusiasm about art and its future with Fine Art students at a College of Arts Recognition Luncheon

The Fine Art program was moulded to offer the province a desirable alternative to existing post-secondary programs one comshybining equal strenghts in art media and art history A student could emphas ize one or the other but would be req uired to work in both

It was judged that this would be idea l for future teachers The results confi rm the ex pecshytation But the contribution elsewhere of graduates steeped in Western culture may

The late Gordon Couling first chairshyman Department of Fine Art

prove to be even more important Yet the moulders cannot lay claim to

originating this philosophy on campus As far back as 1903 the Macdonald Institute trained

history and one in drawing and painting The stage was set for a fine art program In effect fine art is a founding discipline

Art is rooted in the hi story of the Unishyversity in another sense that of co llecting and enjoying In 1926 after five patie nt years of saving an Ontario Agricultural College grou p of faculty staff and stud ent s purchased Tom Thompons pai nting The Drive TIlat entershypri se initiated a campaign to build a Univershysity collection of Canadian art One class after another from the three founding colleges added pieces

Appropriately Fine Art student s have contributed in turn the funds to purchase the

master prints in what is known as the printshystudy collection Containing origi nal works by masters such as Rembrandt Goya and Picasso as well as Canadian printmakers the collection is valued at well over $100000 The funds came entirely from the sale of student prints

The print-study collection is on ly one of the features which gives the program its lustre Another is the slide library with its more than 120 000 slides that supports the so lid art history program The collection stacks up favorably aga inst any other in the country

But the secret of the program is more imponderable Certainly it has to do with the emphasis upon the traditional means of artshymaking and understanding The in stant dedishycation of the top professional art is ts who teach sessionally is a clear factor It owes much to the camaraderie among stud ents staff and faCUlty Then there is Zavitz Hal l itse lf Something quite magical seems to happen to its people when they step through its doors

Normall y Zavitz Hall is a welcoming place President Matthews found it otherw ise on hi s first visit Unannounced and unshywelcomed the President eventuall y found himse lf in a life drawing class Challenged by a student and the instructor in turn the Pres ident indicated he did not want to disturb the class that he would just watch quietly

This e licited a testy Well just who the hell do you think you are) from the instructor

Whi ch elicited a surprised Why Im the Pres ident from the President Two sheepish men retreated to the hall to talk it over

But there isnt time to worry about such -things now There are more pressing issues Is November 21 and conclude January 5 To recshy

ognize the art hi story half of the program the Department is sponsoring a short series of lectures by distinguished visitors on the theme Art Hi story Past and Future (See p 15 for Centre viewing hours and lecture dates locations and times)

The celebration also wil ~ be an occasion for honouring the late Gordon Couling the

teac hers in part through a program of applied art in an art-historical context

When the Institute was re-established following the Second World War two courses were made an essential part of the B H Sc cu rriculum one in design and one in art hi story The teacher was Gordon Couling In the early 60s two more specialist courses were added one in 19th and 20th century art

the program taki ng suffi cient advantage of the intellectual wealth of the University Is the program doing enough to prepare students to prepare for the wider world ) [s the program doing all that it can to educate others to be creative ly adaptable)

Or alternative ly are the folks in Zavitz Hall taking themse lves too seriously 0

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Ian C AIridge OAC BSc(Agr)85

Ian C Attridge OAC 85 of Markham is the recipient of the Winegard Medal for 1985 Awarded annually to the graduand judged to be the most outstanding student the Winegard Medal is the Universitys most prestigious undergraduate award Its winner must combine an outstanding academic recshyord and participation in extra-curricular activities with the personal attributes of leadership and citizenship

Ian graduated in June from the OAC resources management program with an average over eight semesters above 80 per cent This academic standing is noteworthy for two reasons the long list of extra-curricshyular activities in which he took part and in the words of a senior faculty member his major was one in which high marks are tough to achieve

The medalists on-campus extra-curricshyular activities included several student clubs his College year executive the Colshylege Royal committee musical activities the Gryphon team in Nordic skiing and intramural teams in five other sports

Off-campus he was active in the Onshytario Public Interest Research Group of Guelph the Federation of Ontario Natushyralists Friends of the Wye Marsh the Guelph Environmental Council Guelph Field Naturalists the Coalition in support of Environmental Programs and the Guelph Peace and Disarmament Conference of 1984 He was also involved in a number of youth and lay programs in the United Church

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The Winegard

Medal

A Tale Of Ten

Winners While at Guelph he won two entrance

scholarships a number of in-course prizes and scholarships and two summer undershygraduate research awards from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Counshycil In 1984 he won a Soil Conservation Society of America (SCSA) scholarshipshyone of only 18 offered in North America by the SCSA to students in conservation-orishyented programs He was the top Canadian student

Within the Department of Land Reshysource Science Ian was a member of the undergraduate teaching committee During his final semester he co-ordinated a student review of the academic program in resources management which made recommendashytions that will be incorporated into future program changes

One of his teachers notes that Ian has a deep interest in soc ial issues and a commitshyment to environmental concerns He attended Markham District High School and completed his secondary schooling in Lahr West Germany

Each of Guelphs seven colleges nomishynates one student each year for considerashytion for the Winegard Meda l The other nominees for 1985 were Sally Ann Lawshyrence Bell-Knight Arts Rebecca Elizabeth Jane Rodgers CBS Lisa Jane Martin FACS Margot Joan Finstad CPS David Douglas Langlotz CSS and Janet Kashytherine Pegrum OVe

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the presentation of the Winegard Medal Ian

Dr William Winegard

Attridge is joining a select group of Guelph graduates who are a source of pride and inspiration to the University community

Former University of Guelph president Dr William Winegard marked the annivershysary with a letter from the House of Comshymons where he is Guelphs member of Parliament In it he writes

It is not ofien that one has the opporshytunity fO suggest terms of reference for the Universitys most pres tigious student award Such was my good fortulle ten years ago and over the years I have become inshycreasingly grateful that Senute accepted the proposed terms A University-wide compeshytition always stimlliates interest especially when academic excellence and extra-curshyricular activities form the basis of the comshypetition The men and women who have won the medal have been Guelph at its best I have been proud to know them

Where are They Now

What are They Doing

The previous winners of the Winegard -Medal were contacted recently and replies were received from seven of the nine gold medalists Peter Taylor Arts BA 76 Christine Zink OVC DVM 78 Timothy Henshaw OVC DVM 79 John Root CPS BSc 81 Anne-Frances Miller CBS BSc 82 Nicole Didicher Arts BA 83 and James Sidlofsky Arts SA 84 There was no response from Mary Saunshy

ders CBS BSe 77 and Elaine Courtice CBS BSe 80

Some of their achievements both proshyfessional and personal and some of their future hopes and plans are recorded here

Peter Taylor (1916) The first recipient of the Winega rd

Medal now with the University s Office for Educational Practice as manager of print publications is responsible for providing centralized graphic design typeselling and print publications cocordination to the Unishyversity community

Following graduation from Guelph Peter continued his education at the Uni-

Peter Taylor Arts 76

Christine Zinc Tim Henshaw John RoO Anne Miller OVC 7S

versity of Waterloo where he obtained an MA in English in 1981

Peter is also a poet - his first book First Epistle to Dr Torr was published by Gryphon Press in 1976 He printed and bound the book himself andsome copies are still ava ilable

7iaino which he considers his most important work to date was published by Paget Press in 1980 and a second chapbook The Masons came out that same year A third chapbook Aphorisms was printed in 1982

Being a ca reeri st and a poet is someshytimes a sc hi zophreni c existence says Pete r I never seem to have enough energy or time to do both as well as I might like to Regrettabl y my writing has played second fiddle to my career

Christine Zink (1918) In 1978 when Chnstine first joined a

large animal practice in Drayton Ontario the idea of a woman ve terin ar ian working with farm an imals was so inconceivable to farmers in the area that some of them called her young man she writes She reca lls many a midnight drive over desel1ed farm roads to help a cow give bil1h return shying home at su nri se know ing there was still a full days work ahead

After two years of practice Dr Zink returned to the OVC for pos t-graduate work and is now doing research on The Pathoshygenesis of Corynehacterium equi Pneushymonia in FoaJs In 1983 she passed the

American Collcge of Veterinary Patholshyogists spec iality boa rd exa minati on She expects to graduate with a Ph D thi s yea r and is deciding bet~een a position on faculty at a veterinary sc hool or post-doctoral reshysearch at a medica l sc hool in the United States

Tim Henshaw (1919) After three years in a private veterinary

prac tice in BalTie Tim became a staff vetshyerinari an with Unit ed Breede rs Inc of Guelph and now works out of the Alliston office His responsi bilities inc lude field sershyvice education and research He has reshyturned to campus as guest lect urer at the

to chemistry from her undergraduate studies in molecular genetics and biophysics has been good for me she says The chemisshytry I am learning helps me to better undershystand how enzymes work and macromoleshycules interact with their environment

Last year she married Ganpathy Murshythy a fellow Yale graduate student in ph ys shyics Together they enjoy hiking camping and reading and at the time of writing were planning a trip to India this year

J have told Ganpath y a lot about Gue lph she says and were looking forshyward to visiting the University on a sunny autumn day when the maples along Wineshygard Walk are all aflame

OVC 79 CPSSI CSSS2

OVC and the OAC and has done extensi ve speaking throughout the province for the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food

Dr He ~shaw is peoples warden of St Peters Anglican Church in Minesi ng presishydent of the Ontario Association of Bovine Practitioners secretary of the Simcoe County Holstein Club and a live-s toc k Judge

In 1980 he marri ed Jane Si nclair FACS 78 and they have a dau ghter Chrisshytenltt future University of Guelph class of 2005

John Root (1981) John continues to stud y at Guelph shy

he received an MSc in liquid state physics in 1983 and is now working on his Ph D Hi s thesis is on the Quantum Effects in the Structure of Liquid Water under the supershyvision of Department of Phys ics professor Peter Ege lstaff

In 1982 he married Darlene Maurer and their daughter Athena Catherine-Beth was born earlier this year

John is a youth group leader in the First Baptist Church in Guelph and was presishydent of the Baptist Youth of Ontario and Quebec in 1983-1984

Anne-Frances (MiUer) Murthy (1982)

From New Haven Connecticut USA Anne-Frances writes to say she is at Yale University in the Depal1ment of Chemshyistry doing research on photosynthetic oxyshygen evolution for her Ph D thesis The move

Nicole Didicher Jamie Sidlofsh Arts 83 ArtsS4

Nicole Didicher (1983) Nico le is finishing the first year of her

PhD studies at Queens University where she obtained her M A last year

Her Masters degree work centred on the medieva l period of English literature and she plans to do doc toral research in 18t h-ce ntury literature

Nicole reports that her cu rrent studies are supported by two Ontario Graduate Sc holars hips and a Queens Graduate Awa rd Thi s should come as no surprise to th ose who witnessed her dedication at Guelph

On the social scene in Kingston she s one of the 100 to 150 voices of the Queens Choral Ensemble and rece ntl y she acquired an apartment mate ca ll ed Mole a young white rat Hes a good companion and quiet sa id Ni co le Im absolu tely no good with plants so hes my al ternat ive

Jamie Sidlofsky (1984) Jam ie is a student in the LL B program

at the University of Toron tos Faculty of Law He is the University of Toronto represhy

sentative on the Canadian Bar Association -a member of the Faculty of Law arti cling and summer Jobs committee and direc tor Unishyversity of Toronto student lega l aid program Centre for Spanish-speaking Peoples

This summer he work ed with Diashymond Fairbairn amp Steinberg barri sters and solicitors in Toronto and as a research as shysistant for University of Toronto law proshyfessor Bernard Green 0

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Butthe Melody Lingers On By John Hearn Information Services

S tanley Saunders left Guelph this summer

for a year of administrative leave after II years as the Universitys Director of Music

College of Arts When Dr Saunders joined the Division

of Mu sic in 1974 he inherited a strong

musical tradition reaching back to the earliest

days of the Ontario Agricultural College which was always famous for its choirs

[t fell to Dr Saunders to take the fledgling

Division of Music introduce its first degree programs and build the solid reputation which it enjoys today

Dr Saunders completed his undershy

graduate studies at the University of Wales and twice won the First Award Open Instrushy

mental Solo at the Ei steddfod He was a

member of the National Youth Orchestra of Wales and later performed as a clarinetist with the SSCs radio and TV sy mphony

orchestras

Soon after coming to Guelph Dr Saunshy

ders founded the University of Guelph Civic Orchestra which under his direction achieved an enviable reputation in the ensuing

years The revival of the U of G Aggie Band

followed as did the U of G Concert Band By 1979 Dr Saunders had built a faculty

of some 16 members including Dr Charles

Wilson and Gerald and Elizabeth Neufeld

The same year also saw performances by

the U ofG Choir the U ofG Chamber Singers and the Summer Chorale The Noon-Hour

Concerts were adding to their already unique reputation while the newly formed U ofG

Trio consisting of Elizabeth Neufeld voice Sylvia Hunter piano and Stanley Saunders clarinet was beginning the series of tours which would take it to many parts of Canada and Great Britain

Before the end of the 70s we saw the

first of the successful Music of the Arboreshytum series of concerts the formation of the Aggie Choir under the direction of Gerald

Neufeld and in partnership with the Guelph Spong Festival welcomed such luminaries as the great contemporary Polish composer Penshyderecki Gian Carlo Menotti Ruby Mercer editor of Opera Canada and Bori s Brott

The early 80s have been gala years both for Dr Saunders and the Division

Dr Stanley Saunders

(retitled the Department of Music in 1984) The decade began with the presentation of

two world premieres by the U of G Civic Orchestra and the appointment of Dr Saunshy

ders as president of the National Youth Orchestra of Canada and vice-chairman of the Council of Ontario Music Administrators

The growing stature of the Department of

Music was also reflected in student registrashytion both credit and non-credit in vocal keyboard classical guitar and orchestral inshy

struments

The year 1981 saw a brilliant tour of Sweden and West Germany by the Univers ity of Guelph Choir under the direction of Gerald Neufeld and conducting engagements by Dr

Saunders in Toronto Ottawa Montreal Boston and Washington D C The same year

saw the formation of the U ofG Jazz Ensemshyble and the U ofG Pep Band both led by Kenneth Tinnish

II was a very good year As Dr Saunders said External evidence of scholarship is not necessarily obvious from performance but

creativity is itself a form of research and all these perform ances are not only enlightened by the students studies in history literature

and theory they are also heightened by their

awareness of the aesthetic factors that give significance to mu sic through their intershyrelated studies at the University

Another substantial increase in student

enrolment was witnessed in 1982-1983 deshysp ite the tightening of admission standards

and regulation for the continuance of studies

The University of Guelph Choir still under direc tor Gerald Neufeld won second prize in

the 1982 CSC national choral competition

Stanley Saunders can afford to look back on his Guelph years with considerable satisshyfaction The division which he inherited in 1974 with its three-member faculty had

grown by this year to a full department with

faculty and staff numbering 29 persons and with an enrollment of 300 students plus -another 126 students registered in the nonshycredit applied program

He has been a very bu sy and productive man commuting to and fro between Guelph and Sault Ste Marie to administer the joint

Univers ity of GuelphAlgoma University Colshylege music program - as well as keeping up

a steady schedule of scholastic publications He will be missed 0

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University of Guelph Licences Software to McGraw-Hili By Mary Cocivera

Information Services

The University of Gue lph and the US publi shing giant McGraw- Hili Inc are fishynalizing a non-exclusive licence for CoSy computer conferenc ing software developed at the University

Publi shed by McGraw-Hili BYTE Magazine is using the CoSy software to set up BIX the BYTE Information Exchange Phil Lemmons BYTEs editor-in-chief deshyscribes BIX as a living database The comshypany plans to set up conferences on every aspect of microcomputer use

Through the conferences users will be able to share information with each other and to communicate direc tly with the edi shytors of the magazine A four-ci ty commershycial te st began in September and a BYTE spokesman projects that a full international information exchange will be operating by early 1986

In addition to BIX McGraw-Hili will use the CoSy so ftware for internal comshymunications CoSy was installed by BYTE editorial offices in New Hampshire several months ago for evaluation by staffers They soon became confirmed users and CoS y beshycame a permanent part of the office The conference system was particularly sucshycessful in linking editorial headq uarters in the east with the west coast office

CoSy is already familiar to more than one thousand users world-wide who subshyscribe to a service oftered by the Univers ity of Guelph The licence to McGraw-Hili marks the first time the software will be operated and managed elsewhere The Unishyversity will continue to offer a CoSy se rvice and will continue to market the software to other potential users

CoSy was developed by a team of softshyware designers in Computing and Comshymunications Services at the Univers ity over a 16-month period Alastair Mayer was the chief architect of the code The software was written in C a high-level programming language to run under the Uni x operating system This feature makes CoS y highly portable and capable of running on any micro-computer or a mainframe with the Unix operating sys tem

George Bond BYTEs managing editor for e lectronic publishing and communicashytion says that ease of use and the Unix operating system were important fac tors in their choice of CoSy He also cited the skills and co-operative attitudes of the peopl e at

CoSy th e University of Guelph who are involved with CoSy

The University of Guelph was a parshyticularly hospita ble environment for deshyvelopment of a computer conferencing system according to Dr Ken MacKay assoshyciate director of Institutional An alysis and Pl anning Electronic mail was well estabshylished on campus so there were many peoshyple already committed to e lectronic commushynications Home-grown APL mail is arguashybly the best mail system anywhere because its easy to use and very robust CoSy is a separate system but is a descendant of earshylie r electronic mail systems

We had three basic design ideas for CoSy explains Alastair Mayer It should req uire few co mm ands the user should be able to learn without a manual and it should be accessible fro m any terminal The se goa ls have been reali zed to a great extent A manual is available but by refe rring to the help instructions within CoSy users can learn enough commands to become funcshytional very quickly

Dr Edward Swart acting director of Computing and Communication Services points out that CoSy is offered as a free service to the University com munity He beshylieves that this enlightened decision conshytributed to CoSys ne arly immediate success on campus From the early development stages users were invited to make comshyments and suggestions Their feedback inshynuenced the design of the current CoSy sysshytem to a substantial extent

Computer conferenc ing is a powerful concept as CoSy users soon discover Marshygaret Bec kman the Univers itys executive direc tor of Information Technology says there is no doubt that computer con ferencshying reduces the number of meetings and enables decisions to be made more quickl y CoSy is heavily used by University adminshyistrators and members of facu lty are ex plorshy

ing applications of computer co nferencing in teaching and lea rning

Proceeds from licences and from subshyscriptions to the campus conferencing sysshytem will fund furth er development of CoSy Dr Swart says a not-too-distant developshyment will be a distributed conference cashypability permitting a free exc hange of information from one conference systelll to another A second deve loplllent will be to activate what Dr Swa11 calls CoSys Jashytent graphics capability In CoSy a messhysage ca n contain anything even NAPLPS codes for graphics Graphs sketches and charts will thus soon become part of CoSy confe rences 0

A Letter Dear MI~ Wing

My wife (lnd I WOIII vou to know hml we enjoyed LM Mont gomerys storr The Strike at Putney ill the Spring 85 GueJph Alumnu s

Visiting Green Gables in P EI wos one of the highlights of our Trans-Canada vocmion 0 few years ago

We hope you I publish one ofher short stories in each issue of th e maga zine selectedjiom the U ofGs LM Montgomshyery Collectionfrom now on and make each issue a colleclOrs item shyCordially

Doug Marrin OAC 39 107 Waverly Place Mountain View Calif 94040 USA

Thanks for your letter Doug we will do our very best to bri ng you more L M M Ed

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P rofessional golfer philosopher oenologist would-be film maker and

now restaurateur Robert Harcourt Bob Desautels HAFA 75 Arts 84 is a man of many facets one who seeks his own sty le of excellence in many directions This summer he opened a new restaurant La Maisonmiddot in downtown Guelph which is already drawing patrons from a wide area in search of the gourmet delights promised by a very disshytinguished menu and delivered by chefs accomplished in the arts of haute cuisine

Bob works outward from a central conshyviction that there is always a market for excellence Born in Toronto he has lived in Ottawa Montreal - and Guelph He studied at Sir George Williams University Montreal Que (now pan of Concordia University) before attending the College of Family and Consumer Studies School of Hotel and Food Administration (HAFA) where he graduated with a BComm degree

He will be remem bered on campus as manager of the Faculty Club a position

The Eclectic

Bob Desautels

which he held for nearly three years after graduating and before he launched on a whole new career as a profess ional golfer He played Canadian and Australian circuits for a while and then accepted the position of manager and golf pro at the Cedarhurst Golf Club on Lake Simcoe

Two years later he was back at the Unishyversity of Guelphs hotel sc hool as a research assistant preparing for HAFAs first Advanced Management Program for the Hospitality Industry (AMPHI) course - an unrepentantly elitist institution offering advanced manageshyment training only to very se nior executives in the hospitality industry

Bob se rved as logistics manager to AMPHI for two years with responsibility for the health and welfare of a clientele whose expectations as far as hospitality is conshycerned are of the very highest

As a member of the HAFA faculty he was a more than occasional lecturer primarily on the subject of wine - whi ch he describes in reverential tones He is married (the pursuit of excellence again) his wife Susan hail s from Australia They have two children Coun age 7 and Emily 5

At the end of two years with HAFA Bob Desautels was faced with one of those critical life decisions - a choice between two paths leading in significantly different directions He might have accepted a tenure track position for whichit would have made sense to seek a PhD in business admini stration or

HAFA 75 By John Hearn Information Services

Mine host Bob Desautels HAFA 75 at La Maison

pursue an old love for philosophy He chose the latter and earned hi s Masters degree from Guelphs College of Ans in the fall of 1984

I suppose it arises from an old interest in religion he explains Metaphysical quesshytions have always fascinated me Scientific materialism the notion that mind is no more than a function of brain has neve r satisfied me There are too many loose ends - mind contemplating itself for example introshyspection Focu ss ing on philosophy of the mind for my degree gave me one of the answers - but may be Im beginning to understand some of the questions

So in the Fall of 84 philoso pher wine connoisseur goller Bob Desautels inventoried his assets - and took a course in film making at the Ryerson Poly technica l Institute Im interested in the creative end of film making he says Writing andor directing Ive fini shed one film script and working on another But it takes mucho dinero

Then early this Spring the main floor of one of Guelph s distinguished old homes beca me available Strategically located at the corner of Woolwich and Yarmouth Streets in an area already known for fine dining the housc is owned by Guelph bu sinessman Paul Starr A pannership was struck and Bob found himsel f bringing the whole wealth of hi s re staurant management know-how and his own drive for excellence to bear on La

Maison It was conceived planned and exshyecuted from the beginning as a shrine conseshycrated to the worshippers of superlative cuishysine enjoyed in the most distinguished of atmospheres

The concept has two major aspects One large room is given over to a wine bar where the connoisseur - or those who enjoy the fermented grape of any age or colour - can select from more than 20 splendid vintages by the glass or the bottle A parallel selection of native and imponed cheeses activate the tastebuds while intimates can order a delectashyble cheese fondue for two The wine-bar is a casual drop-in kind of place open from noon until midnight for enjoyment relaxation and con versation

The other main room is for the serious diner There is a modest economically-priced luncheon available for business people but the evening meal is designed to attract those for whom dining is a rei igious experience

You make your market study says bullBob but then you add your own secret ingredient - call it gut feeling There are some very good restaurants in Guelph but none that target this panicular niche

l may be that not the least of La Maisons attractions will be the possibility of conversation with mine host Choose your own subject - golf metaphysics pragshymatism - or the an of Woody Allen Bob Desautels is nothing if not eclectic 0

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Newly Elected as

A1uDlni Senators Following the annual election of three of the nine alumni seats on Senate at the University the following alumni were elected to replace those who fulfilled three-year terms on August 31 1985

Norman Hawkins OVC 57

Rita Weigel James White FACS 77 OAC 6 1

James White OAC 55A and 61 lives in Brampton and is the owner of InfoResults Limited information research consultants Brampton He completed Masters and Docshytoral degrees at Michigan State University Department of Communication He has opshyerated InfoResults for 15 years specializing in agricultural economics social policy and communication issues

He is a past president of the Canadian Consulting Agrologists Association has served on the provincial council of the Ontario Institute of Agrologists and was a director of the Canadian Society of Agrishycultural Economic s and Farm Manageshyment 0

Dr Norman Hawkins OVC 57 estabshyIlished the Guelph Animal Hospital on Elizshyabeth Street in 1957 and has continued his practice there as a partner

An active member of the Ontario Vetshyerinary Association council and a commitshytee worker he is also a member of the Canadian Veterinary Medical Association national examination board

His earlier work with the American Veterinary Medical Association involved the examination of overseas veterinary gradshyuates and inspection of North American vetshyerinary sc hools

He is a member of the Guelph Public Library Board and Board chairman of St

Margaret s School Elora

Rita (Klassen) Weigel FACS 77 gradushyated from the College of Family and Conshysumer Studies with a BASc in Con su mer Studies She was president of the Mac-FACS Alumni Association 1983-84 and has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Universi ty of Guelph Alumni Association

A member of the Canadian Marketing and Research Society Rita was employed in the research and product management field for a number of years A Guelph res ident her concerns include those of a mother of a son and twin one-year-old daughters

New Chairman Board of Governors

Edmond Bovey

Edmund C Bovey the man who headed the Commission on the Future Development of the Universities of Ontario has been named chairman of the Board of Governors at the Universi ty of Guelph A member of the Board since 1976 he succeeds Cecil Franklin who retired July I after three years as chairman and who also joined the Board in 1976

Edmund Bovey was chairman of the three-man commission that held hearings

for the Ontario public and university comshymunity in 19831984 before developing and recommending to the Mini stry of Colleges and Universities a future plan for Ontario universities

Retired as director chairman of the board and member of the executive committee of Norcen Energy Reso urces Toronto he was recently named to chair a task force on funding the arts in Canada an area where he has long experience A past president and trustee of the Ali Gallery of Ontario and its Foundation he is also a member of the Board of Governors of Roy Thomson Hall and vice-chairman of the International Council of the Museum of Modern Art in New York He is a past chairshyman of the Council for Business and Arts in Canada

In addition he is a director of a number of companies including Hollinger Argus Abitibi Price Canada Packers and the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce as well as MONY Life Insurance PPG Indusshytries and PPG Industries Canada

He is a member of the Canadian Ecoshynomic Policy Committee a director of the Canadian Executive Service Overseas and a past president of the Canadian Gas Associashytion He is also currently chairman of the Board of Wellesley Hospital Toronto

He was born in Calgary Alta and edushycated in Victoria BC 0

Appointments

Ab Moore Harry Downie OVC 48

Dr Ab Moore took up the responsibilities of chairman of the Department of Rural Extension Studies on September I for a fiveshy shyyear term He was previously director of the Office of Educational Practice

Dr Harry Downie OVC48 became actshying chairman of the Department of Bioshymedical Sciences on July I He continues until December 3 1 or until a new chairman is named 0

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Available for Immediate Possession Space in Prestige Campus Home (for baby grand piano)

The Presidents House dedicated as a building of historical and architectural significance has been without a piano since President Maclachlan retired in 1967

This could be the chance of a lifetime if you are seeking a unique and extremely worthwhile Class Project Perhaps your class would like to buy a new piano to be used in this centre for campus entertaining to be viewed by more than 5 000 visitors a year A recognition plaque would be located either on or adjacent to the instrument

A Bequest

Charles S Humphrey

A former partner and president from 1947

to 1963 of Guelphs Hart Chemical Comshy

pany Canada Ltd the late Charles S Humphrey se lected the Universit y of

Guelph as one of the benefic iaries of his estate

Hi s bequest to the Unive rs it y of

$130000 received last June is to be used at the discretion of the University pres ident

in the University s scholarships and burshy

saries program A resident of Victoria BC since his

retirement in 1963 Charles Humphrey died on August29 1984 at the age of81 He was an emeritus member of the Canadian Assoshy

ciation of Textile Colourists and Chemists Born at Hornell NY USA he came to Canada in 1936

This is the second time that Charles

Humphrey has given financial support to the Univers ity In 1979 he generously provided a $50000 endowment gift to support an annual $5000 graduate fellowship in Chemistry

The fellowship is designed to ease the financial burdens of outstanding students in

organic chemistry registered in the PhD

program at the Guelph-Waterloo Centre for Graduate Work in Chemistry (GWC)2 0

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CODling Events 86 Jan 7-9

Mar 5

8-9

13-15

April 4middot5

June 9middot13

20-22

OAC Agricultural Conference

Alumni Florida Reunion (See below)

College Royal Open House

Ontario Institute of Agrologists Annual Conference Agricultural Trade To be he ld

in Cornwall Ont

OAC Alumni Association Curling Bonspiel

U of 6s 8tb Annual Human Sexuality Conference Changing Nature of Sexual Relationships Sexual Scripts and Lifestyles Today

ALUMNI WEEKEND 86

Alumni Florida Reunion If you missed the Alumni Flo rida Reunion Picnic in March 85 you missed a great gathering About 90 alumni and

friends met for a very pleasant pot luck meal Ross Cavers OAC 29 the organizing committee chairman hopes it will

become an annual affair Ruth and Gordon Wright Mac

37 and OAC 33 and Willa and Morley Funston Mac and OAC 32 made the loc al arrangements the affair was sponshysored by the Universitys Alumni-in Action group Make

plans to attend the second annual Florida Alumni Reunion Picnic at 12 noon on Wednesday March 51986 at Harbour Heights Park near Port Charlotte Florida two miles east of

Interstate Highway 75 Please respond by March 11986 to Ruth and Gordon Wright General Delivery Warm Mineral

Springs Florida 33596 US A

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College of Arts Alumni Association DELPHA

Editor Terry Ayer 84

Executive 1985-86 HONORARY PRESIDENT Dr David R Murray Dean

PRESIDENT Linda McKenzie-Cordick 81

PAST PRESIDENT Margo Shoemaker 79

VICE-PRESIDENT Wm Macdonald 78

SECRETARY-TREASURER

Marilyn Armstrong 78

DIRECTORS Debbie (Nash) Chambers 77 Edith LeLacheur 72 Janice (Robertshy

son) Partlow 79

UGAA REPS Wm Macdonald 78 Margo Shoemaker 79

EDITOR DELPHA Terry Ayer 84

Appointed

Dr Edward Phillips

Edward Phillips began a five-year term as chairman of the Department of Music July I He obtained his BA in mu sic at Amherst College

Massachusetts and his M A Masshyter of Philosophy and Ph D all in music theory from Yale Univers ity Married to Patricia who has a DM A in organ performance from Yale he has two sons Stewart 7 and Andrew 3 Edward who is also an organist enjoys cooking 0

Literary Heritage Preserved in Africa Most Canadian children are exposed to their cultural heritage at an early age through legendary stories brought from Eushy

rope or about Canadian pioneering and through stories about Indian or Inuit myths

and fables In developing countries however

where paper and printed materials are in

shon supply cultural heritage is usually passed on orally and children have little

opportunity to read about their past A Canashydian project involving the Universities of Guelph and Yaounde in Cameroon West

Africa is doing something to keep that countrys heritage alive

The project now entering its fourth year is a collaborative effort of the De partshy

ment of English Language and Literature at Guelph and the Department of African Litshyerature at the Univers ity of Yaounde It is

sponsored by the Canadian International Development Agency with Guelphs Deshy

partment of English Language and Litershy

ature Chairman Doug Killam serving as co-ordinator and Elizabeth (Wildman)

Cockburn CSS 81 as Canadian project consultant

Dr Killam is well-known for his work in the field of Commonwealth literature and

has taught at several African universities

EI izabeth Cock burn a primary sc hool teacher taught at the Government Teachers Training College in the North West Province

of Cameroon from 1969 to 1971 It was then

that she became aware of the shortage of relevent reading material for Cameroon schoolchildren

However it was some ten years later

that the project was born when she and Professor Kilian consulted with Dr Bernard

Fonlon then head of the Department of Afshyrican Literature at Yaounde Deeply comshy

mitted to saving African oral traditions as literatore Dr Fonlon although now retired remains a driving force in promoting creativity in the schools and scholarship on oral literature at the university

Last January Professor Killam and Elizabeth Cockburn were in Yaounde at a

conference where 80 papers were presented on the theory and practice of oral literature for West African educators - the first major attempt to marry theory and practice

As are children in the Canadian Indian

and Inuit communities African children are often exposed to texts that portray children of cultures different from their own To

counteract thi s influence simple African s tories with lifelike illustrations are being

Local stories come alive

mimeographed and turned into booklets by simply folding stand ard letter-size paper in half A collections of these stories will evenshytually be produced in textbook form when

fund s become available One such s tory The Marriage Feast

describes the marriage meal of the cat who invites all the domestic animals and birds to

the celebration

The dogs who know much about meat were asked 10 cook the food 8U1 they decided 10

playa trick They cooked the meat in the bOlom of the pot with the vegetables on lOp They said they would be the last to eat

In true fable form the hens who ate first discovered when they were too full to eat any more that there was meat deep

inside the pOI So they

Swore never to eat from the surface again and that is why hens always scratch deep into the soil in search offood

Although story-telling is becoming a lost art in Canada it is still a lively part of

life in Cameroon But as Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe said when he was in Guelph last year when a member of the older genshyeration dies its as if a whole library was destroyed -

Time is running short and fund s are needed to keep alive this project in Camshyeroon Anyone seeking further information

on the project may address their inquiries to Professor Killam at the University He hopes to receive funding from the Commonwealth

Foundation for similar work in other counshytries which have expressed an interest in

recording their heritage 0

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The Limners How do art students continue to find stimshyulation and motivation following graduation when they are no longer under the pressure of course requirements and without the critshyicism of an instructor

Four Fine Art graduates and one inshycourse student solved the problem by formshying a support group called The Limners (Limn an archaic word meaning paint deshypict portray Hence - Limner) Last Sepshytember the group held a success ful exhishybition of their recent works at the Halton Hills Cultural Centre Georgetown The Limners are

Dorothy Hart 81 of Georgetown She works with oil s pas tel s and graphite b4t is very interested in character fi gures made of cellu-clay which requires enormous pashytience to produce Her latest interest is pastel portraits of children

Dimensions 85 The fourth annual College of Arts Ailimni Association juried art show DIMENSIONS 85 was a success once again The jury members Marlene Jofriet well-known water colourist _ Michael OKeefe 76 practising artist and teacher and George Todd chairman Department of Fine Art selected 30 entries to hang

The jury awarded the following $100 $75 $50 prizes and designated three honshyourable -mentions

First pri ze Sheila Vollmer 85 Woman in Veil intaglio print

Second prize Wendy Maki 83 Pears Plums Apples and Grapes oil on canvas

Sue Knox 81 Formerly she was interested in the landscapes of Northern Ontario where she used to work Now back in Guelph Sue has rediscovered her urban surshyroundings including people

Betty Ketcheson 83 of Frankford Ontario to where her husband lack has retired Watercolour is her favorite medium however Betty also has an interest in enshycaustic painting with beeswax as a medium

Jane Graham 83 of Guelph lane tries to communicate her own brand of optimism through her waterco lours by using the figure in the land scape most often a child

Nan Hogg an undergraduate Nan is intershyested in making art that is feminist A memshyber of th e Guelph Embroiderers Guild Nans recent work displays a combination of watercolours or etchings with coil aged fabshyric that has been embroidered 0

The Limners L to r Sue Knox 81 Belly Ketcheson 83 Nan Hogg Dorothy Hart 81 and Jane Graham 83

Third pri ze Doreen Schaub 70 Rushing Waters watercolour

Honourable Mentions Sheila Volshylmer 85 Embracing Figures sculpture in pl aster Scott Abbot 79 Fields Near Maryhill oil on masonite Margaret Peter 74 Impressions Fossil Series collagraphsi Ikscreen

An innovation at DIMENSIONS 85 was the presentation of selected works of a featured artist Our first selected arti st was Evan MacDonald no stranger to the Univershysity of Guelph Many of his works are part of the Universitys collection of Canadian art hi s portraits hang in various buildings on campus and he was awarded an honorary doctorate of laws in 1979

We extend our sincere thanks to Ingrid

At DIMENSIONS 85 ColeRe oj Arts art sholl at Alllmni Wefkllld 85 L to r Marlene Jojriet juror Dr GeorRe 7iJdd chairman Department oj Fine Art jllror Wencil Maki 83 second-prize winner Doreen Schauh 70 third-prize willner Michael 0 Keeji 76

juror Own David Murray

Jenkner curatorexhibitions at the Macshydonald Stewart Art Centre and Mary MacshyDonald Evans wife for making it possible for us to feature the works of Evan

We also expre ss our gratitude and appreciation to all those who were instrushymental in making the show a success A special thank you is extended to this years participants without whom the show coulll not have been mounted 0

Art Show and Lecture Series Recognizing the 20th anniversary of the Department of Fine Art a facshyulty art show will be presented at the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre Nov 21 to lan 5 Viewing Tue to Fri and Sun noon to 500 pm Sat 1000 am to 500 pm A lecture se ries will present Dr Alan Gowans professor of art history University of Victoria B c on Art History and the Social Function Nov 18 at 800 -pm Rm 113 Physics Bldg Dr Ronald Nasgaard chief curator Art Gallery of Ontario wi II present Cushyratorship Today and Social Political Economic Pressures on Nov 27 at 400 pm in the Dept of Fine Art A third speaker is slated for early in the New Year

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Ontario Veterinary College Alumni Assoc OVC ALUMNI NEWS

Editor Dr Cliff Barker 41

OVC Alumni Association Executive 1985middot86

HONORARY PRESIDENT Dr Ole Niel sen 56 PRESIDENT Dr Ken Gadd 56 PAST PRESIDENT Dr Wendy Parker 7 1 VICE-PRESIDENT Dr Mary (Hawkins) Wiltshire 74 SECRETARY-TREASURER Dr Gordon Boylan 46 DIRECTORS Dr Bob Buck 46 Dr Archie MacKinnon 43 Dr Norm McAninch 39 Dr Bruce Robb 7 1 Dr Bruce Robinson 76 Dr Noni Sman 80 EDITOR avc Alumni News Dr Cliff Barker 41

Mailbag Dear Cliff

We were over to Vancouver Island recel11ly and went up to Qualicum Beach to see 0 Howard Taylor 13 He broke me in on meat inspection in 42 at the old Burns plant on Logan Avenue in Winnipeg

He is in great shape Qlid outside of a gimpy knee has no problems It was a real pleasure to see him again - still the same sparkle and quick wit that I had remembered from the Winnipeg years

I had not seen Howardfor 40 years bw outside of him thinking I had aged someshywhat had no trouble with identification Thought you might be il7lerested in this bit of news - not too many vets make it to age 98

We are fine and enjoying a complete reversal of what Vancouver weather is supshyposed to be bUi sure would like to see aboUl a week of rain Regards Bud Ellis 41 1410 Gordon Avenue West Vancouver Sc V7T IR6

From the Dean

Dr Ole Nielsen 56

In this my first opponunity to address our alumni through this medium I would like to express my pleasure at having the privilege of serving the Ontario Veterinary College and the University of Guelph

At the outset I acknowledge my debt to those many faculty students and staff who have labored to make this College a great inshystitution Being mindful of this heritage I am excited by the challenge of helping move the College to new levels of excellence One has to be impressed with the potential of the OVe Heres why

By the time this publication has gone to press I expect tenders for the first phase of a new OVC building program will have been called and possibly awarded This project costing over $13 million will provide modshyem facilities for the Depanments of Clinical Studies and of Biomedical Sciences and the Veterinary Teaching Hospital

The culmination of a great deal of effon led by former Dean Doug Maplesshyden 50 and President Burt Matthews OAC 47 the project is jointly funded by the Federal Government (Departments of Agrishyculture and Regional Industrial Expansion) and the Province of Ontario (OMAF)

The new facility will allow the College to press forward with new teaching research and service programs that include such vital newareas as biotechnology computer as istshyed health management and expanded proshygrams in toxicology

The second phase of the OVC building program which is largely related to teachshying spaces remains to be funded A good share of this project is expected to be includshyed in the fonhcoming capital campaign of the University The panicipation of you the alumni will be crucial to its success The governments of Ontario and Canada have done their part despite difficult circumshystances The rest is up to us

I have found the faculty of the OVC to be -a group of strong and vigorous academshyics and many young talented faculty have been appointed recently In passing one notes the retirement of many of those who led the renaissance in veterinary education in Canada in the post-war years The new generation of faculty has a real challenge in

trying to do as well as their predecessors shyand it will

I believe the graduate students are the sou I of the College Therefore another cause for optimism is the strength of the graduate and research programs at the OVe Presently the College has about 130 gradushyate students who at this most creative period of their lives are striving to provide new knowledge and skills for veterinary medishycine In 1950 there were none

There has been a significant expansion in the D YSc program a comparatively new doctoral program that gives priority to the acquisition of clinical sk ill s in addition to training in research The D VSc degree is unique in the world and how its graduates will be received remains to be determined I am confident it will be favourably

Believing in the imponance of reshysearch OMAF recently committed itself to provide the College with a new research farm at Ponsonby This nO-acre site located some ten miles from Guelph will provide farm-type facilities for hous ing dairy cattle beef cattle sheep pigs and laboratory anishymals will replace existing facilities at Eramosa and Plislinch and will cost in excess of $3 million

The application rate and quality of stushydents seeking admision to the D YM proshygram remains high

I am delighted to be assisted in the work of the Deans office by Associate Dean Ted Valli 62 and Academic Counsellor Ron Downey 61 and given the above is it any wonder I am optimistic

I have always been a bit smug in believshying that those of us from western Canada were the most friendly in the nation My exshyperience since coming to Guelph proves me wrong Everyone including students facshyulty staff the University administration and the local community could not have been more friendly and helpful 0

OVCAA Membership Report-Summer 1985

Life Membership 1 103 Honorary Life Membership 3 Life Me m Instalment Plan 241 Annual Membership 42 -Total Membership 1389 Total Alumni 3537 Membership

of Total Alumni 3930 Membership

of Known Alumni 40 06

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Inch in KatDlandu The following letter to the editor from Or

Carolyn Inch 81 was sent to Ornella Osborne editor of Update the newsletter

published by the Ontario Veterinary Assoshyciation Were grateful to Omelia for passing it on to us

While trekking through the north central region of the Himalayan mountains in

Nepal I was surprised to see the words vetshy

erinary office added to the bottom of it sign written in Nepalese

The village Chame contained the

headquarters of the government veterinary operations for the region of Manang Borshy

dering on China in the north the region covers about 2000 square kilometres and

has the lowest population density in Nepal The average altitude of the region is above

3048 metres Annapurna towers at 8091

metres The logistics behind launching a vetshy

erinary program in an area that is entirely inaccessible except by foot or aircraft had

me intrigued Dr Koshori Jha greeted us warmly and

in the polite manner wed received at the hands of all the Nepalese tea was served

The bulk of his practice is in sheep and goats as well as cattle yak horse mules and chickens On a daily basis he deals most frequently with footrot a problem that

is compounded by the fact that most of the bovine and equine species are bred pri-

During the recent avc AA Annual Meeting retired Deal Doug Maplesden 50 righl received ( plaque embodying newsclippings puhlished during his lenure Dean OIl Nieletl 56 made the presentalion

marily for use as pack animals the terrain is

rough and whether goats are grazing beshy

tween rocks or mules are carrying 80-kiloshygram loads up mountainsides their hooves are exposed to a lot of strain

Dr Koshori Jhas pharmacy contained various disinfectants and as tringents and

many herbal remedies from India retained placenta and anti-bloat preparation for

example

The only vaccine available to him was against Hemorrhagic Septicemia and he

used it when faced with a diagnosed herd

outbreak Dr Koshori Jha pointed out phenol

which was used on feet during July August and Septembers annual FMD outbreak

coinciding with the rainy season Day-to-day treatment is a sma ll part of

the government veterinarian s job He recently received approval for his five-year

plan which began last spring The main eleshyments of the plan are training increasi ng egg production mule breeding Jhopa

breeding (cross between a cow and male yak) and improving cattle feed by the introshyduction of a Phillipine variety of cattle grass

For the livestock assistance training

three farmers from each of 12 panchayats (districts) in Manang will come to Chame

for training and to discuss local problems These men will be involved in a serv ice

centre to be se t up in each panchayat for common treatment He also plans to hold a yearly lives tock exhibitio n with pri ze shy

money for healthy livestock

Plans to increase egg production include a new brooding unit and the introshy

duction of a hybrid of Leghorn New Hampshyshire and Rhode Island Red poultry In an effort to upgrade the quality of pack anishy

mals local ponies will be crossed with donshykeys brought from northern India Similarly

Missing in India Dr Ohiroobhai K Desai 46 61 Sharda Society Paldi Ahmedabad 380007 India has written of hi s attempts to gather inforshy

mation on Drs VD Alaga Raju 36 and

K B Nair 36 both of India He repol1s having bee n with Dr Nair from 1952 to 1956 at the Bombay Veterinary College as an exshyaminer in Veterinary Medicine However he

has been unable to provide up-to-date inforshymation on thesc two alumni Any alumni

with information please write to your avc Alumni Bulletin editor 0

male yaks will be crossed with local cows

and their offspring Jhopa will be used as high-altitude pack animals

Dr Jha plans to distribute these breedshying animals to the more remote region s so

that bloodlines can be upgraded In so me of these areas the native dialect is related to ancestral Tibetan languge rather thall Nepashy

lese which compounds hi s difficult task of education

Pack animals are the lifeline of the

high-altitude people as much today as they

have been for centuries I very much appreshy

ciate the time taken by Dr Koshori Jha to explain the role of domestic animals in the

Himalaya and share with me his ambitious plans for the future 0

AI Ihe recem CVMA Conference in Pelllicshylon Dr Bob Dunbar 12 leji with Dr ROI Downey 6 Bob has reached his 961h birlhday and resides in a PellliClol1 nursing home

In Memoriam Or John N Campbell 15 545 Scripps Drive Davis California 59616 USA

died May 4 1985

Dr Ra)mond E Pinkert 36 440 NOl1h Pine Street Reedsburg Wisconsin 53959 USA died April 13 1985

Or Roderick S MacDonald 37 3003 Oliver Street Apt 203A Halifax NS -B3L 4AI died June 12 1985

Dr John J Carney 44 3531 West 33rd Avenue Vancouver B C V6S IZ2 Date of

death unknown

Or Kenneth R Lachapelle 54 1635 Ranvoyze Ave St Foy Que GIW 3K2

died June 26 1985 0

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College of Social Science Alumni Assoc PEGASmiddotUS

Editor Dorothy Barnes 78

Our Annual Picnic We Illissed you I All of you who didnt make it to our CSSAA picnic during Alumni Weekend 85 But despite the few members and families that did attend we had a good time The pictures tell the story

Here are some of us arriving (l) and setting up the eats We had good food and why not It was a tillle to enjoy relax and have some fun We had games for all ages including catch-the-eggs (2) with real raw eggs

AmI of course whats a picnic without a drop of rain) But President John came prepared with a tarpaulin (3) for those afrnid ofilleiting The k)od and the day were saved Hurrah for our presidenl

Thcre were some brave soul s who unshydaunted by the weather carried on with their baseball game Then of course there was one young partiCipant (4) who was seen scratching hcr head 1I1d wondering what was going on

All in all we had a great time You would have too if youd bcen thcre So makc a mental notc or tic a string around your tingcr toc anywhere that will reillind you that you missed a good outing at th e Aluillni Wcckend 85 CSSAA picnic and that you should makc pl ans now to join us in June 86 at Alumni Wcekend 86 0

A Joy to Behold Her work has the shi mmer of life Such is said of artist Joy Elizabeth (Snihur) Laking Fine Art CSS 72 Joys art is intimately tied to the seasons In spring and summer she works against the perilous fadshying of fresh flowers capturing them in clean powerful designs

Fa ll afternoons on the grassy salt marshes around her home in Portaupigue Nova Scotia inspire wider scenes of rich changing colours

The respite of winter is her time for land and peoplescapes evolved from her ow n photography Her art is created within the context of family community and nature

Joy was introduced to hcr chosen lifeshystyle by her mother - they used to go sketching while Joy was a child in Owen Sound on Lake Huron s Georgian Bay shyand has painted since she can remember She now lives on the edge of the Bay of Fundy with husband Ronald OAC 72 and two cherubs where she can paint every day and capture the beauty she sees around her Whether it be mud and Illarsh a rusted truck and some farmyard geese or caterpillar holes in azalea leaves Joy is able to capture in watercolour the essence and beauty of all she sees

She is noted for her special ability to create white flowers on white paper by givshying the petals shape and vivid life with only a whisper of colour and shadow Light delishycate handling and mcticulous control fused with a powerful design se nse distinguishes her art

Joy is a well established artist and has had se lected exhibitions of her paintings at the Tom Thompson Memorial Art Gallery Owen Sound 1981 Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery Halifax NS 1982 Gallery 1889 Tatamagouche NS 1983

Daffodils By Joy (Snihur) Laking 72

Truro Art Society Truro NS 1984 and the Royal Botanical Gardens Burlington Onl 14

She was deservedly honoured to have the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia purchase one of her paintings for its collection and the Maritime Tel amp Tel chose a Laking painting for the cover of Nova Scotias 1985 telephone directory

Joy says I paint what I live what I see and what touches me It s no wonder then that Joy has been able to successfully transshyfer such sensitivity to her work in a way that has produced tine work s of art as demonshystrated in Daffodils reproduced here 0

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Grad News Terry Goddard 76 wrote to let us know

where he is and what hes doing After gradshyuation Terry turned to the world of engishy

neering and worked at the Bechtel Intershy

national Syncrude project in northern Alberta for a year He retu rned to school and obtained a Masters degree in Politi cal Theshyory in 1978 at the University of Toronto

TIle next nine months were spent workshying at Dhaharan Saudi Arabi a While the re

Terry contemplated the action which would

give him the best career move His deci s ion to go into teach ing led him back to the Unishy

versity of Toronto to obtai n his BEd His teachin g career took hi m to northshy

e rn Saskatchewan whe re he taug ht at a village which if not actually at the end of

the world was situated close enough that the end was plainly visible from the nOI1hern

outskirts He returned to Toronto someshywhat sated with academe and once again

turned to engineering He has been director of maintenance for the Jewi sh Com munity

Centres of Toronto for the past five years He has fou nd it difficult to keep in

touch with fellow grad s Especia lly th ose who studied in Professor Melby s Chinese

poIitic s courses and who were known as the Shanghai Mafia - they are all over the

world now Hes sure they often recall with fondness their days at Unigoo

Where are you former students of Proshyfessors Simmo ns and MelbYTerry would be interested in hearing from you - and so would we

Robin-Lee Norris 80 has been awarded

a $19000 Rot ary Foundation Scholarship to

pursue g radua te studi es in the Masters of Business Administration program at the

Univers ity of Adelaide Adelaide Australia Robin-Lee went o n to graduate from

Osgoode Hall Law School with an LLB

was called to the Ontario Bar in ApriJ of 1982 and has practised law with the tirm of

Kearns McKin non inGuelph since herca ll She took a ten-mo nth leave of absence

commenc ing in February 1985 from her positi on with Kearns McKinno n in o rder to take ad vantage of the sc holarship

During her months in Australia her mandate from Rotary Internatio nal in addishy

tion to pursuing her stud ies is to act as a Rotary and Canadian Ambassador in proshy

moting good will and understanding beshytween Australians and Canadians

A thank you goes to Cliff Hardy buildshying mechanic superv isor Main tenance Deshypartment Physical Resources for supplying us with thi s information and an aside to Robin-Lee when she reads this I was unable

to reach you betore you left to congratulate

you and get more informati on on your award If you have some free time we wOllld love to hea r from you about your studi es

what a Rotary and Canadian ambassador

does and to have you share your ex perience of being down-under

Marilyn Kernohan Morrison 78 has taken the time to Jet us know that shes living in Napanee with hu sba nd Brian She has

tempora ril y se t aside her ca reer to be a home-maker tor Brian and their four-monthshy

old son

Prior to their move to Napanee to acshycommodate Brians tran sfer - he work s with the Ministry of Natural Resources shy

Marilyn and family lived in a small comshymunity northwest of Thunder Bay After

Gue lph Marilyn continued her ed ucation at the comm unity college level and com pleted

a program for counse llors of the mentally

retarded SheJI be returnin g to thi s fi e ld when she again becomes a wage earner

Doris E (Trachsel) OKeefe 74 is deshy

scribed by husband John Paul 74 as a household engineer John Paul is a reshy

source teacher with the Waterloo County Board of Education With such a title I

couldnt resis t phon ing Doris to find out exactly what the duti es of a household enshy

gi neer are

While Doris decl ined to give a cletinishytion of the titl e l detected some surprise and delight that John Paul appreciates what it

takes to look after a famil y and a home

Doris is trying to re turn to teaching but is findin g it difficult in the Cambridge

Waterloo area If she isnt successful shes planning alternatives such as enrolment at Guelph in a Masters program o r failing that enrolment in courses that will he lp her

ac hieve her long-range goa ls She and John Paul recen tly moved from

London Ont to Cambridge Prior to the

birth of Erin now a two-year-old Doris was teac hing boys with behaviourial problems

and she sees thi s as an asset when applying for teaching positions Erin has a six-yearshyold brother Sean so you can understand

perhaps that Doris has been bu sy and maybe she is aptly described as a houseshy

hold engi neer

J Barry Baldwin 69 is a teac her with the Elgin County Board of Education S t Thomas Barry married Linda Janet Wii son They live in Aylmer West

M Rachel (Curtis) Towe 69 is manager customer systems Bell Canada She and

husband Ken live in Guelph

M Lois (Robinson) Harris 70 li ves in Newmarket with husband Fred

B Hugh Schofield 72 is an industrial engi neer with Rockwell Int e rnati o nal C hat ham He and wife Susan (Haslelt)

FACS 78 live in Chatham

Paul Davis 73 is an underwrite r analyst with Co-opera tors General In sura n ce

Guelph Paul and wife Linda (DozeH) 73 and 81 live at Brookhaven Court Guelph

Carol Finlayson 74 is a letter carrier lor Canada Post Carol and husband John Balch live in Toronto

Pal Hamilton 74 is an expon market deshyvelopment specialist with the O ntario Minshyistry of A gricu lture and Foo cl mark et

development branch Toronto He and his wife Diane (Coates) OAC 72 live in

Toronto

Kerrie Sirathy MA 78 advises us that

she is a s tud en t at th e Univcrsity of Sakatchewan Sas katoon

Vicky Sutherland 78 is an air trartie conshy

troller with Air Canada at FoI1 McMurray Airpo l1 Alta and lives in F0I1 McMurray

Sounds like an intercsting job - perhaps youl l share SOIllC experie nces with us Vicky

Marlin Thissen 78 is a foreman with the

region or Halton at ih Milton wa ter po llushytion control plant

Evelyn Evie (Isaacs) Whilwham 80 is a planning ass istant with Union Gas Co Ltd Chatham She and hu sba nd Bob have

c hanged their address They are at 70 Ottawa Drive C ha tham Ont N7L 216 0

In Memoriam A lormer faculty mcmber in the DeshypaI1ment of Geography Barsa Kelly was among the victims of the Air India Hight 182 disaster that occ urred

off the coas t of Irel and las t June ~ mr(sa Vas headed tor India on a reshy

search project at the time of her

death S he was the wife of Protessor Kenneth Kelly Department of Geogshyra phy On behalf of its members and all those who chc ri shed their con tacts with Barsa the Board of Directors of the College of Social Science Alumni Association extend their s incere symshy

pathy to Professor Kelly 0

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College of Biological Science Alumni Assoc BIOmiddotALUMNI NEWS

Editor Marie (Boissonneault) Rush 80

HONORARY PRESIDENT Professor Bruce Sells Dean

PRESIDENT David Airdrie BSc 82 Microbiology

PAST PRESIDENT Dr Chris Wren BSc 77 Marine Biology PhD 83

VICE-PRESIDENT Dee Britney BSc 74 Fisheries amp Wildlife MSc 81

SECRETARY-TREASURER Kclly Munkittrick BSc 80 Fisheries amp Wildshylife MSc 83

DIRECTORS Lorraine Bruce-Allen BSc 80 Zoology MSc 84 Jim Elliott BSc 79 Marine Biology Keith Harris BSc 76 Marine Biology Dr Doug Holdway BSc 76 Marine Biology MSc 78 Aquatic Toxicology PhD 83 Krista (McAuley) Soper BSc 79 Marine Biolshyogy Karin Davidson-Taylor BSc 83 Zoology

From Dave Airdrie 82 the

President How time flies when youre having fun Your editor Marie (Boissonneault) Rush 80 tell s me that this note to you will be in the Fall issue of the Guelph Alumnus so Ill bring you up to date on happenings since your 1985-86 Board of Directors was inshystalled in June

The CBS Alumni Association was parshyticularly busy during June Alumni Weekshyend events including the Wildlife Art Show and Sale and the barbecue at the Rockwood Conservation Area were well attended

Thanks must go to Krista (McAuley) Soper 79 and Lorraine Bruce-Allen 84 for their first-rate efforts in organizing and running the art show From all accounts it was ex tremely well done and is sure to be repeated in 1986

Further thanks mu st go to Keith Harshyris 76 for his efforts in once again organizing the barbecue at Rockwood Keith has done a terrifi c job with this event s ince its inception Hopefully these two events will be expanded in the coming year

Last spring the objective of $10 000 for the Keith Ronald Fellowship Fund was reached and we thank all who generously contributed to this fund Its to be hoped that this is only the first of many scholarships initiated through the CBSAA

Many of you will now be aware of the changes which the Universitys Department of Alumni Affairs has undergone in rece nt months Most important is the arrival of Marjorie Millar as director of the Departshyment It seems that President Matthews is placing greater emphasis on the importance of the Department due in part to the impenshyding capital campaign I am sure that youll all notice many beneficial innovations

The CBSAA has I feel reached a point in its development where we must heighten our profile both among alumni and undershygraduates In order to increase the awareness of the Association the Board has plans to embark on some new programs

The goals are as I see them two-fold first of all we need YOU to get more inshyvolved whether its participation in our proshygrams or s upport for the Assoc iation through your membership The fact that youre reading this demonstrates an interest which we would like to heighten

Secondly we re working at helpin g undergraduates before graduation to beshycome more aware of our Association Hopeshyfully we ll get helpful input and suggestions from many of you in the near future Reshymember - YOUR alumni association is what YOU make it

Dave Airdrie BSc 82 President Colshylege of Biological Science AA

FACULTY ADVISORS Dr Denis Lynn Zoology Dr Margaret Hauser M icroshybiology Dr John Hilton Nutrition Dr John Sandys Award Phillips Botany amp Genetics Dr Brian Wilson Human BiologyKinetics The Ontario Confederation of University

Faculty Associations (OCUFA) has awarded UGAA REPRESENTATIVES Karin Dr Alexander Sandy Middleton DepartshyDavidsonTaylor BSe X) Zoology Keith ment of Zoology one of the nine OCUFA Harris BSc 76 Marinc Biology Rob Teaching Awards for 1984 Milnc BSe XI MSe 84 Marine Bio Dr Middleton was nominated for this -award by colleagues students administrashyEX-OFFICIO DIRECTORS Ed Berdusco tors alumni and faculty It acknowledges president CBSSC Steve Spring past presishy outstanding ability and is considered to be dent CBSSC the provinces highest honour for excellence

in university teaching HKAA REPRESENTATIVE Nick Dalton I think there are two keys to being an BSe 77 Human Kinetics effective teacher Sandy says One is to

have respect for the student the other is to EDITOR RIO-ALUMNI NEWS Marie make a genuine intellectual and time comshy(Boissonneault) Rush B Se XO Marine mitmcnt to the course Biology 0 Dr Alexander Middleton Congratulations Dr Middleton 0

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Grad News Human Biology

Cathy Knipe BSc 79 MSc 83 is a Ph D st ud ent at Iowa State University Ames Iowa USA She is studying Moshylecular Biology

Shelly Lugg BSc 83 is a stude nt at Simon Fraser University Burnaby BC

Human Kinetics

Susan (Wright) Kwiatkowski BSc 80 is a recreation therapist at York Central Hosshypital Toronto Her spouse Ed graduated from Ryerson in 1979

Donna Marie (Kadwell) 1vose BSc 79 and husband John ji ve in Thorold Shes a physica l education supervisor at the Niagara Peninsula Crippled Childrens Centre

Mary Ellen (Mew) Walker BSc 83 is the activity co-ordinator at Spruce Lodge Stratford

Dr Ken Danylchuk BSc(PE) 73 is a s ur ge ry re s ident at the H itchcockshyDartmouth Medical Center Hanover N H USA

Kathryn (Tarry) Myers BSc 78 is a teacher with the Middlesex COunty Board of Educati on Hyde Park

WildUfe

Vicky Johnston 84 bega n an MSc at Lakehead University Thunder Bay in May Shes working on the reprodu ctive biology of Lake Superior rin g-billed gull s

Nutrition

Or 0010 Ohiokpehai 77 lectures in food and nutrition at the Unive rs ity of Ife Nigeria

Microbiology

John Semple 78 is a PhD ca ndidate in the Department of Mic rob iology amp Immushynology at Queens Uni vers ity Kingston He will be doing a post-doctora l at the Banting amp Best Depattment of Medica l Research University of Toronto

Unspecialized

Peter Adams 79 and Beth (Sarjeant) 79 are happy to announce their recent marshyriage Beth is a research technici an with the Depanment of Medicine Univers ity of Ca lshygary Alta and Peter operates a business with the se ismic service industry

Marine Biology

Jorgen Hansen 75 and his wife Drusilla (Dol be) Arts 75 live in Gloucester Jorge n is a staff officer with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Ottawa

CoUege Honour RoU - Winter 85 Semester 06

Margorie Fe rgusson 894 Human Biology JoAnna Milan 860 Biology

Semester 07 Sandra Noble 856 Microbiology

Semester 08 Marga ret Docker 876 Marine Biology Thomas Johnston 87 0 Fi sheries Biology Debra Underhill 858 Microbi ology

James Wright 858 Biology Tobin Peever 854 Botany

Alexander Hanke 852 Zoology Rebecca Rodgers 852 Human Bi ology

Tracey Robin son 882 BSc( HK ) Rebecca Halonen 880 BSc(HK )

Swdent has obtained standing for second time Student has obtaincd standing for third time

Home Town

Oakville Ottawa

Dorchester

Guelph New Liskeard Kingston Thunder Bay Bracebridge Grafton Calgary Alta Guelph Georgetown

Donald MacLennan 75 and hi s wife Katherine live in Chatham Donald is a biologi st-supervisor with the Ministry of Natural Resources Lake SI Clair Fisheries Assessmen t Unit Tilbury 0

College of Biological Science

Alumni Association

Wildlife Art Show

Well it happened June 15 and 16 have come and gone but not withshyout event The Graduate Students Lounge was transformed from a cozy meeting place into an an gallery There was much movi ng of furniture and hanging of an work with the end product being our fi rst ever CBSAA Wildlife Art Show

In total there were 20 wildlite artists partic ipating all tine ani sts in their own right Maybe you reshymember Ut a Stre live a nd Dr Ed Bailey Wow I You should see their wood works

Rick Beaver 73 also showed some of his work hes a wildlife imshypressionist and the colour and move shyment he paint s into each piece is eloquent Donald Dority 76 showed us the line photographer he has become There were other ani sts - too many to mention but all of extremely high calibre

Id like to mention one las t name though - Cindy Hayward manager of the Graduate Students Lounge If you ever need a steady hand to get an event off the ground shes the one to co ntact Without her hel p there would have been a whole heap of orshyga ni za tional problems From which we would have been unable to escape

All in all we had a successful show Thanks artists and viewers for making our efforts worthwhile 0

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New Minister of AgricultureOntario Agricultural College Alumni Assoc OAC ALUMNI NEWS

Editor Dr Harvey W Caldwell 51

Ontari OS new mini ster of ag riculture Jack Riddell 52A and 57 a cash crop farmer from the Exeter area comes to the position of Ontario s Mini ster of Agriculture and Food with ten years of expe rience as Liberal caucus cr itic for agriculture

The min is ter sa id that life under a Libshyeral government will give agriculture a higher priority than it has ex perienced in the past It will be considered one of the major industries in this province

Jack also pro mi sed to consult a great

Basic Technology in Action shyTurning Stones Into Bread By Ann Middleton Information Services

A new University of Guelph projec t in Tanza nia Africa should aid th e Third Wo rld s ubsistence leve l farmer The $400000 three-year projec t funded by the International Development Resea rch Centre (IDRC) will invol ve fltlculty of the Uni vershysitys Department of Land Resou rce Sc ience and Soko ine Uni versity of Ag riculture in Morogoro Central Tanza ni a Aim of the enterpri se is to use loca lly ava il ab le rock materials as soil amendm en ts and con shyditioners

The project came about when Ott awas IDRC brought together a team of two geo logists with an interest in improving co nshyditions for African farmers Professor Ward Chesworth with the Department of Land Resource Science has a long-standing intershyes t in turning rock s into fertili zers deshyve loped during work in West Africa and the Canltlry Islands where local farmers have spread volcanic rock on their field s for two centu ries In his lab and in the Blue Springs basin near Acton Ontario Professor Chesshyworth has been conducting experiment s on the levels at which common rocks re lease nutri ents into soil solutions

The other team member Dr Peter van Straltl ten is ori ginally from Germany but spe nt e ight years with the United Nations in Tan zania looking for metals and metal deshyposi ts and working on an in ve ntory of ferti shyli zer raw materials in south-east Africa

During thi s period Tanza nian food production per capita fell dramaticall y leadshying Dr van Strltlaten to try to find ways to help the food situation In ex periments in his garden in Dodomo Tanzaniltl he was able to increase yields of vegetables using locally

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available geological materia ls and organic wastes

Noting the common interes ts of the two men the Canadian age ncy introd uced them and Dr van Straaten relocated in Guelph Co-ordinators of the project are Professor Cheswo rth and Tan za ni an sc ie nti st Dr Johnson Semoka of Sokoine University coshyauthor of a text on so il sc ience much used in agricultural circles in Africa

Technical assistant Peter Sl11i th is working with Tanzanian rock specimens in the Land Resource Science lab and two other Tanzanian scientists will be involved

In addition to academics from bo th institutions members of the Geological Survey of Tanzania will also work on the project both in the Morogoro area and at Mbeya station in south-western Tanzania

Roc k sa mples will be collected and crushed and field tests and pot ex periments carried out here and on location When reshysu lt s have bee n obtained extension work will begin in Africa under the direc tion of Dr Semoka It is hoped that members of a Me nnonite Central Committee group workshying at Mbeya will design a simple rock crusher for the use of local farmers

Tanzania has a major phosphate deshyposi t wh ich will be tapped by the project as well as ground s ilicates including volcanic ash Liming materials such as limestone dolomite marl and ca rbonatite will also be evaluated

Professor Chesworth points out that alshythough No rth Americans place much emshyphasi s on the big three of soil nutrition shynitrogen phosphorus and potassium (NPK) - there are actually about 20 necessary

deal with the farm organizations on the direction his ministry should be taki ng

I dont believe that we can sit in our so-ca ll ed ivory towers and introduce the kind of programs that are go ing to be mea nshyingful unless we get consultation from the farmers and their spokes people

He has been a member of the provincial legislature for 12 years He spent his first two years as energy cri tic and later environshyment critic before mov ing into agriculture Jack and Anit a have a family of five 0

nutrie nts including the minor ones In some areas of Tanza nia the decline

in soil fe rtility is in part due to the settling of widespread populations into villages where land has been used without concern for nutrients Tn other part s of the country productivity has declined because of leachshying of plant nutrie nts durin g normal rainfall and also from the continuous use of acidifyshying fertilizers such as ammo nium su lphate Dr Chesworth point s out that the current practice of NPK fe rtili zation totally ignores secondary and micronut rient requirements of plants It is hoped that the projec t wilt address thi s problem

Our approac h is basic tec hn ology our target group the poorest far mers Dr van Straaten explains One of the problems in the past Dr Ches worth says has been convincing agronomists that it s worth purshysuing this kind of elementary tec hnology approach Theyre very skeptical that you can take common roc ks wi thou t major inshydustrial proces ing and use them to advanshytage on tropical soils

A s ideline area of research is work with zeolites open framework si licates that often occ ur in volcanic rocks Some zeolites can be used to trap nitrogen in the form of ammonia which would otherwise be los t in gaseous form When added to cow manure for exampl e and stomped in by the beasts themselves zeolites enrich an already valushyabl e fertil ize r Dr van Straaten explains

The zeolite research is being carried out in co njunction with Professor Colin Fyfe Department of Chemistry an intershynat io na ll y kn ow n authority o n zeo lit e -che mi stry

Orie result of the work of the Un ive rs ity of Guelph geo logists is an ag rogeology ne tshywork currentl y being set up bya number of African cou ntries as the result of di sc usshysions following a paper by Dr van Straaten and Professor Chesworth The paper was given recently at meetings of the UN Ecoshynomic Commiss ion for Africa in Zambia 0

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A Designing Grad The need for a summer job six years ago has ended in a Guelph grad des igning golf courses

When in 1979 Lisa Maki now

BLA 84 was searching for a job that would assist her in her studies at the Univershysity she applied to the city of Kitchener

She could have wound up in any

number of areas in the parks and recreation department but Rockway and Doon Valley

course superintendent Ed Ortlieb gave her the chance to join the work crew at Rockway fltor the first couple of years it was just a job that got her outdoors in the summer then by chance she got interested in the game itself

And now shes embarked on a career in golf course design

Lisa the 24-year-old oldest daughter of Ted Maki a former general manager of the

Lisa Maki BLA 84 Kitchener Rangers left last July for Lakeshyland Florida where she Joined Links Deshysign which de sig ns and oversees golf course construction throughout the United 1983 and a friend of the family who knew States The company is considered the sec shy was interested in golf course work arranged ond-largest of its type behind the one run by a meeting with Ronald Garl said Lisa I US golf legend Jack Nicklaus who deshy had an official job interview in April of 84 signed the Glen Abbey course in Oakville and then went to Florida in August of the

How does a young Kitchener woman same year to familiarize myself with the

end up working for Ronald Garl a 40-yearshy firms projects

old graduate of the University of Florida Because I had focused much of my who apprenticed under such well-known deshy University work on such things as turf man shy

signers as Roben Trent Jones and Joseph agement and had done pan of my bachelor Lee Again it was just a chance opportunity of landscape architecture thes is on what

We were in Florida in December of makes British golf courses great and the

Sisters of Accident Victims Receive Diplomas

A tragic accident just prior to Spring Convocation resulted in the deaths oftwo graduands of the Associate Diploma in Agriculture Program Jeff Bikus 85A of West Lome and Nick Davidson 85Afrom Zimbabwe Joy Davidson sister ofNick came from Zimbabwefor the Convocation She was sponsored by the OAC Alumni Association Classes of85A alld 86A Norm McCollulIl 66A honorary class president 85A Don and MiidredMcCollum Jenny Ballentine and her parents Dr Steve Bowley 78 and80 honorary class president 86A and the University Centre Administration Our sympathy is extended to the families and friends of these two popular studel1ls Pictured are Ito r Jenny Ballantine friend ofJeff Bikus Lealln Bikus sister of Jeff Joy Davidson sister of Nick and Klaus Kristiansen a studellt from Zimbabwe

other on golf course residential design he was impressed

In order to learn what made British

courses great Lisa spent a semester in Engshyland and Scotland visiting researching sketching photographing and playing 16 historic courses including the famous links courses which by tradition are the

only clubs to host the British Open Links layouts are courses that border the sea and have been built or developed over sand

bases

Approximately 15 students a year take

advantage of the School of Land scape Arshychitectures Semester Abroad Program fi shynancing the trips themselves However the program is supported by an annual $5000 grant from the Alma Mater Fund so alumni can claim a cenain amount of credit for Lisas success She was a recipient in 1983

of part of that years AMF grant Im not sure my mother and father

were very keen about my trave lling around England and Scot lane all alone but it was a truly great experience she said middot1 not only met many wonderful and helpful peoshyple got to play the great courses like St

Andrew s Royal Troon Turnberry and my favorite of all Royal Dornoch

After a complicated and lengthy US immigration process which took nearly a year she was granted her permanent work

visa She was in regular contact with her new

boss after returning to Kitchen er - she re turned to work at Rockway and Doon while awaiting the vi sa approval - and then last July plunged immediately into

projects including work at a mens tournashyment players 36-hole complex in Sarasota and a Ladies Professional Golf Assoc iation course in Melbourne where she worked in association with LPGA tour players Beth Daniels and Sally Little

Despite the fact that the job involves

vy ing with rattlesnakes alligators and Iild

pigs when I have to tramp through forests and swamps in applying my design work to certain areas I love the outdoor work Lisa

said At the same time she doesnt have any

probleIl1s giving orders to hard-hatted heavy-machinery construction workers when she is the field supervisor for on-site

work think I may have raised a few eye shy

brows when I staned work at Rockway but I was accepted

Lisa isnt sure how long this pan of her life will last and she has no way of knowing whether any of her courses will eve r be known as Lisa Maki layouts But that doesnt

concern her They may be Links Design projects but Ill know they were basically my courses 0

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Klink Lecture Dr Doug Morrison 49 Department of Poultry Science was chosen to deliver the 1985 Klink Lecture

The Klink lecture is ~ponsored by the Agricultural Inst itute of Canada and named after the Institute s founding president Preshysented by an outstanding lecture r the lecture is delivered through a coast-to-coast tour and concerns a topic of current significance to the agricultural industry and the nation

Dr Morri son stated that there is a need for professionalization in an imal agriculshyture in order to give it an improved image and make it more acceptable to the conshysumer

Address ing members of the Ontario Inshystitute of Agrologists in London Ontario he told his audience that the agriculture inshydustry in Canada ranks among the best in the world and producers have to ensure thi s is shown and make sure that peer pressure prevents producers from doing things that we cant defend

He suggested some type of professhysiona l approach established by the farming organization whereby expertise would be required instead of merely encouraged

This is a mu ch beller ap proach th an some edict from society through governshyment legi slation I strong ly object to legislashytion designed to protect me from myself he said adding that there are currently enough regulations existent through legislation that dictate what farmers can and cannot do

If a farmer were a profess ional hi s reward wou Id be in profits - about as meanshyingful a reward as has ye t been devised

Benefits of a more professionalized approach would include an improved image of the farmer to the consumer an increase in communication a more efficient industry

which is essential for competition improved knowledge on the fa rmers part of health nutrition care markets etc and more awareness of soc ietys concerns

In turn it would also be necessary to provide beller information to the consumer through an educational process because if soc iety is to pay for increased inputs for the long- term good of the nat ion then it is essential society be adequately informed

Morrison remarked that he fee ls the maj ori ty of animal agriculturists are in fact professionals but there has to be a concerted e ffort to at tract as lew people as possible in to the business who do not understa nd farmshying or who are doing things that are unacshyceptable

Consumer concern over dietary value or the amount of drugs contained in animal product s is also reason for farmers to tak e a professional approach They should work to alleviate any misreprese ntations and misin shyformation the public is receiving the proshyfessor noted s tating that farm ers have never produced food as safe and as wholeshysome as it is today

By the turn of the century on a world basis meat consumption is predicted to in shy

crease by abou t 60 per cent while the intake of milk is expected to increase by almost 40 per cent

A major fac tor for this rise in intake result s from th e fact that developing nations will begin to consume animal products as soon as they can afford them China is an excellent exa mple of this said the professor who commented that nation is now movshying as rapidly as possible to increase animal production

With all these factors is mind Dr Morshyri son sa id he is optimistic for the future of the Canad ian animal agriculture industry

Weve got the opportunities and can take advantage of them he said 0

Mark Bernards 85 cenlre was the recipienl oftwo OAC Alumni Foundation awards the OAC Alumni Graduate Award and the Beth Duncan Gold Medal Left is Gord Nixon 37 Foundashytion chairman and director and right NR Rick Richards 38 treasurer

Entrepreneur in Residence

Dr Donald Shaver

Dean Freeman McEwen is pleased to be working with Dr Donald McQueen Shaver the Universitys first Agricultural Entreshypreneur-i n-Res idence

Dr Shaver a native of Cambt idge Onshytari o is found er chairman and chief exshyecutive officer of Shaver Poultry Breed ing Farms Limited The compan y distributes chicken breeding stock to 90 countries from its head office in Cambridge and three subshysid iaries in the United States Britain and France He retired from his executive reshysponsib ilities on August 30 but is conshytinuing as director and adv isor to the company

From 1940 to 1945 Dr Shaver served with the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps in Africa and Europe retiring as regimental commanding officer He is past president of the Canadian Hatchery Federation the Poulshytry Products Institute of Canada the Canashydian Lincoln Red Society and Maine-Anjou Association He is a member of the Order of Canada Honorary Life Member of the Worlds Poultry Science Association and the Ontario Institute of Agrologi sts He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Science by McGill University and the Centennial Medal by the OAC

The Entrepreneu r-in-Reside nce pro shygram was initiated and financially supshyported by OAC Class of 58 to champion -the role of private enterpri se within soc iety The appointment is for a two-year period during which time Dr Shaver will present lectures lead workshops and consult with faculty and students

The Agricultural Entrepreneur-in-Resishydence program at the University is believed to be a first in agr icultural education around the world 0

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University Of Guelph Involved in $68 Million Chinese Project The University of Guelph has embarked on a co-operative $68 million project that will ~ink five Canadian and Chinese universities and agricultural institutions

The four-year Black Dragon River Proshyjeo supported by the Canadian Internashytional Deve lopment Agency (C IDA) involves Guelph the University of Alberta Olds College in AlbeI1a and two Chinese institutions - Heilongjiang Land Reclamashytion University and Liu He Training College in northeastern Heilongjiang Province

Under th e term s of the agreement training will be provided at the three Canashydian institutions for personnel from the two Chinese university institutions

The Liu He Training College is respo nshysible for educating state farm employees Training will range from short courses to undergraduate and graduate level programs

Faculty from the Canadian universities and Olds College will travel to China during the summer months to give lectures and

short courses The area borderi ng on Russia has treshy

mendou s potential for agricultural deve lopshyment Professor Neal Stos~opf 57 direct or of OACs diploma courses is Guelphs co-ordinator for the Chinese projshyect He was part of the Canadian gove rnment planning miss ion and ex plains that although the climate combines the cold winters and hot summers of Alberta most of the moisshyture is rain that falls between Jul y and Sepshytember

Although latitude is the sa me as Edmontons at 52 degrees north the area grows soybeans and corn as well as wheat The land has two to four feet of black topsoil waiting to be drained and planted he says with potential for livestock proshyduction

The proj ec t centre is located at the Unishyversity of Alberta with administration in Guelph being carried out by the Centre for International Programs 0

Provincial apiarist retires after 19 years You might say Philip Burkes job brought sweet rewards

Until his retirement recently Philip was the provincial apiarist - sort of Onshytarios chief of bees - while working at the University of Guelphs Department of Environmental Biology

He joined the University as a lectu rer in 1943 and then became assistant professor and later associate professor

At the same time the Ontario Departshyment of Agriculture (as the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food was known then) made him the assistant provincial apiarist In 1966 he became provincial apiarist

Of course he advised beekee pers on ways they could make their colonies more productive and efficient and fielded many apiary management question s - including how to prevent bees from swarming

If they swarm one-third to one-half of th e colony takes off so you lose a big source of your honey crop Swarming is trigshygered when the hive becomes overcrowded so the beekeeper mu st stay ahead of them It involves a whole manipulation of the hive through the season visiting each colony at least once every ten to 14 days he says Philip also worked with farmers whose

crops depended on pollination by bees At one time bees were needed for

pollin ating greenhouse produce such as cucumbers But in the past 15 years the trend has been toward new types that are self fruiting he says

But the biggest change in the industry over the years was the trend towards Illakshying corn king in Ontario - a trend that is now being reversed he says

From 1949 and on a lot of bee coloshynies were moved to the western provinces tollowi ng th e reduction in alfalfa production in Ontario and the increased corn acreage he says

Now prospec ts for honey production in Ontario are better than in past years beshycause of the increased alfalfa acreage and other legumes and the trend towards more diversified cropping

Not surpris ingly prices have changed in the industry over the years too Back in the 1920s it cost about $10 to start a bee colony today start-up costs are about $100 to $125 per colony

Much of his work at the University looked at ways to prevent di seases in bees using selected antibiotics

He was secretary for the Ontario Beekeepers Association for 15 yea rs and now acts as a consu It ant for the group 0

Wins Crampton Award

Dr Stanley J Slinger 37 the most recent rec ipient of the Earl e W Crampton Award for distingui shed service in nutrition is ProshyFessor Emeritus of the Depal1ment of Nutrishytion College of Biolog ica l Science at Guelph

Born in Lowell Ontario Dr Slinger received his BSc from the Ontario Agrishycultural College hi s MSc fro111 the Univershysity of Toronto and a PhD from Cornell University From 1941 to 1965 he was in the Departillent of Poultry Science at the OAC and since 1965 has been in the Department of Nutrition at Guelph serving as chairJl1an from 1965 to 1974

Dr Slinger conducted re sea rch in sevshyeral areas of pou Itry nutrition for Jl10re than 30 years In 1972- 73 a fi sh nutrition laborashytory was set up and thi s laboratory has conshytinued to grow and iJl1prove s i nee One of the primary objectives in both poultry and fi sh nutrition research has been to develop feed to rmulas using feedstuffs of Canadian orishygin 111ese tannulas have been publi shed and continuall y revi sed and have been used extensively by teed manufacturers through shyout Canada Dr Slinger continues to be active in research

Dr Slinger taught poultry nutrition in Poultry Science for 27 years gave seminar courses in nutrition and physiology taught Fundamentals of Nutrition in the Depal1shyment of Nutrition and deve loped and taught courses in fi sh and wildlite nutrition

He has supervi sed the work of Jl1any graduates and it is interesting to note that the Department of Nutrition at Guelph is the only depailment in Canada - and there are very few in the United States - turning out graduates in Fish Nutrition at the PhD leve l

He has helped to establi sh modern poultry industries in Mexico and the areas of South East Asia Africa the Middle East Eastern and Western Europe and the United Kingdom Lectures conlerences and other consultative work have also taken hilll to Jl1any coul1tries over the years

The recipient of numerous honours and awards Dr S linger was made Professor Emeritus of the University in Ino and reshy -ceived the Earl e W Crampton award in 19B4 at Macdonald College Que Thi s award is given by the Faculty of Agriculture in recogshyniti on of significant co ntributions in the field of nutrition through research andlor service The award is named for Dr Earle W Crampton a renowned nutritionist whose career at Macd onald bega n in 1922 and lasted far 51 years 0

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cialist having spent four months in the latter John Reid 84 is technical sales rep Agrico Grad News part of 1984 in Bloemfontein South Africa Sales Ltd Richmond BC

Earl Johnston 46 is president Earl-John Brokers Ltd Delhi

Joe Knox 48 is secretary-treasurer Annco Westeellnc Guelph

Ralph Hills 54 is pastor United Church of Canada Smith Falls Ralph left Zambia last October spending some time in Kenya Israel England and Scotland on the way home He was surprised to meet Charlie Broadwell also 54 on Oxford Street in London Charlie was giving a reception at a large castle for the white bean buyers who purchase beans from Charlies Bean Growers of Ontario Ralph also passes along the word from Louise (Fershyguson) Hope Mac 54 that her husband Don 54 preparing for some future possible social work is studying drug addiction at George Brown College of Applied Ans and Technology Toronto

Joseph Leach 54 is a research scientist Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources Lake Erie Research station Wheatley

Ken Edwards 59 is an industrial engineer Prince George Pulp and Paper Vancouver BC

Fred Theaker 62 is a teacher-biologist Ren frew County Board of Education Aruprior

Howard Lang 67 is senior so il conshyservation advisor for OMAF Cambridge

John Lawrence 69 has been appointed vice-president and ge neral manager De kalb Canada Inc Chatham John is a lso president of the Canadian Agri-marketing Assoc iation

Robert Brooksbank 70 is manager Agrishycultural Department Simcoe area Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce

Alan Duncan BLA 73 is project coshyordinator Groupe d intervention urban de Montreal Montreal Que

Martha (Weir) Collins 75 reports that Anne (Walton) Bayler 75 is at teac hers college in Toronto after spending several years teaching in the Bahamas Martha lives at I Braid Place Guelph and would like to hear news of her classmates

Jim Dyer MSc 75 is a senior resource and environmental officer with the crop producshytion division of Agriculture Canada Ottawa He is on loan as a drought monitoring spe shy

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His wife Barb (Newell) Arts 75 who is a technical editor with Public Works Canada joined him in Bloemfontein for a month

Elizabeth Fedorkow 75 is a market reshysearcher Tetra Pak Inc Markham

Roy Maxwell 75 is an agricultural comshymentator CBC Radio Noon Toronto

Gary Ball 76 is vice-president manufacturshying Mitten Vinyl Inc Cambridge

Garnet McConney 77 is feed lot manager Catllel and Ontario Inc Petersburg

Patrick Meyers 77 OVC 84 is a vetshyerinarian with the Grenville-Dundas Veterinshyary Clinic Kemptville

Martha Frey 78 is secretaryass istant edishytor Canadians for Health Research Wes tshymount Que

Wayne Harrison 79 is assi stant manager Toronto Dominion Bank Elmira His wife is Katherine (McLeod) 77

Sharon Helynk 79 is with the Woodbury Animal Hospital Halifax NS

Jeffery Goebel 80 is resident engineer ACF Canada Ltd Georgetown

Mary Lynn Prong 80 is assistant manager Royal Bank Watford She reports that Bruno Soucy 8Q has changed jobs from OMAF farm ma nagement advisor to agrolog ist London region Royal Bank

Corrie Almack 81 is presidentowner Agshyriculturai Soil and Nutrition Consultants Freelton

Edward Bolton 81 is research farm manshyager AJle lix Inc M ississauga

William Summers 82 MSc 84 is prodshyuct deve lopment rep Du-Pont Canada Streetsville

Dianne (Coker) McDowell 83 is quality assurance supervisor Richardson Foods Ltd Glanw0I1h

John Ross 83 is a program officer Agrishyculture Canada Edmonton Alta

Jeff Burke 84 is a customer service rep Griffith Lab Toronto

Julie Fowler 84 is working for Embury Bros Farms Ltd Newburgh

Karen Rodman 84 is a farm management specialist OMAF Nepean

James Simonds 84 is a crop specialist Cavendi sh Fanns Summerside P E1

Richard West PhD 84 is a research scishyentist Canadian Forestry Service SI John s Nftdo

In Memoriam We regret to report the following deaths

Marie Honsberger 17A died March 1985

Esmond D Clipsham 2IA died on April 6 1985 Esmond had been the proprietor Uneeda Rest Hotel Kilwonhy and was a life member of the OAC Alumni Association

Stanley Ewart Keillor 21 died on February 27 1985 He was a crop farmer at Walshylacetown

John Edward Chalmers 23A died on Febshyru ary 15 1985

Jacobus Van Haarlem 23 at age 85 on July 2 1985 in Vineland He retired as ex shyecutive director of the Hor1icultural Experishymental Station at Vineland in 1970 after 47 years of service there

Hugh Lacklin Paterson 32A died in May 1985 of a heart attack at Rockwood

Murray Cameron Macklin 33A 35 died January n 1985 in Toronto

Garland Alfred Fisk 35 Date of deat h unknown

Gordon Elgin Young 35 died on June 12 1985 at Ing leside

John Miller Fargery 37 on March 22 1985 in Toronto John had been an insurance salesman Farm Credit Corp and was a life member of the OAC Alumni Assoc iation

William Thomson 40 in 1982 in Lonshy shygueuil Que His death was reported recen tl y

Robert Fletcher Madden 54A died on November 26 1984 at age 52 at Napanee

Vera (Mod ric) Kozamplik MSc 73 in Yugoslavia She was the wife of Vinko Kozumplik M Sc 71 0

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From the Dean

Dr Barham

In some of my lellers I have aimed to share

information on some special program or theme with you On this occasion I want to

keep you in touch through a number of lillie items so I shall hold onto some of the bigshy

ger interests for future issues of the Guelph Alumnus

As I write this leller Alumni Weekend 85 is behind us I found it a great weekend

and I thoroughly enjoyed meeting more of our alumni for the first time while

especially appreciating recognizing more

and more familiar faces and names from previous occasions

This year the Classes of 65 and 75 requested an up-date on our programs and

the developments we have experienced together in the College over the last few

years I guess that we were able to demonshy

strate much more development in our research and teaching programs than we could in some parts of the physical facilities within the buildings Still we had thorshyoughly congenial and I think very useful

meetings with both of these classes and added a nostalgic tour of our facilities

It was splendid to meet both of these groups I confess however that I had not

foreseen that a large part of the interest of the Class of 65 rested on the fact that many of their children are now gearing up to enter FACS

I was able to remind them that the BASc and B Comm degrees both lead

into fascinating and challenging careers for sons and nephews as well as daughters and

nieces Some of you coming to Alumni Weekend 86 might wish to get in touch with me to arrange an up-date on our acti vities then too

One of my special pleasures of Alumni Weekend was to join with the Class of 35 at the Golden Anniversary Dinner This occashy

sion is always a particular delight given the special personal pleasures reflected in the

friendships shared on this anniversary And I do want members of the Class of

35 to know that their gift of the magnificent Terry Legault Roman Festival print looks really outstanding and just right amidst the

contemporary decor of the FACS lounge

One last item of alumni news which I want to mention is the fact that I met with

Jean (Nairn) Carter 38 and some of her committee recently I learned that they have

been making quite outstanding progress in establishing the trust fund that will support their new graduate student award in geronshy

tology The first award presentation of $1000 is being made this fall but members of the Class of 38 are still pushing on with their fund raising in order to bring the

annual trust-fund yield to a level of $2 000 We all think that the Class of 38 grads

have been quite remarkable in their detershymination to build up a significant fund to

support work in this important new field of scholarship and research I know that we

shall all appreciate your support for them in reaching their target

I met with Audrey Warner and Annette

Yeager 62 recently They advised me of their concern for the needs of teachers wantshy

ing to prepare themselves for adding Family Studies to their fields of professional speshy

cialization and of other teachers already working in that field who find themselves in need of some up-dating especially in view of the curriculum changes which appear to be around the corner

In this regard I want to mention two

items which might be of interest First our faculty in FACS have been

quite heavily engaged in working with

teachers and others in thinking planning debating and writing for the curriculum developme~ts envisaged for the Ontario Academic High School Credits

Most especially we have had as memshybers of the Canadian Family in Perspective group Dr Jean Sabry with her own special

interest in human nutrition Dr Grant

McCracken in clothing Drs Marshall Fine and Claude Guldner with their expertise in family relations and Drs Anne Martin Matshythews and Joe Tindale with their special strengths in life-span development and

aging - quite a team of contributors Secondly I want to mention in relation

to my meeting with Audrey and Annette that we now have a number of courses avai 1shy

able in a six-week format offered in summer sessions provided on campus

Perhaps of even more interest to those of you who wont find it practical to take

classes on campus at Guelph we have an annual offering of distance or corresponshy

dence-type courses Many of these will be of very pertinent

interest to a number of teachers The current list includes Human Development Marital and Family Dynamics Personal and Family Finance Development of Human Sexuality Nutrition and Man and the Exceptional Child in the Family

You can find out more about these

offerings by writing directly to Guelph Disshytance Education University of Guelph

Macdonald Institute shyFamily and Consumer Studies Alumni Assoc

Editor Carol Telford-Pittman 75

Guelph Ont NIG 2WI or by getting in touch with my office

One of the reasons that we have put

ourselves so significantly behind the development of these distance courses is that we did not have the resources to meet

the demand for providing our courses in the more traditional class format at locations

away from the Guelph campus As usual there is much more to share

with you but it will just have to hold until

my next letter I look forward to being in touch with you again then 0

Olive Thompson Honoured

Olive (Thompson) Thompson 35

-The Mac-FACS Alumni Association was very pleased to present a Citation of Appreshyciation to Olive (Thompson) Thompson

35 during Alumni Weekend 85 festivities Olive has given much time energy

support and leadership to the College and to the University through her years of involveshyment with the Mac-FACS Alumni Associashytion Class of Mac 35 activities and the University of Guelph Alumni Association

Our University s alumni organizations are stronger and more effective because of

the years of commitment and personal sershyvice that Olive has contributed

Olive - We salute you 0

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New at HAFA By John Hearn

Infonnation Services

An innovative course developed by the School of Hotel and Food Administration (HAFA) is focussing the attention of undershygraduates on the analysis of operational problems in the hospitality industry and the writing skills required to express and comshymunicate that analysis

Students are required to find summer jobs in the hospitality industry and then to write five papers of ascending complexity during the first semester of their second year using text readings specially edited for this course by the Schools Director Proshyfessor Tom Powers

We have a unique responsibility to prepare students not just for their first job but for future jobs further down the line says Dr Powers Possession of a university degree should imply an ability both to anashylyse problems and to communicate observashytions and recommendations In todays corporate world reports papers and letters are management tools and written comshymunication is a survival skill

The HAFA faculty decided further to emphasize writing skills by adopting a style manual developed by Professor Margaret Hund leby Department of Engl ish Language and Literature for this course as an integral part of the Schools other courses

In order to familiarize faculty with the use of the manual and the grading of student writing Professor Hundleby was invited to conduct a two-day workshop which atshytracted the attention of Vice-President Howard Clark and Associate Vice-President Janet Wardlaw as well as faculty from other disciplines s uch as psychology land resource science microbiology and history

The program Professor Hundleby told the seminar requires students to complete five report papers based on their own obsershyvations

The first paper requires a detailed description of the physical layout of the host operation plus an appraisal and operating cost analysis of its heating air-conditioning and ventilation systems

A second paper asks the student to describe and evaluate staff structure funcshytion compensation package and efficiency

Cost control is the subject of a third paper Purchasing practices food producshytion cost traCking and inventory manageshyment all come under this heading

Marketing is the fourth subject area What market segment is the operation aimed at What consumer need does the operation satisfy What is the nature of the

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Left to right- Professors Cathy Schrye Writing Centre Tom Muller HAFA Belty Upton HAFA Mike Jenkinson OAC 63 OAC dean s office Mary Rogers History and back to camera Bernie Katz Library reviewing cases drawn from studefll papers in a two-day workshop Evaluating Students Writing conducted by Professor Margaret Hundleby

competition in the target market

The fifth paper examines the intangishybles of management sty Ie How does the role of the manager affect relations with customshyers staff and head office

Professor Hundleby commenting on some of the problems of the course says whatever we call it students tend to conshyclude that what they re writing is an acashydemic paper of some kind - which of course it is - but we need to make the connection in their minds with the real the corporate world out there They also tend to think that longer is better and write about what they know - rather than what is import ant The development of a proper sense of for whom they are writing is itself a problem-solving skill

Another problem according to Proshyfessor Hundleby is what she calls the new illiteracy - a verbal dysfunction resulting from an impoverished vocabulary

Style too is a matter of considerable

AMPHI Spin-offs The School of Hotel and Food Administra shytions annual Advanced Management Pro shygram for the Hospitality Industry (AMPHI) now in its third year is spinning off new management development activities says HAFA Director Tom Powers Earlier this year 20 people attended a workshop on accounting and finance presented by Proshyfes sor William Braithwaite School of Agrishycultural Economics and Extension Educashytion and three similar programs will be offered in different parts of the country over the next year and a half

Another program still in the planning stage is a six-day hospitality managers development course designed for middle management by AMPHIs associate direcshy

concern She also mentioned careless senshytence structure style that is inappropriate to the content lack of connective logic failure to understand the nature of a paragraph as a literary entity the frivolous use of colloshyquiali sms an absence of any sense of the harmonious sound of words on paper and of course a growing list of commonly misused words - e g it could of had that affect

There s a tendency to see s tyle as a decorative flourish rather than as an aspect of content she concluded

Professor Powers sees the development of verbal communication skills as central to the whole idea of liberal education Cershytainly he says its useful for HAFA stushydents to understand how a cost control system works - but its at least as important to be able to think logically analyse logshyically and communicate conclusions in a way that is credible informative coherent and complete in fact these are the classic goals of a liberal education 0

tor Professor John Patterson and a consulshytant group of AMPHI alumni

AMPHI continues to attract internashytional attention participants in thi s years program which began in April include senior executives from many of North Americas most distinguished hotels and restaurants The four-week course offers an intensive program based primarily on case studies written by Professo rs Patterson -Braithwaite Carl Riegel and Tom Muller

The growing volume of AMPHI cases indicates that thi s is the largest s ingle research program currently under way in any hotel school in North America says Proshyfessor Powers AMPHls network of conshytacts is giving us access to a senior-level view of the industrys current problems and prospects 0

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Research AssociateComing Soon A AppointedModel Play Facility

Dr Joan Norris

Dr Joan Norris has held the position of Research Associate at the Gerontology Research Centre since last spring

Joan is working with faculty to develop and promote research related to population aging and is available for consultation with faculty on research design funding sources and publication

In addition to this development work she is continuing her personal program of research She works for the Gerontology Censhytre two days per week and the balance of her

The Family Studies Laboratory Schools pre-school play facility fell 10 a Grounds time is spent in the Department of Family Department wrecking machine recently Studies where she has held a faculty appointshy

ment since 1980 Joan holds a Ph D in Psychology from

the University of Waterloo and is also a regisshytered psychologist Her personal research

The Mllc-FACS Special Projects Commitshyinterests include social competence in older

tee Ito r Bonnie Kerslake 82 Association adults peer relationships and grandshy

president Linda (Wo[e) Markle 73 chairshyparenting 0

man and Gail Murray 78 Missing comshymillee member is Rita (Klassen) Weigel 77 The aim of the committee is to raise funds to redevelop the Family Studies Laboshy In Memoriam ratory Schools and raise itto the level where it will be regarded as a model pre-school

Eileen Margaret (Manahan) Alwayplay facility

390 October 21984 in Vancouver BC

Jean (Horrell) Atkinson 240 March 5 1985 in Aurora

Class of 35 Gift Oorothy (Lockard) Honsberger 300Centre panel Roman Carnival

In order to commemorate their anniversary July 51985 in Weiland Mac 35 has traditionally given a scholshyarship to a FACS student once every five Isabel J Lockerbie 300 March 31 years This year on the 50th anniversary of 1985 in Toronto their graduation and in addition to the scholarship an etching entitled Roman Patricia G (Smith) McKay-Barry 55 Carnival by Terry Legault has been added March 17 1985 in London Ont to the Universitys collection of Canadian alt The etching is hanging in the FACS Velma E (Conn) Partridge 260 April faculty lounge 29 1985 in Niagara Falls Ont shy

The theme of Roman Carnival was favoured by neo-clas sical and romantic Helen E (Kelly) Robinson 220 April painters during the 19th century The etching 30 1985 in Dundas captures the moment at which wild horses are released to race through the streets of Norma I (Motherwell) Roy 350 in Rome The artist has chosen to represent the Moosejaw Sask wild chaotic motion ot the horses rather than explicitly depict in detail the animals Lillian S (Moore) Usher 340 March 28 and the architectural background 0 1985 in Cobourg 0

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College of Physical Science Alumni Assoc SCIMP

Editor Bob Winkel

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Yes Dr Earl MacNaughtoll has relired alshylogelher bUI Ihis wonl be Ih e lasl you I hear from him reSI assured Before he and his wife Jean lOok oJf for Auslralia and New Zealand Deparlmenl of Physics slaf and faculty held a galhering al Ihe FacullY Club and presenled Ihe couple wilh an alumni clock

Back to Guelph

The headquarters for (GWC)2 came

back to Guelph in July for a threeshy

year period while Professor Robert Balahura Chemistry and Biochemisshy

try serves as director (GWC)2 offices have been set up

in Room 122 and 123 Physical Scishyences building The University of

Waterloo will maintain a satellite office during the three-year Guelph

rotation Dr Balahura and adminshy

istrative assistant Andrea Turner may

be reached at Ext 3865 0

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Physics Professor Elected to Royal Society

Bernhard Nickel

Department of Phy s ics Professor Bernhard Nickel has been elected a Fellow

of the Royal Society of Canada and was formally inducted into the Society at its

annual meeting in Montreal in June

A member of the Physics faculty since

1974 Professor Nickel is no stranger to

prizes and awards In 1981 he received the Herzberg Medal the Canadian Associashy

tion of Physicists award to a promising young scienti st In 1978 he won a Sloan

Fellowship from the New York-based Sloan Foundation

He achieved recognition by navigating

the esoteric seas of condensed matter physshy

ics Hi s co lleagues call him a leading masshyter in the art of mathematical physics By

exploiting the existing mathematical frameshywork in subtle ways he has worked through

thickets that have stopped other physic ists

High order perturbation calculations

done by him played a key role in verifying

the quantitative reliability of the theory of

underlying continuous phase transitions in systems

He earned BScE and MSc degrees from the University of Saskatchewan and a

PhD from the University of California at

San Diego He was a research associate at

Cornell and Oxford Universities and a postshy

doctoral research Fellow at the Univers itY of Alberta before coming to Guelph in 1974

He has been a visiting fellow at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory at the Univershy

sity of California at San Diego at Harvard

and at the Schlumberger-Doll Re searc h In stitute in Connecticut

With his election he becomes one of

six Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada at

Guelph The others are Professors Howard

Clark Peter Egelstaff Gabriel Karl Bruce Sells and Herbert Armstrong And it brings to five the number of me mbers of the

Guelph-Waterloo Program for Graduate Work in Physics (GWP)2 who can put the

coveted FRSC after their names 0

Halleys Comet and the Babylonians By Professors Nigel Bunce and Jim Hunt

The winter of 1985 and the spring of 1986 will lon g be remembered as the year of

Comet Halley No comet in history has so

stirred the imagination of man or been the

object of suc h intensive investigation Its easy to understand this interest when its

appreciated that Halleys Comet is the only recurring comet that is bright enough to be

seen with the naked eye ft was the g reat astronomer Edmund

Halley who in 1705 recognized the s imilarshy

ity of the appearances of the great comets of 1456 1531 1607 and 1682 He speculated that these were in fact one and the sa me

comet with a period of 75 or 76 years

He predicted that the comet would reshyturn in 175 8 a return he could not live to see With thi s Halley discovered the phenomeshy

non of periodic comets and thus showed

that they were members of our solar system

The comet dutifully returned in 1835

and spectacularly so in 1910 In the latter

year circumstances were such that after its

perhelion passage (the point closest to the

Sun) the Earth and the comet approached

each other very closely The comet was so close that at one time its tail spread from

horizon to horizon The return in 1985-86 will be considshy

erably less spectacular In fact for Canadishyans it will not be easy to observe s ince the

time of perhelion is in Febnlary when the

Sun is very low in the sky The view will be -much better from more southerl y latitudes Over the years historica l records have

been found which record every passage of the comet back to 12 BC M any of these obshy

servations come from Chinese records first published in 1846 A well-authenticated

passage was that of 1066 which was reshy

corded on the Bayeux tapestry by the mother

of William of Nonnand y and taken as an cOllld on righl

Grad News Paul Ferguson BSc 67 of Ede n Mill s is president of EIS Systems Ltd and travelled in New Zealand this summer

Walter Lock BSc 67 of Denfield is practising medicine in Lucan

Tjeerd Homan BSc 69 of Calgary Alta is manager research and development services for Petro-Can He is enjoying his family Carla Sarah and John Menno and his hobbies of golf curling and skiing

(GWP)2 Poster Session a First

Earlier this year the Guelph- Waterloo Proshygram for Graduate Work in Physics (GWP)2 staged its first annual poster session for graduate s tudents Poster sessions which are becoming increasingly popular in scienshytific circles allow interaction between researchers and delegates without the time pressures encountered when presenting con shyventional papers at meetings says (GWP)2 Director lain Campbell

The first annual (GWP)2 poste r sesshysion which was followed by a soc ial hour and banquet was highly successful in genershyating interaction says Campbell By the end of the session there were still clusters of people arguing the finer points of scientific interpretation on many of the posters These exchanges continued right through the soshycial hour and into dinner Interaction is what science is all about

Encouraging interaction between stushydents and faculty is one of Campbells prishyorities as Director It is too easy for students to tuck themselves into a corner and work away in isolation They need to get out and ex plain their work both to experts and to

omen of his victory over the Saxons Based on this long record various

mathematical analyses of the orbit of the comet have been produced These account very accurately for the known passages of the comet However when these various anshyalyses are pushed back beyond 12 BC they predict widely varying dates for the previous appearances Before 12 B c there are ani y two vague Chinese records in 87 BC and 240 B c which mayor may not have been Halleys comet

In a recent issue of Nature a team of

Ernest Campbell BSc 69 lives in Campbell ville and teaches science for the Halton Board in Burlington

Richard Davis BSc 77 having comshypleted his MD University of Toronto 83 and his internship at Womens College Hosshypital will be setting up his practice in family medicine in his home town of Guelph

Larry Meek BSc 77 of Ottawa is pashytient administrator and computing officer for the National Defence Medical Centre His hobbies include sailing and skiing

Andre Brunet BA 81 is working for Amdahl Ltd as fieldsystems engineer and lives in Sudbury with his wife Monique (Puellette) FACS 80

Cathy Deakin BSc 81 is presently articshyling with the law firm of Little Reeves Mahoney Jarrett amp Hart of London

Andrew Dubrawski BSc 82 and his wife Alicia (Wodecka) BSc 81 live in Toronto where he works as a communicashytions systems analyst for CNCP Telecomshymunications 0

10hn Root 81 a (GWP)2 PhD s tudent left aflracts an audience

non-experts It takes a deliberate effort on our part to generate and maintain this intershychange

The poster session was the largest scishyentific or social event yet staged by (GWP)2 Some 18 students presented posters and about 90 students faculty and prospective students attended

The posters are on display in the two departments of physics to give others an opportunity to view them At Gue lph they are in the second floor corridor of the Physshyical Science Building near the Department

scholars from England and Vienna reported the finding of two fragments of Babylonian tablets in the British Museum that clearly report the appearance of the comet in 87 BC and 164 B C The records are so clear that by calculation not only the year but the time of year for the perhelion passage can be determined

For example the 164 BC apparition has been narrowed down to a date someshywhere between November 5 and 25 of that year The 87 BC record is not as accurate nevertheless its perhelion passage can be

of Physics office Encouraged by the s uccess of the

poster sess ion lain Campbell is planning another high-profile event for (GWP)2 to recognize award-winning faculty He plans a fall symposium at which three (GWP)2 members who received major honours durshying 1985 will give short lectures to be folshylowed by a sherry reception The three honoured faculty are Gicinto Scoles Killam Fellowship winner Bernhard Nickel Felshylow of the Royal Society of Canada and John Simpson Rutherford medalist 0

narrowed down to July 25 to August 15 These observations while inaccurate

to the extent of 20 days are still accurate enough to eliminate three of the four leading -calculations of the motion of Comet Halley This is a striking example of how archaeoshylogical investigations may have a strong effect on many diverse subjects in this case com~tary astronomy 0

We welcome questions and ideas for future articles Write to the authors clo the Deans Office Cole fe ofPhysical Science Univershysity of Guelph Guelph Ontario NIG 2WI

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2000 Responses

_of Guelph

Chall enges changes opportunity renewal - these are some of the key words in an

aims and objectives document the University community read and discussed over the sumshymcr The doc ument Towards 2000 Challenges and Responses Aims of Ihe UnishyIersily of Guelph says that this University must collectively know it self and undergo some changes in in stitutional attitudes if it is to reflect the future and thrive in it

Two years in the making the 31-page doc ument was received for information by Senate in June and its ten-point statement of aims and 40 recommendations were accepted as notices of motions for resolution at a Septembe r 17 Senate meeting The document was passed at a meeting of September 24

Vice-President Academic Howard Clark chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee to Review the Aims and Objecti ves of the Ufli versity of Guelph told senators that the committee has tried to do three things in the report - describe Guelph as it is now offer opinions and comments about the future and emphasize th at change will be necessary

The Uni versity must be willing to disshycuss recognize and agree on what is Guelph he sa id for this is at the heart of its planning

We mu st be willing to di scuss what is unique about Guelph and Guelph must get to know itse lf in detail

The aims and objec ti ves document should rel ate to the future Dr Clark said Whatever the fu ture it will be different and the Uni versity will need to change appropri shyately The las t pas t decade was a period of entrenchment he said and the future involves opportunity renewal and challenge Those universities who are proactive are going to be the ones who wil l fl ourish and prosper

The document is a complete rewrite of the tirst draft presented to Senate last fall It

was revised followin g invited comments from fac ulty students and staff an open session with the University community and sessions with people outside the Uni versity The docushyment disc usses the aims of a university exshyamines Guelph and its future role ex plores its response to that role and concludes with a set of aims and recommendations

The report emphas izes four aspects said Dr Clark The underlying theme is that the University has a single educati onal goal Education encompasses three activ ities shyteaching research and service Teac hing and research are not competitive but com pl emenshytary he said and service to soc iety supports teac hing and research roles

The report al so says that if the Uni versity is to achieve excellence in research and teaching it must recognize that changes are necessary Discipline boundaries must beshycome less ri gid the institution must enter into a closer rel ationship with its various commu shynities parts of the University will need to coshyoperate with the Library to use the most recent developments in information tec hshynology there must be closer co ll aboration between the academic and non-academic units of the in stitution in shaping the learning and teac hing environment and there will have to be innovative patterns of research and internal in volvement

One of the most important changes will concern the concepts of institutional neushytrality academic freedom and institutional responsibility There must be a willingness to be concerned with matters outside of the departments to share and address multishydi sc iplinary questions to reach an agreement on what service to society means and to pay far greater attention to what the goals of the institut ion are to be said Dr Clark

The report al so speaks of excellence and

the University s spec ial responsibilities Its easy to say we will strive for and sustain excellence he said but what does it mean) The report notes th at excellence does not impl y more resources Although resources are necessary for exce llence they are not enough - excellence also requires motivashytion initi ative and an espril de corps

Dr Clark sa id th at Guelph has a special responsibility for ag ri culture and veterinary medicine Collec tive ly we have a responshysibility to society to ensure there is excellence in these areas

He al so said th at Guelph mu st spend more time collectively to better understand what its educational objecti ves are The University needs to establi sh general educashytional objec ti ves that prov ide the kind of student that soc iety needs in the future work place It mu st also deve lop qualities and skills for careers and occ upations that cant even be identified today he sa id

The report is one of optimism believes Dr Clark It proposes renewal and a change of attitudes It issues the cha llenge to collecshytyely spend more time in di scuss ion about what our common purposes rea ll y are

We have spent ten yea rs worrying about budgets We have to start looking at opportushynity The committee genuinely believes that the nex t decade will be one of opportunity

The Aims and Alumni -The review committee made a number of

recommendations as measures that should be taken to achieve its Universi ty s bas ic aims One of the recommendations was

That the Department of Alumni Affairs and Development offer suggestions to the appropriate units of the Uni versity on ways in which our alumni can become more in volved in the life of the institut ion 0

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Fine Art is 20

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~ By Dr George Todd Chairman ~ Department of Fine Art

There is a di sc ipline with roots deep in theEi ltgt soil which nurtered the University of

00 Guelph which is being examined uneasily bya

lr) its faculty in anticipation of the fact that ~

0 lr) against all odds the discipline may be thmst

-c into the foreground as the University moves (- 0 toward the year 2000 (Towards 2000 Chalshy

lenges and Responses Aims of the University ~

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of Guelph See pages 2 and 3 this issue) ~ The faculty are uneasy because it is v somewhat uncertain about what role to play

should this happen The di sc ipline surprisshy 9 ~ ingly is Fine Art

To many Fine Art within the University at leas t is that bizarre academic activity ~ 0 which eventuates in such questionable pracshyltgt

tices as the exhibition of life-size nude se Jt~ ~ portraits with all appendages intact in the

0 very-public student gallery on the main floor Ei of the McLaughlin Library That is when it ltgt

00 doesnt eventuate in something even more ~ 0 bizarre ~ Thus the very thought of Fine Arts

being thrust into the foreground may excite8 0- hilarity 00 0 But consider the matter Consider the

challenge confronting the University and the

girding up to meet this chaJlenge Within the shy

ltgt revised statement of the Aims and Objectives of the University the principle demand will beltgt

-Sl ~ to educate for change s This sort of talk occasions the uneasy examination The direct cause is an awareness 0

that Fine Art is and always has been literally C

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~ an education for change With good reashy

son too for art has as a defining characterisshysO tic - the logical necess ity for change Is this ~ so for any other discipline

~ Consider again Within context the ~ Aims and Objectives document warns that

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the only constant will be an acceleration of the rate of change Yet one trusts there will be another constant - the self How important then to know onese lf if one knows anything There is an uneasy awareness that art also has a peculi ar facility for ge nerating such knowledge

Thus it is that the Department of Fine Art just at the moment when it is celebrating with satisfaction its 20th anniversary finds itself pondering what it should be if it is to be all that it should be

The Department (m sure had hoped to bask awhile in the afterglow of breathless development It sprang into being in 1965 in cramped quarters in the basement of the Macdonald Institute Yet the one studio and the one part-time lecture hall were able to accommodate the barely 200 course regisshytrants that first year mOSl of those not Fine Art students

From such a modest beginning the Unishyversitys Fine Art program has developed into one of the most respected programs in the country Today there are some 275 students registered as Fine Art majors and the studios and offices of the Department occ upy all of the usable space in Zavitz Hall (wiley minds constantly seek new ways to persuade the administration to renovate the top floor potentially some of the finest art stud y space anywhere) Art history courses keep a speshycially-equipped lecture room in the MacKinnon Building occupied most days and evenings

Often however the real tes t of a process is its product There is room here for satisshyfaction Graduates of the Guelph program hold down many of the primary and secondshyary school art teaching posts in the province Others fill executive curatorial and similar positions in Canadian public galleries (such as the National the Ontario and the Hamilton) in private galleries presses govshyernment agencies and other bodies There are still man y wrestling one-on-one with artshymaking as in the good old days (and nights) of self-discovery in Zavitz But a surpri sing number are to be found working outside the art world entirely

On the initiative of Judy Nasby director - of the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre an art

show of work by past and present regular faculty and selected sessional faculty will be mounted at the Centre in recognition of 20 years of growth of Fine Art It will open

man of vis ion large ly responsible for initiatshying the Department determining its nature and steering it through its formative years Professor Couling was able in the summer of 1984 just months before his death to present the first Gordon Couling Scholarship donated by the Guelph Creative Arts Association Typically though unwel L he talked with bright-eyed enthusiasm about art and its future with Fine Art students at a College of Arts Recognition Luncheon

The Fine Art program was moulded to offer the province a desirable alternative to existing post-secondary programs one comshybining equal strenghts in art media and art history A student could emphas ize one or the other but would be req uired to work in both

It was judged that this would be idea l for future teachers The results confi rm the ex pecshytation But the contribution elsewhere of graduates steeped in Western culture may

The late Gordon Couling first chairshyman Department of Fine Art

prove to be even more important Yet the moulders cannot lay claim to

originating this philosophy on campus As far back as 1903 the Macdonald Institute trained

history and one in drawing and painting The stage was set for a fine art program In effect fine art is a founding discipline

Art is rooted in the hi story of the Unishyversity in another sense that of co llecting and enjoying In 1926 after five patie nt years of saving an Ontario Agricultural College grou p of faculty staff and stud ent s purchased Tom Thompons pai nting The Drive TIlat entershypri se initiated a campaign to build a Univershysity collection of Canadian art One class after another from the three founding colleges added pieces

Appropriately Fine Art student s have contributed in turn the funds to purchase the

master prints in what is known as the printshystudy collection Containing origi nal works by masters such as Rembrandt Goya and Picasso as well as Canadian printmakers the collection is valued at well over $100000 The funds came entirely from the sale of student prints

The print-study collection is on ly one of the features which gives the program its lustre Another is the slide library with its more than 120 000 slides that supports the so lid art history program The collection stacks up favorably aga inst any other in the country

But the secret of the program is more imponderable Certainly it has to do with the emphasis upon the traditional means of artshymaking and understanding The in stant dedishycation of the top professional art is ts who teach sessionally is a clear factor It owes much to the camaraderie among stud ents staff and faCUlty Then there is Zavitz Hal l itse lf Something quite magical seems to happen to its people when they step through its doors

Normall y Zavitz Hall is a welcoming place President Matthews found it otherw ise on hi s first visit Unannounced and unshywelcomed the President eventuall y found himse lf in a life drawing class Challenged by a student and the instructor in turn the Pres ident indicated he did not want to disturb the class that he would just watch quietly

This e licited a testy Well just who the hell do you think you are) from the instructor

Whi ch elicited a surprised Why Im the Pres ident from the President Two sheepish men retreated to the hall to talk it over

But there isnt time to worry about such -things now There are more pressing issues Is November 21 and conclude January 5 To recshy

ognize the art hi story half of the program the Department is sponsoring a short series of lectures by distinguished visitors on the theme Art Hi story Past and Future (See p 15 for Centre viewing hours and lecture dates locations and times)

The celebration also wil ~ be an occasion for honouring the late Gordon Couling the

teac hers in part through a program of applied art in an art-historical context

When the Institute was re-established following the Second World War two courses were made an essential part of the B H Sc cu rriculum one in design and one in art hi story The teacher was Gordon Couling In the early 60s two more specialist courses were added one in 19th and 20th century art

the program taki ng suffi cient advantage of the intellectual wealth of the University Is the program doing enough to prepare students to prepare for the wider world ) [s the program doing all that it can to educate others to be creative ly adaptable)

Or alternative ly are the folks in Zavitz Hall taking themse lves too seriously 0

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Ian C AIridge OAC BSc(Agr)85

Ian C Attridge OAC 85 of Markham is the recipient of the Winegard Medal for 1985 Awarded annually to the graduand judged to be the most outstanding student the Winegard Medal is the Universitys most prestigious undergraduate award Its winner must combine an outstanding academic recshyord and participation in extra-curricular activities with the personal attributes of leadership and citizenship

Ian graduated in June from the OAC resources management program with an average over eight semesters above 80 per cent This academic standing is noteworthy for two reasons the long list of extra-curricshyular activities in which he took part and in the words of a senior faculty member his major was one in which high marks are tough to achieve

The medalists on-campus extra-curricshyular activities included several student clubs his College year executive the Colshylege Royal committee musical activities the Gryphon team in Nordic skiing and intramural teams in five other sports

Off-campus he was active in the Onshytario Public Interest Research Group of Guelph the Federation of Ontario Natushyralists Friends of the Wye Marsh the Guelph Environmental Council Guelph Field Naturalists the Coalition in support of Environmental Programs and the Guelph Peace and Disarmament Conference of 1984 He was also involved in a number of youth and lay programs in the United Church

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The Winegard

Medal

A Tale Of Ten

Winners While at Guelph he won two entrance

scholarships a number of in-course prizes and scholarships and two summer undershygraduate research awards from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Counshycil In 1984 he won a Soil Conservation Society of America (SCSA) scholarshipshyone of only 18 offered in North America by the SCSA to students in conservation-orishyented programs He was the top Canadian student

Within the Department of Land Reshysource Science Ian was a member of the undergraduate teaching committee During his final semester he co-ordinated a student review of the academic program in resources management which made recommendashytions that will be incorporated into future program changes

One of his teachers notes that Ian has a deep interest in soc ial issues and a commitshyment to environmental concerns He attended Markham District High School and completed his secondary schooling in Lahr West Germany

Each of Guelphs seven colleges nomishynates one student each year for considerashytion for the Winegard Meda l The other nominees for 1985 were Sally Ann Lawshyrence Bell-Knight Arts Rebecca Elizabeth Jane Rodgers CBS Lisa Jane Martin FACS Margot Joan Finstad CPS David Douglas Langlotz CSS and Janet Kashytherine Pegrum OVe

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the presentation of the Winegard Medal Ian

Dr William Winegard

Attridge is joining a select group of Guelph graduates who are a source of pride and inspiration to the University community

Former University of Guelph president Dr William Winegard marked the annivershysary with a letter from the House of Comshymons where he is Guelphs member of Parliament In it he writes

It is not ofien that one has the opporshytunity fO suggest terms of reference for the Universitys most pres tigious student award Such was my good fortulle ten years ago and over the years I have become inshycreasingly grateful that Senute accepted the proposed terms A University-wide compeshytition always stimlliates interest especially when academic excellence and extra-curshyricular activities form the basis of the comshypetition The men and women who have won the medal have been Guelph at its best I have been proud to know them

Where are They Now

What are They Doing

The previous winners of the Winegard -Medal were contacted recently and replies were received from seven of the nine gold medalists Peter Taylor Arts BA 76 Christine Zink OVC DVM 78 Timothy Henshaw OVC DVM 79 John Root CPS BSc 81 Anne-Frances Miller CBS BSc 82 Nicole Didicher Arts BA 83 and James Sidlofsky Arts SA 84 There was no response from Mary Saunshy

ders CBS BSe 77 and Elaine Courtice CBS BSe 80

Some of their achievements both proshyfessional and personal and some of their future hopes and plans are recorded here

Peter Taylor (1916) The first recipient of the Winega rd

Medal now with the University s Office for Educational Practice as manager of print publications is responsible for providing centralized graphic design typeselling and print publications cocordination to the Unishyversity community

Following graduation from Guelph Peter continued his education at the Uni-

Peter Taylor Arts 76

Christine Zinc Tim Henshaw John RoO Anne Miller OVC 7S

versity of Waterloo where he obtained an MA in English in 1981

Peter is also a poet - his first book First Epistle to Dr Torr was published by Gryphon Press in 1976 He printed and bound the book himself andsome copies are still ava ilable

7iaino which he considers his most important work to date was published by Paget Press in 1980 and a second chapbook The Masons came out that same year A third chapbook Aphorisms was printed in 1982

Being a ca reeri st and a poet is someshytimes a sc hi zophreni c existence says Pete r I never seem to have enough energy or time to do both as well as I might like to Regrettabl y my writing has played second fiddle to my career

Christine Zink (1918) In 1978 when Chnstine first joined a

large animal practice in Drayton Ontario the idea of a woman ve terin ar ian working with farm an imals was so inconceivable to farmers in the area that some of them called her young man she writes She reca lls many a midnight drive over desel1ed farm roads to help a cow give bil1h return shying home at su nri se know ing there was still a full days work ahead

After two years of practice Dr Zink returned to the OVC for pos t-graduate work and is now doing research on The Pathoshygenesis of Corynehacterium equi Pneushymonia in FoaJs In 1983 she passed the

American Collcge of Veterinary Patholshyogists spec iality boa rd exa minati on She expects to graduate with a Ph D thi s yea r and is deciding bet~een a position on faculty at a veterinary sc hool or post-doctoral reshysearch at a medica l sc hool in the United States

Tim Henshaw (1919) After three years in a private veterinary

prac tice in BalTie Tim became a staff vetshyerinari an with Unit ed Breede rs Inc of Guelph and now works out of the Alliston office His responsi bilities inc lude field sershyvice education and research He has reshyturned to campus as guest lect urer at the

to chemistry from her undergraduate studies in molecular genetics and biophysics has been good for me she says The chemisshytry I am learning helps me to better undershystand how enzymes work and macromoleshycules interact with their environment

Last year she married Ganpathy Murshythy a fellow Yale graduate student in ph ys shyics Together they enjoy hiking camping and reading and at the time of writing were planning a trip to India this year

J have told Ganpath y a lot about Gue lph she says and were looking forshyward to visiting the University on a sunny autumn day when the maples along Wineshygard Walk are all aflame

OVC 79 CPSSI CSSS2

OVC and the OAC and has done extensi ve speaking throughout the province for the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food

Dr He ~shaw is peoples warden of St Peters Anglican Church in Minesi ng presishydent of the Ontario Association of Bovine Practitioners secretary of the Simcoe County Holstein Club and a live-s toc k Judge

In 1980 he marri ed Jane Si nclair FACS 78 and they have a dau ghter Chrisshytenltt future University of Guelph class of 2005

John Root (1981) John continues to stud y at Guelph shy

he received an MSc in liquid state physics in 1983 and is now working on his Ph D Hi s thesis is on the Quantum Effects in the Structure of Liquid Water under the supershyvision of Department of Phys ics professor Peter Ege lstaff

In 1982 he married Darlene Maurer and their daughter Athena Catherine-Beth was born earlier this year

John is a youth group leader in the First Baptist Church in Guelph and was presishydent of the Baptist Youth of Ontario and Quebec in 1983-1984

Anne-Frances (MiUer) Murthy (1982)

From New Haven Connecticut USA Anne-Frances writes to say she is at Yale University in the Depal1ment of Chemshyistry doing research on photosynthetic oxyshygen evolution for her Ph D thesis The move

Nicole Didicher Jamie Sidlofsh Arts 83 ArtsS4

Nicole Didicher (1983) Nico le is finishing the first year of her

PhD studies at Queens University where she obtained her M A last year

Her Masters degree work centred on the medieva l period of English literature and she plans to do doc toral research in 18t h-ce ntury literature

Nicole reports that her cu rrent studies are supported by two Ontario Graduate Sc holars hips and a Queens Graduate Awa rd Thi s should come as no surprise to th ose who witnessed her dedication at Guelph

On the social scene in Kingston she s one of the 100 to 150 voices of the Queens Choral Ensemble and rece ntl y she acquired an apartment mate ca ll ed Mole a young white rat Hes a good companion and quiet sa id Ni co le Im absolu tely no good with plants so hes my al ternat ive

Jamie Sidlofsky (1984) Jam ie is a student in the LL B program

at the University of Toron tos Faculty of Law He is the University of Toronto represhy

sentative on the Canadian Bar Association -a member of the Faculty of Law arti cling and summer Jobs committee and direc tor Unishyversity of Toronto student lega l aid program Centre for Spanish-speaking Peoples

This summer he work ed with Diashymond Fairbairn amp Steinberg barri sters and solicitors in Toronto and as a research as shysistant for University of Toronto law proshyfessor Bernard Green 0

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Butthe Melody Lingers On By John Hearn Information Services

S tanley Saunders left Guelph this summer

for a year of administrative leave after II years as the Universitys Director of Music

College of Arts When Dr Saunders joined the Division

of Mu sic in 1974 he inherited a strong

musical tradition reaching back to the earliest

days of the Ontario Agricultural College which was always famous for its choirs

[t fell to Dr Saunders to take the fledgling

Division of Music introduce its first degree programs and build the solid reputation which it enjoys today

Dr Saunders completed his undershy

graduate studies at the University of Wales and twice won the First Award Open Instrushy

mental Solo at the Ei steddfod He was a

member of the National Youth Orchestra of Wales and later performed as a clarinetist with the SSCs radio and TV sy mphony

orchestras

Soon after coming to Guelph Dr Saunshy

ders founded the University of Guelph Civic Orchestra which under his direction achieved an enviable reputation in the ensuing

years The revival of the U of G Aggie Band

followed as did the U of G Concert Band By 1979 Dr Saunders had built a faculty

of some 16 members including Dr Charles

Wilson and Gerald and Elizabeth Neufeld

The same year also saw performances by

the U ofG Choir the U ofG Chamber Singers and the Summer Chorale The Noon-Hour

Concerts were adding to their already unique reputation while the newly formed U ofG

Trio consisting of Elizabeth Neufeld voice Sylvia Hunter piano and Stanley Saunders clarinet was beginning the series of tours which would take it to many parts of Canada and Great Britain

Before the end of the 70s we saw the

first of the successful Music of the Arboreshytum series of concerts the formation of the Aggie Choir under the direction of Gerald

Neufeld and in partnership with the Guelph Spong Festival welcomed such luminaries as the great contemporary Polish composer Penshyderecki Gian Carlo Menotti Ruby Mercer editor of Opera Canada and Bori s Brott

The early 80s have been gala years both for Dr Saunders and the Division

Dr Stanley Saunders

(retitled the Department of Music in 1984) The decade began with the presentation of

two world premieres by the U of G Civic Orchestra and the appointment of Dr Saunshy

ders as president of the National Youth Orchestra of Canada and vice-chairman of the Council of Ontario Music Administrators

The growing stature of the Department of

Music was also reflected in student registrashytion both credit and non-credit in vocal keyboard classical guitar and orchestral inshy

struments

The year 1981 saw a brilliant tour of Sweden and West Germany by the Univers ity of Guelph Choir under the direction of Gerald Neufeld and conducting engagements by Dr

Saunders in Toronto Ottawa Montreal Boston and Washington D C The same year

saw the formation of the U ofG Jazz Ensemshyble and the U ofG Pep Band both led by Kenneth Tinnish

II was a very good year As Dr Saunders said External evidence of scholarship is not necessarily obvious from performance but

creativity is itself a form of research and all these perform ances are not only enlightened by the students studies in history literature

and theory they are also heightened by their

awareness of the aesthetic factors that give significance to mu sic through their intershyrelated studies at the University

Another substantial increase in student

enrolment was witnessed in 1982-1983 deshysp ite the tightening of admission standards

and regulation for the continuance of studies

The University of Guelph Choir still under direc tor Gerald Neufeld won second prize in

the 1982 CSC national choral competition

Stanley Saunders can afford to look back on his Guelph years with considerable satisshyfaction The division which he inherited in 1974 with its three-member faculty had

grown by this year to a full department with

faculty and staff numbering 29 persons and with an enrollment of 300 students plus -another 126 students registered in the nonshycredit applied program

He has been a very bu sy and productive man commuting to and fro between Guelph and Sault Ste Marie to administer the joint

Univers ity of GuelphAlgoma University Colshylege music program - as well as keeping up

a steady schedule of scholastic publications He will be missed 0

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University of Guelph Licences Software to McGraw-Hili By Mary Cocivera

Information Services

The University of Gue lph and the US publi shing giant McGraw- Hili Inc are fishynalizing a non-exclusive licence for CoSy computer conferenc ing software developed at the University

Publi shed by McGraw-Hili BYTE Magazine is using the CoSy software to set up BIX the BYTE Information Exchange Phil Lemmons BYTEs editor-in-chief deshyscribes BIX as a living database The comshypany plans to set up conferences on every aspect of microcomputer use

Through the conferences users will be able to share information with each other and to communicate direc tly with the edi shytors of the magazine A four-ci ty commershycial te st began in September and a BYTE spokesman projects that a full international information exchange will be operating by early 1986

In addition to BIX McGraw-Hili will use the CoSy so ftware for internal comshymunications CoSy was installed by BYTE editorial offices in New Hampshire several months ago for evaluation by staffers They soon became confirmed users and CoS y beshycame a permanent part of the office The conference system was particularly sucshycessful in linking editorial headq uarters in the east with the west coast office

CoSy is already familiar to more than one thousand users world-wide who subshyscribe to a service oftered by the Univers ity of Guelph The licence to McGraw-Hili marks the first time the software will be operated and managed elsewhere The Unishyversity will continue to offer a CoSy se rvice and will continue to market the software to other potential users

CoSy was developed by a team of softshyware designers in Computing and Comshymunications Services at the Univers ity over a 16-month period Alastair Mayer was the chief architect of the code The software was written in C a high-level programming language to run under the Uni x operating system This feature makes CoS y highly portable and capable of running on any micro-computer or a mainframe with the Unix operating sys tem

George Bond BYTEs managing editor for e lectronic publishing and communicashytion says that ease of use and the Unix operating system were important fac tors in their choice of CoSy He also cited the skills and co-operative attitudes of the peopl e at

CoSy th e University of Guelph who are involved with CoSy

The University of Guelph was a parshyticularly hospita ble environment for deshyvelopment of a computer conferencing system according to Dr Ken MacKay assoshyciate director of Institutional An alysis and Pl anning Electronic mail was well estabshylished on campus so there were many peoshyple already committed to e lectronic commushynications Home-grown APL mail is arguashybly the best mail system anywhere because its easy to use and very robust CoSy is a separate system but is a descendant of earshylie r electronic mail systems

We had three basic design ideas for CoSy explains Alastair Mayer It should req uire few co mm ands the user should be able to learn without a manual and it should be accessible fro m any terminal The se goa ls have been reali zed to a great extent A manual is available but by refe rring to the help instructions within CoSy users can learn enough commands to become funcshytional very quickly

Dr Edward Swart acting director of Computing and Communication Services points out that CoSy is offered as a free service to the University com munity He beshylieves that this enlightened decision conshytributed to CoSys ne arly immediate success on campus From the early development stages users were invited to make comshyments and suggestions Their feedback inshynuenced the design of the current CoSy sysshytem to a substantial extent

Computer conferenc ing is a powerful concept as CoSy users soon discover Marshygaret Bec kman the Univers itys executive direc tor of Information Technology says there is no doubt that computer con ferencshying reduces the number of meetings and enables decisions to be made more quickl y CoSy is heavily used by University adminshyistrators and members of facu lty are ex plorshy

ing applications of computer co nferencing in teaching and lea rning

Proceeds from licences and from subshyscriptions to the campus conferencing sysshytem will fund furth er development of CoSy Dr Swart says a not-too-distant developshyment will be a distributed conference cashypability permitting a free exc hange of information from one conference systelll to another A second deve loplllent will be to activate what Dr Swa11 calls CoSys Jashytent graphics capability In CoSy a messhysage ca n contain anything even NAPLPS codes for graphics Graphs sketches and charts will thus soon become part of CoSy confe rences 0

A Letter Dear MI~ Wing

My wife (lnd I WOIII vou to know hml we enjoyed LM Mont gomerys storr The Strike at Putney ill the Spring 85 GueJph Alumnu s

Visiting Green Gables in P EI wos one of the highlights of our Trans-Canada vocmion 0 few years ago

We hope you I publish one ofher short stories in each issue of th e maga zine selectedjiom the U ofGs LM Montgomshyery Collectionfrom now on and make each issue a colleclOrs item shyCordially

Doug Marrin OAC 39 107 Waverly Place Mountain View Calif 94040 USA

Thanks for your letter Doug we will do our very best to bri ng you more L M M Ed

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P rofessional golfer philosopher oenologist would-be film maker and

now restaurateur Robert Harcourt Bob Desautels HAFA 75 Arts 84 is a man of many facets one who seeks his own sty le of excellence in many directions This summer he opened a new restaurant La Maisonmiddot in downtown Guelph which is already drawing patrons from a wide area in search of the gourmet delights promised by a very disshytinguished menu and delivered by chefs accomplished in the arts of haute cuisine

Bob works outward from a central conshyviction that there is always a market for excellence Born in Toronto he has lived in Ottawa Montreal - and Guelph He studied at Sir George Williams University Montreal Que (now pan of Concordia University) before attending the College of Family and Consumer Studies School of Hotel and Food Administration (HAFA) where he graduated with a BComm degree

He will be remem bered on campus as manager of the Faculty Club a position

The Eclectic

Bob Desautels

which he held for nearly three years after graduating and before he launched on a whole new career as a profess ional golfer He played Canadian and Australian circuits for a while and then accepted the position of manager and golf pro at the Cedarhurst Golf Club on Lake Simcoe

Two years later he was back at the Unishyversity of Guelphs hotel sc hool as a research assistant preparing for HAFAs first Advanced Management Program for the Hospitality Industry (AMPHI) course - an unrepentantly elitist institution offering advanced manageshyment training only to very se nior executives in the hospitality industry

Bob se rved as logistics manager to AMPHI for two years with responsibility for the health and welfare of a clientele whose expectations as far as hospitality is conshycerned are of the very highest

As a member of the HAFA faculty he was a more than occasional lecturer primarily on the subject of wine - whi ch he describes in reverential tones He is married (the pursuit of excellence again) his wife Susan hail s from Australia They have two children Coun age 7 and Emily 5

At the end of two years with HAFA Bob Desautels was faced with one of those critical life decisions - a choice between two paths leading in significantly different directions He might have accepted a tenure track position for whichit would have made sense to seek a PhD in business admini stration or

HAFA 75 By John Hearn Information Services

Mine host Bob Desautels HAFA 75 at La Maison

pursue an old love for philosophy He chose the latter and earned hi s Masters degree from Guelphs College of Ans in the fall of 1984

I suppose it arises from an old interest in religion he explains Metaphysical quesshytions have always fascinated me Scientific materialism the notion that mind is no more than a function of brain has neve r satisfied me There are too many loose ends - mind contemplating itself for example introshyspection Focu ss ing on philosophy of the mind for my degree gave me one of the answers - but may be Im beginning to understand some of the questions

So in the Fall of 84 philoso pher wine connoisseur goller Bob Desautels inventoried his assets - and took a course in film making at the Ryerson Poly technica l Institute Im interested in the creative end of film making he says Writing andor directing Ive fini shed one film script and working on another But it takes mucho dinero

Then early this Spring the main floor of one of Guelph s distinguished old homes beca me available Strategically located at the corner of Woolwich and Yarmouth Streets in an area already known for fine dining the housc is owned by Guelph bu sinessman Paul Starr A pannership was struck and Bob found himsel f bringing the whole wealth of hi s re staurant management know-how and his own drive for excellence to bear on La

Maison It was conceived planned and exshyecuted from the beginning as a shrine conseshycrated to the worshippers of superlative cuishysine enjoyed in the most distinguished of atmospheres

The concept has two major aspects One large room is given over to a wine bar where the connoisseur - or those who enjoy the fermented grape of any age or colour - can select from more than 20 splendid vintages by the glass or the bottle A parallel selection of native and imponed cheeses activate the tastebuds while intimates can order a delectashyble cheese fondue for two The wine-bar is a casual drop-in kind of place open from noon until midnight for enjoyment relaxation and con versation

The other main room is for the serious diner There is a modest economically-priced luncheon available for business people but the evening meal is designed to attract those for whom dining is a rei igious experience

You make your market study says bullBob but then you add your own secret ingredient - call it gut feeling There are some very good restaurants in Guelph but none that target this panicular niche

l may be that not the least of La Maisons attractions will be the possibility of conversation with mine host Choose your own subject - golf metaphysics pragshymatism - or the an of Woody Allen Bob Desautels is nothing if not eclectic 0

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Newly Elected as

A1uDlni Senators Following the annual election of three of the nine alumni seats on Senate at the University the following alumni were elected to replace those who fulfilled three-year terms on August 31 1985

Norman Hawkins OVC 57

Rita Weigel James White FACS 77 OAC 6 1

James White OAC 55A and 61 lives in Brampton and is the owner of InfoResults Limited information research consultants Brampton He completed Masters and Docshytoral degrees at Michigan State University Department of Communication He has opshyerated InfoResults for 15 years specializing in agricultural economics social policy and communication issues

He is a past president of the Canadian Consulting Agrologists Association has served on the provincial council of the Ontario Institute of Agrologists and was a director of the Canadian Society of Agrishycultural Economic s and Farm Manageshyment 0

Dr Norman Hawkins OVC 57 estabshyIlished the Guelph Animal Hospital on Elizshyabeth Street in 1957 and has continued his practice there as a partner

An active member of the Ontario Vetshyerinary Association council and a commitshytee worker he is also a member of the Canadian Veterinary Medical Association national examination board

His earlier work with the American Veterinary Medical Association involved the examination of overseas veterinary gradshyuates and inspection of North American vetshyerinary sc hools

He is a member of the Guelph Public Library Board and Board chairman of St

Margaret s School Elora

Rita (Klassen) Weigel FACS 77 gradushyated from the College of Family and Conshysumer Studies with a BASc in Con su mer Studies She was president of the Mac-FACS Alumni Association 1983-84 and has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Universi ty of Guelph Alumni Association

A member of the Canadian Marketing and Research Society Rita was employed in the research and product management field for a number of years A Guelph res ident her concerns include those of a mother of a son and twin one-year-old daughters

New Chairman Board of Governors

Edmond Bovey

Edmund C Bovey the man who headed the Commission on the Future Development of the Universities of Ontario has been named chairman of the Board of Governors at the Universi ty of Guelph A member of the Board since 1976 he succeeds Cecil Franklin who retired July I after three years as chairman and who also joined the Board in 1976

Edmund Bovey was chairman of the three-man commission that held hearings

for the Ontario public and university comshymunity in 19831984 before developing and recommending to the Mini stry of Colleges and Universities a future plan for Ontario universities

Retired as director chairman of the board and member of the executive committee of Norcen Energy Reso urces Toronto he was recently named to chair a task force on funding the arts in Canada an area where he has long experience A past president and trustee of the Ali Gallery of Ontario and its Foundation he is also a member of the Board of Governors of Roy Thomson Hall and vice-chairman of the International Council of the Museum of Modern Art in New York He is a past chairshyman of the Council for Business and Arts in Canada

In addition he is a director of a number of companies including Hollinger Argus Abitibi Price Canada Packers and the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce as well as MONY Life Insurance PPG Indusshytries and PPG Industries Canada

He is a member of the Canadian Ecoshynomic Policy Committee a director of the Canadian Executive Service Overseas and a past president of the Canadian Gas Associashytion He is also currently chairman of the Board of Wellesley Hospital Toronto

He was born in Calgary Alta and edushycated in Victoria BC 0

Appointments

Ab Moore Harry Downie OVC 48

Dr Ab Moore took up the responsibilities of chairman of the Department of Rural Extension Studies on September I for a fiveshy shyyear term He was previously director of the Office of Educational Practice

Dr Harry Downie OVC48 became actshying chairman of the Department of Bioshymedical Sciences on July I He continues until December 3 1 or until a new chairman is named 0

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Available for Immediate Possession Space in Prestige Campus Home (for baby grand piano)

The Presidents House dedicated as a building of historical and architectural significance has been without a piano since President Maclachlan retired in 1967

This could be the chance of a lifetime if you are seeking a unique and extremely worthwhile Class Project Perhaps your class would like to buy a new piano to be used in this centre for campus entertaining to be viewed by more than 5 000 visitors a year A recognition plaque would be located either on or adjacent to the instrument

A Bequest

Charles S Humphrey

A former partner and president from 1947

to 1963 of Guelphs Hart Chemical Comshy

pany Canada Ltd the late Charles S Humphrey se lected the Universit y of

Guelph as one of the benefic iaries of his estate

Hi s bequest to the Unive rs it y of

$130000 received last June is to be used at the discretion of the University pres ident

in the University s scholarships and burshy

saries program A resident of Victoria BC since his

retirement in 1963 Charles Humphrey died on August29 1984 at the age of81 He was an emeritus member of the Canadian Assoshy

ciation of Textile Colourists and Chemists Born at Hornell NY USA he came to Canada in 1936

This is the second time that Charles

Humphrey has given financial support to the Univers ity In 1979 he generously provided a $50000 endowment gift to support an annual $5000 graduate fellowship in Chemistry

The fellowship is designed to ease the financial burdens of outstanding students in

organic chemistry registered in the PhD

program at the Guelph-Waterloo Centre for Graduate Work in Chemistry (GWC)2 0

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CODling Events 86 Jan 7-9

Mar 5

8-9

13-15

April 4middot5

June 9middot13

20-22

OAC Agricultural Conference

Alumni Florida Reunion (See below)

College Royal Open House

Ontario Institute of Agrologists Annual Conference Agricultural Trade To be he ld

in Cornwall Ont

OAC Alumni Association Curling Bonspiel

U of 6s 8tb Annual Human Sexuality Conference Changing Nature of Sexual Relationships Sexual Scripts and Lifestyles Today

ALUMNI WEEKEND 86

Alumni Florida Reunion If you missed the Alumni Flo rida Reunion Picnic in March 85 you missed a great gathering About 90 alumni and

friends met for a very pleasant pot luck meal Ross Cavers OAC 29 the organizing committee chairman hopes it will

become an annual affair Ruth and Gordon Wright Mac

37 and OAC 33 and Willa and Morley Funston Mac and OAC 32 made the loc al arrangements the affair was sponshysored by the Universitys Alumni-in Action group Make

plans to attend the second annual Florida Alumni Reunion Picnic at 12 noon on Wednesday March 51986 at Harbour Heights Park near Port Charlotte Florida two miles east of

Interstate Highway 75 Please respond by March 11986 to Ruth and Gordon Wright General Delivery Warm Mineral

Springs Florida 33596 US A

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College of Arts Alumni Association DELPHA

Editor Terry Ayer 84

Executive 1985-86 HONORARY PRESIDENT Dr David R Murray Dean

PRESIDENT Linda McKenzie-Cordick 81

PAST PRESIDENT Margo Shoemaker 79

VICE-PRESIDENT Wm Macdonald 78

SECRETARY-TREASURER

Marilyn Armstrong 78

DIRECTORS Debbie (Nash) Chambers 77 Edith LeLacheur 72 Janice (Robertshy

son) Partlow 79

UGAA REPS Wm Macdonald 78 Margo Shoemaker 79

EDITOR DELPHA Terry Ayer 84

Appointed

Dr Edward Phillips

Edward Phillips began a five-year term as chairman of the Department of Music July I He obtained his BA in mu sic at Amherst College

Massachusetts and his M A Masshyter of Philosophy and Ph D all in music theory from Yale Univers ity Married to Patricia who has a DM A in organ performance from Yale he has two sons Stewart 7 and Andrew 3 Edward who is also an organist enjoys cooking 0

Literary Heritage Preserved in Africa Most Canadian children are exposed to their cultural heritage at an early age through legendary stories brought from Eushy

rope or about Canadian pioneering and through stories about Indian or Inuit myths

and fables In developing countries however

where paper and printed materials are in

shon supply cultural heritage is usually passed on orally and children have little

opportunity to read about their past A Canashydian project involving the Universities of Guelph and Yaounde in Cameroon West

Africa is doing something to keep that countrys heritage alive

The project now entering its fourth year is a collaborative effort of the De partshy

ment of English Language and Literature at Guelph and the Department of African Litshyerature at the Univers ity of Yaounde It is

sponsored by the Canadian International Development Agency with Guelphs Deshy

partment of English Language and Litershy

ature Chairman Doug Killam serving as co-ordinator and Elizabeth (Wildman)

Cockburn CSS 81 as Canadian project consultant

Dr Killam is well-known for his work in the field of Commonwealth literature and

has taught at several African universities

EI izabeth Cock burn a primary sc hool teacher taught at the Government Teachers Training College in the North West Province

of Cameroon from 1969 to 1971 It was then

that she became aware of the shortage of relevent reading material for Cameroon schoolchildren

However it was some ten years later

that the project was born when she and Professor Kilian consulted with Dr Bernard

Fonlon then head of the Department of Afshyrican Literature at Yaounde Deeply comshy

mitted to saving African oral traditions as literatore Dr Fonlon although now retired remains a driving force in promoting creativity in the schools and scholarship on oral literature at the university

Last January Professor Killam and Elizabeth Cockburn were in Yaounde at a

conference where 80 papers were presented on the theory and practice of oral literature for West African educators - the first major attempt to marry theory and practice

As are children in the Canadian Indian

and Inuit communities African children are often exposed to texts that portray children of cultures different from their own To

counteract thi s influence simple African s tories with lifelike illustrations are being

Local stories come alive

mimeographed and turned into booklets by simply folding stand ard letter-size paper in half A collections of these stories will evenshytually be produced in textbook form when

fund s become available One such s tory The Marriage Feast

describes the marriage meal of the cat who invites all the domestic animals and birds to

the celebration

The dogs who know much about meat were asked 10 cook the food 8U1 they decided 10

playa trick They cooked the meat in the bOlom of the pot with the vegetables on lOp They said they would be the last to eat

In true fable form the hens who ate first discovered when they were too full to eat any more that there was meat deep

inside the pOI So they

Swore never to eat from the surface again and that is why hens always scratch deep into the soil in search offood

Although story-telling is becoming a lost art in Canada it is still a lively part of

life in Cameroon But as Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe said when he was in Guelph last year when a member of the older genshyeration dies its as if a whole library was destroyed -

Time is running short and fund s are needed to keep alive this project in Camshyeroon Anyone seeking further information

on the project may address their inquiries to Professor Killam at the University He hopes to receive funding from the Commonwealth

Foundation for similar work in other counshytries which have expressed an interest in

recording their heritage 0

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The Limners How do art students continue to find stimshyulation and motivation following graduation when they are no longer under the pressure of course requirements and without the critshyicism of an instructor

Four Fine Art graduates and one inshycourse student solved the problem by formshying a support group called The Limners (Limn an archaic word meaning paint deshypict portray Hence - Limner) Last Sepshytember the group held a success ful exhishybition of their recent works at the Halton Hills Cultural Centre Georgetown The Limners are

Dorothy Hart 81 of Georgetown She works with oil s pas tel s and graphite b4t is very interested in character fi gures made of cellu-clay which requires enormous pashytience to produce Her latest interest is pastel portraits of children

Dimensions 85 The fourth annual College of Arts Ailimni Association juried art show DIMENSIONS 85 was a success once again The jury members Marlene Jofriet well-known water colourist _ Michael OKeefe 76 practising artist and teacher and George Todd chairman Department of Fine Art selected 30 entries to hang

The jury awarded the following $100 $75 $50 prizes and designated three honshyourable -mentions

First pri ze Sheila Vollmer 85 Woman in Veil intaglio print

Second prize Wendy Maki 83 Pears Plums Apples and Grapes oil on canvas

Sue Knox 81 Formerly she was interested in the landscapes of Northern Ontario where she used to work Now back in Guelph Sue has rediscovered her urban surshyroundings including people

Betty Ketcheson 83 of Frankford Ontario to where her husband lack has retired Watercolour is her favorite medium however Betty also has an interest in enshycaustic painting with beeswax as a medium

Jane Graham 83 of Guelph lane tries to communicate her own brand of optimism through her waterco lours by using the figure in the land scape most often a child

Nan Hogg an undergraduate Nan is intershyested in making art that is feminist A memshyber of th e Guelph Embroiderers Guild Nans recent work displays a combination of watercolours or etchings with coil aged fabshyric that has been embroidered 0

The Limners L to r Sue Knox 81 Belly Ketcheson 83 Nan Hogg Dorothy Hart 81 and Jane Graham 83

Third pri ze Doreen Schaub 70 Rushing Waters watercolour

Honourable Mentions Sheila Volshylmer 85 Embracing Figures sculpture in pl aster Scott Abbot 79 Fields Near Maryhill oil on masonite Margaret Peter 74 Impressions Fossil Series collagraphsi Ikscreen

An innovation at DIMENSIONS 85 was the presentation of selected works of a featured artist Our first selected arti st was Evan MacDonald no stranger to the Univershysity of Guelph Many of his works are part of the Universitys collection of Canadian art hi s portraits hang in various buildings on campus and he was awarded an honorary doctorate of laws in 1979

We extend our sincere thanks to Ingrid

At DIMENSIONS 85 ColeRe oj Arts art sholl at Alllmni Wefkllld 85 L to r Marlene Jojriet juror Dr GeorRe 7iJdd chairman Department oj Fine Art jllror Wencil Maki 83 second-prize winner Doreen Schauh 70 third-prize willner Michael 0 Keeji 76

juror Own David Murray

Jenkner curatorexhibitions at the Macshydonald Stewart Art Centre and Mary MacshyDonald Evans wife for making it possible for us to feature the works of Evan

We also expre ss our gratitude and appreciation to all those who were instrushymental in making the show a success A special thank you is extended to this years participants without whom the show coulll not have been mounted 0

Art Show and Lecture Series Recognizing the 20th anniversary of the Department of Fine Art a facshyulty art show will be presented at the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre Nov 21 to lan 5 Viewing Tue to Fri and Sun noon to 500 pm Sat 1000 am to 500 pm A lecture se ries will present Dr Alan Gowans professor of art history University of Victoria B c on Art History and the Social Function Nov 18 at 800 -pm Rm 113 Physics Bldg Dr Ronald Nasgaard chief curator Art Gallery of Ontario wi II present Cushyratorship Today and Social Political Economic Pressures on Nov 27 at 400 pm in the Dept of Fine Art A third speaker is slated for early in the New Year

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Ontario Veterinary College Alumni Assoc OVC ALUMNI NEWS

Editor Dr Cliff Barker 41

OVC Alumni Association Executive 1985middot86

HONORARY PRESIDENT Dr Ole Niel sen 56 PRESIDENT Dr Ken Gadd 56 PAST PRESIDENT Dr Wendy Parker 7 1 VICE-PRESIDENT Dr Mary (Hawkins) Wiltshire 74 SECRETARY-TREASURER Dr Gordon Boylan 46 DIRECTORS Dr Bob Buck 46 Dr Archie MacKinnon 43 Dr Norm McAninch 39 Dr Bruce Robb 7 1 Dr Bruce Robinson 76 Dr Noni Sman 80 EDITOR avc Alumni News Dr Cliff Barker 41

Mailbag Dear Cliff

We were over to Vancouver Island recel11ly and went up to Qualicum Beach to see 0 Howard Taylor 13 He broke me in on meat inspection in 42 at the old Burns plant on Logan Avenue in Winnipeg

He is in great shape Qlid outside of a gimpy knee has no problems It was a real pleasure to see him again - still the same sparkle and quick wit that I had remembered from the Winnipeg years

I had not seen Howardfor 40 years bw outside of him thinking I had aged someshywhat had no trouble with identification Thought you might be il7lerested in this bit of news - not too many vets make it to age 98

We are fine and enjoying a complete reversal of what Vancouver weather is supshyposed to be bUi sure would like to see aboUl a week of rain Regards Bud Ellis 41 1410 Gordon Avenue West Vancouver Sc V7T IR6

From the Dean

Dr Ole Nielsen 56

In this my first opponunity to address our alumni through this medium I would like to express my pleasure at having the privilege of serving the Ontario Veterinary College and the University of Guelph

At the outset I acknowledge my debt to those many faculty students and staff who have labored to make this College a great inshystitution Being mindful of this heritage I am excited by the challenge of helping move the College to new levels of excellence One has to be impressed with the potential of the OVe Heres why

By the time this publication has gone to press I expect tenders for the first phase of a new OVC building program will have been called and possibly awarded This project costing over $13 million will provide modshyem facilities for the Depanments of Clinical Studies and of Biomedical Sciences and the Veterinary Teaching Hospital

The culmination of a great deal of effon led by former Dean Doug Maplesshyden 50 and President Burt Matthews OAC 47 the project is jointly funded by the Federal Government (Departments of Agrishyculture and Regional Industrial Expansion) and the Province of Ontario (OMAF)

The new facility will allow the College to press forward with new teaching research and service programs that include such vital newareas as biotechnology computer as istshyed health management and expanded proshygrams in toxicology

The second phase of the OVC building program which is largely related to teachshying spaces remains to be funded A good share of this project is expected to be includshyed in the fonhcoming capital campaign of the University The panicipation of you the alumni will be crucial to its success The governments of Ontario and Canada have done their part despite difficult circumshystances The rest is up to us

I have found the faculty of the OVC to be -a group of strong and vigorous academshyics and many young talented faculty have been appointed recently In passing one notes the retirement of many of those who led the renaissance in veterinary education in Canada in the post-war years The new generation of faculty has a real challenge in

trying to do as well as their predecessors shyand it will

I believe the graduate students are the sou I of the College Therefore another cause for optimism is the strength of the graduate and research programs at the OVe Presently the College has about 130 gradushyate students who at this most creative period of their lives are striving to provide new knowledge and skills for veterinary medishycine In 1950 there were none

There has been a significant expansion in the D YSc program a comparatively new doctoral program that gives priority to the acquisition of clinical sk ill s in addition to training in research The D VSc degree is unique in the world and how its graduates will be received remains to be determined I am confident it will be favourably

Believing in the imponance of reshysearch OMAF recently committed itself to provide the College with a new research farm at Ponsonby This nO-acre site located some ten miles from Guelph will provide farm-type facilities for hous ing dairy cattle beef cattle sheep pigs and laboratory anishymals will replace existing facilities at Eramosa and Plislinch and will cost in excess of $3 million

The application rate and quality of stushydents seeking admision to the D YM proshygram remains high

I am delighted to be assisted in the work of the Deans office by Associate Dean Ted Valli 62 and Academic Counsellor Ron Downey 61 and given the above is it any wonder I am optimistic

I have always been a bit smug in believshying that those of us from western Canada were the most friendly in the nation My exshyperience since coming to Guelph proves me wrong Everyone including students facshyulty staff the University administration and the local community could not have been more friendly and helpful 0

OVCAA Membership Report-Summer 1985

Life Membership 1 103 Honorary Life Membership 3 Life Me m Instalment Plan 241 Annual Membership 42 -Total Membership 1389 Total Alumni 3537 Membership

of Total Alumni 3930 Membership

of Known Alumni 40 06

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Inch in KatDlandu The following letter to the editor from Or

Carolyn Inch 81 was sent to Ornella Osborne editor of Update the newsletter

published by the Ontario Veterinary Assoshyciation Were grateful to Omelia for passing it on to us

While trekking through the north central region of the Himalayan mountains in

Nepal I was surprised to see the words vetshy

erinary office added to the bottom of it sign written in Nepalese

The village Chame contained the

headquarters of the government veterinary operations for the region of Manang Borshy

dering on China in the north the region covers about 2000 square kilometres and

has the lowest population density in Nepal The average altitude of the region is above

3048 metres Annapurna towers at 8091

metres The logistics behind launching a vetshy

erinary program in an area that is entirely inaccessible except by foot or aircraft had

me intrigued Dr Koshori Jha greeted us warmly and

in the polite manner wed received at the hands of all the Nepalese tea was served

The bulk of his practice is in sheep and goats as well as cattle yak horse mules and chickens On a daily basis he deals most frequently with footrot a problem that

is compounded by the fact that most of the bovine and equine species are bred pri-

During the recent avc AA Annual Meeting retired Deal Doug Maplesden 50 righl received ( plaque embodying newsclippings puhlished during his lenure Dean OIl Nieletl 56 made the presentalion

marily for use as pack animals the terrain is

rough and whether goats are grazing beshy

tween rocks or mules are carrying 80-kiloshygram loads up mountainsides their hooves are exposed to a lot of strain

Dr Koshori Jhas pharmacy contained various disinfectants and as tringents and

many herbal remedies from India retained placenta and anti-bloat preparation for

example

The only vaccine available to him was against Hemorrhagic Septicemia and he

used it when faced with a diagnosed herd

outbreak Dr Koshori Jha pointed out phenol

which was used on feet during July August and Septembers annual FMD outbreak

coinciding with the rainy season Day-to-day treatment is a sma ll part of

the government veterinarian s job He recently received approval for his five-year

plan which began last spring The main eleshyments of the plan are training increasi ng egg production mule breeding Jhopa

breeding (cross between a cow and male yak) and improving cattle feed by the introshyduction of a Phillipine variety of cattle grass

For the livestock assistance training

three farmers from each of 12 panchayats (districts) in Manang will come to Chame

for training and to discuss local problems These men will be involved in a serv ice

centre to be se t up in each panchayat for common treatment He also plans to hold a yearly lives tock exhibitio n with pri ze shy

money for healthy livestock

Plans to increase egg production include a new brooding unit and the introshy

duction of a hybrid of Leghorn New Hampshyshire and Rhode Island Red poultry In an effort to upgrade the quality of pack anishy

mals local ponies will be crossed with donshykeys brought from northern India Similarly

Missing in India Dr Ohiroobhai K Desai 46 61 Sharda Society Paldi Ahmedabad 380007 India has written of hi s attempts to gather inforshy

mation on Drs VD Alaga Raju 36 and

K B Nair 36 both of India He repol1s having bee n with Dr Nair from 1952 to 1956 at the Bombay Veterinary College as an exshyaminer in Veterinary Medicine However he

has been unable to provide up-to-date inforshymation on thesc two alumni Any alumni

with information please write to your avc Alumni Bulletin editor 0

male yaks will be crossed with local cows

and their offspring Jhopa will be used as high-altitude pack animals

Dr Jha plans to distribute these breedshying animals to the more remote region s so

that bloodlines can be upgraded In so me of these areas the native dialect is related to ancestral Tibetan languge rather thall Nepashy

lese which compounds hi s difficult task of education

Pack animals are the lifeline of the

high-altitude people as much today as they

have been for centuries I very much appreshy

ciate the time taken by Dr Koshori Jha to explain the role of domestic animals in the

Himalaya and share with me his ambitious plans for the future 0

AI Ihe recem CVMA Conference in Pelllicshylon Dr Bob Dunbar 12 leji with Dr ROI Downey 6 Bob has reached his 961h birlhday and resides in a PellliClol1 nursing home

In Memoriam Or John N Campbell 15 545 Scripps Drive Davis California 59616 USA

died May 4 1985

Dr Ra)mond E Pinkert 36 440 NOl1h Pine Street Reedsburg Wisconsin 53959 USA died April 13 1985

Or Roderick S MacDonald 37 3003 Oliver Street Apt 203A Halifax NS -B3L 4AI died June 12 1985

Dr John J Carney 44 3531 West 33rd Avenue Vancouver B C V6S IZ2 Date of

death unknown

Or Kenneth R Lachapelle 54 1635 Ranvoyze Ave St Foy Que GIW 3K2

died June 26 1985 0

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College of Social Science Alumni Assoc PEGASmiddotUS

Editor Dorothy Barnes 78

Our Annual Picnic We Illissed you I All of you who didnt make it to our CSSAA picnic during Alumni Weekend 85 But despite the few members and families that did attend we had a good time The pictures tell the story

Here are some of us arriving (l) and setting up the eats We had good food and why not It was a tillle to enjoy relax and have some fun We had games for all ages including catch-the-eggs (2) with real raw eggs

AmI of course whats a picnic without a drop of rain) But President John came prepared with a tarpaulin (3) for those afrnid ofilleiting The k)od and the day were saved Hurrah for our presidenl

Thcre were some brave soul s who unshydaunted by the weather carried on with their baseball game Then of course there was one young partiCipant (4) who was seen scratching hcr head 1I1d wondering what was going on

All in all we had a great time You would have too if youd bcen thcre So makc a mental notc or tic a string around your tingcr toc anywhere that will reillind you that you missed a good outing at th e Aluillni Wcckend 85 CSSAA picnic and that you should makc pl ans now to join us in June 86 at Alumni Wcekend 86 0

A Joy to Behold Her work has the shi mmer of life Such is said of artist Joy Elizabeth (Snihur) Laking Fine Art CSS 72 Joys art is intimately tied to the seasons In spring and summer she works against the perilous fadshying of fresh flowers capturing them in clean powerful designs

Fa ll afternoons on the grassy salt marshes around her home in Portaupigue Nova Scotia inspire wider scenes of rich changing colours

The respite of winter is her time for land and peoplescapes evolved from her ow n photography Her art is created within the context of family community and nature

Joy was introduced to hcr chosen lifeshystyle by her mother - they used to go sketching while Joy was a child in Owen Sound on Lake Huron s Georgian Bay shyand has painted since she can remember She now lives on the edge of the Bay of Fundy with husband Ronald OAC 72 and two cherubs where she can paint every day and capture the beauty she sees around her Whether it be mud and Illarsh a rusted truck and some farmyard geese or caterpillar holes in azalea leaves Joy is able to capture in watercolour the essence and beauty of all she sees

She is noted for her special ability to create white flowers on white paper by givshying the petals shape and vivid life with only a whisper of colour and shadow Light delishycate handling and mcticulous control fused with a powerful design se nse distinguishes her art

Joy is a well established artist and has had se lected exhibitions of her paintings at the Tom Thompson Memorial Art Gallery Owen Sound 1981 Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery Halifax NS 1982 Gallery 1889 Tatamagouche NS 1983

Daffodils By Joy (Snihur) Laking 72

Truro Art Society Truro NS 1984 and the Royal Botanical Gardens Burlington Onl 14

She was deservedly honoured to have the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia purchase one of her paintings for its collection and the Maritime Tel amp Tel chose a Laking painting for the cover of Nova Scotias 1985 telephone directory

Joy says I paint what I live what I see and what touches me It s no wonder then that Joy has been able to successfully transshyfer such sensitivity to her work in a way that has produced tine work s of art as demonshystrated in Daffodils reproduced here 0

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Grad News Terry Goddard 76 wrote to let us know

where he is and what hes doing After gradshyuation Terry turned to the world of engishy

neering and worked at the Bechtel Intershy

national Syncrude project in northern Alberta for a year He retu rned to school and obtained a Masters degree in Politi cal Theshyory in 1978 at the University of Toronto

TIle next nine months were spent workshying at Dhaharan Saudi Arabi a While the re

Terry contemplated the action which would

give him the best career move His deci s ion to go into teach ing led him back to the Unishy

versity of Toronto to obtai n his BEd His teachin g career took hi m to northshy

e rn Saskatchewan whe re he taug ht at a village which if not actually at the end of

the world was situated close enough that the end was plainly visible from the nOI1hern

outskirts He returned to Toronto someshywhat sated with academe and once again

turned to engineering He has been director of maintenance for the Jewi sh Com munity

Centres of Toronto for the past five years He has fou nd it difficult to keep in

touch with fellow grad s Especia lly th ose who studied in Professor Melby s Chinese

poIitic s courses and who were known as the Shanghai Mafia - they are all over the

world now Hes sure they often recall with fondness their days at Unigoo

Where are you former students of Proshyfessors Simmo ns and MelbYTerry would be interested in hearing from you - and so would we

Robin-Lee Norris 80 has been awarded

a $19000 Rot ary Foundation Scholarship to

pursue g radua te studi es in the Masters of Business Administration program at the

Univers ity of Adelaide Adelaide Australia Robin-Lee went o n to graduate from

Osgoode Hall Law School with an LLB

was called to the Ontario Bar in ApriJ of 1982 and has practised law with the tirm of

Kearns McKin non inGuelph since herca ll She took a ten-mo nth leave of absence

commenc ing in February 1985 from her positi on with Kearns McKinno n in o rder to take ad vantage of the sc holarship

During her months in Australia her mandate from Rotary Internatio nal in addishy

tion to pursuing her stud ies is to act as a Rotary and Canadian Ambassador in proshy

moting good will and understanding beshytween Australians and Canadians

A thank you goes to Cliff Hardy buildshying mechanic superv isor Main tenance Deshypartment Physical Resources for supplying us with thi s information and an aside to Robin-Lee when she reads this I was unable

to reach you betore you left to congratulate

you and get more informati on on your award If you have some free time we wOllld love to hea r from you about your studi es

what a Rotary and Canadian ambassador

does and to have you share your ex perience of being down-under

Marilyn Kernohan Morrison 78 has taken the time to Jet us know that shes living in Napanee with hu sba nd Brian She has

tempora ril y se t aside her ca reer to be a home-maker tor Brian and their four-monthshy

old son

Prior to their move to Napanee to acshycommodate Brians tran sfer - he work s with the Ministry of Natural Resources shy

Marilyn and family lived in a small comshymunity northwest of Thunder Bay After

Gue lph Marilyn continued her ed ucation at the comm unity college level and com pleted

a program for counse llors of the mentally

retarded SheJI be returnin g to thi s fi e ld when she again becomes a wage earner

Doris E (Trachsel) OKeefe 74 is deshy

scribed by husband John Paul 74 as a household engineer John Paul is a reshy

source teacher with the Waterloo County Board of Education With such a title I

couldnt resis t phon ing Doris to find out exactly what the duti es of a household enshy

gi neer are

While Doris decl ined to give a cletinishytion of the titl e l detected some surprise and delight that John Paul appreciates what it

takes to look after a famil y and a home

Doris is trying to re turn to teaching but is findin g it difficult in the Cambridge

Waterloo area If she isnt successful shes planning alternatives such as enrolment at Guelph in a Masters program o r failing that enrolment in courses that will he lp her

ac hieve her long-range goa ls She and John Paul recen tly moved from

London Ont to Cambridge Prior to the

birth of Erin now a two-year-old Doris was teac hing boys with behaviourial problems

and she sees thi s as an asset when applying for teaching positions Erin has a six-yearshyold brother Sean so you can understand

perhaps that Doris has been bu sy and maybe she is aptly described as a houseshy

hold engi neer

J Barry Baldwin 69 is a teac her with the Elgin County Board of Education S t Thomas Barry married Linda Janet Wii son They live in Aylmer West

M Rachel (Curtis) Towe 69 is manager customer systems Bell Canada She and

husband Ken live in Guelph

M Lois (Robinson) Harris 70 li ves in Newmarket with husband Fred

B Hugh Schofield 72 is an industrial engi neer with Rockwell Int e rnati o nal C hat ham He and wife Susan (Haslelt)

FACS 78 live in Chatham

Paul Davis 73 is an underwrite r analyst with Co-opera tors General In sura n ce

Guelph Paul and wife Linda (DozeH) 73 and 81 live at Brookhaven Court Guelph

Carol Finlayson 74 is a letter carrier lor Canada Post Carol and husband John Balch live in Toronto

Pal Hamilton 74 is an expon market deshyvelopment specialist with the O ntario Minshyistry of A gricu lture and Foo cl mark et

development branch Toronto He and his wife Diane (Coates) OAC 72 live in

Toronto

Kerrie Sirathy MA 78 advises us that

she is a s tud en t at th e Univcrsity of Sakatchewan Sas katoon

Vicky Sutherland 78 is an air trartie conshy

troller with Air Canada at FoI1 McMurray Airpo l1 Alta and lives in F0I1 McMurray

Sounds like an intercsting job - perhaps youl l share SOIllC experie nces with us Vicky

Marlin Thissen 78 is a foreman with the

region or Halton at ih Milton wa ter po llushytion control plant

Evelyn Evie (Isaacs) Whilwham 80 is a planning ass istant with Union Gas Co Ltd Chatham She and hu sba nd Bob have

c hanged their address They are at 70 Ottawa Drive C ha tham Ont N7L 216 0

In Memoriam A lormer faculty mcmber in the DeshypaI1ment of Geography Barsa Kelly was among the victims of the Air India Hight 182 disaster that occ urred

off the coas t of Irel and las t June ~ mr(sa Vas headed tor India on a reshy

search project at the time of her

death S he was the wife of Protessor Kenneth Kelly Department of Geogshyra phy On behalf of its members and all those who chc ri shed their con tacts with Barsa the Board of Directors of the College of Social Science Alumni Association extend their s incere symshy

pathy to Professor Kelly 0

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College of Biological Science Alumni Assoc BIOmiddotALUMNI NEWS

Editor Marie (Boissonneault) Rush 80

HONORARY PRESIDENT Professor Bruce Sells Dean

PRESIDENT David Airdrie BSc 82 Microbiology

PAST PRESIDENT Dr Chris Wren BSc 77 Marine Biology PhD 83

VICE-PRESIDENT Dee Britney BSc 74 Fisheries amp Wildlife MSc 81

SECRETARY-TREASURER Kclly Munkittrick BSc 80 Fisheries amp Wildshylife MSc 83

DIRECTORS Lorraine Bruce-Allen BSc 80 Zoology MSc 84 Jim Elliott BSc 79 Marine Biology Keith Harris BSc 76 Marine Biology Dr Doug Holdway BSc 76 Marine Biology MSc 78 Aquatic Toxicology PhD 83 Krista (McAuley) Soper BSc 79 Marine Biolshyogy Karin Davidson-Taylor BSc 83 Zoology

From Dave Airdrie 82 the

President How time flies when youre having fun Your editor Marie (Boissonneault) Rush 80 tell s me that this note to you will be in the Fall issue of the Guelph Alumnus so Ill bring you up to date on happenings since your 1985-86 Board of Directors was inshystalled in June

The CBS Alumni Association was parshyticularly busy during June Alumni Weekshyend events including the Wildlife Art Show and Sale and the barbecue at the Rockwood Conservation Area were well attended

Thanks must go to Krista (McAuley) Soper 79 and Lorraine Bruce-Allen 84 for their first-rate efforts in organizing and running the art show From all accounts it was ex tremely well done and is sure to be repeated in 1986

Further thanks mu st go to Keith Harshyris 76 for his efforts in once again organizing the barbecue at Rockwood Keith has done a terrifi c job with this event s ince its inception Hopefully these two events will be expanded in the coming year

Last spring the objective of $10 000 for the Keith Ronald Fellowship Fund was reached and we thank all who generously contributed to this fund Its to be hoped that this is only the first of many scholarships initiated through the CBSAA

Many of you will now be aware of the changes which the Universitys Department of Alumni Affairs has undergone in rece nt months Most important is the arrival of Marjorie Millar as director of the Departshyment It seems that President Matthews is placing greater emphasis on the importance of the Department due in part to the impenshyding capital campaign I am sure that youll all notice many beneficial innovations

The CBSAA has I feel reached a point in its development where we must heighten our profile both among alumni and undershygraduates In order to increase the awareness of the Association the Board has plans to embark on some new programs

The goals are as I see them two-fold first of all we need YOU to get more inshyvolved whether its participation in our proshygrams or s upport for the Assoc iation through your membership The fact that youre reading this demonstrates an interest which we would like to heighten

Secondly we re working at helpin g undergraduates before graduation to beshycome more aware of our Association Hopeshyfully we ll get helpful input and suggestions from many of you in the near future Reshymember - YOUR alumni association is what YOU make it

Dave Airdrie BSc 82 President Colshylege of Biological Science AA

FACULTY ADVISORS Dr Denis Lynn Zoology Dr Margaret Hauser M icroshybiology Dr John Hilton Nutrition Dr John Sandys Award Phillips Botany amp Genetics Dr Brian Wilson Human BiologyKinetics The Ontario Confederation of University

Faculty Associations (OCUFA) has awarded UGAA REPRESENTATIVES Karin Dr Alexander Sandy Middleton DepartshyDavidsonTaylor BSe X) Zoology Keith ment of Zoology one of the nine OCUFA Harris BSc 76 Marinc Biology Rob Teaching Awards for 1984 Milnc BSe XI MSe 84 Marine Bio Dr Middleton was nominated for this -award by colleagues students administrashyEX-OFFICIO DIRECTORS Ed Berdusco tors alumni and faculty It acknowledges president CBSSC Steve Spring past presishy outstanding ability and is considered to be dent CBSSC the provinces highest honour for excellence

in university teaching HKAA REPRESENTATIVE Nick Dalton I think there are two keys to being an BSe 77 Human Kinetics effective teacher Sandy says One is to

have respect for the student the other is to EDITOR RIO-ALUMNI NEWS Marie make a genuine intellectual and time comshy(Boissonneault) Rush B Se XO Marine mitmcnt to the course Biology 0 Dr Alexander Middleton Congratulations Dr Middleton 0

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Grad News Human Biology

Cathy Knipe BSc 79 MSc 83 is a Ph D st ud ent at Iowa State University Ames Iowa USA She is studying Moshylecular Biology

Shelly Lugg BSc 83 is a stude nt at Simon Fraser University Burnaby BC

Human Kinetics

Susan (Wright) Kwiatkowski BSc 80 is a recreation therapist at York Central Hosshypital Toronto Her spouse Ed graduated from Ryerson in 1979

Donna Marie (Kadwell) 1vose BSc 79 and husband John ji ve in Thorold Shes a physica l education supervisor at the Niagara Peninsula Crippled Childrens Centre

Mary Ellen (Mew) Walker BSc 83 is the activity co-ordinator at Spruce Lodge Stratford

Dr Ken Danylchuk BSc(PE) 73 is a s ur ge ry re s ident at the H itchcockshyDartmouth Medical Center Hanover N H USA

Kathryn (Tarry) Myers BSc 78 is a teacher with the Middlesex COunty Board of Educati on Hyde Park

WildUfe

Vicky Johnston 84 bega n an MSc at Lakehead University Thunder Bay in May Shes working on the reprodu ctive biology of Lake Superior rin g-billed gull s

Nutrition

Or 0010 Ohiokpehai 77 lectures in food and nutrition at the Unive rs ity of Ife Nigeria

Microbiology

John Semple 78 is a PhD ca ndidate in the Department of Mic rob iology amp Immushynology at Queens Uni vers ity Kingston He will be doing a post-doctora l at the Banting amp Best Depattment of Medica l Research University of Toronto

Unspecialized

Peter Adams 79 and Beth (Sarjeant) 79 are happy to announce their recent marshyriage Beth is a research technici an with the Depanment of Medicine Univers ity of Ca lshygary Alta and Peter operates a business with the se ismic service industry

Marine Biology

Jorgen Hansen 75 and his wife Drusilla (Dol be) Arts 75 live in Gloucester Jorge n is a staff officer with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Ottawa

CoUege Honour RoU - Winter 85 Semester 06

Margorie Fe rgusson 894 Human Biology JoAnna Milan 860 Biology

Semester 07 Sandra Noble 856 Microbiology

Semester 08 Marga ret Docker 876 Marine Biology Thomas Johnston 87 0 Fi sheries Biology Debra Underhill 858 Microbi ology

James Wright 858 Biology Tobin Peever 854 Botany

Alexander Hanke 852 Zoology Rebecca Rodgers 852 Human Bi ology

Tracey Robin son 882 BSc( HK ) Rebecca Halonen 880 BSc(HK )

Swdent has obtained standing for second time Student has obtaincd standing for third time

Home Town

Oakville Ottawa

Dorchester

Guelph New Liskeard Kingston Thunder Bay Bracebridge Grafton Calgary Alta Guelph Georgetown

Donald MacLennan 75 and hi s wife Katherine live in Chatham Donald is a biologi st-supervisor with the Ministry of Natural Resources Lake SI Clair Fisheries Assessmen t Unit Tilbury 0

College of Biological Science

Alumni Association

Wildlife Art Show

Well it happened June 15 and 16 have come and gone but not withshyout event The Graduate Students Lounge was transformed from a cozy meeting place into an an gallery There was much movi ng of furniture and hanging of an work with the end product being our fi rst ever CBSAA Wildlife Art Show

In total there were 20 wildlite artists partic ipating all tine ani sts in their own right Maybe you reshymember Ut a Stre live a nd Dr Ed Bailey Wow I You should see their wood works

Rick Beaver 73 also showed some of his work hes a wildlife imshypressionist and the colour and move shyment he paint s into each piece is eloquent Donald Dority 76 showed us the line photographer he has become There were other ani sts - too many to mention but all of extremely high calibre

Id like to mention one las t name though - Cindy Hayward manager of the Graduate Students Lounge If you ever need a steady hand to get an event off the ground shes the one to co ntact Without her hel p there would have been a whole heap of orshyga ni za tional problems From which we would have been unable to escape

All in all we had a successful show Thanks artists and viewers for making our efforts worthwhile 0

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New Minister of AgricultureOntario Agricultural College Alumni Assoc OAC ALUMNI NEWS

Editor Dr Harvey W Caldwell 51

Ontari OS new mini ster of ag riculture Jack Riddell 52A and 57 a cash crop farmer from the Exeter area comes to the position of Ontario s Mini ster of Agriculture and Food with ten years of expe rience as Liberal caucus cr itic for agriculture

The min is ter sa id that life under a Libshyeral government will give agriculture a higher priority than it has ex perienced in the past It will be considered one of the major industries in this province

Jack also pro mi sed to consult a great

Basic Technology in Action shyTurning Stones Into Bread By Ann Middleton Information Services

A new University of Guelph projec t in Tanza nia Africa should aid th e Third Wo rld s ubsistence leve l farmer The $400000 three-year projec t funded by the International Development Resea rch Centre (IDRC) will invol ve fltlculty of the Uni vershysitys Department of Land Resou rce Sc ience and Soko ine Uni versity of Ag riculture in Morogoro Central Tanza ni a Aim of the enterpri se is to use loca lly ava il ab le rock materials as soil amendm en ts and con shyditioners

The project came about when Ott awas IDRC brought together a team of two geo logists with an interest in improving co nshyditions for African farmers Professor Ward Chesworth with the Department of Land Resource Science has a long-standing intershyes t in turning rock s into fertili zers deshyve loped during work in West Africa and the Canltlry Islands where local farmers have spread volcanic rock on their field s for two centu ries In his lab and in the Blue Springs basin near Acton Ontario Professor Chesshyworth has been conducting experiment s on the levels at which common rocks re lease nutri ents into soil solutions

The other team member Dr Peter van Straltl ten is ori ginally from Germany but spe nt e ight years with the United Nations in Tan zania looking for metals and metal deshyposi ts and working on an in ve ntory of ferti shyli zer raw materials in south-east Africa

During thi s period Tanza nian food production per capita fell dramaticall y leadshying Dr van Strltlaten to try to find ways to help the food situation In ex periments in his garden in Dodomo Tanzaniltl he was able to increase yields of vegetables using locally

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available geological materia ls and organic wastes

Noting the common interes ts of the two men the Canadian age ncy introd uced them and Dr van Straaten relocated in Guelph Co-ordinators of the project are Professor Cheswo rth and Tan za ni an sc ie nti st Dr Johnson Semoka of Sokoine University coshyauthor of a text on so il sc ience much used in agricultural circles in Africa

Technical assistant Peter Sl11i th is working with Tanzanian rock specimens in the Land Resource Science lab and two other Tanzanian scientists will be involved

In addition to academics from bo th institutions members of the Geological Survey of Tanzania will also work on the project both in the Morogoro area and at Mbeya station in south-western Tanzania

Roc k sa mples will be collected and crushed and field tests and pot ex periments carried out here and on location When reshysu lt s have bee n obtained extension work will begin in Africa under the direc tion of Dr Semoka It is hoped that members of a Me nnonite Central Committee group workshying at Mbeya will design a simple rock crusher for the use of local farmers

Tanzania has a major phosphate deshyposi t wh ich will be tapped by the project as well as ground s ilicates including volcanic ash Liming materials such as limestone dolomite marl and ca rbonatite will also be evaluated

Professor Chesworth points out that alshythough No rth Americans place much emshyphasi s on the big three of soil nutrition shynitrogen phosphorus and potassium (NPK) - there are actually about 20 necessary

deal with the farm organizations on the direction his ministry should be taki ng

I dont believe that we can sit in our so-ca ll ed ivory towers and introduce the kind of programs that are go ing to be mea nshyingful unless we get consultation from the farmers and their spokes people

He has been a member of the provincial legislature for 12 years He spent his first two years as energy cri tic and later environshyment critic before mov ing into agriculture Jack and Anit a have a family of five 0

nutrie nts including the minor ones In some areas of Tanza nia the decline

in soil fe rtility is in part due to the settling of widespread populations into villages where land has been used without concern for nutrients Tn other part s of the country productivity has declined because of leachshying of plant nutrie nts durin g normal rainfall and also from the continuous use of acidifyshying fertilizers such as ammo nium su lphate Dr Chesworth point s out that the current practice of NPK fe rtili zation totally ignores secondary and micronut rient requirements of plants It is hoped that the projec t wilt address thi s problem

Our approac h is basic tec hn ology our target group the poorest far mers Dr van Straaten explains One of the problems in the past Dr Ches worth says has been convincing agronomists that it s worth purshysuing this kind of elementary tec hnology approach Theyre very skeptical that you can take common roc ks wi thou t major inshydustrial proces ing and use them to advanshytage on tropical soils

A s ideline area of research is work with zeolites open framework si licates that often occ ur in volcanic rocks Some zeolites can be used to trap nitrogen in the form of ammonia which would otherwise be los t in gaseous form When added to cow manure for exampl e and stomped in by the beasts themselves zeolites enrich an already valushyabl e fertil ize r Dr van Straaten explains

The zeolite research is being carried out in co njunction with Professor Colin Fyfe Department of Chemistry an intershynat io na ll y kn ow n authority o n zeo lit e -che mi stry

Orie result of the work of the Un ive rs ity of Guelph geo logists is an ag rogeology ne tshywork currentl y being set up bya number of African cou ntries as the result of di sc usshysions following a paper by Dr van Straaten and Professor Chesworth The paper was given recently at meetings of the UN Ecoshynomic Commiss ion for Africa in Zambia 0

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A Designing Grad The need for a summer job six years ago has ended in a Guelph grad des igning golf courses

When in 1979 Lisa Maki now

BLA 84 was searching for a job that would assist her in her studies at the Univershysity she applied to the city of Kitchener

She could have wound up in any

number of areas in the parks and recreation department but Rockway and Doon Valley

course superintendent Ed Ortlieb gave her the chance to join the work crew at Rockway fltor the first couple of years it was just a job that got her outdoors in the summer then by chance she got interested in the game itself

And now shes embarked on a career in golf course design

Lisa the 24-year-old oldest daughter of Ted Maki a former general manager of the

Lisa Maki BLA 84 Kitchener Rangers left last July for Lakeshyland Florida where she Joined Links Deshysign which de sig ns and oversees golf course construction throughout the United 1983 and a friend of the family who knew States The company is considered the sec shy was interested in golf course work arranged ond-largest of its type behind the one run by a meeting with Ronald Garl said Lisa I US golf legend Jack Nicklaus who deshy had an official job interview in April of 84 signed the Glen Abbey course in Oakville and then went to Florida in August of the

How does a young Kitchener woman same year to familiarize myself with the

end up working for Ronald Garl a 40-yearshy firms projects

old graduate of the University of Florida Because I had focused much of my who apprenticed under such well-known deshy University work on such things as turf man shy

signers as Roben Trent Jones and Joseph agement and had done pan of my bachelor Lee Again it was just a chance opportunity of landscape architecture thes is on what

We were in Florida in December of makes British golf courses great and the

Sisters of Accident Victims Receive Diplomas

A tragic accident just prior to Spring Convocation resulted in the deaths oftwo graduands of the Associate Diploma in Agriculture Program Jeff Bikus 85A of West Lome and Nick Davidson 85Afrom Zimbabwe Joy Davidson sister ofNick came from Zimbabwefor the Convocation She was sponsored by the OAC Alumni Association Classes of85A alld 86A Norm McCollulIl 66A honorary class president 85A Don and MiidredMcCollum Jenny Ballentine and her parents Dr Steve Bowley 78 and80 honorary class president 86A and the University Centre Administration Our sympathy is extended to the families and friends of these two popular studel1ls Pictured are Ito r Jenny Ballantine friend ofJeff Bikus Lealln Bikus sister of Jeff Joy Davidson sister of Nick and Klaus Kristiansen a studellt from Zimbabwe

other on golf course residential design he was impressed

In order to learn what made British

courses great Lisa spent a semester in Engshyland and Scotland visiting researching sketching photographing and playing 16 historic courses including the famous links courses which by tradition are the

only clubs to host the British Open Links layouts are courses that border the sea and have been built or developed over sand

bases

Approximately 15 students a year take

advantage of the School of Land scape Arshychitectures Semester Abroad Program fi shynancing the trips themselves However the program is supported by an annual $5000 grant from the Alma Mater Fund so alumni can claim a cenain amount of credit for Lisas success She was a recipient in 1983

of part of that years AMF grant Im not sure my mother and father

were very keen about my trave lling around England and Scot lane all alone but it was a truly great experience she said middot1 not only met many wonderful and helpful peoshyple got to play the great courses like St

Andrew s Royal Troon Turnberry and my favorite of all Royal Dornoch

After a complicated and lengthy US immigration process which took nearly a year she was granted her permanent work

visa She was in regular contact with her new

boss after returning to Kitchen er - she re turned to work at Rockway and Doon while awaiting the vi sa approval - and then last July plunged immediately into

projects including work at a mens tournashyment players 36-hole complex in Sarasota and a Ladies Professional Golf Assoc iation course in Melbourne where she worked in association with LPGA tour players Beth Daniels and Sally Little

Despite the fact that the job involves

vy ing with rattlesnakes alligators and Iild

pigs when I have to tramp through forests and swamps in applying my design work to certain areas I love the outdoor work Lisa

said At the same time she doesnt have any

probleIl1s giving orders to hard-hatted heavy-machinery construction workers when she is the field supervisor for on-site

work think I may have raised a few eye shy

brows when I staned work at Rockway but I was accepted

Lisa isnt sure how long this pan of her life will last and she has no way of knowing whether any of her courses will eve r be known as Lisa Maki layouts But that doesnt

concern her They may be Links Design projects but Ill know they were basically my courses 0

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Klink Lecture Dr Doug Morrison 49 Department of Poultry Science was chosen to deliver the 1985 Klink Lecture

The Klink lecture is ~ponsored by the Agricultural Inst itute of Canada and named after the Institute s founding president Preshysented by an outstanding lecture r the lecture is delivered through a coast-to-coast tour and concerns a topic of current significance to the agricultural industry and the nation

Dr Morri son stated that there is a need for professionalization in an imal agriculshyture in order to give it an improved image and make it more acceptable to the conshysumer

Address ing members of the Ontario Inshystitute of Agrologists in London Ontario he told his audience that the agriculture inshydustry in Canada ranks among the best in the world and producers have to ensure thi s is shown and make sure that peer pressure prevents producers from doing things that we cant defend

He suggested some type of professhysiona l approach established by the farming organization whereby expertise would be required instead of merely encouraged

This is a mu ch beller ap proach th an some edict from society through governshyment legi slation I strong ly object to legislashytion designed to protect me from myself he said adding that there are currently enough regulations existent through legislation that dictate what farmers can and cannot do

If a farmer were a profess ional hi s reward wou Id be in profits - about as meanshyingful a reward as has ye t been devised

Benefits of a more professionalized approach would include an improved image of the farmer to the consumer an increase in communication a more efficient industry

which is essential for competition improved knowledge on the fa rmers part of health nutrition care markets etc and more awareness of soc ietys concerns

In turn it would also be necessary to provide beller information to the consumer through an educational process because if soc iety is to pay for increased inputs for the long- term good of the nat ion then it is essential society be adequately informed

Morrison remarked that he fee ls the maj ori ty of animal agriculturists are in fact professionals but there has to be a concerted e ffort to at tract as lew people as possible in to the business who do not understa nd farmshying or who are doing things that are unacshyceptable

Consumer concern over dietary value or the amount of drugs contained in animal product s is also reason for farmers to tak e a professional approach They should work to alleviate any misreprese ntations and misin shyformation the public is receiving the proshyfessor noted s tating that farm ers have never produced food as safe and as wholeshysome as it is today

By the turn of the century on a world basis meat consumption is predicted to in shy

crease by abou t 60 per cent while the intake of milk is expected to increase by almost 40 per cent

A major fac tor for this rise in intake result s from th e fact that developing nations will begin to consume animal products as soon as they can afford them China is an excellent exa mple of this said the professor who commented that nation is now movshying as rapidly as possible to increase animal production

With all these factors is mind Dr Morshyri son sa id he is optimistic for the future of the Canad ian animal agriculture industry

Weve got the opportunities and can take advantage of them he said 0

Mark Bernards 85 cenlre was the recipienl oftwo OAC Alumni Foundation awards the OAC Alumni Graduate Award and the Beth Duncan Gold Medal Left is Gord Nixon 37 Foundashytion chairman and director and right NR Rick Richards 38 treasurer

Entrepreneur in Residence

Dr Donald Shaver

Dean Freeman McEwen is pleased to be working with Dr Donald McQueen Shaver the Universitys first Agricultural Entreshypreneur-i n-Res idence

Dr Shaver a native of Cambt idge Onshytari o is found er chairman and chief exshyecutive officer of Shaver Poultry Breed ing Farms Limited The compan y distributes chicken breeding stock to 90 countries from its head office in Cambridge and three subshysid iaries in the United States Britain and France He retired from his executive reshysponsib ilities on August 30 but is conshytinuing as director and adv isor to the company

From 1940 to 1945 Dr Shaver served with the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps in Africa and Europe retiring as regimental commanding officer He is past president of the Canadian Hatchery Federation the Poulshytry Products Institute of Canada the Canashydian Lincoln Red Society and Maine-Anjou Association He is a member of the Order of Canada Honorary Life Member of the Worlds Poultry Science Association and the Ontario Institute of Agrologi sts He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Science by McGill University and the Centennial Medal by the OAC

The Entrepreneu r-in-Reside nce pro shygram was initiated and financially supshyported by OAC Class of 58 to champion -the role of private enterpri se within soc iety The appointment is for a two-year period during which time Dr Shaver will present lectures lead workshops and consult with faculty and students

The Agricultural Entrepreneur-in-Resishydence program at the University is believed to be a first in agr icultural education around the world 0

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University Of Guelph Involved in $68 Million Chinese Project The University of Guelph has embarked on a co-operative $68 million project that will ~ink five Canadian and Chinese universities and agricultural institutions

The four-year Black Dragon River Proshyjeo supported by the Canadian Internashytional Deve lopment Agency (C IDA) involves Guelph the University of Alberta Olds College in AlbeI1a and two Chinese institutions - Heilongjiang Land Reclamashytion University and Liu He Training College in northeastern Heilongjiang Province

Under th e term s of the agreement training will be provided at the three Canashydian institutions for personnel from the two Chinese university institutions

The Liu He Training College is respo nshysible for educating state farm employees Training will range from short courses to undergraduate and graduate level programs

Faculty from the Canadian universities and Olds College will travel to China during the summer months to give lectures and

short courses The area borderi ng on Russia has treshy

mendou s potential for agricultural deve lopshyment Professor Neal Stos~opf 57 direct or of OACs diploma courses is Guelphs co-ordinator for the Chinese projshyect He was part of the Canadian gove rnment planning miss ion and ex plains that although the climate combines the cold winters and hot summers of Alberta most of the moisshyture is rain that falls between Jul y and Sepshytember

Although latitude is the sa me as Edmontons at 52 degrees north the area grows soybeans and corn as well as wheat The land has two to four feet of black topsoil waiting to be drained and planted he says with potential for livestock proshyduction

The proj ec t centre is located at the Unishyversity of Alberta with administration in Guelph being carried out by the Centre for International Programs 0

Provincial apiarist retires after 19 years You might say Philip Burkes job brought sweet rewards

Until his retirement recently Philip was the provincial apiarist - sort of Onshytarios chief of bees - while working at the University of Guelphs Department of Environmental Biology

He joined the University as a lectu rer in 1943 and then became assistant professor and later associate professor

At the same time the Ontario Departshyment of Agriculture (as the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food was known then) made him the assistant provincial apiarist In 1966 he became provincial apiarist

Of course he advised beekee pers on ways they could make their colonies more productive and efficient and fielded many apiary management question s - including how to prevent bees from swarming

If they swarm one-third to one-half of th e colony takes off so you lose a big source of your honey crop Swarming is trigshygered when the hive becomes overcrowded so the beekeeper mu st stay ahead of them It involves a whole manipulation of the hive through the season visiting each colony at least once every ten to 14 days he says Philip also worked with farmers whose

crops depended on pollination by bees At one time bees were needed for

pollin ating greenhouse produce such as cucumbers But in the past 15 years the trend has been toward new types that are self fruiting he says

But the biggest change in the industry over the years was the trend towards Illakshying corn king in Ontario - a trend that is now being reversed he says

From 1949 and on a lot of bee coloshynies were moved to the western provinces tollowi ng th e reduction in alfalfa production in Ontario and the increased corn acreage he says

Now prospec ts for honey production in Ontario are better than in past years beshycause of the increased alfalfa acreage and other legumes and the trend towards more diversified cropping

Not surpris ingly prices have changed in the industry over the years too Back in the 1920s it cost about $10 to start a bee colony today start-up costs are about $100 to $125 per colony

Much of his work at the University looked at ways to prevent di seases in bees using selected antibiotics

He was secretary for the Ontario Beekeepers Association for 15 yea rs and now acts as a consu It ant for the group 0

Wins Crampton Award

Dr Stanley J Slinger 37 the most recent rec ipient of the Earl e W Crampton Award for distingui shed service in nutrition is ProshyFessor Emeritus of the Depal1ment of Nutrishytion College of Biolog ica l Science at Guelph

Born in Lowell Ontario Dr Slinger received his BSc from the Ontario Agrishycultural College hi s MSc fro111 the Univershysity of Toronto and a PhD from Cornell University From 1941 to 1965 he was in the Departillent of Poultry Science at the OAC and since 1965 has been in the Department of Nutrition at Guelph serving as chairJl1an from 1965 to 1974

Dr Slinger conducted re sea rch in sevshyeral areas of pou Itry nutrition for Jl10re than 30 years In 1972- 73 a fi sh nutrition laborashytory was set up and thi s laboratory has conshytinued to grow and iJl1prove s i nee One of the primary objectives in both poultry and fi sh nutrition research has been to develop feed to rmulas using feedstuffs of Canadian orishygin 111ese tannulas have been publi shed and continuall y revi sed and have been used extensively by teed manufacturers through shyout Canada Dr Slinger continues to be active in research

Dr Slinger taught poultry nutrition in Poultry Science for 27 years gave seminar courses in nutrition and physiology taught Fundamentals of Nutrition in the Depal1shyment of Nutrition and deve loped and taught courses in fi sh and wildlite nutrition

He has supervi sed the work of Jl1any graduates and it is interesting to note that the Department of Nutrition at Guelph is the only depailment in Canada - and there are very few in the United States - turning out graduates in Fish Nutrition at the PhD leve l

He has helped to establi sh modern poultry industries in Mexico and the areas of South East Asia Africa the Middle East Eastern and Western Europe and the United Kingdom Lectures conlerences and other consultative work have also taken hilll to Jl1any coul1tries over the years

The recipient of numerous honours and awards Dr S linger was made Professor Emeritus of the University in Ino and reshy -ceived the Earl e W Crampton award in 19B4 at Macdonald College Que Thi s award is given by the Faculty of Agriculture in recogshyniti on of significant co ntributions in the field of nutrition through research andlor service The award is named for Dr Earle W Crampton a renowned nutritionist whose career at Macd onald bega n in 1922 and lasted far 51 years 0

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cialist having spent four months in the latter John Reid 84 is technical sales rep Agrico Grad News part of 1984 in Bloemfontein South Africa Sales Ltd Richmond BC

Earl Johnston 46 is president Earl-John Brokers Ltd Delhi

Joe Knox 48 is secretary-treasurer Annco Westeellnc Guelph

Ralph Hills 54 is pastor United Church of Canada Smith Falls Ralph left Zambia last October spending some time in Kenya Israel England and Scotland on the way home He was surprised to meet Charlie Broadwell also 54 on Oxford Street in London Charlie was giving a reception at a large castle for the white bean buyers who purchase beans from Charlies Bean Growers of Ontario Ralph also passes along the word from Louise (Fershyguson) Hope Mac 54 that her husband Don 54 preparing for some future possible social work is studying drug addiction at George Brown College of Applied Ans and Technology Toronto

Joseph Leach 54 is a research scientist Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources Lake Erie Research station Wheatley

Ken Edwards 59 is an industrial engineer Prince George Pulp and Paper Vancouver BC

Fred Theaker 62 is a teacher-biologist Ren frew County Board of Education Aruprior

Howard Lang 67 is senior so il conshyservation advisor for OMAF Cambridge

John Lawrence 69 has been appointed vice-president and ge neral manager De kalb Canada Inc Chatham John is a lso president of the Canadian Agri-marketing Assoc iation

Robert Brooksbank 70 is manager Agrishycultural Department Simcoe area Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce

Alan Duncan BLA 73 is project coshyordinator Groupe d intervention urban de Montreal Montreal Que

Martha (Weir) Collins 75 reports that Anne (Walton) Bayler 75 is at teac hers college in Toronto after spending several years teaching in the Bahamas Martha lives at I Braid Place Guelph and would like to hear news of her classmates

Jim Dyer MSc 75 is a senior resource and environmental officer with the crop producshytion division of Agriculture Canada Ottawa He is on loan as a drought monitoring spe shy

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His wife Barb (Newell) Arts 75 who is a technical editor with Public Works Canada joined him in Bloemfontein for a month

Elizabeth Fedorkow 75 is a market reshysearcher Tetra Pak Inc Markham

Roy Maxwell 75 is an agricultural comshymentator CBC Radio Noon Toronto

Gary Ball 76 is vice-president manufacturshying Mitten Vinyl Inc Cambridge

Garnet McConney 77 is feed lot manager Catllel and Ontario Inc Petersburg

Patrick Meyers 77 OVC 84 is a vetshyerinarian with the Grenville-Dundas Veterinshyary Clinic Kemptville

Martha Frey 78 is secretaryass istant edishytor Canadians for Health Research Wes tshymount Que

Wayne Harrison 79 is assi stant manager Toronto Dominion Bank Elmira His wife is Katherine (McLeod) 77

Sharon Helynk 79 is with the Woodbury Animal Hospital Halifax NS

Jeffery Goebel 80 is resident engineer ACF Canada Ltd Georgetown

Mary Lynn Prong 80 is assistant manager Royal Bank Watford She reports that Bruno Soucy 8Q has changed jobs from OMAF farm ma nagement advisor to agrolog ist London region Royal Bank

Corrie Almack 81 is presidentowner Agshyriculturai Soil and Nutrition Consultants Freelton

Edward Bolton 81 is research farm manshyager AJle lix Inc M ississauga

William Summers 82 MSc 84 is prodshyuct deve lopment rep Du-Pont Canada Streetsville

Dianne (Coker) McDowell 83 is quality assurance supervisor Richardson Foods Ltd Glanw0I1h

John Ross 83 is a program officer Agrishyculture Canada Edmonton Alta

Jeff Burke 84 is a customer service rep Griffith Lab Toronto

Julie Fowler 84 is working for Embury Bros Farms Ltd Newburgh

Karen Rodman 84 is a farm management specialist OMAF Nepean

James Simonds 84 is a crop specialist Cavendi sh Fanns Summerside P E1

Richard West PhD 84 is a research scishyentist Canadian Forestry Service SI John s Nftdo

In Memoriam We regret to report the following deaths

Marie Honsberger 17A died March 1985

Esmond D Clipsham 2IA died on April 6 1985 Esmond had been the proprietor Uneeda Rest Hotel Kilwonhy and was a life member of the OAC Alumni Association

Stanley Ewart Keillor 21 died on February 27 1985 He was a crop farmer at Walshylacetown

John Edward Chalmers 23A died on Febshyru ary 15 1985

Jacobus Van Haarlem 23 at age 85 on July 2 1985 in Vineland He retired as ex shyecutive director of the Hor1icultural Experishymental Station at Vineland in 1970 after 47 years of service there

Hugh Lacklin Paterson 32A died in May 1985 of a heart attack at Rockwood

Murray Cameron Macklin 33A 35 died January n 1985 in Toronto

Garland Alfred Fisk 35 Date of deat h unknown

Gordon Elgin Young 35 died on June 12 1985 at Ing leside

John Miller Fargery 37 on March 22 1985 in Toronto John had been an insurance salesman Farm Credit Corp and was a life member of the OAC Alumni Assoc iation

William Thomson 40 in 1982 in Lonshy shygueuil Que His death was reported recen tl y

Robert Fletcher Madden 54A died on November 26 1984 at age 52 at Napanee

Vera (Mod ric) Kozamplik MSc 73 in Yugoslavia She was the wife of Vinko Kozumplik M Sc 71 0

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From the Dean

Dr Barham

In some of my lellers I have aimed to share

information on some special program or theme with you On this occasion I want to

keep you in touch through a number of lillie items so I shall hold onto some of the bigshy

ger interests for future issues of the Guelph Alumnus

As I write this leller Alumni Weekend 85 is behind us I found it a great weekend

and I thoroughly enjoyed meeting more of our alumni for the first time while

especially appreciating recognizing more

and more familiar faces and names from previous occasions

This year the Classes of 65 and 75 requested an up-date on our programs and

the developments we have experienced together in the College over the last few

years I guess that we were able to demonshy

strate much more development in our research and teaching programs than we could in some parts of the physical facilities within the buildings Still we had thorshyoughly congenial and I think very useful

meetings with both of these classes and added a nostalgic tour of our facilities

It was splendid to meet both of these groups I confess however that I had not

foreseen that a large part of the interest of the Class of 65 rested on the fact that many of their children are now gearing up to enter FACS

I was able to remind them that the BASc and B Comm degrees both lead

into fascinating and challenging careers for sons and nephews as well as daughters and

nieces Some of you coming to Alumni Weekend 86 might wish to get in touch with me to arrange an up-date on our acti vities then too

One of my special pleasures of Alumni Weekend was to join with the Class of 35 at the Golden Anniversary Dinner This occashy

sion is always a particular delight given the special personal pleasures reflected in the

friendships shared on this anniversary And I do want members of the Class of

35 to know that their gift of the magnificent Terry Legault Roman Festival print looks really outstanding and just right amidst the

contemporary decor of the FACS lounge

One last item of alumni news which I want to mention is the fact that I met with

Jean (Nairn) Carter 38 and some of her committee recently I learned that they have

been making quite outstanding progress in establishing the trust fund that will support their new graduate student award in geronshy

tology The first award presentation of $1000 is being made this fall but members of the Class of 38 are still pushing on with their fund raising in order to bring the

annual trust-fund yield to a level of $2 000 We all think that the Class of 38 grads

have been quite remarkable in their detershymination to build up a significant fund to

support work in this important new field of scholarship and research I know that we

shall all appreciate your support for them in reaching their target

I met with Audrey Warner and Annette

Yeager 62 recently They advised me of their concern for the needs of teachers wantshy

ing to prepare themselves for adding Family Studies to their fields of professional speshy

cialization and of other teachers already working in that field who find themselves in need of some up-dating especially in view of the curriculum changes which appear to be around the corner

In this regard I want to mention two

items which might be of interest First our faculty in FACS have been

quite heavily engaged in working with

teachers and others in thinking planning debating and writing for the curriculum developme~ts envisaged for the Ontario Academic High School Credits

Most especially we have had as memshybers of the Canadian Family in Perspective group Dr Jean Sabry with her own special

interest in human nutrition Dr Grant

McCracken in clothing Drs Marshall Fine and Claude Guldner with their expertise in family relations and Drs Anne Martin Matshythews and Joe Tindale with their special strengths in life-span development and

aging - quite a team of contributors Secondly I want to mention in relation

to my meeting with Audrey and Annette that we now have a number of courses avai 1shy

able in a six-week format offered in summer sessions provided on campus

Perhaps of even more interest to those of you who wont find it practical to take

classes on campus at Guelph we have an annual offering of distance or corresponshy

dence-type courses Many of these will be of very pertinent

interest to a number of teachers The current list includes Human Development Marital and Family Dynamics Personal and Family Finance Development of Human Sexuality Nutrition and Man and the Exceptional Child in the Family

You can find out more about these

offerings by writing directly to Guelph Disshytance Education University of Guelph

Macdonald Institute shyFamily and Consumer Studies Alumni Assoc

Editor Carol Telford-Pittman 75

Guelph Ont NIG 2WI or by getting in touch with my office

One of the reasons that we have put

ourselves so significantly behind the development of these distance courses is that we did not have the resources to meet

the demand for providing our courses in the more traditional class format at locations

away from the Guelph campus As usual there is much more to share

with you but it will just have to hold until

my next letter I look forward to being in touch with you again then 0

Olive Thompson Honoured

Olive (Thompson) Thompson 35

-The Mac-FACS Alumni Association was very pleased to present a Citation of Appreshyciation to Olive (Thompson) Thompson

35 during Alumni Weekend 85 festivities Olive has given much time energy

support and leadership to the College and to the University through her years of involveshyment with the Mac-FACS Alumni Associashytion Class of Mac 35 activities and the University of Guelph Alumni Association

Our University s alumni organizations are stronger and more effective because of

the years of commitment and personal sershyvice that Olive has contributed

Olive - We salute you 0

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New at HAFA By John Hearn

Infonnation Services

An innovative course developed by the School of Hotel and Food Administration (HAFA) is focussing the attention of undershygraduates on the analysis of operational problems in the hospitality industry and the writing skills required to express and comshymunicate that analysis

Students are required to find summer jobs in the hospitality industry and then to write five papers of ascending complexity during the first semester of their second year using text readings specially edited for this course by the Schools Director Proshyfessor Tom Powers

We have a unique responsibility to prepare students not just for their first job but for future jobs further down the line says Dr Powers Possession of a university degree should imply an ability both to anashylyse problems and to communicate observashytions and recommendations In todays corporate world reports papers and letters are management tools and written comshymunication is a survival skill

The HAFA faculty decided further to emphasize writing skills by adopting a style manual developed by Professor Margaret Hund leby Department of Engl ish Language and Literature for this course as an integral part of the Schools other courses

In order to familiarize faculty with the use of the manual and the grading of student writing Professor Hundleby was invited to conduct a two-day workshop which atshytracted the attention of Vice-President Howard Clark and Associate Vice-President Janet Wardlaw as well as faculty from other disciplines s uch as psychology land resource science microbiology and history

The program Professor Hundleby told the seminar requires students to complete five report papers based on their own obsershyvations

The first paper requires a detailed description of the physical layout of the host operation plus an appraisal and operating cost analysis of its heating air-conditioning and ventilation systems

A second paper asks the student to describe and evaluate staff structure funcshytion compensation package and efficiency

Cost control is the subject of a third paper Purchasing practices food producshytion cost traCking and inventory manageshyment all come under this heading

Marketing is the fourth subject area What market segment is the operation aimed at What consumer need does the operation satisfy What is the nature of the

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Left to right- Professors Cathy Schrye Writing Centre Tom Muller HAFA Belty Upton HAFA Mike Jenkinson OAC 63 OAC dean s office Mary Rogers History and back to camera Bernie Katz Library reviewing cases drawn from studefll papers in a two-day workshop Evaluating Students Writing conducted by Professor Margaret Hundleby

competition in the target market

The fifth paper examines the intangishybles of management sty Ie How does the role of the manager affect relations with customshyers staff and head office

Professor Hundleby commenting on some of the problems of the course says whatever we call it students tend to conshyclude that what they re writing is an acashydemic paper of some kind - which of course it is - but we need to make the connection in their minds with the real the corporate world out there They also tend to think that longer is better and write about what they know - rather than what is import ant The development of a proper sense of for whom they are writing is itself a problem-solving skill

Another problem according to Proshyfessor Hundleby is what she calls the new illiteracy - a verbal dysfunction resulting from an impoverished vocabulary

Style too is a matter of considerable

AMPHI Spin-offs The School of Hotel and Food Administra shytions annual Advanced Management Pro shygram for the Hospitality Industry (AMPHI) now in its third year is spinning off new management development activities says HAFA Director Tom Powers Earlier this year 20 people attended a workshop on accounting and finance presented by Proshyfes sor William Braithwaite School of Agrishycultural Economics and Extension Educashytion and three similar programs will be offered in different parts of the country over the next year and a half

Another program still in the planning stage is a six-day hospitality managers development course designed for middle management by AMPHIs associate direcshy

concern She also mentioned careless senshytence structure style that is inappropriate to the content lack of connective logic failure to understand the nature of a paragraph as a literary entity the frivolous use of colloshyquiali sms an absence of any sense of the harmonious sound of words on paper and of course a growing list of commonly misused words - e g it could of had that affect

There s a tendency to see s tyle as a decorative flourish rather than as an aspect of content she concluded

Professor Powers sees the development of verbal communication skills as central to the whole idea of liberal education Cershytainly he says its useful for HAFA stushydents to understand how a cost control system works - but its at least as important to be able to think logically analyse logshyically and communicate conclusions in a way that is credible informative coherent and complete in fact these are the classic goals of a liberal education 0

tor Professor John Patterson and a consulshytant group of AMPHI alumni

AMPHI continues to attract internashytional attention participants in thi s years program which began in April include senior executives from many of North Americas most distinguished hotels and restaurants The four-week course offers an intensive program based primarily on case studies written by Professo rs Patterson -Braithwaite Carl Riegel and Tom Muller

The growing volume of AMPHI cases indicates that thi s is the largest s ingle research program currently under way in any hotel school in North America says Proshyfessor Powers AMPHls network of conshytacts is giving us access to a senior-level view of the industrys current problems and prospects 0

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Research AssociateComing Soon A AppointedModel Play Facility

Dr Joan Norris

Dr Joan Norris has held the position of Research Associate at the Gerontology Research Centre since last spring

Joan is working with faculty to develop and promote research related to population aging and is available for consultation with faculty on research design funding sources and publication

In addition to this development work she is continuing her personal program of research She works for the Gerontology Censhytre two days per week and the balance of her

The Family Studies Laboratory Schools pre-school play facility fell 10 a Grounds time is spent in the Department of Family Department wrecking machine recently Studies where she has held a faculty appointshy

ment since 1980 Joan holds a Ph D in Psychology from

the University of Waterloo and is also a regisshytered psychologist Her personal research

The Mllc-FACS Special Projects Commitshyinterests include social competence in older

tee Ito r Bonnie Kerslake 82 Association adults peer relationships and grandshy

president Linda (Wo[e) Markle 73 chairshyparenting 0

man and Gail Murray 78 Missing comshymillee member is Rita (Klassen) Weigel 77 The aim of the committee is to raise funds to redevelop the Family Studies Laboshy In Memoriam ratory Schools and raise itto the level where it will be regarded as a model pre-school

Eileen Margaret (Manahan) Alwayplay facility

390 October 21984 in Vancouver BC

Jean (Horrell) Atkinson 240 March 5 1985 in Aurora

Class of 35 Gift Oorothy (Lockard) Honsberger 300Centre panel Roman Carnival

In order to commemorate their anniversary July 51985 in Weiland Mac 35 has traditionally given a scholshyarship to a FACS student once every five Isabel J Lockerbie 300 March 31 years This year on the 50th anniversary of 1985 in Toronto their graduation and in addition to the scholarship an etching entitled Roman Patricia G (Smith) McKay-Barry 55 Carnival by Terry Legault has been added March 17 1985 in London Ont to the Universitys collection of Canadian alt The etching is hanging in the FACS Velma E (Conn) Partridge 260 April faculty lounge 29 1985 in Niagara Falls Ont shy

The theme of Roman Carnival was favoured by neo-clas sical and romantic Helen E (Kelly) Robinson 220 April painters during the 19th century The etching 30 1985 in Dundas captures the moment at which wild horses are released to race through the streets of Norma I (Motherwell) Roy 350 in Rome The artist has chosen to represent the Moosejaw Sask wild chaotic motion ot the horses rather than explicitly depict in detail the animals Lillian S (Moore) Usher 340 March 28 and the architectural background 0 1985 in Cobourg 0

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College of Physical Science Alumni Assoc SCIMP

Editor Bob Winkel

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Yes Dr Earl MacNaughtoll has relired alshylogelher bUI Ihis wonl be Ih e lasl you I hear from him reSI assured Before he and his wife Jean lOok oJf for Auslralia and New Zealand Deparlmenl of Physics slaf and faculty held a galhering al Ihe FacullY Club and presenled Ihe couple wilh an alumni clock

Back to Guelph

The headquarters for (GWC)2 came

back to Guelph in July for a threeshy

year period while Professor Robert Balahura Chemistry and Biochemisshy

try serves as director (GWC)2 offices have been set up

in Room 122 and 123 Physical Scishyences building The University of

Waterloo will maintain a satellite office during the three-year Guelph

rotation Dr Balahura and adminshy

istrative assistant Andrea Turner may

be reached at Ext 3865 0

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Physics Professor Elected to Royal Society

Bernhard Nickel

Department of Phy s ics Professor Bernhard Nickel has been elected a Fellow

of the Royal Society of Canada and was formally inducted into the Society at its

annual meeting in Montreal in June

A member of the Physics faculty since

1974 Professor Nickel is no stranger to

prizes and awards In 1981 he received the Herzberg Medal the Canadian Associashy

tion of Physicists award to a promising young scienti st In 1978 he won a Sloan

Fellowship from the New York-based Sloan Foundation

He achieved recognition by navigating

the esoteric seas of condensed matter physshy

ics Hi s co lleagues call him a leading masshyter in the art of mathematical physics By

exploiting the existing mathematical frameshywork in subtle ways he has worked through

thickets that have stopped other physic ists

High order perturbation calculations

done by him played a key role in verifying

the quantitative reliability of the theory of

underlying continuous phase transitions in systems

He earned BScE and MSc degrees from the University of Saskatchewan and a

PhD from the University of California at

San Diego He was a research associate at

Cornell and Oxford Universities and a postshy

doctoral research Fellow at the Univers itY of Alberta before coming to Guelph in 1974

He has been a visiting fellow at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory at the Univershy

sity of California at San Diego at Harvard

and at the Schlumberger-Doll Re searc h In stitute in Connecticut

With his election he becomes one of

six Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada at

Guelph The others are Professors Howard

Clark Peter Egelstaff Gabriel Karl Bruce Sells and Herbert Armstrong And it brings to five the number of me mbers of the

Guelph-Waterloo Program for Graduate Work in Physics (GWP)2 who can put the

coveted FRSC after their names 0

Halleys Comet and the Babylonians By Professors Nigel Bunce and Jim Hunt

The winter of 1985 and the spring of 1986 will lon g be remembered as the year of

Comet Halley No comet in history has so

stirred the imagination of man or been the

object of suc h intensive investigation Its easy to understand this interest when its

appreciated that Halleys Comet is the only recurring comet that is bright enough to be

seen with the naked eye ft was the g reat astronomer Edmund

Halley who in 1705 recognized the s imilarshy

ity of the appearances of the great comets of 1456 1531 1607 and 1682 He speculated that these were in fact one and the sa me

comet with a period of 75 or 76 years

He predicted that the comet would reshyturn in 175 8 a return he could not live to see With thi s Halley discovered the phenomeshy

non of periodic comets and thus showed

that they were members of our solar system

The comet dutifully returned in 1835

and spectacularly so in 1910 In the latter

year circumstances were such that after its

perhelion passage (the point closest to the

Sun) the Earth and the comet approached

each other very closely The comet was so close that at one time its tail spread from

horizon to horizon The return in 1985-86 will be considshy

erably less spectacular In fact for Canadishyans it will not be easy to observe s ince the

time of perhelion is in Febnlary when the

Sun is very low in the sky The view will be -much better from more southerl y latitudes Over the years historica l records have

been found which record every passage of the comet back to 12 BC M any of these obshy

servations come from Chinese records first published in 1846 A well-authenticated

passage was that of 1066 which was reshy

corded on the Bayeux tapestry by the mother

of William of Nonnand y and taken as an cOllld on righl

Grad News Paul Ferguson BSc 67 of Ede n Mill s is president of EIS Systems Ltd and travelled in New Zealand this summer

Walter Lock BSc 67 of Denfield is practising medicine in Lucan

Tjeerd Homan BSc 69 of Calgary Alta is manager research and development services for Petro-Can He is enjoying his family Carla Sarah and John Menno and his hobbies of golf curling and skiing

(GWP)2 Poster Session a First

Earlier this year the Guelph- Waterloo Proshygram for Graduate Work in Physics (GWP)2 staged its first annual poster session for graduate s tudents Poster sessions which are becoming increasingly popular in scienshytific circles allow interaction between researchers and delegates without the time pressures encountered when presenting con shyventional papers at meetings says (GWP)2 Director lain Campbell

The first annual (GWP)2 poste r sesshysion which was followed by a soc ial hour and banquet was highly successful in genershyating interaction says Campbell By the end of the session there were still clusters of people arguing the finer points of scientific interpretation on many of the posters These exchanges continued right through the soshycial hour and into dinner Interaction is what science is all about

Encouraging interaction between stushydents and faculty is one of Campbells prishyorities as Director It is too easy for students to tuck themselves into a corner and work away in isolation They need to get out and ex plain their work both to experts and to

omen of his victory over the Saxons Based on this long record various

mathematical analyses of the orbit of the comet have been produced These account very accurately for the known passages of the comet However when these various anshyalyses are pushed back beyond 12 BC they predict widely varying dates for the previous appearances Before 12 B c there are ani y two vague Chinese records in 87 BC and 240 B c which mayor may not have been Halleys comet

In a recent issue of Nature a team of

Ernest Campbell BSc 69 lives in Campbell ville and teaches science for the Halton Board in Burlington

Richard Davis BSc 77 having comshypleted his MD University of Toronto 83 and his internship at Womens College Hosshypital will be setting up his practice in family medicine in his home town of Guelph

Larry Meek BSc 77 of Ottawa is pashytient administrator and computing officer for the National Defence Medical Centre His hobbies include sailing and skiing

Andre Brunet BA 81 is working for Amdahl Ltd as fieldsystems engineer and lives in Sudbury with his wife Monique (Puellette) FACS 80

Cathy Deakin BSc 81 is presently articshyling with the law firm of Little Reeves Mahoney Jarrett amp Hart of London

Andrew Dubrawski BSc 82 and his wife Alicia (Wodecka) BSc 81 live in Toronto where he works as a communicashytions systems analyst for CNCP Telecomshymunications 0

10hn Root 81 a (GWP)2 PhD s tudent left aflracts an audience

non-experts It takes a deliberate effort on our part to generate and maintain this intershychange

The poster session was the largest scishyentific or social event yet staged by (GWP)2 Some 18 students presented posters and about 90 students faculty and prospective students attended

The posters are on display in the two departments of physics to give others an opportunity to view them At Gue lph they are in the second floor corridor of the Physshyical Science Building near the Department

scholars from England and Vienna reported the finding of two fragments of Babylonian tablets in the British Museum that clearly report the appearance of the comet in 87 BC and 164 B C The records are so clear that by calculation not only the year but the time of year for the perhelion passage can be determined

For example the 164 BC apparition has been narrowed down to a date someshywhere between November 5 and 25 of that year The 87 BC record is not as accurate nevertheless its perhelion passage can be

of Physics office Encouraged by the s uccess of the

poster sess ion lain Campbell is planning another high-profile event for (GWP)2 to recognize award-winning faculty He plans a fall symposium at which three (GWP)2 members who received major honours durshying 1985 will give short lectures to be folshylowed by a sherry reception The three honoured faculty are Gicinto Scoles Killam Fellowship winner Bernhard Nickel Felshylow of the Royal Society of Canada and John Simpson Rutherford medalist 0

narrowed down to July 25 to August 15 These observations while inaccurate

to the extent of 20 days are still accurate enough to eliminate three of the four leading -calculations of the motion of Comet Halley This is a striking example of how archaeoshylogical investigations may have a strong effect on many diverse subjects in this case com~tary astronomy 0

We welcome questions and ideas for future articles Write to the authors clo the Deans Office Cole fe ofPhysical Science Univershysity of Guelph Guelph Ontario NIG 2WI

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Fine Art is 20

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There is a di sc ipline with roots deep in theEi ltgt soil which nurtered the University of

00 Guelph which is being examined uneasily bya

lr) its faculty in anticipation of the fact that ~

0 lr) against all odds the discipline may be thmst

-c into the foreground as the University moves (- 0 toward the year 2000 (Towards 2000 Chalshy

lenges and Responses Aims of the University ~

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of Guelph See pages 2 and 3 this issue) ~ The faculty are uneasy because it is v somewhat uncertain about what role to play

should this happen The di sc ipline surprisshy 9 ~ ingly is Fine Art

To many Fine Art within the University at leas t is that bizarre academic activity ~ 0 which eventuates in such questionable pracshyltgt

tices as the exhibition of life-size nude se Jt~ ~ portraits with all appendages intact in the

0 very-public student gallery on the main floor Ei of the McLaughlin Library That is when it ltgt

00 doesnt eventuate in something even more ~ 0 bizarre ~ Thus the very thought of Fine Arts

being thrust into the foreground may excite8 0- hilarity 00 0 But consider the matter Consider the

challenge confronting the University and the

girding up to meet this chaJlenge Within the shy

ltgt revised statement of the Aims and Objectives of the University the principle demand will beltgt

-Sl ~ to educate for change s This sort of talk occasions the uneasy examination The direct cause is an awareness 0

that Fine Art is and always has been literally C

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~ an education for change With good reashy

son too for art has as a defining characterisshysO tic - the logical necess ity for change Is this ~ so for any other discipline

~ Consider again Within context the ~ Aims and Objectives document warns that

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the only constant will be an acceleration of the rate of change Yet one trusts there will be another constant - the self How important then to know onese lf if one knows anything There is an uneasy awareness that art also has a peculi ar facility for ge nerating such knowledge

Thus it is that the Department of Fine Art just at the moment when it is celebrating with satisfaction its 20th anniversary finds itself pondering what it should be if it is to be all that it should be

The Department (m sure had hoped to bask awhile in the afterglow of breathless development It sprang into being in 1965 in cramped quarters in the basement of the Macdonald Institute Yet the one studio and the one part-time lecture hall were able to accommodate the barely 200 course regisshytrants that first year mOSl of those not Fine Art students

From such a modest beginning the Unishyversitys Fine Art program has developed into one of the most respected programs in the country Today there are some 275 students registered as Fine Art majors and the studios and offices of the Department occ upy all of the usable space in Zavitz Hall (wiley minds constantly seek new ways to persuade the administration to renovate the top floor potentially some of the finest art stud y space anywhere) Art history courses keep a speshycially-equipped lecture room in the MacKinnon Building occupied most days and evenings

Often however the real tes t of a process is its product There is room here for satisshyfaction Graduates of the Guelph program hold down many of the primary and secondshyary school art teaching posts in the province Others fill executive curatorial and similar positions in Canadian public galleries (such as the National the Ontario and the Hamilton) in private galleries presses govshyernment agencies and other bodies There are still man y wrestling one-on-one with artshymaking as in the good old days (and nights) of self-discovery in Zavitz But a surpri sing number are to be found working outside the art world entirely

On the initiative of Judy Nasby director - of the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre an art

show of work by past and present regular faculty and selected sessional faculty will be mounted at the Centre in recognition of 20 years of growth of Fine Art It will open

man of vis ion large ly responsible for initiatshying the Department determining its nature and steering it through its formative years Professor Couling was able in the summer of 1984 just months before his death to present the first Gordon Couling Scholarship donated by the Guelph Creative Arts Association Typically though unwel L he talked with bright-eyed enthusiasm about art and its future with Fine Art students at a College of Arts Recognition Luncheon

The Fine Art program was moulded to offer the province a desirable alternative to existing post-secondary programs one comshybining equal strenghts in art media and art history A student could emphas ize one or the other but would be req uired to work in both

It was judged that this would be idea l for future teachers The results confi rm the ex pecshytation But the contribution elsewhere of graduates steeped in Western culture may

The late Gordon Couling first chairshyman Department of Fine Art

prove to be even more important Yet the moulders cannot lay claim to

originating this philosophy on campus As far back as 1903 the Macdonald Institute trained

history and one in drawing and painting The stage was set for a fine art program In effect fine art is a founding discipline

Art is rooted in the hi story of the Unishyversity in another sense that of co llecting and enjoying In 1926 after five patie nt years of saving an Ontario Agricultural College grou p of faculty staff and stud ent s purchased Tom Thompons pai nting The Drive TIlat entershypri se initiated a campaign to build a Univershysity collection of Canadian art One class after another from the three founding colleges added pieces

Appropriately Fine Art student s have contributed in turn the funds to purchase the

master prints in what is known as the printshystudy collection Containing origi nal works by masters such as Rembrandt Goya and Picasso as well as Canadian printmakers the collection is valued at well over $100000 The funds came entirely from the sale of student prints

The print-study collection is on ly one of the features which gives the program its lustre Another is the slide library with its more than 120 000 slides that supports the so lid art history program The collection stacks up favorably aga inst any other in the country

But the secret of the program is more imponderable Certainly it has to do with the emphasis upon the traditional means of artshymaking and understanding The in stant dedishycation of the top professional art is ts who teach sessionally is a clear factor It owes much to the camaraderie among stud ents staff and faCUlty Then there is Zavitz Hal l itse lf Something quite magical seems to happen to its people when they step through its doors

Normall y Zavitz Hall is a welcoming place President Matthews found it otherw ise on hi s first visit Unannounced and unshywelcomed the President eventuall y found himse lf in a life drawing class Challenged by a student and the instructor in turn the Pres ident indicated he did not want to disturb the class that he would just watch quietly

This e licited a testy Well just who the hell do you think you are) from the instructor

Whi ch elicited a surprised Why Im the Pres ident from the President Two sheepish men retreated to the hall to talk it over

But there isnt time to worry about such -things now There are more pressing issues Is November 21 and conclude January 5 To recshy

ognize the art hi story half of the program the Department is sponsoring a short series of lectures by distinguished visitors on the theme Art Hi story Past and Future (See p 15 for Centre viewing hours and lecture dates locations and times)

The celebration also wil ~ be an occasion for honouring the late Gordon Couling the

teac hers in part through a program of applied art in an art-historical context

When the Institute was re-established following the Second World War two courses were made an essential part of the B H Sc cu rriculum one in design and one in art hi story The teacher was Gordon Couling In the early 60s two more specialist courses were added one in 19th and 20th century art

the program taki ng suffi cient advantage of the intellectual wealth of the University Is the program doing enough to prepare students to prepare for the wider world ) [s the program doing all that it can to educate others to be creative ly adaptable)

Or alternative ly are the folks in Zavitz Hall taking themse lves too seriously 0

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Ian C AIridge OAC BSc(Agr)85

Ian C Attridge OAC 85 of Markham is the recipient of the Winegard Medal for 1985 Awarded annually to the graduand judged to be the most outstanding student the Winegard Medal is the Universitys most prestigious undergraduate award Its winner must combine an outstanding academic recshyord and participation in extra-curricular activities with the personal attributes of leadership and citizenship

Ian graduated in June from the OAC resources management program with an average over eight semesters above 80 per cent This academic standing is noteworthy for two reasons the long list of extra-curricshyular activities in which he took part and in the words of a senior faculty member his major was one in which high marks are tough to achieve

The medalists on-campus extra-curricshyular activities included several student clubs his College year executive the Colshylege Royal committee musical activities the Gryphon team in Nordic skiing and intramural teams in five other sports

Off-campus he was active in the Onshytario Public Interest Research Group of Guelph the Federation of Ontario Natushyralists Friends of the Wye Marsh the Guelph Environmental Council Guelph Field Naturalists the Coalition in support of Environmental Programs and the Guelph Peace and Disarmament Conference of 1984 He was also involved in a number of youth and lay programs in the United Church

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The Winegard

Medal

A Tale Of Ten

Winners While at Guelph he won two entrance

scholarships a number of in-course prizes and scholarships and two summer undershygraduate research awards from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Counshycil In 1984 he won a Soil Conservation Society of America (SCSA) scholarshipshyone of only 18 offered in North America by the SCSA to students in conservation-orishyented programs He was the top Canadian student

Within the Department of Land Reshysource Science Ian was a member of the undergraduate teaching committee During his final semester he co-ordinated a student review of the academic program in resources management which made recommendashytions that will be incorporated into future program changes

One of his teachers notes that Ian has a deep interest in soc ial issues and a commitshyment to environmental concerns He attended Markham District High School and completed his secondary schooling in Lahr West Germany

Each of Guelphs seven colleges nomishynates one student each year for considerashytion for the Winegard Meda l The other nominees for 1985 were Sally Ann Lawshyrence Bell-Knight Arts Rebecca Elizabeth Jane Rodgers CBS Lisa Jane Martin FACS Margot Joan Finstad CPS David Douglas Langlotz CSS and Janet Kashytherine Pegrum OVe

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the presentation of the Winegard Medal Ian

Dr William Winegard

Attridge is joining a select group of Guelph graduates who are a source of pride and inspiration to the University community

Former University of Guelph president Dr William Winegard marked the annivershysary with a letter from the House of Comshymons where he is Guelphs member of Parliament In it he writes

It is not ofien that one has the opporshytunity fO suggest terms of reference for the Universitys most pres tigious student award Such was my good fortulle ten years ago and over the years I have become inshycreasingly grateful that Senute accepted the proposed terms A University-wide compeshytition always stimlliates interest especially when academic excellence and extra-curshyricular activities form the basis of the comshypetition The men and women who have won the medal have been Guelph at its best I have been proud to know them

Where are They Now

What are They Doing

The previous winners of the Winegard -Medal were contacted recently and replies were received from seven of the nine gold medalists Peter Taylor Arts BA 76 Christine Zink OVC DVM 78 Timothy Henshaw OVC DVM 79 John Root CPS BSc 81 Anne-Frances Miller CBS BSc 82 Nicole Didicher Arts BA 83 and James Sidlofsky Arts SA 84 There was no response from Mary Saunshy

ders CBS BSe 77 and Elaine Courtice CBS BSe 80

Some of their achievements both proshyfessional and personal and some of their future hopes and plans are recorded here

Peter Taylor (1916) The first recipient of the Winega rd

Medal now with the University s Office for Educational Practice as manager of print publications is responsible for providing centralized graphic design typeselling and print publications cocordination to the Unishyversity community

Following graduation from Guelph Peter continued his education at the Uni-

Peter Taylor Arts 76

Christine Zinc Tim Henshaw John RoO Anne Miller OVC 7S

versity of Waterloo where he obtained an MA in English in 1981

Peter is also a poet - his first book First Epistle to Dr Torr was published by Gryphon Press in 1976 He printed and bound the book himself andsome copies are still ava ilable

7iaino which he considers his most important work to date was published by Paget Press in 1980 and a second chapbook The Masons came out that same year A third chapbook Aphorisms was printed in 1982

Being a ca reeri st and a poet is someshytimes a sc hi zophreni c existence says Pete r I never seem to have enough energy or time to do both as well as I might like to Regrettabl y my writing has played second fiddle to my career

Christine Zink (1918) In 1978 when Chnstine first joined a

large animal practice in Drayton Ontario the idea of a woman ve terin ar ian working with farm an imals was so inconceivable to farmers in the area that some of them called her young man she writes She reca lls many a midnight drive over desel1ed farm roads to help a cow give bil1h return shying home at su nri se know ing there was still a full days work ahead

After two years of practice Dr Zink returned to the OVC for pos t-graduate work and is now doing research on The Pathoshygenesis of Corynehacterium equi Pneushymonia in FoaJs In 1983 she passed the

American Collcge of Veterinary Patholshyogists spec iality boa rd exa minati on She expects to graduate with a Ph D thi s yea r and is deciding bet~een a position on faculty at a veterinary sc hool or post-doctoral reshysearch at a medica l sc hool in the United States

Tim Henshaw (1919) After three years in a private veterinary

prac tice in BalTie Tim became a staff vetshyerinari an with Unit ed Breede rs Inc of Guelph and now works out of the Alliston office His responsi bilities inc lude field sershyvice education and research He has reshyturned to campus as guest lect urer at the

to chemistry from her undergraduate studies in molecular genetics and biophysics has been good for me she says The chemisshytry I am learning helps me to better undershystand how enzymes work and macromoleshycules interact with their environment

Last year she married Ganpathy Murshythy a fellow Yale graduate student in ph ys shyics Together they enjoy hiking camping and reading and at the time of writing were planning a trip to India this year

J have told Ganpath y a lot about Gue lph she says and were looking forshyward to visiting the University on a sunny autumn day when the maples along Wineshygard Walk are all aflame

OVC 79 CPSSI CSSS2

OVC and the OAC and has done extensi ve speaking throughout the province for the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food

Dr He ~shaw is peoples warden of St Peters Anglican Church in Minesi ng presishydent of the Ontario Association of Bovine Practitioners secretary of the Simcoe County Holstein Club and a live-s toc k Judge

In 1980 he marri ed Jane Si nclair FACS 78 and they have a dau ghter Chrisshytenltt future University of Guelph class of 2005

John Root (1981) John continues to stud y at Guelph shy

he received an MSc in liquid state physics in 1983 and is now working on his Ph D Hi s thesis is on the Quantum Effects in the Structure of Liquid Water under the supershyvision of Department of Phys ics professor Peter Ege lstaff

In 1982 he married Darlene Maurer and their daughter Athena Catherine-Beth was born earlier this year

John is a youth group leader in the First Baptist Church in Guelph and was presishydent of the Baptist Youth of Ontario and Quebec in 1983-1984

Anne-Frances (MiUer) Murthy (1982)

From New Haven Connecticut USA Anne-Frances writes to say she is at Yale University in the Depal1ment of Chemshyistry doing research on photosynthetic oxyshygen evolution for her Ph D thesis The move

Nicole Didicher Jamie Sidlofsh Arts 83 ArtsS4

Nicole Didicher (1983) Nico le is finishing the first year of her

PhD studies at Queens University where she obtained her M A last year

Her Masters degree work centred on the medieva l period of English literature and she plans to do doc toral research in 18t h-ce ntury literature

Nicole reports that her cu rrent studies are supported by two Ontario Graduate Sc holars hips and a Queens Graduate Awa rd Thi s should come as no surprise to th ose who witnessed her dedication at Guelph

On the social scene in Kingston she s one of the 100 to 150 voices of the Queens Choral Ensemble and rece ntl y she acquired an apartment mate ca ll ed Mole a young white rat Hes a good companion and quiet sa id Ni co le Im absolu tely no good with plants so hes my al ternat ive

Jamie Sidlofsky (1984) Jam ie is a student in the LL B program

at the University of Toron tos Faculty of Law He is the University of Toronto represhy

sentative on the Canadian Bar Association -a member of the Faculty of Law arti cling and summer Jobs committee and direc tor Unishyversity of Toronto student lega l aid program Centre for Spanish-speaking Peoples

This summer he work ed with Diashymond Fairbairn amp Steinberg barri sters and solicitors in Toronto and as a research as shysistant for University of Toronto law proshyfessor Bernard Green 0

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Butthe Melody Lingers On By John Hearn Information Services

S tanley Saunders left Guelph this summer

for a year of administrative leave after II years as the Universitys Director of Music

College of Arts When Dr Saunders joined the Division

of Mu sic in 1974 he inherited a strong

musical tradition reaching back to the earliest

days of the Ontario Agricultural College which was always famous for its choirs

[t fell to Dr Saunders to take the fledgling

Division of Music introduce its first degree programs and build the solid reputation which it enjoys today

Dr Saunders completed his undershy

graduate studies at the University of Wales and twice won the First Award Open Instrushy

mental Solo at the Ei steddfod He was a

member of the National Youth Orchestra of Wales and later performed as a clarinetist with the SSCs radio and TV sy mphony

orchestras

Soon after coming to Guelph Dr Saunshy

ders founded the University of Guelph Civic Orchestra which under his direction achieved an enviable reputation in the ensuing

years The revival of the U of G Aggie Band

followed as did the U of G Concert Band By 1979 Dr Saunders had built a faculty

of some 16 members including Dr Charles

Wilson and Gerald and Elizabeth Neufeld

The same year also saw performances by

the U ofG Choir the U ofG Chamber Singers and the Summer Chorale The Noon-Hour

Concerts were adding to their already unique reputation while the newly formed U ofG

Trio consisting of Elizabeth Neufeld voice Sylvia Hunter piano and Stanley Saunders clarinet was beginning the series of tours which would take it to many parts of Canada and Great Britain

Before the end of the 70s we saw the

first of the successful Music of the Arboreshytum series of concerts the formation of the Aggie Choir under the direction of Gerald

Neufeld and in partnership with the Guelph Spong Festival welcomed such luminaries as the great contemporary Polish composer Penshyderecki Gian Carlo Menotti Ruby Mercer editor of Opera Canada and Bori s Brott

The early 80s have been gala years both for Dr Saunders and the Division

Dr Stanley Saunders

(retitled the Department of Music in 1984) The decade began with the presentation of

two world premieres by the U of G Civic Orchestra and the appointment of Dr Saunshy

ders as president of the National Youth Orchestra of Canada and vice-chairman of the Council of Ontario Music Administrators

The growing stature of the Department of

Music was also reflected in student registrashytion both credit and non-credit in vocal keyboard classical guitar and orchestral inshy

struments

The year 1981 saw a brilliant tour of Sweden and West Germany by the Univers ity of Guelph Choir under the direction of Gerald Neufeld and conducting engagements by Dr

Saunders in Toronto Ottawa Montreal Boston and Washington D C The same year

saw the formation of the U ofG Jazz Ensemshyble and the U ofG Pep Band both led by Kenneth Tinnish

II was a very good year As Dr Saunders said External evidence of scholarship is not necessarily obvious from performance but

creativity is itself a form of research and all these perform ances are not only enlightened by the students studies in history literature

and theory they are also heightened by their

awareness of the aesthetic factors that give significance to mu sic through their intershyrelated studies at the University

Another substantial increase in student

enrolment was witnessed in 1982-1983 deshysp ite the tightening of admission standards

and regulation for the continuance of studies

The University of Guelph Choir still under direc tor Gerald Neufeld won second prize in

the 1982 CSC national choral competition

Stanley Saunders can afford to look back on his Guelph years with considerable satisshyfaction The division which he inherited in 1974 with its three-member faculty had

grown by this year to a full department with

faculty and staff numbering 29 persons and with an enrollment of 300 students plus -another 126 students registered in the nonshycredit applied program

He has been a very bu sy and productive man commuting to and fro between Guelph and Sault Ste Marie to administer the joint

Univers ity of GuelphAlgoma University Colshylege music program - as well as keeping up

a steady schedule of scholastic publications He will be missed 0

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University of Guelph Licences Software to McGraw-Hili By Mary Cocivera

Information Services

The University of Gue lph and the US publi shing giant McGraw- Hili Inc are fishynalizing a non-exclusive licence for CoSy computer conferenc ing software developed at the University

Publi shed by McGraw-Hili BYTE Magazine is using the CoSy software to set up BIX the BYTE Information Exchange Phil Lemmons BYTEs editor-in-chief deshyscribes BIX as a living database The comshypany plans to set up conferences on every aspect of microcomputer use

Through the conferences users will be able to share information with each other and to communicate direc tly with the edi shytors of the magazine A four-ci ty commershycial te st began in September and a BYTE spokesman projects that a full international information exchange will be operating by early 1986

In addition to BIX McGraw-Hili will use the CoSy so ftware for internal comshymunications CoSy was installed by BYTE editorial offices in New Hampshire several months ago for evaluation by staffers They soon became confirmed users and CoS y beshycame a permanent part of the office The conference system was particularly sucshycessful in linking editorial headq uarters in the east with the west coast office

CoSy is already familiar to more than one thousand users world-wide who subshyscribe to a service oftered by the Univers ity of Guelph The licence to McGraw-Hili marks the first time the software will be operated and managed elsewhere The Unishyversity will continue to offer a CoSy se rvice and will continue to market the software to other potential users

CoSy was developed by a team of softshyware designers in Computing and Comshymunications Services at the Univers ity over a 16-month period Alastair Mayer was the chief architect of the code The software was written in C a high-level programming language to run under the Uni x operating system This feature makes CoS y highly portable and capable of running on any micro-computer or a mainframe with the Unix operating sys tem

George Bond BYTEs managing editor for e lectronic publishing and communicashytion says that ease of use and the Unix operating system were important fac tors in their choice of CoSy He also cited the skills and co-operative attitudes of the peopl e at

CoSy th e University of Guelph who are involved with CoSy

The University of Guelph was a parshyticularly hospita ble environment for deshyvelopment of a computer conferencing system according to Dr Ken MacKay assoshyciate director of Institutional An alysis and Pl anning Electronic mail was well estabshylished on campus so there were many peoshyple already committed to e lectronic commushynications Home-grown APL mail is arguashybly the best mail system anywhere because its easy to use and very robust CoSy is a separate system but is a descendant of earshylie r electronic mail systems

We had three basic design ideas for CoSy explains Alastair Mayer It should req uire few co mm ands the user should be able to learn without a manual and it should be accessible fro m any terminal The se goa ls have been reali zed to a great extent A manual is available but by refe rring to the help instructions within CoSy users can learn enough commands to become funcshytional very quickly

Dr Edward Swart acting director of Computing and Communication Services points out that CoSy is offered as a free service to the University com munity He beshylieves that this enlightened decision conshytributed to CoSys ne arly immediate success on campus From the early development stages users were invited to make comshyments and suggestions Their feedback inshynuenced the design of the current CoSy sysshytem to a substantial extent

Computer conferenc ing is a powerful concept as CoSy users soon discover Marshygaret Bec kman the Univers itys executive direc tor of Information Technology says there is no doubt that computer con ferencshying reduces the number of meetings and enables decisions to be made more quickl y CoSy is heavily used by University adminshyistrators and members of facu lty are ex plorshy

ing applications of computer co nferencing in teaching and lea rning

Proceeds from licences and from subshyscriptions to the campus conferencing sysshytem will fund furth er development of CoSy Dr Swart says a not-too-distant developshyment will be a distributed conference cashypability permitting a free exc hange of information from one conference systelll to another A second deve loplllent will be to activate what Dr Swa11 calls CoSys Jashytent graphics capability In CoSy a messhysage ca n contain anything even NAPLPS codes for graphics Graphs sketches and charts will thus soon become part of CoSy confe rences 0

A Letter Dear MI~ Wing

My wife (lnd I WOIII vou to know hml we enjoyed LM Mont gomerys storr The Strike at Putney ill the Spring 85 GueJph Alumnu s

Visiting Green Gables in P EI wos one of the highlights of our Trans-Canada vocmion 0 few years ago

We hope you I publish one ofher short stories in each issue of th e maga zine selectedjiom the U ofGs LM Montgomshyery Collectionfrom now on and make each issue a colleclOrs item shyCordially

Doug Marrin OAC 39 107 Waverly Place Mountain View Calif 94040 USA

Thanks for your letter Doug we will do our very best to bri ng you more L M M Ed

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P rofessional golfer philosopher oenologist would-be film maker and

now restaurateur Robert Harcourt Bob Desautels HAFA 75 Arts 84 is a man of many facets one who seeks his own sty le of excellence in many directions This summer he opened a new restaurant La Maisonmiddot in downtown Guelph which is already drawing patrons from a wide area in search of the gourmet delights promised by a very disshytinguished menu and delivered by chefs accomplished in the arts of haute cuisine

Bob works outward from a central conshyviction that there is always a market for excellence Born in Toronto he has lived in Ottawa Montreal - and Guelph He studied at Sir George Williams University Montreal Que (now pan of Concordia University) before attending the College of Family and Consumer Studies School of Hotel and Food Administration (HAFA) where he graduated with a BComm degree

He will be remem bered on campus as manager of the Faculty Club a position

The Eclectic

Bob Desautels

which he held for nearly three years after graduating and before he launched on a whole new career as a profess ional golfer He played Canadian and Australian circuits for a while and then accepted the position of manager and golf pro at the Cedarhurst Golf Club on Lake Simcoe

Two years later he was back at the Unishyversity of Guelphs hotel sc hool as a research assistant preparing for HAFAs first Advanced Management Program for the Hospitality Industry (AMPHI) course - an unrepentantly elitist institution offering advanced manageshyment training only to very se nior executives in the hospitality industry

Bob se rved as logistics manager to AMPHI for two years with responsibility for the health and welfare of a clientele whose expectations as far as hospitality is conshycerned are of the very highest

As a member of the HAFA faculty he was a more than occasional lecturer primarily on the subject of wine - whi ch he describes in reverential tones He is married (the pursuit of excellence again) his wife Susan hail s from Australia They have two children Coun age 7 and Emily 5

At the end of two years with HAFA Bob Desautels was faced with one of those critical life decisions - a choice between two paths leading in significantly different directions He might have accepted a tenure track position for whichit would have made sense to seek a PhD in business admini stration or

HAFA 75 By John Hearn Information Services

Mine host Bob Desautels HAFA 75 at La Maison

pursue an old love for philosophy He chose the latter and earned hi s Masters degree from Guelphs College of Ans in the fall of 1984

I suppose it arises from an old interest in religion he explains Metaphysical quesshytions have always fascinated me Scientific materialism the notion that mind is no more than a function of brain has neve r satisfied me There are too many loose ends - mind contemplating itself for example introshyspection Focu ss ing on philosophy of the mind for my degree gave me one of the answers - but may be Im beginning to understand some of the questions

So in the Fall of 84 philoso pher wine connoisseur goller Bob Desautels inventoried his assets - and took a course in film making at the Ryerson Poly technica l Institute Im interested in the creative end of film making he says Writing andor directing Ive fini shed one film script and working on another But it takes mucho dinero

Then early this Spring the main floor of one of Guelph s distinguished old homes beca me available Strategically located at the corner of Woolwich and Yarmouth Streets in an area already known for fine dining the housc is owned by Guelph bu sinessman Paul Starr A pannership was struck and Bob found himsel f bringing the whole wealth of hi s re staurant management know-how and his own drive for excellence to bear on La

Maison It was conceived planned and exshyecuted from the beginning as a shrine conseshycrated to the worshippers of superlative cuishysine enjoyed in the most distinguished of atmospheres

The concept has two major aspects One large room is given over to a wine bar where the connoisseur - or those who enjoy the fermented grape of any age or colour - can select from more than 20 splendid vintages by the glass or the bottle A parallel selection of native and imponed cheeses activate the tastebuds while intimates can order a delectashyble cheese fondue for two The wine-bar is a casual drop-in kind of place open from noon until midnight for enjoyment relaxation and con versation

The other main room is for the serious diner There is a modest economically-priced luncheon available for business people but the evening meal is designed to attract those for whom dining is a rei igious experience

You make your market study says bullBob but then you add your own secret ingredient - call it gut feeling There are some very good restaurants in Guelph but none that target this panicular niche

l may be that not the least of La Maisons attractions will be the possibility of conversation with mine host Choose your own subject - golf metaphysics pragshymatism - or the an of Woody Allen Bob Desautels is nothing if not eclectic 0

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Newly Elected as

A1uDlni Senators Following the annual election of three of the nine alumni seats on Senate at the University the following alumni were elected to replace those who fulfilled three-year terms on August 31 1985

Norman Hawkins OVC 57

Rita Weigel James White FACS 77 OAC 6 1

James White OAC 55A and 61 lives in Brampton and is the owner of InfoResults Limited information research consultants Brampton He completed Masters and Docshytoral degrees at Michigan State University Department of Communication He has opshyerated InfoResults for 15 years specializing in agricultural economics social policy and communication issues

He is a past president of the Canadian Consulting Agrologists Association has served on the provincial council of the Ontario Institute of Agrologists and was a director of the Canadian Society of Agrishycultural Economic s and Farm Manageshyment 0

Dr Norman Hawkins OVC 57 estabshyIlished the Guelph Animal Hospital on Elizshyabeth Street in 1957 and has continued his practice there as a partner

An active member of the Ontario Vetshyerinary Association council and a commitshytee worker he is also a member of the Canadian Veterinary Medical Association national examination board

His earlier work with the American Veterinary Medical Association involved the examination of overseas veterinary gradshyuates and inspection of North American vetshyerinary sc hools

He is a member of the Guelph Public Library Board and Board chairman of St

Margaret s School Elora

Rita (Klassen) Weigel FACS 77 gradushyated from the College of Family and Conshysumer Studies with a BASc in Con su mer Studies She was president of the Mac-FACS Alumni Association 1983-84 and has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Universi ty of Guelph Alumni Association

A member of the Canadian Marketing and Research Society Rita was employed in the research and product management field for a number of years A Guelph res ident her concerns include those of a mother of a son and twin one-year-old daughters

New Chairman Board of Governors

Edmond Bovey

Edmund C Bovey the man who headed the Commission on the Future Development of the Universities of Ontario has been named chairman of the Board of Governors at the Universi ty of Guelph A member of the Board since 1976 he succeeds Cecil Franklin who retired July I after three years as chairman and who also joined the Board in 1976

Edmund Bovey was chairman of the three-man commission that held hearings

for the Ontario public and university comshymunity in 19831984 before developing and recommending to the Mini stry of Colleges and Universities a future plan for Ontario universities

Retired as director chairman of the board and member of the executive committee of Norcen Energy Reso urces Toronto he was recently named to chair a task force on funding the arts in Canada an area where he has long experience A past president and trustee of the Ali Gallery of Ontario and its Foundation he is also a member of the Board of Governors of Roy Thomson Hall and vice-chairman of the International Council of the Museum of Modern Art in New York He is a past chairshyman of the Council for Business and Arts in Canada

In addition he is a director of a number of companies including Hollinger Argus Abitibi Price Canada Packers and the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce as well as MONY Life Insurance PPG Indusshytries and PPG Industries Canada

He is a member of the Canadian Ecoshynomic Policy Committee a director of the Canadian Executive Service Overseas and a past president of the Canadian Gas Associashytion He is also currently chairman of the Board of Wellesley Hospital Toronto

He was born in Calgary Alta and edushycated in Victoria BC 0

Appointments

Ab Moore Harry Downie OVC 48

Dr Ab Moore took up the responsibilities of chairman of the Department of Rural Extension Studies on September I for a fiveshy shyyear term He was previously director of the Office of Educational Practice

Dr Harry Downie OVC48 became actshying chairman of the Department of Bioshymedical Sciences on July I He continues until December 3 1 or until a new chairman is named 0

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Available for Immediate Possession Space in Prestige Campus Home (for baby grand piano)

The Presidents House dedicated as a building of historical and architectural significance has been without a piano since President Maclachlan retired in 1967

This could be the chance of a lifetime if you are seeking a unique and extremely worthwhile Class Project Perhaps your class would like to buy a new piano to be used in this centre for campus entertaining to be viewed by more than 5 000 visitors a year A recognition plaque would be located either on or adjacent to the instrument

A Bequest

Charles S Humphrey

A former partner and president from 1947

to 1963 of Guelphs Hart Chemical Comshy

pany Canada Ltd the late Charles S Humphrey se lected the Universit y of

Guelph as one of the benefic iaries of his estate

Hi s bequest to the Unive rs it y of

$130000 received last June is to be used at the discretion of the University pres ident

in the University s scholarships and burshy

saries program A resident of Victoria BC since his

retirement in 1963 Charles Humphrey died on August29 1984 at the age of81 He was an emeritus member of the Canadian Assoshy

ciation of Textile Colourists and Chemists Born at Hornell NY USA he came to Canada in 1936

This is the second time that Charles

Humphrey has given financial support to the Univers ity In 1979 he generously provided a $50000 endowment gift to support an annual $5000 graduate fellowship in Chemistry

The fellowship is designed to ease the financial burdens of outstanding students in

organic chemistry registered in the PhD

program at the Guelph-Waterloo Centre for Graduate Work in Chemistry (GWC)2 0

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CODling Events 86 Jan 7-9

Mar 5

8-9

13-15

April 4middot5

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20-22

OAC Agricultural Conference

Alumni Florida Reunion (See below)

College Royal Open House

Ontario Institute of Agrologists Annual Conference Agricultural Trade To be he ld

in Cornwall Ont

OAC Alumni Association Curling Bonspiel

U of 6s 8tb Annual Human Sexuality Conference Changing Nature of Sexual Relationships Sexual Scripts and Lifestyles Today

ALUMNI WEEKEND 86

Alumni Florida Reunion If you missed the Alumni Flo rida Reunion Picnic in March 85 you missed a great gathering About 90 alumni and

friends met for a very pleasant pot luck meal Ross Cavers OAC 29 the organizing committee chairman hopes it will

become an annual affair Ruth and Gordon Wright Mac

37 and OAC 33 and Willa and Morley Funston Mac and OAC 32 made the loc al arrangements the affair was sponshysored by the Universitys Alumni-in Action group Make

plans to attend the second annual Florida Alumni Reunion Picnic at 12 noon on Wednesday March 51986 at Harbour Heights Park near Port Charlotte Florida two miles east of

Interstate Highway 75 Please respond by March 11986 to Ruth and Gordon Wright General Delivery Warm Mineral

Springs Florida 33596 US A

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College of Arts Alumni Association DELPHA

Editor Terry Ayer 84

Executive 1985-86 HONORARY PRESIDENT Dr David R Murray Dean

PRESIDENT Linda McKenzie-Cordick 81

PAST PRESIDENT Margo Shoemaker 79

VICE-PRESIDENT Wm Macdonald 78

SECRETARY-TREASURER

Marilyn Armstrong 78

DIRECTORS Debbie (Nash) Chambers 77 Edith LeLacheur 72 Janice (Robertshy

son) Partlow 79

UGAA REPS Wm Macdonald 78 Margo Shoemaker 79

EDITOR DELPHA Terry Ayer 84

Appointed

Dr Edward Phillips

Edward Phillips began a five-year term as chairman of the Department of Music July I He obtained his BA in mu sic at Amherst College

Massachusetts and his M A Masshyter of Philosophy and Ph D all in music theory from Yale Univers ity Married to Patricia who has a DM A in organ performance from Yale he has two sons Stewart 7 and Andrew 3 Edward who is also an organist enjoys cooking 0

Literary Heritage Preserved in Africa Most Canadian children are exposed to their cultural heritage at an early age through legendary stories brought from Eushy

rope or about Canadian pioneering and through stories about Indian or Inuit myths

and fables In developing countries however

where paper and printed materials are in

shon supply cultural heritage is usually passed on orally and children have little

opportunity to read about their past A Canashydian project involving the Universities of Guelph and Yaounde in Cameroon West

Africa is doing something to keep that countrys heritage alive

The project now entering its fourth year is a collaborative effort of the De partshy

ment of English Language and Literature at Guelph and the Department of African Litshyerature at the Univers ity of Yaounde It is

sponsored by the Canadian International Development Agency with Guelphs Deshy

partment of English Language and Litershy

ature Chairman Doug Killam serving as co-ordinator and Elizabeth (Wildman)

Cockburn CSS 81 as Canadian project consultant

Dr Killam is well-known for his work in the field of Commonwealth literature and

has taught at several African universities

EI izabeth Cock burn a primary sc hool teacher taught at the Government Teachers Training College in the North West Province

of Cameroon from 1969 to 1971 It was then

that she became aware of the shortage of relevent reading material for Cameroon schoolchildren

However it was some ten years later

that the project was born when she and Professor Kilian consulted with Dr Bernard

Fonlon then head of the Department of Afshyrican Literature at Yaounde Deeply comshy

mitted to saving African oral traditions as literatore Dr Fonlon although now retired remains a driving force in promoting creativity in the schools and scholarship on oral literature at the university

Last January Professor Killam and Elizabeth Cockburn were in Yaounde at a

conference where 80 papers were presented on the theory and practice of oral literature for West African educators - the first major attempt to marry theory and practice

As are children in the Canadian Indian

and Inuit communities African children are often exposed to texts that portray children of cultures different from their own To

counteract thi s influence simple African s tories with lifelike illustrations are being

Local stories come alive

mimeographed and turned into booklets by simply folding stand ard letter-size paper in half A collections of these stories will evenshytually be produced in textbook form when

fund s become available One such s tory The Marriage Feast

describes the marriage meal of the cat who invites all the domestic animals and birds to

the celebration

The dogs who know much about meat were asked 10 cook the food 8U1 they decided 10

playa trick They cooked the meat in the bOlom of the pot with the vegetables on lOp They said they would be the last to eat

In true fable form the hens who ate first discovered when they were too full to eat any more that there was meat deep

inside the pOI So they

Swore never to eat from the surface again and that is why hens always scratch deep into the soil in search offood

Although story-telling is becoming a lost art in Canada it is still a lively part of

life in Cameroon But as Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe said when he was in Guelph last year when a member of the older genshyeration dies its as if a whole library was destroyed -

Time is running short and fund s are needed to keep alive this project in Camshyeroon Anyone seeking further information

on the project may address their inquiries to Professor Killam at the University He hopes to receive funding from the Commonwealth

Foundation for similar work in other counshytries which have expressed an interest in

recording their heritage 0

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The Limners How do art students continue to find stimshyulation and motivation following graduation when they are no longer under the pressure of course requirements and without the critshyicism of an instructor

Four Fine Art graduates and one inshycourse student solved the problem by formshying a support group called The Limners (Limn an archaic word meaning paint deshypict portray Hence - Limner) Last Sepshytember the group held a success ful exhishybition of their recent works at the Halton Hills Cultural Centre Georgetown The Limners are

Dorothy Hart 81 of Georgetown She works with oil s pas tel s and graphite b4t is very interested in character fi gures made of cellu-clay which requires enormous pashytience to produce Her latest interest is pastel portraits of children

Dimensions 85 The fourth annual College of Arts Ailimni Association juried art show DIMENSIONS 85 was a success once again The jury members Marlene Jofriet well-known water colourist _ Michael OKeefe 76 practising artist and teacher and George Todd chairman Department of Fine Art selected 30 entries to hang

The jury awarded the following $100 $75 $50 prizes and designated three honshyourable -mentions

First pri ze Sheila Vollmer 85 Woman in Veil intaglio print

Second prize Wendy Maki 83 Pears Plums Apples and Grapes oil on canvas

Sue Knox 81 Formerly she was interested in the landscapes of Northern Ontario where she used to work Now back in Guelph Sue has rediscovered her urban surshyroundings including people

Betty Ketcheson 83 of Frankford Ontario to where her husband lack has retired Watercolour is her favorite medium however Betty also has an interest in enshycaustic painting with beeswax as a medium

Jane Graham 83 of Guelph lane tries to communicate her own brand of optimism through her waterco lours by using the figure in the land scape most often a child

Nan Hogg an undergraduate Nan is intershyested in making art that is feminist A memshyber of th e Guelph Embroiderers Guild Nans recent work displays a combination of watercolours or etchings with coil aged fabshyric that has been embroidered 0

The Limners L to r Sue Knox 81 Belly Ketcheson 83 Nan Hogg Dorothy Hart 81 and Jane Graham 83

Third pri ze Doreen Schaub 70 Rushing Waters watercolour

Honourable Mentions Sheila Volshylmer 85 Embracing Figures sculpture in pl aster Scott Abbot 79 Fields Near Maryhill oil on masonite Margaret Peter 74 Impressions Fossil Series collagraphsi Ikscreen

An innovation at DIMENSIONS 85 was the presentation of selected works of a featured artist Our first selected arti st was Evan MacDonald no stranger to the Univershysity of Guelph Many of his works are part of the Universitys collection of Canadian art hi s portraits hang in various buildings on campus and he was awarded an honorary doctorate of laws in 1979

We extend our sincere thanks to Ingrid

At DIMENSIONS 85 ColeRe oj Arts art sholl at Alllmni Wefkllld 85 L to r Marlene Jojriet juror Dr GeorRe 7iJdd chairman Department oj Fine Art jllror Wencil Maki 83 second-prize winner Doreen Schauh 70 third-prize willner Michael 0 Keeji 76

juror Own David Murray

Jenkner curatorexhibitions at the Macshydonald Stewart Art Centre and Mary MacshyDonald Evans wife for making it possible for us to feature the works of Evan

We also expre ss our gratitude and appreciation to all those who were instrushymental in making the show a success A special thank you is extended to this years participants without whom the show coulll not have been mounted 0

Art Show and Lecture Series Recognizing the 20th anniversary of the Department of Fine Art a facshyulty art show will be presented at the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre Nov 21 to lan 5 Viewing Tue to Fri and Sun noon to 500 pm Sat 1000 am to 500 pm A lecture se ries will present Dr Alan Gowans professor of art history University of Victoria B c on Art History and the Social Function Nov 18 at 800 -pm Rm 113 Physics Bldg Dr Ronald Nasgaard chief curator Art Gallery of Ontario wi II present Cushyratorship Today and Social Political Economic Pressures on Nov 27 at 400 pm in the Dept of Fine Art A third speaker is slated for early in the New Year

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Ontario Veterinary College Alumni Assoc OVC ALUMNI NEWS

Editor Dr Cliff Barker 41

OVC Alumni Association Executive 1985middot86

HONORARY PRESIDENT Dr Ole Niel sen 56 PRESIDENT Dr Ken Gadd 56 PAST PRESIDENT Dr Wendy Parker 7 1 VICE-PRESIDENT Dr Mary (Hawkins) Wiltshire 74 SECRETARY-TREASURER Dr Gordon Boylan 46 DIRECTORS Dr Bob Buck 46 Dr Archie MacKinnon 43 Dr Norm McAninch 39 Dr Bruce Robb 7 1 Dr Bruce Robinson 76 Dr Noni Sman 80 EDITOR avc Alumni News Dr Cliff Barker 41

Mailbag Dear Cliff

We were over to Vancouver Island recel11ly and went up to Qualicum Beach to see 0 Howard Taylor 13 He broke me in on meat inspection in 42 at the old Burns plant on Logan Avenue in Winnipeg

He is in great shape Qlid outside of a gimpy knee has no problems It was a real pleasure to see him again - still the same sparkle and quick wit that I had remembered from the Winnipeg years

I had not seen Howardfor 40 years bw outside of him thinking I had aged someshywhat had no trouble with identification Thought you might be il7lerested in this bit of news - not too many vets make it to age 98

We are fine and enjoying a complete reversal of what Vancouver weather is supshyposed to be bUi sure would like to see aboUl a week of rain Regards Bud Ellis 41 1410 Gordon Avenue West Vancouver Sc V7T IR6

From the Dean

Dr Ole Nielsen 56

In this my first opponunity to address our alumni through this medium I would like to express my pleasure at having the privilege of serving the Ontario Veterinary College and the University of Guelph

At the outset I acknowledge my debt to those many faculty students and staff who have labored to make this College a great inshystitution Being mindful of this heritage I am excited by the challenge of helping move the College to new levels of excellence One has to be impressed with the potential of the OVe Heres why

By the time this publication has gone to press I expect tenders for the first phase of a new OVC building program will have been called and possibly awarded This project costing over $13 million will provide modshyem facilities for the Depanments of Clinical Studies and of Biomedical Sciences and the Veterinary Teaching Hospital

The culmination of a great deal of effon led by former Dean Doug Maplesshyden 50 and President Burt Matthews OAC 47 the project is jointly funded by the Federal Government (Departments of Agrishyculture and Regional Industrial Expansion) and the Province of Ontario (OMAF)

The new facility will allow the College to press forward with new teaching research and service programs that include such vital newareas as biotechnology computer as istshyed health management and expanded proshygrams in toxicology

The second phase of the OVC building program which is largely related to teachshying spaces remains to be funded A good share of this project is expected to be includshyed in the fonhcoming capital campaign of the University The panicipation of you the alumni will be crucial to its success The governments of Ontario and Canada have done their part despite difficult circumshystances The rest is up to us

I have found the faculty of the OVC to be -a group of strong and vigorous academshyics and many young talented faculty have been appointed recently In passing one notes the retirement of many of those who led the renaissance in veterinary education in Canada in the post-war years The new generation of faculty has a real challenge in

trying to do as well as their predecessors shyand it will

I believe the graduate students are the sou I of the College Therefore another cause for optimism is the strength of the graduate and research programs at the OVe Presently the College has about 130 gradushyate students who at this most creative period of their lives are striving to provide new knowledge and skills for veterinary medishycine In 1950 there were none

There has been a significant expansion in the D YSc program a comparatively new doctoral program that gives priority to the acquisition of clinical sk ill s in addition to training in research The D VSc degree is unique in the world and how its graduates will be received remains to be determined I am confident it will be favourably

Believing in the imponance of reshysearch OMAF recently committed itself to provide the College with a new research farm at Ponsonby This nO-acre site located some ten miles from Guelph will provide farm-type facilities for hous ing dairy cattle beef cattle sheep pigs and laboratory anishymals will replace existing facilities at Eramosa and Plislinch and will cost in excess of $3 million

The application rate and quality of stushydents seeking admision to the D YM proshygram remains high

I am delighted to be assisted in the work of the Deans office by Associate Dean Ted Valli 62 and Academic Counsellor Ron Downey 61 and given the above is it any wonder I am optimistic

I have always been a bit smug in believshying that those of us from western Canada were the most friendly in the nation My exshyperience since coming to Guelph proves me wrong Everyone including students facshyulty staff the University administration and the local community could not have been more friendly and helpful 0

OVCAA Membership Report-Summer 1985

Life Membership 1 103 Honorary Life Membership 3 Life Me m Instalment Plan 241 Annual Membership 42 -Total Membership 1389 Total Alumni 3537 Membership

of Total Alumni 3930 Membership

of Known Alumni 40 06

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Inch in KatDlandu The following letter to the editor from Or

Carolyn Inch 81 was sent to Ornella Osborne editor of Update the newsletter

published by the Ontario Veterinary Assoshyciation Were grateful to Omelia for passing it on to us

While trekking through the north central region of the Himalayan mountains in

Nepal I was surprised to see the words vetshy

erinary office added to the bottom of it sign written in Nepalese

The village Chame contained the

headquarters of the government veterinary operations for the region of Manang Borshy

dering on China in the north the region covers about 2000 square kilometres and

has the lowest population density in Nepal The average altitude of the region is above

3048 metres Annapurna towers at 8091

metres The logistics behind launching a vetshy

erinary program in an area that is entirely inaccessible except by foot or aircraft had

me intrigued Dr Koshori Jha greeted us warmly and

in the polite manner wed received at the hands of all the Nepalese tea was served

The bulk of his practice is in sheep and goats as well as cattle yak horse mules and chickens On a daily basis he deals most frequently with footrot a problem that

is compounded by the fact that most of the bovine and equine species are bred pri-

During the recent avc AA Annual Meeting retired Deal Doug Maplesden 50 righl received ( plaque embodying newsclippings puhlished during his lenure Dean OIl Nieletl 56 made the presentalion

marily for use as pack animals the terrain is

rough and whether goats are grazing beshy

tween rocks or mules are carrying 80-kiloshygram loads up mountainsides their hooves are exposed to a lot of strain

Dr Koshori Jhas pharmacy contained various disinfectants and as tringents and

many herbal remedies from India retained placenta and anti-bloat preparation for

example

The only vaccine available to him was against Hemorrhagic Septicemia and he

used it when faced with a diagnosed herd

outbreak Dr Koshori Jha pointed out phenol

which was used on feet during July August and Septembers annual FMD outbreak

coinciding with the rainy season Day-to-day treatment is a sma ll part of

the government veterinarian s job He recently received approval for his five-year

plan which began last spring The main eleshyments of the plan are training increasi ng egg production mule breeding Jhopa

breeding (cross between a cow and male yak) and improving cattle feed by the introshyduction of a Phillipine variety of cattle grass

For the livestock assistance training

three farmers from each of 12 panchayats (districts) in Manang will come to Chame

for training and to discuss local problems These men will be involved in a serv ice

centre to be se t up in each panchayat for common treatment He also plans to hold a yearly lives tock exhibitio n with pri ze shy

money for healthy livestock

Plans to increase egg production include a new brooding unit and the introshy

duction of a hybrid of Leghorn New Hampshyshire and Rhode Island Red poultry In an effort to upgrade the quality of pack anishy

mals local ponies will be crossed with donshykeys brought from northern India Similarly

Missing in India Dr Ohiroobhai K Desai 46 61 Sharda Society Paldi Ahmedabad 380007 India has written of hi s attempts to gather inforshy

mation on Drs VD Alaga Raju 36 and

K B Nair 36 both of India He repol1s having bee n with Dr Nair from 1952 to 1956 at the Bombay Veterinary College as an exshyaminer in Veterinary Medicine However he

has been unable to provide up-to-date inforshymation on thesc two alumni Any alumni

with information please write to your avc Alumni Bulletin editor 0

male yaks will be crossed with local cows

and their offspring Jhopa will be used as high-altitude pack animals

Dr Jha plans to distribute these breedshying animals to the more remote region s so

that bloodlines can be upgraded In so me of these areas the native dialect is related to ancestral Tibetan languge rather thall Nepashy

lese which compounds hi s difficult task of education

Pack animals are the lifeline of the

high-altitude people as much today as they

have been for centuries I very much appreshy

ciate the time taken by Dr Koshori Jha to explain the role of domestic animals in the

Himalaya and share with me his ambitious plans for the future 0

AI Ihe recem CVMA Conference in Pelllicshylon Dr Bob Dunbar 12 leji with Dr ROI Downey 6 Bob has reached his 961h birlhday and resides in a PellliClol1 nursing home

In Memoriam Or John N Campbell 15 545 Scripps Drive Davis California 59616 USA

died May 4 1985

Dr Ra)mond E Pinkert 36 440 NOl1h Pine Street Reedsburg Wisconsin 53959 USA died April 13 1985

Or Roderick S MacDonald 37 3003 Oliver Street Apt 203A Halifax NS -B3L 4AI died June 12 1985

Dr John J Carney 44 3531 West 33rd Avenue Vancouver B C V6S IZ2 Date of

death unknown

Or Kenneth R Lachapelle 54 1635 Ranvoyze Ave St Foy Que GIW 3K2

died June 26 1985 0

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College of Social Science Alumni Assoc PEGASmiddotUS

Editor Dorothy Barnes 78

Our Annual Picnic We Illissed you I All of you who didnt make it to our CSSAA picnic during Alumni Weekend 85 But despite the few members and families that did attend we had a good time The pictures tell the story

Here are some of us arriving (l) and setting up the eats We had good food and why not It was a tillle to enjoy relax and have some fun We had games for all ages including catch-the-eggs (2) with real raw eggs

AmI of course whats a picnic without a drop of rain) But President John came prepared with a tarpaulin (3) for those afrnid ofilleiting The k)od and the day were saved Hurrah for our presidenl

Thcre were some brave soul s who unshydaunted by the weather carried on with their baseball game Then of course there was one young partiCipant (4) who was seen scratching hcr head 1I1d wondering what was going on

All in all we had a great time You would have too if youd bcen thcre So makc a mental notc or tic a string around your tingcr toc anywhere that will reillind you that you missed a good outing at th e Aluillni Wcckend 85 CSSAA picnic and that you should makc pl ans now to join us in June 86 at Alumni Wcekend 86 0

A Joy to Behold Her work has the shi mmer of life Such is said of artist Joy Elizabeth (Snihur) Laking Fine Art CSS 72 Joys art is intimately tied to the seasons In spring and summer she works against the perilous fadshying of fresh flowers capturing them in clean powerful designs

Fa ll afternoons on the grassy salt marshes around her home in Portaupigue Nova Scotia inspire wider scenes of rich changing colours

The respite of winter is her time for land and peoplescapes evolved from her ow n photography Her art is created within the context of family community and nature

Joy was introduced to hcr chosen lifeshystyle by her mother - they used to go sketching while Joy was a child in Owen Sound on Lake Huron s Georgian Bay shyand has painted since she can remember She now lives on the edge of the Bay of Fundy with husband Ronald OAC 72 and two cherubs where she can paint every day and capture the beauty she sees around her Whether it be mud and Illarsh a rusted truck and some farmyard geese or caterpillar holes in azalea leaves Joy is able to capture in watercolour the essence and beauty of all she sees

She is noted for her special ability to create white flowers on white paper by givshying the petals shape and vivid life with only a whisper of colour and shadow Light delishycate handling and mcticulous control fused with a powerful design se nse distinguishes her art

Joy is a well established artist and has had se lected exhibitions of her paintings at the Tom Thompson Memorial Art Gallery Owen Sound 1981 Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery Halifax NS 1982 Gallery 1889 Tatamagouche NS 1983

Daffodils By Joy (Snihur) Laking 72

Truro Art Society Truro NS 1984 and the Royal Botanical Gardens Burlington Onl 14

She was deservedly honoured to have the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia purchase one of her paintings for its collection and the Maritime Tel amp Tel chose a Laking painting for the cover of Nova Scotias 1985 telephone directory

Joy says I paint what I live what I see and what touches me It s no wonder then that Joy has been able to successfully transshyfer such sensitivity to her work in a way that has produced tine work s of art as demonshystrated in Daffodils reproduced here 0

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Grad News Terry Goddard 76 wrote to let us know

where he is and what hes doing After gradshyuation Terry turned to the world of engishy

neering and worked at the Bechtel Intershy

national Syncrude project in northern Alberta for a year He retu rned to school and obtained a Masters degree in Politi cal Theshyory in 1978 at the University of Toronto

TIle next nine months were spent workshying at Dhaharan Saudi Arabi a While the re

Terry contemplated the action which would

give him the best career move His deci s ion to go into teach ing led him back to the Unishy

versity of Toronto to obtai n his BEd His teachin g career took hi m to northshy

e rn Saskatchewan whe re he taug ht at a village which if not actually at the end of

the world was situated close enough that the end was plainly visible from the nOI1hern

outskirts He returned to Toronto someshywhat sated with academe and once again

turned to engineering He has been director of maintenance for the Jewi sh Com munity

Centres of Toronto for the past five years He has fou nd it difficult to keep in

touch with fellow grad s Especia lly th ose who studied in Professor Melby s Chinese

poIitic s courses and who were known as the Shanghai Mafia - they are all over the

world now Hes sure they often recall with fondness their days at Unigoo

Where are you former students of Proshyfessors Simmo ns and MelbYTerry would be interested in hearing from you - and so would we

Robin-Lee Norris 80 has been awarded

a $19000 Rot ary Foundation Scholarship to

pursue g radua te studi es in the Masters of Business Administration program at the

Univers ity of Adelaide Adelaide Australia Robin-Lee went o n to graduate from

Osgoode Hall Law School with an LLB

was called to the Ontario Bar in ApriJ of 1982 and has practised law with the tirm of

Kearns McKin non inGuelph since herca ll She took a ten-mo nth leave of absence

commenc ing in February 1985 from her positi on with Kearns McKinno n in o rder to take ad vantage of the sc holarship

During her months in Australia her mandate from Rotary Internatio nal in addishy

tion to pursuing her stud ies is to act as a Rotary and Canadian Ambassador in proshy

moting good will and understanding beshytween Australians and Canadians

A thank you goes to Cliff Hardy buildshying mechanic superv isor Main tenance Deshypartment Physical Resources for supplying us with thi s information and an aside to Robin-Lee when she reads this I was unable

to reach you betore you left to congratulate

you and get more informati on on your award If you have some free time we wOllld love to hea r from you about your studi es

what a Rotary and Canadian ambassador

does and to have you share your ex perience of being down-under

Marilyn Kernohan Morrison 78 has taken the time to Jet us know that shes living in Napanee with hu sba nd Brian She has

tempora ril y se t aside her ca reer to be a home-maker tor Brian and their four-monthshy

old son

Prior to their move to Napanee to acshycommodate Brians tran sfer - he work s with the Ministry of Natural Resources shy

Marilyn and family lived in a small comshymunity northwest of Thunder Bay After

Gue lph Marilyn continued her ed ucation at the comm unity college level and com pleted

a program for counse llors of the mentally

retarded SheJI be returnin g to thi s fi e ld when she again becomes a wage earner

Doris E (Trachsel) OKeefe 74 is deshy

scribed by husband John Paul 74 as a household engineer John Paul is a reshy

source teacher with the Waterloo County Board of Education With such a title I

couldnt resis t phon ing Doris to find out exactly what the duti es of a household enshy

gi neer are

While Doris decl ined to give a cletinishytion of the titl e l detected some surprise and delight that John Paul appreciates what it

takes to look after a famil y and a home

Doris is trying to re turn to teaching but is findin g it difficult in the Cambridge

Waterloo area If she isnt successful shes planning alternatives such as enrolment at Guelph in a Masters program o r failing that enrolment in courses that will he lp her

ac hieve her long-range goa ls She and John Paul recen tly moved from

London Ont to Cambridge Prior to the

birth of Erin now a two-year-old Doris was teac hing boys with behaviourial problems

and she sees thi s as an asset when applying for teaching positions Erin has a six-yearshyold brother Sean so you can understand

perhaps that Doris has been bu sy and maybe she is aptly described as a houseshy

hold engi neer

J Barry Baldwin 69 is a teac her with the Elgin County Board of Education S t Thomas Barry married Linda Janet Wii son They live in Aylmer West

M Rachel (Curtis) Towe 69 is manager customer systems Bell Canada She and

husband Ken live in Guelph

M Lois (Robinson) Harris 70 li ves in Newmarket with husband Fred

B Hugh Schofield 72 is an industrial engi neer with Rockwell Int e rnati o nal C hat ham He and wife Susan (Haslelt)

FACS 78 live in Chatham

Paul Davis 73 is an underwrite r analyst with Co-opera tors General In sura n ce

Guelph Paul and wife Linda (DozeH) 73 and 81 live at Brookhaven Court Guelph

Carol Finlayson 74 is a letter carrier lor Canada Post Carol and husband John Balch live in Toronto

Pal Hamilton 74 is an expon market deshyvelopment specialist with the O ntario Minshyistry of A gricu lture and Foo cl mark et

development branch Toronto He and his wife Diane (Coates) OAC 72 live in

Toronto

Kerrie Sirathy MA 78 advises us that

she is a s tud en t at th e Univcrsity of Sakatchewan Sas katoon

Vicky Sutherland 78 is an air trartie conshy

troller with Air Canada at FoI1 McMurray Airpo l1 Alta and lives in F0I1 McMurray

Sounds like an intercsting job - perhaps youl l share SOIllC experie nces with us Vicky

Marlin Thissen 78 is a foreman with the

region or Halton at ih Milton wa ter po llushytion control plant

Evelyn Evie (Isaacs) Whilwham 80 is a planning ass istant with Union Gas Co Ltd Chatham She and hu sba nd Bob have

c hanged their address They are at 70 Ottawa Drive C ha tham Ont N7L 216 0

In Memoriam A lormer faculty mcmber in the DeshypaI1ment of Geography Barsa Kelly was among the victims of the Air India Hight 182 disaster that occ urred

off the coas t of Irel and las t June ~ mr(sa Vas headed tor India on a reshy

search project at the time of her

death S he was the wife of Protessor Kenneth Kelly Department of Geogshyra phy On behalf of its members and all those who chc ri shed their con tacts with Barsa the Board of Directors of the College of Social Science Alumni Association extend their s incere symshy

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College of Biological Science Alumni Assoc BIOmiddotALUMNI NEWS

Editor Marie (Boissonneault) Rush 80

HONORARY PRESIDENT Professor Bruce Sells Dean

PRESIDENT David Airdrie BSc 82 Microbiology

PAST PRESIDENT Dr Chris Wren BSc 77 Marine Biology PhD 83

VICE-PRESIDENT Dee Britney BSc 74 Fisheries amp Wildlife MSc 81

SECRETARY-TREASURER Kclly Munkittrick BSc 80 Fisheries amp Wildshylife MSc 83

DIRECTORS Lorraine Bruce-Allen BSc 80 Zoology MSc 84 Jim Elliott BSc 79 Marine Biology Keith Harris BSc 76 Marine Biology Dr Doug Holdway BSc 76 Marine Biology MSc 78 Aquatic Toxicology PhD 83 Krista (McAuley) Soper BSc 79 Marine Biolshyogy Karin Davidson-Taylor BSc 83 Zoology

From Dave Airdrie 82 the

President How time flies when youre having fun Your editor Marie (Boissonneault) Rush 80 tell s me that this note to you will be in the Fall issue of the Guelph Alumnus so Ill bring you up to date on happenings since your 1985-86 Board of Directors was inshystalled in June

The CBS Alumni Association was parshyticularly busy during June Alumni Weekshyend events including the Wildlife Art Show and Sale and the barbecue at the Rockwood Conservation Area were well attended

Thanks must go to Krista (McAuley) Soper 79 and Lorraine Bruce-Allen 84 for their first-rate efforts in organizing and running the art show From all accounts it was ex tremely well done and is sure to be repeated in 1986

Further thanks mu st go to Keith Harshyris 76 for his efforts in once again organizing the barbecue at Rockwood Keith has done a terrifi c job with this event s ince its inception Hopefully these two events will be expanded in the coming year

Last spring the objective of $10 000 for the Keith Ronald Fellowship Fund was reached and we thank all who generously contributed to this fund Its to be hoped that this is only the first of many scholarships initiated through the CBSAA

Many of you will now be aware of the changes which the Universitys Department of Alumni Affairs has undergone in rece nt months Most important is the arrival of Marjorie Millar as director of the Departshyment It seems that President Matthews is placing greater emphasis on the importance of the Department due in part to the impenshyding capital campaign I am sure that youll all notice many beneficial innovations

The CBSAA has I feel reached a point in its development where we must heighten our profile both among alumni and undershygraduates In order to increase the awareness of the Association the Board has plans to embark on some new programs

The goals are as I see them two-fold first of all we need YOU to get more inshyvolved whether its participation in our proshygrams or s upport for the Assoc iation through your membership The fact that youre reading this demonstrates an interest which we would like to heighten

Secondly we re working at helpin g undergraduates before graduation to beshycome more aware of our Association Hopeshyfully we ll get helpful input and suggestions from many of you in the near future Reshymember - YOUR alumni association is what YOU make it

Dave Airdrie BSc 82 President Colshylege of Biological Science AA

FACULTY ADVISORS Dr Denis Lynn Zoology Dr Margaret Hauser M icroshybiology Dr John Hilton Nutrition Dr John Sandys Award Phillips Botany amp Genetics Dr Brian Wilson Human BiologyKinetics The Ontario Confederation of University

Faculty Associations (OCUFA) has awarded UGAA REPRESENTATIVES Karin Dr Alexander Sandy Middleton DepartshyDavidsonTaylor BSe X) Zoology Keith ment of Zoology one of the nine OCUFA Harris BSc 76 Marinc Biology Rob Teaching Awards for 1984 Milnc BSe XI MSe 84 Marine Bio Dr Middleton was nominated for this -award by colleagues students administrashyEX-OFFICIO DIRECTORS Ed Berdusco tors alumni and faculty It acknowledges president CBSSC Steve Spring past presishy outstanding ability and is considered to be dent CBSSC the provinces highest honour for excellence

in university teaching HKAA REPRESENTATIVE Nick Dalton I think there are two keys to being an BSe 77 Human Kinetics effective teacher Sandy says One is to

have respect for the student the other is to EDITOR RIO-ALUMNI NEWS Marie make a genuine intellectual and time comshy(Boissonneault) Rush B Se XO Marine mitmcnt to the course Biology 0 Dr Alexander Middleton Congratulations Dr Middleton 0

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Grad News Human Biology

Cathy Knipe BSc 79 MSc 83 is a Ph D st ud ent at Iowa State University Ames Iowa USA She is studying Moshylecular Biology

Shelly Lugg BSc 83 is a stude nt at Simon Fraser University Burnaby BC

Human Kinetics

Susan (Wright) Kwiatkowski BSc 80 is a recreation therapist at York Central Hosshypital Toronto Her spouse Ed graduated from Ryerson in 1979

Donna Marie (Kadwell) 1vose BSc 79 and husband John ji ve in Thorold Shes a physica l education supervisor at the Niagara Peninsula Crippled Childrens Centre

Mary Ellen (Mew) Walker BSc 83 is the activity co-ordinator at Spruce Lodge Stratford

Dr Ken Danylchuk BSc(PE) 73 is a s ur ge ry re s ident at the H itchcockshyDartmouth Medical Center Hanover N H USA

Kathryn (Tarry) Myers BSc 78 is a teacher with the Middlesex COunty Board of Educati on Hyde Park

WildUfe

Vicky Johnston 84 bega n an MSc at Lakehead University Thunder Bay in May Shes working on the reprodu ctive biology of Lake Superior rin g-billed gull s

Nutrition

Or 0010 Ohiokpehai 77 lectures in food and nutrition at the Unive rs ity of Ife Nigeria

Microbiology

John Semple 78 is a PhD ca ndidate in the Department of Mic rob iology amp Immushynology at Queens Uni vers ity Kingston He will be doing a post-doctora l at the Banting amp Best Depattment of Medica l Research University of Toronto

Unspecialized

Peter Adams 79 and Beth (Sarjeant) 79 are happy to announce their recent marshyriage Beth is a research technici an with the Depanment of Medicine Univers ity of Ca lshygary Alta and Peter operates a business with the se ismic service industry

Marine Biology

Jorgen Hansen 75 and his wife Drusilla (Dol be) Arts 75 live in Gloucester Jorge n is a staff officer with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Ottawa

CoUege Honour RoU - Winter 85 Semester 06

Margorie Fe rgusson 894 Human Biology JoAnna Milan 860 Biology

Semester 07 Sandra Noble 856 Microbiology

Semester 08 Marga ret Docker 876 Marine Biology Thomas Johnston 87 0 Fi sheries Biology Debra Underhill 858 Microbi ology

James Wright 858 Biology Tobin Peever 854 Botany

Alexander Hanke 852 Zoology Rebecca Rodgers 852 Human Bi ology

Tracey Robin son 882 BSc( HK ) Rebecca Halonen 880 BSc(HK )

Swdent has obtained standing for second time Student has obtaincd standing for third time

Home Town

Oakville Ottawa

Dorchester

Guelph New Liskeard Kingston Thunder Bay Bracebridge Grafton Calgary Alta Guelph Georgetown

Donald MacLennan 75 and hi s wife Katherine live in Chatham Donald is a biologi st-supervisor with the Ministry of Natural Resources Lake SI Clair Fisheries Assessmen t Unit Tilbury 0

College of Biological Science

Alumni Association

Wildlife Art Show

Well it happened June 15 and 16 have come and gone but not withshyout event The Graduate Students Lounge was transformed from a cozy meeting place into an an gallery There was much movi ng of furniture and hanging of an work with the end product being our fi rst ever CBSAA Wildlife Art Show

In total there were 20 wildlite artists partic ipating all tine ani sts in their own right Maybe you reshymember Ut a Stre live a nd Dr Ed Bailey Wow I You should see their wood works

Rick Beaver 73 also showed some of his work hes a wildlife imshypressionist and the colour and move shyment he paint s into each piece is eloquent Donald Dority 76 showed us the line photographer he has become There were other ani sts - too many to mention but all of extremely high calibre

Id like to mention one las t name though - Cindy Hayward manager of the Graduate Students Lounge If you ever need a steady hand to get an event off the ground shes the one to co ntact Without her hel p there would have been a whole heap of orshyga ni za tional problems From which we would have been unable to escape

All in all we had a successful show Thanks artists and viewers for making our efforts worthwhile 0

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New Minister of AgricultureOntario Agricultural College Alumni Assoc OAC ALUMNI NEWS

Editor Dr Harvey W Caldwell 51

Ontari OS new mini ster of ag riculture Jack Riddell 52A and 57 a cash crop farmer from the Exeter area comes to the position of Ontario s Mini ster of Agriculture and Food with ten years of expe rience as Liberal caucus cr itic for agriculture

The min is ter sa id that life under a Libshyeral government will give agriculture a higher priority than it has ex perienced in the past It will be considered one of the major industries in this province

Jack also pro mi sed to consult a great

Basic Technology in Action shyTurning Stones Into Bread By Ann Middleton Information Services

A new University of Guelph projec t in Tanza nia Africa should aid th e Third Wo rld s ubsistence leve l farmer The $400000 three-year projec t funded by the International Development Resea rch Centre (IDRC) will invol ve fltlculty of the Uni vershysitys Department of Land Resou rce Sc ience and Soko ine Uni versity of Ag riculture in Morogoro Central Tanza ni a Aim of the enterpri se is to use loca lly ava il ab le rock materials as soil amendm en ts and con shyditioners

The project came about when Ott awas IDRC brought together a team of two geo logists with an interest in improving co nshyditions for African farmers Professor Ward Chesworth with the Department of Land Resource Science has a long-standing intershyes t in turning rock s into fertili zers deshyve loped during work in West Africa and the Canltlry Islands where local farmers have spread volcanic rock on their field s for two centu ries In his lab and in the Blue Springs basin near Acton Ontario Professor Chesshyworth has been conducting experiment s on the levels at which common rocks re lease nutri ents into soil solutions

The other team member Dr Peter van Straltl ten is ori ginally from Germany but spe nt e ight years with the United Nations in Tan zania looking for metals and metal deshyposi ts and working on an in ve ntory of ferti shyli zer raw materials in south-east Africa

During thi s period Tanza nian food production per capita fell dramaticall y leadshying Dr van Strltlaten to try to find ways to help the food situation In ex periments in his garden in Dodomo Tanzaniltl he was able to increase yields of vegetables using locally

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available geological materia ls and organic wastes

Noting the common interes ts of the two men the Canadian age ncy introd uced them and Dr van Straaten relocated in Guelph Co-ordinators of the project are Professor Cheswo rth and Tan za ni an sc ie nti st Dr Johnson Semoka of Sokoine University coshyauthor of a text on so il sc ience much used in agricultural circles in Africa

Technical assistant Peter Sl11i th is working with Tanzanian rock specimens in the Land Resource Science lab and two other Tanzanian scientists will be involved

In addition to academics from bo th institutions members of the Geological Survey of Tanzania will also work on the project both in the Morogoro area and at Mbeya station in south-western Tanzania

Roc k sa mples will be collected and crushed and field tests and pot ex periments carried out here and on location When reshysu lt s have bee n obtained extension work will begin in Africa under the direc tion of Dr Semoka It is hoped that members of a Me nnonite Central Committee group workshying at Mbeya will design a simple rock crusher for the use of local farmers

Tanzania has a major phosphate deshyposi t wh ich will be tapped by the project as well as ground s ilicates including volcanic ash Liming materials such as limestone dolomite marl and ca rbonatite will also be evaluated

Professor Chesworth points out that alshythough No rth Americans place much emshyphasi s on the big three of soil nutrition shynitrogen phosphorus and potassium (NPK) - there are actually about 20 necessary

deal with the farm organizations on the direction his ministry should be taki ng

I dont believe that we can sit in our so-ca ll ed ivory towers and introduce the kind of programs that are go ing to be mea nshyingful unless we get consultation from the farmers and their spokes people

He has been a member of the provincial legislature for 12 years He spent his first two years as energy cri tic and later environshyment critic before mov ing into agriculture Jack and Anit a have a family of five 0

nutrie nts including the minor ones In some areas of Tanza nia the decline

in soil fe rtility is in part due to the settling of widespread populations into villages where land has been used without concern for nutrients Tn other part s of the country productivity has declined because of leachshying of plant nutrie nts durin g normal rainfall and also from the continuous use of acidifyshying fertilizers such as ammo nium su lphate Dr Chesworth point s out that the current practice of NPK fe rtili zation totally ignores secondary and micronut rient requirements of plants It is hoped that the projec t wilt address thi s problem

Our approac h is basic tec hn ology our target group the poorest far mers Dr van Straaten explains One of the problems in the past Dr Ches worth says has been convincing agronomists that it s worth purshysuing this kind of elementary tec hnology approach Theyre very skeptical that you can take common roc ks wi thou t major inshydustrial proces ing and use them to advanshytage on tropical soils

A s ideline area of research is work with zeolites open framework si licates that often occ ur in volcanic rocks Some zeolites can be used to trap nitrogen in the form of ammonia which would otherwise be los t in gaseous form When added to cow manure for exampl e and stomped in by the beasts themselves zeolites enrich an already valushyabl e fertil ize r Dr van Straaten explains

The zeolite research is being carried out in co njunction with Professor Colin Fyfe Department of Chemistry an intershynat io na ll y kn ow n authority o n zeo lit e -che mi stry

Orie result of the work of the Un ive rs ity of Guelph geo logists is an ag rogeology ne tshywork currentl y being set up bya number of African cou ntries as the result of di sc usshysions following a paper by Dr van Straaten and Professor Chesworth The paper was given recently at meetings of the UN Ecoshynomic Commiss ion for Africa in Zambia 0

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A Designing Grad The need for a summer job six years ago has ended in a Guelph grad des igning golf courses

When in 1979 Lisa Maki now

BLA 84 was searching for a job that would assist her in her studies at the Univershysity she applied to the city of Kitchener

She could have wound up in any

number of areas in the parks and recreation department but Rockway and Doon Valley

course superintendent Ed Ortlieb gave her the chance to join the work crew at Rockway fltor the first couple of years it was just a job that got her outdoors in the summer then by chance she got interested in the game itself

And now shes embarked on a career in golf course design

Lisa the 24-year-old oldest daughter of Ted Maki a former general manager of the

Lisa Maki BLA 84 Kitchener Rangers left last July for Lakeshyland Florida where she Joined Links Deshysign which de sig ns and oversees golf course construction throughout the United 1983 and a friend of the family who knew States The company is considered the sec shy was interested in golf course work arranged ond-largest of its type behind the one run by a meeting with Ronald Garl said Lisa I US golf legend Jack Nicklaus who deshy had an official job interview in April of 84 signed the Glen Abbey course in Oakville and then went to Florida in August of the

How does a young Kitchener woman same year to familiarize myself with the

end up working for Ronald Garl a 40-yearshy firms projects

old graduate of the University of Florida Because I had focused much of my who apprenticed under such well-known deshy University work on such things as turf man shy

signers as Roben Trent Jones and Joseph agement and had done pan of my bachelor Lee Again it was just a chance opportunity of landscape architecture thes is on what

We were in Florida in December of makes British golf courses great and the

Sisters of Accident Victims Receive Diplomas

A tragic accident just prior to Spring Convocation resulted in the deaths oftwo graduands of the Associate Diploma in Agriculture Program Jeff Bikus 85A of West Lome and Nick Davidson 85Afrom Zimbabwe Joy Davidson sister ofNick came from Zimbabwefor the Convocation She was sponsored by the OAC Alumni Association Classes of85A alld 86A Norm McCollulIl 66A honorary class president 85A Don and MiidredMcCollum Jenny Ballentine and her parents Dr Steve Bowley 78 and80 honorary class president 86A and the University Centre Administration Our sympathy is extended to the families and friends of these two popular studel1ls Pictured are Ito r Jenny Ballantine friend ofJeff Bikus Lealln Bikus sister of Jeff Joy Davidson sister of Nick and Klaus Kristiansen a studellt from Zimbabwe

other on golf course residential design he was impressed

In order to learn what made British

courses great Lisa spent a semester in Engshyland and Scotland visiting researching sketching photographing and playing 16 historic courses including the famous links courses which by tradition are the

only clubs to host the British Open Links layouts are courses that border the sea and have been built or developed over sand

bases

Approximately 15 students a year take

advantage of the School of Land scape Arshychitectures Semester Abroad Program fi shynancing the trips themselves However the program is supported by an annual $5000 grant from the Alma Mater Fund so alumni can claim a cenain amount of credit for Lisas success She was a recipient in 1983

of part of that years AMF grant Im not sure my mother and father

were very keen about my trave lling around England and Scot lane all alone but it was a truly great experience she said middot1 not only met many wonderful and helpful peoshyple got to play the great courses like St

Andrew s Royal Troon Turnberry and my favorite of all Royal Dornoch

After a complicated and lengthy US immigration process which took nearly a year she was granted her permanent work

visa She was in regular contact with her new

boss after returning to Kitchen er - she re turned to work at Rockway and Doon while awaiting the vi sa approval - and then last July plunged immediately into

projects including work at a mens tournashyment players 36-hole complex in Sarasota and a Ladies Professional Golf Assoc iation course in Melbourne where she worked in association with LPGA tour players Beth Daniels and Sally Little

Despite the fact that the job involves

vy ing with rattlesnakes alligators and Iild

pigs when I have to tramp through forests and swamps in applying my design work to certain areas I love the outdoor work Lisa

said At the same time she doesnt have any

probleIl1s giving orders to hard-hatted heavy-machinery construction workers when she is the field supervisor for on-site

work think I may have raised a few eye shy

brows when I staned work at Rockway but I was accepted

Lisa isnt sure how long this pan of her life will last and she has no way of knowing whether any of her courses will eve r be known as Lisa Maki layouts But that doesnt

concern her They may be Links Design projects but Ill know they were basically my courses 0

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Klink Lecture Dr Doug Morrison 49 Department of Poultry Science was chosen to deliver the 1985 Klink Lecture

The Klink lecture is ~ponsored by the Agricultural Inst itute of Canada and named after the Institute s founding president Preshysented by an outstanding lecture r the lecture is delivered through a coast-to-coast tour and concerns a topic of current significance to the agricultural industry and the nation

Dr Morri son stated that there is a need for professionalization in an imal agriculshyture in order to give it an improved image and make it more acceptable to the conshysumer

Address ing members of the Ontario Inshystitute of Agrologists in London Ontario he told his audience that the agriculture inshydustry in Canada ranks among the best in the world and producers have to ensure thi s is shown and make sure that peer pressure prevents producers from doing things that we cant defend

He suggested some type of professhysiona l approach established by the farming organization whereby expertise would be required instead of merely encouraged

This is a mu ch beller ap proach th an some edict from society through governshyment legi slation I strong ly object to legislashytion designed to protect me from myself he said adding that there are currently enough regulations existent through legislation that dictate what farmers can and cannot do

If a farmer were a profess ional hi s reward wou Id be in profits - about as meanshyingful a reward as has ye t been devised

Benefits of a more professionalized approach would include an improved image of the farmer to the consumer an increase in communication a more efficient industry

which is essential for competition improved knowledge on the fa rmers part of health nutrition care markets etc and more awareness of soc ietys concerns

In turn it would also be necessary to provide beller information to the consumer through an educational process because if soc iety is to pay for increased inputs for the long- term good of the nat ion then it is essential society be adequately informed

Morrison remarked that he fee ls the maj ori ty of animal agriculturists are in fact professionals but there has to be a concerted e ffort to at tract as lew people as possible in to the business who do not understa nd farmshying or who are doing things that are unacshyceptable

Consumer concern over dietary value or the amount of drugs contained in animal product s is also reason for farmers to tak e a professional approach They should work to alleviate any misreprese ntations and misin shyformation the public is receiving the proshyfessor noted s tating that farm ers have never produced food as safe and as wholeshysome as it is today

By the turn of the century on a world basis meat consumption is predicted to in shy

crease by abou t 60 per cent while the intake of milk is expected to increase by almost 40 per cent

A major fac tor for this rise in intake result s from th e fact that developing nations will begin to consume animal products as soon as they can afford them China is an excellent exa mple of this said the professor who commented that nation is now movshying as rapidly as possible to increase animal production

With all these factors is mind Dr Morshyri son sa id he is optimistic for the future of the Canad ian animal agriculture industry

Weve got the opportunities and can take advantage of them he said 0

Mark Bernards 85 cenlre was the recipienl oftwo OAC Alumni Foundation awards the OAC Alumni Graduate Award and the Beth Duncan Gold Medal Left is Gord Nixon 37 Foundashytion chairman and director and right NR Rick Richards 38 treasurer

Entrepreneur in Residence

Dr Donald Shaver

Dean Freeman McEwen is pleased to be working with Dr Donald McQueen Shaver the Universitys first Agricultural Entreshypreneur-i n-Res idence

Dr Shaver a native of Cambt idge Onshytari o is found er chairman and chief exshyecutive officer of Shaver Poultry Breed ing Farms Limited The compan y distributes chicken breeding stock to 90 countries from its head office in Cambridge and three subshysid iaries in the United States Britain and France He retired from his executive reshysponsib ilities on August 30 but is conshytinuing as director and adv isor to the company

From 1940 to 1945 Dr Shaver served with the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps in Africa and Europe retiring as regimental commanding officer He is past president of the Canadian Hatchery Federation the Poulshytry Products Institute of Canada the Canashydian Lincoln Red Society and Maine-Anjou Association He is a member of the Order of Canada Honorary Life Member of the Worlds Poultry Science Association and the Ontario Institute of Agrologi sts He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Science by McGill University and the Centennial Medal by the OAC

The Entrepreneu r-in-Reside nce pro shygram was initiated and financially supshyported by OAC Class of 58 to champion -the role of private enterpri se within soc iety The appointment is for a two-year period during which time Dr Shaver will present lectures lead workshops and consult with faculty and students

The Agricultural Entrepreneur-in-Resishydence program at the University is believed to be a first in agr icultural education around the world 0

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University Of Guelph Involved in $68 Million Chinese Project The University of Guelph has embarked on a co-operative $68 million project that will ~ink five Canadian and Chinese universities and agricultural institutions

The four-year Black Dragon River Proshyjeo supported by the Canadian Internashytional Deve lopment Agency (C IDA) involves Guelph the University of Alberta Olds College in AlbeI1a and two Chinese institutions - Heilongjiang Land Reclamashytion University and Liu He Training College in northeastern Heilongjiang Province

Under th e term s of the agreement training will be provided at the three Canashydian institutions for personnel from the two Chinese university institutions

The Liu He Training College is respo nshysible for educating state farm employees Training will range from short courses to undergraduate and graduate level programs

Faculty from the Canadian universities and Olds College will travel to China during the summer months to give lectures and

short courses The area borderi ng on Russia has treshy

mendou s potential for agricultural deve lopshyment Professor Neal Stos~opf 57 direct or of OACs diploma courses is Guelphs co-ordinator for the Chinese projshyect He was part of the Canadian gove rnment planning miss ion and ex plains that although the climate combines the cold winters and hot summers of Alberta most of the moisshyture is rain that falls between Jul y and Sepshytember

Although latitude is the sa me as Edmontons at 52 degrees north the area grows soybeans and corn as well as wheat The land has two to four feet of black topsoil waiting to be drained and planted he says with potential for livestock proshyduction

The proj ec t centre is located at the Unishyversity of Alberta with administration in Guelph being carried out by the Centre for International Programs 0

Provincial apiarist retires after 19 years You might say Philip Burkes job brought sweet rewards

Until his retirement recently Philip was the provincial apiarist - sort of Onshytarios chief of bees - while working at the University of Guelphs Department of Environmental Biology

He joined the University as a lectu rer in 1943 and then became assistant professor and later associate professor

At the same time the Ontario Departshyment of Agriculture (as the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food was known then) made him the assistant provincial apiarist In 1966 he became provincial apiarist

Of course he advised beekee pers on ways they could make their colonies more productive and efficient and fielded many apiary management question s - including how to prevent bees from swarming

If they swarm one-third to one-half of th e colony takes off so you lose a big source of your honey crop Swarming is trigshygered when the hive becomes overcrowded so the beekeeper mu st stay ahead of them It involves a whole manipulation of the hive through the season visiting each colony at least once every ten to 14 days he says Philip also worked with farmers whose

crops depended on pollination by bees At one time bees were needed for

pollin ating greenhouse produce such as cucumbers But in the past 15 years the trend has been toward new types that are self fruiting he says

But the biggest change in the industry over the years was the trend towards Illakshying corn king in Ontario - a trend that is now being reversed he says

From 1949 and on a lot of bee coloshynies were moved to the western provinces tollowi ng th e reduction in alfalfa production in Ontario and the increased corn acreage he says

Now prospec ts for honey production in Ontario are better than in past years beshycause of the increased alfalfa acreage and other legumes and the trend towards more diversified cropping

Not surpris ingly prices have changed in the industry over the years too Back in the 1920s it cost about $10 to start a bee colony today start-up costs are about $100 to $125 per colony

Much of his work at the University looked at ways to prevent di seases in bees using selected antibiotics

He was secretary for the Ontario Beekeepers Association for 15 yea rs and now acts as a consu It ant for the group 0

Wins Crampton Award

Dr Stanley J Slinger 37 the most recent rec ipient of the Earl e W Crampton Award for distingui shed service in nutrition is ProshyFessor Emeritus of the Depal1ment of Nutrishytion College of Biolog ica l Science at Guelph

Born in Lowell Ontario Dr Slinger received his BSc from the Ontario Agrishycultural College hi s MSc fro111 the Univershysity of Toronto and a PhD from Cornell University From 1941 to 1965 he was in the Departillent of Poultry Science at the OAC and since 1965 has been in the Department of Nutrition at Guelph serving as chairJl1an from 1965 to 1974

Dr Slinger conducted re sea rch in sevshyeral areas of pou Itry nutrition for Jl10re than 30 years In 1972- 73 a fi sh nutrition laborashytory was set up and thi s laboratory has conshytinued to grow and iJl1prove s i nee One of the primary objectives in both poultry and fi sh nutrition research has been to develop feed to rmulas using feedstuffs of Canadian orishygin 111ese tannulas have been publi shed and continuall y revi sed and have been used extensively by teed manufacturers through shyout Canada Dr Slinger continues to be active in research

Dr Slinger taught poultry nutrition in Poultry Science for 27 years gave seminar courses in nutrition and physiology taught Fundamentals of Nutrition in the Depal1shyment of Nutrition and deve loped and taught courses in fi sh and wildlite nutrition

He has supervi sed the work of Jl1any graduates and it is interesting to note that the Department of Nutrition at Guelph is the only depailment in Canada - and there are very few in the United States - turning out graduates in Fish Nutrition at the PhD leve l

He has helped to establi sh modern poultry industries in Mexico and the areas of South East Asia Africa the Middle East Eastern and Western Europe and the United Kingdom Lectures conlerences and other consultative work have also taken hilll to Jl1any coul1tries over the years

The recipient of numerous honours and awards Dr S linger was made Professor Emeritus of the University in Ino and reshy -ceived the Earl e W Crampton award in 19B4 at Macdonald College Que Thi s award is given by the Faculty of Agriculture in recogshyniti on of significant co ntributions in the field of nutrition through research andlor service The award is named for Dr Earle W Crampton a renowned nutritionist whose career at Macd onald bega n in 1922 and lasted far 51 years 0

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cialist having spent four months in the latter John Reid 84 is technical sales rep Agrico Grad News part of 1984 in Bloemfontein South Africa Sales Ltd Richmond BC

Earl Johnston 46 is president Earl-John Brokers Ltd Delhi

Joe Knox 48 is secretary-treasurer Annco Westeellnc Guelph

Ralph Hills 54 is pastor United Church of Canada Smith Falls Ralph left Zambia last October spending some time in Kenya Israel England and Scotland on the way home He was surprised to meet Charlie Broadwell also 54 on Oxford Street in London Charlie was giving a reception at a large castle for the white bean buyers who purchase beans from Charlies Bean Growers of Ontario Ralph also passes along the word from Louise (Fershyguson) Hope Mac 54 that her husband Don 54 preparing for some future possible social work is studying drug addiction at George Brown College of Applied Ans and Technology Toronto

Joseph Leach 54 is a research scientist Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources Lake Erie Research station Wheatley

Ken Edwards 59 is an industrial engineer Prince George Pulp and Paper Vancouver BC

Fred Theaker 62 is a teacher-biologist Ren frew County Board of Education Aruprior

Howard Lang 67 is senior so il conshyservation advisor for OMAF Cambridge

John Lawrence 69 has been appointed vice-president and ge neral manager De kalb Canada Inc Chatham John is a lso president of the Canadian Agri-marketing Assoc iation

Robert Brooksbank 70 is manager Agrishycultural Department Simcoe area Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce

Alan Duncan BLA 73 is project coshyordinator Groupe d intervention urban de Montreal Montreal Que

Martha (Weir) Collins 75 reports that Anne (Walton) Bayler 75 is at teac hers college in Toronto after spending several years teaching in the Bahamas Martha lives at I Braid Place Guelph and would like to hear news of her classmates

Jim Dyer MSc 75 is a senior resource and environmental officer with the crop producshytion division of Agriculture Canada Ottawa He is on loan as a drought monitoring spe shy

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His wife Barb (Newell) Arts 75 who is a technical editor with Public Works Canada joined him in Bloemfontein for a month

Elizabeth Fedorkow 75 is a market reshysearcher Tetra Pak Inc Markham

Roy Maxwell 75 is an agricultural comshymentator CBC Radio Noon Toronto

Gary Ball 76 is vice-president manufacturshying Mitten Vinyl Inc Cambridge

Garnet McConney 77 is feed lot manager Catllel and Ontario Inc Petersburg

Patrick Meyers 77 OVC 84 is a vetshyerinarian with the Grenville-Dundas Veterinshyary Clinic Kemptville

Martha Frey 78 is secretaryass istant edishytor Canadians for Health Research Wes tshymount Que

Wayne Harrison 79 is assi stant manager Toronto Dominion Bank Elmira His wife is Katherine (McLeod) 77

Sharon Helynk 79 is with the Woodbury Animal Hospital Halifax NS

Jeffery Goebel 80 is resident engineer ACF Canada Ltd Georgetown

Mary Lynn Prong 80 is assistant manager Royal Bank Watford She reports that Bruno Soucy 8Q has changed jobs from OMAF farm ma nagement advisor to agrolog ist London region Royal Bank

Corrie Almack 81 is presidentowner Agshyriculturai Soil and Nutrition Consultants Freelton

Edward Bolton 81 is research farm manshyager AJle lix Inc M ississauga

William Summers 82 MSc 84 is prodshyuct deve lopment rep Du-Pont Canada Streetsville

Dianne (Coker) McDowell 83 is quality assurance supervisor Richardson Foods Ltd Glanw0I1h

John Ross 83 is a program officer Agrishyculture Canada Edmonton Alta

Jeff Burke 84 is a customer service rep Griffith Lab Toronto

Julie Fowler 84 is working for Embury Bros Farms Ltd Newburgh

Karen Rodman 84 is a farm management specialist OMAF Nepean

James Simonds 84 is a crop specialist Cavendi sh Fanns Summerside P E1

Richard West PhD 84 is a research scishyentist Canadian Forestry Service SI John s Nftdo

In Memoriam We regret to report the following deaths

Marie Honsberger 17A died March 1985

Esmond D Clipsham 2IA died on April 6 1985 Esmond had been the proprietor Uneeda Rest Hotel Kilwonhy and was a life member of the OAC Alumni Association

Stanley Ewart Keillor 21 died on February 27 1985 He was a crop farmer at Walshylacetown

John Edward Chalmers 23A died on Febshyru ary 15 1985

Jacobus Van Haarlem 23 at age 85 on July 2 1985 in Vineland He retired as ex shyecutive director of the Hor1icultural Experishymental Station at Vineland in 1970 after 47 years of service there

Hugh Lacklin Paterson 32A died in May 1985 of a heart attack at Rockwood

Murray Cameron Macklin 33A 35 died January n 1985 in Toronto

Garland Alfred Fisk 35 Date of deat h unknown

Gordon Elgin Young 35 died on June 12 1985 at Ing leside

John Miller Fargery 37 on March 22 1985 in Toronto John had been an insurance salesman Farm Credit Corp and was a life member of the OAC Alumni Assoc iation

William Thomson 40 in 1982 in Lonshy shygueuil Que His death was reported recen tl y

Robert Fletcher Madden 54A died on November 26 1984 at age 52 at Napanee

Vera (Mod ric) Kozamplik MSc 73 in Yugoslavia She was the wife of Vinko Kozumplik M Sc 71 0

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From the Dean

Dr Barham

In some of my lellers I have aimed to share

information on some special program or theme with you On this occasion I want to

keep you in touch through a number of lillie items so I shall hold onto some of the bigshy

ger interests for future issues of the Guelph Alumnus

As I write this leller Alumni Weekend 85 is behind us I found it a great weekend

and I thoroughly enjoyed meeting more of our alumni for the first time while

especially appreciating recognizing more

and more familiar faces and names from previous occasions

This year the Classes of 65 and 75 requested an up-date on our programs and

the developments we have experienced together in the College over the last few

years I guess that we were able to demonshy

strate much more development in our research and teaching programs than we could in some parts of the physical facilities within the buildings Still we had thorshyoughly congenial and I think very useful

meetings with both of these classes and added a nostalgic tour of our facilities

It was splendid to meet both of these groups I confess however that I had not

foreseen that a large part of the interest of the Class of 65 rested on the fact that many of their children are now gearing up to enter FACS

I was able to remind them that the BASc and B Comm degrees both lead

into fascinating and challenging careers for sons and nephews as well as daughters and

nieces Some of you coming to Alumni Weekend 86 might wish to get in touch with me to arrange an up-date on our acti vities then too

One of my special pleasures of Alumni Weekend was to join with the Class of 35 at the Golden Anniversary Dinner This occashy

sion is always a particular delight given the special personal pleasures reflected in the

friendships shared on this anniversary And I do want members of the Class of

35 to know that their gift of the magnificent Terry Legault Roman Festival print looks really outstanding and just right amidst the

contemporary decor of the FACS lounge

One last item of alumni news which I want to mention is the fact that I met with

Jean (Nairn) Carter 38 and some of her committee recently I learned that they have

been making quite outstanding progress in establishing the trust fund that will support their new graduate student award in geronshy

tology The first award presentation of $1000 is being made this fall but members of the Class of 38 are still pushing on with their fund raising in order to bring the

annual trust-fund yield to a level of $2 000 We all think that the Class of 38 grads

have been quite remarkable in their detershymination to build up a significant fund to

support work in this important new field of scholarship and research I know that we

shall all appreciate your support for them in reaching their target

I met with Audrey Warner and Annette

Yeager 62 recently They advised me of their concern for the needs of teachers wantshy

ing to prepare themselves for adding Family Studies to their fields of professional speshy

cialization and of other teachers already working in that field who find themselves in need of some up-dating especially in view of the curriculum changes which appear to be around the corner

In this regard I want to mention two

items which might be of interest First our faculty in FACS have been

quite heavily engaged in working with

teachers and others in thinking planning debating and writing for the curriculum developme~ts envisaged for the Ontario Academic High School Credits

Most especially we have had as memshybers of the Canadian Family in Perspective group Dr Jean Sabry with her own special

interest in human nutrition Dr Grant

McCracken in clothing Drs Marshall Fine and Claude Guldner with their expertise in family relations and Drs Anne Martin Matshythews and Joe Tindale with their special strengths in life-span development and

aging - quite a team of contributors Secondly I want to mention in relation

to my meeting with Audrey and Annette that we now have a number of courses avai 1shy

able in a six-week format offered in summer sessions provided on campus

Perhaps of even more interest to those of you who wont find it practical to take

classes on campus at Guelph we have an annual offering of distance or corresponshy

dence-type courses Many of these will be of very pertinent

interest to a number of teachers The current list includes Human Development Marital and Family Dynamics Personal and Family Finance Development of Human Sexuality Nutrition and Man and the Exceptional Child in the Family

You can find out more about these

offerings by writing directly to Guelph Disshytance Education University of Guelph

Macdonald Institute shyFamily and Consumer Studies Alumni Assoc

Editor Carol Telford-Pittman 75

Guelph Ont NIG 2WI or by getting in touch with my office

One of the reasons that we have put

ourselves so significantly behind the development of these distance courses is that we did not have the resources to meet

the demand for providing our courses in the more traditional class format at locations

away from the Guelph campus As usual there is much more to share

with you but it will just have to hold until

my next letter I look forward to being in touch with you again then 0

Olive Thompson Honoured

Olive (Thompson) Thompson 35

-The Mac-FACS Alumni Association was very pleased to present a Citation of Appreshyciation to Olive (Thompson) Thompson

35 during Alumni Weekend 85 festivities Olive has given much time energy

support and leadership to the College and to the University through her years of involveshyment with the Mac-FACS Alumni Associashytion Class of Mac 35 activities and the University of Guelph Alumni Association

Our University s alumni organizations are stronger and more effective because of

the years of commitment and personal sershyvice that Olive has contributed

Olive - We salute you 0

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New at HAFA By John Hearn

Infonnation Services

An innovative course developed by the School of Hotel and Food Administration (HAFA) is focussing the attention of undershygraduates on the analysis of operational problems in the hospitality industry and the writing skills required to express and comshymunicate that analysis

Students are required to find summer jobs in the hospitality industry and then to write five papers of ascending complexity during the first semester of their second year using text readings specially edited for this course by the Schools Director Proshyfessor Tom Powers

We have a unique responsibility to prepare students not just for their first job but for future jobs further down the line says Dr Powers Possession of a university degree should imply an ability both to anashylyse problems and to communicate observashytions and recommendations In todays corporate world reports papers and letters are management tools and written comshymunication is a survival skill

The HAFA faculty decided further to emphasize writing skills by adopting a style manual developed by Professor Margaret Hund leby Department of Engl ish Language and Literature for this course as an integral part of the Schools other courses

In order to familiarize faculty with the use of the manual and the grading of student writing Professor Hundleby was invited to conduct a two-day workshop which atshytracted the attention of Vice-President Howard Clark and Associate Vice-President Janet Wardlaw as well as faculty from other disciplines s uch as psychology land resource science microbiology and history

The program Professor Hundleby told the seminar requires students to complete five report papers based on their own obsershyvations

The first paper requires a detailed description of the physical layout of the host operation plus an appraisal and operating cost analysis of its heating air-conditioning and ventilation systems

A second paper asks the student to describe and evaluate staff structure funcshytion compensation package and efficiency

Cost control is the subject of a third paper Purchasing practices food producshytion cost traCking and inventory manageshyment all come under this heading

Marketing is the fourth subject area What market segment is the operation aimed at What consumer need does the operation satisfy What is the nature of the

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Left to right- Professors Cathy Schrye Writing Centre Tom Muller HAFA Belty Upton HAFA Mike Jenkinson OAC 63 OAC dean s office Mary Rogers History and back to camera Bernie Katz Library reviewing cases drawn from studefll papers in a two-day workshop Evaluating Students Writing conducted by Professor Margaret Hundleby

competition in the target market

The fifth paper examines the intangishybles of management sty Ie How does the role of the manager affect relations with customshyers staff and head office

Professor Hundleby commenting on some of the problems of the course says whatever we call it students tend to conshyclude that what they re writing is an acashydemic paper of some kind - which of course it is - but we need to make the connection in their minds with the real the corporate world out there They also tend to think that longer is better and write about what they know - rather than what is import ant The development of a proper sense of for whom they are writing is itself a problem-solving skill

Another problem according to Proshyfessor Hundleby is what she calls the new illiteracy - a verbal dysfunction resulting from an impoverished vocabulary

Style too is a matter of considerable

AMPHI Spin-offs The School of Hotel and Food Administra shytions annual Advanced Management Pro shygram for the Hospitality Industry (AMPHI) now in its third year is spinning off new management development activities says HAFA Director Tom Powers Earlier this year 20 people attended a workshop on accounting and finance presented by Proshyfes sor William Braithwaite School of Agrishycultural Economics and Extension Educashytion and three similar programs will be offered in different parts of the country over the next year and a half

Another program still in the planning stage is a six-day hospitality managers development course designed for middle management by AMPHIs associate direcshy

concern She also mentioned careless senshytence structure style that is inappropriate to the content lack of connective logic failure to understand the nature of a paragraph as a literary entity the frivolous use of colloshyquiali sms an absence of any sense of the harmonious sound of words on paper and of course a growing list of commonly misused words - e g it could of had that affect

There s a tendency to see s tyle as a decorative flourish rather than as an aspect of content she concluded

Professor Powers sees the development of verbal communication skills as central to the whole idea of liberal education Cershytainly he says its useful for HAFA stushydents to understand how a cost control system works - but its at least as important to be able to think logically analyse logshyically and communicate conclusions in a way that is credible informative coherent and complete in fact these are the classic goals of a liberal education 0

tor Professor John Patterson and a consulshytant group of AMPHI alumni

AMPHI continues to attract internashytional attention participants in thi s years program which began in April include senior executives from many of North Americas most distinguished hotels and restaurants The four-week course offers an intensive program based primarily on case studies written by Professo rs Patterson -Braithwaite Carl Riegel and Tom Muller

The growing volume of AMPHI cases indicates that thi s is the largest s ingle research program currently under way in any hotel school in North America says Proshyfessor Powers AMPHls network of conshytacts is giving us access to a senior-level view of the industrys current problems and prospects 0

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Research AssociateComing Soon A AppointedModel Play Facility

Dr Joan Norris

Dr Joan Norris has held the position of Research Associate at the Gerontology Research Centre since last spring

Joan is working with faculty to develop and promote research related to population aging and is available for consultation with faculty on research design funding sources and publication

In addition to this development work she is continuing her personal program of research She works for the Gerontology Censhytre two days per week and the balance of her

The Family Studies Laboratory Schools pre-school play facility fell 10 a Grounds time is spent in the Department of Family Department wrecking machine recently Studies where she has held a faculty appointshy

ment since 1980 Joan holds a Ph D in Psychology from

the University of Waterloo and is also a regisshytered psychologist Her personal research

The Mllc-FACS Special Projects Commitshyinterests include social competence in older

tee Ito r Bonnie Kerslake 82 Association adults peer relationships and grandshy

president Linda (Wo[e) Markle 73 chairshyparenting 0

man and Gail Murray 78 Missing comshymillee member is Rita (Klassen) Weigel 77 The aim of the committee is to raise funds to redevelop the Family Studies Laboshy In Memoriam ratory Schools and raise itto the level where it will be regarded as a model pre-school

Eileen Margaret (Manahan) Alwayplay facility

390 October 21984 in Vancouver BC

Jean (Horrell) Atkinson 240 March 5 1985 in Aurora

Class of 35 Gift Oorothy (Lockard) Honsberger 300Centre panel Roman Carnival

In order to commemorate their anniversary July 51985 in Weiland Mac 35 has traditionally given a scholshyarship to a FACS student once every five Isabel J Lockerbie 300 March 31 years This year on the 50th anniversary of 1985 in Toronto their graduation and in addition to the scholarship an etching entitled Roman Patricia G (Smith) McKay-Barry 55 Carnival by Terry Legault has been added March 17 1985 in London Ont to the Universitys collection of Canadian alt The etching is hanging in the FACS Velma E (Conn) Partridge 260 April faculty lounge 29 1985 in Niagara Falls Ont shy

The theme of Roman Carnival was favoured by neo-clas sical and romantic Helen E (Kelly) Robinson 220 April painters during the 19th century The etching 30 1985 in Dundas captures the moment at which wild horses are released to race through the streets of Norma I (Motherwell) Roy 350 in Rome The artist has chosen to represent the Moosejaw Sask wild chaotic motion ot the horses rather than explicitly depict in detail the animals Lillian S (Moore) Usher 340 March 28 and the architectural background 0 1985 in Cobourg 0

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College of Physical Science Alumni Assoc SCIMP

Editor Bob Winkel

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Yes Dr Earl MacNaughtoll has relired alshylogelher bUI Ihis wonl be Ih e lasl you I hear from him reSI assured Before he and his wife Jean lOok oJf for Auslralia and New Zealand Deparlmenl of Physics slaf and faculty held a galhering al Ihe FacullY Club and presenled Ihe couple wilh an alumni clock

Back to Guelph

The headquarters for (GWC)2 came

back to Guelph in July for a threeshy

year period while Professor Robert Balahura Chemistry and Biochemisshy

try serves as director (GWC)2 offices have been set up

in Room 122 and 123 Physical Scishyences building The University of

Waterloo will maintain a satellite office during the three-year Guelph

rotation Dr Balahura and adminshy

istrative assistant Andrea Turner may

be reached at Ext 3865 0

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Physics Professor Elected to Royal Society

Bernhard Nickel

Department of Phy s ics Professor Bernhard Nickel has been elected a Fellow

of the Royal Society of Canada and was formally inducted into the Society at its

annual meeting in Montreal in June

A member of the Physics faculty since

1974 Professor Nickel is no stranger to

prizes and awards In 1981 he received the Herzberg Medal the Canadian Associashy

tion of Physicists award to a promising young scienti st In 1978 he won a Sloan

Fellowship from the New York-based Sloan Foundation

He achieved recognition by navigating

the esoteric seas of condensed matter physshy

ics Hi s co lleagues call him a leading masshyter in the art of mathematical physics By

exploiting the existing mathematical frameshywork in subtle ways he has worked through

thickets that have stopped other physic ists

High order perturbation calculations

done by him played a key role in verifying

the quantitative reliability of the theory of

underlying continuous phase transitions in systems

He earned BScE and MSc degrees from the University of Saskatchewan and a

PhD from the University of California at

San Diego He was a research associate at

Cornell and Oxford Universities and a postshy

doctoral research Fellow at the Univers itY of Alberta before coming to Guelph in 1974

He has been a visiting fellow at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory at the Univershy

sity of California at San Diego at Harvard

and at the Schlumberger-Doll Re searc h In stitute in Connecticut

With his election he becomes one of

six Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada at

Guelph The others are Professors Howard

Clark Peter Egelstaff Gabriel Karl Bruce Sells and Herbert Armstrong And it brings to five the number of me mbers of the

Guelph-Waterloo Program for Graduate Work in Physics (GWP)2 who can put the

coveted FRSC after their names 0

Halleys Comet and the Babylonians By Professors Nigel Bunce and Jim Hunt

The winter of 1985 and the spring of 1986 will lon g be remembered as the year of

Comet Halley No comet in history has so

stirred the imagination of man or been the

object of suc h intensive investigation Its easy to understand this interest when its

appreciated that Halleys Comet is the only recurring comet that is bright enough to be

seen with the naked eye ft was the g reat astronomer Edmund

Halley who in 1705 recognized the s imilarshy

ity of the appearances of the great comets of 1456 1531 1607 and 1682 He speculated that these were in fact one and the sa me

comet with a period of 75 or 76 years

He predicted that the comet would reshyturn in 175 8 a return he could not live to see With thi s Halley discovered the phenomeshy

non of periodic comets and thus showed

that they were members of our solar system

The comet dutifully returned in 1835

and spectacularly so in 1910 In the latter

year circumstances were such that after its

perhelion passage (the point closest to the

Sun) the Earth and the comet approached

each other very closely The comet was so close that at one time its tail spread from

horizon to horizon The return in 1985-86 will be considshy

erably less spectacular In fact for Canadishyans it will not be easy to observe s ince the

time of perhelion is in Febnlary when the

Sun is very low in the sky The view will be -much better from more southerl y latitudes Over the years historica l records have

been found which record every passage of the comet back to 12 BC M any of these obshy

servations come from Chinese records first published in 1846 A well-authenticated

passage was that of 1066 which was reshy

corded on the Bayeux tapestry by the mother

of William of Nonnand y and taken as an cOllld on righl

Grad News Paul Ferguson BSc 67 of Ede n Mill s is president of EIS Systems Ltd and travelled in New Zealand this summer

Walter Lock BSc 67 of Denfield is practising medicine in Lucan

Tjeerd Homan BSc 69 of Calgary Alta is manager research and development services for Petro-Can He is enjoying his family Carla Sarah and John Menno and his hobbies of golf curling and skiing

(GWP)2 Poster Session a First

Earlier this year the Guelph- Waterloo Proshygram for Graduate Work in Physics (GWP)2 staged its first annual poster session for graduate s tudents Poster sessions which are becoming increasingly popular in scienshytific circles allow interaction between researchers and delegates without the time pressures encountered when presenting con shyventional papers at meetings says (GWP)2 Director lain Campbell

The first annual (GWP)2 poste r sesshysion which was followed by a soc ial hour and banquet was highly successful in genershyating interaction says Campbell By the end of the session there were still clusters of people arguing the finer points of scientific interpretation on many of the posters These exchanges continued right through the soshycial hour and into dinner Interaction is what science is all about

Encouraging interaction between stushydents and faculty is one of Campbells prishyorities as Director It is too easy for students to tuck themselves into a corner and work away in isolation They need to get out and ex plain their work both to experts and to

omen of his victory over the Saxons Based on this long record various

mathematical analyses of the orbit of the comet have been produced These account very accurately for the known passages of the comet However when these various anshyalyses are pushed back beyond 12 BC they predict widely varying dates for the previous appearances Before 12 B c there are ani y two vague Chinese records in 87 BC and 240 B c which mayor may not have been Halleys comet

In a recent issue of Nature a team of

Ernest Campbell BSc 69 lives in Campbell ville and teaches science for the Halton Board in Burlington

Richard Davis BSc 77 having comshypleted his MD University of Toronto 83 and his internship at Womens College Hosshypital will be setting up his practice in family medicine in his home town of Guelph

Larry Meek BSc 77 of Ottawa is pashytient administrator and computing officer for the National Defence Medical Centre His hobbies include sailing and skiing

Andre Brunet BA 81 is working for Amdahl Ltd as fieldsystems engineer and lives in Sudbury with his wife Monique (Puellette) FACS 80

Cathy Deakin BSc 81 is presently articshyling with the law firm of Little Reeves Mahoney Jarrett amp Hart of London

Andrew Dubrawski BSc 82 and his wife Alicia (Wodecka) BSc 81 live in Toronto where he works as a communicashytions systems analyst for CNCP Telecomshymunications 0

10hn Root 81 a (GWP)2 PhD s tudent left aflracts an audience

non-experts It takes a deliberate effort on our part to generate and maintain this intershychange

The poster session was the largest scishyentific or social event yet staged by (GWP)2 Some 18 students presented posters and about 90 students faculty and prospective students attended

The posters are on display in the two departments of physics to give others an opportunity to view them At Gue lph they are in the second floor corridor of the Physshyical Science Building near the Department

scholars from England and Vienna reported the finding of two fragments of Babylonian tablets in the British Museum that clearly report the appearance of the comet in 87 BC and 164 B C The records are so clear that by calculation not only the year but the time of year for the perhelion passage can be determined

For example the 164 BC apparition has been narrowed down to a date someshywhere between November 5 and 25 of that year The 87 BC record is not as accurate nevertheless its perhelion passage can be

of Physics office Encouraged by the s uccess of the

poster sess ion lain Campbell is planning another high-profile event for (GWP)2 to recognize award-winning faculty He plans a fall symposium at which three (GWP)2 members who received major honours durshying 1985 will give short lectures to be folshylowed by a sherry reception The three honoured faculty are Gicinto Scoles Killam Fellowship winner Bernhard Nickel Felshylow of the Royal Society of Canada and John Simpson Rutherford medalist 0

narrowed down to July 25 to August 15 These observations while inaccurate

to the extent of 20 days are still accurate enough to eliminate three of the four leading -calculations of the motion of Comet Halley This is a striking example of how archaeoshylogical investigations may have a strong effect on many diverse subjects in this case com~tary astronomy 0

We welcome questions and ideas for future articles Write to the authors clo the Deans Office Cole fe ofPhysical Science Univershysity of Guelph Guelph Ontario NIG 2WI

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the only constant will be an acceleration of the rate of change Yet one trusts there will be another constant - the self How important then to know onese lf if one knows anything There is an uneasy awareness that art also has a peculi ar facility for ge nerating such knowledge

Thus it is that the Department of Fine Art just at the moment when it is celebrating with satisfaction its 20th anniversary finds itself pondering what it should be if it is to be all that it should be

The Department (m sure had hoped to bask awhile in the afterglow of breathless development It sprang into being in 1965 in cramped quarters in the basement of the Macdonald Institute Yet the one studio and the one part-time lecture hall were able to accommodate the barely 200 course regisshytrants that first year mOSl of those not Fine Art students

From such a modest beginning the Unishyversitys Fine Art program has developed into one of the most respected programs in the country Today there are some 275 students registered as Fine Art majors and the studios and offices of the Department occ upy all of the usable space in Zavitz Hall (wiley minds constantly seek new ways to persuade the administration to renovate the top floor potentially some of the finest art stud y space anywhere) Art history courses keep a speshycially-equipped lecture room in the MacKinnon Building occupied most days and evenings

Often however the real tes t of a process is its product There is room here for satisshyfaction Graduates of the Guelph program hold down many of the primary and secondshyary school art teaching posts in the province Others fill executive curatorial and similar positions in Canadian public galleries (such as the National the Ontario and the Hamilton) in private galleries presses govshyernment agencies and other bodies There are still man y wrestling one-on-one with artshymaking as in the good old days (and nights) of self-discovery in Zavitz But a surpri sing number are to be found working outside the art world entirely

On the initiative of Judy Nasby director - of the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre an art

show of work by past and present regular faculty and selected sessional faculty will be mounted at the Centre in recognition of 20 years of growth of Fine Art It will open

man of vis ion large ly responsible for initiatshying the Department determining its nature and steering it through its formative years Professor Couling was able in the summer of 1984 just months before his death to present the first Gordon Couling Scholarship donated by the Guelph Creative Arts Association Typically though unwel L he talked with bright-eyed enthusiasm about art and its future with Fine Art students at a College of Arts Recognition Luncheon

The Fine Art program was moulded to offer the province a desirable alternative to existing post-secondary programs one comshybining equal strenghts in art media and art history A student could emphas ize one or the other but would be req uired to work in both

It was judged that this would be idea l for future teachers The results confi rm the ex pecshytation But the contribution elsewhere of graduates steeped in Western culture may

The late Gordon Couling first chairshyman Department of Fine Art

prove to be even more important Yet the moulders cannot lay claim to

originating this philosophy on campus As far back as 1903 the Macdonald Institute trained

history and one in drawing and painting The stage was set for a fine art program In effect fine art is a founding discipline

Art is rooted in the hi story of the Unishyversity in another sense that of co llecting and enjoying In 1926 after five patie nt years of saving an Ontario Agricultural College grou p of faculty staff and stud ent s purchased Tom Thompons pai nting The Drive TIlat entershypri se initiated a campaign to build a Univershysity collection of Canadian art One class after another from the three founding colleges added pieces

Appropriately Fine Art student s have contributed in turn the funds to purchase the

master prints in what is known as the printshystudy collection Containing origi nal works by masters such as Rembrandt Goya and Picasso as well as Canadian printmakers the collection is valued at well over $100000 The funds came entirely from the sale of student prints

The print-study collection is on ly one of the features which gives the program its lustre Another is the slide library with its more than 120 000 slides that supports the so lid art history program The collection stacks up favorably aga inst any other in the country

But the secret of the program is more imponderable Certainly it has to do with the emphasis upon the traditional means of artshymaking and understanding The in stant dedishycation of the top professional art is ts who teach sessionally is a clear factor It owes much to the camaraderie among stud ents staff and faCUlty Then there is Zavitz Hal l itse lf Something quite magical seems to happen to its people when they step through its doors

Normall y Zavitz Hall is a welcoming place President Matthews found it otherw ise on hi s first visit Unannounced and unshywelcomed the President eventuall y found himse lf in a life drawing class Challenged by a student and the instructor in turn the Pres ident indicated he did not want to disturb the class that he would just watch quietly

This e licited a testy Well just who the hell do you think you are) from the instructor

Whi ch elicited a surprised Why Im the Pres ident from the President Two sheepish men retreated to the hall to talk it over

But there isnt time to worry about such -things now There are more pressing issues Is November 21 and conclude January 5 To recshy

ognize the art hi story half of the program the Department is sponsoring a short series of lectures by distinguished visitors on the theme Art Hi story Past and Future (See p 15 for Centre viewing hours and lecture dates locations and times)

The celebration also wil ~ be an occasion for honouring the late Gordon Couling the

teac hers in part through a program of applied art in an art-historical context

When the Institute was re-established following the Second World War two courses were made an essential part of the B H Sc cu rriculum one in design and one in art hi story The teacher was Gordon Couling In the early 60s two more specialist courses were added one in 19th and 20th century art

the program taki ng suffi cient advantage of the intellectual wealth of the University Is the program doing enough to prepare students to prepare for the wider world ) [s the program doing all that it can to educate others to be creative ly adaptable)

Or alternative ly are the folks in Zavitz Hall taking themse lves too seriously 0

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Ian C AIridge OAC BSc(Agr)85

Ian C Attridge OAC 85 of Markham is the recipient of the Winegard Medal for 1985 Awarded annually to the graduand judged to be the most outstanding student the Winegard Medal is the Universitys most prestigious undergraduate award Its winner must combine an outstanding academic recshyord and participation in extra-curricular activities with the personal attributes of leadership and citizenship

Ian graduated in June from the OAC resources management program with an average over eight semesters above 80 per cent This academic standing is noteworthy for two reasons the long list of extra-curricshyular activities in which he took part and in the words of a senior faculty member his major was one in which high marks are tough to achieve

The medalists on-campus extra-curricshyular activities included several student clubs his College year executive the Colshylege Royal committee musical activities the Gryphon team in Nordic skiing and intramural teams in five other sports

Off-campus he was active in the Onshytario Public Interest Research Group of Guelph the Federation of Ontario Natushyralists Friends of the Wye Marsh the Guelph Environmental Council Guelph Field Naturalists the Coalition in support of Environmental Programs and the Guelph Peace and Disarmament Conference of 1984 He was also involved in a number of youth and lay programs in the United Church

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The Winegard

Medal

A Tale Of Ten

Winners While at Guelph he won two entrance

scholarships a number of in-course prizes and scholarships and two summer undershygraduate research awards from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Counshycil In 1984 he won a Soil Conservation Society of America (SCSA) scholarshipshyone of only 18 offered in North America by the SCSA to students in conservation-orishyented programs He was the top Canadian student

Within the Department of Land Reshysource Science Ian was a member of the undergraduate teaching committee During his final semester he co-ordinated a student review of the academic program in resources management which made recommendashytions that will be incorporated into future program changes

One of his teachers notes that Ian has a deep interest in soc ial issues and a commitshyment to environmental concerns He attended Markham District High School and completed his secondary schooling in Lahr West Germany

Each of Guelphs seven colleges nomishynates one student each year for considerashytion for the Winegard Meda l The other nominees for 1985 were Sally Ann Lawshyrence Bell-Knight Arts Rebecca Elizabeth Jane Rodgers CBS Lisa Jane Martin FACS Margot Joan Finstad CPS David Douglas Langlotz CSS and Janet Kashytherine Pegrum OVe

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the presentation of the Winegard Medal Ian

Dr William Winegard

Attridge is joining a select group of Guelph graduates who are a source of pride and inspiration to the University community

Former University of Guelph president Dr William Winegard marked the annivershysary with a letter from the House of Comshymons where he is Guelphs member of Parliament In it he writes

It is not ofien that one has the opporshytunity fO suggest terms of reference for the Universitys most pres tigious student award Such was my good fortulle ten years ago and over the years I have become inshycreasingly grateful that Senute accepted the proposed terms A University-wide compeshytition always stimlliates interest especially when academic excellence and extra-curshyricular activities form the basis of the comshypetition The men and women who have won the medal have been Guelph at its best I have been proud to know them

Where are They Now

What are They Doing

The previous winners of the Winegard -Medal were contacted recently and replies were received from seven of the nine gold medalists Peter Taylor Arts BA 76 Christine Zink OVC DVM 78 Timothy Henshaw OVC DVM 79 John Root CPS BSc 81 Anne-Frances Miller CBS BSc 82 Nicole Didicher Arts BA 83 and James Sidlofsky Arts SA 84 There was no response from Mary Saunshy

ders CBS BSe 77 and Elaine Courtice CBS BSe 80

Some of their achievements both proshyfessional and personal and some of their future hopes and plans are recorded here

Peter Taylor (1916) The first recipient of the Winega rd

Medal now with the University s Office for Educational Practice as manager of print publications is responsible for providing centralized graphic design typeselling and print publications cocordination to the Unishyversity community

Following graduation from Guelph Peter continued his education at the Uni-

Peter Taylor Arts 76

Christine Zinc Tim Henshaw John RoO Anne Miller OVC 7S

versity of Waterloo where he obtained an MA in English in 1981

Peter is also a poet - his first book First Epistle to Dr Torr was published by Gryphon Press in 1976 He printed and bound the book himself andsome copies are still ava ilable

7iaino which he considers his most important work to date was published by Paget Press in 1980 and a second chapbook The Masons came out that same year A third chapbook Aphorisms was printed in 1982

Being a ca reeri st and a poet is someshytimes a sc hi zophreni c existence says Pete r I never seem to have enough energy or time to do both as well as I might like to Regrettabl y my writing has played second fiddle to my career

Christine Zink (1918) In 1978 when Chnstine first joined a

large animal practice in Drayton Ontario the idea of a woman ve terin ar ian working with farm an imals was so inconceivable to farmers in the area that some of them called her young man she writes She reca lls many a midnight drive over desel1ed farm roads to help a cow give bil1h return shying home at su nri se know ing there was still a full days work ahead

After two years of practice Dr Zink returned to the OVC for pos t-graduate work and is now doing research on The Pathoshygenesis of Corynehacterium equi Pneushymonia in FoaJs In 1983 she passed the

American Collcge of Veterinary Patholshyogists spec iality boa rd exa minati on She expects to graduate with a Ph D thi s yea r and is deciding bet~een a position on faculty at a veterinary sc hool or post-doctoral reshysearch at a medica l sc hool in the United States

Tim Henshaw (1919) After three years in a private veterinary

prac tice in BalTie Tim became a staff vetshyerinari an with Unit ed Breede rs Inc of Guelph and now works out of the Alliston office His responsi bilities inc lude field sershyvice education and research He has reshyturned to campus as guest lect urer at the

to chemistry from her undergraduate studies in molecular genetics and biophysics has been good for me she says The chemisshytry I am learning helps me to better undershystand how enzymes work and macromoleshycules interact with their environment

Last year she married Ganpathy Murshythy a fellow Yale graduate student in ph ys shyics Together they enjoy hiking camping and reading and at the time of writing were planning a trip to India this year

J have told Ganpath y a lot about Gue lph she says and were looking forshyward to visiting the University on a sunny autumn day when the maples along Wineshygard Walk are all aflame

OVC 79 CPSSI CSSS2

OVC and the OAC and has done extensi ve speaking throughout the province for the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food

Dr He ~shaw is peoples warden of St Peters Anglican Church in Minesi ng presishydent of the Ontario Association of Bovine Practitioners secretary of the Simcoe County Holstein Club and a live-s toc k Judge

In 1980 he marri ed Jane Si nclair FACS 78 and they have a dau ghter Chrisshytenltt future University of Guelph class of 2005

John Root (1981) John continues to stud y at Guelph shy

he received an MSc in liquid state physics in 1983 and is now working on his Ph D Hi s thesis is on the Quantum Effects in the Structure of Liquid Water under the supershyvision of Department of Phys ics professor Peter Ege lstaff

In 1982 he married Darlene Maurer and their daughter Athena Catherine-Beth was born earlier this year

John is a youth group leader in the First Baptist Church in Guelph and was presishydent of the Baptist Youth of Ontario and Quebec in 1983-1984

Anne-Frances (MiUer) Murthy (1982)

From New Haven Connecticut USA Anne-Frances writes to say she is at Yale University in the Depal1ment of Chemshyistry doing research on photosynthetic oxyshygen evolution for her Ph D thesis The move

Nicole Didicher Jamie Sidlofsh Arts 83 ArtsS4

Nicole Didicher (1983) Nico le is finishing the first year of her

PhD studies at Queens University where she obtained her M A last year

Her Masters degree work centred on the medieva l period of English literature and she plans to do doc toral research in 18t h-ce ntury literature

Nicole reports that her cu rrent studies are supported by two Ontario Graduate Sc holars hips and a Queens Graduate Awa rd Thi s should come as no surprise to th ose who witnessed her dedication at Guelph

On the social scene in Kingston she s one of the 100 to 150 voices of the Queens Choral Ensemble and rece ntl y she acquired an apartment mate ca ll ed Mole a young white rat Hes a good companion and quiet sa id Ni co le Im absolu tely no good with plants so hes my al ternat ive

Jamie Sidlofsky (1984) Jam ie is a student in the LL B program

at the University of Toron tos Faculty of Law He is the University of Toronto represhy

sentative on the Canadian Bar Association -a member of the Faculty of Law arti cling and summer Jobs committee and direc tor Unishyversity of Toronto student lega l aid program Centre for Spanish-speaking Peoples

This summer he work ed with Diashymond Fairbairn amp Steinberg barri sters and solicitors in Toronto and as a research as shysistant for University of Toronto law proshyfessor Bernard Green 0

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Butthe Melody Lingers On By John Hearn Information Services

S tanley Saunders left Guelph this summer

for a year of administrative leave after II years as the Universitys Director of Music

College of Arts When Dr Saunders joined the Division

of Mu sic in 1974 he inherited a strong

musical tradition reaching back to the earliest

days of the Ontario Agricultural College which was always famous for its choirs

[t fell to Dr Saunders to take the fledgling

Division of Music introduce its first degree programs and build the solid reputation which it enjoys today

Dr Saunders completed his undershy

graduate studies at the University of Wales and twice won the First Award Open Instrushy

mental Solo at the Ei steddfod He was a

member of the National Youth Orchestra of Wales and later performed as a clarinetist with the SSCs radio and TV sy mphony

orchestras

Soon after coming to Guelph Dr Saunshy

ders founded the University of Guelph Civic Orchestra which under his direction achieved an enviable reputation in the ensuing

years The revival of the U of G Aggie Band

followed as did the U of G Concert Band By 1979 Dr Saunders had built a faculty

of some 16 members including Dr Charles

Wilson and Gerald and Elizabeth Neufeld

The same year also saw performances by

the U ofG Choir the U ofG Chamber Singers and the Summer Chorale The Noon-Hour

Concerts were adding to their already unique reputation while the newly formed U ofG

Trio consisting of Elizabeth Neufeld voice Sylvia Hunter piano and Stanley Saunders clarinet was beginning the series of tours which would take it to many parts of Canada and Great Britain

Before the end of the 70s we saw the

first of the successful Music of the Arboreshytum series of concerts the formation of the Aggie Choir under the direction of Gerald

Neufeld and in partnership with the Guelph Spong Festival welcomed such luminaries as the great contemporary Polish composer Penshyderecki Gian Carlo Menotti Ruby Mercer editor of Opera Canada and Bori s Brott

The early 80s have been gala years both for Dr Saunders and the Division

Dr Stanley Saunders

(retitled the Department of Music in 1984) The decade began with the presentation of

two world premieres by the U of G Civic Orchestra and the appointment of Dr Saunshy

ders as president of the National Youth Orchestra of Canada and vice-chairman of the Council of Ontario Music Administrators

The growing stature of the Department of

Music was also reflected in student registrashytion both credit and non-credit in vocal keyboard classical guitar and orchestral inshy

struments

The year 1981 saw a brilliant tour of Sweden and West Germany by the Univers ity of Guelph Choir under the direction of Gerald Neufeld and conducting engagements by Dr

Saunders in Toronto Ottawa Montreal Boston and Washington D C The same year

saw the formation of the U ofG Jazz Ensemshyble and the U ofG Pep Band both led by Kenneth Tinnish

II was a very good year As Dr Saunders said External evidence of scholarship is not necessarily obvious from performance but

creativity is itself a form of research and all these perform ances are not only enlightened by the students studies in history literature

and theory they are also heightened by their

awareness of the aesthetic factors that give significance to mu sic through their intershyrelated studies at the University

Another substantial increase in student

enrolment was witnessed in 1982-1983 deshysp ite the tightening of admission standards

and regulation for the continuance of studies

The University of Guelph Choir still under direc tor Gerald Neufeld won second prize in

the 1982 CSC national choral competition

Stanley Saunders can afford to look back on his Guelph years with considerable satisshyfaction The division which he inherited in 1974 with its three-member faculty had

grown by this year to a full department with

faculty and staff numbering 29 persons and with an enrollment of 300 students plus -another 126 students registered in the nonshycredit applied program

He has been a very bu sy and productive man commuting to and fro between Guelph and Sault Ste Marie to administer the joint

Univers ity of GuelphAlgoma University Colshylege music program - as well as keeping up

a steady schedule of scholastic publications He will be missed 0

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University of Guelph Licences Software to McGraw-Hili By Mary Cocivera

Information Services

The University of Gue lph and the US publi shing giant McGraw- Hili Inc are fishynalizing a non-exclusive licence for CoSy computer conferenc ing software developed at the University

Publi shed by McGraw-Hili BYTE Magazine is using the CoSy software to set up BIX the BYTE Information Exchange Phil Lemmons BYTEs editor-in-chief deshyscribes BIX as a living database The comshypany plans to set up conferences on every aspect of microcomputer use

Through the conferences users will be able to share information with each other and to communicate direc tly with the edi shytors of the magazine A four-ci ty commershycial te st began in September and a BYTE spokesman projects that a full international information exchange will be operating by early 1986

In addition to BIX McGraw-Hili will use the CoSy so ftware for internal comshymunications CoSy was installed by BYTE editorial offices in New Hampshire several months ago for evaluation by staffers They soon became confirmed users and CoS y beshycame a permanent part of the office The conference system was particularly sucshycessful in linking editorial headq uarters in the east with the west coast office

CoSy is already familiar to more than one thousand users world-wide who subshyscribe to a service oftered by the Univers ity of Guelph The licence to McGraw-Hili marks the first time the software will be operated and managed elsewhere The Unishyversity will continue to offer a CoSy se rvice and will continue to market the software to other potential users

CoSy was developed by a team of softshyware designers in Computing and Comshymunications Services at the Univers ity over a 16-month period Alastair Mayer was the chief architect of the code The software was written in C a high-level programming language to run under the Uni x operating system This feature makes CoS y highly portable and capable of running on any micro-computer or a mainframe with the Unix operating sys tem

George Bond BYTEs managing editor for e lectronic publishing and communicashytion says that ease of use and the Unix operating system were important fac tors in their choice of CoSy He also cited the skills and co-operative attitudes of the peopl e at

CoSy th e University of Guelph who are involved with CoSy

The University of Guelph was a parshyticularly hospita ble environment for deshyvelopment of a computer conferencing system according to Dr Ken MacKay assoshyciate director of Institutional An alysis and Pl anning Electronic mail was well estabshylished on campus so there were many peoshyple already committed to e lectronic commushynications Home-grown APL mail is arguashybly the best mail system anywhere because its easy to use and very robust CoSy is a separate system but is a descendant of earshylie r electronic mail systems

We had three basic design ideas for CoSy explains Alastair Mayer It should req uire few co mm ands the user should be able to learn without a manual and it should be accessible fro m any terminal The se goa ls have been reali zed to a great extent A manual is available but by refe rring to the help instructions within CoSy users can learn enough commands to become funcshytional very quickly

Dr Edward Swart acting director of Computing and Communication Services points out that CoSy is offered as a free service to the University com munity He beshylieves that this enlightened decision conshytributed to CoSys ne arly immediate success on campus From the early development stages users were invited to make comshyments and suggestions Their feedback inshynuenced the design of the current CoSy sysshytem to a substantial extent

Computer conferenc ing is a powerful concept as CoSy users soon discover Marshygaret Bec kman the Univers itys executive direc tor of Information Technology says there is no doubt that computer con ferencshying reduces the number of meetings and enables decisions to be made more quickl y CoSy is heavily used by University adminshyistrators and members of facu lty are ex plorshy

ing applications of computer co nferencing in teaching and lea rning

Proceeds from licences and from subshyscriptions to the campus conferencing sysshytem will fund furth er development of CoSy Dr Swart says a not-too-distant developshyment will be a distributed conference cashypability permitting a free exc hange of information from one conference systelll to another A second deve loplllent will be to activate what Dr Swa11 calls CoSys Jashytent graphics capability In CoSy a messhysage ca n contain anything even NAPLPS codes for graphics Graphs sketches and charts will thus soon become part of CoSy confe rences 0

A Letter Dear MI~ Wing

My wife (lnd I WOIII vou to know hml we enjoyed LM Mont gomerys storr The Strike at Putney ill the Spring 85 GueJph Alumnu s

Visiting Green Gables in P EI wos one of the highlights of our Trans-Canada vocmion 0 few years ago

We hope you I publish one ofher short stories in each issue of th e maga zine selectedjiom the U ofGs LM Montgomshyery Collectionfrom now on and make each issue a colleclOrs item shyCordially

Doug Marrin OAC 39 107 Waverly Place Mountain View Calif 94040 USA

Thanks for your letter Doug we will do our very best to bri ng you more L M M Ed

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P rofessional golfer philosopher oenologist would-be film maker and

now restaurateur Robert Harcourt Bob Desautels HAFA 75 Arts 84 is a man of many facets one who seeks his own sty le of excellence in many directions This summer he opened a new restaurant La Maisonmiddot in downtown Guelph which is already drawing patrons from a wide area in search of the gourmet delights promised by a very disshytinguished menu and delivered by chefs accomplished in the arts of haute cuisine

Bob works outward from a central conshyviction that there is always a market for excellence Born in Toronto he has lived in Ottawa Montreal - and Guelph He studied at Sir George Williams University Montreal Que (now pan of Concordia University) before attending the College of Family and Consumer Studies School of Hotel and Food Administration (HAFA) where he graduated with a BComm degree

He will be remem bered on campus as manager of the Faculty Club a position

The Eclectic

Bob Desautels

which he held for nearly three years after graduating and before he launched on a whole new career as a profess ional golfer He played Canadian and Australian circuits for a while and then accepted the position of manager and golf pro at the Cedarhurst Golf Club on Lake Simcoe

Two years later he was back at the Unishyversity of Guelphs hotel sc hool as a research assistant preparing for HAFAs first Advanced Management Program for the Hospitality Industry (AMPHI) course - an unrepentantly elitist institution offering advanced manageshyment training only to very se nior executives in the hospitality industry

Bob se rved as logistics manager to AMPHI for two years with responsibility for the health and welfare of a clientele whose expectations as far as hospitality is conshycerned are of the very highest

As a member of the HAFA faculty he was a more than occasional lecturer primarily on the subject of wine - whi ch he describes in reverential tones He is married (the pursuit of excellence again) his wife Susan hail s from Australia They have two children Coun age 7 and Emily 5

At the end of two years with HAFA Bob Desautels was faced with one of those critical life decisions - a choice between two paths leading in significantly different directions He might have accepted a tenure track position for whichit would have made sense to seek a PhD in business admini stration or

HAFA 75 By John Hearn Information Services

Mine host Bob Desautels HAFA 75 at La Maison

pursue an old love for philosophy He chose the latter and earned hi s Masters degree from Guelphs College of Ans in the fall of 1984

I suppose it arises from an old interest in religion he explains Metaphysical quesshytions have always fascinated me Scientific materialism the notion that mind is no more than a function of brain has neve r satisfied me There are too many loose ends - mind contemplating itself for example introshyspection Focu ss ing on philosophy of the mind for my degree gave me one of the answers - but may be Im beginning to understand some of the questions

So in the Fall of 84 philoso pher wine connoisseur goller Bob Desautels inventoried his assets - and took a course in film making at the Ryerson Poly technica l Institute Im interested in the creative end of film making he says Writing andor directing Ive fini shed one film script and working on another But it takes mucho dinero

Then early this Spring the main floor of one of Guelph s distinguished old homes beca me available Strategically located at the corner of Woolwich and Yarmouth Streets in an area already known for fine dining the housc is owned by Guelph bu sinessman Paul Starr A pannership was struck and Bob found himsel f bringing the whole wealth of hi s re staurant management know-how and his own drive for excellence to bear on La

Maison It was conceived planned and exshyecuted from the beginning as a shrine conseshycrated to the worshippers of superlative cuishysine enjoyed in the most distinguished of atmospheres

The concept has two major aspects One large room is given over to a wine bar where the connoisseur - or those who enjoy the fermented grape of any age or colour - can select from more than 20 splendid vintages by the glass or the bottle A parallel selection of native and imponed cheeses activate the tastebuds while intimates can order a delectashyble cheese fondue for two The wine-bar is a casual drop-in kind of place open from noon until midnight for enjoyment relaxation and con versation

The other main room is for the serious diner There is a modest economically-priced luncheon available for business people but the evening meal is designed to attract those for whom dining is a rei igious experience

You make your market study says bullBob but then you add your own secret ingredient - call it gut feeling There are some very good restaurants in Guelph but none that target this panicular niche

l may be that not the least of La Maisons attractions will be the possibility of conversation with mine host Choose your own subject - golf metaphysics pragshymatism - or the an of Woody Allen Bob Desautels is nothing if not eclectic 0

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Newly Elected as

A1uDlni Senators Following the annual election of three of the nine alumni seats on Senate at the University the following alumni were elected to replace those who fulfilled three-year terms on August 31 1985

Norman Hawkins OVC 57

Rita Weigel James White FACS 77 OAC 6 1

James White OAC 55A and 61 lives in Brampton and is the owner of InfoResults Limited information research consultants Brampton He completed Masters and Docshytoral degrees at Michigan State University Department of Communication He has opshyerated InfoResults for 15 years specializing in agricultural economics social policy and communication issues

He is a past president of the Canadian Consulting Agrologists Association has served on the provincial council of the Ontario Institute of Agrologists and was a director of the Canadian Society of Agrishycultural Economic s and Farm Manageshyment 0

Dr Norman Hawkins OVC 57 estabshyIlished the Guelph Animal Hospital on Elizshyabeth Street in 1957 and has continued his practice there as a partner

An active member of the Ontario Vetshyerinary Association council and a commitshytee worker he is also a member of the Canadian Veterinary Medical Association national examination board

His earlier work with the American Veterinary Medical Association involved the examination of overseas veterinary gradshyuates and inspection of North American vetshyerinary sc hools

He is a member of the Guelph Public Library Board and Board chairman of St

Margaret s School Elora

Rita (Klassen) Weigel FACS 77 gradushyated from the College of Family and Conshysumer Studies with a BASc in Con su mer Studies She was president of the Mac-FACS Alumni Association 1983-84 and has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Universi ty of Guelph Alumni Association

A member of the Canadian Marketing and Research Society Rita was employed in the research and product management field for a number of years A Guelph res ident her concerns include those of a mother of a son and twin one-year-old daughters

New Chairman Board of Governors

Edmond Bovey

Edmund C Bovey the man who headed the Commission on the Future Development of the Universities of Ontario has been named chairman of the Board of Governors at the Universi ty of Guelph A member of the Board since 1976 he succeeds Cecil Franklin who retired July I after three years as chairman and who also joined the Board in 1976

Edmund Bovey was chairman of the three-man commission that held hearings

for the Ontario public and university comshymunity in 19831984 before developing and recommending to the Mini stry of Colleges and Universities a future plan for Ontario universities

Retired as director chairman of the board and member of the executive committee of Norcen Energy Reso urces Toronto he was recently named to chair a task force on funding the arts in Canada an area where he has long experience A past president and trustee of the Ali Gallery of Ontario and its Foundation he is also a member of the Board of Governors of Roy Thomson Hall and vice-chairman of the International Council of the Museum of Modern Art in New York He is a past chairshyman of the Council for Business and Arts in Canada

In addition he is a director of a number of companies including Hollinger Argus Abitibi Price Canada Packers and the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce as well as MONY Life Insurance PPG Indusshytries and PPG Industries Canada

He is a member of the Canadian Ecoshynomic Policy Committee a director of the Canadian Executive Service Overseas and a past president of the Canadian Gas Associashytion He is also currently chairman of the Board of Wellesley Hospital Toronto

He was born in Calgary Alta and edushycated in Victoria BC 0

Appointments

Ab Moore Harry Downie OVC 48

Dr Ab Moore took up the responsibilities of chairman of the Department of Rural Extension Studies on September I for a fiveshy shyyear term He was previously director of the Office of Educational Practice

Dr Harry Downie OVC48 became actshying chairman of the Department of Bioshymedical Sciences on July I He continues until December 3 1 or until a new chairman is named 0

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Available for Immediate Possession Space in Prestige Campus Home (for baby grand piano)

The Presidents House dedicated as a building of historical and architectural significance has been without a piano since President Maclachlan retired in 1967

This could be the chance of a lifetime if you are seeking a unique and extremely worthwhile Class Project Perhaps your class would like to buy a new piano to be used in this centre for campus entertaining to be viewed by more than 5 000 visitors a year A recognition plaque would be located either on or adjacent to the instrument

A Bequest

Charles S Humphrey

A former partner and president from 1947

to 1963 of Guelphs Hart Chemical Comshy

pany Canada Ltd the late Charles S Humphrey se lected the Universit y of

Guelph as one of the benefic iaries of his estate

Hi s bequest to the Unive rs it y of

$130000 received last June is to be used at the discretion of the University pres ident

in the University s scholarships and burshy

saries program A resident of Victoria BC since his

retirement in 1963 Charles Humphrey died on August29 1984 at the age of81 He was an emeritus member of the Canadian Assoshy

ciation of Textile Colourists and Chemists Born at Hornell NY USA he came to Canada in 1936

This is the second time that Charles

Humphrey has given financial support to the Univers ity In 1979 he generously provided a $50000 endowment gift to support an annual $5000 graduate fellowship in Chemistry

The fellowship is designed to ease the financial burdens of outstanding students in

organic chemistry registered in the PhD

program at the Guelph-Waterloo Centre for Graduate Work in Chemistry (GWC)2 0

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CODling Events 86 Jan 7-9

Mar 5

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OAC Agricultural Conference

Alumni Florida Reunion (See below)

College Royal Open House

Ontario Institute of Agrologists Annual Conference Agricultural Trade To be he ld

in Cornwall Ont

OAC Alumni Association Curling Bonspiel

U of 6s 8tb Annual Human Sexuality Conference Changing Nature of Sexual Relationships Sexual Scripts and Lifestyles Today

ALUMNI WEEKEND 86

Alumni Florida Reunion If you missed the Alumni Flo rida Reunion Picnic in March 85 you missed a great gathering About 90 alumni and

friends met for a very pleasant pot luck meal Ross Cavers OAC 29 the organizing committee chairman hopes it will

become an annual affair Ruth and Gordon Wright Mac

37 and OAC 33 and Willa and Morley Funston Mac and OAC 32 made the loc al arrangements the affair was sponshysored by the Universitys Alumni-in Action group Make

plans to attend the second annual Florida Alumni Reunion Picnic at 12 noon on Wednesday March 51986 at Harbour Heights Park near Port Charlotte Florida two miles east of

Interstate Highway 75 Please respond by March 11986 to Ruth and Gordon Wright General Delivery Warm Mineral

Springs Florida 33596 US A

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College of Arts Alumni Association DELPHA

Editor Terry Ayer 84

Executive 1985-86 HONORARY PRESIDENT Dr David R Murray Dean

PRESIDENT Linda McKenzie-Cordick 81

PAST PRESIDENT Margo Shoemaker 79

VICE-PRESIDENT Wm Macdonald 78

SECRETARY-TREASURER

Marilyn Armstrong 78

DIRECTORS Debbie (Nash) Chambers 77 Edith LeLacheur 72 Janice (Robertshy

son) Partlow 79

UGAA REPS Wm Macdonald 78 Margo Shoemaker 79

EDITOR DELPHA Terry Ayer 84

Appointed

Dr Edward Phillips

Edward Phillips began a five-year term as chairman of the Department of Music July I He obtained his BA in mu sic at Amherst College

Massachusetts and his M A Masshyter of Philosophy and Ph D all in music theory from Yale Univers ity Married to Patricia who has a DM A in organ performance from Yale he has two sons Stewart 7 and Andrew 3 Edward who is also an organist enjoys cooking 0

Literary Heritage Preserved in Africa Most Canadian children are exposed to their cultural heritage at an early age through legendary stories brought from Eushy

rope or about Canadian pioneering and through stories about Indian or Inuit myths

and fables In developing countries however

where paper and printed materials are in

shon supply cultural heritage is usually passed on orally and children have little

opportunity to read about their past A Canashydian project involving the Universities of Guelph and Yaounde in Cameroon West

Africa is doing something to keep that countrys heritage alive

The project now entering its fourth year is a collaborative effort of the De partshy

ment of English Language and Literature at Guelph and the Department of African Litshyerature at the Univers ity of Yaounde It is

sponsored by the Canadian International Development Agency with Guelphs Deshy

partment of English Language and Litershy

ature Chairman Doug Killam serving as co-ordinator and Elizabeth (Wildman)

Cockburn CSS 81 as Canadian project consultant

Dr Killam is well-known for his work in the field of Commonwealth literature and

has taught at several African universities

EI izabeth Cock burn a primary sc hool teacher taught at the Government Teachers Training College in the North West Province

of Cameroon from 1969 to 1971 It was then

that she became aware of the shortage of relevent reading material for Cameroon schoolchildren

However it was some ten years later

that the project was born when she and Professor Kilian consulted with Dr Bernard

Fonlon then head of the Department of Afshyrican Literature at Yaounde Deeply comshy

mitted to saving African oral traditions as literatore Dr Fonlon although now retired remains a driving force in promoting creativity in the schools and scholarship on oral literature at the university

Last January Professor Killam and Elizabeth Cockburn were in Yaounde at a

conference where 80 papers were presented on the theory and practice of oral literature for West African educators - the first major attempt to marry theory and practice

As are children in the Canadian Indian

and Inuit communities African children are often exposed to texts that portray children of cultures different from their own To

counteract thi s influence simple African s tories with lifelike illustrations are being

Local stories come alive

mimeographed and turned into booklets by simply folding stand ard letter-size paper in half A collections of these stories will evenshytually be produced in textbook form when

fund s become available One such s tory The Marriage Feast

describes the marriage meal of the cat who invites all the domestic animals and birds to

the celebration

The dogs who know much about meat were asked 10 cook the food 8U1 they decided 10

playa trick They cooked the meat in the bOlom of the pot with the vegetables on lOp They said they would be the last to eat

In true fable form the hens who ate first discovered when they were too full to eat any more that there was meat deep

inside the pOI So they

Swore never to eat from the surface again and that is why hens always scratch deep into the soil in search offood

Although story-telling is becoming a lost art in Canada it is still a lively part of

life in Cameroon But as Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe said when he was in Guelph last year when a member of the older genshyeration dies its as if a whole library was destroyed -

Time is running short and fund s are needed to keep alive this project in Camshyeroon Anyone seeking further information

on the project may address their inquiries to Professor Killam at the University He hopes to receive funding from the Commonwealth

Foundation for similar work in other counshytries which have expressed an interest in

recording their heritage 0

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The Limners How do art students continue to find stimshyulation and motivation following graduation when they are no longer under the pressure of course requirements and without the critshyicism of an instructor

Four Fine Art graduates and one inshycourse student solved the problem by formshying a support group called The Limners (Limn an archaic word meaning paint deshypict portray Hence - Limner) Last Sepshytember the group held a success ful exhishybition of their recent works at the Halton Hills Cultural Centre Georgetown The Limners are

Dorothy Hart 81 of Georgetown She works with oil s pas tel s and graphite b4t is very interested in character fi gures made of cellu-clay which requires enormous pashytience to produce Her latest interest is pastel portraits of children

Dimensions 85 The fourth annual College of Arts Ailimni Association juried art show DIMENSIONS 85 was a success once again The jury members Marlene Jofriet well-known water colourist _ Michael OKeefe 76 practising artist and teacher and George Todd chairman Department of Fine Art selected 30 entries to hang

The jury awarded the following $100 $75 $50 prizes and designated three honshyourable -mentions

First pri ze Sheila Vollmer 85 Woman in Veil intaglio print

Second prize Wendy Maki 83 Pears Plums Apples and Grapes oil on canvas

Sue Knox 81 Formerly she was interested in the landscapes of Northern Ontario where she used to work Now back in Guelph Sue has rediscovered her urban surshyroundings including people

Betty Ketcheson 83 of Frankford Ontario to where her husband lack has retired Watercolour is her favorite medium however Betty also has an interest in enshycaustic painting with beeswax as a medium

Jane Graham 83 of Guelph lane tries to communicate her own brand of optimism through her waterco lours by using the figure in the land scape most often a child

Nan Hogg an undergraduate Nan is intershyested in making art that is feminist A memshyber of th e Guelph Embroiderers Guild Nans recent work displays a combination of watercolours or etchings with coil aged fabshyric that has been embroidered 0

The Limners L to r Sue Knox 81 Belly Ketcheson 83 Nan Hogg Dorothy Hart 81 and Jane Graham 83

Third pri ze Doreen Schaub 70 Rushing Waters watercolour

Honourable Mentions Sheila Volshylmer 85 Embracing Figures sculpture in pl aster Scott Abbot 79 Fields Near Maryhill oil on masonite Margaret Peter 74 Impressions Fossil Series collagraphsi Ikscreen

An innovation at DIMENSIONS 85 was the presentation of selected works of a featured artist Our first selected arti st was Evan MacDonald no stranger to the Univershysity of Guelph Many of his works are part of the Universitys collection of Canadian art hi s portraits hang in various buildings on campus and he was awarded an honorary doctorate of laws in 1979

We extend our sincere thanks to Ingrid

At DIMENSIONS 85 ColeRe oj Arts art sholl at Alllmni Wefkllld 85 L to r Marlene Jojriet juror Dr GeorRe 7iJdd chairman Department oj Fine Art jllror Wencil Maki 83 second-prize winner Doreen Schauh 70 third-prize willner Michael 0 Keeji 76

juror Own David Murray

Jenkner curatorexhibitions at the Macshydonald Stewart Art Centre and Mary MacshyDonald Evans wife for making it possible for us to feature the works of Evan

We also expre ss our gratitude and appreciation to all those who were instrushymental in making the show a success A special thank you is extended to this years participants without whom the show coulll not have been mounted 0

Art Show and Lecture Series Recognizing the 20th anniversary of the Department of Fine Art a facshyulty art show will be presented at the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre Nov 21 to lan 5 Viewing Tue to Fri and Sun noon to 500 pm Sat 1000 am to 500 pm A lecture se ries will present Dr Alan Gowans professor of art history University of Victoria B c on Art History and the Social Function Nov 18 at 800 -pm Rm 113 Physics Bldg Dr Ronald Nasgaard chief curator Art Gallery of Ontario wi II present Cushyratorship Today and Social Political Economic Pressures on Nov 27 at 400 pm in the Dept of Fine Art A third speaker is slated for early in the New Year

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Ontario Veterinary College Alumni Assoc OVC ALUMNI NEWS

Editor Dr Cliff Barker 41

OVC Alumni Association Executive 1985middot86

HONORARY PRESIDENT Dr Ole Niel sen 56 PRESIDENT Dr Ken Gadd 56 PAST PRESIDENT Dr Wendy Parker 7 1 VICE-PRESIDENT Dr Mary (Hawkins) Wiltshire 74 SECRETARY-TREASURER Dr Gordon Boylan 46 DIRECTORS Dr Bob Buck 46 Dr Archie MacKinnon 43 Dr Norm McAninch 39 Dr Bruce Robb 7 1 Dr Bruce Robinson 76 Dr Noni Sman 80 EDITOR avc Alumni News Dr Cliff Barker 41

Mailbag Dear Cliff

We were over to Vancouver Island recel11ly and went up to Qualicum Beach to see 0 Howard Taylor 13 He broke me in on meat inspection in 42 at the old Burns plant on Logan Avenue in Winnipeg

He is in great shape Qlid outside of a gimpy knee has no problems It was a real pleasure to see him again - still the same sparkle and quick wit that I had remembered from the Winnipeg years

I had not seen Howardfor 40 years bw outside of him thinking I had aged someshywhat had no trouble with identification Thought you might be il7lerested in this bit of news - not too many vets make it to age 98

We are fine and enjoying a complete reversal of what Vancouver weather is supshyposed to be bUi sure would like to see aboUl a week of rain Regards Bud Ellis 41 1410 Gordon Avenue West Vancouver Sc V7T IR6

From the Dean

Dr Ole Nielsen 56

In this my first opponunity to address our alumni through this medium I would like to express my pleasure at having the privilege of serving the Ontario Veterinary College and the University of Guelph

At the outset I acknowledge my debt to those many faculty students and staff who have labored to make this College a great inshystitution Being mindful of this heritage I am excited by the challenge of helping move the College to new levels of excellence One has to be impressed with the potential of the OVe Heres why

By the time this publication has gone to press I expect tenders for the first phase of a new OVC building program will have been called and possibly awarded This project costing over $13 million will provide modshyem facilities for the Depanments of Clinical Studies and of Biomedical Sciences and the Veterinary Teaching Hospital

The culmination of a great deal of effon led by former Dean Doug Maplesshyden 50 and President Burt Matthews OAC 47 the project is jointly funded by the Federal Government (Departments of Agrishyculture and Regional Industrial Expansion) and the Province of Ontario (OMAF)

The new facility will allow the College to press forward with new teaching research and service programs that include such vital newareas as biotechnology computer as istshyed health management and expanded proshygrams in toxicology

The second phase of the OVC building program which is largely related to teachshying spaces remains to be funded A good share of this project is expected to be includshyed in the fonhcoming capital campaign of the University The panicipation of you the alumni will be crucial to its success The governments of Ontario and Canada have done their part despite difficult circumshystances The rest is up to us

I have found the faculty of the OVC to be -a group of strong and vigorous academshyics and many young talented faculty have been appointed recently In passing one notes the retirement of many of those who led the renaissance in veterinary education in Canada in the post-war years The new generation of faculty has a real challenge in

trying to do as well as their predecessors shyand it will

I believe the graduate students are the sou I of the College Therefore another cause for optimism is the strength of the graduate and research programs at the OVe Presently the College has about 130 gradushyate students who at this most creative period of their lives are striving to provide new knowledge and skills for veterinary medishycine In 1950 there were none

There has been a significant expansion in the D YSc program a comparatively new doctoral program that gives priority to the acquisition of clinical sk ill s in addition to training in research The D VSc degree is unique in the world and how its graduates will be received remains to be determined I am confident it will be favourably

Believing in the imponance of reshysearch OMAF recently committed itself to provide the College with a new research farm at Ponsonby This nO-acre site located some ten miles from Guelph will provide farm-type facilities for hous ing dairy cattle beef cattle sheep pigs and laboratory anishymals will replace existing facilities at Eramosa and Plislinch and will cost in excess of $3 million

The application rate and quality of stushydents seeking admision to the D YM proshygram remains high

I am delighted to be assisted in the work of the Deans office by Associate Dean Ted Valli 62 and Academic Counsellor Ron Downey 61 and given the above is it any wonder I am optimistic

I have always been a bit smug in believshying that those of us from western Canada were the most friendly in the nation My exshyperience since coming to Guelph proves me wrong Everyone including students facshyulty staff the University administration and the local community could not have been more friendly and helpful 0

OVCAA Membership Report-Summer 1985

Life Membership 1 103 Honorary Life Membership 3 Life Me m Instalment Plan 241 Annual Membership 42 -Total Membership 1389 Total Alumni 3537 Membership

of Total Alumni 3930 Membership

of Known Alumni 40 06

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Inch in KatDlandu The following letter to the editor from Or

Carolyn Inch 81 was sent to Ornella Osborne editor of Update the newsletter

published by the Ontario Veterinary Assoshyciation Were grateful to Omelia for passing it on to us

While trekking through the north central region of the Himalayan mountains in

Nepal I was surprised to see the words vetshy

erinary office added to the bottom of it sign written in Nepalese

The village Chame contained the

headquarters of the government veterinary operations for the region of Manang Borshy

dering on China in the north the region covers about 2000 square kilometres and

has the lowest population density in Nepal The average altitude of the region is above

3048 metres Annapurna towers at 8091

metres The logistics behind launching a vetshy

erinary program in an area that is entirely inaccessible except by foot or aircraft had

me intrigued Dr Koshori Jha greeted us warmly and

in the polite manner wed received at the hands of all the Nepalese tea was served

The bulk of his practice is in sheep and goats as well as cattle yak horse mules and chickens On a daily basis he deals most frequently with footrot a problem that

is compounded by the fact that most of the bovine and equine species are bred pri-

During the recent avc AA Annual Meeting retired Deal Doug Maplesden 50 righl received ( plaque embodying newsclippings puhlished during his lenure Dean OIl Nieletl 56 made the presentalion

marily for use as pack animals the terrain is

rough and whether goats are grazing beshy

tween rocks or mules are carrying 80-kiloshygram loads up mountainsides their hooves are exposed to a lot of strain

Dr Koshori Jhas pharmacy contained various disinfectants and as tringents and

many herbal remedies from India retained placenta and anti-bloat preparation for

example

The only vaccine available to him was against Hemorrhagic Septicemia and he

used it when faced with a diagnosed herd

outbreak Dr Koshori Jha pointed out phenol

which was used on feet during July August and Septembers annual FMD outbreak

coinciding with the rainy season Day-to-day treatment is a sma ll part of

the government veterinarian s job He recently received approval for his five-year

plan which began last spring The main eleshyments of the plan are training increasi ng egg production mule breeding Jhopa

breeding (cross between a cow and male yak) and improving cattle feed by the introshyduction of a Phillipine variety of cattle grass

For the livestock assistance training

three farmers from each of 12 panchayats (districts) in Manang will come to Chame

for training and to discuss local problems These men will be involved in a serv ice

centre to be se t up in each panchayat for common treatment He also plans to hold a yearly lives tock exhibitio n with pri ze shy

money for healthy livestock

Plans to increase egg production include a new brooding unit and the introshy

duction of a hybrid of Leghorn New Hampshyshire and Rhode Island Red poultry In an effort to upgrade the quality of pack anishy

mals local ponies will be crossed with donshykeys brought from northern India Similarly

Missing in India Dr Ohiroobhai K Desai 46 61 Sharda Society Paldi Ahmedabad 380007 India has written of hi s attempts to gather inforshy

mation on Drs VD Alaga Raju 36 and

K B Nair 36 both of India He repol1s having bee n with Dr Nair from 1952 to 1956 at the Bombay Veterinary College as an exshyaminer in Veterinary Medicine However he

has been unable to provide up-to-date inforshymation on thesc two alumni Any alumni

with information please write to your avc Alumni Bulletin editor 0

male yaks will be crossed with local cows

and their offspring Jhopa will be used as high-altitude pack animals

Dr Jha plans to distribute these breedshying animals to the more remote region s so

that bloodlines can be upgraded In so me of these areas the native dialect is related to ancestral Tibetan languge rather thall Nepashy

lese which compounds hi s difficult task of education

Pack animals are the lifeline of the

high-altitude people as much today as they

have been for centuries I very much appreshy

ciate the time taken by Dr Koshori Jha to explain the role of domestic animals in the

Himalaya and share with me his ambitious plans for the future 0

AI Ihe recem CVMA Conference in Pelllicshylon Dr Bob Dunbar 12 leji with Dr ROI Downey 6 Bob has reached his 961h birlhday and resides in a PellliClol1 nursing home

In Memoriam Or John N Campbell 15 545 Scripps Drive Davis California 59616 USA

died May 4 1985

Dr Ra)mond E Pinkert 36 440 NOl1h Pine Street Reedsburg Wisconsin 53959 USA died April 13 1985

Or Roderick S MacDonald 37 3003 Oliver Street Apt 203A Halifax NS -B3L 4AI died June 12 1985

Dr John J Carney 44 3531 West 33rd Avenue Vancouver B C V6S IZ2 Date of

death unknown

Or Kenneth R Lachapelle 54 1635 Ranvoyze Ave St Foy Que GIW 3K2

died June 26 1985 0

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College of Social Science Alumni Assoc PEGASmiddotUS

Editor Dorothy Barnes 78

Our Annual Picnic We Illissed you I All of you who didnt make it to our CSSAA picnic during Alumni Weekend 85 But despite the few members and families that did attend we had a good time The pictures tell the story

Here are some of us arriving (l) and setting up the eats We had good food and why not It was a tillle to enjoy relax and have some fun We had games for all ages including catch-the-eggs (2) with real raw eggs

AmI of course whats a picnic without a drop of rain) But President John came prepared with a tarpaulin (3) for those afrnid ofilleiting The k)od and the day were saved Hurrah for our presidenl

Thcre were some brave soul s who unshydaunted by the weather carried on with their baseball game Then of course there was one young partiCipant (4) who was seen scratching hcr head 1I1d wondering what was going on

All in all we had a great time You would have too if youd bcen thcre So makc a mental notc or tic a string around your tingcr toc anywhere that will reillind you that you missed a good outing at th e Aluillni Wcckend 85 CSSAA picnic and that you should makc pl ans now to join us in June 86 at Alumni Wcekend 86 0

A Joy to Behold Her work has the shi mmer of life Such is said of artist Joy Elizabeth (Snihur) Laking Fine Art CSS 72 Joys art is intimately tied to the seasons In spring and summer she works against the perilous fadshying of fresh flowers capturing them in clean powerful designs

Fa ll afternoons on the grassy salt marshes around her home in Portaupigue Nova Scotia inspire wider scenes of rich changing colours

The respite of winter is her time for land and peoplescapes evolved from her ow n photography Her art is created within the context of family community and nature

Joy was introduced to hcr chosen lifeshystyle by her mother - they used to go sketching while Joy was a child in Owen Sound on Lake Huron s Georgian Bay shyand has painted since she can remember She now lives on the edge of the Bay of Fundy with husband Ronald OAC 72 and two cherubs where she can paint every day and capture the beauty she sees around her Whether it be mud and Illarsh a rusted truck and some farmyard geese or caterpillar holes in azalea leaves Joy is able to capture in watercolour the essence and beauty of all she sees

She is noted for her special ability to create white flowers on white paper by givshying the petals shape and vivid life with only a whisper of colour and shadow Light delishycate handling and mcticulous control fused with a powerful design se nse distinguishes her art

Joy is a well established artist and has had se lected exhibitions of her paintings at the Tom Thompson Memorial Art Gallery Owen Sound 1981 Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery Halifax NS 1982 Gallery 1889 Tatamagouche NS 1983

Daffodils By Joy (Snihur) Laking 72

Truro Art Society Truro NS 1984 and the Royal Botanical Gardens Burlington Onl 14

She was deservedly honoured to have the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia purchase one of her paintings for its collection and the Maritime Tel amp Tel chose a Laking painting for the cover of Nova Scotias 1985 telephone directory

Joy says I paint what I live what I see and what touches me It s no wonder then that Joy has been able to successfully transshyfer such sensitivity to her work in a way that has produced tine work s of art as demonshystrated in Daffodils reproduced here 0

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Grad News Terry Goddard 76 wrote to let us know

where he is and what hes doing After gradshyuation Terry turned to the world of engishy

neering and worked at the Bechtel Intershy

national Syncrude project in northern Alberta for a year He retu rned to school and obtained a Masters degree in Politi cal Theshyory in 1978 at the University of Toronto

TIle next nine months were spent workshying at Dhaharan Saudi Arabi a While the re

Terry contemplated the action which would

give him the best career move His deci s ion to go into teach ing led him back to the Unishy

versity of Toronto to obtai n his BEd His teachin g career took hi m to northshy

e rn Saskatchewan whe re he taug ht at a village which if not actually at the end of

the world was situated close enough that the end was plainly visible from the nOI1hern

outskirts He returned to Toronto someshywhat sated with academe and once again

turned to engineering He has been director of maintenance for the Jewi sh Com munity

Centres of Toronto for the past five years He has fou nd it difficult to keep in

touch with fellow grad s Especia lly th ose who studied in Professor Melby s Chinese

poIitic s courses and who were known as the Shanghai Mafia - they are all over the

world now Hes sure they often recall with fondness their days at Unigoo

Where are you former students of Proshyfessors Simmo ns and MelbYTerry would be interested in hearing from you - and so would we

Robin-Lee Norris 80 has been awarded

a $19000 Rot ary Foundation Scholarship to

pursue g radua te studi es in the Masters of Business Administration program at the

Univers ity of Adelaide Adelaide Australia Robin-Lee went o n to graduate from

Osgoode Hall Law School with an LLB

was called to the Ontario Bar in ApriJ of 1982 and has practised law with the tirm of

Kearns McKin non inGuelph since herca ll She took a ten-mo nth leave of absence

commenc ing in February 1985 from her positi on with Kearns McKinno n in o rder to take ad vantage of the sc holarship

During her months in Australia her mandate from Rotary Internatio nal in addishy

tion to pursuing her stud ies is to act as a Rotary and Canadian Ambassador in proshy

moting good will and understanding beshytween Australians and Canadians

A thank you goes to Cliff Hardy buildshying mechanic superv isor Main tenance Deshypartment Physical Resources for supplying us with thi s information and an aside to Robin-Lee when she reads this I was unable

to reach you betore you left to congratulate

you and get more informati on on your award If you have some free time we wOllld love to hea r from you about your studi es

what a Rotary and Canadian ambassador

does and to have you share your ex perience of being down-under

Marilyn Kernohan Morrison 78 has taken the time to Jet us know that shes living in Napanee with hu sba nd Brian She has

tempora ril y se t aside her ca reer to be a home-maker tor Brian and their four-monthshy

old son

Prior to their move to Napanee to acshycommodate Brians tran sfer - he work s with the Ministry of Natural Resources shy

Marilyn and family lived in a small comshymunity northwest of Thunder Bay After

Gue lph Marilyn continued her ed ucation at the comm unity college level and com pleted

a program for counse llors of the mentally

retarded SheJI be returnin g to thi s fi e ld when she again becomes a wage earner

Doris E (Trachsel) OKeefe 74 is deshy

scribed by husband John Paul 74 as a household engineer John Paul is a reshy

source teacher with the Waterloo County Board of Education With such a title I

couldnt resis t phon ing Doris to find out exactly what the duti es of a household enshy

gi neer are

While Doris decl ined to give a cletinishytion of the titl e l detected some surprise and delight that John Paul appreciates what it

takes to look after a famil y and a home

Doris is trying to re turn to teaching but is findin g it difficult in the Cambridge

Waterloo area If she isnt successful shes planning alternatives such as enrolment at Guelph in a Masters program o r failing that enrolment in courses that will he lp her

ac hieve her long-range goa ls She and John Paul recen tly moved from

London Ont to Cambridge Prior to the

birth of Erin now a two-year-old Doris was teac hing boys with behaviourial problems

and she sees thi s as an asset when applying for teaching positions Erin has a six-yearshyold brother Sean so you can understand

perhaps that Doris has been bu sy and maybe she is aptly described as a houseshy

hold engi neer

J Barry Baldwin 69 is a teac her with the Elgin County Board of Education S t Thomas Barry married Linda Janet Wii son They live in Aylmer West

M Rachel (Curtis) Towe 69 is manager customer systems Bell Canada She and

husband Ken live in Guelph

M Lois (Robinson) Harris 70 li ves in Newmarket with husband Fred

B Hugh Schofield 72 is an industrial engi neer with Rockwell Int e rnati o nal C hat ham He and wife Susan (Haslelt)

FACS 78 live in Chatham

Paul Davis 73 is an underwrite r analyst with Co-opera tors General In sura n ce

Guelph Paul and wife Linda (DozeH) 73 and 81 live at Brookhaven Court Guelph

Carol Finlayson 74 is a letter carrier lor Canada Post Carol and husband John Balch live in Toronto

Pal Hamilton 74 is an expon market deshyvelopment specialist with the O ntario Minshyistry of A gricu lture and Foo cl mark et

development branch Toronto He and his wife Diane (Coates) OAC 72 live in

Toronto

Kerrie Sirathy MA 78 advises us that

she is a s tud en t at th e Univcrsity of Sakatchewan Sas katoon

Vicky Sutherland 78 is an air trartie conshy

troller with Air Canada at FoI1 McMurray Airpo l1 Alta and lives in F0I1 McMurray

Sounds like an intercsting job - perhaps youl l share SOIllC experie nces with us Vicky

Marlin Thissen 78 is a foreman with the

region or Halton at ih Milton wa ter po llushytion control plant

Evelyn Evie (Isaacs) Whilwham 80 is a planning ass istant with Union Gas Co Ltd Chatham She and hu sba nd Bob have

c hanged their address They are at 70 Ottawa Drive C ha tham Ont N7L 216 0

In Memoriam A lormer faculty mcmber in the DeshypaI1ment of Geography Barsa Kelly was among the victims of the Air India Hight 182 disaster that occ urred

off the coas t of Irel and las t June ~ mr(sa Vas headed tor India on a reshy

search project at the time of her

death S he was the wife of Protessor Kenneth Kelly Department of Geogshyra phy On behalf of its members and all those who chc ri shed their con tacts with Barsa the Board of Directors of the College of Social Science Alumni Association extend their s incere symshy

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College of Biological Science Alumni Assoc BIOmiddotALUMNI NEWS

Editor Marie (Boissonneault) Rush 80

HONORARY PRESIDENT Professor Bruce Sells Dean

PRESIDENT David Airdrie BSc 82 Microbiology

PAST PRESIDENT Dr Chris Wren BSc 77 Marine Biology PhD 83

VICE-PRESIDENT Dee Britney BSc 74 Fisheries amp Wildlife MSc 81

SECRETARY-TREASURER Kclly Munkittrick BSc 80 Fisheries amp Wildshylife MSc 83

DIRECTORS Lorraine Bruce-Allen BSc 80 Zoology MSc 84 Jim Elliott BSc 79 Marine Biology Keith Harris BSc 76 Marine Biology Dr Doug Holdway BSc 76 Marine Biology MSc 78 Aquatic Toxicology PhD 83 Krista (McAuley) Soper BSc 79 Marine Biolshyogy Karin Davidson-Taylor BSc 83 Zoology

From Dave Airdrie 82 the

President How time flies when youre having fun Your editor Marie (Boissonneault) Rush 80 tell s me that this note to you will be in the Fall issue of the Guelph Alumnus so Ill bring you up to date on happenings since your 1985-86 Board of Directors was inshystalled in June

The CBS Alumni Association was parshyticularly busy during June Alumni Weekshyend events including the Wildlife Art Show and Sale and the barbecue at the Rockwood Conservation Area were well attended

Thanks must go to Krista (McAuley) Soper 79 and Lorraine Bruce-Allen 84 for their first-rate efforts in organizing and running the art show From all accounts it was ex tremely well done and is sure to be repeated in 1986

Further thanks mu st go to Keith Harshyris 76 for his efforts in once again organizing the barbecue at Rockwood Keith has done a terrifi c job with this event s ince its inception Hopefully these two events will be expanded in the coming year

Last spring the objective of $10 000 for the Keith Ronald Fellowship Fund was reached and we thank all who generously contributed to this fund Its to be hoped that this is only the first of many scholarships initiated through the CBSAA

Many of you will now be aware of the changes which the Universitys Department of Alumni Affairs has undergone in rece nt months Most important is the arrival of Marjorie Millar as director of the Departshyment It seems that President Matthews is placing greater emphasis on the importance of the Department due in part to the impenshyding capital campaign I am sure that youll all notice many beneficial innovations

The CBSAA has I feel reached a point in its development where we must heighten our profile both among alumni and undershygraduates In order to increase the awareness of the Association the Board has plans to embark on some new programs

The goals are as I see them two-fold first of all we need YOU to get more inshyvolved whether its participation in our proshygrams or s upport for the Assoc iation through your membership The fact that youre reading this demonstrates an interest which we would like to heighten

Secondly we re working at helpin g undergraduates before graduation to beshycome more aware of our Association Hopeshyfully we ll get helpful input and suggestions from many of you in the near future Reshymember - YOUR alumni association is what YOU make it

Dave Airdrie BSc 82 President Colshylege of Biological Science AA

FACULTY ADVISORS Dr Denis Lynn Zoology Dr Margaret Hauser M icroshybiology Dr John Hilton Nutrition Dr John Sandys Award Phillips Botany amp Genetics Dr Brian Wilson Human BiologyKinetics The Ontario Confederation of University

Faculty Associations (OCUFA) has awarded UGAA REPRESENTATIVES Karin Dr Alexander Sandy Middleton DepartshyDavidsonTaylor BSe X) Zoology Keith ment of Zoology one of the nine OCUFA Harris BSc 76 Marinc Biology Rob Teaching Awards for 1984 Milnc BSe XI MSe 84 Marine Bio Dr Middleton was nominated for this -award by colleagues students administrashyEX-OFFICIO DIRECTORS Ed Berdusco tors alumni and faculty It acknowledges president CBSSC Steve Spring past presishy outstanding ability and is considered to be dent CBSSC the provinces highest honour for excellence

in university teaching HKAA REPRESENTATIVE Nick Dalton I think there are two keys to being an BSe 77 Human Kinetics effective teacher Sandy says One is to

have respect for the student the other is to EDITOR RIO-ALUMNI NEWS Marie make a genuine intellectual and time comshy(Boissonneault) Rush B Se XO Marine mitmcnt to the course Biology 0 Dr Alexander Middleton Congratulations Dr Middleton 0

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Grad News Human Biology

Cathy Knipe BSc 79 MSc 83 is a Ph D st ud ent at Iowa State University Ames Iowa USA She is studying Moshylecular Biology

Shelly Lugg BSc 83 is a stude nt at Simon Fraser University Burnaby BC

Human Kinetics

Susan (Wright) Kwiatkowski BSc 80 is a recreation therapist at York Central Hosshypital Toronto Her spouse Ed graduated from Ryerson in 1979

Donna Marie (Kadwell) 1vose BSc 79 and husband John ji ve in Thorold Shes a physica l education supervisor at the Niagara Peninsula Crippled Childrens Centre

Mary Ellen (Mew) Walker BSc 83 is the activity co-ordinator at Spruce Lodge Stratford

Dr Ken Danylchuk BSc(PE) 73 is a s ur ge ry re s ident at the H itchcockshyDartmouth Medical Center Hanover N H USA

Kathryn (Tarry) Myers BSc 78 is a teacher with the Middlesex COunty Board of Educati on Hyde Park

WildUfe

Vicky Johnston 84 bega n an MSc at Lakehead University Thunder Bay in May Shes working on the reprodu ctive biology of Lake Superior rin g-billed gull s

Nutrition

Or 0010 Ohiokpehai 77 lectures in food and nutrition at the Unive rs ity of Ife Nigeria

Microbiology

John Semple 78 is a PhD ca ndidate in the Department of Mic rob iology amp Immushynology at Queens Uni vers ity Kingston He will be doing a post-doctora l at the Banting amp Best Depattment of Medica l Research University of Toronto

Unspecialized

Peter Adams 79 and Beth (Sarjeant) 79 are happy to announce their recent marshyriage Beth is a research technici an with the Depanment of Medicine Univers ity of Ca lshygary Alta and Peter operates a business with the se ismic service industry

Marine Biology

Jorgen Hansen 75 and his wife Drusilla (Dol be) Arts 75 live in Gloucester Jorge n is a staff officer with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Ottawa

CoUege Honour RoU - Winter 85 Semester 06

Margorie Fe rgusson 894 Human Biology JoAnna Milan 860 Biology

Semester 07 Sandra Noble 856 Microbiology

Semester 08 Marga ret Docker 876 Marine Biology Thomas Johnston 87 0 Fi sheries Biology Debra Underhill 858 Microbi ology

James Wright 858 Biology Tobin Peever 854 Botany

Alexander Hanke 852 Zoology Rebecca Rodgers 852 Human Bi ology

Tracey Robin son 882 BSc( HK ) Rebecca Halonen 880 BSc(HK )

Swdent has obtained standing for second time Student has obtaincd standing for third time

Home Town

Oakville Ottawa

Dorchester

Guelph New Liskeard Kingston Thunder Bay Bracebridge Grafton Calgary Alta Guelph Georgetown

Donald MacLennan 75 and hi s wife Katherine live in Chatham Donald is a biologi st-supervisor with the Ministry of Natural Resources Lake SI Clair Fisheries Assessmen t Unit Tilbury 0

College of Biological Science

Alumni Association

Wildlife Art Show

Well it happened June 15 and 16 have come and gone but not withshyout event The Graduate Students Lounge was transformed from a cozy meeting place into an an gallery There was much movi ng of furniture and hanging of an work with the end product being our fi rst ever CBSAA Wildlife Art Show

In total there were 20 wildlite artists partic ipating all tine ani sts in their own right Maybe you reshymember Ut a Stre live a nd Dr Ed Bailey Wow I You should see their wood works

Rick Beaver 73 also showed some of his work hes a wildlife imshypressionist and the colour and move shyment he paint s into each piece is eloquent Donald Dority 76 showed us the line photographer he has become There were other ani sts - too many to mention but all of extremely high calibre

Id like to mention one las t name though - Cindy Hayward manager of the Graduate Students Lounge If you ever need a steady hand to get an event off the ground shes the one to co ntact Without her hel p there would have been a whole heap of orshyga ni za tional problems From which we would have been unable to escape

All in all we had a successful show Thanks artists and viewers for making our efforts worthwhile 0

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New Minister of AgricultureOntario Agricultural College Alumni Assoc OAC ALUMNI NEWS

Editor Dr Harvey W Caldwell 51

Ontari OS new mini ster of ag riculture Jack Riddell 52A and 57 a cash crop farmer from the Exeter area comes to the position of Ontario s Mini ster of Agriculture and Food with ten years of expe rience as Liberal caucus cr itic for agriculture

The min is ter sa id that life under a Libshyeral government will give agriculture a higher priority than it has ex perienced in the past It will be considered one of the major industries in this province

Jack also pro mi sed to consult a great

Basic Technology in Action shyTurning Stones Into Bread By Ann Middleton Information Services

A new University of Guelph projec t in Tanza nia Africa should aid th e Third Wo rld s ubsistence leve l farmer The $400000 three-year projec t funded by the International Development Resea rch Centre (IDRC) will invol ve fltlculty of the Uni vershysitys Department of Land Resou rce Sc ience and Soko ine Uni versity of Ag riculture in Morogoro Central Tanza ni a Aim of the enterpri se is to use loca lly ava il ab le rock materials as soil amendm en ts and con shyditioners

The project came about when Ott awas IDRC brought together a team of two geo logists with an interest in improving co nshyditions for African farmers Professor Ward Chesworth with the Department of Land Resource Science has a long-standing intershyes t in turning rock s into fertili zers deshyve loped during work in West Africa and the Canltlry Islands where local farmers have spread volcanic rock on their field s for two centu ries In his lab and in the Blue Springs basin near Acton Ontario Professor Chesshyworth has been conducting experiment s on the levels at which common rocks re lease nutri ents into soil solutions

The other team member Dr Peter van Straltl ten is ori ginally from Germany but spe nt e ight years with the United Nations in Tan zania looking for metals and metal deshyposi ts and working on an in ve ntory of ferti shyli zer raw materials in south-east Africa

During thi s period Tanza nian food production per capita fell dramaticall y leadshying Dr van Strltlaten to try to find ways to help the food situation In ex periments in his garden in Dodomo Tanzaniltl he was able to increase yields of vegetables using locally

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available geological materia ls and organic wastes

Noting the common interes ts of the two men the Canadian age ncy introd uced them and Dr van Straaten relocated in Guelph Co-ordinators of the project are Professor Cheswo rth and Tan za ni an sc ie nti st Dr Johnson Semoka of Sokoine University coshyauthor of a text on so il sc ience much used in agricultural circles in Africa

Technical assistant Peter Sl11i th is working with Tanzanian rock specimens in the Land Resource Science lab and two other Tanzanian scientists will be involved

In addition to academics from bo th institutions members of the Geological Survey of Tanzania will also work on the project both in the Morogoro area and at Mbeya station in south-western Tanzania

Roc k sa mples will be collected and crushed and field tests and pot ex periments carried out here and on location When reshysu lt s have bee n obtained extension work will begin in Africa under the direc tion of Dr Semoka It is hoped that members of a Me nnonite Central Committee group workshying at Mbeya will design a simple rock crusher for the use of local farmers

Tanzania has a major phosphate deshyposi t wh ich will be tapped by the project as well as ground s ilicates including volcanic ash Liming materials such as limestone dolomite marl and ca rbonatite will also be evaluated

Professor Chesworth points out that alshythough No rth Americans place much emshyphasi s on the big three of soil nutrition shynitrogen phosphorus and potassium (NPK) - there are actually about 20 necessary

deal with the farm organizations on the direction his ministry should be taki ng

I dont believe that we can sit in our so-ca ll ed ivory towers and introduce the kind of programs that are go ing to be mea nshyingful unless we get consultation from the farmers and their spokes people

He has been a member of the provincial legislature for 12 years He spent his first two years as energy cri tic and later environshyment critic before mov ing into agriculture Jack and Anit a have a family of five 0

nutrie nts including the minor ones In some areas of Tanza nia the decline

in soil fe rtility is in part due to the settling of widespread populations into villages where land has been used without concern for nutrients Tn other part s of the country productivity has declined because of leachshying of plant nutrie nts durin g normal rainfall and also from the continuous use of acidifyshying fertilizers such as ammo nium su lphate Dr Chesworth point s out that the current practice of NPK fe rtili zation totally ignores secondary and micronut rient requirements of plants It is hoped that the projec t wilt address thi s problem

Our approac h is basic tec hn ology our target group the poorest far mers Dr van Straaten explains One of the problems in the past Dr Ches worth says has been convincing agronomists that it s worth purshysuing this kind of elementary tec hnology approach Theyre very skeptical that you can take common roc ks wi thou t major inshydustrial proces ing and use them to advanshytage on tropical soils

A s ideline area of research is work with zeolites open framework si licates that often occ ur in volcanic rocks Some zeolites can be used to trap nitrogen in the form of ammonia which would otherwise be los t in gaseous form When added to cow manure for exampl e and stomped in by the beasts themselves zeolites enrich an already valushyabl e fertil ize r Dr van Straaten explains

The zeolite research is being carried out in co njunction with Professor Colin Fyfe Department of Chemistry an intershynat io na ll y kn ow n authority o n zeo lit e -che mi stry

Orie result of the work of the Un ive rs ity of Guelph geo logists is an ag rogeology ne tshywork currentl y being set up bya number of African cou ntries as the result of di sc usshysions following a paper by Dr van Straaten and Professor Chesworth The paper was given recently at meetings of the UN Ecoshynomic Commiss ion for Africa in Zambia 0

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A Designing Grad The need for a summer job six years ago has ended in a Guelph grad des igning golf courses

When in 1979 Lisa Maki now

BLA 84 was searching for a job that would assist her in her studies at the Univershysity she applied to the city of Kitchener

She could have wound up in any

number of areas in the parks and recreation department but Rockway and Doon Valley

course superintendent Ed Ortlieb gave her the chance to join the work crew at Rockway fltor the first couple of years it was just a job that got her outdoors in the summer then by chance she got interested in the game itself

And now shes embarked on a career in golf course design

Lisa the 24-year-old oldest daughter of Ted Maki a former general manager of the

Lisa Maki BLA 84 Kitchener Rangers left last July for Lakeshyland Florida where she Joined Links Deshysign which de sig ns and oversees golf course construction throughout the United 1983 and a friend of the family who knew States The company is considered the sec shy was interested in golf course work arranged ond-largest of its type behind the one run by a meeting with Ronald Garl said Lisa I US golf legend Jack Nicklaus who deshy had an official job interview in April of 84 signed the Glen Abbey course in Oakville and then went to Florida in August of the

How does a young Kitchener woman same year to familiarize myself with the

end up working for Ronald Garl a 40-yearshy firms projects

old graduate of the University of Florida Because I had focused much of my who apprenticed under such well-known deshy University work on such things as turf man shy

signers as Roben Trent Jones and Joseph agement and had done pan of my bachelor Lee Again it was just a chance opportunity of landscape architecture thes is on what

We were in Florida in December of makes British golf courses great and the

Sisters of Accident Victims Receive Diplomas

A tragic accident just prior to Spring Convocation resulted in the deaths oftwo graduands of the Associate Diploma in Agriculture Program Jeff Bikus 85A of West Lome and Nick Davidson 85Afrom Zimbabwe Joy Davidson sister ofNick came from Zimbabwefor the Convocation She was sponsored by the OAC Alumni Association Classes of85A alld 86A Norm McCollulIl 66A honorary class president 85A Don and MiidredMcCollum Jenny Ballentine and her parents Dr Steve Bowley 78 and80 honorary class president 86A and the University Centre Administration Our sympathy is extended to the families and friends of these two popular studel1ls Pictured are Ito r Jenny Ballantine friend ofJeff Bikus Lealln Bikus sister of Jeff Joy Davidson sister of Nick and Klaus Kristiansen a studellt from Zimbabwe

other on golf course residential design he was impressed

In order to learn what made British

courses great Lisa spent a semester in Engshyland and Scotland visiting researching sketching photographing and playing 16 historic courses including the famous links courses which by tradition are the

only clubs to host the British Open Links layouts are courses that border the sea and have been built or developed over sand

bases

Approximately 15 students a year take

advantage of the School of Land scape Arshychitectures Semester Abroad Program fi shynancing the trips themselves However the program is supported by an annual $5000 grant from the Alma Mater Fund so alumni can claim a cenain amount of credit for Lisas success She was a recipient in 1983

of part of that years AMF grant Im not sure my mother and father

were very keen about my trave lling around England and Scot lane all alone but it was a truly great experience she said middot1 not only met many wonderful and helpful peoshyple got to play the great courses like St

Andrew s Royal Troon Turnberry and my favorite of all Royal Dornoch

After a complicated and lengthy US immigration process which took nearly a year she was granted her permanent work

visa She was in regular contact with her new

boss after returning to Kitchen er - she re turned to work at Rockway and Doon while awaiting the vi sa approval - and then last July plunged immediately into

projects including work at a mens tournashyment players 36-hole complex in Sarasota and a Ladies Professional Golf Assoc iation course in Melbourne where she worked in association with LPGA tour players Beth Daniels and Sally Little

Despite the fact that the job involves

vy ing with rattlesnakes alligators and Iild

pigs when I have to tramp through forests and swamps in applying my design work to certain areas I love the outdoor work Lisa

said At the same time she doesnt have any

probleIl1s giving orders to hard-hatted heavy-machinery construction workers when she is the field supervisor for on-site

work think I may have raised a few eye shy

brows when I staned work at Rockway but I was accepted

Lisa isnt sure how long this pan of her life will last and she has no way of knowing whether any of her courses will eve r be known as Lisa Maki layouts But that doesnt

concern her They may be Links Design projects but Ill know they were basically my courses 0

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Klink Lecture Dr Doug Morrison 49 Department of Poultry Science was chosen to deliver the 1985 Klink Lecture

The Klink lecture is ~ponsored by the Agricultural Inst itute of Canada and named after the Institute s founding president Preshysented by an outstanding lecture r the lecture is delivered through a coast-to-coast tour and concerns a topic of current significance to the agricultural industry and the nation

Dr Morri son stated that there is a need for professionalization in an imal agriculshyture in order to give it an improved image and make it more acceptable to the conshysumer

Address ing members of the Ontario Inshystitute of Agrologists in London Ontario he told his audience that the agriculture inshydustry in Canada ranks among the best in the world and producers have to ensure thi s is shown and make sure that peer pressure prevents producers from doing things that we cant defend

He suggested some type of professhysiona l approach established by the farming organization whereby expertise would be required instead of merely encouraged

This is a mu ch beller ap proach th an some edict from society through governshyment legi slation I strong ly object to legislashytion designed to protect me from myself he said adding that there are currently enough regulations existent through legislation that dictate what farmers can and cannot do

If a farmer were a profess ional hi s reward wou Id be in profits - about as meanshyingful a reward as has ye t been devised

Benefits of a more professionalized approach would include an improved image of the farmer to the consumer an increase in communication a more efficient industry

which is essential for competition improved knowledge on the fa rmers part of health nutrition care markets etc and more awareness of soc ietys concerns

In turn it would also be necessary to provide beller information to the consumer through an educational process because if soc iety is to pay for increased inputs for the long- term good of the nat ion then it is essential society be adequately informed

Morrison remarked that he fee ls the maj ori ty of animal agriculturists are in fact professionals but there has to be a concerted e ffort to at tract as lew people as possible in to the business who do not understa nd farmshying or who are doing things that are unacshyceptable

Consumer concern over dietary value or the amount of drugs contained in animal product s is also reason for farmers to tak e a professional approach They should work to alleviate any misreprese ntations and misin shyformation the public is receiving the proshyfessor noted s tating that farm ers have never produced food as safe and as wholeshysome as it is today

By the turn of the century on a world basis meat consumption is predicted to in shy

crease by abou t 60 per cent while the intake of milk is expected to increase by almost 40 per cent

A major fac tor for this rise in intake result s from th e fact that developing nations will begin to consume animal products as soon as they can afford them China is an excellent exa mple of this said the professor who commented that nation is now movshying as rapidly as possible to increase animal production

With all these factors is mind Dr Morshyri son sa id he is optimistic for the future of the Canad ian animal agriculture industry

Weve got the opportunities and can take advantage of them he said 0

Mark Bernards 85 cenlre was the recipienl oftwo OAC Alumni Foundation awards the OAC Alumni Graduate Award and the Beth Duncan Gold Medal Left is Gord Nixon 37 Foundashytion chairman and director and right NR Rick Richards 38 treasurer

Entrepreneur in Residence

Dr Donald Shaver

Dean Freeman McEwen is pleased to be working with Dr Donald McQueen Shaver the Universitys first Agricultural Entreshypreneur-i n-Res idence

Dr Shaver a native of Cambt idge Onshytari o is found er chairman and chief exshyecutive officer of Shaver Poultry Breed ing Farms Limited The compan y distributes chicken breeding stock to 90 countries from its head office in Cambridge and three subshysid iaries in the United States Britain and France He retired from his executive reshysponsib ilities on August 30 but is conshytinuing as director and adv isor to the company

From 1940 to 1945 Dr Shaver served with the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps in Africa and Europe retiring as regimental commanding officer He is past president of the Canadian Hatchery Federation the Poulshytry Products Institute of Canada the Canashydian Lincoln Red Society and Maine-Anjou Association He is a member of the Order of Canada Honorary Life Member of the Worlds Poultry Science Association and the Ontario Institute of Agrologi sts He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Science by McGill University and the Centennial Medal by the OAC

The Entrepreneu r-in-Reside nce pro shygram was initiated and financially supshyported by OAC Class of 58 to champion -the role of private enterpri se within soc iety The appointment is for a two-year period during which time Dr Shaver will present lectures lead workshops and consult with faculty and students

The Agricultural Entrepreneur-in-Resishydence program at the University is believed to be a first in agr icultural education around the world 0

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University Of Guelph Involved in $68 Million Chinese Project The University of Guelph has embarked on a co-operative $68 million project that will ~ink five Canadian and Chinese universities and agricultural institutions

The four-year Black Dragon River Proshyjeo supported by the Canadian Internashytional Deve lopment Agency (C IDA) involves Guelph the University of Alberta Olds College in AlbeI1a and two Chinese institutions - Heilongjiang Land Reclamashytion University and Liu He Training College in northeastern Heilongjiang Province

Under th e term s of the agreement training will be provided at the three Canashydian institutions for personnel from the two Chinese university institutions

The Liu He Training College is respo nshysible for educating state farm employees Training will range from short courses to undergraduate and graduate level programs

Faculty from the Canadian universities and Olds College will travel to China during the summer months to give lectures and

short courses The area borderi ng on Russia has treshy

mendou s potential for agricultural deve lopshyment Professor Neal Stos~opf 57 direct or of OACs diploma courses is Guelphs co-ordinator for the Chinese projshyect He was part of the Canadian gove rnment planning miss ion and ex plains that although the climate combines the cold winters and hot summers of Alberta most of the moisshyture is rain that falls between Jul y and Sepshytember

Although latitude is the sa me as Edmontons at 52 degrees north the area grows soybeans and corn as well as wheat The land has two to four feet of black topsoil waiting to be drained and planted he says with potential for livestock proshyduction

The proj ec t centre is located at the Unishyversity of Alberta with administration in Guelph being carried out by the Centre for International Programs 0

Provincial apiarist retires after 19 years You might say Philip Burkes job brought sweet rewards

Until his retirement recently Philip was the provincial apiarist - sort of Onshytarios chief of bees - while working at the University of Guelphs Department of Environmental Biology

He joined the University as a lectu rer in 1943 and then became assistant professor and later associate professor

At the same time the Ontario Departshyment of Agriculture (as the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food was known then) made him the assistant provincial apiarist In 1966 he became provincial apiarist

Of course he advised beekee pers on ways they could make their colonies more productive and efficient and fielded many apiary management question s - including how to prevent bees from swarming

If they swarm one-third to one-half of th e colony takes off so you lose a big source of your honey crop Swarming is trigshygered when the hive becomes overcrowded so the beekeeper mu st stay ahead of them It involves a whole manipulation of the hive through the season visiting each colony at least once every ten to 14 days he says Philip also worked with farmers whose

crops depended on pollination by bees At one time bees were needed for

pollin ating greenhouse produce such as cucumbers But in the past 15 years the trend has been toward new types that are self fruiting he says

But the biggest change in the industry over the years was the trend towards Illakshying corn king in Ontario - a trend that is now being reversed he says

From 1949 and on a lot of bee coloshynies were moved to the western provinces tollowi ng th e reduction in alfalfa production in Ontario and the increased corn acreage he says

Now prospec ts for honey production in Ontario are better than in past years beshycause of the increased alfalfa acreage and other legumes and the trend towards more diversified cropping

Not surpris ingly prices have changed in the industry over the years too Back in the 1920s it cost about $10 to start a bee colony today start-up costs are about $100 to $125 per colony

Much of his work at the University looked at ways to prevent di seases in bees using selected antibiotics

He was secretary for the Ontario Beekeepers Association for 15 yea rs and now acts as a consu It ant for the group 0

Wins Crampton Award

Dr Stanley J Slinger 37 the most recent rec ipient of the Earl e W Crampton Award for distingui shed service in nutrition is ProshyFessor Emeritus of the Depal1ment of Nutrishytion College of Biolog ica l Science at Guelph

Born in Lowell Ontario Dr Slinger received his BSc from the Ontario Agrishycultural College hi s MSc fro111 the Univershysity of Toronto and a PhD from Cornell University From 1941 to 1965 he was in the Departillent of Poultry Science at the OAC and since 1965 has been in the Department of Nutrition at Guelph serving as chairJl1an from 1965 to 1974

Dr Slinger conducted re sea rch in sevshyeral areas of pou Itry nutrition for Jl10re than 30 years In 1972- 73 a fi sh nutrition laborashytory was set up and thi s laboratory has conshytinued to grow and iJl1prove s i nee One of the primary objectives in both poultry and fi sh nutrition research has been to develop feed to rmulas using feedstuffs of Canadian orishygin 111ese tannulas have been publi shed and continuall y revi sed and have been used extensively by teed manufacturers through shyout Canada Dr Slinger continues to be active in research

Dr Slinger taught poultry nutrition in Poultry Science for 27 years gave seminar courses in nutrition and physiology taught Fundamentals of Nutrition in the Depal1shyment of Nutrition and deve loped and taught courses in fi sh and wildlite nutrition

He has supervi sed the work of Jl1any graduates and it is interesting to note that the Department of Nutrition at Guelph is the only depailment in Canada - and there are very few in the United States - turning out graduates in Fish Nutrition at the PhD leve l

He has helped to establi sh modern poultry industries in Mexico and the areas of South East Asia Africa the Middle East Eastern and Western Europe and the United Kingdom Lectures conlerences and other consultative work have also taken hilll to Jl1any coul1tries over the years

The recipient of numerous honours and awards Dr S linger was made Professor Emeritus of the University in Ino and reshy -ceived the Earl e W Crampton award in 19B4 at Macdonald College Que Thi s award is given by the Faculty of Agriculture in recogshyniti on of significant co ntributions in the field of nutrition through research andlor service The award is named for Dr Earle W Crampton a renowned nutritionist whose career at Macd onald bega n in 1922 and lasted far 51 years 0

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cialist having spent four months in the latter John Reid 84 is technical sales rep Agrico Grad News part of 1984 in Bloemfontein South Africa Sales Ltd Richmond BC

Earl Johnston 46 is president Earl-John Brokers Ltd Delhi

Joe Knox 48 is secretary-treasurer Annco Westeellnc Guelph

Ralph Hills 54 is pastor United Church of Canada Smith Falls Ralph left Zambia last October spending some time in Kenya Israel England and Scotland on the way home He was surprised to meet Charlie Broadwell also 54 on Oxford Street in London Charlie was giving a reception at a large castle for the white bean buyers who purchase beans from Charlies Bean Growers of Ontario Ralph also passes along the word from Louise (Fershyguson) Hope Mac 54 that her husband Don 54 preparing for some future possible social work is studying drug addiction at George Brown College of Applied Ans and Technology Toronto

Joseph Leach 54 is a research scientist Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources Lake Erie Research station Wheatley

Ken Edwards 59 is an industrial engineer Prince George Pulp and Paper Vancouver BC

Fred Theaker 62 is a teacher-biologist Ren frew County Board of Education Aruprior

Howard Lang 67 is senior so il conshyservation advisor for OMAF Cambridge

John Lawrence 69 has been appointed vice-president and ge neral manager De kalb Canada Inc Chatham John is a lso president of the Canadian Agri-marketing Assoc iation

Robert Brooksbank 70 is manager Agrishycultural Department Simcoe area Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce

Alan Duncan BLA 73 is project coshyordinator Groupe d intervention urban de Montreal Montreal Que

Martha (Weir) Collins 75 reports that Anne (Walton) Bayler 75 is at teac hers college in Toronto after spending several years teaching in the Bahamas Martha lives at I Braid Place Guelph and would like to hear news of her classmates

Jim Dyer MSc 75 is a senior resource and environmental officer with the crop producshytion division of Agriculture Canada Ottawa He is on loan as a drought monitoring spe shy

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His wife Barb (Newell) Arts 75 who is a technical editor with Public Works Canada joined him in Bloemfontein for a month

Elizabeth Fedorkow 75 is a market reshysearcher Tetra Pak Inc Markham

Roy Maxwell 75 is an agricultural comshymentator CBC Radio Noon Toronto

Gary Ball 76 is vice-president manufacturshying Mitten Vinyl Inc Cambridge

Garnet McConney 77 is feed lot manager Catllel and Ontario Inc Petersburg

Patrick Meyers 77 OVC 84 is a vetshyerinarian with the Grenville-Dundas Veterinshyary Clinic Kemptville

Martha Frey 78 is secretaryass istant edishytor Canadians for Health Research Wes tshymount Que

Wayne Harrison 79 is assi stant manager Toronto Dominion Bank Elmira His wife is Katherine (McLeod) 77

Sharon Helynk 79 is with the Woodbury Animal Hospital Halifax NS

Jeffery Goebel 80 is resident engineer ACF Canada Ltd Georgetown

Mary Lynn Prong 80 is assistant manager Royal Bank Watford She reports that Bruno Soucy 8Q has changed jobs from OMAF farm ma nagement advisor to agrolog ist London region Royal Bank

Corrie Almack 81 is presidentowner Agshyriculturai Soil and Nutrition Consultants Freelton

Edward Bolton 81 is research farm manshyager AJle lix Inc M ississauga

William Summers 82 MSc 84 is prodshyuct deve lopment rep Du-Pont Canada Streetsville

Dianne (Coker) McDowell 83 is quality assurance supervisor Richardson Foods Ltd Glanw0I1h

John Ross 83 is a program officer Agrishyculture Canada Edmonton Alta

Jeff Burke 84 is a customer service rep Griffith Lab Toronto

Julie Fowler 84 is working for Embury Bros Farms Ltd Newburgh

Karen Rodman 84 is a farm management specialist OMAF Nepean

James Simonds 84 is a crop specialist Cavendi sh Fanns Summerside P E1

Richard West PhD 84 is a research scishyentist Canadian Forestry Service SI John s Nftdo

In Memoriam We regret to report the following deaths

Marie Honsberger 17A died March 1985

Esmond D Clipsham 2IA died on April 6 1985 Esmond had been the proprietor Uneeda Rest Hotel Kilwonhy and was a life member of the OAC Alumni Association

Stanley Ewart Keillor 21 died on February 27 1985 He was a crop farmer at Walshylacetown

John Edward Chalmers 23A died on Febshyru ary 15 1985

Jacobus Van Haarlem 23 at age 85 on July 2 1985 in Vineland He retired as ex shyecutive director of the Hor1icultural Experishymental Station at Vineland in 1970 after 47 years of service there

Hugh Lacklin Paterson 32A died in May 1985 of a heart attack at Rockwood

Murray Cameron Macklin 33A 35 died January n 1985 in Toronto

Garland Alfred Fisk 35 Date of deat h unknown

Gordon Elgin Young 35 died on June 12 1985 at Ing leside

John Miller Fargery 37 on March 22 1985 in Toronto John had been an insurance salesman Farm Credit Corp and was a life member of the OAC Alumni Assoc iation

William Thomson 40 in 1982 in Lonshy shygueuil Que His death was reported recen tl y

Robert Fletcher Madden 54A died on November 26 1984 at age 52 at Napanee

Vera (Mod ric) Kozamplik MSc 73 in Yugoslavia She was the wife of Vinko Kozumplik M Sc 71 0

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From the Dean

Dr Barham

In some of my lellers I have aimed to share

information on some special program or theme with you On this occasion I want to

keep you in touch through a number of lillie items so I shall hold onto some of the bigshy

ger interests for future issues of the Guelph Alumnus

As I write this leller Alumni Weekend 85 is behind us I found it a great weekend

and I thoroughly enjoyed meeting more of our alumni for the first time while

especially appreciating recognizing more

and more familiar faces and names from previous occasions

This year the Classes of 65 and 75 requested an up-date on our programs and

the developments we have experienced together in the College over the last few

years I guess that we were able to demonshy

strate much more development in our research and teaching programs than we could in some parts of the physical facilities within the buildings Still we had thorshyoughly congenial and I think very useful

meetings with both of these classes and added a nostalgic tour of our facilities

It was splendid to meet both of these groups I confess however that I had not

foreseen that a large part of the interest of the Class of 65 rested on the fact that many of their children are now gearing up to enter FACS

I was able to remind them that the BASc and B Comm degrees both lead

into fascinating and challenging careers for sons and nephews as well as daughters and

nieces Some of you coming to Alumni Weekend 86 might wish to get in touch with me to arrange an up-date on our acti vities then too

One of my special pleasures of Alumni Weekend was to join with the Class of 35 at the Golden Anniversary Dinner This occashy

sion is always a particular delight given the special personal pleasures reflected in the

friendships shared on this anniversary And I do want members of the Class of

35 to know that their gift of the magnificent Terry Legault Roman Festival print looks really outstanding and just right amidst the

contemporary decor of the FACS lounge

One last item of alumni news which I want to mention is the fact that I met with

Jean (Nairn) Carter 38 and some of her committee recently I learned that they have

been making quite outstanding progress in establishing the trust fund that will support their new graduate student award in geronshy

tology The first award presentation of $1000 is being made this fall but members of the Class of 38 are still pushing on with their fund raising in order to bring the

annual trust-fund yield to a level of $2 000 We all think that the Class of 38 grads

have been quite remarkable in their detershymination to build up a significant fund to

support work in this important new field of scholarship and research I know that we

shall all appreciate your support for them in reaching their target

I met with Audrey Warner and Annette

Yeager 62 recently They advised me of their concern for the needs of teachers wantshy

ing to prepare themselves for adding Family Studies to their fields of professional speshy

cialization and of other teachers already working in that field who find themselves in need of some up-dating especially in view of the curriculum changes which appear to be around the corner

In this regard I want to mention two

items which might be of interest First our faculty in FACS have been

quite heavily engaged in working with

teachers and others in thinking planning debating and writing for the curriculum developme~ts envisaged for the Ontario Academic High School Credits

Most especially we have had as memshybers of the Canadian Family in Perspective group Dr Jean Sabry with her own special

interest in human nutrition Dr Grant

McCracken in clothing Drs Marshall Fine and Claude Guldner with their expertise in family relations and Drs Anne Martin Matshythews and Joe Tindale with their special strengths in life-span development and

aging - quite a team of contributors Secondly I want to mention in relation

to my meeting with Audrey and Annette that we now have a number of courses avai 1shy

able in a six-week format offered in summer sessions provided on campus

Perhaps of even more interest to those of you who wont find it practical to take

classes on campus at Guelph we have an annual offering of distance or corresponshy

dence-type courses Many of these will be of very pertinent

interest to a number of teachers The current list includes Human Development Marital and Family Dynamics Personal and Family Finance Development of Human Sexuality Nutrition and Man and the Exceptional Child in the Family

You can find out more about these

offerings by writing directly to Guelph Disshytance Education University of Guelph

Macdonald Institute shyFamily and Consumer Studies Alumni Assoc

Editor Carol Telford-Pittman 75

Guelph Ont NIG 2WI or by getting in touch with my office

One of the reasons that we have put

ourselves so significantly behind the development of these distance courses is that we did not have the resources to meet

the demand for providing our courses in the more traditional class format at locations

away from the Guelph campus As usual there is much more to share

with you but it will just have to hold until

my next letter I look forward to being in touch with you again then 0

Olive Thompson Honoured

Olive (Thompson) Thompson 35

-The Mac-FACS Alumni Association was very pleased to present a Citation of Appreshyciation to Olive (Thompson) Thompson

35 during Alumni Weekend 85 festivities Olive has given much time energy

support and leadership to the College and to the University through her years of involveshyment with the Mac-FACS Alumni Associashytion Class of Mac 35 activities and the University of Guelph Alumni Association

Our University s alumni organizations are stronger and more effective because of

the years of commitment and personal sershyvice that Olive has contributed

Olive - We salute you 0

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New at HAFA By John Hearn

Infonnation Services

An innovative course developed by the School of Hotel and Food Administration (HAFA) is focussing the attention of undershygraduates on the analysis of operational problems in the hospitality industry and the writing skills required to express and comshymunicate that analysis

Students are required to find summer jobs in the hospitality industry and then to write five papers of ascending complexity during the first semester of their second year using text readings specially edited for this course by the Schools Director Proshyfessor Tom Powers

We have a unique responsibility to prepare students not just for their first job but for future jobs further down the line says Dr Powers Possession of a university degree should imply an ability both to anashylyse problems and to communicate observashytions and recommendations In todays corporate world reports papers and letters are management tools and written comshymunication is a survival skill

The HAFA faculty decided further to emphasize writing skills by adopting a style manual developed by Professor Margaret Hund leby Department of Engl ish Language and Literature for this course as an integral part of the Schools other courses

In order to familiarize faculty with the use of the manual and the grading of student writing Professor Hundleby was invited to conduct a two-day workshop which atshytracted the attention of Vice-President Howard Clark and Associate Vice-President Janet Wardlaw as well as faculty from other disciplines s uch as psychology land resource science microbiology and history

The program Professor Hundleby told the seminar requires students to complete five report papers based on their own obsershyvations

The first paper requires a detailed description of the physical layout of the host operation plus an appraisal and operating cost analysis of its heating air-conditioning and ventilation systems

A second paper asks the student to describe and evaluate staff structure funcshytion compensation package and efficiency

Cost control is the subject of a third paper Purchasing practices food producshytion cost traCking and inventory manageshyment all come under this heading

Marketing is the fourth subject area What market segment is the operation aimed at What consumer need does the operation satisfy What is the nature of the

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Left to right- Professors Cathy Schrye Writing Centre Tom Muller HAFA Belty Upton HAFA Mike Jenkinson OAC 63 OAC dean s office Mary Rogers History and back to camera Bernie Katz Library reviewing cases drawn from studefll papers in a two-day workshop Evaluating Students Writing conducted by Professor Margaret Hundleby

competition in the target market

The fifth paper examines the intangishybles of management sty Ie How does the role of the manager affect relations with customshyers staff and head office

Professor Hundleby commenting on some of the problems of the course says whatever we call it students tend to conshyclude that what they re writing is an acashydemic paper of some kind - which of course it is - but we need to make the connection in their minds with the real the corporate world out there They also tend to think that longer is better and write about what they know - rather than what is import ant The development of a proper sense of for whom they are writing is itself a problem-solving skill

Another problem according to Proshyfessor Hundleby is what she calls the new illiteracy - a verbal dysfunction resulting from an impoverished vocabulary

Style too is a matter of considerable

AMPHI Spin-offs The School of Hotel and Food Administra shytions annual Advanced Management Pro shygram for the Hospitality Industry (AMPHI) now in its third year is spinning off new management development activities says HAFA Director Tom Powers Earlier this year 20 people attended a workshop on accounting and finance presented by Proshyfes sor William Braithwaite School of Agrishycultural Economics and Extension Educashytion and three similar programs will be offered in different parts of the country over the next year and a half

Another program still in the planning stage is a six-day hospitality managers development course designed for middle management by AMPHIs associate direcshy

concern She also mentioned careless senshytence structure style that is inappropriate to the content lack of connective logic failure to understand the nature of a paragraph as a literary entity the frivolous use of colloshyquiali sms an absence of any sense of the harmonious sound of words on paper and of course a growing list of commonly misused words - e g it could of had that affect

There s a tendency to see s tyle as a decorative flourish rather than as an aspect of content she concluded

Professor Powers sees the development of verbal communication skills as central to the whole idea of liberal education Cershytainly he says its useful for HAFA stushydents to understand how a cost control system works - but its at least as important to be able to think logically analyse logshyically and communicate conclusions in a way that is credible informative coherent and complete in fact these are the classic goals of a liberal education 0

tor Professor John Patterson and a consulshytant group of AMPHI alumni

AMPHI continues to attract internashytional attention participants in thi s years program which began in April include senior executives from many of North Americas most distinguished hotels and restaurants The four-week course offers an intensive program based primarily on case studies written by Professo rs Patterson -Braithwaite Carl Riegel and Tom Muller

The growing volume of AMPHI cases indicates that thi s is the largest s ingle research program currently under way in any hotel school in North America says Proshyfessor Powers AMPHls network of conshytacts is giving us access to a senior-level view of the industrys current problems and prospects 0

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Research AssociateComing Soon A AppointedModel Play Facility

Dr Joan Norris

Dr Joan Norris has held the position of Research Associate at the Gerontology Research Centre since last spring

Joan is working with faculty to develop and promote research related to population aging and is available for consultation with faculty on research design funding sources and publication

In addition to this development work she is continuing her personal program of research She works for the Gerontology Censhytre two days per week and the balance of her

The Family Studies Laboratory Schools pre-school play facility fell 10 a Grounds time is spent in the Department of Family Department wrecking machine recently Studies where she has held a faculty appointshy

ment since 1980 Joan holds a Ph D in Psychology from

the University of Waterloo and is also a regisshytered psychologist Her personal research

The Mllc-FACS Special Projects Commitshyinterests include social competence in older

tee Ito r Bonnie Kerslake 82 Association adults peer relationships and grandshy

president Linda (Wo[e) Markle 73 chairshyparenting 0

man and Gail Murray 78 Missing comshymillee member is Rita (Klassen) Weigel 77 The aim of the committee is to raise funds to redevelop the Family Studies Laboshy In Memoriam ratory Schools and raise itto the level where it will be regarded as a model pre-school

Eileen Margaret (Manahan) Alwayplay facility

390 October 21984 in Vancouver BC

Jean (Horrell) Atkinson 240 March 5 1985 in Aurora

Class of 35 Gift Oorothy (Lockard) Honsberger 300Centre panel Roman Carnival

In order to commemorate their anniversary July 51985 in Weiland Mac 35 has traditionally given a scholshyarship to a FACS student once every five Isabel J Lockerbie 300 March 31 years This year on the 50th anniversary of 1985 in Toronto their graduation and in addition to the scholarship an etching entitled Roman Patricia G (Smith) McKay-Barry 55 Carnival by Terry Legault has been added March 17 1985 in London Ont to the Universitys collection of Canadian alt The etching is hanging in the FACS Velma E (Conn) Partridge 260 April faculty lounge 29 1985 in Niagara Falls Ont shy

The theme of Roman Carnival was favoured by neo-clas sical and romantic Helen E (Kelly) Robinson 220 April painters during the 19th century The etching 30 1985 in Dundas captures the moment at which wild horses are released to race through the streets of Norma I (Motherwell) Roy 350 in Rome The artist has chosen to represent the Moosejaw Sask wild chaotic motion ot the horses rather than explicitly depict in detail the animals Lillian S (Moore) Usher 340 March 28 and the architectural background 0 1985 in Cobourg 0

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College of Physical Science Alumni Assoc SCIMP

Editor Bob Winkel

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Yes Dr Earl MacNaughtoll has relired alshylogelher bUI Ihis wonl be Ih e lasl you I hear from him reSI assured Before he and his wife Jean lOok oJf for Auslralia and New Zealand Deparlmenl of Physics slaf and faculty held a galhering al Ihe FacullY Club and presenled Ihe couple wilh an alumni clock

Back to Guelph

The headquarters for (GWC)2 came

back to Guelph in July for a threeshy

year period while Professor Robert Balahura Chemistry and Biochemisshy

try serves as director (GWC)2 offices have been set up

in Room 122 and 123 Physical Scishyences building The University of

Waterloo will maintain a satellite office during the three-year Guelph

rotation Dr Balahura and adminshy

istrative assistant Andrea Turner may

be reached at Ext 3865 0

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Physics Professor Elected to Royal Society

Bernhard Nickel

Department of Phy s ics Professor Bernhard Nickel has been elected a Fellow

of the Royal Society of Canada and was formally inducted into the Society at its

annual meeting in Montreal in June

A member of the Physics faculty since

1974 Professor Nickel is no stranger to

prizes and awards In 1981 he received the Herzberg Medal the Canadian Associashy

tion of Physicists award to a promising young scienti st In 1978 he won a Sloan

Fellowship from the New York-based Sloan Foundation

He achieved recognition by navigating

the esoteric seas of condensed matter physshy

ics Hi s co lleagues call him a leading masshyter in the art of mathematical physics By

exploiting the existing mathematical frameshywork in subtle ways he has worked through

thickets that have stopped other physic ists

High order perturbation calculations

done by him played a key role in verifying

the quantitative reliability of the theory of

underlying continuous phase transitions in systems

He earned BScE and MSc degrees from the University of Saskatchewan and a

PhD from the University of California at

San Diego He was a research associate at

Cornell and Oxford Universities and a postshy

doctoral research Fellow at the Univers itY of Alberta before coming to Guelph in 1974

He has been a visiting fellow at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory at the Univershy

sity of California at San Diego at Harvard

and at the Schlumberger-Doll Re searc h In stitute in Connecticut

With his election he becomes one of

six Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada at

Guelph The others are Professors Howard

Clark Peter Egelstaff Gabriel Karl Bruce Sells and Herbert Armstrong And it brings to five the number of me mbers of the

Guelph-Waterloo Program for Graduate Work in Physics (GWP)2 who can put the

coveted FRSC after their names 0

Halleys Comet and the Babylonians By Professors Nigel Bunce and Jim Hunt

The winter of 1985 and the spring of 1986 will lon g be remembered as the year of

Comet Halley No comet in history has so

stirred the imagination of man or been the

object of suc h intensive investigation Its easy to understand this interest when its

appreciated that Halleys Comet is the only recurring comet that is bright enough to be

seen with the naked eye ft was the g reat astronomer Edmund

Halley who in 1705 recognized the s imilarshy

ity of the appearances of the great comets of 1456 1531 1607 and 1682 He speculated that these were in fact one and the sa me

comet with a period of 75 or 76 years

He predicted that the comet would reshyturn in 175 8 a return he could not live to see With thi s Halley discovered the phenomeshy

non of periodic comets and thus showed

that they were members of our solar system

The comet dutifully returned in 1835

and spectacularly so in 1910 In the latter

year circumstances were such that after its

perhelion passage (the point closest to the

Sun) the Earth and the comet approached

each other very closely The comet was so close that at one time its tail spread from

horizon to horizon The return in 1985-86 will be considshy

erably less spectacular In fact for Canadishyans it will not be easy to observe s ince the

time of perhelion is in Febnlary when the

Sun is very low in the sky The view will be -much better from more southerl y latitudes Over the years historica l records have

been found which record every passage of the comet back to 12 BC M any of these obshy

servations come from Chinese records first published in 1846 A well-authenticated

passage was that of 1066 which was reshy

corded on the Bayeux tapestry by the mother

of William of Nonnand y and taken as an cOllld on righl

Grad News Paul Ferguson BSc 67 of Ede n Mill s is president of EIS Systems Ltd and travelled in New Zealand this summer

Walter Lock BSc 67 of Denfield is practising medicine in Lucan

Tjeerd Homan BSc 69 of Calgary Alta is manager research and development services for Petro-Can He is enjoying his family Carla Sarah and John Menno and his hobbies of golf curling and skiing

(GWP)2 Poster Session a First

Earlier this year the Guelph- Waterloo Proshygram for Graduate Work in Physics (GWP)2 staged its first annual poster session for graduate s tudents Poster sessions which are becoming increasingly popular in scienshytific circles allow interaction between researchers and delegates without the time pressures encountered when presenting con shyventional papers at meetings says (GWP)2 Director lain Campbell

The first annual (GWP)2 poste r sesshysion which was followed by a soc ial hour and banquet was highly successful in genershyating interaction says Campbell By the end of the session there were still clusters of people arguing the finer points of scientific interpretation on many of the posters These exchanges continued right through the soshycial hour and into dinner Interaction is what science is all about

Encouraging interaction between stushydents and faculty is one of Campbells prishyorities as Director It is too easy for students to tuck themselves into a corner and work away in isolation They need to get out and ex plain their work both to experts and to

omen of his victory over the Saxons Based on this long record various

mathematical analyses of the orbit of the comet have been produced These account very accurately for the known passages of the comet However when these various anshyalyses are pushed back beyond 12 BC they predict widely varying dates for the previous appearances Before 12 B c there are ani y two vague Chinese records in 87 BC and 240 B c which mayor may not have been Halleys comet

In a recent issue of Nature a team of

Ernest Campbell BSc 69 lives in Campbell ville and teaches science for the Halton Board in Burlington

Richard Davis BSc 77 having comshypleted his MD University of Toronto 83 and his internship at Womens College Hosshypital will be setting up his practice in family medicine in his home town of Guelph

Larry Meek BSc 77 of Ottawa is pashytient administrator and computing officer for the National Defence Medical Centre His hobbies include sailing and skiing

Andre Brunet BA 81 is working for Amdahl Ltd as fieldsystems engineer and lives in Sudbury with his wife Monique (Puellette) FACS 80

Cathy Deakin BSc 81 is presently articshyling with the law firm of Little Reeves Mahoney Jarrett amp Hart of London

Andrew Dubrawski BSc 82 and his wife Alicia (Wodecka) BSc 81 live in Toronto where he works as a communicashytions systems analyst for CNCP Telecomshymunications 0

10hn Root 81 a (GWP)2 PhD s tudent left aflracts an audience

non-experts It takes a deliberate effort on our part to generate and maintain this intershychange

The poster session was the largest scishyentific or social event yet staged by (GWP)2 Some 18 students presented posters and about 90 students faculty and prospective students attended

The posters are on display in the two departments of physics to give others an opportunity to view them At Gue lph they are in the second floor corridor of the Physshyical Science Building near the Department

scholars from England and Vienna reported the finding of two fragments of Babylonian tablets in the British Museum that clearly report the appearance of the comet in 87 BC and 164 B C The records are so clear that by calculation not only the year but the time of year for the perhelion passage can be determined

For example the 164 BC apparition has been narrowed down to a date someshywhere between November 5 and 25 of that year The 87 BC record is not as accurate nevertheless its perhelion passage can be

of Physics office Encouraged by the s uccess of the

poster sess ion lain Campbell is planning another high-profile event for (GWP)2 to recognize award-winning faculty He plans a fall symposium at which three (GWP)2 members who received major honours durshying 1985 will give short lectures to be folshylowed by a sherry reception The three honoured faculty are Gicinto Scoles Killam Fellowship winner Bernhard Nickel Felshylow of the Royal Society of Canada and John Simpson Rutherford medalist 0

narrowed down to July 25 to August 15 These observations while inaccurate

to the extent of 20 days are still accurate enough to eliminate three of the four leading -calculations of the motion of Comet Halley This is a striking example of how archaeoshylogical investigations may have a strong effect on many diverse subjects in this case com~tary astronomy 0

We welcome questions and ideas for future articles Write to the authors clo the Deans Office Cole fe ofPhysical Science Univershysity of Guelph Guelph Ontario NIG 2WI

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Ian C AIridge OAC BSc(Agr)85

Ian C Attridge OAC 85 of Markham is the recipient of the Winegard Medal for 1985 Awarded annually to the graduand judged to be the most outstanding student the Winegard Medal is the Universitys most prestigious undergraduate award Its winner must combine an outstanding academic recshyord and participation in extra-curricular activities with the personal attributes of leadership and citizenship

Ian graduated in June from the OAC resources management program with an average over eight semesters above 80 per cent This academic standing is noteworthy for two reasons the long list of extra-curricshyular activities in which he took part and in the words of a senior faculty member his major was one in which high marks are tough to achieve

The medalists on-campus extra-curricshyular activities included several student clubs his College year executive the Colshylege Royal committee musical activities the Gryphon team in Nordic skiing and intramural teams in five other sports

Off-campus he was active in the Onshytario Public Interest Research Group of Guelph the Federation of Ontario Natushyralists Friends of the Wye Marsh the Guelph Environmental Council Guelph Field Naturalists the Coalition in support of Environmental Programs and the Guelph Peace and Disarmament Conference of 1984 He was also involved in a number of youth and lay programs in the United Church

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The Winegard

Medal

A Tale Of Ten

Winners While at Guelph he won two entrance

scholarships a number of in-course prizes and scholarships and two summer undershygraduate research awards from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Counshycil In 1984 he won a Soil Conservation Society of America (SCSA) scholarshipshyone of only 18 offered in North America by the SCSA to students in conservation-orishyented programs He was the top Canadian student

Within the Department of Land Reshysource Science Ian was a member of the undergraduate teaching committee During his final semester he co-ordinated a student review of the academic program in resources management which made recommendashytions that will be incorporated into future program changes

One of his teachers notes that Ian has a deep interest in soc ial issues and a commitshyment to environmental concerns He attended Markham District High School and completed his secondary schooling in Lahr West Germany

Each of Guelphs seven colleges nomishynates one student each year for considerashytion for the Winegard Meda l The other nominees for 1985 were Sally Ann Lawshyrence Bell-Knight Arts Rebecca Elizabeth Jane Rodgers CBS Lisa Jane Martin FACS Margot Joan Finstad CPS David Douglas Langlotz CSS and Janet Kashytherine Pegrum OVe

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the presentation of the Winegard Medal Ian

Dr William Winegard

Attridge is joining a select group of Guelph graduates who are a source of pride and inspiration to the University community

Former University of Guelph president Dr William Winegard marked the annivershysary with a letter from the House of Comshymons where he is Guelphs member of Parliament In it he writes

It is not ofien that one has the opporshytunity fO suggest terms of reference for the Universitys most pres tigious student award Such was my good fortulle ten years ago and over the years I have become inshycreasingly grateful that Senute accepted the proposed terms A University-wide compeshytition always stimlliates interest especially when academic excellence and extra-curshyricular activities form the basis of the comshypetition The men and women who have won the medal have been Guelph at its best I have been proud to know them

Where are They Now

What are They Doing

The previous winners of the Winegard -Medal were contacted recently and replies were received from seven of the nine gold medalists Peter Taylor Arts BA 76 Christine Zink OVC DVM 78 Timothy Henshaw OVC DVM 79 John Root CPS BSc 81 Anne-Frances Miller CBS BSc 82 Nicole Didicher Arts BA 83 and James Sidlofsky Arts SA 84 There was no response from Mary Saunshy

ders CBS BSe 77 and Elaine Courtice CBS BSe 80

Some of their achievements both proshyfessional and personal and some of their future hopes and plans are recorded here

Peter Taylor (1916) The first recipient of the Winega rd

Medal now with the University s Office for Educational Practice as manager of print publications is responsible for providing centralized graphic design typeselling and print publications cocordination to the Unishyversity community

Following graduation from Guelph Peter continued his education at the Uni-

Peter Taylor Arts 76

Christine Zinc Tim Henshaw John RoO Anne Miller OVC 7S

versity of Waterloo where he obtained an MA in English in 1981

Peter is also a poet - his first book First Epistle to Dr Torr was published by Gryphon Press in 1976 He printed and bound the book himself andsome copies are still ava ilable

7iaino which he considers his most important work to date was published by Paget Press in 1980 and a second chapbook The Masons came out that same year A third chapbook Aphorisms was printed in 1982

Being a ca reeri st and a poet is someshytimes a sc hi zophreni c existence says Pete r I never seem to have enough energy or time to do both as well as I might like to Regrettabl y my writing has played second fiddle to my career

Christine Zink (1918) In 1978 when Chnstine first joined a

large animal practice in Drayton Ontario the idea of a woman ve terin ar ian working with farm an imals was so inconceivable to farmers in the area that some of them called her young man she writes She reca lls many a midnight drive over desel1ed farm roads to help a cow give bil1h return shying home at su nri se know ing there was still a full days work ahead

After two years of practice Dr Zink returned to the OVC for pos t-graduate work and is now doing research on The Pathoshygenesis of Corynehacterium equi Pneushymonia in FoaJs In 1983 she passed the

American Collcge of Veterinary Patholshyogists spec iality boa rd exa minati on She expects to graduate with a Ph D thi s yea r and is deciding bet~een a position on faculty at a veterinary sc hool or post-doctoral reshysearch at a medica l sc hool in the United States

Tim Henshaw (1919) After three years in a private veterinary

prac tice in BalTie Tim became a staff vetshyerinari an with Unit ed Breede rs Inc of Guelph and now works out of the Alliston office His responsi bilities inc lude field sershyvice education and research He has reshyturned to campus as guest lect urer at the

to chemistry from her undergraduate studies in molecular genetics and biophysics has been good for me she says The chemisshytry I am learning helps me to better undershystand how enzymes work and macromoleshycules interact with their environment

Last year she married Ganpathy Murshythy a fellow Yale graduate student in ph ys shyics Together they enjoy hiking camping and reading and at the time of writing were planning a trip to India this year

J have told Ganpath y a lot about Gue lph she says and were looking forshyward to visiting the University on a sunny autumn day when the maples along Wineshygard Walk are all aflame

OVC 79 CPSSI CSSS2

OVC and the OAC and has done extensi ve speaking throughout the province for the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food

Dr He ~shaw is peoples warden of St Peters Anglican Church in Minesi ng presishydent of the Ontario Association of Bovine Practitioners secretary of the Simcoe County Holstein Club and a live-s toc k Judge

In 1980 he marri ed Jane Si nclair FACS 78 and they have a dau ghter Chrisshytenltt future University of Guelph class of 2005

John Root (1981) John continues to stud y at Guelph shy

he received an MSc in liquid state physics in 1983 and is now working on his Ph D Hi s thesis is on the Quantum Effects in the Structure of Liquid Water under the supershyvision of Department of Phys ics professor Peter Ege lstaff

In 1982 he married Darlene Maurer and their daughter Athena Catherine-Beth was born earlier this year

John is a youth group leader in the First Baptist Church in Guelph and was presishydent of the Baptist Youth of Ontario and Quebec in 1983-1984

Anne-Frances (MiUer) Murthy (1982)

From New Haven Connecticut USA Anne-Frances writes to say she is at Yale University in the Depal1ment of Chemshyistry doing research on photosynthetic oxyshygen evolution for her Ph D thesis The move

Nicole Didicher Jamie Sidlofsh Arts 83 ArtsS4

Nicole Didicher (1983) Nico le is finishing the first year of her

PhD studies at Queens University where she obtained her M A last year

Her Masters degree work centred on the medieva l period of English literature and she plans to do doc toral research in 18t h-ce ntury literature

Nicole reports that her cu rrent studies are supported by two Ontario Graduate Sc holars hips and a Queens Graduate Awa rd Thi s should come as no surprise to th ose who witnessed her dedication at Guelph

On the social scene in Kingston she s one of the 100 to 150 voices of the Queens Choral Ensemble and rece ntl y she acquired an apartment mate ca ll ed Mole a young white rat Hes a good companion and quiet sa id Ni co le Im absolu tely no good with plants so hes my al ternat ive

Jamie Sidlofsky (1984) Jam ie is a student in the LL B program

at the University of Toron tos Faculty of Law He is the University of Toronto represhy

sentative on the Canadian Bar Association -a member of the Faculty of Law arti cling and summer Jobs committee and direc tor Unishyversity of Toronto student lega l aid program Centre for Spanish-speaking Peoples

This summer he work ed with Diashymond Fairbairn amp Steinberg barri sters and solicitors in Toronto and as a research as shysistant for University of Toronto law proshyfessor Bernard Green 0

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Butthe Melody Lingers On By John Hearn Information Services

S tanley Saunders left Guelph this summer

for a year of administrative leave after II years as the Universitys Director of Music

College of Arts When Dr Saunders joined the Division

of Mu sic in 1974 he inherited a strong

musical tradition reaching back to the earliest

days of the Ontario Agricultural College which was always famous for its choirs

[t fell to Dr Saunders to take the fledgling

Division of Music introduce its first degree programs and build the solid reputation which it enjoys today

Dr Saunders completed his undershy

graduate studies at the University of Wales and twice won the First Award Open Instrushy

mental Solo at the Ei steddfod He was a

member of the National Youth Orchestra of Wales and later performed as a clarinetist with the SSCs radio and TV sy mphony

orchestras

Soon after coming to Guelph Dr Saunshy

ders founded the University of Guelph Civic Orchestra which under his direction achieved an enviable reputation in the ensuing

years The revival of the U of G Aggie Band

followed as did the U of G Concert Band By 1979 Dr Saunders had built a faculty

of some 16 members including Dr Charles

Wilson and Gerald and Elizabeth Neufeld

The same year also saw performances by

the U ofG Choir the U ofG Chamber Singers and the Summer Chorale The Noon-Hour

Concerts were adding to their already unique reputation while the newly formed U ofG

Trio consisting of Elizabeth Neufeld voice Sylvia Hunter piano and Stanley Saunders clarinet was beginning the series of tours which would take it to many parts of Canada and Great Britain

Before the end of the 70s we saw the

first of the successful Music of the Arboreshytum series of concerts the formation of the Aggie Choir under the direction of Gerald

Neufeld and in partnership with the Guelph Spong Festival welcomed such luminaries as the great contemporary Polish composer Penshyderecki Gian Carlo Menotti Ruby Mercer editor of Opera Canada and Bori s Brott

The early 80s have been gala years both for Dr Saunders and the Division

Dr Stanley Saunders

(retitled the Department of Music in 1984) The decade began with the presentation of

two world premieres by the U of G Civic Orchestra and the appointment of Dr Saunshy

ders as president of the National Youth Orchestra of Canada and vice-chairman of the Council of Ontario Music Administrators

The growing stature of the Department of

Music was also reflected in student registrashytion both credit and non-credit in vocal keyboard classical guitar and orchestral inshy

struments

The year 1981 saw a brilliant tour of Sweden and West Germany by the Univers ity of Guelph Choir under the direction of Gerald Neufeld and conducting engagements by Dr

Saunders in Toronto Ottawa Montreal Boston and Washington D C The same year

saw the formation of the U ofG Jazz Ensemshyble and the U ofG Pep Band both led by Kenneth Tinnish

II was a very good year As Dr Saunders said External evidence of scholarship is not necessarily obvious from performance but

creativity is itself a form of research and all these perform ances are not only enlightened by the students studies in history literature

and theory they are also heightened by their

awareness of the aesthetic factors that give significance to mu sic through their intershyrelated studies at the University

Another substantial increase in student

enrolment was witnessed in 1982-1983 deshysp ite the tightening of admission standards

and regulation for the continuance of studies

The University of Guelph Choir still under direc tor Gerald Neufeld won second prize in

the 1982 CSC national choral competition

Stanley Saunders can afford to look back on his Guelph years with considerable satisshyfaction The division which he inherited in 1974 with its three-member faculty had

grown by this year to a full department with

faculty and staff numbering 29 persons and with an enrollment of 300 students plus -another 126 students registered in the nonshycredit applied program

He has been a very bu sy and productive man commuting to and fro between Guelph and Sault Ste Marie to administer the joint

Univers ity of GuelphAlgoma University Colshylege music program - as well as keeping up

a steady schedule of scholastic publications He will be missed 0

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University of Guelph Licences Software to McGraw-Hili By Mary Cocivera

Information Services

The University of Gue lph and the US publi shing giant McGraw- Hili Inc are fishynalizing a non-exclusive licence for CoSy computer conferenc ing software developed at the University

Publi shed by McGraw-Hili BYTE Magazine is using the CoSy software to set up BIX the BYTE Information Exchange Phil Lemmons BYTEs editor-in-chief deshyscribes BIX as a living database The comshypany plans to set up conferences on every aspect of microcomputer use

Through the conferences users will be able to share information with each other and to communicate direc tly with the edi shytors of the magazine A four-ci ty commershycial te st began in September and a BYTE spokesman projects that a full international information exchange will be operating by early 1986

In addition to BIX McGraw-Hili will use the CoSy so ftware for internal comshymunications CoSy was installed by BYTE editorial offices in New Hampshire several months ago for evaluation by staffers They soon became confirmed users and CoS y beshycame a permanent part of the office The conference system was particularly sucshycessful in linking editorial headq uarters in the east with the west coast office

CoSy is already familiar to more than one thousand users world-wide who subshyscribe to a service oftered by the Univers ity of Guelph The licence to McGraw-Hili marks the first time the software will be operated and managed elsewhere The Unishyversity will continue to offer a CoSy se rvice and will continue to market the software to other potential users

CoSy was developed by a team of softshyware designers in Computing and Comshymunications Services at the Univers ity over a 16-month period Alastair Mayer was the chief architect of the code The software was written in C a high-level programming language to run under the Uni x operating system This feature makes CoS y highly portable and capable of running on any micro-computer or a mainframe with the Unix operating sys tem

George Bond BYTEs managing editor for e lectronic publishing and communicashytion says that ease of use and the Unix operating system were important fac tors in their choice of CoSy He also cited the skills and co-operative attitudes of the peopl e at

CoSy th e University of Guelph who are involved with CoSy

The University of Guelph was a parshyticularly hospita ble environment for deshyvelopment of a computer conferencing system according to Dr Ken MacKay assoshyciate director of Institutional An alysis and Pl anning Electronic mail was well estabshylished on campus so there were many peoshyple already committed to e lectronic commushynications Home-grown APL mail is arguashybly the best mail system anywhere because its easy to use and very robust CoSy is a separate system but is a descendant of earshylie r electronic mail systems

We had three basic design ideas for CoSy explains Alastair Mayer It should req uire few co mm ands the user should be able to learn without a manual and it should be accessible fro m any terminal The se goa ls have been reali zed to a great extent A manual is available but by refe rring to the help instructions within CoSy users can learn enough commands to become funcshytional very quickly

Dr Edward Swart acting director of Computing and Communication Services points out that CoSy is offered as a free service to the University com munity He beshylieves that this enlightened decision conshytributed to CoSys ne arly immediate success on campus From the early development stages users were invited to make comshyments and suggestions Their feedback inshynuenced the design of the current CoSy sysshytem to a substantial extent

Computer conferenc ing is a powerful concept as CoSy users soon discover Marshygaret Bec kman the Univers itys executive direc tor of Information Technology says there is no doubt that computer con ferencshying reduces the number of meetings and enables decisions to be made more quickl y CoSy is heavily used by University adminshyistrators and members of facu lty are ex plorshy

ing applications of computer co nferencing in teaching and lea rning

Proceeds from licences and from subshyscriptions to the campus conferencing sysshytem will fund furth er development of CoSy Dr Swart says a not-too-distant developshyment will be a distributed conference cashypability permitting a free exc hange of information from one conference systelll to another A second deve loplllent will be to activate what Dr Swa11 calls CoSys Jashytent graphics capability In CoSy a messhysage ca n contain anything even NAPLPS codes for graphics Graphs sketches and charts will thus soon become part of CoSy confe rences 0

A Letter Dear MI~ Wing

My wife (lnd I WOIII vou to know hml we enjoyed LM Mont gomerys storr The Strike at Putney ill the Spring 85 GueJph Alumnu s

Visiting Green Gables in P EI wos one of the highlights of our Trans-Canada vocmion 0 few years ago

We hope you I publish one ofher short stories in each issue of th e maga zine selectedjiom the U ofGs LM Montgomshyery Collectionfrom now on and make each issue a colleclOrs item shyCordially

Doug Marrin OAC 39 107 Waverly Place Mountain View Calif 94040 USA

Thanks for your letter Doug we will do our very best to bri ng you more L M M Ed

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P rofessional golfer philosopher oenologist would-be film maker and

now restaurateur Robert Harcourt Bob Desautels HAFA 75 Arts 84 is a man of many facets one who seeks his own sty le of excellence in many directions This summer he opened a new restaurant La Maisonmiddot in downtown Guelph which is already drawing patrons from a wide area in search of the gourmet delights promised by a very disshytinguished menu and delivered by chefs accomplished in the arts of haute cuisine

Bob works outward from a central conshyviction that there is always a market for excellence Born in Toronto he has lived in Ottawa Montreal - and Guelph He studied at Sir George Williams University Montreal Que (now pan of Concordia University) before attending the College of Family and Consumer Studies School of Hotel and Food Administration (HAFA) where he graduated with a BComm degree

He will be remem bered on campus as manager of the Faculty Club a position

The Eclectic

Bob Desautels

which he held for nearly three years after graduating and before he launched on a whole new career as a profess ional golfer He played Canadian and Australian circuits for a while and then accepted the position of manager and golf pro at the Cedarhurst Golf Club on Lake Simcoe

Two years later he was back at the Unishyversity of Guelphs hotel sc hool as a research assistant preparing for HAFAs first Advanced Management Program for the Hospitality Industry (AMPHI) course - an unrepentantly elitist institution offering advanced manageshyment training only to very se nior executives in the hospitality industry

Bob se rved as logistics manager to AMPHI for two years with responsibility for the health and welfare of a clientele whose expectations as far as hospitality is conshycerned are of the very highest

As a member of the HAFA faculty he was a more than occasional lecturer primarily on the subject of wine - whi ch he describes in reverential tones He is married (the pursuit of excellence again) his wife Susan hail s from Australia They have two children Coun age 7 and Emily 5

At the end of two years with HAFA Bob Desautels was faced with one of those critical life decisions - a choice between two paths leading in significantly different directions He might have accepted a tenure track position for whichit would have made sense to seek a PhD in business admini stration or

HAFA 75 By John Hearn Information Services

Mine host Bob Desautels HAFA 75 at La Maison

pursue an old love for philosophy He chose the latter and earned hi s Masters degree from Guelphs College of Ans in the fall of 1984

I suppose it arises from an old interest in religion he explains Metaphysical quesshytions have always fascinated me Scientific materialism the notion that mind is no more than a function of brain has neve r satisfied me There are too many loose ends - mind contemplating itself for example introshyspection Focu ss ing on philosophy of the mind for my degree gave me one of the answers - but may be Im beginning to understand some of the questions

So in the Fall of 84 philoso pher wine connoisseur goller Bob Desautels inventoried his assets - and took a course in film making at the Ryerson Poly technica l Institute Im interested in the creative end of film making he says Writing andor directing Ive fini shed one film script and working on another But it takes mucho dinero

Then early this Spring the main floor of one of Guelph s distinguished old homes beca me available Strategically located at the corner of Woolwich and Yarmouth Streets in an area already known for fine dining the housc is owned by Guelph bu sinessman Paul Starr A pannership was struck and Bob found himsel f bringing the whole wealth of hi s re staurant management know-how and his own drive for excellence to bear on La

Maison It was conceived planned and exshyecuted from the beginning as a shrine conseshycrated to the worshippers of superlative cuishysine enjoyed in the most distinguished of atmospheres

The concept has two major aspects One large room is given over to a wine bar where the connoisseur - or those who enjoy the fermented grape of any age or colour - can select from more than 20 splendid vintages by the glass or the bottle A parallel selection of native and imponed cheeses activate the tastebuds while intimates can order a delectashyble cheese fondue for two The wine-bar is a casual drop-in kind of place open from noon until midnight for enjoyment relaxation and con versation

The other main room is for the serious diner There is a modest economically-priced luncheon available for business people but the evening meal is designed to attract those for whom dining is a rei igious experience

You make your market study says bullBob but then you add your own secret ingredient - call it gut feeling There are some very good restaurants in Guelph but none that target this panicular niche

l may be that not the least of La Maisons attractions will be the possibility of conversation with mine host Choose your own subject - golf metaphysics pragshymatism - or the an of Woody Allen Bob Desautels is nothing if not eclectic 0

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Newly Elected as

A1uDlni Senators Following the annual election of three of the nine alumni seats on Senate at the University the following alumni were elected to replace those who fulfilled three-year terms on August 31 1985

Norman Hawkins OVC 57

Rita Weigel James White FACS 77 OAC 6 1

James White OAC 55A and 61 lives in Brampton and is the owner of InfoResults Limited information research consultants Brampton He completed Masters and Docshytoral degrees at Michigan State University Department of Communication He has opshyerated InfoResults for 15 years specializing in agricultural economics social policy and communication issues

He is a past president of the Canadian Consulting Agrologists Association has served on the provincial council of the Ontario Institute of Agrologists and was a director of the Canadian Society of Agrishycultural Economic s and Farm Manageshyment 0

Dr Norman Hawkins OVC 57 estabshyIlished the Guelph Animal Hospital on Elizshyabeth Street in 1957 and has continued his practice there as a partner

An active member of the Ontario Vetshyerinary Association council and a commitshytee worker he is also a member of the Canadian Veterinary Medical Association national examination board

His earlier work with the American Veterinary Medical Association involved the examination of overseas veterinary gradshyuates and inspection of North American vetshyerinary sc hools

He is a member of the Guelph Public Library Board and Board chairman of St

Margaret s School Elora

Rita (Klassen) Weigel FACS 77 gradushyated from the College of Family and Conshysumer Studies with a BASc in Con su mer Studies She was president of the Mac-FACS Alumni Association 1983-84 and has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Universi ty of Guelph Alumni Association

A member of the Canadian Marketing and Research Society Rita was employed in the research and product management field for a number of years A Guelph res ident her concerns include those of a mother of a son and twin one-year-old daughters

New Chairman Board of Governors

Edmond Bovey

Edmund C Bovey the man who headed the Commission on the Future Development of the Universities of Ontario has been named chairman of the Board of Governors at the Universi ty of Guelph A member of the Board since 1976 he succeeds Cecil Franklin who retired July I after three years as chairman and who also joined the Board in 1976

Edmund Bovey was chairman of the three-man commission that held hearings

for the Ontario public and university comshymunity in 19831984 before developing and recommending to the Mini stry of Colleges and Universities a future plan for Ontario universities

Retired as director chairman of the board and member of the executive committee of Norcen Energy Reso urces Toronto he was recently named to chair a task force on funding the arts in Canada an area where he has long experience A past president and trustee of the Ali Gallery of Ontario and its Foundation he is also a member of the Board of Governors of Roy Thomson Hall and vice-chairman of the International Council of the Museum of Modern Art in New York He is a past chairshyman of the Council for Business and Arts in Canada

In addition he is a director of a number of companies including Hollinger Argus Abitibi Price Canada Packers and the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce as well as MONY Life Insurance PPG Indusshytries and PPG Industries Canada

He is a member of the Canadian Ecoshynomic Policy Committee a director of the Canadian Executive Service Overseas and a past president of the Canadian Gas Associashytion He is also currently chairman of the Board of Wellesley Hospital Toronto

He was born in Calgary Alta and edushycated in Victoria BC 0

Appointments

Ab Moore Harry Downie OVC 48

Dr Ab Moore took up the responsibilities of chairman of the Department of Rural Extension Studies on September I for a fiveshy shyyear term He was previously director of the Office of Educational Practice

Dr Harry Downie OVC48 became actshying chairman of the Department of Bioshymedical Sciences on July I He continues until December 3 1 or until a new chairman is named 0

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Available for Immediate Possession Space in Prestige Campus Home (for baby grand piano)

The Presidents House dedicated as a building of historical and architectural significance has been without a piano since President Maclachlan retired in 1967

This could be the chance of a lifetime if you are seeking a unique and extremely worthwhile Class Project Perhaps your class would like to buy a new piano to be used in this centre for campus entertaining to be viewed by more than 5 000 visitors a year A recognition plaque would be located either on or adjacent to the instrument

A Bequest

Charles S Humphrey

A former partner and president from 1947

to 1963 of Guelphs Hart Chemical Comshy

pany Canada Ltd the late Charles S Humphrey se lected the Universit y of

Guelph as one of the benefic iaries of his estate

Hi s bequest to the Unive rs it y of

$130000 received last June is to be used at the discretion of the University pres ident

in the University s scholarships and burshy

saries program A resident of Victoria BC since his

retirement in 1963 Charles Humphrey died on August29 1984 at the age of81 He was an emeritus member of the Canadian Assoshy

ciation of Textile Colourists and Chemists Born at Hornell NY USA he came to Canada in 1936

This is the second time that Charles

Humphrey has given financial support to the Univers ity In 1979 he generously provided a $50000 endowment gift to support an annual $5000 graduate fellowship in Chemistry

The fellowship is designed to ease the financial burdens of outstanding students in

organic chemistry registered in the PhD

program at the Guelph-Waterloo Centre for Graduate Work in Chemistry (GWC)2 0

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CODling Events 86 Jan 7-9

Mar 5

8-9

13-15

April 4middot5

June 9middot13

20-22

OAC Agricultural Conference

Alumni Florida Reunion (See below)

College Royal Open House

Ontario Institute of Agrologists Annual Conference Agricultural Trade To be he ld

in Cornwall Ont

OAC Alumni Association Curling Bonspiel

U of 6s 8tb Annual Human Sexuality Conference Changing Nature of Sexual Relationships Sexual Scripts and Lifestyles Today

ALUMNI WEEKEND 86

Alumni Florida Reunion If you missed the Alumni Flo rida Reunion Picnic in March 85 you missed a great gathering About 90 alumni and

friends met for a very pleasant pot luck meal Ross Cavers OAC 29 the organizing committee chairman hopes it will

become an annual affair Ruth and Gordon Wright Mac

37 and OAC 33 and Willa and Morley Funston Mac and OAC 32 made the loc al arrangements the affair was sponshysored by the Universitys Alumni-in Action group Make

plans to attend the second annual Florida Alumni Reunion Picnic at 12 noon on Wednesday March 51986 at Harbour Heights Park near Port Charlotte Florida two miles east of

Interstate Highway 75 Please respond by March 11986 to Ruth and Gordon Wright General Delivery Warm Mineral

Springs Florida 33596 US A

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College of Arts Alumni Association DELPHA

Editor Terry Ayer 84

Executive 1985-86 HONORARY PRESIDENT Dr David R Murray Dean

PRESIDENT Linda McKenzie-Cordick 81

PAST PRESIDENT Margo Shoemaker 79

VICE-PRESIDENT Wm Macdonald 78

SECRETARY-TREASURER

Marilyn Armstrong 78

DIRECTORS Debbie (Nash) Chambers 77 Edith LeLacheur 72 Janice (Robertshy

son) Partlow 79

UGAA REPS Wm Macdonald 78 Margo Shoemaker 79

EDITOR DELPHA Terry Ayer 84

Appointed

Dr Edward Phillips

Edward Phillips began a five-year term as chairman of the Department of Music July I He obtained his BA in mu sic at Amherst College

Massachusetts and his M A Masshyter of Philosophy and Ph D all in music theory from Yale Univers ity Married to Patricia who has a DM A in organ performance from Yale he has two sons Stewart 7 and Andrew 3 Edward who is also an organist enjoys cooking 0

Literary Heritage Preserved in Africa Most Canadian children are exposed to their cultural heritage at an early age through legendary stories brought from Eushy

rope or about Canadian pioneering and through stories about Indian or Inuit myths

and fables In developing countries however

where paper and printed materials are in

shon supply cultural heritage is usually passed on orally and children have little

opportunity to read about their past A Canashydian project involving the Universities of Guelph and Yaounde in Cameroon West

Africa is doing something to keep that countrys heritage alive

The project now entering its fourth year is a collaborative effort of the De partshy

ment of English Language and Literature at Guelph and the Department of African Litshyerature at the Univers ity of Yaounde It is

sponsored by the Canadian International Development Agency with Guelphs Deshy

partment of English Language and Litershy

ature Chairman Doug Killam serving as co-ordinator and Elizabeth (Wildman)

Cockburn CSS 81 as Canadian project consultant

Dr Killam is well-known for his work in the field of Commonwealth literature and

has taught at several African universities

EI izabeth Cock burn a primary sc hool teacher taught at the Government Teachers Training College in the North West Province

of Cameroon from 1969 to 1971 It was then

that she became aware of the shortage of relevent reading material for Cameroon schoolchildren

However it was some ten years later

that the project was born when she and Professor Kilian consulted with Dr Bernard

Fonlon then head of the Department of Afshyrican Literature at Yaounde Deeply comshy

mitted to saving African oral traditions as literatore Dr Fonlon although now retired remains a driving force in promoting creativity in the schools and scholarship on oral literature at the university

Last January Professor Killam and Elizabeth Cockburn were in Yaounde at a

conference where 80 papers were presented on the theory and practice of oral literature for West African educators - the first major attempt to marry theory and practice

As are children in the Canadian Indian

and Inuit communities African children are often exposed to texts that portray children of cultures different from their own To

counteract thi s influence simple African s tories with lifelike illustrations are being

Local stories come alive

mimeographed and turned into booklets by simply folding stand ard letter-size paper in half A collections of these stories will evenshytually be produced in textbook form when

fund s become available One such s tory The Marriage Feast

describes the marriage meal of the cat who invites all the domestic animals and birds to

the celebration

The dogs who know much about meat were asked 10 cook the food 8U1 they decided 10

playa trick They cooked the meat in the bOlom of the pot with the vegetables on lOp They said they would be the last to eat

In true fable form the hens who ate first discovered when they were too full to eat any more that there was meat deep

inside the pOI So they

Swore never to eat from the surface again and that is why hens always scratch deep into the soil in search offood

Although story-telling is becoming a lost art in Canada it is still a lively part of

life in Cameroon But as Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe said when he was in Guelph last year when a member of the older genshyeration dies its as if a whole library was destroyed -

Time is running short and fund s are needed to keep alive this project in Camshyeroon Anyone seeking further information

on the project may address their inquiries to Professor Killam at the University He hopes to receive funding from the Commonwealth

Foundation for similar work in other counshytries which have expressed an interest in

recording their heritage 0

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The Limners How do art students continue to find stimshyulation and motivation following graduation when they are no longer under the pressure of course requirements and without the critshyicism of an instructor

Four Fine Art graduates and one inshycourse student solved the problem by formshying a support group called The Limners (Limn an archaic word meaning paint deshypict portray Hence - Limner) Last Sepshytember the group held a success ful exhishybition of their recent works at the Halton Hills Cultural Centre Georgetown The Limners are

Dorothy Hart 81 of Georgetown She works with oil s pas tel s and graphite b4t is very interested in character fi gures made of cellu-clay which requires enormous pashytience to produce Her latest interest is pastel portraits of children

Dimensions 85 The fourth annual College of Arts Ailimni Association juried art show DIMENSIONS 85 was a success once again The jury members Marlene Jofriet well-known water colourist _ Michael OKeefe 76 practising artist and teacher and George Todd chairman Department of Fine Art selected 30 entries to hang

The jury awarded the following $100 $75 $50 prizes and designated three honshyourable -mentions

First pri ze Sheila Vollmer 85 Woman in Veil intaglio print

Second prize Wendy Maki 83 Pears Plums Apples and Grapes oil on canvas

Sue Knox 81 Formerly she was interested in the landscapes of Northern Ontario where she used to work Now back in Guelph Sue has rediscovered her urban surshyroundings including people

Betty Ketcheson 83 of Frankford Ontario to where her husband lack has retired Watercolour is her favorite medium however Betty also has an interest in enshycaustic painting with beeswax as a medium

Jane Graham 83 of Guelph lane tries to communicate her own brand of optimism through her waterco lours by using the figure in the land scape most often a child

Nan Hogg an undergraduate Nan is intershyested in making art that is feminist A memshyber of th e Guelph Embroiderers Guild Nans recent work displays a combination of watercolours or etchings with coil aged fabshyric that has been embroidered 0

The Limners L to r Sue Knox 81 Belly Ketcheson 83 Nan Hogg Dorothy Hart 81 and Jane Graham 83

Third pri ze Doreen Schaub 70 Rushing Waters watercolour

Honourable Mentions Sheila Volshylmer 85 Embracing Figures sculpture in pl aster Scott Abbot 79 Fields Near Maryhill oil on masonite Margaret Peter 74 Impressions Fossil Series collagraphsi Ikscreen

An innovation at DIMENSIONS 85 was the presentation of selected works of a featured artist Our first selected arti st was Evan MacDonald no stranger to the Univershysity of Guelph Many of his works are part of the Universitys collection of Canadian art hi s portraits hang in various buildings on campus and he was awarded an honorary doctorate of laws in 1979

We extend our sincere thanks to Ingrid

At DIMENSIONS 85 ColeRe oj Arts art sholl at Alllmni Wefkllld 85 L to r Marlene Jojriet juror Dr GeorRe 7iJdd chairman Department oj Fine Art jllror Wencil Maki 83 second-prize winner Doreen Schauh 70 third-prize willner Michael 0 Keeji 76

juror Own David Murray

Jenkner curatorexhibitions at the Macshydonald Stewart Art Centre and Mary MacshyDonald Evans wife for making it possible for us to feature the works of Evan

We also expre ss our gratitude and appreciation to all those who were instrushymental in making the show a success A special thank you is extended to this years participants without whom the show coulll not have been mounted 0

Art Show and Lecture Series Recognizing the 20th anniversary of the Department of Fine Art a facshyulty art show will be presented at the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre Nov 21 to lan 5 Viewing Tue to Fri and Sun noon to 500 pm Sat 1000 am to 500 pm A lecture se ries will present Dr Alan Gowans professor of art history University of Victoria B c on Art History and the Social Function Nov 18 at 800 -pm Rm 113 Physics Bldg Dr Ronald Nasgaard chief curator Art Gallery of Ontario wi II present Cushyratorship Today and Social Political Economic Pressures on Nov 27 at 400 pm in the Dept of Fine Art A third speaker is slated for early in the New Year

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Ontario Veterinary College Alumni Assoc OVC ALUMNI NEWS

Editor Dr Cliff Barker 41

OVC Alumni Association Executive 1985middot86

HONORARY PRESIDENT Dr Ole Niel sen 56 PRESIDENT Dr Ken Gadd 56 PAST PRESIDENT Dr Wendy Parker 7 1 VICE-PRESIDENT Dr Mary (Hawkins) Wiltshire 74 SECRETARY-TREASURER Dr Gordon Boylan 46 DIRECTORS Dr Bob Buck 46 Dr Archie MacKinnon 43 Dr Norm McAninch 39 Dr Bruce Robb 7 1 Dr Bruce Robinson 76 Dr Noni Sman 80 EDITOR avc Alumni News Dr Cliff Barker 41

Mailbag Dear Cliff

We were over to Vancouver Island recel11ly and went up to Qualicum Beach to see 0 Howard Taylor 13 He broke me in on meat inspection in 42 at the old Burns plant on Logan Avenue in Winnipeg

He is in great shape Qlid outside of a gimpy knee has no problems It was a real pleasure to see him again - still the same sparkle and quick wit that I had remembered from the Winnipeg years

I had not seen Howardfor 40 years bw outside of him thinking I had aged someshywhat had no trouble with identification Thought you might be il7lerested in this bit of news - not too many vets make it to age 98

We are fine and enjoying a complete reversal of what Vancouver weather is supshyposed to be bUi sure would like to see aboUl a week of rain Regards Bud Ellis 41 1410 Gordon Avenue West Vancouver Sc V7T IR6

From the Dean

Dr Ole Nielsen 56

In this my first opponunity to address our alumni through this medium I would like to express my pleasure at having the privilege of serving the Ontario Veterinary College and the University of Guelph

At the outset I acknowledge my debt to those many faculty students and staff who have labored to make this College a great inshystitution Being mindful of this heritage I am excited by the challenge of helping move the College to new levels of excellence One has to be impressed with the potential of the OVe Heres why

By the time this publication has gone to press I expect tenders for the first phase of a new OVC building program will have been called and possibly awarded This project costing over $13 million will provide modshyem facilities for the Depanments of Clinical Studies and of Biomedical Sciences and the Veterinary Teaching Hospital

The culmination of a great deal of effon led by former Dean Doug Maplesshyden 50 and President Burt Matthews OAC 47 the project is jointly funded by the Federal Government (Departments of Agrishyculture and Regional Industrial Expansion) and the Province of Ontario (OMAF)

The new facility will allow the College to press forward with new teaching research and service programs that include such vital newareas as biotechnology computer as istshyed health management and expanded proshygrams in toxicology

The second phase of the OVC building program which is largely related to teachshying spaces remains to be funded A good share of this project is expected to be includshyed in the fonhcoming capital campaign of the University The panicipation of you the alumni will be crucial to its success The governments of Ontario and Canada have done their part despite difficult circumshystances The rest is up to us

I have found the faculty of the OVC to be -a group of strong and vigorous academshyics and many young talented faculty have been appointed recently In passing one notes the retirement of many of those who led the renaissance in veterinary education in Canada in the post-war years The new generation of faculty has a real challenge in

trying to do as well as their predecessors shyand it will

I believe the graduate students are the sou I of the College Therefore another cause for optimism is the strength of the graduate and research programs at the OVe Presently the College has about 130 gradushyate students who at this most creative period of their lives are striving to provide new knowledge and skills for veterinary medishycine In 1950 there were none

There has been a significant expansion in the D YSc program a comparatively new doctoral program that gives priority to the acquisition of clinical sk ill s in addition to training in research The D VSc degree is unique in the world and how its graduates will be received remains to be determined I am confident it will be favourably

Believing in the imponance of reshysearch OMAF recently committed itself to provide the College with a new research farm at Ponsonby This nO-acre site located some ten miles from Guelph will provide farm-type facilities for hous ing dairy cattle beef cattle sheep pigs and laboratory anishymals will replace existing facilities at Eramosa and Plislinch and will cost in excess of $3 million

The application rate and quality of stushydents seeking admision to the D YM proshygram remains high

I am delighted to be assisted in the work of the Deans office by Associate Dean Ted Valli 62 and Academic Counsellor Ron Downey 61 and given the above is it any wonder I am optimistic

I have always been a bit smug in believshying that those of us from western Canada were the most friendly in the nation My exshyperience since coming to Guelph proves me wrong Everyone including students facshyulty staff the University administration and the local community could not have been more friendly and helpful 0

OVCAA Membership Report-Summer 1985

Life Membership 1 103 Honorary Life Membership 3 Life Me m Instalment Plan 241 Annual Membership 42 -Total Membership 1389 Total Alumni 3537 Membership

of Total Alumni 3930 Membership

of Known Alumni 40 06

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Inch in KatDlandu The following letter to the editor from Or

Carolyn Inch 81 was sent to Ornella Osborne editor of Update the newsletter

published by the Ontario Veterinary Assoshyciation Were grateful to Omelia for passing it on to us

While trekking through the north central region of the Himalayan mountains in

Nepal I was surprised to see the words vetshy

erinary office added to the bottom of it sign written in Nepalese

The village Chame contained the

headquarters of the government veterinary operations for the region of Manang Borshy

dering on China in the north the region covers about 2000 square kilometres and

has the lowest population density in Nepal The average altitude of the region is above

3048 metres Annapurna towers at 8091

metres The logistics behind launching a vetshy

erinary program in an area that is entirely inaccessible except by foot or aircraft had

me intrigued Dr Koshori Jha greeted us warmly and

in the polite manner wed received at the hands of all the Nepalese tea was served

The bulk of his practice is in sheep and goats as well as cattle yak horse mules and chickens On a daily basis he deals most frequently with footrot a problem that

is compounded by the fact that most of the bovine and equine species are bred pri-

During the recent avc AA Annual Meeting retired Deal Doug Maplesden 50 righl received ( plaque embodying newsclippings puhlished during his lenure Dean OIl Nieletl 56 made the presentalion

marily for use as pack animals the terrain is

rough and whether goats are grazing beshy

tween rocks or mules are carrying 80-kiloshygram loads up mountainsides their hooves are exposed to a lot of strain

Dr Koshori Jhas pharmacy contained various disinfectants and as tringents and

many herbal remedies from India retained placenta and anti-bloat preparation for

example

The only vaccine available to him was against Hemorrhagic Septicemia and he

used it when faced with a diagnosed herd

outbreak Dr Koshori Jha pointed out phenol

which was used on feet during July August and Septembers annual FMD outbreak

coinciding with the rainy season Day-to-day treatment is a sma ll part of

the government veterinarian s job He recently received approval for his five-year

plan which began last spring The main eleshyments of the plan are training increasi ng egg production mule breeding Jhopa

breeding (cross between a cow and male yak) and improving cattle feed by the introshyduction of a Phillipine variety of cattle grass

For the livestock assistance training

three farmers from each of 12 panchayats (districts) in Manang will come to Chame

for training and to discuss local problems These men will be involved in a serv ice

centre to be se t up in each panchayat for common treatment He also plans to hold a yearly lives tock exhibitio n with pri ze shy

money for healthy livestock

Plans to increase egg production include a new brooding unit and the introshy

duction of a hybrid of Leghorn New Hampshyshire and Rhode Island Red poultry In an effort to upgrade the quality of pack anishy

mals local ponies will be crossed with donshykeys brought from northern India Similarly

Missing in India Dr Ohiroobhai K Desai 46 61 Sharda Society Paldi Ahmedabad 380007 India has written of hi s attempts to gather inforshy

mation on Drs VD Alaga Raju 36 and

K B Nair 36 both of India He repol1s having bee n with Dr Nair from 1952 to 1956 at the Bombay Veterinary College as an exshyaminer in Veterinary Medicine However he

has been unable to provide up-to-date inforshymation on thesc two alumni Any alumni

with information please write to your avc Alumni Bulletin editor 0

male yaks will be crossed with local cows

and their offspring Jhopa will be used as high-altitude pack animals

Dr Jha plans to distribute these breedshying animals to the more remote region s so

that bloodlines can be upgraded In so me of these areas the native dialect is related to ancestral Tibetan languge rather thall Nepashy

lese which compounds hi s difficult task of education

Pack animals are the lifeline of the

high-altitude people as much today as they

have been for centuries I very much appreshy

ciate the time taken by Dr Koshori Jha to explain the role of domestic animals in the

Himalaya and share with me his ambitious plans for the future 0

AI Ihe recem CVMA Conference in Pelllicshylon Dr Bob Dunbar 12 leji with Dr ROI Downey 6 Bob has reached his 961h birlhday and resides in a PellliClol1 nursing home

In Memoriam Or John N Campbell 15 545 Scripps Drive Davis California 59616 USA

died May 4 1985

Dr Ra)mond E Pinkert 36 440 NOl1h Pine Street Reedsburg Wisconsin 53959 USA died April 13 1985

Or Roderick S MacDonald 37 3003 Oliver Street Apt 203A Halifax NS -B3L 4AI died June 12 1985

Dr John J Carney 44 3531 West 33rd Avenue Vancouver B C V6S IZ2 Date of

death unknown

Or Kenneth R Lachapelle 54 1635 Ranvoyze Ave St Foy Que GIW 3K2

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College of Social Science Alumni Assoc PEGASmiddotUS

Editor Dorothy Barnes 78

Our Annual Picnic We Illissed you I All of you who didnt make it to our CSSAA picnic during Alumni Weekend 85 But despite the few members and families that did attend we had a good time The pictures tell the story

Here are some of us arriving (l) and setting up the eats We had good food and why not It was a tillle to enjoy relax and have some fun We had games for all ages including catch-the-eggs (2) with real raw eggs

AmI of course whats a picnic without a drop of rain) But President John came prepared with a tarpaulin (3) for those afrnid ofilleiting The k)od and the day were saved Hurrah for our presidenl

Thcre were some brave soul s who unshydaunted by the weather carried on with their baseball game Then of course there was one young partiCipant (4) who was seen scratching hcr head 1I1d wondering what was going on

All in all we had a great time You would have too if youd bcen thcre So makc a mental notc or tic a string around your tingcr toc anywhere that will reillind you that you missed a good outing at th e Aluillni Wcckend 85 CSSAA picnic and that you should makc pl ans now to join us in June 86 at Alumni Wcekend 86 0

A Joy to Behold Her work has the shi mmer of life Such is said of artist Joy Elizabeth (Snihur) Laking Fine Art CSS 72 Joys art is intimately tied to the seasons In spring and summer she works against the perilous fadshying of fresh flowers capturing them in clean powerful designs

Fa ll afternoons on the grassy salt marshes around her home in Portaupigue Nova Scotia inspire wider scenes of rich changing colours

The respite of winter is her time for land and peoplescapes evolved from her ow n photography Her art is created within the context of family community and nature

Joy was introduced to hcr chosen lifeshystyle by her mother - they used to go sketching while Joy was a child in Owen Sound on Lake Huron s Georgian Bay shyand has painted since she can remember She now lives on the edge of the Bay of Fundy with husband Ronald OAC 72 and two cherubs where she can paint every day and capture the beauty she sees around her Whether it be mud and Illarsh a rusted truck and some farmyard geese or caterpillar holes in azalea leaves Joy is able to capture in watercolour the essence and beauty of all she sees

She is noted for her special ability to create white flowers on white paper by givshying the petals shape and vivid life with only a whisper of colour and shadow Light delishycate handling and mcticulous control fused with a powerful design se nse distinguishes her art

Joy is a well established artist and has had se lected exhibitions of her paintings at the Tom Thompson Memorial Art Gallery Owen Sound 1981 Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery Halifax NS 1982 Gallery 1889 Tatamagouche NS 1983

Daffodils By Joy (Snihur) Laking 72

Truro Art Society Truro NS 1984 and the Royal Botanical Gardens Burlington Onl 14

She was deservedly honoured to have the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia purchase one of her paintings for its collection and the Maritime Tel amp Tel chose a Laking painting for the cover of Nova Scotias 1985 telephone directory

Joy says I paint what I live what I see and what touches me It s no wonder then that Joy has been able to successfully transshyfer such sensitivity to her work in a way that has produced tine work s of art as demonshystrated in Daffodils reproduced here 0

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Grad News Terry Goddard 76 wrote to let us know

where he is and what hes doing After gradshyuation Terry turned to the world of engishy

neering and worked at the Bechtel Intershy

national Syncrude project in northern Alberta for a year He retu rned to school and obtained a Masters degree in Politi cal Theshyory in 1978 at the University of Toronto

TIle next nine months were spent workshying at Dhaharan Saudi Arabi a While the re

Terry contemplated the action which would

give him the best career move His deci s ion to go into teach ing led him back to the Unishy

versity of Toronto to obtai n his BEd His teachin g career took hi m to northshy

e rn Saskatchewan whe re he taug ht at a village which if not actually at the end of

the world was situated close enough that the end was plainly visible from the nOI1hern

outskirts He returned to Toronto someshywhat sated with academe and once again

turned to engineering He has been director of maintenance for the Jewi sh Com munity

Centres of Toronto for the past five years He has fou nd it difficult to keep in

touch with fellow grad s Especia lly th ose who studied in Professor Melby s Chinese

poIitic s courses and who were known as the Shanghai Mafia - they are all over the

world now Hes sure they often recall with fondness their days at Unigoo

Where are you former students of Proshyfessors Simmo ns and MelbYTerry would be interested in hearing from you - and so would we

Robin-Lee Norris 80 has been awarded

a $19000 Rot ary Foundation Scholarship to

pursue g radua te studi es in the Masters of Business Administration program at the

Univers ity of Adelaide Adelaide Australia Robin-Lee went o n to graduate from

Osgoode Hall Law School with an LLB

was called to the Ontario Bar in ApriJ of 1982 and has practised law with the tirm of

Kearns McKin non inGuelph since herca ll She took a ten-mo nth leave of absence

commenc ing in February 1985 from her positi on with Kearns McKinno n in o rder to take ad vantage of the sc holarship

During her months in Australia her mandate from Rotary Internatio nal in addishy

tion to pursuing her stud ies is to act as a Rotary and Canadian Ambassador in proshy

moting good will and understanding beshytween Australians and Canadians

A thank you goes to Cliff Hardy buildshying mechanic superv isor Main tenance Deshypartment Physical Resources for supplying us with thi s information and an aside to Robin-Lee when she reads this I was unable

to reach you betore you left to congratulate

you and get more informati on on your award If you have some free time we wOllld love to hea r from you about your studi es

what a Rotary and Canadian ambassador

does and to have you share your ex perience of being down-under

Marilyn Kernohan Morrison 78 has taken the time to Jet us know that shes living in Napanee with hu sba nd Brian She has

tempora ril y se t aside her ca reer to be a home-maker tor Brian and their four-monthshy

old son

Prior to their move to Napanee to acshycommodate Brians tran sfer - he work s with the Ministry of Natural Resources shy

Marilyn and family lived in a small comshymunity northwest of Thunder Bay After

Gue lph Marilyn continued her ed ucation at the comm unity college level and com pleted

a program for counse llors of the mentally

retarded SheJI be returnin g to thi s fi e ld when she again becomes a wage earner

Doris E (Trachsel) OKeefe 74 is deshy

scribed by husband John Paul 74 as a household engineer John Paul is a reshy

source teacher with the Waterloo County Board of Education With such a title I

couldnt resis t phon ing Doris to find out exactly what the duti es of a household enshy

gi neer are

While Doris decl ined to give a cletinishytion of the titl e l detected some surprise and delight that John Paul appreciates what it

takes to look after a famil y and a home

Doris is trying to re turn to teaching but is findin g it difficult in the Cambridge

Waterloo area If she isnt successful shes planning alternatives such as enrolment at Guelph in a Masters program o r failing that enrolment in courses that will he lp her

ac hieve her long-range goa ls She and John Paul recen tly moved from

London Ont to Cambridge Prior to the

birth of Erin now a two-year-old Doris was teac hing boys with behaviourial problems

and she sees thi s as an asset when applying for teaching positions Erin has a six-yearshyold brother Sean so you can understand

perhaps that Doris has been bu sy and maybe she is aptly described as a houseshy

hold engi neer

J Barry Baldwin 69 is a teac her with the Elgin County Board of Education S t Thomas Barry married Linda Janet Wii son They live in Aylmer West

M Rachel (Curtis) Towe 69 is manager customer systems Bell Canada She and

husband Ken live in Guelph

M Lois (Robinson) Harris 70 li ves in Newmarket with husband Fred

B Hugh Schofield 72 is an industrial engi neer with Rockwell Int e rnati o nal C hat ham He and wife Susan (Haslelt)

FACS 78 live in Chatham

Paul Davis 73 is an underwrite r analyst with Co-opera tors General In sura n ce

Guelph Paul and wife Linda (DozeH) 73 and 81 live at Brookhaven Court Guelph

Carol Finlayson 74 is a letter carrier lor Canada Post Carol and husband John Balch live in Toronto

Pal Hamilton 74 is an expon market deshyvelopment specialist with the O ntario Minshyistry of A gricu lture and Foo cl mark et

development branch Toronto He and his wife Diane (Coates) OAC 72 live in

Toronto

Kerrie Sirathy MA 78 advises us that

she is a s tud en t at th e Univcrsity of Sakatchewan Sas katoon

Vicky Sutherland 78 is an air trartie conshy

troller with Air Canada at FoI1 McMurray Airpo l1 Alta and lives in F0I1 McMurray

Sounds like an intercsting job - perhaps youl l share SOIllC experie nces with us Vicky

Marlin Thissen 78 is a foreman with the

region or Halton at ih Milton wa ter po llushytion control plant

Evelyn Evie (Isaacs) Whilwham 80 is a planning ass istant with Union Gas Co Ltd Chatham She and hu sba nd Bob have

c hanged their address They are at 70 Ottawa Drive C ha tham Ont N7L 216 0

In Memoriam A lormer faculty mcmber in the DeshypaI1ment of Geography Barsa Kelly was among the victims of the Air India Hight 182 disaster that occ urred

off the coas t of Irel and las t June ~ mr(sa Vas headed tor India on a reshy

search project at the time of her

death S he was the wife of Protessor Kenneth Kelly Department of Geogshyra phy On behalf of its members and all those who chc ri shed their con tacts with Barsa the Board of Directors of the College of Social Science Alumni Association extend their s incere symshy

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College of Biological Science Alumni Assoc BIOmiddotALUMNI NEWS

Editor Marie (Boissonneault) Rush 80

HONORARY PRESIDENT Professor Bruce Sells Dean

PRESIDENT David Airdrie BSc 82 Microbiology

PAST PRESIDENT Dr Chris Wren BSc 77 Marine Biology PhD 83

VICE-PRESIDENT Dee Britney BSc 74 Fisheries amp Wildlife MSc 81

SECRETARY-TREASURER Kclly Munkittrick BSc 80 Fisheries amp Wildshylife MSc 83

DIRECTORS Lorraine Bruce-Allen BSc 80 Zoology MSc 84 Jim Elliott BSc 79 Marine Biology Keith Harris BSc 76 Marine Biology Dr Doug Holdway BSc 76 Marine Biology MSc 78 Aquatic Toxicology PhD 83 Krista (McAuley) Soper BSc 79 Marine Biolshyogy Karin Davidson-Taylor BSc 83 Zoology

From Dave Airdrie 82 the

President How time flies when youre having fun Your editor Marie (Boissonneault) Rush 80 tell s me that this note to you will be in the Fall issue of the Guelph Alumnus so Ill bring you up to date on happenings since your 1985-86 Board of Directors was inshystalled in June

The CBS Alumni Association was parshyticularly busy during June Alumni Weekshyend events including the Wildlife Art Show and Sale and the barbecue at the Rockwood Conservation Area were well attended

Thanks must go to Krista (McAuley) Soper 79 and Lorraine Bruce-Allen 84 for their first-rate efforts in organizing and running the art show From all accounts it was ex tremely well done and is sure to be repeated in 1986

Further thanks mu st go to Keith Harshyris 76 for his efforts in once again organizing the barbecue at Rockwood Keith has done a terrifi c job with this event s ince its inception Hopefully these two events will be expanded in the coming year

Last spring the objective of $10 000 for the Keith Ronald Fellowship Fund was reached and we thank all who generously contributed to this fund Its to be hoped that this is only the first of many scholarships initiated through the CBSAA

Many of you will now be aware of the changes which the Universitys Department of Alumni Affairs has undergone in rece nt months Most important is the arrival of Marjorie Millar as director of the Departshyment It seems that President Matthews is placing greater emphasis on the importance of the Department due in part to the impenshyding capital campaign I am sure that youll all notice many beneficial innovations

The CBSAA has I feel reached a point in its development where we must heighten our profile both among alumni and undershygraduates In order to increase the awareness of the Association the Board has plans to embark on some new programs

The goals are as I see them two-fold first of all we need YOU to get more inshyvolved whether its participation in our proshygrams or s upport for the Assoc iation through your membership The fact that youre reading this demonstrates an interest which we would like to heighten

Secondly we re working at helpin g undergraduates before graduation to beshycome more aware of our Association Hopeshyfully we ll get helpful input and suggestions from many of you in the near future Reshymember - YOUR alumni association is what YOU make it

Dave Airdrie BSc 82 President Colshylege of Biological Science AA

FACULTY ADVISORS Dr Denis Lynn Zoology Dr Margaret Hauser M icroshybiology Dr John Hilton Nutrition Dr John Sandys Award Phillips Botany amp Genetics Dr Brian Wilson Human BiologyKinetics The Ontario Confederation of University

Faculty Associations (OCUFA) has awarded UGAA REPRESENTATIVES Karin Dr Alexander Sandy Middleton DepartshyDavidsonTaylor BSe X) Zoology Keith ment of Zoology one of the nine OCUFA Harris BSc 76 Marinc Biology Rob Teaching Awards for 1984 Milnc BSe XI MSe 84 Marine Bio Dr Middleton was nominated for this -award by colleagues students administrashyEX-OFFICIO DIRECTORS Ed Berdusco tors alumni and faculty It acknowledges president CBSSC Steve Spring past presishy outstanding ability and is considered to be dent CBSSC the provinces highest honour for excellence

in university teaching HKAA REPRESENTATIVE Nick Dalton I think there are two keys to being an BSe 77 Human Kinetics effective teacher Sandy says One is to

have respect for the student the other is to EDITOR RIO-ALUMNI NEWS Marie make a genuine intellectual and time comshy(Boissonneault) Rush B Se XO Marine mitmcnt to the course Biology 0 Dr Alexander Middleton Congratulations Dr Middleton 0

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Grad News Human Biology

Cathy Knipe BSc 79 MSc 83 is a Ph D st ud ent at Iowa State University Ames Iowa USA She is studying Moshylecular Biology

Shelly Lugg BSc 83 is a stude nt at Simon Fraser University Burnaby BC

Human Kinetics

Susan (Wright) Kwiatkowski BSc 80 is a recreation therapist at York Central Hosshypital Toronto Her spouse Ed graduated from Ryerson in 1979

Donna Marie (Kadwell) 1vose BSc 79 and husband John ji ve in Thorold Shes a physica l education supervisor at the Niagara Peninsula Crippled Childrens Centre

Mary Ellen (Mew) Walker BSc 83 is the activity co-ordinator at Spruce Lodge Stratford

Dr Ken Danylchuk BSc(PE) 73 is a s ur ge ry re s ident at the H itchcockshyDartmouth Medical Center Hanover N H USA

Kathryn (Tarry) Myers BSc 78 is a teacher with the Middlesex COunty Board of Educati on Hyde Park

WildUfe

Vicky Johnston 84 bega n an MSc at Lakehead University Thunder Bay in May Shes working on the reprodu ctive biology of Lake Superior rin g-billed gull s

Nutrition

Or 0010 Ohiokpehai 77 lectures in food and nutrition at the Unive rs ity of Ife Nigeria

Microbiology

John Semple 78 is a PhD ca ndidate in the Department of Mic rob iology amp Immushynology at Queens Uni vers ity Kingston He will be doing a post-doctora l at the Banting amp Best Depattment of Medica l Research University of Toronto

Unspecialized

Peter Adams 79 and Beth (Sarjeant) 79 are happy to announce their recent marshyriage Beth is a research technici an with the Depanment of Medicine Univers ity of Ca lshygary Alta and Peter operates a business with the se ismic service industry

Marine Biology

Jorgen Hansen 75 and his wife Drusilla (Dol be) Arts 75 live in Gloucester Jorge n is a staff officer with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Ottawa

CoUege Honour RoU - Winter 85 Semester 06

Margorie Fe rgusson 894 Human Biology JoAnna Milan 860 Biology

Semester 07 Sandra Noble 856 Microbiology

Semester 08 Marga ret Docker 876 Marine Biology Thomas Johnston 87 0 Fi sheries Biology Debra Underhill 858 Microbi ology

James Wright 858 Biology Tobin Peever 854 Botany

Alexander Hanke 852 Zoology Rebecca Rodgers 852 Human Bi ology

Tracey Robin son 882 BSc( HK ) Rebecca Halonen 880 BSc(HK )

Swdent has obtained standing for second time Student has obtaincd standing for third time

Home Town

Oakville Ottawa

Dorchester

Guelph New Liskeard Kingston Thunder Bay Bracebridge Grafton Calgary Alta Guelph Georgetown

Donald MacLennan 75 and hi s wife Katherine live in Chatham Donald is a biologi st-supervisor with the Ministry of Natural Resources Lake SI Clair Fisheries Assessmen t Unit Tilbury 0

College of Biological Science

Alumni Association

Wildlife Art Show

Well it happened June 15 and 16 have come and gone but not withshyout event The Graduate Students Lounge was transformed from a cozy meeting place into an an gallery There was much movi ng of furniture and hanging of an work with the end product being our fi rst ever CBSAA Wildlife Art Show

In total there were 20 wildlite artists partic ipating all tine ani sts in their own right Maybe you reshymember Ut a Stre live a nd Dr Ed Bailey Wow I You should see their wood works

Rick Beaver 73 also showed some of his work hes a wildlife imshypressionist and the colour and move shyment he paint s into each piece is eloquent Donald Dority 76 showed us the line photographer he has become There were other ani sts - too many to mention but all of extremely high calibre

Id like to mention one las t name though - Cindy Hayward manager of the Graduate Students Lounge If you ever need a steady hand to get an event off the ground shes the one to co ntact Without her hel p there would have been a whole heap of orshyga ni za tional problems From which we would have been unable to escape

All in all we had a successful show Thanks artists and viewers for making our efforts worthwhile 0

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New Minister of AgricultureOntario Agricultural College Alumni Assoc OAC ALUMNI NEWS

Editor Dr Harvey W Caldwell 51

Ontari OS new mini ster of ag riculture Jack Riddell 52A and 57 a cash crop farmer from the Exeter area comes to the position of Ontario s Mini ster of Agriculture and Food with ten years of expe rience as Liberal caucus cr itic for agriculture

The min is ter sa id that life under a Libshyeral government will give agriculture a higher priority than it has ex perienced in the past It will be considered one of the major industries in this province

Jack also pro mi sed to consult a great

Basic Technology in Action shyTurning Stones Into Bread By Ann Middleton Information Services

A new University of Guelph projec t in Tanza nia Africa should aid th e Third Wo rld s ubsistence leve l farmer The $400000 three-year projec t funded by the International Development Resea rch Centre (IDRC) will invol ve fltlculty of the Uni vershysitys Department of Land Resou rce Sc ience and Soko ine Uni versity of Ag riculture in Morogoro Central Tanza ni a Aim of the enterpri se is to use loca lly ava il ab le rock materials as soil amendm en ts and con shyditioners

The project came about when Ott awas IDRC brought together a team of two geo logists with an interest in improving co nshyditions for African farmers Professor Ward Chesworth with the Department of Land Resource Science has a long-standing intershyes t in turning rock s into fertili zers deshyve loped during work in West Africa and the Canltlry Islands where local farmers have spread volcanic rock on their field s for two centu ries In his lab and in the Blue Springs basin near Acton Ontario Professor Chesshyworth has been conducting experiment s on the levels at which common rocks re lease nutri ents into soil solutions

The other team member Dr Peter van Straltl ten is ori ginally from Germany but spe nt e ight years with the United Nations in Tan zania looking for metals and metal deshyposi ts and working on an in ve ntory of ferti shyli zer raw materials in south-east Africa

During thi s period Tanza nian food production per capita fell dramaticall y leadshying Dr van Strltlaten to try to find ways to help the food situation In ex periments in his garden in Dodomo Tanzaniltl he was able to increase yields of vegetables using locally

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available geological materia ls and organic wastes

Noting the common interes ts of the two men the Canadian age ncy introd uced them and Dr van Straaten relocated in Guelph Co-ordinators of the project are Professor Cheswo rth and Tan za ni an sc ie nti st Dr Johnson Semoka of Sokoine University coshyauthor of a text on so il sc ience much used in agricultural circles in Africa

Technical assistant Peter Sl11i th is working with Tanzanian rock specimens in the Land Resource Science lab and two other Tanzanian scientists will be involved

In addition to academics from bo th institutions members of the Geological Survey of Tanzania will also work on the project both in the Morogoro area and at Mbeya station in south-western Tanzania

Roc k sa mples will be collected and crushed and field tests and pot ex periments carried out here and on location When reshysu lt s have bee n obtained extension work will begin in Africa under the direc tion of Dr Semoka It is hoped that members of a Me nnonite Central Committee group workshying at Mbeya will design a simple rock crusher for the use of local farmers

Tanzania has a major phosphate deshyposi t wh ich will be tapped by the project as well as ground s ilicates including volcanic ash Liming materials such as limestone dolomite marl and ca rbonatite will also be evaluated

Professor Chesworth points out that alshythough No rth Americans place much emshyphasi s on the big three of soil nutrition shynitrogen phosphorus and potassium (NPK) - there are actually about 20 necessary

deal with the farm organizations on the direction his ministry should be taki ng

I dont believe that we can sit in our so-ca ll ed ivory towers and introduce the kind of programs that are go ing to be mea nshyingful unless we get consultation from the farmers and their spokes people

He has been a member of the provincial legislature for 12 years He spent his first two years as energy cri tic and later environshyment critic before mov ing into agriculture Jack and Anit a have a family of five 0

nutrie nts including the minor ones In some areas of Tanza nia the decline

in soil fe rtility is in part due to the settling of widespread populations into villages where land has been used without concern for nutrients Tn other part s of the country productivity has declined because of leachshying of plant nutrie nts durin g normal rainfall and also from the continuous use of acidifyshying fertilizers such as ammo nium su lphate Dr Chesworth point s out that the current practice of NPK fe rtili zation totally ignores secondary and micronut rient requirements of plants It is hoped that the projec t wilt address thi s problem

Our approac h is basic tec hn ology our target group the poorest far mers Dr van Straaten explains One of the problems in the past Dr Ches worth says has been convincing agronomists that it s worth purshysuing this kind of elementary tec hnology approach Theyre very skeptical that you can take common roc ks wi thou t major inshydustrial proces ing and use them to advanshytage on tropical soils

A s ideline area of research is work with zeolites open framework si licates that often occ ur in volcanic rocks Some zeolites can be used to trap nitrogen in the form of ammonia which would otherwise be los t in gaseous form When added to cow manure for exampl e and stomped in by the beasts themselves zeolites enrich an already valushyabl e fertil ize r Dr van Straaten explains

The zeolite research is being carried out in co njunction with Professor Colin Fyfe Department of Chemistry an intershynat io na ll y kn ow n authority o n zeo lit e -che mi stry

Orie result of the work of the Un ive rs ity of Guelph geo logists is an ag rogeology ne tshywork currentl y being set up bya number of African cou ntries as the result of di sc usshysions following a paper by Dr van Straaten and Professor Chesworth The paper was given recently at meetings of the UN Ecoshynomic Commiss ion for Africa in Zambia 0

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A Designing Grad The need for a summer job six years ago has ended in a Guelph grad des igning golf courses

When in 1979 Lisa Maki now

BLA 84 was searching for a job that would assist her in her studies at the Univershysity she applied to the city of Kitchener

She could have wound up in any

number of areas in the parks and recreation department but Rockway and Doon Valley

course superintendent Ed Ortlieb gave her the chance to join the work crew at Rockway fltor the first couple of years it was just a job that got her outdoors in the summer then by chance she got interested in the game itself

And now shes embarked on a career in golf course design

Lisa the 24-year-old oldest daughter of Ted Maki a former general manager of the

Lisa Maki BLA 84 Kitchener Rangers left last July for Lakeshyland Florida where she Joined Links Deshysign which de sig ns and oversees golf course construction throughout the United 1983 and a friend of the family who knew States The company is considered the sec shy was interested in golf course work arranged ond-largest of its type behind the one run by a meeting with Ronald Garl said Lisa I US golf legend Jack Nicklaus who deshy had an official job interview in April of 84 signed the Glen Abbey course in Oakville and then went to Florida in August of the

How does a young Kitchener woman same year to familiarize myself with the

end up working for Ronald Garl a 40-yearshy firms projects

old graduate of the University of Florida Because I had focused much of my who apprenticed under such well-known deshy University work on such things as turf man shy

signers as Roben Trent Jones and Joseph agement and had done pan of my bachelor Lee Again it was just a chance opportunity of landscape architecture thes is on what

We were in Florida in December of makes British golf courses great and the

Sisters of Accident Victims Receive Diplomas

A tragic accident just prior to Spring Convocation resulted in the deaths oftwo graduands of the Associate Diploma in Agriculture Program Jeff Bikus 85A of West Lome and Nick Davidson 85Afrom Zimbabwe Joy Davidson sister ofNick came from Zimbabwefor the Convocation She was sponsored by the OAC Alumni Association Classes of85A alld 86A Norm McCollulIl 66A honorary class president 85A Don and MiidredMcCollum Jenny Ballentine and her parents Dr Steve Bowley 78 and80 honorary class president 86A and the University Centre Administration Our sympathy is extended to the families and friends of these two popular studel1ls Pictured are Ito r Jenny Ballantine friend ofJeff Bikus Lealln Bikus sister of Jeff Joy Davidson sister of Nick and Klaus Kristiansen a studellt from Zimbabwe

other on golf course residential design he was impressed

In order to learn what made British

courses great Lisa spent a semester in Engshyland and Scotland visiting researching sketching photographing and playing 16 historic courses including the famous links courses which by tradition are the

only clubs to host the British Open Links layouts are courses that border the sea and have been built or developed over sand

bases

Approximately 15 students a year take

advantage of the School of Land scape Arshychitectures Semester Abroad Program fi shynancing the trips themselves However the program is supported by an annual $5000 grant from the Alma Mater Fund so alumni can claim a cenain amount of credit for Lisas success She was a recipient in 1983

of part of that years AMF grant Im not sure my mother and father

were very keen about my trave lling around England and Scot lane all alone but it was a truly great experience she said middot1 not only met many wonderful and helpful peoshyple got to play the great courses like St

Andrew s Royal Troon Turnberry and my favorite of all Royal Dornoch

After a complicated and lengthy US immigration process which took nearly a year she was granted her permanent work

visa She was in regular contact with her new

boss after returning to Kitchen er - she re turned to work at Rockway and Doon while awaiting the vi sa approval - and then last July plunged immediately into

projects including work at a mens tournashyment players 36-hole complex in Sarasota and a Ladies Professional Golf Assoc iation course in Melbourne where she worked in association with LPGA tour players Beth Daniels and Sally Little

Despite the fact that the job involves

vy ing with rattlesnakes alligators and Iild

pigs when I have to tramp through forests and swamps in applying my design work to certain areas I love the outdoor work Lisa

said At the same time she doesnt have any

probleIl1s giving orders to hard-hatted heavy-machinery construction workers when she is the field supervisor for on-site

work think I may have raised a few eye shy

brows when I staned work at Rockway but I was accepted

Lisa isnt sure how long this pan of her life will last and she has no way of knowing whether any of her courses will eve r be known as Lisa Maki layouts But that doesnt

concern her They may be Links Design projects but Ill know they were basically my courses 0

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Klink Lecture Dr Doug Morrison 49 Department of Poultry Science was chosen to deliver the 1985 Klink Lecture

The Klink lecture is ~ponsored by the Agricultural Inst itute of Canada and named after the Institute s founding president Preshysented by an outstanding lecture r the lecture is delivered through a coast-to-coast tour and concerns a topic of current significance to the agricultural industry and the nation

Dr Morri son stated that there is a need for professionalization in an imal agriculshyture in order to give it an improved image and make it more acceptable to the conshysumer

Address ing members of the Ontario Inshystitute of Agrologists in London Ontario he told his audience that the agriculture inshydustry in Canada ranks among the best in the world and producers have to ensure thi s is shown and make sure that peer pressure prevents producers from doing things that we cant defend

He suggested some type of professhysiona l approach established by the farming organization whereby expertise would be required instead of merely encouraged

This is a mu ch beller ap proach th an some edict from society through governshyment legi slation I strong ly object to legislashytion designed to protect me from myself he said adding that there are currently enough regulations existent through legislation that dictate what farmers can and cannot do

If a farmer were a profess ional hi s reward wou Id be in profits - about as meanshyingful a reward as has ye t been devised

Benefits of a more professionalized approach would include an improved image of the farmer to the consumer an increase in communication a more efficient industry

which is essential for competition improved knowledge on the fa rmers part of health nutrition care markets etc and more awareness of soc ietys concerns

In turn it would also be necessary to provide beller information to the consumer through an educational process because if soc iety is to pay for increased inputs for the long- term good of the nat ion then it is essential society be adequately informed

Morrison remarked that he fee ls the maj ori ty of animal agriculturists are in fact professionals but there has to be a concerted e ffort to at tract as lew people as possible in to the business who do not understa nd farmshying or who are doing things that are unacshyceptable

Consumer concern over dietary value or the amount of drugs contained in animal product s is also reason for farmers to tak e a professional approach They should work to alleviate any misreprese ntations and misin shyformation the public is receiving the proshyfessor noted s tating that farm ers have never produced food as safe and as wholeshysome as it is today

By the turn of the century on a world basis meat consumption is predicted to in shy

crease by abou t 60 per cent while the intake of milk is expected to increase by almost 40 per cent

A major fac tor for this rise in intake result s from th e fact that developing nations will begin to consume animal products as soon as they can afford them China is an excellent exa mple of this said the professor who commented that nation is now movshying as rapidly as possible to increase animal production

With all these factors is mind Dr Morshyri son sa id he is optimistic for the future of the Canad ian animal agriculture industry

Weve got the opportunities and can take advantage of them he said 0

Mark Bernards 85 cenlre was the recipienl oftwo OAC Alumni Foundation awards the OAC Alumni Graduate Award and the Beth Duncan Gold Medal Left is Gord Nixon 37 Foundashytion chairman and director and right NR Rick Richards 38 treasurer

Entrepreneur in Residence

Dr Donald Shaver

Dean Freeman McEwen is pleased to be working with Dr Donald McQueen Shaver the Universitys first Agricultural Entreshypreneur-i n-Res idence

Dr Shaver a native of Cambt idge Onshytari o is found er chairman and chief exshyecutive officer of Shaver Poultry Breed ing Farms Limited The compan y distributes chicken breeding stock to 90 countries from its head office in Cambridge and three subshysid iaries in the United States Britain and France He retired from his executive reshysponsib ilities on August 30 but is conshytinuing as director and adv isor to the company

From 1940 to 1945 Dr Shaver served with the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps in Africa and Europe retiring as regimental commanding officer He is past president of the Canadian Hatchery Federation the Poulshytry Products Institute of Canada the Canashydian Lincoln Red Society and Maine-Anjou Association He is a member of the Order of Canada Honorary Life Member of the Worlds Poultry Science Association and the Ontario Institute of Agrologi sts He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Science by McGill University and the Centennial Medal by the OAC

The Entrepreneu r-in-Reside nce pro shygram was initiated and financially supshyported by OAC Class of 58 to champion -the role of private enterpri se within soc iety The appointment is for a two-year period during which time Dr Shaver will present lectures lead workshops and consult with faculty and students

The Agricultural Entrepreneur-in-Resishydence program at the University is believed to be a first in agr icultural education around the world 0

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University Of Guelph Involved in $68 Million Chinese Project The University of Guelph has embarked on a co-operative $68 million project that will ~ink five Canadian and Chinese universities and agricultural institutions

The four-year Black Dragon River Proshyjeo supported by the Canadian Internashytional Deve lopment Agency (C IDA) involves Guelph the University of Alberta Olds College in AlbeI1a and two Chinese institutions - Heilongjiang Land Reclamashytion University and Liu He Training College in northeastern Heilongjiang Province

Under th e term s of the agreement training will be provided at the three Canashydian institutions for personnel from the two Chinese university institutions

The Liu He Training College is respo nshysible for educating state farm employees Training will range from short courses to undergraduate and graduate level programs

Faculty from the Canadian universities and Olds College will travel to China during the summer months to give lectures and

short courses The area borderi ng on Russia has treshy

mendou s potential for agricultural deve lopshyment Professor Neal Stos~opf 57 direct or of OACs diploma courses is Guelphs co-ordinator for the Chinese projshyect He was part of the Canadian gove rnment planning miss ion and ex plains that although the climate combines the cold winters and hot summers of Alberta most of the moisshyture is rain that falls between Jul y and Sepshytember

Although latitude is the sa me as Edmontons at 52 degrees north the area grows soybeans and corn as well as wheat The land has two to four feet of black topsoil waiting to be drained and planted he says with potential for livestock proshyduction

The proj ec t centre is located at the Unishyversity of Alberta with administration in Guelph being carried out by the Centre for International Programs 0

Provincial apiarist retires after 19 years You might say Philip Burkes job brought sweet rewards

Until his retirement recently Philip was the provincial apiarist - sort of Onshytarios chief of bees - while working at the University of Guelphs Department of Environmental Biology

He joined the University as a lectu rer in 1943 and then became assistant professor and later associate professor

At the same time the Ontario Departshyment of Agriculture (as the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food was known then) made him the assistant provincial apiarist In 1966 he became provincial apiarist

Of course he advised beekee pers on ways they could make their colonies more productive and efficient and fielded many apiary management question s - including how to prevent bees from swarming

If they swarm one-third to one-half of th e colony takes off so you lose a big source of your honey crop Swarming is trigshygered when the hive becomes overcrowded so the beekeeper mu st stay ahead of them It involves a whole manipulation of the hive through the season visiting each colony at least once every ten to 14 days he says Philip also worked with farmers whose

crops depended on pollination by bees At one time bees were needed for

pollin ating greenhouse produce such as cucumbers But in the past 15 years the trend has been toward new types that are self fruiting he says

But the biggest change in the industry over the years was the trend towards Illakshying corn king in Ontario - a trend that is now being reversed he says

From 1949 and on a lot of bee coloshynies were moved to the western provinces tollowi ng th e reduction in alfalfa production in Ontario and the increased corn acreage he says

Now prospec ts for honey production in Ontario are better than in past years beshycause of the increased alfalfa acreage and other legumes and the trend towards more diversified cropping

Not surpris ingly prices have changed in the industry over the years too Back in the 1920s it cost about $10 to start a bee colony today start-up costs are about $100 to $125 per colony

Much of his work at the University looked at ways to prevent di seases in bees using selected antibiotics

He was secretary for the Ontario Beekeepers Association for 15 yea rs and now acts as a consu It ant for the group 0

Wins Crampton Award

Dr Stanley J Slinger 37 the most recent rec ipient of the Earl e W Crampton Award for distingui shed service in nutrition is ProshyFessor Emeritus of the Depal1ment of Nutrishytion College of Biolog ica l Science at Guelph

Born in Lowell Ontario Dr Slinger received his BSc from the Ontario Agrishycultural College hi s MSc fro111 the Univershysity of Toronto and a PhD from Cornell University From 1941 to 1965 he was in the Departillent of Poultry Science at the OAC and since 1965 has been in the Department of Nutrition at Guelph serving as chairJl1an from 1965 to 1974

Dr Slinger conducted re sea rch in sevshyeral areas of pou Itry nutrition for Jl10re than 30 years In 1972- 73 a fi sh nutrition laborashytory was set up and thi s laboratory has conshytinued to grow and iJl1prove s i nee One of the primary objectives in both poultry and fi sh nutrition research has been to develop feed to rmulas using feedstuffs of Canadian orishygin 111ese tannulas have been publi shed and continuall y revi sed and have been used extensively by teed manufacturers through shyout Canada Dr Slinger continues to be active in research

Dr Slinger taught poultry nutrition in Poultry Science for 27 years gave seminar courses in nutrition and physiology taught Fundamentals of Nutrition in the Depal1shyment of Nutrition and deve loped and taught courses in fi sh and wildlite nutrition

He has supervi sed the work of Jl1any graduates and it is interesting to note that the Department of Nutrition at Guelph is the only depailment in Canada - and there are very few in the United States - turning out graduates in Fish Nutrition at the PhD leve l

He has helped to establi sh modern poultry industries in Mexico and the areas of South East Asia Africa the Middle East Eastern and Western Europe and the United Kingdom Lectures conlerences and other consultative work have also taken hilll to Jl1any coul1tries over the years

The recipient of numerous honours and awards Dr S linger was made Professor Emeritus of the University in Ino and reshy -ceived the Earl e W Crampton award in 19B4 at Macdonald College Que Thi s award is given by the Faculty of Agriculture in recogshyniti on of significant co ntributions in the field of nutrition through research andlor service The award is named for Dr Earle W Crampton a renowned nutritionist whose career at Macd onald bega n in 1922 and lasted far 51 years 0

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cialist having spent four months in the latter John Reid 84 is technical sales rep Agrico Grad News part of 1984 in Bloemfontein South Africa Sales Ltd Richmond BC

Earl Johnston 46 is president Earl-John Brokers Ltd Delhi

Joe Knox 48 is secretary-treasurer Annco Westeellnc Guelph

Ralph Hills 54 is pastor United Church of Canada Smith Falls Ralph left Zambia last October spending some time in Kenya Israel England and Scotland on the way home He was surprised to meet Charlie Broadwell also 54 on Oxford Street in London Charlie was giving a reception at a large castle for the white bean buyers who purchase beans from Charlies Bean Growers of Ontario Ralph also passes along the word from Louise (Fershyguson) Hope Mac 54 that her husband Don 54 preparing for some future possible social work is studying drug addiction at George Brown College of Applied Ans and Technology Toronto

Joseph Leach 54 is a research scientist Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources Lake Erie Research station Wheatley

Ken Edwards 59 is an industrial engineer Prince George Pulp and Paper Vancouver BC

Fred Theaker 62 is a teacher-biologist Ren frew County Board of Education Aruprior

Howard Lang 67 is senior so il conshyservation advisor for OMAF Cambridge

John Lawrence 69 has been appointed vice-president and ge neral manager De kalb Canada Inc Chatham John is a lso president of the Canadian Agri-marketing Assoc iation

Robert Brooksbank 70 is manager Agrishycultural Department Simcoe area Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce

Alan Duncan BLA 73 is project coshyordinator Groupe d intervention urban de Montreal Montreal Que

Martha (Weir) Collins 75 reports that Anne (Walton) Bayler 75 is at teac hers college in Toronto after spending several years teaching in the Bahamas Martha lives at I Braid Place Guelph and would like to hear news of her classmates

Jim Dyer MSc 75 is a senior resource and environmental officer with the crop producshytion division of Agriculture Canada Ottawa He is on loan as a drought monitoring spe shy

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His wife Barb (Newell) Arts 75 who is a technical editor with Public Works Canada joined him in Bloemfontein for a month

Elizabeth Fedorkow 75 is a market reshysearcher Tetra Pak Inc Markham

Roy Maxwell 75 is an agricultural comshymentator CBC Radio Noon Toronto

Gary Ball 76 is vice-president manufacturshying Mitten Vinyl Inc Cambridge

Garnet McConney 77 is feed lot manager Catllel and Ontario Inc Petersburg

Patrick Meyers 77 OVC 84 is a vetshyerinarian with the Grenville-Dundas Veterinshyary Clinic Kemptville

Martha Frey 78 is secretaryass istant edishytor Canadians for Health Research Wes tshymount Que

Wayne Harrison 79 is assi stant manager Toronto Dominion Bank Elmira His wife is Katherine (McLeod) 77

Sharon Helynk 79 is with the Woodbury Animal Hospital Halifax NS

Jeffery Goebel 80 is resident engineer ACF Canada Ltd Georgetown

Mary Lynn Prong 80 is assistant manager Royal Bank Watford She reports that Bruno Soucy 8Q has changed jobs from OMAF farm ma nagement advisor to agrolog ist London region Royal Bank

Corrie Almack 81 is presidentowner Agshyriculturai Soil and Nutrition Consultants Freelton

Edward Bolton 81 is research farm manshyager AJle lix Inc M ississauga

William Summers 82 MSc 84 is prodshyuct deve lopment rep Du-Pont Canada Streetsville

Dianne (Coker) McDowell 83 is quality assurance supervisor Richardson Foods Ltd Glanw0I1h

John Ross 83 is a program officer Agrishyculture Canada Edmonton Alta

Jeff Burke 84 is a customer service rep Griffith Lab Toronto

Julie Fowler 84 is working for Embury Bros Farms Ltd Newburgh

Karen Rodman 84 is a farm management specialist OMAF Nepean

James Simonds 84 is a crop specialist Cavendi sh Fanns Summerside P E1

Richard West PhD 84 is a research scishyentist Canadian Forestry Service SI John s Nftdo

In Memoriam We regret to report the following deaths

Marie Honsberger 17A died March 1985

Esmond D Clipsham 2IA died on April 6 1985 Esmond had been the proprietor Uneeda Rest Hotel Kilwonhy and was a life member of the OAC Alumni Association

Stanley Ewart Keillor 21 died on February 27 1985 He was a crop farmer at Walshylacetown

John Edward Chalmers 23A died on Febshyru ary 15 1985

Jacobus Van Haarlem 23 at age 85 on July 2 1985 in Vineland He retired as ex shyecutive director of the Hor1icultural Experishymental Station at Vineland in 1970 after 47 years of service there

Hugh Lacklin Paterson 32A died in May 1985 of a heart attack at Rockwood

Murray Cameron Macklin 33A 35 died January n 1985 in Toronto

Garland Alfred Fisk 35 Date of deat h unknown

Gordon Elgin Young 35 died on June 12 1985 at Ing leside

John Miller Fargery 37 on March 22 1985 in Toronto John had been an insurance salesman Farm Credit Corp and was a life member of the OAC Alumni Assoc iation

William Thomson 40 in 1982 in Lonshy shygueuil Que His death was reported recen tl y

Robert Fletcher Madden 54A died on November 26 1984 at age 52 at Napanee

Vera (Mod ric) Kozamplik MSc 73 in Yugoslavia She was the wife of Vinko Kozumplik M Sc 71 0

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From the Dean

Dr Barham

In some of my lellers I have aimed to share

information on some special program or theme with you On this occasion I want to

keep you in touch through a number of lillie items so I shall hold onto some of the bigshy

ger interests for future issues of the Guelph Alumnus

As I write this leller Alumni Weekend 85 is behind us I found it a great weekend

and I thoroughly enjoyed meeting more of our alumni for the first time while

especially appreciating recognizing more

and more familiar faces and names from previous occasions

This year the Classes of 65 and 75 requested an up-date on our programs and

the developments we have experienced together in the College over the last few

years I guess that we were able to demonshy

strate much more development in our research and teaching programs than we could in some parts of the physical facilities within the buildings Still we had thorshyoughly congenial and I think very useful

meetings with both of these classes and added a nostalgic tour of our facilities

It was splendid to meet both of these groups I confess however that I had not

foreseen that a large part of the interest of the Class of 65 rested on the fact that many of their children are now gearing up to enter FACS

I was able to remind them that the BASc and B Comm degrees both lead

into fascinating and challenging careers for sons and nephews as well as daughters and

nieces Some of you coming to Alumni Weekend 86 might wish to get in touch with me to arrange an up-date on our acti vities then too

One of my special pleasures of Alumni Weekend was to join with the Class of 35 at the Golden Anniversary Dinner This occashy

sion is always a particular delight given the special personal pleasures reflected in the

friendships shared on this anniversary And I do want members of the Class of

35 to know that their gift of the magnificent Terry Legault Roman Festival print looks really outstanding and just right amidst the

contemporary decor of the FACS lounge

One last item of alumni news which I want to mention is the fact that I met with

Jean (Nairn) Carter 38 and some of her committee recently I learned that they have

been making quite outstanding progress in establishing the trust fund that will support their new graduate student award in geronshy

tology The first award presentation of $1000 is being made this fall but members of the Class of 38 are still pushing on with their fund raising in order to bring the

annual trust-fund yield to a level of $2 000 We all think that the Class of 38 grads

have been quite remarkable in their detershymination to build up a significant fund to

support work in this important new field of scholarship and research I know that we

shall all appreciate your support for them in reaching their target

I met with Audrey Warner and Annette

Yeager 62 recently They advised me of their concern for the needs of teachers wantshy

ing to prepare themselves for adding Family Studies to their fields of professional speshy

cialization and of other teachers already working in that field who find themselves in need of some up-dating especially in view of the curriculum changes which appear to be around the corner

In this regard I want to mention two

items which might be of interest First our faculty in FACS have been

quite heavily engaged in working with

teachers and others in thinking planning debating and writing for the curriculum developme~ts envisaged for the Ontario Academic High School Credits

Most especially we have had as memshybers of the Canadian Family in Perspective group Dr Jean Sabry with her own special

interest in human nutrition Dr Grant

McCracken in clothing Drs Marshall Fine and Claude Guldner with their expertise in family relations and Drs Anne Martin Matshythews and Joe Tindale with their special strengths in life-span development and

aging - quite a team of contributors Secondly I want to mention in relation

to my meeting with Audrey and Annette that we now have a number of courses avai 1shy

able in a six-week format offered in summer sessions provided on campus

Perhaps of even more interest to those of you who wont find it practical to take

classes on campus at Guelph we have an annual offering of distance or corresponshy

dence-type courses Many of these will be of very pertinent

interest to a number of teachers The current list includes Human Development Marital and Family Dynamics Personal and Family Finance Development of Human Sexuality Nutrition and Man and the Exceptional Child in the Family

You can find out more about these

offerings by writing directly to Guelph Disshytance Education University of Guelph

Macdonald Institute shyFamily and Consumer Studies Alumni Assoc

Editor Carol Telford-Pittman 75

Guelph Ont NIG 2WI or by getting in touch with my office

One of the reasons that we have put

ourselves so significantly behind the development of these distance courses is that we did not have the resources to meet

the demand for providing our courses in the more traditional class format at locations

away from the Guelph campus As usual there is much more to share

with you but it will just have to hold until

my next letter I look forward to being in touch with you again then 0

Olive Thompson Honoured

Olive (Thompson) Thompson 35

-The Mac-FACS Alumni Association was very pleased to present a Citation of Appreshyciation to Olive (Thompson) Thompson

35 during Alumni Weekend 85 festivities Olive has given much time energy

support and leadership to the College and to the University through her years of involveshyment with the Mac-FACS Alumni Associashytion Class of Mac 35 activities and the University of Guelph Alumni Association

Our University s alumni organizations are stronger and more effective because of

the years of commitment and personal sershyvice that Olive has contributed

Olive - We salute you 0

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New at HAFA By John Hearn

Infonnation Services

An innovative course developed by the School of Hotel and Food Administration (HAFA) is focussing the attention of undershygraduates on the analysis of operational problems in the hospitality industry and the writing skills required to express and comshymunicate that analysis

Students are required to find summer jobs in the hospitality industry and then to write five papers of ascending complexity during the first semester of their second year using text readings specially edited for this course by the Schools Director Proshyfessor Tom Powers

We have a unique responsibility to prepare students not just for their first job but for future jobs further down the line says Dr Powers Possession of a university degree should imply an ability both to anashylyse problems and to communicate observashytions and recommendations In todays corporate world reports papers and letters are management tools and written comshymunication is a survival skill

The HAFA faculty decided further to emphasize writing skills by adopting a style manual developed by Professor Margaret Hund leby Department of Engl ish Language and Literature for this course as an integral part of the Schools other courses

In order to familiarize faculty with the use of the manual and the grading of student writing Professor Hundleby was invited to conduct a two-day workshop which atshytracted the attention of Vice-President Howard Clark and Associate Vice-President Janet Wardlaw as well as faculty from other disciplines s uch as psychology land resource science microbiology and history

The program Professor Hundleby told the seminar requires students to complete five report papers based on their own obsershyvations

The first paper requires a detailed description of the physical layout of the host operation plus an appraisal and operating cost analysis of its heating air-conditioning and ventilation systems

A second paper asks the student to describe and evaluate staff structure funcshytion compensation package and efficiency

Cost control is the subject of a third paper Purchasing practices food producshytion cost traCking and inventory manageshyment all come under this heading

Marketing is the fourth subject area What market segment is the operation aimed at What consumer need does the operation satisfy What is the nature of the

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Left to right- Professors Cathy Schrye Writing Centre Tom Muller HAFA Belty Upton HAFA Mike Jenkinson OAC 63 OAC dean s office Mary Rogers History and back to camera Bernie Katz Library reviewing cases drawn from studefll papers in a two-day workshop Evaluating Students Writing conducted by Professor Margaret Hundleby

competition in the target market

The fifth paper examines the intangishybles of management sty Ie How does the role of the manager affect relations with customshyers staff and head office

Professor Hundleby commenting on some of the problems of the course says whatever we call it students tend to conshyclude that what they re writing is an acashydemic paper of some kind - which of course it is - but we need to make the connection in their minds with the real the corporate world out there They also tend to think that longer is better and write about what they know - rather than what is import ant The development of a proper sense of for whom they are writing is itself a problem-solving skill

Another problem according to Proshyfessor Hundleby is what she calls the new illiteracy - a verbal dysfunction resulting from an impoverished vocabulary

Style too is a matter of considerable

AMPHI Spin-offs The School of Hotel and Food Administra shytions annual Advanced Management Pro shygram for the Hospitality Industry (AMPHI) now in its third year is spinning off new management development activities says HAFA Director Tom Powers Earlier this year 20 people attended a workshop on accounting and finance presented by Proshyfes sor William Braithwaite School of Agrishycultural Economics and Extension Educashytion and three similar programs will be offered in different parts of the country over the next year and a half

Another program still in the planning stage is a six-day hospitality managers development course designed for middle management by AMPHIs associate direcshy

concern She also mentioned careless senshytence structure style that is inappropriate to the content lack of connective logic failure to understand the nature of a paragraph as a literary entity the frivolous use of colloshyquiali sms an absence of any sense of the harmonious sound of words on paper and of course a growing list of commonly misused words - e g it could of had that affect

There s a tendency to see s tyle as a decorative flourish rather than as an aspect of content she concluded

Professor Powers sees the development of verbal communication skills as central to the whole idea of liberal education Cershytainly he says its useful for HAFA stushydents to understand how a cost control system works - but its at least as important to be able to think logically analyse logshyically and communicate conclusions in a way that is credible informative coherent and complete in fact these are the classic goals of a liberal education 0

tor Professor John Patterson and a consulshytant group of AMPHI alumni

AMPHI continues to attract internashytional attention participants in thi s years program which began in April include senior executives from many of North Americas most distinguished hotels and restaurants The four-week course offers an intensive program based primarily on case studies written by Professo rs Patterson -Braithwaite Carl Riegel and Tom Muller

The growing volume of AMPHI cases indicates that thi s is the largest s ingle research program currently under way in any hotel school in North America says Proshyfessor Powers AMPHls network of conshytacts is giving us access to a senior-level view of the industrys current problems and prospects 0

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Research AssociateComing Soon A AppointedModel Play Facility

Dr Joan Norris

Dr Joan Norris has held the position of Research Associate at the Gerontology Research Centre since last spring

Joan is working with faculty to develop and promote research related to population aging and is available for consultation with faculty on research design funding sources and publication

In addition to this development work she is continuing her personal program of research She works for the Gerontology Censhytre two days per week and the balance of her

The Family Studies Laboratory Schools pre-school play facility fell 10 a Grounds time is spent in the Department of Family Department wrecking machine recently Studies where she has held a faculty appointshy

ment since 1980 Joan holds a Ph D in Psychology from

the University of Waterloo and is also a regisshytered psychologist Her personal research

The Mllc-FACS Special Projects Commitshyinterests include social competence in older

tee Ito r Bonnie Kerslake 82 Association adults peer relationships and grandshy

president Linda (Wo[e) Markle 73 chairshyparenting 0

man and Gail Murray 78 Missing comshymillee member is Rita (Klassen) Weigel 77 The aim of the committee is to raise funds to redevelop the Family Studies Laboshy In Memoriam ratory Schools and raise itto the level where it will be regarded as a model pre-school

Eileen Margaret (Manahan) Alwayplay facility

390 October 21984 in Vancouver BC

Jean (Horrell) Atkinson 240 March 5 1985 in Aurora

Class of 35 Gift Oorothy (Lockard) Honsberger 300Centre panel Roman Carnival

In order to commemorate their anniversary July 51985 in Weiland Mac 35 has traditionally given a scholshyarship to a FACS student once every five Isabel J Lockerbie 300 March 31 years This year on the 50th anniversary of 1985 in Toronto their graduation and in addition to the scholarship an etching entitled Roman Patricia G (Smith) McKay-Barry 55 Carnival by Terry Legault has been added March 17 1985 in London Ont to the Universitys collection of Canadian alt The etching is hanging in the FACS Velma E (Conn) Partridge 260 April faculty lounge 29 1985 in Niagara Falls Ont shy

The theme of Roman Carnival was favoured by neo-clas sical and romantic Helen E (Kelly) Robinson 220 April painters during the 19th century The etching 30 1985 in Dundas captures the moment at which wild horses are released to race through the streets of Norma I (Motherwell) Roy 350 in Rome The artist has chosen to represent the Moosejaw Sask wild chaotic motion ot the horses rather than explicitly depict in detail the animals Lillian S (Moore) Usher 340 March 28 and the architectural background 0 1985 in Cobourg 0

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College of Physical Science Alumni Assoc SCIMP

Editor Bob Winkel

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Yes Dr Earl MacNaughtoll has relired alshylogelher bUI Ihis wonl be Ih e lasl you I hear from him reSI assured Before he and his wife Jean lOok oJf for Auslralia and New Zealand Deparlmenl of Physics slaf and faculty held a galhering al Ihe FacullY Club and presenled Ihe couple wilh an alumni clock

Back to Guelph

The headquarters for (GWC)2 came

back to Guelph in July for a threeshy

year period while Professor Robert Balahura Chemistry and Biochemisshy

try serves as director (GWC)2 offices have been set up

in Room 122 and 123 Physical Scishyences building The University of

Waterloo will maintain a satellite office during the three-year Guelph

rotation Dr Balahura and adminshy

istrative assistant Andrea Turner may

be reached at Ext 3865 0

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Physics Professor Elected to Royal Society

Bernhard Nickel

Department of Phy s ics Professor Bernhard Nickel has been elected a Fellow

of the Royal Society of Canada and was formally inducted into the Society at its

annual meeting in Montreal in June

A member of the Physics faculty since

1974 Professor Nickel is no stranger to

prizes and awards In 1981 he received the Herzberg Medal the Canadian Associashy

tion of Physicists award to a promising young scienti st In 1978 he won a Sloan

Fellowship from the New York-based Sloan Foundation

He achieved recognition by navigating

the esoteric seas of condensed matter physshy

ics Hi s co lleagues call him a leading masshyter in the art of mathematical physics By

exploiting the existing mathematical frameshywork in subtle ways he has worked through

thickets that have stopped other physic ists

High order perturbation calculations

done by him played a key role in verifying

the quantitative reliability of the theory of

underlying continuous phase transitions in systems

He earned BScE and MSc degrees from the University of Saskatchewan and a

PhD from the University of California at

San Diego He was a research associate at

Cornell and Oxford Universities and a postshy

doctoral research Fellow at the Univers itY of Alberta before coming to Guelph in 1974

He has been a visiting fellow at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory at the Univershy

sity of California at San Diego at Harvard

and at the Schlumberger-Doll Re searc h In stitute in Connecticut

With his election he becomes one of

six Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada at

Guelph The others are Professors Howard

Clark Peter Egelstaff Gabriel Karl Bruce Sells and Herbert Armstrong And it brings to five the number of me mbers of the

Guelph-Waterloo Program for Graduate Work in Physics (GWP)2 who can put the

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Halleys Comet and the Babylonians By Professors Nigel Bunce and Jim Hunt

The winter of 1985 and the spring of 1986 will lon g be remembered as the year of

Comet Halley No comet in history has so

stirred the imagination of man or been the

object of suc h intensive investigation Its easy to understand this interest when its

appreciated that Halleys Comet is the only recurring comet that is bright enough to be

seen with the naked eye ft was the g reat astronomer Edmund

Halley who in 1705 recognized the s imilarshy

ity of the appearances of the great comets of 1456 1531 1607 and 1682 He speculated that these were in fact one and the sa me

comet with a period of 75 or 76 years

He predicted that the comet would reshyturn in 175 8 a return he could not live to see With thi s Halley discovered the phenomeshy

non of periodic comets and thus showed

that they were members of our solar system

The comet dutifully returned in 1835

and spectacularly so in 1910 In the latter

year circumstances were such that after its

perhelion passage (the point closest to the

Sun) the Earth and the comet approached

each other very closely The comet was so close that at one time its tail spread from

horizon to horizon The return in 1985-86 will be considshy

erably less spectacular In fact for Canadishyans it will not be easy to observe s ince the

time of perhelion is in Febnlary when the

Sun is very low in the sky The view will be -much better from more southerl y latitudes Over the years historica l records have

been found which record every passage of the comet back to 12 BC M any of these obshy

servations come from Chinese records first published in 1846 A well-authenticated

passage was that of 1066 which was reshy

corded on the Bayeux tapestry by the mother

of William of Nonnand y and taken as an cOllld on righl

Grad News Paul Ferguson BSc 67 of Ede n Mill s is president of EIS Systems Ltd and travelled in New Zealand this summer

Walter Lock BSc 67 of Denfield is practising medicine in Lucan

Tjeerd Homan BSc 69 of Calgary Alta is manager research and development services for Petro-Can He is enjoying his family Carla Sarah and John Menno and his hobbies of golf curling and skiing

(GWP)2 Poster Session a First

Earlier this year the Guelph- Waterloo Proshygram for Graduate Work in Physics (GWP)2 staged its first annual poster session for graduate s tudents Poster sessions which are becoming increasingly popular in scienshytific circles allow interaction between researchers and delegates without the time pressures encountered when presenting con shyventional papers at meetings says (GWP)2 Director lain Campbell

The first annual (GWP)2 poste r sesshysion which was followed by a soc ial hour and banquet was highly successful in genershyating interaction says Campbell By the end of the session there were still clusters of people arguing the finer points of scientific interpretation on many of the posters These exchanges continued right through the soshycial hour and into dinner Interaction is what science is all about

Encouraging interaction between stushydents and faculty is one of Campbells prishyorities as Director It is too easy for students to tuck themselves into a corner and work away in isolation They need to get out and ex plain their work both to experts and to

omen of his victory over the Saxons Based on this long record various

mathematical analyses of the orbit of the comet have been produced These account very accurately for the known passages of the comet However when these various anshyalyses are pushed back beyond 12 BC they predict widely varying dates for the previous appearances Before 12 B c there are ani y two vague Chinese records in 87 BC and 240 B c which mayor may not have been Halleys comet

In a recent issue of Nature a team of

Ernest Campbell BSc 69 lives in Campbell ville and teaches science for the Halton Board in Burlington

Richard Davis BSc 77 having comshypleted his MD University of Toronto 83 and his internship at Womens College Hosshypital will be setting up his practice in family medicine in his home town of Guelph

Larry Meek BSc 77 of Ottawa is pashytient administrator and computing officer for the National Defence Medical Centre His hobbies include sailing and skiing

Andre Brunet BA 81 is working for Amdahl Ltd as fieldsystems engineer and lives in Sudbury with his wife Monique (Puellette) FACS 80

Cathy Deakin BSc 81 is presently articshyling with the law firm of Little Reeves Mahoney Jarrett amp Hart of London

Andrew Dubrawski BSc 82 and his wife Alicia (Wodecka) BSc 81 live in Toronto where he works as a communicashytions systems analyst for CNCP Telecomshymunications 0

10hn Root 81 a (GWP)2 PhD s tudent left aflracts an audience

non-experts It takes a deliberate effort on our part to generate and maintain this intershychange

The poster session was the largest scishyentific or social event yet staged by (GWP)2 Some 18 students presented posters and about 90 students faculty and prospective students attended

The posters are on display in the two departments of physics to give others an opportunity to view them At Gue lph they are in the second floor corridor of the Physshyical Science Building near the Department

scholars from England and Vienna reported the finding of two fragments of Babylonian tablets in the British Museum that clearly report the appearance of the comet in 87 BC and 164 B C The records are so clear that by calculation not only the year but the time of year for the perhelion passage can be determined

For example the 164 BC apparition has been narrowed down to a date someshywhere between November 5 and 25 of that year The 87 BC record is not as accurate nevertheless its perhelion passage can be

of Physics office Encouraged by the s uccess of the

poster sess ion lain Campbell is planning another high-profile event for (GWP)2 to recognize award-winning faculty He plans a fall symposium at which three (GWP)2 members who received major honours durshying 1985 will give short lectures to be folshylowed by a sherry reception The three honoured faculty are Gicinto Scoles Killam Fellowship winner Bernhard Nickel Felshylow of the Royal Society of Canada and John Simpson Rutherford medalist 0

narrowed down to July 25 to August 15 These observations while inaccurate

to the extent of 20 days are still accurate enough to eliminate three of the four leading -calculations of the motion of Comet Halley This is a striking example of how archaeoshylogical investigations may have a strong effect on many diverse subjects in this case com~tary astronomy 0

We welcome questions and ideas for future articles Write to the authors clo the Deans Office Cole fe ofPhysical Science Univershysity of Guelph Guelph Ontario NIG 2WI

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ders CBS BSe 77 and Elaine Courtice CBS BSe 80

Some of their achievements both proshyfessional and personal and some of their future hopes and plans are recorded here

Peter Taylor (1916) The first recipient of the Winega rd

Medal now with the University s Office for Educational Practice as manager of print publications is responsible for providing centralized graphic design typeselling and print publications cocordination to the Unishyversity community

Following graduation from Guelph Peter continued his education at the Uni-

Peter Taylor Arts 76

Christine Zinc Tim Henshaw John RoO Anne Miller OVC 7S

versity of Waterloo where he obtained an MA in English in 1981

Peter is also a poet - his first book First Epistle to Dr Torr was published by Gryphon Press in 1976 He printed and bound the book himself andsome copies are still ava ilable

7iaino which he considers his most important work to date was published by Paget Press in 1980 and a second chapbook The Masons came out that same year A third chapbook Aphorisms was printed in 1982

Being a ca reeri st and a poet is someshytimes a sc hi zophreni c existence says Pete r I never seem to have enough energy or time to do both as well as I might like to Regrettabl y my writing has played second fiddle to my career

Christine Zink (1918) In 1978 when Chnstine first joined a

large animal practice in Drayton Ontario the idea of a woman ve terin ar ian working with farm an imals was so inconceivable to farmers in the area that some of them called her young man she writes She reca lls many a midnight drive over desel1ed farm roads to help a cow give bil1h return shying home at su nri se know ing there was still a full days work ahead

After two years of practice Dr Zink returned to the OVC for pos t-graduate work and is now doing research on The Pathoshygenesis of Corynehacterium equi Pneushymonia in FoaJs In 1983 she passed the

American Collcge of Veterinary Patholshyogists spec iality boa rd exa minati on She expects to graduate with a Ph D thi s yea r and is deciding bet~een a position on faculty at a veterinary sc hool or post-doctoral reshysearch at a medica l sc hool in the United States

Tim Henshaw (1919) After three years in a private veterinary

prac tice in BalTie Tim became a staff vetshyerinari an with Unit ed Breede rs Inc of Guelph and now works out of the Alliston office His responsi bilities inc lude field sershyvice education and research He has reshyturned to campus as guest lect urer at the

to chemistry from her undergraduate studies in molecular genetics and biophysics has been good for me she says The chemisshytry I am learning helps me to better undershystand how enzymes work and macromoleshycules interact with their environment

Last year she married Ganpathy Murshythy a fellow Yale graduate student in ph ys shyics Together they enjoy hiking camping and reading and at the time of writing were planning a trip to India this year

J have told Ganpath y a lot about Gue lph she says and were looking forshyward to visiting the University on a sunny autumn day when the maples along Wineshygard Walk are all aflame

OVC 79 CPSSI CSSS2

OVC and the OAC and has done extensi ve speaking throughout the province for the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food

Dr He ~shaw is peoples warden of St Peters Anglican Church in Minesi ng presishydent of the Ontario Association of Bovine Practitioners secretary of the Simcoe County Holstein Club and a live-s toc k Judge

In 1980 he marri ed Jane Si nclair FACS 78 and they have a dau ghter Chrisshytenltt future University of Guelph class of 2005

John Root (1981) John continues to stud y at Guelph shy

he received an MSc in liquid state physics in 1983 and is now working on his Ph D Hi s thesis is on the Quantum Effects in the Structure of Liquid Water under the supershyvision of Department of Phys ics professor Peter Ege lstaff

In 1982 he married Darlene Maurer and their daughter Athena Catherine-Beth was born earlier this year

John is a youth group leader in the First Baptist Church in Guelph and was presishydent of the Baptist Youth of Ontario and Quebec in 1983-1984

Anne-Frances (MiUer) Murthy (1982)

From New Haven Connecticut USA Anne-Frances writes to say she is at Yale University in the Depal1ment of Chemshyistry doing research on photosynthetic oxyshygen evolution for her Ph D thesis The move

Nicole Didicher Jamie Sidlofsh Arts 83 ArtsS4

Nicole Didicher (1983) Nico le is finishing the first year of her

PhD studies at Queens University where she obtained her M A last year

Her Masters degree work centred on the medieva l period of English literature and she plans to do doc toral research in 18t h-ce ntury literature

Nicole reports that her cu rrent studies are supported by two Ontario Graduate Sc holars hips and a Queens Graduate Awa rd Thi s should come as no surprise to th ose who witnessed her dedication at Guelph

On the social scene in Kingston she s one of the 100 to 150 voices of the Queens Choral Ensemble and rece ntl y she acquired an apartment mate ca ll ed Mole a young white rat Hes a good companion and quiet sa id Ni co le Im absolu tely no good with plants so hes my al ternat ive

Jamie Sidlofsky (1984) Jam ie is a student in the LL B program

at the University of Toron tos Faculty of Law He is the University of Toronto represhy

sentative on the Canadian Bar Association -a member of the Faculty of Law arti cling and summer Jobs committee and direc tor Unishyversity of Toronto student lega l aid program Centre for Spanish-speaking Peoples

This summer he work ed with Diashymond Fairbairn amp Steinberg barri sters and solicitors in Toronto and as a research as shysistant for University of Toronto law proshyfessor Bernard Green 0

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Butthe Melody Lingers On By John Hearn Information Services

S tanley Saunders left Guelph this summer

for a year of administrative leave after II years as the Universitys Director of Music

College of Arts When Dr Saunders joined the Division

of Mu sic in 1974 he inherited a strong

musical tradition reaching back to the earliest

days of the Ontario Agricultural College which was always famous for its choirs

[t fell to Dr Saunders to take the fledgling

Division of Music introduce its first degree programs and build the solid reputation which it enjoys today

Dr Saunders completed his undershy

graduate studies at the University of Wales and twice won the First Award Open Instrushy

mental Solo at the Ei steddfod He was a

member of the National Youth Orchestra of Wales and later performed as a clarinetist with the SSCs radio and TV sy mphony

orchestras

Soon after coming to Guelph Dr Saunshy

ders founded the University of Guelph Civic Orchestra which under his direction achieved an enviable reputation in the ensuing

years The revival of the U of G Aggie Band

followed as did the U of G Concert Band By 1979 Dr Saunders had built a faculty

of some 16 members including Dr Charles

Wilson and Gerald and Elizabeth Neufeld

The same year also saw performances by

the U ofG Choir the U ofG Chamber Singers and the Summer Chorale The Noon-Hour

Concerts were adding to their already unique reputation while the newly formed U ofG

Trio consisting of Elizabeth Neufeld voice Sylvia Hunter piano and Stanley Saunders clarinet was beginning the series of tours which would take it to many parts of Canada and Great Britain

Before the end of the 70s we saw the

first of the successful Music of the Arboreshytum series of concerts the formation of the Aggie Choir under the direction of Gerald

Neufeld and in partnership with the Guelph Spong Festival welcomed such luminaries as the great contemporary Polish composer Penshyderecki Gian Carlo Menotti Ruby Mercer editor of Opera Canada and Bori s Brott

The early 80s have been gala years both for Dr Saunders and the Division

Dr Stanley Saunders

(retitled the Department of Music in 1984) The decade began with the presentation of

two world premieres by the U of G Civic Orchestra and the appointment of Dr Saunshy

ders as president of the National Youth Orchestra of Canada and vice-chairman of the Council of Ontario Music Administrators

The growing stature of the Department of

Music was also reflected in student registrashytion both credit and non-credit in vocal keyboard classical guitar and orchestral inshy

struments

The year 1981 saw a brilliant tour of Sweden and West Germany by the Univers ity of Guelph Choir under the direction of Gerald Neufeld and conducting engagements by Dr

Saunders in Toronto Ottawa Montreal Boston and Washington D C The same year

saw the formation of the U ofG Jazz Ensemshyble and the U ofG Pep Band both led by Kenneth Tinnish

II was a very good year As Dr Saunders said External evidence of scholarship is not necessarily obvious from performance but

creativity is itself a form of research and all these perform ances are not only enlightened by the students studies in history literature

and theory they are also heightened by their

awareness of the aesthetic factors that give significance to mu sic through their intershyrelated studies at the University

Another substantial increase in student

enrolment was witnessed in 1982-1983 deshysp ite the tightening of admission standards

and regulation for the continuance of studies

The University of Guelph Choir still under direc tor Gerald Neufeld won second prize in

the 1982 CSC national choral competition

Stanley Saunders can afford to look back on his Guelph years with considerable satisshyfaction The division which he inherited in 1974 with its three-member faculty had

grown by this year to a full department with

faculty and staff numbering 29 persons and with an enrollment of 300 students plus -another 126 students registered in the nonshycredit applied program

He has been a very bu sy and productive man commuting to and fro between Guelph and Sault Ste Marie to administer the joint

Univers ity of GuelphAlgoma University Colshylege music program - as well as keeping up

a steady schedule of scholastic publications He will be missed 0

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University of Guelph Licences Software to McGraw-Hili By Mary Cocivera

Information Services

The University of Gue lph and the US publi shing giant McGraw- Hili Inc are fishynalizing a non-exclusive licence for CoSy computer conferenc ing software developed at the University

Publi shed by McGraw-Hili BYTE Magazine is using the CoSy software to set up BIX the BYTE Information Exchange Phil Lemmons BYTEs editor-in-chief deshyscribes BIX as a living database The comshypany plans to set up conferences on every aspect of microcomputer use

Through the conferences users will be able to share information with each other and to communicate direc tly with the edi shytors of the magazine A four-ci ty commershycial te st began in September and a BYTE spokesman projects that a full international information exchange will be operating by early 1986

In addition to BIX McGraw-Hili will use the CoSy so ftware for internal comshymunications CoSy was installed by BYTE editorial offices in New Hampshire several months ago for evaluation by staffers They soon became confirmed users and CoS y beshycame a permanent part of the office The conference system was particularly sucshycessful in linking editorial headq uarters in the east with the west coast office

CoSy is already familiar to more than one thousand users world-wide who subshyscribe to a service oftered by the Univers ity of Guelph The licence to McGraw-Hili marks the first time the software will be operated and managed elsewhere The Unishyversity will continue to offer a CoSy se rvice and will continue to market the software to other potential users

CoSy was developed by a team of softshyware designers in Computing and Comshymunications Services at the Univers ity over a 16-month period Alastair Mayer was the chief architect of the code The software was written in C a high-level programming language to run under the Uni x operating system This feature makes CoS y highly portable and capable of running on any micro-computer or a mainframe with the Unix operating sys tem

George Bond BYTEs managing editor for e lectronic publishing and communicashytion says that ease of use and the Unix operating system were important fac tors in their choice of CoSy He also cited the skills and co-operative attitudes of the peopl e at

CoSy th e University of Guelph who are involved with CoSy

The University of Guelph was a parshyticularly hospita ble environment for deshyvelopment of a computer conferencing system according to Dr Ken MacKay assoshyciate director of Institutional An alysis and Pl anning Electronic mail was well estabshylished on campus so there were many peoshyple already committed to e lectronic commushynications Home-grown APL mail is arguashybly the best mail system anywhere because its easy to use and very robust CoSy is a separate system but is a descendant of earshylie r electronic mail systems

We had three basic design ideas for CoSy explains Alastair Mayer It should req uire few co mm ands the user should be able to learn without a manual and it should be accessible fro m any terminal The se goa ls have been reali zed to a great extent A manual is available but by refe rring to the help instructions within CoSy users can learn enough commands to become funcshytional very quickly

Dr Edward Swart acting director of Computing and Communication Services points out that CoSy is offered as a free service to the University com munity He beshylieves that this enlightened decision conshytributed to CoSys ne arly immediate success on campus From the early development stages users were invited to make comshyments and suggestions Their feedback inshynuenced the design of the current CoSy sysshytem to a substantial extent

Computer conferenc ing is a powerful concept as CoSy users soon discover Marshygaret Bec kman the Univers itys executive direc tor of Information Technology says there is no doubt that computer con ferencshying reduces the number of meetings and enables decisions to be made more quickl y CoSy is heavily used by University adminshyistrators and members of facu lty are ex plorshy

ing applications of computer co nferencing in teaching and lea rning

Proceeds from licences and from subshyscriptions to the campus conferencing sysshytem will fund furth er development of CoSy Dr Swart says a not-too-distant developshyment will be a distributed conference cashypability permitting a free exc hange of information from one conference systelll to another A second deve loplllent will be to activate what Dr Swa11 calls CoSys Jashytent graphics capability In CoSy a messhysage ca n contain anything even NAPLPS codes for graphics Graphs sketches and charts will thus soon become part of CoSy confe rences 0

A Letter Dear MI~ Wing

My wife (lnd I WOIII vou to know hml we enjoyed LM Mont gomerys storr The Strike at Putney ill the Spring 85 GueJph Alumnu s

Visiting Green Gables in P EI wos one of the highlights of our Trans-Canada vocmion 0 few years ago

We hope you I publish one ofher short stories in each issue of th e maga zine selectedjiom the U ofGs LM Montgomshyery Collectionfrom now on and make each issue a colleclOrs item shyCordially

Doug Marrin OAC 39 107 Waverly Place Mountain View Calif 94040 USA

Thanks for your letter Doug we will do our very best to bri ng you more L M M Ed

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P rofessional golfer philosopher oenologist would-be film maker and

now restaurateur Robert Harcourt Bob Desautels HAFA 75 Arts 84 is a man of many facets one who seeks his own sty le of excellence in many directions This summer he opened a new restaurant La Maisonmiddot in downtown Guelph which is already drawing patrons from a wide area in search of the gourmet delights promised by a very disshytinguished menu and delivered by chefs accomplished in the arts of haute cuisine

Bob works outward from a central conshyviction that there is always a market for excellence Born in Toronto he has lived in Ottawa Montreal - and Guelph He studied at Sir George Williams University Montreal Que (now pan of Concordia University) before attending the College of Family and Consumer Studies School of Hotel and Food Administration (HAFA) where he graduated with a BComm degree

He will be remem bered on campus as manager of the Faculty Club a position

The Eclectic

Bob Desautels

which he held for nearly three years after graduating and before he launched on a whole new career as a profess ional golfer He played Canadian and Australian circuits for a while and then accepted the position of manager and golf pro at the Cedarhurst Golf Club on Lake Simcoe

Two years later he was back at the Unishyversity of Guelphs hotel sc hool as a research assistant preparing for HAFAs first Advanced Management Program for the Hospitality Industry (AMPHI) course - an unrepentantly elitist institution offering advanced manageshyment training only to very se nior executives in the hospitality industry

Bob se rved as logistics manager to AMPHI for two years with responsibility for the health and welfare of a clientele whose expectations as far as hospitality is conshycerned are of the very highest

As a member of the HAFA faculty he was a more than occasional lecturer primarily on the subject of wine - whi ch he describes in reverential tones He is married (the pursuit of excellence again) his wife Susan hail s from Australia They have two children Coun age 7 and Emily 5

At the end of two years with HAFA Bob Desautels was faced with one of those critical life decisions - a choice between two paths leading in significantly different directions He might have accepted a tenure track position for whichit would have made sense to seek a PhD in business admini stration or

HAFA 75 By John Hearn Information Services

Mine host Bob Desautels HAFA 75 at La Maison

pursue an old love for philosophy He chose the latter and earned hi s Masters degree from Guelphs College of Ans in the fall of 1984

I suppose it arises from an old interest in religion he explains Metaphysical quesshytions have always fascinated me Scientific materialism the notion that mind is no more than a function of brain has neve r satisfied me There are too many loose ends - mind contemplating itself for example introshyspection Focu ss ing on philosophy of the mind for my degree gave me one of the answers - but may be Im beginning to understand some of the questions

So in the Fall of 84 philoso pher wine connoisseur goller Bob Desautels inventoried his assets - and took a course in film making at the Ryerson Poly technica l Institute Im interested in the creative end of film making he says Writing andor directing Ive fini shed one film script and working on another But it takes mucho dinero

Then early this Spring the main floor of one of Guelph s distinguished old homes beca me available Strategically located at the corner of Woolwich and Yarmouth Streets in an area already known for fine dining the housc is owned by Guelph bu sinessman Paul Starr A pannership was struck and Bob found himsel f bringing the whole wealth of hi s re staurant management know-how and his own drive for excellence to bear on La

Maison It was conceived planned and exshyecuted from the beginning as a shrine conseshycrated to the worshippers of superlative cuishysine enjoyed in the most distinguished of atmospheres

The concept has two major aspects One large room is given over to a wine bar where the connoisseur - or those who enjoy the fermented grape of any age or colour - can select from more than 20 splendid vintages by the glass or the bottle A parallel selection of native and imponed cheeses activate the tastebuds while intimates can order a delectashyble cheese fondue for two The wine-bar is a casual drop-in kind of place open from noon until midnight for enjoyment relaxation and con versation

The other main room is for the serious diner There is a modest economically-priced luncheon available for business people but the evening meal is designed to attract those for whom dining is a rei igious experience

You make your market study says bullBob but then you add your own secret ingredient - call it gut feeling There are some very good restaurants in Guelph but none that target this panicular niche

l may be that not the least of La Maisons attractions will be the possibility of conversation with mine host Choose your own subject - golf metaphysics pragshymatism - or the an of Woody Allen Bob Desautels is nothing if not eclectic 0

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Newly Elected as

A1uDlni Senators Following the annual election of three of the nine alumni seats on Senate at the University the following alumni were elected to replace those who fulfilled three-year terms on August 31 1985

Norman Hawkins OVC 57

Rita Weigel James White FACS 77 OAC 6 1

James White OAC 55A and 61 lives in Brampton and is the owner of InfoResults Limited information research consultants Brampton He completed Masters and Docshytoral degrees at Michigan State University Department of Communication He has opshyerated InfoResults for 15 years specializing in agricultural economics social policy and communication issues

He is a past president of the Canadian Consulting Agrologists Association has served on the provincial council of the Ontario Institute of Agrologists and was a director of the Canadian Society of Agrishycultural Economic s and Farm Manageshyment 0

Dr Norman Hawkins OVC 57 estabshyIlished the Guelph Animal Hospital on Elizshyabeth Street in 1957 and has continued his practice there as a partner

An active member of the Ontario Vetshyerinary Association council and a commitshytee worker he is also a member of the Canadian Veterinary Medical Association national examination board

His earlier work with the American Veterinary Medical Association involved the examination of overseas veterinary gradshyuates and inspection of North American vetshyerinary sc hools

He is a member of the Guelph Public Library Board and Board chairman of St

Margaret s School Elora

Rita (Klassen) Weigel FACS 77 gradushyated from the College of Family and Conshysumer Studies with a BASc in Con su mer Studies She was president of the Mac-FACS Alumni Association 1983-84 and has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Universi ty of Guelph Alumni Association

A member of the Canadian Marketing and Research Society Rita was employed in the research and product management field for a number of years A Guelph res ident her concerns include those of a mother of a son and twin one-year-old daughters

New Chairman Board of Governors

Edmond Bovey

Edmund C Bovey the man who headed the Commission on the Future Development of the Universities of Ontario has been named chairman of the Board of Governors at the Universi ty of Guelph A member of the Board since 1976 he succeeds Cecil Franklin who retired July I after three years as chairman and who also joined the Board in 1976

Edmund Bovey was chairman of the three-man commission that held hearings

for the Ontario public and university comshymunity in 19831984 before developing and recommending to the Mini stry of Colleges and Universities a future plan for Ontario universities

Retired as director chairman of the board and member of the executive committee of Norcen Energy Reso urces Toronto he was recently named to chair a task force on funding the arts in Canada an area where he has long experience A past president and trustee of the Ali Gallery of Ontario and its Foundation he is also a member of the Board of Governors of Roy Thomson Hall and vice-chairman of the International Council of the Museum of Modern Art in New York He is a past chairshyman of the Council for Business and Arts in Canada

In addition he is a director of a number of companies including Hollinger Argus Abitibi Price Canada Packers and the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce as well as MONY Life Insurance PPG Indusshytries and PPG Industries Canada

He is a member of the Canadian Ecoshynomic Policy Committee a director of the Canadian Executive Service Overseas and a past president of the Canadian Gas Associashytion He is also currently chairman of the Board of Wellesley Hospital Toronto

He was born in Calgary Alta and edushycated in Victoria BC 0

Appointments

Ab Moore Harry Downie OVC 48

Dr Ab Moore took up the responsibilities of chairman of the Department of Rural Extension Studies on September I for a fiveshy shyyear term He was previously director of the Office of Educational Practice

Dr Harry Downie OVC48 became actshying chairman of the Department of Bioshymedical Sciences on July I He continues until December 3 1 or until a new chairman is named 0

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Available for Immediate Possession Space in Prestige Campus Home (for baby grand piano)

The Presidents House dedicated as a building of historical and architectural significance has been without a piano since President Maclachlan retired in 1967

This could be the chance of a lifetime if you are seeking a unique and extremely worthwhile Class Project Perhaps your class would like to buy a new piano to be used in this centre for campus entertaining to be viewed by more than 5 000 visitors a year A recognition plaque would be located either on or adjacent to the instrument

A Bequest

Charles S Humphrey

A former partner and president from 1947

to 1963 of Guelphs Hart Chemical Comshy

pany Canada Ltd the late Charles S Humphrey se lected the Universit y of

Guelph as one of the benefic iaries of his estate

Hi s bequest to the Unive rs it y of

$130000 received last June is to be used at the discretion of the University pres ident

in the University s scholarships and burshy

saries program A resident of Victoria BC since his

retirement in 1963 Charles Humphrey died on August29 1984 at the age of81 He was an emeritus member of the Canadian Assoshy

ciation of Textile Colourists and Chemists Born at Hornell NY USA he came to Canada in 1936

This is the second time that Charles

Humphrey has given financial support to the Univers ity In 1979 he generously provided a $50000 endowment gift to support an annual $5000 graduate fellowship in Chemistry

The fellowship is designed to ease the financial burdens of outstanding students in

organic chemistry registered in the PhD

program at the Guelph-Waterloo Centre for Graduate Work in Chemistry (GWC)2 0

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CODling Events 86 Jan 7-9

Mar 5

8-9

13-15

April 4middot5

June 9middot13

20-22

OAC Agricultural Conference

Alumni Florida Reunion (See below)

College Royal Open House

Ontario Institute of Agrologists Annual Conference Agricultural Trade To be he ld

in Cornwall Ont

OAC Alumni Association Curling Bonspiel

U of 6s 8tb Annual Human Sexuality Conference Changing Nature of Sexual Relationships Sexual Scripts and Lifestyles Today

ALUMNI WEEKEND 86

Alumni Florida Reunion If you missed the Alumni Flo rida Reunion Picnic in March 85 you missed a great gathering About 90 alumni and

friends met for a very pleasant pot luck meal Ross Cavers OAC 29 the organizing committee chairman hopes it will

become an annual affair Ruth and Gordon Wright Mac

37 and OAC 33 and Willa and Morley Funston Mac and OAC 32 made the loc al arrangements the affair was sponshysored by the Universitys Alumni-in Action group Make

plans to attend the second annual Florida Alumni Reunion Picnic at 12 noon on Wednesday March 51986 at Harbour Heights Park near Port Charlotte Florida two miles east of

Interstate Highway 75 Please respond by March 11986 to Ruth and Gordon Wright General Delivery Warm Mineral

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College of Arts Alumni Association DELPHA

Editor Terry Ayer 84

Executive 1985-86 HONORARY PRESIDENT Dr David R Murray Dean

PRESIDENT Linda McKenzie-Cordick 81

PAST PRESIDENT Margo Shoemaker 79

VICE-PRESIDENT Wm Macdonald 78

SECRETARY-TREASURER

Marilyn Armstrong 78

DIRECTORS Debbie (Nash) Chambers 77 Edith LeLacheur 72 Janice (Robertshy

son) Partlow 79

UGAA REPS Wm Macdonald 78 Margo Shoemaker 79

EDITOR DELPHA Terry Ayer 84

Appointed

Dr Edward Phillips

Edward Phillips began a five-year term as chairman of the Department of Music July I He obtained his BA in mu sic at Amherst College

Massachusetts and his M A Masshyter of Philosophy and Ph D all in music theory from Yale Univers ity Married to Patricia who has a DM A in organ performance from Yale he has two sons Stewart 7 and Andrew 3 Edward who is also an organist enjoys cooking 0

Literary Heritage Preserved in Africa Most Canadian children are exposed to their cultural heritage at an early age through legendary stories brought from Eushy

rope or about Canadian pioneering and through stories about Indian or Inuit myths

and fables In developing countries however

where paper and printed materials are in

shon supply cultural heritage is usually passed on orally and children have little

opportunity to read about their past A Canashydian project involving the Universities of Guelph and Yaounde in Cameroon West

Africa is doing something to keep that countrys heritage alive

The project now entering its fourth year is a collaborative effort of the De partshy

ment of English Language and Literature at Guelph and the Department of African Litshyerature at the Univers ity of Yaounde It is

sponsored by the Canadian International Development Agency with Guelphs Deshy

partment of English Language and Litershy

ature Chairman Doug Killam serving as co-ordinator and Elizabeth (Wildman)

Cockburn CSS 81 as Canadian project consultant

Dr Killam is well-known for his work in the field of Commonwealth literature and

has taught at several African universities

EI izabeth Cock burn a primary sc hool teacher taught at the Government Teachers Training College in the North West Province

of Cameroon from 1969 to 1971 It was then

that she became aware of the shortage of relevent reading material for Cameroon schoolchildren

However it was some ten years later

that the project was born when she and Professor Kilian consulted with Dr Bernard

Fonlon then head of the Department of Afshyrican Literature at Yaounde Deeply comshy

mitted to saving African oral traditions as literatore Dr Fonlon although now retired remains a driving force in promoting creativity in the schools and scholarship on oral literature at the university

Last January Professor Killam and Elizabeth Cockburn were in Yaounde at a

conference where 80 papers were presented on the theory and practice of oral literature for West African educators - the first major attempt to marry theory and practice

As are children in the Canadian Indian

and Inuit communities African children are often exposed to texts that portray children of cultures different from their own To

counteract thi s influence simple African s tories with lifelike illustrations are being

Local stories come alive

mimeographed and turned into booklets by simply folding stand ard letter-size paper in half A collections of these stories will evenshytually be produced in textbook form when

fund s become available One such s tory The Marriage Feast

describes the marriage meal of the cat who invites all the domestic animals and birds to

the celebration

The dogs who know much about meat were asked 10 cook the food 8U1 they decided 10

playa trick They cooked the meat in the bOlom of the pot with the vegetables on lOp They said they would be the last to eat

In true fable form the hens who ate first discovered when they were too full to eat any more that there was meat deep

inside the pOI So they

Swore never to eat from the surface again and that is why hens always scratch deep into the soil in search offood

Although story-telling is becoming a lost art in Canada it is still a lively part of

life in Cameroon But as Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe said when he was in Guelph last year when a member of the older genshyeration dies its as if a whole library was destroyed -

Time is running short and fund s are needed to keep alive this project in Camshyeroon Anyone seeking further information

on the project may address their inquiries to Professor Killam at the University He hopes to receive funding from the Commonwealth

Foundation for similar work in other counshytries which have expressed an interest in

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The Limners How do art students continue to find stimshyulation and motivation following graduation when they are no longer under the pressure of course requirements and without the critshyicism of an instructor

Four Fine Art graduates and one inshycourse student solved the problem by formshying a support group called The Limners (Limn an archaic word meaning paint deshypict portray Hence - Limner) Last Sepshytember the group held a success ful exhishybition of their recent works at the Halton Hills Cultural Centre Georgetown The Limners are

Dorothy Hart 81 of Georgetown She works with oil s pas tel s and graphite b4t is very interested in character fi gures made of cellu-clay which requires enormous pashytience to produce Her latest interest is pastel portraits of children

Dimensions 85 The fourth annual College of Arts Ailimni Association juried art show DIMENSIONS 85 was a success once again The jury members Marlene Jofriet well-known water colourist _ Michael OKeefe 76 practising artist and teacher and George Todd chairman Department of Fine Art selected 30 entries to hang

The jury awarded the following $100 $75 $50 prizes and designated three honshyourable -mentions

First pri ze Sheila Vollmer 85 Woman in Veil intaglio print

Second prize Wendy Maki 83 Pears Plums Apples and Grapes oil on canvas

Sue Knox 81 Formerly she was interested in the landscapes of Northern Ontario where she used to work Now back in Guelph Sue has rediscovered her urban surshyroundings including people

Betty Ketcheson 83 of Frankford Ontario to where her husband lack has retired Watercolour is her favorite medium however Betty also has an interest in enshycaustic painting with beeswax as a medium

Jane Graham 83 of Guelph lane tries to communicate her own brand of optimism through her waterco lours by using the figure in the land scape most often a child

Nan Hogg an undergraduate Nan is intershyested in making art that is feminist A memshyber of th e Guelph Embroiderers Guild Nans recent work displays a combination of watercolours or etchings with coil aged fabshyric that has been embroidered 0

The Limners L to r Sue Knox 81 Belly Ketcheson 83 Nan Hogg Dorothy Hart 81 and Jane Graham 83

Third pri ze Doreen Schaub 70 Rushing Waters watercolour

Honourable Mentions Sheila Volshylmer 85 Embracing Figures sculpture in pl aster Scott Abbot 79 Fields Near Maryhill oil on masonite Margaret Peter 74 Impressions Fossil Series collagraphsi Ikscreen

An innovation at DIMENSIONS 85 was the presentation of selected works of a featured artist Our first selected arti st was Evan MacDonald no stranger to the Univershysity of Guelph Many of his works are part of the Universitys collection of Canadian art hi s portraits hang in various buildings on campus and he was awarded an honorary doctorate of laws in 1979

We extend our sincere thanks to Ingrid

At DIMENSIONS 85 ColeRe oj Arts art sholl at Alllmni Wefkllld 85 L to r Marlene Jojriet juror Dr GeorRe 7iJdd chairman Department oj Fine Art jllror Wencil Maki 83 second-prize winner Doreen Schauh 70 third-prize willner Michael 0 Keeji 76

juror Own David Murray

Jenkner curatorexhibitions at the Macshydonald Stewart Art Centre and Mary MacshyDonald Evans wife for making it possible for us to feature the works of Evan

We also expre ss our gratitude and appreciation to all those who were instrushymental in making the show a success A special thank you is extended to this years participants without whom the show coulll not have been mounted 0

Art Show and Lecture Series Recognizing the 20th anniversary of the Department of Fine Art a facshyulty art show will be presented at the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre Nov 21 to lan 5 Viewing Tue to Fri and Sun noon to 500 pm Sat 1000 am to 500 pm A lecture se ries will present Dr Alan Gowans professor of art history University of Victoria B c on Art History and the Social Function Nov 18 at 800 -pm Rm 113 Physics Bldg Dr Ronald Nasgaard chief curator Art Gallery of Ontario wi II present Cushyratorship Today and Social Political Economic Pressures on Nov 27 at 400 pm in the Dept of Fine Art A third speaker is slated for early in the New Year

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Ontario Veterinary College Alumni Assoc OVC ALUMNI NEWS

Editor Dr Cliff Barker 41

OVC Alumni Association Executive 1985middot86

HONORARY PRESIDENT Dr Ole Niel sen 56 PRESIDENT Dr Ken Gadd 56 PAST PRESIDENT Dr Wendy Parker 7 1 VICE-PRESIDENT Dr Mary (Hawkins) Wiltshire 74 SECRETARY-TREASURER Dr Gordon Boylan 46 DIRECTORS Dr Bob Buck 46 Dr Archie MacKinnon 43 Dr Norm McAninch 39 Dr Bruce Robb 7 1 Dr Bruce Robinson 76 Dr Noni Sman 80 EDITOR avc Alumni News Dr Cliff Barker 41

Mailbag Dear Cliff

We were over to Vancouver Island recel11ly and went up to Qualicum Beach to see 0 Howard Taylor 13 He broke me in on meat inspection in 42 at the old Burns plant on Logan Avenue in Winnipeg

He is in great shape Qlid outside of a gimpy knee has no problems It was a real pleasure to see him again - still the same sparkle and quick wit that I had remembered from the Winnipeg years

I had not seen Howardfor 40 years bw outside of him thinking I had aged someshywhat had no trouble with identification Thought you might be il7lerested in this bit of news - not too many vets make it to age 98

We are fine and enjoying a complete reversal of what Vancouver weather is supshyposed to be bUi sure would like to see aboUl a week of rain Regards Bud Ellis 41 1410 Gordon Avenue West Vancouver Sc V7T IR6

From the Dean

Dr Ole Nielsen 56

In this my first opponunity to address our alumni through this medium I would like to express my pleasure at having the privilege of serving the Ontario Veterinary College and the University of Guelph

At the outset I acknowledge my debt to those many faculty students and staff who have labored to make this College a great inshystitution Being mindful of this heritage I am excited by the challenge of helping move the College to new levels of excellence One has to be impressed with the potential of the OVe Heres why

By the time this publication has gone to press I expect tenders for the first phase of a new OVC building program will have been called and possibly awarded This project costing over $13 million will provide modshyem facilities for the Depanments of Clinical Studies and of Biomedical Sciences and the Veterinary Teaching Hospital

The culmination of a great deal of effon led by former Dean Doug Maplesshyden 50 and President Burt Matthews OAC 47 the project is jointly funded by the Federal Government (Departments of Agrishyculture and Regional Industrial Expansion) and the Province of Ontario (OMAF)

The new facility will allow the College to press forward with new teaching research and service programs that include such vital newareas as biotechnology computer as istshyed health management and expanded proshygrams in toxicology

The second phase of the OVC building program which is largely related to teachshying spaces remains to be funded A good share of this project is expected to be includshyed in the fonhcoming capital campaign of the University The panicipation of you the alumni will be crucial to its success The governments of Ontario and Canada have done their part despite difficult circumshystances The rest is up to us

I have found the faculty of the OVC to be -a group of strong and vigorous academshyics and many young talented faculty have been appointed recently In passing one notes the retirement of many of those who led the renaissance in veterinary education in Canada in the post-war years The new generation of faculty has a real challenge in

trying to do as well as their predecessors shyand it will

I believe the graduate students are the sou I of the College Therefore another cause for optimism is the strength of the graduate and research programs at the OVe Presently the College has about 130 gradushyate students who at this most creative period of their lives are striving to provide new knowledge and skills for veterinary medishycine In 1950 there were none

There has been a significant expansion in the D YSc program a comparatively new doctoral program that gives priority to the acquisition of clinical sk ill s in addition to training in research The D VSc degree is unique in the world and how its graduates will be received remains to be determined I am confident it will be favourably

Believing in the imponance of reshysearch OMAF recently committed itself to provide the College with a new research farm at Ponsonby This nO-acre site located some ten miles from Guelph will provide farm-type facilities for hous ing dairy cattle beef cattle sheep pigs and laboratory anishymals will replace existing facilities at Eramosa and Plislinch and will cost in excess of $3 million

The application rate and quality of stushydents seeking admision to the D YM proshygram remains high

I am delighted to be assisted in the work of the Deans office by Associate Dean Ted Valli 62 and Academic Counsellor Ron Downey 61 and given the above is it any wonder I am optimistic

I have always been a bit smug in believshying that those of us from western Canada were the most friendly in the nation My exshyperience since coming to Guelph proves me wrong Everyone including students facshyulty staff the University administration and the local community could not have been more friendly and helpful 0

OVCAA Membership Report-Summer 1985

Life Membership 1 103 Honorary Life Membership 3 Life Me m Instalment Plan 241 Annual Membership 42 -Total Membership 1389 Total Alumni 3537 Membership

of Total Alumni 3930 Membership

of Known Alumni 40 06

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Inch in KatDlandu The following letter to the editor from Or

Carolyn Inch 81 was sent to Ornella Osborne editor of Update the newsletter

published by the Ontario Veterinary Assoshyciation Were grateful to Omelia for passing it on to us

While trekking through the north central region of the Himalayan mountains in

Nepal I was surprised to see the words vetshy

erinary office added to the bottom of it sign written in Nepalese

The village Chame contained the

headquarters of the government veterinary operations for the region of Manang Borshy

dering on China in the north the region covers about 2000 square kilometres and

has the lowest population density in Nepal The average altitude of the region is above

3048 metres Annapurna towers at 8091

metres The logistics behind launching a vetshy

erinary program in an area that is entirely inaccessible except by foot or aircraft had

me intrigued Dr Koshori Jha greeted us warmly and

in the polite manner wed received at the hands of all the Nepalese tea was served

The bulk of his practice is in sheep and goats as well as cattle yak horse mules and chickens On a daily basis he deals most frequently with footrot a problem that

is compounded by the fact that most of the bovine and equine species are bred pri-

During the recent avc AA Annual Meeting retired Deal Doug Maplesden 50 righl received ( plaque embodying newsclippings puhlished during his lenure Dean OIl Nieletl 56 made the presentalion

marily for use as pack animals the terrain is

rough and whether goats are grazing beshy

tween rocks or mules are carrying 80-kiloshygram loads up mountainsides their hooves are exposed to a lot of strain

Dr Koshori Jhas pharmacy contained various disinfectants and as tringents and

many herbal remedies from India retained placenta and anti-bloat preparation for

example

The only vaccine available to him was against Hemorrhagic Septicemia and he

used it when faced with a diagnosed herd

outbreak Dr Koshori Jha pointed out phenol

which was used on feet during July August and Septembers annual FMD outbreak

coinciding with the rainy season Day-to-day treatment is a sma ll part of

the government veterinarian s job He recently received approval for his five-year

plan which began last spring The main eleshyments of the plan are training increasi ng egg production mule breeding Jhopa

breeding (cross between a cow and male yak) and improving cattle feed by the introshyduction of a Phillipine variety of cattle grass

For the livestock assistance training

three farmers from each of 12 panchayats (districts) in Manang will come to Chame

for training and to discuss local problems These men will be involved in a serv ice

centre to be se t up in each panchayat for common treatment He also plans to hold a yearly lives tock exhibitio n with pri ze shy

money for healthy livestock

Plans to increase egg production include a new brooding unit and the introshy

duction of a hybrid of Leghorn New Hampshyshire and Rhode Island Red poultry In an effort to upgrade the quality of pack anishy

mals local ponies will be crossed with donshykeys brought from northern India Similarly

Missing in India Dr Ohiroobhai K Desai 46 61 Sharda Society Paldi Ahmedabad 380007 India has written of hi s attempts to gather inforshy

mation on Drs VD Alaga Raju 36 and

K B Nair 36 both of India He repol1s having bee n with Dr Nair from 1952 to 1956 at the Bombay Veterinary College as an exshyaminer in Veterinary Medicine However he

has been unable to provide up-to-date inforshymation on thesc two alumni Any alumni

with information please write to your avc Alumni Bulletin editor 0

male yaks will be crossed with local cows

and their offspring Jhopa will be used as high-altitude pack animals

Dr Jha plans to distribute these breedshying animals to the more remote region s so

that bloodlines can be upgraded In so me of these areas the native dialect is related to ancestral Tibetan languge rather thall Nepashy

lese which compounds hi s difficult task of education

Pack animals are the lifeline of the

high-altitude people as much today as they

have been for centuries I very much appreshy

ciate the time taken by Dr Koshori Jha to explain the role of domestic animals in the

Himalaya and share with me his ambitious plans for the future 0

AI Ihe recem CVMA Conference in Pelllicshylon Dr Bob Dunbar 12 leji with Dr ROI Downey 6 Bob has reached his 961h birlhday and resides in a PellliClol1 nursing home

In Memoriam Or John N Campbell 15 545 Scripps Drive Davis California 59616 USA

died May 4 1985

Dr Ra)mond E Pinkert 36 440 NOl1h Pine Street Reedsburg Wisconsin 53959 USA died April 13 1985

Or Roderick S MacDonald 37 3003 Oliver Street Apt 203A Halifax NS -B3L 4AI died June 12 1985

Dr John J Carney 44 3531 West 33rd Avenue Vancouver B C V6S IZ2 Date of

death unknown

Or Kenneth R Lachapelle 54 1635 Ranvoyze Ave St Foy Que GIW 3K2

died June 26 1985 0

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College of Social Science Alumni Assoc PEGASmiddotUS

Editor Dorothy Barnes 78

Our Annual Picnic We Illissed you I All of you who didnt make it to our CSSAA picnic during Alumni Weekend 85 But despite the few members and families that did attend we had a good time The pictures tell the story

Here are some of us arriving (l) and setting up the eats We had good food and why not It was a tillle to enjoy relax and have some fun We had games for all ages including catch-the-eggs (2) with real raw eggs

AmI of course whats a picnic without a drop of rain) But President John came prepared with a tarpaulin (3) for those afrnid ofilleiting The k)od and the day were saved Hurrah for our presidenl

Thcre were some brave soul s who unshydaunted by the weather carried on with their baseball game Then of course there was one young partiCipant (4) who was seen scratching hcr head 1I1d wondering what was going on

All in all we had a great time You would have too if youd bcen thcre So makc a mental notc or tic a string around your tingcr toc anywhere that will reillind you that you missed a good outing at th e Aluillni Wcckend 85 CSSAA picnic and that you should makc pl ans now to join us in June 86 at Alumni Wcekend 86 0

A Joy to Behold Her work has the shi mmer of life Such is said of artist Joy Elizabeth (Snihur) Laking Fine Art CSS 72 Joys art is intimately tied to the seasons In spring and summer she works against the perilous fadshying of fresh flowers capturing them in clean powerful designs

Fa ll afternoons on the grassy salt marshes around her home in Portaupigue Nova Scotia inspire wider scenes of rich changing colours

The respite of winter is her time for land and peoplescapes evolved from her ow n photography Her art is created within the context of family community and nature

Joy was introduced to hcr chosen lifeshystyle by her mother - they used to go sketching while Joy was a child in Owen Sound on Lake Huron s Georgian Bay shyand has painted since she can remember She now lives on the edge of the Bay of Fundy with husband Ronald OAC 72 and two cherubs where she can paint every day and capture the beauty she sees around her Whether it be mud and Illarsh a rusted truck and some farmyard geese or caterpillar holes in azalea leaves Joy is able to capture in watercolour the essence and beauty of all she sees

She is noted for her special ability to create white flowers on white paper by givshying the petals shape and vivid life with only a whisper of colour and shadow Light delishycate handling and mcticulous control fused with a powerful design se nse distinguishes her art

Joy is a well established artist and has had se lected exhibitions of her paintings at the Tom Thompson Memorial Art Gallery Owen Sound 1981 Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery Halifax NS 1982 Gallery 1889 Tatamagouche NS 1983

Daffodils By Joy (Snihur) Laking 72

Truro Art Society Truro NS 1984 and the Royal Botanical Gardens Burlington Onl 14

She was deservedly honoured to have the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia purchase one of her paintings for its collection and the Maritime Tel amp Tel chose a Laking painting for the cover of Nova Scotias 1985 telephone directory

Joy says I paint what I live what I see and what touches me It s no wonder then that Joy has been able to successfully transshyfer such sensitivity to her work in a way that has produced tine work s of art as demonshystrated in Daffodils reproduced here 0

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Grad News Terry Goddard 76 wrote to let us know

where he is and what hes doing After gradshyuation Terry turned to the world of engishy

neering and worked at the Bechtel Intershy

national Syncrude project in northern Alberta for a year He retu rned to school and obtained a Masters degree in Politi cal Theshyory in 1978 at the University of Toronto

TIle next nine months were spent workshying at Dhaharan Saudi Arabi a While the re

Terry contemplated the action which would

give him the best career move His deci s ion to go into teach ing led him back to the Unishy

versity of Toronto to obtai n his BEd His teachin g career took hi m to northshy

e rn Saskatchewan whe re he taug ht at a village which if not actually at the end of

the world was situated close enough that the end was plainly visible from the nOI1hern

outskirts He returned to Toronto someshywhat sated with academe and once again

turned to engineering He has been director of maintenance for the Jewi sh Com munity

Centres of Toronto for the past five years He has fou nd it difficult to keep in

touch with fellow grad s Especia lly th ose who studied in Professor Melby s Chinese

poIitic s courses and who were known as the Shanghai Mafia - they are all over the

world now Hes sure they often recall with fondness their days at Unigoo

Where are you former students of Proshyfessors Simmo ns and MelbYTerry would be interested in hearing from you - and so would we

Robin-Lee Norris 80 has been awarded

a $19000 Rot ary Foundation Scholarship to

pursue g radua te studi es in the Masters of Business Administration program at the

Univers ity of Adelaide Adelaide Australia Robin-Lee went o n to graduate from

Osgoode Hall Law School with an LLB

was called to the Ontario Bar in ApriJ of 1982 and has practised law with the tirm of

Kearns McKin non inGuelph since herca ll She took a ten-mo nth leave of absence

commenc ing in February 1985 from her positi on with Kearns McKinno n in o rder to take ad vantage of the sc holarship

During her months in Australia her mandate from Rotary Internatio nal in addishy

tion to pursuing her stud ies is to act as a Rotary and Canadian Ambassador in proshy

moting good will and understanding beshytween Australians and Canadians

A thank you goes to Cliff Hardy buildshying mechanic superv isor Main tenance Deshypartment Physical Resources for supplying us with thi s information and an aside to Robin-Lee when she reads this I was unable

to reach you betore you left to congratulate

you and get more informati on on your award If you have some free time we wOllld love to hea r from you about your studi es

what a Rotary and Canadian ambassador

does and to have you share your ex perience of being down-under

Marilyn Kernohan Morrison 78 has taken the time to Jet us know that shes living in Napanee with hu sba nd Brian She has

tempora ril y se t aside her ca reer to be a home-maker tor Brian and their four-monthshy

old son

Prior to their move to Napanee to acshycommodate Brians tran sfer - he work s with the Ministry of Natural Resources shy

Marilyn and family lived in a small comshymunity northwest of Thunder Bay After

Gue lph Marilyn continued her ed ucation at the comm unity college level and com pleted

a program for counse llors of the mentally

retarded SheJI be returnin g to thi s fi e ld when she again becomes a wage earner

Doris E (Trachsel) OKeefe 74 is deshy

scribed by husband John Paul 74 as a household engineer John Paul is a reshy

source teacher with the Waterloo County Board of Education With such a title I

couldnt resis t phon ing Doris to find out exactly what the duti es of a household enshy

gi neer are

While Doris decl ined to give a cletinishytion of the titl e l detected some surprise and delight that John Paul appreciates what it

takes to look after a famil y and a home

Doris is trying to re turn to teaching but is findin g it difficult in the Cambridge

Waterloo area If she isnt successful shes planning alternatives such as enrolment at Guelph in a Masters program o r failing that enrolment in courses that will he lp her

ac hieve her long-range goa ls She and John Paul recen tly moved from

London Ont to Cambridge Prior to the

birth of Erin now a two-year-old Doris was teac hing boys with behaviourial problems

and she sees thi s as an asset when applying for teaching positions Erin has a six-yearshyold brother Sean so you can understand

perhaps that Doris has been bu sy and maybe she is aptly described as a houseshy

hold engi neer

J Barry Baldwin 69 is a teac her with the Elgin County Board of Education S t Thomas Barry married Linda Janet Wii son They live in Aylmer West

M Rachel (Curtis) Towe 69 is manager customer systems Bell Canada She and

husband Ken live in Guelph

M Lois (Robinson) Harris 70 li ves in Newmarket with husband Fred

B Hugh Schofield 72 is an industrial engi neer with Rockwell Int e rnati o nal C hat ham He and wife Susan (Haslelt)

FACS 78 live in Chatham

Paul Davis 73 is an underwrite r analyst with Co-opera tors General In sura n ce

Guelph Paul and wife Linda (DozeH) 73 and 81 live at Brookhaven Court Guelph

Carol Finlayson 74 is a letter carrier lor Canada Post Carol and husband John Balch live in Toronto

Pal Hamilton 74 is an expon market deshyvelopment specialist with the O ntario Minshyistry of A gricu lture and Foo cl mark et

development branch Toronto He and his wife Diane (Coates) OAC 72 live in

Toronto

Kerrie Sirathy MA 78 advises us that

she is a s tud en t at th e Univcrsity of Sakatchewan Sas katoon

Vicky Sutherland 78 is an air trartie conshy

troller with Air Canada at FoI1 McMurray Airpo l1 Alta and lives in F0I1 McMurray

Sounds like an intercsting job - perhaps youl l share SOIllC experie nces with us Vicky

Marlin Thissen 78 is a foreman with the

region or Halton at ih Milton wa ter po llushytion control plant

Evelyn Evie (Isaacs) Whilwham 80 is a planning ass istant with Union Gas Co Ltd Chatham She and hu sba nd Bob have

c hanged their address They are at 70 Ottawa Drive C ha tham Ont N7L 216 0

In Memoriam A lormer faculty mcmber in the DeshypaI1ment of Geography Barsa Kelly was among the victims of the Air India Hight 182 disaster that occ urred

off the coas t of Irel and las t June ~ mr(sa Vas headed tor India on a reshy

search project at the time of her

death S he was the wife of Protessor Kenneth Kelly Department of Geogshyra phy On behalf of its members and all those who chc ri shed their con tacts with Barsa the Board of Directors of the College of Social Science Alumni Association extend their s incere symshy

pathy to Professor Kelly 0

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College of Biological Science Alumni Assoc BIOmiddotALUMNI NEWS

Editor Marie (Boissonneault) Rush 80

HONORARY PRESIDENT Professor Bruce Sells Dean

PRESIDENT David Airdrie BSc 82 Microbiology

PAST PRESIDENT Dr Chris Wren BSc 77 Marine Biology PhD 83

VICE-PRESIDENT Dee Britney BSc 74 Fisheries amp Wildlife MSc 81

SECRETARY-TREASURER Kclly Munkittrick BSc 80 Fisheries amp Wildshylife MSc 83

DIRECTORS Lorraine Bruce-Allen BSc 80 Zoology MSc 84 Jim Elliott BSc 79 Marine Biology Keith Harris BSc 76 Marine Biology Dr Doug Holdway BSc 76 Marine Biology MSc 78 Aquatic Toxicology PhD 83 Krista (McAuley) Soper BSc 79 Marine Biolshyogy Karin Davidson-Taylor BSc 83 Zoology

From Dave Airdrie 82 the

President How time flies when youre having fun Your editor Marie (Boissonneault) Rush 80 tell s me that this note to you will be in the Fall issue of the Guelph Alumnus so Ill bring you up to date on happenings since your 1985-86 Board of Directors was inshystalled in June

The CBS Alumni Association was parshyticularly busy during June Alumni Weekshyend events including the Wildlife Art Show and Sale and the barbecue at the Rockwood Conservation Area were well attended

Thanks must go to Krista (McAuley) Soper 79 and Lorraine Bruce-Allen 84 for their first-rate efforts in organizing and running the art show From all accounts it was ex tremely well done and is sure to be repeated in 1986

Further thanks mu st go to Keith Harshyris 76 for his efforts in once again organizing the barbecue at Rockwood Keith has done a terrifi c job with this event s ince its inception Hopefully these two events will be expanded in the coming year

Last spring the objective of $10 000 for the Keith Ronald Fellowship Fund was reached and we thank all who generously contributed to this fund Its to be hoped that this is only the first of many scholarships initiated through the CBSAA

Many of you will now be aware of the changes which the Universitys Department of Alumni Affairs has undergone in rece nt months Most important is the arrival of Marjorie Millar as director of the Departshyment It seems that President Matthews is placing greater emphasis on the importance of the Department due in part to the impenshyding capital campaign I am sure that youll all notice many beneficial innovations

The CBSAA has I feel reached a point in its development where we must heighten our profile both among alumni and undershygraduates In order to increase the awareness of the Association the Board has plans to embark on some new programs

The goals are as I see them two-fold first of all we need YOU to get more inshyvolved whether its participation in our proshygrams or s upport for the Assoc iation through your membership The fact that youre reading this demonstrates an interest which we would like to heighten

Secondly we re working at helpin g undergraduates before graduation to beshycome more aware of our Association Hopeshyfully we ll get helpful input and suggestions from many of you in the near future Reshymember - YOUR alumni association is what YOU make it

Dave Airdrie BSc 82 President Colshylege of Biological Science AA

FACULTY ADVISORS Dr Denis Lynn Zoology Dr Margaret Hauser M icroshybiology Dr John Hilton Nutrition Dr John Sandys Award Phillips Botany amp Genetics Dr Brian Wilson Human BiologyKinetics The Ontario Confederation of University

Faculty Associations (OCUFA) has awarded UGAA REPRESENTATIVES Karin Dr Alexander Sandy Middleton DepartshyDavidsonTaylor BSe X) Zoology Keith ment of Zoology one of the nine OCUFA Harris BSc 76 Marinc Biology Rob Teaching Awards for 1984 Milnc BSe XI MSe 84 Marine Bio Dr Middleton was nominated for this -award by colleagues students administrashyEX-OFFICIO DIRECTORS Ed Berdusco tors alumni and faculty It acknowledges president CBSSC Steve Spring past presishy outstanding ability and is considered to be dent CBSSC the provinces highest honour for excellence

in university teaching HKAA REPRESENTATIVE Nick Dalton I think there are two keys to being an BSe 77 Human Kinetics effective teacher Sandy says One is to

have respect for the student the other is to EDITOR RIO-ALUMNI NEWS Marie make a genuine intellectual and time comshy(Boissonneault) Rush B Se XO Marine mitmcnt to the course Biology 0 Dr Alexander Middleton Congratulations Dr Middleton 0

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Grad News Human Biology

Cathy Knipe BSc 79 MSc 83 is a Ph D st ud ent at Iowa State University Ames Iowa USA She is studying Moshylecular Biology

Shelly Lugg BSc 83 is a stude nt at Simon Fraser University Burnaby BC

Human Kinetics

Susan (Wright) Kwiatkowski BSc 80 is a recreation therapist at York Central Hosshypital Toronto Her spouse Ed graduated from Ryerson in 1979

Donna Marie (Kadwell) 1vose BSc 79 and husband John ji ve in Thorold Shes a physica l education supervisor at the Niagara Peninsula Crippled Childrens Centre

Mary Ellen (Mew) Walker BSc 83 is the activity co-ordinator at Spruce Lodge Stratford

Dr Ken Danylchuk BSc(PE) 73 is a s ur ge ry re s ident at the H itchcockshyDartmouth Medical Center Hanover N H USA

Kathryn (Tarry) Myers BSc 78 is a teacher with the Middlesex COunty Board of Educati on Hyde Park

WildUfe

Vicky Johnston 84 bega n an MSc at Lakehead University Thunder Bay in May Shes working on the reprodu ctive biology of Lake Superior rin g-billed gull s

Nutrition

Or 0010 Ohiokpehai 77 lectures in food and nutrition at the Unive rs ity of Ife Nigeria

Microbiology

John Semple 78 is a PhD ca ndidate in the Department of Mic rob iology amp Immushynology at Queens Uni vers ity Kingston He will be doing a post-doctora l at the Banting amp Best Depattment of Medica l Research University of Toronto

Unspecialized

Peter Adams 79 and Beth (Sarjeant) 79 are happy to announce their recent marshyriage Beth is a research technici an with the Depanment of Medicine Univers ity of Ca lshygary Alta and Peter operates a business with the se ismic service industry

Marine Biology

Jorgen Hansen 75 and his wife Drusilla (Dol be) Arts 75 live in Gloucester Jorge n is a staff officer with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Ottawa

CoUege Honour RoU - Winter 85 Semester 06

Margorie Fe rgusson 894 Human Biology JoAnna Milan 860 Biology

Semester 07 Sandra Noble 856 Microbiology

Semester 08 Marga ret Docker 876 Marine Biology Thomas Johnston 87 0 Fi sheries Biology Debra Underhill 858 Microbi ology

James Wright 858 Biology Tobin Peever 854 Botany

Alexander Hanke 852 Zoology Rebecca Rodgers 852 Human Bi ology

Tracey Robin son 882 BSc( HK ) Rebecca Halonen 880 BSc(HK )

Swdent has obtained standing for second time Student has obtaincd standing for third time

Home Town

Oakville Ottawa

Dorchester

Guelph New Liskeard Kingston Thunder Bay Bracebridge Grafton Calgary Alta Guelph Georgetown

Donald MacLennan 75 and hi s wife Katherine live in Chatham Donald is a biologi st-supervisor with the Ministry of Natural Resources Lake SI Clair Fisheries Assessmen t Unit Tilbury 0

College of Biological Science

Alumni Association

Wildlife Art Show

Well it happened June 15 and 16 have come and gone but not withshyout event The Graduate Students Lounge was transformed from a cozy meeting place into an an gallery There was much movi ng of furniture and hanging of an work with the end product being our fi rst ever CBSAA Wildlife Art Show

In total there were 20 wildlite artists partic ipating all tine ani sts in their own right Maybe you reshymember Ut a Stre live a nd Dr Ed Bailey Wow I You should see their wood works

Rick Beaver 73 also showed some of his work hes a wildlife imshypressionist and the colour and move shyment he paint s into each piece is eloquent Donald Dority 76 showed us the line photographer he has become There were other ani sts - too many to mention but all of extremely high calibre

Id like to mention one las t name though - Cindy Hayward manager of the Graduate Students Lounge If you ever need a steady hand to get an event off the ground shes the one to co ntact Without her hel p there would have been a whole heap of orshyga ni za tional problems From which we would have been unable to escape

All in all we had a successful show Thanks artists and viewers for making our efforts worthwhile 0

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New Minister of AgricultureOntario Agricultural College Alumni Assoc OAC ALUMNI NEWS

Editor Dr Harvey W Caldwell 51

Ontari OS new mini ster of ag riculture Jack Riddell 52A and 57 a cash crop farmer from the Exeter area comes to the position of Ontario s Mini ster of Agriculture and Food with ten years of expe rience as Liberal caucus cr itic for agriculture

The min is ter sa id that life under a Libshyeral government will give agriculture a higher priority than it has ex perienced in the past It will be considered one of the major industries in this province

Jack also pro mi sed to consult a great

Basic Technology in Action shyTurning Stones Into Bread By Ann Middleton Information Services

A new University of Guelph projec t in Tanza nia Africa should aid th e Third Wo rld s ubsistence leve l farmer The $400000 three-year projec t funded by the International Development Resea rch Centre (IDRC) will invol ve fltlculty of the Uni vershysitys Department of Land Resou rce Sc ience and Soko ine Uni versity of Ag riculture in Morogoro Central Tanza ni a Aim of the enterpri se is to use loca lly ava il ab le rock materials as soil amendm en ts and con shyditioners

The project came about when Ott awas IDRC brought together a team of two geo logists with an interest in improving co nshyditions for African farmers Professor Ward Chesworth with the Department of Land Resource Science has a long-standing intershyes t in turning rock s into fertili zers deshyve loped during work in West Africa and the Canltlry Islands where local farmers have spread volcanic rock on their field s for two centu ries In his lab and in the Blue Springs basin near Acton Ontario Professor Chesshyworth has been conducting experiment s on the levels at which common rocks re lease nutri ents into soil solutions

The other team member Dr Peter van Straltl ten is ori ginally from Germany but spe nt e ight years with the United Nations in Tan zania looking for metals and metal deshyposi ts and working on an in ve ntory of ferti shyli zer raw materials in south-east Africa

During thi s period Tanza nian food production per capita fell dramaticall y leadshying Dr van Strltlaten to try to find ways to help the food situation In ex periments in his garden in Dodomo Tanzaniltl he was able to increase yields of vegetables using locally

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available geological materia ls and organic wastes

Noting the common interes ts of the two men the Canadian age ncy introd uced them and Dr van Straaten relocated in Guelph Co-ordinators of the project are Professor Cheswo rth and Tan za ni an sc ie nti st Dr Johnson Semoka of Sokoine University coshyauthor of a text on so il sc ience much used in agricultural circles in Africa

Technical assistant Peter Sl11i th is working with Tanzanian rock specimens in the Land Resource Science lab and two other Tanzanian scientists will be involved

In addition to academics from bo th institutions members of the Geological Survey of Tanzania will also work on the project both in the Morogoro area and at Mbeya station in south-western Tanzania

Roc k sa mples will be collected and crushed and field tests and pot ex periments carried out here and on location When reshysu lt s have bee n obtained extension work will begin in Africa under the direc tion of Dr Semoka It is hoped that members of a Me nnonite Central Committee group workshying at Mbeya will design a simple rock crusher for the use of local farmers

Tanzania has a major phosphate deshyposi t wh ich will be tapped by the project as well as ground s ilicates including volcanic ash Liming materials such as limestone dolomite marl and ca rbonatite will also be evaluated

Professor Chesworth points out that alshythough No rth Americans place much emshyphasi s on the big three of soil nutrition shynitrogen phosphorus and potassium (NPK) - there are actually about 20 necessary

deal with the farm organizations on the direction his ministry should be taki ng

I dont believe that we can sit in our so-ca ll ed ivory towers and introduce the kind of programs that are go ing to be mea nshyingful unless we get consultation from the farmers and their spokes people

He has been a member of the provincial legislature for 12 years He spent his first two years as energy cri tic and later environshyment critic before mov ing into agriculture Jack and Anit a have a family of five 0

nutrie nts including the minor ones In some areas of Tanza nia the decline

in soil fe rtility is in part due to the settling of widespread populations into villages where land has been used without concern for nutrients Tn other part s of the country productivity has declined because of leachshying of plant nutrie nts durin g normal rainfall and also from the continuous use of acidifyshying fertilizers such as ammo nium su lphate Dr Chesworth point s out that the current practice of NPK fe rtili zation totally ignores secondary and micronut rient requirements of plants It is hoped that the projec t wilt address thi s problem

Our approac h is basic tec hn ology our target group the poorest far mers Dr van Straaten explains One of the problems in the past Dr Ches worth says has been convincing agronomists that it s worth purshysuing this kind of elementary tec hnology approach Theyre very skeptical that you can take common roc ks wi thou t major inshydustrial proces ing and use them to advanshytage on tropical soils

A s ideline area of research is work with zeolites open framework si licates that often occ ur in volcanic rocks Some zeolites can be used to trap nitrogen in the form of ammonia which would otherwise be los t in gaseous form When added to cow manure for exampl e and stomped in by the beasts themselves zeolites enrich an already valushyabl e fertil ize r Dr van Straaten explains

The zeolite research is being carried out in co njunction with Professor Colin Fyfe Department of Chemistry an intershynat io na ll y kn ow n authority o n zeo lit e -che mi stry

Orie result of the work of the Un ive rs ity of Guelph geo logists is an ag rogeology ne tshywork currentl y being set up bya number of African cou ntries as the result of di sc usshysions following a paper by Dr van Straaten and Professor Chesworth The paper was given recently at meetings of the UN Ecoshynomic Commiss ion for Africa in Zambia 0

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A Designing Grad The need for a summer job six years ago has ended in a Guelph grad des igning golf courses

When in 1979 Lisa Maki now

BLA 84 was searching for a job that would assist her in her studies at the Univershysity she applied to the city of Kitchener

She could have wound up in any

number of areas in the parks and recreation department but Rockway and Doon Valley

course superintendent Ed Ortlieb gave her the chance to join the work crew at Rockway fltor the first couple of years it was just a job that got her outdoors in the summer then by chance she got interested in the game itself

And now shes embarked on a career in golf course design

Lisa the 24-year-old oldest daughter of Ted Maki a former general manager of the

Lisa Maki BLA 84 Kitchener Rangers left last July for Lakeshyland Florida where she Joined Links Deshysign which de sig ns and oversees golf course construction throughout the United 1983 and a friend of the family who knew States The company is considered the sec shy was interested in golf course work arranged ond-largest of its type behind the one run by a meeting with Ronald Garl said Lisa I US golf legend Jack Nicklaus who deshy had an official job interview in April of 84 signed the Glen Abbey course in Oakville and then went to Florida in August of the

How does a young Kitchener woman same year to familiarize myself with the

end up working for Ronald Garl a 40-yearshy firms projects

old graduate of the University of Florida Because I had focused much of my who apprenticed under such well-known deshy University work on such things as turf man shy

signers as Roben Trent Jones and Joseph agement and had done pan of my bachelor Lee Again it was just a chance opportunity of landscape architecture thes is on what

We were in Florida in December of makes British golf courses great and the

Sisters of Accident Victims Receive Diplomas

A tragic accident just prior to Spring Convocation resulted in the deaths oftwo graduands of the Associate Diploma in Agriculture Program Jeff Bikus 85A of West Lome and Nick Davidson 85Afrom Zimbabwe Joy Davidson sister ofNick came from Zimbabwefor the Convocation She was sponsored by the OAC Alumni Association Classes of85A alld 86A Norm McCollulIl 66A honorary class president 85A Don and MiidredMcCollum Jenny Ballentine and her parents Dr Steve Bowley 78 and80 honorary class president 86A and the University Centre Administration Our sympathy is extended to the families and friends of these two popular studel1ls Pictured are Ito r Jenny Ballantine friend ofJeff Bikus Lealln Bikus sister of Jeff Joy Davidson sister of Nick and Klaus Kristiansen a studellt from Zimbabwe

other on golf course residential design he was impressed

In order to learn what made British

courses great Lisa spent a semester in Engshyland and Scotland visiting researching sketching photographing and playing 16 historic courses including the famous links courses which by tradition are the

only clubs to host the British Open Links layouts are courses that border the sea and have been built or developed over sand

bases

Approximately 15 students a year take

advantage of the School of Land scape Arshychitectures Semester Abroad Program fi shynancing the trips themselves However the program is supported by an annual $5000 grant from the Alma Mater Fund so alumni can claim a cenain amount of credit for Lisas success She was a recipient in 1983

of part of that years AMF grant Im not sure my mother and father

were very keen about my trave lling around England and Scot lane all alone but it was a truly great experience she said middot1 not only met many wonderful and helpful peoshyple got to play the great courses like St

Andrew s Royal Troon Turnberry and my favorite of all Royal Dornoch

After a complicated and lengthy US immigration process which took nearly a year she was granted her permanent work

visa She was in regular contact with her new

boss after returning to Kitchen er - she re turned to work at Rockway and Doon while awaiting the vi sa approval - and then last July plunged immediately into

projects including work at a mens tournashyment players 36-hole complex in Sarasota and a Ladies Professional Golf Assoc iation course in Melbourne where she worked in association with LPGA tour players Beth Daniels and Sally Little

Despite the fact that the job involves

vy ing with rattlesnakes alligators and Iild

pigs when I have to tramp through forests and swamps in applying my design work to certain areas I love the outdoor work Lisa

said At the same time she doesnt have any

probleIl1s giving orders to hard-hatted heavy-machinery construction workers when she is the field supervisor for on-site

work think I may have raised a few eye shy

brows when I staned work at Rockway but I was accepted

Lisa isnt sure how long this pan of her life will last and she has no way of knowing whether any of her courses will eve r be known as Lisa Maki layouts But that doesnt

concern her They may be Links Design projects but Ill know they were basically my courses 0

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Klink Lecture Dr Doug Morrison 49 Department of Poultry Science was chosen to deliver the 1985 Klink Lecture

The Klink lecture is ~ponsored by the Agricultural Inst itute of Canada and named after the Institute s founding president Preshysented by an outstanding lecture r the lecture is delivered through a coast-to-coast tour and concerns a topic of current significance to the agricultural industry and the nation

Dr Morri son stated that there is a need for professionalization in an imal agriculshyture in order to give it an improved image and make it more acceptable to the conshysumer

Address ing members of the Ontario Inshystitute of Agrologists in London Ontario he told his audience that the agriculture inshydustry in Canada ranks among the best in the world and producers have to ensure thi s is shown and make sure that peer pressure prevents producers from doing things that we cant defend

He suggested some type of professhysiona l approach established by the farming organization whereby expertise would be required instead of merely encouraged

This is a mu ch beller ap proach th an some edict from society through governshyment legi slation I strong ly object to legislashytion designed to protect me from myself he said adding that there are currently enough regulations existent through legislation that dictate what farmers can and cannot do

If a farmer were a profess ional hi s reward wou Id be in profits - about as meanshyingful a reward as has ye t been devised

Benefits of a more professionalized approach would include an improved image of the farmer to the consumer an increase in communication a more efficient industry

which is essential for competition improved knowledge on the fa rmers part of health nutrition care markets etc and more awareness of soc ietys concerns

In turn it would also be necessary to provide beller information to the consumer through an educational process because if soc iety is to pay for increased inputs for the long- term good of the nat ion then it is essential society be adequately informed

Morrison remarked that he fee ls the maj ori ty of animal agriculturists are in fact professionals but there has to be a concerted e ffort to at tract as lew people as possible in to the business who do not understa nd farmshying or who are doing things that are unacshyceptable

Consumer concern over dietary value or the amount of drugs contained in animal product s is also reason for farmers to tak e a professional approach They should work to alleviate any misreprese ntations and misin shyformation the public is receiving the proshyfessor noted s tating that farm ers have never produced food as safe and as wholeshysome as it is today

By the turn of the century on a world basis meat consumption is predicted to in shy

crease by abou t 60 per cent while the intake of milk is expected to increase by almost 40 per cent

A major fac tor for this rise in intake result s from th e fact that developing nations will begin to consume animal products as soon as they can afford them China is an excellent exa mple of this said the professor who commented that nation is now movshying as rapidly as possible to increase animal production

With all these factors is mind Dr Morshyri son sa id he is optimistic for the future of the Canad ian animal agriculture industry

Weve got the opportunities and can take advantage of them he said 0

Mark Bernards 85 cenlre was the recipienl oftwo OAC Alumni Foundation awards the OAC Alumni Graduate Award and the Beth Duncan Gold Medal Left is Gord Nixon 37 Foundashytion chairman and director and right NR Rick Richards 38 treasurer

Entrepreneur in Residence

Dr Donald Shaver

Dean Freeman McEwen is pleased to be working with Dr Donald McQueen Shaver the Universitys first Agricultural Entreshypreneur-i n-Res idence

Dr Shaver a native of Cambt idge Onshytari o is found er chairman and chief exshyecutive officer of Shaver Poultry Breed ing Farms Limited The compan y distributes chicken breeding stock to 90 countries from its head office in Cambridge and three subshysid iaries in the United States Britain and France He retired from his executive reshysponsib ilities on August 30 but is conshytinuing as director and adv isor to the company

From 1940 to 1945 Dr Shaver served with the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps in Africa and Europe retiring as regimental commanding officer He is past president of the Canadian Hatchery Federation the Poulshytry Products Institute of Canada the Canashydian Lincoln Red Society and Maine-Anjou Association He is a member of the Order of Canada Honorary Life Member of the Worlds Poultry Science Association and the Ontario Institute of Agrologi sts He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Science by McGill University and the Centennial Medal by the OAC

The Entrepreneu r-in-Reside nce pro shygram was initiated and financially supshyported by OAC Class of 58 to champion -the role of private enterpri se within soc iety The appointment is for a two-year period during which time Dr Shaver will present lectures lead workshops and consult with faculty and students

The Agricultural Entrepreneur-in-Resishydence program at the University is believed to be a first in agr icultural education around the world 0

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University Of Guelph Involved in $68 Million Chinese Project The University of Guelph has embarked on a co-operative $68 million project that will ~ink five Canadian and Chinese universities and agricultural institutions

The four-year Black Dragon River Proshyjeo supported by the Canadian Internashytional Deve lopment Agency (C IDA) involves Guelph the University of Alberta Olds College in AlbeI1a and two Chinese institutions - Heilongjiang Land Reclamashytion University and Liu He Training College in northeastern Heilongjiang Province

Under th e term s of the agreement training will be provided at the three Canashydian institutions for personnel from the two Chinese university institutions

The Liu He Training College is respo nshysible for educating state farm employees Training will range from short courses to undergraduate and graduate level programs

Faculty from the Canadian universities and Olds College will travel to China during the summer months to give lectures and

short courses The area borderi ng on Russia has treshy

mendou s potential for agricultural deve lopshyment Professor Neal Stos~opf 57 direct or of OACs diploma courses is Guelphs co-ordinator for the Chinese projshyect He was part of the Canadian gove rnment planning miss ion and ex plains that although the climate combines the cold winters and hot summers of Alberta most of the moisshyture is rain that falls between Jul y and Sepshytember

Although latitude is the sa me as Edmontons at 52 degrees north the area grows soybeans and corn as well as wheat The land has two to four feet of black topsoil waiting to be drained and planted he says with potential for livestock proshyduction

The proj ec t centre is located at the Unishyversity of Alberta with administration in Guelph being carried out by the Centre for International Programs 0

Provincial apiarist retires after 19 years You might say Philip Burkes job brought sweet rewards

Until his retirement recently Philip was the provincial apiarist - sort of Onshytarios chief of bees - while working at the University of Guelphs Department of Environmental Biology

He joined the University as a lectu rer in 1943 and then became assistant professor and later associate professor

At the same time the Ontario Departshyment of Agriculture (as the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food was known then) made him the assistant provincial apiarist In 1966 he became provincial apiarist

Of course he advised beekee pers on ways they could make their colonies more productive and efficient and fielded many apiary management question s - including how to prevent bees from swarming

If they swarm one-third to one-half of th e colony takes off so you lose a big source of your honey crop Swarming is trigshygered when the hive becomes overcrowded so the beekeeper mu st stay ahead of them It involves a whole manipulation of the hive through the season visiting each colony at least once every ten to 14 days he says Philip also worked with farmers whose

crops depended on pollination by bees At one time bees were needed for

pollin ating greenhouse produce such as cucumbers But in the past 15 years the trend has been toward new types that are self fruiting he says

But the biggest change in the industry over the years was the trend towards Illakshying corn king in Ontario - a trend that is now being reversed he says

From 1949 and on a lot of bee coloshynies were moved to the western provinces tollowi ng th e reduction in alfalfa production in Ontario and the increased corn acreage he says

Now prospec ts for honey production in Ontario are better than in past years beshycause of the increased alfalfa acreage and other legumes and the trend towards more diversified cropping

Not surpris ingly prices have changed in the industry over the years too Back in the 1920s it cost about $10 to start a bee colony today start-up costs are about $100 to $125 per colony

Much of his work at the University looked at ways to prevent di seases in bees using selected antibiotics

He was secretary for the Ontario Beekeepers Association for 15 yea rs and now acts as a consu It ant for the group 0

Wins Crampton Award

Dr Stanley J Slinger 37 the most recent rec ipient of the Earl e W Crampton Award for distingui shed service in nutrition is ProshyFessor Emeritus of the Depal1ment of Nutrishytion College of Biolog ica l Science at Guelph

Born in Lowell Ontario Dr Slinger received his BSc from the Ontario Agrishycultural College hi s MSc fro111 the Univershysity of Toronto and a PhD from Cornell University From 1941 to 1965 he was in the Departillent of Poultry Science at the OAC and since 1965 has been in the Department of Nutrition at Guelph serving as chairJl1an from 1965 to 1974

Dr Slinger conducted re sea rch in sevshyeral areas of pou Itry nutrition for Jl10re than 30 years In 1972- 73 a fi sh nutrition laborashytory was set up and thi s laboratory has conshytinued to grow and iJl1prove s i nee One of the primary objectives in both poultry and fi sh nutrition research has been to develop feed to rmulas using feedstuffs of Canadian orishygin 111ese tannulas have been publi shed and continuall y revi sed and have been used extensively by teed manufacturers through shyout Canada Dr Slinger continues to be active in research

Dr Slinger taught poultry nutrition in Poultry Science for 27 years gave seminar courses in nutrition and physiology taught Fundamentals of Nutrition in the Depal1shyment of Nutrition and deve loped and taught courses in fi sh and wildlite nutrition

He has supervi sed the work of Jl1any graduates and it is interesting to note that the Department of Nutrition at Guelph is the only depailment in Canada - and there are very few in the United States - turning out graduates in Fish Nutrition at the PhD leve l

He has helped to establi sh modern poultry industries in Mexico and the areas of South East Asia Africa the Middle East Eastern and Western Europe and the United Kingdom Lectures conlerences and other consultative work have also taken hilll to Jl1any coul1tries over the years

The recipient of numerous honours and awards Dr S linger was made Professor Emeritus of the University in Ino and reshy -ceived the Earl e W Crampton award in 19B4 at Macdonald College Que Thi s award is given by the Faculty of Agriculture in recogshyniti on of significant co ntributions in the field of nutrition through research andlor service The award is named for Dr Earle W Crampton a renowned nutritionist whose career at Macd onald bega n in 1922 and lasted far 51 years 0

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cialist having spent four months in the latter John Reid 84 is technical sales rep Agrico Grad News part of 1984 in Bloemfontein South Africa Sales Ltd Richmond BC

Earl Johnston 46 is president Earl-John Brokers Ltd Delhi

Joe Knox 48 is secretary-treasurer Annco Westeellnc Guelph

Ralph Hills 54 is pastor United Church of Canada Smith Falls Ralph left Zambia last October spending some time in Kenya Israel England and Scotland on the way home He was surprised to meet Charlie Broadwell also 54 on Oxford Street in London Charlie was giving a reception at a large castle for the white bean buyers who purchase beans from Charlies Bean Growers of Ontario Ralph also passes along the word from Louise (Fershyguson) Hope Mac 54 that her husband Don 54 preparing for some future possible social work is studying drug addiction at George Brown College of Applied Ans and Technology Toronto

Joseph Leach 54 is a research scientist Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources Lake Erie Research station Wheatley

Ken Edwards 59 is an industrial engineer Prince George Pulp and Paper Vancouver BC

Fred Theaker 62 is a teacher-biologist Ren frew County Board of Education Aruprior

Howard Lang 67 is senior so il conshyservation advisor for OMAF Cambridge

John Lawrence 69 has been appointed vice-president and ge neral manager De kalb Canada Inc Chatham John is a lso president of the Canadian Agri-marketing Assoc iation

Robert Brooksbank 70 is manager Agrishycultural Department Simcoe area Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce

Alan Duncan BLA 73 is project coshyordinator Groupe d intervention urban de Montreal Montreal Que

Martha (Weir) Collins 75 reports that Anne (Walton) Bayler 75 is at teac hers college in Toronto after spending several years teaching in the Bahamas Martha lives at I Braid Place Guelph and would like to hear news of her classmates

Jim Dyer MSc 75 is a senior resource and environmental officer with the crop producshytion division of Agriculture Canada Ottawa He is on loan as a drought monitoring spe shy

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His wife Barb (Newell) Arts 75 who is a technical editor with Public Works Canada joined him in Bloemfontein for a month

Elizabeth Fedorkow 75 is a market reshysearcher Tetra Pak Inc Markham

Roy Maxwell 75 is an agricultural comshymentator CBC Radio Noon Toronto

Gary Ball 76 is vice-president manufacturshying Mitten Vinyl Inc Cambridge

Garnet McConney 77 is feed lot manager Catllel and Ontario Inc Petersburg

Patrick Meyers 77 OVC 84 is a vetshyerinarian with the Grenville-Dundas Veterinshyary Clinic Kemptville

Martha Frey 78 is secretaryass istant edishytor Canadians for Health Research Wes tshymount Que

Wayne Harrison 79 is assi stant manager Toronto Dominion Bank Elmira His wife is Katherine (McLeod) 77

Sharon Helynk 79 is with the Woodbury Animal Hospital Halifax NS

Jeffery Goebel 80 is resident engineer ACF Canada Ltd Georgetown

Mary Lynn Prong 80 is assistant manager Royal Bank Watford She reports that Bruno Soucy 8Q has changed jobs from OMAF farm ma nagement advisor to agrolog ist London region Royal Bank

Corrie Almack 81 is presidentowner Agshyriculturai Soil and Nutrition Consultants Freelton

Edward Bolton 81 is research farm manshyager AJle lix Inc M ississauga

William Summers 82 MSc 84 is prodshyuct deve lopment rep Du-Pont Canada Streetsville

Dianne (Coker) McDowell 83 is quality assurance supervisor Richardson Foods Ltd Glanw0I1h

John Ross 83 is a program officer Agrishyculture Canada Edmonton Alta

Jeff Burke 84 is a customer service rep Griffith Lab Toronto

Julie Fowler 84 is working for Embury Bros Farms Ltd Newburgh

Karen Rodman 84 is a farm management specialist OMAF Nepean

James Simonds 84 is a crop specialist Cavendi sh Fanns Summerside P E1

Richard West PhD 84 is a research scishyentist Canadian Forestry Service SI John s Nftdo

In Memoriam We regret to report the following deaths

Marie Honsberger 17A died March 1985

Esmond D Clipsham 2IA died on April 6 1985 Esmond had been the proprietor Uneeda Rest Hotel Kilwonhy and was a life member of the OAC Alumni Association

Stanley Ewart Keillor 21 died on February 27 1985 He was a crop farmer at Walshylacetown

John Edward Chalmers 23A died on Febshyru ary 15 1985

Jacobus Van Haarlem 23 at age 85 on July 2 1985 in Vineland He retired as ex shyecutive director of the Hor1icultural Experishymental Station at Vineland in 1970 after 47 years of service there

Hugh Lacklin Paterson 32A died in May 1985 of a heart attack at Rockwood

Murray Cameron Macklin 33A 35 died January n 1985 in Toronto

Garland Alfred Fisk 35 Date of deat h unknown

Gordon Elgin Young 35 died on June 12 1985 at Ing leside

John Miller Fargery 37 on March 22 1985 in Toronto John had been an insurance salesman Farm Credit Corp and was a life member of the OAC Alumni Assoc iation

William Thomson 40 in 1982 in Lonshy shygueuil Que His death was reported recen tl y

Robert Fletcher Madden 54A died on November 26 1984 at age 52 at Napanee

Vera (Mod ric) Kozamplik MSc 73 in Yugoslavia She was the wife of Vinko Kozumplik M Sc 71 0

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From the Dean

Dr Barham

In some of my lellers I have aimed to share

information on some special program or theme with you On this occasion I want to

keep you in touch through a number of lillie items so I shall hold onto some of the bigshy

ger interests for future issues of the Guelph Alumnus

As I write this leller Alumni Weekend 85 is behind us I found it a great weekend

and I thoroughly enjoyed meeting more of our alumni for the first time while

especially appreciating recognizing more

and more familiar faces and names from previous occasions

This year the Classes of 65 and 75 requested an up-date on our programs and

the developments we have experienced together in the College over the last few

years I guess that we were able to demonshy

strate much more development in our research and teaching programs than we could in some parts of the physical facilities within the buildings Still we had thorshyoughly congenial and I think very useful

meetings with both of these classes and added a nostalgic tour of our facilities

It was splendid to meet both of these groups I confess however that I had not

foreseen that a large part of the interest of the Class of 65 rested on the fact that many of their children are now gearing up to enter FACS

I was able to remind them that the BASc and B Comm degrees both lead

into fascinating and challenging careers for sons and nephews as well as daughters and

nieces Some of you coming to Alumni Weekend 86 might wish to get in touch with me to arrange an up-date on our acti vities then too

One of my special pleasures of Alumni Weekend was to join with the Class of 35 at the Golden Anniversary Dinner This occashy

sion is always a particular delight given the special personal pleasures reflected in the

friendships shared on this anniversary And I do want members of the Class of

35 to know that their gift of the magnificent Terry Legault Roman Festival print looks really outstanding and just right amidst the

contemporary decor of the FACS lounge

One last item of alumni news which I want to mention is the fact that I met with

Jean (Nairn) Carter 38 and some of her committee recently I learned that they have

been making quite outstanding progress in establishing the trust fund that will support their new graduate student award in geronshy

tology The first award presentation of $1000 is being made this fall but members of the Class of 38 are still pushing on with their fund raising in order to bring the

annual trust-fund yield to a level of $2 000 We all think that the Class of 38 grads

have been quite remarkable in their detershymination to build up a significant fund to

support work in this important new field of scholarship and research I know that we

shall all appreciate your support for them in reaching their target

I met with Audrey Warner and Annette

Yeager 62 recently They advised me of their concern for the needs of teachers wantshy

ing to prepare themselves for adding Family Studies to their fields of professional speshy

cialization and of other teachers already working in that field who find themselves in need of some up-dating especially in view of the curriculum changes which appear to be around the corner

In this regard I want to mention two

items which might be of interest First our faculty in FACS have been

quite heavily engaged in working with

teachers and others in thinking planning debating and writing for the curriculum developme~ts envisaged for the Ontario Academic High School Credits

Most especially we have had as memshybers of the Canadian Family in Perspective group Dr Jean Sabry with her own special

interest in human nutrition Dr Grant

McCracken in clothing Drs Marshall Fine and Claude Guldner with their expertise in family relations and Drs Anne Martin Matshythews and Joe Tindale with their special strengths in life-span development and

aging - quite a team of contributors Secondly I want to mention in relation

to my meeting with Audrey and Annette that we now have a number of courses avai 1shy

able in a six-week format offered in summer sessions provided on campus

Perhaps of even more interest to those of you who wont find it practical to take

classes on campus at Guelph we have an annual offering of distance or corresponshy

dence-type courses Many of these will be of very pertinent

interest to a number of teachers The current list includes Human Development Marital and Family Dynamics Personal and Family Finance Development of Human Sexuality Nutrition and Man and the Exceptional Child in the Family

You can find out more about these

offerings by writing directly to Guelph Disshytance Education University of Guelph

Macdonald Institute shyFamily and Consumer Studies Alumni Assoc

Editor Carol Telford-Pittman 75

Guelph Ont NIG 2WI or by getting in touch with my office

One of the reasons that we have put

ourselves so significantly behind the development of these distance courses is that we did not have the resources to meet

the demand for providing our courses in the more traditional class format at locations

away from the Guelph campus As usual there is much more to share

with you but it will just have to hold until

my next letter I look forward to being in touch with you again then 0

Olive Thompson Honoured

Olive (Thompson) Thompson 35

-The Mac-FACS Alumni Association was very pleased to present a Citation of Appreshyciation to Olive (Thompson) Thompson

35 during Alumni Weekend 85 festivities Olive has given much time energy

support and leadership to the College and to the University through her years of involveshyment with the Mac-FACS Alumni Associashytion Class of Mac 35 activities and the University of Guelph Alumni Association

Our University s alumni organizations are stronger and more effective because of

the years of commitment and personal sershyvice that Olive has contributed

Olive - We salute you 0

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New at HAFA By John Hearn

Infonnation Services

An innovative course developed by the School of Hotel and Food Administration (HAFA) is focussing the attention of undershygraduates on the analysis of operational problems in the hospitality industry and the writing skills required to express and comshymunicate that analysis

Students are required to find summer jobs in the hospitality industry and then to write five papers of ascending complexity during the first semester of their second year using text readings specially edited for this course by the Schools Director Proshyfessor Tom Powers

We have a unique responsibility to prepare students not just for their first job but for future jobs further down the line says Dr Powers Possession of a university degree should imply an ability both to anashylyse problems and to communicate observashytions and recommendations In todays corporate world reports papers and letters are management tools and written comshymunication is a survival skill

The HAFA faculty decided further to emphasize writing skills by adopting a style manual developed by Professor Margaret Hund leby Department of Engl ish Language and Literature for this course as an integral part of the Schools other courses

In order to familiarize faculty with the use of the manual and the grading of student writing Professor Hundleby was invited to conduct a two-day workshop which atshytracted the attention of Vice-President Howard Clark and Associate Vice-President Janet Wardlaw as well as faculty from other disciplines s uch as psychology land resource science microbiology and history

The program Professor Hundleby told the seminar requires students to complete five report papers based on their own obsershyvations

The first paper requires a detailed description of the physical layout of the host operation plus an appraisal and operating cost analysis of its heating air-conditioning and ventilation systems

A second paper asks the student to describe and evaluate staff structure funcshytion compensation package and efficiency

Cost control is the subject of a third paper Purchasing practices food producshytion cost traCking and inventory manageshyment all come under this heading

Marketing is the fourth subject area What market segment is the operation aimed at What consumer need does the operation satisfy What is the nature of the

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Left to right- Professors Cathy Schrye Writing Centre Tom Muller HAFA Belty Upton HAFA Mike Jenkinson OAC 63 OAC dean s office Mary Rogers History and back to camera Bernie Katz Library reviewing cases drawn from studefll papers in a two-day workshop Evaluating Students Writing conducted by Professor Margaret Hundleby

competition in the target market

The fifth paper examines the intangishybles of management sty Ie How does the role of the manager affect relations with customshyers staff and head office

Professor Hundleby commenting on some of the problems of the course says whatever we call it students tend to conshyclude that what they re writing is an acashydemic paper of some kind - which of course it is - but we need to make the connection in their minds with the real the corporate world out there They also tend to think that longer is better and write about what they know - rather than what is import ant The development of a proper sense of for whom they are writing is itself a problem-solving skill

Another problem according to Proshyfessor Hundleby is what she calls the new illiteracy - a verbal dysfunction resulting from an impoverished vocabulary

Style too is a matter of considerable

AMPHI Spin-offs The School of Hotel and Food Administra shytions annual Advanced Management Pro shygram for the Hospitality Industry (AMPHI) now in its third year is spinning off new management development activities says HAFA Director Tom Powers Earlier this year 20 people attended a workshop on accounting and finance presented by Proshyfes sor William Braithwaite School of Agrishycultural Economics and Extension Educashytion and three similar programs will be offered in different parts of the country over the next year and a half

Another program still in the planning stage is a six-day hospitality managers development course designed for middle management by AMPHIs associate direcshy

concern She also mentioned careless senshytence structure style that is inappropriate to the content lack of connective logic failure to understand the nature of a paragraph as a literary entity the frivolous use of colloshyquiali sms an absence of any sense of the harmonious sound of words on paper and of course a growing list of commonly misused words - e g it could of had that affect

There s a tendency to see s tyle as a decorative flourish rather than as an aspect of content she concluded

Professor Powers sees the development of verbal communication skills as central to the whole idea of liberal education Cershytainly he says its useful for HAFA stushydents to understand how a cost control system works - but its at least as important to be able to think logically analyse logshyically and communicate conclusions in a way that is credible informative coherent and complete in fact these are the classic goals of a liberal education 0

tor Professor John Patterson and a consulshytant group of AMPHI alumni

AMPHI continues to attract internashytional attention participants in thi s years program which began in April include senior executives from many of North Americas most distinguished hotels and restaurants The four-week course offers an intensive program based primarily on case studies written by Professo rs Patterson -Braithwaite Carl Riegel and Tom Muller

The growing volume of AMPHI cases indicates that thi s is the largest s ingle research program currently under way in any hotel school in North America says Proshyfessor Powers AMPHls network of conshytacts is giving us access to a senior-level view of the industrys current problems and prospects 0

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Research AssociateComing Soon A AppointedModel Play Facility

Dr Joan Norris

Dr Joan Norris has held the position of Research Associate at the Gerontology Research Centre since last spring

Joan is working with faculty to develop and promote research related to population aging and is available for consultation with faculty on research design funding sources and publication

In addition to this development work she is continuing her personal program of research She works for the Gerontology Censhytre two days per week and the balance of her

The Family Studies Laboratory Schools pre-school play facility fell 10 a Grounds time is spent in the Department of Family Department wrecking machine recently Studies where she has held a faculty appointshy

ment since 1980 Joan holds a Ph D in Psychology from

the University of Waterloo and is also a regisshytered psychologist Her personal research

The Mllc-FACS Special Projects Commitshyinterests include social competence in older

tee Ito r Bonnie Kerslake 82 Association adults peer relationships and grandshy

president Linda (Wo[e) Markle 73 chairshyparenting 0

man and Gail Murray 78 Missing comshymillee member is Rita (Klassen) Weigel 77 The aim of the committee is to raise funds to redevelop the Family Studies Laboshy In Memoriam ratory Schools and raise itto the level where it will be regarded as a model pre-school

Eileen Margaret (Manahan) Alwayplay facility

390 October 21984 in Vancouver BC

Jean (Horrell) Atkinson 240 March 5 1985 in Aurora

Class of 35 Gift Oorothy (Lockard) Honsberger 300Centre panel Roman Carnival

In order to commemorate their anniversary July 51985 in Weiland Mac 35 has traditionally given a scholshyarship to a FACS student once every five Isabel J Lockerbie 300 March 31 years This year on the 50th anniversary of 1985 in Toronto their graduation and in addition to the scholarship an etching entitled Roman Patricia G (Smith) McKay-Barry 55 Carnival by Terry Legault has been added March 17 1985 in London Ont to the Universitys collection of Canadian alt The etching is hanging in the FACS Velma E (Conn) Partridge 260 April faculty lounge 29 1985 in Niagara Falls Ont shy

The theme of Roman Carnival was favoured by neo-clas sical and romantic Helen E (Kelly) Robinson 220 April painters during the 19th century The etching 30 1985 in Dundas captures the moment at which wild horses are released to race through the streets of Norma I (Motherwell) Roy 350 in Rome The artist has chosen to represent the Moosejaw Sask wild chaotic motion ot the horses rather than explicitly depict in detail the animals Lillian S (Moore) Usher 340 March 28 and the architectural background 0 1985 in Cobourg 0

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College of Physical Science Alumni Assoc SCIMP

Editor Bob Winkel

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Yes Dr Earl MacNaughtoll has relired alshylogelher bUI Ihis wonl be Ih e lasl you I hear from him reSI assured Before he and his wife Jean lOok oJf for Auslralia and New Zealand Deparlmenl of Physics slaf and faculty held a galhering al Ihe FacullY Club and presenled Ihe couple wilh an alumni clock

Back to Guelph

The headquarters for (GWC)2 came

back to Guelph in July for a threeshy

year period while Professor Robert Balahura Chemistry and Biochemisshy

try serves as director (GWC)2 offices have been set up

in Room 122 and 123 Physical Scishyences building The University of

Waterloo will maintain a satellite office during the three-year Guelph

rotation Dr Balahura and adminshy

istrative assistant Andrea Turner may

be reached at Ext 3865 0

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Physics Professor Elected to Royal Society

Bernhard Nickel

Department of Phy s ics Professor Bernhard Nickel has been elected a Fellow

of the Royal Society of Canada and was formally inducted into the Society at its

annual meeting in Montreal in June

A member of the Physics faculty since

1974 Professor Nickel is no stranger to

prizes and awards In 1981 he received the Herzberg Medal the Canadian Associashy

tion of Physicists award to a promising young scienti st In 1978 he won a Sloan

Fellowship from the New York-based Sloan Foundation

He achieved recognition by navigating

the esoteric seas of condensed matter physshy

ics Hi s co lleagues call him a leading masshyter in the art of mathematical physics By

exploiting the existing mathematical frameshywork in subtle ways he has worked through

thickets that have stopped other physic ists

High order perturbation calculations

done by him played a key role in verifying

the quantitative reliability of the theory of

underlying continuous phase transitions in systems

He earned BScE and MSc degrees from the University of Saskatchewan and a

PhD from the University of California at

San Diego He was a research associate at

Cornell and Oxford Universities and a postshy

doctoral research Fellow at the Univers itY of Alberta before coming to Guelph in 1974

He has been a visiting fellow at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory at the Univershy

sity of California at San Diego at Harvard

and at the Schlumberger-Doll Re searc h In stitute in Connecticut

With his election he becomes one of

six Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada at

Guelph The others are Professors Howard

Clark Peter Egelstaff Gabriel Karl Bruce Sells and Herbert Armstrong And it brings to five the number of me mbers of the

Guelph-Waterloo Program for Graduate Work in Physics (GWP)2 who can put the

coveted FRSC after their names 0

Halleys Comet and the Babylonians By Professors Nigel Bunce and Jim Hunt

The winter of 1985 and the spring of 1986 will lon g be remembered as the year of

Comet Halley No comet in history has so

stirred the imagination of man or been the

object of suc h intensive investigation Its easy to understand this interest when its

appreciated that Halleys Comet is the only recurring comet that is bright enough to be

seen with the naked eye ft was the g reat astronomer Edmund

Halley who in 1705 recognized the s imilarshy

ity of the appearances of the great comets of 1456 1531 1607 and 1682 He speculated that these were in fact one and the sa me

comet with a period of 75 or 76 years

He predicted that the comet would reshyturn in 175 8 a return he could not live to see With thi s Halley discovered the phenomeshy

non of periodic comets and thus showed

that they were members of our solar system

The comet dutifully returned in 1835

and spectacularly so in 1910 In the latter

year circumstances were such that after its

perhelion passage (the point closest to the

Sun) the Earth and the comet approached

each other very closely The comet was so close that at one time its tail spread from

horizon to horizon The return in 1985-86 will be considshy

erably less spectacular In fact for Canadishyans it will not be easy to observe s ince the

time of perhelion is in Febnlary when the

Sun is very low in the sky The view will be -much better from more southerl y latitudes Over the years historica l records have

been found which record every passage of the comet back to 12 BC M any of these obshy

servations come from Chinese records first published in 1846 A well-authenticated

passage was that of 1066 which was reshy

corded on the Bayeux tapestry by the mother

of William of Nonnand y and taken as an cOllld on righl

Grad News Paul Ferguson BSc 67 of Ede n Mill s is president of EIS Systems Ltd and travelled in New Zealand this summer

Walter Lock BSc 67 of Denfield is practising medicine in Lucan

Tjeerd Homan BSc 69 of Calgary Alta is manager research and development services for Petro-Can He is enjoying his family Carla Sarah and John Menno and his hobbies of golf curling and skiing

(GWP)2 Poster Session a First

Earlier this year the Guelph- Waterloo Proshygram for Graduate Work in Physics (GWP)2 staged its first annual poster session for graduate s tudents Poster sessions which are becoming increasingly popular in scienshytific circles allow interaction between researchers and delegates without the time pressures encountered when presenting con shyventional papers at meetings says (GWP)2 Director lain Campbell

The first annual (GWP)2 poste r sesshysion which was followed by a soc ial hour and banquet was highly successful in genershyating interaction says Campbell By the end of the session there were still clusters of people arguing the finer points of scientific interpretation on many of the posters These exchanges continued right through the soshycial hour and into dinner Interaction is what science is all about

Encouraging interaction between stushydents and faculty is one of Campbells prishyorities as Director It is too easy for students to tuck themselves into a corner and work away in isolation They need to get out and ex plain their work both to experts and to

omen of his victory over the Saxons Based on this long record various

mathematical analyses of the orbit of the comet have been produced These account very accurately for the known passages of the comet However when these various anshyalyses are pushed back beyond 12 BC they predict widely varying dates for the previous appearances Before 12 B c there are ani y two vague Chinese records in 87 BC and 240 B c which mayor may not have been Halleys comet

In a recent issue of Nature a team of

Ernest Campbell BSc 69 lives in Campbell ville and teaches science for the Halton Board in Burlington

Richard Davis BSc 77 having comshypleted his MD University of Toronto 83 and his internship at Womens College Hosshypital will be setting up his practice in family medicine in his home town of Guelph

Larry Meek BSc 77 of Ottawa is pashytient administrator and computing officer for the National Defence Medical Centre His hobbies include sailing and skiing

Andre Brunet BA 81 is working for Amdahl Ltd as fieldsystems engineer and lives in Sudbury with his wife Monique (Puellette) FACS 80

Cathy Deakin BSc 81 is presently articshyling with the law firm of Little Reeves Mahoney Jarrett amp Hart of London

Andrew Dubrawski BSc 82 and his wife Alicia (Wodecka) BSc 81 live in Toronto where he works as a communicashytions systems analyst for CNCP Telecomshymunications 0

10hn Root 81 a (GWP)2 PhD s tudent left aflracts an audience

non-experts It takes a deliberate effort on our part to generate and maintain this intershychange

The poster session was the largest scishyentific or social event yet staged by (GWP)2 Some 18 students presented posters and about 90 students faculty and prospective students attended

The posters are on display in the two departments of physics to give others an opportunity to view them At Gue lph they are in the second floor corridor of the Physshyical Science Building near the Department

scholars from England and Vienna reported the finding of two fragments of Babylonian tablets in the British Museum that clearly report the appearance of the comet in 87 BC and 164 B C The records are so clear that by calculation not only the year but the time of year for the perhelion passage can be determined

For example the 164 BC apparition has been narrowed down to a date someshywhere between November 5 and 25 of that year The 87 BC record is not as accurate nevertheless its perhelion passage can be

of Physics office Encouraged by the s uccess of the

poster sess ion lain Campbell is planning another high-profile event for (GWP)2 to recognize award-winning faculty He plans a fall symposium at which three (GWP)2 members who received major honours durshying 1985 will give short lectures to be folshylowed by a sherry reception The three honoured faculty are Gicinto Scoles Killam Fellowship winner Bernhard Nickel Felshylow of the Royal Society of Canada and John Simpson Rutherford medalist 0

narrowed down to July 25 to August 15 These observations while inaccurate

to the extent of 20 days are still accurate enough to eliminate three of the four leading -calculations of the motion of Comet Halley This is a striking example of how archaeoshylogical investigations may have a strong effect on many diverse subjects in this case com~tary astronomy 0

We welcome questions and ideas for future articles Write to the authors clo the Deans Office Cole fe ofPhysical Science Univershysity of Guelph Guelph Ontario NIG 2WI

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Butthe Melody Lingers On By John Hearn Information Services

S tanley Saunders left Guelph this summer

for a year of administrative leave after II years as the Universitys Director of Music

College of Arts When Dr Saunders joined the Division

of Mu sic in 1974 he inherited a strong

musical tradition reaching back to the earliest

days of the Ontario Agricultural College which was always famous for its choirs

[t fell to Dr Saunders to take the fledgling

Division of Music introduce its first degree programs and build the solid reputation which it enjoys today

Dr Saunders completed his undershy

graduate studies at the University of Wales and twice won the First Award Open Instrushy

mental Solo at the Ei steddfod He was a

member of the National Youth Orchestra of Wales and later performed as a clarinetist with the SSCs radio and TV sy mphony

orchestras

Soon after coming to Guelph Dr Saunshy

ders founded the University of Guelph Civic Orchestra which under his direction achieved an enviable reputation in the ensuing

years The revival of the U of G Aggie Band

followed as did the U of G Concert Band By 1979 Dr Saunders had built a faculty

of some 16 members including Dr Charles

Wilson and Gerald and Elizabeth Neufeld

The same year also saw performances by

the U ofG Choir the U ofG Chamber Singers and the Summer Chorale The Noon-Hour

Concerts were adding to their already unique reputation while the newly formed U ofG

Trio consisting of Elizabeth Neufeld voice Sylvia Hunter piano and Stanley Saunders clarinet was beginning the series of tours which would take it to many parts of Canada and Great Britain

Before the end of the 70s we saw the

first of the successful Music of the Arboreshytum series of concerts the formation of the Aggie Choir under the direction of Gerald

Neufeld and in partnership with the Guelph Spong Festival welcomed such luminaries as the great contemporary Polish composer Penshyderecki Gian Carlo Menotti Ruby Mercer editor of Opera Canada and Bori s Brott

The early 80s have been gala years both for Dr Saunders and the Division

Dr Stanley Saunders

(retitled the Department of Music in 1984) The decade began with the presentation of

two world premieres by the U of G Civic Orchestra and the appointment of Dr Saunshy

ders as president of the National Youth Orchestra of Canada and vice-chairman of the Council of Ontario Music Administrators

The growing stature of the Department of

Music was also reflected in student registrashytion both credit and non-credit in vocal keyboard classical guitar and orchestral inshy

struments

The year 1981 saw a brilliant tour of Sweden and West Germany by the Univers ity of Guelph Choir under the direction of Gerald Neufeld and conducting engagements by Dr

Saunders in Toronto Ottawa Montreal Boston and Washington D C The same year

saw the formation of the U ofG Jazz Ensemshyble and the U ofG Pep Band both led by Kenneth Tinnish

II was a very good year As Dr Saunders said External evidence of scholarship is not necessarily obvious from performance but

creativity is itself a form of research and all these perform ances are not only enlightened by the students studies in history literature

and theory they are also heightened by their

awareness of the aesthetic factors that give significance to mu sic through their intershyrelated studies at the University

Another substantial increase in student

enrolment was witnessed in 1982-1983 deshysp ite the tightening of admission standards

and regulation for the continuance of studies

The University of Guelph Choir still under direc tor Gerald Neufeld won second prize in

the 1982 CSC national choral competition

Stanley Saunders can afford to look back on his Guelph years with considerable satisshyfaction The division which he inherited in 1974 with its three-member faculty had

grown by this year to a full department with

faculty and staff numbering 29 persons and with an enrollment of 300 students plus -another 126 students registered in the nonshycredit applied program

He has been a very bu sy and productive man commuting to and fro between Guelph and Sault Ste Marie to administer the joint

Univers ity of GuelphAlgoma University Colshylege music program - as well as keeping up

a steady schedule of scholastic publications He will be missed 0

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University of Guelph Licences Software to McGraw-Hili By Mary Cocivera

Information Services

The University of Gue lph and the US publi shing giant McGraw- Hili Inc are fishynalizing a non-exclusive licence for CoSy computer conferenc ing software developed at the University

Publi shed by McGraw-Hili BYTE Magazine is using the CoSy software to set up BIX the BYTE Information Exchange Phil Lemmons BYTEs editor-in-chief deshyscribes BIX as a living database The comshypany plans to set up conferences on every aspect of microcomputer use

Through the conferences users will be able to share information with each other and to communicate direc tly with the edi shytors of the magazine A four-ci ty commershycial te st began in September and a BYTE spokesman projects that a full international information exchange will be operating by early 1986

In addition to BIX McGraw-Hili will use the CoSy so ftware for internal comshymunications CoSy was installed by BYTE editorial offices in New Hampshire several months ago for evaluation by staffers They soon became confirmed users and CoS y beshycame a permanent part of the office The conference system was particularly sucshycessful in linking editorial headq uarters in the east with the west coast office

CoSy is already familiar to more than one thousand users world-wide who subshyscribe to a service oftered by the Univers ity of Guelph The licence to McGraw-Hili marks the first time the software will be operated and managed elsewhere The Unishyversity will continue to offer a CoSy se rvice and will continue to market the software to other potential users

CoSy was developed by a team of softshyware designers in Computing and Comshymunications Services at the Univers ity over a 16-month period Alastair Mayer was the chief architect of the code The software was written in C a high-level programming language to run under the Uni x operating system This feature makes CoS y highly portable and capable of running on any micro-computer or a mainframe with the Unix operating sys tem

George Bond BYTEs managing editor for e lectronic publishing and communicashytion says that ease of use and the Unix operating system were important fac tors in their choice of CoSy He also cited the skills and co-operative attitudes of the peopl e at

CoSy th e University of Guelph who are involved with CoSy

The University of Guelph was a parshyticularly hospita ble environment for deshyvelopment of a computer conferencing system according to Dr Ken MacKay assoshyciate director of Institutional An alysis and Pl anning Electronic mail was well estabshylished on campus so there were many peoshyple already committed to e lectronic commushynications Home-grown APL mail is arguashybly the best mail system anywhere because its easy to use and very robust CoSy is a separate system but is a descendant of earshylie r electronic mail systems

We had three basic design ideas for CoSy explains Alastair Mayer It should req uire few co mm ands the user should be able to learn without a manual and it should be accessible fro m any terminal The se goa ls have been reali zed to a great extent A manual is available but by refe rring to the help instructions within CoSy users can learn enough commands to become funcshytional very quickly

Dr Edward Swart acting director of Computing and Communication Services points out that CoSy is offered as a free service to the University com munity He beshylieves that this enlightened decision conshytributed to CoSys ne arly immediate success on campus From the early development stages users were invited to make comshyments and suggestions Their feedback inshynuenced the design of the current CoSy sysshytem to a substantial extent

Computer conferenc ing is a powerful concept as CoSy users soon discover Marshygaret Bec kman the Univers itys executive direc tor of Information Technology says there is no doubt that computer con ferencshying reduces the number of meetings and enables decisions to be made more quickl y CoSy is heavily used by University adminshyistrators and members of facu lty are ex plorshy

ing applications of computer co nferencing in teaching and lea rning

Proceeds from licences and from subshyscriptions to the campus conferencing sysshytem will fund furth er development of CoSy Dr Swart says a not-too-distant developshyment will be a distributed conference cashypability permitting a free exc hange of information from one conference systelll to another A second deve loplllent will be to activate what Dr Swa11 calls CoSys Jashytent graphics capability In CoSy a messhysage ca n contain anything even NAPLPS codes for graphics Graphs sketches and charts will thus soon become part of CoSy confe rences 0

A Letter Dear MI~ Wing

My wife (lnd I WOIII vou to know hml we enjoyed LM Mont gomerys storr The Strike at Putney ill the Spring 85 GueJph Alumnu s

Visiting Green Gables in P EI wos one of the highlights of our Trans-Canada vocmion 0 few years ago

We hope you I publish one ofher short stories in each issue of th e maga zine selectedjiom the U ofGs LM Montgomshyery Collectionfrom now on and make each issue a colleclOrs item shyCordially

Doug Marrin OAC 39 107 Waverly Place Mountain View Calif 94040 USA

Thanks for your letter Doug we will do our very best to bri ng you more L M M Ed

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P rofessional golfer philosopher oenologist would-be film maker and

now restaurateur Robert Harcourt Bob Desautels HAFA 75 Arts 84 is a man of many facets one who seeks his own sty le of excellence in many directions This summer he opened a new restaurant La Maisonmiddot in downtown Guelph which is already drawing patrons from a wide area in search of the gourmet delights promised by a very disshytinguished menu and delivered by chefs accomplished in the arts of haute cuisine

Bob works outward from a central conshyviction that there is always a market for excellence Born in Toronto he has lived in Ottawa Montreal - and Guelph He studied at Sir George Williams University Montreal Que (now pan of Concordia University) before attending the College of Family and Consumer Studies School of Hotel and Food Administration (HAFA) where he graduated with a BComm degree

He will be remem bered on campus as manager of the Faculty Club a position

The Eclectic

Bob Desautels

which he held for nearly three years after graduating and before he launched on a whole new career as a profess ional golfer He played Canadian and Australian circuits for a while and then accepted the position of manager and golf pro at the Cedarhurst Golf Club on Lake Simcoe

Two years later he was back at the Unishyversity of Guelphs hotel sc hool as a research assistant preparing for HAFAs first Advanced Management Program for the Hospitality Industry (AMPHI) course - an unrepentantly elitist institution offering advanced manageshyment training only to very se nior executives in the hospitality industry

Bob se rved as logistics manager to AMPHI for two years with responsibility for the health and welfare of a clientele whose expectations as far as hospitality is conshycerned are of the very highest

As a member of the HAFA faculty he was a more than occasional lecturer primarily on the subject of wine - whi ch he describes in reverential tones He is married (the pursuit of excellence again) his wife Susan hail s from Australia They have two children Coun age 7 and Emily 5

At the end of two years with HAFA Bob Desautels was faced with one of those critical life decisions - a choice between two paths leading in significantly different directions He might have accepted a tenure track position for whichit would have made sense to seek a PhD in business admini stration or

HAFA 75 By John Hearn Information Services

Mine host Bob Desautels HAFA 75 at La Maison

pursue an old love for philosophy He chose the latter and earned hi s Masters degree from Guelphs College of Ans in the fall of 1984

I suppose it arises from an old interest in religion he explains Metaphysical quesshytions have always fascinated me Scientific materialism the notion that mind is no more than a function of brain has neve r satisfied me There are too many loose ends - mind contemplating itself for example introshyspection Focu ss ing on philosophy of the mind for my degree gave me one of the answers - but may be Im beginning to understand some of the questions

So in the Fall of 84 philoso pher wine connoisseur goller Bob Desautels inventoried his assets - and took a course in film making at the Ryerson Poly technica l Institute Im interested in the creative end of film making he says Writing andor directing Ive fini shed one film script and working on another But it takes mucho dinero

Then early this Spring the main floor of one of Guelph s distinguished old homes beca me available Strategically located at the corner of Woolwich and Yarmouth Streets in an area already known for fine dining the housc is owned by Guelph bu sinessman Paul Starr A pannership was struck and Bob found himsel f bringing the whole wealth of hi s re staurant management know-how and his own drive for excellence to bear on La

Maison It was conceived planned and exshyecuted from the beginning as a shrine conseshycrated to the worshippers of superlative cuishysine enjoyed in the most distinguished of atmospheres

The concept has two major aspects One large room is given over to a wine bar where the connoisseur - or those who enjoy the fermented grape of any age or colour - can select from more than 20 splendid vintages by the glass or the bottle A parallel selection of native and imponed cheeses activate the tastebuds while intimates can order a delectashyble cheese fondue for two The wine-bar is a casual drop-in kind of place open from noon until midnight for enjoyment relaxation and con versation

The other main room is for the serious diner There is a modest economically-priced luncheon available for business people but the evening meal is designed to attract those for whom dining is a rei igious experience

You make your market study says bullBob but then you add your own secret ingredient - call it gut feeling There are some very good restaurants in Guelph but none that target this panicular niche

l may be that not the least of La Maisons attractions will be the possibility of conversation with mine host Choose your own subject - golf metaphysics pragshymatism - or the an of Woody Allen Bob Desautels is nothing if not eclectic 0

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Newly Elected as

A1uDlni Senators Following the annual election of three of the nine alumni seats on Senate at the University the following alumni were elected to replace those who fulfilled three-year terms on August 31 1985

Norman Hawkins OVC 57

Rita Weigel James White FACS 77 OAC 6 1

James White OAC 55A and 61 lives in Brampton and is the owner of InfoResults Limited information research consultants Brampton He completed Masters and Docshytoral degrees at Michigan State University Department of Communication He has opshyerated InfoResults for 15 years specializing in agricultural economics social policy and communication issues

He is a past president of the Canadian Consulting Agrologists Association has served on the provincial council of the Ontario Institute of Agrologists and was a director of the Canadian Society of Agrishycultural Economic s and Farm Manageshyment 0

Dr Norman Hawkins OVC 57 estabshyIlished the Guelph Animal Hospital on Elizshyabeth Street in 1957 and has continued his practice there as a partner

An active member of the Ontario Vetshyerinary Association council and a commitshytee worker he is also a member of the Canadian Veterinary Medical Association national examination board

His earlier work with the American Veterinary Medical Association involved the examination of overseas veterinary gradshyuates and inspection of North American vetshyerinary sc hools

He is a member of the Guelph Public Library Board and Board chairman of St

Margaret s School Elora

Rita (Klassen) Weigel FACS 77 gradushyated from the College of Family and Conshysumer Studies with a BASc in Con su mer Studies She was president of the Mac-FACS Alumni Association 1983-84 and has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Universi ty of Guelph Alumni Association

A member of the Canadian Marketing and Research Society Rita was employed in the research and product management field for a number of years A Guelph res ident her concerns include those of a mother of a son and twin one-year-old daughters

New Chairman Board of Governors

Edmond Bovey

Edmund C Bovey the man who headed the Commission on the Future Development of the Universities of Ontario has been named chairman of the Board of Governors at the Universi ty of Guelph A member of the Board since 1976 he succeeds Cecil Franklin who retired July I after three years as chairman and who also joined the Board in 1976

Edmund Bovey was chairman of the three-man commission that held hearings

for the Ontario public and university comshymunity in 19831984 before developing and recommending to the Mini stry of Colleges and Universities a future plan for Ontario universities

Retired as director chairman of the board and member of the executive committee of Norcen Energy Reso urces Toronto he was recently named to chair a task force on funding the arts in Canada an area where he has long experience A past president and trustee of the Ali Gallery of Ontario and its Foundation he is also a member of the Board of Governors of Roy Thomson Hall and vice-chairman of the International Council of the Museum of Modern Art in New York He is a past chairshyman of the Council for Business and Arts in Canada

In addition he is a director of a number of companies including Hollinger Argus Abitibi Price Canada Packers and the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce as well as MONY Life Insurance PPG Indusshytries and PPG Industries Canada

He is a member of the Canadian Ecoshynomic Policy Committee a director of the Canadian Executive Service Overseas and a past president of the Canadian Gas Associashytion He is also currently chairman of the Board of Wellesley Hospital Toronto

He was born in Calgary Alta and edushycated in Victoria BC 0

Appointments

Ab Moore Harry Downie OVC 48

Dr Ab Moore took up the responsibilities of chairman of the Department of Rural Extension Studies on September I for a fiveshy shyyear term He was previously director of the Office of Educational Practice

Dr Harry Downie OVC48 became actshying chairman of the Department of Bioshymedical Sciences on July I He continues until December 3 1 or until a new chairman is named 0

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Available for Immediate Possession Space in Prestige Campus Home (for baby grand piano)

The Presidents House dedicated as a building of historical and architectural significance has been without a piano since President Maclachlan retired in 1967

This could be the chance of a lifetime if you are seeking a unique and extremely worthwhile Class Project Perhaps your class would like to buy a new piano to be used in this centre for campus entertaining to be viewed by more than 5 000 visitors a year A recognition plaque would be located either on or adjacent to the instrument

A Bequest

Charles S Humphrey

A former partner and president from 1947

to 1963 of Guelphs Hart Chemical Comshy

pany Canada Ltd the late Charles S Humphrey se lected the Universit y of

Guelph as one of the benefic iaries of his estate

Hi s bequest to the Unive rs it y of

$130000 received last June is to be used at the discretion of the University pres ident

in the University s scholarships and burshy

saries program A resident of Victoria BC since his

retirement in 1963 Charles Humphrey died on August29 1984 at the age of81 He was an emeritus member of the Canadian Assoshy

ciation of Textile Colourists and Chemists Born at Hornell NY USA he came to Canada in 1936

This is the second time that Charles

Humphrey has given financial support to the Univers ity In 1979 he generously provided a $50000 endowment gift to support an annual $5000 graduate fellowship in Chemistry

The fellowship is designed to ease the financial burdens of outstanding students in

organic chemistry registered in the PhD

program at the Guelph-Waterloo Centre for Graduate Work in Chemistry (GWC)2 0

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CODling Events 86 Jan 7-9

Mar 5

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OAC Agricultural Conference

Alumni Florida Reunion (See below)

College Royal Open House

Ontario Institute of Agrologists Annual Conference Agricultural Trade To be he ld

in Cornwall Ont

OAC Alumni Association Curling Bonspiel

U of 6s 8tb Annual Human Sexuality Conference Changing Nature of Sexual Relationships Sexual Scripts and Lifestyles Today

ALUMNI WEEKEND 86

Alumni Florida Reunion If you missed the Alumni Flo rida Reunion Picnic in March 85 you missed a great gathering About 90 alumni and

friends met for a very pleasant pot luck meal Ross Cavers OAC 29 the organizing committee chairman hopes it will

become an annual affair Ruth and Gordon Wright Mac

37 and OAC 33 and Willa and Morley Funston Mac and OAC 32 made the loc al arrangements the affair was sponshysored by the Universitys Alumni-in Action group Make

plans to attend the second annual Florida Alumni Reunion Picnic at 12 noon on Wednesday March 51986 at Harbour Heights Park near Port Charlotte Florida two miles east of

Interstate Highway 75 Please respond by March 11986 to Ruth and Gordon Wright General Delivery Warm Mineral

Springs Florida 33596 US A

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College of Arts Alumni Association DELPHA

Editor Terry Ayer 84

Executive 1985-86 HONORARY PRESIDENT Dr David R Murray Dean

PRESIDENT Linda McKenzie-Cordick 81

PAST PRESIDENT Margo Shoemaker 79

VICE-PRESIDENT Wm Macdonald 78

SECRETARY-TREASURER

Marilyn Armstrong 78

DIRECTORS Debbie (Nash) Chambers 77 Edith LeLacheur 72 Janice (Robertshy

son) Partlow 79

UGAA REPS Wm Macdonald 78 Margo Shoemaker 79

EDITOR DELPHA Terry Ayer 84

Appointed

Dr Edward Phillips

Edward Phillips began a five-year term as chairman of the Department of Music July I He obtained his BA in mu sic at Amherst College

Massachusetts and his M A Masshyter of Philosophy and Ph D all in music theory from Yale Univers ity Married to Patricia who has a DM A in organ performance from Yale he has two sons Stewart 7 and Andrew 3 Edward who is also an organist enjoys cooking 0

Literary Heritage Preserved in Africa Most Canadian children are exposed to their cultural heritage at an early age through legendary stories brought from Eushy

rope or about Canadian pioneering and through stories about Indian or Inuit myths

and fables In developing countries however

where paper and printed materials are in

shon supply cultural heritage is usually passed on orally and children have little

opportunity to read about their past A Canashydian project involving the Universities of Guelph and Yaounde in Cameroon West

Africa is doing something to keep that countrys heritage alive

The project now entering its fourth year is a collaborative effort of the De partshy

ment of English Language and Literature at Guelph and the Department of African Litshyerature at the Univers ity of Yaounde It is

sponsored by the Canadian International Development Agency with Guelphs Deshy

partment of English Language and Litershy

ature Chairman Doug Killam serving as co-ordinator and Elizabeth (Wildman)

Cockburn CSS 81 as Canadian project consultant

Dr Killam is well-known for his work in the field of Commonwealth literature and

has taught at several African universities

EI izabeth Cock burn a primary sc hool teacher taught at the Government Teachers Training College in the North West Province

of Cameroon from 1969 to 1971 It was then

that she became aware of the shortage of relevent reading material for Cameroon schoolchildren

However it was some ten years later

that the project was born when she and Professor Kilian consulted with Dr Bernard

Fonlon then head of the Department of Afshyrican Literature at Yaounde Deeply comshy

mitted to saving African oral traditions as literatore Dr Fonlon although now retired remains a driving force in promoting creativity in the schools and scholarship on oral literature at the university

Last January Professor Killam and Elizabeth Cockburn were in Yaounde at a

conference where 80 papers were presented on the theory and practice of oral literature for West African educators - the first major attempt to marry theory and practice

As are children in the Canadian Indian

and Inuit communities African children are often exposed to texts that portray children of cultures different from their own To

counteract thi s influence simple African s tories with lifelike illustrations are being

Local stories come alive

mimeographed and turned into booklets by simply folding stand ard letter-size paper in half A collections of these stories will evenshytually be produced in textbook form when

fund s become available One such s tory The Marriage Feast

describes the marriage meal of the cat who invites all the domestic animals and birds to

the celebration

The dogs who know much about meat were asked 10 cook the food 8U1 they decided 10

playa trick They cooked the meat in the bOlom of the pot with the vegetables on lOp They said they would be the last to eat

In true fable form the hens who ate first discovered when they were too full to eat any more that there was meat deep

inside the pOI So they

Swore never to eat from the surface again and that is why hens always scratch deep into the soil in search offood

Although story-telling is becoming a lost art in Canada it is still a lively part of

life in Cameroon But as Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe said when he was in Guelph last year when a member of the older genshyeration dies its as if a whole library was destroyed -

Time is running short and fund s are needed to keep alive this project in Camshyeroon Anyone seeking further information

on the project may address their inquiries to Professor Killam at the University He hopes to receive funding from the Commonwealth

Foundation for similar work in other counshytries which have expressed an interest in

recording their heritage 0

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The Limners How do art students continue to find stimshyulation and motivation following graduation when they are no longer under the pressure of course requirements and without the critshyicism of an instructor

Four Fine Art graduates and one inshycourse student solved the problem by formshying a support group called The Limners (Limn an archaic word meaning paint deshypict portray Hence - Limner) Last Sepshytember the group held a success ful exhishybition of their recent works at the Halton Hills Cultural Centre Georgetown The Limners are

Dorothy Hart 81 of Georgetown She works with oil s pas tel s and graphite b4t is very interested in character fi gures made of cellu-clay which requires enormous pashytience to produce Her latest interest is pastel portraits of children

Dimensions 85 The fourth annual College of Arts Ailimni Association juried art show DIMENSIONS 85 was a success once again The jury members Marlene Jofriet well-known water colourist _ Michael OKeefe 76 practising artist and teacher and George Todd chairman Department of Fine Art selected 30 entries to hang

The jury awarded the following $100 $75 $50 prizes and designated three honshyourable -mentions

First pri ze Sheila Vollmer 85 Woman in Veil intaglio print

Second prize Wendy Maki 83 Pears Plums Apples and Grapes oil on canvas

Sue Knox 81 Formerly she was interested in the landscapes of Northern Ontario where she used to work Now back in Guelph Sue has rediscovered her urban surshyroundings including people

Betty Ketcheson 83 of Frankford Ontario to where her husband lack has retired Watercolour is her favorite medium however Betty also has an interest in enshycaustic painting with beeswax as a medium

Jane Graham 83 of Guelph lane tries to communicate her own brand of optimism through her waterco lours by using the figure in the land scape most often a child

Nan Hogg an undergraduate Nan is intershyested in making art that is feminist A memshyber of th e Guelph Embroiderers Guild Nans recent work displays a combination of watercolours or etchings with coil aged fabshyric that has been embroidered 0

The Limners L to r Sue Knox 81 Belly Ketcheson 83 Nan Hogg Dorothy Hart 81 and Jane Graham 83

Third pri ze Doreen Schaub 70 Rushing Waters watercolour

Honourable Mentions Sheila Volshylmer 85 Embracing Figures sculpture in pl aster Scott Abbot 79 Fields Near Maryhill oil on masonite Margaret Peter 74 Impressions Fossil Series collagraphsi Ikscreen

An innovation at DIMENSIONS 85 was the presentation of selected works of a featured artist Our first selected arti st was Evan MacDonald no stranger to the Univershysity of Guelph Many of his works are part of the Universitys collection of Canadian art hi s portraits hang in various buildings on campus and he was awarded an honorary doctorate of laws in 1979

We extend our sincere thanks to Ingrid

At DIMENSIONS 85 ColeRe oj Arts art sholl at Alllmni Wefkllld 85 L to r Marlene Jojriet juror Dr GeorRe 7iJdd chairman Department oj Fine Art jllror Wencil Maki 83 second-prize winner Doreen Schauh 70 third-prize willner Michael 0 Keeji 76

juror Own David Murray

Jenkner curatorexhibitions at the Macshydonald Stewart Art Centre and Mary MacshyDonald Evans wife for making it possible for us to feature the works of Evan

We also expre ss our gratitude and appreciation to all those who were instrushymental in making the show a success A special thank you is extended to this years participants without whom the show coulll not have been mounted 0

Art Show and Lecture Series Recognizing the 20th anniversary of the Department of Fine Art a facshyulty art show will be presented at the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre Nov 21 to lan 5 Viewing Tue to Fri and Sun noon to 500 pm Sat 1000 am to 500 pm A lecture se ries will present Dr Alan Gowans professor of art history University of Victoria B c on Art History and the Social Function Nov 18 at 800 -pm Rm 113 Physics Bldg Dr Ronald Nasgaard chief curator Art Gallery of Ontario wi II present Cushyratorship Today and Social Political Economic Pressures on Nov 27 at 400 pm in the Dept of Fine Art A third speaker is slated for early in the New Year

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Ontario Veterinary College Alumni Assoc OVC ALUMNI NEWS

Editor Dr Cliff Barker 41

OVC Alumni Association Executive 1985middot86

HONORARY PRESIDENT Dr Ole Niel sen 56 PRESIDENT Dr Ken Gadd 56 PAST PRESIDENT Dr Wendy Parker 7 1 VICE-PRESIDENT Dr Mary (Hawkins) Wiltshire 74 SECRETARY-TREASURER Dr Gordon Boylan 46 DIRECTORS Dr Bob Buck 46 Dr Archie MacKinnon 43 Dr Norm McAninch 39 Dr Bruce Robb 7 1 Dr Bruce Robinson 76 Dr Noni Sman 80 EDITOR avc Alumni News Dr Cliff Barker 41

Mailbag Dear Cliff

We were over to Vancouver Island recel11ly and went up to Qualicum Beach to see 0 Howard Taylor 13 He broke me in on meat inspection in 42 at the old Burns plant on Logan Avenue in Winnipeg

He is in great shape Qlid outside of a gimpy knee has no problems It was a real pleasure to see him again - still the same sparkle and quick wit that I had remembered from the Winnipeg years

I had not seen Howardfor 40 years bw outside of him thinking I had aged someshywhat had no trouble with identification Thought you might be il7lerested in this bit of news - not too many vets make it to age 98

We are fine and enjoying a complete reversal of what Vancouver weather is supshyposed to be bUi sure would like to see aboUl a week of rain Regards Bud Ellis 41 1410 Gordon Avenue West Vancouver Sc V7T IR6

From the Dean

Dr Ole Nielsen 56

In this my first opponunity to address our alumni through this medium I would like to express my pleasure at having the privilege of serving the Ontario Veterinary College and the University of Guelph

At the outset I acknowledge my debt to those many faculty students and staff who have labored to make this College a great inshystitution Being mindful of this heritage I am excited by the challenge of helping move the College to new levels of excellence One has to be impressed with the potential of the OVe Heres why

By the time this publication has gone to press I expect tenders for the first phase of a new OVC building program will have been called and possibly awarded This project costing over $13 million will provide modshyem facilities for the Depanments of Clinical Studies and of Biomedical Sciences and the Veterinary Teaching Hospital

The culmination of a great deal of effon led by former Dean Doug Maplesshyden 50 and President Burt Matthews OAC 47 the project is jointly funded by the Federal Government (Departments of Agrishyculture and Regional Industrial Expansion) and the Province of Ontario (OMAF)

The new facility will allow the College to press forward with new teaching research and service programs that include such vital newareas as biotechnology computer as istshyed health management and expanded proshygrams in toxicology

The second phase of the OVC building program which is largely related to teachshying spaces remains to be funded A good share of this project is expected to be includshyed in the fonhcoming capital campaign of the University The panicipation of you the alumni will be crucial to its success The governments of Ontario and Canada have done their part despite difficult circumshystances The rest is up to us

I have found the faculty of the OVC to be -a group of strong and vigorous academshyics and many young talented faculty have been appointed recently In passing one notes the retirement of many of those who led the renaissance in veterinary education in Canada in the post-war years The new generation of faculty has a real challenge in

trying to do as well as their predecessors shyand it will

I believe the graduate students are the sou I of the College Therefore another cause for optimism is the strength of the graduate and research programs at the OVe Presently the College has about 130 gradushyate students who at this most creative period of their lives are striving to provide new knowledge and skills for veterinary medishycine In 1950 there were none

There has been a significant expansion in the D YSc program a comparatively new doctoral program that gives priority to the acquisition of clinical sk ill s in addition to training in research The D VSc degree is unique in the world and how its graduates will be received remains to be determined I am confident it will be favourably

Believing in the imponance of reshysearch OMAF recently committed itself to provide the College with a new research farm at Ponsonby This nO-acre site located some ten miles from Guelph will provide farm-type facilities for hous ing dairy cattle beef cattle sheep pigs and laboratory anishymals will replace existing facilities at Eramosa and Plislinch and will cost in excess of $3 million

The application rate and quality of stushydents seeking admision to the D YM proshygram remains high

I am delighted to be assisted in the work of the Deans office by Associate Dean Ted Valli 62 and Academic Counsellor Ron Downey 61 and given the above is it any wonder I am optimistic

I have always been a bit smug in believshying that those of us from western Canada were the most friendly in the nation My exshyperience since coming to Guelph proves me wrong Everyone including students facshyulty staff the University administration and the local community could not have been more friendly and helpful 0

OVCAA Membership Report-Summer 1985

Life Membership 1 103 Honorary Life Membership 3 Life Me m Instalment Plan 241 Annual Membership 42 -Total Membership 1389 Total Alumni 3537 Membership

of Total Alumni 3930 Membership

of Known Alumni 40 06

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Inch in KatDlandu The following letter to the editor from Or

Carolyn Inch 81 was sent to Ornella Osborne editor of Update the newsletter

published by the Ontario Veterinary Assoshyciation Were grateful to Omelia for passing it on to us

While trekking through the north central region of the Himalayan mountains in

Nepal I was surprised to see the words vetshy

erinary office added to the bottom of it sign written in Nepalese

The village Chame contained the

headquarters of the government veterinary operations for the region of Manang Borshy

dering on China in the north the region covers about 2000 square kilometres and

has the lowest population density in Nepal The average altitude of the region is above

3048 metres Annapurna towers at 8091

metres The logistics behind launching a vetshy

erinary program in an area that is entirely inaccessible except by foot or aircraft had

me intrigued Dr Koshori Jha greeted us warmly and

in the polite manner wed received at the hands of all the Nepalese tea was served

The bulk of his practice is in sheep and goats as well as cattle yak horse mules and chickens On a daily basis he deals most frequently with footrot a problem that

is compounded by the fact that most of the bovine and equine species are bred pri-

During the recent avc AA Annual Meeting retired Deal Doug Maplesden 50 righl received ( plaque embodying newsclippings puhlished during his lenure Dean OIl Nieletl 56 made the presentalion

marily for use as pack animals the terrain is

rough and whether goats are grazing beshy

tween rocks or mules are carrying 80-kiloshygram loads up mountainsides their hooves are exposed to a lot of strain

Dr Koshori Jhas pharmacy contained various disinfectants and as tringents and

many herbal remedies from India retained placenta and anti-bloat preparation for

example

The only vaccine available to him was against Hemorrhagic Septicemia and he

used it when faced with a diagnosed herd

outbreak Dr Koshori Jha pointed out phenol

which was used on feet during July August and Septembers annual FMD outbreak

coinciding with the rainy season Day-to-day treatment is a sma ll part of

the government veterinarian s job He recently received approval for his five-year

plan which began last spring The main eleshyments of the plan are training increasi ng egg production mule breeding Jhopa

breeding (cross between a cow and male yak) and improving cattle feed by the introshyduction of a Phillipine variety of cattle grass

For the livestock assistance training

three farmers from each of 12 panchayats (districts) in Manang will come to Chame

for training and to discuss local problems These men will be involved in a serv ice

centre to be se t up in each panchayat for common treatment He also plans to hold a yearly lives tock exhibitio n with pri ze shy

money for healthy livestock

Plans to increase egg production include a new brooding unit and the introshy

duction of a hybrid of Leghorn New Hampshyshire and Rhode Island Red poultry In an effort to upgrade the quality of pack anishy

mals local ponies will be crossed with donshykeys brought from northern India Similarly

Missing in India Dr Ohiroobhai K Desai 46 61 Sharda Society Paldi Ahmedabad 380007 India has written of hi s attempts to gather inforshy

mation on Drs VD Alaga Raju 36 and

K B Nair 36 both of India He repol1s having bee n with Dr Nair from 1952 to 1956 at the Bombay Veterinary College as an exshyaminer in Veterinary Medicine However he

has been unable to provide up-to-date inforshymation on thesc two alumni Any alumni

with information please write to your avc Alumni Bulletin editor 0

male yaks will be crossed with local cows

and their offspring Jhopa will be used as high-altitude pack animals

Dr Jha plans to distribute these breedshying animals to the more remote region s so

that bloodlines can be upgraded In so me of these areas the native dialect is related to ancestral Tibetan languge rather thall Nepashy

lese which compounds hi s difficult task of education

Pack animals are the lifeline of the

high-altitude people as much today as they

have been for centuries I very much appreshy

ciate the time taken by Dr Koshori Jha to explain the role of domestic animals in the

Himalaya and share with me his ambitious plans for the future 0

AI Ihe recem CVMA Conference in Pelllicshylon Dr Bob Dunbar 12 leji with Dr ROI Downey 6 Bob has reached his 961h birlhday and resides in a PellliClol1 nursing home

In Memoriam Or John N Campbell 15 545 Scripps Drive Davis California 59616 USA

died May 4 1985

Dr Ra)mond E Pinkert 36 440 NOl1h Pine Street Reedsburg Wisconsin 53959 USA died April 13 1985

Or Roderick S MacDonald 37 3003 Oliver Street Apt 203A Halifax NS -B3L 4AI died June 12 1985

Dr John J Carney 44 3531 West 33rd Avenue Vancouver B C V6S IZ2 Date of

death unknown

Or Kenneth R Lachapelle 54 1635 Ranvoyze Ave St Foy Que GIW 3K2

died June 26 1985 0

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College of Social Science Alumni Assoc PEGASmiddotUS

Editor Dorothy Barnes 78

Our Annual Picnic We Illissed you I All of you who didnt make it to our CSSAA picnic during Alumni Weekend 85 But despite the few members and families that did attend we had a good time The pictures tell the story

Here are some of us arriving (l) and setting up the eats We had good food and why not It was a tillle to enjoy relax and have some fun We had games for all ages including catch-the-eggs (2) with real raw eggs

AmI of course whats a picnic without a drop of rain) But President John came prepared with a tarpaulin (3) for those afrnid ofilleiting The k)od and the day were saved Hurrah for our presidenl

Thcre were some brave soul s who unshydaunted by the weather carried on with their baseball game Then of course there was one young partiCipant (4) who was seen scratching hcr head 1I1d wondering what was going on

All in all we had a great time You would have too if youd bcen thcre So makc a mental notc or tic a string around your tingcr toc anywhere that will reillind you that you missed a good outing at th e Aluillni Wcckend 85 CSSAA picnic and that you should makc pl ans now to join us in June 86 at Alumni Wcekend 86 0

A Joy to Behold Her work has the shi mmer of life Such is said of artist Joy Elizabeth (Snihur) Laking Fine Art CSS 72 Joys art is intimately tied to the seasons In spring and summer she works against the perilous fadshying of fresh flowers capturing them in clean powerful designs

Fa ll afternoons on the grassy salt marshes around her home in Portaupigue Nova Scotia inspire wider scenes of rich changing colours

The respite of winter is her time for land and peoplescapes evolved from her ow n photography Her art is created within the context of family community and nature

Joy was introduced to hcr chosen lifeshystyle by her mother - they used to go sketching while Joy was a child in Owen Sound on Lake Huron s Georgian Bay shyand has painted since she can remember She now lives on the edge of the Bay of Fundy with husband Ronald OAC 72 and two cherubs where she can paint every day and capture the beauty she sees around her Whether it be mud and Illarsh a rusted truck and some farmyard geese or caterpillar holes in azalea leaves Joy is able to capture in watercolour the essence and beauty of all she sees

She is noted for her special ability to create white flowers on white paper by givshying the petals shape and vivid life with only a whisper of colour and shadow Light delishycate handling and mcticulous control fused with a powerful design se nse distinguishes her art

Joy is a well established artist and has had se lected exhibitions of her paintings at the Tom Thompson Memorial Art Gallery Owen Sound 1981 Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery Halifax NS 1982 Gallery 1889 Tatamagouche NS 1983

Daffodils By Joy (Snihur) Laking 72

Truro Art Society Truro NS 1984 and the Royal Botanical Gardens Burlington Onl 14

She was deservedly honoured to have the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia purchase one of her paintings for its collection and the Maritime Tel amp Tel chose a Laking painting for the cover of Nova Scotias 1985 telephone directory

Joy says I paint what I live what I see and what touches me It s no wonder then that Joy has been able to successfully transshyfer such sensitivity to her work in a way that has produced tine work s of art as demonshystrated in Daffodils reproduced here 0

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Grad News Terry Goddard 76 wrote to let us know

where he is and what hes doing After gradshyuation Terry turned to the world of engishy

neering and worked at the Bechtel Intershy

national Syncrude project in northern Alberta for a year He retu rned to school and obtained a Masters degree in Politi cal Theshyory in 1978 at the University of Toronto

TIle next nine months were spent workshying at Dhaharan Saudi Arabi a While the re

Terry contemplated the action which would

give him the best career move His deci s ion to go into teach ing led him back to the Unishy

versity of Toronto to obtai n his BEd His teachin g career took hi m to northshy

e rn Saskatchewan whe re he taug ht at a village which if not actually at the end of

the world was situated close enough that the end was plainly visible from the nOI1hern

outskirts He returned to Toronto someshywhat sated with academe and once again

turned to engineering He has been director of maintenance for the Jewi sh Com munity

Centres of Toronto for the past five years He has fou nd it difficult to keep in

touch with fellow grad s Especia lly th ose who studied in Professor Melby s Chinese

poIitic s courses and who were known as the Shanghai Mafia - they are all over the

world now Hes sure they often recall with fondness their days at Unigoo

Where are you former students of Proshyfessors Simmo ns and MelbYTerry would be interested in hearing from you - and so would we

Robin-Lee Norris 80 has been awarded

a $19000 Rot ary Foundation Scholarship to

pursue g radua te studi es in the Masters of Business Administration program at the

Univers ity of Adelaide Adelaide Australia Robin-Lee went o n to graduate from

Osgoode Hall Law School with an LLB

was called to the Ontario Bar in ApriJ of 1982 and has practised law with the tirm of

Kearns McKin non inGuelph since herca ll She took a ten-mo nth leave of absence

commenc ing in February 1985 from her positi on with Kearns McKinno n in o rder to take ad vantage of the sc holarship

During her months in Australia her mandate from Rotary Internatio nal in addishy

tion to pursuing her stud ies is to act as a Rotary and Canadian Ambassador in proshy

moting good will and understanding beshytween Australians and Canadians

A thank you goes to Cliff Hardy buildshying mechanic superv isor Main tenance Deshypartment Physical Resources for supplying us with thi s information and an aside to Robin-Lee when she reads this I was unable

to reach you betore you left to congratulate

you and get more informati on on your award If you have some free time we wOllld love to hea r from you about your studi es

what a Rotary and Canadian ambassador

does and to have you share your ex perience of being down-under

Marilyn Kernohan Morrison 78 has taken the time to Jet us know that shes living in Napanee with hu sba nd Brian She has

tempora ril y se t aside her ca reer to be a home-maker tor Brian and their four-monthshy

old son

Prior to their move to Napanee to acshycommodate Brians tran sfer - he work s with the Ministry of Natural Resources shy

Marilyn and family lived in a small comshymunity northwest of Thunder Bay After

Gue lph Marilyn continued her ed ucation at the comm unity college level and com pleted

a program for counse llors of the mentally

retarded SheJI be returnin g to thi s fi e ld when she again becomes a wage earner

Doris E (Trachsel) OKeefe 74 is deshy

scribed by husband John Paul 74 as a household engineer John Paul is a reshy

source teacher with the Waterloo County Board of Education With such a title I

couldnt resis t phon ing Doris to find out exactly what the duti es of a household enshy

gi neer are

While Doris decl ined to give a cletinishytion of the titl e l detected some surprise and delight that John Paul appreciates what it

takes to look after a famil y and a home

Doris is trying to re turn to teaching but is findin g it difficult in the Cambridge

Waterloo area If she isnt successful shes planning alternatives such as enrolment at Guelph in a Masters program o r failing that enrolment in courses that will he lp her

ac hieve her long-range goa ls She and John Paul recen tly moved from

London Ont to Cambridge Prior to the

birth of Erin now a two-year-old Doris was teac hing boys with behaviourial problems

and she sees thi s as an asset when applying for teaching positions Erin has a six-yearshyold brother Sean so you can understand

perhaps that Doris has been bu sy and maybe she is aptly described as a houseshy

hold engi neer

J Barry Baldwin 69 is a teac her with the Elgin County Board of Education S t Thomas Barry married Linda Janet Wii son They live in Aylmer West

M Rachel (Curtis) Towe 69 is manager customer systems Bell Canada She and

husband Ken live in Guelph

M Lois (Robinson) Harris 70 li ves in Newmarket with husband Fred

B Hugh Schofield 72 is an industrial engi neer with Rockwell Int e rnati o nal C hat ham He and wife Susan (Haslelt)

FACS 78 live in Chatham

Paul Davis 73 is an underwrite r analyst with Co-opera tors General In sura n ce

Guelph Paul and wife Linda (DozeH) 73 and 81 live at Brookhaven Court Guelph

Carol Finlayson 74 is a letter carrier lor Canada Post Carol and husband John Balch live in Toronto

Pal Hamilton 74 is an expon market deshyvelopment specialist with the O ntario Minshyistry of A gricu lture and Foo cl mark et

development branch Toronto He and his wife Diane (Coates) OAC 72 live in

Toronto

Kerrie Sirathy MA 78 advises us that

she is a s tud en t at th e Univcrsity of Sakatchewan Sas katoon

Vicky Sutherland 78 is an air trartie conshy

troller with Air Canada at FoI1 McMurray Airpo l1 Alta and lives in F0I1 McMurray

Sounds like an intercsting job - perhaps youl l share SOIllC experie nces with us Vicky

Marlin Thissen 78 is a foreman with the

region or Halton at ih Milton wa ter po llushytion control plant

Evelyn Evie (Isaacs) Whilwham 80 is a planning ass istant with Union Gas Co Ltd Chatham She and hu sba nd Bob have

c hanged their address They are at 70 Ottawa Drive C ha tham Ont N7L 216 0

In Memoriam A lormer faculty mcmber in the DeshypaI1ment of Geography Barsa Kelly was among the victims of the Air India Hight 182 disaster that occ urred

off the coas t of Irel and las t June ~ mr(sa Vas headed tor India on a reshy

search project at the time of her

death S he was the wife of Protessor Kenneth Kelly Department of Geogshyra phy On behalf of its members and all those who chc ri shed their con tacts with Barsa the Board of Directors of the College of Social Science Alumni Association extend their s incere symshy

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College of Biological Science Alumni Assoc BIOmiddotALUMNI NEWS

Editor Marie (Boissonneault) Rush 80

HONORARY PRESIDENT Professor Bruce Sells Dean

PRESIDENT David Airdrie BSc 82 Microbiology

PAST PRESIDENT Dr Chris Wren BSc 77 Marine Biology PhD 83

VICE-PRESIDENT Dee Britney BSc 74 Fisheries amp Wildlife MSc 81

SECRETARY-TREASURER Kclly Munkittrick BSc 80 Fisheries amp Wildshylife MSc 83

DIRECTORS Lorraine Bruce-Allen BSc 80 Zoology MSc 84 Jim Elliott BSc 79 Marine Biology Keith Harris BSc 76 Marine Biology Dr Doug Holdway BSc 76 Marine Biology MSc 78 Aquatic Toxicology PhD 83 Krista (McAuley) Soper BSc 79 Marine Biolshyogy Karin Davidson-Taylor BSc 83 Zoology

From Dave Airdrie 82 the

President How time flies when youre having fun Your editor Marie (Boissonneault) Rush 80 tell s me that this note to you will be in the Fall issue of the Guelph Alumnus so Ill bring you up to date on happenings since your 1985-86 Board of Directors was inshystalled in June

The CBS Alumni Association was parshyticularly busy during June Alumni Weekshyend events including the Wildlife Art Show and Sale and the barbecue at the Rockwood Conservation Area were well attended

Thanks must go to Krista (McAuley) Soper 79 and Lorraine Bruce-Allen 84 for their first-rate efforts in organizing and running the art show From all accounts it was ex tremely well done and is sure to be repeated in 1986

Further thanks mu st go to Keith Harshyris 76 for his efforts in once again organizing the barbecue at Rockwood Keith has done a terrifi c job with this event s ince its inception Hopefully these two events will be expanded in the coming year

Last spring the objective of $10 000 for the Keith Ronald Fellowship Fund was reached and we thank all who generously contributed to this fund Its to be hoped that this is only the first of many scholarships initiated through the CBSAA

Many of you will now be aware of the changes which the Universitys Department of Alumni Affairs has undergone in rece nt months Most important is the arrival of Marjorie Millar as director of the Departshyment It seems that President Matthews is placing greater emphasis on the importance of the Department due in part to the impenshyding capital campaign I am sure that youll all notice many beneficial innovations

The CBSAA has I feel reached a point in its development where we must heighten our profile both among alumni and undershygraduates In order to increase the awareness of the Association the Board has plans to embark on some new programs

The goals are as I see them two-fold first of all we need YOU to get more inshyvolved whether its participation in our proshygrams or s upport for the Assoc iation through your membership The fact that youre reading this demonstrates an interest which we would like to heighten

Secondly we re working at helpin g undergraduates before graduation to beshycome more aware of our Association Hopeshyfully we ll get helpful input and suggestions from many of you in the near future Reshymember - YOUR alumni association is what YOU make it

Dave Airdrie BSc 82 President Colshylege of Biological Science AA

FACULTY ADVISORS Dr Denis Lynn Zoology Dr Margaret Hauser M icroshybiology Dr John Hilton Nutrition Dr John Sandys Award Phillips Botany amp Genetics Dr Brian Wilson Human BiologyKinetics The Ontario Confederation of University

Faculty Associations (OCUFA) has awarded UGAA REPRESENTATIVES Karin Dr Alexander Sandy Middleton DepartshyDavidsonTaylor BSe X) Zoology Keith ment of Zoology one of the nine OCUFA Harris BSc 76 Marinc Biology Rob Teaching Awards for 1984 Milnc BSe XI MSe 84 Marine Bio Dr Middleton was nominated for this -award by colleagues students administrashyEX-OFFICIO DIRECTORS Ed Berdusco tors alumni and faculty It acknowledges president CBSSC Steve Spring past presishy outstanding ability and is considered to be dent CBSSC the provinces highest honour for excellence

in university teaching HKAA REPRESENTATIVE Nick Dalton I think there are two keys to being an BSe 77 Human Kinetics effective teacher Sandy says One is to

have respect for the student the other is to EDITOR RIO-ALUMNI NEWS Marie make a genuine intellectual and time comshy(Boissonneault) Rush B Se XO Marine mitmcnt to the course Biology 0 Dr Alexander Middleton Congratulations Dr Middleton 0

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Grad News Human Biology

Cathy Knipe BSc 79 MSc 83 is a Ph D st ud ent at Iowa State University Ames Iowa USA She is studying Moshylecular Biology

Shelly Lugg BSc 83 is a stude nt at Simon Fraser University Burnaby BC

Human Kinetics

Susan (Wright) Kwiatkowski BSc 80 is a recreation therapist at York Central Hosshypital Toronto Her spouse Ed graduated from Ryerson in 1979

Donna Marie (Kadwell) 1vose BSc 79 and husband John ji ve in Thorold Shes a physica l education supervisor at the Niagara Peninsula Crippled Childrens Centre

Mary Ellen (Mew) Walker BSc 83 is the activity co-ordinator at Spruce Lodge Stratford

Dr Ken Danylchuk BSc(PE) 73 is a s ur ge ry re s ident at the H itchcockshyDartmouth Medical Center Hanover N H USA

Kathryn (Tarry) Myers BSc 78 is a teacher with the Middlesex COunty Board of Educati on Hyde Park

WildUfe

Vicky Johnston 84 bega n an MSc at Lakehead University Thunder Bay in May Shes working on the reprodu ctive biology of Lake Superior rin g-billed gull s

Nutrition

Or 0010 Ohiokpehai 77 lectures in food and nutrition at the Unive rs ity of Ife Nigeria

Microbiology

John Semple 78 is a PhD ca ndidate in the Department of Mic rob iology amp Immushynology at Queens Uni vers ity Kingston He will be doing a post-doctora l at the Banting amp Best Depattment of Medica l Research University of Toronto

Unspecialized

Peter Adams 79 and Beth (Sarjeant) 79 are happy to announce their recent marshyriage Beth is a research technici an with the Depanment of Medicine Univers ity of Ca lshygary Alta and Peter operates a business with the se ismic service industry

Marine Biology

Jorgen Hansen 75 and his wife Drusilla (Dol be) Arts 75 live in Gloucester Jorge n is a staff officer with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Ottawa

CoUege Honour RoU - Winter 85 Semester 06

Margorie Fe rgusson 894 Human Biology JoAnna Milan 860 Biology

Semester 07 Sandra Noble 856 Microbiology

Semester 08 Marga ret Docker 876 Marine Biology Thomas Johnston 87 0 Fi sheries Biology Debra Underhill 858 Microbi ology

James Wright 858 Biology Tobin Peever 854 Botany

Alexander Hanke 852 Zoology Rebecca Rodgers 852 Human Bi ology

Tracey Robin son 882 BSc( HK ) Rebecca Halonen 880 BSc(HK )

Swdent has obtained standing for second time Student has obtaincd standing for third time

Home Town

Oakville Ottawa

Dorchester

Guelph New Liskeard Kingston Thunder Bay Bracebridge Grafton Calgary Alta Guelph Georgetown

Donald MacLennan 75 and hi s wife Katherine live in Chatham Donald is a biologi st-supervisor with the Ministry of Natural Resources Lake SI Clair Fisheries Assessmen t Unit Tilbury 0

College of Biological Science

Alumni Association

Wildlife Art Show

Well it happened June 15 and 16 have come and gone but not withshyout event The Graduate Students Lounge was transformed from a cozy meeting place into an an gallery There was much movi ng of furniture and hanging of an work with the end product being our fi rst ever CBSAA Wildlife Art Show

In total there were 20 wildlite artists partic ipating all tine ani sts in their own right Maybe you reshymember Ut a Stre live a nd Dr Ed Bailey Wow I You should see their wood works

Rick Beaver 73 also showed some of his work hes a wildlife imshypressionist and the colour and move shyment he paint s into each piece is eloquent Donald Dority 76 showed us the line photographer he has become There were other ani sts - too many to mention but all of extremely high calibre

Id like to mention one las t name though - Cindy Hayward manager of the Graduate Students Lounge If you ever need a steady hand to get an event off the ground shes the one to co ntact Without her hel p there would have been a whole heap of orshyga ni za tional problems From which we would have been unable to escape

All in all we had a successful show Thanks artists and viewers for making our efforts worthwhile 0

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New Minister of AgricultureOntario Agricultural College Alumni Assoc OAC ALUMNI NEWS

Editor Dr Harvey W Caldwell 51

Ontari OS new mini ster of ag riculture Jack Riddell 52A and 57 a cash crop farmer from the Exeter area comes to the position of Ontario s Mini ster of Agriculture and Food with ten years of expe rience as Liberal caucus cr itic for agriculture

The min is ter sa id that life under a Libshyeral government will give agriculture a higher priority than it has ex perienced in the past It will be considered one of the major industries in this province

Jack also pro mi sed to consult a great

Basic Technology in Action shyTurning Stones Into Bread By Ann Middleton Information Services

A new University of Guelph projec t in Tanza nia Africa should aid th e Third Wo rld s ubsistence leve l farmer The $400000 three-year projec t funded by the International Development Resea rch Centre (IDRC) will invol ve fltlculty of the Uni vershysitys Department of Land Resou rce Sc ience and Soko ine Uni versity of Ag riculture in Morogoro Central Tanza ni a Aim of the enterpri se is to use loca lly ava il ab le rock materials as soil amendm en ts and con shyditioners

The project came about when Ott awas IDRC brought together a team of two geo logists with an interest in improving co nshyditions for African farmers Professor Ward Chesworth with the Department of Land Resource Science has a long-standing intershyes t in turning rock s into fertili zers deshyve loped during work in West Africa and the Canltlry Islands where local farmers have spread volcanic rock on their field s for two centu ries In his lab and in the Blue Springs basin near Acton Ontario Professor Chesshyworth has been conducting experiment s on the levels at which common rocks re lease nutri ents into soil solutions

The other team member Dr Peter van Straltl ten is ori ginally from Germany but spe nt e ight years with the United Nations in Tan zania looking for metals and metal deshyposi ts and working on an in ve ntory of ferti shyli zer raw materials in south-east Africa

During thi s period Tanza nian food production per capita fell dramaticall y leadshying Dr van Strltlaten to try to find ways to help the food situation In ex periments in his garden in Dodomo Tanzaniltl he was able to increase yields of vegetables using locally

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available geological materia ls and organic wastes

Noting the common interes ts of the two men the Canadian age ncy introd uced them and Dr van Straaten relocated in Guelph Co-ordinators of the project are Professor Cheswo rth and Tan za ni an sc ie nti st Dr Johnson Semoka of Sokoine University coshyauthor of a text on so il sc ience much used in agricultural circles in Africa

Technical assistant Peter Sl11i th is working with Tanzanian rock specimens in the Land Resource Science lab and two other Tanzanian scientists will be involved

In addition to academics from bo th institutions members of the Geological Survey of Tanzania will also work on the project both in the Morogoro area and at Mbeya station in south-western Tanzania

Roc k sa mples will be collected and crushed and field tests and pot ex periments carried out here and on location When reshysu lt s have bee n obtained extension work will begin in Africa under the direc tion of Dr Semoka It is hoped that members of a Me nnonite Central Committee group workshying at Mbeya will design a simple rock crusher for the use of local farmers

Tanzania has a major phosphate deshyposi t wh ich will be tapped by the project as well as ground s ilicates including volcanic ash Liming materials such as limestone dolomite marl and ca rbonatite will also be evaluated

Professor Chesworth points out that alshythough No rth Americans place much emshyphasi s on the big three of soil nutrition shynitrogen phosphorus and potassium (NPK) - there are actually about 20 necessary

deal with the farm organizations on the direction his ministry should be taki ng

I dont believe that we can sit in our so-ca ll ed ivory towers and introduce the kind of programs that are go ing to be mea nshyingful unless we get consultation from the farmers and their spokes people

He has been a member of the provincial legislature for 12 years He spent his first two years as energy cri tic and later environshyment critic before mov ing into agriculture Jack and Anit a have a family of five 0

nutrie nts including the minor ones In some areas of Tanza nia the decline

in soil fe rtility is in part due to the settling of widespread populations into villages where land has been used without concern for nutrients Tn other part s of the country productivity has declined because of leachshying of plant nutrie nts durin g normal rainfall and also from the continuous use of acidifyshying fertilizers such as ammo nium su lphate Dr Chesworth point s out that the current practice of NPK fe rtili zation totally ignores secondary and micronut rient requirements of plants It is hoped that the projec t wilt address thi s problem

Our approac h is basic tec hn ology our target group the poorest far mers Dr van Straaten explains One of the problems in the past Dr Ches worth says has been convincing agronomists that it s worth purshysuing this kind of elementary tec hnology approach Theyre very skeptical that you can take common roc ks wi thou t major inshydustrial proces ing and use them to advanshytage on tropical soils

A s ideline area of research is work with zeolites open framework si licates that often occ ur in volcanic rocks Some zeolites can be used to trap nitrogen in the form of ammonia which would otherwise be los t in gaseous form When added to cow manure for exampl e and stomped in by the beasts themselves zeolites enrich an already valushyabl e fertil ize r Dr van Straaten explains

The zeolite research is being carried out in co njunction with Professor Colin Fyfe Department of Chemistry an intershynat io na ll y kn ow n authority o n zeo lit e -che mi stry

Orie result of the work of the Un ive rs ity of Guelph geo logists is an ag rogeology ne tshywork currentl y being set up bya number of African cou ntries as the result of di sc usshysions following a paper by Dr van Straaten and Professor Chesworth The paper was given recently at meetings of the UN Ecoshynomic Commiss ion for Africa in Zambia 0

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A Designing Grad The need for a summer job six years ago has ended in a Guelph grad des igning golf courses

When in 1979 Lisa Maki now

BLA 84 was searching for a job that would assist her in her studies at the Univershysity she applied to the city of Kitchener

She could have wound up in any

number of areas in the parks and recreation department but Rockway and Doon Valley

course superintendent Ed Ortlieb gave her the chance to join the work crew at Rockway fltor the first couple of years it was just a job that got her outdoors in the summer then by chance she got interested in the game itself

And now shes embarked on a career in golf course design

Lisa the 24-year-old oldest daughter of Ted Maki a former general manager of the

Lisa Maki BLA 84 Kitchener Rangers left last July for Lakeshyland Florida where she Joined Links Deshysign which de sig ns and oversees golf course construction throughout the United 1983 and a friend of the family who knew States The company is considered the sec shy was interested in golf course work arranged ond-largest of its type behind the one run by a meeting with Ronald Garl said Lisa I US golf legend Jack Nicklaus who deshy had an official job interview in April of 84 signed the Glen Abbey course in Oakville and then went to Florida in August of the

How does a young Kitchener woman same year to familiarize myself with the

end up working for Ronald Garl a 40-yearshy firms projects

old graduate of the University of Florida Because I had focused much of my who apprenticed under such well-known deshy University work on such things as turf man shy

signers as Roben Trent Jones and Joseph agement and had done pan of my bachelor Lee Again it was just a chance opportunity of landscape architecture thes is on what

We were in Florida in December of makes British golf courses great and the

Sisters of Accident Victims Receive Diplomas

A tragic accident just prior to Spring Convocation resulted in the deaths oftwo graduands of the Associate Diploma in Agriculture Program Jeff Bikus 85A of West Lome and Nick Davidson 85Afrom Zimbabwe Joy Davidson sister ofNick came from Zimbabwefor the Convocation She was sponsored by the OAC Alumni Association Classes of85A alld 86A Norm McCollulIl 66A honorary class president 85A Don and MiidredMcCollum Jenny Ballentine and her parents Dr Steve Bowley 78 and80 honorary class president 86A and the University Centre Administration Our sympathy is extended to the families and friends of these two popular studel1ls Pictured are Ito r Jenny Ballantine friend ofJeff Bikus Lealln Bikus sister of Jeff Joy Davidson sister of Nick and Klaus Kristiansen a studellt from Zimbabwe

other on golf course residential design he was impressed

In order to learn what made British

courses great Lisa spent a semester in Engshyland and Scotland visiting researching sketching photographing and playing 16 historic courses including the famous links courses which by tradition are the

only clubs to host the British Open Links layouts are courses that border the sea and have been built or developed over sand

bases

Approximately 15 students a year take

advantage of the School of Land scape Arshychitectures Semester Abroad Program fi shynancing the trips themselves However the program is supported by an annual $5000 grant from the Alma Mater Fund so alumni can claim a cenain amount of credit for Lisas success She was a recipient in 1983

of part of that years AMF grant Im not sure my mother and father

were very keen about my trave lling around England and Scot lane all alone but it was a truly great experience she said middot1 not only met many wonderful and helpful peoshyple got to play the great courses like St

Andrew s Royal Troon Turnberry and my favorite of all Royal Dornoch

After a complicated and lengthy US immigration process which took nearly a year she was granted her permanent work

visa She was in regular contact with her new

boss after returning to Kitchen er - she re turned to work at Rockway and Doon while awaiting the vi sa approval - and then last July plunged immediately into

projects including work at a mens tournashyment players 36-hole complex in Sarasota and a Ladies Professional Golf Assoc iation course in Melbourne where she worked in association with LPGA tour players Beth Daniels and Sally Little

Despite the fact that the job involves

vy ing with rattlesnakes alligators and Iild

pigs when I have to tramp through forests and swamps in applying my design work to certain areas I love the outdoor work Lisa

said At the same time she doesnt have any

probleIl1s giving orders to hard-hatted heavy-machinery construction workers when she is the field supervisor for on-site

work think I may have raised a few eye shy

brows when I staned work at Rockway but I was accepted

Lisa isnt sure how long this pan of her life will last and she has no way of knowing whether any of her courses will eve r be known as Lisa Maki layouts But that doesnt

concern her They may be Links Design projects but Ill know they were basically my courses 0

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Klink Lecture Dr Doug Morrison 49 Department of Poultry Science was chosen to deliver the 1985 Klink Lecture

The Klink lecture is ~ponsored by the Agricultural Inst itute of Canada and named after the Institute s founding president Preshysented by an outstanding lecture r the lecture is delivered through a coast-to-coast tour and concerns a topic of current significance to the agricultural industry and the nation

Dr Morri son stated that there is a need for professionalization in an imal agriculshyture in order to give it an improved image and make it more acceptable to the conshysumer

Address ing members of the Ontario Inshystitute of Agrologists in London Ontario he told his audience that the agriculture inshydustry in Canada ranks among the best in the world and producers have to ensure thi s is shown and make sure that peer pressure prevents producers from doing things that we cant defend

He suggested some type of professhysiona l approach established by the farming organization whereby expertise would be required instead of merely encouraged

This is a mu ch beller ap proach th an some edict from society through governshyment legi slation I strong ly object to legislashytion designed to protect me from myself he said adding that there are currently enough regulations existent through legislation that dictate what farmers can and cannot do

If a farmer were a profess ional hi s reward wou Id be in profits - about as meanshyingful a reward as has ye t been devised

Benefits of a more professionalized approach would include an improved image of the farmer to the consumer an increase in communication a more efficient industry

which is essential for competition improved knowledge on the fa rmers part of health nutrition care markets etc and more awareness of soc ietys concerns

In turn it would also be necessary to provide beller information to the consumer through an educational process because if soc iety is to pay for increased inputs for the long- term good of the nat ion then it is essential society be adequately informed

Morrison remarked that he fee ls the maj ori ty of animal agriculturists are in fact professionals but there has to be a concerted e ffort to at tract as lew people as possible in to the business who do not understa nd farmshying or who are doing things that are unacshyceptable

Consumer concern over dietary value or the amount of drugs contained in animal product s is also reason for farmers to tak e a professional approach They should work to alleviate any misreprese ntations and misin shyformation the public is receiving the proshyfessor noted s tating that farm ers have never produced food as safe and as wholeshysome as it is today

By the turn of the century on a world basis meat consumption is predicted to in shy

crease by abou t 60 per cent while the intake of milk is expected to increase by almost 40 per cent

A major fac tor for this rise in intake result s from th e fact that developing nations will begin to consume animal products as soon as they can afford them China is an excellent exa mple of this said the professor who commented that nation is now movshying as rapidly as possible to increase animal production

With all these factors is mind Dr Morshyri son sa id he is optimistic for the future of the Canad ian animal agriculture industry

Weve got the opportunities and can take advantage of them he said 0

Mark Bernards 85 cenlre was the recipienl oftwo OAC Alumni Foundation awards the OAC Alumni Graduate Award and the Beth Duncan Gold Medal Left is Gord Nixon 37 Foundashytion chairman and director and right NR Rick Richards 38 treasurer

Entrepreneur in Residence

Dr Donald Shaver

Dean Freeman McEwen is pleased to be working with Dr Donald McQueen Shaver the Universitys first Agricultural Entreshypreneur-i n-Res idence

Dr Shaver a native of Cambt idge Onshytari o is found er chairman and chief exshyecutive officer of Shaver Poultry Breed ing Farms Limited The compan y distributes chicken breeding stock to 90 countries from its head office in Cambridge and three subshysid iaries in the United States Britain and France He retired from his executive reshysponsib ilities on August 30 but is conshytinuing as director and adv isor to the company

From 1940 to 1945 Dr Shaver served with the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps in Africa and Europe retiring as regimental commanding officer He is past president of the Canadian Hatchery Federation the Poulshytry Products Institute of Canada the Canashydian Lincoln Red Society and Maine-Anjou Association He is a member of the Order of Canada Honorary Life Member of the Worlds Poultry Science Association and the Ontario Institute of Agrologi sts He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Science by McGill University and the Centennial Medal by the OAC

The Entrepreneu r-in-Reside nce pro shygram was initiated and financially supshyported by OAC Class of 58 to champion -the role of private enterpri se within soc iety The appointment is for a two-year period during which time Dr Shaver will present lectures lead workshops and consult with faculty and students

The Agricultural Entrepreneur-in-Resishydence program at the University is believed to be a first in agr icultural education around the world 0

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University Of Guelph Involved in $68 Million Chinese Project The University of Guelph has embarked on a co-operative $68 million project that will ~ink five Canadian and Chinese universities and agricultural institutions

The four-year Black Dragon River Proshyjeo supported by the Canadian Internashytional Deve lopment Agency (C IDA) involves Guelph the University of Alberta Olds College in AlbeI1a and two Chinese institutions - Heilongjiang Land Reclamashytion University and Liu He Training College in northeastern Heilongjiang Province

Under th e term s of the agreement training will be provided at the three Canashydian institutions for personnel from the two Chinese university institutions

The Liu He Training College is respo nshysible for educating state farm employees Training will range from short courses to undergraduate and graduate level programs

Faculty from the Canadian universities and Olds College will travel to China during the summer months to give lectures and

short courses The area borderi ng on Russia has treshy

mendou s potential for agricultural deve lopshyment Professor Neal Stos~opf 57 direct or of OACs diploma courses is Guelphs co-ordinator for the Chinese projshyect He was part of the Canadian gove rnment planning miss ion and ex plains that although the climate combines the cold winters and hot summers of Alberta most of the moisshyture is rain that falls between Jul y and Sepshytember

Although latitude is the sa me as Edmontons at 52 degrees north the area grows soybeans and corn as well as wheat The land has two to four feet of black topsoil waiting to be drained and planted he says with potential for livestock proshyduction

The proj ec t centre is located at the Unishyversity of Alberta with administration in Guelph being carried out by the Centre for International Programs 0

Provincial apiarist retires after 19 years You might say Philip Burkes job brought sweet rewards

Until his retirement recently Philip was the provincial apiarist - sort of Onshytarios chief of bees - while working at the University of Guelphs Department of Environmental Biology

He joined the University as a lectu rer in 1943 and then became assistant professor and later associate professor

At the same time the Ontario Departshyment of Agriculture (as the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food was known then) made him the assistant provincial apiarist In 1966 he became provincial apiarist

Of course he advised beekee pers on ways they could make their colonies more productive and efficient and fielded many apiary management question s - including how to prevent bees from swarming

If they swarm one-third to one-half of th e colony takes off so you lose a big source of your honey crop Swarming is trigshygered when the hive becomes overcrowded so the beekeeper mu st stay ahead of them It involves a whole manipulation of the hive through the season visiting each colony at least once every ten to 14 days he says Philip also worked with farmers whose

crops depended on pollination by bees At one time bees were needed for

pollin ating greenhouse produce such as cucumbers But in the past 15 years the trend has been toward new types that are self fruiting he says

But the biggest change in the industry over the years was the trend towards Illakshying corn king in Ontario - a trend that is now being reversed he says

From 1949 and on a lot of bee coloshynies were moved to the western provinces tollowi ng th e reduction in alfalfa production in Ontario and the increased corn acreage he says

Now prospec ts for honey production in Ontario are better than in past years beshycause of the increased alfalfa acreage and other legumes and the trend towards more diversified cropping

Not surpris ingly prices have changed in the industry over the years too Back in the 1920s it cost about $10 to start a bee colony today start-up costs are about $100 to $125 per colony

Much of his work at the University looked at ways to prevent di seases in bees using selected antibiotics

He was secretary for the Ontario Beekeepers Association for 15 yea rs and now acts as a consu It ant for the group 0

Wins Crampton Award

Dr Stanley J Slinger 37 the most recent rec ipient of the Earl e W Crampton Award for distingui shed service in nutrition is ProshyFessor Emeritus of the Depal1ment of Nutrishytion College of Biolog ica l Science at Guelph

Born in Lowell Ontario Dr Slinger received his BSc from the Ontario Agrishycultural College hi s MSc fro111 the Univershysity of Toronto and a PhD from Cornell University From 1941 to 1965 he was in the Departillent of Poultry Science at the OAC and since 1965 has been in the Department of Nutrition at Guelph serving as chairJl1an from 1965 to 1974

Dr Slinger conducted re sea rch in sevshyeral areas of pou Itry nutrition for Jl10re than 30 years In 1972- 73 a fi sh nutrition laborashytory was set up and thi s laboratory has conshytinued to grow and iJl1prove s i nee One of the primary objectives in both poultry and fi sh nutrition research has been to develop feed to rmulas using feedstuffs of Canadian orishygin 111ese tannulas have been publi shed and continuall y revi sed and have been used extensively by teed manufacturers through shyout Canada Dr Slinger continues to be active in research

Dr Slinger taught poultry nutrition in Poultry Science for 27 years gave seminar courses in nutrition and physiology taught Fundamentals of Nutrition in the Depal1shyment of Nutrition and deve loped and taught courses in fi sh and wildlite nutrition

He has supervi sed the work of Jl1any graduates and it is interesting to note that the Department of Nutrition at Guelph is the only depailment in Canada - and there are very few in the United States - turning out graduates in Fish Nutrition at the PhD leve l

He has helped to establi sh modern poultry industries in Mexico and the areas of South East Asia Africa the Middle East Eastern and Western Europe and the United Kingdom Lectures conlerences and other consultative work have also taken hilll to Jl1any coul1tries over the years

The recipient of numerous honours and awards Dr S linger was made Professor Emeritus of the University in Ino and reshy -ceived the Earl e W Crampton award in 19B4 at Macdonald College Que Thi s award is given by the Faculty of Agriculture in recogshyniti on of significant co ntributions in the field of nutrition through research andlor service The award is named for Dr Earle W Crampton a renowned nutritionist whose career at Macd onald bega n in 1922 and lasted far 51 years 0

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cialist having spent four months in the latter John Reid 84 is technical sales rep Agrico Grad News part of 1984 in Bloemfontein South Africa Sales Ltd Richmond BC

Earl Johnston 46 is president Earl-John Brokers Ltd Delhi

Joe Knox 48 is secretary-treasurer Annco Westeellnc Guelph

Ralph Hills 54 is pastor United Church of Canada Smith Falls Ralph left Zambia last October spending some time in Kenya Israel England and Scotland on the way home He was surprised to meet Charlie Broadwell also 54 on Oxford Street in London Charlie was giving a reception at a large castle for the white bean buyers who purchase beans from Charlies Bean Growers of Ontario Ralph also passes along the word from Louise (Fershyguson) Hope Mac 54 that her husband Don 54 preparing for some future possible social work is studying drug addiction at George Brown College of Applied Ans and Technology Toronto

Joseph Leach 54 is a research scientist Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources Lake Erie Research station Wheatley

Ken Edwards 59 is an industrial engineer Prince George Pulp and Paper Vancouver BC

Fred Theaker 62 is a teacher-biologist Ren frew County Board of Education Aruprior

Howard Lang 67 is senior so il conshyservation advisor for OMAF Cambridge

John Lawrence 69 has been appointed vice-president and ge neral manager De kalb Canada Inc Chatham John is a lso president of the Canadian Agri-marketing Assoc iation

Robert Brooksbank 70 is manager Agrishycultural Department Simcoe area Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce

Alan Duncan BLA 73 is project coshyordinator Groupe d intervention urban de Montreal Montreal Que

Martha (Weir) Collins 75 reports that Anne (Walton) Bayler 75 is at teac hers college in Toronto after spending several years teaching in the Bahamas Martha lives at I Braid Place Guelph and would like to hear news of her classmates

Jim Dyer MSc 75 is a senior resource and environmental officer with the crop producshytion division of Agriculture Canada Ottawa He is on loan as a drought monitoring spe shy

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His wife Barb (Newell) Arts 75 who is a technical editor with Public Works Canada joined him in Bloemfontein for a month

Elizabeth Fedorkow 75 is a market reshysearcher Tetra Pak Inc Markham

Roy Maxwell 75 is an agricultural comshymentator CBC Radio Noon Toronto

Gary Ball 76 is vice-president manufacturshying Mitten Vinyl Inc Cambridge

Garnet McConney 77 is feed lot manager Catllel and Ontario Inc Petersburg

Patrick Meyers 77 OVC 84 is a vetshyerinarian with the Grenville-Dundas Veterinshyary Clinic Kemptville

Martha Frey 78 is secretaryass istant edishytor Canadians for Health Research Wes tshymount Que

Wayne Harrison 79 is assi stant manager Toronto Dominion Bank Elmira His wife is Katherine (McLeod) 77

Sharon Helynk 79 is with the Woodbury Animal Hospital Halifax NS

Jeffery Goebel 80 is resident engineer ACF Canada Ltd Georgetown

Mary Lynn Prong 80 is assistant manager Royal Bank Watford She reports that Bruno Soucy 8Q has changed jobs from OMAF farm ma nagement advisor to agrolog ist London region Royal Bank

Corrie Almack 81 is presidentowner Agshyriculturai Soil and Nutrition Consultants Freelton

Edward Bolton 81 is research farm manshyager AJle lix Inc M ississauga

William Summers 82 MSc 84 is prodshyuct deve lopment rep Du-Pont Canada Streetsville

Dianne (Coker) McDowell 83 is quality assurance supervisor Richardson Foods Ltd Glanw0I1h

John Ross 83 is a program officer Agrishyculture Canada Edmonton Alta

Jeff Burke 84 is a customer service rep Griffith Lab Toronto

Julie Fowler 84 is working for Embury Bros Farms Ltd Newburgh

Karen Rodman 84 is a farm management specialist OMAF Nepean

James Simonds 84 is a crop specialist Cavendi sh Fanns Summerside P E1

Richard West PhD 84 is a research scishyentist Canadian Forestry Service SI John s Nftdo

In Memoriam We regret to report the following deaths

Marie Honsberger 17A died March 1985

Esmond D Clipsham 2IA died on April 6 1985 Esmond had been the proprietor Uneeda Rest Hotel Kilwonhy and was a life member of the OAC Alumni Association

Stanley Ewart Keillor 21 died on February 27 1985 He was a crop farmer at Walshylacetown

John Edward Chalmers 23A died on Febshyru ary 15 1985

Jacobus Van Haarlem 23 at age 85 on July 2 1985 in Vineland He retired as ex shyecutive director of the Hor1icultural Experishymental Station at Vineland in 1970 after 47 years of service there

Hugh Lacklin Paterson 32A died in May 1985 of a heart attack at Rockwood

Murray Cameron Macklin 33A 35 died January n 1985 in Toronto

Garland Alfred Fisk 35 Date of deat h unknown

Gordon Elgin Young 35 died on June 12 1985 at Ing leside

John Miller Fargery 37 on March 22 1985 in Toronto John had been an insurance salesman Farm Credit Corp and was a life member of the OAC Alumni Assoc iation

William Thomson 40 in 1982 in Lonshy shygueuil Que His death was reported recen tl y

Robert Fletcher Madden 54A died on November 26 1984 at age 52 at Napanee

Vera (Mod ric) Kozamplik MSc 73 in Yugoslavia She was the wife of Vinko Kozumplik M Sc 71 0

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From the Dean

Dr Barham

In some of my lellers I have aimed to share

information on some special program or theme with you On this occasion I want to

keep you in touch through a number of lillie items so I shall hold onto some of the bigshy

ger interests for future issues of the Guelph Alumnus

As I write this leller Alumni Weekend 85 is behind us I found it a great weekend

and I thoroughly enjoyed meeting more of our alumni for the first time while

especially appreciating recognizing more

and more familiar faces and names from previous occasions

This year the Classes of 65 and 75 requested an up-date on our programs and

the developments we have experienced together in the College over the last few

years I guess that we were able to demonshy

strate much more development in our research and teaching programs than we could in some parts of the physical facilities within the buildings Still we had thorshyoughly congenial and I think very useful

meetings with both of these classes and added a nostalgic tour of our facilities

It was splendid to meet both of these groups I confess however that I had not

foreseen that a large part of the interest of the Class of 65 rested on the fact that many of their children are now gearing up to enter FACS

I was able to remind them that the BASc and B Comm degrees both lead

into fascinating and challenging careers for sons and nephews as well as daughters and

nieces Some of you coming to Alumni Weekend 86 might wish to get in touch with me to arrange an up-date on our acti vities then too

One of my special pleasures of Alumni Weekend was to join with the Class of 35 at the Golden Anniversary Dinner This occashy

sion is always a particular delight given the special personal pleasures reflected in the

friendships shared on this anniversary And I do want members of the Class of

35 to know that their gift of the magnificent Terry Legault Roman Festival print looks really outstanding and just right amidst the

contemporary decor of the FACS lounge

One last item of alumni news which I want to mention is the fact that I met with

Jean (Nairn) Carter 38 and some of her committee recently I learned that they have

been making quite outstanding progress in establishing the trust fund that will support their new graduate student award in geronshy

tology The first award presentation of $1000 is being made this fall but members of the Class of 38 are still pushing on with their fund raising in order to bring the

annual trust-fund yield to a level of $2 000 We all think that the Class of 38 grads

have been quite remarkable in their detershymination to build up a significant fund to

support work in this important new field of scholarship and research I know that we

shall all appreciate your support for them in reaching their target

I met with Audrey Warner and Annette

Yeager 62 recently They advised me of their concern for the needs of teachers wantshy

ing to prepare themselves for adding Family Studies to their fields of professional speshy

cialization and of other teachers already working in that field who find themselves in need of some up-dating especially in view of the curriculum changes which appear to be around the corner

In this regard I want to mention two

items which might be of interest First our faculty in FACS have been

quite heavily engaged in working with

teachers and others in thinking planning debating and writing for the curriculum developme~ts envisaged for the Ontario Academic High School Credits

Most especially we have had as memshybers of the Canadian Family in Perspective group Dr Jean Sabry with her own special

interest in human nutrition Dr Grant

McCracken in clothing Drs Marshall Fine and Claude Guldner with their expertise in family relations and Drs Anne Martin Matshythews and Joe Tindale with their special strengths in life-span development and

aging - quite a team of contributors Secondly I want to mention in relation

to my meeting with Audrey and Annette that we now have a number of courses avai 1shy

able in a six-week format offered in summer sessions provided on campus

Perhaps of even more interest to those of you who wont find it practical to take

classes on campus at Guelph we have an annual offering of distance or corresponshy

dence-type courses Many of these will be of very pertinent

interest to a number of teachers The current list includes Human Development Marital and Family Dynamics Personal and Family Finance Development of Human Sexuality Nutrition and Man and the Exceptional Child in the Family

You can find out more about these

offerings by writing directly to Guelph Disshytance Education University of Guelph

Macdonald Institute shyFamily and Consumer Studies Alumni Assoc

Editor Carol Telford-Pittman 75

Guelph Ont NIG 2WI or by getting in touch with my office

One of the reasons that we have put

ourselves so significantly behind the development of these distance courses is that we did not have the resources to meet

the demand for providing our courses in the more traditional class format at locations

away from the Guelph campus As usual there is much more to share

with you but it will just have to hold until

my next letter I look forward to being in touch with you again then 0

Olive Thompson Honoured

Olive (Thompson) Thompson 35

-The Mac-FACS Alumni Association was very pleased to present a Citation of Appreshyciation to Olive (Thompson) Thompson

35 during Alumni Weekend 85 festivities Olive has given much time energy

support and leadership to the College and to the University through her years of involveshyment with the Mac-FACS Alumni Associashytion Class of Mac 35 activities and the University of Guelph Alumni Association

Our University s alumni organizations are stronger and more effective because of

the years of commitment and personal sershyvice that Olive has contributed

Olive - We salute you 0

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New at HAFA By John Hearn

Infonnation Services

An innovative course developed by the School of Hotel and Food Administration (HAFA) is focussing the attention of undershygraduates on the analysis of operational problems in the hospitality industry and the writing skills required to express and comshymunicate that analysis

Students are required to find summer jobs in the hospitality industry and then to write five papers of ascending complexity during the first semester of their second year using text readings specially edited for this course by the Schools Director Proshyfessor Tom Powers

We have a unique responsibility to prepare students not just for their first job but for future jobs further down the line says Dr Powers Possession of a university degree should imply an ability both to anashylyse problems and to communicate observashytions and recommendations In todays corporate world reports papers and letters are management tools and written comshymunication is a survival skill

The HAFA faculty decided further to emphasize writing skills by adopting a style manual developed by Professor Margaret Hund leby Department of Engl ish Language and Literature for this course as an integral part of the Schools other courses

In order to familiarize faculty with the use of the manual and the grading of student writing Professor Hundleby was invited to conduct a two-day workshop which atshytracted the attention of Vice-President Howard Clark and Associate Vice-President Janet Wardlaw as well as faculty from other disciplines s uch as psychology land resource science microbiology and history

The program Professor Hundleby told the seminar requires students to complete five report papers based on their own obsershyvations

The first paper requires a detailed description of the physical layout of the host operation plus an appraisal and operating cost analysis of its heating air-conditioning and ventilation systems

A second paper asks the student to describe and evaluate staff structure funcshytion compensation package and efficiency

Cost control is the subject of a third paper Purchasing practices food producshytion cost traCking and inventory manageshyment all come under this heading

Marketing is the fourth subject area What market segment is the operation aimed at What consumer need does the operation satisfy What is the nature of the

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Left to right- Professors Cathy Schrye Writing Centre Tom Muller HAFA Belty Upton HAFA Mike Jenkinson OAC 63 OAC dean s office Mary Rogers History and back to camera Bernie Katz Library reviewing cases drawn from studefll papers in a two-day workshop Evaluating Students Writing conducted by Professor Margaret Hundleby

competition in the target market

The fifth paper examines the intangishybles of management sty Ie How does the role of the manager affect relations with customshyers staff and head office

Professor Hundleby commenting on some of the problems of the course says whatever we call it students tend to conshyclude that what they re writing is an acashydemic paper of some kind - which of course it is - but we need to make the connection in their minds with the real the corporate world out there They also tend to think that longer is better and write about what they know - rather than what is import ant The development of a proper sense of for whom they are writing is itself a problem-solving skill

Another problem according to Proshyfessor Hundleby is what she calls the new illiteracy - a verbal dysfunction resulting from an impoverished vocabulary

Style too is a matter of considerable

AMPHI Spin-offs The School of Hotel and Food Administra shytions annual Advanced Management Pro shygram for the Hospitality Industry (AMPHI) now in its third year is spinning off new management development activities says HAFA Director Tom Powers Earlier this year 20 people attended a workshop on accounting and finance presented by Proshyfes sor William Braithwaite School of Agrishycultural Economics and Extension Educashytion and three similar programs will be offered in different parts of the country over the next year and a half

Another program still in the planning stage is a six-day hospitality managers development course designed for middle management by AMPHIs associate direcshy

concern She also mentioned careless senshytence structure style that is inappropriate to the content lack of connective logic failure to understand the nature of a paragraph as a literary entity the frivolous use of colloshyquiali sms an absence of any sense of the harmonious sound of words on paper and of course a growing list of commonly misused words - e g it could of had that affect

There s a tendency to see s tyle as a decorative flourish rather than as an aspect of content she concluded

Professor Powers sees the development of verbal communication skills as central to the whole idea of liberal education Cershytainly he says its useful for HAFA stushydents to understand how a cost control system works - but its at least as important to be able to think logically analyse logshyically and communicate conclusions in a way that is credible informative coherent and complete in fact these are the classic goals of a liberal education 0

tor Professor John Patterson and a consulshytant group of AMPHI alumni

AMPHI continues to attract internashytional attention participants in thi s years program which began in April include senior executives from many of North Americas most distinguished hotels and restaurants The four-week course offers an intensive program based primarily on case studies written by Professo rs Patterson -Braithwaite Carl Riegel and Tom Muller

The growing volume of AMPHI cases indicates that thi s is the largest s ingle research program currently under way in any hotel school in North America says Proshyfessor Powers AMPHls network of conshytacts is giving us access to a senior-level view of the industrys current problems and prospects 0

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Research AssociateComing Soon A AppointedModel Play Facility

Dr Joan Norris

Dr Joan Norris has held the position of Research Associate at the Gerontology Research Centre since last spring

Joan is working with faculty to develop and promote research related to population aging and is available for consultation with faculty on research design funding sources and publication

In addition to this development work she is continuing her personal program of research She works for the Gerontology Censhytre two days per week and the balance of her

The Family Studies Laboratory Schools pre-school play facility fell 10 a Grounds time is spent in the Department of Family Department wrecking machine recently Studies where she has held a faculty appointshy

ment since 1980 Joan holds a Ph D in Psychology from

the University of Waterloo and is also a regisshytered psychologist Her personal research

The Mllc-FACS Special Projects Commitshyinterests include social competence in older

tee Ito r Bonnie Kerslake 82 Association adults peer relationships and grandshy

president Linda (Wo[e) Markle 73 chairshyparenting 0

man and Gail Murray 78 Missing comshymillee member is Rita (Klassen) Weigel 77 The aim of the committee is to raise funds to redevelop the Family Studies Laboshy In Memoriam ratory Schools and raise itto the level where it will be regarded as a model pre-school

Eileen Margaret (Manahan) Alwayplay facility

390 October 21984 in Vancouver BC

Jean (Horrell) Atkinson 240 March 5 1985 in Aurora

Class of 35 Gift Oorothy (Lockard) Honsberger 300Centre panel Roman Carnival

In order to commemorate their anniversary July 51985 in Weiland Mac 35 has traditionally given a scholshyarship to a FACS student once every five Isabel J Lockerbie 300 March 31 years This year on the 50th anniversary of 1985 in Toronto their graduation and in addition to the scholarship an etching entitled Roman Patricia G (Smith) McKay-Barry 55 Carnival by Terry Legault has been added March 17 1985 in London Ont to the Universitys collection of Canadian alt The etching is hanging in the FACS Velma E (Conn) Partridge 260 April faculty lounge 29 1985 in Niagara Falls Ont shy

The theme of Roman Carnival was favoured by neo-clas sical and romantic Helen E (Kelly) Robinson 220 April painters during the 19th century The etching 30 1985 in Dundas captures the moment at which wild horses are released to race through the streets of Norma I (Motherwell) Roy 350 in Rome The artist has chosen to represent the Moosejaw Sask wild chaotic motion ot the horses rather than explicitly depict in detail the animals Lillian S (Moore) Usher 340 March 28 and the architectural background 0 1985 in Cobourg 0

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College of Physical Science Alumni Assoc SCIMP

Editor Bob Winkel

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Yes Dr Earl MacNaughtoll has relired alshylogelher bUI Ihis wonl be Ih e lasl you I hear from him reSI assured Before he and his wife Jean lOok oJf for Auslralia and New Zealand Deparlmenl of Physics slaf and faculty held a galhering al Ihe FacullY Club and presenled Ihe couple wilh an alumni clock

Back to Guelph

The headquarters for (GWC)2 came

back to Guelph in July for a threeshy

year period while Professor Robert Balahura Chemistry and Biochemisshy

try serves as director (GWC)2 offices have been set up

in Room 122 and 123 Physical Scishyences building The University of

Waterloo will maintain a satellite office during the three-year Guelph

rotation Dr Balahura and adminshy

istrative assistant Andrea Turner may

be reached at Ext 3865 0

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Physics Professor Elected to Royal Society

Bernhard Nickel

Department of Phy s ics Professor Bernhard Nickel has been elected a Fellow

of the Royal Society of Canada and was formally inducted into the Society at its

annual meeting in Montreal in June

A member of the Physics faculty since

1974 Professor Nickel is no stranger to

prizes and awards In 1981 he received the Herzberg Medal the Canadian Associashy

tion of Physicists award to a promising young scienti st In 1978 he won a Sloan

Fellowship from the New York-based Sloan Foundation

He achieved recognition by navigating

the esoteric seas of condensed matter physshy

ics Hi s co lleagues call him a leading masshyter in the art of mathematical physics By

exploiting the existing mathematical frameshywork in subtle ways he has worked through

thickets that have stopped other physic ists

High order perturbation calculations

done by him played a key role in verifying

the quantitative reliability of the theory of

underlying continuous phase transitions in systems

He earned BScE and MSc degrees from the University of Saskatchewan and a

PhD from the University of California at

San Diego He was a research associate at

Cornell and Oxford Universities and a postshy

doctoral research Fellow at the Univers itY of Alberta before coming to Guelph in 1974

He has been a visiting fellow at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory at the Univershy

sity of California at San Diego at Harvard

and at the Schlumberger-Doll Re searc h In stitute in Connecticut

With his election he becomes one of

six Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada at

Guelph The others are Professors Howard

Clark Peter Egelstaff Gabriel Karl Bruce Sells and Herbert Armstrong And it brings to five the number of me mbers of the

Guelph-Waterloo Program for Graduate Work in Physics (GWP)2 who can put the

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Halleys Comet and the Babylonians By Professors Nigel Bunce and Jim Hunt

The winter of 1985 and the spring of 1986 will lon g be remembered as the year of

Comet Halley No comet in history has so

stirred the imagination of man or been the

object of suc h intensive investigation Its easy to understand this interest when its

appreciated that Halleys Comet is the only recurring comet that is bright enough to be

seen with the naked eye ft was the g reat astronomer Edmund

Halley who in 1705 recognized the s imilarshy

ity of the appearances of the great comets of 1456 1531 1607 and 1682 He speculated that these were in fact one and the sa me

comet with a period of 75 or 76 years

He predicted that the comet would reshyturn in 175 8 a return he could not live to see With thi s Halley discovered the phenomeshy

non of periodic comets and thus showed

that they were members of our solar system

The comet dutifully returned in 1835

and spectacularly so in 1910 In the latter

year circumstances were such that after its

perhelion passage (the point closest to the

Sun) the Earth and the comet approached

each other very closely The comet was so close that at one time its tail spread from

horizon to horizon The return in 1985-86 will be considshy

erably less spectacular In fact for Canadishyans it will not be easy to observe s ince the

time of perhelion is in Febnlary when the

Sun is very low in the sky The view will be -much better from more southerl y latitudes Over the years historica l records have

been found which record every passage of the comet back to 12 BC M any of these obshy

servations come from Chinese records first published in 1846 A well-authenticated

passage was that of 1066 which was reshy

corded on the Bayeux tapestry by the mother

of William of Nonnand y and taken as an cOllld on righl

Grad News Paul Ferguson BSc 67 of Ede n Mill s is president of EIS Systems Ltd and travelled in New Zealand this summer

Walter Lock BSc 67 of Denfield is practising medicine in Lucan

Tjeerd Homan BSc 69 of Calgary Alta is manager research and development services for Petro-Can He is enjoying his family Carla Sarah and John Menno and his hobbies of golf curling and skiing

(GWP)2 Poster Session a First

Earlier this year the Guelph- Waterloo Proshygram for Graduate Work in Physics (GWP)2 staged its first annual poster session for graduate s tudents Poster sessions which are becoming increasingly popular in scienshytific circles allow interaction between researchers and delegates without the time pressures encountered when presenting con shyventional papers at meetings says (GWP)2 Director lain Campbell

The first annual (GWP)2 poste r sesshysion which was followed by a soc ial hour and banquet was highly successful in genershyating interaction says Campbell By the end of the session there were still clusters of people arguing the finer points of scientific interpretation on many of the posters These exchanges continued right through the soshycial hour and into dinner Interaction is what science is all about

Encouraging interaction between stushydents and faculty is one of Campbells prishyorities as Director It is too easy for students to tuck themselves into a corner and work away in isolation They need to get out and ex plain their work both to experts and to

omen of his victory over the Saxons Based on this long record various

mathematical analyses of the orbit of the comet have been produced These account very accurately for the known passages of the comet However when these various anshyalyses are pushed back beyond 12 BC they predict widely varying dates for the previous appearances Before 12 B c there are ani y two vague Chinese records in 87 BC and 240 B c which mayor may not have been Halleys comet

In a recent issue of Nature a team of

Ernest Campbell BSc 69 lives in Campbell ville and teaches science for the Halton Board in Burlington

Richard Davis BSc 77 having comshypleted his MD University of Toronto 83 and his internship at Womens College Hosshypital will be setting up his practice in family medicine in his home town of Guelph

Larry Meek BSc 77 of Ottawa is pashytient administrator and computing officer for the National Defence Medical Centre His hobbies include sailing and skiing

Andre Brunet BA 81 is working for Amdahl Ltd as fieldsystems engineer and lives in Sudbury with his wife Monique (Puellette) FACS 80

Cathy Deakin BSc 81 is presently articshyling with the law firm of Little Reeves Mahoney Jarrett amp Hart of London

Andrew Dubrawski BSc 82 and his wife Alicia (Wodecka) BSc 81 live in Toronto where he works as a communicashytions systems analyst for CNCP Telecomshymunications 0

10hn Root 81 a (GWP)2 PhD s tudent left aflracts an audience

non-experts It takes a deliberate effort on our part to generate and maintain this intershychange

The poster session was the largest scishyentific or social event yet staged by (GWP)2 Some 18 students presented posters and about 90 students faculty and prospective students attended

The posters are on display in the two departments of physics to give others an opportunity to view them At Gue lph they are in the second floor corridor of the Physshyical Science Building near the Department

scholars from England and Vienna reported the finding of two fragments of Babylonian tablets in the British Museum that clearly report the appearance of the comet in 87 BC and 164 B C The records are so clear that by calculation not only the year but the time of year for the perhelion passage can be determined

For example the 164 BC apparition has been narrowed down to a date someshywhere between November 5 and 25 of that year The 87 BC record is not as accurate nevertheless its perhelion passage can be

of Physics office Encouraged by the s uccess of the

poster sess ion lain Campbell is planning another high-profile event for (GWP)2 to recognize award-winning faculty He plans a fall symposium at which three (GWP)2 members who received major honours durshying 1985 will give short lectures to be folshylowed by a sherry reception The three honoured faculty are Gicinto Scoles Killam Fellowship winner Bernhard Nickel Felshylow of the Royal Society of Canada and John Simpson Rutherford medalist 0

narrowed down to July 25 to August 15 These observations while inaccurate

to the extent of 20 days are still accurate enough to eliminate three of the four leading -calculations of the motion of Comet Halley This is a striking example of how archaeoshylogical investigations may have a strong effect on many diverse subjects in this case com~tary astronomy 0

We welcome questions and ideas for future articles Write to the authors clo the Deans Office Cole fe ofPhysical Science Univershysity of Guelph Guelph Ontario NIG 2WI

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University of Guelph Licences Software to McGraw-Hili By Mary Cocivera

Information Services

The University of Gue lph and the US publi shing giant McGraw- Hili Inc are fishynalizing a non-exclusive licence for CoSy computer conferenc ing software developed at the University

Publi shed by McGraw-Hili BYTE Magazine is using the CoSy software to set up BIX the BYTE Information Exchange Phil Lemmons BYTEs editor-in-chief deshyscribes BIX as a living database The comshypany plans to set up conferences on every aspect of microcomputer use

Through the conferences users will be able to share information with each other and to communicate direc tly with the edi shytors of the magazine A four-ci ty commershycial te st began in September and a BYTE spokesman projects that a full international information exchange will be operating by early 1986

In addition to BIX McGraw-Hili will use the CoSy so ftware for internal comshymunications CoSy was installed by BYTE editorial offices in New Hampshire several months ago for evaluation by staffers They soon became confirmed users and CoS y beshycame a permanent part of the office The conference system was particularly sucshycessful in linking editorial headq uarters in the east with the west coast office

CoSy is already familiar to more than one thousand users world-wide who subshyscribe to a service oftered by the Univers ity of Guelph The licence to McGraw-Hili marks the first time the software will be operated and managed elsewhere The Unishyversity will continue to offer a CoSy se rvice and will continue to market the software to other potential users

CoSy was developed by a team of softshyware designers in Computing and Comshymunications Services at the Univers ity over a 16-month period Alastair Mayer was the chief architect of the code The software was written in C a high-level programming language to run under the Uni x operating system This feature makes CoS y highly portable and capable of running on any micro-computer or a mainframe with the Unix operating sys tem

George Bond BYTEs managing editor for e lectronic publishing and communicashytion says that ease of use and the Unix operating system were important fac tors in their choice of CoSy He also cited the skills and co-operative attitudes of the peopl e at

CoSy th e University of Guelph who are involved with CoSy

The University of Guelph was a parshyticularly hospita ble environment for deshyvelopment of a computer conferencing system according to Dr Ken MacKay assoshyciate director of Institutional An alysis and Pl anning Electronic mail was well estabshylished on campus so there were many peoshyple already committed to e lectronic commushynications Home-grown APL mail is arguashybly the best mail system anywhere because its easy to use and very robust CoSy is a separate system but is a descendant of earshylie r electronic mail systems

We had three basic design ideas for CoSy explains Alastair Mayer It should req uire few co mm ands the user should be able to learn without a manual and it should be accessible fro m any terminal The se goa ls have been reali zed to a great extent A manual is available but by refe rring to the help instructions within CoSy users can learn enough commands to become funcshytional very quickly

Dr Edward Swart acting director of Computing and Communication Services points out that CoSy is offered as a free service to the University com munity He beshylieves that this enlightened decision conshytributed to CoSys ne arly immediate success on campus From the early development stages users were invited to make comshyments and suggestions Their feedback inshynuenced the design of the current CoSy sysshytem to a substantial extent

Computer conferenc ing is a powerful concept as CoSy users soon discover Marshygaret Bec kman the Univers itys executive direc tor of Information Technology says there is no doubt that computer con ferencshying reduces the number of meetings and enables decisions to be made more quickl y CoSy is heavily used by University adminshyistrators and members of facu lty are ex plorshy

ing applications of computer co nferencing in teaching and lea rning

Proceeds from licences and from subshyscriptions to the campus conferencing sysshytem will fund furth er development of CoSy Dr Swart says a not-too-distant developshyment will be a distributed conference cashypability permitting a free exc hange of information from one conference systelll to another A second deve loplllent will be to activate what Dr Swa11 calls CoSys Jashytent graphics capability In CoSy a messhysage ca n contain anything even NAPLPS codes for graphics Graphs sketches and charts will thus soon become part of CoSy confe rences 0

A Letter Dear MI~ Wing

My wife (lnd I WOIII vou to know hml we enjoyed LM Mont gomerys storr The Strike at Putney ill the Spring 85 GueJph Alumnu s

Visiting Green Gables in P EI wos one of the highlights of our Trans-Canada vocmion 0 few years ago

We hope you I publish one ofher short stories in each issue of th e maga zine selectedjiom the U ofGs LM Montgomshyery Collectionfrom now on and make each issue a colleclOrs item shyCordially

Doug Marrin OAC 39 107 Waverly Place Mountain View Calif 94040 USA

Thanks for your letter Doug we will do our very best to bri ng you more L M M Ed

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P rofessional golfer philosopher oenologist would-be film maker and

now restaurateur Robert Harcourt Bob Desautels HAFA 75 Arts 84 is a man of many facets one who seeks his own sty le of excellence in many directions This summer he opened a new restaurant La Maisonmiddot in downtown Guelph which is already drawing patrons from a wide area in search of the gourmet delights promised by a very disshytinguished menu and delivered by chefs accomplished in the arts of haute cuisine

Bob works outward from a central conshyviction that there is always a market for excellence Born in Toronto he has lived in Ottawa Montreal - and Guelph He studied at Sir George Williams University Montreal Que (now pan of Concordia University) before attending the College of Family and Consumer Studies School of Hotel and Food Administration (HAFA) where he graduated with a BComm degree

He will be remem bered on campus as manager of the Faculty Club a position

The Eclectic

Bob Desautels

which he held for nearly three years after graduating and before he launched on a whole new career as a profess ional golfer He played Canadian and Australian circuits for a while and then accepted the position of manager and golf pro at the Cedarhurst Golf Club on Lake Simcoe

Two years later he was back at the Unishyversity of Guelphs hotel sc hool as a research assistant preparing for HAFAs first Advanced Management Program for the Hospitality Industry (AMPHI) course - an unrepentantly elitist institution offering advanced manageshyment training only to very se nior executives in the hospitality industry

Bob se rved as logistics manager to AMPHI for two years with responsibility for the health and welfare of a clientele whose expectations as far as hospitality is conshycerned are of the very highest

As a member of the HAFA faculty he was a more than occasional lecturer primarily on the subject of wine - whi ch he describes in reverential tones He is married (the pursuit of excellence again) his wife Susan hail s from Australia They have two children Coun age 7 and Emily 5

At the end of two years with HAFA Bob Desautels was faced with one of those critical life decisions - a choice between two paths leading in significantly different directions He might have accepted a tenure track position for whichit would have made sense to seek a PhD in business admini stration or

HAFA 75 By John Hearn Information Services

Mine host Bob Desautels HAFA 75 at La Maison

pursue an old love for philosophy He chose the latter and earned hi s Masters degree from Guelphs College of Ans in the fall of 1984

I suppose it arises from an old interest in religion he explains Metaphysical quesshytions have always fascinated me Scientific materialism the notion that mind is no more than a function of brain has neve r satisfied me There are too many loose ends - mind contemplating itself for example introshyspection Focu ss ing on philosophy of the mind for my degree gave me one of the answers - but may be Im beginning to understand some of the questions

So in the Fall of 84 philoso pher wine connoisseur goller Bob Desautels inventoried his assets - and took a course in film making at the Ryerson Poly technica l Institute Im interested in the creative end of film making he says Writing andor directing Ive fini shed one film script and working on another But it takes mucho dinero

Then early this Spring the main floor of one of Guelph s distinguished old homes beca me available Strategically located at the corner of Woolwich and Yarmouth Streets in an area already known for fine dining the housc is owned by Guelph bu sinessman Paul Starr A pannership was struck and Bob found himsel f bringing the whole wealth of hi s re staurant management know-how and his own drive for excellence to bear on La

Maison It was conceived planned and exshyecuted from the beginning as a shrine conseshycrated to the worshippers of superlative cuishysine enjoyed in the most distinguished of atmospheres

The concept has two major aspects One large room is given over to a wine bar where the connoisseur - or those who enjoy the fermented grape of any age or colour - can select from more than 20 splendid vintages by the glass or the bottle A parallel selection of native and imponed cheeses activate the tastebuds while intimates can order a delectashyble cheese fondue for two The wine-bar is a casual drop-in kind of place open from noon until midnight for enjoyment relaxation and con versation

The other main room is for the serious diner There is a modest economically-priced luncheon available for business people but the evening meal is designed to attract those for whom dining is a rei igious experience

You make your market study says bullBob but then you add your own secret ingredient - call it gut feeling There are some very good restaurants in Guelph but none that target this panicular niche

l may be that not the least of La Maisons attractions will be the possibility of conversation with mine host Choose your own subject - golf metaphysics pragshymatism - or the an of Woody Allen Bob Desautels is nothing if not eclectic 0

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Newly Elected as

A1uDlni Senators Following the annual election of three of the nine alumni seats on Senate at the University the following alumni were elected to replace those who fulfilled three-year terms on August 31 1985

Norman Hawkins OVC 57

Rita Weigel James White FACS 77 OAC 6 1

James White OAC 55A and 61 lives in Brampton and is the owner of InfoResults Limited information research consultants Brampton He completed Masters and Docshytoral degrees at Michigan State University Department of Communication He has opshyerated InfoResults for 15 years specializing in agricultural economics social policy and communication issues

He is a past president of the Canadian Consulting Agrologists Association has served on the provincial council of the Ontario Institute of Agrologists and was a director of the Canadian Society of Agrishycultural Economic s and Farm Manageshyment 0

Dr Norman Hawkins OVC 57 estabshyIlished the Guelph Animal Hospital on Elizshyabeth Street in 1957 and has continued his practice there as a partner

An active member of the Ontario Vetshyerinary Association council and a commitshytee worker he is also a member of the Canadian Veterinary Medical Association national examination board

His earlier work with the American Veterinary Medical Association involved the examination of overseas veterinary gradshyuates and inspection of North American vetshyerinary sc hools

He is a member of the Guelph Public Library Board and Board chairman of St

Margaret s School Elora

Rita (Klassen) Weigel FACS 77 gradushyated from the College of Family and Conshysumer Studies with a BASc in Con su mer Studies She was president of the Mac-FACS Alumni Association 1983-84 and has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Universi ty of Guelph Alumni Association

A member of the Canadian Marketing and Research Society Rita was employed in the research and product management field for a number of years A Guelph res ident her concerns include those of a mother of a son and twin one-year-old daughters

New Chairman Board of Governors

Edmond Bovey

Edmund C Bovey the man who headed the Commission on the Future Development of the Universities of Ontario has been named chairman of the Board of Governors at the Universi ty of Guelph A member of the Board since 1976 he succeeds Cecil Franklin who retired July I after three years as chairman and who also joined the Board in 1976

Edmund Bovey was chairman of the three-man commission that held hearings

for the Ontario public and university comshymunity in 19831984 before developing and recommending to the Mini stry of Colleges and Universities a future plan for Ontario universities

Retired as director chairman of the board and member of the executive committee of Norcen Energy Reso urces Toronto he was recently named to chair a task force on funding the arts in Canada an area where he has long experience A past president and trustee of the Ali Gallery of Ontario and its Foundation he is also a member of the Board of Governors of Roy Thomson Hall and vice-chairman of the International Council of the Museum of Modern Art in New York He is a past chairshyman of the Council for Business and Arts in Canada

In addition he is a director of a number of companies including Hollinger Argus Abitibi Price Canada Packers and the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce as well as MONY Life Insurance PPG Indusshytries and PPG Industries Canada

He is a member of the Canadian Ecoshynomic Policy Committee a director of the Canadian Executive Service Overseas and a past president of the Canadian Gas Associashytion He is also currently chairman of the Board of Wellesley Hospital Toronto

He was born in Calgary Alta and edushycated in Victoria BC 0

Appointments

Ab Moore Harry Downie OVC 48

Dr Ab Moore took up the responsibilities of chairman of the Department of Rural Extension Studies on September I for a fiveshy shyyear term He was previously director of the Office of Educational Practice

Dr Harry Downie OVC48 became actshying chairman of the Department of Bioshymedical Sciences on July I He continues until December 3 1 or until a new chairman is named 0

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Available for Immediate Possession Space in Prestige Campus Home (for baby grand piano)

The Presidents House dedicated as a building of historical and architectural significance has been without a piano since President Maclachlan retired in 1967

This could be the chance of a lifetime if you are seeking a unique and extremely worthwhile Class Project Perhaps your class would like to buy a new piano to be used in this centre for campus entertaining to be viewed by more than 5 000 visitors a year A recognition plaque would be located either on or adjacent to the instrument

A Bequest

Charles S Humphrey

A former partner and president from 1947

to 1963 of Guelphs Hart Chemical Comshy

pany Canada Ltd the late Charles S Humphrey se lected the Universit y of

Guelph as one of the benefic iaries of his estate

Hi s bequest to the Unive rs it y of

$130000 received last June is to be used at the discretion of the University pres ident

in the University s scholarships and burshy

saries program A resident of Victoria BC since his

retirement in 1963 Charles Humphrey died on August29 1984 at the age of81 He was an emeritus member of the Canadian Assoshy

ciation of Textile Colourists and Chemists Born at Hornell NY USA he came to Canada in 1936

This is the second time that Charles

Humphrey has given financial support to the Univers ity In 1979 he generously provided a $50000 endowment gift to support an annual $5000 graduate fellowship in Chemistry

The fellowship is designed to ease the financial burdens of outstanding students in

organic chemistry registered in the PhD

program at the Guelph-Waterloo Centre for Graduate Work in Chemistry (GWC)2 0

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CODling Events 86 Jan 7-9

Mar 5

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OAC Agricultural Conference

Alumni Florida Reunion (See below)

College Royal Open House

Ontario Institute of Agrologists Annual Conference Agricultural Trade To be he ld

in Cornwall Ont

OAC Alumni Association Curling Bonspiel

U of 6s 8tb Annual Human Sexuality Conference Changing Nature of Sexual Relationships Sexual Scripts and Lifestyles Today

ALUMNI WEEKEND 86

Alumni Florida Reunion If you missed the Alumni Flo rida Reunion Picnic in March 85 you missed a great gathering About 90 alumni and

friends met for a very pleasant pot luck meal Ross Cavers OAC 29 the organizing committee chairman hopes it will

become an annual affair Ruth and Gordon Wright Mac

37 and OAC 33 and Willa and Morley Funston Mac and OAC 32 made the loc al arrangements the affair was sponshysored by the Universitys Alumni-in Action group Make

plans to attend the second annual Florida Alumni Reunion Picnic at 12 noon on Wednesday March 51986 at Harbour Heights Park near Port Charlotte Florida two miles east of

Interstate Highway 75 Please respond by March 11986 to Ruth and Gordon Wright General Delivery Warm Mineral

Springs Florida 33596 US A

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College of Arts Alumni Association DELPHA

Editor Terry Ayer 84

Executive 1985-86 HONORARY PRESIDENT Dr David R Murray Dean

PRESIDENT Linda McKenzie-Cordick 81

PAST PRESIDENT Margo Shoemaker 79

VICE-PRESIDENT Wm Macdonald 78

SECRETARY-TREASURER

Marilyn Armstrong 78

DIRECTORS Debbie (Nash) Chambers 77 Edith LeLacheur 72 Janice (Robertshy

son) Partlow 79

UGAA REPS Wm Macdonald 78 Margo Shoemaker 79

EDITOR DELPHA Terry Ayer 84

Appointed

Dr Edward Phillips

Edward Phillips began a five-year term as chairman of the Department of Music July I He obtained his BA in mu sic at Amherst College

Massachusetts and his M A Masshyter of Philosophy and Ph D all in music theory from Yale Univers ity Married to Patricia who has a DM A in organ performance from Yale he has two sons Stewart 7 and Andrew 3 Edward who is also an organist enjoys cooking 0

Literary Heritage Preserved in Africa Most Canadian children are exposed to their cultural heritage at an early age through legendary stories brought from Eushy

rope or about Canadian pioneering and through stories about Indian or Inuit myths

and fables In developing countries however

where paper and printed materials are in

shon supply cultural heritage is usually passed on orally and children have little

opportunity to read about their past A Canashydian project involving the Universities of Guelph and Yaounde in Cameroon West

Africa is doing something to keep that countrys heritage alive

The project now entering its fourth year is a collaborative effort of the De partshy

ment of English Language and Literature at Guelph and the Department of African Litshyerature at the Univers ity of Yaounde It is

sponsored by the Canadian International Development Agency with Guelphs Deshy

partment of English Language and Litershy

ature Chairman Doug Killam serving as co-ordinator and Elizabeth (Wildman)

Cockburn CSS 81 as Canadian project consultant

Dr Killam is well-known for his work in the field of Commonwealth literature and

has taught at several African universities

EI izabeth Cock burn a primary sc hool teacher taught at the Government Teachers Training College in the North West Province

of Cameroon from 1969 to 1971 It was then

that she became aware of the shortage of relevent reading material for Cameroon schoolchildren

However it was some ten years later

that the project was born when she and Professor Kilian consulted with Dr Bernard

Fonlon then head of the Department of Afshyrican Literature at Yaounde Deeply comshy

mitted to saving African oral traditions as literatore Dr Fonlon although now retired remains a driving force in promoting creativity in the schools and scholarship on oral literature at the university

Last January Professor Killam and Elizabeth Cockburn were in Yaounde at a

conference where 80 papers were presented on the theory and practice of oral literature for West African educators - the first major attempt to marry theory and practice

As are children in the Canadian Indian

and Inuit communities African children are often exposed to texts that portray children of cultures different from their own To

counteract thi s influence simple African s tories with lifelike illustrations are being

Local stories come alive

mimeographed and turned into booklets by simply folding stand ard letter-size paper in half A collections of these stories will evenshytually be produced in textbook form when

fund s become available One such s tory The Marriage Feast

describes the marriage meal of the cat who invites all the domestic animals and birds to

the celebration

The dogs who know much about meat were asked 10 cook the food 8U1 they decided 10

playa trick They cooked the meat in the bOlom of the pot with the vegetables on lOp They said they would be the last to eat

In true fable form the hens who ate first discovered when they were too full to eat any more that there was meat deep

inside the pOI So they

Swore never to eat from the surface again and that is why hens always scratch deep into the soil in search offood

Although story-telling is becoming a lost art in Canada it is still a lively part of

life in Cameroon But as Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe said when he was in Guelph last year when a member of the older genshyeration dies its as if a whole library was destroyed -

Time is running short and fund s are needed to keep alive this project in Camshyeroon Anyone seeking further information

on the project may address their inquiries to Professor Killam at the University He hopes to receive funding from the Commonwealth

Foundation for similar work in other counshytries which have expressed an interest in

recording their heritage 0

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The Limners How do art students continue to find stimshyulation and motivation following graduation when they are no longer under the pressure of course requirements and without the critshyicism of an instructor

Four Fine Art graduates and one inshycourse student solved the problem by formshying a support group called The Limners (Limn an archaic word meaning paint deshypict portray Hence - Limner) Last Sepshytember the group held a success ful exhishybition of their recent works at the Halton Hills Cultural Centre Georgetown The Limners are

Dorothy Hart 81 of Georgetown She works with oil s pas tel s and graphite b4t is very interested in character fi gures made of cellu-clay which requires enormous pashytience to produce Her latest interest is pastel portraits of children

Dimensions 85 The fourth annual College of Arts Ailimni Association juried art show DIMENSIONS 85 was a success once again The jury members Marlene Jofriet well-known water colourist _ Michael OKeefe 76 practising artist and teacher and George Todd chairman Department of Fine Art selected 30 entries to hang

The jury awarded the following $100 $75 $50 prizes and designated three honshyourable -mentions

First pri ze Sheila Vollmer 85 Woman in Veil intaglio print

Second prize Wendy Maki 83 Pears Plums Apples and Grapes oil on canvas

Sue Knox 81 Formerly she was interested in the landscapes of Northern Ontario where she used to work Now back in Guelph Sue has rediscovered her urban surshyroundings including people

Betty Ketcheson 83 of Frankford Ontario to where her husband lack has retired Watercolour is her favorite medium however Betty also has an interest in enshycaustic painting with beeswax as a medium

Jane Graham 83 of Guelph lane tries to communicate her own brand of optimism through her waterco lours by using the figure in the land scape most often a child

Nan Hogg an undergraduate Nan is intershyested in making art that is feminist A memshyber of th e Guelph Embroiderers Guild Nans recent work displays a combination of watercolours or etchings with coil aged fabshyric that has been embroidered 0

The Limners L to r Sue Knox 81 Belly Ketcheson 83 Nan Hogg Dorothy Hart 81 and Jane Graham 83

Third pri ze Doreen Schaub 70 Rushing Waters watercolour

Honourable Mentions Sheila Volshylmer 85 Embracing Figures sculpture in pl aster Scott Abbot 79 Fields Near Maryhill oil on masonite Margaret Peter 74 Impressions Fossil Series collagraphsi Ikscreen

An innovation at DIMENSIONS 85 was the presentation of selected works of a featured artist Our first selected arti st was Evan MacDonald no stranger to the Univershysity of Guelph Many of his works are part of the Universitys collection of Canadian art hi s portraits hang in various buildings on campus and he was awarded an honorary doctorate of laws in 1979

We extend our sincere thanks to Ingrid

At DIMENSIONS 85 ColeRe oj Arts art sholl at Alllmni Wefkllld 85 L to r Marlene Jojriet juror Dr GeorRe 7iJdd chairman Department oj Fine Art jllror Wencil Maki 83 second-prize winner Doreen Schauh 70 third-prize willner Michael 0 Keeji 76

juror Own David Murray

Jenkner curatorexhibitions at the Macshydonald Stewart Art Centre and Mary MacshyDonald Evans wife for making it possible for us to feature the works of Evan

We also expre ss our gratitude and appreciation to all those who were instrushymental in making the show a success A special thank you is extended to this years participants without whom the show coulll not have been mounted 0

Art Show and Lecture Series Recognizing the 20th anniversary of the Department of Fine Art a facshyulty art show will be presented at the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre Nov 21 to lan 5 Viewing Tue to Fri and Sun noon to 500 pm Sat 1000 am to 500 pm A lecture se ries will present Dr Alan Gowans professor of art history University of Victoria B c on Art History and the Social Function Nov 18 at 800 -pm Rm 113 Physics Bldg Dr Ronald Nasgaard chief curator Art Gallery of Ontario wi II present Cushyratorship Today and Social Political Economic Pressures on Nov 27 at 400 pm in the Dept of Fine Art A third speaker is slated for early in the New Year

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Ontario Veterinary College Alumni Assoc OVC ALUMNI NEWS

Editor Dr Cliff Barker 41

OVC Alumni Association Executive 1985middot86

HONORARY PRESIDENT Dr Ole Niel sen 56 PRESIDENT Dr Ken Gadd 56 PAST PRESIDENT Dr Wendy Parker 7 1 VICE-PRESIDENT Dr Mary (Hawkins) Wiltshire 74 SECRETARY-TREASURER Dr Gordon Boylan 46 DIRECTORS Dr Bob Buck 46 Dr Archie MacKinnon 43 Dr Norm McAninch 39 Dr Bruce Robb 7 1 Dr Bruce Robinson 76 Dr Noni Sman 80 EDITOR avc Alumni News Dr Cliff Barker 41

Mailbag Dear Cliff

We were over to Vancouver Island recel11ly and went up to Qualicum Beach to see 0 Howard Taylor 13 He broke me in on meat inspection in 42 at the old Burns plant on Logan Avenue in Winnipeg

He is in great shape Qlid outside of a gimpy knee has no problems It was a real pleasure to see him again - still the same sparkle and quick wit that I had remembered from the Winnipeg years

I had not seen Howardfor 40 years bw outside of him thinking I had aged someshywhat had no trouble with identification Thought you might be il7lerested in this bit of news - not too many vets make it to age 98

We are fine and enjoying a complete reversal of what Vancouver weather is supshyposed to be bUi sure would like to see aboUl a week of rain Regards Bud Ellis 41 1410 Gordon Avenue West Vancouver Sc V7T IR6

From the Dean

Dr Ole Nielsen 56

In this my first opponunity to address our alumni through this medium I would like to express my pleasure at having the privilege of serving the Ontario Veterinary College and the University of Guelph

At the outset I acknowledge my debt to those many faculty students and staff who have labored to make this College a great inshystitution Being mindful of this heritage I am excited by the challenge of helping move the College to new levels of excellence One has to be impressed with the potential of the OVe Heres why

By the time this publication has gone to press I expect tenders for the first phase of a new OVC building program will have been called and possibly awarded This project costing over $13 million will provide modshyem facilities for the Depanments of Clinical Studies and of Biomedical Sciences and the Veterinary Teaching Hospital

The culmination of a great deal of effon led by former Dean Doug Maplesshyden 50 and President Burt Matthews OAC 47 the project is jointly funded by the Federal Government (Departments of Agrishyculture and Regional Industrial Expansion) and the Province of Ontario (OMAF)

The new facility will allow the College to press forward with new teaching research and service programs that include such vital newareas as biotechnology computer as istshyed health management and expanded proshygrams in toxicology

The second phase of the OVC building program which is largely related to teachshying spaces remains to be funded A good share of this project is expected to be includshyed in the fonhcoming capital campaign of the University The panicipation of you the alumni will be crucial to its success The governments of Ontario and Canada have done their part despite difficult circumshystances The rest is up to us

I have found the faculty of the OVC to be -a group of strong and vigorous academshyics and many young talented faculty have been appointed recently In passing one notes the retirement of many of those who led the renaissance in veterinary education in Canada in the post-war years The new generation of faculty has a real challenge in

trying to do as well as their predecessors shyand it will

I believe the graduate students are the sou I of the College Therefore another cause for optimism is the strength of the graduate and research programs at the OVe Presently the College has about 130 gradushyate students who at this most creative period of their lives are striving to provide new knowledge and skills for veterinary medishycine In 1950 there were none

There has been a significant expansion in the D YSc program a comparatively new doctoral program that gives priority to the acquisition of clinical sk ill s in addition to training in research The D VSc degree is unique in the world and how its graduates will be received remains to be determined I am confident it will be favourably

Believing in the imponance of reshysearch OMAF recently committed itself to provide the College with a new research farm at Ponsonby This nO-acre site located some ten miles from Guelph will provide farm-type facilities for hous ing dairy cattle beef cattle sheep pigs and laboratory anishymals will replace existing facilities at Eramosa and Plislinch and will cost in excess of $3 million

The application rate and quality of stushydents seeking admision to the D YM proshygram remains high

I am delighted to be assisted in the work of the Deans office by Associate Dean Ted Valli 62 and Academic Counsellor Ron Downey 61 and given the above is it any wonder I am optimistic

I have always been a bit smug in believshying that those of us from western Canada were the most friendly in the nation My exshyperience since coming to Guelph proves me wrong Everyone including students facshyulty staff the University administration and the local community could not have been more friendly and helpful 0

OVCAA Membership Report-Summer 1985

Life Membership 1 103 Honorary Life Membership 3 Life Me m Instalment Plan 241 Annual Membership 42 -Total Membership 1389 Total Alumni 3537 Membership

of Total Alumni 3930 Membership

of Known Alumni 40 06

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Inch in KatDlandu The following letter to the editor from Or

Carolyn Inch 81 was sent to Ornella Osborne editor of Update the newsletter

published by the Ontario Veterinary Assoshyciation Were grateful to Omelia for passing it on to us

While trekking through the north central region of the Himalayan mountains in

Nepal I was surprised to see the words vetshy

erinary office added to the bottom of it sign written in Nepalese

The village Chame contained the

headquarters of the government veterinary operations for the region of Manang Borshy

dering on China in the north the region covers about 2000 square kilometres and

has the lowest population density in Nepal The average altitude of the region is above

3048 metres Annapurna towers at 8091

metres The logistics behind launching a vetshy

erinary program in an area that is entirely inaccessible except by foot or aircraft had

me intrigued Dr Koshori Jha greeted us warmly and

in the polite manner wed received at the hands of all the Nepalese tea was served

The bulk of his practice is in sheep and goats as well as cattle yak horse mules and chickens On a daily basis he deals most frequently with footrot a problem that

is compounded by the fact that most of the bovine and equine species are bred pri-

During the recent avc AA Annual Meeting retired Deal Doug Maplesden 50 righl received ( plaque embodying newsclippings puhlished during his lenure Dean OIl Nieletl 56 made the presentalion

marily for use as pack animals the terrain is

rough and whether goats are grazing beshy

tween rocks or mules are carrying 80-kiloshygram loads up mountainsides their hooves are exposed to a lot of strain

Dr Koshori Jhas pharmacy contained various disinfectants and as tringents and

many herbal remedies from India retained placenta and anti-bloat preparation for

example

The only vaccine available to him was against Hemorrhagic Septicemia and he

used it when faced with a diagnosed herd

outbreak Dr Koshori Jha pointed out phenol

which was used on feet during July August and Septembers annual FMD outbreak

coinciding with the rainy season Day-to-day treatment is a sma ll part of

the government veterinarian s job He recently received approval for his five-year

plan which began last spring The main eleshyments of the plan are training increasi ng egg production mule breeding Jhopa

breeding (cross between a cow and male yak) and improving cattle feed by the introshyduction of a Phillipine variety of cattle grass

For the livestock assistance training

three farmers from each of 12 panchayats (districts) in Manang will come to Chame

for training and to discuss local problems These men will be involved in a serv ice

centre to be se t up in each panchayat for common treatment He also plans to hold a yearly lives tock exhibitio n with pri ze shy

money for healthy livestock

Plans to increase egg production include a new brooding unit and the introshy

duction of a hybrid of Leghorn New Hampshyshire and Rhode Island Red poultry In an effort to upgrade the quality of pack anishy

mals local ponies will be crossed with donshykeys brought from northern India Similarly

Missing in India Dr Ohiroobhai K Desai 46 61 Sharda Society Paldi Ahmedabad 380007 India has written of hi s attempts to gather inforshy

mation on Drs VD Alaga Raju 36 and

K B Nair 36 both of India He repol1s having bee n with Dr Nair from 1952 to 1956 at the Bombay Veterinary College as an exshyaminer in Veterinary Medicine However he

has been unable to provide up-to-date inforshymation on thesc two alumni Any alumni

with information please write to your avc Alumni Bulletin editor 0

male yaks will be crossed with local cows

and their offspring Jhopa will be used as high-altitude pack animals

Dr Jha plans to distribute these breedshying animals to the more remote region s so

that bloodlines can be upgraded In so me of these areas the native dialect is related to ancestral Tibetan languge rather thall Nepashy

lese which compounds hi s difficult task of education

Pack animals are the lifeline of the

high-altitude people as much today as they

have been for centuries I very much appreshy

ciate the time taken by Dr Koshori Jha to explain the role of domestic animals in the

Himalaya and share with me his ambitious plans for the future 0

AI Ihe recem CVMA Conference in Pelllicshylon Dr Bob Dunbar 12 leji with Dr ROI Downey 6 Bob has reached his 961h birlhday and resides in a PellliClol1 nursing home

In Memoriam Or John N Campbell 15 545 Scripps Drive Davis California 59616 USA

died May 4 1985

Dr Ra)mond E Pinkert 36 440 NOl1h Pine Street Reedsburg Wisconsin 53959 USA died April 13 1985

Or Roderick S MacDonald 37 3003 Oliver Street Apt 203A Halifax NS -B3L 4AI died June 12 1985

Dr John J Carney 44 3531 West 33rd Avenue Vancouver B C V6S IZ2 Date of

death unknown

Or Kenneth R Lachapelle 54 1635 Ranvoyze Ave St Foy Que GIW 3K2

died June 26 1985 0

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College of Social Science Alumni Assoc PEGASmiddotUS

Editor Dorothy Barnes 78

Our Annual Picnic We Illissed you I All of you who didnt make it to our CSSAA picnic during Alumni Weekend 85 But despite the few members and families that did attend we had a good time The pictures tell the story

Here are some of us arriving (l) and setting up the eats We had good food and why not It was a tillle to enjoy relax and have some fun We had games for all ages including catch-the-eggs (2) with real raw eggs

AmI of course whats a picnic without a drop of rain) But President John came prepared with a tarpaulin (3) for those afrnid ofilleiting The k)od and the day were saved Hurrah for our presidenl

Thcre were some brave soul s who unshydaunted by the weather carried on with their baseball game Then of course there was one young partiCipant (4) who was seen scratching hcr head 1I1d wondering what was going on

All in all we had a great time You would have too if youd bcen thcre So makc a mental notc or tic a string around your tingcr toc anywhere that will reillind you that you missed a good outing at th e Aluillni Wcckend 85 CSSAA picnic and that you should makc pl ans now to join us in June 86 at Alumni Wcekend 86 0

A Joy to Behold Her work has the shi mmer of life Such is said of artist Joy Elizabeth (Snihur) Laking Fine Art CSS 72 Joys art is intimately tied to the seasons In spring and summer she works against the perilous fadshying of fresh flowers capturing them in clean powerful designs

Fa ll afternoons on the grassy salt marshes around her home in Portaupigue Nova Scotia inspire wider scenes of rich changing colours

The respite of winter is her time for land and peoplescapes evolved from her ow n photography Her art is created within the context of family community and nature

Joy was introduced to hcr chosen lifeshystyle by her mother - they used to go sketching while Joy was a child in Owen Sound on Lake Huron s Georgian Bay shyand has painted since she can remember She now lives on the edge of the Bay of Fundy with husband Ronald OAC 72 and two cherubs where she can paint every day and capture the beauty she sees around her Whether it be mud and Illarsh a rusted truck and some farmyard geese or caterpillar holes in azalea leaves Joy is able to capture in watercolour the essence and beauty of all she sees

She is noted for her special ability to create white flowers on white paper by givshying the petals shape and vivid life with only a whisper of colour and shadow Light delishycate handling and mcticulous control fused with a powerful design se nse distinguishes her art

Joy is a well established artist and has had se lected exhibitions of her paintings at the Tom Thompson Memorial Art Gallery Owen Sound 1981 Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery Halifax NS 1982 Gallery 1889 Tatamagouche NS 1983

Daffodils By Joy (Snihur) Laking 72

Truro Art Society Truro NS 1984 and the Royal Botanical Gardens Burlington Onl 14

She was deservedly honoured to have the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia purchase one of her paintings for its collection and the Maritime Tel amp Tel chose a Laking painting for the cover of Nova Scotias 1985 telephone directory

Joy says I paint what I live what I see and what touches me It s no wonder then that Joy has been able to successfully transshyfer such sensitivity to her work in a way that has produced tine work s of art as demonshystrated in Daffodils reproduced here 0

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Grad News Terry Goddard 76 wrote to let us know

where he is and what hes doing After gradshyuation Terry turned to the world of engishy

neering and worked at the Bechtel Intershy

national Syncrude project in northern Alberta for a year He retu rned to school and obtained a Masters degree in Politi cal Theshyory in 1978 at the University of Toronto

TIle next nine months were spent workshying at Dhaharan Saudi Arabi a While the re

Terry contemplated the action which would

give him the best career move His deci s ion to go into teach ing led him back to the Unishy

versity of Toronto to obtai n his BEd His teachin g career took hi m to northshy

e rn Saskatchewan whe re he taug ht at a village which if not actually at the end of

the world was situated close enough that the end was plainly visible from the nOI1hern

outskirts He returned to Toronto someshywhat sated with academe and once again

turned to engineering He has been director of maintenance for the Jewi sh Com munity

Centres of Toronto for the past five years He has fou nd it difficult to keep in

touch with fellow grad s Especia lly th ose who studied in Professor Melby s Chinese

poIitic s courses and who were known as the Shanghai Mafia - they are all over the

world now Hes sure they often recall with fondness their days at Unigoo

Where are you former students of Proshyfessors Simmo ns and MelbYTerry would be interested in hearing from you - and so would we

Robin-Lee Norris 80 has been awarded

a $19000 Rot ary Foundation Scholarship to

pursue g radua te studi es in the Masters of Business Administration program at the

Univers ity of Adelaide Adelaide Australia Robin-Lee went o n to graduate from

Osgoode Hall Law School with an LLB

was called to the Ontario Bar in ApriJ of 1982 and has practised law with the tirm of

Kearns McKin non inGuelph since herca ll She took a ten-mo nth leave of absence

commenc ing in February 1985 from her positi on with Kearns McKinno n in o rder to take ad vantage of the sc holarship

During her months in Australia her mandate from Rotary Internatio nal in addishy

tion to pursuing her stud ies is to act as a Rotary and Canadian Ambassador in proshy

moting good will and understanding beshytween Australians and Canadians

A thank you goes to Cliff Hardy buildshying mechanic superv isor Main tenance Deshypartment Physical Resources for supplying us with thi s information and an aside to Robin-Lee when she reads this I was unable

to reach you betore you left to congratulate

you and get more informati on on your award If you have some free time we wOllld love to hea r from you about your studi es

what a Rotary and Canadian ambassador

does and to have you share your ex perience of being down-under

Marilyn Kernohan Morrison 78 has taken the time to Jet us know that shes living in Napanee with hu sba nd Brian She has

tempora ril y se t aside her ca reer to be a home-maker tor Brian and their four-monthshy

old son

Prior to their move to Napanee to acshycommodate Brians tran sfer - he work s with the Ministry of Natural Resources shy

Marilyn and family lived in a small comshymunity northwest of Thunder Bay After

Gue lph Marilyn continued her ed ucation at the comm unity college level and com pleted

a program for counse llors of the mentally

retarded SheJI be returnin g to thi s fi e ld when she again becomes a wage earner

Doris E (Trachsel) OKeefe 74 is deshy

scribed by husband John Paul 74 as a household engineer John Paul is a reshy

source teacher with the Waterloo County Board of Education With such a title I

couldnt resis t phon ing Doris to find out exactly what the duti es of a household enshy

gi neer are

While Doris decl ined to give a cletinishytion of the titl e l detected some surprise and delight that John Paul appreciates what it

takes to look after a famil y and a home

Doris is trying to re turn to teaching but is findin g it difficult in the Cambridge

Waterloo area If she isnt successful shes planning alternatives such as enrolment at Guelph in a Masters program o r failing that enrolment in courses that will he lp her

ac hieve her long-range goa ls She and John Paul recen tly moved from

London Ont to Cambridge Prior to the

birth of Erin now a two-year-old Doris was teac hing boys with behaviourial problems

and she sees thi s as an asset when applying for teaching positions Erin has a six-yearshyold brother Sean so you can understand

perhaps that Doris has been bu sy and maybe she is aptly described as a houseshy

hold engi neer

J Barry Baldwin 69 is a teac her with the Elgin County Board of Education S t Thomas Barry married Linda Janet Wii son They live in Aylmer West

M Rachel (Curtis) Towe 69 is manager customer systems Bell Canada She and

husband Ken live in Guelph

M Lois (Robinson) Harris 70 li ves in Newmarket with husband Fred

B Hugh Schofield 72 is an industrial engi neer with Rockwell Int e rnati o nal C hat ham He and wife Susan (Haslelt)

FACS 78 live in Chatham

Paul Davis 73 is an underwrite r analyst with Co-opera tors General In sura n ce

Guelph Paul and wife Linda (DozeH) 73 and 81 live at Brookhaven Court Guelph

Carol Finlayson 74 is a letter carrier lor Canada Post Carol and husband John Balch live in Toronto

Pal Hamilton 74 is an expon market deshyvelopment specialist with the O ntario Minshyistry of A gricu lture and Foo cl mark et

development branch Toronto He and his wife Diane (Coates) OAC 72 live in

Toronto

Kerrie Sirathy MA 78 advises us that

she is a s tud en t at th e Univcrsity of Sakatchewan Sas katoon

Vicky Sutherland 78 is an air trartie conshy

troller with Air Canada at FoI1 McMurray Airpo l1 Alta and lives in F0I1 McMurray

Sounds like an intercsting job - perhaps youl l share SOIllC experie nces with us Vicky

Marlin Thissen 78 is a foreman with the

region or Halton at ih Milton wa ter po llushytion control plant

Evelyn Evie (Isaacs) Whilwham 80 is a planning ass istant with Union Gas Co Ltd Chatham She and hu sba nd Bob have

c hanged their address They are at 70 Ottawa Drive C ha tham Ont N7L 216 0

In Memoriam A lormer faculty mcmber in the DeshypaI1ment of Geography Barsa Kelly was among the victims of the Air India Hight 182 disaster that occ urred

off the coas t of Irel and las t June ~ mr(sa Vas headed tor India on a reshy

search project at the time of her

death S he was the wife of Protessor Kenneth Kelly Department of Geogshyra phy On behalf of its members and all those who chc ri shed their con tacts with Barsa the Board of Directors of the College of Social Science Alumni Association extend their s incere symshy

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College of Biological Science Alumni Assoc BIOmiddotALUMNI NEWS

Editor Marie (Boissonneault) Rush 80

HONORARY PRESIDENT Professor Bruce Sells Dean

PRESIDENT David Airdrie BSc 82 Microbiology

PAST PRESIDENT Dr Chris Wren BSc 77 Marine Biology PhD 83

VICE-PRESIDENT Dee Britney BSc 74 Fisheries amp Wildlife MSc 81

SECRETARY-TREASURER Kclly Munkittrick BSc 80 Fisheries amp Wildshylife MSc 83

DIRECTORS Lorraine Bruce-Allen BSc 80 Zoology MSc 84 Jim Elliott BSc 79 Marine Biology Keith Harris BSc 76 Marine Biology Dr Doug Holdway BSc 76 Marine Biology MSc 78 Aquatic Toxicology PhD 83 Krista (McAuley) Soper BSc 79 Marine Biolshyogy Karin Davidson-Taylor BSc 83 Zoology

From Dave Airdrie 82 the

President How time flies when youre having fun Your editor Marie (Boissonneault) Rush 80 tell s me that this note to you will be in the Fall issue of the Guelph Alumnus so Ill bring you up to date on happenings since your 1985-86 Board of Directors was inshystalled in June

The CBS Alumni Association was parshyticularly busy during June Alumni Weekshyend events including the Wildlife Art Show and Sale and the barbecue at the Rockwood Conservation Area were well attended

Thanks must go to Krista (McAuley) Soper 79 and Lorraine Bruce-Allen 84 for their first-rate efforts in organizing and running the art show From all accounts it was ex tremely well done and is sure to be repeated in 1986

Further thanks mu st go to Keith Harshyris 76 for his efforts in once again organizing the barbecue at Rockwood Keith has done a terrifi c job with this event s ince its inception Hopefully these two events will be expanded in the coming year

Last spring the objective of $10 000 for the Keith Ronald Fellowship Fund was reached and we thank all who generously contributed to this fund Its to be hoped that this is only the first of many scholarships initiated through the CBSAA

Many of you will now be aware of the changes which the Universitys Department of Alumni Affairs has undergone in rece nt months Most important is the arrival of Marjorie Millar as director of the Departshyment It seems that President Matthews is placing greater emphasis on the importance of the Department due in part to the impenshyding capital campaign I am sure that youll all notice many beneficial innovations

The CBSAA has I feel reached a point in its development where we must heighten our profile both among alumni and undershygraduates In order to increase the awareness of the Association the Board has plans to embark on some new programs

The goals are as I see them two-fold first of all we need YOU to get more inshyvolved whether its participation in our proshygrams or s upport for the Assoc iation through your membership The fact that youre reading this demonstrates an interest which we would like to heighten

Secondly we re working at helpin g undergraduates before graduation to beshycome more aware of our Association Hopeshyfully we ll get helpful input and suggestions from many of you in the near future Reshymember - YOUR alumni association is what YOU make it

Dave Airdrie BSc 82 President Colshylege of Biological Science AA

FACULTY ADVISORS Dr Denis Lynn Zoology Dr Margaret Hauser M icroshybiology Dr John Hilton Nutrition Dr John Sandys Award Phillips Botany amp Genetics Dr Brian Wilson Human BiologyKinetics The Ontario Confederation of University

Faculty Associations (OCUFA) has awarded UGAA REPRESENTATIVES Karin Dr Alexander Sandy Middleton DepartshyDavidsonTaylor BSe X) Zoology Keith ment of Zoology one of the nine OCUFA Harris BSc 76 Marinc Biology Rob Teaching Awards for 1984 Milnc BSe XI MSe 84 Marine Bio Dr Middleton was nominated for this -award by colleagues students administrashyEX-OFFICIO DIRECTORS Ed Berdusco tors alumni and faculty It acknowledges president CBSSC Steve Spring past presishy outstanding ability and is considered to be dent CBSSC the provinces highest honour for excellence

in university teaching HKAA REPRESENTATIVE Nick Dalton I think there are two keys to being an BSe 77 Human Kinetics effective teacher Sandy says One is to

have respect for the student the other is to EDITOR RIO-ALUMNI NEWS Marie make a genuine intellectual and time comshy(Boissonneault) Rush B Se XO Marine mitmcnt to the course Biology 0 Dr Alexander Middleton Congratulations Dr Middleton 0

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Grad News Human Biology

Cathy Knipe BSc 79 MSc 83 is a Ph D st ud ent at Iowa State University Ames Iowa USA She is studying Moshylecular Biology

Shelly Lugg BSc 83 is a stude nt at Simon Fraser University Burnaby BC

Human Kinetics

Susan (Wright) Kwiatkowski BSc 80 is a recreation therapist at York Central Hosshypital Toronto Her spouse Ed graduated from Ryerson in 1979

Donna Marie (Kadwell) 1vose BSc 79 and husband John ji ve in Thorold Shes a physica l education supervisor at the Niagara Peninsula Crippled Childrens Centre

Mary Ellen (Mew) Walker BSc 83 is the activity co-ordinator at Spruce Lodge Stratford

Dr Ken Danylchuk BSc(PE) 73 is a s ur ge ry re s ident at the H itchcockshyDartmouth Medical Center Hanover N H USA

Kathryn (Tarry) Myers BSc 78 is a teacher with the Middlesex COunty Board of Educati on Hyde Park

WildUfe

Vicky Johnston 84 bega n an MSc at Lakehead University Thunder Bay in May Shes working on the reprodu ctive biology of Lake Superior rin g-billed gull s

Nutrition

Or 0010 Ohiokpehai 77 lectures in food and nutrition at the Unive rs ity of Ife Nigeria

Microbiology

John Semple 78 is a PhD ca ndidate in the Department of Mic rob iology amp Immushynology at Queens Uni vers ity Kingston He will be doing a post-doctora l at the Banting amp Best Depattment of Medica l Research University of Toronto

Unspecialized

Peter Adams 79 and Beth (Sarjeant) 79 are happy to announce their recent marshyriage Beth is a research technici an with the Depanment of Medicine Univers ity of Ca lshygary Alta and Peter operates a business with the se ismic service industry

Marine Biology

Jorgen Hansen 75 and his wife Drusilla (Dol be) Arts 75 live in Gloucester Jorge n is a staff officer with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Ottawa

CoUege Honour RoU - Winter 85 Semester 06

Margorie Fe rgusson 894 Human Biology JoAnna Milan 860 Biology

Semester 07 Sandra Noble 856 Microbiology

Semester 08 Marga ret Docker 876 Marine Biology Thomas Johnston 87 0 Fi sheries Biology Debra Underhill 858 Microbi ology

James Wright 858 Biology Tobin Peever 854 Botany

Alexander Hanke 852 Zoology Rebecca Rodgers 852 Human Bi ology

Tracey Robin son 882 BSc( HK ) Rebecca Halonen 880 BSc(HK )

Swdent has obtained standing for second time Student has obtaincd standing for third time

Home Town

Oakville Ottawa

Dorchester

Guelph New Liskeard Kingston Thunder Bay Bracebridge Grafton Calgary Alta Guelph Georgetown

Donald MacLennan 75 and hi s wife Katherine live in Chatham Donald is a biologi st-supervisor with the Ministry of Natural Resources Lake SI Clair Fisheries Assessmen t Unit Tilbury 0

College of Biological Science

Alumni Association

Wildlife Art Show

Well it happened June 15 and 16 have come and gone but not withshyout event The Graduate Students Lounge was transformed from a cozy meeting place into an an gallery There was much movi ng of furniture and hanging of an work with the end product being our fi rst ever CBSAA Wildlife Art Show

In total there were 20 wildlite artists partic ipating all tine ani sts in their own right Maybe you reshymember Ut a Stre live a nd Dr Ed Bailey Wow I You should see their wood works

Rick Beaver 73 also showed some of his work hes a wildlife imshypressionist and the colour and move shyment he paint s into each piece is eloquent Donald Dority 76 showed us the line photographer he has become There were other ani sts - too many to mention but all of extremely high calibre

Id like to mention one las t name though - Cindy Hayward manager of the Graduate Students Lounge If you ever need a steady hand to get an event off the ground shes the one to co ntact Without her hel p there would have been a whole heap of orshyga ni za tional problems From which we would have been unable to escape

All in all we had a successful show Thanks artists and viewers for making our efforts worthwhile 0

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New Minister of AgricultureOntario Agricultural College Alumni Assoc OAC ALUMNI NEWS

Editor Dr Harvey W Caldwell 51

Ontari OS new mini ster of ag riculture Jack Riddell 52A and 57 a cash crop farmer from the Exeter area comes to the position of Ontario s Mini ster of Agriculture and Food with ten years of expe rience as Liberal caucus cr itic for agriculture

The min is ter sa id that life under a Libshyeral government will give agriculture a higher priority than it has ex perienced in the past It will be considered one of the major industries in this province

Jack also pro mi sed to consult a great

Basic Technology in Action shyTurning Stones Into Bread By Ann Middleton Information Services

A new University of Guelph projec t in Tanza nia Africa should aid th e Third Wo rld s ubsistence leve l farmer The $400000 three-year projec t funded by the International Development Resea rch Centre (IDRC) will invol ve fltlculty of the Uni vershysitys Department of Land Resou rce Sc ience and Soko ine Uni versity of Ag riculture in Morogoro Central Tanza ni a Aim of the enterpri se is to use loca lly ava il ab le rock materials as soil amendm en ts and con shyditioners

The project came about when Ott awas IDRC brought together a team of two geo logists with an interest in improving co nshyditions for African farmers Professor Ward Chesworth with the Department of Land Resource Science has a long-standing intershyes t in turning rock s into fertili zers deshyve loped during work in West Africa and the Canltlry Islands where local farmers have spread volcanic rock on their field s for two centu ries In his lab and in the Blue Springs basin near Acton Ontario Professor Chesshyworth has been conducting experiment s on the levels at which common rocks re lease nutri ents into soil solutions

The other team member Dr Peter van Straltl ten is ori ginally from Germany but spe nt e ight years with the United Nations in Tan zania looking for metals and metal deshyposi ts and working on an in ve ntory of ferti shyli zer raw materials in south-east Africa

During thi s period Tanza nian food production per capita fell dramaticall y leadshying Dr van Strltlaten to try to find ways to help the food situation In ex periments in his garden in Dodomo Tanzaniltl he was able to increase yields of vegetables using locally

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available geological materia ls and organic wastes

Noting the common interes ts of the two men the Canadian age ncy introd uced them and Dr van Straaten relocated in Guelph Co-ordinators of the project are Professor Cheswo rth and Tan za ni an sc ie nti st Dr Johnson Semoka of Sokoine University coshyauthor of a text on so il sc ience much used in agricultural circles in Africa

Technical assistant Peter Sl11i th is working with Tanzanian rock specimens in the Land Resource Science lab and two other Tanzanian scientists will be involved

In addition to academics from bo th institutions members of the Geological Survey of Tanzania will also work on the project both in the Morogoro area and at Mbeya station in south-western Tanzania

Roc k sa mples will be collected and crushed and field tests and pot ex periments carried out here and on location When reshysu lt s have bee n obtained extension work will begin in Africa under the direc tion of Dr Semoka It is hoped that members of a Me nnonite Central Committee group workshying at Mbeya will design a simple rock crusher for the use of local farmers

Tanzania has a major phosphate deshyposi t wh ich will be tapped by the project as well as ground s ilicates including volcanic ash Liming materials such as limestone dolomite marl and ca rbonatite will also be evaluated

Professor Chesworth points out that alshythough No rth Americans place much emshyphasi s on the big three of soil nutrition shynitrogen phosphorus and potassium (NPK) - there are actually about 20 necessary

deal with the farm organizations on the direction his ministry should be taki ng

I dont believe that we can sit in our so-ca ll ed ivory towers and introduce the kind of programs that are go ing to be mea nshyingful unless we get consultation from the farmers and their spokes people

He has been a member of the provincial legislature for 12 years He spent his first two years as energy cri tic and later environshyment critic before mov ing into agriculture Jack and Anit a have a family of five 0

nutrie nts including the minor ones In some areas of Tanza nia the decline

in soil fe rtility is in part due to the settling of widespread populations into villages where land has been used without concern for nutrients Tn other part s of the country productivity has declined because of leachshying of plant nutrie nts durin g normal rainfall and also from the continuous use of acidifyshying fertilizers such as ammo nium su lphate Dr Chesworth point s out that the current practice of NPK fe rtili zation totally ignores secondary and micronut rient requirements of plants It is hoped that the projec t wilt address thi s problem

Our approac h is basic tec hn ology our target group the poorest far mers Dr van Straaten explains One of the problems in the past Dr Ches worth says has been convincing agronomists that it s worth purshysuing this kind of elementary tec hnology approach Theyre very skeptical that you can take common roc ks wi thou t major inshydustrial proces ing and use them to advanshytage on tropical soils

A s ideline area of research is work with zeolites open framework si licates that often occ ur in volcanic rocks Some zeolites can be used to trap nitrogen in the form of ammonia which would otherwise be los t in gaseous form When added to cow manure for exampl e and stomped in by the beasts themselves zeolites enrich an already valushyabl e fertil ize r Dr van Straaten explains

The zeolite research is being carried out in co njunction with Professor Colin Fyfe Department of Chemistry an intershynat io na ll y kn ow n authority o n zeo lit e -che mi stry

Orie result of the work of the Un ive rs ity of Guelph geo logists is an ag rogeology ne tshywork currentl y being set up bya number of African cou ntries as the result of di sc usshysions following a paper by Dr van Straaten and Professor Chesworth The paper was given recently at meetings of the UN Ecoshynomic Commiss ion for Africa in Zambia 0

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A Designing Grad The need for a summer job six years ago has ended in a Guelph grad des igning golf courses

When in 1979 Lisa Maki now

BLA 84 was searching for a job that would assist her in her studies at the Univershysity she applied to the city of Kitchener

She could have wound up in any

number of areas in the parks and recreation department but Rockway and Doon Valley

course superintendent Ed Ortlieb gave her the chance to join the work crew at Rockway fltor the first couple of years it was just a job that got her outdoors in the summer then by chance she got interested in the game itself

And now shes embarked on a career in golf course design

Lisa the 24-year-old oldest daughter of Ted Maki a former general manager of the

Lisa Maki BLA 84 Kitchener Rangers left last July for Lakeshyland Florida where she Joined Links Deshysign which de sig ns and oversees golf course construction throughout the United 1983 and a friend of the family who knew States The company is considered the sec shy was interested in golf course work arranged ond-largest of its type behind the one run by a meeting with Ronald Garl said Lisa I US golf legend Jack Nicklaus who deshy had an official job interview in April of 84 signed the Glen Abbey course in Oakville and then went to Florida in August of the

How does a young Kitchener woman same year to familiarize myself with the

end up working for Ronald Garl a 40-yearshy firms projects

old graduate of the University of Florida Because I had focused much of my who apprenticed under such well-known deshy University work on such things as turf man shy

signers as Roben Trent Jones and Joseph agement and had done pan of my bachelor Lee Again it was just a chance opportunity of landscape architecture thes is on what

We were in Florida in December of makes British golf courses great and the

Sisters of Accident Victims Receive Diplomas

A tragic accident just prior to Spring Convocation resulted in the deaths oftwo graduands of the Associate Diploma in Agriculture Program Jeff Bikus 85A of West Lome and Nick Davidson 85Afrom Zimbabwe Joy Davidson sister ofNick came from Zimbabwefor the Convocation She was sponsored by the OAC Alumni Association Classes of85A alld 86A Norm McCollulIl 66A honorary class president 85A Don and MiidredMcCollum Jenny Ballentine and her parents Dr Steve Bowley 78 and80 honorary class president 86A and the University Centre Administration Our sympathy is extended to the families and friends of these two popular studel1ls Pictured are Ito r Jenny Ballantine friend ofJeff Bikus Lealln Bikus sister of Jeff Joy Davidson sister of Nick and Klaus Kristiansen a studellt from Zimbabwe

other on golf course residential design he was impressed

In order to learn what made British

courses great Lisa spent a semester in Engshyland and Scotland visiting researching sketching photographing and playing 16 historic courses including the famous links courses which by tradition are the

only clubs to host the British Open Links layouts are courses that border the sea and have been built or developed over sand

bases

Approximately 15 students a year take

advantage of the School of Land scape Arshychitectures Semester Abroad Program fi shynancing the trips themselves However the program is supported by an annual $5000 grant from the Alma Mater Fund so alumni can claim a cenain amount of credit for Lisas success She was a recipient in 1983

of part of that years AMF grant Im not sure my mother and father

were very keen about my trave lling around England and Scot lane all alone but it was a truly great experience she said middot1 not only met many wonderful and helpful peoshyple got to play the great courses like St

Andrew s Royal Troon Turnberry and my favorite of all Royal Dornoch

After a complicated and lengthy US immigration process which took nearly a year she was granted her permanent work

visa She was in regular contact with her new

boss after returning to Kitchen er - she re turned to work at Rockway and Doon while awaiting the vi sa approval - and then last July plunged immediately into

projects including work at a mens tournashyment players 36-hole complex in Sarasota and a Ladies Professional Golf Assoc iation course in Melbourne where she worked in association with LPGA tour players Beth Daniels and Sally Little

Despite the fact that the job involves

vy ing with rattlesnakes alligators and Iild

pigs when I have to tramp through forests and swamps in applying my design work to certain areas I love the outdoor work Lisa

said At the same time she doesnt have any

probleIl1s giving orders to hard-hatted heavy-machinery construction workers when she is the field supervisor for on-site

work think I may have raised a few eye shy

brows when I staned work at Rockway but I was accepted

Lisa isnt sure how long this pan of her life will last and she has no way of knowing whether any of her courses will eve r be known as Lisa Maki layouts But that doesnt

concern her They may be Links Design projects but Ill know they were basically my courses 0

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Klink Lecture Dr Doug Morrison 49 Department of Poultry Science was chosen to deliver the 1985 Klink Lecture

The Klink lecture is ~ponsored by the Agricultural Inst itute of Canada and named after the Institute s founding president Preshysented by an outstanding lecture r the lecture is delivered through a coast-to-coast tour and concerns a topic of current significance to the agricultural industry and the nation

Dr Morri son stated that there is a need for professionalization in an imal agriculshyture in order to give it an improved image and make it more acceptable to the conshysumer

Address ing members of the Ontario Inshystitute of Agrologists in London Ontario he told his audience that the agriculture inshydustry in Canada ranks among the best in the world and producers have to ensure thi s is shown and make sure that peer pressure prevents producers from doing things that we cant defend

He suggested some type of professhysiona l approach established by the farming organization whereby expertise would be required instead of merely encouraged

This is a mu ch beller ap proach th an some edict from society through governshyment legi slation I strong ly object to legislashytion designed to protect me from myself he said adding that there are currently enough regulations existent through legislation that dictate what farmers can and cannot do

If a farmer were a profess ional hi s reward wou Id be in profits - about as meanshyingful a reward as has ye t been devised

Benefits of a more professionalized approach would include an improved image of the farmer to the consumer an increase in communication a more efficient industry

which is essential for competition improved knowledge on the fa rmers part of health nutrition care markets etc and more awareness of soc ietys concerns

In turn it would also be necessary to provide beller information to the consumer through an educational process because if soc iety is to pay for increased inputs for the long- term good of the nat ion then it is essential society be adequately informed

Morrison remarked that he fee ls the maj ori ty of animal agriculturists are in fact professionals but there has to be a concerted e ffort to at tract as lew people as possible in to the business who do not understa nd farmshying or who are doing things that are unacshyceptable

Consumer concern over dietary value or the amount of drugs contained in animal product s is also reason for farmers to tak e a professional approach They should work to alleviate any misreprese ntations and misin shyformation the public is receiving the proshyfessor noted s tating that farm ers have never produced food as safe and as wholeshysome as it is today

By the turn of the century on a world basis meat consumption is predicted to in shy

crease by abou t 60 per cent while the intake of milk is expected to increase by almost 40 per cent

A major fac tor for this rise in intake result s from th e fact that developing nations will begin to consume animal products as soon as they can afford them China is an excellent exa mple of this said the professor who commented that nation is now movshying as rapidly as possible to increase animal production

With all these factors is mind Dr Morshyri son sa id he is optimistic for the future of the Canad ian animal agriculture industry

Weve got the opportunities and can take advantage of them he said 0

Mark Bernards 85 cenlre was the recipienl oftwo OAC Alumni Foundation awards the OAC Alumni Graduate Award and the Beth Duncan Gold Medal Left is Gord Nixon 37 Foundashytion chairman and director and right NR Rick Richards 38 treasurer

Entrepreneur in Residence

Dr Donald Shaver

Dean Freeman McEwen is pleased to be working with Dr Donald McQueen Shaver the Universitys first Agricultural Entreshypreneur-i n-Res idence

Dr Shaver a native of Cambt idge Onshytari o is found er chairman and chief exshyecutive officer of Shaver Poultry Breed ing Farms Limited The compan y distributes chicken breeding stock to 90 countries from its head office in Cambridge and three subshysid iaries in the United States Britain and France He retired from his executive reshysponsib ilities on August 30 but is conshytinuing as director and adv isor to the company

From 1940 to 1945 Dr Shaver served with the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps in Africa and Europe retiring as regimental commanding officer He is past president of the Canadian Hatchery Federation the Poulshytry Products Institute of Canada the Canashydian Lincoln Red Society and Maine-Anjou Association He is a member of the Order of Canada Honorary Life Member of the Worlds Poultry Science Association and the Ontario Institute of Agrologi sts He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Science by McGill University and the Centennial Medal by the OAC

The Entrepreneu r-in-Reside nce pro shygram was initiated and financially supshyported by OAC Class of 58 to champion -the role of private enterpri se within soc iety The appointment is for a two-year period during which time Dr Shaver will present lectures lead workshops and consult with faculty and students

The Agricultural Entrepreneur-in-Resishydence program at the University is believed to be a first in agr icultural education around the world 0

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University Of Guelph Involved in $68 Million Chinese Project The University of Guelph has embarked on a co-operative $68 million project that will ~ink five Canadian and Chinese universities and agricultural institutions

The four-year Black Dragon River Proshyjeo supported by the Canadian Internashytional Deve lopment Agency (C IDA) involves Guelph the University of Alberta Olds College in AlbeI1a and two Chinese institutions - Heilongjiang Land Reclamashytion University and Liu He Training College in northeastern Heilongjiang Province

Under th e term s of the agreement training will be provided at the three Canashydian institutions for personnel from the two Chinese university institutions

The Liu He Training College is respo nshysible for educating state farm employees Training will range from short courses to undergraduate and graduate level programs

Faculty from the Canadian universities and Olds College will travel to China during the summer months to give lectures and

short courses The area borderi ng on Russia has treshy

mendou s potential for agricultural deve lopshyment Professor Neal Stos~opf 57 direct or of OACs diploma courses is Guelphs co-ordinator for the Chinese projshyect He was part of the Canadian gove rnment planning miss ion and ex plains that although the climate combines the cold winters and hot summers of Alberta most of the moisshyture is rain that falls between Jul y and Sepshytember

Although latitude is the sa me as Edmontons at 52 degrees north the area grows soybeans and corn as well as wheat The land has two to four feet of black topsoil waiting to be drained and planted he says with potential for livestock proshyduction

The proj ec t centre is located at the Unishyversity of Alberta with administration in Guelph being carried out by the Centre for International Programs 0

Provincial apiarist retires after 19 years You might say Philip Burkes job brought sweet rewards

Until his retirement recently Philip was the provincial apiarist - sort of Onshytarios chief of bees - while working at the University of Guelphs Department of Environmental Biology

He joined the University as a lectu rer in 1943 and then became assistant professor and later associate professor

At the same time the Ontario Departshyment of Agriculture (as the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food was known then) made him the assistant provincial apiarist In 1966 he became provincial apiarist

Of course he advised beekee pers on ways they could make their colonies more productive and efficient and fielded many apiary management question s - including how to prevent bees from swarming

If they swarm one-third to one-half of th e colony takes off so you lose a big source of your honey crop Swarming is trigshygered when the hive becomes overcrowded so the beekeeper mu st stay ahead of them It involves a whole manipulation of the hive through the season visiting each colony at least once every ten to 14 days he says Philip also worked with farmers whose

crops depended on pollination by bees At one time bees were needed for

pollin ating greenhouse produce such as cucumbers But in the past 15 years the trend has been toward new types that are self fruiting he says

But the biggest change in the industry over the years was the trend towards Illakshying corn king in Ontario - a trend that is now being reversed he says

From 1949 and on a lot of bee coloshynies were moved to the western provinces tollowi ng th e reduction in alfalfa production in Ontario and the increased corn acreage he says

Now prospec ts for honey production in Ontario are better than in past years beshycause of the increased alfalfa acreage and other legumes and the trend towards more diversified cropping

Not surpris ingly prices have changed in the industry over the years too Back in the 1920s it cost about $10 to start a bee colony today start-up costs are about $100 to $125 per colony

Much of his work at the University looked at ways to prevent di seases in bees using selected antibiotics

He was secretary for the Ontario Beekeepers Association for 15 yea rs and now acts as a consu It ant for the group 0

Wins Crampton Award

Dr Stanley J Slinger 37 the most recent rec ipient of the Earl e W Crampton Award for distingui shed service in nutrition is ProshyFessor Emeritus of the Depal1ment of Nutrishytion College of Biolog ica l Science at Guelph

Born in Lowell Ontario Dr Slinger received his BSc from the Ontario Agrishycultural College hi s MSc fro111 the Univershysity of Toronto and a PhD from Cornell University From 1941 to 1965 he was in the Departillent of Poultry Science at the OAC and since 1965 has been in the Department of Nutrition at Guelph serving as chairJl1an from 1965 to 1974

Dr Slinger conducted re sea rch in sevshyeral areas of pou Itry nutrition for Jl10re than 30 years In 1972- 73 a fi sh nutrition laborashytory was set up and thi s laboratory has conshytinued to grow and iJl1prove s i nee One of the primary objectives in both poultry and fi sh nutrition research has been to develop feed to rmulas using feedstuffs of Canadian orishygin 111ese tannulas have been publi shed and continuall y revi sed and have been used extensively by teed manufacturers through shyout Canada Dr Slinger continues to be active in research

Dr Slinger taught poultry nutrition in Poultry Science for 27 years gave seminar courses in nutrition and physiology taught Fundamentals of Nutrition in the Depal1shyment of Nutrition and deve loped and taught courses in fi sh and wildlite nutrition

He has supervi sed the work of Jl1any graduates and it is interesting to note that the Department of Nutrition at Guelph is the only depailment in Canada - and there are very few in the United States - turning out graduates in Fish Nutrition at the PhD leve l

He has helped to establi sh modern poultry industries in Mexico and the areas of South East Asia Africa the Middle East Eastern and Western Europe and the United Kingdom Lectures conlerences and other consultative work have also taken hilll to Jl1any coul1tries over the years

The recipient of numerous honours and awards Dr S linger was made Professor Emeritus of the University in Ino and reshy -ceived the Earl e W Crampton award in 19B4 at Macdonald College Que Thi s award is given by the Faculty of Agriculture in recogshyniti on of significant co ntributions in the field of nutrition through research andlor service The award is named for Dr Earle W Crampton a renowned nutritionist whose career at Macd onald bega n in 1922 and lasted far 51 years 0

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cialist having spent four months in the latter John Reid 84 is technical sales rep Agrico Grad News part of 1984 in Bloemfontein South Africa Sales Ltd Richmond BC

Earl Johnston 46 is president Earl-John Brokers Ltd Delhi

Joe Knox 48 is secretary-treasurer Annco Westeellnc Guelph

Ralph Hills 54 is pastor United Church of Canada Smith Falls Ralph left Zambia last October spending some time in Kenya Israel England and Scotland on the way home He was surprised to meet Charlie Broadwell also 54 on Oxford Street in London Charlie was giving a reception at a large castle for the white bean buyers who purchase beans from Charlies Bean Growers of Ontario Ralph also passes along the word from Louise (Fershyguson) Hope Mac 54 that her husband Don 54 preparing for some future possible social work is studying drug addiction at George Brown College of Applied Ans and Technology Toronto

Joseph Leach 54 is a research scientist Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources Lake Erie Research station Wheatley

Ken Edwards 59 is an industrial engineer Prince George Pulp and Paper Vancouver BC

Fred Theaker 62 is a teacher-biologist Ren frew County Board of Education Aruprior

Howard Lang 67 is senior so il conshyservation advisor for OMAF Cambridge

John Lawrence 69 has been appointed vice-president and ge neral manager De kalb Canada Inc Chatham John is a lso president of the Canadian Agri-marketing Assoc iation

Robert Brooksbank 70 is manager Agrishycultural Department Simcoe area Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce

Alan Duncan BLA 73 is project coshyordinator Groupe d intervention urban de Montreal Montreal Que

Martha (Weir) Collins 75 reports that Anne (Walton) Bayler 75 is at teac hers college in Toronto after spending several years teaching in the Bahamas Martha lives at I Braid Place Guelph and would like to hear news of her classmates

Jim Dyer MSc 75 is a senior resource and environmental officer with the crop producshytion division of Agriculture Canada Ottawa He is on loan as a drought monitoring spe shy

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His wife Barb (Newell) Arts 75 who is a technical editor with Public Works Canada joined him in Bloemfontein for a month

Elizabeth Fedorkow 75 is a market reshysearcher Tetra Pak Inc Markham

Roy Maxwell 75 is an agricultural comshymentator CBC Radio Noon Toronto

Gary Ball 76 is vice-president manufacturshying Mitten Vinyl Inc Cambridge

Garnet McConney 77 is feed lot manager Catllel and Ontario Inc Petersburg

Patrick Meyers 77 OVC 84 is a vetshyerinarian with the Grenville-Dundas Veterinshyary Clinic Kemptville

Martha Frey 78 is secretaryass istant edishytor Canadians for Health Research Wes tshymount Que

Wayne Harrison 79 is assi stant manager Toronto Dominion Bank Elmira His wife is Katherine (McLeod) 77

Sharon Helynk 79 is with the Woodbury Animal Hospital Halifax NS

Jeffery Goebel 80 is resident engineer ACF Canada Ltd Georgetown

Mary Lynn Prong 80 is assistant manager Royal Bank Watford She reports that Bruno Soucy 8Q has changed jobs from OMAF farm ma nagement advisor to agrolog ist London region Royal Bank

Corrie Almack 81 is presidentowner Agshyriculturai Soil and Nutrition Consultants Freelton

Edward Bolton 81 is research farm manshyager AJle lix Inc M ississauga

William Summers 82 MSc 84 is prodshyuct deve lopment rep Du-Pont Canada Streetsville

Dianne (Coker) McDowell 83 is quality assurance supervisor Richardson Foods Ltd Glanw0I1h

John Ross 83 is a program officer Agrishyculture Canada Edmonton Alta

Jeff Burke 84 is a customer service rep Griffith Lab Toronto

Julie Fowler 84 is working for Embury Bros Farms Ltd Newburgh

Karen Rodman 84 is a farm management specialist OMAF Nepean

James Simonds 84 is a crop specialist Cavendi sh Fanns Summerside P E1

Richard West PhD 84 is a research scishyentist Canadian Forestry Service SI John s Nftdo

In Memoriam We regret to report the following deaths

Marie Honsberger 17A died March 1985

Esmond D Clipsham 2IA died on April 6 1985 Esmond had been the proprietor Uneeda Rest Hotel Kilwonhy and was a life member of the OAC Alumni Association

Stanley Ewart Keillor 21 died on February 27 1985 He was a crop farmer at Walshylacetown

John Edward Chalmers 23A died on Febshyru ary 15 1985

Jacobus Van Haarlem 23 at age 85 on July 2 1985 in Vineland He retired as ex shyecutive director of the Hor1icultural Experishymental Station at Vineland in 1970 after 47 years of service there

Hugh Lacklin Paterson 32A died in May 1985 of a heart attack at Rockwood

Murray Cameron Macklin 33A 35 died January n 1985 in Toronto

Garland Alfred Fisk 35 Date of deat h unknown

Gordon Elgin Young 35 died on June 12 1985 at Ing leside

John Miller Fargery 37 on March 22 1985 in Toronto John had been an insurance salesman Farm Credit Corp and was a life member of the OAC Alumni Assoc iation

William Thomson 40 in 1982 in Lonshy shygueuil Que His death was reported recen tl y

Robert Fletcher Madden 54A died on November 26 1984 at age 52 at Napanee

Vera (Mod ric) Kozamplik MSc 73 in Yugoslavia She was the wife of Vinko Kozumplik M Sc 71 0

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From the Dean

Dr Barham

In some of my lellers I have aimed to share

information on some special program or theme with you On this occasion I want to

keep you in touch through a number of lillie items so I shall hold onto some of the bigshy

ger interests for future issues of the Guelph Alumnus

As I write this leller Alumni Weekend 85 is behind us I found it a great weekend

and I thoroughly enjoyed meeting more of our alumni for the first time while

especially appreciating recognizing more

and more familiar faces and names from previous occasions

This year the Classes of 65 and 75 requested an up-date on our programs and

the developments we have experienced together in the College over the last few

years I guess that we were able to demonshy

strate much more development in our research and teaching programs than we could in some parts of the physical facilities within the buildings Still we had thorshyoughly congenial and I think very useful

meetings with both of these classes and added a nostalgic tour of our facilities

It was splendid to meet both of these groups I confess however that I had not

foreseen that a large part of the interest of the Class of 65 rested on the fact that many of their children are now gearing up to enter FACS

I was able to remind them that the BASc and B Comm degrees both lead

into fascinating and challenging careers for sons and nephews as well as daughters and

nieces Some of you coming to Alumni Weekend 86 might wish to get in touch with me to arrange an up-date on our acti vities then too

One of my special pleasures of Alumni Weekend was to join with the Class of 35 at the Golden Anniversary Dinner This occashy

sion is always a particular delight given the special personal pleasures reflected in the

friendships shared on this anniversary And I do want members of the Class of

35 to know that their gift of the magnificent Terry Legault Roman Festival print looks really outstanding and just right amidst the

contemporary decor of the FACS lounge

One last item of alumni news which I want to mention is the fact that I met with

Jean (Nairn) Carter 38 and some of her committee recently I learned that they have

been making quite outstanding progress in establishing the trust fund that will support their new graduate student award in geronshy

tology The first award presentation of $1000 is being made this fall but members of the Class of 38 are still pushing on with their fund raising in order to bring the

annual trust-fund yield to a level of $2 000 We all think that the Class of 38 grads

have been quite remarkable in their detershymination to build up a significant fund to

support work in this important new field of scholarship and research I know that we

shall all appreciate your support for them in reaching their target

I met with Audrey Warner and Annette

Yeager 62 recently They advised me of their concern for the needs of teachers wantshy

ing to prepare themselves for adding Family Studies to their fields of professional speshy

cialization and of other teachers already working in that field who find themselves in need of some up-dating especially in view of the curriculum changes which appear to be around the corner

In this regard I want to mention two

items which might be of interest First our faculty in FACS have been

quite heavily engaged in working with

teachers and others in thinking planning debating and writing for the curriculum developme~ts envisaged for the Ontario Academic High School Credits

Most especially we have had as memshybers of the Canadian Family in Perspective group Dr Jean Sabry with her own special

interest in human nutrition Dr Grant

McCracken in clothing Drs Marshall Fine and Claude Guldner with their expertise in family relations and Drs Anne Martin Matshythews and Joe Tindale with their special strengths in life-span development and

aging - quite a team of contributors Secondly I want to mention in relation

to my meeting with Audrey and Annette that we now have a number of courses avai 1shy

able in a six-week format offered in summer sessions provided on campus

Perhaps of even more interest to those of you who wont find it practical to take

classes on campus at Guelph we have an annual offering of distance or corresponshy

dence-type courses Many of these will be of very pertinent

interest to a number of teachers The current list includes Human Development Marital and Family Dynamics Personal and Family Finance Development of Human Sexuality Nutrition and Man and the Exceptional Child in the Family

You can find out more about these

offerings by writing directly to Guelph Disshytance Education University of Guelph

Macdonald Institute shyFamily and Consumer Studies Alumni Assoc

Editor Carol Telford-Pittman 75

Guelph Ont NIG 2WI or by getting in touch with my office

One of the reasons that we have put

ourselves so significantly behind the development of these distance courses is that we did not have the resources to meet

the demand for providing our courses in the more traditional class format at locations

away from the Guelph campus As usual there is much more to share

with you but it will just have to hold until

my next letter I look forward to being in touch with you again then 0

Olive Thompson Honoured

Olive (Thompson) Thompson 35

-The Mac-FACS Alumni Association was very pleased to present a Citation of Appreshyciation to Olive (Thompson) Thompson

35 during Alumni Weekend 85 festivities Olive has given much time energy

support and leadership to the College and to the University through her years of involveshyment with the Mac-FACS Alumni Associashytion Class of Mac 35 activities and the University of Guelph Alumni Association

Our University s alumni organizations are stronger and more effective because of

the years of commitment and personal sershyvice that Olive has contributed

Olive - We salute you 0

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New at HAFA By John Hearn

Infonnation Services

An innovative course developed by the School of Hotel and Food Administration (HAFA) is focussing the attention of undershygraduates on the analysis of operational problems in the hospitality industry and the writing skills required to express and comshymunicate that analysis

Students are required to find summer jobs in the hospitality industry and then to write five papers of ascending complexity during the first semester of their second year using text readings specially edited for this course by the Schools Director Proshyfessor Tom Powers

We have a unique responsibility to prepare students not just for their first job but for future jobs further down the line says Dr Powers Possession of a university degree should imply an ability both to anashylyse problems and to communicate observashytions and recommendations In todays corporate world reports papers and letters are management tools and written comshymunication is a survival skill

The HAFA faculty decided further to emphasize writing skills by adopting a style manual developed by Professor Margaret Hund leby Department of Engl ish Language and Literature for this course as an integral part of the Schools other courses

In order to familiarize faculty with the use of the manual and the grading of student writing Professor Hundleby was invited to conduct a two-day workshop which atshytracted the attention of Vice-President Howard Clark and Associate Vice-President Janet Wardlaw as well as faculty from other disciplines s uch as psychology land resource science microbiology and history

The program Professor Hundleby told the seminar requires students to complete five report papers based on their own obsershyvations

The first paper requires a detailed description of the physical layout of the host operation plus an appraisal and operating cost analysis of its heating air-conditioning and ventilation systems

A second paper asks the student to describe and evaluate staff structure funcshytion compensation package and efficiency

Cost control is the subject of a third paper Purchasing practices food producshytion cost traCking and inventory manageshyment all come under this heading

Marketing is the fourth subject area What market segment is the operation aimed at What consumer need does the operation satisfy What is the nature of the

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Left to right- Professors Cathy Schrye Writing Centre Tom Muller HAFA Belty Upton HAFA Mike Jenkinson OAC 63 OAC dean s office Mary Rogers History and back to camera Bernie Katz Library reviewing cases drawn from studefll papers in a two-day workshop Evaluating Students Writing conducted by Professor Margaret Hundleby

competition in the target market

The fifth paper examines the intangishybles of management sty Ie How does the role of the manager affect relations with customshyers staff and head office

Professor Hundleby commenting on some of the problems of the course says whatever we call it students tend to conshyclude that what they re writing is an acashydemic paper of some kind - which of course it is - but we need to make the connection in their minds with the real the corporate world out there They also tend to think that longer is better and write about what they know - rather than what is import ant The development of a proper sense of for whom they are writing is itself a problem-solving skill

Another problem according to Proshyfessor Hundleby is what she calls the new illiteracy - a verbal dysfunction resulting from an impoverished vocabulary

Style too is a matter of considerable

AMPHI Spin-offs The School of Hotel and Food Administra shytions annual Advanced Management Pro shygram for the Hospitality Industry (AMPHI) now in its third year is spinning off new management development activities says HAFA Director Tom Powers Earlier this year 20 people attended a workshop on accounting and finance presented by Proshyfes sor William Braithwaite School of Agrishycultural Economics and Extension Educashytion and three similar programs will be offered in different parts of the country over the next year and a half

Another program still in the planning stage is a six-day hospitality managers development course designed for middle management by AMPHIs associate direcshy

concern She also mentioned careless senshytence structure style that is inappropriate to the content lack of connective logic failure to understand the nature of a paragraph as a literary entity the frivolous use of colloshyquiali sms an absence of any sense of the harmonious sound of words on paper and of course a growing list of commonly misused words - e g it could of had that affect

There s a tendency to see s tyle as a decorative flourish rather than as an aspect of content she concluded

Professor Powers sees the development of verbal communication skills as central to the whole idea of liberal education Cershytainly he says its useful for HAFA stushydents to understand how a cost control system works - but its at least as important to be able to think logically analyse logshyically and communicate conclusions in a way that is credible informative coherent and complete in fact these are the classic goals of a liberal education 0

tor Professor John Patterson and a consulshytant group of AMPHI alumni

AMPHI continues to attract internashytional attention participants in thi s years program which began in April include senior executives from many of North Americas most distinguished hotels and restaurants The four-week course offers an intensive program based primarily on case studies written by Professo rs Patterson -Braithwaite Carl Riegel and Tom Muller

The growing volume of AMPHI cases indicates that thi s is the largest s ingle research program currently under way in any hotel school in North America says Proshyfessor Powers AMPHls network of conshytacts is giving us access to a senior-level view of the industrys current problems and prospects 0

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Research AssociateComing Soon A AppointedModel Play Facility

Dr Joan Norris

Dr Joan Norris has held the position of Research Associate at the Gerontology Research Centre since last spring

Joan is working with faculty to develop and promote research related to population aging and is available for consultation with faculty on research design funding sources and publication

In addition to this development work she is continuing her personal program of research She works for the Gerontology Censhytre two days per week and the balance of her

The Family Studies Laboratory Schools pre-school play facility fell 10 a Grounds time is spent in the Department of Family Department wrecking machine recently Studies where she has held a faculty appointshy

ment since 1980 Joan holds a Ph D in Psychology from

the University of Waterloo and is also a regisshytered psychologist Her personal research

The Mllc-FACS Special Projects Commitshyinterests include social competence in older

tee Ito r Bonnie Kerslake 82 Association adults peer relationships and grandshy

president Linda (Wo[e) Markle 73 chairshyparenting 0

man and Gail Murray 78 Missing comshymillee member is Rita (Klassen) Weigel 77 The aim of the committee is to raise funds to redevelop the Family Studies Laboshy In Memoriam ratory Schools and raise itto the level where it will be regarded as a model pre-school

Eileen Margaret (Manahan) Alwayplay facility

390 October 21984 in Vancouver BC

Jean (Horrell) Atkinson 240 March 5 1985 in Aurora

Class of 35 Gift Oorothy (Lockard) Honsberger 300Centre panel Roman Carnival

In order to commemorate their anniversary July 51985 in Weiland Mac 35 has traditionally given a scholshyarship to a FACS student once every five Isabel J Lockerbie 300 March 31 years This year on the 50th anniversary of 1985 in Toronto their graduation and in addition to the scholarship an etching entitled Roman Patricia G (Smith) McKay-Barry 55 Carnival by Terry Legault has been added March 17 1985 in London Ont to the Universitys collection of Canadian alt The etching is hanging in the FACS Velma E (Conn) Partridge 260 April faculty lounge 29 1985 in Niagara Falls Ont shy

The theme of Roman Carnival was favoured by neo-clas sical and romantic Helen E (Kelly) Robinson 220 April painters during the 19th century The etching 30 1985 in Dundas captures the moment at which wild horses are released to race through the streets of Norma I (Motherwell) Roy 350 in Rome The artist has chosen to represent the Moosejaw Sask wild chaotic motion ot the horses rather than explicitly depict in detail the animals Lillian S (Moore) Usher 340 March 28 and the architectural background 0 1985 in Cobourg 0

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College of Physical Science Alumni Assoc SCIMP

Editor Bob Winkel

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Yes Dr Earl MacNaughtoll has relired alshylogelher bUI Ihis wonl be Ih e lasl you I hear from him reSI assured Before he and his wife Jean lOok oJf for Auslralia and New Zealand Deparlmenl of Physics slaf and faculty held a galhering al Ihe FacullY Club and presenled Ihe couple wilh an alumni clock

Back to Guelph

The headquarters for (GWC)2 came

back to Guelph in July for a threeshy

year period while Professor Robert Balahura Chemistry and Biochemisshy

try serves as director (GWC)2 offices have been set up

in Room 122 and 123 Physical Scishyences building The University of

Waterloo will maintain a satellite office during the three-year Guelph

rotation Dr Balahura and adminshy

istrative assistant Andrea Turner may

be reached at Ext 3865 0

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Physics Professor Elected to Royal Society

Bernhard Nickel

Department of Phy s ics Professor Bernhard Nickel has been elected a Fellow

of the Royal Society of Canada and was formally inducted into the Society at its

annual meeting in Montreal in June

A member of the Physics faculty since

1974 Professor Nickel is no stranger to

prizes and awards In 1981 he received the Herzberg Medal the Canadian Associashy

tion of Physicists award to a promising young scienti st In 1978 he won a Sloan

Fellowship from the New York-based Sloan Foundation

He achieved recognition by navigating

the esoteric seas of condensed matter physshy

ics Hi s co lleagues call him a leading masshyter in the art of mathematical physics By

exploiting the existing mathematical frameshywork in subtle ways he has worked through

thickets that have stopped other physic ists

High order perturbation calculations

done by him played a key role in verifying

the quantitative reliability of the theory of

underlying continuous phase transitions in systems

He earned BScE and MSc degrees from the University of Saskatchewan and a

PhD from the University of California at

San Diego He was a research associate at

Cornell and Oxford Universities and a postshy

doctoral research Fellow at the Univers itY of Alberta before coming to Guelph in 1974

He has been a visiting fellow at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory at the Univershy

sity of California at San Diego at Harvard

and at the Schlumberger-Doll Re searc h In stitute in Connecticut

With his election he becomes one of

six Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada at

Guelph The others are Professors Howard

Clark Peter Egelstaff Gabriel Karl Bruce Sells and Herbert Armstrong And it brings to five the number of me mbers of the

Guelph-Waterloo Program for Graduate Work in Physics (GWP)2 who can put the

coveted FRSC after their names 0

Halleys Comet and the Babylonians By Professors Nigel Bunce and Jim Hunt

The winter of 1985 and the spring of 1986 will lon g be remembered as the year of

Comet Halley No comet in history has so

stirred the imagination of man or been the

object of suc h intensive investigation Its easy to understand this interest when its

appreciated that Halleys Comet is the only recurring comet that is bright enough to be

seen with the naked eye ft was the g reat astronomer Edmund

Halley who in 1705 recognized the s imilarshy

ity of the appearances of the great comets of 1456 1531 1607 and 1682 He speculated that these were in fact one and the sa me

comet with a period of 75 or 76 years

He predicted that the comet would reshyturn in 175 8 a return he could not live to see With thi s Halley discovered the phenomeshy

non of periodic comets and thus showed

that they were members of our solar system

The comet dutifully returned in 1835

and spectacularly so in 1910 In the latter

year circumstances were such that after its

perhelion passage (the point closest to the

Sun) the Earth and the comet approached

each other very closely The comet was so close that at one time its tail spread from

horizon to horizon The return in 1985-86 will be considshy

erably less spectacular In fact for Canadishyans it will not be easy to observe s ince the

time of perhelion is in Febnlary when the

Sun is very low in the sky The view will be -much better from more southerl y latitudes Over the years historica l records have

been found which record every passage of the comet back to 12 BC M any of these obshy

servations come from Chinese records first published in 1846 A well-authenticated

passage was that of 1066 which was reshy

corded on the Bayeux tapestry by the mother

of William of Nonnand y and taken as an cOllld on righl

Grad News Paul Ferguson BSc 67 of Ede n Mill s is president of EIS Systems Ltd and travelled in New Zealand this summer

Walter Lock BSc 67 of Denfield is practising medicine in Lucan

Tjeerd Homan BSc 69 of Calgary Alta is manager research and development services for Petro-Can He is enjoying his family Carla Sarah and John Menno and his hobbies of golf curling and skiing

(GWP)2 Poster Session a First

Earlier this year the Guelph- Waterloo Proshygram for Graduate Work in Physics (GWP)2 staged its first annual poster session for graduate s tudents Poster sessions which are becoming increasingly popular in scienshytific circles allow interaction between researchers and delegates without the time pressures encountered when presenting con shyventional papers at meetings says (GWP)2 Director lain Campbell

The first annual (GWP)2 poste r sesshysion which was followed by a soc ial hour and banquet was highly successful in genershyating interaction says Campbell By the end of the session there were still clusters of people arguing the finer points of scientific interpretation on many of the posters These exchanges continued right through the soshycial hour and into dinner Interaction is what science is all about

Encouraging interaction between stushydents and faculty is one of Campbells prishyorities as Director It is too easy for students to tuck themselves into a corner and work away in isolation They need to get out and ex plain their work both to experts and to

omen of his victory over the Saxons Based on this long record various

mathematical analyses of the orbit of the comet have been produced These account very accurately for the known passages of the comet However when these various anshyalyses are pushed back beyond 12 BC they predict widely varying dates for the previous appearances Before 12 B c there are ani y two vague Chinese records in 87 BC and 240 B c which mayor may not have been Halleys comet

In a recent issue of Nature a team of

Ernest Campbell BSc 69 lives in Campbell ville and teaches science for the Halton Board in Burlington

Richard Davis BSc 77 having comshypleted his MD University of Toronto 83 and his internship at Womens College Hosshypital will be setting up his practice in family medicine in his home town of Guelph

Larry Meek BSc 77 of Ottawa is pashytient administrator and computing officer for the National Defence Medical Centre His hobbies include sailing and skiing

Andre Brunet BA 81 is working for Amdahl Ltd as fieldsystems engineer and lives in Sudbury with his wife Monique (Puellette) FACS 80

Cathy Deakin BSc 81 is presently articshyling with the law firm of Little Reeves Mahoney Jarrett amp Hart of London

Andrew Dubrawski BSc 82 and his wife Alicia (Wodecka) BSc 81 live in Toronto where he works as a communicashytions systems analyst for CNCP Telecomshymunications 0

10hn Root 81 a (GWP)2 PhD s tudent left aflracts an audience

non-experts It takes a deliberate effort on our part to generate and maintain this intershychange

The poster session was the largest scishyentific or social event yet staged by (GWP)2 Some 18 students presented posters and about 90 students faculty and prospective students attended

The posters are on display in the two departments of physics to give others an opportunity to view them At Gue lph they are in the second floor corridor of the Physshyical Science Building near the Department

scholars from England and Vienna reported the finding of two fragments of Babylonian tablets in the British Museum that clearly report the appearance of the comet in 87 BC and 164 B C The records are so clear that by calculation not only the year but the time of year for the perhelion passage can be determined

For example the 164 BC apparition has been narrowed down to a date someshywhere between November 5 and 25 of that year The 87 BC record is not as accurate nevertheless its perhelion passage can be

of Physics office Encouraged by the s uccess of the

poster sess ion lain Campbell is planning another high-profile event for (GWP)2 to recognize award-winning faculty He plans a fall symposium at which three (GWP)2 members who received major honours durshying 1985 will give short lectures to be folshylowed by a sherry reception The three honoured faculty are Gicinto Scoles Killam Fellowship winner Bernhard Nickel Felshylow of the Royal Society of Canada and John Simpson Rutherford medalist 0

narrowed down to July 25 to August 15 These observations while inaccurate

to the extent of 20 days are still accurate enough to eliminate three of the four leading -calculations of the motion of Comet Halley This is a striking example of how archaeoshylogical investigations may have a strong effect on many diverse subjects in this case com~tary astronomy 0

We welcome questions and ideas for future articles Write to the authors clo the Deans Office Cole fe ofPhysical Science Univershysity of Guelph Guelph Ontario NIG 2WI

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P rofessional golfer philosopher oenologist would-be film maker and

now restaurateur Robert Harcourt Bob Desautels HAFA 75 Arts 84 is a man of many facets one who seeks his own sty le of excellence in many directions This summer he opened a new restaurant La Maisonmiddot in downtown Guelph which is already drawing patrons from a wide area in search of the gourmet delights promised by a very disshytinguished menu and delivered by chefs accomplished in the arts of haute cuisine

Bob works outward from a central conshyviction that there is always a market for excellence Born in Toronto he has lived in Ottawa Montreal - and Guelph He studied at Sir George Williams University Montreal Que (now pan of Concordia University) before attending the College of Family and Consumer Studies School of Hotel and Food Administration (HAFA) where he graduated with a BComm degree

He will be remem bered on campus as manager of the Faculty Club a position

The Eclectic

Bob Desautels

which he held for nearly three years after graduating and before he launched on a whole new career as a profess ional golfer He played Canadian and Australian circuits for a while and then accepted the position of manager and golf pro at the Cedarhurst Golf Club on Lake Simcoe

Two years later he was back at the Unishyversity of Guelphs hotel sc hool as a research assistant preparing for HAFAs first Advanced Management Program for the Hospitality Industry (AMPHI) course - an unrepentantly elitist institution offering advanced manageshyment training only to very se nior executives in the hospitality industry

Bob se rved as logistics manager to AMPHI for two years with responsibility for the health and welfare of a clientele whose expectations as far as hospitality is conshycerned are of the very highest

As a member of the HAFA faculty he was a more than occasional lecturer primarily on the subject of wine - whi ch he describes in reverential tones He is married (the pursuit of excellence again) his wife Susan hail s from Australia They have two children Coun age 7 and Emily 5

At the end of two years with HAFA Bob Desautels was faced with one of those critical life decisions - a choice between two paths leading in significantly different directions He might have accepted a tenure track position for whichit would have made sense to seek a PhD in business admini stration or

HAFA 75 By John Hearn Information Services

Mine host Bob Desautels HAFA 75 at La Maison

pursue an old love for philosophy He chose the latter and earned hi s Masters degree from Guelphs College of Ans in the fall of 1984

I suppose it arises from an old interest in religion he explains Metaphysical quesshytions have always fascinated me Scientific materialism the notion that mind is no more than a function of brain has neve r satisfied me There are too many loose ends - mind contemplating itself for example introshyspection Focu ss ing on philosophy of the mind for my degree gave me one of the answers - but may be Im beginning to understand some of the questions

So in the Fall of 84 philoso pher wine connoisseur goller Bob Desautels inventoried his assets - and took a course in film making at the Ryerson Poly technica l Institute Im interested in the creative end of film making he says Writing andor directing Ive fini shed one film script and working on another But it takes mucho dinero

Then early this Spring the main floor of one of Guelph s distinguished old homes beca me available Strategically located at the corner of Woolwich and Yarmouth Streets in an area already known for fine dining the housc is owned by Guelph bu sinessman Paul Starr A pannership was struck and Bob found himsel f bringing the whole wealth of hi s re staurant management know-how and his own drive for excellence to bear on La

Maison It was conceived planned and exshyecuted from the beginning as a shrine conseshycrated to the worshippers of superlative cuishysine enjoyed in the most distinguished of atmospheres

The concept has two major aspects One large room is given over to a wine bar where the connoisseur - or those who enjoy the fermented grape of any age or colour - can select from more than 20 splendid vintages by the glass or the bottle A parallel selection of native and imponed cheeses activate the tastebuds while intimates can order a delectashyble cheese fondue for two The wine-bar is a casual drop-in kind of place open from noon until midnight for enjoyment relaxation and con versation

The other main room is for the serious diner There is a modest economically-priced luncheon available for business people but the evening meal is designed to attract those for whom dining is a rei igious experience

You make your market study says bullBob but then you add your own secret ingredient - call it gut feeling There are some very good restaurants in Guelph but none that target this panicular niche

l may be that not the least of La Maisons attractions will be the possibility of conversation with mine host Choose your own subject - golf metaphysics pragshymatism - or the an of Woody Allen Bob Desautels is nothing if not eclectic 0

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Newly Elected as

A1uDlni Senators Following the annual election of three of the nine alumni seats on Senate at the University the following alumni were elected to replace those who fulfilled three-year terms on August 31 1985

Norman Hawkins OVC 57

Rita Weigel James White FACS 77 OAC 6 1

James White OAC 55A and 61 lives in Brampton and is the owner of InfoResults Limited information research consultants Brampton He completed Masters and Docshytoral degrees at Michigan State University Department of Communication He has opshyerated InfoResults for 15 years specializing in agricultural economics social policy and communication issues

He is a past president of the Canadian Consulting Agrologists Association has served on the provincial council of the Ontario Institute of Agrologists and was a director of the Canadian Society of Agrishycultural Economic s and Farm Manageshyment 0

Dr Norman Hawkins OVC 57 estabshyIlished the Guelph Animal Hospital on Elizshyabeth Street in 1957 and has continued his practice there as a partner

An active member of the Ontario Vetshyerinary Association council and a commitshytee worker he is also a member of the Canadian Veterinary Medical Association national examination board

His earlier work with the American Veterinary Medical Association involved the examination of overseas veterinary gradshyuates and inspection of North American vetshyerinary sc hools

He is a member of the Guelph Public Library Board and Board chairman of St

Margaret s School Elora

Rita (Klassen) Weigel FACS 77 gradushyated from the College of Family and Conshysumer Studies with a BASc in Con su mer Studies She was president of the Mac-FACS Alumni Association 1983-84 and has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Universi ty of Guelph Alumni Association

A member of the Canadian Marketing and Research Society Rita was employed in the research and product management field for a number of years A Guelph res ident her concerns include those of a mother of a son and twin one-year-old daughters

New Chairman Board of Governors

Edmond Bovey

Edmund C Bovey the man who headed the Commission on the Future Development of the Universities of Ontario has been named chairman of the Board of Governors at the Universi ty of Guelph A member of the Board since 1976 he succeeds Cecil Franklin who retired July I after three years as chairman and who also joined the Board in 1976

Edmund Bovey was chairman of the three-man commission that held hearings

for the Ontario public and university comshymunity in 19831984 before developing and recommending to the Mini stry of Colleges and Universities a future plan for Ontario universities

Retired as director chairman of the board and member of the executive committee of Norcen Energy Reso urces Toronto he was recently named to chair a task force on funding the arts in Canada an area where he has long experience A past president and trustee of the Ali Gallery of Ontario and its Foundation he is also a member of the Board of Governors of Roy Thomson Hall and vice-chairman of the International Council of the Museum of Modern Art in New York He is a past chairshyman of the Council for Business and Arts in Canada

In addition he is a director of a number of companies including Hollinger Argus Abitibi Price Canada Packers and the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce as well as MONY Life Insurance PPG Indusshytries and PPG Industries Canada

He is a member of the Canadian Ecoshynomic Policy Committee a director of the Canadian Executive Service Overseas and a past president of the Canadian Gas Associashytion He is also currently chairman of the Board of Wellesley Hospital Toronto

He was born in Calgary Alta and edushycated in Victoria BC 0

Appointments

Ab Moore Harry Downie OVC 48

Dr Ab Moore took up the responsibilities of chairman of the Department of Rural Extension Studies on September I for a fiveshy shyyear term He was previously director of the Office of Educational Practice

Dr Harry Downie OVC48 became actshying chairman of the Department of Bioshymedical Sciences on July I He continues until December 3 1 or until a new chairman is named 0

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Available for Immediate Possession Space in Prestige Campus Home (for baby grand piano)

The Presidents House dedicated as a building of historical and architectural significance has been without a piano since President Maclachlan retired in 1967

This could be the chance of a lifetime if you are seeking a unique and extremely worthwhile Class Project Perhaps your class would like to buy a new piano to be used in this centre for campus entertaining to be viewed by more than 5 000 visitors a year A recognition plaque would be located either on or adjacent to the instrument

A Bequest

Charles S Humphrey

A former partner and president from 1947

to 1963 of Guelphs Hart Chemical Comshy

pany Canada Ltd the late Charles S Humphrey se lected the Universit y of

Guelph as one of the benefic iaries of his estate

Hi s bequest to the Unive rs it y of

$130000 received last June is to be used at the discretion of the University pres ident

in the University s scholarships and burshy

saries program A resident of Victoria BC since his

retirement in 1963 Charles Humphrey died on August29 1984 at the age of81 He was an emeritus member of the Canadian Assoshy

ciation of Textile Colourists and Chemists Born at Hornell NY USA he came to Canada in 1936

This is the second time that Charles

Humphrey has given financial support to the Univers ity In 1979 he generously provided a $50000 endowment gift to support an annual $5000 graduate fellowship in Chemistry

The fellowship is designed to ease the financial burdens of outstanding students in

organic chemistry registered in the PhD

program at the Guelph-Waterloo Centre for Graduate Work in Chemistry (GWC)2 0

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CODling Events 86 Jan 7-9

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OAC Agricultural Conference

Alumni Florida Reunion (See below)

College Royal Open House

Ontario Institute of Agrologists Annual Conference Agricultural Trade To be he ld

in Cornwall Ont

OAC Alumni Association Curling Bonspiel

U of 6s 8tb Annual Human Sexuality Conference Changing Nature of Sexual Relationships Sexual Scripts and Lifestyles Today

ALUMNI WEEKEND 86

Alumni Florida Reunion If you missed the Alumni Flo rida Reunion Picnic in March 85 you missed a great gathering About 90 alumni and

friends met for a very pleasant pot luck meal Ross Cavers OAC 29 the organizing committee chairman hopes it will

become an annual affair Ruth and Gordon Wright Mac

37 and OAC 33 and Willa and Morley Funston Mac and OAC 32 made the loc al arrangements the affair was sponshysored by the Universitys Alumni-in Action group Make

plans to attend the second annual Florida Alumni Reunion Picnic at 12 noon on Wednesday March 51986 at Harbour Heights Park near Port Charlotte Florida two miles east of

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College of Arts Alumni Association DELPHA

Editor Terry Ayer 84

Executive 1985-86 HONORARY PRESIDENT Dr David R Murray Dean

PRESIDENT Linda McKenzie-Cordick 81

PAST PRESIDENT Margo Shoemaker 79

VICE-PRESIDENT Wm Macdonald 78

SECRETARY-TREASURER

Marilyn Armstrong 78

DIRECTORS Debbie (Nash) Chambers 77 Edith LeLacheur 72 Janice (Robertshy

son) Partlow 79

UGAA REPS Wm Macdonald 78 Margo Shoemaker 79

EDITOR DELPHA Terry Ayer 84

Appointed

Dr Edward Phillips

Edward Phillips began a five-year term as chairman of the Department of Music July I He obtained his BA in mu sic at Amherst College

Massachusetts and his M A Masshyter of Philosophy and Ph D all in music theory from Yale Univers ity Married to Patricia who has a DM A in organ performance from Yale he has two sons Stewart 7 and Andrew 3 Edward who is also an organist enjoys cooking 0

Literary Heritage Preserved in Africa Most Canadian children are exposed to their cultural heritage at an early age through legendary stories brought from Eushy

rope or about Canadian pioneering and through stories about Indian or Inuit myths

and fables In developing countries however

where paper and printed materials are in

shon supply cultural heritage is usually passed on orally and children have little

opportunity to read about their past A Canashydian project involving the Universities of Guelph and Yaounde in Cameroon West

Africa is doing something to keep that countrys heritage alive

The project now entering its fourth year is a collaborative effort of the De partshy

ment of English Language and Literature at Guelph and the Department of African Litshyerature at the Univers ity of Yaounde It is

sponsored by the Canadian International Development Agency with Guelphs Deshy

partment of English Language and Litershy

ature Chairman Doug Killam serving as co-ordinator and Elizabeth (Wildman)

Cockburn CSS 81 as Canadian project consultant

Dr Killam is well-known for his work in the field of Commonwealth literature and

has taught at several African universities

EI izabeth Cock burn a primary sc hool teacher taught at the Government Teachers Training College in the North West Province

of Cameroon from 1969 to 1971 It was then

that she became aware of the shortage of relevent reading material for Cameroon schoolchildren

However it was some ten years later

that the project was born when she and Professor Kilian consulted with Dr Bernard

Fonlon then head of the Department of Afshyrican Literature at Yaounde Deeply comshy

mitted to saving African oral traditions as literatore Dr Fonlon although now retired remains a driving force in promoting creativity in the schools and scholarship on oral literature at the university

Last January Professor Killam and Elizabeth Cockburn were in Yaounde at a

conference where 80 papers were presented on the theory and practice of oral literature for West African educators - the first major attempt to marry theory and practice

As are children in the Canadian Indian

and Inuit communities African children are often exposed to texts that portray children of cultures different from their own To

counteract thi s influence simple African s tories with lifelike illustrations are being

Local stories come alive

mimeographed and turned into booklets by simply folding stand ard letter-size paper in half A collections of these stories will evenshytually be produced in textbook form when

fund s become available One such s tory The Marriage Feast

describes the marriage meal of the cat who invites all the domestic animals and birds to

the celebration

The dogs who know much about meat were asked 10 cook the food 8U1 they decided 10

playa trick They cooked the meat in the bOlom of the pot with the vegetables on lOp They said they would be the last to eat

In true fable form the hens who ate first discovered when they were too full to eat any more that there was meat deep

inside the pOI So they

Swore never to eat from the surface again and that is why hens always scratch deep into the soil in search offood

Although story-telling is becoming a lost art in Canada it is still a lively part of

life in Cameroon But as Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe said when he was in Guelph last year when a member of the older genshyeration dies its as if a whole library was destroyed -

Time is running short and fund s are needed to keep alive this project in Camshyeroon Anyone seeking further information

on the project may address their inquiries to Professor Killam at the University He hopes to receive funding from the Commonwealth

Foundation for similar work in other counshytries which have expressed an interest in

recording their heritage 0

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The Limners How do art students continue to find stimshyulation and motivation following graduation when they are no longer under the pressure of course requirements and without the critshyicism of an instructor

Four Fine Art graduates and one inshycourse student solved the problem by formshying a support group called The Limners (Limn an archaic word meaning paint deshypict portray Hence - Limner) Last Sepshytember the group held a success ful exhishybition of their recent works at the Halton Hills Cultural Centre Georgetown The Limners are

Dorothy Hart 81 of Georgetown She works with oil s pas tel s and graphite b4t is very interested in character fi gures made of cellu-clay which requires enormous pashytience to produce Her latest interest is pastel portraits of children

Dimensions 85 The fourth annual College of Arts Ailimni Association juried art show DIMENSIONS 85 was a success once again The jury members Marlene Jofriet well-known water colourist _ Michael OKeefe 76 practising artist and teacher and George Todd chairman Department of Fine Art selected 30 entries to hang

The jury awarded the following $100 $75 $50 prizes and designated three honshyourable -mentions

First pri ze Sheila Vollmer 85 Woman in Veil intaglio print

Second prize Wendy Maki 83 Pears Plums Apples and Grapes oil on canvas

Sue Knox 81 Formerly she was interested in the landscapes of Northern Ontario where she used to work Now back in Guelph Sue has rediscovered her urban surshyroundings including people

Betty Ketcheson 83 of Frankford Ontario to where her husband lack has retired Watercolour is her favorite medium however Betty also has an interest in enshycaustic painting with beeswax as a medium

Jane Graham 83 of Guelph lane tries to communicate her own brand of optimism through her waterco lours by using the figure in the land scape most often a child

Nan Hogg an undergraduate Nan is intershyested in making art that is feminist A memshyber of th e Guelph Embroiderers Guild Nans recent work displays a combination of watercolours or etchings with coil aged fabshyric that has been embroidered 0

The Limners L to r Sue Knox 81 Belly Ketcheson 83 Nan Hogg Dorothy Hart 81 and Jane Graham 83

Third pri ze Doreen Schaub 70 Rushing Waters watercolour

Honourable Mentions Sheila Volshylmer 85 Embracing Figures sculpture in pl aster Scott Abbot 79 Fields Near Maryhill oil on masonite Margaret Peter 74 Impressions Fossil Series collagraphsi Ikscreen

An innovation at DIMENSIONS 85 was the presentation of selected works of a featured artist Our first selected arti st was Evan MacDonald no stranger to the Univershysity of Guelph Many of his works are part of the Universitys collection of Canadian art hi s portraits hang in various buildings on campus and he was awarded an honorary doctorate of laws in 1979

We extend our sincere thanks to Ingrid

At DIMENSIONS 85 ColeRe oj Arts art sholl at Alllmni Wefkllld 85 L to r Marlene Jojriet juror Dr GeorRe 7iJdd chairman Department oj Fine Art jllror Wencil Maki 83 second-prize winner Doreen Schauh 70 third-prize willner Michael 0 Keeji 76

juror Own David Murray

Jenkner curatorexhibitions at the Macshydonald Stewart Art Centre and Mary MacshyDonald Evans wife for making it possible for us to feature the works of Evan

We also expre ss our gratitude and appreciation to all those who were instrushymental in making the show a success A special thank you is extended to this years participants without whom the show coulll not have been mounted 0

Art Show and Lecture Series Recognizing the 20th anniversary of the Department of Fine Art a facshyulty art show will be presented at the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre Nov 21 to lan 5 Viewing Tue to Fri and Sun noon to 500 pm Sat 1000 am to 500 pm A lecture se ries will present Dr Alan Gowans professor of art history University of Victoria B c on Art History and the Social Function Nov 18 at 800 -pm Rm 113 Physics Bldg Dr Ronald Nasgaard chief curator Art Gallery of Ontario wi II present Cushyratorship Today and Social Political Economic Pressures on Nov 27 at 400 pm in the Dept of Fine Art A third speaker is slated for early in the New Year

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Ontario Veterinary College Alumni Assoc OVC ALUMNI NEWS

Editor Dr Cliff Barker 41

OVC Alumni Association Executive 1985middot86

HONORARY PRESIDENT Dr Ole Niel sen 56 PRESIDENT Dr Ken Gadd 56 PAST PRESIDENT Dr Wendy Parker 7 1 VICE-PRESIDENT Dr Mary (Hawkins) Wiltshire 74 SECRETARY-TREASURER Dr Gordon Boylan 46 DIRECTORS Dr Bob Buck 46 Dr Archie MacKinnon 43 Dr Norm McAninch 39 Dr Bruce Robb 7 1 Dr Bruce Robinson 76 Dr Noni Sman 80 EDITOR avc Alumni News Dr Cliff Barker 41

Mailbag Dear Cliff

We were over to Vancouver Island recel11ly and went up to Qualicum Beach to see 0 Howard Taylor 13 He broke me in on meat inspection in 42 at the old Burns plant on Logan Avenue in Winnipeg

He is in great shape Qlid outside of a gimpy knee has no problems It was a real pleasure to see him again - still the same sparkle and quick wit that I had remembered from the Winnipeg years

I had not seen Howardfor 40 years bw outside of him thinking I had aged someshywhat had no trouble with identification Thought you might be il7lerested in this bit of news - not too many vets make it to age 98

We are fine and enjoying a complete reversal of what Vancouver weather is supshyposed to be bUi sure would like to see aboUl a week of rain Regards Bud Ellis 41 1410 Gordon Avenue West Vancouver Sc V7T IR6

From the Dean

Dr Ole Nielsen 56

In this my first opponunity to address our alumni through this medium I would like to express my pleasure at having the privilege of serving the Ontario Veterinary College and the University of Guelph

At the outset I acknowledge my debt to those many faculty students and staff who have labored to make this College a great inshystitution Being mindful of this heritage I am excited by the challenge of helping move the College to new levels of excellence One has to be impressed with the potential of the OVe Heres why

By the time this publication has gone to press I expect tenders for the first phase of a new OVC building program will have been called and possibly awarded This project costing over $13 million will provide modshyem facilities for the Depanments of Clinical Studies and of Biomedical Sciences and the Veterinary Teaching Hospital

The culmination of a great deal of effon led by former Dean Doug Maplesshyden 50 and President Burt Matthews OAC 47 the project is jointly funded by the Federal Government (Departments of Agrishyculture and Regional Industrial Expansion) and the Province of Ontario (OMAF)

The new facility will allow the College to press forward with new teaching research and service programs that include such vital newareas as biotechnology computer as istshyed health management and expanded proshygrams in toxicology

The second phase of the OVC building program which is largely related to teachshying spaces remains to be funded A good share of this project is expected to be includshyed in the fonhcoming capital campaign of the University The panicipation of you the alumni will be crucial to its success The governments of Ontario and Canada have done their part despite difficult circumshystances The rest is up to us

I have found the faculty of the OVC to be -a group of strong and vigorous academshyics and many young talented faculty have been appointed recently In passing one notes the retirement of many of those who led the renaissance in veterinary education in Canada in the post-war years The new generation of faculty has a real challenge in

trying to do as well as their predecessors shyand it will

I believe the graduate students are the sou I of the College Therefore another cause for optimism is the strength of the graduate and research programs at the OVe Presently the College has about 130 gradushyate students who at this most creative period of their lives are striving to provide new knowledge and skills for veterinary medishycine In 1950 there were none

There has been a significant expansion in the D YSc program a comparatively new doctoral program that gives priority to the acquisition of clinical sk ill s in addition to training in research The D VSc degree is unique in the world and how its graduates will be received remains to be determined I am confident it will be favourably

Believing in the imponance of reshysearch OMAF recently committed itself to provide the College with a new research farm at Ponsonby This nO-acre site located some ten miles from Guelph will provide farm-type facilities for hous ing dairy cattle beef cattle sheep pigs and laboratory anishymals will replace existing facilities at Eramosa and Plislinch and will cost in excess of $3 million

The application rate and quality of stushydents seeking admision to the D YM proshygram remains high

I am delighted to be assisted in the work of the Deans office by Associate Dean Ted Valli 62 and Academic Counsellor Ron Downey 61 and given the above is it any wonder I am optimistic

I have always been a bit smug in believshying that those of us from western Canada were the most friendly in the nation My exshyperience since coming to Guelph proves me wrong Everyone including students facshyulty staff the University administration and the local community could not have been more friendly and helpful 0

OVCAA Membership Report-Summer 1985

Life Membership 1 103 Honorary Life Membership 3 Life Me m Instalment Plan 241 Annual Membership 42 -Total Membership 1389 Total Alumni 3537 Membership

of Total Alumni 3930 Membership

of Known Alumni 40 06

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Inch in KatDlandu The following letter to the editor from Or

Carolyn Inch 81 was sent to Ornella Osborne editor of Update the newsletter

published by the Ontario Veterinary Assoshyciation Were grateful to Omelia for passing it on to us

While trekking through the north central region of the Himalayan mountains in

Nepal I was surprised to see the words vetshy

erinary office added to the bottom of it sign written in Nepalese

The village Chame contained the

headquarters of the government veterinary operations for the region of Manang Borshy

dering on China in the north the region covers about 2000 square kilometres and

has the lowest population density in Nepal The average altitude of the region is above

3048 metres Annapurna towers at 8091

metres The logistics behind launching a vetshy

erinary program in an area that is entirely inaccessible except by foot or aircraft had

me intrigued Dr Koshori Jha greeted us warmly and

in the polite manner wed received at the hands of all the Nepalese tea was served

The bulk of his practice is in sheep and goats as well as cattle yak horse mules and chickens On a daily basis he deals most frequently with footrot a problem that

is compounded by the fact that most of the bovine and equine species are bred pri-

During the recent avc AA Annual Meeting retired Deal Doug Maplesden 50 righl received ( plaque embodying newsclippings puhlished during his lenure Dean OIl Nieletl 56 made the presentalion

marily for use as pack animals the terrain is

rough and whether goats are grazing beshy

tween rocks or mules are carrying 80-kiloshygram loads up mountainsides their hooves are exposed to a lot of strain

Dr Koshori Jhas pharmacy contained various disinfectants and as tringents and

many herbal remedies from India retained placenta and anti-bloat preparation for

example

The only vaccine available to him was against Hemorrhagic Septicemia and he

used it when faced with a diagnosed herd

outbreak Dr Koshori Jha pointed out phenol

which was used on feet during July August and Septembers annual FMD outbreak

coinciding with the rainy season Day-to-day treatment is a sma ll part of

the government veterinarian s job He recently received approval for his five-year

plan which began last spring The main eleshyments of the plan are training increasi ng egg production mule breeding Jhopa

breeding (cross between a cow and male yak) and improving cattle feed by the introshyduction of a Phillipine variety of cattle grass

For the livestock assistance training

three farmers from each of 12 panchayats (districts) in Manang will come to Chame

for training and to discuss local problems These men will be involved in a serv ice

centre to be se t up in each panchayat for common treatment He also plans to hold a yearly lives tock exhibitio n with pri ze shy

money for healthy livestock

Plans to increase egg production include a new brooding unit and the introshy

duction of a hybrid of Leghorn New Hampshyshire and Rhode Island Red poultry In an effort to upgrade the quality of pack anishy

mals local ponies will be crossed with donshykeys brought from northern India Similarly

Missing in India Dr Ohiroobhai K Desai 46 61 Sharda Society Paldi Ahmedabad 380007 India has written of hi s attempts to gather inforshy

mation on Drs VD Alaga Raju 36 and

K B Nair 36 both of India He repol1s having bee n with Dr Nair from 1952 to 1956 at the Bombay Veterinary College as an exshyaminer in Veterinary Medicine However he

has been unable to provide up-to-date inforshymation on thesc two alumni Any alumni

with information please write to your avc Alumni Bulletin editor 0

male yaks will be crossed with local cows

and their offspring Jhopa will be used as high-altitude pack animals

Dr Jha plans to distribute these breedshying animals to the more remote region s so

that bloodlines can be upgraded In so me of these areas the native dialect is related to ancestral Tibetan languge rather thall Nepashy

lese which compounds hi s difficult task of education

Pack animals are the lifeline of the

high-altitude people as much today as they

have been for centuries I very much appreshy

ciate the time taken by Dr Koshori Jha to explain the role of domestic animals in the

Himalaya and share with me his ambitious plans for the future 0

AI Ihe recem CVMA Conference in Pelllicshylon Dr Bob Dunbar 12 leji with Dr ROI Downey 6 Bob has reached his 961h birlhday and resides in a PellliClol1 nursing home

In Memoriam Or John N Campbell 15 545 Scripps Drive Davis California 59616 USA

died May 4 1985

Dr Ra)mond E Pinkert 36 440 NOl1h Pine Street Reedsburg Wisconsin 53959 USA died April 13 1985

Or Roderick S MacDonald 37 3003 Oliver Street Apt 203A Halifax NS -B3L 4AI died June 12 1985

Dr John J Carney 44 3531 West 33rd Avenue Vancouver B C V6S IZ2 Date of

death unknown

Or Kenneth R Lachapelle 54 1635 Ranvoyze Ave St Foy Que GIW 3K2

died June 26 1985 0

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College of Social Science Alumni Assoc PEGASmiddotUS

Editor Dorothy Barnes 78

Our Annual Picnic We Illissed you I All of you who didnt make it to our CSSAA picnic during Alumni Weekend 85 But despite the few members and families that did attend we had a good time The pictures tell the story

Here are some of us arriving (l) and setting up the eats We had good food and why not It was a tillle to enjoy relax and have some fun We had games for all ages including catch-the-eggs (2) with real raw eggs

AmI of course whats a picnic without a drop of rain) But President John came prepared with a tarpaulin (3) for those afrnid ofilleiting The k)od and the day were saved Hurrah for our presidenl

Thcre were some brave soul s who unshydaunted by the weather carried on with their baseball game Then of course there was one young partiCipant (4) who was seen scratching hcr head 1I1d wondering what was going on

All in all we had a great time You would have too if youd bcen thcre So makc a mental notc or tic a string around your tingcr toc anywhere that will reillind you that you missed a good outing at th e Aluillni Wcckend 85 CSSAA picnic and that you should makc pl ans now to join us in June 86 at Alumni Wcekend 86 0

A Joy to Behold Her work has the shi mmer of life Such is said of artist Joy Elizabeth (Snihur) Laking Fine Art CSS 72 Joys art is intimately tied to the seasons In spring and summer she works against the perilous fadshying of fresh flowers capturing them in clean powerful designs

Fa ll afternoons on the grassy salt marshes around her home in Portaupigue Nova Scotia inspire wider scenes of rich changing colours

The respite of winter is her time for land and peoplescapes evolved from her ow n photography Her art is created within the context of family community and nature

Joy was introduced to hcr chosen lifeshystyle by her mother - they used to go sketching while Joy was a child in Owen Sound on Lake Huron s Georgian Bay shyand has painted since she can remember She now lives on the edge of the Bay of Fundy with husband Ronald OAC 72 and two cherubs where she can paint every day and capture the beauty she sees around her Whether it be mud and Illarsh a rusted truck and some farmyard geese or caterpillar holes in azalea leaves Joy is able to capture in watercolour the essence and beauty of all she sees

She is noted for her special ability to create white flowers on white paper by givshying the petals shape and vivid life with only a whisper of colour and shadow Light delishycate handling and mcticulous control fused with a powerful design se nse distinguishes her art

Joy is a well established artist and has had se lected exhibitions of her paintings at the Tom Thompson Memorial Art Gallery Owen Sound 1981 Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery Halifax NS 1982 Gallery 1889 Tatamagouche NS 1983

Daffodils By Joy (Snihur) Laking 72

Truro Art Society Truro NS 1984 and the Royal Botanical Gardens Burlington Onl 14

She was deservedly honoured to have the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia purchase one of her paintings for its collection and the Maritime Tel amp Tel chose a Laking painting for the cover of Nova Scotias 1985 telephone directory

Joy says I paint what I live what I see and what touches me It s no wonder then that Joy has been able to successfully transshyfer such sensitivity to her work in a way that has produced tine work s of art as demonshystrated in Daffodils reproduced here 0

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Grad News Terry Goddard 76 wrote to let us know

where he is and what hes doing After gradshyuation Terry turned to the world of engishy

neering and worked at the Bechtel Intershy

national Syncrude project in northern Alberta for a year He retu rned to school and obtained a Masters degree in Politi cal Theshyory in 1978 at the University of Toronto

TIle next nine months were spent workshying at Dhaharan Saudi Arabi a While the re

Terry contemplated the action which would

give him the best career move His deci s ion to go into teach ing led him back to the Unishy

versity of Toronto to obtai n his BEd His teachin g career took hi m to northshy

e rn Saskatchewan whe re he taug ht at a village which if not actually at the end of

the world was situated close enough that the end was plainly visible from the nOI1hern

outskirts He returned to Toronto someshywhat sated with academe and once again

turned to engineering He has been director of maintenance for the Jewi sh Com munity

Centres of Toronto for the past five years He has fou nd it difficult to keep in

touch with fellow grad s Especia lly th ose who studied in Professor Melby s Chinese

poIitic s courses and who were known as the Shanghai Mafia - they are all over the

world now Hes sure they often recall with fondness their days at Unigoo

Where are you former students of Proshyfessors Simmo ns and MelbYTerry would be interested in hearing from you - and so would we

Robin-Lee Norris 80 has been awarded

a $19000 Rot ary Foundation Scholarship to

pursue g radua te studi es in the Masters of Business Administration program at the

Univers ity of Adelaide Adelaide Australia Robin-Lee went o n to graduate from

Osgoode Hall Law School with an LLB

was called to the Ontario Bar in ApriJ of 1982 and has practised law with the tirm of

Kearns McKin non inGuelph since herca ll She took a ten-mo nth leave of absence

commenc ing in February 1985 from her positi on with Kearns McKinno n in o rder to take ad vantage of the sc holarship

During her months in Australia her mandate from Rotary Internatio nal in addishy

tion to pursuing her stud ies is to act as a Rotary and Canadian Ambassador in proshy

moting good will and understanding beshytween Australians and Canadians

A thank you goes to Cliff Hardy buildshying mechanic superv isor Main tenance Deshypartment Physical Resources for supplying us with thi s information and an aside to Robin-Lee when she reads this I was unable

to reach you betore you left to congratulate

you and get more informati on on your award If you have some free time we wOllld love to hea r from you about your studi es

what a Rotary and Canadian ambassador

does and to have you share your ex perience of being down-under

Marilyn Kernohan Morrison 78 has taken the time to Jet us know that shes living in Napanee with hu sba nd Brian She has

tempora ril y se t aside her ca reer to be a home-maker tor Brian and their four-monthshy

old son

Prior to their move to Napanee to acshycommodate Brians tran sfer - he work s with the Ministry of Natural Resources shy

Marilyn and family lived in a small comshymunity northwest of Thunder Bay After

Gue lph Marilyn continued her ed ucation at the comm unity college level and com pleted

a program for counse llors of the mentally

retarded SheJI be returnin g to thi s fi e ld when she again becomes a wage earner

Doris E (Trachsel) OKeefe 74 is deshy

scribed by husband John Paul 74 as a household engineer John Paul is a reshy

source teacher with the Waterloo County Board of Education With such a title I

couldnt resis t phon ing Doris to find out exactly what the duti es of a household enshy

gi neer are

While Doris decl ined to give a cletinishytion of the titl e l detected some surprise and delight that John Paul appreciates what it

takes to look after a famil y and a home

Doris is trying to re turn to teaching but is findin g it difficult in the Cambridge

Waterloo area If she isnt successful shes planning alternatives such as enrolment at Guelph in a Masters program o r failing that enrolment in courses that will he lp her

ac hieve her long-range goa ls She and John Paul recen tly moved from

London Ont to Cambridge Prior to the

birth of Erin now a two-year-old Doris was teac hing boys with behaviourial problems

and she sees thi s as an asset when applying for teaching positions Erin has a six-yearshyold brother Sean so you can understand

perhaps that Doris has been bu sy and maybe she is aptly described as a houseshy

hold engi neer

J Barry Baldwin 69 is a teac her with the Elgin County Board of Education S t Thomas Barry married Linda Janet Wii son They live in Aylmer West

M Rachel (Curtis) Towe 69 is manager customer systems Bell Canada She and

husband Ken live in Guelph

M Lois (Robinson) Harris 70 li ves in Newmarket with husband Fred

B Hugh Schofield 72 is an industrial engi neer with Rockwell Int e rnati o nal C hat ham He and wife Susan (Haslelt)

FACS 78 live in Chatham

Paul Davis 73 is an underwrite r analyst with Co-opera tors General In sura n ce

Guelph Paul and wife Linda (DozeH) 73 and 81 live at Brookhaven Court Guelph

Carol Finlayson 74 is a letter carrier lor Canada Post Carol and husband John Balch live in Toronto

Pal Hamilton 74 is an expon market deshyvelopment specialist with the O ntario Minshyistry of A gricu lture and Foo cl mark et

development branch Toronto He and his wife Diane (Coates) OAC 72 live in

Toronto

Kerrie Sirathy MA 78 advises us that

she is a s tud en t at th e Univcrsity of Sakatchewan Sas katoon

Vicky Sutherland 78 is an air trartie conshy

troller with Air Canada at FoI1 McMurray Airpo l1 Alta and lives in F0I1 McMurray

Sounds like an intercsting job - perhaps youl l share SOIllC experie nces with us Vicky

Marlin Thissen 78 is a foreman with the

region or Halton at ih Milton wa ter po llushytion control plant

Evelyn Evie (Isaacs) Whilwham 80 is a planning ass istant with Union Gas Co Ltd Chatham She and hu sba nd Bob have

c hanged their address They are at 70 Ottawa Drive C ha tham Ont N7L 216 0

In Memoriam A lormer faculty mcmber in the DeshypaI1ment of Geography Barsa Kelly was among the victims of the Air India Hight 182 disaster that occ urred

off the coas t of Irel and las t June ~ mr(sa Vas headed tor India on a reshy

search project at the time of her

death S he was the wife of Protessor Kenneth Kelly Department of Geogshyra phy On behalf of its members and all those who chc ri shed their con tacts with Barsa the Board of Directors of the College of Social Science Alumni Association extend their s incere symshy

pathy to Professor Kelly 0

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College of Biological Science Alumni Assoc BIOmiddotALUMNI NEWS

Editor Marie (Boissonneault) Rush 80

HONORARY PRESIDENT Professor Bruce Sells Dean

PRESIDENT David Airdrie BSc 82 Microbiology

PAST PRESIDENT Dr Chris Wren BSc 77 Marine Biology PhD 83

VICE-PRESIDENT Dee Britney BSc 74 Fisheries amp Wildlife MSc 81

SECRETARY-TREASURER Kclly Munkittrick BSc 80 Fisheries amp Wildshylife MSc 83

DIRECTORS Lorraine Bruce-Allen BSc 80 Zoology MSc 84 Jim Elliott BSc 79 Marine Biology Keith Harris BSc 76 Marine Biology Dr Doug Holdway BSc 76 Marine Biology MSc 78 Aquatic Toxicology PhD 83 Krista (McAuley) Soper BSc 79 Marine Biolshyogy Karin Davidson-Taylor BSc 83 Zoology

From Dave Airdrie 82 the

President How time flies when youre having fun Your editor Marie (Boissonneault) Rush 80 tell s me that this note to you will be in the Fall issue of the Guelph Alumnus so Ill bring you up to date on happenings since your 1985-86 Board of Directors was inshystalled in June

The CBS Alumni Association was parshyticularly busy during June Alumni Weekshyend events including the Wildlife Art Show and Sale and the barbecue at the Rockwood Conservation Area were well attended

Thanks must go to Krista (McAuley) Soper 79 and Lorraine Bruce-Allen 84 for their first-rate efforts in organizing and running the art show From all accounts it was ex tremely well done and is sure to be repeated in 1986

Further thanks mu st go to Keith Harshyris 76 for his efforts in once again organizing the barbecue at Rockwood Keith has done a terrifi c job with this event s ince its inception Hopefully these two events will be expanded in the coming year

Last spring the objective of $10 000 for the Keith Ronald Fellowship Fund was reached and we thank all who generously contributed to this fund Its to be hoped that this is only the first of many scholarships initiated through the CBSAA

Many of you will now be aware of the changes which the Universitys Department of Alumni Affairs has undergone in rece nt months Most important is the arrival of Marjorie Millar as director of the Departshyment It seems that President Matthews is placing greater emphasis on the importance of the Department due in part to the impenshyding capital campaign I am sure that youll all notice many beneficial innovations

The CBSAA has I feel reached a point in its development where we must heighten our profile both among alumni and undershygraduates In order to increase the awareness of the Association the Board has plans to embark on some new programs

The goals are as I see them two-fold first of all we need YOU to get more inshyvolved whether its participation in our proshygrams or s upport for the Assoc iation through your membership The fact that youre reading this demonstrates an interest which we would like to heighten

Secondly we re working at helpin g undergraduates before graduation to beshycome more aware of our Association Hopeshyfully we ll get helpful input and suggestions from many of you in the near future Reshymember - YOUR alumni association is what YOU make it

Dave Airdrie BSc 82 President Colshylege of Biological Science AA

FACULTY ADVISORS Dr Denis Lynn Zoology Dr Margaret Hauser M icroshybiology Dr John Hilton Nutrition Dr John Sandys Award Phillips Botany amp Genetics Dr Brian Wilson Human BiologyKinetics The Ontario Confederation of University

Faculty Associations (OCUFA) has awarded UGAA REPRESENTATIVES Karin Dr Alexander Sandy Middleton DepartshyDavidsonTaylor BSe X) Zoology Keith ment of Zoology one of the nine OCUFA Harris BSc 76 Marinc Biology Rob Teaching Awards for 1984 Milnc BSe XI MSe 84 Marine Bio Dr Middleton was nominated for this -award by colleagues students administrashyEX-OFFICIO DIRECTORS Ed Berdusco tors alumni and faculty It acknowledges president CBSSC Steve Spring past presishy outstanding ability and is considered to be dent CBSSC the provinces highest honour for excellence

in university teaching HKAA REPRESENTATIVE Nick Dalton I think there are two keys to being an BSe 77 Human Kinetics effective teacher Sandy says One is to

have respect for the student the other is to EDITOR RIO-ALUMNI NEWS Marie make a genuine intellectual and time comshy(Boissonneault) Rush B Se XO Marine mitmcnt to the course Biology 0 Dr Alexander Middleton Congratulations Dr Middleton 0

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Grad News Human Biology

Cathy Knipe BSc 79 MSc 83 is a Ph D st ud ent at Iowa State University Ames Iowa USA She is studying Moshylecular Biology

Shelly Lugg BSc 83 is a stude nt at Simon Fraser University Burnaby BC

Human Kinetics

Susan (Wright) Kwiatkowski BSc 80 is a recreation therapist at York Central Hosshypital Toronto Her spouse Ed graduated from Ryerson in 1979

Donna Marie (Kadwell) 1vose BSc 79 and husband John ji ve in Thorold Shes a physica l education supervisor at the Niagara Peninsula Crippled Childrens Centre

Mary Ellen (Mew) Walker BSc 83 is the activity co-ordinator at Spruce Lodge Stratford

Dr Ken Danylchuk BSc(PE) 73 is a s ur ge ry re s ident at the H itchcockshyDartmouth Medical Center Hanover N H USA

Kathryn (Tarry) Myers BSc 78 is a teacher with the Middlesex COunty Board of Educati on Hyde Park

WildUfe

Vicky Johnston 84 bega n an MSc at Lakehead University Thunder Bay in May Shes working on the reprodu ctive biology of Lake Superior rin g-billed gull s

Nutrition

Or 0010 Ohiokpehai 77 lectures in food and nutrition at the Unive rs ity of Ife Nigeria

Microbiology

John Semple 78 is a PhD ca ndidate in the Department of Mic rob iology amp Immushynology at Queens Uni vers ity Kingston He will be doing a post-doctora l at the Banting amp Best Depattment of Medica l Research University of Toronto

Unspecialized

Peter Adams 79 and Beth (Sarjeant) 79 are happy to announce their recent marshyriage Beth is a research technici an with the Depanment of Medicine Univers ity of Ca lshygary Alta and Peter operates a business with the se ismic service industry

Marine Biology

Jorgen Hansen 75 and his wife Drusilla (Dol be) Arts 75 live in Gloucester Jorge n is a staff officer with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Ottawa

CoUege Honour RoU - Winter 85 Semester 06

Margorie Fe rgusson 894 Human Biology JoAnna Milan 860 Biology

Semester 07 Sandra Noble 856 Microbiology

Semester 08 Marga ret Docker 876 Marine Biology Thomas Johnston 87 0 Fi sheries Biology Debra Underhill 858 Microbi ology

James Wright 858 Biology Tobin Peever 854 Botany

Alexander Hanke 852 Zoology Rebecca Rodgers 852 Human Bi ology

Tracey Robin son 882 BSc( HK ) Rebecca Halonen 880 BSc(HK )

Swdent has obtained standing for second time Student has obtaincd standing for third time

Home Town

Oakville Ottawa

Dorchester

Guelph New Liskeard Kingston Thunder Bay Bracebridge Grafton Calgary Alta Guelph Georgetown

Donald MacLennan 75 and hi s wife Katherine live in Chatham Donald is a biologi st-supervisor with the Ministry of Natural Resources Lake SI Clair Fisheries Assessmen t Unit Tilbury 0

College of Biological Science

Alumni Association

Wildlife Art Show

Well it happened June 15 and 16 have come and gone but not withshyout event The Graduate Students Lounge was transformed from a cozy meeting place into an an gallery There was much movi ng of furniture and hanging of an work with the end product being our fi rst ever CBSAA Wildlife Art Show

In total there were 20 wildlite artists partic ipating all tine ani sts in their own right Maybe you reshymember Ut a Stre live a nd Dr Ed Bailey Wow I You should see their wood works

Rick Beaver 73 also showed some of his work hes a wildlife imshypressionist and the colour and move shyment he paint s into each piece is eloquent Donald Dority 76 showed us the line photographer he has become There were other ani sts - too many to mention but all of extremely high calibre

Id like to mention one las t name though - Cindy Hayward manager of the Graduate Students Lounge If you ever need a steady hand to get an event off the ground shes the one to co ntact Without her hel p there would have been a whole heap of orshyga ni za tional problems From which we would have been unable to escape

All in all we had a successful show Thanks artists and viewers for making our efforts worthwhile 0

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New Minister of AgricultureOntario Agricultural College Alumni Assoc OAC ALUMNI NEWS

Editor Dr Harvey W Caldwell 51

Ontari OS new mini ster of ag riculture Jack Riddell 52A and 57 a cash crop farmer from the Exeter area comes to the position of Ontario s Mini ster of Agriculture and Food with ten years of expe rience as Liberal caucus cr itic for agriculture

The min is ter sa id that life under a Libshyeral government will give agriculture a higher priority than it has ex perienced in the past It will be considered one of the major industries in this province

Jack also pro mi sed to consult a great

Basic Technology in Action shyTurning Stones Into Bread By Ann Middleton Information Services

A new University of Guelph projec t in Tanza nia Africa should aid th e Third Wo rld s ubsistence leve l farmer The $400000 three-year projec t funded by the International Development Resea rch Centre (IDRC) will invol ve fltlculty of the Uni vershysitys Department of Land Resou rce Sc ience and Soko ine Uni versity of Ag riculture in Morogoro Central Tanza ni a Aim of the enterpri se is to use loca lly ava il ab le rock materials as soil amendm en ts and con shyditioners

The project came about when Ott awas IDRC brought together a team of two geo logists with an interest in improving co nshyditions for African farmers Professor Ward Chesworth with the Department of Land Resource Science has a long-standing intershyes t in turning rock s into fertili zers deshyve loped during work in West Africa and the Canltlry Islands where local farmers have spread volcanic rock on their field s for two centu ries In his lab and in the Blue Springs basin near Acton Ontario Professor Chesshyworth has been conducting experiment s on the levels at which common rocks re lease nutri ents into soil solutions

The other team member Dr Peter van Straltl ten is ori ginally from Germany but spe nt e ight years with the United Nations in Tan zania looking for metals and metal deshyposi ts and working on an in ve ntory of ferti shyli zer raw materials in south-east Africa

During thi s period Tanza nian food production per capita fell dramaticall y leadshying Dr van Strltlaten to try to find ways to help the food situation In ex periments in his garden in Dodomo Tanzaniltl he was able to increase yields of vegetables using locally

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available geological materia ls and organic wastes

Noting the common interes ts of the two men the Canadian age ncy introd uced them and Dr van Straaten relocated in Guelph Co-ordinators of the project are Professor Cheswo rth and Tan za ni an sc ie nti st Dr Johnson Semoka of Sokoine University coshyauthor of a text on so il sc ience much used in agricultural circles in Africa

Technical assistant Peter Sl11i th is working with Tanzanian rock specimens in the Land Resource Science lab and two other Tanzanian scientists will be involved

In addition to academics from bo th institutions members of the Geological Survey of Tanzania will also work on the project both in the Morogoro area and at Mbeya station in south-western Tanzania

Roc k sa mples will be collected and crushed and field tests and pot ex periments carried out here and on location When reshysu lt s have bee n obtained extension work will begin in Africa under the direc tion of Dr Semoka It is hoped that members of a Me nnonite Central Committee group workshying at Mbeya will design a simple rock crusher for the use of local farmers

Tanzania has a major phosphate deshyposi t wh ich will be tapped by the project as well as ground s ilicates including volcanic ash Liming materials such as limestone dolomite marl and ca rbonatite will also be evaluated

Professor Chesworth points out that alshythough No rth Americans place much emshyphasi s on the big three of soil nutrition shynitrogen phosphorus and potassium (NPK) - there are actually about 20 necessary

deal with the farm organizations on the direction his ministry should be taki ng

I dont believe that we can sit in our so-ca ll ed ivory towers and introduce the kind of programs that are go ing to be mea nshyingful unless we get consultation from the farmers and their spokes people

He has been a member of the provincial legislature for 12 years He spent his first two years as energy cri tic and later environshyment critic before mov ing into agriculture Jack and Anit a have a family of five 0

nutrie nts including the minor ones In some areas of Tanza nia the decline

in soil fe rtility is in part due to the settling of widespread populations into villages where land has been used without concern for nutrients Tn other part s of the country productivity has declined because of leachshying of plant nutrie nts durin g normal rainfall and also from the continuous use of acidifyshying fertilizers such as ammo nium su lphate Dr Chesworth point s out that the current practice of NPK fe rtili zation totally ignores secondary and micronut rient requirements of plants It is hoped that the projec t wilt address thi s problem

Our approac h is basic tec hn ology our target group the poorest far mers Dr van Straaten explains One of the problems in the past Dr Ches worth says has been convincing agronomists that it s worth purshysuing this kind of elementary tec hnology approach Theyre very skeptical that you can take common roc ks wi thou t major inshydustrial proces ing and use them to advanshytage on tropical soils

A s ideline area of research is work with zeolites open framework si licates that often occ ur in volcanic rocks Some zeolites can be used to trap nitrogen in the form of ammonia which would otherwise be los t in gaseous form When added to cow manure for exampl e and stomped in by the beasts themselves zeolites enrich an already valushyabl e fertil ize r Dr van Straaten explains

The zeolite research is being carried out in co njunction with Professor Colin Fyfe Department of Chemistry an intershynat io na ll y kn ow n authority o n zeo lit e -che mi stry

Orie result of the work of the Un ive rs ity of Guelph geo logists is an ag rogeology ne tshywork currentl y being set up bya number of African cou ntries as the result of di sc usshysions following a paper by Dr van Straaten and Professor Chesworth The paper was given recently at meetings of the UN Ecoshynomic Commiss ion for Africa in Zambia 0

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A Designing Grad The need for a summer job six years ago has ended in a Guelph grad des igning golf courses

When in 1979 Lisa Maki now

BLA 84 was searching for a job that would assist her in her studies at the Univershysity she applied to the city of Kitchener

She could have wound up in any

number of areas in the parks and recreation department but Rockway and Doon Valley

course superintendent Ed Ortlieb gave her the chance to join the work crew at Rockway fltor the first couple of years it was just a job that got her outdoors in the summer then by chance she got interested in the game itself

And now shes embarked on a career in golf course design

Lisa the 24-year-old oldest daughter of Ted Maki a former general manager of the

Lisa Maki BLA 84 Kitchener Rangers left last July for Lakeshyland Florida where she Joined Links Deshysign which de sig ns and oversees golf course construction throughout the United 1983 and a friend of the family who knew States The company is considered the sec shy was interested in golf course work arranged ond-largest of its type behind the one run by a meeting with Ronald Garl said Lisa I US golf legend Jack Nicklaus who deshy had an official job interview in April of 84 signed the Glen Abbey course in Oakville and then went to Florida in August of the

How does a young Kitchener woman same year to familiarize myself with the

end up working for Ronald Garl a 40-yearshy firms projects

old graduate of the University of Florida Because I had focused much of my who apprenticed under such well-known deshy University work on such things as turf man shy

signers as Roben Trent Jones and Joseph agement and had done pan of my bachelor Lee Again it was just a chance opportunity of landscape architecture thes is on what

We were in Florida in December of makes British golf courses great and the

Sisters of Accident Victims Receive Diplomas

A tragic accident just prior to Spring Convocation resulted in the deaths oftwo graduands of the Associate Diploma in Agriculture Program Jeff Bikus 85A of West Lome and Nick Davidson 85Afrom Zimbabwe Joy Davidson sister ofNick came from Zimbabwefor the Convocation She was sponsored by the OAC Alumni Association Classes of85A alld 86A Norm McCollulIl 66A honorary class president 85A Don and MiidredMcCollum Jenny Ballentine and her parents Dr Steve Bowley 78 and80 honorary class president 86A and the University Centre Administration Our sympathy is extended to the families and friends of these two popular studel1ls Pictured are Ito r Jenny Ballantine friend ofJeff Bikus Lealln Bikus sister of Jeff Joy Davidson sister of Nick and Klaus Kristiansen a studellt from Zimbabwe

other on golf course residential design he was impressed

In order to learn what made British

courses great Lisa spent a semester in Engshyland and Scotland visiting researching sketching photographing and playing 16 historic courses including the famous links courses which by tradition are the

only clubs to host the British Open Links layouts are courses that border the sea and have been built or developed over sand

bases

Approximately 15 students a year take

advantage of the School of Land scape Arshychitectures Semester Abroad Program fi shynancing the trips themselves However the program is supported by an annual $5000 grant from the Alma Mater Fund so alumni can claim a cenain amount of credit for Lisas success She was a recipient in 1983

of part of that years AMF grant Im not sure my mother and father

were very keen about my trave lling around England and Scot lane all alone but it was a truly great experience she said middot1 not only met many wonderful and helpful peoshyple got to play the great courses like St

Andrew s Royal Troon Turnberry and my favorite of all Royal Dornoch

After a complicated and lengthy US immigration process which took nearly a year she was granted her permanent work

visa She was in regular contact with her new

boss after returning to Kitchen er - she re turned to work at Rockway and Doon while awaiting the vi sa approval - and then last July plunged immediately into

projects including work at a mens tournashyment players 36-hole complex in Sarasota and a Ladies Professional Golf Assoc iation course in Melbourne where she worked in association with LPGA tour players Beth Daniels and Sally Little

Despite the fact that the job involves

vy ing with rattlesnakes alligators and Iild

pigs when I have to tramp through forests and swamps in applying my design work to certain areas I love the outdoor work Lisa

said At the same time she doesnt have any

probleIl1s giving orders to hard-hatted heavy-machinery construction workers when she is the field supervisor for on-site

work think I may have raised a few eye shy

brows when I staned work at Rockway but I was accepted

Lisa isnt sure how long this pan of her life will last and she has no way of knowing whether any of her courses will eve r be known as Lisa Maki layouts But that doesnt

concern her They may be Links Design projects but Ill know they were basically my courses 0

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Klink Lecture Dr Doug Morrison 49 Department of Poultry Science was chosen to deliver the 1985 Klink Lecture

The Klink lecture is ~ponsored by the Agricultural Inst itute of Canada and named after the Institute s founding president Preshysented by an outstanding lecture r the lecture is delivered through a coast-to-coast tour and concerns a topic of current significance to the agricultural industry and the nation

Dr Morri son stated that there is a need for professionalization in an imal agriculshyture in order to give it an improved image and make it more acceptable to the conshysumer

Address ing members of the Ontario Inshystitute of Agrologists in London Ontario he told his audience that the agriculture inshydustry in Canada ranks among the best in the world and producers have to ensure thi s is shown and make sure that peer pressure prevents producers from doing things that we cant defend

He suggested some type of professhysiona l approach established by the farming organization whereby expertise would be required instead of merely encouraged

This is a mu ch beller ap proach th an some edict from society through governshyment legi slation I strong ly object to legislashytion designed to protect me from myself he said adding that there are currently enough regulations existent through legislation that dictate what farmers can and cannot do

If a farmer were a profess ional hi s reward wou Id be in profits - about as meanshyingful a reward as has ye t been devised

Benefits of a more professionalized approach would include an improved image of the farmer to the consumer an increase in communication a more efficient industry

which is essential for competition improved knowledge on the fa rmers part of health nutrition care markets etc and more awareness of soc ietys concerns

In turn it would also be necessary to provide beller information to the consumer through an educational process because if soc iety is to pay for increased inputs for the long- term good of the nat ion then it is essential society be adequately informed

Morrison remarked that he fee ls the maj ori ty of animal agriculturists are in fact professionals but there has to be a concerted e ffort to at tract as lew people as possible in to the business who do not understa nd farmshying or who are doing things that are unacshyceptable

Consumer concern over dietary value or the amount of drugs contained in animal product s is also reason for farmers to tak e a professional approach They should work to alleviate any misreprese ntations and misin shyformation the public is receiving the proshyfessor noted s tating that farm ers have never produced food as safe and as wholeshysome as it is today

By the turn of the century on a world basis meat consumption is predicted to in shy

crease by abou t 60 per cent while the intake of milk is expected to increase by almost 40 per cent

A major fac tor for this rise in intake result s from th e fact that developing nations will begin to consume animal products as soon as they can afford them China is an excellent exa mple of this said the professor who commented that nation is now movshying as rapidly as possible to increase animal production

With all these factors is mind Dr Morshyri son sa id he is optimistic for the future of the Canad ian animal agriculture industry

Weve got the opportunities and can take advantage of them he said 0

Mark Bernards 85 cenlre was the recipienl oftwo OAC Alumni Foundation awards the OAC Alumni Graduate Award and the Beth Duncan Gold Medal Left is Gord Nixon 37 Foundashytion chairman and director and right NR Rick Richards 38 treasurer

Entrepreneur in Residence

Dr Donald Shaver

Dean Freeman McEwen is pleased to be working with Dr Donald McQueen Shaver the Universitys first Agricultural Entreshypreneur-i n-Res idence

Dr Shaver a native of Cambt idge Onshytari o is found er chairman and chief exshyecutive officer of Shaver Poultry Breed ing Farms Limited The compan y distributes chicken breeding stock to 90 countries from its head office in Cambridge and three subshysid iaries in the United States Britain and France He retired from his executive reshysponsib ilities on August 30 but is conshytinuing as director and adv isor to the company

From 1940 to 1945 Dr Shaver served with the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps in Africa and Europe retiring as regimental commanding officer He is past president of the Canadian Hatchery Federation the Poulshytry Products Institute of Canada the Canashydian Lincoln Red Society and Maine-Anjou Association He is a member of the Order of Canada Honorary Life Member of the Worlds Poultry Science Association and the Ontario Institute of Agrologi sts He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Science by McGill University and the Centennial Medal by the OAC

The Entrepreneu r-in-Reside nce pro shygram was initiated and financially supshyported by OAC Class of 58 to champion -the role of private enterpri se within soc iety The appointment is for a two-year period during which time Dr Shaver will present lectures lead workshops and consult with faculty and students

The Agricultural Entrepreneur-in-Resishydence program at the University is believed to be a first in agr icultural education around the world 0

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University Of Guelph Involved in $68 Million Chinese Project The University of Guelph has embarked on a co-operative $68 million project that will ~ink five Canadian and Chinese universities and agricultural institutions

The four-year Black Dragon River Proshyjeo supported by the Canadian Internashytional Deve lopment Agency (C IDA) involves Guelph the University of Alberta Olds College in AlbeI1a and two Chinese institutions - Heilongjiang Land Reclamashytion University and Liu He Training College in northeastern Heilongjiang Province

Under th e term s of the agreement training will be provided at the three Canashydian institutions for personnel from the two Chinese university institutions

The Liu He Training College is respo nshysible for educating state farm employees Training will range from short courses to undergraduate and graduate level programs

Faculty from the Canadian universities and Olds College will travel to China during the summer months to give lectures and

short courses The area borderi ng on Russia has treshy

mendou s potential for agricultural deve lopshyment Professor Neal Stos~opf 57 direct or of OACs diploma courses is Guelphs co-ordinator for the Chinese projshyect He was part of the Canadian gove rnment planning miss ion and ex plains that although the climate combines the cold winters and hot summers of Alberta most of the moisshyture is rain that falls between Jul y and Sepshytember

Although latitude is the sa me as Edmontons at 52 degrees north the area grows soybeans and corn as well as wheat The land has two to four feet of black topsoil waiting to be drained and planted he says with potential for livestock proshyduction

The proj ec t centre is located at the Unishyversity of Alberta with administration in Guelph being carried out by the Centre for International Programs 0

Provincial apiarist retires after 19 years You might say Philip Burkes job brought sweet rewards

Until his retirement recently Philip was the provincial apiarist - sort of Onshytarios chief of bees - while working at the University of Guelphs Department of Environmental Biology

He joined the University as a lectu rer in 1943 and then became assistant professor and later associate professor

At the same time the Ontario Departshyment of Agriculture (as the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food was known then) made him the assistant provincial apiarist In 1966 he became provincial apiarist

Of course he advised beekee pers on ways they could make their colonies more productive and efficient and fielded many apiary management question s - including how to prevent bees from swarming

If they swarm one-third to one-half of th e colony takes off so you lose a big source of your honey crop Swarming is trigshygered when the hive becomes overcrowded so the beekeeper mu st stay ahead of them It involves a whole manipulation of the hive through the season visiting each colony at least once every ten to 14 days he says Philip also worked with farmers whose

crops depended on pollination by bees At one time bees were needed for

pollin ating greenhouse produce such as cucumbers But in the past 15 years the trend has been toward new types that are self fruiting he says

But the biggest change in the industry over the years was the trend towards Illakshying corn king in Ontario - a trend that is now being reversed he says

From 1949 and on a lot of bee coloshynies were moved to the western provinces tollowi ng th e reduction in alfalfa production in Ontario and the increased corn acreage he says

Now prospec ts for honey production in Ontario are better than in past years beshycause of the increased alfalfa acreage and other legumes and the trend towards more diversified cropping

Not surpris ingly prices have changed in the industry over the years too Back in the 1920s it cost about $10 to start a bee colony today start-up costs are about $100 to $125 per colony

Much of his work at the University looked at ways to prevent di seases in bees using selected antibiotics

He was secretary for the Ontario Beekeepers Association for 15 yea rs and now acts as a consu It ant for the group 0

Wins Crampton Award

Dr Stanley J Slinger 37 the most recent rec ipient of the Earl e W Crampton Award for distingui shed service in nutrition is ProshyFessor Emeritus of the Depal1ment of Nutrishytion College of Biolog ica l Science at Guelph

Born in Lowell Ontario Dr Slinger received his BSc from the Ontario Agrishycultural College hi s MSc fro111 the Univershysity of Toronto and a PhD from Cornell University From 1941 to 1965 he was in the Departillent of Poultry Science at the OAC and since 1965 has been in the Department of Nutrition at Guelph serving as chairJl1an from 1965 to 1974

Dr Slinger conducted re sea rch in sevshyeral areas of pou Itry nutrition for Jl10re than 30 years In 1972- 73 a fi sh nutrition laborashytory was set up and thi s laboratory has conshytinued to grow and iJl1prove s i nee One of the primary objectives in both poultry and fi sh nutrition research has been to develop feed to rmulas using feedstuffs of Canadian orishygin 111ese tannulas have been publi shed and continuall y revi sed and have been used extensively by teed manufacturers through shyout Canada Dr Slinger continues to be active in research

Dr Slinger taught poultry nutrition in Poultry Science for 27 years gave seminar courses in nutrition and physiology taught Fundamentals of Nutrition in the Depal1shyment of Nutrition and deve loped and taught courses in fi sh and wildlite nutrition

He has supervi sed the work of Jl1any graduates and it is interesting to note that the Department of Nutrition at Guelph is the only depailment in Canada - and there are very few in the United States - turning out graduates in Fish Nutrition at the PhD leve l

He has helped to establi sh modern poultry industries in Mexico and the areas of South East Asia Africa the Middle East Eastern and Western Europe and the United Kingdom Lectures conlerences and other consultative work have also taken hilll to Jl1any coul1tries over the years

The recipient of numerous honours and awards Dr S linger was made Professor Emeritus of the University in Ino and reshy -ceived the Earl e W Crampton award in 19B4 at Macdonald College Que Thi s award is given by the Faculty of Agriculture in recogshyniti on of significant co ntributions in the field of nutrition through research andlor service The award is named for Dr Earle W Crampton a renowned nutritionist whose career at Macd onald bega n in 1922 and lasted far 51 years 0

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cialist having spent four months in the latter John Reid 84 is technical sales rep Agrico Grad News part of 1984 in Bloemfontein South Africa Sales Ltd Richmond BC

Earl Johnston 46 is president Earl-John Brokers Ltd Delhi

Joe Knox 48 is secretary-treasurer Annco Westeellnc Guelph

Ralph Hills 54 is pastor United Church of Canada Smith Falls Ralph left Zambia last October spending some time in Kenya Israel England and Scotland on the way home He was surprised to meet Charlie Broadwell also 54 on Oxford Street in London Charlie was giving a reception at a large castle for the white bean buyers who purchase beans from Charlies Bean Growers of Ontario Ralph also passes along the word from Louise (Fershyguson) Hope Mac 54 that her husband Don 54 preparing for some future possible social work is studying drug addiction at George Brown College of Applied Ans and Technology Toronto

Joseph Leach 54 is a research scientist Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources Lake Erie Research station Wheatley

Ken Edwards 59 is an industrial engineer Prince George Pulp and Paper Vancouver BC

Fred Theaker 62 is a teacher-biologist Ren frew County Board of Education Aruprior

Howard Lang 67 is senior so il conshyservation advisor for OMAF Cambridge

John Lawrence 69 has been appointed vice-president and ge neral manager De kalb Canada Inc Chatham John is a lso president of the Canadian Agri-marketing Assoc iation

Robert Brooksbank 70 is manager Agrishycultural Department Simcoe area Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce

Alan Duncan BLA 73 is project coshyordinator Groupe d intervention urban de Montreal Montreal Que

Martha (Weir) Collins 75 reports that Anne (Walton) Bayler 75 is at teac hers college in Toronto after spending several years teaching in the Bahamas Martha lives at I Braid Place Guelph and would like to hear news of her classmates

Jim Dyer MSc 75 is a senior resource and environmental officer with the crop producshytion division of Agriculture Canada Ottawa He is on loan as a drought monitoring spe shy

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His wife Barb (Newell) Arts 75 who is a technical editor with Public Works Canada joined him in Bloemfontein for a month

Elizabeth Fedorkow 75 is a market reshysearcher Tetra Pak Inc Markham

Roy Maxwell 75 is an agricultural comshymentator CBC Radio Noon Toronto

Gary Ball 76 is vice-president manufacturshying Mitten Vinyl Inc Cambridge

Garnet McConney 77 is feed lot manager Catllel and Ontario Inc Petersburg

Patrick Meyers 77 OVC 84 is a vetshyerinarian with the Grenville-Dundas Veterinshyary Clinic Kemptville

Martha Frey 78 is secretaryass istant edishytor Canadians for Health Research Wes tshymount Que

Wayne Harrison 79 is assi stant manager Toronto Dominion Bank Elmira His wife is Katherine (McLeod) 77

Sharon Helynk 79 is with the Woodbury Animal Hospital Halifax NS

Jeffery Goebel 80 is resident engineer ACF Canada Ltd Georgetown

Mary Lynn Prong 80 is assistant manager Royal Bank Watford She reports that Bruno Soucy 8Q has changed jobs from OMAF farm ma nagement advisor to agrolog ist London region Royal Bank

Corrie Almack 81 is presidentowner Agshyriculturai Soil and Nutrition Consultants Freelton

Edward Bolton 81 is research farm manshyager AJle lix Inc M ississauga

William Summers 82 MSc 84 is prodshyuct deve lopment rep Du-Pont Canada Streetsville

Dianne (Coker) McDowell 83 is quality assurance supervisor Richardson Foods Ltd Glanw0I1h

John Ross 83 is a program officer Agrishyculture Canada Edmonton Alta

Jeff Burke 84 is a customer service rep Griffith Lab Toronto

Julie Fowler 84 is working for Embury Bros Farms Ltd Newburgh

Karen Rodman 84 is a farm management specialist OMAF Nepean

James Simonds 84 is a crop specialist Cavendi sh Fanns Summerside P E1

Richard West PhD 84 is a research scishyentist Canadian Forestry Service SI John s Nftdo

In Memoriam We regret to report the following deaths

Marie Honsberger 17A died March 1985

Esmond D Clipsham 2IA died on April 6 1985 Esmond had been the proprietor Uneeda Rest Hotel Kilwonhy and was a life member of the OAC Alumni Association

Stanley Ewart Keillor 21 died on February 27 1985 He was a crop farmer at Walshylacetown

John Edward Chalmers 23A died on Febshyru ary 15 1985

Jacobus Van Haarlem 23 at age 85 on July 2 1985 in Vineland He retired as ex shyecutive director of the Hor1icultural Experishymental Station at Vineland in 1970 after 47 years of service there

Hugh Lacklin Paterson 32A died in May 1985 of a heart attack at Rockwood

Murray Cameron Macklin 33A 35 died January n 1985 in Toronto

Garland Alfred Fisk 35 Date of deat h unknown

Gordon Elgin Young 35 died on June 12 1985 at Ing leside

John Miller Fargery 37 on March 22 1985 in Toronto John had been an insurance salesman Farm Credit Corp and was a life member of the OAC Alumni Assoc iation

William Thomson 40 in 1982 in Lonshy shygueuil Que His death was reported recen tl y

Robert Fletcher Madden 54A died on November 26 1984 at age 52 at Napanee

Vera (Mod ric) Kozamplik MSc 73 in Yugoslavia She was the wife of Vinko Kozumplik M Sc 71 0

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From the Dean

Dr Barham

In some of my lellers I have aimed to share

information on some special program or theme with you On this occasion I want to

keep you in touch through a number of lillie items so I shall hold onto some of the bigshy

ger interests for future issues of the Guelph Alumnus

As I write this leller Alumni Weekend 85 is behind us I found it a great weekend

and I thoroughly enjoyed meeting more of our alumni for the first time while

especially appreciating recognizing more

and more familiar faces and names from previous occasions

This year the Classes of 65 and 75 requested an up-date on our programs and

the developments we have experienced together in the College over the last few

years I guess that we were able to demonshy

strate much more development in our research and teaching programs than we could in some parts of the physical facilities within the buildings Still we had thorshyoughly congenial and I think very useful

meetings with both of these classes and added a nostalgic tour of our facilities

It was splendid to meet both of these groups I confess however that I had not

foreseen that a large part of the interest of the Class of 65 rested on the fact that many of their children are now gearing up to enter FACS

I was able to remind them that the BASc and B Comm degrees both lead

into fascinating and challenging careers for sons and nephews as well as daughters and

nieces Some of you coming to Alumni Weekend 86 might wish to get in touch with me to arrange an up-date on our acti vities then too

One of my special pleasures of Alumni Weekend was to join with the Class of 35 at the Golden Anniversary Dinner This occashy

sion is always a particular delight given the special personal pleasures reflected in the

friendships shared on this anniversary And I do want members of the Class of

35 to know that their gift of the magnificent Terry Legault Roman Festival print looks really outstanding and just right amidst the

contemporary decor of the FACS lounge

One last item of alumni news which I want to mention is the fact that I met with

Jean (Nairn) Carter 38 and some of her committee recently I learned that they have

been making quite outstanding progress in establishing the trust fund that will support their new graduate student award in geronshy

tology The first award presentation of $1000 is being made this fall but members of the Class of 38 are still pushing on with their fund raising in order to bring the

annual trust-fund yield to a level of $2 000 We all think that the Class of 38 grads

have been quite remarkable in their detershymination to build up a significant fund to

support work in this important new field of scholarship and research I know that we

shall all appreciate your support for them in reaching their target

I met with Audrey Warner and Annette

Yeager 62 recently They advised me of their concern for the needs of teachers wantshy

ing to prepare themselves for adding Family Studies to their fields of professional speshy

cialization and of other teachers already working in that field who find themselves in need of some up-dating especially in view of the curriculum changes which appear to be around the corner

In this regard I want to mention two

items which might be of interest First our faculty in FACS have been

quite heavily engaged in working with

teachers and others in thinking planning debating and writing for the curriculum developme~ts envisaged for the Ontario Academic High School Credits

Most especially we have had as memshybers of the Canadian Family in Perspective group Dr Jean Sabry with her own special

interest in human nutrition Dr Grant

McCracken in clothing Drs Marshall Fine and Claude Guldner with their expertise in family relations and Drs Anne Martin Matshythews and Joe Tindale with their special strengths in life-span development and

aging - quite a team of contributors Secondly I want to mention in relation

to my meeting with Audrey and Annette that we now have a number of courses avai 1shy

able in a six-week format offered in summer sessions provided on campus

Perhaps of even more interest to those of you who wont find it practical to take

classes on campus at Guelph we have an annual offering of distance or corresponshy

dence-type courses Many of these will be of very pertinent

interest to a number of teachers The current list includes Human Development Marital and Family Dynamics Personal and Family Finance Development of Human Sexuality Nutrition and Man and the Exceptional Child in the Family

You can find out more about these

offerings by writing directly to Guelph Disshytance Education University of Guelph

Macdonald Institute shyFamily and Consumer Studies Alumni Assoc

Editor Carol Telford-Pittman 75

Guelph Ont NIG 2WI or by getting in touch with my office

One of the reasons that we have put

ourselves so significantly behind the development of these distance courses is that we did not have the resources to meet

the demand for providing our courses in the more traditional class format at locations

away from the Guelph campus As usual there is much more to share

with you but it will just have to hold until

my next letter I look forward to being in touch with you again then 0

Olive Thompson Honoured

Olive (Thompson) Thompson 35

-The Mac-FACS Alumni Association was very pleased to present a Citation of Appreshyciation to Olive (Thompson) Thompson

35 during Alumni Weekend 85 festivities Olive has given much time energy

support and leadership to the College and to the University through her years of involveshyment with the Mac-FACS Alumni Associashytion Class of Mac 35 activities and the University of Guelph Alumni Association

Our University s alumni organizations are stronger and more effective because of

the years of commitment and personal sershyvice that Olive has contributed

Olive - We salute you 0

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New at HAFA By John Hearn

Infonnation Services

An innovative course developed by the School of Hotel and Food Administration (HAFA) is focussing the attention of undershygraduates on the analysis of operational problems in the hospitality industry and the writing skills required to express and comshymunicate that analysis

Students are required to find summer jobs in the hospitality industry and then to write five papers of ascending complexity during the first semester of their second year using text readings specially edited for this course by the Schools Director Proshyfessor Tom Powers

We have a unique responsibility to prepare students not just for their first job but for future jobs further down the line says Dr Powers Possession of a university degree should imply an ability both to anashylyse problems and to communicate observashytions and recommendations In todays corporate world reports papers and letters are management tools and written comshymunication is a survival skill

The HAFA faculty decided further to emphasize writing skills by adopting a style manual developed by Professor Margaret Hund leby Department of Engl ish Language and Literature for this course as an integral part of the Schools other courses

In order to familiarize faculty with the use of the manual and the grading of student writing Professor Hundleby was invited to conduct a two-day workshop which atshytracted the attention of Vice-President Howard Clark and Associate Vice-President Janet Wardlaw as well as faculty from other disciplines s uch as psychology land resource science microbiology and history

The program Professor Hundleby told the seminar requires students to complete five report papers based on their own obsershyvations

The first paper requires a detailed description of the physical layout of the host operation plus an appraisal and operating cost analysis of its heating air-conditioning and ventilation systems

A second paper asks the student to describe and evaluate staff structure funcshytion compensation package and efficiency

Cost control is the subject of a third paper Purchasing practices food producshytion cost traCking and inventory manageshyment all come under this heading

Marketing is the fourth subject area What market segment is the operation aimed at What consumer need does the operation satisfy What is the nature of the

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Left to right- Professors Cathy Schrye Writing Centre Tom Muller HAFA Belty Upton HAFA Mike Jenkinson OAC 63 OAC dean s office Mary Rogers History and back to camera Bernie Katz Library reviewing cases drawn from studefll papers in a two-day workshop Evaluating Students Writing conducted by Professor Margaret Hundleby

competition in the target market

The fifth paper examines the intangishybles of management sty Ie How does the role of the manager affect relations with customshyers staff and head office

Professor Hundleby commenting on some of the problems of the course says whatever we call it students tend to conshyclude that what they re writing is an acashydemic paper of some kind - which of course it is - but we need to make the connection in their minds with the real the corporate world out there They also tend to think that longer is better and write about what they know - rather than what is import ant The development of a proper sense of for whom they are writing is itself a problem-solving skill

Another problem according to Proshyfessor Hundleby is what she calls the new illiteracy - a verbal dysfunction resulting from an impoverished vocabulary

Style too is a matter of considerable

AMPHI Spin-offs The School of Hotel and Food Administra shytions annual Advanced Management Pro shygram for the Hospitality Industry (AMPHI) now in its third year is spinning off new management development activities says HAFA Director Tom Powers Earlier this year 20 people attended a workshop on accounting and finance presented by Proshyfes sor William Braithwaite School of Agrishycultural Economics and Extension Educashytion and three similar programs will be offered in different parts of the country over the next year and a half

Another program still in the planning stage is a six-day hospitality managers development course designed for middle management by AMPHIs associate direcshy

concern She also mentioned careless senshytence structure style that is inappropriate to the content lack of connective logic failure to understand the nature of a paragraph as a literary entity the frivolous use of colloshyquiali sms an absence of any sense of the harmonious sound of words on paper and of course a growing list of commonly misused words - e g it could of had that affect

There s a tendency to see s tyle as a decorative flourish rather than as an aspect of content she concluded

Professor Powers sees the development of verbal communication skills as central to the whole idea of liberal education Cershytainly he says its useful for HAFA stushydents to understand how a cost control system works - but its at least as important to be able to think logically analyse logshyically and communicate conclusions in a way that is credible informative coherent and complete in fact these are the classic goals of a liberal education 0

tor Professor John Patterson and a consulshytant group of AMPHI alumni

AMPHI continues to attract internashytional attention participants in thi s years program which began in April include senior executives from many of North Americas most distinguished hotels and restaurants The four-week course offers an intensive program based primarily on case studies written by Professo rs Patterson -Braithwaite Carl Riegel and Tom Muller

The growing volume of AMPHI cases indicates that thi s is the largest s ingle research program currently under way in any hotel school in North America says Proshyfessor Powers AMPHls network of conshytacts is giving us access to a senior-level view of the industrys current problems and prospects 0

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Research AssociateComing Soon A AppointedModel Play Facility

Dr Joan Norris

Dr Joan Norris has held the position of Research Associate at the Gerontology Research Centre since last spring

Joan is working with faculty to develop and promote research related to population aging and is available for consultation with faculty on research design funding sources and publication

In addition to this development work she is continuing her personal program of research She works for the Gerontology Censhytre two days per week and the balance of her

The Family Studies Laboratory Schools pre-school play facility fell 10 a Grounds time is spent in the Department of Family Department wrecking machine recently Studies where she has held a faculty appointshy

ment since 1980 Joan holds a Ph D in Psychology from

the University of Waterloo and is also a regisshytered psychologist Her personal research

The Mllc-FACS Special Projects Commitshyinterests include social competence in older

tee Ito r Bonnie Kerslake 82 Association adults peer relationships and grandshy

president Linda (Wo[e) Markle 73 chairshyparenting 0

man and Gail Murray 78 Missing comshymillee member is Rita (Klassen) Weigel 77 The aim of the committee is to raise funds to redevelop the Family Studies Laboshy In Memoriam ratory Schools and raise itto the level where it will be regarded as a model pre-school

Eileen Margaret (Manahan) Alwayplay facility

390 October 21984 in Vancouver BC

Jean (Horrell) Atkinson 240 March 5 1985 in Aurora

Class of 35 Gift Oorothy (Lockard) Honsberger 300Centre panel Roman Carnival

In order to commemorate their anniversary July 51985 in Weiland Mac 35 has traditionally given a scholshyarship to a FACS student once every five Isabel J Lockerbie 300 March 31 years This year on the 50th anniversary of 1985 in Toronto their graduation and in addition to the scholarship an etching entitled Roman Patricia G (Smith) McKay-Barry 55 Carnival by Terry Legault has been added March 17 1985 in London Ont to the Universitys collection of Canadian alt The etching is hanging in the FACS Velma E (Conn) Partridge 260 April faculty lounge 29 1985 in Niagara Falls Ont shy

The theme of Roman Carnival was favoured by neo-clas sical and romantic Helen E (Kelly) Robinson 220 April painters during the 19th century The etching 30 1985 in Dundas captures the moment at which wild horses are released to race through the streets of Norma I (Motherwell) Roy 350 in Rome The artist has chosen to represent the Moosejaw Sask wild chaotic motion ot the horses rather than explicitly depict in detail the animals Lillian S (Moore) Usher 340 March 28 and the architectural background 0 1985 in Cobourg 0

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College of Physical Science Alumni Assoc SCIMP

Editor Bob Winkel

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Yes Dr Earl MacNaughtoll has relired alshylogelher bUI Ihis wonl be Ih e lasl you I hear from him reSI assured Before he and his wife Jean lOok oJf for Auslralia and New Zealand Deparlmenl of Physics slaf and faculty held a galhering al Ihe FacullY Club and presenled Ihe couple wilh an alumni clock

Back to Guelph

The headquarters for (GWC)2 came

back to Guelph in July for a threeshy

year period while Professor Robert Balahura Chemistry and Biochemisshy

try serves as director (GWC)2 offices have been set up

in Room 122 and 123 Physical Scishyences building The University of

Waterloo will maintain a satellite office during the three-year Guelph

rotation Dr Balahura and adminshy

istrative assistant Andrea Turner may

be reached at Ext 3865 0

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Physics Professor Elected to Royal Society

Bernhard Nickel

Department of Phy s ics Professor Bernhard Nickel has been elected a Fellow

of the Royal Society of Canada and was formally inducted into the Society at its

annual meeting in Montreal in June

A member of the Physics faculty since

1974 Professor Nickel is no stranger to

prizes and awards In 1981 he received the Herzberg Medal the Canadian Associashy

tion of Physicists award to a promising young scienti st In 1978 he won a Sloan

Fellowship from the New York-based Sloan Foundation

He achieved recognition by navigating

the esoteric seas of condensed matter physshy

ics Hi s co lleagues call him a leading masshyter in the art of mathematical physics By

exploiting the existing mathematical frameshywork in subtle ways he has worked through

thickets that have stopped other physic ists

High order perturbation calculations

done by him played a key role in verifying

the quantitative reliability of the theory of

underlying continuous phase transitions in systems

He earned BScE and MSc degrees from the University of Saskatchewan and a

PhD from the University of California at

San Diego He was a research associate at

Cornell and Oxford Universities and a postshy

doctoral research Fellow at the Univers itY of Alberta before coming to Guelph in 1974

He has been a visiting fellow at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory at the Univershy

sity of California at San Diego at Harvard

and at the Schlumberger-Doll Re searc h In stitute in Connecticut

With his election he becomes one of

six Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada at

Guelph The others are Professors Howard

Clark Peter Egelstaff Gabriel Karl Bruce Sells and Herbert Armstrong And it brings to five the number of me mbers of the

Guelph-Waterloo Program for Graduate Work in Physics (GWP)2 who can put the

coveted FRSC after their names 0

Halleys Comet and the Babylonians By Professors Nigel Bunce and Jim Hunt

The winter of 1985 and the spring of 1986 will lon g be remembered as the year of

Comet Halley No comet in history has so

stirred the imagination of man or been the

object of suc h intensive investigation Its easy to understand this interest when its

appreciated that Halleys Comet is the only recurring comet that is bright enough to be

seen with the naked eye ft was the g reat astronomer Edmund

Halley who in 1705 recognized the s imilarshy

ity of the appearances of the great comets of 1456 1531 1607 and 1682 He speculated that these were in fact one and the sa me

comet with a period of 75 or 76 years

He predicted that the comet would reshyturn in 175 8 a return he could not live to see With thi s Halley discovered the phenomeshy

non of periodic comets and thus showed

that they were members of our solar system

The comet dutifully returned in 1835

and spectacularly so in 1910 In the latter

year circumstances were such that after its

perhelion passage (the point closest to the

Sun) the Earth and the comet approached

each other very closely The comet was so close that at one time its tail spread from

horizon to horizon The return in 1985-86 will be considshy

erably less spectacular In fact for Canadishyans it will not be easy to observe s ince the

time of perhelion is in Febnlary when the

Sun is very low in the sky The view will be -much better from more southerl y latitudes Over the years historica l records have

been found which record every passage of the comet back to 12 BC M any of these obshy

servations come from Chinese records first published in 1846 A well-authenticated

passage was that of 1066 which was reshy

corded on the Bayeux tapestry by the mother

of William of Nonnand y and taken as an cOllld on righl

Grad News Paul Ferguson BSc 67 of Ede n Mill s is president of EIS Systems Ltd and travelled in New Zealand this summer

Walter Lock BSc 67 of Denfield is practising medicine in Lucan

Tjeerd Homan BSc 69 of Calgary Alta is manager research and development services for Petro-Can He is enjoying his family Carla Sarah and John Menno and his hobbies of golf curling and skiing

(GWP)2 Poster Session a First

Earlier this year the Guelph- Waterloo Proshygram for Graduate Work in Physics (GWP)2 staged its first annual poster session for graduate s tudents Poster sessions which are becoming increasingly popular in scienshytific circles allow interaction between researchers and delegates without the time pressures encountered when presenting con shyventional papers at meetings says (GWP)2 Director lain Campbell

The first annual (GWP)2 poste r sesshysion which was followed by a soc ial hour and banquet was highly successful in genershyating interaction says Campbell By the end of the session there were still clusters of people arguing the finer points of scientific interpretation on many of the posters These exchanges continued right through the soshycial hour and into dinner Interaction is what science is all about

Encouraging interaction between stushydents and faculty is one of Campbells prishyorities as Director It is too easy for students to tuck themselves into a corner and work away in isolation They need to get out and ex plain their work both to experts and to

omen of his victory over the Saxons Based on this long record various

mathematical analyses of the orbit of the comet have been produced These account very accurately for the known passages of the comet However when these various anshyalyses are pushed back beyond 12 BC they predict widely varying dates for the previous appearances Before 12 B c there are ani y two vague Chinese records in 87 BC and 240 B c which mayor may not have been Halleys comet

In a recent issue of Nature a team of

Ernest Campbell BSc 69 lives in Campbell ville and teaches science for the Halton Board in Burlington

Richard Davis BSc 77 having comshypleted his MD University of Toronto 83 and his internship at Womens College Hosshypital will be setting up his practice in family medicine in his home town of Guelph

Larry Meek BSc 77 of Ottawa is pashytient administrator and computing officer for the National Defence Medical Centre His hobbies include sailing and skiing

Andre Brunet BA 81 is working for Amdahl Ltd as fieldsystems engineer and lives in Sudbury with his wife Monique (Puellette) FACS 80

Cathy Deakin BSc 81 is presently articshyling with the law firm of Little Reeves Mahoney Jarrett amp Hart of London

Andrew Dubrawski BSc 82 and his wife Alicia (Wodecka) BSc 81 live in Toronto where he works as a communicashytions systems analyst for CNCP Telecomshymunications 0

10hn Root 81 a (GWP)2 PhD s tudent left aflracts an audience

non-experts It takes a deliberate effort on our part to generate and maintain this intershychange

The poster session was the largest scishyentific or social event yet staged by (GWP)2 Some 18 students presented posters and about 90 students faculty and prospective students attended

The posters are on display in the two departments of physics to give others an opportunity to view them At Gue lph they are in the second floor corridor of the Physshyical Science Building near the Department

scholars from England and Vienna reported the finding of two fragments of Babylonian tablets in the British Museum that clearly report the appearance of the comet in 87 BC and 164 B C The records are so clear that by calculation not only the year but the time of year for the perhelion passage can be determined

For example the 164 BC apparition has been narrowed down to a date someshywhere between November 5 and 25 of that year The 87 BC record is not as accurate nevertheless its perhelion passage can be

of Physics office Encouraged by the s uccess of the

poster sess ion lain Campbell is planning another high-profile event for (GWP)2 to recognize award-winning faculty He plans a fall symposium at which three (GWP)2 members who received major honours durshying 1985 will give short lectures to be folshylowed by a sherry reception The three honoured faculty are Gicinto Scoles Killam Fellowship winner Bernhard Nickel Felshylow of the Royal Society of Canada and John Simpson Rutherford medalist 0

narrowed down to July 25 to August 15 These observations while inaccurate

to the extent of 20 days are still accurate enough to eliminate three of the four leading -calculations of the motion of Comet Halley This is a striking example of how archaeoshylogical investigations may have a strong effect on many diverse subjects in this case com~tary astronomy 0

We welcome questions and ideas for future articles Write to the authors clo the Deans Office Cole fe ofPhysical Science Univershysity of Guelph Guelph Ontario NIG 2WI

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Newly Elected as

A1uDlni Senators Following the annual election of three of the nine alumni seats on Senate at the University the following alumni were elected to replace those who fulfilled three-year terms on August 31 1985

Norman Hawkins OVC 57

Rita Weigel James White FACS 77 OAC 6 1

James White OAC 55A and 61 lives in Brampton and is the owner of InfoResults Limited information research consultants Brampton He completed Masters and Docshytoral degrees at Michigan State University Department of Communication He has opshyerated InfoResults for 15 years specializing in agricultural economics social policy and communication issues

He is a past president of the Canadian Consulting Agrologists Association has served on the provincial council of the Ontario Institute of Agrologists and was a director of the Canadian Society of Agrishycultural Economic s and Farm Manageshyment 0

Dr Norman Hawkins OVC 57 estabshyIlished the Guelph Animal Hospital on Elizshyabeth Street in 1957 and has continued his practice there as a partner

An active member of the Ontario Vetshyerinary Association council and a commitshytee worker he is also a member of the Canadian Veterinary Medical Association national examination board

His earlier work with the American Veterinary Medical Association involved the examination of overseas veterinary gradshyuates and inspection of North American vetshyerinary sc hools

He is a member of the Guelph Public Library Board and Board chairman of St

Margaret s School Elora

Rita (Klassen) Weigel FACS 77 gradushyated from the College of Family and Conshysumer Studies with a BASc in Con su mer Studies She was president of the Mac-FACS Alumni Association 1983-84 and has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Universi ty of Guelph Alumni Association

A member of the Canadian Marketing and Research Society Rita was employed in the research and product management field for a number of years A Guelph res ident her concerns include those of a mother of a son and twin one-year-old daughters

New Chairman Board of Governors

Edmond Bovey

Edmund C Bovey the man who headed the Commission on the Future Development of the Universities of Ontario has been named chairman of the Board of Governors at the Universi ty of Guelph A member of the Board since 1976 he succeeds Cecil Franklin who retired July I after three years as chairman and who also joined the Board in 1976

Edmund Bovey was chairman of the three-man commission that held hearings

for the Ontario public and university comshymunity in 19831984 before developing and recommending to the Mini stry of Colleges and Universities a future plan for Ontario universities

Retired as director chairman of the board and member of the executive committee of Norcen Energy Reso urces Toronto he was recently named to chair a task force on funding the arts in Canada an area where he has long experience A past president and trustee of the Ali Gallery of Ontario and its Foundation he is also a member of the Board of Governors of Roy Thomson Hall and vice-chairman of the International Council of the Museum of Modern Art in New York He is a past chairshyman of the Council for Business and Arts in Canada

In addition he is a director of a number of companies including Hollinger Argus Abitibi Price Canada Packers and the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce as well as MONY Life Insurance PPG Indusshytries and PPG Industries Canada

He is a member of the Canadian Ecoshynomic Policy Committee a director of the Canadian Executive Service Overseas and a past president of the Canadian Gas Associashytion He is also currently chairman of the Board of Wellesley Hospital Toronto

He was born in Calgary Alta and edushycated in Victoria BC 0

Appointments

Ab Moore Harry Downie OVC 48

Dr Ab Moore took up the responsibilities of chairman of the Department of Rural Extension Studies on September I for a fiveshy shyyear term He was previously director of the Office of Educational Practice

Dr Harry Downie OVC48 became actshying chairman of the Department of Bioshymedical Sciences on July I He continues until December 3 1 or until a new chairman is named 0

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Available for Immediate Possession Space in Prestige Campus Home (for baby grand piano)

The Presidents House dedicated as a building of historical and architectural significance has been without a piano since President Maclachlan retired in 1967

This could be the chance of a lifetime if you are seeking a unique and extremely worthwhile Class Project Perhaps your class would like to buy a new piano to be used in this centre for campus entertaining to be viewed by more than 5 000 visitors a year A recognition plaque would be located either on or adjacent to the instrument

A Bequest

Charles S Humphrey

A former partner and president from 1947

to 1963 of Guelphs Hart Chemical Comshy

pany Canada Ltd the late Charles S Humphrey se lected the Universit y of

Guelph as one of the benefic iaries of his estate

Hi s bequest to the Unive rs it y of

$130000 received last June is to be used at the discretion of the University pres ident

in the University s scholarships and burshy

saries program A resident of Victoria BC since his

retirement in 1963 Charles Humphrey died on August29 1984 at the age of81 He was an emeritus member of the Canadian Assoshy

ciation of Textile Colourists and Chemists Born at Hornell NY USA he came to Canada in 1936

This is the second time that Charles

Humphrey has given financial support to the Univers ity In 1979 he generously provided a $50000 endowment gift to support an annual $5000 graduate fellowship in Chemistry

The fellowship is designed to ease the financial burdens of outstanding students in

organic chemistry registered in the PhD

program at the Guelph-Waterloo Centre for Graduate Work in Chemistry (GWC)2 0

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CODling Events 86 Jan 7-9

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OAC Agricultural Conference

Alumni Florida Reunion (See below)

College Royal Open House

Ontario Institute of Agrologists Annual Conference Agricultural Trade To be he ld

in Cornwall Ont

OAC Alumni Association Curling Bonspiel

U of 6s 8tb Annual Human Sexuality Conference Changing Nature of Sexual Relationships Sexual Scripts and Lifestyles Today

ALUMNI WEEKEND 86

Alumni Florida Reunion If you missed the Alumni Flo rida Reunion Picnic in March 85 you missed a great gathering About 90 alumni and

friends met for a very pleasant pot luck meal Ross Cavers OAC 29 the organizing committee chairman hopes it will

become an annual affair Ruth and Gordon Wright Mac

37 and OAC 33 and Willa and Morley Funston Mac and OAC 32 made the loc al arrangements the affair was sponshysored by the Universitys Alumni-in Action group Make

plans to attend the second annual Florida Alumni Reunion Picnic at 12 noon on Wednesday March 51986 at Harbour Heights Park near Port Charlotte Florida two miles east of

Interstate Highway 75 Please respond by March 11986 to Ruth and Gordon Wright General Delivery Warm Mineral

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Editor Terry Ayer 84

Executive 1985-86 HONORARY PRESIDENT Dr David R Murray Dean

PRESIDENT Linda McKenzie-Cordick 81

PAST PRESIDENT Margo Shoemaker 79

VICE-PRESIDENT Wm Macdonald 78

SECRETARY-TREASURER

Marilyn Armstrong 78

DIRECTORS Debbie (Nash) Chambers 77 Edith LeLacheur 72 Janice (Robertshy

son) Partlow 79

UGAA REPS Wm Macdonald 78 Margo Shoemaker 79

EDITOR DELPHA Terry Ayer 84

Appointed

Dr Edward Phillips

Edward Phillips began a five-year term as chairman of the Department of Music July I He obtained his BA in mu sic at Amherst College

Massachusetts and his M A Masshyter of Philosophy and Ph D all in music theory from Yale Univers ity Married to Patricia who has a DM A in organ performance from Yale he has two sons Stewart 7 and Andrew 3 Edward who is also an organist enjoys cooking 0

Literary Heritage Preserved in Africa Most Canadian children are exposed to their cultural heritage at an early age through legendary stories brought from Eushy

rope or about Canadian pioneering and through stories about Indian or Inuit myths

and fables In developing countries however

where paper and printed materials are in

shon supply cultural heritage is usually passed on orally and children have little

opportunity to read about their past A Canashydian project involving the Universities of Guelph and Yaounde in Cameroon West

Africa is doing something to keep that countrys heritage alive

The project now entering its fourth year is a collaborative effort of the De partshy

ment of English Language and Literature at Guelph and the Department of African Litshyerature at the Univers ity of Yaounde It is

sponsored by the Canadian International Development Agency with Guelphs Deshy

partment of English Language and Litershy

ature Chairman Doug Killam serving as co-ordinator and Elizabeth (Wildman)

Cockburn CSS 81 as Canadian project consultant

Dr Killam is well-known for his work in the field of Commonwealth literature and

has taught at several African universities

EI izabeth Cock burn a primary sc hool teacher taught at the Government Teachers Training College in the North West Province

of Cameroon from 1969 to 1971 It was then

that she became aware of the shortage of relevent reading material for Cameroon schoolchildren

However it was some ten years later

that the project was born when she and Professor Kilian consulted with Dr Bernard

Fonlon then head of the Department of Afshyrican Literature at Yaounde Deeply comshy

mitted to saving African oral traditions as literatore Dr Fonlon although now retired remains a driving force in promoting creativity in the schools and scholarship on oral literature at the university

Last January Professor Killam and Elizabeth Cockburn were in Yaounde at a

conference where 80 papers were presented on the theory and practice of oral literature for West African educators - the first major attempt to marry theory and practice

As are children in the Canadian Indian

and Inuit communities African children are often exposed to texts that portray children of cultures different from their own To

counteract thi s influence simple African s tories with lifelike illustrations are being

Local stories come alive

mimeographed and turned into booklets by simply folding stand ard letter-size paper in half A collections of these stories will evenshytually be produced in textbook form when

fund s become available One such s tory The Marriage Feast

describes the marriage meal of the cat who invites all the domestic animals and birds to

the celebration

The dogs who know much about meat were asked 10 cook the food 8U1 they decided 10

playa trick They cooked the meat in the bOlom of the pot with the vegetables on lOp They said they would be the last to eat

In true fable form the hens who ate first discovered when they were too full to eat any more that there was meat deep

inside the pOI So they

Swore never to eat from the surface again and that is why hens always scratch deep into the soil in search offood

Although story-telling is becoming a lost art in Canada it is still a lively part of

life in Cameroon But as Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe said when he was in Guelph last year when a member of the older genshyeration dies its as if a whole library was destroyed -

Time is running short and fund s are needed to keep alive this project in Camshyeroon Anyone seeking further information

on the project may address their inquiries to Professor Killam at the University He hopes to receive funding from the Commonwealth

Foundation for similar work in other counshytries which have expressed an interest in

recording their heritage 0

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The Limners How do art students continue to find stimshyulation and motivation following graduation when they are no longer under the pressure of course requirements and without the critshyicism of an instructor

Four Fine Art graduates and one inshycourse student solved the problem by formshying a support group called The Limners (Limn an archaic word meaning paint deshypict portray Hence - Limner) Last Sepshytember the group held a success ful exhishybition of their recent works at the Halton Hills Cultural Centre Georgetown The Limners are

Dorothy Hart 81 of Georgetown She works with oil s pas tel s and graphite b4t is very interested in character fi gures made of cellu-clay which requires enormous pashytience to produce Her latest interest is pastel portraits of children

Dimensions 85 The fourth annual College of Arts Ailimni Association juried art show DIMENSIONS 85 was a success once again The jury members Marlene Jofriet well-known water colourist _ Michael OKeefe 76 practising artist and teacher and George Todd chairman Department of Fine Art selected 30 entries to hang

The jury awarded the following $100 $75 $50 prizes and designated three honshyourable -mentions

First pri ze Sheila Vollmer 85 Woman in Veil intaglio print

Second prize Wendy Maki 83 Pears Plums Apples and Grapes oil on canvas

Sue Knox 81 Formerly she was interested in the landscapes of Northern Ontario where she used to work Now back in Guelph Sue has rediscovered her urban surshyroundings including people

Betty Ketcheson 83 of Frankford Ontario to where her husband lack has retired Watercolour is her favorite medium however Betty also has an interest in enshycaustic painting with beeswax as a medium

Jane Graham 83 of Guelph lane tries to communicate her own brand of optimism through her waterco lours by using the figure in the land scape most often a child

Nan Hogg an undergraduate Nan is intershyested in making art that is feminist A memshyber of th e Guelph Embroiderers Guild Nans recent work displays a combination of watercolours or etchings with coil aged fabshyric that has been embroidered 0

The Limners L to r Sue Knox 81 Belly Ketcheson 83 Nan Hogg Dorothy Hart 81 and Jane Graham 83

Third pri ze Doreen Schaub 70 Rushing Waters watercolour

Honourable Mentions Sheila Volshylmer 85 Embracing Figures sculpture in pl aster Scott Abbot 79 Fields Near Maryhill oil on masonite Margaret Peter 74 Impressions Fossil Series collagraphsi Ikscreen

An innovation at DIMENSIONS 85 was the presentation of selected works of a featured artist Our first selected arti st was Evan MacDonald no stranger to the Univershysity of Guelph Many of his works are part of the Universitys collection of Canadian art hi s portraits hang in various buildings on campus and he was awarded an honorary doctorate of laws in 1979

We extend our sincere thanks to Ingrid

At DIMENSIONS 85 ColeRe oj Arts art sholl at Alllmni Wefkllld 85 L to r Marlene Jojriet juror Dr GeorRe 7iJdd chairman Department oj Fine Art jllror Wencil Maki 83 second-prize winner Doreen Schauh 70 third-prize willner Michael 0 Keeji 76

juror Own David Murray

Jenkner curatorexhibitions at the Macshydonald Stewart Art Centre and Mary MacshyDonald Evans wife for making it possible for us to feature the works of Evan

We also expre ss our gratitude and appreciation to all those who were instrushymental in making the show a success A special thank you is extended to this years participants without whom the show coulll not have been mounted 0

Art Show and Lecture Series Recognizing the 20th anniversary of the Department of Fine Art a facshyulty art show will be presented at the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre Nov 21 to lan 5 Viewing Tue to Fri and Sun noon to 500 pm Sat 1000 am to 500 pm A lecture se ries will present Dr Alan Gowans professor of art history University of Victoria B c on Art History and the Social Function Nov 18 at 800 -pm Rm 113 Physics Bldg Dr Ronald Nasgaard chief curator Art Gallery of Ontario wi II present Cushyratorship Today and Social Political Economic Pressures on Nov 27 at 400 pm in the Dept of Fine Art A third speaker is slated for early in the New Year

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Ontario Veterinary College Alumni Assoc OVC ALUMNI NEWS

Editor Dr Cliff Barker 41

OVC Alumni Association Executive 1985middot86

HONORARY PRESIDENT Dr Ole Niel sen 56 PRESIDENT Dr Ken Gadd 56 PAST PRESIDENT Dr Wendy Parker 7 1 VICE-PRESIDENT Dr Mary (Hawkins) Wiltshire 74 SECRETARY-TREASURER Dr Gordon Boylan 46 DIRECTORS Dr Bob Buck 46 Dr Archie MacKinnon 43 Dr Norm McAninch 39 Dr Bruce Robb 7 1 Dr Bruce Robinson 76 Dr Noni Sman 80 EDITOR avc Alumni News Dr Cliff Barker 41

Mailbag Dear Cliff

We were over to Vancouver Island recel11ly and went up to Qualicum Beach to see 0 Howard Taylor 13 He broke me in on meat inspection in 42 at the old Burns plant on Logan Avenue in Winnipeg

He is in great shape Qlid outside of a gimpy knee has no problems It was a real pleasure to see him again - still the same sparkle and quick wit that I had remembered from the Winnipeg years

I had not seen Howardfor 40 years bw outside of him thinking I had aged someshywhat had no trouble with identification Thought you might be il7lerested in this bit of news - not too many vets make it to age 98

We are fine and enjoying a complete reversal of what Vancouver weather is supshyposed to be bUi sure would like to see aboUl a week of rain Regards Bud Ellis 41 1410 Gordon Avenue West Vancouver Sc V7T IR6

From the Dean

Dr Ole Nielsen 56

In this my first opponunity to address our alumni through this medium I would like to express my pleasure at having the privilege of serving the Ontario Veterinary College and the University of Guelph

At the outset I acknowledge my debt to those many faculty students and staff who have labored to make this College a great inshystitution Being mindful of this heritage I am excited by the challenge of helping move the College to new levels of excellence One has to be impressed with the potential of the OVe Heres why

By the time this publication has gone to press I expect tenders for the first phase of a new OVC building program will have been called and possibly awarded This project costing over $13 million will provide modshyem facilities for the Depanments of Clinical Studies and of Biomedical Sciences and the Veterinary Teaching Hospital

The culmination of a great deal of effon led by former Dean Doug Maplesshyden 50 and President Burt Matthews OAC 47 the project is jointly funded by the Federal Government (Departments of Agrishyculture and Regional Industrial Expansion) and the Province of Ontario (OMAF)

The new facility will allow the College to press forward with new teaching research and service programs that include such vital newareas as biotechnology computer as istshyed health management and expanded proshygrams in toxicology

The second phase of the OVC building program which is largely related to teachshying spaces remains to be funded A good share of this project is expected to be includshyed in the fonhcoming capital campaign of the University The panicipation of you the alumni will be crucial to its success The governments of Ontario and Canada have done their part despite difficult circumshystances The rest is up to us

I have found the faculty of the OVC to be -a group of strong and vigorous academshyics and many young talented faculty have been appointed recently In passing one notes the retirement of many of those who led the renaissance in veterinary education in Canada in the post-war years The new generation of faculty has a real challenge in

trying to do as well as their predecessors shyand it will

I believe the graduate students are the sou I of the College Therefore another cause for optimism is the strength of the graduate and research programs at the OVe Presently the College has about 130 gradushyate students who at this most creative period of their lives are striving to provide new knowledge and skills for veterinary medishycine In 1950 there were none

There has been a significant expansion in the D YSc program a comparatively new doctoral program that gives priority to the acquisition of clinical sk ill s in addition to training in research The D VSc degree is unique in the world and how its graduates will be received remains to be determined I am confident it will be favourably

Believing in the imponance of reshysearch OMAF recently committed itself to provide the College with a new research farm at Ponsonby This nO-acre site located some ten miles from Guelph will provide farm-type facilities for hous ing dairy cattle beef cattle sheep pigs and laboratory anishymals will replace existing facilities at Eramosa and Plislinch and will cost in excess of $3 million

The application rate and quality of stushydents seeking admision to the D YM proshygram remains high

I am delighted to be assisted in the work of the Deans office by Associate Dean Ted Valli 62 and Academic Counsellor Ron Downey 61 and given the above is it any wonder I am optimistic

I have always been a bit smug in believshying that those of us from western Canada were the most friendly in the nation My exshyperience since coming to Guelph proves me wrong Everyone including students facshyulty staff the University administration and the local community could not have been more friendly and helpful 0

OVCAA Membership Report-Summer 1985

Life Membership 1 103 Honorary Life Membership 3 Life Me m Instalment Plan 241 Annual Membership 42 -Total Membership 1389 Total Alumni 3537 Membership

of Total Alumni 3930 Membership

of Known Alumni 40 06

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Inch in KatDlandu The following letter to the editor from Or

Carolyn Inch 81 was sent to Ornella Osborne editor of Update the newsletter

published by the Ontario Veterinary Assoshyciation Were grateful to Omelia for passing it on to us

While trekking through the north central region of the Himalayan mountains in

Nepal I was surprised to see the words vetshy

erinary office added to the bottom of it sign written in Nepalese

The village Chame contained the

headquarters of the government veterinary operations for the region of Manang Borshy

dering on China in the north the region covers about 2000 square kilometres and

has the lowest population density in Nepal The average altitude of the region is above

3048 metres Annapurna towers at 8091

metres The logistics behind launching a vetshy

erinary program in an area that is entirely inaccessible except by foot or aircraft had

me intrigued Dr Koshori Jha greeted us warmly and

in the polite manner wed received at the hands of all the Nepalese tea was served

The bulk of his practice is in sheep and goats as well as cattle yak horse mules and chickens On a daily basis he deals most frequently with footrot a problem that

is compounded by the fact that most of the bovine and equine species are bred pri-

During the recent avc AA Annual Meeting retired Deal Doug Maplesden 50 righl received ( plaque embodying newsclippings puhlished during his lenure Dean OIl Nieletl 56 made the presentalion

marily for use as pack animals the terrain is

rough and whether goats are grazing beshy

tween rocks or mules are carrying 80-kiloshygram loads up mountainsides their hooves are exposed to a lot of strain

Dr Koshori Jhas pharmacy contained various disinfectants and as tringents and

many herbal remedies from India retained placenta and anti-bloat preparation for

example

The only vaccine available to him was against Hemorrhagic Septicemia and he

used it when faced with a diagnosed herd

outbreak Dr Koshori Jha pointed out phenol

which was used on feet during July August and Septembers annual FMD outbreak

coinciding with the rainy season Day-to-day treatment is a sma ll part of

the government veterinarian s job He recently received approval for his five-year

plan which began last spring The main eleshyments of the plan are training increasi ng egg production mule breeding Jhopa

breeding (cross between a cow and male yak) and improving cattle feed by the introshyduction of a Phillipine variety of cattle grass

For the livestock assistance training

three farmers from each of 12 panchayats (districts) in Manang will come to Chame

for training and to discuss local problems These men will be involved in a serv ice

centre to be se t up in each panchayat for common treatment He also plans to hold a yearly lives tock exhibitio n with pri ze shy

money for healthy livestock

Plans to increase egg production include a new brooding unit and the introshy

duction of a hybrid of Leghorn New Hampshyshire and Rhode Island Red poultry In an effort to upgrade the quality of pack anishy

mals local ponies will be crossed with donshykeys brought from northern India Similarly

Missing in India Dr Ohiroobhai K Desai 46 61 Sharda Society Paldi Ahmedabad 380007 India has written of hi s attempts to gather inforshy

mation on Drs VD Alaga Raju 36 and

K B Nair 36 both of India He repol1s having bee n with Dr Nair from 1952 to 1956 at the Bombay Veterinary College as an exshyaminer in Veterinary Medicine However he

has been unable to provide up-to-date inforshymation on thesc two alumni Any alumni

with information please write to your avc Alumni Bulletin editor 0

male yaks will be crossed with local cows

and their offspring Jhopa will be used as high-altitude pack animals

Dr Jha plans to distribute these breedshying animals to the more remote region s so

that bloodlines can be upgraded In so me of these areas the native dialect is related to ancestral Tibetan languge rather thall Nepashy

lese which compounds hi s difficult task of education

Pack animals are the lifeline of the

high-altitude people as much today as they

have been for centuries I very much appreshy

ciate the time taken by Dr Koshori Jha to explain the role of domestic animals in the

Himalaya and share with me his ambitious plans for the future 0

AI Ihe recem CVMA Conference in Pelllicshylon Dr Bob Dunbar 12 leji with Dr ROI Downey 6 Bob has reached his 961h birlhday and resides in a PellliClol1 nursing home

In Memoriam Or John N Campbell 15 545 Scripps Drive Davis California 59616 USA

died May 4 1985

Dr Ra)mond E Pinkert 36 440 NOl1h Pine Street Reedsburg Wisconsin 53959 USA died April 13 1985

Or Roderick S MacDonald 37 3003 Oliver Street Apt 203A Halifax NS -B3L 4AI died June 12 1985

Dr John J Carney 44 3531 West 33rd Avenue Vancouver B C V6S IZ2 Date of

death unknown

Or Kenneth R Lachapelle 54 1635 Ranvoyze Ave St Foy Que GIW 3K2

died June 26 1985 0

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College of Social Science Alumni Assoc PEGASmiddotUS

Editor Dorothy Barnes 78

Our Annual Picnic We Illissed you I All of you who didnt make it to our CSSAA picnic during Alumni Weekend 85 But despite the few members and families that did attend we had a good time The pictures tell the story

Here are some of us arriving (l) and setting up the eats We had good food and why not It was a tillle to enjoy relax and have some fun We had games for all ages including catch-the-eggs (2) with real raw eggs

AmI of course whats a picnic without a drop of rain) But President John came prepared with a tarpaulin (3) for those afrnid ofilleiting The k)od and the day were saved Hurrah for our presidenl

Thcre were some brave soul s who unshydaunted by the weather carried on with their baseball game Then of course there was one young partiCipant (4) who was seen scratching hcr head 1I1d wondering what was going on

All in all we had a great time You would have too if youd bcen thcre So makc a mental notc or tic a string around your tingcr toc anywhere that will reillind you that you missed a good outing at th e Aluillni Wcckend 85 CSSAA picnic and that you should makc pl ans now to join us in June 86 at Alumni Wcekend 86 0

A Joy to Behold Her work has the shi mmer of life Such is said of artist Joy Elizabeth (Snihur) Laking Fine Art CSS 72 Joys art is intimately tied to the seasons In spring and summer she works against the perilous fadshying of fresh flowers capturing them in clean powerful designs

Fa ll afternoons on the grassy salt marshes around her home in Portaupigue Nova Scotia inspire wider scenes of rich changing colours

The respite of winter is her time for land and peoplescapes evolved from her ow n photography Her art is created within the context of family community and nature

Joy was introduced to hcr chosen lifeshystyle by her mother - they used to go sketching while Joy was a child in Owen Sound on Lake Huron s Georgian Bay shyand has painted since she can remember She now lives on the edge of the Bay of Fundy with husband Ronald OAC 72 and two cherubs where she can paint every day and capture the beauty she sees around her Whether it be mud and Illarsh a rusted truck and some farmyard geese or caterpillar holes in azalea leaves Joy is able to capture in watercolour the essence and beauty of all she sees

She is noted for her special ability to create white flowers on white paper by givshying the petals shape and vivid life with only a whisper of colour and shadow Light delishycate handling and mcticulous control fused with a powerful design se nse distinguishes her art

Joy is a well established artist and has had se lected exhibitions of her paintings at the Tom Thompson Memorial Art Gallery Owen Sound 1981 Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery Halifax NS 1982 Gallery 1889 Tatamagouche NS 1983

Daffodils By Joy (Snihur) Laking 72

Truro Art Society Truro NS 1984 and the Royal Botanical Gardens Burlington Onl 14

She was deservedly honoured to have the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia purchase one of her paintings for its collection and the Maritime Tel amp Tel chose a Laking painting for the cover of Nova Scotias 1985 telephone directory

Joy says I paint what I live what I see and what touches me It s no wonder then that Joy has been able to successfully transshyfer such sensitivity to her work in a way that has produced tine work s of art as demonshystrated in Daffodils reproduced here 0

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Grad News Terry Goddard 76 wrote to let us know

where he is and what hes doing After gradshyuation Terry turned to the world of engishy

neering and worked at the Bechtel Intershy

national Syncrude project in northern Alberta for a year He retu rned to school and obtained a Masters degree in Politi cal Theshyory in 1978 at the University of Toronto

TIle next nine months were spent workshying at Dhaharan Saudi Arabi a While the re

Terry contemplated the action which would

give him the best career move His deci s ion to go into teach ing led him back to the Unishy

versity of Toronto to obtai n his BEd His teachin g career took hi m to northshy

e rn Saskatchewan whe re he taug ht at a village which if not actually at the end of

the world was situated close enough that the end was plainly visible from the nOI1hern

outskirts He returned to Toronto someshywhat sated with academe and once again

turned to engineering He has been director of maintenance for the Jewi sh Com munity

Centres of Toronto for the past five years He has fou nd it difficult to keep in

touch with fellow grad s Especia lly th ose who studied in Professor Melby s Chinese

poIitic s courses and who were known as the Shanghai Mafia - they are all over the

world now Hes sure they often recall with fondness their days at Unigoo

Where are you former students of Proshyfessors Simmo ns and MelbYTerry would be interested in hearing from you - and so would we

Robin-Lee Norris 80 has been awarded

a $19000 Rot ary Foundation Scholarship to

pursue g radua te studi es in the Masters of Business Administration program at the

Univers ity of Adelaide Adelaide Australia Robin-Lee went o n to graduate from

Osgoode Hall Law School with an LLB

was called to the Ontario Bar in ApriJ of 1982 and has practised law with the tirm of

Kearns McKin non inGuelph since herca ll She took a ten-mo nth leave of absence

commenc ing in February 1985 from her positi on with Kearns McKinno n in o rder to take ad vantage of the sc holarship

During her months in Australia her mandate from Rotary Internatio nal in addishy

tion to pursuing her stud ies is to act as a Rotary and Canadian Ambassador in proshy

moting good will and understanding beshytween Australians and Canadians

A thank you goes to Cliff Hardy buildshying mechanic superv isor Main tenance Deshypartment Physical Resources for supplying us with thi s information and an aside to Robin-Lee when she reads this I was unable

to reach you betore you left to congratulate

you and get more informati on on your award If you have some free time we wOllld love to hea r from you about your studi es

what a Rotary and Canadian ambassador

does and to have you share your ex perience of being down-under

Marilyn Kernohan Morrison 78 has taken the time to Jet us know that shes living in Napanee with hu sba nd Brian She has

tempora ril y se t aside her ca reer to be a home-maker tor Brian and their four-monthshy

old son

Prior to their move to Napanee to acshycommodate Brians tran sfer - he work s with the Ministry of Natural Resources shy

Marilyn and family lived in a small comshymunity northwest of Thunder Bay After

Gue lph Marilyn continued her ed ucation at the comm unity college level and com pleted

a program for counse llors of the mentally

retarded SheJI be returnin g to thi s fi e ld when she again becomes a wage earner

Doris E (Trachsel) OKeefe 74 is deshy

scribed by husband John Paul 74 as a household engineer John Paul is a reshy

source teacher with the Waterloo County Board of Education With such a title I

couldnt resis t phon ing Doris to find out exactly what the duti es of a household enshy

gi neer are

While Doris decl ined to give a cletinishytion of the titl e l detected some surprise and delight that John Paul appreciates what it

takes to look after a famil y and a home

Doris is trying to re turn to teaching but is findin g it difficult in the Cambridge

Waterloo area If she isnt successful shes planning alternatives such as enrolment at Guelph in a Masters program o r failing that enrolment in courses that will he lp her

ac hieve her long-range goa ls She and John Paul recen tly moved from

London Ont to Cambridge Prior to the

birth of Erin now a two-year-old Doris was teac hing boys with behaviourial problems

and she sees thi s as an asset when applying for teaching positions Erin has a six-yearshyold brother Sean so you can understand

perhaps that Doris has been bu sy and maybe she is aptly described as a houseshy

hold engi neer

J Barry Baldwin 69 is a teac her with the Elgin County Board of Education S t Thomas Barry married Linda Janet Wii son They live in Aylmer West

M Rachel (Curtis) Towe 69 is manager customer systems Bell Canada She and

husband Ken live in Guelph

M Lois (Robinson) Harris 70 li ves in Newmarket with husband Fred

B Hugh Schofield 72 is an industrial engi neer with Rockwell Int e rnati o nal C hat ham He and wife Susan (Haslelt)

FACS 78 live in Chatham

Paul Davis 73 is an underwrite r analyst with Co-opera tors General In sura n ce

Guelph Paul and wife Linda (DozeH) 73 and 81 live at Brookhaven Court Guelph

Carol Finlayson 74 is a letter carrier lor Canada Post Carol and husband John Balch live in Toronto

Pal Hamilton 74 is an expon market deshyvelopment specialist with the O ntario Minshyistry of A gricu lture and Foo cl mark et

development branch Toronto He and his wife Diane (Coates) OAC 72 live in

Toronto

Kerrie Sirathy MA 78 advises us that

she is a s tud en t at th e Univcrsity of Sakatchewan Sas katoon

Vicky Sutherland 78 is an air trartie conshy

troller with Air Canada at FoI1 McMurray Airpo l1 Alta and lives in F0I1 McMurray

Sounds like an intercsting job - perhaps youl l share SOIllC experie nces with us Vicky

Marlin Thissen 78 is a foreman with the

region or Halton at ih Milton wa ter po llushytion control plant

Evelyn Evie (Isaacs) Whilwham 80 is a planning ass istant with Union Gas Co Ltd Chatham She and hu sba nd Bob have

c hanged their address They are at 70 Ottawa Drive C ha tham Ont N7L 216 0

In Memoriam A lormer faculty mcmber in the DeshypaI1ment of Geography Barsa Kelly was among the victims of the Air India Hight 182 disaster that occ urred

off the coas t of Irel and las t June ~ mr(sa Vas headed tor India on a reshy

search project at the time of her

death S he was the wife of Protessor Kenneth Kelly Department of Geogshyra phy On behalf of its members and all those who chc ri shed their con tacts with Barsa the Board of Directors of the College of Social Science Alumni Association extend their s incere symshy

pathy to Professor Kelly 0

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College of Biological Science Alumni Assoc BIOmiddotALUMNI NEWS

Editor Marie (Boissonneault) Rush 80

HONORARY PRESIDENT Professor Bruce Sells Dean

PRESIDENT David Airdrie BSc 82 Microbiology

PAST PRESIDENT Dr Chris Wren BSc 77 Marine Biology PhD 83

VICE-PRESIDENT Dee Britney BSc 74 Fisheries amp Wildlife MSc 81

SECRETARY-TREASURER Kclly Munkittrick BSc 80 Fisheries amp Wildshylife MSc 83

DIRECTORS Lorraine Bruce-Allen BSc 80 Zoology MSc 84 Jim Elliott BSc 79 Marine Biology Keith Harris BSc 76 Marine Biology Dr Doug Holdway BSc 76 Marine Biology MSc 78 Aquatic Toxicology PhD 83 Krista (McAuley) Soper BSc 79 Marine Biolshyogy Karin Davidson-Taylor BSc 83 Zoology

From Dave Airdrie 82 the

President How time flies when youre having fun Your editor Marie (Boissonneault) Rush 80 tell s me that this note to you will be in the Fall issue of the Guelph Alumnus so Ill bring you up to date on happenings since your 1985-86 Board of Directors was inshystalled in June

The CBS Alumni Association was parshyticularly busy during June Alumni Weekshyend events including the Wildlife Art Show and Sale and the barbecue at the Rockwood Conservation Area were well attended

Thanks must go to Krista (McAuley) Soper 79 and Lorraine Bruce-Allen 84 for their first-rate efforts in organizing and running the art show From all accounts it was ex tremely well done and is sure to be repeated in 1986

Further thanks mu st go to Keith Harshyris 76 for his efforts in once again organizing the barbecue at Rockwood Keith has done a terrifi c job with this event s ince its inception Hopefully these two events will be expanded in the coming year

Last spring the objective of $10 000 for the Keith Ronald Fellowship Fund was reached and we thank all who generously contributed to this fund Its to be hoped that this is only the first of many scholarships initiated through the CBSAA

Many of you will now be aware of the changes which the Universitys Department of Alumni Affairs has undergone in rece nt months Most important is the arrival of Marjorie Millar as director of the Departshyment It seems that President Matthews is placing greater emphasis on the importance of the Department due in part to the impenshyding capital campaign I am sure that youll all notice many beneficial innovations

The CBSAA has I feel reached a point in its development where we must heighten our profile both among alumni and undershygraduates In order to increase the awareness of the Association the Board has plans to embark on some new programs

The goals are as I see them two-fold first of all we need YOU to get more inshyvolved whether its participation in our proshygrams or s upport for the Assoc iation through your membership The fact that youre reading this demonstrates an interest which we would like to heighten

Secondly we re working at helpin g undergraduates before graduation to beshycome more aware of our Association Hopeshyfully we ll get helpful input and suggestions from many of you in the near future Reshymember - YOUR alumni association is what YOU make it

Dave Airdrie BSc 82 President Colshylege of Biological Science AA

FACULTY ADVISORS Dr Denis Lynn Zoology Dr Margaret Hauser M icroshybiology Dr John Hilton Nutrition Dr John Sandys Award Phillips Botany amp Genetics Dr Brian Wilson Human BiologyKinetics The Ontario Confederation of University

Faculty Associations (OCUFA) has awarded UGAA REPRESENTATIVES Karin Dr Alexander Sandy Middleton DepartshyDavidsonTaylor BSe X) Zoology Keith ment of Zoology one of the nine OCUFA Harris BSc 76 Marinc Biology Rob Teaching Awards for 1984 Milnc BSe XI MSe 84 Marine Bio Dr Middleton was nominated for this -award by colleagues students administrashyEX-OFFICIO DIRECTORS Ed Berdusco tors alumni and faculty It acknowledges president CBSSC Steve Spring past presishy outstanding ability and is considered to be dent CBSSC the provinces highest honour for excellence

in university teaching HKAA REPRESENTATIVE Nick Dalton I think there are two keys to being an BSe 77 Human Kinetics effective teacher Sandy says One is to

have respect for the student the other is to EDITOR RIO-ALUMNI NEWS Marie make a genuine intellectual and time comshy(Boissonneault) Rush B Se XO Marine mitmcnt to the course Biology 0 Dr Alexander Middleton Congratulations Dr Middleton 0

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Grad News Human Biology

Cathy Knipe BSc 79 MSc 83 is a Ph D st ud ent at Iowa State University Ames Iowa USA She is studying Moshylecular Biology

Shelly Lugg BSc 83 is a stude nt at Simon Fraser University Burnaby BC

Human Kinetics

Susan (Wright) Kwiatkowski BSc 80 is a recreation therapist at York Central Hosshypital Toronto Her spouse Ed graduated from Ryerson in 1979

Donna Marie (Kadwell) 1vose BSc 79 and husband John ji ve in Thorold Shes a physica l education supervisor at the Niagara Peninsula Crippled Childrens Centre

Mary Ellen (Mew) Walker BSc 83 is the activity co-ordinator at Spruce Lodge Stratford

Dr Ken Danylchuk BSc(PE) 73 is a s ur ge ry re s ident at the H itchcockshyDartmouth Medical Center Hanover N H USA

Kathryn (Tarry) Myers BSc 78 is a teacher with the Middlesex COunty Board of Educati on Hyde Park

WildUfe

Vicky Johnston 84 bega n an MSc at Lakehead University Thunder Bay in May Shes working on the reprodu ctive biology of Lake Superior rin g-billed gull s

Nutrition

Or 0010 Ohiokpehai 77 lectures in food and nutrition at the Unive rs ity of Ife Nigeria

Microbiology

John Semple 78 is a PhD ca ndidate in the Department of Mic rob iology amp Immushynology at Queens Uni vers ity Kingston He will be doing a post-doctora l at the Banting amp Best Depattment of Medica l Research University of Toronto

Unspecialized

Peter Adams 79 and Beth (Sarjeant) 79 are happy to announce their recent marshyriage Beth is a research technici an with the Depanment of Medicine Univers ity of Ca lshygary Alta and Peter operates a business with the se ismic service industry

Marine Biology

Jorgen Hansen 75 and his wife Drusilla (Dol be) Arts 75 live in Gloucester Jorge n is a staff officer with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Ottawa

CoUege Honour RoU - Winter 85 Semester 06

Margorie Fe rgusson 894 Human Biology JoAnna Milan 860 Biology

Semester 07 Sandra Noble 856 Microbiology

Semester 08 Marga ret Docker 876 Marine Biology Thomas Johnston 87 0 Fi sheries Biology Debra Underhill 858 Microbi ology

James Wright 858 Biology Tobin Peever 854 Botany

Alexander Hanke 852 Zoology Rebecca Rodgers 852 Human Bi ology

Tracey Robin son 882 BSc( HK ) Rebecca Halonen 880 BSc(HK )

Swdent has obtained standing for second time Student has obtaincd standing for third time

Home Town

Oakville Ottawa

Dorchester

Guelph New Liskeard Kingston Thunder Bay Bracebridge Grafton Calgary Alta Guelph Georgetown

Donald MacLennan 75 and hi s wife Katherine live in Chatham Donald is a biologi st-supervisor with the Ministry of Natural Resources Lake SI Clair Fisheries Assessmen t Unit Tilbury 0

College of Biological Science

Alumni Association

Wildlife Art Show

Well it happened June 15 and 16 have come and gone but not withshyout event The Graduate Students Lounge was transformed from a cozy meeting place into an an gallery There was much movi ng of furniture and hanging of an work with the end product being our fi rst ever CBSAA Wildlife Art Show

In total there were 20 wildlite artists partic ipating all tine ani sts in their own right Maybe you reshymember Ut a Stre live a nd Dr Ed Bailey Wow I You should see their wood works

Rick Beaver 73 also showed some of his work hes a wildlife imshypressionist and the colour and move shyment he paint s into each piece is eloquent Donald Dority 76 showed us the line photographer he has become There were other ani sts - too many to mention but all of extremely high calibre

Id like to mention one las t name though - Cindy Hayward manager of the Graduate Students Lounge If you ever need a steady hand to get an event off the ground shes the one to co ntact Without her hel p there would have been a whole heap of orshyga ni za tional problems From which we would have been unable to escape

All in all we had a successful show Thanks artists and viewers for making our efforts worthwhile 0

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New Minister of AgricultureOntario Agricultural College Alumni Assoc OAC ALUMNI NEWS

Editor Dr Harvey W Caldwell 51

Ontari OS new mini ster of ag riculture Jack Riddell 52A and 57 a cash crop farmer from the Exeter area comes to the position of Ontario s Mini ster of Agriculture and Food with ten years of expe rience as Liberal caucus cr itic for agriculture

The min is ter sa id that life under a Libshyeral government will give agriculture a higher priority than it has ex perienced in the past It will be considered one of the major industries in this province

Jack also pro mi sed to consult a great

Basic Technology in Action shyTurning Stones Into Bread By Ann Middleton Information Services

A new University of Guelph projec t in Tanza nia Africa should aid th e Third Wo rld s ubsistence leve l farmer The $400000 three-year projec t funded by the International Development Resea rch Centre (IDRC) will invol ve fltlculty of the Uni vershysitys Department of Land Resou rce Sc ience and Soko ine Uni versity of Ag riculture in Morogoro Central Tanza ni a Aim of the enterpri se is to use loca lly ava il ab le rock materials as soil amendm en ts and con shyditioners

The project came about when Ott awas IDRC brought together a team of two geo logists with an interest in improving co nshyditions for African farmers Professor Ward Chesworth with the Department of Land Resource Science has a long-standing intershyes t in turning rock s into fertili zers deshyve loped during work in West Africa and the Canltlry Islands where local farmers have spread volcanic rock on their field s for two centu ries In his lab and in the Blue Springs basin near Acton Ontario Professor Chesshyworth has been conducting experiment s on the levels at which common rocks re lease nutri ents into soil solutions

The other team member Dr Peter van Straltl ten is ori ginally from Germany but spe nt e ight years with the United Nations in Tan zania looking for metals and metal deshyposi ts and working on an in ve ntory of ferti shyli zer raw materials in south-east Africa

During thi s period Tanza nian food production per capita fell dramaticall y leadshying Dr van Strltlaten to try to find ways to help the food situation In ex periments in his garden in Dodomo Tanzaniltl he was able to increase yields of vegetables using locally

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available geological materia ls and organic wastes

Noting the common interes ts of the two men the Canadian age ncy introd uced them and Dr van Straaten relocated in Guelph Co-ordinators of the project are Professor Cheswo rth and Tan za ni an sc ie nti st Dr Johnson Semoka of Sokoine University coshyauthor of a text on so il sc ience much used in agricultural circles in Africa

Technical assistant Peter Sl11i th is working with Tanzanian rock specimens in the Land Resource Science lab and two other Tanzanian scientists will be involved

In addition to academics from bo th institutions members of the Geological Survey of Tanzania will also work on the project both in the Morogoro area and at Mbeya station in south-western Tanzania

Roc k sa mples will be collected and crushed and field tests and pot ex periments carried out here and on location When reshysu lt s have bee n obtained extension work will begin in Africa under the direc tion of Dr Semoka It is hoped that members of a Me nnonite Central Committee group workshying at Mbeya will design a simple rock crusher for the use of local farmers

Tanzania has a major phosphate deshyposi t wh ich will be tapped by the project as well as ground s ilicates including volcanic ash Liming materials such as limestone dolomite marl and ca rbonatite will also be evaluated

Professor Chesworth points out that alshythough No rth Americans place much emshyphasi s on the big three of soil nutrition shynitrogen phosphorus and potassium (NPK) - there are actually about 20 necessary

deal with the farm organizations on the direction his ministry should be taki ng

I dont believe that we can sit in our so-ca ll ed ivory towers and introduce the kind of programs that are go ing to be mea nshyingful unless we get consultation from the farmers and their spokes people

He has been a member of the provincial legislature for 12 years He spent his first two years as energy cri tic and later environshyment critic before mov ing into agriculture Jack and Anit a have a family of five 0

nutrie nts including the minor ones In some areas of Tanza nia the decline

in soil fe rtility is in part due to the settling of widespread populations into villages where land has been used without concern for nutrients Tn other part s of the country productivity has declined because of leachshying of plant nutrie nts durin g normal rainfall and also from the continuous use of acidifyshying fertilizers such as ammo nium su lphate Dr Chesworth point s out that the current practice of NPK fe rtili zation totally ignores secondary and micronut rient requirements of plants It is hoped that the projec t wilt address thi s problem

Our approac h is basic tec hn ology our target group the poorest far mers Dr van Straaten explains One of the problems in the past Dr Ches worth says has been convincing agronomists that it s worth purshysuing this kind of elementary tec hnology approach Theyre very skeptical that you can take common roc ks wi thou t major inshydustrial proces ing and use them to advanshytage on tropical soils

A s ideline area of research is work with zeolites open framework si licates that often occ ur in volcanic rocks Some zeolites can be used to trap nitrogen in the form of ammonia which would otherwise be los t in gaseous form When added to cow manure for exampl e and stomped in by the beasts themselves zeolites enrich an already valushyabl e fertil ize r Dr van Straaten explains

The zeolite research is being carried out in co njunction with Professor Colin Fyfe Department of Chemistry an intershynat io na ll y kn ow n authority o n zeo lit e -che mi stry

Orie result of the work of the Un ive rs ity of Guelph geo logists is an ag rogeology ne tshywork currentl y being set up bya number of African cou ntries as the result of di sc usshysions following a paper by Dr van Straaten and Professor Chesworth The paper was given recently at meetings of the UN Ecoshynomic Commiss ion for Africa in Zambia 0

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A Designing Grad The need for a summer job six years ago has ended in a Guelph grad des igning golf courses

When in 1979 Lisa Maki now

BLA 84 was searching for a job that would assist her in her studies at the Univershysity she applied to the city of Kitchener

She could have wound up in any

number of areas in the parks and recreation department but Rockway and Doon Valley

course superintendent Ed Ortlieb gave her the chance to join the work crew at Rockway fltor the first couple of years it was just a job that got her outdoors in the summer then by chance she got interested in the game itself

And now shes embarked on a career in golf course design

Lisa the 24-year-old oldest daughter of Ted Maki a former general manager of the

Lisa Maki BLA 84 Kitchener Rangers left last July for Lakeshyland Florida where she Joined Links Deshysign which de sig ns and oversees golf course construction throughout the United 1983 and a friend of the family who knew States The company is considered the sec shy was interested in golf course work arranged ond-largest of its type behind the one run by a meeting with Ronald Garl said Lisa I US golf legend Jack Nicklaus who deshy had an official job interview in April of 84 signed the Glen Abbey course in Oakville and then went to Florida in August of the

How does a young Kitchener woman same year to familiarize myself with the

end up working for Ronald Garl a 40-yearshy firms projects

old graduate of the University of Florida Because I had focused much of my who apprenticed under such well-known deshy University work on such things as turf man shy

signers as Roben Trent Jones and Joseph agement and had done pan of my bachelor Lee Again it was just a chance opportunity of landscape architecture thes is on what

We were in Florida in December of makes British golf courses great and the

Sisters of Accident Victims Receive Diplomas

A tragic accident just prior to Spring Convocation resulted in the deaths oftwo graduands of the Associate Diploma in Agriculture Program Jeff Bikus 85A of West Lome and Nick Davidson 85Afrom Zimbabwe Joy Davidson sister ofNick came from Zimbabwefor the Convocation She was sponsored by the OAC Alumni Association Classes of85A alld 86A Norm McCollulIl 66A honorary class president 85A Don and MiidredMcCollum Jenny Ballentine and her parents Dr Steve Bowley 78 and80 honorary class president 86A and the University Centre Administration Our sympathy is extended to the families and friends of these two popular studel1ls Pictured are Ito r Jenny Ballantine friend ofJeff Bikus Lealln Bikus sister of Jeff Joy Davidson sister of Nick and Klaus Kristiansen a studellt from Zimbabwe

other on golf course residential design he was impressed

In order to learn what made British

courses great Lisa spent a semester in Engshyland and Scotland visiting researching sketching photographing and playing 16 historic courses including the famous links courses which by tradition are the

only clubs to host the British Open Links layouts are courses that border the sea and have been built or developed over sand

bases

Approximately 15 students a year take

advantage of the School of Land scape Arshychitectures Semester Abroad Program fi shynancing the trips themselves However the program is supported by an annual $5000 grant from the Alma Mater Fund so alumni can claim a cenain amount of credit for Lisas success She was a recipient in 1983

of part of that years AMF grant Im not sure my mother and father

were very keen about my trave lling around England and Scot lane all alone but it was a truly great experience she said middot1 not only met many wonderful and helpful peoshyple got to play the great courses like St

Andrew s Royal Troon Turnberry and my favorite of all Royal Dornoch

After a complicated and lengthy US immigration process which took nearly a year she was granted her permanent work

visa She was in regular contact with her new

boss after returning to Kitchen er - she re turned to work at Rockway and Doon while awaiting the vi sa approval - and then last July plunged immediately into

projects including work at a mens tournashyment players 36-hole complex in Sarasota and a Ladies Professional Golf Assoc iation course in Melbourne where she worked in association with LPGA tour players Beth Daniels and Sally Little

Despite the fact that the job involves

vy ing with rattlesnakes alligators and Iild

pigs when I have to tramp through forests and swamps in applying my design work to certain areas I love the outdoor work Lisa

said At the same time she doesnt have any

probleIl1s giving orders to hard-hatted heavy-machinery construction workers when she is the field supervisor for on-site

work think I may have raised a few eye shy

brows when I staned work at Rockway but I was accepted

Lisa isnt sure how long this pan of her life will last and she has no way of knowing whether any of her courses will eve r be known as Lisa Maki layouts But that doesnt

concern her They may be Links Design projects but Ill know they were basically my courses 0

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Klink Lecture Dr Doug Morrison 49 Department of Poultry Science was chosen to deliver the 1985 Klink Lecture

The Klink lecture is ~ponsored by the Agricultural Inst itute of Canada and named after the Institute s founding president Preshysented by an outstanding lecture r the lecture is delivered through a coast-to-coast tour and concerns a topic of current significance to the agricultural industry and the nation

Dr Morri son stated that there is a need for professionalization in an imal agriculshyture in order to give it an improved image and make it more acceptable to the conshysumer

Address ing members of the Ontario Inshystitute of Agrologists in London Ontario he told his audience that the agriculture inshydustry in Canada ranks among the best in the world and producers have to ensure thi s is shown and make sure that peer pressure prevents producers from doing things that we cant defend

He suggested some type of professhysiona l approach established by the farming organization whereby expertise would be required instead of merely encouraged

This is a mu ch beller ap proach th an some edict from society through governshyment legi slation I strong ly object to legislashytion designed to protect me from myself he said adding that there are currently enough regulations existent through legislation that dictate what farmers can and cannot do

If a farmer were a profess ional hi s reward wou Id be in profits - about as meanshyingful a reward as has ye t been devised

Benefits of a more professionalized approach would include an improved image of the farmer to the consumer an increase in communication a more efficient industry

which is essential for competition improved knowledge on the fa rmers part of health nutrition care markets etc and more awareness of soc ietys concerns

In turn it would also be necessary to provide beller information to the consumer through an educational process because if soc iety is to pay for increased inputs for the long- term good of the nat ion then it is essential society be adequately informed

Morrison remarked that he fee ls the maj ori ty of animal agriculturists are in fact professionals but there has to be a concerted e ffort to at tract as lew people as possible in to the business who do not understa nd farmshying or who are doing things that are unacshyceptable

Consumer concern over dietary value or the amount of drugs contained in animal product s is also reason for farmers to tak e a professional approach They should work to alleviate any misreprese ntations and misin shyformation the public is receiving the proshyfessor noted s tating that farm ers have never produced food as safe and as wholeshysome as it is today

By the turn of the century on a world basis meat consumption is predicted to in shy

crease by abou t 60 per cent while the intake of milk is expected to increase by almost 40 per cent

A major fac tor for this rise in intake result s from th e fact that developing nations will begin to consume animal products as soon as they can afford them China is an excellent exa mple of this said the professor who commented that nation is now movshying as rapidly as possible to increase animal production

With all these factors is mind Dr Morshyri son sa id he is optimistic for the future of the Canad ian animal agriculture industry

Weve got the opportunities and can take advantage of them he said 0

Mark Bernards 85 cenlre was the recipienl oftwo OAC Alumni Foundation awards the OAC Alumni Graduate Award and the Beth Duncan Gold Medal Left is Gord Nixon 37 Foundashytion chairman and director and right NR Rick Richards 38 treasurer

Entrepreneur in Residence

Dr Donald Shaver

Dean Freeman McEwen is pleased to be working with Dr Donald McQueen Shaver the Universitys first Agricultural Entreshypreneur-i n-Res idence

Dr Shaver a native of Cambt idge Onshytari o is found er chairman and chief exshyecutive officer of Shaver Poultry Breed ing Farms Limited The compan y distributes chicken breeding stock to 90 countries from its head office in Cambridge and three subshysid iaries in the United States Britain and France He retired from his executive reshysponsib ilities on August 30 but is conshytinuing as director and adv isor to the company

From 1940 to 1945 Dr Shaver served with the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps in Africa and Europe retiring as regimental commanding officer He is past president of the Canadian Hatchery Federation the Poulshytry Products Institute of Canada the Canashydian Lincoln Red Society and Maine-Anjou Association He is a member of the Order of Canada Honorary Life Member of the Worlds Poultry Science Association and the Ontario Institute of Agrologi sts He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Science by McGill University and the Centennial Medal by the OAC

The Entrepreneu r-in-Reside nce pro shygram was initiated and financially supshyported by OAC Class of 58 to champion -the role of private enterpri se within soc iety The appointment is for a two-year period during which time Dr Shaver will present lectures lead workshops and consult with faculty and students

The Agricultural Entrepreneur-in-Resishydence program at the University is believed to be a first in agr icultural education around the world 0

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University Of Guelph Involved in $68 Million Chinese Project The University of Guelph has embarked on a co-operative $68 million project that will ~ink five Canadian and Chinese universities and agricultural institutions

The four-year Black Dragon River Proshyjeo supported by the Canadian Internashytional Deve lopment Agency (C IDA) involves Guelph the University of Alberta Olds College in AlbeI1a and two Chinese institutions - Heilongjiang Land Reclamashytion University and Liu He Training College in northeastern Heilongjiang Province

Under th e term s of the agreement training will be provided at the three Canashydian institutions for personnel from the two Chinese university institutions

The Liu He Training College is respo nshysible for educating state farm employees Training will range from short courses to undergraduate and graduate level programs

Faculty from the Canadian universities and Olds College will travel to China during the summer months to give lectures and

short courses The area borderi ng on Russia has treshy

mendou s potential for agricultural deve lopshyment Professor Neal Stos~opf 57 direct or of OACs diploma courses is Guelphs co-ordinator for the Chinese projshyect He was part of the Canadian gove rnment planning miss ion and ex plains that although the climate combines the cold winters and hot summers of Alberta most of the moisshyture is rain that falls between Jul y and Sepshytember

Although latitude is the sa me as Edmontons at 52 degrees north the area grows soybeans and corn as well as wheat The land has two to four feet of black topsoil waiting to be drained and planted he says with potential for livestock proshyduction

The proj ec t centre is located at the Unishyversity of Alberta with administration in Guelph being carried out by the Centre for International Programs 0

Provincial apiarist retires after 19 years You might say Philip Burkes job brought sweet rewards

Until his retirement recently Philip was the provincial apiarist - sort of Onshytarios chief of bees - while working at the University of Guelphs Department of Environmental Biology

He joined the University as a lectu rer in 1943 and then became assistant professor and later associate professor

At the same time the Ontario Departshyment of Agriculture (as the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food was known then) made him the assistant provincial apiarist In 1966 he became provincial apiarist

Of course he advised beekee pers on ways they could make their colonies more productive and efficient and fielded many apiary management question s - including how to prevent bees from swarming

If they swarm one-third to one-half of th e colony takes off so you lose a big source of your honey crop Swarming is trigshygered when the hive becomes overcrowded so the beekeeper mu st stay ahead of them It involves a whole manipulation of the hive through the season visiting each colony at least once every ten to 14 days he says Philip also worked with farmers whose

crops depended on pollination by bees At one time bees were needed for

pollin ating greenhouse produce such as cucumbers But in the past 15 years the trend has been toward new types that are self fruiting he says

But the biggest change in the industry over the years was the trend towards Illakshying corn king in Ontario - a trend that is now being reversed he says

From 1949 and on a lot of bee coloshynies were moved to the western provinces tollowi ng th e reduction in alfalfa production in Ontario and the increased corn acreage he says

Now prospec ts for honey production in Ontario are better than in past years beshycause of the increased alfalfa acreage and other legumes and the trend towards more diversified cropping

Not surpris ingly prices have changed in the industry over the years too Back in the 1920s it cost about $10 to start a bee colony today start-up costs are about $100 to $125 per colony

Much of his work at the University looked at ways to prevent di seases in bees using selected antibiotics

He was secretary for the Ontario Beekeepers Association for 15 yea rs and now acts as a consu It ant for the group 0

Wins Crampton Award

Dr Stanley J Slinger 37 the most recent rec ipient of the Earl e W Crampton Award for distingui shed service in nutrition is ProshyFessor Emeritus of the Depal1ment of Nutrishytion College of Biolog ica l Science at Guelph

Born in Lowell Ontario Dr Slinger received his BSc from the Ontario Agrishycultural College hi s MSc fro111 the Univershysity of Toronto and a PhD from Cornell University From 1941 to 1965 he was in the Departillent of Poultry Science at the OAC and since 1965 has been in the Department of Nutrition at Guelph serving as chairJl1an from 1965 to 1974

Dr Slinger conducted re sea rch in sevshyeral areas of pou Itry nutrition for Jl10re than 30 years In 1972- 73 a fi sh nutrition laborashytory was set up and thi s laboratory has conshytinued to grow and iJl1prove s i nee One of the primary objectives in both poultry and fi sh nutrition research has been to develop feed to rmulas using feedstuffs of Canadian orishygin 111ese tannulas have been publi shed and continuall y revi sed and have been used extensively by teed manufacturers through shyout Canada Dr Slinger continues to be active in research

Dr Slinger taught poultry nutrition in Poultry Science for 27 years gave seminar courses in nutrition and physiology taught Fundamentals of Nutrition in the Depal1shyment of Nutrition and deve loped and taught courses in fi sh and wildlite nutrition

He has supervi sed the work of Jl1any graduates and it is interesting to note that the Department of Nutrition at Guelph is the only depailment in Canada - and there are very few in the United States - turning out graduates in Fish Nutrition at the PhD leve l

He has helped to establi sh modern poultry industries in Mexico and the areas of South East Asia Africa the Middle East Eastern and Western Europe and the United Kingdom Lectures conlerences and other consultative work have also taken hilll to Jl1any coul1tries over the years

The recipient of numerous honours and awards Dr S linger was made Professor Emeritus of the University in Ino and reshy -ceived the Earl e W Crampton award in 19B4 at Macdonald College Que Thi s award is given by the Faculty of Agriculture in recogshyniti on of significant co ntributions in the field of nutrition through research andlor service The award is named for Dr Earle W Crampton a renowned nutritionist whose career at Macd onald bega n in 1922 and lasted far 51 years 0

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cialist having spent four months in the latter John Reid 84 is technical sales rep Agrico Grad News part of 1984 in Bloemfontein South Africa Sales Ltd Richmond BC

Earl Johnston 46 is president Earl-John Brokers Ltd Delhi

Joe Knox 48 is secretary-treasurer Annco Westeellnc Guelph

Ralph Hills 54 is pastor United Church of Canada Smith Falls Ralph left Zambia last October spending some time in Kenya Israel England and Scotland on the way home He was surprised to meet Charlie Broadwell also 54 on Oxford Street in London Charlie was giving a reception at a large castle for the white bean buyers who purchase beans from Charlies Bean Growers of Ontario Ralph also passes along the word from Louise (Fershyguson) Hope Mac 54 that her husband Don 54 preparing for some future possible social work is studying drug addiction at George Brown College of Applied Ans and Technology Toronto

Joseph Leach 54 is a research scientist Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources Lake Erie Research station Wheatley

Ken Edwards 59 is an industrial engineer Prince George Pulp and Paper Vancouver BC

Fred Theaker 62 is a teacher-biologist Ren frew County Board of Education Aruprior

Howard Lang 67 is senior so il conshyservation advisor for OMAF Cambridge

John Lawrence 69 has been appointed vice-president and ge neral manager De kalb Canada Inc Chatham John is a lso president of the Canadian Agri-marketing Assoc iation

Robert Brooksbank 70 is manager Agrishycultural Department Simcoe area Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce

Alan Duncan BLA 73 is project coshyordinator Groupe d intervention urban de Montreal Montreal Que

Martha (Weir) Collins 75 reports that Anne (Walton) Bayler 75 is at teac hers college in Toronto after spending several years teaching in the Bahamas Martha lives at I Braid Place Guelph and would like to hear news of her classmates

Jim Dyer MSc 75 is a senior resource and environmental officer with the crop producshytion division of Agriculture Canada Ottawa He is on loan as a drought monitoring spe shy

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His wife Barb (Newell) Arts 75 who is a technical editor with Public Works Canada joined him in Bloemfontein for a month

Elizabeth Fedorkow 75 is a market reshysearcher Tetra Pak Inc Markham

Roy Maxwell 75 is an agricultural comshymentator CBC Radio Noon Toronto

Gary Ball 76 is vice-president manufacturshying Mitten Vinyl Inc Cambridge

Garnet McConney 77 is feed lot manager Catllel and Ontario Inc Petersburg

Patrick Meyers 77 OVC 84 is a vetshyerinarian with the Grenville-Dundas Veterinshyary Clinic Kemptville

Martha Frey 78 is secretaryass istant edishytor Canadians for Health Research Wes tshymount Que

Wayne Harrison 79 is assi stant manager Toronto Dominion Bank Elmira His wife is Katherine (McLeod) 77

Sharon Helynk 79 is with the Woodbury Animal Hospital Halifax NS

Jeffery Goebel 80 is resident engineer ACF Canada Ltd Georgetown

Mary Lynn Prong 80 is assistant manager Royal Bank Watford She reports that Bruno Soucy 8Q has changed jobs from OMAF farm ma nagement advisor to agrolog ist London region Royal Bank

Corrie Almack 81 is presidentowner Agshyriculturai Soil and Nutrition Consultants Freelton

Edward Bolton 81 is research farm manshyager AJle lix Inc M ississauga

William Summers 82 MSc 84 is prodshyuct deve lopment rep Du-Pont Canada Streetsville

Dianne (Coker) McDowell 83 is quality assurance supervisor Richardson Foods Ltd Glanw0I1h

John Ross 83 is a program officer Agrishyculture Canada Edmonton Alta

Jeff Burke 84 is a customer service rep Griffith Lab Toronto

Julie Fowler 84 is working for Embury Bros Farms Ltd Newburgh

Karen Rodman 84 is a farm management specialist OMAF Nepean

James Simonds 84 is a crop specialist Cavendi sh Fanns Summerside P E1

Richard West PhD 84 is a research scishyentist Canadian Forestry Service SI John s Nftdo

In Memoriam We regret to report the following deaths

Marie Honsberger 17A died March 1985

Esmond D Clipsham 2IA died on April 6 1985 Esmond had been the proprietor Uneeda Rest Hotel Kilwonhy and was a life member of the OAC Alumni Association

Stanley Ewart Keillor 21 died on February 27 1985 He was a crop farmer at Walshylacetown

John Edward Chalmers 23A died on Febshyru ary 15 1985

Jacobus Van Haarlem 23 at age 85 on July 2 1985 in Vineland He retired as ex shyecutive director of the Hor1icultural Experishymental Station at Vineland in 1970 after 47 years of service there

Hugh Lacklin Paterson 32A died in May 1985 of a heart attack at Rockwood

Murray Cameron Macklin 33A 35 died January n 1985 in Toronto

Garland Alfred Fisk 35 Date of deat h unknown

Gordon Elgin Young 35 died on June 12 1985 at Ing leside

John Miller Fargery 37 on March 22 1985 in Toronto John had been an insurance salesman Farm Credit Corp and was a life member of the OAC Alumni Assoc iation

William Thomson 40 in 1982 in Lonshy shygueuil Que His death was reported recen tl y

Robert Fletcher Madden 54A died on November 26 1984 at age 52 at Napanee

Vera (Mod ric) Kozamplik MSc 73 in Yugoslavia She was the wife of Vinko Kozumplik M Sc 71 0

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From the Dean

Dr Barham

In some of my lellers I have aimed to share

information on some special program or theme with you On this occasion I want to

keep you in touch through a number of lillie items so I shall hold onto some of the bigshy

ger interests for future issues of the Guelph Alumnus

As I write this leller Alumni Weekend 85 is behind us I found it a great weekend

and I thoroughly enjoyed meeting more of our alumni for the first time while

especially appreciating recognizing more

and more familiar faces and names from previous occasions

This year the Classes of 65 and 75 requested an up-date on our programs and

the developments we have experienced together in the College over the last few

years I guess that we were able to demonshy

strate much more development in our research and teaching programs than we could in some parts of the physical facilities within the buildings Still we had thorshyoughly congenial and I think very useful

meetings with both of these classes and added a nostalgic tour of our facilities

It was splendid to meet both of these groups I confess however that I had not

foreseen that a large part of the interest of the Class of 65 rested on the fact that many of their children are now gearing up to enter FACS

I was able to remind them that the BASc and B Comm degrees both lead

into fascinating and challenging careers for sons and nephews as well as daughters and

nieces Some of you coming to Alumni Weekend 86 might wish to get in touch with me to arrange an up-date on our acti vities then too

One of my special pleasures of Alumni Weekend was to join with the Class of 35 at the Golden Anniversary Dinner This occashy

sion is always a particular delight given the special personal pleasures reflected in the

friendships shared on this anniversary And I do want members of the Class of

35 to know that their gift of the magnificent Terry Legault Roman Festival print looks really outstanding and just right amidst the

contemporary decor of the FACS lounge

One last item of alumni news which I want to mention is the fact that I met with

Jean (Nairn) Carter 38 and some of her committee recently I learned that they have

been making quite outstanding progress in establishing the trust fund that will support their new graduate student award in geronshy

tology The first award presentation of $1000 is being made this fall but members of the Class of 38 are still pushing on with their fund raising in order to bring the

annual trust-fund yield to a level of $2 000 We all think that the Class of 38 grads

have been quite remarkable in their detershymination to build up a significant fund to

support work in this important new field of scholarship and research I know that we

shall all appreciate your support for them in reaching their target

I met with Audrey Warner and Annette

Yeager 62 recently They advised me of their concern for the needs of teachers wantshy

ing to prepare themselves for adding Family Studies to their fields of professional speshy

cialization and of other teachers already working in that field who find themselves in need of some up-dating especially in view of the curriculum changes which appear to be around the corner

In this regard I want to mention two

items which might be of interest First our faculty in FACS have been

quite heavily engaged in working with

teachers and others in thinking planning debating and writing for the curriculum developme~ts envisaged for the Ontario Academic High School Credits

Most especially we have had as memshybers of the Canadian Family in Perspective group Dr Jean Sabry with her own special

interest in human nutrition Dr Grant

McCracken in clothing Drs Marshall Fine and Claude Guldner with their expertise in family relations and Drs Anne Martin Matshythews and Joe Tindale with their special strengths in life-span development and

aging - quite a team of contributors Secondly I want to mention in relation

to my meeting with Audrey and Annette that we now have a number of courses avai 1shy

able in a six-week format offered in summer sessions provided on campus

Perhaps of even more interest to those of you who wont find it practical to take

classes on campus at Guelph we have an annual offering of distance or corresponshy

dence-type courses Many of these will be of very pertinent

interest to a number of teachers The current list includes Human Development Marital and Family Dynamics Personal and Family Finance Development of Human Sexuality Nutrition and Man and the Exceptional Child in the Family

You can find out more about these

offerings by writing directly to Guelph Disshytance Education University of Guelph

Macdonald Institute shyFamily and Consumer Studies Alumni Assoc

Editor Carol Telford-Pittman 75

Guelph Ont NIG 2WI or by getting in touch with my office

One of the reasons that we have put

ourselves so significantly behind the development of these distance courses is that we did not have the resources to meet

the demand for providing our courses in the more traditional class format at locations

away from the Guelph campus As usual there is much more to share

with you but it will just have to hold until

my next letter I look forward to being in touch with you again then 0

Olive Thompson Honoured

Olive (Thompson) Thompson 35

-The Mac-FACS Alumni Association was very pleased to present a Citation of Appreshyciation to Olive (Thompson) Thompson

35 during Alumni Weekend 85 festivities Olive has given much time energy

support and leadership to the College and to the University through her years of involveshyment with the Mac-FACS Alumni Associashytion Class of Mac 35 activities and the University of Guelph Alumni Association

Our University s alumni organizations are stronger and more effective because of

the years of commitment and personal sershyvice that Olive has contributed

Olive - We salute you 0

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New at HAFA By John Hearn

Infonnation Services

An innovative course developed by the School of Hotel and Food Administration (HAFA) is focussing the attention of undershygraduates on the analysis of operational problems in the hospitality industry and the writing skills required to express and comshymunicate that analysis

Students are required to find summer jobs in the hospitality industry and then to write five papers of ascending complexity during the first semester of their second year using text readings specially edited for this course by the Schools Director Proshyfessor Tom Powers

We have a unique responsibility to prepare students not just for their first job but for future jobs further down the line says Dr Powers Possession of a university degree should imply an ability both to anashylyse problems and to communicate observashytions and recommendations In todays corporate world reports papers and letters are management tools and written comshymunication is a survival skill

The HAFA faculty decided further to emphasize writing skills by adopting a style manual developed by Professor Margaret Hund leby Department of Engl ish Language and Literature for this course as an integral part of the Schools other courses

In order to familiarize faculty with the use of the manual and the grading of student writing Professor Hundleby was invited to conduct a two-day workshop which atshytracted the attention of Vice-President Howard Clark and Associate Vice-President Janet Wardlaw as well as faculty from other disciplines s uch as psychology land resource science microbiology and history

The program Professor Hundleby told the seminar requires students to complete five report papers based on their own obsershyvations

The first paper requires a detailed description of the physical layout of the host operation plus an appraisal and operating cost analysis of its heating air-conditioning and ventilation systems

A second paper asks the student to describe and evaluate staff structure funcshytion compensation package and efficiency

Cost control is the subject of a third paper Purchasing practices food producshytion cost traCking and inventory manageshyment all come under this heading

Marketing is the fourth subject area What market segment is the operation aimed at What consumer need does the operation satisfy What is the nature of the

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Left to right- Professors Cathy Schrye Writing Centre Tom Muller HAFA Belty Upton HAFA Mike Jenkinson OAC 63 OAC dean s office Mary Rogers History and back to camera Bernie Katz Library reviewing cases drawn from studefll papers in a two-day workshop Evaluating Students Writing conducted by Professor Margaret Hundleby

competition in the target market

The fifth paper examines the intangishybles of management sty Ie How does the role of the manager affect relations with customshyers staff and head office

Professor Hundleby commenting on some of the problems of the course says whatever we call it students tend to conshyclude that what they re writing is an acashydemic paper of some kind - which of course it is - but we need to make the connection in their minds with the real the corporate world out there They also tend to think that longer is better and write about what they know - rather than what is import ant The development of a proper sense of for whom they are writing is itself a problem-solving skill

Another problem according to Proshyfessor Hundleby is what she calls the new illiteracy - a verbal dysfunction resulting from an impoverished vocabulary

Style too is a matter of considerable

AMPHI Spin-offs The School of Hotel and Food Administra shytions annual Advanced Management Pro shygram for the Hospitality Industry (AMPHI) now in its third year is spinning off new management development activities says HAFA Director Tom Powers Earlier this year 20 people attended a workshop on accounting and finance presented by Proshyfes sor William Braithwaite School of Agrishycultural Economics and Extension Educashytion and three similar programs will be offered in different parts of the country over the next year and a half

Another program still in the planning stage is a six-day hospitality managers development course designed for middle management by AMPHIs associate direcshy

concern She also mentioned careless senshytence structure style that is inappropriate to the content lack of connective logic failure to understand the nature of a paragraph as a literary entity the frivolous use of colloshyquiali sms an absence of any sense of the harmonious sound of words on paper and of course a growing list of commonly misused words - e g it could of had that affect

There s a tendency to see s tyle as a decorative flourish rather than as an aspect of content she concluded

Professor Powers sees the development of verbal communication skills as central to the whole idea of liberal education Cershytainly he says its useful for HAFA stushydents to understand how a cost control system works - but its at least as important to be able to think logically analyse logshyically and communicate conclusions in a way that is credible informative coherent and complete in fact these are the classic goals of a liberal education 0

tor Professor John Patterson and a consulshytant group of AMPHI alumni

AMPHI continues to attract internashytional attention participants in thi s years program which began in April include senior executives from many of North Americas most distinguished hotels and restaurants The four-week course offers an intensive program based primarily on case studies written by Professo rs Patterson -Braithwaite Carl Riegel and Tom Muller

The growing volume of AMPHI cases indicates that thi s is the largest s ingle research program currently under way in any hotel school in North America says Proshyfessor Powers AMPHls network of conshytacts is giving us access to a senior-level view of the industrys current problems and prospects 0

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Research AssociateComing Soon A AppointedModel Play Facility

Dr Joan Norris

Dr Joan Norris has held the position of Research Associate at the Gerontology Research Centre since last spring

Joan is working with faculty to develop and promote research related to population aging and is available for consultation with faculty on research design funding sources and publication

In addition to this development work she is continuing her personal program of research She works for the Gerontology Censhytre two days per week and the balance of her

The Family Studies Laboratory Schools pre-school play facility fell 10 a Grounds time is spent in the Department of Family Department wrecking machine recently Studies where she has held a faculty appointshy

ment since 1980 Joan holds a Ph D in Psychology from

the University of Waterloo and is also a regisshytered psychologist Her personal research

The Mllc-FACS Special Projects Commitshyinterests include social competence in older

tee Ito r Bonnie Kerslake 82 Association adults peer relationships and grandshy

president Linda (Wo[e) Markle 73 chairshyparenting 0

man and Gail Murray 78 Missing comshymillee member is Rita (Klassen) Weigel 77 The aim of the committee is to raise funds to redevelop the Family Studies Laboshy In Memoriam ratory Schools and raise itto the level where it will be regarded as a model pre-school

Eileen Margaret (Manahan) Alwayplay facility

390 October 21984 in Vancouver BC

Jean (Horrell) Atkinson 240 March 5 1985 in Aurora

Class of 35 Gift Oorothy (Lockard) Honsberger 300Centre panel Roman Carnival

In order to commemorate their anniversary July 51985 in Weiland Mac 35 has traditionally given a scholshyarship to a FACS student once every five Isabel J Lockerbie 300 March 31 years This year on the 50th anniversary of 1985 in Toronto their graduation and in addition to the scholarship an etching entitled Roman Patricia G (Smith) McKay-Barry 55 Carnival by Terry Legault has been added March 17 1985 in London Ont to the Universitys collection of Canadian alt The etching is hanging in the FACS Velma E (Conn) Partridge 260 April faculty lounge 29 1985 in Niagara Falls Ont shy

The theme of Roman Carnival was favoured by neo-clas sical and romantic Helen E (Kelly) Robinson 220 April painters during the 19th century The etching 30 1985 in Dundas captures the moment at which wild horses are released to race through the streets of Norma I (Motherwell) Roy 350 in Rome The artist has chosen to represent the Moosejaw Sask wild chaotic motion ot the horses rather than explicitly depict in detail the animals Lillian S (Moore) Usher 340 March 28 and the architectural background 0 1985 in Cobourg 0

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College of Physical Science Alumni Assoc SCIMP

Editor Bob Winkel

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Yes Dr Earl MacNaughtoll has relired alshylogelher bUI Ihis wonl be Ih e lasl you I hear from him reSI assured Before he and his wife Jean lOok oJf for Auslralia and New Zealand Deparlmenl of Physics slaf and faculty held a galhering al Ihe FacullY Club and presenled Ihe couple wilh an alumni clock

Back to Guelph

The headquarters for (GWC)2 came

back to Guelph in July for a threeshy

year period while Professor Robert Balahura Chemistry and Biochemisshy

try serves as director (GWC)2 offices have been set up

in Room 122 and 123 Physical Scishyences building The University of

Waterloo will maintain a satellite office during the three-year Guelph

rotation Dr Balahura and adminshy

istrative assistant Andrea Turner may

be reached at Ext 3865 0

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Physics Professor Elected to Royal Society

Bernhard Nickel

Department of Phy s ics Professor Bernhard Nickel has been elected a Fellow

of the Royal Society of Canada and was formally inducted into the Society at its

annual meeting in Montreal in June

A member of the Physics faculty since

1974 Professor Nickel is no stranger to

prizes and awards In 1981 he received the Herzberg Medal the Canadian Associashy

tion of Physicists award to a promising young scienti st In 1978 he won a Sloan

Fellowship from the New York-based Sloan Foundation

He achieved recognition by navigating

the esoteric seas of condensed matter physshy

ics Hi s co lleagues call him a leading masshyter in the art of mathematical physics By

exploiting the existing mathematical frameshywork in subtle ways he has worked through

thickets that have stopped other physic ists

High order perturbation calculations

done by him played a key role in verifying

the quantitative reliability of the theory of

underlying continuous phase transitions in systems

He earned BScE and MSc degrees from the University of Saskatchewan and a

PhD from the University of California at

San Diego He was a research associate at

Cornell and Oxford Universities and a postshy

doctoral research Fellow at the Univers itY of Alberta before coming to Guelph in 1974

He has been a visiting fellow at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory at the Univershy

sity of California at San Diego at Harvard

and at the Schlumberger-Doll Re searc h In stitute in Connecticut

With his election he becomes one of

six Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada at

Guelph The others are Professors Howard

Clark Peter Egelstaff Gabriel Karl Bruce Sells and Herbert Armstrong And it brings to five the number of me mbers of the

Guelph-Waterloo Program for Graduate Work in Physics (GWP)2 who can put the

coveted FRSC after their names 0

Halleys Comet and the Babylonians By Professors Nigel Bunce and Jim Hunt

The winter of 1985 and the spring of 1986 will lon g be remembered as the year of

Comet Halley No comet in history has so

stirred the imagination of man or been the

object of suc h intensive investigation Its easy to understand this interest when its

appreciated that Halleys Comet is the only recurring comet that is bright enough to be

seen with the naked eye ft was the g reat astronomer Edmund

Halley who in 1705 recognized the s imilarshy

ity of the appearances of the great comets of 1456 1531 1607 and 1682 He speculated that these were in fact one and the sa me

comet with a period of 75 or 76 years

He predicted that the comet would reshyturn in 175 8 a return he could not live to see With thi s Halley discovered the phenomeshy

non of periodic comets and thus showed

that they were members of our solar system

The comet dutifully returned in 1835

and spectacularly so in 1910 In the latter

year circumstances were such that after its

perhelion passage (the point closest to the

Sun) the Earth and the comet approached

each other very closely The comet was so close that at one time its tail spread from

horizon to horizon The return in 1985-86 will be considshy

erably less spectacular In fact for Canadishyans it will not be easy to observe s ince the

time of perhelion is in Febnlary when the

Sun is very low in the sky The view will be -much better from more southerl y latitudes Over the years historica l records have

been found which record every passage of the comet back to 12 BC M any of these obshy

servations come from Chinese records first published in 1846 A well-authenticated

passage was that of 1066 which was reshy

corded on the Bayeux tapestry by the mother

of William of Nonnand y and taken as an cOllld on righl

Grad News Paul Ferguson BSc 67 of Ede n Mill s is president of EIS Systems Ltd and travelled in New Zealand this summer

Walter Lock BSc 67 of Denfield is practising medicine in Lucan

Tjeerd Homan BSc 69 of Calgary Alta is manager research and development services for Petro-Can He is enjoying his family Carla Sarah and John Menno and his hobbies of golf curling and skiing

(GWP)2 Poster Session a First

Earlier this year the Guelph- Waterloo Proshygram for Graduate Work in Physics (GWP)2 staged its first annual poster session for graduate s tudents Poster sessions which are becoming increasingly popular in scienshytific circles allow interaction between researchers and delegates without the time pressures encountered when presenting con shyventional papers at meetings says (GWP)2 Director lain Campbell

The first annual (GWP)2 poste r sesshysion which was followed by a soc ial hour and banquet was highly successful in genershyating interaction says Campbell By the end of the session there were still clusters of people arguing the finer points of scientific interpretation on many of the posters These exchanges continued right through the soshycial hour and into dinner Interaction is what science is all about

Encouraging interaction between stushydents and faculty is one of Campbells prishyorities as Director It is too easy for students to tuck themselves into a corner and work away in isolation They need to get out and ex plain their work both to experts and to

omen of his victory over the Saxons Based on this long record various

mathematical analyses of the orbit of the comet have been produced These account very accurately for the known passages of the comet However when these various anshyalyses are pushed back beyond 12 BC they predict widely varying dates for the previous appearances Before 12 B c there are ani y two vague Chinese records in 87 BC and 240 B c which mayor may not have been Halleys comet

In a recent issue of Nature a team of

Ernest Campbell BSc 69 lives in Campbell ville and teaches science for the Halton Board in Burlington

Richard Davis BSc 77 having comshypleted his MD University of Toronto 83 and his internship at Womens College Hosshypital will be setting up his practice in family medicine in his home town of Guelph

Larry Meek BSc 77 of Ottawa is pashytient administrator and computing officer for the National Defence Medical Centre His hobbies include sailing and skiing

Andre Brunet BA 81 is working for Amdahl Ltd as fieldsystems engineer and lives in Sudbury with his wife Monique (Puellette) FACS 80

Cathy Deakin BSc 81 is presently articshyling with the law firm of Little Reeves Mahoney Jarrett amp Hart of London

Andrew Dubrawski BSc 82 and his wife Alicia (Wodecka) BSc 81 live in Toronto where he works as a communicashytions systems analyst for CNCP Telecomshymunications 0

10hn Root 81 a (GWP)2 PhD s tudent left aflracts an audience

non-experts It takes a deliberate effort on our part to generate and maintain this intershychange

The poster session was the largest scishyentific or social event yet staged by (GWP)2 Some 18 students presented posters and about 90 students faculty and prospective students attended

The posters are on display in the two departments of physics to give others an opportunity to view them At Gue lph they are in the second floor corridor of the Physshyical Science Building near the Department

scholars from England and Vienna reported the finding of two fragments of Babylonian tablets in the British Museum that clearly report the appearance of the comet in 87 BC and 164 B C The records are so clear that by calculation not only the year but the time of year for the perhelion passage can be determined

For example the 164 BC apparition has been narrowed down to a date someshywhere between November 5 and 25 of that year The 87 BC record is not as accurate nevertheless its perhelion passage can be

of Physics office Encouraged by the s uccess of the

poster sess ion lain Campbell is planning another high-profile event for (GWP)2 to recognize award-winning faculty He plans a fall symposium at which three (GWP)2 members who received major honours durshying 1985 will give short lectures to be folshylowed by a sherry reception The three honoured faculty are Gicinto Scoles Killam Fellowship winner Bernhard Nickel Felshylow of the Royal Society of Canada and John Simpson Rutherford medalist 0

narrowed down to July 25 to August 15 These observations while inaccurate

to the extent of 20 days are still accurate enough to eliminate three of the four leading -calculations of the motion of Comet Halley This is a striking example of how archaeoshylogical investigations may have a strong effect on many diverse subjects in this case com~tary astronomy 0

We welcome questions and ideas for future articles Write to the authors clo the Deans Office Cole fe ofPhysical Science Univershysity of Guelph Guelph Ontario NIG 2WI

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Available for Immediate Possession Space in Prestige Campus Home (for baby grand piano)

The Presidents House dedicated as a building of historical and architectural significance has been without a piano since President Maclachlan retired in 1967

This could be the chance of a lifetime if you are seeking a unique and extremely worthwhile Class Project Perhaps your class would like to buy a new piano to be used in this centre for campus entertaining to be viewed by more than 5 000 visitors a year A recognition plaque would be located either on or adjacent to the instrument

A Bequest

Charles S Humphrey

A former partner and president from 1947

to 1963 of Guelphs Hart Chemical Comshy

pany Canada Ltd the late Charles S Humphrey se lected the Universit y of

Guelph as one of the benefic iaries of his estate

Hi s bequest to the Unive rs it y of

$130000 received last June is to be used at the discretion of the University pres ident

in the University s scholarships and burshy

saries program A resident of Victoria BC since his

retirement in 1963 Charles Humphrey died on August29 1984 at the age of81 He was an emeritus member of the Canadian Assoshy

ciation of Textile Colourists and Chemists Born at Hornell NY USA he came to Canada in 1936

This is the second time that Charles

Humphrey has given financial support to the Univers ity In 1979 he generously provided a $50000 endowment gift to support an annual $5000 graduate fellowship in Chemistry

The fellowship is designed to ease the financial burdens of outstanding students in

organic chemistry registered in the PhD

program at the Guelph-Waterloo Centre for Graduate Work in Chemistry (GWC)2 0

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CODling Events 86 Jan 7-9

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OAC Agricultural Conference

Alumni Florida Reunion (See below)

College Royal Open House

Ontario Institute of Agrologists Annual Conference Agricultural Trade To be he ld

in Cornwall Ont

OAC Alumni Association Curling Bonspiel

U of 6s 8tb Annual Human Sexuality Conference Changing Nature of Sexual Relationships Sexual Scripts and Lifestyles Today

ALUMNI WEEKEND 86

Alumni Florida Reunion If you missed the Alumni Flo rida Reunion Picnic in March 85 you missed a great gathering About 90 alumni and

friends met for a very pleasant pot luck meal Ross Cavers OAC 29 the organizing committee chairman hopes it will

become an annual affair Ruth and Gordon Wright Mac

37 and OAC 33 and Willa and Morley Funston Mac and OAC 32 made the loc al arrangements the affair was sponshysored by the Universitys Alumni-in Action group Make

plans to attend the second annual Florida Alumni Reunion Picnic at 12 noon on Wednesday March 51986 at Harbour Heights Park near Port Charlotte Florida two miles east of

Interstate Highway 75 Please respond by March 11986 to Ruth and Gordon Wright General Delivery Warm Mineral

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College of Arts Alumni Association DELPHA

Editor Terry Ayer 84

Executive 1985-86 HONORARY PRESIDENT Dr David R Murray Dean

PRESIDENT Linda McKenzie-Cordick 81

PAST PRESIDENT Margo Shoemaker 79

VICE-PRESIDENT Wm Macdonald 78

SECRETARY-TREASURER

Marilyn Armstrong 78

DIRECTORS Debbie (Nash) Chambers 77 Edith LeLacheur 72 Janice (Robertshy

son) Partlow 79

UGAA REPS Wm Macdonald 78 Margo Shoemaker 79

EDITOR DELPHA Terry Ayer 84

Appointed

Dr Edward Phillips

Edward Phillips began a five-year term as chairman of the Department of Music July I He obtained his BA in mu sic at Amherst College

Massachusetts and his M A Masshyter of Philosophy and Ph D all in music theory from Yale Univers ity Married to Patricia who has a DM A in organ performance from Yale he has two sons Stewart 7 and Andrew 3 Edward who is also an organist enjoys cooking 0

Literary Heritage Preserved in Africa Most Canadian children are exposed to their cultural heritage at an early age through legendary stories brought from Eushy

rope or about Canadian pioneering and through stories about Indian or Inuit myths

and fables In developing countries however

where paper and printed materials are in

shon supply cultural heritage is usually passed on orally and children have little

opportunity to read about their past A Canashydian project involving the Universities of Guelph and Yaounde in Cameroon West

Africa is doing something to keep that countrys heritage alive

The project now entering its fourth year is a collaborative effort of the De partshy

ment of English Language and Literature at Guelph and the Department of African Litshyerature at the Univers ity of Yaounde It is

sponsored by the Canadian International Development Agency with Guelphs Deshy

partment of English Language and Litershy

ature Chairman Doug Killam serving as co-ordinator and Elizabeth (Wildman)

Cockburn CSS 81 as Canadian project consultant

Dr Killam is well-known for his work in the field of Commonwealth literature and

has taught at several African universities

EI izabeth Cock burn a primary sc hool teacher taught at the Government Teachers Training College in the North West Province

of Cameroon from 1969 to 1971 It was then

that she became aware of the shortage of relevent reading material for Cameroon schoolchildren

However it was some ten years later

that the project was born when she and Professor Kilian consulted with Dr Bernard

Fonlon then head of the Department of Afshyrican Literature at Yaounde Deeply comshy

mitted to saving African oral traditions as literatore Dr Fonlon although now retired remains a driving force in promoting creativity in the schools and scholarship on oral literature at the university

Last January Professor Killam and Elizabeth Cockburn were in Yaounde at a

conference where 80 papers were presented on the theory and practice of oral literature for West African educators - the first major attempt to marry theory and practice

As are children in the Canadian Indian

and Inuit communities African children are often exposed to texts that portray children of cultures different from their own To

counteract thi s influence simple African s tories with lifelike illustrations are being

Local stories come alive

mimeographed and turned into booklets by simply folding stand ard letter-size paper in half A collections of these stories will evenshytually be produced in textbook form when

fund s become available One such s tory The Marriage Feast

describes the marriage meal of the cat who invites all the domestic animals and birds to

the celebration

The dogs who know much about meat were asked 10 cook the food 8U1 they decided 10

playa trick They cooked the meat in the bOlom of the pot with the vegetables on lOp They said they would be the last to eat

In true fable form the hens who ate first discovered when they were too full to eat any more that there was meat deep

inside the pOI So they

Swore never to eat from the surface again and that is why hens always scratch deep into the soil in search offood

Although story-telling is becoming a lost art in Canada it is still a lively part of

life in Cameroon But as Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe said when he was in Guelph last year when a member of the older genshyeration dies its as if a whole library was destroyed -

Time is running short and fund s are needed to keep alive this project in Camshyeroon Anyone seeking further information

on the project may address their inquiries to Professor Killam at the University He hopes to receive funding from the Commonwealth

Foundation for similar work in other counshytries which have expressed an interest in

recording their heritage 0

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The Limners How do art students continue to find stimshyulation and motivation following graduation when they are no longer under the pressure of course requirements and without the critshyicism of an instructor

Four Fine Art graduates and one inshycourse student solved the problem by formshying a support group called The Limners (Limn an archaic word meaning paint deshypict portray Hence - Limner) Last Sepshytember the group held a success ful exhishybition of their recent works at the Halton Hills Cultural Centre Georgetown The Limners are

Dorothy Hart 81 of Georgetown She works with oil s pas tel s and graphite b4t is very interested in character fi gures made of cellu-clay which requires enormous pashytience to produce Her latest interest is pastel portraits of children

Dimensions 85 The fourth annual College of Arts Ailimni Association juried art show DIMENSIONS 85 was a success once again The jury members Marlene Jofriet well-known water colourist _ Michael OKeefe 76 practising artist and teacher and George Todd chairman Department of Fine Art selected 30 entries to hang

The jury awarded the following $100 $75 $50 prizes and designated three honshyourable -mentions

First pri ze Sheila Vollmer 85 Woman in Veil intaglio print

Second prize Wendy Maki 83 Pears Plums Apples and Grapes oil on canvas

Sue Knox 81 Formerly she was interested in the landscapes of Northern Ontario where she used to work Now back in Guelph Sue has rediscovered her urban surshyroundings including people

Betty Ketcheson 83 of Frankford Ontario to where her husband lack has retired Watercolour is her favorite medium however Betty also has an interest in enshycaustic painting with beeswax as a medium

Jane Graham 83 of Guelph lane tries to communicate her own brand of optimism through her waterco lours by using the figure in the land scape most often a child

Nan Hogg an undergraduate Nan is intershyested in making art that is feminist A memshyber of th e Guelph Embroiderers Guild Nans recent work displays a combination of watercolours or etchings with coil aged fabshyric that has been embroidered 0

The Limners L to r Sue Knox 81 Belly Ketcheson 83 Nan Hogg Dorothy Hart 81 and Jane Graham 83

Third pri ze Doreen Schaub 70 Rushing Waters watercolour

Honourable Mentions Sheila Volshylmer 85 Embracing Figures sculpture in pl aster Scott Abbot 79 Fields Near Maryhill oil on masonite Margaret Peter 74 Impressions Fossil Series collagraphsi Ikscreen

An innovation at DIMENSIONS 85 was the presentation of selected works of a featured artist Our first selected arti st was Evan MacDonald no stranger to the Univershysity of Guelph Many of his works are part of the Universitys collection of Canadian art hi s portraits hang in various buildings on campus and he was awarded an honorary doctorate of laws in 1979

We extend our sincere thanks to Ingrid

At DIMENSIONS 85 ColeRe oj Arts art sholl at Alllmni Wefkllld 85 L to r Marlene Jojriet juror Dr GeorRe 7iJdd chairman Department oj Fine Art jllror Wencil Maki 83 second-prize winner Doreen Schauh 70 third-prize willner Michael 0 Keeji 76

juror Own David Murray

Jenkner curatorexhibitions at the Macshydonald Stewart Art Centre and Mary MacshyDonald Evans wife for making it possible for us to feature the works of Evan

We also expre ss our gratitude and appreciation to all those who were instrushymental in making the show a success A special thank you is extended to this years participants without whom the show coulll not have been mounted 0

Art Show and Lecture Series Recognizing the 20th anniversary of the Department of Fine Art a facshyulty art show will be presented at the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre Nov 21 to lan 5 Viewing Tue to Fri and Sun noon to 500 pm Sat 1000 am to 500 pm A lecture se ries will present Dr Alan Gowans professor of art history University of Victoria B c on Art History and the Social Function Nov 18 at 800 -pm Rm 113 Physics Bldg Dr Ronald Nasgaard chief curator Art Gallery of Ontario wi II present Cushyratorship Today and Social Political Economic Pressures on Nov 27 at 400 pm in the Dept of Fine Art A third speaker is slated for early in the New Year

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Ontario Veterinary College Alumni Assoc OVC ALUMNI NEWS

Editor Dr Cliff Barker 41

OVC Alumni Association Executive 1985middot86

HONORARY PRESIDENT Dr Ole Niel sen 56 PRESIDENT Dr Ken Gadd 56 PAST PRESIDENT Dr Wendy Parker 7 1 VICE-PRESIDENT Dr Mary (Hawkins) Wiltshire 74 SECRETARY-TREASURER Dr Gordon Boylan 46 DIRECTORS Dr Bob Buck 46 Dr Archie MacKinnon 43 Dr Norm McAninch 39 Dr Bruce Robb 7 1 Dr Bruce Robinson 76 Dr Noni Sman 80 EDITOR avc Alumni News Dr Cliff Barker 41

Mailbag Dear Cliff

We were over to Vancouver Island recel11ly and went up to Qualicum Beach to see 0 Howard Taylor 13 He broke me in on meat inspection in 42 at the old Burns plant on Logan Avenue in Winnipeg

He is in great shape Qlid outside of a gimpy knee has no problems It was a real pleasure to see him again - still the same sparkle and quick wit that I had remembered from the Winnipeg years

I had not seen Howardfor 40 years bw outside of him thinking I had aged someshywhat had no trouble with identification Thought you might be il7lerested in this bit of news - not too many vets make it to age 98

We are fine and enjoying a complete reversal of what Vancouver weather is supshyposed to be bUi sure would like to see aboUl a week of rain Regards Bud Ellis 41 1410 Gordon Avenue West Vancouver Sc V7T IR6

From the Dean

Dr Ole Nielsen 56

In this my first opponunity to address our alumni through this medium I would like to express my pleasure at having the privilege of serving the Ontario Veterinary College and the University of Guelph

At the outset I acknowledge my debt to those many faculty students and staff who have labored to make this College a great inshystitution Being mindful of this heritage I am excited by the challenge of helping move the College to new levels of excellence One has to be impressed with the potential of the OVe Heres why

By the time this publication has gone to press I expect tenders for the first phase of a new OVC building program will have been called and possibly awarded This project costing over $13 million will provide modshyem facilities for the Depanments of Clinical Studies and of Biomedical Sciences and the Veterinary Teaching Hospital

The culmination of a great deal of effon led by former Dean Doug Maplesshyden 50 and President Burt Matthews OAC 47 the project is jointly funded by the Federal Government (Departments of Agrishyculture and Regional Industrial Expansion) and the Province of Ontario (OMAF)

The new facility will allow the College to press forward with new teaching research and service programs that include such vital newareas as biotechnology computer as istshyed health management and expanded proshygrams in toxicology

The second phase of the OVC building program which is largely related to teachshying spaces remains to be funded A good share of this project is expected to be includshyed in the fonhcoming capital campaign of the University The panicipation of you the alumni will be crucial to its success The governments of Ontario and Canada have done their part despite difficult circumshystances The rest is up to us

I have found the faculty of the OVC to be -a group of strong and vigorous academshyics and many young talented faculty have been appointed recently In passing one notes the retirement of many of those who led the renaissance in veterinary education in Canada in the post-war years The new generation of faculty has a real challenge in

trying to do as well as their predecessors shyand it will

I believe the graduate students are the sou I of the College Therefore another cause for optimism is the strength of the graduate and research programs at the OVe Presently the College has about 130 gradushyate students who at this most creative period of their lives are striving to provide new knowledge and skills for veterinary medishycine In 1950 there were none

There has been a significant expansion in the D YSc program a comparatively new doctoral program that gives priority to the acquisition of clinical sk ill s in addition to training in research The D VSc degree is unique in the world and how its graduates will be received remains to be determined I am confident it will be favourably

Believing in the imponance of reshysearch OMAF recently committed itself to provide the College with a new research farm at Ponsonby This nO-acre site located some ten miles from Guelph will provide farm-type facilities for hous ing dairy cattle beef cattle sheep pigs and laboratory anishymals will replace existing facilities at Eramosa and Plislinch and will cost in excess of $3 million

The application rate and quality of stushydents seeking admision to the D YM proshygram remains high

I am delighted to be assisted in the work of the Deans office by Associate Dean Ted Valli 62 and Academic Counsellor Ron Downey 61 and given the above is it any wonder I am optimistic

I have always been a bit smug in believshying that those of us from western Canada were the most friendly in the nation My exshyperience since coming to Guelph proves me wrong Everyone including students facshyulty staff the University administration and the local community could not have been more friendly and helpful 0

OVCAA Membership Report-Summer 1985

Life Membership 1 103 Honorary Life Membership 3 Life Me m Instalment Plan 241 Annual Membership 42 -Total Membership 1389 Total Alumni 3537 Membership

of Total Alumni 3930 Membership

of Known Alumni 40 06

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Inch in KatDlandu The following letter to the editor from Or

Carolyn Inch 81 was sent to Ornella Osborne editor of Update the newsletter

published by the Ontario Veterinary Assoshyciation Were grateful to Omelia for passing it on to us

While trekking through the north central region of the Himalayan mountains in

Nepal I was surprised to see the words vetshy

erinary office added to the bottom of it sign written in Nepalese

The village Chame contained the

headquarters of the government veterinary operations for the region of Manang Borshy

dering on China in the north the region covers about 2000 square kilometres and

has the lowest population density in Nepal The average altitude of the region is above

3048 metres Annapurna towers at 8091

metres The logistics behind launching a vetshy

erinary program in an area that is entirely inaccessible except by foot or aircraft had

me intrigued Dr Koshori Jha greeted us warmly and

in the polite manner wed received at the hands of all the Nepalese tea was served

The bulk of his practice is in sheep and goats as well as cattle yak horse mules and chickens On a daily basis he deals most frequently with footrot a problem that

is compounded by the fact that most of the bovine and equine species are bred pri-

During the recent avc AA Annual Meeting retired Deal Doug Maplesden 50 righl received ( plaque embodying newsclippings puhlished during his lenure Dean OIl Nieletl 56 made the presentalion

marily for use as pack animals the terrain is

rough and whether goats are grazing beshy

tween rocks or mules are carrying 80-kiloshygram loads up mountainsides their hooves are exposed to a lot of strain

Dr Koshori Jhas pharmacy contained various disinfectants and as tringents and

many herbal remedies from India retained placenta and anti-bloat preparation for

example

The only vaccine available to him was against Hemorrhagic Septicemia and he

used it when faced with a diagnosed herd

outbreak Dr Koshori Jha pointed out phenol

which was used on feet during July August and Septembers annual FMD outbreak

coinciding with the rainy season Day-to-day treatment is a sma ll part of

the government veterinarian s job He recently received approval for his five-year

plan which began last spring The main eleshyments of the plan are training increasi ng egg production mule breeding Jhopa

breeding (cross between a cow and male yak) and improving cattle feed by the introshyduction of a Phillipine variety of cattle grass

For the livestock assistance training

three farmers from each of 12 panchayats (districts) in Manang will come to Chame

for training and to discuss local problems These men will be involved in a serv ice

centre to be se t up in each panchayat for common treatment He also plans to hold a yearly lives tock exhibitio n with pri ze shy

money for healthy livestock

Plans to increase egg production include a new brooding unit and the introshy

duction of a hybrid of Leghorn New Hampshyshire and Rhode Island Red poultry In an effort to upgrade the quality of pack anishy

mals local ponies will be crossed with donshykeys brought from northern India Similarly

Missing in India Dr Ohiroobhai K Desai 46 61 Sharda Society Paldi Ahmedabad 380007 India has written of hi s attempts to gather inforshy

mation on Drs VD Alaga Raju 36 and

K B Nair 36 both of India He repol1s having bee n with Dr Nair from 1952 to 1956 at the Bombay Veterinary College as an exshyaminer in Veterinary Medicine However he

has been unable to provide up-to-date inforshymation on thesc two alumni Any alumni

with information please write to your avc Alumni Bulletin editor 0

male yaks will be crossed with local cows

and their offspring Jhopa will be used as high-altitude pack animals

Dr Jha plans to distribute these breedshying animals to the more remote region s so

that bloodlines can be upgraded In so me of these areas the native dialect is related to ancestral Tibetan languge rather thall Nepashy

lese which compounds hi s difficult task of education

Pack animals are the lifeline of the

high-altitude people as much today as they

have been for centuries I very much appreshy

ciate the time taken by Dr Koshori Jha to explain the role of domestic animals in the

Himalaya and share with me his ambitious plans for the future 0

AI Ihe recem CVMA Conference in Pelllicshylon Dr Bob Dunbar 12 leji with Dr ROI Downey 6 Bob has reached his 961h birlhday and resides in a PellliClol1 nursing home

In Memoriam Or John N Campbell 15 545 Scripps Drive Davis California 59616 USA

died May 4 1985

Dr Ra)mond E Pinkert 36 440 NOl1h Pine Street Reedsburg Wisconsin 53959 USA died April 13 1985

Or Roderick S MacDonald 37 3003 Oliver Street Apt 203A Halifax NS -B3L 4AI died June 12 1985

Dr John J Carney 44 3531 West 33rd Avenue Vancouver B C V6S IZ2 Date of

death unknown

Or Kenneth R Lachapelle 54 1635 Ranvoyze Ave St Foy Que GIW 3K2

died June 26 1985 0

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College of Social Science Alumni Assoc PEGASmiddotUS

Editor Dorothy Barnes 78

Our Annual Picnic We Illissed you I All of you who didnt make it to our CSSAA picnic during Alumni Weekend 85 But despite the few members and families that did attend we had a good time The pictures tell the story

Here are some of us arriving (l) and setting up the eats We had good food and why not It was a tillle to enjoy relax and have some fun We had games for all ages including catch-the-eggs (2) with real raw eggs

AmI of course whats a picnic without a drop of rain) But President John came prepared with a tarpaulin (3) for those afrnid ofilleiting The k)od and the day were saved Hurrah for our presidenl

Thcre were some brave soul s who unshydaunted by the weather carried on with their baseball game Then of course there was one young partiCipant (4) who was seen scratching hcr head 1I1d wondering what was going on

All in all we had a great time You would have too if youd bcen thcre So makc a mental notc or tic a string around your tingcr toc anywhere that will reillind you that you missed a good outing at th e Aluillni Wcckend 85 CSSAA picnic and that you should makc pl ans now to join us in June 86 at Alumni Wcekend 86 0

A Joy to Behold Her work has the shi mmer of life Such is said of artist Joy Elizabeth (Snihur) Laking Fine Art CSS 72 Joys art is intimately tied to the seasons In spring and summer she works against the perilous fadshying of fresh flowers capturing them in clean powerful designs

Fa ll afternoons on the grassy salt marshes around her home in Portaupigue Nova Scotia inspire wider scenes of rich changing colours

The respite of winter is her time for land and peoplescapes evolved from her ow n photography Her art is created within the context of family community and nature

Joy was introduced to hcr chosen lifeshystyle by her mother - they used to go sketching while Joy was a child in Owen Sound on Lake Huron s Georgian Bay shyand has painted since she can remember She now lives on the edge of the Bay of Fundy with husband Ronald OAC 72 and two cherubs where she can paint every day and capture the beauty she sees around her Whether it be mud and Illarsh a rusted truck and some farmyard geese or caterpillar holes in azalea leaves Joy is able to capture in watercolour the essence and beauty of all she sees

She is noted for her special ability to create white flowers on white paper by givshying the petals shape and vivid life with only a whisper of colour and shadow Light delishycate handling and mcticulous control fused with a powerful design se nse distinguishes her art

Joy is a well established artist and has had se lected exhibitions of her paintings at the Tom Thompson Memorial Art Gallery Owen Sound 1981 Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery Halifax NS 1982 Gallery 1889 Tatamagouche NS 1983

Daffodils By Joy (Snihur) Laking 72

Truro Art Society Truro NS 1984 and the Royal Botanical Gardens Burlington Onl 14

She was deservedly honoured to have the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia purchase one of her paintings for its collection and the Maritime Tel amp Tel chose a Laking painting for the cover of Nova Scotias 1985 telephone directory

Joy says I paint what I live what I see and what touches me It s no wonder then that Joy has been able to successfully transshyfer such sensitivity to her work in a way that has produced tine work s of art as demonshystrated in Daffodils reproduced here 0

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Grad News Terry Goddard 76 wrote to let us know

where he is and what hes doing After gradshyuation Terry turned to the world of engishy

neering and worked at the Bechtel Intershy

national Syncrude project in northern Alberta for a year He retu rned to school and obtained a Masters degree in Politi cal Theshyory in 1978 at the University of Toronto

TIle next nine months were spent workshying at Dhaharan Saudi Arabi a While the re

Terry contemplated the action which would

give him the best career move His deci s ion to go into teach ing led him back to the Unishy

versity of Toronto to obtai n his BEd His teachin g career took hi m to northshy

e rn Saskatchewan whe re he taug ht at a village which if not actually at the end of

the world was situated close enough that the end was plainly visible from the nOI1hern

outskirts He returned to Toronto someshywhat sated with academe and once again

turned to engineering He has been director of maintenance for the Jewi sh Com munity

Centres of Toronto for the past five years He has fou nd it difficult to keep in

touch with fellow grad s Especia lly th ose who studied in Professor Melby s Chinese

poIitic s courses and who were known as the Shanghai Mafia - they are all over the

world now Hes sure they often recall with fondness their days at Unigoo

Where are you former students of Proshyfessors Simmo ns and MelbYTerry would be interested in hearing from you - and so would we

Robin-Lee Norris 80 has been awarded

a $19000 Rot ary Foundation Scholarship to

pursue g radua te studi es in the Masters of Business Administration program at the

Univers ity of Adelaide Adelaide Australia Robin-Lee went o n to graduate from

Osgoode Hall Law School with an LLB

was called to the Ontario Bar in ApriJ of 1982 and has practised law with the tirm of

Kearns McKin non inGuelph since herca ll She took a ten-mo nth leave of absence

commenc ing in February 1985 from her positi on with Kearns McKinno n in o rder to take ad vantage of the sc holarship

During her months in Australia her mandate from Rotary Internatio nal in addishy

tion to pursuing her stud ies is to act as a Rotary and Canadian Ambassador in proshy

moting good will and understanding beshytween Australians and Canadians

A thank you goes to Cliff Hardy buildshying mechanic superv isor Main tenance Deshypartment Physical Resources for supplying us with thi s information and an aside to Robin-Lee when she reads this I was unable

to reach you betore you left to congratulate

you and get more informati on on your award If you have some free time we wOllld love to hea r from you about your studi es

what a Rotary and Canadian ambassador

does and to have you share your ex perience of being down-under

Marilyn Kernohan Morrison 78 has taken the time to Jet us know that shes living in Napanee with hu sba nd Brian She has

tempora ril y se t aside her ca reer to be a home-maker tor Brian and their four-monthshy

old son

Prior to their move to Napanee to acshycommodate Brians tran sfer - he work s with the Ministry of Natural Resources shy

Marilyn and family lived in a small comshymunity northwest of Thunder Bay After

Gue lph Marilyn continued her ed ucation at the comm unity college level and com pleted

a program for counse llors of the mentally

retarded SheJI be returnin g to thi s fi e ld when she again becomes a wage earner

Doris E (Trachsel) OKeefe 74 is deshy

scribed by husband John Paul 74 as a household engineer John Paul is a reshy

source teacher with the Waterloo County Board of Education With such a title I

couldnt resis t phon ing Doris to find out exactly what the duti es of a household enshy

gi neer are

While Doris decl ined to give a cletinishytion of the titl e l detected some surprise and delight that John Paul appreciates what it

takes to look after a famil y and a home

Doris is trying to re turn to teaching but is findin g it difficult in the Cambridge

Waterloo area If she isnt successful shes planning alternatives such as enrolment at Guelph in a Masters program o r failing that enrolment in courses that will he lp her

ac hieve her long-range goa ls She and John Paul recen tly moved from

London Ont to Cambridge Prior to the

birth of Erin now a two-year-old Doris was teac hing boys with behaviourial problems

and she sees thi s as an asset when applying for teaching positions Erin has a six-yearshyold brother Sean so you can understand

perhaps that Doris has been bu sy and maybe she is aptly described as a houseshy

hold engi neer

J Barry Baldwin 69 is a teac her with the Elgin County Board of Education S t Thomas Barry married Linda Janet Wii son They live in Aylmer West

M Rachel (Curtis) Towe 69 is manager customer systems Bell Canada She and

husband Ken live in Guelph

M Lois (Robinson) Harris 70 li ves in Newmarket with husband Fred

B Hugh Schofield 72 is an industrial engi neer with Rockwell Int e rnati o nal C hat ham He and wife Susan (Haslelt)

FACS 78 live in Chatham

Paul Davis 73 is an underwrite r analyst with Co-opera tors General In sura n ce

Guelph Paul and wife Linda (DozeH) 73 and 81 live at Brookhaven Court Guelph

Carol Finlayson 74 is a letter carrier lor Canada Post Carol and husband John Balch live in Toronto

Pal Hamilton 74 is an expon market deshyvelopment specialist with the O ntario Minshyistry of A gricu lture and Foo cl mark et

development branch Toronto He and his wife Diane (Coates) OAC 72 live in

Toronto

Kerrie Sirathy MA 78 advises us that

she is a s tud en t at th e Univcrsity of Sakatchewan Sas katoon

Vicky Sutherland 78 is an air trartie conshy

troller with Air Canada at FoI1 McMurray Airpo l1 Alta and lives in F0I1 McMurray

Sounds like an intercsting job - perhaps youl l share SOIllC experie nces with us Vicky

Marlin Thissen 78 is a foreman with the

region or Halton at ih Milton wa ter po llushytion control plant

Evelyn Evie (Isaacs) Whilwham 80 is a planning ass istant with Union Gas Co Ltd Chatham She and hu sba nd Bob have

c hanged their address They are at 70 Ottawa Drive C ha tham Ont N7L 216 0

In Memoriam A lormer faculty mcmber in the DeshypaI1ment of Geography Barsa Kelly was among the victims of the Air India Hight 182 disaster that occ urred

off the coas t of Irel and las t June ~ mr(sa Vas headed tor India on a reshy

search project at the time of her

death S he was the wife of Protessor Kenneth Kelly Department of Geogshyra phy On behalf of its members and all those who chc ri shed their con tacts with Barsa the Board of Directors of the College of Social Science Alumni Association extend their s incere symshy

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College of Biological Science Alumni Assoc BIOmiddotALUMNI NEWS

Editor Marie (Boissonneault) Rush 80

HONORARY PRESIDENT Professor Bruce Sells Dean

PRESIDENT David Airdrie BSc 82 Microbiology

PAST PRESIDENT Dr Chris Wren BSc 77 Marine Biology PhD 83

VICE-PRESIDENT Dee Britney BSc 74 Fisheries amp Wildlife MSc 81

SECRETARY-TREASURER Kclly Munkittrick BSc 80 Fisheries amp Wildshylife MSc 83

DIRECTORS Lorraine Bruce-Allen BSc 80 Zoology MSc 84 Jim Elliott BSc 79 Marine Biology Keith Harris BSc 76 Marine Biology Dr Doug Holdway BSc 76 Marine Biology MSc 78 Aquatic Toxicology PhD 83 Krista (McAuley) Soper BSc 79 Marine Biolshyogy Karin Davidson-Taylor BSc 83 Zoology

From Dave Airdrie 82 the

President How time flies when youre having fun Your editor Marie (Boissonneault) Rush 80 tell s me that this note to you will be in the Fall issue of the Guelph Alumnus so Ill bring you up to date on happenings since your 1985-86 Board of Directors was inshystalled in June

The CBS Alumni Association was parshyticularly busy during June Alumni Weekshyend events including the Wildlife Art Show and Sale and the barbecue at the Rockwood Conservation Area were well attended

Thanks must go to Krista (McAuley) Soper 79 and Lorraine Bruce-Allen 84 for their first-rate efforts in organizing and running the art show From all accounts it was ex tremely well done and is sure to be repeated in 1986

Further thanks mu st go to Keith Harshyris 76 for his efforts in once again organizing the barbecue at Rockwood Keith has done a terrifi c job with this event s ince its inception Hopefully these two events will be expanded in the coming year

Last spring the objective of $10 000 for the Keith Ronald Fellowship Fund was reached and we thank all who generously contributed to this fund Its to be hoped that this is only the first of many scholarships initiated through the CBSAA

Many of you will now be aware of the changes which the Universitys Department of Alumni Affairs has undergone in rece nt months Most important is the arrival of Marjorie Millar as director of the Departshyment It seems that President Matthews is placing greater emphasis on the importance of the Department due in part to the impenshyding capital campaign I am sure that youll all notice many beneficial innovations

The CBSAA has I feel reached a point in its development where we must heighten our profile both among alumni and undershygraduates In order to increase the awareness of the Association the Board has plans to embark on some new programs

The goals are as I see them two-fold first of all we need YOU to get more inshyvolved whether its participation in our proshygrams or s upport for the Assoc iation through your membership The fact that youre reading this demonstrates an interest which we would like to heighten

Secondly we re working at helpin g undergraduates before graduation to beshycome more aware of our Association Hopeshyfully we ll get helpful input and suggestions from many of you in the near future Reshymember - YOUR alumni association is what YOU make it

Dave Airdrie BSc 82 President Colshylege of Biological Science AA

FACULTY ADVISORS Dr Denis Lynn Zoology Dr Margaret Hauser M icroshybiology Dr John Hilton Nutrition Dr John Sandys Award Phillips Botany amp Genetics Dr Brian Wilson Human BiologyKinetics The Ontario Confederation of University

Faculty Associations (OCUFA) has awarded UGAA REPRESENTATIVES Karin Dr Alexander Sandy Middleton DepartshyDavidsonTaylor BSe X) Zoology Keith ment of Zoology one of the nine OCUFA Harris BSc 76 Marinc Biology Rob Teaching Awards for 1984 Milnc BSe XI MSe 84 Marine Bio Dr Middleton was nominated for this -award by colleagues students administrashyEX-OFFICIO DIRECTORS Ed Berdusco tors alumni and faculty It acknowledges president CBSSC Steve Spring past presishy outstanding ability and is considered to be dent CBSSC the provinces highest honour for excellence

in university teaching HKAA REPRESENTATIVE Nick Dalton I think there are two keys to being an BSe 77 Human Kinetics effective teacher Sandy says One is to

have respect for the student the other is to EDITOR RIO-ALUMNI NEWS Marie make a genuine intellectual and time comshy(Boissonneault) Rush B Se XO Marine mitmcnt to the course Biology 0 Dr Alexander Middleton Congratulations Dr Middleton 0

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Grad News Human Biology

Cathy Knipe BSc 79 MSc 83 is a Ph D st ud ent at Iowa State University Ames Iowa USA She is studying Moshylecular Biology

Shelly Lugg BSc 83 is a stude nt at Simon Fraser University Burnaby BC

Human Kinetics

Susan (Wright) Kwiatkowski BSc 80 is a recreation therapist at York Central Hosshypital Toronto Her spouse Ed graduated from Ryerson in 1979

Donna Marie (Kadwell) 1vose BSc 79 and husband John ji ve in Thorold Shes a physica l education supervisor at the Niagara Peninsula Crippled Childrens Centre

Mary Ellen (Mew) Walker BSc 83 is the activity co-ordinator at Spruce Lodge Stratford

Dr Ken Danylchuk BSc(PE) 73 is a s ur ge ry re s ident at the H itchcockshyDartmouth Medical Center Hanover N H USA

Kathryn (Tarry) Myers BSc 78 is a teacher with the Middlesex COunty Board of Educati on Hyde Park

WildUfe

Vicky Johnston 84 bega n an MSc at Lakehead University Thunder Bay in May Shes working on the reprodu ctive biology of Lake Superior rin g-billed gull s

Nutrition

Or 0010 Ohiokpehai 77 lectures in food and nutrition at the Unive rs ity of Ife Nigeria

Microbiology

John Semple 78 is a PhD ca ndidate in the Department of Mic rob iology amp Immushynology at Queens Uni vers ity Kingston He will be doing a post-doctora l at the Banting amp Best Depattment of Medica l Research University of Toronto

Unspecialized

Peter Adams 79 and Beth (Sarjeant) 79 are happy to announce their recent marshyriage Beth is a research technici an with the Depanment of Medicine Univers ity of Ca lshygary Alta and Peter operates a business with the se ismic service industry

Marine Biology

Jorgen Hansen 75 and his wife Drusilla (Dol be) Arts 75 live in Gloucester Jorge n is a staff officer with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Ottawa

CoUege Honour RoU - Winter 85 Semester 06

Margorie Fe rgusson 894 Human Biology JoAnna Milan 860 Biology

Semester 07 Sandra Noble 856 Microbiology

Semester 08 Marga ret Docker 876 Marine Biology Thomas Johnston 87 0 Fi sheries Biology Debra Underhill 858 Microbi ology

James Wright 858 Biology Tobin Peever 854 Botany

Alexander Hanke 852 Zoology Rebecca Rodgers 852 Human Bi ology

Tracey Robin son 882 BSc( HK ) Rebecca Halonen 880 BSc(HK )

Swdent has obtained standing for second time Student has obtaincd standing for third time

Home Town

Oakville Ottawa

Dorchester

Guelph New Liskeard Kingston Thunder Bay Bracebridge Grafton Calgary Alta Guelph Georgetown

Donald MacLennan 75 and hi s wife Katherine live in Chatham Donald is a biologi st-supervisor with the Ministry of Natural Resources Lake SI Clair Fisheries Assessmen t Unit Tilbury 0

College of Biological Science

Alumni Association

Wildlife Art Show

Well it happened June 15 and 16 have come and gone but not withshyout event The Graduate Students Lounge was transformed from a cozy meeting place into an an gallery There was much movi ng of furniture and hanging of an work with the end product being our fi rst ever CBSAA Wildlife Art Show

In total there were 20 wildlite artists partic ipating all tine ani sts in their own right Maybe you reshymember Ut a Stre live a nd Dr Ed Bailey Wow I You should see their wood works

Rick Beaver 73 also showed some of his work hes a wildlife imshypressionist and the colour and move shyment he paint s into each piece is eloquent Donald Dority 76 showed us the line photographer he has become There were other ani sts - too many to mention but all of extremely high calibre

Id like to mention one las t name though - Cindy Hayward manager of the Graduate Students Lounge If you ever need a steady hand to get an event off the ground shes the one to co ntact Without her hel p there would have been a whole heap of orshyga ni za tional problems From which we would have been unable to escape

All in all we had a successful show Thanks artists and viewers for making our efforts worthwhile 0

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New Minister of AgricultureOntario Agricultural College Alumni Assoc OAC ALUMNI NEWS

Editor Dr Harvey W Caldwell 51

Ontari OS new mini ster of ag riculture Jack Riddell 52A and 57 a cash crop farmer from the Exeter area comes to the position of Ontario s Mini ster of Agriculture and Food with ten years of expe rience as Liberal caucus cr itic for agriculture

The min is ter sa id that life under a Libshyeral government will give agriculture a higher priority than it has ex perienced in the past It will be considered one of the major industries in this province

Jack also pro mi sed to consult a great

Basic Technology in Action shyTurning Stones Into Bread By Ann Middleton Information Services

A new University of Guelph projec t in Tanza nia Africa should aid th e Third Wo rld s ubsistence leve l farmer The $400000 three-year projec t funded by the International Development Resea rch Centre (IDRC) will invol ve fltlculty of the Uni vershysitys Department of Land Resou rce Sc ience and Soko ine Uni versity of Ag riculture in Morogoro Central Tanza ni a Aim of the enterpri se is to use loca lly ava il ab le rock materials as soil amendm en ts and con shyditioners

The project came about when Ott awas IDRC brought together a team of two geo logists with an interest in improving co nshyditions for African farmers Professor Ward Chesworth with the Department of Land Resource Science has a long-standing intershyes t in turning rock s into fertili zers deshyve loped during work in West Africa and the Canltlry Islands where local farmers have spread volcanic rock on their field s for two centu ries In his lab and in the Blue Springs basin near Acton Ontario Professor Chesshyworth has been conducting experiment s on the levels at which common rocks re lease nutri ents into soil solutions

The other team member Dr Peter van Straltl ten is ori ginally from Germany but spe nt e ight years with the United Nations in Tan zania looking for metals and metal deshyposi ts and working on an in ve ntory of ferti shyli zer raw materials in south-east Africa

During thi s period Tanza nian food production per capita fell dramaticall y leadshying Dr van Strltlaten to try to find ways to help the food situation In ex periments in his garden in Dodomo Tanzaniltl he was able to increase yields of vegetables using locally

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available geological materia ls and organic wastes

Noting the common interes ts of the two men the Canadian age ncy introd uced them and Dr van Straaten relocated in Guelph Co-ordinators of the project are Professor Cheswo rth and Tan za ni an sc ie nti st Dr Johnson Semoka of Sokoine University coshyauthor of a text on so il sc ience much used in agricultural circles in Africa

Technical assistant Peter Sl11i th is working with Tanzanian rock specimens in the Land Resource Science lab and two other Tanzanian scientists will be involved

In addition to academics from bo th institutions members of the Geological Survey of Tanzania will also work on the project both in the Morogoro area and at Mbeya station in south-western Tanzania

Roc k sa mples will be collected and crushed and field tests and pot ex periments carried out here and on location When reshysu lt s have bee n obtained extension work will begin in Africa under the direc tion of Dr Semoka It is hoped that members of a Me nnonite Central Committee group workshying at Mbeya will design a simple rock crusher for the use of local farmers

Tanzania has a major phosphate deshyposi t wh ich will be tapped by the project as well as ground s ilicates including volcanic ash Liming materials such as limestone dolomite marl and ca rbonatite will also be evaluated

Professor Chesworth points out that alshythough No rth Americans place much emshyphasi s on the big three of soil nutrition shynitrogen phosphorus and potassium (NPK) - there are actually about 20 necessary

deal with the farm organizations on the direction his ministry should be taki ng

I dont believe that we can sit in our so-ca ll ed ivory towers and introduce the kind of programs that are go ing to be mea nshyingful unless we get consultation from the farmers and their spokes people

He has been a member of the provincial legislature for 12 years He spent his first two years as energy cri tic and later environshyment critic before mov ing into agriculture Jack and Anit a have a family of five 0

nutrie nts including the minor ones In some areas of Tanza nia the decline

in soil fe rtility is in part due to the settling of widespread populations into villages where land has been used without concern for nutrients Tn other part s of the country productivity has declined because of leachshying of plant nutrie nts durin g normal rainfall and also from the continuous use of acidifyshying fertilizers such as ammo nium su lphate Dr Chesworth point s out that the current practice of NPK fe rtili zation totally ignores secondary and micronut rient requirements of plants It is hoped that the projec t wilt address thi s problem

Our approac h is basic tec hn ology our target group the poorest far mers Dr van Straaten explains One of the problems in the past Dr Ches worth says has been convincing agronomists that it s worth purshysuing this kind of elementary tec hnology approach Theyre very skeptical that you can take common roc ks wi thou t major inshydustrial proces ing and use them to advanshytage on tropical soils

A s ideline area of research is work with zeolites open framework si licates that often occ ur in volcanic rocks Some zeolites can be used to trap nitrogen in the form of ammonia which would otherwise be los t in gaseous form When added to cow manure for exampl e and stomped in by the beasts themselves zeolites enrich an already valushyabl e fertil ize r Dr van Straaten explains

The zeolite research is being carried out in co njunction with Professor Colin Fyfe Department of Chemistry an intershynat io na ll y kn ow n authority o n zeo lit e -che mi stry

Orie result of the work of the Un ive rs ity of Guelph geo logists is an ag rogeology ne tshywork currentl y being set up bya number of African cou ntries as the result of di sc usshysions following a paper by Dr van Straaten and Professor Chesworth The paper was given recently at meetings of the UN Ecoshynomic Commiss ion for Africa in Zambia 0

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A Designing Grad The need for a summer job six years ago has ended in a Guelph grad des igning golf courses

When in 1979 Lisa Maki now

BLA 84 was searching for a job that would assist her in her studies at the Univershysity she applied to the city of Kitchener

She could have wound up in any

number of areas in the parks and recreation department but Rockway and Doon Valley

course superintendent Ed Ortlieb gave her the chance to join the work crew at Rockway fltor the first couple of years it was just a job that got her outdoors in the summer then by chance she got interested in the game itself

And now shes embarked on a career in golf course design

Lisa the 24-year-old oldest daughter of Ted Maki a former general manager of the

Lisa Maki BLA 84 Kitchener Rangers left last July for Lakeshyland Florida where she Joined Links Deshysign which de sig ns and oversees golf course construction throughout the United 1983 and a friend of the family who knew States The company is considered the sec shy was interested in golf course work arranged ond-largest of its type behind the one run by a meeting with Ronald Garl said Lisa I US golf legend Jack Nicklaus who deshy had an official job interview in April of 84 signed the Glen Abbey course in Oakville and then went to Florida in August of the

How does a young Kitchener woman same year to familiarize myself with the

end up working for Ronald Garl a 40-yearshy firms projects

old graduate of the University of Florida Because I had focused much of my who apprenticed under such well-known deshy University work on such things as turf man shy

signers as Roben Trent Jones and Joseph agement and had done pan of my bachelor Lee Again it was just a chance opportunity of landscape architecture thes is on what

We were in Florida in December of makes British golf courses great and the

Sisters of Accident Victims Receive Diplomas

A tragic accident just prior to Spring Convocation resulted in the deaths oftwo graduands of the Associate Diploma in Agriculture Program Jeff Bikus 85A of West Lome and Nick Davidson 85Afrom Zimbabwe Joy Davidson sister ofNick came from Zimbabwefor the Convocation She was sponsored by the OAC Alumni Association Classes of85A alld 86A Norm McCollulIl 66A honorary class president 85A Don and MiidredMcCollum Jenny Ballentine and her parents Dr Steve Bowley 78 and80 honorary class president 86A and the University Centre Administration Our sympathy is extended to the families and friends of these two popular studel1ls Pictured are Ito r Jenny Ballantine friend ofJeff Bikus Lealln Bikus sister of Jeff Joy Davidson sister of Nick and Klaus Kristiansen a studellt from Zimbabwe

other on golf course residential design he was impressed

In order to learn what made British

courses great Lisa spent a semester in Engshyland and Scotland visiting researching sketching photographing and playing 16 historic courses including the famous links courses which by tradition are the

only clubs to host the British Open Links layouts are courses that border the sea and have been built or developed over sand

bases

Approximately 15 students a year take

advantage of the School of Land scape Arshychitectures Semester Abroad Program fi shynancing the trips themselves However the program is supported by an annual $5000 grant from the Alma Mater Fund so alumni can claim a cenain amount of credit for Lisas success She was a recipient in 1983

of part of that years AMF grant Im not sure my mother and father

were very keen about my trave lling around England and Scot lane all alone but it was a truly great experience she said middot1 not only met many wonderful and helpful peoshyple got to play the great courses like St

Andrew s Royal Troon Turnberry and my favorite of all Royal Dornoch

After a complicated and lengthy US immigration process which took nearly a year she was granted her permanent work

visa She was in regular contact with her new

boss after returning to Kitchen er - she re turned to work at Rockway and Doon while awaiting the vi sa approval - and then last July plunged immediately into

projects including work at a mens tournashyment players 36-hole complex in Sarasota and a Ladies Professional Golf Assoc iation course in Melbourne where she worked in association with LPGA tour players Beth Daniels and Sally Little

Despite the fact that the job involves

vy ing with rattlesnakes alligators and Iild

pigs when I have to tramp through forests and swamps in applying my design work to certain areas I love the outdoor work Lisa

said At the same time she doesnt have any

probleIl1s giving orders to hard-hatted heavy-machinery construction workers when she is the field supervisor for on-site

work think I may have raised a few eye shy

brows when I staned work at Rockway but I was accepted

Lisa isnt sure how long this pan of her life will last and she has no way of knowing whether any of her courses will eve r be known as Lisa Maki layouts But that doesnt

concern her They may be Links Design projects but Ill know they were basically my courses 0

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Klink Lecture Dr Doug Morrison 49 Department of Poultry Science was chosen to deliver the 1985 Klink Lecture

The Klink lecture is ~ponsored by the Agricultural Inst itute of Canada and named after the Institute s founding president Preshysented by an outstanding lecture r the lecture is delivered through a coast-to-coast tour and concerns a topic of current significance to the agricultural industry and the nation

Dr Morri son stated that there is a need for professionalization in an imal agriculshyture in order to give it an improved image and make it more acceptable to the conshysumer

Address ing members of the Ontario Inshystitute of Agrologists in London Ontario he told his audience that the agriculture inshydustry in Canada ranks among the best in the world and producers have to ensure thi s is shown and make sure that peer pressure prevents producers from doing things that we cant defend

He suggested some type of professhysiona l approach established by the farming organization whereby expertise would be required instead of merely encouraged

This is a mu ch beller ap proach th an some edict from society through governshyment legi slation I strong ly object to legislashytion designed to protect me from myself he said adding that there are currently enough regulations existent through legislation that dictate what farmers can and cannot do

If a farmer were a profess ional hi s reward wou Id be in profits - about as meanshyingful a reward as has ye t been devised

Benefits of a more professionalized approach would include an improved image of the farmer to the consumer an increase in communication a more efficient industry

which is essential for competition improved knowledge on the fa rmers part of health nutrition care markets etc and more awareness of soc ietys concerns

In turn it would also be necessary to provide beller information to the consumer through an educational process because if soc iety is to pay for increased inputs for the long- term good of the nat ion then it is essential society be adequately informed

Morrison remarked that he fee ls the maj ori ty of animal agriculturists are in fact professionals but there has to be a concerted e ffort to at tract as lew people as possible in to the business who do not understa nd farmshying or who are doing things that are unacshyceptable

Consumer concern over dietary value or the amount of drugs contained in animal product s is also reason for farmers to tak e a professional approach They should work to alleviate any misreprese ntations and misin shyformation the public is receiving the proshyfessor noted s tating that farm ers have never produced food as safe and as wholeshysome as it is today

By the turn of the century on a world basis meat consumption is predicted to in shy

crease by abou t 60 per cent while the intake of milk is expected to increase by almost 40 per cent

A major fac tor for this rise in intake result s from th e fact that developing nations will begin to consume animal products as soon as they can afford them China is an excellent exa mple of this said the professor who commented that nation is now movshying as rapidly as possible to increase animal production

With all these factors is mind Dr Morshyri son sa id he is optimistic for the future of the Canad ian animal agriculture industry

Weve got the opportunities and can take advantage of them he said 0

Mark Bernards 85 cenlre was the recipienl oftwo OAC Alumni Foundation awards the OAC Alumni Graduate Award and the Beth Duncan Gold Medal Left is Gord Nixon 37 Foundashytion chairman and director and right NR Rick Richards 38 treasurer

Entrepreneur in Residence

Dr Donald Shaver

Dean Freeman McEwen is pleased to be working with Dr Donald McQueen Shaver the Universitys first Agricultural Entreshypreneur-i n-Res idence

Dr Shaver a native of Cambt idge Onshytari o is found er chairman and chief exshyecutive officer of Shaver Poultry Breed ing Farms Limited The compan y distributes chicken breeding stock to 90 countries from its head office in Cambridge and three subshysid iaries in the United States Britain and France He retired from his executive reshysponsib ilities on August 30 but is conshytinuing as director and adv isor to the company

From 1940 to 1945 Dr Shaver served with the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps in Africa and Europe retiring as regimental commanding officer He is past president of the Canadian Hatchery Federation the Poulshytry Products Institute of Canada the Canashydian Lincoln Red Society and Maine-Anjou Association He is a member of the Order of Canada Honorary Life Member of the Worlds Poultry Science Association and the Ontario Institute of Agrologi sts He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Science by McGill University and the Centennial Medal by the OAC

The Entrepreneu r-in-Reside nce pro shygram was initiated and financially supshyported by OAC Class of 58 to champion -the role of private enterpri se within soc iety The appointment is for a two-year period during which time Dr Shaver will present lectures lead workshops and consult with faculty and students

The Agricultural Entrepreneur-in-Resishydence program at the University is believed to be a first in agr icultural education around the world 0

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University Of Guelph Involved in $68 Million Chinese Project The University of Guelph has embarked on a co-operative $68 million project that will ~ink five Canadian and Chinese universities and agricultural institutions

The four-year Black Dragon River Proshyjeo supported by the Canadian Internashytional Deve lopment Agency (C IDA) involves Guelph the University of Alberta Olds College in AlbeI1a and two Chinese institutions - Heilongjiang Land Reclamashytion University and Liu He Training College in northeastern Heilongjiang Province

Under th e term s of the agreement training will be provided at the three Canashydian institutions for personnel from the two Chinese university institutions

The Liu He Training College is respo nshysible for educating state farm employees Training will range from short courses to undergraduate and graduate level programs

Faculty from the Canadian universities and Olds College will travel to China during the summer months to give lectures and

short courses The area borderi ng on Russia has treshy

mendou s potential for agricultural deve lopshyment Professor Neal Stos~opf 57 direct or of OACs diploma courses is Guelphs co-ordinator for the Chinese projshyect He was part of the Canadian gove rnment planning miss ion and ex plains that although the climate combines the cold winters and hot summers of Alberta most of the moisshyture is rain that falls between Jul y and Sepshytember

Although latitude is the sa me as Edmontons at 52 degrees north the area grows soybeans and corn as well as wheat The land has two to four feet of black topsoil waiting to be drained and planted he says with potential for livestock proshyduction

The proj ec t centre is located at the Unishyversity of Alberta with administration in Guelph being carried out by the Centre for International Programs 0

Provincial apiarist retires after 19 years You might say Philip Burkes job brought sweet rewards

Until his retirement recently Philip was the provincial apiarist - sort of Onshytarios chief of bees - while working at the University of Guelphs Department of Environmental Biology

He joined the University as a lectu rer in 1943 and then became assistant professor and later associate professor

At the same time the Ontario Departshyment of Agriculture (as the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food was known then) made him the assistant provincial apiarist In 1966 he became provincial apiarist

Of course he advised beekee pers on ways they could make their colonies more productive and efficient and fielded many apiary management question s - including how to prevent bees from swarming

If they swarm one-third to one-half of th e colony takes off so you lose a big source of your honey crop Swarming is trigshygered when the hive becomes overcrowded so the beekeeper mu st stay ahead of them It involves a whole manipulation of the hive through the season visiting each colony at least once every ten to 14 days he says Philip also worked with farmers whose

crops depended on pollination by bees At one time bees were needed for

pollin ating greenhouse produce such as cucumbers But in the past 15 years the trend has been toward new types that are self fruiting he says

But the biggest change in the industry over the years was the trend towards Illakshying corn king in Ontario - a trend that is now being reversed he says

From 1949 and on a lot of bee coloshynies were moved to the western provinces tollowi ng th e reduction in alfalfa production in Ontario and the increased corn acreage he says

Now prospec ts for honey production in Ontario are better than in past years beshycause of the increased alfalfa acreage and other legumes and the trend towards more diversified cropping

Not surpris ingly prices have changed in the industry over the years too Back in the 1920s it cost about $10 to start a bee colony today start-up costs are about $100 to $125 per colony

Much of his work at the University looked at ways to prevent di seases in bees using selected antibiotics

He was secretary for the Ontario Beekeepers Association for 15 yea rs and now acts as a consu It ant for the group 0

Wins Crampton Award

Dr Stanley J Slinger 37 the most recent rec ipient of the Earl e W Crampton Award for distingui shed service in nutrition is ProshyFessor Emeritus of the Depal1ment of Nutrishytion College of Biolog ica l Science at Guelph

Born in Lowell Ontario Dr Slinger received his BSc from the Ontario Agrishycultural College hi s MSc fro111 the Univershysity of Toronto and a PhD from Cornell University From 1941 to 1965 he was in the Departillent of Poultry Science at the OAC and since 1965 has been in the Department of Nutrition at Guelph serving as chairJl1an from 1965 to 1974

Dr Slinger conducted re sea rch in sevshyeral areas of pou Itry nutrition for Jl10re than 30 years In 1972- 73 a fi sh nutrition laborashytory was set up and thi s laboratory has conshytinued to grow and iJl1prove s i nee One of the primary objectives in both poultry and fi sh nutrition research has been to develop feed to rmulas using feedstuffs of Canadian orishygin 111ese tannulas have been publi shed and continuall y revi sed and have been used extensively by teed manufacturers through shyout Canada Dr Slinger continues to be active in research

Dr Slinger taught poultry nutrition in Poultry Science for 27 years gave seminar courses in nutrition and physiology taught Fundamentals of Nutrition in the Depal1shyment of Nutrition and deve loped and taught courses in fi sh and wildlite nutrition

He has supervi sed the work of Jl1any graduates and it is interesting to note that the Department of Nutrition at Guelph is the only depailment in Canada - and there are very few in the United States - turning out graduates in Fish Nutrition at the PhD leve l

He has helped to establi sh modern poultry industries in Mexico and the areas of South East Asia Africa the Middle East Eastern and Western Europe and the United Kingdom Lectures conlerences and other consultative work have also taken hilll to Jl1any coul1tries over the years

The recipient of numerous honours and awards Dr S linger was made Professor Emeritus of the University in Ino and reshy -ceived the Earl e W Crampton award in 19B4 at Macdonald College Que Thi s award is given by the Faculty of Agriculture in recogshyniti on of significant co ntributions in the field of nutrition through research andlor service The award is named for Dr Earle W Crampton a renowned nutritionist whose career at Macd onald bega n in 1922 and lasted far 51 years 0

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cialist having spent four months in the latter John Reid 84 is technical sales rep Agrico Grad News part of 1984 in Bloemfontein South Africa Sales Ltd Richmond BC

Earl Johnston 46 is president Earl-John Brokers Ltd Delhi

Joe Knox 48 is secretary-treasurer Annco Westeellnc Guelph

Ralph Hills 54 is pastor United Church of Canada Smith Falls Ralph left Zambia last October spending some time in Kenya Israel England and Scotland on the way home He was surprised to meet Charlie Broadwell also 54 on Oxford Street in London Charlie was giving a reception at a large castle for the white bean buyers who purchase beans from Charlies Bean Growers of Ontario Ralph also passes along the word from Louise (Fershyguson) Hope Mac 54 that her husband Don 54 preparing for some future possible social work is studying drug addiction at George Brown College of Applied Ans and Technology Toronto

Joseph Leach 54 is a research scientist Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources Lake Erie Research station Wheatley

Ken Edwards 59 is an industrial engineer Prince George Pulp and Paper Vancouver BC

Fred Theaker 62 is a teacher-biologist Ren frew County Board of Education Aruprior

Howard Lang 67 is senior so il conshyservation advisor for OMAF Cambridge

John Lawrence 69 has been appointed vice-president and ge neral manager De kalb Canada Inc Chatham John is a lso president of the Canadian Agri-marketing Assoc iation

Robert Brooksbank 70 is manager Agrishycultural Department Simcoe area Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce

Alan Duncan BLA 73 is project coshyordinator Groupe d intervention urban de Montreal Montreal Que

Martha (Weir) Collins 75 reports that Anne (Walton) Bayler 75 is at teac hers college in Toronto after spending several years teaching in the Bahamas Martha lives at I Braid Place Guelph and would like to hear news of her classmates

Jim Dyer MSc 75 is a senior resource and environmental officer with the crop producshytion division of Agriculture Canada Ottawa He is on loan as a drought monitoring spe shy

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His wife Barb (Newell) Arts 75 who is a technical editor with Public Works Canada joined him in Bloemfontein for a month

Elizabeth Fedorkow 75 is a market reshysearcher Tetra Pak Inc Markham

Roy Maxwell 75 is an agricultural comshymentator CBC Radio Noon Toronto

Gary Ball 76 is vice-president manufacturshying Mitten Vinyl Inc Cambridge

Garnet McConney 77 is feed lot manager Catllel and Ontario Inc Petersburg

Patrick Meyers 77 OVC 84 is a vetshyerinarian with the Grenville-Dundas Veterinshyary Clinic Kemptville

Martha Frey 78 is secretaryass istant edishytor Canadians for Health Research Wes tshymount Que

Wayne Harrison 79 is assi stant manager Toronto Dominion Bank Elmira His wife is Katherine (McLeod) 77

Sharon Helynk 79 is with the Woodbury Animal Hospital Halifax NS

Jeffery Goebel 80 is resident engineer ACF Canada Ltd Georgetown

Mary Lynn Prong 80 is assistant manager Royal Bank Watford She reports that Bruno Soucy 8Q has changed jobs from OMAF farm ma nagement advisor to agrolog ist London region Royal Bank

Corrie Almack 81 is presidentowner Agshyriculturai Soil and Nutrition Consultants Freelton

Edward Bolton 81 is research farm manshyager AJle lix Inc M ississauga

William Summers 82 MSc 84 is prodshyuct deve lopment rep Du-Pont Canada Streetsville

Dianne (Coker) McDowell 83 is quality assurance supervisor Richardson Foods Ltd Glanw0I1h

John Ross 83 is a program officer Agrishyculture Canada Edmonton Alta

Jeff Burke 84 is a customer service rep Griffith Lab Toronto

Julie Fowler 84 is working for Embury Bros Farms Ltd Newburgh

Karen Rodman 84 is a farm management specialist OMAF Nepean

James Simonds 84 is a crop specialist Cavendi sh Fanns Summerside P E1

Richard West PhD 84 is a research scishyentist Canadian Forestry Service SI John s Nftdo

In Memoriam We regret to report the following deaths

Marie Honsberger 17A died March 1985

Esmond D Clipsham 2IA died on April 6 1985 Esmond had been the proprietor Uneeda Rest Hotel Kilwonhy and was a life member of the OAC Alumni Association

Stanley Ewart Keillor 21 died on February 27 1985 He was a crop farmer at Walshylacetown

John Edward Chalmers 23A died on Febshyru ary 15 1985

Jacobus Van Haarlem 23 at age 85 on July 2 1985 in Vineland He retired as ex shyecutive director of the Hor1icultural Experishymental Station at Vineland in 1970 after 47 years of service there

Hugh Lacklin Paterson 32A died in May 1985 of a heart attack at Rockwood

Murray Cameron Macklin 33A 35 died January n 1985 in Toronto

Garland Alfred Fisk 35 Date of deat h unknown

Gordon Elgin Young 35 died on June 12 1985 at Ing leside

John Miller Fargery 37 on March 22 1985 in Toronto John had been an insurance salesman Farm Credit Corp and was a life member of the OAC Alumni Assoc iation

William Thomson 40 in 1982 in Lonshy shygueuil Que His death was reported recen tl y

Robert Fletcher Madden 54A died on November 26 1984 at age 52 at Napanee

Vera (Mod ric) Kozamplik MSc 73 in Yugoslavia She was the wife of Vinko Kozumplik M Sc 71 0

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From the Dean

Dr Barham

In some of my lellers I have aimed to share

information on some special program or theme with you On this occasion I want to

keep you in touch through a number of lillie items so I shall hold onto some of the bigshy

ger interests for future issues of the Guelph Alumnus

As I write this leller Alumni Weekend 85 is behind us I found it a great weekend

and I thoroughly enjoyed meeting more of our alumni for the first time while

especially appreciating recognizing more

and more familiar faces and names from previous occasions

This year the Classes of 65 and 75 requested an up-date on our programs and

the developments we have experienced together in the College over the last few

years I guess that we were able to demonshy

strate much more development in our research and teaching programs than we could in some parts of the physical facilities within the buildings Still we had thorshyoughly congenial and I think very useful

meetings with both of these classes and added a nostalgic tour of our facilities

It was splendid to meet both of these groups I confess however that I had not

foreseen that a large part of the interest of the Class of 65 rested on the fact that many of their children are now gearing up to enter FACS

I was able to remind them that the BASc and B Comm degrees both lead

into fascinating and challenging careers for sons and nephews as well as daughters and

nieces Some of you coming to Alumni Weekend 86 might wish to get in touch with me to arrange an up-date on our acti vities then too

One of my special pleasures of Alumni Weekend was to join with the Class of 35 at the Golden Anniversary Dinner This occashy

sion is always a particular delight given the special personal pleasures reflected in the

friendships shared on this anniversary And I do want members of the Class of

35 to know that their gift of the magnificent Terry Legault Roman Festival print looks really outstanding and just right amidst the

contemporary decor of the FACS lounge

One last item of alumni news which I want to mention is the fact that I met with

Jean (Nairn) Carter 38 and some of her committee recently I learned that they have

been making quite outstanding progress in establishing the trust fund that will support their new graduate student award in geronshy

tology The first award presentation of $1000 is being made this fall but members of the Class of 38 are still pushing on with their fund raising in order to bring the

annual trust-fund yield to a level of $2 000 We all think that the Class of 38 grads

have been quite remarkable in their detershymination to build up a significant fund to

support work in this important new field of scholarship and research I know that we

shall all appreciate your support for them in reaching their target

I met with Audrey Warner and Annette

Yeager 62 recently They advised me of their concern for the needs of teachers wantshy

ing to prepare themselves for adding Family Studies to their fields of professional speshy

cialization and of other teachers already working in that field who find themselves in need of some up-dating especially in view of the curriculum changes which appear to be around the corner

In this regard I want to mention two

items which might be of interest First our faculty in FACS have been

quite heavily engaged in working with

teachers and others in thinking planning debating and writing for the curriculum developme~ts envisaged for the Ontario Academic High School Credits

Most especially we have had as memshybers of the Canadian Family in Perspective group Dr Jean Sabry with her own special

interest in human nutrition Dr Grant

McCracken in clothing Drs Marshall Fine and Claude Guldner with their expertise in family relations and Drs Anne Martin Matshythews and Joe Tindale with their special strengths in life-span development and

aging - quite a team of contributors Secondly I want to mention in relation

to my meeting with Audrey and Annette that we now have a number of courses avai 1shy

able in a six-week format offered in summer sessions provided on campus

Perhaps of even more interest to those of you who wont find it practical to take

classes on campus at Guelph we have an annual offering of distance or corresponshy

dence-type courses Many of these will be of very pertinent

interest to a number of teachers The current list includes Human Development Marital and Family Dynamics Personal and Family Finance Development of Human Sexuality Nutrition and Man and the Exceptional Child in the Family

You can find out more about these

offerings by writing directly to Guelph Disshytance Education University of Guelph

Macdonald Institute shyFamily and Consumer Studies Alumni Assoc

Editor Carol Telford-Pittman 75

Guelph Ont NIG 2WI or by getting in touch with my office

One of the reasons that we have put

ourselves so significantly behind the development of these distance courses is that we did not have the resources to meet

the demand for providing our courses in the more traditional class format at locations

away from the Guelph campus As usual there is much more to share

with you but it will just have to hold until

my next letter I look forward to being in touch with you again then 0

Olive Thompson Honoured

Olive (Thompson) Thompson 35

-The Mac-FACS Alumni Association was very pleased to present a Citation of Appreshyciation to Olive (Thompson) Thompson

35 during Alumni Weekend 85 festivities Olive has given much time energy

support and leadership to the College and to the University through her years of involveshyment with the Mac-FACS Alumni Associashytion Class of Mac 35 activities and the University of Guelph Alumni Association

Our University s alumni organizations are stronger and more effective because of

the years of commitment and personal sershyvice that Olive has contributed

Olive - We salute you 0

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New at HAFA By John Hearn

Infonnation Services

An innovative course developed by the School of Hotel and Food Administration (HAFA) is focussing the attention of undershygraduates on the analysis of operational problems in the hospitality industry and the writing skills required to express and comshymunicate that analysis

Students are required to find summer jobs in the hospitality industry and then to write five papers of ascending complexity during the first semester of their second year using text readings specially edited for this course by the Schools Director Proshyfessor Tom Powers

We have a unique responsibility to prepare students not just for their first job but for future jobs further down the line says Dr Powers Possession of a university degree should imply an ability both to anashylyse problems and to communicate observashytions and recommendations In todays corporate world reports papers and letters are management tools and written comshymunication is a survival skill

The HAFA faculty decided further to emphasize writing skills by adopting a style manual developed by Professor Margaret Hund leby Department of Engl ish Language and Literature for this course as an integral part of the Schools other courses

In order to familiarize faculty with the use of the manual and the grading of student writing Professor Hundleby was invited to conduct a two-day workshop which atshytracted the attention of Vice-President Howard Clark and Associate Vice-President Janet Wardlaw as well as faculty from other disciplines s uch as psychology land resource science microbiology and history

The program Professor Hundleby told the seminar requires students to complete five report papers based on their own obsershyvations

The first paper requires a detailed description of the physical layout of the host operation plus an appraisal and operating cost analysis of its heating air-conditioning and ventilation systems

A second paper asks the student to describe and evaluate staff structure funcshytion compensation package and efficiency

Cost control is the subject of a third paper Purchasing practices food producshytion cost traCking and inventory manageshyment all come under this heading

Marketing is the fourth subject area What market segment is the operation aimed at What consumer need does the operation satisfy What is the nature of the

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Left to right- Professors Cathy Schrye Writing Centre Tom Muller HAFA Belty Upton HAFA Mike Jenkinson OAC 63 OAC dean s office Mary Rogers History and back to camera Bernie Katz Library reviewing cases drawn from studefll papers in a two-day workshop Evaluating Students Writing conducted by Professor Margaret Hundleby

competition in the target market

The fifth paper examines the intangishybles of management sty Ie How does the role of the manager affect relations with customshyers staff and head office

Professor Hundleby commenting on some of the problems of the course says whatever we call it students tend to conshyclude that what they re writing is an acashydemic paper of some kind - which of course it is - but we need to make the connection in their minds with the real the corporate world out there They also tend to think that longer is better and write about what they know - rather than what is import ant The development of a proper sense of for whom they are writing is itself a problem-solving skill

Another problem according to Proshyfessor Hundleby is what she calls the new illiteracy - a verbal dysfunction resulting from an impoverished vocabulary

Style too is a matter of considerable

AMPHI Spin-offs The School of Hotel and Food Administra shytions annual Advanced Management Pro shygram for the Hospitality Industry (AMPHI) now in its third year is spinning off new management development activities says HAFA Director Tom Powers Earlier this year 20 people attended a workshop on accounting and finance presented by Proshyfes sor William Braithwaite School of Agrishycultural Economics and Extension Educashytion and three similar programs will be offered in different parts of the country over the next year and a half

Another program still in the planning stage is a six-day hospitality managers development course designed for middle management by AMPHIs associate direcshy

concern She also mentioned careless senshytence structure style that is inappropriate to the content lack of connective logic failure to understand the nature of a paragraph as a literary entity the frivolous use of colloshyquiali sms an absence of any sense of the harmonious sound of words on paper and of course a growing list of commonly misused words - e g it could of had that affect

There s a tendency to see s tyle as a decorative flourish rather than as an aspect of content she concluded

Professor Powers sees the development of verbal communication skills as central to the whole idea of liberal education Cershytainly he says its useful for HAFA stushydents to understand how a cost control system works - but its at least as important to be able to think logically analyse logshyically and communicate conclusions in a way that is credible informative coherent and complete in fact these are the classic goals of a liberal education 0

tor Professor John Patterson and a consulshytant group of AMPHI alumni

AMPHI continues to attract internashytional attention participants in thi s years program which began in April include senior executives from many of North Americas most distinguished hotels and restaurants The four-week course offers an intensive program based primarily on case studies written by Professo rs Patterson -Braithwaite Carl Riegel and Tom Muller

The growing volume of AMPHI cases indicates that thi s is the largest s ingle research program currently under way in any hotel school in North America says Proshyfessor Powers AMPHls network of conshytacts is giving us access to a senior-level view of the industrys current problems and prospects 0

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Research AssociateComing Soon A AppointedModel Play Facility

Dr Joan Norris

Dr Joan Norris has held the position of Research Associate at the Gerontology Research Centre since last spring

Joan is working with faculty to develop and promote research related to population aging and is available for consultation with faculty on research design funding sources and publication

In addition to this development work she is continuing her personal program of research She works for the Gerontology Censhytre two days per week and the balance of her

The Family Studies Laboratory Schools pre-school play facility fell 10 a Grounds time is spent in the Department of Family Department wrecking machine recently Studies where she has held a faculty appointshy

ment since 1980 Joan holds a Ph D in Psychology from

the University of Waterloo and is also a regisshytered psychologist Her personal research

The Mllc-FACS Special Projects Commitshyinterests include social competence in older

tee Ito r Bonnie Kerslake 82 Association adults peer relationships and grandshy

president Linda (Wo[e) Markle 73 chairshyparenting 0

man and Gail Murray 78 Missing comshymillee member is Rita (Klassen) Weigel 77 The aim of the committee is to raise funds to redevelop the Family Studies Laboshy In Memoriam ratory Schools and raise itto the level where it will be regarded as a model pre-school

Eileen Margaret (Manahan) Alwayplay facility

390 October 21984 in Vancouver BC

Jean (Horrell) Atkinson 240 March 5 1985 in Aurora

Class of 35 Gift Oorothy (Lockard) Honsberger 300Centre panel Roman Carnival

In order to commemorate their anniversary July 51985 in Weiland Mac 35 has traditionally given a scholshyarship to a FACS student once every five Isabel J Lockerbie 300 March 31 years This year on the 50th anniversary of 1985 in Toronto their graduation and in addition to the scholarship an etching entitled Roman Patricia G (Smith) McKay-Barry 55 Carnival by Terry Legault has been added March 17 1985 in London Ont to the Universitys collection of Canadian alt The etching is hanging in the FACS Velma E (Conn) Partridge 260 April faculty lounge 29 1985 in Niagara Falls Ont shy

The theme of Roman Carnival was favoured by neo-clas sical and romantic Helen E (Kelly) Robinson 220 April painters during the 19th century The etching 30 1985 in Dundas captures the moment at which wild horses are released to race through the streets of Norma I (Motherwell) Roy 350 in Rome The artist has chosen to represent the Moosejaw Sask wild chaotic motion ot the horses rather than explicitly depict in detail the animals Lillian S (Moore) Usher 340 March 28 and the architectural background 0 1985 in Cobourg 0

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College of Physical Science Alumni Assoc SCIMP

Editor Bob Winkel

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Yes Dr Earl MacNaughtoll has relired alshylogelher bUI Ihis wonl be Ih e lasl you I hear from him reSI assured Before he and his wife Jean lOok oJf for Auslralia and New Zealand Deparlmenl of Physics slaf and faculty held a galhering al Ihe FacullY Club and presenled Ihe couple wilh an alumni clock

Back to Guelph

The headquarters for (GWC)2 came

back to Guelph in July for a threeshy

year period while Professor Robert Balahura Chemistry and Biochemisshy

try serves as director (GWC)2 offices have been set up

in Room 122 and 123 Physical Scishyences building The University of

Waterloo will maintain a satellite office during the three-year Guelph

rotation Dr Balahura and adminshy

istrative assistant Andrea Turner may

be reached at Ext 3865 0

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Physics Professor Elected to Royal Society

Bernhard Nickel

Department of Phy s ics Professor Bernhard Nickel has been elected a Fellow

of the Royal Society of Canada and was formally inducted into the Society at its

annual meeting in Montreal in June

A member of the Physics faculty since

1974 Professor Nickel is no stranger to

prizes and awards In 1981 he received the Herzberg Medal the Canadian Associashy

tion of Physicists award to a promising young scienti st In 1978 he won a Sloan

Fellowship from the New York-based Sloan Foundation

He achieved recognition by navigating

the esoteric seas of condensed matter physshy

ics Hi s co lleagues call him a leading masshyter in the art of mathematical physics By

exploiting the existing mathematical frameshywork in subtle ways he has worked through

thickets that have stopped other physic ists

High order perturbation calculations

done by him played a key role in verifying

the quantitative reliability of the theory of

underlying continuous phase transitions in systems

He earned BScE and MSc degrees from the University of Saskatchewan and a

PhD from the University of California at

San Diego He was a research associate at

Cornell and Oxford Universities and a postshy

doctoral research Fellow at the Univers itY of Alberta before coming to Guelph in 1974

He has been a visiting fellow at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory at the Univershy

sity of California at San Diego at Harvard

and at the Schlumberger-Doll Re searc h In stitute in Connecticut

With his election he becomes one of

six Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada at

Guelph The others are Professors Howard

Clark Peter Egelstaff Gabriel Karl Bruce Sells and Herbert Armstrong And it brings to five the number of me mbers of the

Guelph-Waterloo Program for Graduate Work in Physics (GWP)2 who can put the

coveted FRSC after their names 0

Halleys Comet and the Babylonians By Professors Nigel Bunce and Jim Hunt

The winter of 1985 and the spring of 1986 will lon g be remembered as the year of

Comet Halley No comet in history has so

stirred the imagination of man or been the

object of suc h intensive investigation Its easy to understand this interest when its

appreciated that Halleys Comet is the only recurring comet that is bright enough to be

seen with the naked eye ft was the g reat astronomer Edmund

Halley who in 1705 recognized the s imilarshy

ity of the appearances of the great comets of 1456 1531 1607 and 1682 He speculated that these were in fact one and the sa me

comet with a period of 75 or 76 years

He predicted that the comet would reshyturn in 175 8 a return he could not live to see With thi s Halley discovered the phenomeshy

non of periodic comets and thus showed

that they were members of our solar system

The comet dutifully returned in 1835

and spectacularly so in 1910 In the latter

year circumstances were such that after its

perhelion passage (the point closest to the

Sun) the Earth and the comet approached

each other very closely The comet was so close that at one time its tail spread from

horizon to horizon The return in 1985-86 will be considshy

erably less spectacular In fact for Canadishyans it will not be easy to observe s ince the

time of perhelion is in Febnlary when the

Sun is very low in the sky The view will be -much better from more southerl y latitudes Over the years historica l records have

been found which record every passage of the comet back to 12 BC M any of these obshy

servations come from Chinese records first published in 1846 A well-authenticated

passage was that of 1066 which was reshy

corded on the Bayeux tapestry by the mother

of William of Nonnand y and taken as an cOllld on righl

Grad News Paul Ferguson BSc 67 of Ede n Mill s is president of EIS Systems Ltd and travelled in New Zealand this summer

Walter Lock BSc 67 of Denfield is practising medicine in Lucan

Tjeerd Homan BSc 69 of Calgary Alta is manager research and development services for Petro-Can He is enjoying his family Carla Sarah and John Menno and his hobbies of golf curling and skiing

(GWP)2 Poster Session a First

Earlier this year the Guelph- Waterloo Proshygram for Graduate Work in Physics (GWP)2 staged its first annual poster session for graduate s tudents Poster sessions which are becoming increasingly popular in scienshytific circles allow interaction between researchers and delegates without the time pressures encountered when presenting con shyventional papers at meetings says (GWP)2 Director lain Campbell

The first annual (GWP)2 poste r sesshysion which was followed by a soc ial hour and banquet was highly successful in genershyating interaction says Campbell By the end of the session there were still clusters of people arguing the finer points of scientific interpretation on many of the posters These exchanges continued right through the soshycial hour and into dinner Interaction is what science is all about

Encouraging interaction between stushydents and faculty is one of Campbells prishyorities as Director It is too easy for students to tuck themselves into a corner and work away in isolation They need to get out and ex plain their work both to experts and to

omen of his victory over the Saxons Based on this long record various

mathematical analyses of the orbit of the comet have been produced These account very accurately for the known passages of the comet However when these various anshyalyses are pushed back beyond 12 BC they predict widely varying dates for the previous appearances Before 12 B c there are ani y two vague Chinese records in 87 BC and 240 B c which mayor may not have been Halleys comet

In a recent issue of Nature a team of

Ernest Campbell BSc 69 lives in Campbell ville and teaches science for the Halton Board in Burlington

Richard Davis BSc 77 having comshypleted his MD University of Toronto 83 and his internship at Womens College Hosshypital will be setting up his practice in family medicine in his home town of Guelph

Larry Meek BSc 77 of Ottawa is pashytient administrator and computing officer for the National Defence Medical Centre His hobbies include sailing and skiing

Andre Brunet BA 81 is working for Amdahl Ltd as fieldsystems engineer and lives in Sudbury with his wife Monique (Puellette) FACS 80

Cathy Deakin BSc 81 is presently articshyling with the law firm of Little Reeves Mahoney Jarrett amp Hart of London

Andrew Dubrawski BSc 82 and his wife Alicia (Wodecka) BSc 81 live in Toronto where he works as a communicashytions systems analyst for CNCP Telecomshymunications 0

10hn Root 81 a (GWP)2 PhD s tudent left aflracts an audience

non-experts It takes a deliberate effort on our part to generate and maintain this intershychange

The poster session was the largest scishyentific or social event yet staged by (GWP)2 Some 18 students presented posters and about 90 students faculty and prospective students attended

The posters are on display in the two departments of physics to give others an opportunity to view them At Gue lph they are in the second floor corridor of the Physshyical Science Building near the Department

scholars from England and Vienna reported the finding of two fragments of Babylonian tablets in the British Museum that clearly report the appearance of the comet in 87 BC and 164 B C The records are so clear that by calculation not only the year but the time of year for the perhelion passage can be determined

For example the 164 BC apparition has been narrowed down to a date someshywhere between November 5 and 25 of that year The 87 BC record is not as accurate nevertheless its perhelion passage can be

of Physics office Encouraged by the s uccess of the

poster sess ion lain Campbell is planning another high-profile event for (GWP)2 to recognize award-winning faculty He plans a fall symposium at which three (GWP)2 members who received major honours durshying 1985 will give short lectures to be folshylowed by a sherry reception The three honoured faculty are Gicinto Scoles Killam Fellowship winner Bernhard Nickel Felshylow of the Royal Society of Canada and John Simpson Rutherford medalist 0

narrowed down to July 25 to August 15 These observations while inaccurate

to the extent of 20 days are still accurate enough to eliminate three of the four leading -calculations of the motion of Comet Halley This is a striking example of how archaeoshylogical investigations may have a strong effect on many diverse subjects in this case com~tary astronomy 0

We welcome questions and ideas for future articles Write to the authors clo the Deans Office Cole fe ofPhysical Science Univershysity of Guelph Guelph Ontario NIG 2WI

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College of Arts Alumni Association DELPHA

Editor Terry Ayer 84

Executive 1985-86 HONORARY PRESIDENT Dr David R Murray Dean

PRESIDENT Linda McKenzie-Cordick 81

PAST PRESIDENT Margo Shoemaker 79

VICE-PRESIDENT Wm Macdonald 78

SECRETARY-TREASURER

Marilyn Armstrong 78

DIRECTORS Debbie (Nash) Chambers 77 Edith LeLacheur 72 Janice (Robertshy

son) Partlow 79

UGAA REPS Wm Macdonald 78 Margo Shoemaker 79

EDITOR DELPHA Terry Ayer 84

Appointed

Dr Edward Phillips

Edward Phillips began a five-year term as chairman of the Department of Music July I He obtained his BA in mu sic at Amherst College

Massachusetts and his M A Masshyter of Philosophy and Ph D all in music theory from Yale Univers ity Married to Patricia who has a DM A in organ performance from Yale he has two sons Stewart 7 and Andrew 3 Edward who is also an organist enjoys cooking 0

Literary Heritage Preserved in Africa Most Canadian children are exposed to their cultural heritage at an early age through legendary stories brought from Eushy

rope or about Canadian pioneering and through stories about Indian or Inuit myths

and fables In developing countries however

where paper and printed materials are in

shon supply cultural heritage is usually passed on orally and children have little

opportunity to read about their past A Canashydian project involving the Universities of Guelph and Yaounde in Cameroon West

Africa is doing something to keep that countrys heritage alive

The project now entering its fourth year is a collaborative effort of the De partshy

ment of English Language and Literature at Guelph and the Department of African Litshyerature at the Univers ity of Yaounde It is

sponsored by the Canadian International Development Agency with Guelphs Deshy

partment of English Language and Litershy

ature Chairman Doug Killam serving as co-ordinator and Elizabeth (Wildman)

Cockburn CSS 81 as Canadian project consultant

Dr Killam is well-known for his work in the field of Commonwealth literature and

has taught at several African universities

EI izabeth Cock burn a primary sc hool teacher taught at the Government Teachers Training College in the North West Province

of Cameroon from 1969 to 1971 It was then

that she became aware of the shortage of relevent reading material for Cameroon schoolchildren

However it was some ten years later

that the project was born when she and Professor Kilian consulted with Dr Bernard

Fonlon then head of the Department of Afshyrican Literature at Yaounde Deeply comshy

mitted to saving African oral traditions as literatore Dr Fonlon although now retired remains a driving force in promoting creativity in the schools and scholarship on oral literature at the university

Last January Professor Killam and Elizabeth Cockburn were in Yaounde at a

conference where 80 papers were presented on the theory and practice of oral literature for West African educators - the first major attempt to marry theory and practice

As are children in the Canadian Indian

and Inuit communities African children are often exposed to texts that portray children of cultures different from their own To

counteract thi s influence simple African s tories with lifelike illustrations are being

Local stories come alive

mimeographed and turned into booklets by simply folding stand ard letter-size paper in half A collections of these stories will evenshytually be produced in textbook form when

fund s become available One such s tory The Marriage Feast

describes the marriage meal of the cat who invites all the domestic animals and birds to

the celebration

The dogs who know much about meat were asked 10 cook the food 8U1 they decided 10

playa trick They cooked the meat in the bOlom of the pot with the vegetables on lOp They said they would be the last to eat

In true fable form the hens who ate first discovered when they were too full to eat any more that there was meat deep

inside the pOI So they

Swore never to eat from the surface again and that is why hens always scratch deep into the soil in search offood

Although story-telling is becoming a lost art in Canada it is still a lively part of

life in Cameroon But as Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe said when he was in Guelph last year when a member of the older genshyeration dies its as if a whole library was destroyed -

Time is running short and fund s are needed to keep alive this project in Camshyeroon Anyone seeking further information

on the project may address their inquiries to Professor Killam at the University He hopes to receive funding from the Commonwealth

Foundation for similar work in other counshytries which have expressed an interest in

recording their heritage 0

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The Limners How do art students continue to find stimshyulation and motivation following graduation when they are no longer under the pressure of course requirements and without the critshyicism of an instructor

Four Fine Art graduates and one inshycourse student solved the problem by formshying a support group called The Limners (Limn an archaic word meaning paint deshypict portray Hence - Limner) Last Sepshytember the group held a success ful exhishybition of their recent works at the Halton Hills Cultural Centre Georgetown The Limners are

Dorothy Hart 81 of Georgetown She works with oil s pas tel s and graphite b4t is very interested in character fi gures made of cellu-clay which requires enormous pashytience to produce Her latest interest is pastel portraits of children

Dimensions 85 The fourth annual College of Arts Ailimni Association juried art show DIMENSIONS 85 was a success once again The jury members Marlene Jofriet well-known water colourist _ Michael OKeefe 76 practising artist and teacher and George Todd chairman Department of Fine Art selected 30 entries to hang

The jury awarded the following $100 $75 $50 prizes and designated three honshyourable -mentions

First pri ze Sheila Vollmer 85 Woman in Veil intaglio print

Second prize Wendy Maki 83 Pears Plums Apples and Grapes oil on canvas

Sue Knox 81 Formerly she was interested in the landscapes of Northern Ontario where she used to work Now back in Guelph Sue has rediscovered her urban surshyroundings including people

Betty Ketcheson 83 of Frankford Ontario to where her husband lack has retired Watercolour is her favorite medium however Betty also has an interest in enshycaustic painting with beeswax as a medium

Jane Graham 83 of Guelph lane tries to communicate her own brand of optimism through her waterco lours by using the figure in the land scape most often a child

Nan Hogg an undergraduate Nan is intershyested in making art that is feminist A memshyber of th e Guelph Embroiderers Guild Nans recent work displays a combination of watercolours or etchings with coil aged fabshyric that has been embroidered 0

The Limners L to r Sue Knox 81 Belly Ketcheson 83 Nan Hogg Dorothy Hart 81 and Jane Graham 83

Third pri ze Doreen Schaub 70 Rushing Waters watercolour

Honourable Mentions Sheila Volshylmer 85 Embracing Figures sculpture in pl aster Scott Abbot 79 Fields Near Maryhill oil on masonite Margaret Peter 74 Impressions Fossil Series collagraphsi Ikscreen

An innovation at DIMENSIONS 85 was the presentation of selected works of a featured artist Our first selected arti st was Evan MacDonald no stranger to the Univershysity of Guelph Many of his works are part of the Universitys collection of Canadian art hi s portraits hang in various buildings on campus and he was awarded an honorary doctorate of laws in 1979

We extend our sincere thanks to Ingrid

At DIMENSIONS 85 ColeRe oj Arts art sholl at Alllmni Wefkllld 85 L to r Marlene Jojriet juror Dr GeorRe 7iJdd chairman Department oj Fine Art jllror Wencil Maki 83 second-prize winner Doreen Schauh 70 third-prize willner Michael 0 Keeji 76

juror Own David Murray

Jenkner curatorexhibitions at the Macshydonald Stewart Art Centre and Mary MacshyDonald Evans wife for making it possible for us to feature the works of Evan

We also expre ss our gratitude and appreciation to all those who were instrushymental in making the show a success A special thank you is extended to this years participants without whom the show coulll not have been mounted 0

Art Show and Lecture Series Recognizing the 20th anniversary of the Department of Fine Art a facshyulty art show will be presented at the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre Nov 21 to lan 5 Viewing Tue to Fri and Sun noon to 500 pm Sat 1000 am to 500 pm A lecture se ries will present Dr Alan Gowans professor of art history University of Victoria B c on Art History and the Social Function Nov 18 at 800 -pm Rm 113 Physics Bldg Dr Ronald Nasgaard chief curator Art Gallery of Ontario wi II present Cushyratorship Today and Social Political Economic Pressures on Nov 27 at 400 pm in the Dept of Fine Art A third speaker is slated for early in the New Year

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Ontario Veterinary College Alumni Assoc OVC ALUMNI NEWS

Editor Dr Cliff Barker 41

OVC Alumni Association Executive 1985middot86

HONORARY PRESIDENT Dr Ole Niel sen 56 PRESIDENT Dr Ken Gadd 56 PAST PRESIDENT Dr Wendy Parker 7 1 VICE-PRESIDENT Dr Mary (Hawkins) Wiltshire 74 SECRETARY-TREASURER Dr Gordon Boylan 46 DIRECTORS Dr Bob Buck 46 Dr Archie MacKinnon 43 Dr Norm McAninch 39 Dr Bruce Robb 7 1 Dr Bruce Robinson 76 Dr Noni Sman 80 EDITOR avc Alumni News Dr Cliff Barker 41

Mailbag Dear Cliff

We were over to Vancouver Island recel11ly and went up to Qualicum Beach to see 0 Howard Taylor 13 He broke me in on meat inspection in 42 at the old Burns plant on Logan Avenue in Winnipeg

He is in great shape Qlid outside of a gimpy knee has no problems It was a real pleasure to see him again - still the same sparkle and quick wit that I had remembered from the Winnipeg years

I had not seen Howardfor 40 years bw outside of him thinking I had aged someshywhat had no trouble with identification Thought you might be il7lerested in this bit of news - not too many vets make it to age 98

We are fine and enjoying a complete reversal of what Vancouver weather is supshyposed to be bUi sure would like to see aboUl a week of rain Regards Bud Ellis 41 1410 Gordon Avenue West Vancouver Sc V7T IR6

From the Dean

Dr Ole Nielsen 56

In this my first opponunity to address our alumni through this medium I would like to express my pleasure at having the privilege of serving the Ontario Veterinary College and the University of Guelph

At the outset I acknowledge my debt to those many faculty students and staff who have labored to make this College a great inshystitution Being mindful of this heritage I am excited by the challenge of helping move the College to new levels of excellence One has to be impressed with the potential of the OVe Heres why

By the time this publication has gone to press I expect tenders for the first phase of a new OVC building program will have been called and possibly awarded This project costing over $13 million will provide modshyem facilities for the Depanments of Clinical Studies and of Biomedical Sciences and the Veterinary Teaching Hospital

The culmination of a great deal of effon led by former Dean Doug Maplesshyden 50 and President Burt Matthews OAC 47 the project is jointly funded by the Federal Government (Departments of Agrishyculture and Regional Industrial Expansion) and the Province of Ontario (OMAF)

The new facility will allow the College to press forward with new teaching research and service programs that include such vital newareas as biotechnology computer as istshyed health management and expanded proshygrams in toxicology

The second phase of the OVC building program which is largely related to teachshying spaces remains to be funded A good share of this project is expected to be includshyed in the fonhcoming capital campaign of the University The panicipation of you the alumni will be crucial to its success The governments of Ontario and Canada have done their part despite difficult circumshystances The rest is up to us

I have found the faculty of the OVC to be -a group of strong and vigorous academshyics and many young talented faculty have been appointed recently In passing one notes the retirement of many of those who led the renaissance in veterinary education in Canada in the post-war years The new generation of faculty has a real challenge in

trying to do as well as their predecessors shyand it will

I believe the graduate students are the sou I of the College Therefore another cause for optimism is the strength of the graduate and research programs at the OVe Presently the College has about 130 gradushyate students who at this most creative period of their lives are striving to provide new knowledge and skills for veterinary medishycine In 1950 there were none

There has been a significant expansion in the D YSc program a comparatively new doctoral program that gives priority to the acquisition of clinical sk ill s in addition to training in research The D VSc degree is unique in the world and how its graduates will be received remains to be determined I am confident it will be favourably

Believing in the imponance of reshysearch OMAF recently committed itself to provide the College with a new research farm at Ponsonby This nO-acre site located some ten miles from Guelph will provide farm-type facilities for hous ing dairy cattle beef cattle sheep pigs and laboratory anishymals will replace existing facilities at Eramosa and Plislinch and will cost in excess of $3 million

The application rate and quality of stushydents seeking admision to the D YM proshygram remains high

I am delighted to be assisted in the work of the Deans office by Associate Dean Ted Valli 62 and Academic Counsellor Ron Downey 61 and given the above is it any wonder I am optimistic

I have always been a bit smug in believshying that those of us from western Canada were the most friendly in the nation My exshyperience since coming to Guelph proves me wrong Everyone including students facshyulty staff the University administration and the local community could not have been more friendly and helpful 0

OVCAA Membership Report-Summer 1985

Life Membership 1 103 Honorary Life Membership 3 Life Me m Instalment Plan 241 Annual Membership 42 -Total Membership 1389 Total Alumni 3537 Membership

of Total Alumni 3930 Membership

of Known Alumni 40 06

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Inch in KatDlandu The following letter to the editor from Or

Carolyn Inch 81 was sent to Ornella Osborne editor of Update the newsletter

published by the Ontario Veterinary Assoshyciation Were grateful to Omelia for passing it on to us

While trekking through the north central region of the Himalayan mountains in

Nepal I was surprised to see the words vetshy

erinary office added to the bottom of it sign written in Nepalese

The village Chame contained the

headquarters of the government veterinary operations for the region of Manang Borshy

dering on China in the north the region covers about 2000 square kilometres and

has the lowest population density in Nepal The average altitude of the region is above

3048 metres Annapurna towers at 8091

metres The logistics behind launching a vetshy

erinary program in an area that is entirely inaccessible except by foot or aircraft had

me intrigued Dr Koshori Jha greeted us warmly and

in the polite manner wed received at the hands of all the Nepalese tea was served

The bulk of his practice is in sheep and goats as well as cattle yak horse mules and chickens On a daily basis he deals most frequently with footrot a problem that

is compounded by the fact that most of the bovine and equine species are bred pri-

During the recent avc AA Annual Meeting retired Deal Doug Maplesden 50 righl received ( plaque embodying newsclippings puhlished during his lenure Dean OIl Nieletl 56 made the presentalion

marily for use as pack animals the terrain is

rough and whether goats are grazing beshy

tween rocks or mules are carrying 80-kiloshygram loads up mountainsides their hooves are exposed to a lot of strain

Dr Koshori Jhas pharmacy contained various disinfectants and as tringents and

many herbal remedies from India retained placenta and anti-bloat preparation for

example

The only vaccine available to him was against Hemorrhagic Septicemia and he

used it when faced with a diagnosed herd

outbreak Dr Koshori Jha pointed out phenol

which was used on feet during July August and Septembers annual FMD outbreak

coinciding with the rainy season Day-to-day treatment is a sma ll part of

the government veterinarian s job He recently received approval for his five-year

plan which began last spring The main eleshyments of the plan are training increasi ng egg production mule breeding Jhopa

breeding (cross between a cow and male yak) and improving cattle feed by the introshyduction of a Phillipine variety of cattle grass

For the livestock assistance training

three farmers from each of 12 panchayats (districts) in Manang will come to Chame

for training and to discuss local problems These men will be involved in a serv ice

centre to be se t up in each panchayat for common treatment He also plans to hold a yearly lives tock exhibitio n with pri ze shy

money for healthy livestock

Plans to increase egg production include a new brooding unit and the introshy

duction of a hybrid of Leghorn New Hampshyshire and Rhode Island Red poultry In an effort to upgrade the quality of pack anishy

mals local ponies will be crossed with donshykeys brought from northern India Similarly

Missing in India Dr Ohiroobhai K Desai 46 61 Sharda Society Paldi Ahmedabad 380007 India has written of hi s attempts to gather inforshy

mation on Drs VD Alaga Raju 36 and

K B Nair 36 both of India He repol1s having bee n with Dr Nair from 1952 to 1956 at the Bombay Veterinary College as an exshyaminer in Veterinary Medicine However he

has been unable to provide up-to-date inforshymation on thesc two alumni Any alumni

with information please write to your avc Alumni Bulletin editor 0

male yaks will be crossed with local cows

and their offspring Jhopa will be used as high-altitude pack animals

Dr Jha plans to distribute these breedshying animals to the more remote region s so

that bloodlines can be upgraded In so me of these areas the native dialect is related to ancestral Tibetan languge rather thall Nepashy

lese which compounds hi s difficult task of education

Pack animals are the lifeline of the

high-altitude people as much today as they

have been for centuries I very much appreshy

ciate the time taken by Dr Koshori Jha to explain the role of domestic animals in the

Himalaya and share with me his ambitious plans for the future 0

AI Ihe recem CVMA Conference in Pelllicshylon Dr Bob Dunbar 12 leji with Dr ROI Downey 6 Bob has reached his 961h birlhday and resides in a PellliClol1 nursing home

In Memoriam Or John N Campbell 15 545 Scripps Drive Davis California 59616 USA

died May 4 1985

Dr Ra)mond E Pinkert 36 440 NOl1h Pine Street Reedsburg Wisconsin 53959 USA died April 13 1985

Or Roderick S MacDonald 37 3003 Oliver Street Apt 203A Halifax NS -B3L 4AI died June 12 1985

Dr John J Carney 44 3531 West 33rd Avenue Vancouver B C V6S IZ2 Date of

death unknown

Or Kenneth R Lachapelle 54 1635 Ranvoyze Ave St Foy Que GIW 3K2

died June 26 1985 0

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College of Social Science Alumni Assoc PEGASmiddotUS

Editor Dorothy Barnes 78

Our Annual Picnic We Illissed you I All of you who didnt make it to our CSSAA picnic during Alumni Weekend 85 But despite the few members and families that did attend we had a good time The pictures tell the story

Here are some of us arriving (l) and setting up the eats We had good food and why not It was a tillle to enjoy relax and have some fun We had games for all ages including catch-the-eggs (2) with real raw eggs

AmI of course whats a picnic without a drop of rain) But President John came prepared with a tarpaulin (3) for those afrnid ofilleiting The k)od and the day were saved Hurrah for our presidenl

Thcre were some brave soul s who unshydaunted by the weather carried on with their baseball game Then of course there was one young partiCipant (4) who was seen scratching hcr head 1I1d wondering what was going on

All in all we had a great time You would have too if youd bcen thcre So makc a mental notc or tic a string around your tingcr toc anywhere that will reillind you that you missed a good outing at th e Aluillni Wcckend 85 CSSAA picnic and that you should makc pl ans now to join us in June 86 at Alumni Wcekend 86 0

A Joy to Behold Her work has the shi mmer of life Such is said of artist Joy Elizabeth (Snihur) Laking Fine Art CSS 72 Joys art is intimately tied to the seasons In spring and summer she works against the perilous fadshying of fresh flowers capturing them in clean powerful designs

Fa ll afternoons on the grassy salt marshes around her home in Portaupigue Nova Scotia inspire wider scenes of rich changing colours

The respite of winter is her time for land and peoplescapes evolved from her ow n photography Her art is created within the context of family community and nature

Joy was introduced to hcr chosen lifeshystyle by her mother - they used to go sketching while Joy was a child in Owen Sound on Lake Huron s Georgian Bay shyand has painted since she can remember She now lives on the edge of the Bay of Fundy with husband Ronald OAC 72 and two cherubs where she can paint every day and capture the beauty she sees around her Whether it be mud and Illarsh a rusted truck and some farmyard geese or caterpillar holes in azalea leaves Joy is able to capture in watercolour the essence and beauty of all she sees

She is noted for her special ability to create white flowers on white paper by givshying the petals shape and vivid life with only a whisper of colour and shadow Light delishycate handling and mcticulous control fused with a powerful design se nse distinguishes her art

Joy is a well established artist and has had se lected exhibitions of her paintings at the Tom Thompson Memorial Art Gallery Owen Sound 1981 Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery Halifax NS 1982 Gallery 1889 Tatamagouche NS 1983

Daffodils By Joy (Snihur) Laking 72

Truro Art Society Truro NS 1984 and the Royal Botanical Gardens Burlington Onl 14

She was deservedly honoured to have the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia purchase one of her paintings for its collection and the Maritime Tel amp Tel chose a Laking painting for the cover of Nova Scotias 1985 telephone directory

Joy says I paint what I live what I see and what touches me It s no wonder then that Joy has been able to successfully transshyfer such sensitivity to her work in a way that has produced tine work s of art as demonshystrated in Daffodils reproduced here 0

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Grad News Terry Goddard 76 wrote to let us know

where he is and what hes doing After gradshyuation Terry turned to the world of engishy

neering and worked at the Bechtel Intershy

national Syncrude project in northern Alberta for a year He retu rned to school and obtained a Masters degree in Politi cal Theshyory in 1978 at the University of Toronto

TIle next nine months were spent workshying at Dhaharan Saudi Arabi a While the re

Terry contemplated the action which would

give him the best career move His deci s ion to go into teach ing led him back to the Unishy

versity of Toronto to obtai n his BEd His teachin g career took hi m to northshy

e rn Saskatchewan whe re he taug ht at a village which if not actually at the end of

the world was situated close enough that the end was plainly visible from the nOI1hern

outskirts He returned to Toronto someshywhat sated with academe and once again

turned to engineering He has been director of maintenance for the Jewi sh Com munity

Centres of Toronto for the past five years He has fou nd it difficult to keep in

touch with fellow grad s Especia lly th ose who studied in Professor Melby s Chinese

poIitic s courses and who were known as the Shanghai Mafia - they are all over the

world now Hes sure they often recall with fondness their days at Unigoo

Where are you former students of Proshyfessors Simmo ns and MelbYTerry would be interested in hearing from you - and so would we

Robin-Lee Norris 80 has been awarded

a $19000 Rot ary Foundation Scholarship to

pursue g radua te studi es in the Masters of Business Administration program at the

Univers ity of Adelaide Adelaide Australia Robin-Lee went o n to graduate from

Osgoode Hall Law School with an LLB

was called to the Ontario Bar in ApriJ of 1982 and has practised law with the tirm of

Kearns McKin non inGuelph since herca ll She took a ten-mo nth leave of absence

commenc ing in February 1985 from her positi on with Kearns McKinno n in o rder to take ad vantage of the sc holarship

During her months in Australia her mandate from Rotary Internatio nal in addishy

tion to pursuing her stud ies is to act as a Rotary and Canadian Ambassador in proshy

moting good will and understanding beshytween Australians and Canadians

A thank you goes to Cliff Hardy buildshying mechanic superv isor Main tenance Deshypartment Physical Resources for supplying us with thi s information and an aside to Robin-Lee when she reads this I was unable

to reach you betore you left to congratulate

you and get more informati on on your award If you have some free time we wOllld love to hea r from you about your studi es

what a Rotary and Canadian ambassador

does and to have you share your ex perience of being down-under

Marilyn Kernohan Morrison 78 has taken the time to Jet us know that shes living in Napanee with hu sba nd Brian She has

tempora ril y se t aside her ca reer to be a home-maker tor Brian and their four-monthshy

old son

Prior to their move to Napanee to acshycommodate Brians tran sfer - he work s with the Ministry of Natural Resources shy

Marilyn and family lived in a small comshymunity northwest of Thunder Bay After

Gue lph Marilyn continued her ed ucation at the comm unity college level and com pleted

a program for counse llors of the mentally

retarded SheJI be returnin g to thi s fi e ld when she again becomes a wage earner

Doris E (Trachsel) OKeefe 74 is deshy

scribed by husband John Paul 74 as a household engineer John Paul is a reshy

source teacher with the Waterloo County Board of Education With such a title I

couldnt resis t phon ing Doris to find out exactly what the duti es of a household enshy

gi neer are

While Doris decl ined to give a cletinishytion of the titl e l detected some surprise and delight that John Paul appreciates what it

takes to look after a famil y and a home

Doris is trying to re turn to teaching but is findin g it difficult in the Cambridge

Waterloo area If she isnt successful shes planning alternatives such as enrolment at Guelph in a Masters program o r failing that enrolment in courses that will he lp her

ac hieve her long-range goa ls She and John Paul recen tly moved from

London Ont to Cambridge Prior to the

birth of Erin now a two-year-old Doris was teac hing boys with behaviourial problems

and she sees thi s as an asset when applying for teaching positions Erin has a six-yearshyold brother Sean so you can understand

perhaps that Doris has been bu sy and maybe she is aptly described as a houseshy

hold engi neer

J Barry Baldwin 69 is a teac her with the Elgin County Board of Education S t Thomas Barry married Linda Janet Wii son They live in Aylmer West

M Rachel (Curtis) Towe 69 is manager customer systems Bell Canada She and

husband Ken live in Guelph

M Lois (Robinson) Harris 70 li ves in Newmarket with husband Fred

B Hugh Schofield 72 is an industrial engi neer with Rockwell Int e rnati o nal C hat ham He and wife Susan (Haslelt)

FACS 78 live in Chatham

Paul Davis 73 is an underwrite r analyst with Co-opera tors General In sura n ce

Guelph Paul and wife Linda (DozeH) 73 and 81 live at Brookhaven Court Guelph

Carol Finlayson 74 is a letter carrier lor Canada Post Carol and husband John Balch live in Toronto

Pal Hamilton 74 is an expon market deshyvelopment specialist with the O ntario Minshyistry of A gricu lture and Foo cl mark et

development branch Toronto He and his wife Diane (Coates) OAC 72 live in

Toronto

Kerrie Sirathy MA 78 advises us that

she is a s tud en t at th e Univcrsity of Sakatchewan Sas katoon

Vicky Sutherland 78 is an air trartie conshy

troller with Air Canada at FoI1 McMurray Airpo l1 Alta and lives in F0I1 McMurray

Sounds like an intercsting job - perhaps youl l share SOIllC experie nces with us Vicky

Marlin Thissen 78 is a foreman with the

region or Halton at ih Milton wa ter po llushytion control plant

Evelyn Evie (Isaacs) Whilwham 80 is a planning ass istant with Union Gas Co Ltd Chatham She and hu sba nd Bob have

c hanged their address They are at 70 Ottawa Drive C ha tham Ont N7L 216 0

In Memoriam A lormer faculty mcmber in the DeshypaI1ment of Geography Barsa Kelly was among the victims of the Air India Hight 182 disaster that occ urred

off the coas t of Irel and las t June ~ mr(sa Vas headed tor India on a reshy

search project at the time of her

death S he was the wife of Protessor Kenneth Kelly Department of Geogshyra phy On behalf of its members and all those who chc ri shed their con tacts with Barsa the Board of Directors of the College of Social Science Alumni Association extend their s incere symshy

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College of Biological Science Alumni Assoc BIOmiddotALUMNI NEWS

Editor Marie (Boissonneault) Rush 80

HONORARY PRESIDENT Professor Bruce Sells Dean

PRESIDENT David Airdrie BSc 82 Microbiology

PAST PRESIDENT Dr Chris Wren BSc 77 Marine Biology PhD 83

VICE-PRESIDENT Dee Britney BSc 74 Fisheries amp Wildlife MSc 81

SECRETARY-TREASURER Kclly Munkittrick BSc 80 Fisheries amp Wildshylife MSc 83

DIRECTORS Lorraine Bruce-Allen BSc 80 Zoology MSc 84 Jim Elliott BSc 79 Marine Biology Keith Harris BSc 76 Marine Biology Dr Doug Holdway BSc 76 Marine Biology MSc 78 Aquatic Toxicology PhD 83 Krista (McAuley) Soper BSc 79 Marine Biolshyogy Karin Davidson-Taylor BSc 83 Zoology

From Dave Airdrie 82 the

President How time flies when youre having fun Your editor Marie (Boissonneault) Rush 80 tell s me that this note to you will be in the Fall issue of the Guelph Alumnus so Ill bring you up to date on happenings since your 1985-86 Board of Directors was inshystalled in June

The CBS Alumni Association was parshyticularly busy during June Alumni Weekshyend events including the Wildlife Art Show and Sale and the barbecue at the Rockwood Conservation Area were well attended

Thanks must go to Krista (McAuley) Soper 79 and Lorraine Bruce-Allen 84 for their first-rate efforts in organizing and running the art show From all accounts it was ex tremely well done and is sure to be repeated in 1986

Further thanks mu st go to Keith Harshyris 76 for his efforts in once again organizing the barbecue at Rockwood Keith has done a terrifi c job with this event s ince its inception Hopefully these two events will be expanded in the coming year

Last spring the objective of $10 000 for the Keith Ronald Fellowship Fund was reached and we thank all who generously contributed to this fund Its to be hoped that this is only the first of many scholarships initiated through the CBSAA

Many of you will now be aware of the changes which the Universitys Department of Alumni Affairs has undergone in rece nt months Most important is the arrival of Marjorie Millar as director of the Departshyment It seems that President Matthews is placing greater emphasis on the importance of the Department due in part to the impenshyding capital campaign I am sure that youll all notice many beneficial innovations

The CBSAA has I feel reached a point in its development where we must heighten our profile both among alumni and undershygraduates In order to increase the awareness of the Association the Board has plans to embark on some new programs

The goals are as I see them two-fold first of all we need YOU to get more inshyvolved whether its participation in our proshygrams or s upport for the Assoc iation through your membership The fact that youre reading this demonstrates an interest which we would like to heighten

Secondly we re working at helpin g undergraduates before graduation to beshycome more aware of our Association Hopeshyfully we ll get helpful input and suggestions from many of you in the near future Reshymember - YOUR alumni association is what YOU make it

Dave Airdrie BSc 82 President Colshylege of Biological Science AA

FACULTY ADVISORS Dr Denis Lynn Zoology Dr Margaret Hauser M icroshybiology Dr John Hilton Nutrition Dr John Sandys Award Phillips Botany amp Genetics Dr Brian Wilson Human BiologyKinetics The Ontario Confederation of University

Faculty Associations (OCUFA) has awarded UGAA REPRESENTATIVES Karin Dr Alexander Sandy Middleton DepartshyDavidsonTaylor BSe X) Zoology Keith ment of Zoology one of the nine OCUFA Harris BSc 76 Marinc Biology Rob Teaching Awards for 1984 Milnc BSe XI MSe 84 Marine Bio Dr Middleton was nominated for this -award by colleagues students administrashyEX-OFFICIO DIRECTORS Ed Berdusco tors alumni and faculty It acknowledges president CBSSC Steve Spring past presishy outstanding ability and is considered to be dent CBSSC the provinces highest honour for excellence

in university teaching HKAA REPRESENTATIVE Nick Dalton I think there are two keys to being an BSe 77 Human Kinetics effective teacher Sandy says One is to

have respect for the student the other is to EDITOR RIO-ALUMNI NEWS Marie make a genuine intellectual and time comshy(Boissonneault) Rush B Se XO Marine mitmcnt to the course Biology 0 Dr Alexander Middleton Congratulations Dr Middleton 0

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Grad News Human Biology

Cathy Knipe BSc 79 MSc 83 is a Ph D st ud ent at Iowa State University Ames Iowa USA She is studying Moshylecular Biology

Shelly Lugg BSc 83 is a stude nt at Simon Fraser University Burnaby BC

Human Kinetics

Susan (Wright) Kwiatkowski BSc 80 is a recreation therapist at York Central Hosshypital Toronto Her spouse Ed graduated from Ryerson in 1979

Donna Marie (Kadwell) 1vose BSc 79 and husband John ji ve in Thorold Shes a physica l education supervisor at the Niagara Peninsula Crippled Childrens Centre

Mary Ellen (Mew) Walker BSc 83 is the activity co-ordinator at Spruce Lodge Stratford

Dr Ken Danylchuk BSc(PE) 73 is a s ur ge ry re s ident at the H itchcockshyDartmouth Medical Center Hanover N H USA

Kathryn (Tarry) Myers BSc 78 is a teacher with the Middlesex COunty Board of Educati on Hyde Park

WildUfe

Vicky Johnston 84 bega n an MSc at Lakehead University Thunder Bay in May Shes working on the reprodu ctive biology of Lake Superior rin g-billed gull s

Nutrition

Or 0010 Ohiokpehai 77 lectures in food and nutrition at the Unive rs ity of Ife Nigeria

Microbiology

John Semple 78 is a PhD ca ndidate in the Department of Mic rob iology amp Immushynology at Queens Uni vers ity Kingston He will be doing a post-doctora l at the Banting amp Best Depattment of Medica l Research University of Toronto

Unspecialized

Peter Adams 79 and Beth (Sarjeant) 79 are happy to announce their recent marshyriage Beth is a research technici an with the Depanment of Medicine Univers ity of Ca lshygary Alta and Peter operates a business with the se ismic service industry

Marine Biology

Jorgen Hansen 75 and his wife Drusilla (Dol be) Arts 75 live in Gloucester Jorge n is a staff officer with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Ottawa

CoUege Honour RoU - Winter 85 Semester 06

Margorie Fe rgusson 894 Human Biology JoAnna Milan 860 Biology

Semester 07 Sandra Noble 856 Microbiology

Semester 08 Marga ret Docker 876 Marine Biology Thomas Johnston 87 0 Fi sheries Biology Debra Underhill 858 Microbi ology

James Wright 858 Biology Tobin Peever 854 Botany

Alexander Hanke 852 Zoology Rebecca Rodgers 852 Human Bi ology

Tracey Robin son 882 BSc( HK ) Rebecca Halonen 880 BSc(HK )

Swdent has obtained standing for second time Student has obtaincd standing for third time

Home Town

Oakville Ottawa

Dorchester

Guelph New Liskeard Kingston Thunder Bay Bracebridge Grafton Calgary Alta Guelph Georgetown

Donald MacLennan 75 and hi s wife Katherine live in Chatham Donald is a biologi st-supervisor with the Ministry of Natural Resources Lake SI Clair Fisheries Assessmen t Unit Tilbury 0

College of Biological Science

Alumni Association

Wildlife Art Show

Well it happened June 15 and 16 have come and gone but not withshyout event The Graduate Students Lounge was transformed from a cozy meeting place into an an gallery There was much movi ng of furniture and hanging of an work with the end product being our fi rst ever CBSAA Wildlife Art Show

In total there were 20 wildlite artists partic ipating all tine ani sts in their own right Maybe you reshymember Ut a Stre live a nd Dr Ed Bailey Wow I You should see their wood works

Rick Beaver 73 also showed some of his work hes a wildlife imshypressionist and the colour and move shyment he paint s into each piece is eloquent Donald Dority 76 showed us the line photographer he has become There were other ani sts - too many to mention but all of extremely high calibre

Id like to mention one las t name though - Cindy Hayward manager of the Graduate Students Lounge If you ever need a steady hand to get an event off the ground shes the one to co ntact Without her hel p there would have been a whole heap of orshyga ni za tional problems From which we would have been unable to escape

All in all we had a successful show Thanks artists and viewers for making our efforts worthwhile 0

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New Minister of AgricultureOntario Agricultural College Alumni Assoc OAC ALUMNI NEWS

Editor Dr Harvey W Caldwell 51

Ontari OS new mini ster of ag riculture Jack Riddell 52A and 57 a cash crop farmer from the Exeter area comes to the position of Ontario s Mini ster of Agriculture and Food with ten years of expe rience as Liberal caucus cr itic for agriculture

The min is ter sa id that life under a Libshyeral government will give agriculture a higher priority than it has ex perienced in the past It will be considered one of the major industries in this province

Jack also pro mi sed to consult a great

Basic Technology in Action shyTurning Stones Into Bread By Ann Middleton Information Services

A new University of Guelph projec t in Tanza nia Africa should aid th e Third Wo rld s ubsistence leve l farmer The $400000 three-year projec t funded by the International Development Resea rch Centre (IDRC) will invol ve fltlculty of the Uni vershysitys Department of Land Resou rce Sc ience and Soko ine Uni versity of Ag riculture in Morogoro Central Tanza ni a Aim of the enterpri se is to use loca lly ava il ab le rock materials as soil amendm en ts and con shyditioners

The project came about when Ott awas IDRC brought together a team of two geo logists with an interest in improving co nshyditions for African farmers Professor Ward Chesworth with the Department of Land Resource Science has a long-standing intershyes t in turning rock s into fertili zers deshyve loped during work in West Africa and the Canltlry Islands where local farmers have spread volcanic rock on their field s for two centu ries In his lab and in the Blue Springs basin near Acton Ontario Professor Chesshyworth has been conducting experiment s on the levels at which common rocks re lease nutri ents into soil solutions

The other team member Dr Peter van Straltl ten is ori ginally from Germany but spe nt e ight years with the United Nations in Tan zania looking for metals and metal deshyposi ts and working on an in ve ntory of ferti shyli zer raw materials in south-east Africa

During thi s period Tanza nian food production per capita fell dramaticall y leadshying Dr van Strltlaten to try to find ways to help the food situation In ex periments in his garden in Dodomo Tanzaniltl he was able to increase yields of vegetables using locally

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available geological materia ls and organic wastes

Noting the common interes ts of the two men the Canadian age ncy introd uced them and Dr van Straaten relocated in Guelph Co-ordinators of the project are Professor Cheswo rth and Tan za ni an sc ie nti st Dr Johnson Semoka of Sokoine University coshyauthor of a text on so il sc ience much used in agricultural circles in Africa

Technical assistant Peter Sl11i th is working with Tanzanian rock specimens in the Land Resource Science lab and two other Tanzanian scientists will be involved

In addition to academics from bo th institutions members of the Geological Survey of Tanzania will also work on the project both in the Morogoro area and at Mbeya station in south-western Tanzania

Roc k sa mples will be collected and crushed and field tests and pot ex periments carried out here and on location When reshysu lt s have bee n obtained extension work will begin in Africa under the direc tion of Dr Semoka It is hoped that members of a Me nnonite Central Committee group workshying at Mbeya will design a simple rock crusher for the use of local farmers

Tanzania has a major phosphate deshyposi t wh ich will be tapped by the project as well as ground s ilicates including volcanic ash Liming materials such as limestone dolomite marl and ca rbonatite will also be evaluated

Professor Chesworth points out that alshythough No rth Americans place much emshyphasi s on the big three of soil nutrition shynitrogen phosphorus and potassium (NPK) - there are actually about 20 necessary

deal with the farm organizations on the direction his ministry should be taki ng

I dont believe that we can sit in our so-ca ll ed ivory towers and introduce the kind of programs that are go ing to be mea nshyingful unless we get consultation from the farmers and their spokes people

He has been a member of the provincial legislature for 12 years He spent his first two years as energy cri tic and later environshyment critic before mov ing into agriculture Jack and Anit a have a family of five 0

nutrie nts including the minor ones In some areas of Tanza nia the decline

in soil fe rtility is in part due to the settling of widespread populations into villages where land has been used without concern for nutrients Tn other part s of the country productivity has declined because of leachshying of plant nutrie nts durin g normal rainfall and also from the continuous use of acidifyshying fertilizers such as ammo nium su lphate Dr Chesworth point s out that the current practice of NPK fe rtili zation totally ignores secondary and micronut rient requirements of plants It is hoped that the projec t wilt address thi s problem

Our approac h is basic tec hn ology our target group the poorest far mers Dr van Straaten explains One of the problems in the past Dr Ches worth says has been convincing agronomists that it s worth purshysuing this kind of elementary tec hnology approach Theyre very skeptical that you can take common roc ks wi thou t major inshydustrial proces ing and use them to advanshytage on tropical soils

A s ideline area of research is work with zeolites open framework si licates that often occ ur in volcanic rocks Some zeolites can be used to trap nitrogen in the form of ammonia which would otherwise be los t in gaseous form When added to cow manure for exampl e and stomped in by the beasts themselves zeolites enrich an already valushyabl e fertil ize r Dr van Straaten explains

The zeolite research is being carried out in co njunction with Professor Colin Fyfe Department of Chemistry an intershynat io na ll y kn ow n authority o n zeo lit e -che mi stry

Orie result of the work of the Un ive rs ity of Guelph geo logists is an ag rogeology ne tshywork currentl y being set up bya number of African cou ntries as the result of di sc usshysions following a paper by Dr van Straaten and Professor Chesworth The paper was given recently at meetings of the UN Ecoshynomic Commiss ion for Africa in Zambia 0

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A Designing Grad The need for a summer job six years ago has ended in a Guelph grad des igning golf courses

When in 1979 Lisa Maki now

BLA 84 was searching for a job that would assist her in her studies at the Univershysity she applied to the city of Kitchener

She could have wound up in any

number of areas in the parks and recreation department but Rockway and Doon Valley

course superintendent Ed Ortlieb gave her the chance to join the work crew at Rockway fltor the first couple of years it was just a job that got her outdoors in the summer then by chance she got interested in the game itself

And now shes embarked on a career in golf course design

Lisa the 24-year-old oldest daughter of Ted Maki a former general manager of the

Lisa Maki BLA 84 Kitchener Rangers left last July for Lakeshyland Florida where she Joined Links Deshysign which de sig ns and oversees golf course construction throughout the United 1983 and a friend of the family who knew States The company is considered the sec shy was interested in golf course work arranged ond-largest of its type behind the one run by a meeting with Ronald Garl said Lisa I US golf legend Jack Nicklaus who deshy had an official job interview in April of 84 signed the Glen Abbey course in Oakville and then went to Florida in August of the

How does a young Kitchener woman same year to familiarize myself with the

end up working for Ronald Garl a 40-yearshy firms projects

old graduate of the University of Florida Because I had focused much of my who apprenticed under such well-known deshy University work on such things as turf man shy

signers as Roben Trent Jones and Joseph agement and had done pan of my bachelor Lee Again it was just a chance opportunity of landscape architecture thes is on what

We were in Florida in December of makes British golf courses great and the

Sisters of Accident Victims Receive Diplomas

A tragic accident just prior to Spring Convocation resulted in the deaths oftwo graduands of the Associate Diploma in Agriculture Program Jeff Bikus 85A of West Lome and Nick Davidson 85Afrom Zimbabwe Joy Davidson sister ofNick came from Zimbabwefor the Convocation She was sponsored by the OAC Alumni Association Classes of85A alld 86A Norm McCollulIl 66A honorary class president 85A Don and MiidredMcCollum Jenny Ballentine and her parents Dr Steve Bowley 78 and80 honorary class president 86A and the University Centre Administration Our sympathy is extended to the families and friends of these two popular studel1ls Pictured are Ito r Jenny Ballantine friend ofJeff Bikus Lealln Bikus sister of Jeff Joy Davidson sister of Nick and Klaus Kristiansen a studellt from Zimbabwe

other on golf course residential design he was impressed

In order to learn what made British

courses great Lisa spent a semester in Engshyland and Scotland visiting researching sketching photographing and playing 16 historic courses including the famous links courses which by tradition are the

only clubs to host the British Open Links layouts are courses that border the sea and have been built or developed over sand

bases

Approximately 15 students a year take

advantage of the School of Land scape Arshychitectures Semester Abroad Program fi shynancing the trips themselves However the program is supported by an annual $5000 grant from the Alma Mater Fund so alumni can claim a cenain amount of credit for Lisas success She was a recipient in 1983

of part of that years AMF grant Im not sure my mother and father

were very keen about my trave lling around England and Scot lane all alone but it was a truly great experience she said middot1 not only met many wonderful and helpful peoshyple got to play the great courses like St

Andrew s Royal Troon Turnberry and my favorite of all Royal Dornoch

After a complicated and lengthy US immigration process which took nearly a year she was granted her permanent work

visa She was in regular contact with her new

boss after returning to Kitchen er - she re turned to work at Rockway and Doon while awaiting the vi sa approval - and then last July plunged immediately into

projects including work at a mens tournashyment players 36-hole complex in Sarasota and a Ladies Professional Golf Assoc iation course in Melbourne where she worked in association with LPGA tour players Beth Daniels and Sally Little

Despite the fact that the job involves

vy ing with rattlesnakes alligators and Iild

pigs when I have to tramp through forests and swamps in applying my design work to certain areas I love the outdoor work Lisa

said At the same time she doesnt have any

probleIl1s giving orders to hard-hatted heavy-machinery construction workers when she is the field supervisor for on-site

work think I may have raised a few eye shy

brows when I staned work at Rockway but I was accepted

Lisa isnt sure how long this pan of her life will last and she has no way of knowing whether any of her courses will eve r be known as Lisa Maki layouts But that doesnt

concern her They may be Links Design projects but Ill know they were basically my courses 0

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Klink Lecture Dr Doug Morrison 49 Department of Poultry Science was chosen to deliver the 1985 Klink Lecture

The Klink lecture is ~ponsored by the Agricultural Inst itute of Canada and named after the Institute s founding president Preshysented by an outstanding lecture r the lecture is delivered through a coast-to-coast tour and concerns a topic of current significance to the agricultural industry and the nation

Dr Morri son stated that there is a need for professionalization in an imal agriculshyture in order to give it an improved image and make it more acceptable to the conshysumer

Address ing members of the Ontario Inshystitute of Agrologists in London Ontario he told his audience that the agriculture inshydustry in Canada ranks among the best in the world and producers have to ensure thi s is shown and make sure that peer pressure prevents producers from doing things that we cant defend

He suggested some type of professhysiona l approach established by the farming organization whereby expertise would be required instead of merely encouraged

This is a mu ch beller ap proach th an some edict from society through governshyment legi slation I strong ly object to legislashytion designed to protect me from myself he said adding that there are currently enough regulations existent through legislation that dictate what farmers can and cannot do

If a farmer were a profess ional hi s reward wou Id be in profits - about as meanshyingful a reward as has ye t been devised

Benefits of a more professionalized approach would include an improved image of the farmer to the consumer an increase in communication a more efficient industry

which is essential for competition improved knowledge on the fa rmers part of health nutrition care markets etc and more awareness of soc ietys concerns

In turn it would also be necessary to provide beller information to the consumer through an educational process because if soc iety is to pay for increased inputs for the long- term good of the nat ion then it is essential society be adequately informed

Morrison remarked that he fee ls the maj ori ty of animal agriculturists are in fact professionals but there has to be a concerted e ffort to at tract as lew people as possible in to the business who do not understa nd farmshying or who are doing things that are unacshyceptable

Consumer concern over dietary value or the amount of drugs contained in animal product s is also reason for farmers to tak e a professional approach They should work to alleviate any misreprese ntations and misin shyformation the public is receiving the proshyfessor noted s tating that farm ers have never produced food as safe and as wholeshysome as it is today

By the turn of the century on a world basis meat consumption is predicted to in shy

crease by abou t 60 per cent while the intake of milk is expected to increase by almost 40 per cent

A major fac tor for this rise in intake result s from th e fact that developing nations will begin to consume animal products as soon as they can afford them China is an excellent exa mple of this said the professor who commented that nation is now movshying as rapidly as possible to increase animal production

With all these factors is mind Dr Morshyri son sa id he is optimistic for the future of the Canad ian animal agriculture industry

Weve got the opportunities and can take advantage of them he said 0

Mark Bernards 85 cenlre was the recipienl oftwo OAC Alumni Foundation awards the OAC Alumni Graduate Award and the Beth Duncan Gold Medal Left is Gord Nixon 37 Foundashytion chairman and director and right NR Rick Richards 38 treasurer

Entrepreneur in Residence

Dr Donald Shaver

Dean Freeman McEwen is pleased to be working with Dr Donald McQueen Shaver the Universitys first Agricultural Entreshypreneur-i n-Res idence

Dr Shaver a native of Cambt idge Onshytari o is found er chairman and chief exshyecutive officer of Shaver Poultry Breed ing Farms Limited The compan y distributes chicken breeding stock to 90 countries from its head office in Cambridge and three subshysid iaries in the United States Britain and France He retired from his executive reshysponsib ilities on August 30 but is conshytinuing as director and adv isor to the company

From 1940 to 1945 Dr Shaver served with the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps in Africa and Europe retiring as regimental commanding officer He is past president of the Canadian Hatchery Federation the Poulshytry Products Institute of Canada the Canashydian Lincoln Red Society and Maine-Anjou Association He is a member of the Order of Canada Honorary Life Member of the Worlds Poultry Science Association and the Ontario Institute of Agrologi sts He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Science by McGill University and the Centennial Medal by the OAC

The Entrepreneu r-in-Reside nce pro shygram was initiated and financially supshyported by OAC Class of 58 to champion -the role of private enterpri se within soc iety The appointment is for a two-year period during which time Dr Shaver will present lectures lead workshops and consult with faculty and students

The Agricultural Entrepreneur-in-Resishydence program at the University is believed to be a first in agr icultural education around the world 0

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University Of Guelph Involved in $68 Million Chinese Project The University of Guelph has embarked on a co-operative $68 million project that will ~ink five Canadian and Chinese universities and agricultural institutions

The four-year Black Dragon River Proshyjeo supported by the Canadian Internashytional Deve lopment Agency (C IDA) involves Guelph the University of Alberta Olds College in AlbeI1a and two Chinese institutions - Heilongjiang Land Reclamashytion University and Liu He Training College in northeastern Heilongjiang Province

Under th e term s of the agreement training will be provided at the three Canashydian institutions for personnel from the two Chinese university institutions

The Liu He Training College is respo nshysible for educating state farm employees Training will range from short courses to undergraduate and graduate level programs

Faculty from the Canadian universities and Olds College will travel to China during the summer months to give lectures and

short courses The area borderi ng on Russia has treshy

mendou s potential for agricultural deve lopshyment Professor Neal Stos~opf 57 direct or of OACs diploma courses is Guelphs co-ordinator for the Chinese projshyect He was part of the Canadian gove rnment planning miss ion and ex plains that although the climate combines the cold winters and hot summers of Alberta most of the moisshyture is rain that falls between Jul y and Sepshytember

Although latitude is the sa me as Edmontons at 52 degrees north the area grows soybeans and corn as well as wheat The land has two to four feet of black topsoil waiting to be drained and planted he says with potential for livestock proshyduction

The proj ec t centre is located at the Unishyversity of Alberta with administration in Guelph being carried out by the Centre for International Programs 0

Provincial apiarist retires after 19 years You might say Philip Burkes job brought sweet rewards

Until his retirement recently Philip was the provincial apiarist - sort of Onshytarios chief of bees - while working at the University of Guelphs Department of Environmental Biology

He joined the University as a lectu rer in 1943 and then became assistant professor and later associate professor

At the same time the Ontario Departshyment of Agriculture (as the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food was known then) made him the assistant provincial apiarist In 1966 he became provincial apiarist

Of course he advised beekee pers on ways they could make their colonies more productive and efficient and fielded many apiary management question s - including how to prevent bees from swarming

If they swarm one-third to one-half of th e colony takes off so you lose a big source of your honey crop Swarming is trigshygered when the hive becomes overcrowded so the beekeeper mu st stay ahead of them It involves a whole manipulation of the hive through the season visiting each colony at least once every ten to 14 days he says Philip also worked with farmers whose

crops depended on pollination by bees At one time bees were needed for

pollin ating greenhouse produce such as cucumbers But in the past 15 years the trend has been toward new types that are self fruiting he says

But the biggest change in the industry over the years was the trend towards Illakshying corn king in Ontario - a trend that is now being reversed he says

From 1949 and on a lot of bee coloshynies were moved to the western provinces tollowi ng th e reduction in alfalfa production in Ontario and the increased corn acreage he says

Now prospec ts for honey production in Ontario are better than in past years beshycause of the increased alfalfa acreage and other legumes and the trend towards more diversified cropping

Not surpris ingly prices have changed in the industry over the years too Back in the 1920s it cost about $10 to start a bee colony today start-up costs are about $100 to $125 per colony

Much of his work at the University looked at ways to prevent di seases in bees using selected antibiotics

He was secretary for the Ontario Beekeepers Association for 15 yea rs and now acts as a consu It ant for the group 0

Wins Crampton Award

Dr Stanley J Slinger 37 the most recent rec ipient of the Earl e W Crampton Award for distingui shed service in nutrition is ProshyFessor Emeritus of the Depal1ment of Nutrishytion College of Biolog ica l Science at Guelph

Born in Lowell Ontario Dr Slinger received his BSc from the Ontario Agrishycultural College hi s MSc fro111 the Univershysity of Toronto and a PhD from Cornell University From 1941 to 1965 he was in the Departillent of Poultry Science at the OAC and since 1965 has been in the Department of Nutrition at Guelph serving as chairJl1an from 1965 to 1974

Dr Slinger conducted re sea rch in sevshyeral areas of pou Itry nutrition for Jl10re than 30 years In 1972- 73 a fi sh nutrition laborashytory was set up and thi s laboratory has conshytinued to grow and iJl1prove s i nee One of the primary objectives in both poultry and fi sh nutrition research has been to develop feed to rmulas using feedstuffs of Canadian orishygin 111ese tannulas have been publi shed and continuall y revi sed and have been used extensively by teed manufacturers through shyout Canada Dr Slinger continues to be active in research

Dr Slinger taught poultry nutrition in Poultry Science for 27 years gave seminar courses in nutrition and physiology taught Fundamentals of Nutrition in the Depal1shyment of Nutrition and deve loped and taught courses in fi sh and wildlite nutrition

He has supervi sed the work of Jl1any graduates and it is interesting to note that the Department of Nutrition at Guelph is the only depailment in Canada - and there are very few in the United States - turning out graduates in Fish Nutrition at the PhD leve l

He has helped to establi sh modern poultry industries in Mexico and the areas of South East Asia Africa the Middle East Eastern and Western Europe and the United Kingdom Lectures conlerences and other consultative work have also taken hilll to Jl1any coul1tries over the years

The recipient of numerous honours and awards Dr S linger was made Professor Emeritus of the University in Ino and reshy -ceived the Earl e W Crampton award in 19B4 at Macdonald College Que Thi s award is given by the Faculty of Agriculture in recogshyniti on of significant co ntributions in the field of nutrition through research andlor service The award is named for Dr Earle W Crampton a renowned nutritionist whose career at Macd onald bega n in 1922 and lasted far 51 years 0

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cialist having spent four months in the latter John Reid 84 is technical sales rep Agrico Grad News part of 1984 in Bloemfontein South Africa Sales Ltd Richmond BC

Earl Johnston 46 is president Earl-John Brokers Ltd Delhi

Joe Knox 48 is secretary-treasurer Annco Westeellnc Guelph

Ralph Hills 54 is pastor United Church of Canada Smith Falls Ralph left Zambia last October spending some time in Kenya Israel England and Scotland on the way home He was surprised to meet Charlie Broadwell also 54 on Oxford Street in London Charlie was giving a reception at a large castle for the white bean buyers who purchase beans from Charlies Bean Growers of Ontario Ralph also passes along the word from Louise (Fershyguson) Hope Mac 54 that her husband Don 54 preparing for some future possible social work is studying drug addiction at George Brown College of Applied Ans and Technology Toronto

Joseph Leach 54 is a research scientist Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources Lake Erie Research station Wheatley

Ken Edwards 59 is an industrial engineer Prince George Pulp and Paper Vancouver BC

Fred Theaker 62 is a teacher-biologist Ren frew County Board of Education Aruprior

Howard Lang 67 is senior so il conshyservation advisor for OMAF Cambridge

John Lawrence 69 has been appointed vice-president and ge neral manager De kalb Canada Inc Chatham John is a lso president of the Canadian Agri-marketing Assoc iation

Robert Brooksbank 70 is manager Agrishycultural Department Simcoe area Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce

Alan Duncan BLA 73 is project coshyordinator Groupe d intervention urban de Montreal Montreal Que

Martha (Weir) Collins 75 reports that Anne (Walton) Bayler 75 is at teac hers college in Toronto after spending several years teaching in the Bahamas Martha lives at I Braid Place Guelph and would like to hear news of her classmates

Jim Dyer MSc 75 is a senior resource and environmental officer with the crop producshytion division of Agriculture Canada Ottawa He is on loan as a drought monitoring spe shy

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His wife Barb (Newell) Arts 75 who is a technical editor with Public Works Canada joined him in Bloemfontein for a month

Elizabeth Fedorkow 75 is a market reshysearcher Tetra Pak Inc Markham

Roy Maxwell 75 is an agricultural comshymentator CBC Radio Noon Toronto

Gary Ball 76 is vice-president manufacturshying Mitten Vinyl Inc Cambridge

Garnet McConney 77 is feed lot manager Catllel and Ontario Inc Petersburg

Patrick Meyers 77 OVC 84 is a vetshyerinarian with the Grenville-Dundas Veterinshyary Clinic Kemptville

Martha Frey 78 is secretaryass istant edishytor Canadians for Health Research Wes tshymount Que

Wayne Harrison 79 is assi stant manager Toronto Dominion Bank Elmira His wife is Katherine (McLeod) 77

Sharon Helynk 79 is with the Woodbury Animal Hospital Halifax NS

Jeffery Goebel 80 is resident engineer ACF Canada Ltd Georgetown

Mary Lynn Prong 80 is assistant manager Royal Bank Watford She reports that Bruno Soucy 8Q has changed jobs from OMAF farm ma nagement advisor to agrolog ist London region Royal Bank

Corrie Almack 81 is presidentowner Agshyriculturai Soil and Nutrition Consultants Freelton

Edward Bolton 81 is research farm manshyager AJle lix Inc M ississauga

William Summers 82 MSc 84 is prodshyuct deve lopment rep Du-Pont Canada Streetsville

Dianne (Coker) McDowell 83 is quality assurance supervisor Richardson Foods Ltd Glanw0I1h

John Ross 83 is a program officer Agrishyculture Canada Edmonton Alta

Jeff Burke 84 is a customer service rep Griffith Lab Toronto

Julie Fowler 84 is working for Embury Bros Farms Ltd Newburgh

Karen Rodman 84 is a farm management specialist OMAF Nepean

James Simonds 84 is a crop specialist Cavendi sh Fanns Summerside P E1

Richard West PhD 84 is a research scishyentist Canadian Forestry Service SI John s Nftdo

In Memoriam We regret to report the following deaths

Marie Honsberger 17A died March 1985

Esmond D Clipsham 2IA died on April 6 1985 Esmond had been the proprietor Uneeda Rest Hotel Kilwonhy and was a life member of the OAC Alumni Association

Stanley Ewart Keillor 21 died on February 27 1985 He was a crop farmer at Walshylacetown

John Edward Chalmers 23A died on Febshyru ary 15 1985

Jacobus Van Haarlem 23 at age 85 on July 2 1985 in Vineland He retired as ex shyecutive director of the Hor1icultural Experishymental Station at Vineland in 1970 after 47 years of service there

Hugh Lacklin Paterson 32A died in May 1985 of a heart attack at Rockwood

Murray Cameron Macklin 33A 35 died January n 1985 in Toronto

Garland Alfred Fisk 35 Date of deat h unknown

Gordon Elgin Young 35 died on June 12 1985 at Ing leside

John Miller Fargery 37 on March 22 1985 in Toronto John had been an insurance salesman Farm Credit Corp and was a life member of the OAC Alumni Assoc iation

William Thomson 40 in 1982 in Lonshy shygueuil Que His death was reported recen tl y

Robert Fletcher Madden 54A died on November 26 1984 at age 52 at Napanee

Vera (Mod ric) Kozamplik MSc 73 in Yugoslavia She was the wife of Vinko Kozumplik M Sc 71 0

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From the Dean

Dr Barham

In some of my lellers I have aimed to share

information on some special program or theme with you On this occasion I want to

keep you in touch through a number of lillie items so I shall hold onto some of the bigshy

ger interests for future issues of the Guelph Alumnus

As I write this leller Alumni Weekend 85 is behind us I found it a great weekend

and I thoroughly enjoyed meeting more of our alumni for the first time while

especially appreciating recognizing more

and more familiar faces and names from previous occasions

This year the Classes of 65 and 75 requested an up-date on our programs and

the developments we have experienced together in the College over the last few

years I guess that we were able to demonshy

strate much more development in our research and teaching programs than we could in some parts of the physical facilities within the buildings Still we had thorshyoughly congenial and I think very useful

meetings with both of these classes and added a nostalgic tour of our facilities

It was splendid to meet both of these groups I confess however that I had not

foreseen that a large part of the interest of the Class of 65 rested on the fact that many of their children are now gearing up to enter FACS

I was able to remind them that the BASc and B Comm degrees both lead

into fascinating and challenging careers for sons and nephews as well as daughters and

nieces Some of you coming to Alumni Weekend 86 might wish to get in touch with me to arrange an up-date on our acti vities then too

One of my special pleasures of Alumni Weekend was to join with the Class of 35 at the Golden Anniversary Dinner This occashy

sion is always a particular delight given the special personal pleasures reflected in the

friendships shared on this anniversary And I do want members of the Class of

35 to know that their gift of the magnificent Terry Legault Roman Festival print looks really outstanding and just right amidst the

contemporary decor of the FACS lounge

One last item of alumni news which I want to mention is the fact that I met with

Jean (Nairn) Carter 38 and some of her committee recently I learned that they have

been making quite outstanding progress in establishing the trust fund that will support their new graduate student award in geronshy

tology The first award presentation of $1000 is being made this fall but members of the Class of 38 are still pushing on with their fund raising in order to bring the

annual trust-fund yield to a level of $2 000 We all think that the Class of 38 grads

have been quite remarkable in their detershymination to build up a significant fund to

support work in this important new field of scholarship and research I know that we

shall all appreciate your support for them in reaching their target

I met with Audrey Warner and Annette

Yeager 62 recently They advised me of their concern for the needs of teachers wantshy

ing to prepare themselves for adding Family Studies to their fields of professional speshy

cialization and of other teachers already working in that field who find themselves in need of some up-dating especially in view of the curriculum changes which appear to be around the corner

In this regard I want to mention two

items which might be of interest First our faculty in FACS have been

quite heavily engaged in working with

teachers and others in thinking planning debating and writing for the curriculum developme~ts envisaged for the Ontario Academic High School Credits

Most especially we have had as memshybers of the Canadian Family in Perspective group Dr Jean Sabry with her own special

interest in human nutrition Dr Grant

McCracken in clothing Drs Marshall Fine and Claude Guldner with their expertise in family relations and Drs Anne Martin Matshythews and Joe Tindale with their special strengths in life-span development and

aging - quite a team of contributors Secondly I want to mention in relation

to my meeting with Audrey and Annette that we now have a number of courses avai 1shy

able in a six-week format offered in summer sessions provided on campus

Perhaps of even more interest to those of you who wont find it practical to take

classes on campus at Guelph we have an annual offering of distance or corresponshy

dence-type courses Many of these will be of very pertinent

interest to a number of teachers The current list includes Human Development Marital and Family Dynamics Personal and Family Finance Development of Human Sexuality Nutrition and Man and the Exceptional Child in the Family

You can find out more about these

offerings by writing directly to Guelph Disshytance Education University of Guelph

Macdonald Institute shyFamily and Consumer Studies Alumni Assoc

Editor Carol Telford-Pittman 75

Guelph Ont NIG 2WI or by getting in touch with my office

One of the reasons that we have put

ourselves so significantly behind the development of these distance courses is that we did not have the resources to meet

the demand for providing our courses in the more traditional class format at locations

away from the Guelph campus As usual there is much more to share

with you but it will just have to hold until

my next letter I look forward to being in touch with you again then 0

Olive Thompson Honoured

Olive (Thompson) Thompson 35

-The Mac-FACS Alumni Association was very pleased to present a Citation of Appreshyciation to Olive (Thompson) Thompson

35 during Alumni Weekend 85 festivities Olive has given much time energy

support and leadership to the College and to the University through her years of involveshyment with the Mac-FACS Alumni Associashytion Class of Mac 35 activities and the University of Guelph Alumni Association

Our University s alumni organizations are stronger and more effective because of

the years of commitment and personal sershyvice that Olive has contributed

Olive - We salute you 0

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New at HAFA By John Hearn

Infonnation Services

An innovative course developed by the School of Hotel and Food Administration (HAFA) is focussing the attention of undershygraduates on the analysis of operational problems in the hospitality industry and the writing skills required to express and comshymunicate that analysis

Students are required to find summer jobs in the hospitality industry and then to write five papers of ascending complexity during the first semester of their second year using text readings specially edited for this course by the Schools Director Proshyfessor Tom Powers

We have a unique responsibility to prepare students not just for their first job but for future jobs further down the line says Dr Powers Possession of a university degree should imply an ability both to anashylyse problems and to communicate observashytions and recommendations In todays corporate world reports papers and letters are management tools and written comshymunication is a survival skill

The HAFA faculty decided further to emphasize writing skills by adopting a style manual developed by Professor Margaret Hund leby Department of Engl ish Language and Literature for this course as an integral part of the Schools other courses

In order to familiarize faculty with the use of the manual and the grading of student writing Professor Hundleby was invited to conduct a two-day workshop which atshytracted the attention of Vice-President Howard Clark and Associate Vice-President Janet Wardlaw as well as faculty from other disciplines s uch as psychology land resource science microbiology and history

The program Professor Hundleby told the seminar requires students to complete five report papers based on their own obsershyvations

The first paper requires a detailed description of the physical layout of the host operation plus an appraisal and operating cost analysis of its heating air-conditioning and ventilation systems

A second paper asks the student to describe and evaluate staff structure funcshytion compensation package and efficiency

Cost control is the subject of a third paper Purchasing practices food producshytion cost traCking and inventory manageshyment all come under this heading

Marketing is the fourth subject area What market segment is the operation aimed at What consumer need does the operation satisfy What is the nature of the

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Left to right- Professors Cathy Schrye Writing Centre Tom Muller HAFA Belty Upton HAFA Mike Jenkinson OAC 63 OAC dean s office Mary Rogers History and back to camera Bernie Katz Library reviewing cases drawn from studefll papers in a two-day workshop Evaluating Students Writing conducted by Professor Margaret Hundleby

competition in the target market

The fifth paper examines the intangishybles of management sty Ie How does the role of the manager affect relations with customshyers staff and head office

Professor Hundleby commenting on some of the problems of the course says whatever we call it students tend to conshyclude that what they re writing is an acashydemic paper of some kind - which of course it is - but we need to make the connection in their minds with the real the corporate world out there They also tend to think that longer is better and write about what they know - rather than what is import ant The development of a proper sense of for whom they are writing is itself a problem-solving skill

Another problem according to Proshyfessor Hundleby is what she calls the new illiteracy - a verbal dysfunction resulting from an impoverished vocabulary

Style too is a matter of considerable

AMPHI Spin-offs The School of Hotel and Food Administra shytions annual Advanced Management Pro shygram for the Hospitality Industry (AMPHI) now in its third year is spinning off new management development activities says HAFA Director Tom Powers Earlier this year 20 people attended a workshop on accounting and finance presented by Proshyfes sor William Braithwaite School of Agrishycultural Economics and Extension Educashytion and three similar programs will be offered in different parts of the country over the next year and a half

Another program still in the planning stage is a six-day hospitality managers development course designed for middle management by AMPHIs associate direcshy

concern She also mentioned careless senshytence structure style that is inappropriate to the content lack of connective logic failure to understand the nature of a paragraph as a literary entity the frivolous use of colloshyquiali sms an absence of any sense of the harmonious sound of words on paper and of course a growing list of commonly misused words - e g it could of had that affect

There s a tendency to see s tyle as a decorative flourish rather than as an aspect of content she concluded

Professor Powers sees the development of verbal communication skills as central to the whole idea of liberal education Cershytainly he says its useful for HAFA stushydents to understand how a cost control system works - but its at least as important to be able to think logically analyse logshyically and communicate conclusions in a way that is credible informative coherent and complete in fact these are the classic goals of a liberal education 0

tor Professor John Patterson and a consulshytant group of AMPHI alumni

AMPHI continues to attract internashytional attention participants in thi s years program which began in April include senior executives from many of North Americas most distinguished hotels and restaurants The four-week course offers an intensive program based primarily on case studies written by Professo rs Patterson -Braithwaite Carl Riegel and Tom Muller

The growing volume of AMPHI cases indicates that thi s is the largest s ingle research program currently under way in any hotel school in North America says Proshyfessor Powers AMPHls network of conshytacts is giving us access to a senior-level view of the industrys current problems and prospects 0

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Research AssociateComing Soon A AppointedModel Play Facility

Dr Joan Norris

Dr Joan Norris has held the position of Research Associate at the Gerontology Research Centre since last spring

Joan is working with faculty to develop and promote research related to population aging and is available for consultation with faculty on research design funding sources and publication

In addition to this development work she is continuing her personal program of research She works for the Gerontology Censhytre two days per week and the balance of her

The Family Studies Laboratory Schools pre-school play facility fell 10 a Grounds time is spent in the Department of Family Department wrecking machine recently Studies where she has held a faculty appointshy

ment since 1980 Joan holds a Ph D in Psychology from

the University of Waterloo and is also a regisshytered psychologist Her personal research

The Mllc-FACS Special Projects Commitshyinterests include social competence in older

tee Ito r Bonnie Kerslake 82 Association adults peer relationships and grandshy

president Linda (Wo[e) Markle 73 chairshyparenting 0

man and Gail Murray 78 Missing comshymillee member is Rita (Klassen) Weigel 77 The aim of the committee is to raise funds to redevelop the Family Studies Laboshy In Memoriam ratory Schools and raise itto the level where it will be regarded as a model pre-school

Eileen Margaret (Manahan) Alwayplay facility

390 October 21984 in Vancouver BC

Jean (Horrell) Atkinson 240 March 5 1985 in Aurora

Class of 35 Gift Oorothy (Lockard) Honsberger 300Centre panel Roman Carnival

In order to commemorate their anniversary July 51985 in Weiland Mac 35 has traditionally given a scholshyarship to a FACS student once every five Isabel J Lockerbie 300 March 31 years This year on the 50th anniversary of 1985 in Toronto their graduation and in addition to the scholarship an etching entitled Roman Patricia G (Smith) McKay-Barry 55 Carnival by Terry Legault has been added March 17 1985 in London Ont to the Universitys collection of Canadian alt The etching is hanging in the FACS Velma E (Conn) Partridge 260 April faculty lounge 29 1985 in Niagara Falls Ont shy

The theme of Roman Carnival was favoured by neo-clas sical and romantic Helen E (Kelly) Robinson 220 April painters during the 19th century The etching 30 1985 in Dundas captures the moment at which wild horses are released to race through the streets of Norma I (Motherwell) Roy 350 in Rome The artist has chosen to represent the Moosejaw Sask wild chaotic motion ot the horses rather than explicitly depict in detail the animals Lillian S (Moore) Usher 340 March 28 and the architectural background 0 1985 in Cobourg 0

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College of Physical Science Alumni Assoc SCIMP

Editor Bob Winkel

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Yes Dr Earl MacNaughtoll has relired alshylogelher bUI Ihis wonl be Ih e lasl you I hear from him reSI assured Before he and his wife Jean lOok oJf for Auslralia and New Zealand Deparlmenl of Physics slaf and faculty held a galhering al Ihe FacullY Club and presenled Ihe couple wilh an alumni clock

Back to Guelph

The headquarters for (GWC)2 came

back to Guelph in July for a threeshy

year period while Professor Robert Balahura Chemistry and Biochemisshy

try serves as director (GWC)2 offices have been set up

in Room 122 and 123 Physical Scishyences building The University of

Waterloo will maintain a satellite office during the three-year Guelph

rotation Dr Balahura and adminshy

istrative assistant Andrea Turner may

be reached at Ext 3865 0

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Physics Professor Elected to Royal Society

Bernhard Nickel

Department of Phy s ics Professor Bernhard Nickel has been elected a Fellow

of the Royal Society of Canada and was formally inducted into the Society at its

annual meeting in Montreal in June

A member of the Physics faculty since

1974 Professor Nickel is no stranger to

prizes and awards In 1981 he received the Herzberg Medal the Canadian Associashy

tion of Physicists award to a promising young scienti st In 1978 he won a Sloan

Fellowship from the New York-based Sloan Foundation

He achieved recognition by navigating

the esoteric seas of condensed matter physshy

ics Hi s co lleagues call him a leading masshyter in the art of mathematical physics By

exploiting the existing mathematical frameshywork in subtle ways he has worked through

thickets that have stopped other physic ists

High order perturbation calculations

done by him played a key role in verifying

the quantitative reliability of the theory of

underlying continuous phase transitions in systems

He earned BScE and MSc degrees from the University of Saskatchewan and a

PhD from the University of California at

San Diego He was a research associate at

Cornell and Oxford Universities and a postshy

doctoral research Fellow at the Univers itY of Alberta before coming to Guelph in 1974

He has been a visiting fellow at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory at the Univershy

sity of California at San Diego at Harvard

and at the Schlumberger-Doll Re searc h In stitute in Connecticut

With his election he becomes one of

six Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada at

Guelph The others are Professors Howard

Clark Peter Egelstaff Gabriel Karl Bruce Sells and Herbert Armstrong And it brings to five the number of me mbers of the

Guelph-Waterloo Program for Graduate Work in Physics (GWP)2 who can put the

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Halleys Comet and the Babylonians By Professors Nigel Bunce and Jim Hunt

The winter of 1985 and the spring of 1986 will lon g be remembered as the year of

Comet Halley No comet in history has so

stirred the imagination of man or been the

object of suc h intensive investigation Its easy to understand this interest when its

appreciated that Halleys Comet is the only recurring comet that is bright enough to be

seen with the naked eye ft was the g reat astronomer Edmund

Halley who in 1705 recognized the s imilarshy

ity of the appearances of the great comets of 1456 1531 1607 and 1682 He speculated that these were in fact one and the sa me

comet with a period of 75 or 76 years

He predicted that the comet would reshyturn in 175 8 a return he could not live to see With thi s Halley discovered the phenomeshy

non of periodic comets and thus showed

that they were members of our solar system

The comet dutifully returned in 1835

and spectacularly so in 1910 In the latter

year circumstances were such that after its

perhelion passage (the point closest to the

Sun) the Earth and the comet approached

each other very closely The comet was so close that at one time its tail spread from

horizon to horizon The return in 1985-86 will be considshy

erably less spectacular In fact for Canadishyans it will not be easy to observe s ince the

time of perhelion is in Febnlary when the

Sun is very low in the sky The view will be -much better from more southerl y latitudes Over the years historica l records have

been found which record every passage of the comet back to 12 BC M any of these obshy

servations come from Chinese records first published in 1846 A well-authenticated

passage was that of 1066 which was reshy

corded on the Bayeux tapestry by the mother

of William of Nonnand y and taken as an cOllld on righl

Grad News Paul Ferguson BSc 67 of Ede n Mill s is president of EIS Systems Ltd and travelled in New Zealand this summer

Walter Lock BSc 67 of Denfield is practising medicine in Lucan

Tjeerd Homan BSc 69 of Calgary Alta is manager research and development services for Petro-Can He is enjoying his family Carla Sarah and John Menno and his hobbies of golf curling and skiing

(GWP)2 Poster Session a First

Earlier this year the Guelph- Waterloo Proshygram for Graduate Work in Physics (GWP)2 staged its first annual poster session for graduate s tudents Poster sessions which are becoming increasingly popular in scienshytific circles allow interaction between researchers and delegates without the time pressures encountered when presenting con shyventional papers at meetings says (GWP)2 Director lain Campbell

The first annual (GWP)2 poste r sesshysion which was followed by a soc ial hour and banquet was highly successful in genershyating interaction says Campbell By the end of the session there were still clusters of people arguing the finer points of scientific interpretation on many of the posters These exchanges continued right through the soshycial hour and into dinner Interaction is what science is all about

Encouraging interaction between stushydents and faculty is one of Campbells prishyorities as Director It is too easy for students to tuck themselves into a corner and work away in isolation They need to get out and ex plain their work both to experts and to

omen of his victory over the Saxons Based on this long record various

mathematical analyses of the orbit of the comet have been produced These account very accurately for the known passages of the comet However when these various anshyalyses are pushed back beyond 12 BC they predict widely varying dates for the previous appearances Before 12 B c there are ani y two vague Chinese records in 87 BC and 240 B c which mayor may not have been Halleys comet

In a recent issue of Nature a team of

Ernest Campbell BSc 69 lives in Campbell ville and teaches science for the Halton Board in Burlington

Richard Davis BSc 77 having comshypleted his MD University of Toronto 83 and his internship at Womens College Hosshypital will be setting up his practice in family medicine in his home town of Guelph

Larry Meek BSc 77 of Ottawa is pashytient administrator and computing officer for the National Defence Medical Centre His hobbies include sailing and skiing

Andre Brunet BA 81 is working for Amdahl Ltd as fieldsystems engineer and lives in Sudbury with his wife Monique (Puellette) FACS 80

Cathy Deakin BSc 81 is presently articshyling with the law firm of Little Reeves Mahoney Jarrett amp Hart of London

Andrew Dubrawski BSc 82 and his wife Alicia (Wodecka) BSc 81 live in Toronto where he works as a communicashytions systems analyst for CNCP Telecomshymunications 0

10hn Root 81 a (GWP)2 PhD s tudent left aflracts an audience

non-experts It takes a deliberate effort on our part to generate and maintain this intershychange

The poster session was the largest scishyentific or social event yet staged by (GWP)2 Some 18 students presented posters and about 90 students faculty and prospective students attended

The posters are on display in the two departments of physics to give others an opportunity to view them At Gue lph they are in the second floor corridor of the Physshyical Science Building near the Department

scholars from England and Vienna reported the finding of two fragments of Babylonian tablets in the British Museum that clearly report the appearance of the comet in 87 BC and 164 B C The records are so clear that by calculation not only the year but the time of year for the perhelion passage can be determined

For example the 164 BC apparition has been narrowed down to a date someshywhere between November 5 and 25 of that year The 87 BC record is not as accurate nevertheless its perhelion passage can be

of Physics office Encouraged by the s uccess of the

poster sess ion lain Campbell is planning another high-profile event for (GWP)2 to recognize award-winning faculty He plans a fall symposium at which three (GWP)2 members who received major honours durshying 1985 will give short lectures to be folshylowed by a sherry reception The three honoured faculty are Gicinto Scoles Killam Fellowship winner Bernhard Nickel Felshylow of the Royal Society of Canada and John Simpson Rutherford medalist 0

narrowed down to July 25 to August 15 These observations while inaccurate

to the extent of 20 days are still accurate enough to eliminate three of the four leading -calculations of the motion of Comet Halley This is a striking example of how archaeoshylogical investigations may have a strong effect on many diverse subjects in this case com~tary astronomy 0

We welcome questions and ideas for future articles Write to the authors clo the Deans Office Cole fe ofPhysical Science Univershysity of Guelph Guelph Ontario NIG 2WI

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College of Arts Alumni Association DELPHA

Editor Terry Ayer 84

Executive 1985-86 HONORARY PRESIDENT Dr David R Murray Dean

PRESIDENT Linda McKenzie-Cordick 81

PAST PRESIDENT Margo Shoemaker 79

VICE-PRESIDENT Wm Macdonald 78

SECRETARY-TREASURER

Marilyn Armstrong 78

DIRECTORS Debbie (Nash) Chambers 77 Edith LeLacheur 72 Janice (Robertshy

son) Partlow 79

UGAA REPS Wm Macdonald 78 Margo Shoemaker 79

EDITOR DELPHA Terry Ayer 84

Appointed

Dr Edward Phillips

Edward Phillips began a five-year term as chairman of the Department of Music July I He obtained his BA in mu sic at Amherst College

Massachusetts and his M A Masshyter of Philosophy and Ph D all in music theory from Yale Univers ity Married to Patricia who has a DM A in organ performance from Yale he has two sons Stewart 7 and Andrew 3 Edward who is also an organist enjoys cooking 0

Literary Heritage Preserved in Africa Most Canadian children are exposed to their cultural heritage at an early age through legendary stories brought from Eushy

rope or about Canadian pioneering and through stories about Indian or Inuit myths

and fables In developing countries however

where paper and printed materials are in

shon supply cultural heritage is usually passed on orally and children have little

opportunity to read about their past A Canashydian project involving the Universities of Guelph and Yaounde in Cameroon West

Africa is doing something to keep that countrys heritage alive

The project now entering its fourth year is a collaborative effort of the De partshy

ment of English Language and Literature at Guelph and the Department of African Litshyerature at the Univers ity of Yaounde It is

sponsored by the Canadian International Development Agency with Guelphs Deshy

partment of English Language and Litershy

ature Chairman Doug Killam serving as co-ordinator and Elizabeth (Wildman)

Cockburn CSS 81 as Canadian project consultant

Dr Killam is well-known for his work in the field of Commonwealth literature and

has taught at several African universities

EI izabeth Cock burn a primary sc hool teacher taught at the Government Teachers Training College in the North West Province

of Cameroon from 1969 to 1971 It was then

that she became aware of the shortage of relevent reading material for Cameroon schoolchildren

However it was some ten years later

that the project was born when she and Professor Kilian consulted with Dr Bernard

Fonlon then head of the Department of Afshyrican Literature at Yaounde Deeply comshy

mitted to saving African oral traditions as literatore Dr Fonlon although now retired remains a driving force in promoting creativity in the schools and scholarship on oral literature at the university

Last January Professor Killam and Elizabeth Cockburn were in Yaounde at a

conference where 80 papers were presented on the theory and practice of oral literature for West African educators - the first major attempt to marry theory and practice

As are children in the Canadian Indian

and Inuit communities African children are often exposed to texts that portray children of cultures different from their own To

counteract thi s influence simple African s tories with lifelike illustrations are being

Local stories come alive

mimeographed and turned into booklets by simply folding stand ard letter-size paper in half A collections of these stories will evenshytually be produced in textbook form when

fund s become available One such s tory The Marriage Feast

describes the marriage meal of the cat who invites all the domestic animals and birds to

the celebration

The dogs who know much about meat were asked 10 cook the food 8U1 they decided 10

playa trick They cooked the meat in the bOlom of the pot with the vegetables on lOp They said they would be the last to eat

In true fable form the hens who ate first discovered when they were too full to eat any more that there was meat deep

inside the pOI So they

Swore never to eat from the surface again and that is why hens always scratch deep into the soil in search offood

Although story-telling is becoming a lost art in Canada it is still a lively part of

life in Cameroon But as Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe said when he was in Guelph last year when a member of the older genshyeration dies its as if a whole library was destroyed -

Time is running short and fund s are needed to keep alive this project in Camshyeroon Anyone seeking further information

on the project may address their inquiries to Professor Killam at the University He hopes to receive funding from the Commonwealth

Foundation for similar work in other counshytries which have expressed an interest in

recording their heritage 0

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The Limners How do art students continue to find stimshyulation and motivation following graduation when they are no longer under the pressure of course requirements and without the critshyicism of an instructor

Four Fine Art graduates and one inshycourse student solved the problem by formshying a support group called The Limners (Limn an archaic word meaning paint deshypict portray Hence - Limner) Last Sepshytember the group held a success ful exhishybition of their recent works at the Halton Hills Cultural Centre Georgetown The Limners are

Dorothy Hart 81 of Georgetown She works with oil s pas tel s and graphite b4t is very interested in character fi gures made of cellu-clay which requires enormous pashytience to produce Her latest interest is pastel portraits of children

Dimensions 85 The fourth annual College of Arts Ailimni Association juried art show DIMENSIONS 85 was a success once again The jury members Marlene Jofriet well-known water colourist _ Michael OKeefe 76 practising artist and teacher and George Todd chairman Department of Fine Art selected 30 entries to hang

The jury awarded the following $100 $75 $50 prizes and designated three honshyourable -mentions

First pri ze Sheila Vollmer 85 Woman in Veil intaglio print

Second prize Wendy Maki 83 Pears Plums Apples and Grapes oil on canvas

Sue Knox 81 Formerly she was interested in the landscapes of Northern Ontario where she used to work Now back in Guelph Sue has rediscovered her urban surshyroundings including people

Betty Ketcheson 83 of Frankford Ontario to where her husband lack has retired Watercolour is her favorite medium however Betty also has an interest in enshycaustic painting with beeswax as a medium

Jane Graham 83 of Guelph lane tries to communicate her own brand of optimism through her waterco lours by using the figure in the land scape most often a child

Nan Hogg an undergraduate Nan is intershyested in making art that is feminist A memshyber of th e Guelph Embroiderers Guild Nans recent work displays a combination of watercolours or etchings with coil aged fabshyric that has been embroidered 0

The Limners L to r Sue Knox 81 Belly Ketcheson 83 Nan Hogg Dorothy Hart 81 and Jane Graham 83

Third pri ze Doreen Schaub 70 Rushing Waters watercolour

Honourable Mentions Sheila Volshylmer 85 Embracing Figures sculpture in pl aster Scott Abbot 79 Fields Near Maryhill oil on masonite Margaret Peter 74 Impressions Fossil Series collagraphsi Ikscreen

An innovation at DIMENSIONS 85 was the presentation of selected works of a featured artist Our first selected arti st was Evan MacDonald no stranger to the Univershysity of Guelph Many of his works are part of the Universitys collection of Canadian art hi s portraits hang in various buildings on campus and he was awarded an honorary doctorate of laws in 1979

We extend our sincere thanks to Ingrid

At DIMENSIONS 85 ColeRe oj Arts art sholl at Alllmni Wefkllld 85 L to r Marlene Jojriet juror Dr GeorRe 7iJdd chairman Department oj Fine Art jllror Wencil Maki 83 second-prize winner Doreen Schauh 70 third-prize willner Michael 0 Keeji 76

juror Own David Murray

Jenkner curatorexhibitions at the Macshydonald Stewart Art Centre and Mary MacshyDonald Evans wife for making it possible for us to feature the works of Evan

We also expre ss our gratitude and appreciation to all those who were instrushymental in making the show a success A special thank you is extended to this years participants without whom the show coulll not have been mounted 0

Art Show and Lecture Series Recognizing the 20th anniversary of the Department of Fine Art a facshyulty art show will be presented at the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre Nov 21 to lan 5 Viewing Tue to Fri and Sun noon to 500 pm Sat 1000 am to 500 pm A lecture se ries will present Dr Alan Gowans professor of art history University of Victoria B c on Art History and the Social Function Nov 18 at 800 -pm Rm 113 Physics Bldg Dr Ronald Nasgaard chief curator Art Gallery of Ontario wi II present Cushyratorship Today and Social Political Economic Pressures on Nov 27 at 400 pm in the Dept of Fine Art A third speaker is slated for early in the New Year

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Ontario Veterinary College Alumni Assoc OVC ALUMNI NEWS

Editor Dr Cliff Barker 41

OVC Alumni Association Executive 1985middot86

HONORARY PRESIDENT Dr Ole Niel sen 56 PRESIDENT Dr Ken Gadd 56 PAST PRESIDENT Dr Wendy Parker 7 1 VICE-PRESIDENT Dr Mary (Hawkins) Wiltshire 74 SECRETARY-TREASURER Dr Gordon Boylan 46 DIRECTORS Dr Bob Buck 46 Dr Archie MacKinnon 43 Dr Norm McAninch 39 Dr Bruce Robb 7 1 Dr Bruce Robinson 76 Dr Noni Sman 80 EDITOR avc Alumni News Dr Cliff Barker 41

Mailbag Dear Cliff

We were over to Vancouver Island recel11ly and went up to Qualicum Beach to see 0 Howard Taylor 13 He broke me in on meat inspection in 42 at the old Burns plant on Logan Avenue in Winnipeg

He is in great shape Qlid outside of a gimpy knee has no problems It was a real pleasure to see him again - still the same sparkle and quick wit that I had remembered from the Winnipeg years

I had not seen Howardfor 40 years bw outside of him thinking I had aged someshywhat had no trouble with identification Thought you might be il7lerested in this bit of news - not too many vets make it to age 98

We are fine and enjoying a complete reversal of what Vancouver weather is supshyposed to be bUi sure would like to see aboUl a week of rain Regards Bud Ellis 41 1410 Gordon Avenue West Vancouver Sc V7T IR6

From the Dean

Dr Ole Nielsen 56

In this my first opponunity to address our alumni through this medium I would like to express my pleasure at having the privilege of serving the Ontario Veterinary College and the University of Guelph

At the outset I acknowledge my debt to those many faculty students and staff who have labored to make this College a great inshystitution Being mindful of this heritage I am excited by the challenge of helping move the College to new levels of excellence One has to be impressed with the potential of the OVe Heres why

By the time this publication has gone to press I expect tenders for the first phase of a new OVC building program will have been called and possibly awarded This project costing over $13 million will provide modshyem facilities for the Depanments of Clinical Studies and of Biomedical Sciences and the Veterinary Teaching Hospital

The culmination of a great deal of effon led by former Dean Doug Maplesshyden 50 and President Burt Matthews OAC 47 the project is jointly funded by the Federal Government (Departments of Agrishyculture and Regional Industrial Expansion) and the Province of Ontario (OMAF)

The new facility will allow the College to press forward with new teaching research and service programs that include such vital newareas as biotechnology computer as istshyed health management and expanded proshygrams in toxicology

The second phase of the OVC building program which is largely related to teachshying spaces remains to be funded A good share of this project is expected to be includshyed in the fonhcoming capital campaign of the University The panicipation of you the alumni will be crucial to its success The governments of Ontario and Canada have done their part despite difficult circumshystances The rest is up to us

I have found the faculty of the OVC to be -a group of strong and vigorous academshyics and many young talented faculty have been appointed recently In passing one notes the retirement of many of those who led the renaissance in veterinary education in Canada in the post-war years The new generation of faculty has a real challenge in

trying to do as well as their predecessors shyand it will

I believe the graduate students are the sou I of the College Therefore another cause for optimism is the strength of the graduate and research programs at the OVe Presently the College has about 130 gradushyate students who at this most creative period of their lives are striving to provide new knowledge and skills for veterinary medishycine In 1950 there were none

There has been a significant expansion in the D YSc program a comparatively new doctoral program that gives priority to the acquisition of clinical sk ill s in addition to training in research The D VSc degree is unique in the world and how its graduates will be received remains to be determined I am confident it will be favourably

Believing in the imponance of reshysearch OMAF recently committed itself to provide the College with a new research farm at Ponsonby This nO-acre site located some ten miles from Guelph will provide farm-type facilities for hous ing dairy cattle beef cattle sheep pigs and laboratory anishymals will replace existing facilities at Eramosa and Plislinch and will cost in excess of $3 million

The application rate and quality of stushydents seeking admision to the D YM proshygram remains high

I am delighted to be assisted in the work of the Deans office by Associate Dean Ted Valli 62 and Academic Counsellor Ron Downey 61 and given the above is it any wonder I am optimistic

I have always been a bit smug in believshying that those of us from western Canada were the most friendly in the nation My exshyperience since coming to Guelph proves me wrong Everyone including students facshyulty staff the University administration and the local community could not have been more friendly and helpful 0

OVCAA Membership Report-Summer 1985

Life Membership 1 103 Honorary Life Membership 3 Life Me m Instalment Plan 241 Annual Membership 42 -Total Membership 1389 Total Alumni 3537 Membership

of Total Alumni 3930 Membership

of Known Alumni 40 06

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Inch in KatDlandu The following letter to the editor from Or

Carolyn Inch 81 was sent to Ornella Osborne editor of Update the newsletter

published by the Ontario Veterinary Assoshyciation Were grateful to Omelia for passing it on to us

While trekking through the north central region of the Himalayan mountains in

Nepal I was surprised to see the words vetshy

erinary office added to the bottom of it sign written in Nepalese

The village Chame contained the

headquarters of the government veterinary operations for the region of Manang Borshy

dering on China in the north the region covers about 2000 square kilometres and

has the lowest population density in Nepal The average altitude of the region is above

3048 metres Annapurna towers at 8091

metres The logistics behind launching a vetshy

erinary program in an area that is entirely inaccessible except by foot or aircraft had

me intrigued Dr Koshori Jha greeted us warmly and

in the polite manner wed received at the hands of all the Nepalese tea was served

The bulk of his practice is in sheep and goats as well as cattle yak horse mules and chickens On a daily basis he deals most frequently with footrot a problem that

is compounded by the fact that most of the bovine and equine species are bred pri-

During the recent avc AA Annual Meeting retired Deal Doug Maplesden 50 righl received ( plaque embodying newsclippings puhlished during his lenure Dean OIl Nieletl 56 made the presentalion

marily for use as pack animals the terrain is

rough and whether goats are grazing beshy

tween rocks or mules are carrying 80-kiloshygram loads up mountainsides their hooves are exposed to a lot of strain

Dr Koshori Jhas pharmacy contained various disinfectants and as tringents and

many herbal remedies from India retained placenta and anti-bloat preparation for

example

The only vaccine available to him was against Hemorrhagic Septicemia and he

used it when faced with a diagnosed herd

outbreak Dr Koshori Jha pointed out phenol

which was used on feet during July August and Septembers annual FMD outbreak

coinciding with the rainy season Day-to-day treatment is a sma ll part of

the government veterinarian s job He recently received approval for his five-year

plan which began last spring The main eleshyments of the plan are training increasi ng egg production mule breeding Jhopa

breeding (cross between a cow and male yak) and improving cattle feed by the introshyduction of a Phillipine variety of cattle grass

For the livestock assistance training

three farmers from each of 12 panchayats (districts) in Manang will come to Chame

for training and to discuss local problems These men will be involved in a serv ice

centre to be se t up in each panchayat for common treatment He also plans to hold a yearly lives tock exhibitio n with pri ze shy

money for healthy livestock

Plans to increase egg production include a new brooding unit and the introshy

duction of a hybrid of Leghorn New Hampshyshire and Rhode Island Red poultry In an effort to upgrade the quality of pack anishy

mals local ponies will be crossed with donshykeys brought from northern India Similarly

Missing in India Dr Ohiroobhai K Desai 46 61 Sharda Society Paldi Ahmedabad 380007 India has written of hi s attempts to gather inforshy

mation on Drs VD Alaga Raju 36 and

K B Nair 36 both of India He repol1s having bee n with Dr Nair from 1952 to 1956 at the Bombay Veterinary College as an exshyaminer in Veterinary Medicine However he

has been unable to provide up-to-date inforshymation on thesc two alumni Any alumni

with information please write to your avc Alumni Bulletin editor 0

male yaks will be crossed with local cows

and their offspring Jhopa will be used as high-altitude pack animals

Dr Jha plans to distribute these breedshying animals to the more remote region s so

that bloodlines can be upgraded In so me of these areas the native dialect is related to ancestral Tibetan languge rather thall Nepashy

lese which compounds hi s difficult task of education

Pack animals are the lifeline of the

high-altitude people as much today as they

have been for centuries I very much appreshy

ciate the time taken by Dr Koshori Jha to explain the role of domestic animals in the

Himalaya and share with me his ambitious plans for the future 0

AI Ihe recem CVMA Conference in Pelllicshylon Dr Bob Dunbar 12 leji with Dr ROI Downey 6 Bob has reached his 961h birlhday and resides in a PellliClol1 nursing home

In Memoriam Or John N Campbell 15 545 Scripps Drive Davis California 59616 USA

died May 4 1985

Dr Ra)mond E Pinkert 36 440 NOl1h Pine Street Reedsburg Wisconsin 53959 USA died April 13 1985

Or Roderick S MacDonald 37 3003 Oliver Street Apt 203A Halifax NS -B3L 4AI died June 12 1985

Dr John J Carney 44 3531 West 33rd Avenue Vancouver B C V6S IZ2 Date of

death unknown

Or Kenneth R Lachapelle 54 1635 Ranvoyze Ave St Foy Que GIW 3K2

died June 26 1985 0

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College of Social Science Alumni Assoc PEGASmiddotUS

Editor Dorothy Barnes 78

Our Annual Picnic We Illissed you I All of you who didnt make it to our CSSAA picnic during Alumni Weekend 85 But despite the few members and families that did attend we had a good time The pictures tell the story

Here are some of us arriving (l) and setting up the eats We had good food and why not It was a tillle to enjoy relax and have some fun We had games for all ages including catch-the-eggs (2) with real raw eggs

AmI of course whats a picnic without a drop of rain) But President John came prepared with a tarpaulin (3) for those afrnid ofilleiting The k)od and the day were saved Hurrah for our presidenl

Thcre were some brave soul s who unshydaunted by the weather carried on with their baseball game Then of course there was one young partiCipant (4) who was seen scratching hcr head 1I1d wondering what was going on

All in all we had a great time You would have too if youd bcen thcre So makc a mental notc or tic a string around your tingcr toc anywhere that will reillind you that you missed a good outing at th e Aluillni Wcckend 85 CSSAA picnic and that you should makc pl ans now to join us in June 86 at Alumni Wcekend 86 0

A Joy to Behold Her work has the shi mmer of life Such is said of artist Joy Elizabeth (Snihur) Laking Fine Art CSS 72 Joys art is intimately tied to the seasons In spring and summer she works against the perilous fadshying of fresh flowers capturing them in clean powerful designs

Fa ll afternoons on the grassy salt marshes around her home in Portaupigue Nova Scotia inspire wider scenes of rich changing colours

The respite of winter is her time for land and peoplescapes evolved from her ow n photography Her art is created within the context of family community and nature

Joy was introduced to hcr chosen lifeshystyle by her mother - they used to go sketching while Joy was a child in Owen Sound on Lake Huron s Georgian Bay shyand has painted since she can remember She now lives on the edge of the Bay of Fundy with husband Ronald OAC 72 and two cherubs where she can paint every day and capture the beauty she sees around her Whether it be mud and Illarsh a rusted truck and some farmyard geese or caterpillar holes in azalea leaves Joy is able to capture in watercolour the essence and beauty of all she sees

She is noted for her special ability to create white flowers on white paper by givshying the petals shape and vivid life with only a whisper of colour and shadow Light delishycate handling and mcticulous control fused with a powerful design se nse distinguishes her art

Joy is a well established artist and has had se lected exhibitions of her paintings at the Tom Thompson Memorial Art Gallery Owen Sound 1981 Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery Halifax NS 1982 Gallery 1889 Tatamagouche NS 1983

Daffodils By Joy (Snihur) Laking 72

Truro Art Society Truro NS 1984 and the Royal Botanical Gardens Burlington Onl 14

She was deservedly honoured to have the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia purchase one of her paintings for its collection and the Maritime Tel amp Tel chose a Laking painting for the cover of Nova Scotias 1985 telephone directory

Joy says I paint what I live what I see and what touches me It s no wonder then that Joy has been able to successfully transshyfer such sensitivity to her work in a way that has produced tine work s of art as demonshystrated in Daffodils reproduced here 0

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Grad News Terry Goddard 76 wrote to let us know

where he is and what hes doing After gradshyuation Terry turned to the world of engishy

neering and worked at the Bechtel Intershy

national Syncrude project in northern Alberta for a year He retu rned to school and obtained a Masters degree in Politi cal Theshyory in 1978 at the University of Toronto

TIle next nine months were spent workshying at Dhaharan Saudi Arabi a While the re

Terry contemplated the action which would

give him the best career move His deci s ion to go into teach ing led him back to the Unishy

versity of Toronto to obtai n his BEd His teachin g career took hi m to northshy

e rn Saskatchewan whe re he taug ht at a village which if not actually at the end of

the world was situated close enough that the end was plainly visible from the nOI1hern

outskirts He returned to Toronto someshywhat sated with academe and once again

turned to engineering He has been director of maintenance for the Jewi sh Com munity

Centres of Toronto for the past five years He has fou nd it difficult to keep in

touch with fellow grad s Especia lly th ose who studied in Professor Melby s Chinese

poIitic s courses and who were known as the Shanghai Mafia - they are all over the

world now Hes sure they often recall with fondness their days at Unigoo

Where are you former students of Proshyfessors Simmo ns and MelbYTerry would be interested in hearing from you - and so would we

Robin-Lee Norris 80 has been awarded

a $19000 Rot ary Foundation Scholarship to

pursue g radua te studi es in the Masters of Business Administration program at the

Univers ity of Adelaide Adelaide Australia Robin-Lee went o n to graduate from

Osgoode Hall Law School with an LLB

was called to the Ontario Bar in ApriJ of 1982 and has practised law with the tirm of

Kearns McKin non inGuelph since herca ll She took a ten-mo nth leave of absence

commenc ing in February 1985 from her positi on with Kearns McKinno n in o rder to take ad vantage of the sc holarship

During her months in Australia her mandate from Rotary Internatio nal in addishy

tion to pursuing her stud ies is to act as a Rotary and Canadian Ambassador in proshy

moting good will and understanding beshytween Australians and Canadians

A thank you goes to Cliff Hardy buildshying mechanic superv isor Main tenance Deshypartment Physical Resources for supplying us with thi s information and an aside to Robin-Lee when she reads this I was unable

to reach you betore you left to congratulate

you and get more informati on on your award If you have some free time we wOllld love to hea r from you about your studi es

what a Rotary and Canadian ambassador

does and to have you share your ex perience of being down-under

Marilyn Kernohan Morrison 78 has taken the time to Jet us know that shes living in Napanee with hu sba nd Brian She has

tempora ril y se t aside her ca reer to be a home-maker tor Brian and their four-monthshy

old son

Prior to their move to Napanee to acshycommodate Brians tran sfer - he work s with the Ministry of Natural Resources shy

Marilyn and family lived in a small comshymunity northwest of Thunder Bay After

Gue lph Marilyn continued her ed ucation at the comm unity college level and com pleted

a program for counse llors of the mentally

retarded SheJI be returnin g to thi s fi e ld when she again becomes a wage earner

Doris E (Trachsel) OKeefe 74 is deshy

scribed by husband John Paul 74 as a household engineer John Paul is a reshy

source teacher with the Waterloo County Board of Education With such a title I

couldnt resis t phon ing Doris to find out exactly what the duti es of a household enshy

gi neer are

While Doris decl ined to give a cletinishytion of the titl e l detected some surprise and delight that John Paul appreciates what it

takes to look after a famil y and a home

Doris is trying to re turn to teaching but is findin g it difficult in the Cambridge

Waterloo area If she isnt successful shes planning alternatives such as enrolment at Guelph in a Masters program o r failing that enrolment in courses that will he lp her

ac hieve her long-range goa ls She and John Paul recen tly moved from

London Ont to Cambridge Prior to the

birth of Erin now a two-year-old Doris was teac hing boys with behaviourial problems

and she sees thi s as an asset when applying for teaching positions Erin has a six-yearshyold brother Sean so you can understand

perhaps that Doris has been bu sy and maybe she is aptly described as a houseshy

hold engi neer

J Barry Baldwin 69 is a teac her with the Elgin County Board of Education S t Thomas Barry married Linda Janet Wii son They live in Aylmer West

M Rachel (Curtis) Towe 69 is manager customer systems Bell Canada She and

husband Ken live in Guelph

M Lois (Robinson) Harris 70 li ves in Newmarket with husband Fred

B Hugh Schofield 72 is an industrial engi neer with Rockwell Int e rnati o nal C hat ham He and wife Susan (Haslelt)

FACS 78 live in Chatham

Paul Davis 73 is an underwrite r analyst with Co-opera tors General In sura n ce

Guelph Paul and wife Linda (DozeH) 73 and 81 live at Brookhaven Court Guelph

Carol Finlayson 74 is a letter carrier lor Canada Post Carol and husband John Balch live in Toronto

Pal Hamilton 74 is an expon market deshyvelopment specialist with the O ntario Minshyistry of A gricu lture and Foo cl mark et

development branch Toronto He and his wife Diane (Coates) OAC 72 live in

Toronto

Kerrie Sirathy MA 78 advises us that

she is a s tud en t at th e Univcrsity of Sakatchewan Sas katoon

Vicky Sutherland 78 is an air trartie conshy

troller with Air Canada at FoI1 McMurray Airpo l1 Alta and lives in F0I1 McMurray

Sounds like an intercsting job - perhaps youl l share SOIllC experie nces with us Vicky

Marlin Thissen 78 is a foreman with the

region or Halton at ih Milton wa ter po llushytion control plant

Evelyn Evie (Isaacs) Whilwham 80 is a planning ass istant with Union Gas Co Ltd Chatham She and hu sba nd Bob have

c hanged their address They are at 70 Ottawa Drive C ha tham Ont N7L 216 0

In Memoriam A lormer faculty mcmber in the DeshypaI1ment of Geography Barsa Kelly was among the victims of the Air India Hight 182 disaster that occ urred

off the coas t of Irel and las t June ~ mr(sa Vas headed tor India on a reshy

search project at the time of her

death S he was the wife of Protessor Kenneth Kelly Department of Geogshyra phy On behalf of its members and all those who chc ri shed their con tacts with Barsa the Board of Directors of the College of Social Science Alumni Association extend their s incere symshy

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College of Biological Science Alumni Assoc BIOmiddotALUMNI NEWS

Editor Marie (Boissonneault) Rush 80

HONORARY PRESIDENT Professor Bruce Sells Dean

PRESIDENT David Airdrie BSc 82 Microbiology

PAST PRESIDENT Dr Chris Wren BSc 77 Marine Biology PhD 83

VICE-PRESIDENT Dee Britney BSc 74 Fisheries amp Wildlife MSc 81

SECRETARY-TREASURER Kclly Munkittrick BSc 80 Fisheries amp Wildshylife MSc 83

DIRECTORS Lorraine Bruce-Allen BSc 80 Zoology MSc 84 Jim Elliott BSc 79 Marine Biology Keith Harris BSc 76 Marine Biology Dr Doug Holdway BSc 76 Marine Biology MSc 78 Aquatic Toxicology PhD 83 Krista (McAuley) Soper BSc 79 Marine Biolshyogy Karin Davidson-Taylor BSc 83 Zoology

From Dave Airdrie 82 the

President How time flies when youre having fun Your editor Marie (Boissonneault) Rush 80 tell s me that this note to you will be in the Fall issue of the Guelph Alumnus so Ill bring you up to date on happenings since your 1985-86 Board of Directors was inshystalled in June

The CBS Alumni Association was parshyticularly busy during June Alumni Weekshyend events including the Wildlife Art Show and Sale and the barbecue at the Rockwood Conservation Area were well attended

Thanks must go to Krista (McAuley) Soper 79 and Lorraine Bruce-Allen 84 for their first-rate efforts in organizing and running the art show From all accounts it was ex tremely well done and is sure to be repeated in 1986

Further thanks mu st go to Keith Harshyris 76 for his efforts in once again organizing the barbecue at Rockwood Keith has done a terrifi c job with this event s ince its inception Hopefully these two events will be expanded in the coming year

Last spring the objective of $10 000 for the Keith Ronald Fellowship Fund was reached and we thank all who generously contributed to this fund Its to be hoped that this is only the first of many scholarships initiated through the CBSAA

Many of you will now be aware of the changes which the Universitys Department of Alumni Affairs has undergone in rece nt months Most important is the arrival of Marjorie Millar as director of the Departshyment It seems that President Matthews is placing greater emphasis on the importance of the Department due in part to the impenshyding capital campaign I am sure that youll all notice many beneficial innovations

The CBSAA has I feel reached a point in its development where we must heighten our profile both among alumni and undershygraduates In order to increase the awareness of the Association the Board has plans to embark on some new programs

The goals are as I see them two-fold first of all we need YOU to get more inshyvolved whether its participation in our proshygrams or s upport for the Assoc iation through your membership The fact that youre reading this demonstrates an interest which we would like to heighten

Secondly we re working at helpin g undergraduates before graduation to beshycome more aware of our Association Hopeshyfully we ll get helpful input and suggestions from many of you in the near future Reshymember - YOUR alumni association is what YOU make it

Dave Airdrie BSc 82 President Colshylege of Biological Science AA

FACULTY ADVISORS Dr Denis Lynn Zoology Dr Margaret Hauser M icroshybiology Dr John Hilton Nutrition Dr John Sandys Award Phillips Botany amp Genetics Dr Brian Wilson Human BiologyKinetics The Ontario Confederation of University

Faculty Associations (OCUFA) has awarded UGAA REPRESENTATIVES Karin Dr Alexander Sandy Middleton DepartshyDavidsonTaylor BSe X) Zoology Keith ment of Zoology one of the nine OCUFA Harris BSc 76 Marinc Biology Rob Teaching Awards for 1984 Milnc BSe XI MSe 84 Marine Bio Dr Middleton was nominated for this -award by colleagues students administrashyEX-OFFICIO DIRECTORS Ed Berdusco tors alumni and faculty It acknowledges president CBSSC Steve Spring past presishy outstanding ability and is considered to be dent CBSSC the provinces highest honour for excellence

in university teaching HKAA REPRESENTATIVE Nick Dalton I think there are two keys to being an BSe 77 Human Kinetics effective teacher Sandy says One is to

have respect for the student the other is to EDITOR RIO-ALUMNI NEWS Marie make a genuine intellectual and time comshy(Boissonneault) Rush B Se XO Marine mitmcnt to the course Biology 0 Dr Alexander Middleton Congratulations Dr Middleton 0

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Grad News Human Biology

Cathy Knipe BSc 79 MSc 83 is a Ph D st ud ent at Iowa State University Ames Iowa USA She is studying Moshylecular Biology

Shelly Lugg BSc 83 is a stude nt at Simon Fraser University Burnaby BC

Human Kinetics

Susan (Wright) Kwiatkowski BSc 80 is a recreation therapist at York Central Hosshypital Toronto Her spouse Ed graduated from Ryerson in 1979

Donna Marie (Kadwell) 1vose BSc 79 and husband John ji ve in Thorold Shes a physica l education supervisor at the Niagara Peninsula Crippled Childrens Centre

Mary Ellen (Mew) Walker BSc 83 is the activity co-ordinator at Spruce Lodge Stratford

Dr Ken Danylchuk BSc(PE) 73 is a s ur ge ry re s ident at the H itchcockshyDartmouth Medical Center Hanover N H USA

Kathryn (Tarry) Myers BSc 78 is a teacher with the Middlesex COunty Board of Educati on Hyde Park

WildUfe

Vicky Johnston 84 bega n an MSc at Lakehead University Thunder Bay in May Shes working on the reprodu ctive biology of Lake Superior rin g-billed gull s

Nutrition

Or 0010 Ohiokpehai 77 lectures in food and nutrition at the Unive rs ity of Ife Nigeria

Microbiology

John Semple 78 is a PhD ca ndidate in the Department of Mic rob iology amp Immushynology at Queens Uni vers ity Kingston He will be doing a post-doctora l at the Banting amp Best Depattment of Medica l Research University of Toronto

Unspecialized

Peter Adams 79 and Beth (Sarjeant) 79 are happy to announce their recent marshyriage Beth is a research technici an with the Depanment of Medicine Univers ity of Ca lshygary Alta and Peter operates a business with the se ismic service industry

Marine Biology

Jorgen Hansen 75 and his wife Drusilla (Dol be) Arts 75 live in Gloucester Jorge n is a staff officer with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Ottawa

CoUege Honour RoU - Winter 85 Semester 06

Margorie Fe rgusson 894 Human Biology JoAnna Milan 860 Biology

Semester 07 Sandra Noble 856 Microbiology

Semester 08 Marga ret Docker 876 Marine Biology Thomas Johnston 87 0 Fi sheries Biology Debra Underhill 858 Microbi ology

James Wright 858 Biology Tobin Peever 854 Botany

Alexander Hanke 852 Zoology Rebecca Rodgers 852 Human Bi ology

Tracey Robin son 882 BSc( HK ) Rebecca Halonen 880 BSc(HK )

Swdent has obtained standing for second time Student has obtaincd standing for third time

Home Town

Oakville Ottawa

Dorchester

Guelph New Liskeard Kingston Thunder Bay Bracebridge Grafton Calgary Alta Guelph Georgetown

Donald MacLennan 75 and hi s wife Katherine live in Chatham Donald is a biologi st-supervisor with the Ministry of Natural Resources Lake SI Clair Fisheries Assessmen t Unit Tilbury 0

College of Biological Science

Alumni Association

Wildlife Art Show

Well it happened June 15 and 16 have come and gone but not withshyout event The Graduate Students Lounge was transformed from a cozy meeting place into an an gallery There was much movi ng of furniture and hanging of an work with the end product being our fi rst ever CBSAA Wildlife Art Show

In total there were 20 wildlite artists partic ipating all tine ani sts in their own right Maybe you reshymember Ut a Stre live a nd Dr Ed Bailey Wow I You should see their wood works

Rick Beaver 73 also showed some of his work hes a wildlife imshypressionist and the colour and move shyment he paint s into each piece is eloquent Donald Dority 76 showed us the line photographer he has become There were other ani sts - too many to mention but all of extremely high calibre

Id like to mention one las t name though - Cindy Hayward manager of the Graduate Students Lounge If you ever need a steady hand to get an event off the ground shes the one to co ntact Without her hel p there would have been a whole heap of orshyga ni za tional problems From which we would have been unable to escape

All in all we had a successful show Thanks artists and viewers for making our efforts worthwhile 0

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New Minister of AgricultureOntario Agricultural College Alumni Assoc OAC ALUMNI NEWS

Editor Dr Harvey W Caldwell 51

Ontari OS new mini ster of ag riculture Jack Riddell 52A and 57 a cash crop farmer from the Exeter area comes to the position of Ontario s Mini ster of Agriculture and Food with ten years of expe rience as Liberal caucus cr itic for agriculture

The min is ter sa id that life under a Libshyeral government will give agriculture a higher priority than it has ex perienced in the past It will be considered one of the major industries in this province

Jack also pro mi sed to consult a great

Basic Technology in Action shyTurning Stones Into Bread By Ann Middleton Information Services

A new University of Guelph projec t in Tanza nia Africa should aid th e Third Wo rld s ubsistence leve l farmer The $400000 three-year projec t funded by the International Development Resea rch Centre (IDRC) will invol ve fltlculty of the Uni vershysitys Department of Land Resou rce Sc ience and Soko ine Uni versity of Ag riculture in Morogoro Central Tanza ni a Aim of the enterpri se is to use loca lly ava il ab le rock materials as soil amendm en ts and con shyditioners

The project came about when Ott awas IDRC brought together a team of two geo logists with an interest in improving co nshyditions for African farmers Professor Ward Chesworth with the Department of Land Resource Science has a long-standing intershyes t in turning rock s into fertili zers deshyve loped during work in West Africa and the Canltlry Islands where local farmers have spread volcanic rock on their field s for two centu ries In his lab and in the Blue Springs basin near Acton Ontario Professor Chesshyworth has been conducting experiment s on the levels at which common rocks re lease nutri ents into soil solutions

The other team member Dr Peter van Straltl ten is ori ginally from Germany but spe nt e ight years with the United Nations in Tan zania looking for metals and metal deshyposi ts and working on an in ve ntory of ferti shyli zer raw materials in south-east Africa

During thi s period Tanza nian food production per capita fell dramaticall y leadshying Dr van Strltlaten to try to find ways to help the food situation In ex periments in his garden in Dodomo Tanzaniltl he was able to increase yields of vegetables using locally

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available geological materia ls and organic wastes

Noting the common interes ts of the two men the Canadian age ncy introd uced them and Dr van Straaten relocated in Guelph Co-ordinators of the project are Professor Cheswo rth and Tan za ni an sc ie nti st Dr Johnson Semoka of Sokoine University coshyauthor of a text on so il sc ience much used in agricultural circles in Africa

Technical assistant Peter Sl11i th is working with Tanzanian rock specimens in the Land Resource Science lab and two other Tanzanian scientists will be involved

In addition to academics from bo th institutions members of the Geological Survey of Tanzania will also work on the project both in the Morogoro area and at Mbeya station in south-western Tanzania

Roc k sa mples will be collected and crushed and field tests and pot ex periments carried out here and on location When reshysu lt s have bee n obtained extension work will begin in Africa under the direc tion of Dr Semoka It is hoped that members of a Me nnonite Central Committee group workshying at Mbeya will design a simple rock crusher for the use of local farmers

Tanzania has a major phosphate deshyposi t wh ich will be tapped by the project as well as ground s ilicates including volcanic ash Liming materials such as limestone dolomite marl and ca rbonatite will also be evaluated

Professor Chesworth points out that alshythough No rth Americans place much emshyphasi s on the big three of soil nutrition shynitrogen phosphorus and potassium (NPK) - there are actually about 20 necessary

deal with the farm organizations on the direction his ministry should be taki ng

I dont believe that we can sit in our so-ca ll ed ivory towers and introduce the kind of programs that are go ing to be mea nshyingful unless we get consultation from the farmers and their spokes people

He has been a member of the provincial legislature for 12 years He spent his first two years as energy cri tic and later environshyment critic before mov ing into agriculture Jack and Anit a have a family of five 0

nutrie nts including the minor ones In some areas of Tanza nia the decline

in soil fe rtility is in part due to the settling of widespread populations into villages where land has been used without concern for nutrients Tn other part s of the country productivity has declined because of leachshying of plant nutrie nts durin g normal rainfall and also from the continuous use of acidifyshying fertilizers such as ammo nium su lphate Dr Chesworth point s out that the current practice of NPK fe rtili zation totally ignores secondary and micronut rient requirements of plants It is hoped that the projec t wilt address thi s problem

Our approac h is basic tec hn ology our target group the poorest far mers Dr van Straaten explains One of the problems in the past Dr Ches worth says has been convincing agronomists that it s worth purshysuing this kind of elementary tec hnology approach Theyre very skeptical that you can take common roc ks wi thou t major inshydustrial proces ing and use them to advanshytage on tropical soils

A s ideline area of research is work with zeolites open framework si licates that often occ ur in volcanic rocks Some zeolites can be used to trap nitrogen in the form of ammonia which would otherwise be los t in gaseous form When added to cow manure for exampl e and stomped in by the beasts themselves zeolites enrich an already valushyabl e fertil ize r Dr van Straaten explains

The zeolite research is being carried out in co njunction with Professor Colin Fyfe Department of Chemistry an intershynat io na ll y kn ow n authority o n zeo lit e -che mi stry

Orie result of the work of the Un ive rs ity of Guelph geo logists is an ag rogeology ne tshywork currentl y being set up bya number of African cou ntries as the result of di sc usshysions following a paper by Dr van Straaten and Professor Chesworth The paper was given recently at meetings of the UN Ecoshynomic Commiss ion for Africa in Zambia 0

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A Designing Grad The need for a summer job six years ago has ended in a Guelph grad des igning golf courses

When in 1979 Lisa Maki now

BLA 84 was searching for a job that would assist her in her studies at the Univershysity she applied to the city of Kitchener

She could have wound up in any

number of areas in the parks and recreation department but Rockway and Doon Valley

course superintendent Ed Ortlieb gave her the chance to join the work crew at Rockway fltor the first couple of years it was just a job that got her outdoors in the summer then by chance she got interested in the game itself

And now shes embarked on a career in golf course design

Lisa the 24-year-old oldest daughter of Ted Maki a former general manager of the

Lisa Maki BLA 84 Kitchener Rangers left last July for Lakeshyland Florida where she Joined Links Deshysign which de sig ns and oversees golf course construction throughout the United 1983 and a friend of the family who knew States The company is considered the sec shy was interested in golf course work arranged ond-largest of its type behind the one run by a meeting with Ronald Garl said Lisa I US golf legend Jack Nicklaus who deshy had an official job interview in April of 84 signed the Glen Abbey course in Oakville and then went to Florida in August of the

How does a young Kitchener woman same year to familiarize myself with the

end up working for Ronald Garl a 40-yearshy firms projects

old graduate of the University of Florida Because I had focused much of my who apprenticed under such well-known deshy University work on such things as turf man shy

signers as Roben Trent Jones and Joseph agement and had done pan of my bachelor Lee Again it was just a chance opportunity of landscape architecture thes is on what

We were in Florida in December of makes British golf courses great and the

Sisters of Accident Victims Receive Diplomas

A tragic accident just prior to Spring Convocation resulted in the deaths oftwo graduands of the Associate Diploma in Agriculture Program Jeff Bikus 85A of West Lome and Nick Davidson 85Afrom Zimbabwe Joy Davidson sister ofNick came from Zimbabwefor the Convocation She was sponsored by the OAC Alumni Association Classes of85A alld 86A Norm McCollulIl 66A honorary class president 85A Don and MiidredMcCollum Jenny Ballentine and her parents Dr Steve Bowley 78 and80 honorary class president 86A and the University Centre Administration Our sympathy is extended to the families and friends of these two popular studel1ls Pictured are Ito r Jenny Ballantine friend ofJeff Bikus Lealln Bikus sister of Jeff Joy Davidson sister of Nick and Klaus Kristiansen a studellt from Zimbabwe

other on golf course residential design he was impressed

In order to learn what made British

courses great Lisa spent a semester in Engshyland and Scotland visiting researching sketching photographing and playing 16 historic courses including the famous links courses which by tradition are the

only clubs to host the British Open Links layouts are courses that border the sea and have been built or developed over sand

bases

Approximately 15 students a year take

advantage of the School of Land scape Arshychitectures Semester Abroad Program fi shynancing the trips themselves However the program is supported by an annual $5000 grant from the Alma Mater Fund so alumni can claim a cenain amount of credit for Lisas success She was a recipient in 1983

of part of that years AMF grant Im not sure my mother and father

were very keen about my trave lling around England and Scot lane all alone but it was a truly great experience she said middot1 not only met many wonderful and helpful peoshyple got to play the great courses like St

Andrew s Royal Troon Turnberry and my favorite of all Royal Dornoch

After a complicated and lengthy US immigration process which took nearly a year she was granted her permanent work

visa She was in regular contact with her new

boss after returning to Kitchen er - she re turned to work at Rockway and Doon while awaiting the vi sa approval - and then last July plunged immediately into

projects including work at a mens tournashyment players 36-hole complex in Sarasota and a Ladies Professional Golf Assoc iation course in Melbourne where she worked in association with LPGA tour players Beth Daniels and Sally Little

Despite the fact that the job involves

vy ing with rattlesnakes alligators and Iild

pigs when I have to tramp through forests and swamps in applying my design work to certain areas I love the outdoor work Lisa

said At the same time she doesnt have any

probleIl1s giving orders to hard-hatted heavy-machinery construction workers when she is the field supervisor for on-site

work think I may have raised a few eye shy

brows when I staned work at Rockway but I was accepted

Lisa isnt sure how long this pan of her life will last and she has no way of knowing whether any of her courses will eve r be known as Lisa Maki layouts But that doesnt

concern her They may be Links Design projects but Ill know they were basically my courses 0

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Klink Lecture Dr Doug Morrison 49 Department of Poultry Science was chosen to deliver the 1985 Klink Lecture

The Klink lecture is ~ponsored by the Agricultural Inst itute of Canada and named after the Institute s founding president Preshysented by an outstanding lecture r the lecture is delivered through a coast-to-coast tour and concerns a topic of current significance to the agricultural industry and the nation

Dr Morri son stated that there is a need for professionalization in an imal agriculshyture in order to give it an improved image and make it more acceptable to the conshysumer

Address ing members of the Ontario Inshystitute of Agrologists in London Ontario he told his audience that the agriculture inshydustry in Canada ranks among the best in the world and producers have to ensure thi s is shown and make sure that peer pressure prevents producers from doing things that we cant defend

He suggested some type of professhysiona l approach established by the farming organization whereby expertise would be required instead of merely encouraged

This is a mu ch beller ap proach th an some edict from society through governshyment legi slation I strong ly object to legislashytion designed to protect me from myself he said adding that there are currently enough regulations existent through legislation that dictate what farmers can and cannot do

If a farmer were a profess ional hi s reward wou Id be in profits - about as meanshyingful a reward as has ye t been devised

Benefits of a more professionalized approach would include an improved image of the farmer to the consumer an increase in communication a more efficient industry

which is essential for competition improved knowledge on the fa rmers part of health nutrition care markets etc and more awareness of soc ietys concerns

In turn it would also be necessary to provide beller information to the consumer through an educational process because if soc iety is to pay for increased inputs for the long- term good of the nat ion then it is essential society be adequately informed

Morrison remarked that he fee ls the maj ori ty of animal agriculturists are in fact professionals but there has to be a concerted e ffort to at tract as lew people as possible in to the business who do not understa nd farmshying or who are doing things that are unacshyceptable

Consumer concern over dietary value or the amount of drugs contained in animal product s is also reason for farmers to tak e a professional approach They should work to alleviate any misreprese ntations and misin shyformation the public is receiving the proshyfessor noted s tating that farm ers have never produced food as safe and as wholeshysome as it is today

By the turn of the century on a world basis meat consumption is predicted to in shy

crease by abou t 60 per cent while the intake of milk is expected to increase by almost 40 per cent

A major fac tor for this rise in intake result s from th e fact that developing nations will begin to consume animal products as soon as they can afford them China is an excellent exa mple of this said the professor who commented that nation is now movshying as rapidly as possible to increase animal production

With all these factors is mind Dr Morshyri son sa id he is optimistic for the future of the Canad ian animal agriculture industry

Weve got the opportunities and can take advantage of them he said 0

Mark Bernards 85 cenlre was the recipienl oftwo OAC Alumni Foundation awards the OAC Alumni Graduate Award and the Beth Duncan Gold Medal Left is Gord Nixon 37 Foundashytion chairman and director and right NR Rick Richards 38 treasurer

Entrepreneur in Residence

Dr Donald Shaver

Dean Freeman McEwen is pleased to be working with Dr Donald McQueen Shaver the Universitys first Agricultural Entreshypreneur-i n-Res idence

Dr Shaver a native of Cambt idge Onshytari o is found er chairman and chief exshyecutive officer of Shaver Poultry Breed ing Farms Limited The compan y distributes chicken breeding stock to 90 countries from its head office in Cambridge and three subshysid iaries in the United States Britain and France He retired from his executive reshysponsib ilities on August 30 but is conshytinuing as director and adv isor to the company

From 1940 to 1945 Dr Shaver served with the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps in Africa and Europe retiring as regimental commanding officer He is past president of the Canadian Hatchery Federation the Poulshytry Products Institute of Canada the Canashydian Lincoln Red Society and Maine-Anjou Association He is a member of the Order of Canada Honorary Life Member of the Worlds Poultry Science Association and the Ontario Institute of Agrologi sts He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Science by McGill University and the Centennial Medal by the OAC

The Entrepreneu r-in-Reside nce pro shygram was initiated and financially supshyported by OAC Class of 58 to champion -the role of private enterpri se within soc iety The appointment is for a two-year period during which time Dr Shaver will present lectures lead workshops and consult with faculty and students

The Agricultural Entrepreneur-in-Resishydence program at the University is believed to be a first in agr icultural education around the world 0

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University Of Guelph Involved in $68 Million Chinese Project The University of Guelph has embarked on a co-operative $68 million project that will ~ink five Canadian and Chinese universities and agricultural institutions

The four-year Black Dragon River Proshyjeo supported by the Canadian Internashytional Deve lopment Agency (C IDA) involves Guelph the University of Alberta Olds College in AlbeI1a and two Chinese institutions - Heilongjiang Land Reclamashytion University and Liu He Training College in northeastern Heilongjiang Province

Under th e term s of the agreement training will be provided at the three Canashydian institutions for personnel from the two Chinese university institutions

The Liu He Training College is respo nshysible for educating state farm employees Training will range from short courses to undergraduate and graduate level programs

Faculty from the Canadian universities and Olds College will travel to China during the summer months to give lectures and

short courses The area borderi ng on Russia has treshy

mendou s potential for agricultural deve lopshyment Professor Neal Stos~opf 57 direct or of OACs diploma courses is Guelphs co-ordinator for the Chinese projshyect He was part of the Canadian gove rnment planning miss ion and ex plains that although the climate combines the cold winters and hot summers of Alberta most of the moisshyture is rain that falls between Jul y and Sepshytember

Although latitude is the sa me as Edmontons at 52 degrees north the area grows soybeans and corn as well as wheat The land has two to four feet of black topsoil waiting to be drained and planted he says with potential for livestock proshyduction

The proj ec t centre is located at the Unishyversity of Alberta with administration in Guelph being carried out by the Centre for International Programs 0

Provincial apiarist retires after 19 years You might say Philip Burkes job brought sweet rewards

Until his retirement recently Philip was the provincial apiarist - sort of Onshytarios chief of bees - while working at the University of Guelphs Department of Environmental Biology

He joined the University as a lectu rer in 1943 and then became assistant professor and later associate professor

At the same time the Ontario Departshyment of Agriculture (as the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food was known then) made him the assistant provincial apiarist In 1966 he became provincial apiarist

Of course he advised beekee pers on ways they could make their colonies more productive and efficient and fielded many apiary management question s - including how to prevent bees from swarming

If they swarm one-third to one-half of th e colony takes off so you lose a big source of your honey crop Swarming is trigshygered when the hive becomes overcrowded so the beekeeper mu st stay ahead of them It involves a whole manipulation of the hive through the season visiting each colony at least once every ten to 14 days he says Philip also worked with farmers whose

crops depended on pollination by bees At one time bees were needed for

pollin ating greenhouse produce such as cucumbers But in the past 15 years the trend has been toward new types that are self fruiting he says

But the biggest change in the industry over the years was the trend towards Illakshying corn king in Ontario - a trend that is now being reversed he says

From 1949 and on a lot of bee coloshynies were moved to the western provinces tollowi ng th e reduction in alfalfa production in Ontario and the increased corn acreage he says

Now prospec ts for honey production in Ontario are better than in past years beshycause of the increased alfalfa acreage and other legumes and the trend towards more diversified cropping

Not surpris ingly prices have changed in the industry over the years too Back in the 1920s it cost about $10 to start a bee colony today start-up costs are about $100 to $125 per colony

Much of his work at the University looked at ways to prevent di seases in bees using selected antibiotics

He was secretary for the Ontario Beekeepers Association for 15 yea rs and now acts as a consu It ant for the group 0

Wins Crampton Award

Dr Stanley J Slinger 37 the most recent rec ipient of the Earl e W Crampton Award for distingui shed service in nutrition is ProshyFessor Emeritus of the Depal1ment of Nutrishytion College of Biolog ica l Science at Guelph

Born in Lowell Ontario Dr Slinger received his BSc from the Ontario Agrishycultural College hi s MSc fro111 the Univershysity of Toronto and a PhD from Cornell University From 1941 to 1965 he was in the Departillent of Poultry Science at the OAC and since 1965 has been in the Department of Nutrition at Guelph serving as chairJl1an from 1965 to 1974

Dr Slinger conducted re sea rch in sevshyeral areas of pou Itry nutrition for Jl10re than 30 years In 1972- 73 a fi sh nutrition laborashytory was set up and thi s laboratory has conshytinued to grow and iJl1prove s i nee One of the primary objectives in both poultry and fi sh nutrition research has been to develop feed to rmulas using feedstuffs of Canadian orishygin 111ese tannulas have been publi shed and continuall y revi sed and have been used extensively by teed manufacturers through shyout Canada Dr Slinger continues to be active in research

Dr Slinger taught poultry nutrition in Poultry Science for 27 years gave seminar courses in nutrition and physiology taught Fundamentals of Nutrition in the Depal1shyment of Nutrition and deve loped and taught courses in fi sh and wildlite nutrition

He has supervi sed the work of Jl1any graduates and it is interesting to note that the Department of Nutrition at Guelph is the only depailment in Canada - and there are very few in the United States - turning out graduates in Fish Nutrition at the PhD leve l

He has helped to establi sh modern poultry industries in Mexico and the areas of South East Asia Africa the Middle East Eastern and Western Europe and the United Kingdom Lectures conlerences and other consultative work have also taken hilll to Jl1any coul1tries over the years

The recipient of numerous honours and awards Dr S linger was made Professor Emeritus of the University in Ino and reshy -ceived the Earl e W Crampton award in 19B4 at Macdonald College Que Thi s award is given by the Faculty of Agriculture in recogshyniti on of significant co ntributions in the field of nutrition through research andlor service The award is named for Dr Earle W Crampton a renowned nutritionist whose career at Macd onald bega n in 1922 and lasted far 51 years 0

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cialist having spent four months in the latter John Reid 84 is technical sales rep Agrico Grad News part of 1984 in Bloemfontein South Africa Sales Ltd Richmond BC

Earl Johnston 46 is president Earl-John Brokers Ltd Delhi

Joe Knox 48 is secretary-treasurer Annco Westeellnc Guelph

Ralph Hills 54 is pastor United Church of Canada Smith Falls Ralph left Zambia last October spending some time in Kenya Israel England and Scotland on the way home He was surprised to meet Charlie Broadwell also 54 on Oxford Street in London Charlie was giving a reception at a large castle for the white bean buyers who purchase beans from Charlies Bean Growers of Ontario Ralph also passes along the word from Louise (Fershyguson) Hope Mac 54 that her husband Don 54 preparing for some future possible social work is studying drug addiction at George Brown College of Applied Ans and Technology Toronto

Joseph Leach 54 is a research scientist Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources Lake Erie Research station Wheatley

Ken Edwards 59 is an industrial engineer Prince George Pulp and Paper Vancouver BC

Fred Theaker 62 is a teacher-biologist Ren frew County Board of Education Aruprior

Howard Lang 67 is senior so il conshyservation advisor for OMAF Cambridge

John Lawrence 69 has been appointed vice-president and ge neral manager De kalb Canada Inc Chatham John is a lso president of the Canadian Agri-marketing Assoc iation

Robert Brooksbank 70 is manager Agrishycultural Department Simcoe area Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce

Alan Duncan BLA 73 is project coshyordinator Groupe d intervention urban de Montreal Montreal Que

Martha (Weir) Collins 75 reports that Anne (Walton) Bayler 75 is at teac hers college in Toronto after spending several years teaching in the Bahamas Martha lives at I Braid Place Guelph and would like to hear news of her classmates

Jim Dyer MSc 75 is a senior resource and environmental officer with the crop producshytion division of Agriculture Canada Ottawa He is on loan as a drought monitoring spe shy

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His wife Barb (Newell) Arts 75 who is a technical editor with Public Works Canada joined him in Bloemfontein for a month

Elizabeth Fedorkow 75 is a market reshysearcher Tetra Pak Inc Markham

Roy Maxwell 75 is an agricultural comshymentator CBC Radio Noon Toronto

Gary Ball 76 is vice-president manufacturshying Mitten Vinyl Inc Cambridge

Garnet McConney 77 is feed lot manager Catllel and Ontario Inc Petersburg

Patrick Meyers 77 OVC 84 is a vetshyerinarian with the Grenville-Dundas Veterinshyary Clinic Kemptville

Martha Frey 78 is secretaryass istant edishytor Canadians for Health Research Wes tshymount Que

Wayne Harrison 79 is assi stant manager Toronto Dominion Bank Elmira His wife is Katherine (McLeod) 77

Sharon Helynk 79 is with the Woodbury Animal Hospital Halifax NS

Jeffery Goebel 80 is resident engineer ACF Canada Ltd Georgetown

Mary Lynn Prong 80 is assistant manager Royal Bank Watford She reports that Bruno Soucy 8Q has changed jobs from OMAF farm ma nagement advisor to agrolog ist London region Royal Bank

Corrie Almack 81 is presidentowner Agshyriculturai Soil and Nutrition Consultants Freelton

Edward Bolton 81 is research farm manshyager AJle lix Inc M ississauga

William Summers 82 MSc 84 is prodshyuct deve lopment rep Du-Pont Canada Streetsville

Dianne (Coker) McDowell 83 is quality assurance supervisor Richardson Foods Ltd Glanw0I1h

John Ross 83 is a program officer Agrishyculture Canada Edmonton Alta

Jeff Burke 84 is a customer service rep Griffith Lab Toronto

Julie Fowler 84 is working for Embury Bros Farms Ltd Newburgh

Karen Rodman 84 is a farm management specialist OMAF Nepean

James Simonds 84 is a crop specialist Cavendi sh Fanns Summerside P E1

Richard West PhD 84 is a research scishyentist Canadian Forestry Service SI John s Nftdo

In Memoriam We regret to report the following deaths

Marie Honsberger 17A died March 1985

Esmond D Clipsham 2IA died on April 6 1985 Esmond had been the proprietor Uneeda Rest Hotel Kilwonhy and was a life member of the OAC Alumni Association

Stanley Ewart Keillor 21 died on February 27 1985 He was a crop farmer at Walshylacetown

John Edward Chalmers 23A died on Febshyru ary 15 1985

Jacobus Van Haarlem 23 at age 85 on July 2 1985 in Vineland He retired as ex shyecutive director of the Hor1icultural Experishymental Station at Vineland in 1970 after 47 years of service there

Hugh Lacklin Paterson 32A died in May 1985 of a heart attack at Rockwood

Murray Cameron Macklin 33A 35 died January n 1985 in Toronto

Garland Alfred Fisk 35 Date of deat h unknown

Gordon Elgin Young 35 died on June 12 1985 at Ing leside

John Miller Fargery 37 on March 22 1985 in Toronto John had been an insurance salesman Farm Credit Corp and was a life member of the OAC Alumni Assoc iation

William Thomson 40 in 1982 in Lonshy shygueuil Que His death was reported recen tl y

Robert Fletcher Madden 54A died on November 26 1984 at age 52 at Napanee

Vera (Mod ric) Kozamplik MSc 73 in Yugoslavia She was the wife of Vinko Kozumplik M Sc 71 0

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From the Dean

Dr Barham

In some of my lellers I have aimed to share

information on some special program or theme with you On this occasion I want to

keep you in touch through a number of lillie items so I shall hold onto some of the bigshy

ger interests for future issues of the Guelph Alumnus

As I write this leller Alumni Weekend 85 is behind us I found it a great weekend

and I thoroughly enjoyed meeting more of our alumni for the first time while

especially appreciating recognizing more

and more familiar faces and names from previous occasions

This year the Classes of 65 and 75 requested an up-date on our programs and

the developments we have experienced together in the College over the last few

years I guess that we were able to demonshy

strate much more development in our research and teaching programs than we could in some parts of the physical facilities within the buildings Still we had thorshyoughly congenial and I think very useful

meetings with both of these classes and added a nostalgic tour of our facilities

It was splendid to meet both of these groups I confess however that I had not

foreseen that a large part of the interest of the Class of 65 rested on the fact that many of their children are now gearing up to enter FACS

I was able to remind them that the BASc and B Comm degrees both lead

into fascinating and challenging careers for sons and nephews as well as daughters and

nieces Some of you coming to Alumni Weekend 86 might wish to get in touch with me to arrange an up-date on our acti vities then too

One of my special pleasures of Alumni Weekend was to join with the Class of 35 at the Golden Anniversary Dinner This occashy

sion is always a particular delight given the special personal pleasures reflected in the

friendships shared on this anniversary And I do want members of the Class of

35 to know that their gift of the magnificent Terry Legault Roman Festival print looks really outstanding and just right amidst the

contemporary decor of the FACS lounge

One last item of alumni news which I want to mention is the fact that I met with

Jean (Nairn) Carter 38 and some of her committee recently I learned that they have

been making quite outstanding progress in establishing the trust fund that will support their new graduate student award in geronshy

tology The first award presentation of $1000 is being made this fall but members of the Class of 38 are still pushing on with their fund raising in order to bring the

annual trust-fund yield to a level of $2 000 We all think that the Class of 38 grads

have been quite remarkable in their detershymination to build up a significant fund to

support work in this important new field of scholarship and research I know that we

shall all appreciate your support for them in reaching their target

I met with Audrey Warner and Annette

Yeager 62 recently They advised me of their concern for the needs of teachers wantshy

ing to prepare themselves for adding Family Studies to their fields of professional speshy

cialization and of other teachers already working in that field who find themselves in need of some up-dating especially in view of the curriculum changes which appear to be around the corner

In this regard I want to mention two

items which might be of interest First our faculty in FACS have been

quite heavily engaged in working with

teachers and others in thinking planning debating and writing for the curriculum developme~ts envisaged for the Ontario Academic High School Credits

Most especially we have had as memshybers of the Canadian Family in Perspective group Dr Jean Sabry with her own special

interest in human nutrition Dr Grant

McCracken in clothing Drs Marshall Fine and Claude Guldner with their expertise in family relations and Drs Anne Martin Matshythews and Joe Tindale with their special strengths in life-span development and

aging - quite a team of contributors Secondly I want to mention in relation

to my meeting with Audrey and Annette that we now have a number of courses avai 1shy

able in a six-week format offered in summer sessions provided on campus

Perhaps of even more interest to those of you who wont find it practical to take

classes on campus at Guelph we have an annual offering of distance or corresponshy

dence-type courses Many of these will be of very pertinent

interest to a number of teachers The current list includes Human Development Marital and Family Dynamics Personal and Family Finance Development of Human Sexuality Nutrition and Man and the Exceptional Child in the Family

You can find out more about these

offerings by writing directly to Guelph Disshytance Education University of Guelph

Macdonald Institute shyFamily and Consumer Studies Alumni Assoc

Editor Carol Telford-Pittman 75

Guelph Ont NIG 2WI or by getting in touch with my office

One of the reasons that we have put

ourselves so significantly behind the development of these distance courses is that we did not have the resources to meet

the demand for providing our courses in the more traditional class format at locations

away from the Guelph campus As usual there is much more to share

with you but it will just have to hold until

my next letter I look forward to being in touch with you again then 0

Olive Thompson Honoured

Olive (Thompson) Thompson 35

-The Mac-FACS Alumni Association was very pleased to present a Citation of Appreshyciation to Olive (Thompson) Thompson

35 during Alumni Weekend 85 festivities Olive has given much time energy

support and leadership to the College and to the University through her years of involveshyment with the Mac-FACS Alumni Associashytion Class of Mac 35 activities and the University of Guelph Alumni Association

Our University s alumni organizations are stronger and more effective because of

the years of commitment and personal sershyvice that Olive has contributed

Olive - We salute you 0

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New at HAFA By John Hearn

Infonnation Services

An innovative course developed by the School of Hotel and Food Administration (HAFA) is focussing the attention of undershygraduates on the analysis of operational problems in the hospitality industry and the writing skills required to express and comshymunicate that analysis

Students are required to find summer jobs in the hospitality industry and then to write five papers of ascending complexity during the first semester of their second year using text readings specially edited for this course by the Schools Director Proshyfessor Tom Powers

We have a unique responsibility to prepare students not just for their first job but for future jobs further down the line says Dr Powers Possession of a university degree should imply an ability both to anashylyse problems and to communicate observashytions and recommendations In todays corporate world reports papers and letters are management tools and written comshymunication is a survival skill

The HAFA faculty decided further to emphasize writing skills by adopting a style manual developed by Professor Margaret Hund leby Department of Engl ish Language and Literature for this course as an integral part of the Schools other courses

In order to familiarize faculty with the use of the manual and the grading of student writing Professor Hundleby was invited to conduct a two-day workshop which atshytracted the attention of Vice-President Howard Clark and Associate Vice-President Janet Wardlaw as well as faculty from other disciplines s uch as psychology land resource science microbiology and history

The program Professor Hundleby told the seminar requires students to complete five report papers based on their own obsershyvations

The first paper requires a detailed description of the physical layout of the host operation plus an appraisal and operating cost analysis of its heating air-conditioning and ventilation systems

A second paper asks the student to describe and evaluate staff structure funcshytion compensation package and efficiency

Cost control is the subject of a third paper Purchasing practices food producshytion cost traCking and inventory manageshyment all come under this heading

Marketing is the fourth subject area What market segment is the operation aimed at What consumer need does the operation satisfy What is the nature of the

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Left to right- Professors Cathy Schrye Writing Centre Tom Muller HAFA Belty Upton HAFA Mike Jenkinson OAC 63 OAC dean s office Mary Rogers History and back to camera Bernie Katz Library reviewing cases drawn from studefll papers in a two-day workshop Evaluating Students Writing conducted by Professor Margaret Hundleby

competition in the target market

The fifth paper examines the intangishybles of management sty Ie How does the role of the manager affect relations with customshyers staff and head office

Professor Hundleby commenting on some of the problems of the course says whatever we call it students tend to conshyclude that what they re writing is an acashydemic paper of some kind - which of course it is - but we need to make the connection in their minds with the real the corporate world out there They also tend to think that longer is better and write about what they know - rather than what is import ant The development of a proper sense of for whom they are writing is itself a problem-solving skill

Another problem according to Proshyfessor Hundleby is what she calls the new illiteracy - a verbal dysfunction resulting from an impoverished vocabulary

Style too is a matter of considerable

AMPHI Spin-offs The School of Hotel and Food Administra shytions annual Advanced Management Pro shygram for the Hospitality Industry (AMPHI) now in its third year is spinning off new management development activities says HAFA Director Tom Powers Earlier this year 20 people attended a workshop on accounting and finance presented by Proshyfes sor William Braithwaite School of Agrishycultural Economics and Extension Educashytion and three similar programs will be offered in different parts of the country over the next year and a half

Another program still in the planning stage is a six-day hospitality managers development course designed for middle management by AMPHIs associate direcshy

concern She also mentioned careless senshytence structure style that is inappropriate to the content lack of connective logic failure to understand the nature of a paragraph as a literary entity the frivolous use of colloshyquiali sms an absence of any sense of the harmonious sound of words on paper and of course a growing list of commonly misused words - e g it could of had that affect

There s a tendency to see s tyle as a decorative flourish rather than as an aspect of content she concluded

Professor Powers sees the development of verbal communication skills as central to the whole idea of liberal education Cershytainly he says its useful for HAFA stushydents to understand how a cost control system works - but its at least as important to be able to think logically analyse logshyically and communicate conclusions in a way that is credible informative coherent and complete in fact these are the classic goals of a liberal education 0

tor Professor John Patterson and a consulshytant group of AMPHI alumni

AMPHI continues to attract internashytional attention participants in thi s years program which began in April include senior executives from many of North Americas most distinguished hotels and restaurants The four-week course offers an intensive program based primarily on case studies written by Professo rs Patterson -Braithwaite Carl Riegel and Tom Muller

The growing volume of AMPHI cases indicates that thi s is the largest s ingle research program currently under way in any hotel school in North America says Proshyfessor Powers AMPHls network of conshytacts is giving us access to a senior-level view of the industrys current problems and prospects 0

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Research AssociateComing Soon A AppointedModel Play Facility

Dr Joan Norris

Dr Joan Norris has held the position of Research Associate at the Gerontology Research Centre since last spring

Joan is working with faculty to develop and promote research related to population aging and is available for consultation with faculty on research design funding sources and publication

In addition to this development work she is continuing her personal program of research She works for the Gerontology Censhytre two days per week and the balance of her

The Family Studies Laboratory Schools pre-school play facility fell 10 a Grounds time is spent in the Department of Family Department wrecking machine recently Studies where she has held a faculty appointshy

ment since 1980 Joan holds a Ph D in Psychology from

the University of Waterloo and is also a regisshytered psychologist Her personal research

The Mllc-FACS Special Projects Commitshyinterests include social competence in older

tee Ito r Bonnie Kerslake 82 Association adults peer relationships and grandshy

president Linda (Wo[e) Markle 73 chairshyparenting 0

man and Gail Murray 78 Missing comshymillee member is Rita (Klassen) Weigel 77 The aim of the committee is to raise funds to redevelop the Family Studies Laboshy In Memoriam ratory Schools and raise itto the level where it will be regarded as a model pre-school

Eileen Margaret (Manahan) Alwayplay facility

390 October 21984 in Vancouver BC

Jean (Horrell) Atkinson 240 March 5 1985 in Aurora

Class of 35 Gift Oorothy (Lockard) Honsberger 300Centre panel Roman Carnival

In order to commemorate their anniversary July 51985 in Weiland Mac 35 has traditionally given a scholshyarship to a FACS student once every five Isabel J Lockerbie 300 March 31 years This year on the 50th anniversary of 1985 in Toronto their graduation and in addition to the scholarship an etching entitled Roman Patricia G (Smith) McKay-Barry 55 Carnival by Terry Legault has been added March 17 1985 in London Ont to the Universitys collection of Canadian alt The etching is hanging in the FACS Velma E (Conn) Partridge 260 April faculty lounge 29 1985 in Niagara Falls Ont shy

The theme of Roman Carnival was favoured by neo-clas sical and romantic Helen E (Kelly) Robinson 220 April painters during the 19th century The etching 30 1985 in Dundas captures the moment at which wild horses are released to race through the streets of Norma I (Motherwell) Roy 350 in Rome The artist has chosen to represent the Moosejaw Sask wild chaotic motion ot the horses rather than explicitly depict in detail the animals Lillian S (Moore) Usher 340 March 28 and the architectural background 0 1985 in Cobourg 0

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College of Physical Science Alumni Assoc SCIMP

Editor Bob Winkel

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Yes Dr Earl MacNaughtoll has relired alshylogelher bUI Ihis wonl be Ih e lasl you I hear from him reSI assured Before he and his wife Jean lOok oJf for Auslralia and New Zealand Deparlmenl of Physics slaf and faculty held a galhering al Ihe FacullY Club and presenled Ihe couple wilh an alumni clock

Back to Guelph

The headquarters for (GWC)2 came

back to Guelph in July for a threeshy

year period while Professor Robert Balahura Chemistry and Biochemisshy

try serves as director (GWC)2 offices have been set up

in Room 122 and 123 Physical Scishyences building The University of

Waterloo will maintain a satellite office during the three-year Guelph

rotation Dr Balahura and adminshy

istrative assistant Andrea Turner may

be reached at Ext 3865 0

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Physics Professor Elected to Royal Society

Bernhard Nickel

Department of Phy s ics Professor Bernhard Nickel has been elected a Fellow

of the Royal Society of Canada and was formally inducted into the Society at its

annual meeting in Montreal in June

A member of the Physics faculty since

1974 Professor Nickel is no stranger to

prizes and awards In 1981 he received the Herzberg Medal the Canadian Associashy

tion of Physicists award to a promising young scienti st In 1978 he won a Sloan

Fellowship from the New York-based Sloan Foundation

He achieved recognition by navigating

the esoteric seas of condensed matter physshy

ics Hi s co lleagues call him a leading masshyter in the art of mathematical physics By

exploiting the existing mathematical frameshywork in subtle ways he has worked through

thickets that have stopped other physic ists

High order perturbation calculations

done by him played a key role in verifying

the quantitative reliability of the theory of

underlying continuous phase transitions in systems

He earned BScE and MSc degrees from the University of Saskatchewan and a

PhD from the University of California at

San Diego He was a research associate at

Cornell and Oxford Universities and a postshy

doctoral research Fellow at the Univers itY of Alberta before coming to Guelph in 1974

He has been a visiting fellow at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory at the Univershy

sity of California at San Diego at Harvard

and at the Schlumberger-Doll Re searc h In stitute in Connecticut

With his election he becomes one of

six Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada at

Guelph The others are Professors Howard

Clark Peter Egelstaff Gabriel Karl Bruce Sells and Herbert Armstrong And it brings to five the number of me mbers of the

Guelph-Waterloo Program for Graduate Work in Physics (GWP)2 who can put the

coveted FRSC after their names 0

Halleys Comet and the Babylonians By Professors Nigel Bunce and Jim Hunt

The winter of 1985 and the spring of 1986 will lon g be remembered as the year of

Comet Halley No comet in history has so

stirred the imagination of man or been the

object of suc h intensive investigation Its easy to understand this interest when its

appreciated that Halleys Comet is the only recurring comet that is bright enough to be

seen with the naked eye ft was the g reat astronomer Edmund

Halley who in 1705 recognized the s imilarshy

ity of the appearances of the great comets of 1456 1531 1607 and 1682 He speculated that these were in fact one and the sa me

comet with a period of 75 or 76 years

He predicted that the comet would reshyturn in 175 8 a return he could not live to see With thi s Halley discovered the phenomeshy

non of periodic comets and thus showed

that they were members of our solar system

The comet dutifully returned in 1835

and spectacularly so in 1910 In the latter

year circumstances were such that after its

perhelion passage (the point closest to the

Sun) the Earth and the comet approached

each other very closely The comet was so close that at one time its tail spread from

horizon to horizon The return in 1985-86 will be considshy

erably less spectacular In fact for Canadishyans it will not be easy to observe s ince the

time of perhelion is in Febnlary when the

Sun is very low in the sky The view will be -much better from more southerl y latitudes Over the years historica l records have

been found which record every passage of the comet back to 12 BC M any of these obshy

servations come from Chinese records first published in 1846 A well-authenticated

passage was that of 1066 which was reshy

corded on the Bayeux tapestry by the mother

of William of Nonnand y and taken as an cOllld on righl

Grad News Paul Ferguson BSc 67 of Ede n Mill s is president of EIS Systems Ltd and travelled in New Zealand this summer

Walter Lock BSc 67 of Denfield is practising medicine in Lucan

Tjeerd Homan BSc 69 of Calgary Alta is manager research and development services for Petro-Can He is enjoying his family Carla Sarah and John Menno and his hobbies of golf curling and skiing

(GWP)2 Poster Session a First

Earlier this year the Guelph- Waterloo Proshygram for Graduate Work in Physics (GWP)2 staged its first annual poster session for graduate s tudents Poster sessions which are becoming increasingly popular in scienshytific circles allow interaction between researchers and delegates without the time pressures encountered when presenting con shyventional papers at meetings says (GWP)2 Director lain Campbell

The first annual (GWP)2 poste r sesshysion which was followed by a soc ial hour and banquet was highly successful in genershyating interaction says Campbell By the end of the session there were still clusters of people arguing the finer points of scientific interpretation on many of the posters These exchanges continued right through the soshycial hour and into dinner Interaction is what science is all about

Encouraging interaction between stushydents and faculty is one of Campbells prishyorities as Director It is too easy for students to tuck themselves into a corner and work away in isolation They need to get out and ex plain their work both to experts and to

omen of his victory over the Saxons Based on this long record various

mathematical analyses of the orbit of the comet have been produced These account very accurately for the known passages of the comet However when these various anshyalyses are pushed back beyond 12 BC they predict widely varying dates for the previous appearances Before 12 B c there are ani y two vague Chinese records in 87 BC and 240 B c which mayor may not have been Halleys comet

In a recent issue of Nature a team of

Ernest Campbell BSc 69 lives in Campbell ville and teaches science for the Halton Board in Burlington

Richard Davis BSc 77 having comshypleted his MD University of Toronto 83 and his internship at Womens College Hosshypital will be setting up his practice in family medicine in his home town of Guelph

Larry Meek BSc 77 of Ottawa is pashytient administrator and computing officer for the National Defence Medical Centre His hobbies include sailing and skiing

Andre Brunet BA 81 is working for Amdahl Ltd as fieldsystems engineer and lives in Sudbury with his wife Monique (Puellette) FACS 80

Cathy Deakin BSc 81 is presently articshyling with the law firm of Little Reeves Mahoney Jarrett amp Hart of London

Andrew Dubrawski BSc 82 and his wife Alicia (Wodecka) BSc 81 live in Toronto where he works as a communicashytions systems analyst for CNCP Telecomshymunications 0

10hn Root 81 a (GWP)2 PhD s tudent left aflracts an audience

non-experts It takes a deliberate effort on our part to generate and maintain this intershychange

The poster session was the largest scishyentific or social event yet staged by (GWP)2 Some 18 students presented posters and about 90 students faculty and prospective students attended

The posters are on display in the two departments of physics to give others an opportunity to view them At Gue lph they are in the second floor corridor of the Physshyical Science Building near the Department

scholars from England and Vienna reported the finding of two fragments of Babylonian tablets in the British Museum that clearly report the appearance of the comet in 87 BC and 164 B C The records are so clear that by calculation not only the year but the time of year for the perhelion passage can be determined

For example the 164 BC apparition has been narrowed down to a date someshywhere between November 5 and 25 of that year The 87 BC record is not as accurate nevertheless its perhelion passage can be

of Physics office Encouraged by the s uccess of the

poster sess ion lain Campbell is planning another high-profile event for (GWP)2 to recognize award-winning faculty He plans a fall symposium at which three (GWP)2 members who received major honours durshying 1985 will give short lectures to be folshylowed by a sherry reception The three honoured faculty are Gicinto Scoles Killam Fellowship winner Bernhard Nickel Felshylow of the Royal Society of Canada and John Simpson Rutherford medalist 0

narrowed down to July 25 to August 15 These observations while inaccurate

to the extent of 20 days are still accurate enough to eliminate three of the four leading -calculations of the motion of Comet Halley This is a striking example of how archaeoshylogical investigations may have a strong effect on many diverse subjects in this case com~tary astronomy 0

We welcome questions and ideas for future articles Write to the authors clo the Deans Office Cole fe ofPhysical Science Univershysity of Guelph Guelph Ontario NIG 2WI

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The Limners How do art students continue to find stimshyulation and motivation following graduation when they are no longer under the pressure of course requirements and without the critshyicism of an instructor

Four Fine Art graduates and one inshycourse student solved the problem by formshying a support group called The Limners (Limn an archaic word meaning paint deshypict portray Hence - Limner) Last Sepshytember the group held a success ful exhishybition of their recent works at the Halton Hills Cultural Centre Georgetown The Limners are

Dorothy Hart 81 of Georgetown She works with oil s pas tel s and graphite b4t is very interested in character fi gures made of cellu-clay which requires enormous pashytience to produce Her latest interest is pastel portraits of children

Dimensions 85 The fourth annual College of Arts Ailimni Association juried art show DIMENSIONS 85 was a success once again The jury members Marlene Jofriet well-known water colourist _ Michael OKeefe 76 practising artist and teacher and George Todd chairman Department of Fine Art selected 30 entries to hang

The jury awarded the following $100 $75 $50 prizes and designated three honshyourable -mentions

First pri ze Sheila Vollmer 85 Woman in Veil intaglio print

Second prize Wendy Maki 83 Pears Plums Apples and Grapes oil on canvas

Sue Knox 81 Formerly she was interested in the landscapes of Northern Ontario where she used to work Now back in Guelph Sue has rediscovered her urban surshyroundings including people

Betty Ketcheson 83 of Frankford Ontario to where her husband lack has retired Watercolour is her favorite medium however Betty also has an interest in enshycaustic painting with beeswax as a medium

Jane Graham 83 of Guelph lane tries to communicate her own brand of optimism through her waterco lours by using the figure in the land scape most often a child

Nan Hogg an undergraduate Nan is intershyested in making art that is feminist A memshyber of th e Guelph Embroiderers Guild Nans recent work displays a combination of watercolours or etchings with coil aged fabshyric that has been embroidered 0

The Limners L to r Sue Knox 81 Belly Ketcheson 83 Nan Hogg Dorothy Hart 81 and Jane Graham 83

Third pri ze Doreen Schaub 70 Rushing Waters watercolour

Honourable Mentions Sheila Volshylmer 85 Embracing Figures sculpture in pl aster Scott Abbot 79 Fields Near Maryhill oil on masonite Margaret Peter 74 Impressions Fossil Series collagraphsi Ikscreen

An innovation at DIMENSIONS 85 was the presentation of selected works of a featured artist Our first selected arti st was Evan MacDonald no stranger to the Univershysity of Guelph Many of his works are part of the Universitys collection of Canadian art hi s portraits hang in various buildings on campus and he was awarded an honorary doctorate of laws in 1979

We extend our sincere thanks to Ingrid

At DIMENSIONS 85 ColeRe oj Arts art sholl at Alllmni Wefkllld 85 L to r Marlene Jojriet juror Dr GeorRe 7iJdd chairman Department oj Fine Art jllror Wencil Maki 83 second-prize winner Doreen Schauh 70 third-prize willner Michael 0 Keeji 76

juror Own David Murray

Jenkner curatorexhibitions at the Macshydonald Stewart Art Centre and Mary MacshyDonald Evans wife for making it possible for us to feature the works of Evan

We also expre ss our gratitude and appreciation to all those who were instrushymental in making the show a success A special thank you is extended to this years participants without whom the show coulll not have been mounted 0

Art Show and Lecture Series Recognizing the 20th anniversary of the Department of Fine Art a facshyulty art show will be presented at the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre Nov 21 to lan 5 Viewing Tue to Fri and Sun noon to 500 pm Sat 1000 am to 500 pm A lecture se ries will present Dr Alan Gowans professor of art history University of Victoria B c on Art History and the Social Function Nov 18 at 800 -pm Rm 113 Physics Bldg Dr Ronald Nasgaard chief curator Art Gallery of Ontario wi II present Cushyratorship Today and Social Political Economic Pressures on Nov 27 at 400 pm in the Dept of Fine Art A third speaker is slated for early in the New Year

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Ontario Veterinary College Alumni Assoc OVC ALUMNI NEWS

Editor Dr Cliff Barker 41

OVC Alumni Association Executive 1985middot86

HONORARY PRESIDENT Dr Ole Niel sen 56 PRESIDENT Dr Ken Gadd 56 PAST PRESIDENT Dr Wendy Parker 7 1 VICE-PRESIDENT Dr Mary (Hawkins) Wiltshire 74 SECRETARY-TREASURER Dr Gordon Boylan 46 DIRECTORS Dr Bob Buck 46 Dr Archie MacKinnon 43 Dr Norm McAninch 39 Dr Bruce Robb 7 1 Dr Bruce Robinson 76 Dr Noni Sman 80 EDITOR avc Alumni News Dr Cliff Barker 41

Mailbag Dear Cliff

We were over to Vancouver Island recel11ly and went up to Qualicum Beach to see 0 Howard Taylor 13 He broke me in on meat inspection in 42 at the old Burns plant on Logan Avenue in Winnipeg

He is in great shape Qlid outside of a gimpy knee has no problems It was a real pleasure to see him again - still the same sparkle and quick wit that I had remembered from the Winnipeg years

I had not seen Howardfor 40 years bw outside of him thinking I had aged someshywhat had no trouble with identification Thought you might be il7lerested in this bit of news - not too many vets make it to age 98

We are fine and enjoying a complete reversal of what Vancouver weather is supshyposed to be bUi sure would like to see aboUl a week of rain Regards Bud Ellis 41 1410 Gordon Avenue West Vancouver Sc V7T IR6

From the Dean

Dr Ole Nielsen 56

In this my first opponunity to address our alumni through this medium I would like to express my pleasure at having the privilege of serving the Ontario Veterinary College and the University of Guelph

At the outset I acknowledge my debt to those many faculty students and staff who have labored to make this College a great inshystitution Being mindful of this heritage I am excited by the challenge of helping move the College to new levels of excellence One has to be impressed with the potential of the OVe Heres why

By the time this publication has gone to press I expect tenders for the first phase of a new OVC building program will have been called and possibly awarded This project costing over $13 million will provide modshyem facilities for the Depanments of Clinical Studies and of Biomedical Sciences and the Veterinary Teaching Hospital

The culmination of a great deal of effon led by former Dean Doug Maplesshyden 50 and President Burt Matthews OAC 47 the project is jointly funded by the Federal Government (Departments of Agrishyculture and Regional Industrial Expansion) and the Province of Ontario (OMAF)

The new facility will allow the College to press forward with new teaching research and service programs that include such vital newareas as biotechnology computer as istshyed health management and expanded proshygrams in toxicology

The second phase of the OVC building program which is largely related to teachshying spaces remains to be funded A good share of this project is expected to be includshyed in the fonhcoming capital campaign of the University The panicipation of you the alumni will be crucial to its success The governments of Ontario and Canada have done their part despite difficult circumshystances The rest is up to us

I have found the faculty of the OVC to be -a group of strong and vigorous academshyics and many young talented faculty have been appointed recently In passing one notes the retirement of many of those who led the renaissance in veterinary education in Canada in the post-war years The new generation of faculty has a real challenge in

trying to do as well as their predecessors shyand it will

I believe the graduate students are the sou I of the College Therefore another cause for optimism is the strength of the graduate and research programs at the OVe Presently the College has about 130 gradushyate students who at this most creative period of their lives are striving to provide new knowledge and skills for veterinary medishycine In 1950 there were none

There has been a significant expansion in the D YSc program a comparatively new doctoral program that gives priority to the acquisition of clinical sk ill s in addition to training in research The D VSc degree is unique in the world and how its graduates will be received remains to be determined I am confident it will be favourably

Believing in the imponance of reshysearch OMAF recently committed itself to provide the College with a new research farm at Ponsonby This nO-acre site located some ten miles from Guelph will provide farm-type facilities for hous ing dairy cattle beef cattle sheep pigs and laboratory anishymals will replace existing facilities at Eramosa and Plislinch and will cost in excess of $3 million

The application rate and quality of stushydents seeking admision to the D YM proshygram remains high

I am delighted to be assisted in the work of the Deans office by Associate Dean Ted Valli 62 and Academic Counsellor Ron Downey 61 and given the above is it any wonder I am optimistic

I have always been a bit smug in believshying that those of us from western Canada were the most friendly in the nation My exshyperience since coming to Guelph proves me wrong Everyone including students facshyulty staff the University administration and the local community could not have been more friendly and helpful 0

OVCAA Membership Report-Summer 1985

Life Membership 1 103 Honorary Life Membership 3 Life Me m Instalment Plan 241 Annual Membership 42 -Total Membership 1389 Total Alumni 3537 Membership

of Total Alumni 3930 Membership

of Known Alumni 40 06

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Inch in KatDlandu The following letter to the editor from Or

Carolyn Inch 81 was sent to Ornella Osborne editor of Update the newsletter

published by the Ontario Veterinary Assoshyciation Were grateful to Omelia for passing it on to us

While trekking through the north central region of the Himalayan mountains in

Nepal I was surprised to see the words vetshy

erinary office added to the bottom of it sign written in Nepalese

The village Chame contained the

headquarters of the government veterinary operations for the region of Manang Borshy

dering on China in the north the region covers about 2000 square kilometres and

has the lowest population density in Nepal The average altitude of the region is above

3048 metres Annapurna towers at 8091

metres The logistics behind launching a vetshy

erinary program in an area that is entirely inaccessible except by foot or aircraft had

me intrigued Dr Koshori Jha greeted us warmly and

in the polite manner wed received at the hands of all the Nepalese tea was served

The bulk of his practice is in sheep and goats as well as cattle yak horse mules and chickens On a daily basis he deals most frequently with footrot a problem that

is compounded by the fact that most of the bovine and equine species are bred pri-

During the recent avc AA Annual Meeting retired Deal Doug Maplesden 50 righl received ( plaque embodying newsclippings puhlished during his lenure Dean OIl Nieletl 56 made the presentalion

marily for use as pack animals the terrain is

rough and whether goats are grazing beshy

tween rocks or mules are carrying 80-kiloshygram loads up mountainsides their hooves are exposed to a lot of strain

Dr Koshori Jhas pharmacy contained various disinfectants and as tringents and

many herbal remedies from India retained placenta and anti-bloat preparation for

example

The only vaccine available to him was against Hemorrhagic Septicemia and he

used it when faced with a diagnosed herd

outbreak Dr Koshori Jha pointed out phenol

which was used on feet during July August and Septembers annual FMD outbreak

coinciding with the rainy season Day-to-day treatment is a sma ll part of

the government veterinarian s job He recently received approval for his five-year

plan which began last spring The main eleshyments of the plan are training increasi ng egg production mule breeding Jhopa

breeding (cross between a cow and male yak) and improving cattle feed by the introshyduction of a Phillipine variety of cattle grass

For the livestock assistance training

three farmers from each of 12 panchayats (districts) in Manang will come to Chame

for training and to discuss local problems These men will be involved in a serv ice

centre to be se t up in each panchayat for common treatment He also plans to hold a yearly lives tock exhibitio n with pri ze shy

money for healthy livestock

Plans to increase egg production include a new brooding unit and the introshy

duction of a hybrid of Leghorn New Hampshyshire and Rhode Island Red poultry In an effort to upgrade the quality of pack anishy

mals local ponies will be crossed with donshykeys brought from northern India Similarly

Missing in India Dr Ohiroobhai K Desai 46 61 Sharda Society Paldi Ahmedabad 380007 India has written of hi s attempts to gather inforshy

mation on Drs VD Alaga Raju 36 and

K B Nair 36 both of India He repol1s having bee n with Dr Nair from 1952 to 1956 at the Bombay Veterinary College as an exshyaminer in Veterinary Medicine However he

has been unable to provide up-to-date inforshymation on thesc two alumni Any alumni

with information please write to your avc Alumni Bulletin editor 0

male yaks will be crossed with local cows

and their offspring Jhopa will be used as high-altitude pack animals

Dr Jha plans to distribute these breedshying animals to the more remote region s so

that bloodlines can be upgraded In so me of these areas the native dialect is related to ancestral Tibetan languge rather thall Nepashy

lese which compounds hi s difficult task of education

Pack animals are the lifeline of the

high-altitude people as much today as they

have been for centuries I very much appreshy

ciate the time taken by Dr Koshori Jha to explain the role of domestic animals in the

Himalaya and share with me his ambitious plans for the future 0

AI Ihe recem CVMA Conference in Pelllicshylon Dr Bob Dunbar 12 leji with Dr ROI Downey 6 Bob has reached his 961h birlhday and resides in a PellliClol1 nursing home

In Memoriam Or John N Campbell 15 545 Scripps Drive Davis California 59616 USA

died May 4 1985

Dr Ra)mond E Pinkert 36 440 NOl1h Pine Street Reedsburg Wisconsin 53959 USA died April 13 1985

Or Roderick S MacDonald 37 3003 Oliver Street Apt 203A Halifax NS -B3L 4AI died June 12 1985

Dr John J Carney 44 3531 West 33rd Avenue Vancouver B C V6S IZ2 Date of

death unknown

Or Kenneth R Lachapelle 54 1635 Ranvoyze Ave St Foy Que GIW 3K2

died June 26 1985 0

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College of Social Science Alumni Assoc PEGASmiddotUS

Editor Dorothy Barnes 78

Our Annual Picnic We Illissed you I All of you who didnt make it to our CSSAA picnic during Alumni Weekend 85 But despite the few members and families that did attend we had a good time The pictures tell the story

Here are some of us arriving (l) and setting up the eats We had good food and why not It was a tillle to enjoy relax and have some fun We had games for all ages including catch-the-eggs (2) with real raw eggs

AmI of course whats a picnic without a drop of rain) But President John came prepared with a tarpaulin (3) for those afrnid ofilleiting The k)od and the day were saved Hurrah for our presidenl

Thcre were some brave soul s who unshydaunted by the weather carried on with their baseball game Then of course there was one young partiCipant (4) who was seen scratching hcr head 1I1d wondering what was going on

All in all we had a great time You would have too if youd bcen thcre So makc a mental notc or tic a string around your tingcr toc anywhere that will reillind you that you missed a good outing at th e Aluillni Wcckend 85 CSSAA picnic and that you should makc pl ans now to join us in June 86 at Alumni Wcekend 86 0

A Joy to Behold Her work has the shi mmer of life Such is said of artist Joy Elizabeth (Snihur) Laking Fine Art CSS 72 Joys art is intimately tied to the seasons In spring and summer she works against the perilous fadshying of fresh flowers capturing them in clean powerful designs

Fa ll afternoons on the grassy salt marshes around her home in Portaupigue Nova Scotia inspire wider scenes of rich changing colours

The respite of winter is her time for land and peoplescapes evolved from her ow n photography Her art is created within the context of family community and nature

Joy was introduced to hcr chosen lifeshystyle by her mother - they used to go sketching while Joy was a child in Owen Sound on Lake Huron s Georgian Bay shyand has painted since she can remember She now lives on the edge of the Bay of Fundy with husband Ronald OAC 72 and two cherubs where she can paint every day and capture the beauty she sees around her Whether it be mud and Illarsh a rusted truck and some farmyard geese or caterpillar holes in azalea leaves Joy is able to capture in watercolour the essence and beauty of all she sees

She is noted for her special ability to create white flowers on white paper by givshying the petals shape and vivid life with only a whisper of colour and shadow Light delishycate handling and mcticulous control fused with a powerful design se nse distinguishes her art

Joy is a well established artist and has had se lected exhibitions of her paintings at the Tom Thompson Memorial Art Gallery Owen Sound 1981 Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery Halifax NS 1982 Gallery 1889 Tatamagouche NS 1983

Daffodils By Joy (Snihur) Laking 72

Truro Art Society Truro NS 1984 and the Royal Botanical Gardens Burlington Onl 14

She was deservedly honoured to have the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia purchase one of her paintings for its collection and the Maritime Tel amp Tel chose a Laking painting for the cover of Nova Scotias 1985 telephone directory

Joy says I paint what I live what I see and what touches me It s no wonder then that Joy has been able to successfully transshyfer such sensitivity to her work in a way that has produced tine work s of art as demonshystrated in Daffodils reproduced here 0

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Grad News Terry Goddard 76 wrote to let us know

where he is and what hes doing After gradshyuation Terry turned to the world of engishy

neering and worked at the Bechtel Intershy

national Syncrude project in northern Alberta for a year He retu rned to school and obtained a Masters degree in Politi cal Theshyory in 1978 at the University of Toronto

TIle next nine months were spent workshying at Dhaharan Saudi Arabi a While the re

Terry contemplated the action which would

give him the best career move His deci s ion to go into teach ing led him back to the Unishy

versity of Toronto to obtai n his BEd His teachin g career took hi m to northshy

e rn Saskatchewan whe re he taug ht at a village which if not actually at the end of

the world was situated close enough that the end was plainly visible from the nOI1hern

outskirts He returned to Toronto someshywhat sated with academe and once again

turned to engineering He has been director of maintenance for the Jewi sh Com munity

Centres of Toronto for the past five years He has fou nd it difficult to keep in

touch with fellow grad s Especia lly th ose who studied in Professor Melby s Chinese

poIitic s courses and who were known as the Shanghai Mafia - they are all over the

world now Hes sure they often recall with fondness their days at Unigoo

Where are you former students of Proshyfessors Simmo ns and MelbYTerry would be interested in hearing from you - and so would we

Robin-Lee Norris 80 has been awarded

a $19000 Rot ary Foundation Scholarship to

pursue g radua te studi es in the Masters of Business Administration program at the

Univers ity of Adelaide Adelaide Australia Robin-Lee went o n to graduate from

Osgoode Hall Law School with an LLB

was called to the Ontario Bar in ApriJ of 1982 and has practised law with the tirm of

Kearns McKin non inGuelph since herca ll She took a ten-mo nth leave of absence

commenc ing in February 1985 from her positi on with Kearns McKinno n in o rder to take ad vantage of the sc holarship

During her months in Australia her mandate from Rotary Internatio nal in addishy

tion to pursuing her stud ies is to act as a Rotary and Canadian Ambassador in proshy

moting good will and understanding beshytween Australians and Canadians

A thank you goes to Cliff Hardy buildshying mechanic superv isor Main tenance Deshypartment Physical Resources for supplying us with thi s information and an aside to Robin-Lee when she reads this I was unable

to reach you betore you left to congratulate

you and get more informati on on your award If you have some free time we wOllld love to hea r from you about your studi es

what a Rotary and Canadian ambassador

does and to have you share your ex perience of being down-under

Marilyn Kernohan Morrison 78 has taken the time to Jet us know that shes living in Napanee with hu sba nd Brian She has

tempora ril y se t aside her ca reer to be a home-maker tor Brian and their four-monthshy

old son

Prior to their move to Napanee to acshycommodate Brians tran sfer - he work s with the Ministry of Natural Resources shy

Marilyn and family lived in a small comshymunity northwest of Thunder Bay After

Gue lph Marilyn continued her ed ucation at the comm unity college level and com pleted

a program for counse llors of the mentally

retarded SheJI be returnin g to thi s fi e ld when she again becomes a wage earner

Doris E (Trachsel) OKeefe 74 is deshy

scribed by husband John Paul 74 as a household engineer John Paul is a reshy

source teacher with the Waterloo County Board of Education With such a title I

couldnt resis t phon ing Doris to find out exactly what the duti es of a household enshy

gi neer are

While Doris decl ined to give a cletinishytion of the titl e l detected some surprise and delight that John Paul appreciates what it

takes to look after a famil y and a home

Doris is trying to re turn to teaching but is findin g it difficult in the Cambridge

Waterloo area If she isnt successful shes planning alternatives such as enrolment at Guelph in a Masters program o r failing that enrolment in courses that will he lp her

ac hieve her long-range goa ls She and John Paul recen tly moved from

London Ont to Cambridge Prior to the

birth of Erin now a two-year-old Doris was teac hing boys with behaviourial problems

and she sees thi s as an asset when applying for teaching positions Erin has a six-yearshyold brother Sean so you can understand

perhaps that Doris has been bu sy and maybe she is aptly described as a houseshy

hold engi neer

J Barry Baldwin 69 is a teac her with the Elgin County Board of Education S t Thomas Barry married Linda Janet Wii son They live in Aylmer West

M Rachel (Curtis) Towe 69 is manager customer systems Bell Canada She and

husband Ken live in Guelph

M Lois (Robinson) Harris 70 li ves in Newmarket with husband Fred

B Hugh Schofield 72 is an industrial engi neer with Rockwell Int e rnati o nal C hat ham He and wife Susan (Haslelt)

FACS 78 live in Chatham

Paul Davis 73 is an underwrite r analyst with Co-opera tors General In sura n ce

Guelph Paul and wife Linda (DozeH) 73 and 81 live at Brookhaven Court Guelph

Carol Finlayson 74 is a letter carrier lor Canada Post Carol and husband John Balch live in Toronto

Pal Hamilton 74 is an expon market deshyvelopment specialist with the O ntario Minshyistry of A gricu lture and Foo cl mark et

development branch Toronto He and his wife Diane (Coates) OAC 72 live in

Toronto

Kerrie Sirathy MA 78 advises us that

she is a s tud en t at th e Univcrsity of Sakatchewan Sas katoon

Vicky Sutherland 78 is an air trartie conshy

troller with Air Canada at FoI1 McMurray Airpo l1 Alta and lives in F0I1 McMurray

Sounds like an intercsting job - perhaps youl l share SOIllC experie nces with us Vicky

Marlin Thissen 78 is a foreman with the

region or Halton at ih Milton wa ter po llushytion control plant

Evelyn Evie (Isaacs) Whilwham 80 is a planning ass istant with Union Gas Co Ltd Chatham She and hu sba nd Bob have

c hanged their address They are at 70 Ottawa Drive C ha tham Ont N7L 216 0

In Memoriam A lormer faculty mcmber in the DeshypaI1ment of Geography Barsa Kelly was among the victims of the Air India Hight 182 disaster that occ urred

off the coas t of Irel and las t June ~ mr(sa Vas headed tor India on a reshy

search project at the time of her

death S he was the wife of Protessor Kenneth Kelly Department of Geogshyra phy On behalf of its members and all those who chc ri shed their con tacts with Barsa the Board of Directors of the College of Social Science Alumni Association extend their s incere symshy

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College of Biological Science Alumni Assoc BIOmiddotALUMNI NEWS

Editor Marie (Boissonneault) Rush 80

HONORARY PRESIDENT Professor Bruce Sells Dean

PRESIDENT David Airdrie BSc 82 Microbiology

PAST PRESIDENT Dr Chris Wren BSc 77 Marine Biology PhD 83

VICE-PRESIDENT Dee Britney BSc 74 Fisheries amp Wildlife MSc 81

SECRETARY-TREASURER Kclly Munkittrick BSc 80 Fisheries amp Wildshylife MSc 83

DIRECTORS Lorraine Bruce-Allen BSc 80 Zoology MSc 84 Jim Elliott BSc 79 Marine Biology Keith Harris BSc 76 Marine Biology Dr Doug Holdway BSc 76 Marine Biology MSc 78 Aquatic Toxicology PhD 83 Krista (McAuley) Soper BSc 79 Marine Biolshyogy Karin Davidson-Taylor BSc 83 Zoology

From Dave Airdrie 82 the

President How time flies when youre having fun Your editor Marie (Boissonneault) Rush 80 tell s me that this note to you will be in the Fall issue of the Guelph Alumnus so Ill bring you up to date on happenings since your 1985-86 Board of Directors was inshystalled in June

The CBS Alumni Association was parshyticularly busy during June Alumni Weekshyend events including the Wildlife Art Show and Sale and the barbecue at the Rockwood Conservation Area were well attended

Thanks must go to Krista (McAuley) Soper 79 and Lorraine Bruce-Allen 84 for their first-rate efforts in organizing and running the art show From all accounts it was ex tremely well done and is sure to be repeated in 1986

Further thanks mu st go to Keith Harshyris 76 for his efforts in once again organizing the barbecue at Rockwood Keith has done a terrifi c job with this event s ince its inception Hopefully these two events will be expanded in the coming year

Last spring the objective of $10 000 for the Keith Ronald Fellowship Fund was reached and we thank all who generously contributed to this fund Its to be hoped that this is only the first of many scholarships initiated through the CBSAA

Many of you will now be aware of the changes which the Universitys Department of Alumni Affairs has undergone in rece nt months Most important is the arrival of Marjorie Millar as director of the Departshyment It seems that President Matthews is placing greater emphasis on the importance of the Department due in part to the impenshyding capital campaign I am sure that youll all notice many beneficial innovations

The CBSAA has I feel reached a point in its development where we must heighten our profile both among alumni and undershygraduates In order to increase the awareness of the Association the Board has plans to embark on some new programs

The goals are as I see them two-fold first of all we need YOU to get more inshyvolved whether its participation in our proshygrams or s upport for the Assoc iation through your membership The fact that youre reading this demonstrates an interest which we would like to heighten

Secondly we re working at helpin g undergraduates before graduation to beshycome more aware of our Association Hopeshyfully we ll get helpful input and suggestions from many of you in the near future Reshymember - YOUR alumni association is what YOU make it

Dave Airdrie BSc 82 President Colshylege of Biological Science AA

FACULTY ADVISORS Dr Denis Lynn Zoology Dr Margaret Hauser M icroshybiology Dr John Hilton Nutrition Dr John Sandys Award Phillips Botany amp Genetics Dr Brian Wilson Human BiologyKinetics The Ontario Confederation of University

Faculty Associations (OCUFA) has awarded UGAA REPRESENTATIVES Karin Dr Alexander Sandy Middleton DepartshyDavidsonTaylor BSe X) Zoology Keith ment of Zoology one of the nine OCUFA Harris BSc 76 Marinc Biology Rob Teaching Awards for 1984 Milnc BSe XI MSe 84 Marine Bio Dr Middleton was nominated for this -award by colleagues students administrashyEX-OFFICIO DIRECTORS Ed Berdusco tors alumni and faculty It acknowledges president CBSSC Steve Spring past presishy outstanding ability and is considered to be dent CBSSC the provinces highest honour for excellence

in university teaching HKAA REPRESENTATIVE Nick Dalton I think there are two keys to being an BSe 77 Human Kinetics effective teacher Sandy says One is to

have respect for the student the other is to EDITOR RIO-ALUMNI NEWS Marie make a genuine intellectual and time comshy(Boissonneault) Rush B Se XO Marine mitmcnt to the course Biology 0 Dr Alexander Middleton Congratulations Dr Middleton 0

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Grad News Human Biology

Cathy Knipe BSc 79 MSc 83 is a Ph D st ud ent at Iowa State University Ames Iowa USA She is studying Moshylecular Biology

Shelly Lugg BSc 83 is a stude nt at Simon Fraser University Burnaby BC

Human Kinetics

Susan (Wright) Kwiatkowski BSc 80 is a recreation therapist at York Central Hosshypital Toronto Her spouse Ed graduated from Ryerson in 1979

Donna Marie (Kadwell) 1vose BSc 79 and husband John ji ve in Thorold Shes a physica l education supervisor at the Niagara Peninsula Crippled Childrens Centre

Mary Ellen (Mew) Walker BSc 83 is the activity co-ordinator at Spruce Lodge Stratford

Dr Ken Danylchuk BSc(PE) 73 is a s ur ge ry re s ident at the H itchcockshyDartmouth Medical Center Hanover N H USA

Kathryn (Tarry) Myers BSc 78 is a teacher with the Middlesex COunty Board of Educati on Hyde Park

WildUfe

Vicky Johnston 84 bega n an MSc at Lakehead University Thunder Bay in May Shes working on the reprodu ctive biology of Lake Superior rin g-billed gull s

Nutrition

Or 0010 Ohiokpehai 77 lectures in food and nutrition at the Unive rs ity of Ife Nigeria

Microbiology

John Semple 78 is a PhD ca ndidate in the Department of Mic rob iology amp Immushynology at Queens Uni vers ity Kingston He will be doing a post-doctora l at the Banting amp Best Depattment of Medica l Research University of Toronto

Unspecialized

Peter Adams 79 and Beth (Sarjeant) 79 are happy to announce their recent marshyriage Beth is a research technici an with the Depanment of Medicine Univers ity of Ca lshygary Alta and Peter operates a business with the se ismic service industry

Marine Biology

Jorgen Hansen 75 and his wife Drusilla (Dol be) Arts 75 live in Gloucester Jorge n is a staff officer with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Ottawa

CoUege Honour RoU - Winter 85 Semester 06

Margorie Fe rgusson 894 Human Biology JoAnna Milan 860 Biology

Semester 07 Sandra Noble 856 Microbiology

Semester 08 Marga ret Docker 876 Marine Biology Thomas Johnston 87 0 Fi sheries Biology Debra Underhill 858 Microbi ology

James Wright 858 Biology Tobin Peever 854 Botany

Alexander Hanke 852 Zoology Rebecca Rodgers 852 Human Bi ology

Tracey Robin son 882 BSc( HK ) Rebecca Halonen 880 BSc(HK )

Swdent has obtained standing for second time Student has obtaincd standing for third time

Home Town

Oakville Ottawa

Dorchester

Guelph New Liskeard Kingston Thunder Bay Bracebridge Grafton Calgary Alta Guelph Georgetown

Donald MacLennan 75 and hi s wife Katherine live in Chatham Donald is a biologi st-supervisor with the Ministry of Natural Resources Lake SI Clair Fisheries Assessmen t Unit Tilbury 0

College of Biological Science

Alumni Association

Wildlife Art Show

Well it happened June 15 and 16 have come and gone but not withshyout event The Graduate Students Lounge was transformed from a cozy meeting place into an an gallery There was much movi ng of furniture and hanging of an work with the end product being our fi rst ever CBSAA Wildlife Art Show

In total there were 20 wildlite artists partic ipating all tine ani sts in their own right Maybe you reshymember Ut a Stre live a nd Dr Ed Bailey Wow I You should see their wood works

Rick Beaver 73 also showed some of his work hes a wildlife imshypressionist and the colour and move shyment he paint s into each piece is eloquent Donald Dority 76 showed us the line photographer he has become There were other ani sts - too many to mention but all of extremely high calibre

Id like to mention one las t name though - Cindy Hayward manager of the Graduate Students Lounge If you ever need a steady hand to get an event off the ground shes the one to co ntact Without her hel p there would have been a whole heap of orshyga ni za tional problems From which we would have been unable to escape

All in all we had a successful show Thanks artists and viewers for making our efforts worthwhile 0

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New Minister of AgricultureOntario Agricultural College Alumni Assoc OAC ALUMNI NEWS

Editor Dr Harvey W Caldwell 51

Ontari OS new mini ster of ag riculture Jack Riddell 52A and 57 a cash crop farmer from the Exeter area comes to the position of Ontario s Mini ster of Agriculture and Food with ten years of expe rience as Liberal caucus cr itic for agriculture

The min is ter sa id that life under a Libshyeral government will give agriculture a higher priority than it has ex perienced in the past It will be considered one of the major industries in this province

Jack also pro mi sed to consult a great

Basic Technology in Action shyTurning Stones Into Bread By Ann Middleton Information Services

A new University of Guelph projec t in Tanza nia Africa should aid th e Third Wo rld s ubsistence leve l farmer The $400000 three-year projec t funded by the International Development Resea rch Centre (IDRC) will invol ve fltlculty of the Uni vershysitys Department of Land Resou rce Sc ience and Soko ine Uni versity of Ag riculture in Morogoro Central Tanza ni a Aim of the enterpri se is to use loca lly ava il ab le rock materials as soil amendm en ts and con shyditioners

The project came about when Ott awas IDRC brought together a team of two geo logists with an interest in improving co nshyditions for African farmers Professor Ward Chesworth with the Department of Land Resource Science has a long-standing intershyes t in turning rock s into fertili zers deshyve loped during work in West Africa and the Canltlry Islands where local farmers have spread volcanic rock on their field s for two centu ries In his lab and in the Blue Springs basin near Acton Ontario Professor Chesshyworth has been conducting experiment s on the levels at which common rocks re lease nutri ents into soil solutions

The other team member Dr Peter van Straltl ten is ori ginally from Germany but spe nt e ight years with the United Nations in Tan zania looking for metals and metal deshyposi ts and working on an in ve ntory of ferti shyli zer raw materials in south-east Africa

During thi s period Tanza nian food production per capita fell dramaticall y leadshying Dr van Strltlaten to try to find ways to help the food situation In ex periments in his garden in Dodomo Tanzaniltl he was able to increase yields of vegetables using locally

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available geological materia ls and organic wastes

Noting the common interes ts of the two men the Canadian age ncy introd uced them and Dr van Straaten relocated in Guelph Co-ordinators of the project are Professor Cheswo rth and Tan za ni an sc ie nti st Dr Johnson Semoka of Sokoine University coshyauthor of a text on so il sc ience much used in agricultural circles in Africa

Technical assistant Peter Sl11i th is working with Tanzanian rock specimens in the Land Resource Science lab and two other Tanzanian scientists will be involved

In addition to academics from bo th institutions members of the Geological Survey of Tanzania will also work on the project both in the Morogoro area and at Mbeya station in south-western Tanzania

Roc k sa mples will be collected and crushed and field tests and pot ex periments carried out here and on location When reshysu lt s have bee n obtained extension work will begin in Africa under the direc tion of Dr Semoka It is hoped that members of a Me nnonite Central Committee group workshying at Mbeya will design a simple rock crusher for the use of local farmers

Tanzania has a major phosphate deshyposi t wh ich will be tapped by the project as well as ground s ilicates including volcanic ash Liming materials such as limestone dolomite marl and ca rbonatite will also be evaluated

Professor Chesworth points out that alshythough No rth Americans place much emshyphasi s on the big three of soil nutrition shynitrogen phosphorus and potassium (NPK) - there are actually about 20 necessary

deal with the farm organizations on the direction his ministry should be taki ng

I dont believe that we can sit in our so-ca ll ed ivory towers and introduce the kind of programs that are go ing to be mea nshyingful unless we get consultation from the farmers and their spokes people

He has been a member of the provincial legislature for 12 years He spent his first two years as energy cri tic and later environshyment critic before mov ing into agriculture Jack and Anit a have a family of five 0

nutrie nts including the minor ones In some areas of Tanza nia the decline

in soil fe rtility is in part due to the settling of widespread populations into villages where land has been used without concern for nutrients Tn other part s of the country productivity has declined because of leachshying of plant nutrie nts durin g normal rainfall and also from the continuous use of acidifyshying fertilizers such as ammo nium su lphate Dr Chesworth point s out that the current practice of NPK fe rtili zation totally ignores secondary and micronut rient requirements of plants It is hoped that the projec t wilt address thi s problem

Our approac h is basic tec hn ology our target group the poorest far mers Dr van Straaten explains One of the problems in the past Dr Ches worth says has been convincing agronomists that it s worth purshysuing this kind of elementary tec hnology approach Theyre very skeptical that you can take common roc ks wi thou t major inshydustrial proces ing and use them to advanshytage on tropical soils

A s ideline area of research is work with zeolites open framework si licates that often occ ur in volcanic rocks Some zeolites can be used to trap nitrogen in the form of ammonia which would otherwise be los t in gaseous form When added to cow manure for exampl e and stomped in by the beasts themselves zeolites enrich an already valushyabl e fertil ize r Dr van Straaten explains

The zeolite research is being carried out in co njunction with Professor Colin Fyfe Department of Chemistry an intershynat io na ll y kn ow n authority o n zeo lit e -che mi stry

Orie result of the work of the Un ive rs ity of Guelph geo logists is an ag rogeology ne tshywork currentl y being set up bya number of African cou ntries as the result of di sc usshysions following a paper by Dr van Straaten and Professor Chesworth The paper was given recently at meetings of the UN Ecoshynomic Commiss ion for Africa in Zambia 0

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A Designing Grad The need for a summer job six years ago has ended in a Guelph grad des igning golf courses

When in 1979 Lisa Maki now

BLA 84 was searching for a job that would assist her in her studies at the Univershysity she applied to the city of Kitchener

She could have wound up in any

number of areas in the parks and recreation department but Rockway and Doon Valley

course superintendent Ed Ortlieb gave her the chance to join the work crew at Rockway fltor the first couple of years it was just a job that got her outdoors in the summer then by chance she got interested in the game itself

And now shes embarked on a career in golf course design

Lisa the 24-year-old oldest daughter of Ted Maki a former general manager of the

Lisa Maki BLA 84 Kitchener Rangers left last July for Lakeshyland Florida where she Joined Links Deshysign which de sig ns and oversees golf course construction throughout the United 1983 and a friend of the family who knew States The company is considered the sec shy was interested in golf course work arranged ond-largest of its type behind the one run by a meeting with Ronald Garl said Lisa I US golf legend Jack Nicklaus who deshy had an official job interview in April of 84 signed the Glen Abbey course in Oakville and then went to Florida in August of the

How does a young Kitchener woman same year to familiarize myself with the

end up working for Ronald Garl a 40-yearshy firms projects

old graduate of the University of Florida Because I had focused much of my who apprenticed under such well-known deshy University work on such things as turf man shy

signers as Roben Trent Jones and Joseph agement and had done pan of my bachelor Lee Again it was just a chance opportunity of landscape architecture thes is on what

We were in Florida in December of makes British golf courses great and the

Sisters of Accident Victims Receive Diplomas

A tragic accident just prior to Spring Convocation resulted in the deaths oftwo graduands of the Associate Diploma in Agriculture Program Jeff Bikus 85A of West Lome and Nick Davidson 85Afrom Zimbabwe Joy Davidson sister ofNick came from Zimbabwefor the Convocation She was sponsored by the OAC Alumni Association Classes of85A alld 86A Norm McCollulIl 66A honorary class president 85A Don and MiidredMcCollum Jenny Ballentine and her parents Dr Steve Bowley 78 and80 honorary class president 86A and the University Centre Administration Our sympathy is extended to the families and friends of these two popular studel1ls Pictured are Ito r Jenny Ballantine friend ofJeff Bikus Lealln Bikus sister of Jeff Joy Davidson sister of Nick and Klaus Kristiansen a studellt from Zimbabwe

other on golf course residential design he was impressed

In order to learn what made British

courses great Lisa spent a semester in Engshyland and Scotland visiting researching sketching photographing and playing 16 historic courses including the famous links courses which by tradition are the

only clubs to host the British Open Links layouts are courses that border the sea and have been built or developed over sand

bases

Approximately 15 students a year take

advantage of the School of Land scape Arshychitectures Semester Abroad Program fi shynancing the trips themselves However the program is supported by an annual $5000 grant from the Alma Mater Fund so alumni can claim a cenain amount of credit for Lisas success She was a recipient in 1983

of part of that years AMF grant Im not sure my mother and father

were very keen about my trave lling around England and Scot lane all alone but it was a truly great experience she said middot1 not only met many wonderful and helpful peoshyple got to play the great courses like St

Andrew s Royal Troon Turnberry and my favorite of all Royal Dornoch

After a complicated and lengthy US immigration process which took nearly a year she was granted her permanent work

visa She was in regular contact with her new

boss after returning to Kitchen er - she re turned to work at Rockway and Doon while awaiting the vi sa approval - and then last July plunged immediately into

projects including work at a mens tournashyment players 36-hole complex in Sarasota and a Ladies Professional Golf Assoc iation course in Melbourne where she worked in association with LPGA tour players Beth Daniels and Sally Little

Despite the fact that the job involves

vy ing with rattlesnakes alligators and Iild

pigs when I have to tramp through forests and swamps in applying my design work to certain areas I love the outdoor work Lisa

said At the same time she doesnt have any

probleIl1s giving orders to hard-hatted heavy-machinery construction workers when she is the field supervisor for on-site

work think I may have raised a few eye shy

brows when I staned work at Rockway but I was accepted

Lisa isnt sure how long this pan of her life will last and she has no way of knowing whether any of her courses will eve r be known as Lisa Maki layouts But that doesnt

concern her They may be Links Design projects but Ill know they were basically my courses 0

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Klink Lecture Dr Doug Morrison 49 Department of Poultry Science was chosen to deliver the 1985 Klink Lecture

The Klink lecture is ~ponsored by the Agricultural Inst itute of Canada and named after the Institute s founding president Preshysented by an outstanding lecture r the lecture is delivered through a coast-to-coast tour and concerns a topic of current significance to the agricultural industry and the nation

Dr Morri son stated that there is a need for professionalization in an imal agriculshyture in order to give it an improved image and make it more acceptable to the conshysumer

Address ing members of the Ontario Inshystitute of Agrologists in London Ontario he told his audience that the agriculture inshydustry in Canada ranks among the best in the world and producers have to ensure thi s is shown and make sure that peer pressure prevents producers from doing things that we cant defend

He suggested some type of professhysiona l approach established by the farming organization whereby expertise would be required instead of merely encouraged

This is a mu ch beller ap proach th an some edict from society through governshyment legi slation I strong ly object to legislashytion designed to protect me from myself he said adding that there are currently enough regulations existent through legislation that dictate what farmers can and cannot do

If a farmer were a profess ional hi s reward wou Id be in profits - about as meanshyingful a reward as has ye t been devised

Benefits of a more professionalized approach would include an improved image of the farmer to the consumer an increase in communication a more efficient industry

which is essential for competition improved knowledge on the fa rmers part of health nutrition care markets etc and more awareness of soc ietys concerns

In turn it would also be necessary to provide beller information to the consumer through an educational process because if soc iety is to pay for increased inputs for the long- term good of the nat ion then it is essential society be adequately informed

Morrison remarked that he fee ls the maj ori ty of animal agriculturists are in fact professionals but there has to be a concerted e ffort to at tract as lew people as possible in to the business who do not understa nd farmshying or who are doing things that are unacshyceptable

Consumer concern over dietary value or the amount of drugs contained in animal product s is also reason for farmers to tak e a professional approach They should work to alleviate any misreprese ntations and misin shyformation the public is receiving the proshyfessor noted s tating that farm ers have never produced food as safe and as wholeshysome as it is today

By the turn of the century on a world basis meat consumption is predicted to in shy

crease by abou t 60 per cent while the intake of milk is expected to increase by almost 40 per cent

A major fac tor for this rise in intake result s from th e fact that developing nations will begin to consume animal products as soon as they can afford them China is an excellent exa mple of this said the professor who commented that nation is now movshying as rapidly as possible to increase animal production

With all these factors is mind Dr Morshyri son sa id he is optimistic for the future of the Canad ian animal agriculture industry

Weve got the opportunities and can take advantage of them he said 0

Mark Bernards 85 cenlre was the recipienl oftwo OAC Alumni Foundation awards the OAC Alumni Graduate Award and the Beth Duncan Gold Medal Left is Gord Nixon 37 Foundashytion chairman and director and right NR Rick Richards 38 treasurer

Entrepreneur in Residence

Dr Donald Shaver

Dean Freeman McEwen is pleased to be working with Dr Donald McQueen Shaver the Universitys first Agricultural Entreshypreneur-i n-Res idence

Dr Shaver a native of Cambt idge Onshytari o is found er chairman and chief exshyecutive officer of Shaver Poultry Breed ing Farms Limited The compan y distributes chicken breeding stock to 90 countries from its head office in Cambridge and three subshysid iaries in the United States Britain and France He retired from his executive reshysponsib ilities on August 30 but is conshytinuing as director and adv isor to the company

From 1940 to 1945 Dr Shaver served with the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps in Africa and Europe retiring as regimental commanding officer He is past president of the Canadian Hatchery Federation the Poulshytry Products Institute of Canada the Canashydian Lincoln Red Society and Maine-Anjou Association He is a member of the Order of Canada Honorary Life Member of the Worlds Poultry Science Association and the Ontario Institute of Agrologi sts He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Science by McGill University and the Centennial Medal by the OAC

The Entrepreneu r-in-Reside nce pro shygram was initiated and financially supshyported by OAC Class of 58 to champion -the role of private enterpri se within soc iety The appointment is for a two-year period during which time Dr Shaver will present lectures lead workshops and consult with faculty and students

The Agricultural Entrepreneur-in-Resishydence program at the University is believed to be a first in agr icultural education around the world 0

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University Of Guelph Involved in $68 Million Chinese Project The University of Guelph has embarked on a co-operative $68 million project that will ~ink five Canadian and Chinese universities and agricultural institutions

The four-year Black Dragon River Proshyjeo supported by the Canadian Internashytional Deve lopment Agency (C IDA) involves Guelph the University of Alberta Olds College in AlbeI1a and two Chinese institutions - Heilongjiang Land Reclamashytion University and Liu He Training College in northeastern Heilongjiang Province

Under th e term s of the agreement training will be provided at the three Canashydian institutions for personnel from the two Chinese university institutions

The Liu He Training College is respo nshysible for educating state farm employees Training will range from short courses to undergraduate and graduate level programs

Faculty from the Canadian universities and Olds College will travel to China during the summer months to give lectures and

short courses The area borderi ng on Russia has treshy

mendou s potential for agricultural deve lopshyment Professor Neal Stos~opf 57 direct or of OACs diploma courses is Guelphs co-ordinator for the Chinese projshyect He was part of the Canadian gove rnment planning miss ion and ex plains that although the climate combines the cold winters and hot summers of Alberta most of the moisshyture is rain that falls between Jul y and Sepshytember

Although latitude is the sa me as Edmontons at 52 degrees north the area grows soybeans and corn as well as wheat The land has two to four feet of black topsoil waiting to be drained and planted he says with potential for livestock proshyduction

The proj ec t centre is located at the Unishyversity of Alberta with administration in Guelph being carried out by the Centre for International Programs 0

Provincial apiarist retires after 19 years You might say Philip Burkes job brought sweet rewards

Until his retirement recently Philip was the provincial apiarist - sort of Onshytarios chief of bees - while working at the University of Guelphs Department of Environmental Biology

He joined the University as a lectu rer in 1943 and then became assistant professor and later associate professor

At the same time the Ontario Departshyment of Agriculture (as the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food was known then) made him the assistant provincial apiarist In 1966 he became provincial apiarist

Of course he advised beekee pers on ways they could make their colonies more productive and efficient and fielded many apiary management question s - including how to prevent bees from swarming

If they swarm one-third to one-half of th e colony takes off so you lose a big source of your honey crop Swarming is trigshygered when the hive becomes overcrowded so the beekeeper mu st stay ahead of them It involves a whole manipulation of the hive through the season visiting each colony at least once every ten to 14 days he says Philip also worked with farmers whose

crops depended on pollination by bees At one time bees were needed for

pollin ating greenhouse produce such as cucumbers But in the past 15 years the trend has been toward new types that are self fruiting he says

But the biggest change in the industry over the years was the trend towards Illakshying corn king in Ontario - a trend that is now being reversed he says

From 1949 and on a lot of bee coloshynies were moved to the western provinces tollowi ng th e reduction in alfalfa production in Ontario and the increased corn acreage he says

Now prospec ts for honey production in Ontario are better than in past years beshycause of the increased alfalfa acreage and other legumes and the trend towards more diversified cropping

Not surpris ingly prices have changed in the industry over the years too Back in the 1920s it cost about $10 to start a bee colony today start-up costs are about $100 to $125 per colony

Much of his work at the University looked at ways to prevent di seases in bees using selected antibiotics

He was secretary for the Ontario Beekeepers Association for 15 yea rs and now acts as a consu It ant for the group 0

Wins Crampton Award

Dr Stanley J Slinger 37 the most recent rec ipient of the Earl e W Crampton Award for distingui shed service in nutrition is ProshyFessor Emeritus of the Depal1ment of Nutrishytion College of Biolog ica l Science at Guelph

Born in Lowell Ontario Dr Slinger received his BSc from the Ontario Agrishycultural College hi s MSc fro111 the Univershysity of Toronto and a PhD from Cornell University From 1941 to 1965 he was in the Departillent of Poultry Science at the OAC and since 1965 has been in the Department of Nutrition at Guelph serving as chairJl1an from 1965 to 1974

Dr Slinger conducted re sea rch in sevshyeral areas of pou Itry nutrition for Jl10re than 30 years In 1972- 73 a fi sh nutrition laborashytory was set up and thi s laboratory has conshytinued to grow and iJl1prove s i nee One of the primary objectives in both poultry and fi sh nutrition research has been to develop feed to rmulas using feedstuffs of Canadian orishygin 111ese tannulas have been publi shed and continuall y revi sed and have been used extensively by teed manufacturers through shyout Canada Dr Slinger continues to be active in research

Dr Slinger taught poultry nutrition in Poultry Science for 27 years gave seminar courses in nutrition and physiology taught Fundamentals of Nutrition in the Depal1shyment of Nutrition and deve loped and taught courses in fi sh and wildlite nutrition

He has supervi sed the work of Jl1any graduates and it is interesting to note that the Department of Nutrition at Guelph is the only depailment in Canada - and there are very few in the United States - turning out graduates in Fish Nutrition at the PhD leve l

He has helped to establi sh modern poultry industries in Mexico and the areas of South East Asia Africa the Middle East Eastern and Western Europe and the United Kingdom Lectures conlerences and other consultative work have also taken hilll to Jl1any coul1tries over the years

The recipient of numerous honours and awards Dr S linger was made Professor Emeritus of the University in Ino and reshy -ceived the Earl e W Crampton award in 19B4 at Macdonald College Que Thi s award is given by the Faculty of Agriculture in recogshyniti on of significant co ntributions in the field of nutrition through research andlor service The award is named for Dr Earle W Crampton a renowned nutritionist whose career at Macd onald bega n in 1922 and lasted far 51 years 0

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cialist having spent four months in the latter John Reid 84 is technical sales rep Agrico Grad News part of 1984 in Bloemfontein South Africa Sales Ltd Richmond BC

Earl Johnston 46 is president Earl-John Brokers Ltd Delhi

Joe Knox 48 is secretary-treasurer Annco Westeellnc Guelph

Ralph Hills 54 is pastor United Church of Canada Smith Falls Ralph left Zambia last October spending some time in Kenya Israel England and Scotland on the way home He was surprised to meet Charlie Broadwell also 54 on Oxford Street in London Charlie was giving a reception at a large castle for the white bean buyers who purchase beans from Charlies Bean Growers of Ontario Ralph also passes along the word from Louise (Fershyguson) Hope Mac 54 that her husband Don 54 preparing for some future possible social work is studying drug addiction at George Brown College of Applied Ans and Technology Toronto

Joseph Leach 54 is a research scientist Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources Lake Erie Research station Wheatley

Ken Edwards 59 is an industrial engineer Prince George Pulp and Paper Vancouver BC

Fred Theaker 62 is a teacher-biologist Ren frew County Board of Education Aruprior

Howard Lang 67 is senior so il conshyservation advisor for OMAF Cambridge

John Lawrence 69 has been appointed vice-president and ge neral manager De kalb Canada Inc Chatham John is a lso president of the Canadian Agri-marketing Assoc iation

Robert Brooksbank 70 is manager Agrishycultural Department Simcoe area Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce

Alan Duncan BLA 73 is project coshyordinator Groupe d intervention urban de Montreal Montreal Que

Martha (Weir) Collins 75 reports that Anne (Walton) Bayler 75 is at teac hers college in Toronto after spending several years teaching in the Bahamas Martha lives at I Braid Place Guelph and would like to hear news of her classmates

Jim Dyer MSc 75 is a senior resource and environmental officer with the crop producshytion division of Agriculture Canada Ottawa He is on loan as a drought monitoring spe shy

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His wife Barb (Newell) Arts 75 who is a technical editor with Public Works Canada joined him in Bloemfontein for a month

Elizabeth Fedorkow 75 is a market reshysearcher Tetra Pak Inc Markham

Roy Maxwell 75 is an agricultural comshymentator CBC Radio Noon Toronto

Gary Ball 76 is vice-president manufacturshying Mitten Vinyl Inc Cambridge

Garnet McConney 77 is feed lot manager Catllel and Ontario Inc Petersburg

Patrick Meyers 77 OVC 84 is a vetshyerinarian with the Grenville-Dundas Veterinshyary Clinic Kemptville

Martha Frey 78 is secretaryass istant edishytor Canadians for Health Research Wes tshymount Que

Wayne Harrison 79 is assi stant manager Toronto Dominion Bank Elmira His wife is Katherine (McLeod) 77

Sharon Helynk 79 is with the Woodbury Animal Hospital Halifax NS

Jeffery Goebel 80 is resident engineer ACF Canada Ltd Georgetown

Mary Lynn Prong 80 is assistant manager Royal Bank Watford She reports that Bruno Soucy 8Q has changed jobs from OMAF farm ma nagement advisor to agrolog ist London region Royal Bank

Corrie Almack 81 is presidentowner Agshyriculturai Soil and Nutrition Consultants Freelton

Edward Bolton 81 is research farm manshyager AJle lix Inc M ississauga

William Summers 82 MSc 84 is prodshyuct deve lopment rep Du-Pont Canada Streetsville

Dianne (Coker) McDowell 83 is quality assurance supervisor Richardson Foods Ltd Glanw0I1h

John Ross 83 is a program officer Agrishyculture Canada Edmonton Alta

Jeff Burke 84 is a customer service rep Griffith Lab Toronto

Julie Fowler 84 is working for Embury Bros Farms Ltd Newburgh

Karen Rodman 84 is a farm management specialist OMAF Nepean

James Simonds 84 is a crop specialist Cavendi sh Fanns Summerside P E1

Richard West PhD 84 is a research scishyentist Canadian Forestry Service SI John s Nftdo

In Memoriam We regret to report the following deaths

Marie Honsberger 17A died March 1985

Esmond D Clipsham 2IA died on April 6 1985 Esmond had been the proprietor Uneeda Rest Hotel Kilwonhy and was a life member of the OAC Alumni Association

Stanley Ewart Keillor 21 died on February 27 1985 He was a crop farmer at Walshylacetown

John Edward Chalmers 23A died on Febshyru ary 15 1985

Jacobus Van Haarlem 23 at age 85 on July 2 1985 in Vineland He retired as ex shyecutive director of the Hor1icultural Experishymental Station at Vineland in 1970 after 47 years of service there

Hugh Lacklin Paterson 32A died in May 1985 of a heart attack at Rockwood

Murray Cameron Macklin 33A 35 died January n 1985 in Toronto

Garland Alfred Fisk 35 Date of deat h unknown

Gordon Elgin Young 35 died on June 12 1985 at Ing leside

John Miller Fargery 37 on March 22 1985 in Toronto John had been an insurance salesman Farm Credit Corp and was a life member of the OAC Alumni Assoc iation

William Thomson 40 in 1982 in Lonshy shygueuil Que His death was reported recen tl y

Robert Fletcher Madden 54A died on November 26 1984 at age 52 at Napanee

Vera (Mod ric) Kozamplik MSc 73 in Yugoslavia She was the wife of Vinko Kozumplik M Sc 71 0

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From the Dean

Dr Barham

In some of my lellers I have aimed to share

information on some special program or theme with you On this occasion I want to

keep you in touch through a number of lillie items so I shall hold onto some of the bigshy

ger interests for future issues of the Guelph Alumnus

As I write this leller Alumni Weekend 85 is behind us I found it a great weekend

and I thoroughly enjoyed meeting more of our alumni for the first time while

especially appreciating recognizing more

and more familiar faces and names from previous occasions

This year the Classes of 65 and 75 requested an up-date on our programs and

the developments we have experienced together in the College over the last few

years I guess that we were able to demonshy

strate much more development in our research and teaching programs than we could in some parts of the physical facilities within the buildings Still we had thorshyoughly congenial and I think very useful

meetings with both of these classes and added a nostalgic tour of our facilities

It was splendid to meet both of these groups I confess however that I had not

foreseen that a large part of the interest of the Class of 65 rested on the fact that many of their children are now gearing up to enter FACS

I was able to remind them that the BASc and B Comm degrees both lead

into fascinating and challenging careers for sons and nephews as well as daughters and

nieces Some of you coming to Alumni Weekend 86 might wish to get in touch with me to arrange an up-date on our acti vities then too

One of my special pleasures of Alumni Weekend was to join with the Class of 35 at the Golden Anniversary Dinner This occashy

sion is always a particular delight given the special personal pleasures reflected in the

friendships shared on this anniversary And I do want members of the Class of

35 to know that their gift of the magnificent Terry Legault Roman Festival print looks really outstanding and just right amidst the

contemporary decor of the FACS lounge

One last item of alumni news which I want to mention is the fact that I met with

Jean (Nairn) Carter 38 and some of her committee recently I learned that they have

been making quite outstanding progress in establishing the trust fund that will support their new graduate student award in geronshy

tology The first award presentation of $1000 is being made this fall but members of the Class of 38 are still pushing on with their fund raising in order to bring the

annual trust-fund yield to a level of $2 000 We all think that the Class of 38 grads

have been quite remarkable in their detershymination to build up a significant fund to

support work in this important new field of scholarship and research I know that we

shall all appreciate your support for them in reaching their target

I met with Audrey Warner and Annette

Yeager 62 recently They advised me of their concern for the needs of teachers wantshy

ing to prepare themselves for adding Family Studies to their fields of professional speshy

cialization and of other teachers already working in that field who find themselves in need of some up-dating especially in view of the curriculum changes which appear to be around the corner

In this regard I want to mention two

items which might be of interest First our faculty in FACS have been

quite heavily engaged in working with

teachers and others in thinking planning debating and writing for the curriculum developme~ts envisaged for the Ontario Academic High School Credits

Most especially we have had as memshybers of the Canadian Family in Perspective group Dr Jean Sabry with her own special

interest in human nutrition Dr Grant

McCracken in clothing Drs Marshall Fine and Claude Guldner with their expertise in family relations and Drs Anne Martin Matshythews and Joe Tindale with their special strengths in life-span development and

aging - quite a team of contributors Secondly I want to mention in relation

to my meeting with Audrey and Annette that we now have a number of courses avai 1shy

able in a six-week format offered in summer sessions provided on campus

Perhaps of even more interest to those of you who wont find it practical to take

classes on campus at Guelph we have an annual offering of distance or corresponshy

dence-type courses Many of these will be of very pertinent

interest to a number of teachers The current list includes Human Development Marital and Family Dynamics Personal and Family Finance Development of Human Sexuality Nutrition and Man and the Exceptional Child in the Family

You can find out more about these

offerings by writing directly to Guelph Disshytance Education University of Guelph

Macdonald Institute shyFamily and Consumer Studies Alumni Assoc

Editor Carol Telford-Pittman 75

Guelph Ont NIG 2WI or by getting in touch with my office

One of the reasons that we have put

ourselves so significantly behind the development of these distance courses is that we did not have the resources to meet

the demand for providing our courses in the more traditional class format at locations

away from the Guelph campus As usual there is much more to share

with you but it will just have to hold until

my next letter I look forward to being in touch with you again then 0

Olive Thompson Honoured

Olive (Thompson) Thompson 35

-The Mac-FACS Alumni Association was very pleased to present a Citation of Appreshyciation to Olive (Thompson) Thompson

35 during Alumni Weekend 85 festivities Olive has given much time energy

support and leadership to the College and to the University through her years of involveshyment with the Mac-FACS Alumni Associashytion Class of Mac 35 activities and the University of Guelph Alumni Association

Our University s alumni organizations are stronger and more effective because of

the years of commitment and personal sershyvice that Olive has contributed

Olive - We salute you 0

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New at HAFA By John Hearn

Infonnation Services

An innovative course developed by the School of Hotel and Food Administration (HAFA) is focussing the attention of undershygraduates on the analysis of operational problems in the hospitality industry and the writing skills required to express and comshymunicate that analysis

Students are required to find summer jobs in the hospitality industry and then to write five papers of ascending complexity during the first semester of their second year using text readings specially edited for this course by the Schools Director Proshyfessor Tom Powers

We have a unique responsibility to prepare students not just for their first job but for future jobs further down the line says Dr Powers Possession of a university degree should imply an ability both to anashylyse problems and to communicate observashytions and recommendations In todays corporate world reports papers and letters are management tools and written comshymunication is a survival skill

The HAFA faculty decided further to emphasize writing skills by adopting a style manual developed by Professor Margaret Hund leby Department of Engl ish Language and Literature for this course as an integral part of the Schools other courses

In order to familiarize faculty with the use of the manual and the grading of student writing Professor Hundleby was invited to conduct a two-day workshop which atshytracted the attention of Vice-President Howard Clark and Associate Vice-President Janet Wardlaw as well as faculty from other disciplines s uch as psychology land resource science microbiology and history

The program Professor Hundleby told the seminar requires students to complete five report papers based on their own obsershyvations

The first paper requires a detailed description of the physical layout of the host operation plus an appraisal and operating cost analysis of its heating air-conditioning and ventilation systems

A second paper asks the student to describe and evaluate staff structure funcshytion compensation package and efficiency

Cost control is the subject of a third paper Purchasing practices food producshytion cost traCking and inventory manageshyment all come under this heading

Marketing is the fourth subject area What market segment is the operation aimed at What consumer need does the operation satisfy What is the nature of the

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Left to right- Professors Cathy Schrye Writing Centre Tom Muller HAFA Belty Upton HAFA Mike Jenkinson OAC 63 OAC dean s office Mary Rogers History and back to camera Bernie Katz Library reviewing cases drawn from studefll papers in a two-day workshop Evaluating Students Writing conducted by Professor Margaret Hundleby

competition in the target market

The fifth paper examines the intangishybles of management sty Ie How does the role of the manager affect relations with customshyers staff and head office

Professor Hundleby commenting on some of the problems of the course says whatever we call it students tend to conshyclude that what they re writing is an acashydemic paper of some kind - which of course it is - but we need to make the connection in their minds with the real the corporate world out there They also tend to think that longer is better and write about what they know - rather than what is import ant The development of a proper sense of for whom they are writing is itself a problem-solving skill

Another problem according to Proshyfessor Hundleby is what she calls the new illiteracy - a verbal dysfunction resulting from an impoverished vocabulary

Style too is a matter of considerable

AMPHI Spin-offs The School of Hotel and Food Administra shytions annual Advanced Management Pro shygram for the Hospitality Industry (AMPHI) now in its third year is spinning off new management development activities says HAFA Director Tom Powers Earlier this year 20 people attended a workshop on accounting and finance presented by Proshyfes sor William Braithwaite School of Agrishycultural Economics and Extension Educashytion and three similar programs will be offered in different parts of the country over the next year and a half

Another program still in the planning stage is a six-day hospitality managers development course designed for middle management by AMPHIs associate direcshy

concern She also mentioned careless senshytence structure style that is inappropriate to the content lack of connective logic failure to understand the nature of a paragraph as a literary entity the frivolous use of colloshyquiali sms an absence of any sense of the harmonious sound of words on paper and of course a growing list of commonly misused words - e g it could of had that affect

There s a tendency to see s tyle as a decorative flourish rather than as an aspect of content she concluded

Professor Powers sees the development of verbal communication skills as central to the whole idea of liberal education Cershytainly he says its useful for HAFA stushydents to understand how a cost control system works - but its at least as important to be able to think logically analyse logshyically and communicate conclusions in a way that is credible informative coherent and complete in fact these are the classic goals of a liberal education 0

tor Professor John Patterson and a consulshytant group of AMPHI alumni

AMPHI continues to attract internashytional attention participants in thi s years program which began in April include senior executives from many of North Americas most distinguished hotels and restaurants The four-week course offers an intensive program based primarily on case studies written by Professo rs Patterson -Braithwaite Carl Riegel and Tom Muller

The growing volume of AMPHI cases indicates that thi s is the largest s ingle research program currently under way in any hotel school in North America says Proshyfessor Powers AMPHls network of conshytacts is giving us access to a senior-level view of the industrys current problems and prospects 0

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Research AssociateComing Soon A AppointedModel Play Facility

Dr Joan Norris

Dr Joan Norris has held the position of Research Associate at the Gerontology Research Centre since last spring

Joan is working with faculty to develop and promote research related to population aging and is available for consultation with faculty on research design funding sources and publication

In addition to this development work she is continuing her personal program of research She works for the Gerontology Censhytre two days per week and the balance of her

The Family Studies Laboratory Schools pre-school play facility fell 10 a Grounds time is spent in the Department of Family Department wrecking machine recently Studies where she has held a faculty appointshy

ment since 1980 Joan holds a Ph D in Psychology from

the University of Waterloo and is also a regisshytered psychologist Her personal research

The Mllc-FACS Special Projects Commitshyinterests include social competence in older

tee Ito r Bonnie Kerslake 82 Association adults peer relationships and grandshy

president Linda (Wo[e) Markle 73 chairshyparenting 0

man and Gail Murray 78 Missing comshymillee member is Rita (Klassen) Weigel 77 The aim of the committee is to raise funds to redevelop the Family Studies Laboshy In Memoriam ratory Schools and raise itto the level where it will be regarded as a model pre-school

Eileen Margaret (Manahan) Alwayplay facility

390 October 21984 in Vancouver BC

Jean (Horrell) Atkinson 240 March 5 1985 in Aurora

Class of 35 Gift Oorothy (Lockard) Honsberger 300Centre panel Roman Carnival

In order to commemorate their anniversary July 51985 in Weiland Mac 35 has traditionally given a scholshyarship to a FACS student once every five Isabel J Lockerbie 300 March 31 years This year on the 50th anniversary of 1985 in Toronto their graduation and in addition to the scholarship an etching entitled Roman Patricia G (Smith) McKay-Barry 55 Carnival by Terry Legault has been added March 17 1985 in London Ont to the Universitys collection of Canadian alt The etching is hanging in the FACS Velma E (Conn) Partridge 260 April faculty lounge 29 1985 in Niagara Falls Ont shy

The theme of Roman Carnival was favoured by neo-clas sical and romantic Helen E (Kelly) Robinson 220 April painters during the 19th century The etching 30 1985 in Dundas captures the moment at which wild horses are released to race through the streets of Norma I (Motherwell) Roy 350 in Rome The artist has chosen to represent the Moosejaw Sask wild chaotic motion ot the horses rather than explicitly depict in detail the animals Lillian S (Moore) Usher 340 March 28 and the architectural background 0 1985 in Cobourg 0

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College of Physical Science Alumni Assoc SCIMP

Editor Bob Winkel

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Yes Dr Earl MacNaughtoll has relired alshylogelher bUI Ihis wonl be Ih e lasl you I hear from him reSI assured Before he and his wife Jean lOok oJf for Auslralia and New Zealand Deparlmenl of Physics slaf and faculty held a galhering al Ihe FacullY Club and presenled Ihe couple wilh an alumni clock

Back to Guelph

The headquarters for (GWC)2 came

back to Guelph in July for a threeshy

year period while Professor Robert Balahura Chemistry and Biochemisshy

try serves as director (GWC)2 offices have been set up

in Room 122 and 123 Physical Scishyences building The University of

Waterloo will maintain a satellite office during the three-year Guelph

rotation Dr Balahura and adminshy

istrative assistant Andrea Turner may

be reached at Ext 3865 0

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Physics Professor Elected to Royal Society

Bernhard Nickel

Department of Phy s ics Professor Bernhard Nickel has been elected a Fellow

of the Royal Society of Canada and was formally inducted into the Society at its

annual meeting in Montreal in June

A member of the Physics faculty since

1974 Professor Nickel is no stranger to

prizes and awards In 1981 he received the Herzberg Medal the Canadian Associashy

tion of Physicists award to a promising young scienti st In 1978 he won a Sloan

Fellowship from the New York-based Sloan Foundation

He achieved recognition by navigating

the esoteric seas of condensed matter physshy

ics Hi s co lleagues call him a leading masshyter in the art of mathematical physics By

exploiting the existing mathematical frameshywork in subtle ways he has worked through

thickets that have stopped other physic ists

High order perturbation calculations

done by him played a key role in verifying

the quantitative reliability of the theory of

underlying continuous phase transitions in systems

He earned BScE and MSc degrees from the University of Saskatchewan and a

PhD from the University of California at

San Diego He was a research associate at

Cornell and Oxford Universities and a postshy

doctoral research Fellow at the Univers itY of Alberta before coming to Guelph in 1974

He has been a visiting fellow at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory at the Univershy

sity of California at San Diego at Harvard

and at the Schlumberger-Doll Re searc h In stitute in Connecticut

With his election he becomes one of

six Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada at

Guelph The others are Professors Howard

Clark Peter Egelstaff Gabriel Karl Bruce Sells and Herbert Armstrong And it brings to five the number of me mbers of the

Guelph-Waterloo Program for Graduate Work in Physics (GWP)2 who can put the

coveted FRSC after their names 0

Halleys Comet and the Babylonians By Professors Nigel Bunce and Jim Hunt

The winter of 1985 and the spring of 1986 will lon g be remembered as the year of

Comet Halley No comet in history has so

stirred the imagination of man or been the

object of suc h intensive investigation Its easy to understand this interest when its

appreciated that Halleys Comet is the only recurring comet that is bright enough to be

seen with the naked eye ft was the g reat astronomer Edmund

Halley who in 1705 recognized the s imilarshy

ity of the appearances of the great comets of 1456 1531 1607 and 1682 He speculated that these were in fact one and the sa me

comet with a period of 75 or 76 years

He predicted that the comet would reshyturn in 175 8 a return he could not live to see With thi s Halley discovered the phenomeshy

non of periodic comets and thus showed

that they were members of our solar system

The comet dutifully returned in 1835

and spectacularly so in 1910 In the latter

year circumstances were such that after its

perhelion passage (the point closest to the

Sun) the Earth and the comet approached

each other very closely The comet was so close that at one time its tail spread from

horizon to horizon The return in 1985-86 will be considshy

erably less spectacular In fact for Canadishyans it will not be easy to observe s ince the

time of perhelion is in Febnlary when the

Sun is very low in the sky The view will be -much better from more southerl y latitudes Over the years historica l records have

been found which record every passage of the comet back to 12 BC M any of these obshy

servations come from Chinese records first published in 1846 A well-authenticated

passage was that of 1066 which was reshy

corded on the Bayeux tapestry by the mother

of William of Nonnand y and taken as an cOllld on righl

Grad News Paul Ferguson BSc 67 of Ede n Mill s is president of EIS Systems Ltd and travelled in New Zealand this summer

Walter Lock BSc 67 of Denfield is practising medicine in Lucan

Tjeerd Homan BSc 69 of Calgary Alta is manager research and development services for Petro-Can He is enjoying his family Carla Sarah and John Menno and his hobbies of golf curling and skiing

(GWP)2 Poster Session a First

Earlier this year the Guelph- Waterloo Proshygram for Graduate Work in Physics (GWP)2 staged its first annual poster session for graduate s tudents Poster sessions which are becoming increasingly popular in scienshytific circles allow interaction between researchers and delegates without the time pressures encountered when presenting con shyventional papers at meetings says (GWP)2 Director lain Campbell

The first annual (GWP)2 poste r sesshysion which was followed by a soc ial hour and banquet was highly successful in genershyating interaction says Campbell By the end of the session there were still clusters of people arguing the finer points of scientific interpretation on many of the posters These exchanges continued right through the soshycial hour and into dinner Interaction is what science is all about

Encouraging interaction between stushydents and faculty is one of Campbells prishyorities as Director It is too easy for students to tuck themselves into a corner and work away in isolation They need to get out and ex plain their work both to experts and to

omen of his victory over the Saxons Based on this long record various

mathematical analyses of the orbit of the comet have been produced These account very accurately for the known passages of the comet However when these various anshyalyses are pushed back beyond 12 BC they predict widely varying dates for the previous appearances Before 12 B c there are ani y two vague Chinese records in 87 BC and 240 B c which mayor may not have been Halleys comet

In a recent issue of Nature a team of

Ernest Campbell BSc 69 lives in Campbell ville and teaches science for the Halton Board in Burlington

Richard Davis BSc 77 having comshypleted his MD University of Toronto 83 and his internship at Womens College Hosshypital will be setting up his practice in family medicine in his home town of Guelph

Larry Meek BSc 77 of Ottawa is pashytient administrator and computing officer for the National Defence Medical Centre His hobbies include sailing and skiing

Andre Brunet BA 81 is working for Amdahl Ltd as fieldsystems engineer and lives in Sudbury with his wife Monique (Puellette) FACS 80

Cathy Deakin BSc 81 is presently articshyling with the law firm of Little Reeves Mahoney Jarrett amp Hart of London

Andrew Dubrawski BSc 82 and his wife Alicia (Wodecka) BSc 81 live in Toronto where he works as a communicashytions systems analyst for CNCP Telecomshymunications 0

10hn Root 81 a (GWP)2 PhD s tudent left aflracts an audience

non-experts It takes a deliberate effort on our part to generate and maintain this intershychange

The poster session was the largest scishyentific or social event yet staged by (GWP)2 Some 18 students presented posters and about 90 students faculty and prospective students attended

The posters are on display in the two departments of physics to give others an opportunity to view them At Gue lph they are in the second floor corridor of the Physshyical Science Building near the Department

scholars from England and Vienna reported the finding of two fragments of Babylonian tablets in the British Museum that clearly report the appearance of the comet in 87 BC and 164 B C The records are so clear that by calculation not only the year but the time of year for the perhelion passage can be determined

For example the 164 BC apparition has been narrowed down to a date someshywhere between November 5 and 25 of that year The 87 BC record is not as accurate nevertheless its perhelion passage can be

of Physics office Encouraged by the s uccess of the

poster sess ion lain Campbell is planning another high-profile event for (GWP)2 to recognize award-winning faculty He plans a fall symposium at which three (GWP)2 members who received major honours durshying 1985 will give short lectures to be folshylowed by a sherry reception The three honoured faculty are Gicinto Scoles Killam Fellowship winner Bernhard Nickel Felshylow of the Royal Society of Canada and John Simpson Rutherford medalist 0

narrowed down to July 25 to August 15 These observations while inaccurate

to the extent of 20 days are still accurate enough to eliminate three of the four leading -calculations of the motion of Comet Halley This is a striking example of how archaeoshylogical investigations may have a strong effect on many diverse subjects in this case com~tary astronomy 0

We welcome questions and ideas for future articles Write to the authors clo the Deans Office Cole fe ofPhysical Science Univershysity of Guelph Guelph Ontario NIG 2WI

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Ontario Veterinary College Alumni Assoc OVC ALUMNI NEWS

Editor Dr Cliff Barker 41

OVC Alumni Association Executive 1985middot86

HONORARY PRESIDENT Dr Ole Niel sen 56 PRESIDENT Dr Ken Gadd 56 PAST PRESIDENT Dr Wendy Parker 7 1 VICE-PRESIDENT Dr Mary (Hawkins) Wiltshire 74 SECRETARY-TREASURER Dr Gordon Boylan 46 DIRECTORS Dr Bob Buck 46 Dr Archie MacKinnon 43 Dr Norm McAninch 39 Dr Bruce Robb 7 1 Dr Bruce Robinson 76 Dr Noni Sman 80 EDITOR avc Alumni News Dr Cliff Barker 41

Mailbag Dear Cliff

We were over to Vancouver Island recel11ly and went up to Qualicum Beach to see 0 Howard Taylor 13 He broke me in on meat inspection in 42 at the old Burns plant on Logan Avenue in Winnipeg

He is in great shape Qlid outside of a gimpy knee has no problems It was a real pleasure to see him again - still the same sparkle and quick wit that I had remembered from the Winnipeg years

I had not seen Howardfor 40 years bw outside of him thinking I had aged someshywhat had no trouble with identification Thought you might be il7lerested in this bit of news - not too many vets make it to age 98

We are fine and enjoying a complete reversal of what Vancouver weather is supshyposed to be bUi sure would like to see aboUl a week of rain Regards Bud Ellis 41 1410 Gordon Avenue West Vancouver Sc V7T IR6

From the Dean

Dr Ole Nielsen 56

In this my first opponunity to address our alumni through this medium I would like to express my pleasure at having the privilege of serving the Ontario Veterinary College and the University of Guelph

At the outset I acknowledge my debt to those many faculty students and staff who have labored to make this College a great inshystitution Being mindful of this heritage I am excited by the challenge of helping move the College to new levels of excellence One has to be impressed with the potential of the OVe Heres why

By the time this publication has gone to press I expect tenders for the first phase of a new OVC building program will have been called and possibly awarded This project costing over $13 million will provide modshyem facilities for the Depanments of Clinical Studies and of Biomedical Sciences and the Veterinary Teaching Hospital

The culmination of a great deal of effon led by former Dean Doug Maplesshyden 50 and President Burt Matthews OAC 47 the project is jointly funded by the Federal Government (Departments of Agrishyculture and Regional Industrial Expansion) and the Province of Ontario (OMAF)

The new facility will allow the College to press forward with new teaching research and service programs that include such vital newareas as biotechnology computer as istshyed health management and expanded proshygrams in toxicology

The second phase of the OVC building program which is largely related to teachshying spaces remains to be funded A good share of this project is expected to be includshyed in the fonhcoming capital campaign of the University The panicipation of you the alumni will be crucial to its success The governments of Ontario and Canada have done their part despite difficult circumshystances The rest is up to us

I have found the faculty of the OVC to be -a group of strong and vigorous academshyics and many young talented faculty have been appointed recently In passing one notes the retirement of many of those who led the renaissance in veterinary education in Canada in the post-war years The new generation of faculty has a real challenge in

trying to do as well as their predecessors shyand it will

I believe the graduate students are the sou I of the College Therefore another cause for optimism is the strength of the graduate and research programs at the OVe Presently the College has about 130 gradushyate students who at this most creative period of their lives are striving to provide new knowledge and skills for veterinary medishycine In 1950 there were none

There has been a significant expansion in the D YSc program a comparatively new doctoral program that gives priority to the acquisition of clinical sk ill s in addition to training in research The D VSc degree is unique in the world and how its graduates will be received remains to be determined I am confident it will be favourably

Believing in the imponance of reshysearch OMAF recently committed itself to provide the College with a new research farm at Ponsonby This nO-acre site located some ten miles from Guelph will provide farm-type facilities for hous ing dairy cattle beef cattle sheep pigs and laboratory anishymals will replace existing facilities at Eramosa and Plislinch and will cost in excess of $3 million

The application rate and quality of stushydents seeking admision to the D YM proshygram remains high

I am delighted to be assisted in the work of the Deans office by Associate Dean Ted Valli 62 and Academic Counsellor Ron Downey 61 and given the above is it any wonder I am optimistic

I have always been a bit smug in believshying that those of us from western Canada were the most friendly in the nation My exshyperience since coming to Guelph proves me wrong Everyone including students facshyulty staff the University administration and the local community could not have been more friendly and helpful 0

OVCAA Membership Report-Summer 1985

Life Membership 1 103 Honorary Life Membership 3 Life Me m Instalment Plan 241 Annual Membership 42 -Total Membership 1389 Total Alumni 3537 Membership

of Total Alumni 3930 Membership

of Known Alumni 40 06

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Inch in KatDlandu The following letter to the editor from Or

Carolyn Inch 81 was sent to Ornella Osborne editor of Update the newsletter

published by the Ontario Veterinary Assoshyciation Were grateful to Omelia for passing it on to us

While trekking through the north central region of the Himalayan mountains in

Nepal I was surprised to see the words vetshy

erinary office added to the bottom of it sign written in Nepalese

The village Chame contained the

headquarters of the government veterinary operations for the region of Manang Borshy

dering on China in the north the region covers about 2000 square kilometres and

has the lowest population density in Nepal The average altitude of the region is above

3048 metres Annapurna towers at 8091

metres The logistics behind launching a vetshy

erinary program in an area that is entirely inaccessible except by foot or aircraft had

me intrigued Dr Koshori Jha greeted us warmly and

in the polite manner wed received at the hands of all the Nepalese tea was served

The bulk of his practice is in sheep and goats as well as cattle yak horse mules and chickens On a daily basis he deals most frequently with footrot a problem that

is compounded by the fact that most of the bovine and equine species are bred pri-

During the recent avc AA Annual Meeting retired Deal Doug Maplesden 50 righl received ( plaque embodying newsclippings puhlished during his lenure Dean OIl Nieletl 56 made the presentalion

marily for use as pack animals the terrain is

rough and whether goats are grazing beshy

tween rocks or mules are carrying 80-kiloshygram loads up mountainsides their hooves are exposed to a lot of strain

Dr Koshori Jhas pharmacy contained various disinfectants and as tringents and

many herbal remedies from India retained placenta and anti-bloat preparation for

example

The only vaccine available to him was against Hemorrhagic Septicemia and he

used it when faced with a diagnosed herd

outbreak Dr Koshori Jha pointed out phenol

which was used on feet during July August and Septembers annual FMD outbreak

coinciding with the rainy season Day-to-day treatment is a sma ll part of

the government veterinarian s job He recently received approval for his five-year

plan which began last spring The main eleshyments of the plan are training increasi ng egg production mule breeding Jhopa

breeding (cross between a cow and male yak) and improving cattle feed by the introshyduction of a Phillipine variety of cattle grass

For the livestock assistance training

three farmers from each of 12 panchayats (districts) in Manang will come to Chame

for training and to discuss local problems These men will be involved in a serv ice

centre to be se t up in each panchayat for common treatment He also plans to hold a yearly lives tock exhibitio n with pri ze shy

money for healthy livestock

Plans to increase egg production include a new brooding unit and the introshy

duction of a hybrid of Leghorn New Hampshyshire and Rhode Island Red poultry In an effort to upgrade the quality of pack anishy

mals local ponies will be crossed with donshykeys brought from northern India Similarly

Missing in India Dr Ohiroobhai K Desai 46 61 Sharda Society Paldi Ahmedabad 380007 India has written of hi s attempts to gather inforshy

mation on Drs VD Alaga Raju 36 and

K B Nair 36 both of India He repol1s having bee n with Dr Nair from 1952 to 1956 at the Bombay Veterinary College as an exshyaminer in Veterinary Medicine However he

has been unable to provide up-to-date inforshymation on thesc two alumni Any alumni

with information please write to your avc Alumni Bulletin editor 0

male yaks will be crossed with local cows

and their offspring Jhopa will be used as high-altitude pack animals

Dr Jha plans to distribute these breedshying animals to the more remote region s so

that bloodlines can be upgraded In so me of these areas the native dialect is related to ancestral Tibetan languge rather thall Nepashy

lese which compounds hi s difficult task of education

Pack animals are the lifeline of the

high-altitude people as much today as they

have been for centuries I very much appreshy

ciate the time taken by Dr Koshori Jha to explain the role of domestic animals in the

Himalaya and share with me his ambitious plans for the future 0

AI Ihe recem CVMA Conference in Pelllicshylon Dr Bob Dunbar 12 leji with Dr ROI Downey 6 Bob has reached his 961h birlhday and resides in a PellliClol1 nursing home

In Memoriam Or John N Campbell 15 545 Scripps Drive Davis California 59616 USA

died May 4 1985

Dr Ra)mond E Pinkert 36 440 NOl1h Pine Street Reedsburg Wisconsin 53959 USA died April 13 1985

Or Roderick S MacDonald 37 3003 Oliver Street Apt 203A Halifax NS -B3L 4AI died June 12 1985

Dr John J Carney 44 3531 West 33rd Avenue Vancouver B C V6S IZ2 Date of

death unknown

Or Kenneth R Lachapelle 54 1635 Ranvoyze Ave St Foy Que GIW 3K2

died June 26 1985 0

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College of Social Science Alumni Assoc PEGASmiddotUS

Editor Dorothy Barnes 78

Our Annual Picnic We Illissed you I All of you who didnt make it to our CSSAA picnic during Alumni Weekend 85 But despite the few members and families that did attend we had a good time The pictures tell the story

Here are some of us arriving (l) and setting up the eats We had good food and why not It was a tillle to enjoy relax and have some fun We had games for all ages including catch-the-eggs (2) with real raw eggs

AmI of course whats a picnic without a drop of rain) But President John came prepared with a tarpaulin (3) for those afrnid ofilleiting The k)od and the day were saved Hurrah for our presidenl

Thcre were some brave soul s who unshydaunted by the weather carried on with their baseball game Then of course there was one young partiCipant (4) who was seen scratching hcr head 1I1d wondering what was going on

All in all we had a great time You would have too if youd bcen thcre So makc a mental notc or tic a string around your tingcr toc anywhere that will reillind you that you missed a good outing at th e Aluillni Wcckend 85 CSSAA picnic and that you should makc pl ans now to join us in June 86 at Alumni Wcekend 86 0

A Joy to Behold Her work has the shi mmer of life Such is said of artist Joy Elizabeth (Snihur) Laking Fine Art CSS 72 Joys art is intimately tied to the seasons In spring and summer she works against the perilous fadshying of fresh flowers capturing them in clean powerful designs

Fa ll afternoons on the grassy salt marshes around her home in Portaupigue Nova Scotia inspire wider scenes of rich changing colours

The respite of winter is her time for land and peoplescapes evolved from her ow n photography Her art is created within the context of family community and nature

Joy was introduced to hcr chosen lifeshystyle by her mother - they used to go sketching while Joy was a child in Owen Sound on Lake Huron s Georgian Bay shyand has painted since she can remember She now lives on the edge of the Bay of Fundy with husband Ronald OAC 72 and two cherubs where she can paint every day and capture the beauty she sees around her Whether it be mud and Illarsh a rusted truck and some farmyard geese or caterpillar holes in azalea leaves Joy is able to capture in watercolour the essence and beauty of all she sees

She is noted for her special ability to create white flowers on white paper by givshying the petals shape and vivid life with only a whisper of colour and shadow Light delishycate handling and mcticulous control fused with a powerful design se nse distinguishes her art

Joy is a well established artist and has had se lected exhibitions of her paintings at the Tom Thompson Memorial Art Gallery Owen Sound 1981 Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery Halifax NS 1982 Gallery 1889 Tatamagouche NS 1983

Daffodils By Joy (Snihur) Laking 72

Truro Art Society Truro NS 1984 and the Royal Botanical Gardens Burlington Onl 14

She was deservedly honoured to have the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia purchase one of her paintings for its collection and the Maritime Tel amp Tel chose a Laking painting for the cover of Nova Scotias 1985 telephone directory

Joy says I paint what I live what I see and what touches me It s no wonder then that Joy has been able to successfully transshyfer such sensitivity to her work in a way that has produced tine work s of art as demonshystrated in Daffodils reproduced here 0

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Grad News Terry Goddard 76 wrote to let us know

where he is and what hes doing After gradshyuation Terry turned to the world of engishy

neering and worked at the Bechtel Intershy

national Syncrude project in northern Alberta for a year He retu rned to school and obtained a Masters degree in Politi cal Theshyory in 1978 at the University of Toronto

TIle next nine months were spent workshying at Dhaharan Saudi Arabi a While the re

Terry contemplated the action which would

give him the best career move His deci s ion to go into teach ing led him back to the Unishy

versity of Toronto to obtai n his BEd His teachin g career took hi m to northshy

e rn Saskatchewan whe re he taug ht at a village which if not actually at the end of

the world was situated close enough that the end was plainly visible from the nOI1hern

outskirts He returned to Toronto someshywhat sated with academe and once again

turned to engineering He has been director of maintenance for the Jewi sh Com munity

Centres of Toronto for the past five years He has fou nd it difficult to keep in

touch with fellow grad s Especia lly th ose who studied in Professor Melby s Chinese

poIitic s courses and who were known as the Shanghai Mafia - they are all over the

world now Hes sure they often recall with fondness their days at Unigoo

Where are you former students of Proshyfessors Simmo ns and MelbYTerry would be interested in hearing from you - and so would we

Robin-Lee Norris 80 has been awarded

a $19000 Rot ary Foundation Scholarship to

pursue g radua te studi es in the Masters of Business Administration program at the

Univers ity of Adelaide Adelaide Australia Robin-Lee went o n to graduate from

Osgoode Hall Law School with an LLB

was called to the Ontario Bar in ApriJ of 1982 and has practised law with the tirm of

Kearns McKin non inGuelph since herca ll She took a ten-mo nth leave of absence

commenc ing in February 1985 from her positi on with Kearns McKinno n in o rder to take ad vantage of the sc holarship

During her months in Australia her mandate from Rotary Internatio nal in addishy

tion to pursuing her stud ies is to act as a Rotary and Canadian Ambassador in proshy

moting good will and understanding beshytween Australians and Canadians

A thank you goes to Cliff Hardy buildshying mechanic superv isor Main tenance Deshypartment Physical Resources for supplying us with thi s information and an aside to Robin-Lee when she reads this I was unable

to reach you betore you left to congratulate

you and get more informati on on your award If you have some free time we wOllld love to hea r from you about your studi es

what a Rotary and Canadian ambassador

does and to have you share your ex perience of being down-under

Marilyn Kernohan Morrison 78 has taken the time to Jet us know that shes living in Napanee with hu sba nd Brian She has

tempora ril y se t aside her ca reer to be a home-maker tor Brian and their four-monthshy

old son

Prior to their move to Napanee to acshycommodate Brians tran sfer - he work s with the Ministry of Natural Resources shy

Marilyn and family lived in a small comshymunity northwest of Thunder Bay After

Gue lph Marilyn continued her ed ucation at the comm unity college level and com pleted

a program for counse llors of the mentally

retarded SheJI be returnin g to thi s fi e ld when she again becomes a wage earner

Doris E (Trachsel) OKeefe 74 is deshy

scribed by husband John Paul 74 as a household engineer John Paul is a reshy

source teacher with the Waterloo County Board of Education With such a title I

couldnt resis t phon ing Doris to find out exactly what the duti es of a household enshy

gi neer are

While Doris decl ined to give a cletinishytion of the titl e l detected some surprise and delight that John Paul appreciates what it

takes to look after a famil y and a home

Doris is trying to re turn to teaching but is findin g it difficult in the Cambridge

Waterloo area If she isnt successful shes planning alternatives such as enrolment at Guelph in a Masters program o r failing that enrolment in courses that will he lp her

ac hieve her long-range goa ls She and John Paul recen tly moved from

London Ont to Cambridge Prior to the

birth of Erin now a two-year-old Doris was teac hing boys with behaviourial problems

and she sees thi s as an asset when applying for teaching positions Erin has a six-yearshyold brother Sean so you can understand

perhaps that Doris has been bu sy and maybe she is aptly described as a houseshy

hold engi neer

J Barry Baldwin 69 is a teac her with the Elgin County Board of Education S t Thomas Barry married Linda Janet Wii son They live in Aylmer West

M Rachel (Curtis) Towe 69 is manager customer systems Bell Canada She and

husband Ken live in Guelph

M Lois (Robinson) Harris 70 li ves in Newmarket with husband Fred

B Hugh Schofield 72 is an industrial engi neer with Rockwell Int e rnati o nal C hat ham He and wife Susan (Haslelt)

FACS 78 live in Chatham

Paul Davis 73 is an underwrite r analyst with Co-opera tors General In sura n ce

Guelph Paul and wife Linda (DozeH) 73 and 81 live at Brookhaven Court Guelph

Carol Finlayson 74 is a letter carrier lor Canada Post Carol and husband John Balch live in Toronto

Pal Hamilton 74 is an expon market deshyvelopment specialist with the O ntario Minshyistry of A gricu lture and Foo cl mark et

development branch Toronto He and his wife Diane (Coates) OAC 72 live in

Toronto

Kerrie Sirathy MA 78 advises us that

she is a s tud en t at th e Univcrsity of Sakatchewan Sas katoon

Vicky Sutherland 78 is an air trartie conshy

troller with Air Canada at FoI1 McMurray Airpo l1 Alta and lives in F0I1 McMurray

Sounds like an intercsting job - perhaps youl l share SOIllC experie nces with us Vicky

Marlin Thissen 78 is a foreman with the

region or Halton at ih Milton wa ter po llushytion control plant

Evelyn Evie (Isaacs) Whilwham 80 is a planning ass istant with Union Gas Co Ltd Chatham She and hu sba nd Bob have

c hanged their address They are at 70 Ottawa Drive C ha tham Ont N7L 216 0

In Memoriam A lormer faculty mcmber in the DeshypaI1ment of Geography Barsa Kelly was among the victims of the Air India Hight 182 disaster that occ urred

off the coas t of Irel and las t June ~ mr(sa Vas headed tor India on a reshy

search project at the time of her

death S he was the wife of Protessor Kenneth Kelly Department of Geogshyra phy On behalf of its members and all those who chc ri shed their con tacts with Barsa the Board of Directors of the College of Social Science Alumni Association extend their s incere symshy

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College of Biological Science Alumni Assoc BIOmiddotALUMNI NEWS

Editor Marie (Boissonneault) Rush 80

HONORARY PRESIDENT Professor Bruce Sells Dean

PRESIDENT David Airdrie BSc 82 Microbiology

PAST PRESIDENT Dr Chris Wren BSc 77 Marine Biology PhD 83

VICE-PRESIDENT Dee Britney BSc 74 Fisheries amp Wildlife MSc 81

SECRETARY-TREASURER Kclly Munkittrick BSc 80 Fisheries amp Wildshylife MSc 83

DIRECTORS Lorraine Bruce-Allen BSc 80 Zoology MSc 84 Jim Elliott BSc 79 Marine Biology Keith Harris BSc 76 Marine Biology Dr Doug Holdway BSc 76 Marine Biology MSc 78 Aquatic Toxicology PhD 83 Krista (McAuley) Soper BSc 79 Marine Biolshyogy Karin Davidson-Taylor BSc 83 Zoology

From Dave Airdrie 82 the

President How time flies when youre having fun Your editor Marie (Boissonneault) Rush 80 tell s me that this note to you will be in the Fall issue of the Guelph Alumnus so Ill bring you up to date on happenings since your 1985-86 Board of Directors was inshystalled in June

The CBS Alumni Association was parshyticularly busy during June Alumni Weekshyend events including the Wildlife Art Show and Sale and the barbecue at the Rockwood Conservation Area were well attended

Thanks must go to Krista (McAuley) Soper 79 and Lorraine Bruce-Allen 84 for their first-rate efforts in organizing and running the art show From all accounts it was ex tremely well done and is sure to be repeated in 1986

Further thanks mu st go to Keith Harshyris 76 for his efforts in once again organizing the barbecue at Rockwood Keith has done a terrifi c job with this event s ince its inception Hopefully these two events will be expanded in the coming year

Last spring the objective of $10 000 for the Keith Ronald Fellowship Fund was reached and we thank all who generously contributed to this fund Its to be hoped that this is only the first of many scholarships initiated through the CBSAA

Many of you will now be aware of the changes which the Universitys Department of Alumni Affairs has undergone in rece nt months Most important is the arrival of Marjorie Millar as director of the Departshyment It seems that President Matthews is placing greater emphasis on the importance of the Department due in part to the impenshyding capital campaign I am sure that youll all notice many beneficial innovations

The CBSAA has I feel reached a point in its development where we must heighten our profile both among alumni and undershygraduates In order to increase the awareness of the Association the Board has plans to embark on some new programs

The goals are as I see them two-fold first of all we need YOU to get more inshyvolved whether its participation in our proshygrams or s upport for the Assoc iation through your membership The fact that youre reading this demonstrates an interest which we would like to heighten

Secondly we re working at helpin g undergraduates before graduation to beshycome more aware of our Association Hopeshyfully we ll get helpful input and suggestions from many of you in the near future Reshymember - YOUR alumni association is what YOU make it

Dave Airdrie BSc 82 President Colshylege of Biological Science AA

FACULTY ADVISORS Dr Denis Lynn Zoology Dr Margaret Hauser M icroshybiology Dr John Hilton Nutrition Dr John Sandys Award Phillips Botany amp Genetics Dr Brian Wilson Human BiologyKinetics The Ontario Confederation of University

Faculty Associations (OCUFA) has awarded UGAA REPRESENTATIVES Karin Dr Alexander Sandy Middleton DepartshyDavidsonTaylor BSe X) Zoology Keith ment of Zoology one of the nine OCUFA Harris BSc 76 Marinc Biology Rob Teaching Awards for 1984 Milnc BSe XI MSe 84 Marine Bio Dr Middleton was nominated for this -award by colleagues students administrashyEX-OFFICIO DIRECTORS Ed Berdusco tors alumni and faculty It acknowledges president CBSSC Steve Spring past presishy outstanding ability and is considered to be dent CBSSC the provinces highest honour for excellence

in university teaching HKAA REPRESENTATIVE Nick Dalton I think there are two keys to being an BSe 77 Human Kinetics effective teacher Sandy says One is to

have respect for the student the other is to EDITOR RIO-ALUMNI NEWS Marie make a genuine intellectual and time comshy(Boissonneault) Rush B Se XO Marine mitmcnt to the course Biology 0 Dr Alexander Middleton Congratulations Dr Middleton 0

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Grad News Human Biology

Cathy Knipe BSc 79 MSc 83 is a Ph D st ud ent at Iowa State University Ames Iowa USA She is studying Moshylecular Biology

Shelly Lugg BSc 83 is a stude nt at Simon Fraser University Burnaby BC

Human Kinetics

Susan (Wright) Kwiatkowski BSc 80 is a recreation therapist at York Central Hosshypital Toronto Her spouse Ed graduated from Ryerson in 1979

Donna Marie (Kadwell) 1vose BSc 79 and husband John ji ve in Thorold Shes a physica l education supervisor at the Niagara Peninsula Crippled Childrens Centre

Mary Ellen (Mew) Walker BSc 83 is the activity co-ordinator at Spruce Lodge Stratford

Dr Ken Danylchuk BSc(PE) 73 is a s ur ge ry re s ident at the H itchcockshyDartmouth Medical Center Hanover N H USA

Kathryn (Tarry) Myers BSc 78 is a teacher with the Middlesex COunty Board of Educati on Hyde Park

WildUfe

Vicky Johnston 84 bega n an MSc at Lakehead University Thunder Bay in May Shes working on the reprodu ctive biology of Lake Superior rin g-billed gull s

Nutrition

Or 0010 Ohiokpehai 77 lectures in food and nutrition at the Unive rs ity of Ife Nigeria

Microbiology

John Semple 78 is a PhD ca ndidate in the Department of Mic rob iology amp Immushynology at Queens Uni vers ity Kingston He will be doing a post-doctora l at the Banting amp Best Depattment of Medica l Research University of Toronto

Unspecialized

Peter Adams 79 and Beth (Sarjeant) 79 are happy to announce their recent marshyriage Beth is a research technici an with the Depanment of Medicine Univers ity of Ca lshygary Alta and Peter operates a business with the se ismic service industry

Marine Biology

Jorgen Hansen 75 and his wife Drusilla (Dol be) Arts 75 live in Gloucester Jorge n is a staff officer with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Ottawa

CoUege Honour RoU - Winter 85 Semester 06

Margorie Fe rgusson 894 Human Biology JoAnna Milan 860 Biology

Semester 07 Sandra Noble 856 Microbiology

Semester 08 Marga ret Docker 876 Marine Biology Thomas Johnston 87 0 Fi sheries Biology Debra Underhill 858 Microbi ology

James Wright 858 Biology Tobin Peever 854 Botany

Alexander Hanke 852 Zoology Rebecca Rodgers 852 Human Bi ology

Tracey Robin son 882 BSc( HK ) Rebecca Halonen 880 BSc(HK )

Swdent has obtained standing for second time Student has obtaincd standing for third time

Home Town

Oakville Ottawa

Dorchester

Guelph New Liskeard Kingston Thunder Bay Bracebridge Grafton Calgary Alta Guelph Georgetown

Donald MacLennan 75 and hi s wife Katherine live in Chatham Donald is a biologi st-supervisor with the Ministry of Natural Resources Lake SI Clair Fisheries Assessmen t Unit Tilbury 0

College of Biological Science

Alumni Association

Wildlife Art Show

Well it happened June 15 and 16 have come and gone but not withshyout event The Graduate Students Lounge was transformed from a cozy meeting place into an an gallery There was much movi ng of furniture and hanging of an work with the end product being our fi rst ever CBSAA Wildlife Art Show

In total there were 20 wildlite artists partic ipating all tine ani sts in their own right Maybe you reshymember Ut a Stre live a nd Dr Ed Bailey Wow I You should see their wood works

Rick Beaver 73 also showed some of his work hes a wildlife imshypressionist and the colour and move shyment he paint s into each piece is eloquent Donald Dority 76 showed us the line photographer he has become There were other ani sts - too many to mention but all of extremely high calibre

Id like to mention one las t name though - Cindy Hayward manager of the Graduate Students Lounge If you ever need a steady hand to get an event off the ground shes the one to co ntact Without her hel p there would have been a whole heap of orshyga ni za tional problems From which we would have been unable to escape

All in all we had a successful show Thanks artists and viewers for making our efforts worthwhile 0

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New Minister of AgricultureOntario Agricultural College Alumni Assoc OAC ALUMNI NEWS

Editor Dr Harvey W Caldwell 51

Ontari OS new mini ster of ag riculture Jack Riddell 52A and 57 a cash crop farmer from the Exeter area comes to the position of Ontario s Mini ster of Agriculture and Food with ten years of expe rience as Liberal caucus cr itic for agriculture

The min is ter sa id that life under a Libshyeral government will give agriculture a higher priority than it has ex perienced in the past It will be considered one of the major industries in this province

Jack also pro mi sed to consult a great

Basic Technology in Action shyTurning Stones Into Bread By Ann Middleton Information Services

A new University of Guelph projec t in Tanza nia Africa should aid th e Third Wo rld s ubsistence leve l farmer The $400000 three-year projec t funded by the International Development Resea rch Centre (IDRC) will invol ve fltlculty of the Uni vershysitys Department of Land Resou rce Sc ience and Soko ine Uni versity of Ag riculture in Morogoro Central Tanza ni a Aim of the enterpri se is to use loca lly ava il ab le rock materials as soil amendm en ts and con shyditioners

The project came about when Ott awas IDRC brought together a team of two geo logists with an interest in improving co nshyditions for African farmers Professor Ward Chesworth with the Department of Land Resource Science has a long-standing intershyes t in turning rock s into fertili zers deshyve loped during work in West Africa and the Canltlry Islands where local farmers have spread volcanic rock on their field s for two centu ries In his lab and in the Blue Springs basin near Acton Ontario Professor Chesshyworth has been conducting experiment s on the levels at which common rocks re lease nutri ents into soil solutions

The other team member Dr Peter van Straltl ten is ori ginally from Germany but spe nt e ight years with the United Nations in Tan zania looking for metals and metal deshyposi ts and working on an in ve ntory of ferti shyli zer raw materials in south-east Africa

During thi s period Tanza nian food production per capita fell dramaticall y leadshying Dr van Strltlaten to try to find ways to help the food situation In ex periments in his garden in Dodomo Tanzaniltl he was able to increase yields of vegetables using locally

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available geological materia ls and organic wastes

Noting the common interes ts of the two men the Canadian age ncy introd uced them and Dr van Straaten relocated in Guelph Co-ordinators of the project are Professor Cheswo rth and Tan za ni an sc ie nti st Dr Johnson Semoka of Sokoine University coshyauthor of a text on so il sc ience much used in agricultural circles in Africa

Technical assistant Peter Sl11i th is working with Tanzanian rock specimens in the Land Resource Science lab and two other Tanzanian scientists will be involved

In addition to academics from bo th institutions members of the Geological Survey of Tanzania will also work on the project both in the Morogoro area and at Mbeya station in south-western Tanzania

Roc k sa mples will be collected and crushed and field tests and pot ex periments carried out here and on location When reshysu lt s have bee n obtained extension work will begin in Africa under the direc tion of Dr Semoka It is hoped that members of a Me nnonite Central Committee group workshying at Mbeya will design a simple rock crusher for the use of local farmers

Tanzania has a major phosphate deshyposi t wh ich will be tapped by the project as well as ground s ilicates including volcanic ash Liming materials such as limestone dolomite marl and ca rbonatite will also be evaluated

Professor Chesworth points out that alshythough No rth Americans place much emshyphasi s on the big three of soil nutrition shynitrogen phosphorus and potassium (NPK) - there are actually about 20 necessary

deal with the farm organizations on the direction his ministry should be taki ng

I dont believe that we can sit in our so-ca ll ed ivory towers and introduce the kind of programs that are go ing to be mea nshyingful unless we get consultation from the farmers and their spokes people

He has been a member of the provincial legislature for 12 years He spent his first two years as energy cri tic and later environshyment critic before mov ing into agriculture Jack and Anit a have a family of five 0

nutrie nts including the minor ones In some areas of Tanza nia the decline

in soil fe rtility is in part due to the settling of widespread populations into villages where land has been used without concern for nutrients Tn other part s of the country productivity has declined because of leachshying of plant nutrie nts durin g normal rainfall and also from the continuous use of acidifyshying fertilizers such as ammo nium su lphate Dr Chesworth point s out that the current practice of NPK fe rtili zation totally ignores secondary and micronut rient requirements of plants It is hoped that the projec t wilt address thi s problem

Our approac h is basic tec hn ology our target group the poorest far mers Dr van Straaten explains One of the problems in the past Dr Ches worth says has been convincing agronomists that it s worth purshysuing this kind of elementary tec hnology approach Theyre very skeptical that you can take common roc ks wi thou t major inshydustrial proces ing and use them to advanshytage on tropical soils

A s ideline area of research is work with zeolites open framework si licates that often occ ur in volcanic rocks Some zeolites can be used to trap nitrogen in the form of ammonia which would otherwise be los t in gaseous form When added to cow manure for exampl e and stomped in by the beasts themselves zeolites enrich an already valushyabl e fertil ize r Dr van Straaten explains

The zeolite research is being carried out in co njunction with Professor Colin Fyfe Department of Chemistry an intershynat io na ll y kn ow n authority o n zeo lit e -che mi stry

Orie result of the work of the Un ive rs ity of Guelph geo logists is an ag rogeology ne tshywork currentl y being set up bya number of African cou ntries as the result of di sc usshysions following a paper by Dr van Straaten and Professor Chesworth The paper was given recently at meetings of the UN Ecoshynomic Commiss ion for Africa in Zambia 0

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A Designing Grad The need for a summer job six years ago has ended in a Guelph grad des igning golf courses

When in 1979 Lisa Maki now

BLA 84 was searching for a job that would assist her in her studies at the Univershysity she applied to the city of Kitchener

She could have wound up in any

number of areas in the parks and recreation department but Rockway and Doon Valley

course superintendent Ed Ortlieb gave her the chance to join the work crew at Rockway fltor the first couple of years it was just a job that got her outdoors in the summer then by chance she got interested in the game itself

And now shes embarked on a career in golf course design

Lisa the 24-year-old oldest daughter of Ted Maki a former general manager of the

Lisa Maki BLA 84 Kitchener Rangers left last July for Lakeshyland Florida where she Joined Links Deshysign which de sig ns and oversees golf course construction throughout the United 1983 and a friend of the family who knew States The company is considered the sec shy was interested in golf course work arranged ond-largest of its type behind the one run by a meeting with Ronald Garl said Lisa I US golf legend Jack Nicklaus who deshy had an official job interview in April of 84 signed the Glen Abbey course in Oakville and then went to Florida in August of the

How does a young Kitchener woman same year to familiarize myself with the

end up working for Ronald Garl a 40-yearshy firms projects

old graduate of the University of Florida Because I had focused much of my who apprenticed under such well-known deshy University work on such things as turf man shy

signers as Roben Trent Jones and Joseph agement and had done pan of my bachelor Lee Again it was just a chance opportunity of landscape architecture thes is on what

We were in Florida in December of makes British golf courses great and the

Sisters of Accident Victims Receive Diplomas

A tragic accident just prior to Spring Convocation resulted in the deaths oftwo graduands of the Associate Diploma in Agriculture Program Jeff Bikus 85A of West Lome and Nick Davidson 85Afrom Zimbabwe Joy Davidson sister ofNick came from Zimbabwefor the Convocation She was sponsored by the OAC Alumni Association Classes of85A alld 86A Norm McCollulIl 66A honorary class president 85A Don and MiidredMcCollum Jenny Ballentine and her parents Dr Steve Bowley 78 and80 honorary class president 86A and the University Centre Administration Our sympathy is extended to the families and friends of these two popular studel1ls Pictured are Ito r Jenny Ballantine friend ofJeff Bikus Lealln Bikus sister of Jeff Joy Davidson sister of Nick and Klaus Kristiansen a studellt from Zimbabwe

other on golf course residential design he was impressed

In order to learn what made British

courses great Lisa spent a semester in Engshyland and Scotland visiting researching sketching photographing and playing 16 historic courses including the famous links courses which by tradition are the

only clubs to host the British Open Links layouts are courses that border the sea and have been built or developed over sand

bases

Approximately 15 students a year take

advantage of the School of Land scape Arshychitectures Semester Abroad Program fi shynancing the trips themselves However the program is supported by an annual $5000 grant from the Alma Mater Fund so alumni can claim a cenain amount of credit for Lisas success She was a recipient in 1983

of part of that years AMF grant Im not sure my mother and father

were very keen about my trave lling around England and Scot lane all alone but it was a truly great experience she said middot1 not only met many wonderful and helpful peoshyple got to play the great courses like St

Andrew s Royal Troon Turnberry and my favorite of all Royal Dornoch

After a complicated and lengthy US immigration process which took nearly a year she was granted her permanent work

visa She was in regular contact with her new

boss after returning to Kitchen er - she re turned to work at Rockway and Doon while awaiting the vi sa approval - and then last July plunged immediately into

projects including work at a mens tournashyment players 36-hole complex in Sarasota and a Ladies Professional Golf Assoc iation course in Melbourne where she worked in association with LPGA tour players Beth Daniels and Sally Little

Despite the fact that the job involves

vy ing with rattlesnakes alligators and Iild

pigs when I have to tramp through forests and swamps in applying my design work to certain areas I love the outdoor work Lisa

said At the same time she doesnt have any

probleIl1s giving orders to hard-hatted heavy-machinery construction workers when she is the field supervisor for on-site

work think I may have raised a few eye shy

brows when I staned work at Rockway but I was accepted

Lisa isnt sure how long this pan of her life will last and she has no way of knowing whether any of her courses will eve r be known as Lisa Maki layouts But that doesnt

concern her They may be Links Design projects but Ill know they were basically my courses 0

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Klink Lecture Dr Doug Morrison 49 Department of Poultry Science was chosen to deliver the 1985 Klink Lecture

The Klink lecture is ~ponsored by the Agricultural Inst itute of Canada and named after the Institute s founding president Preshysented by an outstanding lecture r the lecture is delivered through a coast-to-coast tour and concerns a topic of current significance to the agricultural industry and the nation

Dr Morri son stated that there is a need for professionalization in an imal agriculshyture in order to give it an improved image and make it more acceptable to the conshysumer

Address ing members of the Ontario Inshystitute of Agrologists in London Ontario he told his audience that the agriculture inshydustry in Canada ranks among the best in the world and producers have to ensure thi s is shown and make sure that peer pressure prevents producers from doing things that we cant defend

He suggested some type of professhysiona l approach established by the farming organization whereby expertise would be required instead of merely encouraged

This is a mu ch beller ap proach th an some edict from society through governshyment legi slation I strong ly object to legislashytion designed to protect me from myself he said adding that there are currently enough regulations existent through legislation that dictate what farmers can and cannot do

If a farmer were a profess ional hi s reward wou Id be in profits - about as meanshyingful a reward as has ye t been devised

Benefits of a more professionalized approach would include an improved image of the farmer to the consumer an increase in communication a more efficient industry

which is essential for competition improved knowledge on the fa rmers part of health nutrition care markets etc and more awareness of soc ietys concerns

In turn it would also be necessary to provide beller information to the consumer through an educational process because if soc iety is to pay for increased inputs for the long- term good of the nat ion then it is essential society be adequately informed

Morrison remarked that he fee ls the maj ori ty of animal agriculturists are in fact professionals but there has to be a concerted e ffort to at tract as lew people as possible in to the business who do not understa nd farmshying or who are doing things that are unacshyceptable

Consumer concern over dietary value or the amount of drugs contained in animal product s is also reason for farmers to tak e a professional approach They should work to alleviate any misreprese ntations and misin shyformation the public is receiving the proshyfessor noted s tating that farm ers have never produced food as safe and as wholeshysome as it is today

By the turn of the century on a world basis meat consumption is predicted to in shy

crease by abou t 60 per cent while the intake of milk is expected to increase by almost 40 per cent

A major fac tor for this rise in intake result s from th e fact that developing nations will begin to consume animal products as soon as they can afford them China is an excellent exa mple of this said the professor who commented that nation is now movshying as rapidly as possible to increase animal production

With all these factors is mind Dr Morshyri son sa id he is optimistic for the future of the Canad ian animal agriculture industry

Weve got the opportunities and can take advantage of them he said 0

Mark Bernards 85 cenlre was the recipienl oftwo OAC Alumni Foundation awards the OAC Alumni Graduate Award and the Beth Duncan Gold Medal Left is Gord Nixon 37 Foundashytion chairman and director and right NR Rick Richards 38 treasurer

Entrepreneur in Residence

Dr Donald Shaver

Dean Freeman McEwen is pleased to be working with Dr Donald McQueen Shaver the Universitys first Agricultural Entreshypreneur-i n-Res idence

Dr Shaver a native of Cambt idge Onshytari o is found er chairman and chief exshyecutive officer of Shaver Poultry Breed ing Farms Limited The compan y distributes chicken breeding stock to 90 countries from its head office in Cambridge and three subshysid iaries in the United States Britain and France He retired from his executive reshysponsib ilities on August 30 but is conshytinuing as director and adv isor to the company

From 1940 to 1945 Dr Shaver served with the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps in Africa and Europe retiring as regimental commanding officer He is past president of the Canadian Hatchery Federation the Poulshytry Products Institute of Canada the Canashydian Lincoln Red Society and Maine-Anjou Association He is a member of the Order of Canada Honorary Life Member of the Worlds Poultry Science Association and the Ontario Institute of Agrologi sts He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Science by McGill University and the Centennial Medal by the OAC

The Entrepreneu r-in-Reside nce pro shygram was initiated and financially supshyported by OAC Class of 58 to champion -the role of private enterpri se within soc iety The appointment is for a two-year period during which time Dr Shaver will present lectures lead workshops and consult with faculty and students

The Agricultural Entrepreneur-in-Resishydence program at the University is believed to be a first in agr icultural education around the world 0

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University Of Guelph Involved in $68 Million Chinese Project The University of Guelph has embarked on a co-operative $68 million project that will ~ink five Canadian and Chinese universities and agricultural institutions

The four-year Black Dragon River Proshyjeo supported by the Canadian Internashytional Deve lopment Agency (C IDA) involves Guelph the University of Alberta Olds College in AlbeI1a and two Chinese institutions - Heilongjiang Land Reclamashytion University and Liu He Training College in northeastern Heilongjiang Province

Under th e term s of the agreement training will be provided at the three Canashydian institutions for personnel from the two Chinese university institutions

The Liu He Training College is respo nshysible for educating state farm employees Training will range from short courses to undergraduate and graduate level programs

Faculty from the Canadian universities and Olds College will travel to China during the summer months to give lectures and

short courses The area borderi ng on Russia has treshy

mendou s potential for agricultural deve lopshyment Professor Neal Stos~opf 57 direct or of OACs diploma courses is Guelphs co-ordinator for the Chinese projshyect He was part of the Canadian gove rnment planning miss ion and ex plains that although the climate combines the cold winters and hot summers of Alberta most of the moisshyture is rain that falls between Jul y and Sepshytember

Although latitude is the sa me as Edmontons at 52 degrees north the area grows soybeans and corn as well as wheat The land has two to four feet of black topsoil waiting to be drained and planted he says with potential for livestock proshyduction

The proj ec t centre is located at the Unishyversity of Alberta with administration in Guelph being carried out by the Centre for International Programs 0

Provincial apiarist retires after 19 years You might say Philip Burkes job brought sweet rewards

Until his retirement recently Philip was the provincial apiarist - sort of Onshytarios chief of bees - while working at the University of Guelphs Department of Environmental Biology

He joined the University as a lectu rer in 1943 and then became assistant professor and later associate professor

At the same time the Ontario Departshyment of Agriculture (as the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food was known then) made him the assistant provincial apiarist In 1966 he became provincial apiarist

Of course he advised beekee pers on ways they could make their colonies more productive and efficient and fielded many apiary management question s - including how to prevent bees from swarming

If they swarm one-third to one-half of th e colony takes off so you lose a big source of your honey crop Swarming is trigshygered when the hive becomes overcrowded so the beekeeper mu st stay ahead of them It involves a whole manipulation of the hive through the season visiting each colony at least once every ten to 14 days he says Philip also worked with farmers whose

crops depended on pollination by bees At one time bees were needed for

pollin ating greenhouse produce such as cucumbers But in the past 15 years the trend has been toward new types that are self fruiting he says

But the biggest change in the industry over the years was the trend towards Illakshying corn king in Ontario - a trend that is now being reversed he says

From 1949 and on a lot of bee coloshynies were moved to the western provinces tollowi ng th e reduction in alfalfa production in Ontario and the increased corn acreage he says

Now prospec ts for honey production in Ontario are better than in past years beshycause of the increased alfalfa acreage and other legumes and the trend towards more diversified cropping

Not surpris ingly prices have changed in the industry over the years too Back in the 1920s it cost about $10 to start a bee colony today start-up costs are about $100 to $125 per colony

Much of his work at the University looked at ways to prevent di seases in bees using selected antibiotics

He was secretary for the Ontario Beekeepers Association for 15 yea rs and now acts as a consu It ant for the group 0

Wins Crampton Award

Dr Stanley J Slinger 37 the most recent rec ipient of the Earl e W Crampton Award for distingui shed service in nutrition is ProshyFessor Emeritus of the Depal1ment of Nutrishytion College of Biolog ica l Science at Guelph

Born in Lowell Ontario Dr Slinger received his BSc from the Ontario Agrishycultural College hi s MSc fro111 the Univershysity of Toronto and a PhD from Cornell University From 1941 to 1965 he was in the Departillent of Poultry Science at the OAC and since 1965 has been in the Department of Nutrition at Guelph serving as chairJl1an from 1965 to 1974

Dr Slinger conducted re sea rch in sevshyeral areas of pou Itry nutrition for Jl10re than 30 years In 1972- 73 a fi sh nutrition laborashytory was set up and thi s laboratory has conshytinued to grow and iJl1prove s i nee One of the primary objectives in both poultry and fi sh nutrition research has been to develop feed to rmulas using feedstuffs of Canadian orishygin 111ese tannulas have been publi shed and continuall y revi sed and have been used extensively by teed manufacturers through shyout Canada Dr Slinger continues to be active in research

Dr Slinger taught poultry nutrition in Poultry Science for 27 years gave seminar courses in nutrition and physiology taught Fundamentals of Nutrition in the Depal1shyment of Nutrition and deve loped and taught courses in fi sh and wildlite nutrition

He has supervi sed the work of Jl1any graduates and it is interesting to note that the Department of Nutrition at Guelph is the only depailment in Canada - and there are very few in the United States - turning out graduates in Fish Nutrition at the PhD leve l

He has helped to establi sh modern poultry industries in Mexico and the areas of South East Asia Africa the Middle East Eastern and Western Europe and the United Kingdom Lectures conlerences and other consultative work have also taken hilll to Jl1any coul1tries over the years

The recipient of numerous honours and awards Dr S linger was made Professor Emeritus of the University in Ino and reshy -ceived the Earl e W Crampton award in 19B4 at Macdonald College Que Thi s award is given by the Faculty of Agriculture in recogshyniti on of significant co ntributions in the field of nutrition through research andlor service The award is named for Dr Earle W Crampton a renowned nutritionist whose career at Macd onald bega n in 1922 and lasted far 51 years 0

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cialist having spent four months in the latter John Reid 84 is technical sales rep Agrico Grad News part of 1984 in Bloemfontein South Africa Sales Ltd Richmond BC

Earl Johnston 46 is president Earl-John Brokers Ltd Delhi

Joe Knox 48 is secretary-treasurer Annco Westeellnc Guelph

Ralph Hills 54 is pastor United Church of Canada Smith Falls Ralph left Zambia last October spending some time in Kenya Israel England and Scotland on the way home He was surprised to meet Charlie Broadwell also 54 on Oxford Street in London Charlie was giving a reception at a large castle for the white bean buyers who purchase beans from Charlies Bean Growers of Ontario Ralph also passes along the word from Louise (Fershyguson) Hope Mac 54 that her husband Don 54 preparing for some future possible social work is studying drug addiction at George Brown College of Applied Ans and Technology Toronto

Joseph Leach 54 is a research scientist Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources Lake Erie Research station Wheatley

Ken Edwards 59 is an industrial engineer Prince George Pulp and Paper Vancouver BC

Fred Theaker 62 is a teacher-biologist Ren frew County Board of Education Aruprior

Howard Lang 67 is senior so il conshyservation advisor for OMAF Cambridge

John Lawrence 69 has been appointed vice-president and ge neral manager De kalb Canada Inc Chatham John is a lso president of the Canadian Agri-marketing Assoc iation

Robert Brooksbank 70 is manager Agrishycultural Department Simcoe area Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce

Alan Duncan BLA 73 is project coshyordinator Groupe d intervention urban de Montreal Montreal Que

Martha (Weir) Collins 75 reports that Anne (Walton) Bayler 75 is at teac hers college in Toronto after spending several years teaching in the Bahamas Martha lives at I Braid Place Guelph and would like to hear news of her classmates

Jim Dyer MSc 75 is a senior resource and environmental officer with the crop producshytion division of Agriculture Canada Ottawa He is on loan as a drought monitoring spe shy

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His wife Barb (Newell) Arts 75 who is a technical editor with Public Works Canada joined him in Bloemfontein for a month

Elizabeth Fedorkow 75 is a market reshysearcher Tetra Pak Inc Markham

Roy Maxwell 75 is an agricultural comshymentator CBC Radio Noon Toronto

Gary Ball 76 is vice-president manufacturshying Mitten Vinyl Inc Cambridge

Garnet McConney 77 is feed lot manager Catllel and Ontario Inc Petersburg

Patrick Meyers 77 OVC 84 is a vetshyerinarian with the Grenville-Dundas Veterinshyary Clinic Kemptville

Martha Frey 78 is secretaryass istant edishytor Canadians for Health Research Wes tshymount Que

Wayne Harrison 79 is assi stant manager Toronto Dominion Bank Elmira His wife is Katherine (McLeod) 77

Sharon Helynk 79 is with the Woodbury Animal Hospital Halifax NS

Jeffery Goebel 80 is resident engineer ACF Canada Ltd Georgetown

Mary Lynn Prong 80 is assistant manager Royal Bank Watford She reports that Bruno Soucy 8Q has changed jobs from OMAF farm ma nagement advisor to agrolog ist London region Royal Bank

Corrie Almack 81 is presidentowner Agshyriculturai Soil and Nutrition Consultants Freelton

Edward Bolton 81 is research farm manshyager AJle lix Inc M ississauga

William Summers 82 MSc 84 is prodshyuct deve lopment rep Du-Pont Canada Streetsville

Dianne (Coker) McDowell 83 is quality assurance supervisor Richardson Foods Ltd Glanw0I1h

John Ross 83 is a program officer Agrishyculture Canada Edmonton Alta

Jeff Burke 84 is a customer service rep Griffith Lab Toronto

Julie Fowler 84 is working for Embury Bros Farms Ltd Newburgh

Karen Rodman 84 is a farm management specialist OMAF Nepean

James Simonds 84 is a crop specialist Cavendi sh Fanns Summerside P E1

Richard West PhD 84 is a research scishyentist Canadian Forestry Service SI John s Nftdo

In Memoriam We regret to report the following deaths

Marie Honsberger 17A died March 1985

Esmond D Clipsham 2IA died on April 6 1985 Esmond had been the proprietor Uneeda Rest Hotel Kilwonhy and was a life member of the OAC Alumni Association

Stanley Ewart Keillor 21 died on February 27 1985 He was a crop farmer at Walshylacetown

John Edward Chalmers 23A died on Febshyru ary 15 1985

Jacobus Van Haarlem 23 at age 85 on July 2 1985 in Vineland He retired as ex shyecutive director of the Hor1icultural Experishymental Station at Vineland in 1970 after 47 years of service there

Hugh Lacklin Paterson 32A died in May 1985 of a heart attack at Rockwood

Murray Cameron Macklin 33A 35 died January n 1985 in Toronto

Garland Alfred Fisk 35 Date of deat h unknown

Gordon Elgin Young 35 died on June 12 1985 at Ing leside

John Miller Fargery 37 on March 22 1985 in Toronto John had been an insurance salesman Farm Credit Corp and was a life member of the OAC Alumni Assoc iation

William Thomson 40 in 1982 in Lonshy shygueuil Que His death was reported recen tl y

Robert Fletcher Madden 54A died on November 26 1984 at age 52 at Napanee

Vera (Mod ric) Kozamplik MSc 73 in Yugoslavia She was the wife of Vinko Kozumplik M Sc 71 0

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From the Dean

Dr Barham

In some of my lellers I have aimed to share

information on some special program or theme with you On this occasion I want to

keep you in touch through a number of lillie items so I shall hold onto some of the bigshy

ger interests for future issues of the Guelph Alumnus

As I write this leller Alumni Weekend 85 is behind us I found it a great weekend

and I thoroughly enjoyed meeting more of our alumni for the first time while

especially appreciating recognizing more

and more familiar faces and names from previous occasions

This year the Classes of 65 and 75 requested an up-date on our programs and

the developments we have experienced together in the College over the last few

years I guess that we were able to demonshy

strate much more development in our research and teaching programs than we could in some parts of the physical facilities within the buildings Still we had thorshyoughly congenial and I think very useful

meetings with both of these classes and added a nostalgic tour of our facilities

It was splendid to meet both of these groups I confess however that I had not

foreseen that a large part of the interest of the Class of 65 rested on the fact that many of their children are now gearing up to enter FACS

I was able to remind them that the BASc and B Comm degrees both lead

into fascinating and challenging careers for sons and nephews as well as daughters and

nieces Some of you coming to Alumni Weekend 86 might wish to get in touch with me to arrange an up-date on our acti vities then too

One of my special pleasures of Alumni Weekend was to join with the Class of 35 at the Golden Anniversary Dinner This occashy

sion is always a particular delight given the special personal pleasures reflected in the

friendships shared on this anniversary And I do want members of the Class of

35 to know that their gift of the magnificent Terry Legault Roman Festival print looks really outstanding and just right amidst the

contemporary decor of the FACS lounge

One last item of alumni news which I want to mention is the fact that I met with

Jean (Nairn) Carter 38 and some of her committee recently I learned that they have

been making quite outstanding progress in establishing the trust fund that will support their new graduate student award in geronshy

tology The first award presentation of $1000 is being made this fall but members of the Class of 38 are still pushing on with their fund raising in order to bring the

annual trust-fund yield to a level of $2 000 We all think that the Class of 38 grads

have been quite remarkable in their detershymination to build up a significant fund to

support work in this important new field of scholarship and research I know that we

shall all appreciate your support for them in reaching their target

I met with Audrey Warner and Annette

Yeager 62 recently They advised me of their concern for the needs of teachers wantshy

ing to prepare themselves for adding Family Studies to their fields of professional speshy

cialization and of other teachers already working in that field who find themselves in need of some up-dating especially in view of the curriculum changes which appear to be around the corner

In this regard I want to mention two

items which might be of interest First our faculty in FACS have been

quite heavily engaged in working with

teachers and others in thinking planning debating and writing for the curriculum developme~ts envisaged for the Ontario Academic High School Credits

Most especially we have had as memshybers of the Canadian Family in Perspective group Dr Jean Sabry with her own special

interest in human nutrition Dr Grant

McCracken in clothing Drs Marshall Fine and Claude Guldner with their expertise in family relations and Drs Anne Martin Matshythews and Joe Tindale with their special strengths in life-span development and

aging - quite a team of contributors Secondly I want to mention in relation

to my meeting with Audrey and Annette that we now have a number of courses avai 1shy

able in a six-week format offered in summer sessions provided on campus

Perhaps of even more interest to those of you who wont find it practical to take

classes on campus at Guelph we have an annual offering of distance or corresponshy

dence-type courses Many of these will be of very pertinent

interest to a number of teachers The current list includes Human Development Marital and Family Dynamics Personal and Family Finance Development of Human Sexuality Nutrition and Man and the Exceptional Child in the Family

You can find out more about these

offerings by writing directly to Guelph Disshytance Education University of Guelph

Macdonald Institute shyFamily and Consumer Studies Alumni Assoc

Editor Carol Telford-Pittman 75

Guelph Ont NIG 2WI or by getting in touch with my office

One of the reasons that we have put

ourselves so significantly behind the development of these distance courses is that we did not have the resources to meet

the demand for providing our courses in the more traditional class format at locations

away from the Guelph campus As usual there is much more to share

with you but it will just have to hold until

my next letter I look forward to being in touch with you again then 0

Olive Thompson Honoured

Olive (Thompson) Thompson 35

-The Mac-FACS Alumni Association was very pleased to present a Citation of Appreshyciation to Olive (Thompson) Thompson

35 during Alumni Weekend 85 festivities Olive has given much time energy

support and leadership to the College and to the University through her years of involveshyment with the Mac-FACS Alumni Associashytion Class of Mac 35 activities and the University of Guelph Alumni Association

Our University s alumni organizations are stronger and more effective because of

the years of commitment and personal sershyvice that Olive has contributed

Olive - We salute you 0

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New at HAFA By John Hearn

Infonnation Services

An innovative course developed by the School of Hotel and Food Administration (HAFA) is focussing the attention of undershygraduates on the analysis of operational problems in the hospitality industry and the writing skills required to express and comshymunicate that analysis

Students are required to find summer jobs in the hospitality industry and then to write five papers of ascending complexity during the first semester of their second year using text readings specially edited for this course by the Schools Director Proshyfessor Tom Powers

We have a unique responsibility to prepare students not just for their first job but for future jobs further down the line says Dr Powers Possession of a university degree should imply an ability both to anashylyse problems and to communicate observashytions and recommendations In todays corporate world reports papers and letters are management tools and written comshymunication is a survival skill

The HAFA faculty decided further to emphasize writing skills by adopting a style manual developed by Professor Margaret Hund leby Department of Engl ish Language and Literature for this course as an integral part of the Schools other courses

In order to familiarize faculty with the use of the manual and the grading of student writing Professor Hundleby was invited to conduct a two-day workshop which atshytracted the attention of Vice-President Howard Clark and Associate Vice-President Janet Wardlaw as well as faculty from other disciplines s uch as psychology land resource science microbiology and history

The program Professor Hundleby told the seminar requires students to complete five report papers based on their own obsershyvations

The first paper requires a detailed description of the physical layout of the host operation plus an appraisal and operating cost analysis of its heating air-conditioning and ventilation systems

A second paper asks the student to describe and evaluate staff structure funcshytion compensation package and efficiency

Cost control is the subject of a third paper Purchasing practices food producshytion cost traCking and inventory manageshyment all come under this heading

Marketing is the fourth subject area What market segment is the operation aimed at What consumer need does the operation satisfy What is the nature of the

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Left to right- Professors Cathy Schrye Writing Centre Tom Muller HAFA Belty Upton HAFA Mike Jenkinson OAC 63 OAC dean s office Mary Rogers History and back to camera Bernie Katz Library reviewing cases drawn from studefll papers in a two-day workshop Evaluating Students Writing conducted by Professor Margaret Hundleby

competition in the target market

The fifth paper examines the intangishybles of management sty Ie How does the role of the manager affect relations with customshyers staff and head office

Professor Hundleby commenting on some of the problems of the course says whatever we call it students tend to conshyclude that what they re writing is an acashydemic paper of some kind - which of course it is - but we need to make the connection in their minds with the real the corporate world out there They also tend to think that longer is better and write about what they know - rather than what is import ant The development of a proper sense of for whom they are writing is itself a problem-solving skill

Another problem according to Proshyfessor Hundleby is what she calls the new illiteracy - a verbal dysfunction resulting from an impoverished vocabulary

Style too is a matter of considerable

AMPHI Spin-offs The School of Hotel and Food Administra shytions annual Advanced Management Pro shygram for the Hospitality Industry (AMPHI) now in its third year is spinning off new management development activities says HAFA Director Tom Powers Earlier this year 20 people attended a workshop on accounting and finance presented by Proshyfes sor William Braithwaite School of Agrishycultural Economics and Extension Educashytion and three similar programs will be offered in different parts of the country over the next year and a half

Another program still in the planning stage is a six-day hospitality managers development course designed for middle management by AMPHIs associate direcshy

concern She also mentioned careless senshytence structure style that is inappropriate to the content lack of connective logic failure to understand the nature of a paragraph as a literary entity the frivolous use of colloshyquiali sms an absence of any sense of the harmonious sound of words on paper and of course a growing list of commonly misused words - e g it could of had that affect

There s a tendency to see s tyle as a decorative flourish rather than as an aspect of content she concluded

Professor Powers sees the development of verbal communication skills as central to the whole idea of liberal education Cershytainly he says its useful for HAFA stushydents to understand how a cost control system works - but its at least as important to be able to think logically analyse logshyically and communicate conclusions in a way that is credible informative coherent and complete in fact these are the classic goals of a liberal education 0

tor Professor John Patterson and a consulshytant group of AMPHI alumni

AMPHI continues to attract internashytional attention participants in thi s years program which began in April include senior executives from many of North Americas most distinguished hotels and restaurants The four-week course offers an intensive program based primarily on case studies written by Professo rs Patterson -Braithwaite Carl Riegel and Tom Muller

The growing volume of AMPHI cases indicates that thi s is the largest s ingle research program currently under way in any hotel school in North America says Proshyfessor Powers AMPHls network of conshytacts is giving us access to a senior-level view of the industrys current problems and prospects 0

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Research AssociateComing Soon A AppointedModel Play Facility

Dr Joan Norris

Dr Joan Norris has held the position of Research Associate at the Gerontology Research Centre since last spring

Joan is working with faculty to develop and promote research related to population aging and is available for consultation with faculty on research design funding sources and publication

In addition to this development work she is continuing her personal program of research She works for the Gerontology Censhytre two days per week and the balance of her

The Family Studies Laboratory Schools pre-school play facility fell 10 a Grounds time is spent in the Department of Family Department wrecking machine recently Studies where she has held a faculty appointshy

ment since 1980 Joan holds a Ph D in Psychology from

the University of Waterloo and is also a regisshytered psychologist Her personal research

The Mllc-FACS Special Projects Commitshyinterests include social competence in older

tee Ito r Bonnie Kerslake 82 Association adults peer relationships and grandshy

president Linda (Wo[e) Markle 73 chairshyparenting 0

man and Gail Murray 78 Missing comshymillee member is Rita (Klassen) Weigel 77 The aim of the committee is to raise funds to redevelop the Family Studies Laboshy In Memoriam ratory Schools and raise itto the level where it will be regarded as a model pre-school

Eileen Margaret (Manahan) Alwayplay facility

390 October 21984 in Vancouver BC

Jean (Horrell) Atkinson 240 March 5 1985 in Aurora

Class of 35 Gift Oorothy (Lockard) Honsberger 300Centre panel Roman Carnival

In order to commemorate their anniversary July 51985 in Weiland Mac 35 has traditionally given a scholshyarship to a FACS student once every five Isabel J Lockerbie 300 March 31 years This year on the 50th anniversary of 1985 in Toronto their graduation and in addition to the scholarship an etching entitled Roman Patricia G (Smith) McKay-Barry 55 Carnival by Terry Legault has been added March 17 1985 in London Ont to the Universitys collection of Canadian alt The etching is hanging in the FACS Velma E (Conn) Partridge 260 April faculty lounge 29 1985 in Niagara Falls Ont shy

The theme of Roman Carnival was favoured by neo-clas sical and romantic Helen E (Kelly) Robinson 220 April painters during the 19th century The etching 30 1985 in Dundas captures the moment at which wild horses are released to race through the streets of Norma I (Motherwell) Roy 350 in Rome The artist has chosen to represent the Moosejaw Sask wild chaotic motion ot the horses rather than explicitly depict in detail the animals Lillian S (Moore) Usher 340 March 28 and the architectural background 0 1985 in Cobourg 0

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College of Physical Science Alumni Assoc SCIMP

Editor Bob Winkel

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Yes Dr Earl MacNaughtoll has relired alshylogelher bUI Ihis wonl be Ih e lasl you I hear from him reSI assured Before he and his wife Jean lOok oJf for Auslralia and New Zealand Deparlmenl of Physics slaf and faculty held a galhering al Ihe FacullY Club and presenled Ihe couple wilh an alumni clock

Back to Guelph

The headquarters for (GWC)2 came

back to Guelph in July for a threeshy

year period while Professor Robert Balahura Chemistry and Biochemisshy

try serves as director (GWC)2 offices have been set up

in Room 122 and 123 Physical Scishyences building The University of

Waterloo will maintain a satellite office during the three-year Guelph

rotation Dr Balahura and adminshy

istrative assistant Andrea Turner may

be reached at Ext 3865 0

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Physics Professor Elected to Royal Society

Bernhard Nickel

Department of Phy s ics Professor Bernhard Nickel has been elected a Fellow

of the Royal Society of Canada and was formally inducted into the Society at its

annual meeting in Montreal in June

A member of the Physics faculty since

1974 Professor Nickel is no stranger to

prizes and awards In 1981 he received the Herzberg Medal the Canadian Associashy

tion of Physicists award to a promising young scienti st In 1978 he won a Sloan

Fellowship from the New York-based Sloan Foundation

He achieved recognition by navigating

the esoteric seas of condensed matter physshy

ics Hi s co lleagues call him a leading masshyter in the art of mathematical physics By

exploiting the existing mathematical frameshywork in subtle ways he has worked through

thickets that have stopped other physic ists

High order perturbation calculations

done by him played a key role in verifying

the quantitative reliability of the theory of

underlying continuous phase transitions in systems

He earned BScE and MSc degrees from the University of Saskatchewan and a

PhD from the University of California at

San Diego He was a research associate at

Cornell and Oxford Universities and a postshy

doctoral research Fellow at the Univers itY of Alberta before coming to Guelph in 1974

He has been a visiting fellow at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory at the Univershy

sity of California at San Diego at Harvard

and at the Schlumberger-Doll Re searc h In stitute in Connecticut

With his election he becomes one of

six Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada at

Guelph The others are Professors Howard

Clark Peter Egelstaff Gabriel Karl Bruce Sells and Herbert Armstrong And it brings to five the number of me mbers of the

Guelph-Waterloo Program for Graduate Work in Physics (GWP)2 who can put the

coveted FRSC after their names 0

Halleys Comet and the Babylonians By Professors Nigel Bunce and Jim Hunt

The winter of 1985 and the spring of 1986 will lon g be remembered as the year of

Comet Halley No comet in history has so

stirred the imagination of man or been the

object of suc h intensive investigation Its easy to understand this interest when its

appreciated that Halleys Comet is the only recurring comet that is bright enough to be

seen with the naked eye ft was the g reat astronomer Edmund

Halley who in 1705 recognized the s imilarshy

ity of the appearances of the great comets of 1456 1531 1607 and 1682 He speculated that these were in fact one and the sa me

comet with a period of 75 or 76 years

He predicted that the comet would reshyturn in 175 8 a return he could not live to see With thi s Halley discovered the phenomeshy

non of periodic comets and thus showed

that they were members of our solar system

The comet dutifully returned in 1835

and spectacularly so in 1910 In the latter

year circumstances were such that after its

perhelion passage (the point closest to the

Sun) the Earth and the comet approached

each other very closely The comet was so close that at one time its tail spread from

horizon to horizon The return in 1985-86 will be considshy

erably less spectacular In fact for Canadishyans it will not be easy to observe s ince the

time of perhelion is in Febnlary when the

Sun is very low in the sky The view will be -much better from more southerl y latitudes Over the years historica l records have

been found which record every passage of the comet back to 12 BC M any of these obshy

servations come from Chinese records first published in 1846 A well-authenticated

passage was that of 1066 which was reshy

corded on the Bayeux tapestry by the mother

of William of Nonnand y and taken as an cOllld on righl

Grad News Paul Ferguson BSc 67 of Ede n Mill s is president of EIS Systems Ltd and travelled in New Zealand this summer

Walter Lock BSc 67 of Denfield is practising medicine in Lucan

Tjeerd Homan BSc 69 of Calgary Alta is manager research and development services for Petro-Can He is enjoying his family Carla Sarah and John Menno and his hobbies of golf curling and skiing

(GWP)2 Poster Session a First

Earlier this year the Guelph- Waterloo Proshygram for Graduate Work in Physics (GWP)2 staged its first annual poster session for graduate s tudents Poster sessions which are becoming increasingly popular in scienshytific circles allow interaction between researchers and delegates without the time pressures encountered when presenting con shyventional papers at meetings says (GWP)2 Director lain Campbell

The first annual (GWP)2 poste r sesshysion which was followed by a soc ial hour and banquet was highly successful in genershyating interaction says Campbell By the end of the session there were still clusters of people arguing the finer points of scientific interpretation on many of the posters These exchanges continued right through the soshycial hour and into dinner Interaction is what science is all about

Encouraging interaction between stushydents and faculty is one of Campbells prishyorities as Director It is too easy for students to tuck themselves into a corner and work away in isolation They need to get out and ex plain their work both to experts and to

omen of his victory over the Saxons Based on this long record various

mathematical analyses of the orbit of the comet have been produced These account very accurately for the known passages of the comet However when these various anshyalyses are pushed back beyond 12 BC they predict widely varying dates for the previous appearances Before 12 B c there are ani y two vague Chinese records in 87 BC and 240 B c which mayor may not have been Halleys comet

In a recent issue of Nature a team of

Ernest Campbell BSc 69 lives in Campbell ville and teaches science for the Halton Board in Burlington

Richard Davis BSc 77 having comshypleted his MD University of Toronto 83 and his internship at Womens College Hosshypital will be setting up his practice in family medicine in his home town of Guelph

Larry Meek BSc 77 of Ottawa is pashytient administrator and computing officer for the National Defence Medical Centre His hobbies include sailing and skiing

Andre Brunet BA 81 is working for Amdahl Ltd as fieldsystems engineer and lives in Sudbury with his wife Monique (Puellette) FACS 80

Cathy Deakin BSc 81 is presently articshyling with the law firm of Little Reeves Mahoney Jarrett amp Hart of London

Andrew Dubrawski BSc 82 and his wife Alicia (Wodecka) BSc 81 live in Toronto where he works as a communicashytions systems analyst for CNCP Telecomshymunications 0

10hn Root 81 a (GWP)2 PhD s tudent left aflracts an audience

non-experts It takes a deliberate effort on our part to generate and maintain this intershychange

The poster session was the largest scishyentific or social event yet staged by (GWP)2 Some 18 students presented posters and about 90 students faculty and prospective students attended

The posters are on display in the two departments of physics to give others an opportunity to view them At Gue lph they are in the second floor corridor of the Physshyical Science Building near the Department

scholars from England and Vienna reported the finding of two fragments of Babylonian tablets in the British Museum that clearly report the appearance of the comet in 87 BC and 164 B C The records are so clear that by calculation not only the year but the time of year for the perhelion passage can be determined

For example the 164 BC apparition has been narrowed down to a date someshywhere between November 5 and 25 of that year The 87 BC record is not as accurate nevertheless its perhelion passage can be

of Physics office Encouraged by the s uccess of the

poster sess ion lain Campbell is planning another high-profile event for (GWP)2 to recognize award-winning faculty He plans a fall symposium at which three (GWP)2 members who received major honours durshying 1985 will give short lectures to be folshylowed by a sherry reception The three honoured faculty are Gicinto Scoles Killam Fellowship winner Bernhard Nickel Felshylow of the Royal Society of Canada and John Simpson Rutherford medalist 0

narrowed down to July 25 to August 15 These observations while inaccurate

to the extent of 20 days are still accurate enough to eliminate three of the four leading -calculations of the motion of Comet Halley This is a striking example of how archaeoshylogical investigations may have a strong effect on many diverse subjects in this case com~tary astronomy 0

We welcome questions and ideas for future articles Write to the authors clo the Deans Office Cole fe ofPhysical Science Univershysity of Guelph Guelph Ontario NIG 2WI

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Inch in KatDlandu The following letter to the editor from Or

Carolyn Inch 81 was sent to Ornella Osborne editor of Update the newsletter

published by the Ontario Veterinary Assoshyciation Were grateful to Omelia for passing it on to us

While trekking through the north central region of the Himalayan mountains in

Nepal I was surprised to see the words vetshy

erinary office added to the bottom of it sign written in Nepalese

The village Chame contained the

headquarters of the government veterinary operations for the region of Manang Borshy

dering on China in the north the region covers about 2000 square kilometres and

has the lowest population density in Nepal The average altitude of the region is above

3048 metres Annapurna towers at 8091

metres The logistics behind launching a vetshy

erinary program in an area that is entirely inaccessible except by foot or aircraft had

me intrigued Dr Koshori Jha greeted us warmly and

in the polite manner wed received at the hands of all the Nepalese tea was served

The bulk of his practice is in sheep and goats as well as cattle yak horse mules and chickens On a daily basis he deals most frequently with footrot a problem that

is compounded by the fact that most of the bovine and equine species are bred pri-

During the recent avc AA Annual Meeting retired Deal Doug Maplesden 50 righl received ( plaque embodying newsclippings puhlished during his lenure Dean OIl Nieletl 56 made the presentalion

marily for use as pack animals the terrain is

rough and whether goats are grazing beshy

tween rocks or mules are carrying 80-kiloshygram loads up mountainsides their hooves are exposed to a lot of strain

Dr Koshori Jhas pharmacy contained various disinfectants and as tringents and

many herbal remedies from India retained placenta and anti-bloat preparation for

example

The only vaccine available to him was against Hemorrhagic Septicemia and he

used it when faced with a diagnosed herd

outbreak Dr Koshori Jha pointed out phenol

which was used on feet during July August and Septembers annual FMD outbreak

coinciding with the rainy season Day-to-day treatment is a sma ll part of

the government veterinarian s job He recently received approval for his five-year

plan which began last spring The main eleshyments of the plan are training increasi ng egg production mule breeding Jhopa

breeding (cross between a cow and male yak) and improving cattle feed by the introshyduction of a Phillipine variety of cattle grass

For the livestock assistance training

three farmers from each of 12 panchayats (districts) in Manang will come to Chame

for training and to discuss local problems These men will be involved in a serv ice

centre to be se t up in each panchayat for common treatment He also plans to hold a yearly lives tock exhibitio n with pri ze shy

money for healthy livestock

Plans to increase egg production include a new brooding unit and the introshy

duction of a hybrid of Leghorn New Hampshyshire and Rhode Island Red poultry In an effort to upgrade the quality of pack anishy

mals local ponies will be crossed with donshykeys brought from northern India Similarly

Missing in India Dr Ohiroobhai K Desai 46 61 Sharda Society Paldi Ahmedabad 380007 India has written of hi s attempts to gather inforshy

mation on Drs VD Alaga Raju 36 and

K B Nair 36 both of India He repol1s having bee n with Dr Nair from 1952 to 1956 at the Bombay Veterinary College as an exshyaminer in Veterinary Medicine However he

has been unable to provide up-to-date inforshymation on thesc two alumni Any alumni

with information please write to your avc Alumni Bulletin editor 0

male yaks will be crossed with local cows

and their offspring Jhopa will be used as high-altitude pack animals

Dr Jha plans to distribute these breedshying animals to the more remote region s so

that bloodlines can be upgraded In so me of these areas the native dialect is related to ancestral Tibetan languge rather thall Nepashy

lese which compounds hi s difficult task of education

Pack animals are the lifeline of the

high-altitude people as much today as they

have been for centuries I very much appreshy

ciate the time taken by Dr Koshori Jha to explain the role of domestic animals in the

Himalaya and share with me his ambitious plans for the future 0

AI Ihe recem CVMA Conference in Pelllicshylon Dr Bob Dunbar 12 leji with Dr ROI Downey 6 Bob has reached his 961h birlhday and resides in a PellliClol1 nursing home

In Memoriam Or John N Campbell 15 545 Scripps Drive Davis California 59616 USA

died May 4 1985

Dr Ra)mond E Pinkert 36 440 NOl1h Pine Street Reedsburg Wisconsin 53959 USA died April 13 1985

Or Roderick S MacDonald 37 3003 Oliver Street Apt 203A Halifax NS -B3L 4AI died June 12 1985

Dr John J Carney 44 3531 West 33rd Avenue Vancouver B C V6S IZ2 Date of

death unknown

Or Kenneth R Lachapelle 54 1635 Ranvoyze Ave St Foy Que GIW 3K2

died June 26 1985 0

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College of Social Science Alumni Assoc PEGASmiddotUS

Editor Dorothy Barnes 78

Our Annual Picnic We Illissed you I All of you who didnt make it to our CSSAA picnic during Alumni Weekend 85 But despite the few members and families that did attend we had a good time The pictures tell the story

Here are some of us arriving (l) and setting up the eats We had good food and why not It was a tillle to enjoy relax and have some fun We had games for all ages including catch-the-eggs (2) with real raw eggs

AmI of course whats a picnic without a drop of rain) But President John came prepared with a tarpaulin (3) for those afrnid ofilleiting The k)od and the day were saved Hurrah for our presidenl

Thcre were some brave soul s who unshydaunted by the weather carried on with their baseball game Then of course there was one young partiCipant (4) who was seen scratching hcr head 1I1d wondering what was going on

All in all we had a great time You would have too if youd bcen thcre So makc a mental notc or tic a string around your tingcr toc anywhere that will reillind you that you missed a good outing at th e Aluillni Wcckend 85 CSSAA picnic and that you should makc pl ans now to join us in June 86 at Alumni Wcekend 86 0

A Joy to Behold Her work has the shi mmer of life Such is said of artist Joy Elizabeth (Snihur) Laking Fine Art CSS 72 Joys art is intimately tied to the seasons In spring and summer she works against the perilous fadshying of fresh flowers capturing them in clean powerful designs

Fa ll afternoons on the grassy salt marshes around her home in Portaupigue Nova Scotia inspire wider scenes of rich changing colours

The respite of winter is her time for land and peoplescapes evolved from her ow n photography Her art is created within the context of family community and nature

Joy was introduced to hcr chosen lifeshystyle by her mother - they used to go sketching while Joy was a child in Owen Sound on Lake Huron s Georgian Bay shyand has painted since she can remember She now lives on the edge of the Bay of Fundy with husband Ronald OAC 72 and two cherubs where she can paint every day and capture the beauty she sees around her Whether it be mud and Illarsh a rusted truck and some farmyard geese or caterpillar holes in azalea leaves Joy is able to capture in watercolour the essence and beauty of all she sees

She is noted for her special ability to create white flowers on white paper by givshying the petals shape and vivid life with only a whisper of colour and shadow Light delishycate handling and mcticulous control fused with a powerful design se nse distinguishes her art

Joy is a well established artist and has had se lected exhibitions of her paintings at the Tom Thompson Memorial Art Gallery Owen Sound 1981 Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery Halifax NS 1982 Gallery 1889 Tatamagouche NS 1983

Daffodils By Joy (Snihur) Laking 72

Truro Art Society Truro NS 1984 and the Royal Botanical Gardens Burlington Onl 14

She was deservedly honoured to have the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia purchase one of her paintings for its collection and the Maritime Tel amp Tel chose a Laking painting for the cover of Nova Scotias 1985 telephone directory

Joy says I paint what I live what I see and what touches me It s no wonder then that Joy has been able to successfully transshyfer such sensitivity to her work in a way that has produced tine work s of art as demonshystrated in Daffodils reproduced here 0

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Grad News Terry Goddard 76 wrote to let us know

where he is and what hes doing After gradshyuation Terry turned to the world of engishy

neering and worked at the Bechtel Intershy

national Syncrude project in northern Alberta for a year He retu rned to school and obtained a Masters degree in Politi cal Theshyory in 1978 at the University of Toronto

TIle next nine months were spent workshying at Dhaharan Saudi Arabi a While the re

Terry contemplated the action which would

give him the best career move His deci s ion to go into teach ing led him back to the Unishy

versity of Toronto to obtai n his BEd His teachin g career took hi m to northshy

e rn Saskatchewan whe re he taug ht at a village which if not actually at the end of

the world was situated close enough that the end was plainly visible from the nOI1hern

outskirts He returned to Toronto someshywhat sated with academe and once again

turned to engineering He has been director of maintenance for the Jewi sh Com munity

Centres of Toronto for the past five years He has fou nd it difficult to keep in

touch with fellow grad s Especia lly th ose who studied in Professor Melby s Chinese

poIitic s courses and who were known as the Shanghai Mafia - they are all over the

world now Hes sure they often recall with fondness their days at Unigoo

Where are you former students of Proshyfessors Simmo ns and MelbYTerry would be interested in hearing from you - and so would we

Robin-Lee Norris 80 has been awarded

a $19000 Rot ary Foundation Scholarship to

pursue g radua te studi es in the Masters of Business Administration program at the

Univers ity of Adelaide Adelaide Australia Robin-Lee went o n to graduate from

Osgoode Hall Law School with an LLB

was called to the Ontario Bar in ApriJ of 1982 and has practised law with the tirm of

Kearns McKin non inGuelph since herca ll She took a ten-mo nth leave of absence

commenc ing in February 1985 from her positi on with Kearns McKinno n in o rder to take ad vantage of the sc holarship

During her months in Australia her mandate from Rotary Internatio nal in addishy

tion to pursuing her stud ies is to act as a Rotary and Canadian Ambassador in proshy

moting good will and understanding beshytween Australians and Canadians

A thank you goes to Cliff Hardy buildshying mechanic superv isor Main tenance Deshypartment Physical Resources for supplying us with thi s information and an aside to Robin-Lee when she reads this I was unable

to reach you betore you left to congratulate

you and get more informati on on your award If you have some free time we wOllld love to hea r from you about your studi es

what a Rotary and Canadian ambassador

does and to have you share your ex perience of being down-under

Marilyn Kernohan Morrison 78 has taken the time to Jet us know that shes living in Napanee with hu sba nd Brian She has

tempora ril y se t aside her ca reer to be a home-maker tor Brian and their four-monthshy

old son

Prior to their move to Napanee to acshycommodate Brians tran sfer - he work s with the Ministry of Natural Resources shy

Marilyn and family lived in a small comshymunity northwest of Thunder Bay After

Gue lph Marilyn continued her ed ucation at the comm unity college level and com pleted

a program for counse llors of the mentally

retarded SheJI be returnin g to thi s fi e ld when she again becomes a wage earner

Doris E (Trachsel) OKeefe 74 is deshy

scribed by husband John Paul 74 as a household engineer John Paul is a reshy

source teacher with the Waterloo County Board of Education With such a title I

couldnt resis t phon ing Doris to find out exactly what the duti es of a household enshy

gi neer are

While Doris decl ined to give a cletinishytion of the titl e l detected some surprise and delight that John Paul appreciates what it

takes to look after a famil y and a home

Doris is trying to re turn to teaching but is findin g it difficult in the Cambridge

Waterloo area If she isnt successful shes planning alternatives such as enrolment at Guelph in a Masters program o r failing that enrolment in courses that will he lp her

ac hieve her long-range goa ls She and John Paul recen tly moved from

London Ont to Cambridge Prior to the

birth of Erin now a two-year-old Doris was teac hing boys with behaviourial problems

and she sees thi s as an asset when applying for teaching positions Erin has a six-yearshyold brother Sean so you can understand

perhaps that Doris has been bu sy and maybe she is aptly described as a houseshy

hold engi neer

J Barry Baldwin 69 is a teac her with the Elgin County Board of Education S t Thomas Barry married Linda Janet Wii son They live in Aylmer West

M Rachel (Curtis) Towe 69 is manager customer systems Bell Canada She and

husband Ken live in Guelph

M Lois (Robinson) Harris 70 li ves in Newmarket with husband Fred

B Hugh Schofield 72 is an industrial engi neer with Rockwell Int e rnati o nal C hat ham He and wife Susan (Haslelt)

FACS 78 live in Chatham

Paul Davis 73 is an underwrite r analyst with Co-opera tors General In sura n ce

Guelph Paul and wife Linda (DozeH) 73 and 81 live at Brookhaven Court Guelph

Carol Finlayson 74 is a letter carrier lor Canada Post Carol and husband John Balch live in Toronto

Pal Hamilton 74 is an expon market deshyvelopment specialist with the O ntario Minshyistry of A gricu lture and Foo cl mark et

development branch Toronto He and his wife Diane (Coates) OAC 72 live in

Toronto

Kerrie Sirathy MA 78 advises us that

she is a s tud en t at th e Univcrsity of Sakatchewan Sas katoon

Vicky Sutherland 78 is an air trartie conshy

troller with Air Canada at FoI1 McMurray Airpo l1 Alta and lives in F0I1 McMurray

Sounds like an intercsting job - perhaps youl l share SOIllC experie nces with us Vicky

Marlin Thissen 78 is a foreman with the

region or Halton at ih Milton wa ter po llushytion control plant

Evelyn Evie (Isaacs) Whilwham 80 is a planning ass istant with Union Gas Co Ltd Chatham She and hu sba nd Bob have

c hanged their address They are at 70 Ottawa Drive C ha tham Ont N7L 216 0

In Memoriam A lormer faculty mcmber in the DeshypaI1ment of Geography Barsa Kelly was among the victims of the Air India Hight 182 disaster that occ urred

off the coas t of Irel and las t June ~ mr(sa Vas headed tor India on a reshy

search project at the time of her

death S he was the wife of Protessor Kenneth Kelly Department of Geogshyra phy On behalf of its members and all those who chc ri shed their con tacts with Barsa the Board of Directors of the College of Social Science Alumni Association extend their s incere symshy

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College of Biological Science Alumni Assoc BIOmiddotALUMNI NEWS

Editor Marie (Boissonneault) Rush 80

HONORARY PRESIDENT Professor Bruce Sells Dean

PRESIDENT David Airdrie BSc 82 Microbiology

PAST PRESIDENT Dr Chris Wren BSc 77 Marine Biology PhD 83

VICE-PRESIDENT Dee Britney BSc 74 Fisheries amp Wildlife MSc 81

SECRETARY-TREASURER Kclly Munkittrick BSc 80 Fisheries amp Wildshylife MSc 83

DIRECTORS Lorraine Bruce-Allen BSc 80 Zoology MSc 84 Jim Elliott BSc 79 Marine Biology Keith Harris BSc 76 Marine Biology Dr Doug Holdway BSc 76 Marine Biology MSc 78 Aquatic Toxicology PhD 83 Krista (McAuley) Soper BSc 79 Marine Biolshyogy Karin Davidson-Taylor BSc 83 Zoology

From Dave Airdrie 82 the

President How time flies when youre having fun Your editor Marie (Boissonneault) Rush 80 tell s me that this note to you will be in the Fall issue of the Guelph Alumnus so Ill bring you up to date on happenings since your 1985-86 Board of Directors was inshystalled in June

The CBS Alumni Association was parshyticularly busy during June Alumni Weekshyend events including the Wildlife Art Show and Sale and the barbecue at the Rockwood Conservation Area were well attended

Thanks must go to Krista (McAuley) Soper 79 and Lorraine Bruce-Allen 84 for their first-rate efforts in organizing and running the art show From all accounts it was ex tremely well done and is sure to be repeated in 1986

Further thanks mu st go to Keith Harshyris 76 for his efforts in once again organizing the barbecue at Rockwood Keith has done a terrifi c job with this event s ince its inception Hopefully these two events will be expanded in the coming year

Last spring the objective of $10 000 for the Keith Ronald Fellowship Fund was reached and we thank all who generously contributed to this fund Its to be hoped that this is only the first of many scholarships initiated through the CBSAA

Many of you will now be aware of the changes which the Universitys Department of Alumni Affairs has undergone in rece nt months Most important is the arrival of Marjorie Millar as director of the Departshyment It seems that President Matthews is placing greater emphasis on the importance of the Department due in part to the impenshyding capital campaign I am sure that youll all notice many beneficial innovations

The CBSAA has I feel reached a point in its development where we must heighten our profile both among alumni and undershygraduates In order to increase the awareness of the Association the Board has plans to embark on some new programs

The goals are as I see them two-fold first of all we need YOU to get more inshyvolved whether its participation in our proshygrams or s upport for the Assoc iation through your membership The fact that youre reading this demonstrates an interest which we would like to heighten

Secondly we re working at helpin g undergraduates before graduation to beshycome more aware of our Association Hopeshyfully we ll get helpful input and suggestions from many of you in the near future Reshymember - YOUR alumni association is what YOU make it

Dave Airdrie BSc 82 President Colshylege of Biological Science AA

FACULTY ADVISORS Dr Denis Lynn Zoology Dr Margaret Hauser M icroshybiology Dr John Hilton Nutrition Dr John Sandys Award Phillips Botany amp Genetics Dr Brian Wilson Human BiologyKinetics The Ontario Confederation of University

Faculty Associations (OCUFA) has awarded UGAA REPRESENTATIVES Karin Dr Alexander Sandy Middleton DepartshyDavidsonTaylor BSe X) Zoology Keith ment of Zoology one of the nine OCUFA Harris BSc 76 Marinc Biology Rob Teaching Awards for 1984 Milnc BSe XI MSe 84 Marine Bio Dr Middleton was nominated for this -award by colleagues students administrashyEX-OFFICIO DIRECTORS Ed Berdusco tors alumni and faculty It acknowledges president CBSSC Steve Spring past presishy outstanding ability and is considered to be dent CBSSC the provinces highest honour for excellence

in university teaching HKAA REPRESENTATIVE Nick Dalton I think there are two keys to being an BSe 77 Human Kinetics effective teacher Sandy says One is to

have respect for the student the other is to EDITOR RIO-ALUMNI NEWS Marie make a genuine intellectual and time comshy(Boissonneault) Rush B Se XO Marine mitmcnt to the course Biology 0 Dr Alexander Middleton Congratulations Dr Middleton 0

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Grad News Human Biology

Cathy Knipe BSc 79 MSc 83 is a Ph D st ud ent at Iowa State University Ames Iowa USA She is studying Moshylecular Biology

Shelly Lugg BSc 83 is a stude nt at Simon Fraser University Burnaby BC

Human Kinetics

Susan (Wright) Kwiatkowski BSc 80 is a recreation therapist at York Central Hosshypital Toronto Her spouse Ed graduated from Ryerson in 1979

Donna Marie (Kadwell) 1vose BSc 79 and husband John ji ve in Thorold Shes a physica l education supervisor at the Niagara Peninsula Crippled Childrens Centre

Mary Ellen (Mew) Walker BSc 83 is the activity co-ordinator at Spruce Lodge Stratford

Dr Ken Danylchuk BSc(PE) 73 is a s ur ge ry re s ident at the H itchcockshyDartmouth Medical Center Hanover N H USA

Kathryn (Tarry) Myers BSc 78 is a teacher with the Middlesex COunty Board of Educati on Hyde Park

WildUfe

Vicky Johnston 84 bega n an MSc at Lakehead University Thunder Bay in May Shes working on the reprodu ctive biology of Lake Superior rin g-billed gull s

Nutrition

Or 0010 Ohiokpehai 77 lectures in food and nutrition at the Unive rs ity of Ife Nigeria

Microbiology

John Semple 78 is a PhD ca ndidate in the Department of Mic rob iology amp Immushynology at Queens Uni vers ity Kingston He will be doing a post-doctora l at the Banting amp Best Depattment of Medica l Research University of Toronto

Unspecialized

Peter Adams 79 and Beth (Sarjeant) 79 are happy to announce their recent marshyriage Beth is a research technici an with the Depanment of Medicine Univers ity of Ca lshygary Alta and Peter operates a business with the se ismic service industry

Marine Biology

Jorgen Hansen 75 and his wife Drusilla (Dol be) Arts 75 live in Gloucester Jorge n is a staff officer with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Ottawa

CoUege Honour RoU - Winter 85 Semester 06

Margorie Fe rgusson 894 Human Biology JoAnna Milan 860 Biology

Semester 07 Sandra Noble 856 Microbiology

Semester 08 Marga ret Docker 876 Marine Biology Thomas Johnston 87 0 Fi sheries Biology Debra Underhill 858 Microbi ology

James Wright 858 Biology Tobin Peever 854 Botany

Alexander Hanke 852 Zoology Rebecca Rodgers 852 Human Bi ology

Tracey Robin son 882 BSc( HK ) Rebecca Halonen 880 BSc(HK )

Swdent has obtained standing for second time Student has obtaincd standing for third time

Home Town

Oakville Ottawa

Dorchester

Guelph New Liskeard Kingston Thunder Bay Bracebridge Grafton Calgary Alta Guelph Georgetown

Donald MacLennan 75 and hi s wife Katherine live in Chatham Donald is a biologi st-supervisor with the Ministry of Natural Resources Lake SI Clair Fisheries Assessmen t Unit Tilbury 0

College of Biological Science

Alumni Association

Wildlife Art Show

Well it happened June 15 and 16 have come and gone but not withshyout event The Graduate Students Lounge was transformed from a cozy meeting place into an an gallery There was much movi ng of furniture and hanging of an work with the end product being our fi rst ever CBSAA Wildlife Art Show

In total there were 20 wildlite artists partic ipating all tine ani sts in their own right Maybe you reshymember Ut a Stre live a nd Dr Ed Bailey Wow I You should see their wood works

Rick Beaver 73 also showed some of his work hes a wildlife imshypressionist and the colour and move shyment he paint s into each piece is eloquent Donald Dority 76 showed us the line photographer he has become There were other ani sts - too many to mention but all of extremely high calibre

Id like to mention one las t name though - Cindy Hayward manager of the Graduate Students Lounge If you ever need a steady hand to get an event off the ground shes the one to co ntact Without her hel p there would have been a whole heap of orshyga ni za tional problems From which we would have been unable to escape

All in all we had a successful show Thanks artists and viewers for making our efforts worthwhile 0

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New Minister of AgricultureOntario Agricultural College Alumni Assoc OAC ALUMNI NEWS

Editor Dr Harvey W Caldwell 51

Ontari OS new mini ster of ag riculture Jack Riddell 52A and 57 a cash crop farmer from the Exeter area comes to the position of Ontario s Mini ster of Agriculture and Food with ten years of expe rience as Liberal caucus cr itic for agriculture

The min is ter sa id that life under a Libshyeral government will give agriculture a higher priority than it has ex perienced in the past It will be considered one of the major industries in this province

Jack also pro mi sed to consult a great

Basic Technology in Action shyTurning Stones Into Bread By Ann Middleton Information Services

A new University of Guelph projec t in Tanza nia Africa should aid th e Third Wo rld s ubsistence leve l farmer The $400000 three-year projec t funded by the International Development Resea rch Centre (IDRC) will invol ve fltlculty of the Uni vershysitys Department of Land Resou rce Sc ience and Soko ine Uni versity of Ag riculture in Morogoro Central Tanza ni a Aim of the enterpri se is to use loca lly ava il ab le rock materials as soil amendm en ts and con shyditioners

The project came about when Ott awas IDRC brought together a team of two geo logists with an interest in improving co nshyditions for African farmers Professor Ward Chesworth with the Department of Land Resource Science has a long-standing intershyes t in turning rock s into fertili zers deshyve loped during work in West Africa and the Canltlry Islands where local farmers have spread volcanic rock on their field s for two centu ries In his lab and in the Blue Springs basin near Acton Ontario Professor Chesshyworth has been conducting experiment s on the levels at which common rocks re lease nutri ents into soil solutions

The other team member Dr Peter van Straltl ten is ori ginally from Germany but spe nt e ight years with the United Nations in Tan zania looking for metals and metal deshyposi ts and working on an in ve ntory of ferti shyli zer raw materials in south-east Africa

During thi s period Tanza nian food production per capita fell dramaticall y leadshying Dr van Strltlaten to try to find ways to help the food situation In ex periments in his garden in Dodomo Tanzaniltl he was able to increase yields of vegetables using locally

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available geological materia ls and organic wastes

Noting the common interes ts of the two men the Canadian age ncy introd uced them and Dr van Straaten relocated in Guelph Co-ordinators of the project are Professor Cheswo rth and Tan za ni an sc ie nti st Dr Johnson Semoka of Sokoine University coshyauthor of a text on so il sc ience much used in agricultural circles in Africa

Technical assistant Peter Sl11i th is working with Tanzanian rock specimens in the Land Resource Science lab and two other Tanzanian scientists will be involved

In addition to academics from bo th institutions members of the Geological Survey of Tanzania will also work on the project both in the Morogoro area and at Mbeya station in south-western Tanzania

Roc k sa mples will be collected and crushed and field tests and pot ex periments carried out here and on location When reshysu lt s have bee n obtained extension work will begin in Africa under the direc tion of Dr Semoka It is hoped that members of a Me nnonite Central Committee group workshying at Mbeya will design a simple rock crusher for the use of local farmers

Tanzania has a major phosphate deshyposi t wh ich will be tapped by the project as well as ground s ilicates including volcanic ash Liming materials such as limestone dolomite marl and ca rbonatite will also be evaluated

Professor Chesworth points out that alshythough No rth Americans place much emshyphasi s on the big three of soil nutrition shynitrogen phosphorus and potassium (NPK) - there are actually about 20 necessary

deal with the farm organizations on the direction his ministry should be taki ng

I dont believe that we can sit in our so-ca ll ed ivory towers and introduce the kind of programs that are go ing to be mea nshyingful unless we get consultation from the farmers and their spokes people

He has been a member of the provincial legislature for 12 years He spent his first two years as energy cri tic and later environshyment critic before mov ing into agriculture Jack and Anit a have a family of five 0

nutrie nts including the minor ones In some areas of Tanza nia the decline

in soil fe rtility is in part due to the settling of widespread populations into villages where land has been used without concern for nutrients Tn other part s of the country productivity has declined because of leachshying of plant nutrie nts durin g normal rainfall and also from the continuous use of acidifyshying fertilizers such as ammo nium su lphate Dr Chesworth point s out that the current practice of NPK fe rtili zation totally ignores secondary and micronut rient requirements of plants It is hoped that the projec t wilt address thi s problem

Our approac h is basic tec hn ology our target group the poorest far mers Dr van Straaten explains One of the problems in the past Dr Ches worth says has been convincing agronomists that it s worth purshysuing this kind of elementary tec hnology approach Theyre very skeptical that you can take common roc ks wi thou t major inshydustrial proces ing and use them to advanshytage on tropical soils

A s ideline area of research is work with zeolites open framework si licates that often occ ur in volcanic rocks Some zeolites can be used to trap nitrogen in the form of ammonia which would otherwise be los t in gaseous form When added to cow manure for exampl e and stomped in by the beasts themselves zeolites enrich an already valushyabl e fertil ize r Dr van Straaten explains

The zeolite research is being carried out in co njunction with Professor Colin Fyfe Department of Chemistry an intershynat io na ll y kn ow n authority o n zeo lit e -che mi stry

Orie result of the work of the Un ive rs ity of Guelph geo logists is an ag rogeology ne tshywork currentl y being set up bya number of African cou ntries as the result of di sc usshysions following a paper by Dr van Straaten and Professor Chesworth The paper was given recently at meetings of the UN Ecoshynomic Commiss ion for Africa in Zambia 0

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A Designing Grad The need for a summer job six years ago has ended in a Guelph grad des igning golf courses

When in 1979 Lisa Maki now

BLA 84 was searching for a job that would assist her in her studies at the Univershysity she applied to the city of Kitchener

She could have wound up in any

number of areas in the parks and recreation department but Rockway and Doon Valley

course superintendent Ed Ortlieb gave her the chance to join the work crew at Rockway fltor the first couple of years it was just a job that got her outdoors in the summer then by chance she got interested in the game itself

And now shes embarked on a career in golf course design

Lisa the 24-year-old oldest daughter of Ted Maki a former general manager of the

Lisa Maki BLA 84 Kitchener Rangers left last July for Lakeshyland Florida where she Joined Links Deshysign which de sig ns and oversees golf course construction throughout the United 1983 and a friend of the family who knew States The company is considered the sec shy was interested in golf course work arranged ond-largest of its type behind the one run by a meeting with Ronald Garl said Lisa I US golf legend Jack Nicklaus who deshy had an official job interview in April of 84 signed the Glen Abbey course in Oakville and then went to Florida in August of the

How does a young Kitchener woman same year to familiarize myself with the

end up working for Ronald Garl a 40-yearshy firms projects

old graduate of the University of Florida Because I had focused much of my who apprenticed under such well-known deshy University work on such things as turf man shy

signers as Roben Trent Jones and Joseph agement and had done pan of my bachelor Lee Again it was just a chance opportunity of landscape architecture thes is on what

We were in Florida in December of makes British golf courses great and the

Sisters of Accident Victims Receive Diplomas

A tragic accident just prior to Spring Convocation resulted in the deaths oftwo graduands of the Associate Diploma in Agriculture Program Jeff Bikus 85A of West Lome and Nick Davidson 85Afrom Zimbabwe Joy Davidson sister ofNick came from Zimbabwefor the Convocation She was sponsored by the OAC Alumni Association Classes of85A alld 86A Norm McCollulIl 66A honorary class president 85A Don and MiidredMcCollum Jenny Ballentine and her parents Dr Steve Bowley 78 and80 honorary class president 86A and the University Centre Administration Our sympathy is extended to the families and friends of these two popular studel1ls Pictured are Ito r Jenny Ballantine friend ofJeff Bikus Lealln Bikus sister of Jeff Joy Davidson sister of Nick and Klaus Kristiansen a studellt from Zimbabwe

other on golf course residential design he was impressed

In order to learn what made British

courses great Lisa spent a semester in Engshyland and Scotland visiting researching sketching photographing and playing 16 historic courses including the famous links courses which by tradition are the

only clubs to host the British Open Links layouts are courses that border the sea and have been built or developed over sand

bases

Approximately 15 students a year take

advantage of the School of Land scape Arshychitectures Semester Abroad Program fi shynancing the trips themselves However the program is supported by an annual $5000 grant from the Alma Mater Fund so alumni can claim a cenain amount of credit for Lisas success She was a recipient in 1983

of part of that years AMF grant Im not sure my mother and father

were very keen about my trave lling around England and Scot lane all alone but it was a truly great experience she said middot1 not only met many wonderful and helpful peoshyple got to play the great courses like St

Andrew s Royal Troon Turnberry and my favorite of all Royal Dornoch

After a complicated and lengthy US immigration process which took nearly a year she was granted her permanent work

visa She was in regular contact with her new

boss after returning to Kitchen er - she re turned to work at Rockway and Doon while awaiting the vi sa approval - and then last July plunged immediately into

projects including work at a mens tournashyment players 36-hole complex in Sarasota and a Ladies Professional Golf Assoc iation course in Melbourne where she worked in association with LPGA tour players Beth Daniels and Sally Little

Despite the fact that the job involves

vy ing with rattlesnakes alligators and Iild

pigs when I have to tramp through forests and swamps in applying my design work to certain areas I love the outdoor work Lisa

said At the same time she doesnt have any

probleIl1s giving orders to hard-hatted heavy-machinery construction workers when she is the field supervisor for on-site

work think I may have raised a few eye shy

brows when I staned work at Rockway but I was accepted

Lisa isnt sure how long this pan of her life will last and she has no way of knowing whether any of her courses will eve r be known as Lisa Maki layouts But that doesnt

concern her They may be Links Design projects but Ill know they were basically my courses 0

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Klink Lecture Dr Doug Morrison 49 Department of Poultry Science was chosen to deliver the 1985 Klink Lecture

The Klink lecture is ~ponsored by the Agricultural Inst itute of Canada and named after the Institute s founding president Preshysented by an outstanding lecture r the lecture is delivered through a coast-to-coast tour and concerns a topic of current significance to the agricultural industry and the nation

Dr Morri son stated that there is a need for professionalization in an imal agriculshyture in order to give it an improved image and make it more acceptable to the conshysumer

Address ing members of the Ontario Inshystitute of Agrologists in London Ontario he told his audience that the agriculture inshydustry in Canada ranks among the best in the world and producers have to ensure thi s is shown and make sure that peer pressure prevents producers from doing things that we cant defend

He suggested some type of professhysiona l approach established by the farming organization whereby expertise would be required instead of merely encouraged

This is a mu ch beller ap proach th an some edict from society through governshyment legi slation I strong ly object to legislashytion designed to protect me from myself he said adding that there are currently enough regulations existent through legislation that dictate what farmers can and cannot do

If a farmer were a profess ional hi s reward wou Id be in profits - about as meanshyingful a reward as has ye t been devised

Benefits of a more professionalized approach would include an improved image of the farmer to the consumer an increase in communication a more efficient industry

which is essential for competition improved knowledge on the fa rmers part of health nutrition care markets etc and more awareness of soc ietys concerns

In turn it would also be necessary to provide beller information to the consumer through an educational process because if soc iety is to pay for increased inputs for the long- term good of the nat ion then it is essential society be adequately informed

Morrison remarked that he fee ls the maj ori ty of animal agriculturists are in fact professionals but there has to be a concerted e ffort to at tract as lew people as possible in to the business who do not understa nd farmshying or who are doing things that are unacshyceptable

Consumer concern over dietary value or the amount of drugs contained in animal product s is also reason for farmers to tak e a professional approach They should work to alleviate any misreprese ntations and misin shyformation the public is receiving the proshyfessor noted s tating that farm ers have never produced food as safe and as wholeshysome as it is today

By the turn of the century on a world basis meat consumption is predicted to in shy

crease by abou t 60 per cent while the intake of milk is expected to increase by almost 40 per cent

A major fac tor for this rise in intake result s from th e fact that developing nations will begin to consume animal products as soon as they can afford them China is an excellent exa mple of this said the professor who commented that nation is now movshying as rapidly as possible to increase animal production

With all these factors is mind Dr Morshyri son sa id he is optimistic for the future of the Canad ian animal agriculture industry

Weve got the opportunities and can take advantage of them he said 0

Mark Bernards 85 cenlre was the recipienl oftwo OAC Alumni Foundation awards the OAC Alumni Graduate Award and the Beth Duncan Gold Medal Left is Gord Nixon 37 Foundashytion chairman and director and right NR Rick Richards 38 treasurer

Entrepreneur in Residence

Dr Donald Shaver

Dean Freeman McEwen is pleased to be working with Dr Donald McQueen Shaver the Universitys first Agricultural Entreshypreneur-i n-Res idence

Dr Shaver a native of Cambt idge Onshytari o is found er chairman and chief exshyecutive officer of Shaver Poultry Breed ing Farms Limited The compan y distributes chicken breeding stock to 90 countries from its head office in Cambridge and three subshysid iaries in the United States Britain and France He retired from his executive reshysponsib ilities on August 30 but is conshytinuing as director and adv isor to the company

From 1940 to 1945 Dr Shaver served with the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps in Africa and Europe retiring as regimental commanding officer He is past president of the Canadian Hatchery Federation the Poulshytry Products Institute of Canada the Canashydian Lincoln Red Society and Maine-Anjou Association He is a member of the Order of Canada Honorary Life Member of the Worlds Poultry Science Association and the Ontario Institute of Agrologi sts He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Science by McGill University and the Centennial Medal by the OAC

The Entrepreneu r-in-Reside nce pro shygram was initiated and financially supshyported by OAC Class of 58 to champion -the role of private enterpri se within soc iety The appointment is for a two-year period during which time Dr Shaver will present lectures lead workshops and consult with faculty and students

The Agricultural Entrepreneur-in-Resishydence program at the University is believed to be a first in agr icultural education around the world 0

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University Of Guelph Involved in $68 Million Chinese Project The University of Guelph has embarked on a co-operative $68 million project that will ~ink five Canadian and Chinese universities and agricultural institutions

The four-year Black Dragon River Proshyjeo supported by the Canadian Internashytional Deve lopment Agency (C IDA) involves Guelph the University of Alberta Olds College in AlbeI1a and two Chinese institutions - Heilongjiang Land Reclamashytion University and Liu He Training College in northeastern Heilongjiang Province

Under th e term s of the agreement training will be provided at the three Canashydian institutions for personnel from the two Chinese university institutions

The Liu He Training College is respo nshysible for educating state farm employees Training will range from short courses to undergraduate and graduate level programs

Faculty from the Canadian universities and Olds College will travel to China during the summer months to give lectures and

short courses The area borderi ng on Russia has treshy

mendou s potential for agricultural deve lopshyment Professor Neal Stos~opf 57 direct or of OACs diploma courses is Guelphs co-ordinator for the Chinese projshyect He was part of the Canadian gove rnment planning miss ion and ex plains that although the climate combines the cold winters and hot summers of Alberta most of the moisshyture is rain that falls between Jul y and Sepshytember

Although latitude is the sa me as Edmontons at 52 degrees north the area grows soybeans and corn as well as wheat The land has two to four feet of black topsoil waiting to be drained and planted he says with potential for livestock proshyduction

The proj ec t centre is located at the Unishyversity of Alberta with administration in Guelph being carried out by the Centre for International Programs 0

Provincial apiarist retires after 19 years You might say Philip Burkes job brought sweet rewards

Until his retirement recently Philip was the provincial apiarist - sort of Onshytarios chief of bees - while working at the University of Guelphs Department of Environmental Biology

He joined the University as a lectu rer in 1943 and then became assistant professor and later associate professor

At the same time the Ontario Departshyment of Agriculture (as the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food was known then) made him the assistant provincial apiarist In 1966 he became provincial apiarist

Of course he advised beekee pers on ways they could make their colonies more productive and efficient and fielded many apiary management question s - including how to prevent bees from swarming

If they swarm one-third to one-half of th e colony takes off so you lose a big source of your honey crop Swarming is trigshygered when the hive becomes overcrowded so the beekeeper mu st stay ahead of them It involves a whole manipulation of the hive through the season visiting each colony at least once every ten to 14 days he says Philip also worked with farmers whose

crops depended on pollination by bees At one time bees were needed for

pollin ating greenhouse produce such as cucumbers But in the past 15 years the trend has been toward new types that are self fruiting he says

But the biggest change in the industry over the years was the trend towards Illakshying corn king in Ontario - a trend that is now being reversed he says

From 1949 and on a lot of bee coloshynies were moved to the western provinces tollowi ng th e reduction in alfalfa production in Ontario and the increased corn acreage he says

Now prospec ts for honey production in Ontario are better than in past years beshycause of the increased alfalfa acreage and other legumes and the trend towards more diversified cropping

Not surpris ingly prices have changed in the industry over the years too Back in the 1920s it cost about $10 to start a bee colony today start-up costs are about $100 to $125 per colony

Much of his work at the University looked at ways to prevent di seases in bees using selected antibiotics

He was secretary for the Ontario Beekeepers Association for 15 yea rs and now acts as a consu It ant for the group 0

Wins Crampton Award

Dr Stanley J Slinger 37 the most recent rec ipient of the Earl e W Crampton Award for distingui shed service in nutrition is ProshyFessor Emeritus of the Depal1ment of Nutrishytion College of Biolog ica l Science at Guelph

Born in Lowell Ontario Dr Slinger received his BSc from the Ontario Agrishycultural College hi s MSc fro111 the Univershysity of Toronto and a PhD from Cornell University From 1941 to 1965 he was in the Departillent of Poultry Science at the OAC and since 1965 has been in the Department of Nutrition at Guelph serving as chairJl1an from 1965 to 1974

Dr Slinger conducted re sea rch in sevshyeral areas of pou Itry nutrition for Jl10re than 30 years In 1972- 73 a fi sh nutrition laborashytory was set up and thi s laboratory has conshytinued to grow and iJl1prove s i nee One of the primary objectives in both poultry and fi sh nutrition research has been to develop feed to rmulas using feedstuffs of Canadian orishygin 111ese tannulas have been publi shed and continuall y revi sed and have been used extensively by teed manufacturers through shyout Canada Dr Slinger continues to be active in research

Dr Slinger taught poultry nutrition in Poultry Science for 27 years gave seminar courses in nutrition and physiology taught Fundamentals of Nutrition in the Depal1shyment of Nutrition and deve loped and taught courses in fi sh and wildlite nutrition

He has supervi sed the work of Jl1any graduates and it is interesting to note that the Department of Nutrition at Guelph is the only depailment in Canada - and there are very few in the United States - turning out graduates in Fish Nutrition at the PhD leve l

He has helped to establi sh modern poultry industries in Mexico and the areas of South East Asia Africa the Middle East Eastern and Western Europe and the United Kingdom Lectures conlerences and other consultative work have also taken hilll to Jl1any coul1tries over the years

The recipient of numerous honours and awards Dr S linger was made Professor Emeritus of the University in Ino and reshy -ceived the Earl e W Crampton award in 19B4 at Macdonald College Que Thi s award is given by the Faculty of Agriculture in recogshyniti on of significant co ntributions in the field of nutrition through research andlor service The award is named for Dr Earle W Crampton a renowned nutritionist whose career at Macd onald bega n in 1922 and lasted far 51 years 0

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cialist having spent four months in the latter John Reid 84 is technical sales rep Agrico Grad News part of 1984 in Bloemfontein South Africa Sales Ltd Richmond BC

Earl Johnston 46 is president Earl-John Brokers Ltd Delhi

Joe Knox 48 is secretary-treasurer Annco Westeellnc Guelph

Ralph Hills 54 is pastor United Church of Canada Smith Falls Ralph left Zambia last October spending some time in Kenya Israel England and Scotland on the way home He was surprised to meet Charlie Broadwell also 54 on Oxford Street in London Charlie was giving a reception at a large castle for the white bean buyers who purchase beans from Charlies Bean Growers of Ontario Ralph also passes along the word from Louise (Fershyguson) Hope Mac 54 that her husband Don 54 preparing for some future possible social work is studying drug addiction at George Brown College of Applied Ans and Technology Toronto

Joseph Leach 54 is a research scientist Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources Lake Erie Research station Wheatley

Ken Edwards 59 is an industrial engineer Prince George Pulp and Paper Vancouver BC

Fred Theaker 62 is a teacher-biologist Ren frew County Board of Education Aruprior

Howard Lang 67 is senior so il conshyservation advisor for OMAF Cambridge

John Lawrence 69 has been appointed vice-president and ge neral manager De kalb Canada Inc Chatham John is a lso president of the Canadian Agri-marketing Assoc iation

Robert Brooksbank 70 is manager Agrishycultural Department Simcoe area Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce

Alan Duncan BLA 73 is project coshyordinator Groupe d intervention urban de Montreal Montreal Que

Martha (Weir) Collins 75 reports that Anne (Walton) Bayler 75 is at teac hers college in Toronto after spending several years teaching in the Bahamas Martha lives at I Braid Place Guelph and would like to hear news of her classmates

Jim Dyer MSc 75 is a senior resource and environmental officer with the crop producshytion division of Agriculture Canada Ottawa He is on loan as a drought monitoring spe shy

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His wife Barb (Newell) Arts 75 who is a technical editor with Public Works Canada joined him in Bloemfontein for a month

Elizabeth Fedorkow 75 is a market reshysearcher Tetra Pak Inc Markham

Roy Maxwell 75 is an agricultural comshymentator CBC Radio Noon Toronto

Gary Ball 76 is vice-president manufacturshying Mitten Vinyl Inc Cambridge

Garnet McConney 77 is feed lot manager Catllel and Ontario Inc Petersburg

Patrick Meyers 77 OVC 84 is a vetshyerinarian with the Grenville-Dundas Veterinshyary Clinic Kemptville

Martha Frey 78 is secretaryass istant edishytor Canadians for Health Research Wes tshymount Que

Wayne Harrison 79 is assi stant manager Toronto Dominion Bank Elmira His wife is Katherine (McLeod) 77

Sharon Helynk 79 is with the Woodbury Animal Hospital Halifax NS

Jeffery Goebel 80 is resident engineer ACF Canada Ltd Georgetown

Mary Lynn Prong 80 is assistant manager Royal Bank Watford She reports that Bruno Soucy 8Q has changed jobs from OMAF farm ma nagement advisor to agrolog ist London region Royal Bank

Corrie Almack 81 is presidentowner Agshyriculturai Soil and Nutrition Consultants Freelton

Edward Bolton 81 is research farm manshyager AJle lix Inc M ississauga

William Summers 82 MSc 84 is prodshyuct deve lopment rep Du-Pont Canada Streetsville

Dianne (Coker) McDowell 83 is quality assurance supervisor Richardson Foods Ltd Glanw0I1h

John Ross 83 is a program officer Agrishyculture Canada Edmonton Alta

Jeff Burke 84 is a customer service rep Griffith Lab Toronto

Julie Fowler 84 is working for Embury Bros Farms Ltd Newburgh

Karen Rodman 84 is a farm management specialist OMAF Nepean

James Simonds 84 is a crop specialist Cavendi sh Fanns Summerside P E1

Richard West PhD 84 is a research scishyentist Canadian Forestry Service SI John s Nftdo

In Memoriam We regret to report the following deaths

Marie Honsberger 17A died March 1985

Esmond D Clipsham 2IA died on April 6 1985 Esmond had been the proprietor Uneeda Rest Hotel Kilwonhy and was a life member of the OAC Alumni Association

Stanley Ewart Keillor 21 died on February 27 1985 He was a crop farmer at Walshylacetown

John Edward Chalmers 23A died on Febshyru ary 15 1985

Jacobus Van Haarlem 23 at age 85 on July 2 1985 in Vineland He retired as ex shyecutive director of the Hor1icultural Experishymental Station at Vineland in 1970 after 47 years of service there

Hugh Lacklin Paterson 32A died in May 1985 of a heart attack at Rockwood

Murray Cameron Macklin 33A 35 died January n 1985 in Toronto

Garland Alfred Fisk 35 Date of deat h unknown

Gordon Elgin Young 35 died on June 12 1985 at Ing leside

John Miller Fargery 37 on March 22 1985 in Toronto John had been an insurance salesman Farm Credit Corp and was a life member of the OAC Alumni Assoc iation

William Thomson 40 in 1982 in Lonshy shygueuil Que His death was reported recen tl y

Robert Fletcher Madden 54A died on November 26 1984 at age 52 at Napanee

Vera (Mod ric) Kozamplik MSc 73 in Yugoslavia She was the wife of Vinko Kozumplik M Sc 71 0

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From the Dean

Dr Barham

In some of my lellers I have aimed to share

information on some special program or theme with you On this occasion I want to

keep you in touch through a number of lillie items so I shall hold onto some of the bigshy

ger interests for future issues of the Guelph Alumnus

As I write this leller Alumni Weekend 85 is behind us I found it a great weekend

and I thoroughly enjoyed meeting more of our alumni for the first time while

especially appreciating recognizing more

and more familiar faces and names from previous occasions

This year the Classes of 65 and 75 requested an up-date on our programs and

the developments we have experienced together in the College over the last few

years I guess that we were able to demonshy

strate much more development in our research and teaching programs than we could in some parts of the physical facilities within the buildings Still we had thorshyoughly congenial and I think very useful

meetings with both of these classes and added a nostalgic tour of our facilities

It was splendid to meet both of these groups I confess however that I had not

foreseen that a large part of the interest of the Class of 65 rested on the fact that many of their children are now gearing up to enter FACS

I was able to remind them that the BASc and B Comm degrees both lead

into fascinating and challenging careers for sons and nephews as well as daughters and

nieces Some of you coming to Alumni Weekend 86 might wish to get in touch with me to arrange an up-date on our acti vities then too

One of my special pleasures of Alumni Weekend was to join with the Class of 35 at the Golden Anniversary Dinner This occashy

sion is always a particular delight given the special personal pleasures reflected in the

friendships shared on this anniversary And I do want members of the Class of

35 to know that their gift of the magnificent Terry Legault Roman Festival print looks really outstanding and just right amidst the

contemporary decor of the FACS lounge

One last item of alumni news which I want to mention is the fact that I met with

Jean (Nairn) Carter 38 and some of her committee recently I learned that they have

been making quite outstanding progress in establishing the trust fund that will support their new graduate student award in geronshy

tology The first award presentation of $1000 is being made this fall but members of the Class of 38 are still pushing on with their fund raising in order to bring the

annual trust-fund yield to a level of $2 000 We all think that the Class of 38 grads

have been quite remarkable in their detershymination to build up a significant fund to

support work in this important new field of scholarship and research I know that we

shall all appreciate your support for them in reaching their target

I met with Audrey Warner and Annette

Yeager 62 recently They advised me of their concern for the needs of teachers wantshy

ing to prepare themselves for adding Family Studies to their fields of professional speshy

cialization and of other teachers already working in that field who find themselves in need of some up-dating especially in view of the curriculum changes which appear to be around the corner

In this regard I want to mention two

items which might be of interest First our faculty in FACS have been

quite heavily engaged in working with

teachers and others in thinking planning debating and writing for the curriculum developme~ts envisaged for the Ontario Academic High School Credits

Most especially we have had as memshybers of the Canadian Family in Perspective group Dr Jean Sabry with her own special

interest in human nutrition Dr Grant

McCracken in clothing Drs Marshall Fine and Claude Guldner with their expertise in family relations and Drs Anne Martin Matshythews and Joe Tindale with their special strengths in life-span development and

aging - quite a team of contributors Secondly I want to mention in relation

to my meeting with Audrey and Annette that we now have a number of courses avai 1shy

able in a six-week format offered in summer sessions provided on campus

Perhaps of even more interest to those of you who wont find it practical to take

classes on campus at Guelph we have an annual offering of distance or corresponshy

dence-type courses Many of these will be of very pertinent

interest to a number of teachers The current list includes Human Development Marital and Family Dynamics Personal and Family Finance Development of Human Sexuality Nutrition and Man and the Exceptional Child in the Family

You can find out more about these

offerings by writing directly to Guelph Disshytance Education University of Guelph

Macdonald Institute shyFamily and Consumer Studies Alumni Assoc

Editor Carol Telford-Pittman 75

Guelph Ont NIG 2WI or by getting in touch with my office

One of the reasons that we have put

ourselves so significantly behind the development of these distance courses is that we did not have the resources to meet

the demand for providing our courses in the more traditional class format at locations

away from the Guelph campus As usual there is much more to share

with you but it will just have to hold until

my next letter I look forward to being in touch with you again then 0

Olive Thompson Honoured

Olive (Thompson) Thompson 35

-The Mac-FACS Alumni Association was very pleased to present a Citation of Appreshyciation to Olive (Thompson) Thompson

35 during Alumni Weekend 85 festivities Olive has given much time energy

support and leadership to the College and to the University through her years of involveshyment with the Mac-FACS Alumni Associashytion Class of Mac 35 activities and the University of Guelph Alumni Association

Our University s alumni organizations are stronger and more effective because of

the years of commitment and personal sershyvice that Olive has contributed

Olive - We salute you 0

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New at HAFA By John Hearn

Infonnation Services

An innovative course developed by the School of Hotel and Food Administration (HAFA) is focussing the attention of undershygraduates on the analysis of operational problems in the hospitality industry and the writing skills required to express and comshymunicate that analysis

Students are required to find summer jobs in the hospitality industry and then to write five papers of ascending complexity during the first semester of their second year using text readings specially edited for this course by the Schools Director Proshyfessor Tom Powers

We have a unique responsibility to prepare students not just for their first job but for future jobs further down the line says Dr Powers Possession of a university degree should imply an ability both to anashylyse problems and to communicate observashytions and recommendations In todays corporate world reports papers and letters are management tools and written comshymunication is a survival skill

The HAFA faculty decided further to emphasize writing skills by adopting a style manual developed by Professor Margaret Hund leby Department of Engl ish Language and Literature for this course as an integral part of the Schools other courses

In order to familiarize faculty with the use of the manual and the grading of student writing Professor Hundleby was invited to conduct a two-day workshop which atshytracted the attention of Vice-President Howard Clark and Associate Vice-President Janet Wardlaw as well as faculty from other disciplines s uch as psychology land resource science microbiology and history

The program Professor Hundleby told the seminar requires students to complete five report papers based on their own obsershyvations

The first paper requires a detailed description of the physical layout of the host operation plus an appraisal and operating cost analysis of its heating air-conditioning and ventilation systems

A second paper asks the student to describe and evaluate staff structure funcshytion compensation package and efficiency

Cost control is the subject of a third paper Purchasing practices food producshytion cost traCking and inventory manageshyment all come under this heading

Marketing is the fourth subject area What market segment is the operation aimed at What consumer need does the operation satisfy What is the nature of the

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Left to right- Professors Cathy Schrye Writing Centre Tom Muller HAFA Belty Upton HAFA Mike Jenkinson OAC 63 OAC dean s office Mary Rogers History and back to camera Bernie Katz Library reviewing cases drawn from studefll papers in a two-day workshop Evaluating Students Writing conducted by Professor Margaret Hundleby

competition in the target market

The fifth paper examines the intangishybles of management sty Ie How does the role of the manager affect relations with customshyers staff and head office

Professor Hundleby commenting on some of the problems of the course says whatever we call it students tend to conshyclude that what they re writing is an acashydemic paper of some kind - which of course it is - but we need to make the connection in their minds with the real the corporate world out there They also tend to think that longer is better and write about what they know - rather than what is import ant The development of a proper sense of for whom they are writing is itself a problem-solving skill

Another problem according to Proshyfessor Hundleby is what she calls the new illiteracy - a verbal dysfunction resulting from an impoverished vocabulary

Style too is a matter of considerable

AMPHI Spin-offs The School of Hotel and Food Administra shytions annual Advanced Management Pro shygram for the Hospitality Industry (AMPHI) now in its third year is spinning off new management development activities says HAFA Director Tom Powers Earlier this year 20 people attended a workshop on accounting and finance presented by Proshyfes sor William Braithwaite School of Agrishycultural Economics and Extension Educashytion and three similar programs will be offered in different parts of the country over the next year and a half

Another program still in the planning stage is a six-day hospitality managers development course designed for middle management by AMPHIs associate direcshy

concern She also mentioned careless senshytence structure style that is inappropriate to the content lack of connective logic failure to understand the nature of a paragraph as a literary entity the frivolous use of colloshyquiali sms an absence of any sense of the harmonious sound of words on paper and of course a growing list of commonly misused words - e g it could of had that affect

There s a tendency to see s tyle as a decorative flourish rather than as an aspect of content she concluded

Professor Powers sees the development of verbal communication skills as central to the whole idea of liberal education Cershytainly he says its useful for HAFA stushydents to understand how a cost control system works - but its at least as important to be able to think logically analyse logshyically and communicate conclusions in a way that is credible informative coherent and complete in fact these are the classic goals of a liberal education 0

tor Professor John Patterson and a consulshytant group of AMPHI alumni

AMPHI continues to attract internashytional attention participants in thi s years program which began in April include senior executives from many of North Americas most distinguished hotels and restaurants The four-week course offers an intensive program based primarily on case studies written by Professo rs Patterson -Braithwaite Carl Riegel and Tom Muller

The growing volume of AMPHI cases indicates that thi s is the largest s ingle research program currently under way in any hotel school in North America says Proshyfessor Powers AMPHls network of conshytacts is giving us access to a senior-level view of the industrys current problems and prospects 0

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Research AssociateComing Soon A AppointedModel Play Facility

Dr Joan Norris

Dr Joan Norris has held the position of Research Associate at the Gerontology Research Centre since last spring

Joan is working with faculty to develop and promote research related to population aging and is available for consultation with faculty on research design funding sources and publication

In addition to this development work she is continuing her personal program of research She works for the Gerontology Censhytre two days per week and the balance of her

The Family Studies Laboratory Schools pre-school play facility fell 10 a Grounds time is spent in the Department of Family Department wrecking machine recently Studies where she has held a faculty appointshy

ment since 1980 Joan holds a Ph D in Psychology from

the University of Waterloo and is also a regisshytered psychologist Her personal research

The Mllc-FACS Special Projects Commitshyinterests include social competence in older

tee Ito r Bonnie Kerslake 82 Association adults peer relationships and grandshy

president Linda (Wo[e) Markle 73 chairshyparenting 0

man and Gail Murray 78 Missing comshymillee member is Rita (Klassen) Weigel 77 The aim of the committee is to raise funds to redevelop the Family Studies Laboshy In Memoriam ratory Schools and raise itto the level where it will be regarded as a model pre-school

Eileen Margaret (Manahan) Alwayplay facility

390 October 21984 in Vancouver BC

Jean (Horrell) Atkinson 240 March 5 1985 in Aurora

Class of 35 Gift Oorothy (Lockard) Honsberger 300Centre panel Roman Carnival

In order to commemorate their anniversary July 51985 in Weiland Mac 35 has traditionally given a scholshyarship to a FACS student once every five Isabel J Lockerbie 300 March 31 years This year on the 50th anniversary of 1985 in Toronto their graduation and in addition to the scholarship an etching entitled Roman Patricia G (Smith) McKay-Barry 55 Carnival by Terry Legault has been added March 17 1985 in London Ont to the Universitys collection of Canadian alt The etching is hanging in the FACS Velma E (Conn) Partridge 260 April faculty lounge 29 1985 in Niagara Falls Ont shy

The theme of Roman Carnival was favoured by neo-clas sical and romantic Helen E (Kelly) Robinson 220 April painters during the 19th century The etching 30 1985 in Dundas captures the moment at which wild horses are released to race through the streets of Norma I (Motherwell) Roy 350 in Rome The artist has chosen to represent the Moosejaw Sask wild chaotic motion ot the horses rather than explicitly depict in detail the animals Lillian S (Moore) Usher 340 March 28 and the architectural background 0 1985 in Cobourg 0

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College of Physical Science Alumni Assoc SCIMP

Editor Bob Winkel

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Yes Dr Earl MacNaughtoll has relired alshylogelher bUI Ihis wonl be Ih e lasl you I hear from him reSI assured Before he and his wife Jean lOok oJf for Auslralia and New Zealand Deparlmenl of Physics slaf and faculty held a galhering al Ihe FacullY Club and presenled Ihe couple wilh an alumni clock

Back to Guelph

The headquarters for (GWC)2 came

back to Guelph in July for a threeshy

year period while Professor Robert Balahura Chemistry and Biochemisshy

try serves as director (GWC)2 offices have been set up

in Room 122 and 123 Physical Scishyences building The University of

Waterloo will maintain a satellite office during the three-year Guelph

rotation Dr Balahura and adminshy

istrative assistant Andrea Turner may

be reached at Ext 3865 0

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Physics Professor Elected to Royal Society

Bernhard Nickel

Department of Phy s ics Professor Bernhard Nickel has been elected a Fellow

of the Royal Society of Canada and was formally inducted into the Society at its

annual meeting in Montreal in June

A member of the Physics faculty since

1974 Professor Nickel is no stranger to

prizes and awards In 1981 he received the Herzberg Medal the Canadian Associashy

tion of Physicists award to a promising young scienti st In 1978 he won a Sloan

Fellowship from the New York-based Sloan Foundation

He achieved recognition by navigating

the esoteric seas of condensed matter physshy

ics Hi s co lleagues call him a leading masshyter in the art of mathematical physics By

exploiting the existing mathematical frameshywork in subtle ways he has worked through

thickets that have stopped other physic ists

High order perturbation calculations

done by him played a key role in verifying

the quantitative reliability of the theory of

underlying continuous phase transitions in systems

He earned BScE and MSc degrees from the University of Saskatchewan and a

PhD from the University of California at

San Diego He was a research associate at

Cornell and Oxford Universities and a postshy

doctoral research Fellow at the Univers itY of Alberta before coming to Guelph in 1974

He has been a visiting fellow at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory at the Univershy

sity of California at San Diego at Harvard

and at the Schlumberger-Doll Re searc h In stitute in Connecticut

With his election he becomes one of

six Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada at

Guelph The others are Professors Howard

Clark Peter Egelstaff Gabriel Karl Bruce Sells and Herbert Armstrong And it brings to five the number of me mbers of the

Guelph-Waterloo Program for Graduate Work in Physics (GWP)2 who can put the

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Halleys Comet and the Babylonians By Professors Nigel Bunce and Jim Hunt

The winter of 1985 and the spring of 1986 will lon g be remembered as the year of

Comet Halley No comet in history has so

stirred the imagination of man or been the

object of suc h intensive investigation Its easy to understand this interest when its

appreciated that Halleys Comet is the only recurring comet that is bright enough to be

seen with the naked eye ft was the g reat astronomer Edmund

Halley who in 1705 recognized the s imilarshy

ity of the appearances of the great comets of 1456 1531 1607 and 1682 He speculated that these were in fact one and the sa me

comet with a period of 75 or 76 years

He predicted that the comet would reshyturn in 175 8 a return he could not live to see With thi s Halley discovered the phenomeshy

non of periodic comets and thus showed

that they were members of our solar system

The comet dutifully returned in 1835

and spectacularly so in 1910 In the latter

year circumstances were such that after its

perhelion passage (the point closest to the

Sun) the Earth and the comet approached

each other very closely The comet was so close that at one time its tail spread from

horizon to horizon The return in 1985-86 will be considshy

erably less spectacular In fact for Canadishyans it will not be easy to observe s ince the

time of perhelion is in Febnlary when the

Sun is very low in the sky The view will be -much better from more southerl y latitudes Over the years historica l records have

been found which record every passage of the comet back to 12 BC M any of these obshy

servations come from Chinese records first published in 1846 A well-authenticated

passage was that of 1066 which was reshy

corded on the Bayeux tapestry by the mother

of William of Nonnand y and taken as an cOllld on righl

Grad News Paul Ferguson BSc 67 of Ede n Mill s is president of EIS Systems Ltd and travelled in New Zealand this summer

Walter Lock BSc 67 of Denfield is practising medicine in Lucan

Tjeerd Homan BSc 69 of Calgary Alta is manager research and development services for Petro-Can He is enjoying his family Carla Sarah and John Menno and his hobbies of golf curling and skiing

(GWP)2 Poster Session a First

Earlier this year the Guelph- Waterloo Proshygram for Graduate Work in Physics (GWP)2 staged its first annual poster session for graduate s tudents Poster sessions which are becoming increasingly popular in scienshytific circles allow interaction between researchers and delegates without the time pressures encountered when presenting con shyventional papers at meetings says (GWP)2 Director lain Campbell

The first annual (GWP)2 poste r sesshysion which was followed by a soc ial hour and banquet was highly successful in genershyating interaction says Campbell By the end of the session there were still clusters of people arguing the finer points of scientific interpretation on many of the posters These exchanges continued right through the soshycial hour and into dinner Interaction is what science is all about

Encouraging interaction between stushydents and faculty is one of Campbells prishyorities as Director It is too easy for students to tuck themselves into a corner and work away in isolation They need to get out and ex plain their work both to experts and to

omen of his victory over the Saxons Based on this long record various

mathematical analyses of the orbit of the comet have been produced These account very accurately for the known passages of the comet However when these various anshyalyses are pushed back beyond 12 BC they predict widely varying dates for the previous appearances Before 12 B c there are ani y two vague Chinese records in 87 BC and 240 B c which mayor may not have been Halleys comet

In a recent issue of Nature a team of

Ernest Campbell BSc 69 lives in Campbell ville and teaches science for the Halton Board in Burlington

Richard Davis BSc 77 having comshypleted his MD University of Toronto 83 and his internship at Womens College Hosshypital will be setting up his practice in family medicine in his home town of Guelph

Larry Meek BSc 77 of Ottawa is pashytient administrator and computing officer for the National Defence Medical Centre His hobbies include sailing and skiing

Andre Brunet BA 81 is working for Amdahl Ltd as fieldsystems engineer and lives in Sudbury with his wife Monique (Puellette) FACS 80

Cathy Deakin BSc 81 is presently articshyling with the law firm of Little Reeves Mahoney Jarrett amp Hart of London

Andrew Dubrawski BSc 82 and his wife Alicia (Wodecka) BSc 81 live in Toronto where he works as a communicashytions systems analyst for CNCP Telecomshymunications 0

10hn Root 81 a (GWP)2 PhD s tudent left aflracts an audience

non-experts It takes a deliberate effort on our part to generate and maintain this intershychange

The poster session was the largest scishyentific or social event yet staged by (GWP)2 Some 18 students presented posters and about 90 students faculty and prospective students attended

The posters are on display in the two departments of physics to give others an opportunity to view them At Gue lph they are in the second floor corridor of the Physshyical Science Building near the Department

scholars from England and Vienna reported the finding of two fragments of Babylonian tablets in the British Museum that clearly report the appearance of the comet in 87 BC and 164 B C The records are so clear that by calculation not only the year but the time of year for the perhelion passage can be determined

For example the 164 BC apparition has been narrowed down to a date someshywhere between November 5 and 25 of that year The 87 BC record is not as accurate nevertheless its perhelion passage can be

of Physics office Encouraged by the s uccess of the

poster sess ion lain Campbell is planning another high-profile event for (GWP)2 to recognize award-winning faculty He plans a fall symposium at which three (GWP)2 members who received major honours durshying 1985 will give short lectures to be folshylowed by a sherry reception The three honoured faculty are Gicinto Scoles Killam Fellowship winner Bernhard Nickel Felshylow of the Royal Society of Canada and John Simpson Rutherford medalist 0

narrowed down to July 25 to August 15 These observations while inaccurate

to the extent of 20 days are still accurate enough to eliminate three of the four leading -calculations of the motion of Comet Halley This is a striking example of how archaeoshylogical investigations may have a strong effect on many diverse subjects in this case com~tary astronomy 0

We welcome questions and ideas for future articles Write to the authors clo the Deans Office Cole fe ofPhysical Science Univershysity of Guelph Guelph Ontario NIG 2WI

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College of Social Science Alumni Assoc PEGASmiddotUS

Editor Dorothy Barnes 78

Our Annual Picnic We Illissed you I All of you who didnt make it to our CSSAA picnic during Alumni Weekend 85 But despite the few members and families that did attend we had a good time The pictures tell the story

Here are some of us arriving (l) and setting up the eats We had good food and why not It was a tillle to enjoy relax and have some fun We had games for all ages including catch-the-eggs (2) with real raw eggs

AmI of course whats a picnic without a drop of rain) But President John came prepared with a tarpaulin (3) for those afrnid ofilleiting The k)od and the day were saved Hurrah for our presidenl

Thcre were some brave soul s who unshydaunted by the weather carried on with their baseball game Then of course there was one young partiCipant (4) who was seen scratching hcr head 1I1d wondering what was going on

All in all we had a great time You would have too if youd bcen thcre So makc a mental notc or tic a string around your tingcr toc anywhere that will reillind you that you missed a good outing at th e Aluillni Wcckend 85 CSSAA picnic and that you should makc pl ans now to join us in June 86 at Alumni Wcekend 86 0

A Joy to Behold Her work has the shi mmer of life Such is said of artist Joy Elizabeth (Snihur) Laking Fine Art CSS 72 Joys art is intimately tied to the seasons In spring and summer she works against the perilous fadshying of fresh flowers capturing them in clean powerful designs

Fa ll afternoons on the grassy salt marshes around her home in Portaupigue Nova Scotia inspire wider scenes of rich changing colours

The respite of winter is her time for land and peoplescapes evolved from her ow n photography Her art is created within the context of family community and nature

Joy was introduced to hcr chosen lifeshystyle by her mother - they used to go sketching while Joy was a child in Owen Sound on Lake Huron s Georgian Bay shyand has painted since she can remember She now lives on the edge of the Bay of Fundy with husband Ronald OAC 72 and two cherubs where she can paint every day and capture the beauty she sees around her Whether it be mud and Illarsh a rusted truck and some farmyard geese or caterpillar holes in azalea leaves Joy is able to capture in watercolour the essence and beauty of all she sees

She is noted for her special ability to create white flowers on white paper by givshying the petals shape and vivid life with only a whisper of colour and shadow Light delishycate handling and mcticulous control fused with a powerful design se nse distinguishes her art

Joy is a well established artist and has had se lected exhibitions of her paintings at the Tom Thompson Memorial Art Gallery Owen Sound 1981 Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery Halifax NS 1982 Gallery 1889 Tatamagouche NS 1983

Daffodils By Joy (Snihur) Laking 72

Truro Art Society Truro NS 1984 and the Royal Botanical Gardens Burlington Onl 14

She was deservedly honoured to have the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia purchase one of her paintings for its collection and the Maritime Tel amp Tel chose a Laking painting for the cover of Nova Scotias 1985 telephone directory

Joy says I paint what I live what I see and what touches me It s no wonder then that Joy has been able to successfully transshyfer such sensitivity to her work in a way that has produced tine work s of art as demonshystrated in Daffodils reproduced here 0

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Grad News Terry Goddard 76 wrote to let us know

where he is and what hes doing After gradshyuation Terry turned to the world of engishy

neering and worked at the Bechtel Intershy

national Syncrude project in northern Alberta for a year He retu rned to school and obtained a Masters degree in Politi cal Theshyory in 1978 at the University of Toronto

TIle next nine months were spent workshying at Dhaharan Saudi Arabi a While the re

Terry contemplated the action which would

give him the best career move His deci s ion to go into teach ing led him back to the Unishy

versity of Toronto to obtai n his BEd His teachin g career took hi m to northshy

e rn Saskatchewan whe re he taug ht at a village which if not actually at the end of

the world was situated close enough that the end was plainly visible from the nOI1hern

outskirts He returned to Toronto someshywhat sated with academe and once again

turned to engineering He has been director of maintenance for the Jewi sh Com munity

Centres of Toronto for the past five years He has fou nd it difficult to keep in

touch with fellow grad s Especia lly th ose who studied in Professor Melby s Chinese

poIitic s courses and who were known as the Shanghai Mafia - they are all over the

world now Hes sure they often recall with fondness their days at Unigoo

Where are you former students of Proshyfessors Simmo ns and MelbYTerry would be interested in hearing from you - and so would we

Robin-Lee Norris 80 has been awarded

a $19000 Rot ary Foundation Scholarship to

pursue g radua te studi es in the Masters of Business Administration program at the

Univers ity of Adelaide Adelaide Australia Robin-Lee went o n to graduate from

Osgoode Hall Law School with an LLB

was called to the Ontario Bar in ApriJ of 1982 and has practised law with the tirm of

Kearns McKin non inGuelph since herca ll She took a ten-mo nth leave of absence

commenc ing in February 1985 from her positi on with Kearns McKinno n in o rder to take ad vantage of the sc holarship

During her months in Australia her mandate from Rotary Internatio nal in addishy

tion to pursuing her stud ies is to act as a Rotary and Canadian Ambassador in proshy

moting good will and understanding beshytween Australians and Canadians

A thank you goes to Cliff Hardy buildshying mechanic superv isor Main tenance Deshypartment Physical Resources for supplying us with thi s information and an aside to Robin-Lee when she reads this I was unable

to reach you betore you left to congratulate

you and get more informati on on your award If you have some free time we wOllld love to hea r from you about your studi es

what a Rotary and Canadian ambassador

does and to have you share your ex perience of being down-under

Marilyn Kernohan Morrison 78 has taken the time to Jet us know that shes living in Napanee with hu sba nd Brian She has

tempora ril y se t aside her ca reer to be a home-maker tor Brian and their four-monthshy

old son

Prior to their move to Napanee to acshycommodate Brians tran sfer - he work s with the Ministry of Natural Resources shy

Marilyn and family lived in a small comshymunity northwest of Thunder Bay After

Gue lph Marilyn continued her ed ucation at the comm unity college level and com pleted

a program for counse llors of the mentally

retarded SheJI be returnin g to thi s fi e ld when she again becomes a wage earner

Doris E (Trachsel) OKeefe 74 is deshy

scribed by husband John Paul 74 as a household engineer John Paul is a reshy

source teacher with the Waterloo County Board of Education With such a title I

couldnt resis t phon ing Doris to find out exactly what the duti es of a household enshy

gi neer are

While Doris decl ined to give a cletinishytion of the titl e l detected some surprise and delight that John Paul appreciates what it

takes to look after a famil y and a home

Doris is trying to re turn to teaching but is findin g it difficult in the Cambridge

Waterloo area If she isnt successful shes planning alternatives such as enrolment at Guelph in a Masters program o r failing that enrolment in courses that will he lp her

ac hieve her long-range goa ls She and John Paul recen tly moved from

London Ont to Cambridge Prior to the

birth of Erin now a two-year-old Doris was teac hing boys with behaviourial problems

and she sees thi s as an asset when applying for teaching positions Erin has a six-yearshyold brother Sean so you can understand

perhaps that Doris has been bu sy and maybe she is aptly described as a houseshy

hold engi neer

J Barry Baldwin 69 is a teac her with the Elgin County Board of Education S t Thomas Barry married Linda Janet Wii son They live in Aylmer West

M Rachel (Curtis) Towe 69 is manager customer systems Bell Canada She and

husband Ken live in Guelph

M Lois (Robinson) Harris 70 li ves in Newmarket with husband Fred

B Hugh Schofield 72 is an industrial engi neer with Rockwell Int e rnati o nal C hat ham He and wife Susan (Haslelt)

FACS 78 live in Chatham

Paul Davis 73 is an underwrite r analyst with Co-opera tors General In sura n ce

Guelph Paul and wife Linda (DozeH) 73 and 81 live at Brookhaven Court Guelph

Carol Finlayson 74 is a letter carrier lor Canada Post Carol and husband John Balch live in Toronto

Pal Hamilton 74 is an expon market deshyvelopment specialist with the O ntario Minshyistry of A gricu lture and Foo cl mark et

development branch Toronto He and his wife Diane (Coates) OAC 72 live in

Toronto

Kerrie Sirathy MA 78 advises us that

she is a s tud en t at th e Univcrsity of Sakatchewan Sas katoon

Vicky Sutherland 78 is an air trartie conshy

troller with Air Canada at FoI1 McMurray Airpo l1 Alta and lives in F0I1 McMurray

Sounds like an intercsting job - perhaps youl l share SOIllC experie nces with us Vicky

Marlin Thissen 78 is a foreman with the

region or Halton at ih Milton wa ter po llushytion control plant

Evelyn Evie (Isaacs) Whilwham 80 is a planning ass istant with Union Gas Co Ltd Chatham She and hu sba nd Bob have

c hanged their address They are at 70 Ottawa Drive C ha tham Ont N7L 216 0

In Memoriam A lormer faculty mcmber in the DeshypaI1ment of Geography Barsa Kelly was among the victims of the Air India Hight 182 disaster that occ urred

off the coas t of Irel and las t June ~ mr(sa Vas headed tor India on a reshy

search project at the time of her

death S he was the wife of Protessor Kenneth Kelly Department of Geogshyra phy On behalf of its members and all those who chc ri shed their con tacts with Barsa the Board of Directors of the College of Social Science Alumni Association extend their s incere symshy

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College of Biological Science Alumni Assoc BIOmiddotALUMNI NEWS

Editor Marie (Boissonneault) Rush 80

HONORARY PRESIDENT Professor Bruce Sells Dean

PRESIDENT David Airdrie BSc 82 Microbiology

PAST PRESIDENT Dr Chris Wren BSc 77 Marine Biology PhD 83

VICE-PRESIDENT Dee Britney BSc 74 Fisheries amp Wildlife MSc 81

SECRETARY-TREASURER Kclly Munkittrick BSc 80 Fisheries amp Wildshylife MSc 83

DIRECTORS Lorraine Bruce-Allen BSc 80 Zoology MSc 84 Jim Elliott BSc 79 Marine Biology Keith Harris BSc 76 Marine Biology Dr Doug Holdway BSc 76 Marine Biology MSc 78 Aquatic Toxicology PhD 83 Krista (McAuley) Soper BSc 79 Marine Biolshyogy Karin Davidson-Taylor BSc 83 Zoology

From Dave Airdrie 82 the

President How time flies when youre having fun Your editor Marie (Boissonneault) Rush 80 tell s me that this note to you will be in the Fall issue of the Guelph Alumnus so Ill bring you up to date on happenings since your 1985-86 Board of Directors was inshystalled in June

The CBS Alumni Association was parshyticularly busy during June Alumni Weekshyend events including the Wildlife Art Show and Sale and the barbecue at the Rockwood Conservation Area were well attended

Thanks must go to Krista (McAuley) Soper 79 and Lorraine Bruce-Allen 84 for their first-rate efforts in organizing and running the art show From all accounts it was ex tremely well done and is sure to be repeated in 1986

Further thanks mu st go to Keith Harshyris 76 for his efforts in once again organizing the barbecue at Rockwood Keith has done a terrifi c job with this event s ince its inception Hopefully these two events will be expanded in the coming year

Last spring the objective of $10 000 for the Keith Ronald Fellowship Fund was reached and we thank all who generously contributed to this fund Its to be hoped that this is only the first of many scholarships initiated through the CBSAA

Many of you will now be aware of the changes which the Universitys Department of Alumni Affairs has undergone in rece nt months Most important is the arrival of Marjorie Millar as director of the Departshyment It seems that President Matthews is placing greater emphasis on the importance of the Department due in part to the impenshyding capital campaign I am sure that youll all notice many beneficial innovations

The CBSAA has I feel reached a point in its development where we must heighten our profile both among alumni and undershygraduates In order to increase the awareness of the Association the Board has plans to embark on some new programs

The goals are as I see them two-fold first of all we need YOU to get more inshyvolved whether its participation in our proshygrams or s upport for the Assoc iation through your membership The fact that youre reading this demonstrates an interest which we would like to heighten

Secondly we re working at helpin g undergraduates before graduation to beshycome more aware of our Association Hopeshyfully we ll get helpful input and suggestions from many of you in the near future Reshymember - YOUR alumni association is what YOU make it

Dave Airdrie BSc 82 President Colshylege of Biological Science AA

FACULTY ADVISORS Dr Denis Lynn Zoology Dr Margaret Hauser M icroshybiology Dr John Hilton Nutrition Dr John Sandys Award Phillips Botany amp Genetics Dr Brian Wilson Human BiologyKinetics The Ontario Confederation of University

Faculty Associations (OCUFA) has awarded UGAA REPRESENTATIVES Karin Dr Alexander Sandy Middleton DepartshyDavidsonTaylor BSe X) Zoology Keith ment of Zoology one of the nine OCUFA Harris BSc 76 Marinc Biology Rob Teaching Awards for 1984 Milnc BSe XI MSe 84 Marine Bio Dr Middleton was nominated for this -award by colleagues students administrashyEX-OFFICIO DIRECTORS Ed Berdusco tors alumni and faculty It acknowledges president CBSSC Steve Spring past presishy outstanding ability and is considered to be dent CBSSC the provinces highest honour for excellence

in university teaching HKAA REPRESENTATIVE Nick Dalton I think there are two keys to being an BSe 77 Human Kinetics effective teacher Sandy says One is to

have respect for the student the other is to EDITOR RIO-ALUMNI NEWS Marie make a genuine intellectual and time comshy(Boissonneault) Rush B Se XO Marine mitmcnt to the course Biology 0 Dr Alexander Middleton Congratulations Dr Middleton 0

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Grad News Human Biology

Cathy Knipe BSc 79 MSc 83 is a Ph D st ud ent at Iowa State University Ames Iowa USA She is studying Moshylecular Biology

Shelly Lugg BSc 83 is a stude nt at Simon Fraser University Burnaby BC

Human Kinetics

Susan (Wright) Kwiatkowski BSc 80 is a recreation therapist at York Central Hosshypital Toronto Her spouse Ed graduated from Ryerson in 1979

Donna Marie (Kadwell) 1vose BSc 79 and husband John ji ve in Thorold Shes a physica l education supervisor at the Niagara Peninsula Crippled Childrens Centre

Mary Ellen (Mew) Walker BSc 83 is the activity co-ordinator at Spruce Lodge Stratford

Dr Ken Danylchuk BSc(PE) 73 is a s ur ge ry re s ident at the H itchcockshyDartmouth Medical Center Hanover N H USA

Kathryn (Tarry) Myers BSc 78 is a teacher with the Middlesex COunty Board of Educati on Hyde Park

WildUfe

Vicky Johnston 84 bega n an MSc at Lakehead University Thunder Bay in May Shes working on the reprodu ctive biology of Lake Superior rin g-billed gull s

Nutrition

Or 0010 Ohiokpehai 77 lectures in food and nutrition at the Unive rs ity of Ife Nigeria

Microbiology

John Semple 78 is a PhD ca ndidate in the Department of Mic rob iology amp Immushynology at Queens Uni vers ity Kingston He will be doing a post-doctora l at the Banting amp Best Depattment of Medica l Research University of Toronto

Unspecialized

Peter Adams 79 and Beth (Sarjeant) 79 are happy to announce their recent marshyriage Beth is a research technici an with the Depanment of Medicine Univers ity of Ca lshygary Alta and Peter operates a business with the se ismic service industry

Marine Biology

Jorgen Hansen 75 and his wife Drusilla (Dol be) Arts 75 live in Gloucester Jorge n is a staff officer with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Ottawa

CoUege Honour RoU - Winter 85 Semester 06

Margorie Fe rgusson 894 Human Biology JoAnna Milan 860 Biology

Semester 07 Sandra Noble 856 Microbiology

Semester 08 Marga ret Docker 876 Marine Biology Thomas Johnston 87 0 Fi sheries Biology Debra Underhill 858 Microbi ology

James Wright 858 Biology Tobin Peever 854 Botany

Alexander Hanke 852 Zoology Rebecca Rodgers 852 Human Bi ology

Tracey Robin son 882 BSc( HK ) Rebecca Halonen 880 BSc(HK )

Swdent has obtained standing for second time Student has obtaincd standing for third time

Home Town

Oakville Ottawa

Dorchester

Guelph New Liskeard Kingston Thunder Bay Bracebridge Grafton Calgary Alta Guelph Georgetown

Donald MacLennan 75 and hi s wife Katherine live in Chatham Donald is a biologi st-supervisor with the Ministry of Natural Resources Lake SI Clair Fisheries Assessmen t Unit Tilbury 0

College of Biological Science

Alumni Association

Wildlife Art Show

Well it happened June 15 and 16 have come and gone but not withshyout event The Graduate Students Lounge was transformed from a cozy meeting place into an an gallery There was much movi ng of furniture and hanging of an work with the end product being our fi rst ever CBSAA Wildlife Art Show

In total there were 20 wildlite artists partic ipating all tine ani sts in their own right Maybe you reshymember Ut a Stre live a nd Dr Ed Bailey Wow I You should see their wood works

Rick Beaver 73 also showed some of his work hes a wildlife imshypressionist and the colour and move shyment he paint s into each piece is eloquent Donald Dority 76 showed us the line photographer he has become There were other ani sts - too many to mention but all of extremely high calibre

Id like to mention one las t name though - Cindy Hayward manager of the Graduate Students Lounge If you ever need a steady hand to get an event off the ground shes the one to co ntact Without her hel p there would have been a whole heap of orshyga ni za tional problems From which we would have been unable to escape

All in all we had a successful show Thanks artists and viewers for making our efforts worthwhile 0

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New Minister of AgricultureOntario Agricultural College Alumni Assoc OAC ALUMNI NEWS

Editor Dr Harvey W Caldwell 51

Ontari OS new mini ster of ag riculture Jack Riddell 52A and 57 a cash crop farmer from the Exeter area comes to the position of Ontario s Mini ster of Agriculture and Food with ten years of expe rience as Liberal caucus cr itic for agriculture

The min is ter sa id that life under a Libshyeral government will give agriculture a higher priority than it has ex perienced in the past It will be considered one of the major industries in this province

Jack also pro mi sed to consult a great

Basic Technology in Action shyTurning Stones Into Bread By Ann Middleton Information Services

A new University of Guelph projec t in Tanza nia Africa should aid th e Third Wo rld s ubsistence leve l farmer The $400000 three-year projec t funded by the International Development Resea rch Centre (IDRC) will invol ve fltlculty of the Uni vershysitys Department of Land Resou rce Sc ience and Soko ine Uni versity of Ag riculture in Morogoro Central Tanza ni a Aim of the enterpri se is to use loca lly ava il ab le rock materials as soil amendm en ts and con shyditioners

The project came about when Ott awas IDRC brought together a team of two geo logists with an interest in improving co nshyditions for African farmers Professor Ward Chesworth with the Department of Land Resource Science has a long-standing intershyes t in turning rock s into fertili zers deshyve loped during work in West Africa and the Canltlry Islands where local farmers have spread volcanic rock on their field s for two centu ries In his lab and in the Blue Springs basin near Acton Ontario Professor Chesshyworth has been conducting experiment s on the levels at which common rocks re lease nutri ents into soil solutions

The other team member Dr Peter van Straltl ten is ori ginally from Germany but spe nt e ight years with the United Nations in Tan zania looking for metals and metal deshyposi ts and working on an in ve ntory of ferti shyli zer raw materials in south-east Africa

During thi s period Tanza nian food production per capita fell dramaticall y leadshying Dr van Strltlaten to try to find ways to help the food situation In ex periments in his garden in Dodomo Tanzaniltl he was able to increase yields of vegetables using locally

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available geological materia ls and organic wastes

Noting the common interes ts of the two men the Canadian age ncy introd uced them and Dr van Straaten relocated in Guelph Co-ordinators of the project are Professor Cheswo rth and Tan za ni an sc ie nti st Dr Johnson Semoka of Sokoine University coshyauthor of a text on so il sc ience much used in agricultural circles in Africa

Technical assistant Peter Sl11i th is working with Tanzanian rock specimens in the Land Resource Science lab and two other Tanzanian scientists will be involved

In addition to academics from bo th institutions members of the Geological Survey of Tanzania will also work on the project both in the Morogoro area and at Mbeya station in south-western Tanzania

Roc k sa mples will be collected and crushed and field tests and pot ex periments carried out here and on location When reshysu lt s have bee n obtained extension work will begin in Africa under the direc tion of Dr Semoka It is hoped that members of a Me nnonite Central Committee group workshying at Mbeya will design a simple rock crusher for the use of local farmers

Tanzania has a major phosphate deshyposi t wh ich will be tapped by the project as well as ground s ilicates including volcanic ash Liming materials such as limestone dolomite marl and ca rbonatite will also be evaluated

Professor Chesworth points out that alshythough No rth Americans place much emshyphasi s on the big three of soil nutrition shynitrogen phosphorus and potassium (NPK) - there are actually about 20 necessary

deal with the farm organizations on the direction his ministry should be taki ng

I dont believe that we can sit in our so-ca ll ed ivory towers and introduce the kind of programs that are go ing to be mea nshyingful unless we get consultation from the farmers and their spokes people

He has been a member of the provincial legislature for 12 years He spent his first two years as energy cri tic and later environshyment critic before mov ing into agriculture Jack and Anit a have a family of five 0

nutrie nts including the minor ones In some areas of Tanza nia the decline

in soil fe rtility is in part due to the settling of widespread populations into villages where land has been used without concern for nutrients Tn other part s of the country productivity has declined because of leachshying of plant nutrie nts durin g normal rainfall and also from the continuous use of acidifyshying fertilizers such as ammo nium su lphate Dr Chesworth point s out that the current practice of NPK fe rtili zation totally ignores secondary and micronut rient requirements of plants It is hoped that the projec t wilt address thi s problem

Our approac h is basic tec hn ology our target group the poorest far mers Dr van Straaten explains One of the problems in the past Dr Ches worth says has been convincing agronomists that it s worth purshysuing this kind of elementary tec hnology approach Theyre very skeptical that you can take common roc ks wi thou t major inshydustrial proces ing and use them to advanshytage on tropical soils

A s ideline area of research is work with zeolites open framework si licates that often occ ur in volcanic rocks Some zeolites can be used to trap nitrogen in the form of ammonia which would otherwise be los t in gaseous form When added to cow manure for exampl e and stomped in by the beasts themselves zeolites enrich an already valushyabl e fertil ize r Dr van Straaten explains

The zeolite research is being carried out in co njunction with Professor Colin Fyfe Department of Chemistry an intershynat io na ll y kn ow n authority o n zeo lit e -che mi stry

Orie result of the work of the Un ive rs ity of Guelph geo logists is an ag rogeology ne tshywork currentl y being set up bya number of African cou ntries as the result of di sc usshysions following a paper by Dr van Straaten and Professor Chesworth The paper was given recently at meetings of the UN Ecoshynomic Commiss ion for Africa in Zambia 0

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A Designing Grad The need for a summer job six years ago has ended in a Guelph grad des igning golf courses

When in 1979 Lisa Maki now

BLA 84 was searching for a job that would assist her in her studies at the Univershysity she applied to the city of Kitchener

She could have wound up in any

number of areas in the parks and recreation department but Rockway and Doon Valley

course superintendent Ed Ortlieb gave her the chance to join the work crew at Rockway fltor the first couple of years it was just a job that got her outdoors in the summer then by chance she got interested in the game itself

And now shes embarked on a career in golf course design

Lisa the 24-year-old oldest daughter of Ted Maki a former general manager of the

Lisa Maki BLA 84 Kitchener Rangers left last July for Lakeshyland Florida where she Joined Links Deshysign which de sig ns and oversees golf course construction throughout the United 1983 and a friend of the family who knew States The company is considered the sec shy was interested in golf course work arranged ond-largest of its type behind the one run by a meeting with Ronald Garl said Lisa I US golf legend Jack Nicklaus who deshy had an official job interview in April of 84 signed the Glen Abbey course in Oakville and then went to Florida in August of the

How does a young Kitchener woman same year to familiarize myself with the

end up working for Ronald Garl a 40-yearshy firms projects

old graduate of the University of Florida Because I had focused much of my who apprenticed under such well-known deshy University work on such things as turf man shy

signers as Roben Trent Jones and Joseph agement and had done pan of my bachelor Lee Again it was just a chance opportunity of landscape architecture thes is on what

We were in Florida in December of makes British golf courses great and the

Sisters of Accident Victims Receive Diplomas

A tragic accident just prior to Spring Convocation resulted in the deaths oftwo graduands of the Associate Diploma in Agriculture Program Jeff Bikus 85A of West Lome and Nick Davidson 85Afrom Zimbabwe Joy Davidson sister ofNick came from Zimbabwefor the Convocation She was sponsored by the OAC Alumni Association Classes of85A alld 86A Norm McCollulIl 66A honorary class president 85A Don and MiidredMcCollum Jenny Ballentine and her parents Dr Steve Bowley 78 and80 honorary class president 86A and the University Centre Administration Our sympathy is extended to the families and friends of these two popular studel1ls Pictured are Ito r Jenny Ballantine friend ofJeff Bikus Lealln Bikus sister of Jeff Joy Davidson sister of Nick and Klaus Kristiansen a studellt from Zimbabwe

other on golf course residential design he was impressed

In order to learn what made British

courses great Lisa spent a semester in Engshyland and Scotland visiting researching sketching photographing and playing 16 historic courses including the famous links courses which by tradition are the

only clubs to host the British Open Links layouts are courses that border the sea and have been built or developed over sand

bases

Approximately 15 students a year take

advantage of the School of Land scape Arshychitectures Semester Abroad Program fi shynancing the trips themselves However the program is supported by an annual $5000 grant from the Alma Mater Fund so alumni can claim a cenain amount of credit for Lisas success She was a recipient in 1983

of part of that years AMF grant Im not sure my mother and father

were very keen about my trave lling around England and Scot lane all alone but it was a truly great experience she said middot1 not only met many wonderful and helpful peoshyple got to play the great courses like St

Andrew s Royal Troon Turnberry and my favorite of all Royal Dornoch

After a complicated and lengthy US immigration process which took nearly a year she was granted her permanent work

visa She was in regular contact with her new

boss after returning to Kitchen er - she re turned to work at Rockway and Doon while awaiting the vi sa approval - and then last July plunged immediately into

projects including work at a mens tournashyment players 36-hole complex in Sarasota and a Ladies Professional Golf Assoc iation course in Melbourne where she worked in association with LPGA tour players Beth Daniels and Sally Little

Despite the fact that the job involves

vy ing with rattlesnakes alligators and Iild

pigs when I have to tramp through forests and swamps in applying my design work to certain areas I love the outdoor work Lisa

said At the same time she doesnt have any

probleIl1s giving orders to hard-hatted heavy-machinery construction workers when she is the field supervisor for on-site

work think I may have raised a few eye shy

brows when I staned work at Rockway but I was accepted

Lisa isnt sure how long this pan of her life will last and she has no way of knowing whether any of her courses will eve r be known as Lisa Maki layouts But that doesnt

concern her They may be Links Design projects but Ill know they were basically my courses 0

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Klink Lecture Dr Doug Morrison 49 Department of Poultry Science was chosen to deliver the 1985 Klink Lecture

The Klink lecture is ~ponsored by the Agricultural Inst itute of Canada and named after the Institute s founding president Preshysented by an outstanding lecture r the lecture is delivered through a coast-to-coast tour and concerns a topic of current significance to the agricultural industry and the nation

Dr Morri son stated that there is a need for professionalization in an imal agriculshyture in order to give it an improved image and make it more acceptable to the conshysumer

Address ing members of the Ontario Inshystitute of Agrologists in London Ontario he told his audience that the agriculture inshydustry in Canada ranks among the best in the world and producers have to ensure thi s is shown and make sure that peer pressure prevents producers from doing things that we cant defend

He suggested some type of professhysiona l approach established by the farming organization whereby expertise would be required instead of merely encouraged

This is a mu ch beller ap proach th an some edict from society through governshyment legi slation I strong ly object to legislashytion designed to protect me from myself he said adding that there are currently enough regulations existent through legislation that dictate what farmers can and cannot do

If a farmer were a profess ional hi s reward wou Id be in profits - about as meanshyingful a reward as has ye t been devised

Benefits of a more professionalized approach would include an improved image of the farmer to the consumer an increase in communication a more efficient industry

which is essential for competition improved knowledge on the fa rmers part of health nutrition care markets etc and more awareness of soc ietys concerns

In turn it would also be necessary to provide beller information to the consumer through an educational process because if soc iety is to pay for increased inputs for the long- term good of the nat ion then it is essential society be adequately informed

Morrison remarked that he fee ls the maj ori ty of animal agriculturists are in fact professionals but there has to be a concerted e ffort to at tract as lew people as possible in to the business who do not understa nd farmshying or who are doing things that are unacshyceptable

Consumer concern over dietary value or the amount of drugs contained in animal product s is also reason for farmers to tak e a professional approach They should work to alleviate any misreprese ntations and misin shyformation the public is receiving the proshyfessor noted s tating that farm ers have never produced food as safe and as wholeshysome as it is today

By the turn of the century on a world basis meat consumption is predicted to in shy

crease by abou t 60 per cent while the intake of milk is expected to increase by almost 40 per cent

A major fac tor for this rise in intake result s from th e fact that developing nations will begin to consume animal products as soon as they can afford them China is an excellent exa mple of this said the professor who commented that nation is now movshying as rapidly as possible to increase animal production

With all these factors is mind Dr Morshyri son sa id he is optimistic for the future of the Canad ian animal agriculture industry

Weve got the opportunities and can take advantage of them he said 0

Mark Bernards 85 cenlre was the recipienl oftwo OAC Alumni Foundation awards the OAC Alumni Graduate Award and the Beth Duncan Gold Medal Left is Gord Nixon 37 Foundashytion chairman and director and right NR Rick Richards 38 treasurer

Entrepreneur in Residence

Dr Donald Shaver

Dean Freeman McEwen is pleased to be working with Dr Donald McQueen Shaver the Universitys first Agricultural Entreshypreneur-i n-Res idence

Dr Shaver a native of Cambt idge Onshytari o is found er chairman and chief exshyecutive officer of Shaver Poultry Breed ing Farms Limited The compan y distributes chicken breeding stock to 90 countries from its head office in Cambridge and three subshysid iaries in the United States Britain and France He retired from his executive reshysponsib ilities on August 30 but is conshytinuing as director and adv isor to the company

From 1940 to 1945 Dr Shaver served with the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps in Africa and Europe retiring as regimental commanding officer He is past president of the Canadian Hatchery Federation the Poulshytry Products Institute of Canada the Canashydian Lincoln Red Society and Maine-Anjou Association He is a member of the Order of Canada Honorary Life Member of the Worlds Poultry Science Association and the Ontario Institute of Agrologi sts He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Science by McGill University and the Centennial Medal by the OAC

The Entrepreneu r-in-Reside nce pro shygram was initiated and financially supshyported by OAC Class of 58 to champion -the role of private enterpri se within soc iety The appointment is for a two-year period during which time Dr Shaver will present lectures lead workshops and consult with faculty and students

The Agricultural Entrepreneur-in-Resishydence program at the University is believed to be a first in agr icultural education around the world 0

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University Of Guelph Involved in $68 Million Chinese Project The University of Guelph has embarked on a co-operative $68 million project that will ~ink five Canadian and Chinese universities and agricultural institutions

The four-year Black Dragon River Proshyjeo supported by the Canadian Internashytional Deve lopment Agency (C IDA) involves Guelph the University of Alberta Olds College in AlbeI1a and two Chinese institutions - Heilongjiang Land Reclamashytion University and Liu He Training College in northeastern Heilongjiang Province

Under th e term s of the agreement training will be provided at the three Canashydian institutions for personnel from the two Chinese university institutions

The Liu He Training College is respo nshysible for educating state farm employees Training will range from short courses to undergraduate and graduate level programs

Faculty from the Canadian universities and Olds College will travel to China during the summer months to give lectures and

short courses The area borderi ng on Russia has treshy

mendou s potential for agricultural deve lopshyment Professor Neal Stos~opf 57 direct or of OACs diploma courses is Guelphs co-ordinator for the Chinese projshyect He was part of the Canadian gove rnment planning miss ion and ex plains that although the climate combines the cold winters and hot summers of Alberta most of the moisshyture is rain that falls between Jul y and Sepshytember

Although latitude is the sa me as Edmontons at 52 degrees north the area grows soybeans and corn as well as wheat The land has two to four feet of black topsoil waiting to be drained and planted he says with potential for livestock proshyduction

The proj ec t centre is located at the Unishyversity of Alberta with administration in Guelph being carried out by the Centre for International Programs 0

Provincial apiarist retires after 19 years You might say Philip Burkes job brought sweet rewards

Until his retirement recently Philip was the provincial apiarist - sort of Onshytarios chief of bees - while working at the University of Guelphs Department of Environmental Biology

He joined the University as a lectu rer in 1943 and then became assistant professor and later associate professor

At the same time the Ontario Departshyment of Agriculture (as the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food was known then) made him the assistant provincial apiarist In 1966 he became provincial apiarist

Of course he advised beekee pers on ways they could make their colonies more productive and efficient and fielded many apiary management question s - including how to prevent bees from swarming

If they swarm one-third to one-half of th e colony takes off so you lose a big source of your honey crop Swarming is trigshygered when the hive becomes overcrowded so the beekeeper mu st stay ahead of them It involves a whole manipulation of the hive through the season visiting each colony at least once every ten to 14 days he says Philip also worked with farmers whose

crops depended on pollination by bees At one time bees were needed for

pollin ating greenhouse produce such as cucumbers But in the past 15 years the trend has been toward new types that are self fruiting he says

But the biggest change in the industry over the years was the trend towards Illakshying corn king in Ontario - a trend that is now being reversed he says

From 1949 and on a lot of bee coloshynies were moved to the western provinces tollowi ng th e reduction in alfalfa production in Ontario and the increased corn acreage he says

Now prospec ts for honey production in Ontario are better than in past years beshycause of the increased alfalfa acreage and other legumes and the trend towards more diversified cropping

Not surpris ingly prices have changed in the industry over the years too Back in the 1920s it cost about $10 to start a bee colony today start-up costs are about $100 to $125 per colony

Much of his work at the University looked at ways to prevent di seases in bees using selected antibiotics

He was secretary for the Ontario Beekeepers Association for 15 yea rs and now acts as a consu It ant for the group 0

Wins Crampton Award

Dr Stanley J Slinger 37 the most recent rec ipient of the Earl e W Crampton Award for distingui shed service in nutrition is ProshyFessor Emeritus of the Depal1ment of Nutrishytion College of Biolog ica l Science at Guelph

Born in Lowell Ontario Dr Slinger received his BSc from the Ontario Agrishycultural College hi s MSc fro111 the Univershysity of Toronto and a PhD from Cornell University From 1941 to 1965 he was in the Departillent of Poultry Science at the OAC and since 1965 has been in the Department of Nutrition at Guelph serving as chairJl1an from 1965 to 1974

Dr Slinger conducted re sea rch in sevshyeral areas of pou Itry nutrition for Jl10re than 30 years In 1972- 73 a fi sh nutrition laborashytory was set up and thi s laboratory has conshytinued to grow and iJl1prove s i nee One of the primary objectives in both poultry and fi sh nutrition research has been to develop feed to rmulas using feedstuffs of Canadian orishygin 111ese tannulas have been publi shed and continuall y revi sed and have been used extensively by teed manufacturers through shyout Canada Dr Slinger continues to be active in research

Dr Slinger taught poultry nutrition in Poultry Science for 27 years gave seminar courses in nutrition and physiology taught Fundamentals of Nutrition in the Depal1shyment of Nutrition and deve loped and taught courses in fi sh and wildlite nutrition

He has supervi sed the work of Jl1any graduates and it is interesting to note that the Department of Nutrition at Guelph is the only depailment in Canada - and there are very few in the United States - turning out graduates in Fish Nutrition at the PhD leve l

He has helped to establi sh modern poultry industries in Mexico and the areas of South East Asia Africa the Middle East Eastern and Western Europe and the United Kingdom Lectures conlerences and other consultative work have also taken hilll to Jl1any coul1tries over the years

The recipient of numerous honours and awards Dr S linger was made Professor Emeritus of the University in Ino and reshy -ceived the Earl e W Crampton award in 19B4 at Macdonald College Que Thi s award is given by the Faculty of Agriculture in recogshyniti on of significant co ntributions in the field of nutrition through research andlor service The award is named for Dr Earle W Crampton a renowned nutritionist whose career at Macd onald bega n in 1922 and lasted far 51 years 0

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cialist having spent four months in the latter John Reid 84 is technical sales rep Agrico Grad News part of 1984 in Bloemfontein South Africa Sales Ltd Richmond BC

Earl Johnston 46 is president Earl-John Brokers Ltd Delhi

Joe Knox 48 is secretary-treasurer Annco Westeellnc Guelph

Ralph Hills 54 is pastor United Church of Canada Smith Falls Ralph left Zambia last October spending some time in Kenya Israel England and Scotland on the way home He was surprised to meet Charlie Broadwell also 54 on Oxford Street in London Charlie was giving a reception at a large castle for the white bean buyers who purchase beans from Charlies Bean Growers of Ontario Ralph also passes along the word from Louise (Fershyguson) Hope Mac 54 that her husband Don 54 preparing for some future possible social work is studying drug addiction at George Brown College of Applied Ans and Technology Toronto

Joseph Leach 54 is a research scientist Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources Lake Erie Research station Wheatley

Ken Edwards 59 is an industrial engineer Prince George Pulp and Paper Vancouver BC

Fred Theaker 62 is a teacher-biologist Ren frew County Board of Education Aruprior

Howard Lang 67 is senior so il conshyservation advisor for OMAF Cambridge

John Lawrence 69 has been appointed vice-president and ge neral manager De kalb Canada Inc Chatham John is a lso president of the Canadian Agri-marketing Assoc iation

Robert Brooksbank 70 is manager Agrishycultural Department Simcoe area Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce

Alan Duncan BLA 73 is project coshyordinator Groupe d intervention urban de Montreal Montreal Que

Martha (Weir) Collins 75 reports that Anne (Walton) Bayler 75 is at teac hers college in Toronto after spending several years teaching in the Bahamas Martha lives at I Braid Place Guelph and would like to hear news of her classmates

Jim Dyer MSc 75 is a senior resource and environmental officer with the crop producshytion division of Agriculture Canada Ottawa He is on loan as a drought monitoring spe shy

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His wife Barb (Newell) Arts 75 who is a technical editor with Public Works Canada joined him in Bloemfontein for a month

Elizabeth Fedorkow 75 is a market reshysearcher Tetra Pak Inc Markham

Roy Maxwell 75 is an agricultural comshymentator CBC Radio Noon Toronto

Gary Ball 76 is vice-president manufacturshying Mitten Vinyl Inc Cambridge

Garnet McConney 77 is feed lot manager Catllel and Ontario Inc Petersburg

Patrick Meyers 77 OVC 84 is a vetshyerinarian with the Grenville-Dundas Veterinshyary Clinic Kemptville

Martha Frey 78 is secretaryass istant edishytor Canadians for Health Research Wes tshymount Que

Wayne Harrison 79 is assi stant manager Toronto Dominion Bank Elmira His wife is Katherine (McLeod) 77

Sharon Helynk 79 is with the Woodbury Animal Hospital Halifax NS

Jeffery Goebel 80 is resident engineer ACF Canada Ltd Georgetown

Mary Lynn Prong 80 is assistant manager Royal Bank Watford She reports that Bruno Soucy 8Q has changed jobs from OMAF farm ma nagement advisor to agrolog ist London region Royal Bank

Corrie Almack 81 is presidentowner Agshyriculturai Soil and Nutrition Consultants Freelton

Edward Bolton 81 is research farm manshyager AJle lix Inc M ississauga

William Summers 82 MSc 84 is prodshyuct deve lopment rep Du-Pont Canada Streetsville

Dianne (Coker) McDowell 83 is quality assurance supervisor Richardson Foods Ltd Glanw0I1h

John Ross 83 is a program officer Agrishyculture Canada Edmonton Alta

Jeff Burke 84 is a customer service rep Griffith Lab Toronto

Julie Fowler 84 is working for Embury Bros Farms Ltd Newburgh

Karen Rodman 84 is a farm management specialist OMAF Nepean

James Simonds 84 is a crop specialist Cavendi sh Fanns Summerside P E1

Richard West PhD 84 is a research scishyentist Canadian Forestry Service SI John s Nftdo

In Memoriam We regret to report the following deaths

Marie Honsberger 17A died March 1985

Esmond D Clipsham 2IA died on April 6 1985 Esmond had been the proprietor Uneeda Rest Hotel Kilwonhy and was a life member of the OAC Alumni Association

Stanley Ewart Keillor 21 died on February 27 1985 He was a crop farmer at Walshylacetown

John Edward Chalmers 23A died on Febshyru ary 15 1985

Jacobus Van Haarlem 23 at age 85 on July 2 1985 in Vineland He retired as ex shyecutive director of the Hor1icultural Experishymental Station at Vineland in 1970 after 47 years of service there

Hugh Lacklin Paterson 32A died in May 1985 of a heart attack at Rockwood

Murray Cameron Macklin 33A 35 died January n 1985 in Toronto

Garland Alfred Fisk 35 Date of deat h unknown

Gordon Elgin Young 35 died on June 12 1985 at Ing leside

John Miller Fargery 37 on March 22 1985 in Toronto John had been an insurance salesman Farm Credit Corp and was a life member of the OAC Alumni Assoc iation

William Thomson 40 in 1982 in Lonshy shygueuil Que His death was reported recen tl y

Robert Fletcher Madden 54A died on November 26 1984 at age 52 at Napanee

Vera (Mod ric) Kozamplik MSc 73 in Yugoslavia She was the wife of Vinko Kozumplik M Sc 71 0

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From the Dean

Dr Barham

In some of my lellers I have aimed to share

information on some special program or theme with you On this occasion I want to

keep you in touch through a number of lillie items so I shall hold onto some of the bigshy

ger interests for future issues of the Guelph Alumnus

As I write this leller Alumni Weekend 85 is behind us I found it a great weekend

and I thoroughly enjoyed meeting more of our alumni for the first time while

especially appreciating recognizing more

and more familiar faces and names from previous occasions

This year the Classes of 65 and 75 requested an up-date on our programs and

the developments we have experienced together in the College over the last few

years I guess that we were able to demonshy

strate much more development in our research and teaching programs than we could in some parts of the physical facilities within the buildings Still we had thorshyoughly congenial and I think very useful

meetings with both of these classes and added a nostalgic tour of our facilities

It was splendid to meet both of these groups I confess however that I had not

foreseen that a large part of the interest of the Class of 65 rested on the fact that many of their children are now gearing up to enter FACS

I was able to remind them that the BASc and B Comm degrees both lead

into fascinating and challenging careers for sons and nephews as well as daughters and

nieces Some of you coming to Alumni Weekend 86 might wish to get in touch with me to arrange an up-date on our acti vities then too

One of my special pleasures of Alumni Weekend was to join with the Class of 35 at the Golden Anniversary Dinner This occashy

sion is always a particular delight given the special personal pleasures reflected in the

friendships shared on this anniversary And I do want members of the Class of

35 to know that their gift of the magnificent Terry Legault Roman Festival print looks really outstanding and just right amidst the

contemporary decor of the FACS lounge

One last item of alumni news which I want to mention is the fact that I met with

Jean (Nairn) Carter 38 and some of her committee recently I learned that they have

been making quite outstanding progress in establishing the trust fund that will support their new graduate student award in geronshy

tology The first award presentation of $1000 is being made this fall but members of the Class of 38 are still pushing on with their fund raising in order to bring the

annual trust-fund yield to a level of $2 000 We all think that the Class of 38 grads

have been quite remarkable in their detershymination to build up a significant fund to

support work in this important new field of scholarship and research I know that we

shall all appreciate your support for them in reaching their target

I met with Audrey Warner and Annette

Yeager 62 recently They advised me of their concern for the needs of teachers wantshy

ing to prepare themselves for adding Family Studies to their fields of professional speshy

cialization and of other teachers already working in that field who find themselves in need of some up-dating especially in view of the curriculum changes which appear to be around the corner

In this regard I want to mention two

items which might be of interest First our faculty in FACS have been

quite heavily engaged in working with

teachers and others in thinking planning debating and writing for the curriculum developme~ts envisaged for the Ontario Academic High School Credits

Most especially we have had as memshybers of the Canadian Family in Perspective group Dr Jean Sabry with her own special

interest in human nutrition Dr Grant

McCracken in clothing Drs Marshall Fine and Claude Guldner with their expertise in family relations and Drs Anne Martin Matshythews and Joe Tindale with their special strengths in life-span development and

aging - quite a team of contributors Secondly I want to mention in relation

to my meeting with Audrey and Annette that we now have a number of courses avai 1shy

able in a six-week format offered in summer sessions provided on campus

Perhaps of even more interest to those of you who wont find it practical to take

classes on campus at Guelph we have an annual offering of distance or corresponshy

dence-type courses Many of these will be of very pertinent

interest to a number of teachers The current list includes Human Development Marital and Family Dynamics Personal and Family Finance Development of Human Sexuality Nutrition and Man and the Exceptional Child in the Family

You can find out more about these

offerings by writing directly to Guelph Disshytance Education University of Guelph

Macdonald Institute shyFamily and Consumer Studies Alumni Assoc

Editor Carol Telford-Pittman 75

Guelph Ont NIG 2WI or by getting in touch with my office

One of the reasons that we have put

ourselves so significantly behind the development of these distance courses is that we did not have the resources to meet

the demand for providing our courses in the more traditional class format at locations

away from the Guelph campus As usual there is much more to share

with you but it will just have to hold until

my next letter I look forward to being in touch with you again then 0

Olive Thompson Honoured

Olive (Thompson) Thompson 35

-The Mac-FACS Alumni Association was very pleased to present a Citation of Appreshyciation to Olive (Thompson) Thompson

35 during Alumni Weekend 85 festivities Olive has given much time energy

support and leadership to the College and to the University through her years of involveshyment with the Mac-FACS Alumni Associashytion Class of Mac 35 activities and the University of Guelph Alumni Association

Our University s alumni organizations are stronger and more effective because of

the years of commitment and personal sershyvice that Olive has contributed

Olive - We salute you 0

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New at HAFA By John Hearn

Infonnation Services

An innovative course developed by the School of Hotel and Food Administration (HAFA) is focussing the attention of undershygraduates on the analysis of operational problems in the hospitality industry and the writing skills required to express and comshymunicate that analysis

Students are required to find summer jobs in the hospitality industry and then to write five papers of ascending complexity during the first semester of their second year using text readings specially edited for this course by the Schools Director Proshyfessor Tom Powers

We have a unique responsibility to prepare students not just for their first job but for future jobs further down the line says Dr Powers Possession of a university degree should imply an ability both to anashylyse problems and to communicate observashytions and recommendations In todays corporate world reports papers and letters are management tools and written comshymunication is a survival skill

The HAFA faculty decided further to emphasize writing skills by adopting a style manual developed by Professor Margaret Hund leby Department of Engl ish Language and Literature for this course as an integral part of the Schools other courses

In order to familiarize faculty with the use of the manual and the grading of student writing Professor Hundleby was invited to conduct a two-day workshop which atshytracted the attention of Vice-President Howard Clark and Associate Vice-President Janet Wardlaw as well as faculty from other disciplines s uch as psychology land resource science microbiology and history

The program Professor Hundleby told the seminar requires students to complete five report papers based on their own obsershyvations

The first paper requires a detailed description of the physical layout of the host operation plus an appraisal and operating cost analysis of its heating air-conditioning and ventilation systems

A second paper asks the student to describe and evaluate staff structure funcshytion compensation package and efficiency

Cost control is the subject of a third paper Purchasing practices food producshytion cost traCking and inventory manageshyment all come under this heading

Marketing is the fourth subject area What market segment is the operation aimed at What consumer need does the operation satisfy What is the nature of the

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Left to right- Professors Cathy Schrye Writing Centre Tom Muller HAFA Belty Upton HAFA Mike Jenkinson OAC 63 OAC dean s office Mary Rogers History and back to camera Bernie Katz Library reviewing cases drawn from studefll papers in a two-day workshop Evaluating Students Writing conducted by Professor Margaret Hundleby

competition in the target market

The fifth paper examines the intangishybles of management sty Ie How does the role of the manager affect relations with customshyers staff and head office

Professor Hundleby commenting on some of the problems of the course says whatever we call it students tend to conshyclude that what they re writing is an acashydemic paper of some kind - which of course it is - but we need to make the connection in their minds with the real the corporate world out there They also tend to think that longer is better and write about what they know - rather than what is import ant The development of a proper sense of for whom they are writing is itself a problem-solving skill

Another problem according to Proshyfessor Hundleby is what she calls the new illiteracy - a verbal dysfunction resulting from an impoverished vocabulary

Style too is a matter of considerable

AMPHI Spin-offs The School of Hotel and Food Administra shytions annual Advanced Management Pro shygram for the Hospitality Industry (AMPHI) now in its third year is spinning off new management development activities says HAFA Director Tom Powers Earlier this year 20 people attended a workshop on accounting and finance presented by Proshyfes sor William Braithwaite School of Agrishycultural Economics and Extension Educashytion and three similar programs will be offered in different parts of the country over the next year and a half

Another program still in the planning stage is a six-day hospitality managers development course designed for middle management by AMPHIs associate direcshy

concern She also mentioned careless senshytence structure style that is inappropriate to the content lack of connective logic failure to understand the nature of a paragraph as a literary entity the frivolous use of colloshyquiali sms an absence of any sense of the harmonious sound of words on paper and of course a growing list of commonly misused words - e g it could of had that affect

There s a tendency to see s tyle as a decorative flourish rather than as an aspect of content she concluded

Professor Powers sees the development of verbal communication skills as central to the whole idea of liberal education Cershytainly he says its useful for HAFA stushydents to understand how a cost control system works - but its at least as important to be able to think logically analyse logshyically and communicate conclusions in a way that is credible informative coherent and complete in fact these are the classic goals of a liberal education 0

tor Professor John Patterson and a consulshytant group of AMPHI alumni

AMPHI continues to attract internashytional attention participants in thi s years program which began in April include senior executives from many of North Americas most distinguished hotels and restaurants The four-week course offers an intensive program based primarily on case studies written by Professo rs Patterson -Braithwaite Carl Riegel and Tom Muller

The growing volume of AMPHI cases indicates that thi s is the largest s ingle research program currently under way in any hotel school in North America says Proshyfessor Powers AMPHls network of conshytacts is giving us access to a senior-level view of the industrys current problems and prospects 0

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Research AssociateComing Soon A AppointedModel Play Facility

Dr Joan Norris

Dr Joan Norris has held the position of Research Associate at the Gerontology Research Centre since last spring

Joan is working with faculty to develop and promote research related to population aging and is available for consultation with faculty on research design funding sources and publication

In addition to this development work she is continuing her personal program of research She works for the Gerontology Censhytre two days per week and the balance of her

The Family Studies Laboratory Schools pre-school play facility fell 10 a Grounds time is spent in the Department of Family Department wrecking machine recently Studies where she has held a faculty appointshy

ment since 1980 Joan holds a Ph D in Psychology from

the University of Waterloo and is also a regisshytered psychologist Her personal research

The Mllc-FACS Special Projects Commitshyinterests include social competence in older

tee Ito r Bonnie Kerslake 82 Association adults peer relationships and grandshy

president Linda (Wo[e) Markle 73 chairshyparenting 0

man and Gail Murray 78 Missing comshymillee member is Rita (Klassen) Weigel 77 The aim of the committee is to raise funds to redevelop the Family Studies Laboshy In Memoriam ratory Schools and raise itto the level where it will be regarded as a model pre-school

Eileen Margaret (Manahan) Alwayplay facility

390 October 21984 in Vancouver BC

Jean (Horrell) Atkinson 240 March 5 1985 in Aurora

Class of 35 Gift Oorothy (Lockard) Honsberger 300Centre panel Roman Carnival

In order to commemorate their anniversary July 51985 in Weiland Mac 35 has traditionally given a scholshyarship to a FACS student once every five Isabel J Lockerbie 300 March 31 years This year on the 50th anniversary of 1985 in Toronto their graduation and in addition to the scholarship an etching entitled Roman Patricia G (Smith) McKay-Barry 55 Carnival by Terry Legault has been added March 17 1985 in London Ont to the Universitys collection of Canadian alt The etching is hanging in the FACS Velma E (Conn) Partridge 260 April faculty lounge 29 1985 in Niagara Falls Ont shy

The theme of Roman Carnival was favoured by neo-clas sical and romantic Helen E (Kelly) Robinson 220 April painters during the 19th century The etching 30 1985 in Dundas captures the moment at which wild horses are released to race through the streets of Norma I (Motherwell) Roy 350 in Rome The artist has chosen to represent the Moosejaw Sask wild chaotic motion ot the horses rather than explicitly depict in detail the animals Lillian S (Moore) Usher 340 March 28 and the architectural background 0 1985 in Cobourg 0

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College of Physical Science Alumni Assoc SCIMP

Editor Bob Winkel

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Yes Dr Earl MacNaughtoll has relired alshylogelher bUI Ihis wonl be Ih e lasl you I hear from him reSI assured Before he and his wife Jean lOok oJf for Auslralia and New Zealand Deparlmenl of Physics slaf and faculty held a galhering al Ihe FacullY Club and presenled Ihe couple wilh an alumni clock

Back to Guelph

The headquarters for (GWC)2 came

back to Guelph in July for a threeshy

year period while Professor Robert Balahura Chemistry and Biochemisshy

try serves as director (GWC)2 offices have been set up

in Room 122 and 123 Physical Scishyences building The University of

Waterloo will maintain a satellite office during the three-year Guelph

rotation Dr Balahura and adminshy

istrative assistant Andrea Turner may

be reached at Ext 3865 0

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Physics Professor Elected to Royal Society

Bernhard Nickel

Department of Phy s ics Professor Bernhard Nickel has been elected a Fellow

of the Royal Society of Canada and was formally inducted into the Society at its

annual meeting in Montreal in June

A member of the Physics faculty since

1974 Professor Nickel is no stranger to

prizes and awards In 1981 he received the Herzberg Medal the Canadian Associashy

tion of Physicists award to a promising young scienti st In 1978 he won a Sloan

Fellowship from the New York-based Sloan Foundation

He achieved recognition by navigating

the esoteric seas of condensed matter physshy

ics Hi s co lleagues call him a leading masshyter in the art of mathematical physics By

exploiting the existing mathematical frameshywork in subtle ways he has worked through

thickets that have stopped other physic ists

High order perturbation calculations

done by him played a key role in verifying

the quantitative reliability of the theory of

underlying continuous phase transitions in systems

He earned BScE and MSc degrees from the University of Saskatchewan and a

PhD from the University of California at

San Diego He was a research associate at

Cornell and Oxford Universities and a postshy

doctoral research Fellow at the Univers itY of Alberta before coming to Guelph in 1974

He has been a visiting fellow at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory at the Univershy

sity of California at San Diego at Harvard

and at the Schlumberger-Doll Re searc h In stitute in Connecticut

With his election he becomes one of

six Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada at

Guelph The others are Professors Howard

Clark Peter Egelstaff Gabriel Karl Bruce Sells and Herbert Armstrong And it brings to five the number of me mbers of the

Guelph-Waterloo Program for Graduate Work in Physics (GWP)2 who can put the

coveted FRSC after their names 0

Halleys Comet and the Babylonians By Professors Nigel Bunce and Jim Hunt

The winter of 1985 and the spring of 1986 will lon g be remembered as the year of

Comet Halley No comet in history has so

stirred the imagination of man or been the

object of suc h intensive investigation Its easy to understand this interest when its

appreciated that Halleys Comet is the only recurring comet that is bright enough to be

seen with the naked eye ft was the g reat astronomer Edmund

Halley who in 1705 recognized the s imilarshy

ity of the appearances of the great comets of 1456 1531 1607 and 1682 He speculated that these were in fact one and the sa me

comet with a period of 75 or 76 years

He predicted that the comet would reshyturn in 175 8 a return he could not live to see With thi s Halley discovered the phenomeshy

non of periodic comets and thus showed

that they were members of our solar system

The comet dutifully returned in 1835

and spectacularly so in 1910 In the latter

year circumstances were such that after its

perhelion passage (the point closest to the

Sun) the Earth and the comet approached

each other very closely The comet was so close that at one time its tail spread from

horizon to horizon The return in 1985-86 will be considshy

erably less spectacular In fact for Canadishyans it will not be easy to observe s ince the

time of perhelion is in Febnlary when the

Sun is very low in the sky The view will be -much better from more southerl y latitudes Over the years historica l records have

been found which record every passage of the comet back to 12 BC M any of these obshy

servations come from Chinese records first published in 1846 A well-authenticated

passage was that of 1066 which was reshy

corded on the Bayeux tapestry by the mother

of William of Nonnand y and taken as an cOllld on righl

Grad News Paul Ferguson BSc 67 of Ede n Mill s is president of EIS Systems Ltd and travelled in New Zealand this summer

Walter Lock BSc 67 of Denfield is practising medicine in Lucan

Tjeerd Homan BSc 69 of Calgary Alta is manager research and development services for Petro-Can He is enjoying his family Carla Sarah and John Menno and his hobbies of golf curling and skiing

(GWP)2 Poster Session a First

Earlier this year the Guelph- Waterloo Proshygram for Graduate Work in Physics (GWP)2 staged its first annual poster session for graduate s tudents Poster sessions which are becoming increasingly popular in scienshytific circles allow interaction between researchers and delegates without the time pressures encountered when presenting con shyventional papers at meetings says (GWP)2 Director lain Campbell

The first annual (GWP)2 poste r sesshysion which was followed by a soc ial hour and banquet was highly successful in genershyating interaction says Campbell By the end of the session there were still clusters of people arguing the finer points of scientific interpretation on many of the posters These exchanges continued right through the soshycial hour and into dinner Interaction is what science is all about

Encouraging interaction between stushydents and faculty is one of Campbells prishyorities as Director It is too easy for students to tuck themselves into a corner and work away in isolation They need to get out and ex plain their work both to experts and to

omen of his victory over the Saxons Based on this long record various

mathematical analyses of the orbit of the comet have been produced These account very accurately for the known passages of the comet However when these various anshyalyses are pushed back beyond 12 BC they predict widely varying dates for the previous appearances Before 12 B c there are ani y two vague Chinese records in 87 BC and 240 B c which mayor may not have been Halleys comet

In a recent issue of Nature a team of

Ernest Campbell BSc 69 lives in Campbell ville and teaches science for the Halton Board in Burlington

Richard Davis BSc 77 having comshypleted his MD University of Toronto 83 and his internship at Womens College Hosshypital will be setting up his practice in family medicine in his home town of Guelph

Larry Meek BSc 77 of Ottawa is pashytient administrator and computing officer for the National Defence Medical Centre His hobbies include sailing and skiing

Andre Brunet BA 81 is working for Amdahl Ltd as fieldsystems engineer and lives in Sudbury with his wife Monique (Puellette) FACS 80

Cathy Deakin BSc 81 is presently articshyling with the law firm of Little Reeves Mahoney Jarrett amp Hart of London

Andrew Dubrawski BSc 82 and his wife Alicia (Wodecka) BSc 81 live in Toronto where he works as a communicashytions systems analyst for CNCP Telecomshymunications 0

10hn Root 81 a (GWP)2 PhD s tudent left aflracts an audience

non-experts It takes a deliberate effort on our part to generate and maintain this intershychange

The poster session was the largest scishyentific or social event yet staged by (GWP)2 Some 18 students presented posters and about 90 students faculty and prospective students attended

The posters are on display in the two departments of physics to give others an opportunity to view them At Gue lph they are in the second floor corridor of the Physshyical Science Building near the Department

scholars from England and Vienna reported the finding of two fragments of Babylonian tablets in the British Museum that clearly report the appearance of the comet in 87 BC and 164 B C The records are so clear that by calculation not only the year but the time of year for the perhelion passage can be determined

For example the 164 BC apparition has been narrowed down to a date someshywhere between November 5 and 25 of that year The 87 BC record is not as accurate nevertheless its perhelion passage can be

of Physics office Encouraged by the s uccess of the

poster sess ion lain Campbell is planning another high-profile event for (GWP)2 to recognize award-winning faculty He plans a fall symposium at which three (GWP)2 members who received major honours durshying 1985 will give short lectures to be folshylowed by a sherry reception The three honoured faculty are Gicinto Scoles Killam Fellowship winner Bernhard Nickel Felshylow of the Royal Society of Canada and John Simpson Rutherford medalist 0

narrowed down to July 25 to August 15 These observations while inaccurate

to the extent of 20 days are still accurate enough to eliminate three of the four leading -calculations of the motion of Comet Halley This is a striking example of how archaeoshylogical investigations may have a strong effect on many diverse subjects in this case com~tary astronomy 0

We welcome questions and ideas for future articles Write to the authors clo the Deans Office Cole fe ofPhysical Science Univershysity of Guelph Guelph Ontario NIG 2WI

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Grad News Terry Goddard 76 wrote to let us know

where he is and what hes doing After gradshyuation Terry turned to the world of engishy

neering and worked at the Bechtel Intershy

national Syncrude project in northern Alberta for a year He retu rned to school and obtained a Masters degree in Politi cal Theshyory in 1978 at the University of Toronto

TIle next nine months were spent workshying at Dhaharan Saudi Arabi a While the re

Terry contemplated the action which would

give him the best career move His deci s ion to go into teach ing led him back to the Unishy

versity of Toronto to obtai n his BEd His teachin g career took hi m to northshy

e rn Saskatchewan whe re he taug ht at a village which if not actually at the end of

the world was situated close enough that the end was plainly visible from the nOI1hern

outskirts He returned to Toronto someshywhat sated with academe and once again

turned to engineering He has been director of maintenance for the Jewi sh Com munity

Centres of Toronto for the past five years He has fou nd it difficult to keep in

touch with fellow grad s Especia lly th ose who studied in Professor Melby s Chinese

poIitic s courses and who were known as the Shanghai Mafia - they are all over the

world now Hes sure they often recall with fondness their days at Unigoo

Where are you former students of Proshyfessors Simmo ns and MelbYTerry would be interested in hearing from you - and so would we

Robin-Lee Norris 80 has been awarded

a $19000 Rot ary Foundation Scholarship to

pursue g radua te studi es in the Masters of Business Administration program at the

Univers ity of Adelaide Adelaide Australia Robin-Lee went o n to graduate from

Osgoode Hall Law School with an LLB

was called to the Ontario Bar in ApriJ of 1982 and has practised law with the tirm of

Kearns McKin non inGuelph since herca ll She took a ten-mo nth leave of absence

commenc ing in February 1985 from her positi on with Kearns McKinno n in o rder to take ad vantage of the sc holarship

During her months in Australia her mandate from Rotary Internatio nal in addishy

tion to pursuing her stud ies is to act as a Rotary and Canadian Ambassador in proshy

moting good will and understanding beshytween Australians and Canadians

A thank you goes to Cliff Hardy buildshying mechanic superv isor Main tenance Deshypartment Physical Resources for supplying us with thi s information and an aside to Robin-Lee when she reads this I was unable

to reach you betore you left to congratulate

you and get more informati on on your award If you have some free time we wOllld love to hea r from you about your studi es

what a Rotary and Canadian ambassador

does and to have you share your ex perience of being down-under

Marilyn Kernohan Morrison 78 has taken the time to Jet us know that shes living in Napanee with hu sba nd Brian She has

tempora ril y se t aside her ca reer to be a home-maker tor Brian and their four-monthshy

old son

Prior to their move to Napanee to acshycommodate Brians tran sfer - he work s with the Ministry of Natural Resources shy

Marilyn and family lived in a small comshymunity northwest of Thunder Bay After

Gue lph Marilyn continued her ed ucation at the comm unity college level and com pleted

a program for counse llors of the mentally

retarded SheJI be returnin g to thi s fi e ld when she again becomes a wage earner

Doris E (Trachsel) OKeefe 74 is deshy

scribed by husband John Paul 74 as a household engineer John Paul is a reshy

source teacher with the Waterloo County Board of Education With such a title I

couldnt resis t phon ing Doris to find out exactly what the duti es of a household enshy

gi neer are

While Doris decl ined to give a cletinishytion of the titl e l detected some surprise and delight that John Paul appreciates what it

takes to look after a famil y and a home

Doris is trying to re turn to teaching but is findin g it difficult in the Cambridge

Waterloo area If she isnt successful shes planning alternatives such as enrolment at Guelph in a Masters program o r failing that enrolment in courses that will he lp her

ac hieve her long-range goa ls She and John Paul recen tly moved from

London Ont to Cambridge Prior to the

birth of Erin now a two-year-old Doris was teac hing boys with behaviourial problems

and she sees thi s as an asset when applying for teaching positions Erin has a six-yearshyold brother Sean so you can understand

perhaps that Doris has been bu sy and maybe she is aptly described as a houseshy

hold engi neer

J Barry Baldwin 69 is a teac her with the Elgin County Board of Education S t Thomas Barry married Linda Janet Wii son They live in Aylmer West

M Rachel (Curtis) Towe 69 is manager customer systems Bell Canada She and

husband Ken live in Guelph

M Lois (Robinson) Harris 70 li ves in Newmarket with husband Fred

B Hugh Schofield 72 is an industrial engi neer with Rockwell Int e rnati o nal C hat ham He and wife Susan (Haslelt)

FACS 78 live in Chatham

Paul Davis 73 is an underwrite r analyst with Co-opera tors General In sura n ce

Guelph Paul and wife Linda (DozeH) 73 and 81 live at Brookhaven Court Guelph

Carol Finlayson 74 is a letter carrier lor Canada Post Carol and husband John Balch live in Toronto

Pal Hamilton 74 is an expon market deshyvelopment specialist with the O ntario Minshyistry of A gricu lture and Foo cl mark et

development branch Toronto He and his wife Diane (Coates) OAC 72 live in

Toronto

Kerrie Sirathy MA 78 advises us that

she is a s tud en t at th e Univcrsity of Sakatchewan Sas katoon

Vicky Sutherland 78 is an air trartie conshy

troller with Air Canada at FoI1 McMurray Airpo l1 Alta and lives in F0I1 McMurray

Sounds like an intercsting job - perhaps youl l share SOIllC experie nces with us Vicky

Marlin Thissen 78 is a foreman with the

region or Halton at ih Milton wa ter po llushytion control plant

Evelyn Evie (Isaacs) Whilwham 80 is a planning ass istant with Union Gas Co Ltd Chatham She and hu sba nd Bob have

c hanged their address They are at 70 Ottawa Drive C ha tham Ont N7L 216 0

In Memoriam A lormer faculty mcmber in the DeshypaI1ment of Geography Barsa Kelly was among the victims of the Air India Hight 182 disaster that occ urred

off the coas t of Irel and las t June ~ mr(sa Vas headed tor India on a reshy

search project at the time of her

death S he was the wife of Protessor Kenneth Kelly Department of Geogshyra phy On behalf of its members and all those who chc ri shed their con tacts with Barsa the Board of Directors of the College of Social Science Alumni Association extend their s incere symshy

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College of Biological Science Alumni Assoc BIOmiddotALUMNI NEWS

Editor Marie (Boissonneault) Rush 80

HONORARY PRESIDENT Professor Bruce Sells Dean

PRESIDENT David Airdrie BSc 82 Microbiology

PAST PRESIDENT Dr Chris Wren BSc 77 Marine Biology PhD 83

VICE-PRESIDENT Dee Britney BSc 74 Fisheries amp Wildlife MSc 81

SECRETARY-TREASURER Kclly Munkittrick BSc 80 Fisheries amp Wildshylife MSc 83

DIRECTORS Lorraine Bruce-Allen BSc 80 Zoology MSc 84 Jim Elliott BSc 79 Marine Biology Keith Harris BSc 76 Marine Biology Dr Doug Holdway BSc 76 Marine Biology MSc 78 Aquatic Toxicology PhD 83 Krista (McAuley) Soper BSc 79 Marine Biolshyogy Karin Davidson-Taylor BSc 83 Zoology

From Dave Airdrie 82 the

President How time flies when youre having fun Your editor Marie (Boissonneault) Rush 80 tell s me that this note to you will be in the Fall issue of the Guelph Alumnus so Ill bring you up to date on happenings since your 1985-86 Board of Directors was inshystalled in June

The CBS Alumni Association was parshyticularly busy during June Alumni Weekshyend events including the Wildlife Art Show and Sale and the barbecue at the Rockwood Conservation Area were well attended

Thanks must go to Krista (McAuley) Soper 79 and Lorraine Bruce-Allen 84 for their first-rate efforts in organizing and running the art show From all accounts it was ex tremely well done and is sure to be repeated in 1986

Further thanks mu st go to Keith Harshyris 76 for his efforts in once again organizing the barbecue at Rockwood Keith has done a terrifi c job with this event s ince its inception Hopefully these two events will be expanded in the coming year

Last spring the objective of $10 000 for the Keith Ronald Fellowship Fund was reached and we thank all who generously contributed to this fund Its to be hoped that this is only the first of many scholarships initiated through the CBSAA

Many of you will now be aware of the changes which the Universitys Department of Alumni Affairs has undergone in rece nt months Most important is the arrival of Marjorie Millar as director of the Departshyment It seems that President Matthews is placing greater emphasis on the importance of the Department due in part to the impenshyding capital campaign I am sure that youll all notice many beneficial innovations

The CBSAA has I feel reached a point in its development where we must heighten our profile both among alumni and undershygraduates In order to increase the awareness of the Association the Board has plans to embark on some new programs

The goals are as I see them two-fold first of all we need YOU to get more inshyvolved whether its participation in our proshygrams or s upport for the Assoc iation through your membership The fact that youre reading this demonstrates an interest which we would like to heighten

Secondly we re working at helpin g undergraduates before graduation to beshycome more aware of our Association Hopeshyfully we ll get helpful input and suggestions from many of you in the near future Reshymember - YOUR alumni association is what YOU make it

Dave Airdrie BSc 82 President Colshylege of Biological Science AA

FACULTY ADVISORS Dr Denis Lynn Zoology Dr Margaret Hauser M icroshybiology Dr John Hilton Nutrition Dr John Sandys Award Phillips Botany amp Genetics Dr Brian Wilson Human BiologyKinetics The Ontario Confederation of University

Faculty Associations (OCUFA) has awarded UGAA REPRESENTATIVES Karin Dr Alexander Sandy Middleton DepartshyDavidsonTaylor BSe X) Zoology Keith ment of Zoology one of the nine OCUFA Harris BSc 76 Marinc Biology Rob Teaching Awards for 1984 Milnc BSe XI MSe 84 Marine Bio Dr Middleton was nominated for this -award by colleagues students administrashyEX-OFFICIO DIRECTORS Ed Berdusco tors alumni and faculty It acknowledges president CBSSC Steve Spring past presishy outstanding ability and is considered to be dent CBSSC the provinces highest honour for excellence

in university teaching HKAA REPRESENTATIVE Nick Dalton I think there are two keys to being an BSe 77 Human Kinetics effective teacher Sandy says One is to

have respect for the student the other is to EDITOR RIO-ALUMNI NEWS Marie make a genuine intellectual and time comshy(Boissonneault) Rush B Se XO Marine mitmcnt to the course Biology 0 Dr Alexander Middleton Congratulations Dr Middleton 0

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Grad News Human Biology

Cathy Knipe BSc 79 MSc 83 is a Ph D st ud ent at Iowa State University Ames Iowa USA She is studying Moshylecular Biology

Shelly Lugg BSc 83 is a stude nt at Simon Fraser University Burnaby BC

Human Kinetics

Susan (Wright) Kwiatkowski BSc 80 is a recreation therapist at York Central Hosshypital Toronto Her spouse Ed graduated from Ryerson in 1979

Donna Marie (Kadwell) 1vose BSc 79 and husband John ji ve in Thorold Shes a physica l education supervisor at the Niagara Peninsula Crippled Childrens Centre

Mary Ellen (Mew) Walker BSc 83 is the activity co-ordinator at Spruce Lodge Stratford

Dr Ken Danylchuk BSc(PE) 73 is a s ur ge ry re s ident at the H itchcockshyDartmouth Medical Center Hanover N H USA

Kathryn (Tarry) Myers BSc 78 is a teacher with the Middlesex COunty Board of Educati on Hyde Park

WildUfe

Vicky Johnston 84 bega n an MSc at Lakehead University Thunder Bay in May Shes working on the reprodu ctive biology of Lake Superior rin g-billed gull s

Nutrition

Or 0010 Ohiokpehai 77 lectures in food and nutrition at the Unive rs ity of Ife Nigeria

Microbiology

John Semple 78 is a PhD ca ndidate in the Department of Mic rob iology amp Immushynology at Queens Uni vers ity Kingston He will be doing a post-doctora l at the Banting amp Best Depattment of Medica l Research University of Toronto

Unspecialized

Peter Adams 79 and Beth (Sarjeant) 79 are happy to announce their recent marshyriage Beth is a research technici an with the Depanment of Medicine Univers ity of Ca lshygary Alta and Peter operates a business with the se ismic service industry

Marine Biology

Jorgen Hansen 75 and his wife Drusilla (Dol be) Arts 75 live in Gloucester Jorge n is a staff officer with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Ottawa

CoUege Honour RoU - Winter 85 Semester 06

Margorie Fe rgusson 894 Human Biology JoAnna Milan 860 Biology

Semester 07 Sandra Noble 856 Microbiology

Semester 08 Marga ret Docker 876 Marine Biology Thomas Johnston 87 0 Fi sheries Biology Debra Underhill 858 Microbi ology

James Wright 858 Biology Tobin Peever 854 Botany

Alexander Hanke 852 Zoology Rebecca Rodgers 852 Human Bi ology

Tracey Robin son 882 BSc( HK ) Rebecca Halonen 880 BSc(HK )

Swdent has obtained standing for second time Student has obtaincd standing for third time

Home Town

Oakville Ottawa

Dorchester

Guelph New Liskeard Kingston Thunder Bay Bracebridge Grafton Calgary Alta Guelph Georgetown

Donald MacLennan 75 and hi s wife Katherine live in Chatham Donald is a biologi st-supervisor with the Ministry of Natural Resources Lake SI Clair Fisheries Assessmen t Unit Tilbury 0

College of Biological Science

Alumni Association

Wildlife Art Show

Well it happened June 15 and 16 have come and gone but not withshyout event The Graduate Students Lounge was transformed from a cozy meeting place into an an gallery There was much movi ng of furniture and hanging of an work with the end product being our fi rst ever CBSAA Wildlife Art Show

In total there were 20 wildlite artists partic ipating all tine ani sts in their own right Maybe you reshymember Ut a Stre live a nd Dr Ed Bailey Wow I You should see their wood works

Rick Beaver 73 also showed some of his work hes a wildlife imshypressionist and the colour and move shyment he paint s into each piece is eloquent Donald Dority 76 showed us the line photographer he has become There were other ani sts - too many to mention but all of extremely high calibre

Id like to mention one las t name though - Cindy Hayward manager of the Graduate Students Lounge If you ever need a steady hand to get an event off the ground shes the one to co ntact Without her hel p there would have been a whole heap of orshyga ni za tional problems From which we would have been unable to escape

All in all we had a successful show Thanks artists and viewers for making our efforts worthwhile 0

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New Minister of AgricultureOntario Agricultural College Alumni Assoc OAC ALUMNI NEWS

Editor Dr Harvey W Caldwell 51

Ontari OS new mini ster of ag riculture Jack Riddell 52A and 57 a cash crop farmer from the Exeter area comes to the position of Ontario s Mini ster of Agriculture and Food with ten years of expe rience as Liberal caucus cr itic for agriculture

The min is ter sa id that life under a Libshyeral government will give agriculture a higher priority than it has ex perienced in the past It will be considered one of the major industries in this province

Jack also pro mi sed to consult a great

Basic Technology in Action shyTurning Stones Into Bread By Ann Middleton Information Services

A new University of Guelph projec t in Tanza nia Africa should aid th e Third Wo rld s ubsistence leve l farmer The $400000 three-year projec t funded by the International Development Resea rch Centre (IDRC) will invol ve fltlculty of the Uni vershysitys Department of Land Resou rce Sc ience and Soko ine Uni versity of Ag riculture in Morogoro Central Tanza ni a Aim of the enterpri se is to use loca lly ava il ab le rock materials as soil amendm en ts and con shyditioners

The project came about when Ott awas IDRC brought together a team of two geo logists with an interest in improving co nshyditions for African farmers Professor Ward Chesworth with the Department of Land Resource Science has a long-standing intershyes t in turning rock s into fertili zers deshyve loped during work in West Africa and the Canltlry Islands where local farmers have spread volcanic rock on their field s for two centu ries In his lab and in the Blue Springs basin near Acton Ontario Professor Chesshyworth has been conducting experiment s on the levels at which common rocks re lease nutri ents into soil solutions

The other team member Dr Peter van Straltl ten is ori ginally from Germany but spe nt e ight years with the United Nations in Tan zania looking for metals and metal deshyposi ts and working on an in ve ntory of ferti shyli zer raw materials in south-east Africa

During thi s period Tanza nian food production per capita fell dramaticall y leadshying Dr van Strltlaten to try to find ways to help the food situation In ex periments in his garden in Dodomo Tanzaniltl he was able to increase yields of vegetables using locally

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available geological materia ls and organic wastes

Noting the common interes ts of the two men the Canadian age ncy introd uced them and Dr van Straaten relocated in Guelph Co-ordinators of the project are Professor Cheswo rth and Tan za ni an sc ie nti st Dr Johnson Semoka of Sokoine University coshyauthor of a text on so il sc ience much used in agricultural circles in Africa

Technical assistant Peter Sl11i th is working with Tanzanian rock specimens in the Land Resource Science lab and two other Tanzanian scientists will be involved

In addition to academics from bo th institutions members of the Geological Survey of Tanzania will also work on the project both in the Morogoro area and at Mbeya station in south-western Tanzania

Roc k sa mples will be collected and crushed and field tests and pot ex periments carried out here and on location When reshysu lt s have bee n obtained extension work will begin in Africa under the direc tion of Dr Semoka It is hoped that members of a Me nnonite Central Committee group workshying at Mbeya will design a simple rock crusher for the use of local farmers

Tanzania has a major phosphate deshyposi t wh ich will be tapped by the project as well as ground s ilicates including volcanic ash Liming materials such as limestone dolomite marl and ca rbonatite will also be evaluated

Professor Chesworth points out that alshythough No rth Americans place much emshyphasi s on the big three of soil nutrition shynitrogen phosphorus and potassium (NPK) - there are actually about 20 necessary

deal with the farm organizations on the direction his ministry should be taki ng

I dont believe that we can sit in our so-ca ll ed ivory towers and introduce the kind of programs that are go ing to be mea nshyingful unless we get consultation from the farmers and their spokes people

He has been a member of the provincial legislature for 12 years He spent his first two years as energy cri tic and later environshyment critic before mov ing into agriculture Jack and Anit a have a family of five 0

nutrie nts including the minor ones In some areas of Tanza nia the decline

in soil fe rtility is in part due to the settling of widespread populations into villages where land has been used without concern for nutrients Tn other part s of the country productivity has declined because of leachshying of plant nutrie nts durin g normal rainfall and also from the continuous use of acidifyshying fertilizers such as ammo nium su lphate Dr Chesworth point s out that the current practice of NPK fe rtili zation totally ignores secondary and micronut rient requirements of plants It is hoped that the projec t wilt address thi s problem

Our approac h is basic tec hn ology our target group the poorest far mers Dr van Straaten explains One of the problems in the past Dr Ches worth says has been convincing agronomists that it s worth purshysuing this kind of elementary tec hnology approach Theyre very skeptical that you can take common roc ks wi thou t major inshydustrial proces ing and use them to advanshytage on tropical soils

A s ideline area of research is work with zeolites open framework si licates that often occ ur in volcanic rocks Some zeolites can be used to trap nitrogen in the form of ammonia which would otherwise be los t in gaseous form When added to cow manure for exampl e and stomped in by the beasts themselves zeolites enrich an already valushyabl e fertil ize r Dr van Straaten explains

The zeolite research is being carried out in co njunction with Professor Colin Fyfe Department of Chemistry an intershynat io na ll y kn ow n authority o n zeo lit e -che mi stry

Orie result of the work of the Un ive rs ity of Guelph geo logists is an ag rogeology ne tshywork currentl y being set up bya number of African cou ntries as the result of di sc usshysions following a paper by Dr van Straaten and Professor Chesworth The paper was given recently at meetings of the UN Ecoshynomic Commiss ion for Africa in Zambia 0

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A Designing Grad The need for a summer job six years ago has ended in a Guelph grad des igning golf courses

When in 1979 Lisa Maki now

BLA 84 was searching for a job that would assist her in her studies at the Univershysity she applied to the city of Kitchener

She could have wound up in any

number of areas in the parks and recreation department but Rockway and Doon Valley

course superintendent Ed Ortlieb gave her the chance to join the work crew at Rockway fltor the first couple of years it was just a job that got her outdoors in the summer then by chance she got interested in the game itself

And now shes embarked on a career in golf course design

Lisa the 24-year-old oldest daughter of Ted Maki a former general manager of the

Lisa Maki BLA 84 Kitchener Rangers left last July for Lakeshyland Florida where she Joined Links Deshysign which de sig ns and oversees golf course construction throughout the United 1983 and a friend of the family who knew States The company is considered the sec shy was interested in golf course work arranged ond-largest of its type behind the one run by a meeting with Ronald Garl said Lisa I US golf legend Jack Nicklaus who deshy had an official job interview in April of 84 signed the Glen Abbey course in Oakville and then went to Florida in August of the

How does a young Kitchener woman same year to familiarize myself with the

end up working for Ronald Garl a 40-yearshy firms projects

old graduate of the University of Florida Because I had focused much of my who apprenticed under such well-known deshy University work on such things as turf man shy

signers as Roben Trent Jones and Joseph agement and had done pan of my bachelor Lee Again it was just a chance opportunity of landscape architecture thes is on what

We were in Florida in December of makes British golf courses great and the

Sisters of Accident Victims Receive Diplomas

A tragic accident just prior to Spring Convocation resulted in the deaths oftwo graduands of the Associate Diploma in Agriculture Program Jeff Bikus 85A of West Lome and Nick Davidson 85Afrom Zimbabwe Joy Davidson sister ofNick came from Zimbabwefor the Convocation She was sponsored by the OAC Alumni Association Classes of85A alld 86A Norm McCollulIl 66A honorary class president 85A Don and MiidredMcCollum Jenny Ballentine and her parents Dr Steve Bowley 78 and80 honorary class president 86A and the University Centre Administration Our sympathy is extended to the families and friends of these two popular studel1ls Pictured are Ito r Jenny Ballantine friend ofJeff Bikus Lealln Bikus sister of Jeff Joy Davidson sister of Nick and Klaus Kristiansen a studellt from Zimbabwe

other on golf course residential design he was impressed

In order to learn what made British

courses great Lisa spent a semester in Engshyland and Scotland visiting researching sketching photographing and playing 16 historic courses including the famous links courses which by tradition are the

only clubs to host the British Open Links layouts are courses that border the sea and have been built or developed over sand

bases

Approximately 15 students a year take

advantage of the School of Land scape Arshychitectures Semester Abroad Program fi shynancing the trips themselves However the program is supported by an annual $5000 grant from the Alma Mater Fund so alumni can claim a cenain amount of credit for Lisas success She was a recipient in 1983

of part of that years AMF grant Im not sure my mother and father

were very keen about my trave lling around England and Scot lane all alone but it was a truly great experience she said middot1 not only met many wonderful and helpful peoshyple got to play the great courses like St

Andrew s Royal Troon Turnberry and my favorite of all Royal Dornoch

After a complicated and lengthy US immigration process which took nearly a year she was granted her permanent work

visa She was in regular contact with her new

boss after returning to Kitchen er - she re turned to work at Rockway and Doon while awaiting the vi sa approval - and then last July plunged immediately into

projects including work at a mens tournashyment players 36-hole complex in Sarasota and a Ladies Professional Golf Assoc iation course in Melbourne where she worked in association with LPGA tour players Beth Daniels and Sally Little

Despite the fact that the job involves

vy ing with rattlesnakes alligators and Iild

pigs when I have to tramp through forests and swamps in applying my design work to certain areas I love the outdoor work Lisa

said At the same time she doesnt have any

probleIl1s giving orders to hard-hatted heavy-machinery construction workers when she is the field supervisor for on-site

work think I may have raised a few eye shy

brows when I staned work at Rockway but I was accepted

Lisa isnt sure how long this pan of her life will last and she has no way of knowing whether any of her courses will eve r be known as Lisa Maki layouts But that doesnt

concern her They may be Links Design projects but Ill know they were basically my courses 0

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Klink Lecture Dr Doug Morrison 49 Department of Poultry Science was chosen to deliver the 1985 Klink Lecture

The Klink lecture is ~ponsored by the Agricultural Inst itute of Canada and named after the Institute s founding president Preshysented by an outstanding lecture r the lecture is delivered through a coast-to-coast tour and concerns a topic of current significance to the agricultural industry and the nation

Dr Morri son stated that there is a need for professionalization in an imal agriculshyture in order to give it an improved image and make it more acceptable to the conshysumer

Address ing members of the Ontario Inshystitute of Agrologists in London Ontario he told his audience that the agriculture inshydustry in Canada ranks among the best in the world and producers have to ensure thi s is shown and make sure that peer pressure prevents producers from doing things that we cant defend

He suggested some type of professhysiona l approach established by the farming organization whereby expertise would be required instead of merely encouraged

This is a mu ch beller ap proach th an some edict from society through governshyment legi slation I strong ly object to legislashytion designed to protect me from myself he said adding that there are currently enough regulations existent through legislation that dictate what farmers can and cannot do

If a farmer were a profess ional hi s reward wou Id be in profits - about as meanshyingful a reward as has ye t been devised

Benefits of a more professionalized approach would include an improved image of the farmer to the consumer an increase in communication a more efficient industry

which is essential for competition improved knowledge on the fa rmers part of health nutrition care markets etc and more awareness of soc ietys concerns

In turn it would also be necessary to provide beller information to the consumer through an educational process because if soc iety is to pay for increased inputs for the long- term good of the nat ion then it is essential society be adequately informed

Morrison remarked that he fee ls the maj ori ty of animal agriculturists are in fact professionals but there has to be a concerted e ffort to at tract as lew people as possible in to the business who do not understa nd farmshying or who are doing things that are unacshyceptable

Consumer concern over dietary value or the amount of drugs contained in animal product s is also reason for farmers to tak e a professional approach They should work to alleviate any misreprese ntations and misin shyformation the public is receiving the proshyfessor noted s tating that farm ers have never produced food as safe and as wholeshysome as it is today

By the turn of the century on a world basis meat consumption is predicted to in shy

crease by abou t 60 per cent while the intake of milk is expected to increase by almost 40 per cent

A major fac tor for this rise in intake result s from th e fact that developing nations will begin to consume animal products as soon as they can afford them China is an excellent exa mple of this said the professor who commented that nation is now movshying as rapidly as possible to increase animal production

With all these factors is mind Dr Morshyri son sa id he is optimistic for the future of the Canad ian animal agriculture industry

Weve got the opportunities and can take advantage of them he said 0

Mark Bernards 85 cenlre was the recipienl oftwo OAC Alumni Foundation awards the OAC Alumni Graduate Award and the Beth Duncan Gold Medal Left is Gord Nixon 37 Foundashytion chairman and director and right NR Rick Richards 38 treasurer

Entrepreneur in Residence

Dr Donald Shaver

Dean Freeman McEwen is pleased to be working with Dr Donald McQueen Shaver the Universitys first Agricultural Entreshypreneur-i n-Res idence

Dr Shaver a native of Cambt idge Onshytari o is found er chairman and chief exshyecutive officer of Shaver Poultry Breed ing Farms Limited The compan y distributes chicken breeding stock to 90 countries from its head office in Cambridge and three subshysid iaries in the United States Britain and France He retired from his executive reshysponsib ilities on August 30 but is conshytinuing as director and adv isor to the company

From 1940 to 1945 Dr Shaver served with the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps in Africa and Europe retiring as regimental commanding officer He is past president of the Canadian Hatchery Federation the Poulshytry Products Institute of Canada the Canashydian Lincoln Red Society and Maine-Anjou Association He is a member of the Order of Canada Honorary Life Member of the Worlds Poultry Science Association and the Ontario Institute of Agrologi sts He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Science by McGill University and the Centennial Medal by the OAC

The Entrepreneu r-in-Reside nce pro shygram was initiated and financially supshyported by OAC Class of 58 to champion -the role of private enterpri se within soc iety The appointment is for a two-year period during which time Dr Shaver will present lectures lead workshops and consult with faculty and students

The Agricultural Entrepreneur-in-Resishydence program at the University is believed to be a first in agr icultural education around the world 0

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University Of Guelph Involved in $68 Million Chinese Project The University of Guelph has embarked on a co-operative $68 million project that will ~ink five Canadian and Chinese universities and agricultural institutions

The four-year Black Dragon River Proshyjeo supported by the Canadian Internashytional Deve lopment Agency (C IDA) involves Guelph the University of Alberta Olds College in AlbeI1a and two Chinese institutions - Heilongjiang Land Reclamashytion University and Liu He Training College in northeastern Heilongjiang Province

Under th e term s of the agreement training will be provided at the three Canashydian institutions for personnel from the two Chinese university institutions

The Liu He Training College is respo nshysible for educating state farm employees Training will range from short courses to undergraduate and graduate level programs

Faculty from the Canadian universities and Olds College will travel to China during the summer months to give lectures and

short courses The area borderi ng on Russia has treshy

mendou s potential for agricultural deve lopshyment Professor Neal Stos~opf 57 direct or of OACs diploma courses is Guelphs co-ordinator for the Chinese projshyect He was part of the Canadian gove rnment planning miss ion and ex plains that although the climate combines the cold winters and hot summers of Alberta most of the moisshyture is rain that falls between Jul y and Sepshytember

Although latitude is the sa me as Edmontons at 52 degrees north the area grows soybeans and corn as well as wheat The land has two to four feet of black topsoil waiting to be drained and planted he says with potential for livestock proshyduction

The proj ec t centre is located at the Unishyversity of Alberta with administration in Guelph being carried out by the Centre for International Programs 0

Provincial apiarist retires after 19 years You might say Philip Burkes job brought sweet rewards

Until his retirement recently Philip was the provincial apiarist - sort of Onshytarios chief of bees - while working at the University of Guelphs Department of Environmental Biology

He joined the University as a lectu rer in 1943 and then became assistant professor and later associate professor

At the same time the Ontario Departshyment of Agriculture (as the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food was known then) made him the assistant provincial apiarist In 1966 he became provincial apiarist

Of course he advised beekee pers on ways they could make their colonies more productive and efficient and fielded many apiary management question s - including how to prevent bees from swarming

If they swarm one-third to one-half of th e colony takes off so you lose a big source of your honey crop Swarming is trigshygered when the hive becomes overcrowded so the beekeeper mu st stay ahead of them It involves a whole manipulation of the hive through the season visiting each colony at least once every ten to 14 days he says Philip also worked with farmers whose

crops depended on pollination by bees At one time bees were needed for

pollin ating greenhouse produce such as cucumbers But in the past 15 years the trend has been toward new types that are self fruiting he says

But the biggest change in the industry over the years was the trend towards Illakshying corn king in Ontario - a trend that is now being reversed he says

From 1949 and on a lot of bee coloshynies were moved to the western provinces tollowi ng th e reduction in alfalfa production in Ontario and the increased corn acreage he says

Now prospec ts for honey production in Ontario are better than in past years beshycause of the increased alfalfa acreage and other legumes and the trend towards more diversified cropping

Not surpris ingly prices have changed in the industry over the years too Back in the 1920s it cost about $10 to start a bee colony today start-up costs are about $100 to $125 per colony

Much of his work at the University looked at ways to prevent di seases in bees using selected antibiotics

He was secretary for the Ontario Beekeepers Association for 15 yea rs and now acts as a consu It ant for the group 0

Wins Crampton Award

Dr Stanley J Slinger 37 the most recent rec ipient of the Earl e W Crampton Award for distingui shed service in nutrition is ProshyFessor Emeritus of the Depal1ment of Nutrishytion College of Biolog ica l Science at Guelph

Born in Lowell Ontario Dr Slinger received his BSc from the Ontario Agrishycultural College hi s MSc fro111 the Univershysity of Toronto and a PhD from Cornell University From 1941 to 1965 he was in the Departillent of Poultry Science at the OAC and since 1965 has been in the Department of Nutrition at Guelph serving as chairJl1an from 1965 to 1974

Dr Slinger conducted re sea rch in sevshyeral areas of pou Itry nutrition for Jl10re than 30 years In 1972- 73 a fi sh nutrition laborashytory was set up and thi s laboratory has conshytinued to grow and iJl1prove s i nee One of the primary objectives in both poultry and fi sh nutrition research has been to develop feed to rmulas using feedstuffs of Canadian orishygin 111ese tannulas have been publi shed and continuall y revi sed and have been used extensively by teed manufacturers through shyout Canada Dr Slinger continues to be active in research

Dr Slinger taught poultry nutrition in Poultry Science for 27 years gave seminar courses in nutrition and physiology taught Fundamentals of Nutrition in the Depal1shyment of Nutrition and deve loped and taught courses in fi sh and wildlite nutrition

He has supervi sed the work of Jl1any graduates and it is interesting to note that the Department of Nutrition at Guelph is the only depailment in Canada - and there are very few in the United States - turning out graduates in Fish Nutrition at the PhD leve l

He has helped to establi sh modern poultry industries in Mexico and the areas of South East Asia Africa the Middle East Eastern and Western Europe and the United Kingdom Lectures conlerences and other consultative work have also taken hilll to Jl1any coul1tries over the years

The recipient of numerous honours and awards Dr S linger was made Professor Emeritus of the University in Ino and reshy -ceived the Earl e W Crampton award in 19B4 at Macdonald College Que Thi s award is given by the Faculty of Agriculture in recogshyniti on of significant co ntributions in the field of nutrition through research andlor service The award is named for Dr Earle W Crampton a renowned nutritionist whose career at Macd onald bega n in 1922 and lasted far 51 years 0

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cialist having spent four months in the latter John Reid 84 is technical sales rep Agrico Grad News part of 1984 in Bloemfontein South Africa Sales Ltd Richmond BC

Earl Johnston 46 is president Earl-John Brokers Ltd Delhi

Joe Knox 48 is secretary-treasurer Annco Westeellnc Guelph

Ralph Hills 54 is pastor United Church of Canada Smith Falls Ralph left Zambia last October spending some time in Kenya Israel England and Scotland on the way home He was surprised to meet Charlie Broadwell also 54 on Oxford Street in London Charlie was giving a reception at a large castle for the white bean buyers who purchase beans from Charlies Bean Growers of Ontario Ralph also passes along the word from Louise (Fershyguson) Hope Mac 54 that her husband Don 54 preparing for some future possible social work is studying drug addiction at George Brown College of Applied Ans and Technology Toronto

Joseph Leach 54 is a research scientist Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources Lake Erie Research station Wheatley

Ken Edwards 59 is an industrial engineer Prince George Pulp and Paper Vancouver BC

Fred Theaker 62 is a teacher-biologist Ren frew County Board of Education Aruprior

Howard Lang 67 is senior so il conshyservation advisor for OMAF Cambridge

John Lawrence 69 has been appointed vice-president and ge neral manager De kalb Canada Inc Chatham John is a lso president of the Canadian Agri-marketing Assoc iation

Robert Brooksbank 70 is manager Agrishycultural Department Simcoe area Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce

Alan Duncan BLA 73 is project coshyordinator Groupe d intervention urban de Montreal Montreal Que

Martha (Weir) Collins 75 reports that Anne (Walton) Bayler 75 is at teac hers college in Toronto after spending several years teaching in the Bahamas Martha lives at I Braid Place Guelph and would like to hear news of her classmates

Jim Dyer MSc 75 is a senior resource and environmental officer with the crop producshytion division of Agriculture Canada Ottawa He is on loan as a drought monitoring spe shy

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His wife Barb (Newell) Arts 75 who is a technical editor with Public Works Canada joined him in Bloemfontein for a month

Elizabeth Fedorkow 75 is a market reshysearcher Tetra Pak Inc Markham

Roy Maxwell 75 is an agricultural comshymentator CBC Radio Noon Toronto

Gary Ball 76 is vice-president manufacturshying Mitten Vinyl Inc Cambridge

Garnet McConney 77 is feed lot manager Catllel and Ontario Inc Petersburg

Patrick Meyers 77 OVC 84 is a vetshyerinarian with the Grenville-Dundas Veterinshyary Clinic Kemptville

Martha Frey 78 is secretaryass istant edishytor Canadians for Health Research Wes tshymount Que

Wayne Harrison 79 is assi stant manager Toronto Dominion Bank Elmira His wife is Katherine (McLeod) 77

Sharon Helynk 79 is with the Woodbury Animal Hospital Halifax NS

Jeffery Goebel 80 is resident engineer ACF Canada Ltd Georgetown

Mary Lynn Prong 80 is assistant manager Royal Bank Watford She reports that Bruno Soucy 8Q has changed jobs from OMAF farm ma nagement advisor to agrolog ist London region Royal Bank

Corrie Almack 81 is presidentowner Agshyriculturai Soil and Nutrition Consultants Freelton

Edward Bolton 81 is research farm manshyager AJle lix Inc M ississauga

William Summers 82 MSc 84 is prodshyuct deve lopment rep Du-Pont Canada Streetsville

Dianne (Coker) McDowell 83 is quality assurance supervisor Richardson Foods Ltd Glanw0I1h

John Ross 83 is a program officer Agrishyculture Canada Edmonton Alta

Jeff Burke 84 is a customer service rep Griffith Lab Toronto

Julie Fowler 84 is working for Embury Bros Farms Ltd Newburgh

Karen Rodman 84 is a farm management specialist OMAF Nepean

James Simonds 84 is a crop specialist Cavendi sh Fanns Summerside P E1

Richard West PhD 84 is a research scishyentist Canadian Forestry Service SI John s Nftdo

In Memoriam We regret to report the following deaths

Marie Honsberger 17A died March 1985

Esmond D Clipsham 2IA died on April 6 1985 Esmond had been the proprietor Uneeda Rest Hotel Kilwonhy and was a life member of the OAC Alumni Association

Stanley Ewart Keillor 21 died on February 27 1985 He was a crop farmer at Walshylacetown

John Edward Chalmers 23A died on Febshyru ary 15 1985

Jacobus Van Haarlem 23 at age 85 on July 2 1985 in Vineland He retired as ex shyecutive director of the Hor1icultural Experishymental Station at Vineland in 1970 after 47 years of service there

Hugh Lacklin Paterson 32A died in May 1985 of a heart attack at Rockwood

Murray Cameron Macklin 33A 35 died January n 1985 in Toronto

Garland Alfred Fisk 35 Date of deat h unknown

Gordon Elgin Young 35 died on June 12 1985 at Ing leside

John Miller Fargery 37 on March 22 1985 in Toronto John had been an insurance salesman Farm Credit Corp and was a life member of the OAC Alumni Assoc iation

William Thomson 40 in 1982 in Lonshy shygueuil Que His death was reported recen tl y

Robert Fletcher Madden 54A died on November 26 1984 at age 52 at Napanee

Vera (Mod ric) Kozamplik MSc 73 in Yugoslavia She was the wife of Vinko Kozumplik M Sc 71 0

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From the Dean

Dr Barham

In some of my lellers I have aimed to share

information on some special program or theme with you On this occasion I want to

keep you in touch through a number of lillie items so I shall hold onto some of the bigshy

ger interests for future issues of the Guelph Alumnus

As I write this leller Alumni Weekend 85 is behind us I found it a great weekend

and I thoroughly enjoyed meeting more of our alumni for the first time while

especially appreciating recognizing more

and more familiar faces and names from previous occasions

This year the Classes of 65 and 75 requested an up-date on our programs and

the developments we have experienced together in the College over the last few

years I guess that we were able to demonshy

strate much more development in our research and teaching programs than we could in some parts of the physical facilities within the buildings Still we had thorshyoughly congenial and I think very useful

meetings with both of these classes and added a nostalgic tour of our facilities

It was splendid to meet both of these groups I confess however that I had not

foreseen that a large part of the interest of the Class of 65 rested on the fact that many of their children are now gearing up to enter FACS

I was able to remind them that the BASc and B Comm degrees both lead

into fascinating and challenging careers for sons and nephews as well as daughters and

nieces Some of you coming to Alumni Weekend 86 might wish to get in touch with me to arrange an up-date on our acti vities then too

One of my special pleasures of Alumni Weekend was to join with the Class of 35 at the Golden Anniversary Dinner This occashy

sion is always a particular delight given the special personal pleasures reflected in the

friendships shared on this anniversary And I do want members of the Class of

35 to know that their gift of the magnificent Terry Legault Roman Festival print looks really outstanding and just right amidst the

contemporary decor of the FACS lounge

One last item of alumni news which I want to mention is the fact that I met with

Jean (Nairn) Carter 38 and some of her committee recently I learned that they have

been making quite outstanding progress in establishing the trust fund that will support their new graduate student award in geronshy

tology The first award presentation of $1000 is being made this fall but members of the Class of 38 are still pushing on with their fund raising in order to bring the

annual trust-fund yield to a level of $2 000 We all think that the Class of 38 grads

have been quite remarkable in their detershymination to build up a significant fund to

support work in this important new field of scholarship and research I know that we

shall all appreciate your support for them in reaching their target

I met with Audrey Warner and Annette

Yeager 62 recently They advised me of their concern for the needs of teachers wantshy

ing to prepare themselves for adding Family Studies to their fields of professional speshy

cialization and of other teachers already working in that field who find themselves in need of some up-dating especially in view of the curriculum changes which appear to be around the corner

In this regard I want to mention two

items which might be of interest First our faculty in FACS have been

quite heavily engaged in working with

teachers and others in thinking planning debating and writing for the curriculum developme~ts envisaged for the Ontario Academic High School Credits

Most especially we have had as memshybers of the Canadian Family in Perspective group Dr Jean Sabry with her own special

interest in human nutrition Dr Grant

McCracken in clothing Drs Marshall Fine and Claude Guldner with their expertise in family relations and Drs Anne Martin Matshythews and Joe Tindale with their special strengths in life-span development and

aging - quite a team of contributors Secondly I want to mention in relation

to my meeting with Audrey and Annette that we now have a number of courses avai 1shy

able in a six-week format offered in summer sessions provided on campus

Perhaps of even more interest to those of you who wont find it practical to take

classes on campus at Guelph we have an annual offering of distance or corresponshy

dence-type courses Many of these will be of very pertinent

interest to a number of teachers The current list includes Human Development Marital and Family Dynamics Personal and Family Finance Development of Human Sexuality Nutrition and Man and the Exceptional Child in the Family

You can find out more about these

offerings by writing directly to Guelph Disshytance Education University of Guelph

Macdonald Institute shyFamily and Consumer Studies Alumni Assoc

Editor Carol Telford-Pittman 75

Guelph Ont NIG 2WI or by getting in touch with my office

One of the reasons that we have put

ourselves so significantly behind the development of these distance courses is that we did not have the resources to meet

the demand for providing our courses in the more traditional class format at locations

away from the Guelph campus As usual there is much more to share

with you but it will just have to hold until

my next letter I look forward to being in touch with you again then 0

Olive Thompson Honoured

Olive (Thompson) Thompson 35

-The Mac-FACS Alumni Association was very pleased to present a Citation of Appreshyciation to Olive (Thompson) Thompson

35 during Alumni Weekend 85 festivities Olive has given much time energy

support and leadership to the College and to the University through her years of involveshyment with the Mac-FACS Alumni Associashytion Class of Mac 35 activities and the University of Guelph Alumni Association

Our University s alumni organizations are stronger and more effective because of

the years of commitment and personal sershyvice that Olive has contributed

Olive - We salute you 0

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New at HAFA By John Hearn

Infonnation Services

An innovative course developed by the School of Hotel and Food Administration (HAFA) is focussing the attention of undershygraduates on the analysis of operational problems in the hospitality industry and the writing skills required to express and comshymunicate that analysis

Students are required to find summer jobs in the hospitality industry and then to write five papers of ascending complexity during the first semester of their second year using text readings specially edited for this course by the Schools Director Proshyfessor Tom Powers

We have a unique responsibility to prepare students not just for their first job but for future jobs further down the line says Dr Powers Possession of a university degree should imply an ability both to anashylyse problems and to communicate observashytions and recommendations In todays corporate world reports papers and letters are management tools and written comshymunication is a survival skill

The HAFA faculty decided further to emphasize writing skills by adopting a style manual developed by Professor Margaret Hund leby Department of Engl ish Language and Literature for this course as an integral part of the Schools other courses

In order to familiarize faculty with the use of the manual and the grading of student writing Professor Hundleby was invited to conduct a two-day workshop which atshytracted the attention of Vice-President Howard Clark and Associate Vice-President Janet Wardlaw as well as faculty from other disciplines s uch as psychology land resource science microbiology and history

The program Professor Hundleby told the seminar requires students to complete five report papers based on their own obsershyvations

The first paper requires a detailed description of the physical layout of the host operation plus an appraisal and operating cost analysis of its heating air-conditioning and ventilation systems

A second paper asks the student to describe and evaluate staff structure funcshytion compensation package and efficiency

Cost control is the subject of a third paper Purchasing practices food producshytion cost traCking and inventory manageshyment all come under this heading

Marketing is the fourth subject area What market segment is the operation aimed at What consumer need does the operation satisfy What is the nature of the

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Left to right- Professors Cathy Schrye Writing Centre Tom Muller HAFA Belty Upton HAFA Mike Jenkinson OAC 63 OAC dean s office Mary Rogers History and back to camera Bernie Katz Library reviewing cases drawn from studefll papers in a two-day workshop Evaluating Students Writing conducted by Professor Margaret Hundleby

competition in the target market

The fifth paper examines the intangishybles of management sty Ie How does the role of the manager affect relations with customshyers staff and head office

Professor Hundleby commenting on some of the problems of the course says whatever we call it students tend to conshyclude that what they re writing is an acashydemic paper of some kind - which of course it is - but we need to make the connection in their minds with the real the corporate world out there They also tend to think that longer is better and write about what they know - rather than what is import ant The development of a proper sense of for whom they are writing is itself a problem-solving skill

Another problem according to Proshyfessor Hundleby is what she calls the new illiteracy - a verbal dysfunction resulting from an impoverished vocabulary

Style too is a matter of considerable

AMPHI Spin-offs The School of Hotel and Food Administra shytions annual Advanced Management Pro shygram for the Hospitality Industry (AMPHI) now in its third year is spinning off new management development activities says HAFA Director Tom Powers Earlier this year 20 people attended a workshop on accounting and finance presented by Proshyfes sor William Braithwaite School of Agrishycultural Economics and Extension Educashytion and three similar programs will be offered in different parts of the country over the next year and a half

Another program still in the planning stage is a six-day hospitality managers development course designed for middle management by AMPHIs associate direcshy

concern She also mentioned careless senshytence structure style that is inappropriate to the content lack of connective logic failure to understand the nature of a paragraph as a literary entity the frivolous use of colloshyquiali sms an absence of any sense of the harmonious sound of words on paper and of course a growing list of commonly misused words - e g it could of had that affect

There s a tendency to see s tyle as a decorative flourish rather than as an aspect of content she concluded

Professor Powers sees the development of verbal communication skills as central to the whole idea of liberal education Cershytainly he says its useful for HAFA stushydents to understand how a cost control system works - but its at least as important to be able to think logically analyse logshyically and communicate conclusions in a way that is credible informative coherent and complete in fact these are the classic goals of a liberal education 0

tor Professor John Patterson and a consulshytant group of AMPHI alumni

AMPHI continues to attract internashytional attention participants in thi s years program which began in April include senior executives from many of North Americas most distinguished hotels and restaurants The four-week course offers an intensive program based primarily on case studies written by Professo rs Patterson -Braithwaite Carl Riegel and Tom Muller

The growing volume of AMPHI cases indicates that thi s is the largest s ingle research program currently under way in any hotel school in North America says Proshyfessor Powers AMPHls network of conshytacts is giving us access to a senior-level view of the industrys current problems and prospects 0

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Research AssociateComing Soon A AppointedModel Play Facility

Dr Joan Norris

Dr Joan Norris has held the position of Research Associate at the Gerontology Research Centre since last spring

Joan is working with faculty to develop and promote research related to population aging and is available for consultation with faculty on research design funding sources and publication

In addition to this development work she is continuing her personal program of research She works for the Gerontology Censhytre two days per week and the balance of her

The Family Studies Laboratory Schools pre-school play facility fell 10 a Grounds time is spent in the Department of Family Department wrecking machine recently Studies where she has held a faculty appointshy

ment since 1980 Joan holds a Ph D in Psychology from

the University of Waterloo and is also a regisshytered psychologist Her personal research

The Mllc-FACS Special Projects Commitshyinterests include social competence in older

tee Ito r Bonnie Kerslake 82 Association adults peer relationships and grandshy

president Linda (Wo[e) Markle 73 chairshyparenting 0

man and Gail Murray 78 Missing comshymillee member is Rita (Klassen) Weigel 77 The aim of the committee is to raise funds to redevelop the Family Studies Laboshy In Memoriam ratory Schools and raise itto the level where it will be regarded as a model pre-school

Eileen Margaret (Manahan) Alwayplay facility

390 October 21984 in Vancouver BC

Jean (Horrell) Atkinson 240 March 5 1985 in Aurora

Class of 35 Gift Oorothy (Lockard) Honsberger 300Centre panel Roman Carnival

In order to commemorate their anniversary July 51985 in Weiland Mac 35 has traditionally given a scholshyarship to a FACS student once every five Isabel J Lockerbie 300 March 31 years This year on the 50th anniversary of 1985 in Toronto their graduation and in addition to the scholarship an etching entitled Roman Patricia G (Smith) McKay-Barry 55 Carnival by Terry Legault has been added March 17 1985 in London Ont to the Universitys collection of Canadian alt The etching is hanging in the FACS Velma E (Conn) Partridge 260 April faculty lounge 29 1985 in Niagara Falls Ont shy

The theme of Roman Carnival was favoured by neo-clas sical and romantic Helen E (Kelly) Robinson 220 April painters during the 19th century The etching 30 1985 in Dundas captures the moment at which wild horses are released to race through the streets of Norma I (Motherwell) Roy 350 in Rome The artist has chosen to represent the Moosejaw Sask wild chaotic motion ot the horses rather than explicitly depict in detail the animals Lillian S (Moore) Usher 340 March 28 and the architectural background 0 1985 in Cobourg 0

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College of Physical Science Alumni Assoc SCIMP

Editor Bob Winkel

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Yes Dr Earl MacNaughtoll has relired alshylogelher bUI Ihis wonl be Ih e lasl you I hear from him reSI assured Before he and his wife Jean lOok oJf for Auslralia and New Zealand Deparlmenl of Physics slaf and faculty held a galhering al Ihe FacullY Club and presenled Ihe couple wilh an alumni clock

Back to Guelph

The headquarters for (GWC)2 came

back to Guelph in July for a threeshy

year period while Professor Robert Balahura Chemistry and Biochemisshy

try serves as director (GWC)2 offices have been set up

in Room 122 and 123 Physical Scishyences building The University of

Waterloo will maintain a satellite office during the three-year Guelph

rotation Dr Balahura and adminshy

istrative assistant Andrea Turner may

be reached at Ext 3865 0

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Physics Professor Elected to Royal Society

Bernhard Nickel

Department of Phy s ics Professor Bernhard Nickel has been elected a Fellow

of the Royal Society of Canada and was formally inducted into the Society at its

annual meeting in Montreal in June

A member of the Physics faculty since

1974 Professor Nickel is no stranger to

prizes and awards In 1981 he received the Herzberg Medal the Canadian Associashy

tion of Physicists award to a promising young scienti st In 1978 he won a Sloan

Fellowship from the New York-based Sloan Foundation

He achieved recognition by navigating

the esoteric seas of condensed matter physshy

ics Hi s co lleagues call him a leading masshyter in the art of mathematical physics By

exploiting the existing mathematical frameshywork in subtle ways he has worked through

thickets that have stopped other physic ists

High order perturbation calculations

done by him played a key role in verifying

the quantitative reliability of the theory of

underlying continuous phase transitions in systems

He earned BScE and MSc degrees from the University of Saskatchewan and a

PhD from the University of California at

San Diego He was a research associate at

Cornell and Oxford Universities and a postshy

doctoral research Fellow at the Univers itY of Alberta before coming to Guelph in 1974

He has been a visiting fellow at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory at the Univershy

sity of California at San Diego at Harvard

and at the Schlumberger-Doll Re searc h In stitute in Connecticut

With his election he becomes one of

six Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada at

Guelph The others are Professors Howard

Clark Peter Egelstaff Gabriel Karl Bruce Sells and Herbert Armstrong And it brings to five the number of me mbers of the

Guelph-Waterloo Program for Graduate Work in Physics (GWP)2 who can put the

coveted FRSC after their names 0

Halleys Comet and the Babylonians By Professors Nigel Bunce and Jim Hunt

The winter of 1985 and the spring of 1986 will lon g be remembered as the year of

Comet Halley No comet in history has so

stirred the imagination of man or been the

object of suc h intensive investigation Its easy to understand this interest when its

appreciated that Halleys Comet is the only recurring comet that is bright enough to be

seen with the naked eye ft was the g reat astronomer Edmund

Halley who in 1705 recognized the s imilarshy

ity of the appearances of the great comets of 1456 1531 1607 and 1682 He speculated that these were in fact one and the sa me

comet with a period of 75 or 76 years

He predicted that the comet would reshyturn in 175 8 a return he could not live to see With thi s Halley discovered the phenomeshy

non of periodic comets and thus showed

that they were members of our solar system

The comet dutifully returned in 1835

and spectacularly so in 1910 In the latter

year circumstances were such that after its

perhelion passage (the point closest to the

Sun) the Earth and the comet approached

each other very closely The comet was so close that at one time its tail spread from

horizon to horizon The return in 1985-86 will be considshy

erably less spectacular In fact for Canadishyans it will not be easy to observe s ince the

time of perhelion is in Febnlary when the

Sun is very low in the sky The view will be -much better from more southerl y latitudes Over the years historica l records have

been found which record every passage of the comet back to 12 BC M any of these obshy

servations come from Chinese records first published in 1846 A well-authenticated

passage was that of 1066 which was reshy

corded on the Bayeux tapestry by the mother

of William of Nonnand y and taken as an cOllld on righl

Grad News Paul Ferguson BSc 67 of Ede n Mill s is president of EIS Systems Ltd and travelled in New Zealand this summer

Walter Lock BSc 67 of Denfield is practising medicine in Lucan

Tjeerd Homan BSc 69 of Calgary Alta is manager research and development services for Petro-Can He is enjoying his family Carla Sarah and John Menno and his hobbies of golf curling and skiing

(GWP)2 Poster Session a First

Earlier this year the Guelph- Waterloo Proshygram for Graduate Work in Physics (GWP)2 staged its first annual poster session for graduate s tudents Poster sessions which are becoming increasingly popular in scienshytific circles allow interaction between researchers and delegates without the time pressures encountered when presenting con shyventional papers at meetings says (GWP)2 Director lain Campbell

The first annual (GWP)2 poste r sesshysion which was followed by a soc ial hour and banquet was highly successful in genershyating interaction says Campbell By the end of the session there were still clusters of people arguing the finer points of scientific interpretation on many of the posters These exchanges continued right through the soshycial hour and into dinner Interaction is what science is all about

Encouraging interaction between stushydents and faculty is one of Campbells prishyorities as Director It is too easy for students to tuck themselves into a corner and work away in isolation They need to get out and ex plain their work both to experts and to

omen of his victory over the Saxons Based on this long record various

mathematical analyses of the orbit of the comet have been produced These account very accurately for the known passages of the comet However when these various anshyalyses are pushed back beyond 12 BC they predict widely varying dates for the previous appearances Before 12 B c there are ani y two vague Chinese records in 87 BC and 240 B c which mayor may not have been Halleys comet

In a recent issue of Nature a team of

Ernest Campbell BSc 69 lives in Campbell ville and teaches science for the Halton Board in Burlington

Richard Davis BSc 77 having comshypleted his MD University of Toronto 83 and his internship at Womens College Hosshypital will be setting up his practice in family medicine in his home town of Guelph

Larry Meek BSc 77 of Ottawa is pashytient administrator and computing officer for the National Defence Medical Centre His hobbies include sailing and skiing

Andre Brunet BA 81 is working for Amdahl Ltd as fieldsystems engineer and lives in Sudbury with his wife Monique (Puellette) FACS 80

Cathy Deakin BSc 81 is presently articshyling with the law firm of Little Reeves Mahoney Jarrett amp Hart of London

Andrew Dubrawski BSc 82 and his wife Alicia (Wodecka) BSc 81 live in Toronto where he works as a communicashytions systems analyst for CNCP Telecomshymunications 0

10hn Root 81 a (GWP)2 PhD s tudent left aflracts an audience

non-experts It takes a deliberate effort on our part to generate and maintain this intershychange

The poster session was the largest scishyentific or social event yet staged by (GWP)2 Some 18 students presented posters and about 90 students faculty and prospective students attended

The posters are on display in the two departments of physics to give others an opportunity to view them At Gue lph they are in the second floor corridor of the Physshyical Science Building near the Department

scholars from England and Vienna reported the finding of two fragments of Babylonian tablets in the British Museum that clearly report the appearance of the comet in 87 BC and 164 B C The records are so clear that by calculation not only the year but the time of year for the perhelion passage can be determined

For example the 164 BC apparition has been narrowed down to a date someshywhere between November 5 and 25 of that year The 87 BC record is not as accurate nevertheless its perhelion passage can be

of Physics office Encouraged by the s uccess of the

poster sess ion lain Campbell is planning another high-profile event for (GWP)2 to recognize award-winning faculty He plans a fall symposium at which three (GWP)2 members who received major honours durshying 1985 will give short lectures to be folshylowed by a sherry reception The three honoured faculty are Gicinto Scoles Killam Fellowship winner Bernhard Nickel Felshylow of the Royal Society of Canada and John Simpson Rutherford medalist 0

narrowed down to July 25 to August 15 These observations while inaccurate

to the extent of 20 days are still accurate enough to eliminate three of the four leading -calculations of the motion of Comet Halley This is a striking example of how archaeoshylogical investigations may have a strong effect on many diverse subjects in this case com~tary astronomy 0

We welcome questions and ideas for future articles Write to the authors clo the Deans Office Cole fe ofPhysical Science Univershysity of Guelph Guelph Ontario NIG 2WI

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College of Biological Science Alumni Assoc BIOmiddotALUMNI NEWS

Editor Marie (Boissonneault) Rush 80

HONORARY PRESIDENT Professor Bruce Sells Dean

PRESIDENT David Airdrie BSc 82 Microbiology

PAST PRESIDENT Dr Chris Wren BSc 77 Marine Biology PhD 83

VICE-PRESIDENT Dee Britney BSc 74 Fisheries amp Wildlife MSc 81

SECRETARY-TREASURER Kclly Munkittrick BSc 80 Fisheries amp Wildshylife MSc 83

DIRECTORS Lorraine Bruce-Allen BSc 80 Zoology MSc 84 Jim Elliott BSc 79 Marine Biology Keith Harris BSc 76 Marine Biology Dr Doug Holdway BSc 76 Marine Biology MSc 78 Aquatic Toxicology PhD 83 Krista (McAuley) Soper BSc 79 Marine Biolshyogy Karin Davidson-Taylor BSc 83 Zoology

From Dave Airdrie 82 the

President How time flies when youre having fun Your editor Marie (Boissonneault) Rush 80 tell s me that this note to you will be in the Fall issue of the Guelph Alumnus so Ill bring you up to date on happenings since your 1985-86 Board of Directors was inshystalled in June

The CBS Alumni Association was parshyticularly busy during June Alumni Weekshyend events including the Wildlife Art Show and Sale and the barbecue at the Rockwood Conservation Area were well attended

Thanks must go to Krista (McAuley) Soper 79 and Lorraine Bruce-Allen 84 for their first-rate efforts in organizing and running the art show From all accounts it was ex tremely well done and is sure to be repeated in 1986

Further thanks mu st go to Keith Harshyris 76 for his efforts in once again organizing the barbecue at Rockwood Keith has done a terrifi c job with this event s ince its inception Hopefully these two events will be expanded in the coming year

Last spring the objective of $10 000 for the Keith Ronald Fellowship Fund was reached and we thank all who generously contributed to this fund Its to be hoped that this is only the first of many scholarships initiated through the CBSAA

Many of you will now be aware of the changes which the Universitys Department of Alumni Affairs has undergone in rece nt months Most important is the arrival of Marjorie Millar as director of the Departshyment It seems that President Matthews is placing greater emphasis on the importance of the Department due in part to the impenshyding capital campaign I am sure that youll all notice many beneficial innovations

The CBSAA has I feel reached a point in its development where we must heighten our profile both among alumni and undershygraduates In order to increase the awareness of the Association the Board has plans to embark on some new programs

The goals are as I see them two-fold first of all we need YOU to get more inshyvolved whether its participation in our proshygrams or s upport for the Assoc iation through your membership The fact that youre reading this demonstrates an interest which we would like to heighten

Secondly we re working at helpin g undergraduates before graduation to beshycome more aware of our Association Hopeshyfully we ll get helpful input and suggestions from many of you in the near future Reshymember - YOUR alumni association is what YOU make it

Dave Airdrie BSc 82 President Colshylege of Biological Science AA

FACULTY ADVISORS Dr Denis Lynn Zoology Dr Margaret Hauser M icroshybiology Dr John Hilton Nutrition Dr John Sandys Award Phillips Botany amp Genetics Dr Brian Wilson Human BiologyKinetics The Ontario Confederation of University

Faculty Associations (OCUFA) has awarded UGAA REPRESENTATIVES Karin Dr Alexander Sandy Middleton DepartshyDavidsonTaylor BSe X) Zoology Keith ment of Zoology one of the nine OCUFA Harris BSc 76 Marinc Biology Rob Teaching Awards for 1984 Milnc BSe XI MSe 84 Marine Bio Dr Middleton was nominated for this -award by colleagues students administrashyEX-OFFICIO DIRECTORS Ed Berdusco tors alumni and faculty It acknowledges president CBSSC Steve Spring past presishy outstanding ability and is considered to be dent CBSSC the provinces highest honour for excellence

in university teaching HKAA REPRESENTATIVE Nick Dalton I think there are two keys to being an BSe 77 Human Kinetics effective teacher Sandy says One is to

have respect for the student the other is to EDITOR RIO-ALUMNI NEWS Marie make a genuine intellectual and time comshy(Boissonneault) Rush B Se XO Marine mitmcnt to the course Biology 0 Dr Alexander Middleton Congratulations Dr Middleton 0

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Grad News Human Biology

Cathy Knipe BSc 79 MSc 83 is a Ph D st ud ent at Iowa State University Ames Iowa USA She is studying Moshylecular Biology

Shelly Lugg BSc 83 is a stude nt at Simon Fraser University Burnaby BC

Human Kinetics

Susan (Wright) Kwiatkowski BSc 80 is a recreation therapist at York Central Hosshypital Toronto Her spouse Ed graduated from Ryerson in 1979

Donna Marie (Kadwell) 1vose BSc 79 and husband John ji ve in Thorold Shes a physica l education supervisor at the Niagara Peninsula Crippled Childrens Centre

Mary Ellen (Mew) Walker BSc 83 is the activity co-ordinator at Spruce Lodge Stratford

Dr Ken Danylchuk BSc(PE) 73 is a s ur ge ry re s ident at the H itchcockshyDartmouth Medical Center Hanover N H USA

Kathryn (Tarry) Myers BSc 78 is a teacher with the Middlesex COunty Board of Educati on Hyde Park

WildUfe

Vicky Johnston 84 bega n an MSc at Lakehead University Thunder Bay in May Shes working on the reprodu ctive biology of Lake Superior rin g-billed gull s

Nutrition

Or 0010 Ohiokpehai 77 lectures in food and nutrition at the Unive rs ity of Ife Nigeria

Microbiology

John Semple 78 is a PhD ca ndidate in the Department of Mic rob iology amp Immushynology at Queens Uni vers ity Kingston He will be doing a post-doctora l at the Banting amp Best Depattment of Medica l Research University of Toronto

Unspecialized

Peter Adams 79 and Beth (Sarjeant) 79 are happy to announce their recent marshyriage Beth is a research technici an with the Depanment of Medicine Univers ity of Ca lshygary Alta and Peter operates a business with the se ismic service industry

Marine Biology

Jorgen Hansen 75 and his wife Drusilla (Dol be) Arts 75 live in Gloucester Jorge n is a staff officer with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Ottawa

CoUege Honour RoU - Winter 85 Semester 06

Margorie Fe rgusson 894 Human Biology JoAnna Milan 860 Biology

Semester 07 Sandra Noble 856 Microbiology

Semester 08 Marga ret Docker 876 Marine Biology Thomas Johnston 87 0 Fi sheries Biology Debra Underhill 858 Microbi ology

James Wright 858 Biology Tobin Peever 854 Botany

Alexander Hanke 852 Zoology Rebecca Rodgers 852 Human Bi ology

Tracey Robin son 882 BSc( HK ) Rebecca Halonen 880 BSc(HK )

Swdent has obtained standing for second time Student has obtaincd standing for third time

Home Town

Oakville Ottawa

Dorchester

Guelph New Liskeard Kingston Thunder Bay Bracebridge Grafton Calgary Alta Guelph Georgetown

Donald MacLennan 75 and hi s wife Katherine live in Chatham Donald is a biologi st-supervisor with the Ministry of Natural Resources Lake SI Clair Fisheries Assessmen t Unit Tilbury 0

College of Biological Science

Alumni Association

Wildlife Art Show

Well it happened June 15 and 16 have come and gone but not withshyout event The Graduate Students Lounge was transformed from a cozy meeting place into an an gallery There was much movi ng of furniture and hanging of an work with the end product being our fi rst ever CBSAA Wildlife Art Show

In total there were 20 wildlite artists partic ipating all tine ani sts in their own right Maybe you reshymember Ut a Stre live a nd Dr Ed Bailey Wow I You should see their wood works

Rick Beaver 73 also showed some of his work hes a wildlife imshypressionist and the colour and move shyment he paint s into each piece is eloquent Donald Dority 76 showed us the line photographer he has become There were other ani sts - too many to mention but all of extremely high calibre

Id like to mention one las t name though - Cindy Hayward manager of the Graduate Students Lounge If you ever need a steady hand to get an event off the ground shes the one to co ntact Without her hel p there would have been a whole heap of orshyga ni za tional problems From which we would have been unable to escape

All in all we had a successful show Thanks artists and viewers for making our efforts worthwhile 0

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New Minister of AgricultureOntario Agricultural College Alumni Assoc OAC ALUMNI NEWS

Editor Dr Harvey W Caldwell 51

Ontari OS new mini ster of ag riculture Jack Riddell 52A and 57 a cash crop farmer from the Exeter area comes to the position of Ontario s Mini ster of Agriculture and Food with ten years of expe rience as Liberal caucus cr itic for agriculture

The min is ter sa id that life under a Libshyeral government will give agriculture a higher priority than it has ex perienced in the past It will be considered one of the major industries in this province

Jack also pro mi sed to consult a great

Basic Technology in Action shyTurning Stones Into Bread By Ann Middleton Information Services

A new University of Guelph projec t in Tanza nia Africa should aid th e Third Wo rld s ubsistence leve l farmer The $400000 three-year projec t funded by the International Development Resea rch Centre (IDRC) will invol ve fltlculty of the Uni vershysitys Department of Land Resou rce Sc ience and Soko ine Uni versity of Ag riculture in Morogoro Central Tanza ni a Aim of the enterpri se is to use loca lly ava il ab le rock materials as soil amendm en ts and con shyditioners

The project came about when Ott awas IDRC brought together a team of two geo logists with an interest in improving co nshyditions for African farmers Professor Ward Chesworth with the Department of Land Resource Science has a long-standing intershyes t in turning rock s into fertili zers deshyve loped during work in West Africa and the Canltlry Islands where local farmers have spread volcanic rock on their field s for two centu ries In his lab and in the Blue Springs basin near Acton Ontario Professor Chesshyworth has been conducting experiment s on the levels at which common rocks re lease nutri ents into soil solutions

The other team member Dr Peter van Straltl ten is ori ginally from Germany but spe nt e ight years with the United Nations in Tan zania looking for metals and metal deshyposi ts and working on an in ve ntory of ferti shyli zer raw materials in south-east Africa

During thi s period Tanza nian food production per capita fell dramaticall y leadshying Dr van Strltlaten to try to find ways to help the food situation In ex periments in his garden in Dodomo Tanzaniltl he was able to increase yields of vegetables using locally

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available geological materia ls and organic wastes

Noting the common interes ts of the two men the Canadian age ncy introd uced them and Dr van Straaten relocated in Guelph Co-ordinators of the project are Professor Cheswo rth and Tan za ni an sc ie nti st Dr Johnson Semoka of Sokoine University coshyauthor of a text on so il sc ience much used in agricultural circles in Africa

Technical assistant Peter Sl11i th is working with Tanzanian rock specimens in the Land Resource Science lab and two other Tanzanian scientists will be involved

In addition to academics from bo th institutions members of the Geological Survey of Tanzania will also work on the project both in the Morogoro area and at Mbeya station in south-western Tanzania

Roc k sa mples will be collected and crushed and field tests and pot ex periments carried out here and on location When reshysu lt s have bee n obtained extension work will begin in Africa under the direc tion of Dr Semoka It is hoped that members of a Me nnonite Central Committee group workshying at Mbeya will design a simple rock crusher for the use of local farmers

Tanzania has a major phosphate deshyposi t wh ich will be tapped by the project as well as ground s ilicates including volcanic ash Liming materials such as limestone dolomite marl and ca rbonatite will also be evaluated

Professor Chesworth points out that alshythough No rth Americans place much emshyphasi s on the big three of soil nutrition shynitrogen phosphorus and potassium (NPK) - there are actually about 20 necessary

deal with the farm organizations on the direction his ministry should be taki ng

I dont believe that we can sit in our so-ca ll ed ivory towers and introduce the kind of programs that are go ing to be mea nshyingful unless we get consultation from the farmers and their spokes people

He has been a member of the provincial legislature for 12 years He spent his first two years as energy cri tic and later environshyment critic before mov ing into agriculture Jack and Anit a have a family of five 0

nutrie nts including the minor ones In some areas of Tanza nia the decline

in soil fe rtility is in part due to the settling of widespread populations into villages where land has been used without concern for nutrients Tn other part s of the country productivity has declined because of leachshying of plant nutrie nts durin g normal rainfall and also from the continuous use of acidifyshying fertilizers such as ammo nium su lphate Dr Chesworth point s out that the current practice of NPK fe rtili zation totally ignores secondary and micronut rient requirements of plants It is hoped that the projec t wilt address thi s problem

Our approac h is basic tec hn ology our target group the poorest far mers Dr van Straaten explains One of the problems in the past Dr Ches worth says has been convincing agronomists that it s worth purshysuing this kind of elementary tec hnology approach Theyre very skeptical that you can take common roc ks wi thou t major inshydustrial proces ing and use them to advanshytage on tropical soils

A s ideline area of research is work with zeolites open framework si licates that often occ ur in volcanic rocks Some zeolites can be used to trap nitrogen in the form of ammonia which would otherwise be los t in gaseous form When added to cow manure for exampl e and stomped in by the beasts themselves zeolites enrich an already valushyabl e fertil ize r Dr van Straaten explains

The zeolite research is being carried out in co njunction with Professor Colin Fyfe Department of Chemistry an intershynat io na ll y kn ow n authority o n zeo lit e -che mi stry

Orie result of the work of the Un ive rs ity of Guelph geo logists is an ag rogeology ne tshywork currentl y being set up bya number of African cou ntries as the result of di sc usshysions following a paper by Dr van Straaten and Professor Chesworth The paper was given recently at meetings of the UN Ecoshynomic Commiss ion for Africa in Zambia 0

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A Designing Grad The need for a summer job six years ago has ended in a Guelph grad des igning golf courses

When in 1979 Lisa Maki now

BLA 84 was searching for a job that would assist her in her studies at the Univershysity she applied to the city of Kitchener

She could have wound up in any

number of areas in the parks and recreation department but Rockway and Doon Valley

course superintendent Ed Ortlieb gave her the chance to join the work crew at Rockway fltor the first couple of years it was just a job that got her outdoors in the summer then by chance she got interested in the game itself

And now shes embarked on a career in golf course design

Lisa the 24-year-old oldest daughter of Ted Maki a former general manager of the

Lisa Maki BLA 84 Kitchener Rangers left last July for Lakeshyland Florida where she Joined Links Deshysign which de sig ns and oversees golf course construction throughout the United 1983 and a friend of the family who knew States The company is considered the sec shy was interested in golf course work arranged ond-largest of its type behind the one run by a meeting with Ronald Garl said Lisa I US golf legend Jack Nicklaus who deshy had an official job interview in April of 84 signed the Glen Abbey course in Oakville and then went to Florida in August of the

How does a young Kitchener woman same year to familiarize myself with the

end up working for Ronald Garl a 40-yearshy firms projects

old graduate of the University of Florida Because I had focused much of my who apprenticed under such well-known deshy University work on such things as turf man shy

signers as Roben Trent Jones and Joseph agement and had done pan of my bachelor Lee Again it was just a chance opportunity of landscape architecture thes is on what

We were in Florida in December of makes British golf courses great and the

Sisters of Accident Victims Receive Diplomas

A tragic accident just prior to Spring Convocation resulted in the deaths oftwo graduands of the Associate Diploma in Agriculture Program Jeff Bikus 85A of West Lome and Nick Davidson 85Afrom Zimbabwe Joy Davidson sister ofNick came from Zimbabwefor the Convocation She was sponsored by the OAC Alumni Association Classes of85A alld 86A Norm McCollulIl 66A honorary class president 85A Don and MiidredMcCollum Jenny Ballentine and her parents Dr Steve Bowley 78 and80 honorary class president 86A and the University Centre Administration Our sympathy is extended to the families and friends of these two popular studel1ls Pictured are Ito r Jenny Ballantine friend ofJeff Bikus Lealln Bikus sister of Jeff Joy Davidson sister of Nick and Klaus Kristiansen a studellt from Zimbabwe

other on golf course residential design he was impressed

In order to learn what made British

courses great Lisa spent a semester in Engshyland and Scotland visiting researching sketching photographing and playing 16 historic courses including the famous links courses which by tradition are the

only clubs to host the British Open Links layouts are courses that border the sea and have been built or developed over sand

bases

Approximately 15 students a year take

advantage of the School of Land scape Arshychitectures Semester Abroad Program fi shynancing the trips themselves However the program is supported by an annual $5000 grant from the Alma Mater Fund so alumni can claim a cenain amount of credit for Lisas success She was a recipient in 1983

of part of that years AMF grant Im not sure my mother and father

were very keen about my trave lling around England and Scot lane all alone but it was a truly great experience she said middot1 not only met many wonderful and helpful peoshyple got to play the great courses like St

Andrew s Royal Troon Turnberry and my favorite of all Royal Dornoch

After a complicated and lengthy US immigration process which took nearly a year she was granted her permanent work

visa She was in regular contact with her new

boss after returning to Kitchen er - she re turned to work at Rockway and Doon while awaiting the vi sa approval - and then last July plunged immediately into

projects including work at a mens tournashyment players 36-hole complex in Sarasota and a Ladies Professional Golf Assoc iation course in Melbourne where she worked in association with LPGA tour players Beth Daniels and Sally Little

Despite the fact that the job involves

vy ing with rattlesnakes alligators and Iild

pigs when I have to tramp through forests and swamps in applying my design work to certain areas I love the outdoor work Lisa

said At the same time she doesnt have any

probleIl1s giving orders to hard-hatted heavy-machinery construction workers when she is the field supervisor for on-site

work think I may have raised a few eye shy

brows when I staned work at Rockway but I was accepted

Lisa isnt sure how long this pan of her life will last and she has no way of knowing whether any of her courses will eve r be known as Lisa Maki layouts But that doesnt

concern her They may be Links Design projects but Ill know they were basically my courses 0

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Klink Lecture Dr Doug Morrison 49 Department of Poultry Science was chosen to deliver the 1985 Klink Lecture

The Klink lecture is ~ponsored by the Agricultural Inst itute of Canada and named after the Institute s founding president Preshysented by an outstanding lecture r the lecture is delivered through a coast-to-coast tour and concerns a topic of current significance to the agricultural industry and the nation

Dr Morri son stated that there is a need for professionalization in an imal agriculshyture in order to give it an improved image and make it more acceptable to the conshysumer

Address ing members of the Ontario Inshystitute of Agrologists in London Ontario he told his audience that the agriculture inshydustry in Canada ranks among the best in the world and producers have to ensure thi s is shown and make sure that peer pressure prevents producers from doing things that we cant defend

He suggested some type of professhysiona l approach established by the farming organization whereby expertise would be required instead of merely encouraged

This is a mu ch beller ap proach th an some edict from society through governshyment legi slation I strong ly object to legislashytion designed to protect me from myself he said adding that there are currently enough regulations existent through legislation that dictate what farmers can and cannot do

If a farmer were a profess ional hi s reward wou Id be in profits - about as meanshyingful a reward as has ye t been devised

Benefits of a more professionalized approach would include an improved image of the farmer to the consumer an increase in communication a more efficient industry

which is essential for competition improved knowledge on the fa rmers part of health nutrition care markets etc and more awareness of soc ietys concerns

In turn it would also be necessary to provide beller information to the consumer through an educational process because if soc iety is to pay for increased inputs for the long- term good of the nat ion then it is essential society be adequately informed

Morrison remarked that he fee ls the maj ori ty of animal agriculturists are in fact professionals but there has to be a concerted e ffort to at tract as lew people as possible in to the business who do not understa nd farmshying or who are doing things that are unacshyceptable

Consumer concern over dietary value or the amount of drugs contained in animal product s is also reason for farmers to tak e a professional approach They should work to alleviate any misreprese ntations and misin shyformation the public is receiving the proshyfessor noted s tating that farm ers have never produced food as safe and as wholeshysome as it is today

By the turn of the century on a world basis meat consumption is predicted to in shy

crease by abou t 60 per cent while the intake of milk is expected to increase by almost 40 per cent

A major fac tor for this rise in intake result s from th e fact that developing nations will begin to consume animal products as soon as they can afford them China is an excellent exa mple of this said the professor who commented that nation is now movshying as rapidly as possible to increase animal production

With all these factors is mind Dr Morshyri son sa id he is optimistic for the future of the Canad ian animal agriculture industry

Weve got the opportunities and can take advantage of them he said 0

Mark Bernards 85 cenlre was the recipienl oftwo OAC Alumni Foundation awards the OAC Alumni Graduate Award and the Beth Duncan Gold Medal Left is Gord Nixon 37 Foundashytion chairman and director and right NR Rick Richards 38 treasurer

Entrepreneur in Residence

Dr Donald Shaver

Dean Freeman McEwen is pleased to be working with Dr Donald McQueen Shaver the Universitys first Agricultural Entreshypreneur-i n-Res idence

Dr Shaver a native of Cambt idge Onshytari o is found er chairman and chief exshyecutive officer of Shaver Poultry Breed ing Farms Limited The compan y distributes chicken breeding stock to 90 countries from its head office in Cambridge and three subshysid iaries in the United States Britain and France He retired from his executive reshysponsib ilities on August 30 but is conshytinuing as director and adv isor to the company

From 1940 to 1945 Dr Shaver served with the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps in Africa and Europe retiring as regimental commanding officer He is past president of the Canadian Hatchery Federation the Poulshytry Products Institute of Canada the Canashydian Lincoln Red Society and Maine-Anjou Association He is a member of the Order of Canada Honorary Life Member of the Worlds Poultry Science Association and the Ontario Institute of Agrologi sts He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Science by McGill University and the Centennial Medal by the OAC

The Entrepreneu r-in-Reside nce pro shygram was initiated and financially supshyported by OAC Class of 58 to champion -the role of private enterpri se within soc iety The appointment is for a two-year period during which time Dr Shaver will present lectures lead workshops and consult with faculty and students

The Agricultural Entrepreneur-in-Resishydence program at the University is believed to be a first in agr icultural education around the world 0

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University Of Guelph Involved in $68 Million Chinese Project The University of Guelph has embarked on a co-operative $68 million project that will ~ink five Canadian and Chinese universities and agricultural institutions

The four-year Black Dragon River Proshyjeo supported by the Canadian Internashytional Deve lopment Agency (C IDA) involves Guelph the University of Alberta Olds College in AlbeI1a and two Chinese institutions - Heilongjiang Land Reclamashytion University and Liu He Training College in northeastern Heilongjiang Province

Under th e term s of the agreement training will be provided at the three Canashydian institutions for personnel from the two Chinese university institutions

The Liu He Training College is respo nshysible for educating state farm employees Training will range from short courses to undergraduate and graduate level programs

Faculty from the Canadian universities and Olds College will travel to China during the summer months to give lectures and

short courses The area borderi ng on Russia has treshy

mendou s potential for agricultural deve lopshyment Professor Neal Stos~opf 57 direct or of OACs diploma courses is Guelphs co-ordinator for the Chinese projshyect He was part of the Canadian gove rnment planning miss ion and ex plains that although the climate combines the cold winters and hot summers of Alberta most of the moisshyture is rain that falls between Jul y and Sepshytember

Although latitude is the sa me as Edmontons at 52 degrees north the area grows soybeans and corn as well as wheat The land has two to four feet of black topsoil waiting to be drained and planted he says with potential for livestock proshyduction

The proj ec t centre is located at the Unishyversity of Alberta with administration in Guelph being carried out by the Centre for International Programs 0

Provincial apiarist retires after 19 years You might say Philip Burkes job brought sweet rewards

Until his retirement recently Philip was the provincial apiarist - sort of Onshytarios chief of bees - while working at the University of Guelphs Department of Environmental Biology

He joined the University as a lectu rer in 1943 and then became assistant professor and later associate professor

At the same time the Ontario Departshyment of Agriculture (as the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food was known then) made him the assistant provincial apiarist In 1966 he became provincial apiarist

Of course he advised beekee pers on ways they could make their colonies more productive and efficient and fielded many apiary management question s - including how to prevent bees from swarming

If they swarm one-third to one-half of th e colony takes off so you lose a big source of your honey crop Swarming is trigshygered when the hive becomes overcrowded so the beekeeper mu st stay ahead of them It involves a whole manipulation of the hive through the season visiting each colony at least once every ten to 14 days he says Philip also worked with farmers whose

crops depended on pollination by bees At one time bees were needed for

pollin ating greenhouse produce such as cucumbers But in the past 15 years the trend has been toward new types that are self fruiting he says

But the biggest change in the industry over the years was the trend towards Illakshying corn king in Ontario - a trend that is now being reversed he says

From 1949 and on a lot of bee coloshynies were moved to the western provinces tollowi ng th e reduction in alfalfa production in Ontario and the increased corn acreage he says

Now prospec ts for honey production in Ontario are better than in past years beshycause of the increased alfalfa acreage and other legumes and the trend towards more diversified cropping

Not surpris ingly prices have changed in the industry over the years too Back in the 1920s it cost about $10 to start a bee colony today start-up costs are about $100 to $125 per colony

Much of his work at the University looked at ways to prevent di seases in bees using selected antibiotics

He was secretary for the Ontario Beekeepers Association for 15 yea rs and now acts as a consu It ant for the group 0

Wins Crampton Award

Dr Stanley J Slinger 37 the most recent rec ipient of the Earl e W Crampton Award for distingui shed service in nutrition is ProshyFessor Emeritus of the Depal1ment of Nutrishytion College of Biolog ica l Science at Guelph

Born in Lowell Ontario Dr Slinger received his BSc from the Ontario Agrishycultural College hi s MSc fro111 the Univershysity of Toronto and a PhD from Cornell University From 1941 to 1965 he was in the Departillent of Poultry Science at the OAC and since 1965 has been in the Department of Nutrition at Guelph serving as chairJl1an from 1965 to 1974

Dr Slinger conducted re sea rch in sevshyeral areas of pou Itry nutrition for Jl10re than 30 years In 1972- 73 a fi sh nutrition laborashytory was set up and thi s laboratory has conshytinued to grow and iJl1prove s i nee One of the primary objectives in both poultry and fi sh nutrition research has been to develop feed to rmulas using feedstuffs of Canadian orishygin 111ese tannulas have been publi shed and continuall y revi sed and have been used extensively by teed manufacturers through shyout Canada Dr Slinger continues to be active in research

Dr Slinger taught poultry nutrition in Poultry Science for 27 years gave seminar courses in nutrition and physiology taught Fundamentals of Nutrition in the Depal1shyment of Nutrition and deve loped and taught courses in fi sh and wildlite nutrition

He has supervi sed the work of Jl1any graduates and it is interesting to note that the Department of Nutrition at Guelph is the only depailment in Canada - and there are very few in the United States - turning out graduates in Fish Nutrition at the PhD leve l

He has helped to establi sh modern poultry industries in Mexico and the areas of South East Asia Africa the Middle East Eastern and Western Europe and the United Kingdom Lectures conlerences and other consultative work have also taken hilll to Jl1any coul1tries over the years

The recipient of numerous honours and awards Dr S linger was made Professor Emeritus of the University in Ino and reshy -ceived the Earl e W Crampton award in 19B4 at Macdonald College Que Thi s award is given by the Faculty of Agriculture in recogshyniti on of significant co ntributions in the field of nutrition through research andlor service The award is named for Dr Earle W Crampton a renowned nutritionist whose career at Macd onald bega n in 1922 and lasted far 51 years 0

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cialist having spent four months in the latter John Reid 84 is technical sales rep Agrico Grad News part of 1984 in Bloemfontein South Africa Sales Ltd Richmond BC

Earl Johnston 46 is president Earl-John Brokers Ltd Delhi

Joe Knox 48 is secretary-treasurer Annco Westeellnc Guelph

Ralph Hills 54 is pastor United Church of Canada Smith Falls Ralph left Zambia last October spending some time in Kenya Israel England and Scotland on the way home He was surprised to meet Charlie Broadwell also 54 on Oxford Street in London Charlie was giving a reception at a large castle for the white bean buyers who purchase beans from Charlies Bean Growers of Ontario Ralph also passes along the word from Louise (Fershyguson) Hope Mac 54 that her husband Don 54 preparing for some future possible social work is studying drug addiction at George Brown College of Applied Ans and Technology Toronto

Joseph Leach 54 is a research scientist Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources Lake Erie Research station Wheatley

Ken Edwards 59 is an industrial engineer Prince George Pulp and Paper Vancouver BC

Fred Theaker 62 is a teacher-biologist Ren frew County Board of Education Aruprior

Howard Lang 67 is senior so il conshyservation advisor for OMAF Cambridge

John Lawrence 69 has been appointed vice-president and ge neral manager De kalb Canada Inc Chatham John is a lso president of the Canadian Agri-marketing Assoc iation

Robert Brooksbank 70 is manager Agrishycultural Department Simcoe area Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce

Alan Duncan BLA 73 is project coshyordinator Groupe d intervention urban de Montreal Montreal Que

Martha (Weir) Collins 75 reports that Anne (Walton) Bayler 75 is at teac hers college in Toronto after spending several years teaching in the Bahamas Martha lives at I Braid Place Guelph and would like to hear news of her classmates

Jim Dyer MSc 75 is a senior resource and environmental officer with the crop producshytion division of Agriculture Canada Ottawa He is on loan as a drought monitoring spe shy

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His wife Barb (Newell) Arts 75 who is a technical editor with Public Works Canada joined him in Bloemfontein for a month

Elizabeth Fedorkow 75 is a market reshysearcher Tetra Pak Inc Markham

Roy Maxwell 75 is an agricultural comshymentator CBC Radio Noon Toronto

Gary Ball 76 is vice-president manufacturshying Mitten Vinyl Inc Cambridge

Garnet McConney 77 is feed lot manager Catllel and Ontario Inc Petersburg

Patrick Meyers 77 OVC 84 is a vetshyerinarian with the Grenville-Dundas Veterinshyary Clinic Kemptville

Martha Frey 78 is secretaryass istant edishytor Canadians for Health Research Wes tshymount Que

Wayne Harrison 79 is assi stant manager Toronto Dominion Bank Elmira His wife is Katherine (McLeod) 77

Sharon Helynk 79 is with the Woodbury Animal Hospital Halifax NS

Jeffery Goebel 80 is resident engineer ACF Canada Ltd Georgetown

Mary Lynn Prong 80 is assistant manager Royal Bank Watford She reports that Bruno Soucy 8Q has changed jobs from OMAF farm ma nagement advisor to agrolog ist London region Royal Bank

Corrie Almack 81 is presidentowner Agshyriculturai Soil and Nutrition Consultants Freelton

Edward Bolton 81 is research farm manshyager AJle lix Inc M ississauga

William Summers 82 MSc 84 is prodshyuct deve lopment rep Du-Pont Canada Streetsville

Dianne (Coker) McDowell 83 is quality assurance supervisor Richardson Foods Ltd Glanw0I1h

John Ross 83 is a program officer Agrishyculture Canada Edmonton Alta

Jeff Burke 84 is a customer service rep Griffith Lab Toronto

Julie Fowler 84 is working for Embury Bros Farms Ltd Newburgh

Karen Rodman 84 is a farm management specialist OMAF Nepean

James Simonds 84 is a crop specialist Cavendi sh Fanns Summerside P E1

Richard West PhD 84 is a research scishyentist Canadian Forestry Service SI John s Nftdo

In Memoriam We regret to report the following deaths

Marie Honsberger 17A died March 1985

Esmond D Clipsham 2IA died on April 6 1985 Esmond had been the proprietor Uneeda Rest Hotel Kilwonhy and was a life member of the OAC Alumni Association

Stanley Ewart Keillor 21 died on February 27 1985 He was a crop farmer at Walshylacetown

John Edward Chalmers 23A died on Febshyru ary 15 1985

Jacobus Van Haarlem 23 at age 85 on July 2 1985 in Vineland He retired as ex shyecutive director of the Hor1icultural Experishymental Station at Vineland in 1970 after 47 years of service there

Hugh Lacklin Paterson 32A died in May 1985 of a heart attack at Rockwood

Murray Cameron Macklin 33A 35 died January n 1985 in Toronto

Garland Alfred Fisk 35 Date of deat h unknown

Gordon Elgin Young 35 died on June 12 1985 at Ing leside

John Miller Fargery 37 on March 22 1985 in Toronto John had been an insurance salesman Farm Credit Corp and was a life member of the OAC Alumni Assoc iation

William Thomson 40 in 1982 in Lonshy shygueuil Que His death was reported recen tl y

Robert Fletcher Madden 54A died on November 26 1984 at age 52 at Napanee

Vera (Mod ric) Kozamplik MSc 73 in Yugoslavia She was the wife of Vinko Kozumplik M Sc 71 0

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From the Dean

Dr Barham

In some of my lellers I have aimed to share

information on some special program or theme with you On this occasion I want to

keep you in touch through a number of lillie items so I shall hold onto some of the bigshy

ger interests for future issues of the Guelph Alumnus

As I write this leller Alumni Weekend 85 is behind us I found it a great weekend

and I thoroughly enjoyed meeting more of our alumni for the first time while

especially appreciating recognizing more

and more familiar faces and names from previous occasions

This year the Classes of 65 and 75 requested an up-date on our programs and

the developments we have experienced together in the College over the last few

years I guess that we were able to demonshy

strate much more development in our research and teaching programs than we could in some parts of the physical facilities within the buildings Still we had thorshyoughly congenial and I think very useful

meetings with both of these classes and added a nostalgic tour of our facilities

It was splendid to meet both of these groups I confess however that I had not

foreseen that a large part of the interest of the Class of 65 rested on the fact that many of their children are now gearing up to enter FACS

I was able to remind them that the BASc and B Comm degrees both lead

into fascinating and challenging careers for sons and nephews as well as daughters and

nieces Some of you coming to Alumni Weekend 86 might wish to get in touch with me to arrange an up-date on our acti vities then too

One of my special pleasures of Alumni Weekend was to join with the Class of 35 at the Golden Anniversary Dinner This occashy

sion is always a particular delight given the special personal pleasures reflected in the

friendships shared on this anniversary And I do want members of the Class of

35 to know that their gift of the magnificent Terry Legault Roman Festival print looks really outstanding and just right amidst the

contemporary decor of the FACS lounge

One last item of alumni news which I want to mention is the fact that I met with

Jean (Nairn) Carter 38 and some of her committee recently I learned that they have

been making quite outstanding progress in establishing the trust fund that will support their new graduate student award in geronshy

tology The first award presentation of $1000 is being made this fall but members of the Class of 38 are still pushing on with their fund raising in order to bring the

annual trust-fund yield to a level of $2 000 We all think that the Class of 38 grads

have been quite remarkable in their detershymination to build up a significant fund to

support work in this important new field of scholarship and research I know that we

shall all appreciate your support for them in reaching their target

I met with Audrey Warner and Annette

Yeager 62 recently They advised me of their concern for the needs of teachers wantshy

ing to prepare themselves for adding Family Studies to their fields of professional speshy

cialization and of other teachers already working in that field who find themselves in need of some up-dating especially in view of the curriculum changes which appear to be around the corner

In this regard I want to mention two

items which might be of interest First our faculty in FACS have been

quite heavily engaged in working with

teachers and others in thinking planning debating and writing for the curriculum developme~ts envisaged for the Ontario Academic High School Credits

Most especially we have had as memshybers of the Canadian Family in Perspective group Dr Jean Sabry with her own special

interest in human nutrition Dr Grant

McCracken in clothing Drs Marshall Fine and Claude Guldner with their expertise in family relations and Drs Anne Martin Matshythews and Joe Tindale with their special strengths in life-span development and

aging - quite a team of contributors Secondly I want to mention in relation

to my meeting with Audrey and Annette that we now have a number of courses avai 1shy

able in a six-week format offered in summer sessions provided on campus

Perhaps of even more interest to those of you who wont find it practical to take

classes on campus at Guelph we have an annual offering of distance or corresponshy

dence-type courses Many of these will be of very pertinent

interest to a number of teachers The current list includes Human Development Marital and Family Dynamics Personal and Family Finance Development of Human Sexuality Nutrition and Man and the Exceptional Child in the Family

You can find out more about these

offerings by writing directly to Guelph Disshytance Education University of Guelph

Macdonald Institute shyFamily and Consumer Studies Alumni Assoc

Editor Carol Telford-Pittman 75

Guelph Ont NIG 2WI or by getting in touch with my office

One of the reasons that we have put

ourselves so significantly behind the development of these distance courses is that we did not have the resources to meet

the demand for providing our courses in the more traditional class format at locations

away from the Guelph campus As usual there is much more to share

with you but it will just have to hold until

my next letter I look forward to being in touch with you again then 0

Olive Thompson Honoured

Olive (Thompson) Thompson 35

-The Mac-FACS Alumni Association was very pleased to present a Citation of Appreshyciation to Olive (Thompson) Thompson

35 during Alumni Weekend 85 festivities Olive has given much time energy

support and leadership to the College and to the University through her years of involveshyment with the Mac-FACS Alumni Associashytion Class of Mac 35 activities and the University of Guelph Alumni Association

Our University s alumni organizations are stronger and more effective because of

the years of commitment and personal sershyvice that Olive has contributed

Olive - We salute you 0

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New at HAFA By John Hearn

Infonnation Services

An innovative course developed by the School of Hotel and Food Administration (HAFA) is focussing the attention of undershygraduates on the analysis of operational problems in the hospitality industry and the writing skills required to express and comshymunicate that analysis

Students are required to find summer jobs in the hospitality industry and then to write five papers of ascending complexity during the first semester of their second year using text readings specially edited for this course by the Schools Director Proshyfessor Tom Powers

We have a unique responsibility to prepare students not just for their first job but for future jobs further down the line says Dr Powers Possession of a university degree should imply an ability both to anashylyse problems and to communicate observashytions and recommendations In todays corporate world reports papers and letters are management tools and written comshymunication is a survival skill

The HAFA faculty decided further to emphasize writing skills by adopting a style manual developed by Professor Margaret Hund leby Department of Engl ish Language and Literature for this course as an integral part of the Schools other courses

In order to familiarize faculty with the use of the manual and the grading of student writing Professor Hundleby was invited to conduct a two-day workshop which atshytracted the attention of Vice-President Howard Clark and Associate Vice-President Janet Wardlaw as well as faculty from other disciplines s uch as psychology land resource science microbiology and history

The program Professor Hundleby told the seminar requires students to complete five report papers based on their own obsershyvations

The first paper requires a detailed description of the physical layout of the host operation plus an appraisal and operating cost analysis of its heating air-conditioning and ventilation systems

A second paper asks the student to describe and evaluate staff structure funcshytion compensation package and efficiency

Cost control is the subject of a third paper Purchasing practices food producshytion cost traCking and inventory manageshyment all come under this heading

Marketing is the fourth subject area What market segment is the operation aimed at What consumer need does the operation satisfy What is the nature of the

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Left to right- Professors Cathy Schrye Writing Centre Tom Muller HAFA Belty Upton HAFA Mike Jenkinson OAC 63 OAC dean s office Mary Rogers History and back to camera Bernie Katz Library reviewing cases drawn from studefll papers in a two-day workshop Evaluating Students Writing conducted by Professor Margaret Hundleby

competition in the target market

The fifth paper examines the intangishybles of management sty Ie How does the role of the manager affect relations with customshyers staff and head office

Professor Hundleby commenting on some of the problems of the course says whatever we call it students tend to conshyclude that what they re writing is an acashydemic paper of some kind - which of course it is - but we need to make the connection in their minds with the real the corporate world out there They also tend to think that longer is better and write about what they know - rather than what is import ant The development of a proper sense of for whom they are writing is itself a problem-solving skill

Another problem according to Proshyfessor Hundleby is what she calls the new illiteracy - a verbal dysfunction resulting from an impoverished vocabulary

Style too is a matter of considerable

AMPHI Spin-offs The School of Hotel and Food Administra shytions annual Advanced Management Pro shygram for the Hospitality Industry (AMPHI) now in its third year is spinning off new management development activities says HAFA Director Tom Powers Earlier this year 20 people attended a workshop on accounting and finance presented by Proshyfes sor William Braithwaite School of Agrishycultural Economics and Extension Educashytion and three similar programs will be offered in different parts of the country over the next year and a half

Another program still in the planning stage is a six-day hospitality managers development course designed for middle management by AMPHIs associate direcshy

concern She also mentioned careless senshytence structure style that is inappropriate to the content lack of connective logic failure to understand the nature of a paragraph as a literary entity the frivolous use of colloshyquiali sms an absence of any sense of the harmonious sound of words on paper and of course a growing list of commonly misused words - e g it could of had that affect

There s a tendency to see s tyle as a decorative flourish rather than as an aspect of content she concluded

Professor Powers sees the development of verbal communication skills as central to the whole idea of liberal education Cershytainly he says its useful for HAFA stushydents to understand how a cost control system works - but its at least as important to be able to think logically analyse logshyically and communicate conclusions in a way that is credible informative coherent and complete in fact these are the classic goals of a liberal education 0

tor Professor John Patterson and a consulshytant group of AMPHI alumni

AMPHI continues to attract internashytional attention participants in thi s years program which began in April include senior executives from many of North Americas most distinguished hotels and restaurants The four-week course offers an intensive program based primarily on case studies written by Professo rs Patterson -Braithwaite Carl Riegel and Tom Muller

The growing volume of AMPHI cases indicates that thi s is the largest s ingle research program currently under way in any hotel school in North America says Proshyfessor Powers AMPHls network of conshytacts is giving us access to a senior-level view of the industrys current problems and prospects 0

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Research AssociateComing Soon A AppointedModel Play Facility

Dr Joan Norris

Dr Joan Norris has held the position of Research Associate at the Gerontology Research Centre since last spring

Joan is working with faculty to develop and promote research related to population aging and is available for consultation with faculty on research design funding sources and publication

In addition to this development work she is continuing her personal program of research She works for the Gerontology Censhytre two days per week and the balance of her

The Family Studies Laboratory Schools pre-school play facility fell 10 a Grounds time is spent in the Department of Family Department wrecking machine recently Studies where she has held a faculty appointshy

ment since 1980 Joan holds a Ph D in Psychology from

the University of Waterloo and is also a regisshytered psychologist Her personal research

The Mllc-FACS Special Projects Commitshyinterests include social competence in older

tee Ito r Bonnie Kerslake 82 Association adults peer relationships and grandshy

president Linda (Wo[e) Markle 73 chairshyparenting 0

man and Gail Murray 78 Missing comshymillee member is Rita (Klassen) Weigel 77 The aim of the committee is to raise funds to redevelop the Family Studies Laboshy In Memoriam ratory Schools and raise itto the level where it will be regarded as a model pre-school

Eileen Margaret (Manahan) Alwayplay facility

390 October 21984 in Vancouver BC

Jean (Horrell) Atkinson 240 March 5 1985 in Aurora

Class of 35 Gift Oorothy (Lockard) Honsberger 300Centre panel Roman Carnival

In order to commemorate their anniversary July 51985 in Weiland Mac 35 has traditionally given a scholshyarship to a FACS student once every five Isabel J Lockerbie 300 March 31 years This year on the 50th anniversary of 1985 in Toronto their graduation and in addition to the scholarship an etching entitled Roman Patricia G (Smith) McKay-Barry 55 Carnival by Terry Legault has been added March 17 1985 in London Ont to the Universitys collection of Canadian alt The etching is hanging in the FACS Velma E (Conn) Partridge 260 April faculty lounge 29 1985 in Niagara Falls Ont shy

The theme of Roman Carnival was favoured by neo-clas sical and romantic Helen E (Kelly) Robinson 220 April painters during the 19th century The etching 30 1985 in Dundas captures the moment at which wild horses are released to race through the streets of Norma I (Motherwell) Roy 350 in Rome The artist has chosen to represent the Moosejaw Sask wild chaotic motion ot the horses rather than explicitly depict in detail the animals Lillian S (Moore) Usher 340 March 28 and the architectural background 0 1985 in Cobourg 0

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College of Physical Science Alumni Assoc SCIMP

Editor Bob Winkel

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Yes Dr Earl MacNaughtoll has relired alshylogelher bUI Ihis wonl be Ih e lasl you I hear from him reSI assured Before he and his wife Jean lOok oJf for Auslralia and New Zealand Deparlmenl of Physics slaf and faculty held a galhering al Ihe FacullY Club and presenled Ihe couple wilh an alumni clock

Back to Guelph

The headquarters for (GWC)2 came

back to Guelph in July for a threeshy

year period while Professor Robert Balahura Chemistry and Biochemisshy

try serves as director (GWC)2 offices have been set up

in Room 122 and 123 Physical Scishyences building The University of

Waterloo will maintain a satellite office during the three-year Guelph

rotation Dr Balahura and adminshy

istrative assistant Andrea Turner may

be reached at Ext 3865 0

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Physics Professor Elected to Royal Society

Bernhard Nickel

Department of Phy s ics Professor Bernhard Nickel has been elected a Fellow

of the Royal Society of Canada and was formally inducted into the Society at its

annual meeting in Montreal in June

A member of the Physics faculty since

1974 Professor Nickel is no stranger to

prizes and awards In 1981 he received the Herzberg Medal the Canadian Associashy

tion of Physicists award to a promising young scienti st In 1978 he won a Sloan

Fellowship from the New York-based Sloan Foundation

He achieved recognition by navigating

the esoteric seas of condensed matter physshy

ics Hi s co lleagues call him a leading masshyter in the art of mathematical physics By

exploiting the existing mathematical frameshywork in subtle ways he has worked through

thickets that have stopped other physic ists

High order perturbation calculations

done by him played a key role in verifying

the quantitative reliability of the theory of

underlying continuous phase transitions in systems

He earned BScE and MSc degrees from the University of Saskatchewan and a

PhD from the University of California at

San Diego He was a research associate at

Cornell and Oxford Universities and a postshy

doctoral research Fellow at the Univers itY of Alberta before coming to Guelph in 1974

He has been a visiting fellow at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory at the Univershy

sity of California at San Diego at Harvard

and at the Schlumberger-Doll Re searc h In stitute in Connecticut

With his election he becomes one of

six Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada at

Guelph The others are Professors Howard

Clark Peter Egelstaff Gabriel Karl Bruce Sells and Herbert Armstrong And it brings to five the number of me mbers of the

Guelph-Waterloo Program for Graduate Work in Physics (GWP)2 who can put the

coveted FRSC after their names 0

Halleys Comet and the Babylonians By Professors Nigel Bunce and Jim Hunt

The winter of 1985 and the spring of 1986 will lon g be remembered as the year of

Comet Halley No comet in history has so

stirred the imagination of man or been the

object of suc h intensive investigation Its easy to understand this interest when its

appreciated that Halleys Comet is the only recurring comet that is bright enough to be

seen with the naked eye ft was the g reat astronomer Edmund

Halley who in 1705 recognized the s imilarshy

ity of the appearances of the great comets of 1456 1531 1607 and 1682 He speculated that these were in fact one and the sa me

comet with a period of 75 or 76 years

He predicted that the comet would reshyturn in 175 8 a return he could not live to see With thi s Halley discovered the phenomeshy

non of periodic comets and thus showed

that they were members of our solar system

The comet dutifully returned in 1835

and spectacularly so in 1910 In the latter

year circumstances were such that after its

perhelion passage (the point closest to the

Sun) the Earth and the comet approached

each other very closely The comet was so close that at one time its tail spread from

horizon to horizon The return in 1985-86 will be considshy

erably less spectacular In fact for Canadishyans it will not be easy to observe s ince the

time of perhelion is in Febnlary when the

Sun is very low in the sky The view will be -much better from more southerl y latitudes Over the years historica l records have

been found which record every passage of the comet back to 12 BC M any of these obshy

servations come from Chinese records first published in 1846 A well-authenticated

passage was that of 1066 which was reshy

corded on the Bayeux tapestry by the mother

of William of Nonnand y and taken as an cOllld on righl

Grad News Paul Ferguson BSc 67 of Ede n Mill s is president of EIS Systems Ltd and travelled in New Zealand this summer

Walter Lock BSc 67 of Denfield is practising medicine in Lucan

Tjeerd Homan BSc 69 of Calgary Alta is manager research and development services for Petro-Can He is enjoying his family Carla Sarah and John Menno and his hobbies of golf curling and skiing

(GWP)2 Poster Session a First

Earlier this year the Guelph- Waterloo Proshygram for Graduate Work in Physics (GWP)2 staged its first annual poster session for graduate s tudents Poster sessions which are becoming increasingly popular in scienshytific circles allow interaction between researchers and delegates without the time pressures encountered when presenting con shyventional papers at meetings says (GWP)2 Director lain Campbell

The first annual (GWP)2 poste r sesshysion which was followed by a soc ial hour and banquet was highly successful in genershyating interaction says Campbell By the end of the session there were still clusters of people arguing the finer points of scientific interpretation on many of the posters These exchanges continued right through the soshycial hour and into dinner Interaction is what science is all about

Encouraging interaction between stushydents and faculty is one of Campbells prishyorities as Director It is too easy for students to tuck themselves into a corner and work away in isolation They need to get out and ex plain their work both to experts and to

omen of his victory over the Saxons Based on this long record various

mathematical analyses of the orbit of the comet have been produced These account very accurately for the known passages of the comet However when these various anshyalyses are pushed back beyond 12 BC they predict widely varying dates for the previous appearances Before 12 B c there are ani y two vague Chinese records in 87 BC and 240 B c which mayor may not have been Halleys comet

In a recent issue of Nature a team of

Ernest Campbell BSc 69 lives in Campbell ville and teaches science for the Halton Board in Burlington

Richard Davis BSc 77 having comshypleted his MD University of Toronto 83 and his internship at Womens College Hosshypital will be setting up his practice in family medicine in his home town of Guelph

Larry Meek BSc 77 of Ottawa is pashytient administrator and computing officer for the National Defence Medical Centre His hobbies include sailing and skiing

Andre Brunet BA 81 is working for Amdahl Ltd as fieldsystems engineer and lives in Sudbury with his wife Monique (Puellette) FACS 80

Cathy Deakin BSc 81 is presently articshyling with the law firm of Little Reeves Mahoney Jarrett amp Hart of London

Andrew Dubrawski BSc 82 and his wife Alicia (Wodecka) BSc 81 live in Toronto where he works as a communicashytions systems analyst for CNCP Telecomshymunications 0

10hn Root 81 a (GWP)2 PhD s tudent left aflracts an audience

non-experts It takes a deliberate effort on our part to generate and maintain this intershychange

The poster session was the largest scishyentific or social event yet staged by (GWP)2 Some 18 students presented posters and about 90 students faculty and prospective students attended

The posters are on display in the two departments of physics to give others an opportunity to view them At Gue lph they are in the second floor corridor of the Physshyical Science Building near the Department

scholars from England and Vienna reported the finding of two fragments of Babylonian tablets in the British Museum that clearly report the appearance of the comet in 87 BC and 164 B C The records are so clear that by calculation not only the year but the time of year for the perhelion passage can be determined

For example the 164 BC apparition has been narrowed down to a date someshywhere between November 5 and 25 of that year The 87 BC record is not as accurate nevertheless its perhelion passage can be

of Physics office Encouraged by the s uccess of the

poster sess ion lain Campbell is planning another high-profile event for (GWP)2 to recognize award-winning faculty He plans a fall symposium at which three (GWP)2 members who received major honours durshying 1985 will give short lectures to be folshylowed by a sherry reception The three honoured faculty are Gicinto Scoles Killam Fellowship winner Bernhard Nickel Felshylow of the Royal Society of Canada and John Simpson Rutherford medalist 0

narrowed down to July 25 to August 15 These observations while inaccurate

to the extent of 20 days are still accurate enough to eliminate three of the four leading -calculations of the motion of Comet Halley This is a striking example of how archaeoshylogical investigations may have a strong effect on many diverse subjects in this case com~tary astronomy 0

We welcome questions and ideas for future articles Write to the authors clo the Deans Office Cole fe ofPhysical Science Univershysity of Guelph Guelph Ontario NIG 2WI

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Grad News Human Biology

Cathy Knipe BSc 79 MSc 83 is a Ph D st ud ent at Iowa State University Ames Iowa USA She is studying Moshylecular Biology

Shelly Lugg BSc 83 is a stude nt at Simon Fraser University Burnaby BC

Human Kinetics

Susan (Wright) Kwiatkowski BSc 80 is a recreation therapist at York Central Hosshypital Toronto Her spouse Ed graduated from Ryerson in 1979

Donna Marie (Kadwell) 1vose BSc 79 and husband John ji ve in Thorold Shes a physica l education supervisor at the Niagara Peninsula Crippled Childrens Centre

Mary Ellen (Mew) Walker BSc 83 is the activity co-ordinator at Spruce Lodge Stratford

Dr Ken Danylchuk BSc(PE) 73 is a s ur ge ry re s ident at the H itchcockshyDartmouth Medical Center Hanover N H USA

Kathryn (Tarry) Myers BSc 78 is a teacher with the Middlesex COunty Board of Educati on Hyde Park

WildUfe

Vicky Johnston 84 bega n an MSc at Lakehead University Thunder Bay in May Shes working on the reprodu ctive biology of Lake Superior rin g-billed gull s

Nutrition

Or 0010 Ohiokpehai 77 lectures in food and nutrition at the Unive rs ity of Ife Nigeria

Microbiology

John Semple 78 is a PhD ca ndidate in the Department of Mic rob iology amp Immushynology at Queens Uni vers ity Kingston He will be doing a post-doctora l at the Banting amp Best Depattment of Medica l Research University of Toronto

Unspecialized

Peter Adams 79 and Beth (Sarjeant) 79 are happy to announce their recent marshyriage Beth is a research technici an with the Depanment of Medicine Univers ity of Ca lshygary Alta and Peter operates a business with the se ismic service industry

Marine Biology

Jorgen Hansen 75 and his wife Drusilla (Dol be) Arts 75 live in Gloucester Jorge n is a staff officer with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Ottawa

CoUege Honour RoU - Winter 85 Semester 06

Margorie Fe rgusson 894 Human Biology JoAnna Milan 860 Biology

Semester 07 Sandra Noble 856 Microbiology

Semester 08 Marga ret Docker 876 Marine Biology Thomas Johnston 87 0 Fi sheries Biology Debra Underhill 858 Microbi ology

James Wright 858 Biology Tobin Peever 854 Botany

Alexander Hanke 852 Zoology Rebecca Rodgers 852 Human Bi ology

Tracey Robin son 882 BSc( HK ) Rebecca Halonen 880 BSc(HK )

Swdent has obtained standing for second time Student has obtaincd standing for third time

Home Town

Oakville Ottawa

Dorchester

Guelph New Liskeard Kingston Thunder Bay Bracebridge Grafton Calgary Alta Guelph Georgetown

Donald MacLennan 75 and hi s wife Katherine live in Chatham Donald is a biologi st-supervisor with the Ministry of Natural Resources Lake SI Clair Fisheries Assessmen t Unit Tilbury 0

College of Biological Science

Alumni Association

Wildlife Art Show

Well it happened June 15 and 16 have come and gone but not withshyout event The Graduate Students Lounge was transformed from a cozy meeting place into an an gallery There was much movi ng of furniture and hanging of an work with the end product being our fi rst ever CBSAA Wildlife Art Show

In total there were 20 wildlite artists partic ipating all tine ani sts in their own right Maybe you reshymember Ut a Stre live a nd Dr Ed Bailey Wow I You should see their wood works

Rick Beaver 73 also showed some of his work hes a wildlife imshypressionist and the colour and move shyment he paint s into each piece is eloquent Donald Dority 76 showed us the line photographer he has become There were other ani sts - too many to mention but all of extremely high calibre

Id like to mention one las t name though - Cindy Hayward manager of the Graduate Students Lounge If you ever need a steady hand to get an event off the ground shes the one to co ntact Without her hel p there would have been a whole heap of orshyga ni za tional problems From which we would have been unable to escape

All in all we had a successful show Thanks artists and viewers for making our efforts worthwhile 0

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New Minister of AgricultureOntario Agricultural College Alumni Assoc OAC ALUMNI NEWS

Editor Dr Harvey W Caldwell 51

Ontari OS new mini ster of ag riculture Jack Riddell 52A and 57 a cash crop farmer from the Exeter area comes to the position of Ontario s Mini ster of Agriculture and Food with ten years of expe rience as Liberal caucus cr itic for agriculture

The min is ter sa id that life under a Libshyeral government will give agriculture a higher priority than it has ex perienced in the past It will be considered one of the major industries in this province

Jack also pro mi sed to consult a great

Basic Technology in Action shyTurning Stones Into Bread By Ann Middleton Information Services

A new University of Guelph projec t in Tanza nia Africa should aid th e Third Wo rld s ubsistence leve l farmer The $400000 three-year projec t funded by the International Development Resea rch Centre (IDRC) will invol ve fltlculty of the Uni vershysitys Department of Land Resou rce Sc ience and Soko ine Uni versity of Ag riculture in Morogoro Central Tanza ni a Aim of the enterpri se is to use loca lly ava il ab le rock materials as soil amendm en ts and con shyditioners

The project came about when Ott awas IDRC brought together a team of two geo logists with an interest in improving co nshyditions for African farmers Professor Ward Chesworth with the Department of Land Resource Science has a long-standing intershyes t in turning rock s into fertili zers deshyve loped during work in West Africa and the Canltlry Islands where local farmers have spread volcanic rock on their field s for two centu ries In his lab and in the Blue Springs basin near Acton Ontario Professor Chesshyworth has been conducting experiment s on the levels at which common rocks re lease nutri ents into soil solutions

The other team member Dr Peter van Straltl ten is ori ginally from Germany but spe nt e ight years with the United Nations in Tan zania looking for metals and metal deshyposi ts and working on an in ve ntory of ferti shyli zer raw materials in south-east Africa

During thi s period Tanza nian food production per capita fell dramaticall y leadshying Dr van Strltlaten to try to find ways to help the food situation In ex periments in his garden in Dodomo Tanzaniltl he was able to increase yields of vegetables using locally

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available geological materia ls and organic wastes

Noting the common interes ts of the two men the Canadian age ncy introd uced them and Dr van Straaten relocated in Guelph Co-ordinators of the project are Professor Cheswo rth and Tan za ni an sc ie nti st Dr Johnson Semoka of Sokoine University coshyauthor of a text on so il sc ience much used in agricultural circles in Africa

Technical assistant Peter Sl11i th is working with Tanzanian rock specimens in the Land Resource Science lab and two other Tanzanian scientists will be involved

In addition to academics from bo th institutions members of the Geological Survey of Tanzania will also work on the project both in the Morogoro area and at Mbeya station in south-western Tanzania

Roc k sa mples will be collected and crushed and field tests and pot ex periments carried out here and on location When reshysu lt s have bee n obtained extension work will begin in Africa under the direc tion of Dr Semoka It is hoped that members of a Me nnonite Central Committee group workshying at Mbeya will design a simple rock crusher for the use of local farmers

Tanzania has a major phosphate deshyposi t wh ich will be tapped by the project as well as ground s ilicates including volcanic ash Liming materials such as limestone dolomite marl and ca rbonatite will also be evaluated

Professor Chesworth points out that alshythough No rth Americans place much emshyphasi s on the big three of soil nutrition shynitrogen phosphorus and potassium (NPK) - there are actually about 20 necessary

deal with the farm organizations on the direction his ministry should be taki ng

I dont believe that we can sit in our so-ca ll ed ivory towers and introduce the kind of programs that are go ing to be mea nshyingful unless we get consultation from the farmers and their spokes people

He has been a member of the provincial legislature for 12 years He spent his first two years as energy cri tic and later environshyment critic before mov ing into agriculture Jack and Anit a have a family of five 0

nutrie nts including the minor ones In some areas of Tanza nia the decline

in soil fe rtility is in part due to the settling of widespread populations into villages where land has been used without concern for nutrients Tn other part s of the country productivity has declined because of leachshying of plant nutrie nts durin g normal rainfall and also from the continuous use of acidifyshying fertilizers such as ammo nium su lphate Dr Chesworth point s out that the current practice of NPK fe rtili zation totally ignores secondary and micronut rient requirements of plants It is hoped that the projec t wilt address thi s problem

Our approac h is basic tec hn ology our target group the poorest far mers Dr van Straaten explains One of the problems in the past Dr Ches worth says has been convincing agronomists that it s worth purshysuing this kind of elementary tec hnology approach Theyre very skeptical that you can take common roc ks wi thou t major inshydustrial proces ing and use them to advanshytage on tropical soils

A s ideline area of research is work with zeolites open framework si licates that often occ ur in volcanic rocks Some zeolites can be used to trap nitrogen in the form of ammonia which would otherwise be los t in gaseous form When added to cow manure for exampl e and stomped in by the beasts themselves zeolites enrich an already valushyabl e fertil ize r Dr van Straaten explains

The zeolite research is being carried out in co njunction with Professor Colin Fyfe Department of Chemistry an intershynat io na ll y kn ow n authority o n zeo lit e -che mi stry

Orie result of the work of the Un ive rs ity of Guelph geo logists is an ag rogeology ne tshywork currentl y being set up bya number of African cou ntries as the result of di sc usshysions following a paper by Dr van Straaten and Professor Chesworth The paper was given recently at meetings of the UN Ecoshynomic Commiss ion for Africa in Zambia 0

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A Designing Grad The need for a summer job six years ago has ended in a Guelph grad des igning golf courses

When in 1979 Lisa Maki now

BLA 84 was searching for a job that would assist her in her studies at the Univershysity she applied to the city of Kitchener

She could have wound up in any

number of areas in the parks and recreation department but Rockway and Doon Valley

course superintendent Ed Ortlieb gave her the chance to join the work crew at Rockway fltor the first couple of years it was just a job that got her outdoors in the summer then by chance she got interested in the game itself

And now shes embarked on a career in golf course design

Lisa the 24-year-old oldest daughter of Ted Maki a former general manager of the

Lisa Maki BLA 84 Kitchener Rangers left last July for Lakeshyland Florida where she Joined Links Deshysign which de sig ns and oversees golf course construction throughout the United 1983 and a friend of the family who knew States The company is considered the sec shy was interested in golf course work arranged ond-largest of its type behind the one run by a meeting with Ronald Garl said Lisa I US golf legend Jack Nicklaus who deshy had an official job interview in April of 84 signed the Glen Abbey course in Oakville and then went to Florida in August of the

How does a young Kitchener woman same year to familiarize myself with the

end up working for Ronald Garl a 40-yearshy firms projects

old graduate of the University of Florida Because I had focused much of my who apprenticed under such well-known deshy University work on such things as turf man shy

signers as Roben Trent Jones and Joseph agement and had done pan of my bachelor Lee Again it was just a chance opportunity of landscape architecture thes is on what

We were in Florida in December of makes British golf courses great and the

Sisters of Accident Victims Receive Diplomas

A tragic accident just prior to Spring Convocation resulted in the deaths oftwo graduands of the Associate Diploma in Agriculture Program Jeff Bikus 85A of West Lome and Nick Davidson 85Afrom Zimbabwe Joy Davidson sister ofNick came from Zimbabwefor the Convocation She was sponsored by the OAC Alumni Association Classes of85A alld 86A Norm McCollulIl 66A honorary class president 85A Don and MiidredMcCollum Jenny Ballentine and her parents Dr Steve Bowley 78 and80 honorary class president 86A and the University Centre Administration Our sympathy is extended to the families and friends of these two popular studel1ls Pictured are Ito r Jenny Ballantine friend ofJeff Bikus Lealln Bikus sister of Jeff Joy Davidson sister of Nick and Klaus Kristiansen a studellt from Zimbabwe

other on golf course residential design he was impressed

In order to learn what made British

courses great Lisa spent a semester in Engshyland and Scotland visiting researching sketching photographing and playing 16 historic courses including the famous links courses which by tradition are the

only clubs to host the British Open Links layouts are courses that border the sea and have been built or developed over sand

bases

Approximately 15 students a year take

advantage of the School of Land scape Arshychitectures Semester Abroad Program fi shynancing the trips themselves However the program is supported by an annual $5000 grant from the Alma Mater Fund so alumni can claim a cenain amount of credit for Lisas success She was a recipient in 1983

of part of that years AMF grant Im not sure my mother and father

were very keen about my trave lling around England and Scot lane all alone but it was a truly great experience she said middot1 not only met many wonderful and helpful peoshyple got to play the great courses like St

Andrew s Royal Troon Turnberry and my favorite of all Royal Dornoch

After a complicated and lengthy US immigration process which took nearly a year she was granted her permanent work

visa She was in regular contact with her new

boss after returning to Kitchen er - she re turned to work at Rockway and Doon while awaiting the vi sa approval - and then last July plunged immediately into

projects including work at a mens tournashyment players 36-hole complex in Sarasota and a Ladies Professional Golf Assoc iation course in Melbourne where she worked in association with LPGA tour players Beth Daniels and Sally Little

Despite the fact that the job involves

vy ing with rattlesnakes alligators and Iild

pigs when I have to tramp through forests and swamps in applying my design work to certain areas I love the outdoor work Lisa

said At the same time she doesnt have any

probleIl1s giving orders to hard-hatted heavy-machinery construction workers when she is the field supervisor for on-site

work think I may have raised a few eye shy

brows when I staned work at Rockway but I was accepted

Lisa isnt sure how long this pan of her life will last and she has no way of knowing whether any of her courses will eve r be known as Lisa Maki layouts But that doesnt

concern her They may be Links Design projects but Ill know they were basically my courses 0

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Klink Lecture Dr Doug Morrison 49 Department of Poultry Science was chosen to deliver the 1985 Klink Lecture

The Klink lecture is ~ponsored by the Agricultural Inst itute of Canada and named after the Institute s founding president Preshysented by an outstanding lecture r the lecture is delivered through a coast-to-coast tour and concerns a topic of current significance to the agricultural industry and the nation

Dr Morri son stated that there is a need for professionalization in an imal agriculshyture in order to give it an improved image and make it more acceptable to the conshysumer

Address ing members of the Ontario Inshystitute of Agrologists in London Ontario he told his audience that the agriculture inshydustry in Canada ranks among the best in the world and producers have to ensure thi s is shown and make sure that peer pressure prevents producers from doing things that we cant defend

He suggested some type of professhysiona l approach established by the farming organization whereby expertise would be required instead of merely encouraged

This is a mu ch beller ap proach th an some edict from society through governshyment legi slation I strong ly object to legislashytion designed to protect me from myself he said adding that there are currently enough regulations existent through legislation that dictate what farmers can and cannot do

If a farmer were a profess ional hi s reward wou Id be in profits - about as meanshyingful a reward as has ye t been devised

Benefits of a more professionalized approach would include an improved image of the farmer to the consumer an increase in communication a more efficient industry

which is essential for competition improved knowledge on the fa rmers part of health nutrition care markets etc and more awareness of soc ietys concerns

In turn it would also be necessary to provide beller information to the consumer through an educational process because if soc iety is to pay for increased inputs for the long- term good of the nat ion then it is essential society be adequately informed

Morrison remarked that he fee ls the maj ori ty of animal agriculturists are in fact professionals but there has to be a concerted e ffort to at tract as lew people as possible in to the business who do not understa nd farmshying or who are doing things that are unacshyceptable

Consumer concern over dietary value or the amount of drugs contained in animal product s is also reason for farmers to tak e a professional approach They should work to alleviate any misreprese ntations and misin shyformation the public is receiving the proshyfessor noted s tating that farm ers have never produced food as safe and as wholeshysome as it is today

By the turn of the century on a world basis meat consumption is predicted to in shy

crease by abou t 60 per cent while the intake of milk is expected to increase by almost 40 per cent

A major fac tor for this rise in intake result s from th e fact that developing nations will begin to consume animal products as soon as they can afford them China is an excellent exa mple of this said the professor who commented that nation is now movshying as rapidly as possible to increase animal production

With all these factors is mind Dr Morshyri son sa id he is optimistic for the future of the Canad ian animal agriculture industry

Weve got the opportunities and can take advantage of them he said 0

Mark Bernards 85 cenlre was the recipienl oftwo OAC Alumni Foundation awards the OAC Alumni Graduate Award and the Beth Duncan Gold Medal Left is Gord Nixon 37 Foundashytion chairman and director and right NR Rick Richards 38 treasurer

Entrepreneur in Residence

Dr Donald Shaver

Dean Freeman McEwen is pleased to be working with Dr Donald McQueen Shaver the Universitys first Agricultural Entreshypreneur-i n-Res idence

Dr Shaver a native of Cambt idge Onshytari o is found er chairman and chief exshyecutive officer of Shaver Poultry Breed ing Farms Limited The compan y distributes chicken breeding stock to 90 countries from its head office in Cambridge and three subshysid iaries in the United States Britain and France He retired from his executive reshysponsib ilities on August 30 but is conshytinuing as director and adv isor to the company

From 1940 to 1945 Dr Shaver served with the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps in Africa and Europe retiring as regimental commanding officer He is past president of the Canadian Hatchery Federation the Poulshytry Products Institute of Canada the Canashydian Lincoln Red Society and Maine-Anjou Association He is a member of the Order of Canada Honorary Life Member of the Worlds Poultry Science Association and the Ontario Institute of Agrologi sts He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Science by McGill University and the Centennial Medal by the OAC

The Entrepreneu r-in-Reside nce pro shygram was initiated and financially supshyported by OAC Class of 58 to champion -the role of private enterpri se within soc iety The appointment is for a two-year period during which time Dr Shaver will present lectures lead workshops and consult with faculty and students

The Agricultural Entrepreneur-in-Resishydence program at the University is believed to be a first in agr icultural education around the world 0

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University Of Guelph Involved in $68 Million Chinese Project The University of Guelph has embarked on a co-operative $68 million project that will ~ink five Canadian and Chinese universities and agricultural institutions

The four-year Black Dragon River Proshyjeo supported by the Canadian Internashytional Deve lopment Agency (C IDA) involves Guelph the University of Alberta Olds College in AlbeI1a and two Chinese institutions - Heilongjiang Land Reclamashytion University and Liu He Training College in northeastern Heilongjiang Province

Under th e term s of the agreement training will be provided at the three Canashydian institutions for personnel from the two Chinese university institutions

The Liu He Training College is respo nshysible for educating state farm employees Training will range from short courses to undergraduate and graduate level programs

Faculty from the Canadian universities and Olds College will travel to China during the summer months to give lectures and

short courses The area borderi ng on Russia has treshy

mendou s potential for agricultural deve lopshyment Professor Neal Stos~opf 57 direct or of OACs diploma courses is Guelphs co-ordinator for the Chinese projshyect He was part of the Canadian gove rnment planning miss ion and ex plains that although the climate combines the cold winters and hot summers of Alberta most of the moisshyture is rain that falls between Jul y and Sepshytember

Although latitude is the sa me as Edmontons at 52 degrees north the area grows soybeans and corn as well as wheat The land has two to four feet of black topsoil waiting to be drained and planted he says with potential for livestock proshyduction

The proj ec t centre is located at the Unishyversity of Alberta with administration in Guelph being carried out by the Centre for International Programs 0

Provincial apiarist retires after 19 years You might say Philip Burkes job brought sweet rewards

Until his retirement recently Philip was the provincial apiarist - sort of Onshytarios chief of bees - while working at the University of Guelphs Department of Environmental Biology

He joined the University as a lectu rer in 1943 and then became assistant professor and later associate professor

At the same time the Ontario Departshyment of Agriculture (as the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food was known then) made him the assistant provincial apiarist In 1966 he became provincial apiarist

Of course he advised beekee pers on ways they could make their colonies more productive and efficient and fielded many apiary management question s - including how to prevent bees from swarming

If they swarm one-third to one-half of th e colony takes off so you lose a big source of your honey crop Swarming is trigshygered when the hive becomes overcrowded so the beekeeper mu st stay ahead of them It involves a whole manipulation of the hive through the season visiting each colony at least once every ten to 14 days he says Philip also worked with farmers whose

crops depended on pollination by bees At one time bees were needed for

pollin ating greenhouse produce such as cucumbers But in the past 15 years the trend has been toward new types that are self fruiting he says

But the biggest change in the industry over the years was the trend towards Illakshying corn king in Ontario - a trend that is now being reversed he says

From 1949 and on a lot of bee coloshynies were moved to the western provinces tollowi ng th e reduction in alfalfa production in Ontario and the increased corn acreage he says

Now prospec ts for honey production in Ontario are better than in past years beshycause of the increased alfalfa acreage and other legumes and the trend towards more diversified cropping

Not surpris ingly prices have changed in the industry over the years too Back in the 1920s it cost about $10 to start a bee colony today start-up costs are about $100 to $125 per colony

Much of his work at the University looked at ways to prevent di seases in bees using selected antibiotics

He was secretary for the Ontario Beekeepers Association for 15 yea rs and now acts as a consu It ant for the group 0

Wins Crampton Award

Dr Stanley J Slinger 37 the most recent rec ipient of the Earl e W Crampton Award for distingui shed service in nutrition is ProshyFessor Emeritus of the Depal1ment of Nutrishytion College of Biolog ica l Science at Guelph

Born in Lowell Ontario Dr Slinger received his BSc from the Ontario Agrishycultural College hi s MSc fro111 the Univershysity of Toronto and a PhD from Cornell University From 1941 to 1965 he was in the Departillent of Poultry Science at the OAC and since 1965 has been in the Department of Nutrition at Guelph serving as chairJl1an from 1965 to 1974

Dr Slinger conducted re sea rch in sevshyeral areas of pou Itry nutrition for Jl10re than 30 years In 1972- 73 a fi sh nutrition laborashytory was set up and thi s laboratory has conshytinued to grow and iJl1prove s i nee One of the primary objectives in both poultry and fi sh nutrition research has been to develop feed to rmulas using feedstuffs of Canadian orishygin 111ese tannulas have been publi shed and continuall y revi sed and have been used extensively by teed manufacturers through shyout Canada Dr Slinger continues to be active in research

Dr Slinger taught poultry nutrition in Poultry Science for 27 years gave seminar courses in nutrition and physiology taught Fundamentals of Nutrition in the Depal1shyment of Nutrition and deve loped and taught courses in fi sh and wildlite nutrition

He has supervi sed the work of Jl1any graduates and it is interesting to note that the Department of Nutrition at Guelph is the only depailment in Canada - and there are very few in the United States - turning out graduates in Fish Nutrition at the PhD leve l

He has helped to establi sh modern poultry industries in Mexico and the areas of South East Asia Africa the Middle East Eastern and Western Europe and the United Kingdom Lectures conlerences and other consultative work have also taken hilll to Jl1any coul1tries over the years

The recipient of numerous honours and awards Dr S linger was made Professor Emeritus of the University in Ino and reshy -ceived the Earl e W Crampton award in 19B4 at Macdonald College Que Thi s award is given by the Faculty of Agriculture in recogshyniti on of significant co ntributions in the field of nutrition through research andlor service The award is named for Dr Earle W Crampton a renowned nutritionist whose career at Macd onald bega n in 1922 and lasted far 51 years 0

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cialist having spent four months in the latter John Reid 84 is technical sales rep Agrico Grad News part of 1984 in Bloemfontein South Africa Sales Ltd Richmond BC

Earl Johnston 46 is president Earl-John Brokers Ltd Delhi

Joe Knox 48 is secretary-treasurer Annco Westeellnc Guelph

Ralph Hills 54 is pastor United Church of Canada Smith Falls Ralph left Zambia last October spending some time in Kenya Israel England and Scotland on the way home He was surprised to meet Charlie Broadwell also 54 on Oxford Street in London Charlie was giving a reception at a large castle for the white bean buyers who purchase beans from Charlies Bean Growers of Ontario Ralph also passes along the word from Louise (Fershyguson) Hope Mac 54 that her husband Don 54 preparing for some future possible social work is studying drug addiction at George Brown College of Applied Ans and Technology Toronto

Joseph Leach 54 is a research scientist Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources Lake Erie Research station Wheatley

Ken Edwards 59 is an industrial engineer Prince George Pulp and Paper Vancouver BC

Fred Theaker 62 is a teacher-biologist Ren frew County Board of Education Aruprior

Howard Lang 67 is senior so il conshyservation advisor for OMAF Cambridge

John Lawrence 69 has been appointed vice-president and ge neral manager De kalb Canada Inc Chatham John is a lso president of the Canadian Agri-marketing Assoc iation

Robert Brooksbank 70 is manager Agrishycultural Department Simcoe area Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce

Alan Duncan BLA 73 is project coshyordinator Groupe d intervention urban de Montreal Montreal Que

Martha (Weir) Collins 75 reports that Anne (Walton) Bayler 75 is at teac hers college in Toronto after spending several years teaching in the Bahamas Martha lives at I Braid Place Guelph and would like to hear news of her classmates

Jim Dyer MSc 75 is a senior resource and environmental officer with the crop producshytion division of Agriculture Canada Ottawa He is on loan as a drought monitoring spe shy

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His wife Barb (Newell) Arts 75 who is a technical editor with Public Works Canada joined him in Bloemfontein for a month

Elizabeth Fedorkow 75 is a market reshysearcher Tetra Pak Inc Markham

Roy Maxwell 75 is an agricultural comshymentator CBC Radio Noon Toronto

Gary Ball 76 is vice-president manufacturshying Mitten Vinyl Inc Cambridge

Garnet McConney 77 is feed lot manager Catllel and Ontario Inc Petersburg

Patrick Meyers 77 OVC 84 is a vetshyerinarian with the Grenville-Dundas Veterinshyary Clinic Kemptville

Martha Frey 78 is secretaryass istant edishytor Canadians for Health Research Wes tshymount Que

Wayne Harrison 79 is assi stant manager Toronto Dominion Bank Elmira His wife is Katherine (McLeod) 77

Sharon Helynk 79 is with the Woodbury Animal Hospital Halifax NS

Jeffery Goebel 80 is resident engineer ACF Canada Ltd Georgetown

Mary Lynn Prong 80 is assistant manager Royal Bank Watford She reports that Bruno Soucy 8Q has changed jobs from OMAF farm ma nagement advisor to agrolog ist London region Royal Bank

Corrie Almack 81 is presidentowner Agshyriculturai Soil and Nutrition Consultants Freelton

Edward Bolton 81 is research farm manshyager AJle lix Inc M ississauga

William Summers 82 MSc 84 is prodshyuct deve lopment rep Du-Pont Canada Streetsville

Dianne (Coker) McDowell 83 is quality assurance supervisor Richardson Foods Ltd Glanw0I1h

John Ross 83 is a program officer Agrishyculture Canada Edmonton Alta

Jeff Burke 84 is a customer service rep Griffith Lab Toronto

Julie Fowler 84 is working for Embury Bros Farms Ltd Newburgh

Karen Rodman 84 is a farm management specialist OMAF Nepean

James Simonds 84 is a crop specialist Cavendi sh Fanns Summerside P E1

Richard West PhD 84 is a research scishyentist Canadian Forestry Service SI John s Nftdo

In Memoriam We regret to report the following deaths

Marie Honsberger 17A died March 1985

Esmond D Clipsham 2IA died on April 6 1985 Esmond had been the proprietor Uneeda Rest Hotel Kilwonhy and was a life member of the OAC Alumni Association

Stanley Ewart Keillor 21 died on February 27 1985 He was a crop farmer at Walshylacetown

John Edward Chalmers 23A died on Febshyru ary 15 1985

Jacobus Van Haarlem 23 at age 85 on July 2 1985 in Vineland He retired as ex shyecutive director of the Hor1icultural Experishymental Station at Vineland in 1970 after 47 years of service there

Hugh Lacklin Paterson 32A died in May 1985 of a heart attack at Rockwood

Murray Cameron Macklin 33A 35 died January n 1985 in Toronto

Garland Alfred Fisk 35 Date of deat h unknown

Gordon Elgin Young 35 died on June 12 1985 at Ing leside

John Miller Fargery 37 on March 22 1985 in Toronto John had been an insurance salesman Farm Credit Corp and was a life member of the OAC Alumni Assoc iation

William Thomson 40 in 1982 in Lonshy shygueuil Que His death was reported recen tl y

Robert Fletcher Madden 54A died on November 26 1984 at age 52 at Napanee

Vera (Mod ric) Kozamplik MSc 73 in Yugoslavia She was the wife of Vinko Kozumplik M Sc 71 0

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From the Dean

Dr Barham

In some of my lellers I have aimed to share

information on some special program or theme with you On this occasion I want to

keep you in touch through a number of lillie items so I shall hold onto some of the bigshy

ger interests for future issues of the Guelph Alumnus

As I write this leller Alumni Weekend 85 is behind us I found it a great weekend

and I thoroughly enjoyed meeting more of our alumni for the first time while

especially appreciating recognizing more

and more familiar faces and names from previous occasions

This year the Classes of 65 and 75 requested an up-date on our programs and

the developments we have experienced together in the College over the last few

years I guess that we were able to demonshy

strate much more development in our research and teaching programs than we could in some parts of the physical facilities within the buildings Still we had thorshyoughly congenial and I think very useful

meetings with both of these classes and added a nostalgic tour of our facilities

It was splendid to meet both of these groups I confess however that I had not

foreseen that a large part of the interest of the Class of 65 rested on the fact that many of their children are now gearing up to enter FACS

I was able to remind them that the BASc and B Comm degrees both lead

into fascinating and challenging careers for sons and nephews as well as daughters and

nieces Some of you coming to Alumni Weekend 86 might wish to get in touch with me to arrange an up-date on our acti vities then too

One of my special pleasures of Alumni Weekend was to join with the Class of 35 at the Golden Anniversary Dinner This occashy

sion is always a particular delight given the special personal pleasures reflected in the

friendships shared on this anniversary And I do want members of the Class of

35 to know that their gift of the magnificent Terry Legault Roman Festival print looks really outstanding and just right amidst the

contemporary decor of the FACS lounge

One last item of alumni news which I want to mention is the fact that I met with

Jean (Nairn) Carter 38 and some of her committee recently I learned that they have

been making quite outstanding progress in establishing the trust fund that will support their new graduate student award in geronshy

tology The first award presentation of $1000 is being made this fall but members of the Class of 38 are still pushing on with their fund raising in order to bring the

annual trust-fund yield to a level of $2 000 We all think that the Class of 38 grads

have been quite remarkable in their detershymination to build up a significant fund to

support work in this important new field of scholarship and research I know that we

shall all appreciate your support for them in reaching their target

I met with Audrey Warner and Annette

Yeager 62 recently They advised me of their concern for the needs of teachers wantshy

ing to prepare themselves for adding Family Studies to their fields of professional speshy

cialization and of other teachers already working in that field who find themselves in need of some up-dating especially in view of the curriculum changes which appear to be around the corner

In this regard I want to mention two

items which might be of interest First our faculty in FACS have been

quite heavily engaged in working with

teachers and others in thinking planning debating and writing for the curriculum developme~ts envisaged for the Ontario Academic High School Credits

Most especially we have had as memshybers of the Canadian Family in Perspective group Dr Jean Sabry with her own special

interest in human nutrition Dr Grant

McCracken in clothing Drs Marshall Fine and Claude Guldner with their expertise in family relations and Drs Anne Martin Matshythews and Joe Tindale with their special strengths in life-span development and

aging - quite a team of contributors Secondly I want to mention in relation

to my meeting with Audrey and Annette that we now have a number of courses avai 1shy

able in a six-week format offered in summer sessions provided on campus

Perhaps of even more interest to those of you who wont find it practical to take

classes on campus at Guelph we have an annual offering of distance or corresponshy

dence-type courses Many of these will be of very pertinent

interest to a number of teachers The current list includes Human Development Marital and Family Dynamics Personal and Family Finance Development of Human Sexuality Nutrition and Man and the Exceptional Child in the Family

You can find out more about these

offerings by writing directly to Guelph Disshytance Education University of Guelph

Macdonald Institute shyFamily and Consumer Studies Alumni Assoc

Editor Carol Telford-Pittman 75

Guelph Ont NIG 2WI or by getting in touch with my office

One of the reasons that we have put

ourselves so significantly behind the development of these distance courses is that we did not have the resources to meet

the demand for providing our courses in the more traditional class format at locations

away from the Guelph campus As usual there is much more to share

with you but it will just have to hold until

my next letter I look forward to being in touch with you again then 0

Olive Thompson Honoured

Olive (Thompson) Thompson 35

-The Mac-FACS Alumni Association was very pleased to present a Citation of Appreshyciation to Olive (Thompson) Thompson

35 during Alumni Weekend 85 festivities Olive has given much time energy

support and leadership to the College and to the University through her years of involveshyment with the Mac-FACS Alumni Associashytion Class of Mac 35 activities and the University of Guelph Alumni Association

Our University s alumni organizations are stronger and more effective because of

the years of commitment and personal sershyvice that Olive has contributed

Olive - We salute you 0

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New at HAFA By John Hearn

Infonnation Services

An innovative course developed by the School of Hotel and Food Administration (HAFA) is focussing the attention of undershygraduates on the analysis of operational problems in the hospitality industry and the writing skills required to express and comshymunicate that analysis

Students are required to find summer jobs in the hospitality industry and then to write five papers of ascending complexity during the first semester of their second year using text readings specially edited for this course by the Schools Director Proshyfessor Tom Powers

We have a unique responsibility to prepare students not just for their first job but for future jobs further down the line says Dr Powers Possession of a university degree should imply an ability both to anashylyse problems and to communicate observashytions and recommendations In todays corporate world reports papers and letters are management tools and written comshymunication is a survival skill

The HAFA faculty decided further to emphasize writing skills by adopting a style manual developed by Professor Margaret Hund leby Department of Engl ish Language and Literature for this course as an integral part of the Schools other courses

In order to familiarize faculty with the use of the manual and the grading of student writing Professor Hundleby was invited to conduct a two-day workshop which atshytracted the attention of Vice-President Howard Clark and Associate Vice-President Janet Wardlaw as well as faculty from other disciplines s uch as psychology land resource science microbiology and history

The program Professor Hundleby told the seminar requires students to complete five report papers based on their own obsershyvations

The first paper requires a detailed description of the physical layout of the host operation plus an appraisal and operating cost analysis of its heating air-conditioning and ventilation systems

A second paper asks the student to describe and evaluate staff structure funcshytion compensation package and efficiency

Cost control is the subject of a third paper Purchasing practices food producshytion cost traCking and inventory manageshyment all come under this heading

Marketing is the fourth subject area What market segment is the operation aimed at What consumer need does the operation satisfy What is the nature of the

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Left to right- Professors Cathy Schrye Writing Centre Tom Muller HAFA Belty Upton HAFA Mike Jenkinson OAC 63 OAC dean s office Mary Rogers History and back to camera Bernie Katz Library reviewing cases drawn from studefll papers in a two-day workshop Evaluating Students Writing conducted by Professor Margaret Hundleby

competition in the target market

The fifth paper examines the intangishybles of management sty Ie How does the role of the manager affect relations with customshyers staff and head office

Professor Hundleby commenting on some of the problems of the course says whatever we call it students tend to conshyclude that what they re writing is an acashydemic paper of some kind - which of course it is - but we need to make the connection in their minds with the real the corporate world out there They also tend to think that longer is better and write about what they know - rather than what is import ant The development of a proper sense of for whom they are writing is itself a problem-solving skill

Another problem according to Proshyfessor Hundleby is what she calls the new illiteracy - a verbal dysfunction resulting from an impoverished vocabulary

Style too is a matter of considerable

AMPHI Spin-offs The School of Hotel and Food Administra shytions annual Advanced Management Pro shygram for the Hospitality Industry (AMPHI) now in its third year is spinning off new management development activities says HAFA Director Tom Powers Earlier this year 20 people attended a workshop on accounting and finance presented by Proshyfes sor William Braithwaite School of Agrishycultural Economics and Extension Educashytion and three similar programs will be offered in different parts of the country over the next year and a half

Another program still in the planning stage is a six-day hospitality managers development course designed for middle management by AMPHIs associate direcshy

concern She also mentioned careless senshytence structure style that is inappropriate to the content lack of connective logic failure to understand the nature of a paragraph as a literary entity the frivolous use of colloshyquiali sms an absence of any sense of the harmonious sound of words on paper and of course a growing list of commonly misused words - e g it could of had that affect

There s a tendency to see s tyle as a decorative flourish rather than as an aspect of content she concluded

Professor Powers sees the development of verbal communication skills as central to the whole idea of liberal education Cershytainly he says its useful for HAFA stushydents to understand how a cost control system works - but its at least as important to be able to think logically analyse logshyically and communicate conclusions in a way that is credible informative coherent and complete in fact these are the classic goals of a liberal education 0

tor Professor John Patterson and a consulshytant group of AMPHI alumni

AMPHI continues to attract internashytional attention participants in thi s years program which began in April include senior executives from many of North Americas most distinguished hotels and restaurants The four-week course offers an intensive program based primarily on case studies written by Professo rs Patterson -Braithwaite Carl Riegel and Tom Muller

The growing volume of AMPHI cases indicates that thi s is the largest s ingle research program currently under way in any hotel school in North America says Proshyfessor Powers AMPHls network of conshytacts is giving us access to a senior-level view of the industrys current problems and prospects 0

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Research AssociateComing Soon A AppointedModel Play Facility

Dr Joan Norris

Dr Joan Norris has held the position of Research Associate at the Gerontology Research Centre since last spring

Joan is working with faculty to develop and promote research related to population aging and is available for consultation with faculty on research design funding sources and publication

In addition to this development work she is continuing her personal program of research She works for the Gerontology Censhytre two days per week and the balance of her

The Family Studies Laboratory Schools pre-school play facility fell 10 a Grounds time is spent in the Department of Family Department wrecking machine recently Studies where she has held a faculty appointshy

ment since 1980 Joan holds a Ph D in Psychology from

the University of Waterloo and is also a regisshytered psychologist Her personal research

The Mllc-FACS Special Projects Commitshyinterests include social competence in older

tee Ito r Bonnie Kerslake 82 Association adults peer relationships and grandshy

president Linda (Wo[e) Markle 73 chairshyparenting 0

man and Gail Murray 78 Missing comshymillee member is Rita (Klassen) Weigel 77 The aim of the committee is to raise funds to redevelop the Family Studies Laboshy In Memoriam ratory Schools and raise itto the level where it will be regarded as a model pre-school

Eileen Margaret (Manahan) Alwayplay facility

390 October 21984 in Vancouver BC

Jean (Horrell) Atkinson 240 March 5 1985 in Aurora

Class of 35 Gift Oorothy (Lockard) Honsberger 300Centre panel Roman Carnival

In order to commemorate their anniversary July 51985 in Weiland Mac 35 has traditionally given a scholshyarship to a FACS student once every five Isabel J Lockerbie 300 March 31 years This year on the 50th anniversary of 1985 in Toronto their graduation and in addition to the scholarship an etching entitled Roman Patricia G (Smith) McKay-Barry 55 Carnival by Terry Legault has been added March 17 1985 in London Ont to the Universitys collection of Canadian alt The etching is hanging in the FACS Velma E (Conn) Partridge 260 April faculty lounge 29 1985 in Niagara Falls Ont shy

The theme of Roman Carnival was favoured by neo-clas sical and romantic Helen E (Kelly) Robinson 220 April painters during the 19th century The etching 30 1985 in Dundas captures the moment at which wild horses are released to race through the streets of Norma I (Motherwell) Roy 350 in Rome The artist has chosen to represent the Moosejaw Sask wild chaotic motion ot the horses rather than explicitly depict in detail the animals Lillian S (Moore) Usher 340 March 28 and the architectural background 0 1985 in Cobourg 0

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College of Physical Science Alumni Assoc SCIMP

Editor Bob Winkel

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Yes Dr Earl MacNaughtoll has relired alshylogelher bUI Ihis wonl be Ih e lasl you I hear from him reSI assured Before he and his wife Jean lOok oJf for Auslralia and New Zealand Deparlmenl of Physics slaf and faculty held a galhering al Ihe FacullY Club and presenled Ihe couple wilh an alumni clock

Back to Guelph

The headquarters for (GWC)2 came

back to Guelph in July for a threeshy

year period while Professor Robert Balahura Chemistry and Biochemisshy

try serves as director (GWC)2 offices have been set up

in Room 122 and 123 Physical Scishyences building The University of

Waterloo will maintain a satellite office during the three-year Guelph

rotation Dr Balahura and adminshy

istrative assistant Andrea Turner may

be reached at Ext 3865 0

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Physics Professor Elected to Royal Society

Bernhard Nickel

Department of Phy s ics Professor Bernhard Nickel has been elected a Fellow

of the Royal Society of Canada and was formally inducted into the Society at its

annual meeting in Montreal in June

A member of the Physics faculty since

1974 Professor Nickel is no stranger to

prizes and awards In 1981 he received the Herzberg Medal the Canadian Associashy

tion of Physicists award to a promising young scienti st In 1978 he won a Sloan

Fellowship from the New York-based Sloan Foundation

He achieved recognition by navigating

the esoteric seas of condensed matter physshy

ics Hi s co lleagues call him a leading masshyter in the art of mathematical physics By

exploiting the existing mathematical frameshywork in subtle ways he has worked through

thickets that have stopped other physic ists

High order perturbation calculations

done by him played a key role in verifying

the quantitative reliability of the theory of

underlying continuous phase transitions in systems

He earned BScE and MSc degrees from the University of Saskatchewan and a

PhD from the University of California at

San Diego He was a research associate at

Cornell and Oxford Universities and a postshy

doctoral research Fellow at the Univers itY of Alberta before coming to Guelph in 1974

He has been a visiting fellow at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory at the Univershy

sity of California at San Diego at Harvard

and at the Schlumberger-Doll Re searc h In stitute in Connecticut

With his election he becomes one of

six Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada at

Guelph The others are Professors Howard

Clark Peter Egelstaff Gabriel Karl Bruce Sells and Herbert Armstrong And it brings to five the number of me mbers of the

Guelph-Waterloo Program for Graduate Work in Physics (GWP)2 who can put the

coveted FRSC after their names 0

Halleys Comet and the Babylonians By Professors Nigel Bunce and Jim Hunt

The winter of 1985 and the spring of 1986 will lon g be remembered as the year of

Comet Halley No comet in history has so

stirred the imagination of man or been the

object of suc h intensive investigation Its easy to understand this interest when its

appreciated that Halleys Comet is the only recurring comet that is bright enough to be

seen with the naked eye ft was the g reat astronomer Edmund

Halley who in 1705 recognized the s imilarshy

ity of the appearances of the great comets of 1456 1531 1607 and 1682 He speculated that these were in fact one and the sa me

comet with a period of 75 or 76 years

He predicted that the comet would reshyturn in 175 8 a return he could not live to see With thi s Halley discovered the phenomeshy

non of periodic comets and thus showed

that they were members of our solar system

The comet dutifully returned in 1835

and spectacularly so in 1910 In the latter

year circumstances were such that after its

perhelion passage (the point closest to the

Sun) the Earth and the comet approached

each other very closely The comet was so close that at one time its tail spread from

horizon to horizon The return in 1985-86 will be considshy

erably less spectacular In fact for Canadishyans it will not be easy to observe s ince the

time of perhelion is in Febnlary when the

Sun is very low in the sky The view will be -much better from more southerl y latitudes Over the years historica l records have

been found which record every passage of the comet back to 12 BC M any of these obshy

servations come from Chinese records first published in 1846 A well-authenticated

passage was that of 1066 which was reshy

corded on the Bayeux tapestry by the mother

of William of Nonnand y and taken as an cOllld on righl

Grad News Paul Ferguson BSc 67 of Ede n Mill s is president of EIS Systems Ltd and travelled in New Zealand this summer

Walter Lock BSc 67 of Denfield is practising medicine in Lucan

Tjeerd Homan BSc 69 of Calgary Alta is manager research and development services for Petro-Can He is enjoying his family Carla Sarah and John Menno and his hobbies of golf curling and skiing

(GWP)2 Poster Session a First

Earlier this year the Guelph- Waterloo Proshygram for Graduate Work in Physics (GWP)2 staged its first annual poster session for graduate s tudents Poster sessions which are becoming increasingly popular in scienshytific circles allow interaction between researchers and delegates without the time pressures encountered when presenting con shyventional papers at meetings says (GWP)2 Director lain Campbell

The first annual (GWP)2 poste r sesshysion which was followed by a soc ial hour and banquet was highly successful in genershyating interaction says Campbell By the end of the session there were still clusters of people arguing the finer points of scientific interpretation on many of the posters These exchanges continued right through the soshycial hour and into dinner Interaction is what science is all about

Encouraging interaction between stushydents and faculty is one of Campbells prishyorities as Director It is too easy for students to tuck themselves into a corner and work away in isolation They need to get out and ex plain their work both to experts and to

omen of his victory over the Saxons Based on this long record various

mathematical analyses of the orbit of the comet have been produced These account very accurately for the known passages of the comet However when these various anshyalyses are pushed back beyond 12 BC they predict widely varying dates for the previous appearances Before 12 B c there are ani y two vague Chinese records in 87 BC and 240 B c which mayor may not have been Halleys comet

In a recent issue of Nature a team of

Ernest Campbell BSc 69 lives in Campbell ville and teaches science for the Halton Board in Burlington

Richard Davis BSc 77 having comshypleted his MD University of Toronto 83 and his internship at Womens College Hosshypital will be setting up his practice in family medicine in his home town of Guelph

Larry Meek BSc 77 of Ottawa is pashytient administrator and computing officer for the National Defence Medical Centre His hobbies include sailing and skiing

Andre Brunet BA 81 is working for Amdahl Ltd as fieldsystems engineer and lives in Sudbury with his wife Monique (Puellette) FACS 80

Cathy Deakin BSc 81 is presently articshyling with the law firm of Little Reeves Mahoney Jarrett amp Hart of London

Andrew Dubrawski BSc 82 and his wife Alicia (Wodecka) BSc 81 live in Toronto where he works as a communicashytions systems analyst for CNCP Telecomshymunications 0

10hn Root 81 a (GWP)2 PhD s tudent left aflracts an audience

non-experts It takes a deliberate effort on our part to generate and maintain this intershychange

The poster session was the largest scishyentific or social event yet staged by (GWP)2 Some 18 students presented posters and about 90 students faculty and prospective students attended

The posters are on display in the two departments of physics to give others an opportunity to view them At Gue lph they are in the second floor corridor of the Physshyical Science Building near the Department

scholars from England and Vienna reported the finding of two fragments of Babylonian tablets in the British Museum that clearly report the appearance of the comet in 87 BC and 164 B C The records are so clear that by calculation not only the year but the time of year for the perhelion passage can be determined

For example the 164 BC apparition has been narrowed down to a date someshywhere between November 5 and 25 of that year The 87 BC record is not as accurate nevertheless its perhelion passage can be

of Physics office Encouraged by the s uccess of the

poster sess ion lain Campbell is planning another high-profile event for (GWP)2 to recognize award-winning faculty He plans a fall symposium at which three (GWP)2 members who received major honours durshying 1985 will give short lectures to be folshylowed by a sherry reception The three honoured faculty are Gicinto Scoles Killam Fellowship winner Bernhard Nickel Felshylow of the Royal Society of Canada and John Simpson Rutherford medalist 0

narrowed down to July 25 to August 15 These observations while inaccurate

to the extent of 20 days are still accurate enough to eliminate three of the four leading -calculations of the motion of Comet Halley This is a striking example of how archaeoshylogical investigations may have a strong effect on many diverse subjects in this case com~tary astronomy 0

We welcome questions and ideas for future articles Write to the authors clo the Deans Office Cole fe ofPhysical Science Univershysity of Guelph Guelph Ontario NIG 2WI

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New Minister of AgricultureOntario Agricultural College Alumni Assoc OAC ALUMNI NEWS

Editor Dr Harvey W Caldwell 51

Ontari OS new mini ster of ag riculture Jack Riddell 52A and 57 a cash crop farmer from the Exeter area comes to the position of Ontario s Mini ster of Agriculture and Food with ten years of expe rience as Liberal caucus cr itic for agriculture

The min is ter sa id that life under a Libshyeral government will give agriculture a higher priority than it has ex perienced in the past It will be considered one of the major industries in this province

Jack also pro mi sed to consult a great

Basic Technology in Action shyTurning Stones Into Bread By Ann Middleton Information Services

A new University of Guelph projec t in Tanza nia Africa should aid th e Third Wo rld s ubsistence leve l farmer The $400000 three-year projec t funded by the International Development Resea rch Centre (IDRC) will invol ve fltlculty of the Uni vershysitys Department of Land Resou rce Sc ience and Soko ine Uni versity of Ag riculture in Morogoro Central Tanza ni a Aim of the enterpri se is to use loca lly ava il ab le rock materials as soil amendm en ts and con shyditioners

The project came about when Ott awas IDRC brought together a team of two geo logists with an interest in improving co nshyditions for African farmers Professor Ward Chesworth with the Department of Land Resource Science has a long-standing intershyes t in turning rock s into fertili zers deshyve loped during work in West Africa and the Canltlry Islands where local farmers have spread volcanic rock on their field s for two centu ries In his lab and in the Blue Springs basin near Acton Ontario Professor Chesshyworth has been conducting experiment s on the levels at which common rocks re lease nutri ents into soil solutions

The other team member Dr Peter van Straltl ten is ori ginally from Germany but spe nt e ight years with the United Nations in Tan zania looking for metals and metal deshyposi ts and working on an in ve ntory of ferti shyli zer raw materials in south-east Africa

During thi s period Tanza nian food production per capita fell dramaticall y leadshying Dr van Strltlaten to try to find ways to help the food situation In ex periments in his garden in Dodomo Tanzaniltl he was able to increase yields of vegetables using locally

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available geological materia ls and organic wastes

Noting the common interes ts of the two men the Canadian age ncy introd uced them and Dr van Straaten relocated in Guelph Co-ordinators of the project are Professor Cheswo rth and Tan za ni an sc ie nti st Dr Johnson Semoka of Sokoine University coshyauthor of a text on so il sc ience much used in agricultural circles in Africa

Technical assistant Peter Sl11i th is working with Tanzanian rock specimens in the Land Resource Science lab and two other Tanzanian scientists will be involved

In addition to academics from bo th institutions members of the Geological Survey of Tanzania will also work on the project both in the Morogoro area and at Mbeya station in south-western Tanzania

Roc k sa mples will be collected and crushed and field tests and pot ex periments carried out here and on location When reshysu lt s have bee n obtained extension work will begin in Africa under the direc tion of Dr Semoka It is hoped that members of a Me nnonite Central Committee group workshying at Mbeya will design a simple rock crusher for the use of local farmers

Tanzania has a major phosphate deshyposi t wh ich will be tapped by the project as well as ground s ilicates including volcanic ash Liming materials such as limestone dolomite marl and ca rbonatite will also be evaluated

Professor Chesworth points out that alshythough No rth Americans place much emshyphasi s on the big three of soil nutrition shynitrogen phosphorus and potassium (NPK) - there are actually about 20 necessary

deal with the farm organizations on the direction his ministry should be taki ng

I dont believe that we can sit in our so-ca ll ed ivory towers and introduce the kind of programs that are go ing to be mea nshyingful unless we get consultation from the farmers and their spokes people

He has been a member of the provincial legislature for 12 years He spent his first two years as energy cri tic and later environshyment critic before mov ing into agriculture Jack and Anit a have a family of five 0

nutrie nts including the minor ones In some areas of Tanza nia the decline

in soil fe rtility is in part due to the settling of widespread populations into villages where land has been used without concern for nutrients Tn other part s of the country productivity has declined because of leachshying of plant nutrie nts durin g normal rainfall and also from the continuous use of acidifyshying fertilizers such as ammo nium su lphate Dr Chesworth point s out that the current practice of NPK fe rtili zation totally ignores secondary and micronut rient requirements of plants It is hoped that the projec t wilt address thi s problem

Our approac h is basic tec hn ology our target group the poorest far mers Dr van Straaten explains One of the problems in the past Dr Ches worth says has been convincing agronomists that it s worth purshysuing this kind of elementary tec hnology approach Theyre very skeptical that you can take common roc ks wi thou t major inshydustrial proces ing and use them to advanshytage on tropical soils

A s ideline area of research is work with zeolites open framework si licates that often occ ur in volcanic rocks Some zeolites can be used to trap nitrogen in the form of ammonia which would otherwise be los t in gaseous form When added to cow manure for exampl e and stomped in by the beasts themselves zeolites enrich an already valushyabl e fertil ize r Dr van Straaten explains

The zeolite research is being carried out in co njunction with Professor Colin Fyfe Department of Chemistry an intershynat io na ll y kn ow n authority o n zeo lit e -che mi stry

Orie result of the work of the Un ive rs ity of Guelph geo logists is an ag rogeology ne tshywork currentl y being set up bya number of African cou ntries as the result of di sc usshysions following a paper by Dr van Straaten and Professor Chesworth The paper was given recently at meetings of the UN Ecoshynomic Commiss ion for Africa in Zambia 0

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A Designing Grad The need for a summer job six years ago has ended in a Guelph grad des igning golf courses

When in 1979 Lisa Maki now

BLA 84 was searching for a job that would assist her in her studies at the Univershysity she applied to the city of Kitchener

She could have wound up in any

number of areas in the parks and recreation department but Rockway and Doon Valley

course superintendent Ed Ortlieb gave her the chance to join the work crew at Rockway fltor the first couple of years it was just a job that got her outdoors in the summer then by chance she got interested in the game itself

And now shes embarked on a career in golf course design

Lisa the 24-year-old oldest daughter of Ted Maki a former general manager of the

Lisa Maki BLA 84 Kitchener Rangers left last July for Lakeshyland Florida where she Joined Links Deshysign which de sig ns and oversees golf course construction throughout the United 1983 and a friend of the family who knew States The company is considered the sec shy was interested in golf course work arranged ond-largest of its type behind the one run by a meeting with Ronald Garl said Lisa I US golf legend Jack Nicklaus who deshy had an official job interview in April of 84 signed the Glen Abbey course in Oakville and then went to Florida in August of the

How does a young Kitchener woman same year to familiarize myself with the

end up working for Ronald Garl a 40-yearshy firms projects

old graduate of the University of Florida Because I had focused much of my who apprenticed under such well-known deshy University work on such things as turf man shy

signers as Roben Trent Jones and Joseph agement and had done pan of my bachelor Lee Again it was just a chance opportunity of landscape architecture thes is on what

We were in Florida in December of makes British golf courses great and the

Sisters of Accident Victims Receive Diplomas

A tragic accident just prior to Spring Convocation resulted in the deaths oftwo graduands of the Associate Diploma in Agriculture Program Jeff Bikus 85A of West Lome and Nick Davidson 85Afrom Zimbabwe Joy Davidson sister ofNick came from Zimbabwefor the Convocation She was sponsored by the OAC Alumni Association Classes of85A alld 86A Norm McCollulIl 66A honorary class president 85A Don and MiidredMcCollum Jenny Ballentine and her parents Dr Steve Bowley 78 and80 honorary class president 86A and the University Centre Administration Our sympathy is extended to the families and friends of these two popular studel1ls Pictured are Ito r Jenny Ballantine friend ofJeff Bikus Lealln Bikus sister of Jeff Joy Davidson sister of Nick and Klaus Kristiansen a studellt from Zimbabwe

other on golf course residential design he was impressed

In order to learn what made British

courses great Lisa spent a semester in Engshyland and Scotland visiting researching sketching photographing and playing 16 historic courses including the famous links courses which by tradition are the

only clubs to host the British Open Links layouts are courses that border the sea and have been built or developed over sand

bases

Approximately 15 students a year take

advantage of the School of Land scape Arshychitectures Semester Abroad Program fi shynancing the trips themselves However the program is supported by an annual $5000 grant from the Alma Mater Fund so alumni can claim a cenain amount of credit for Lisas success She was a recipient in 1983

of part of that years AMF grant Im not sure my mother and father

were very keen about my trave lling around England and Scot lane all alone but it was a truly great experience she said middot1 not only met many wonderful and helpful peoshyple got to play the great courses like St

Andrew s Royal Troon Turnberry and my favorite of all Royal Dornoch

After a complicated and lengthy US immigration process which took nearly a year she was granted her permanent work

visa She was in regular contact with her new

boss after returning to Kitchen er - she re turned to work at Rockway and Doon while awaiting the vi sa approval - and then last July plunged immediately into

projects including work at a mens tournashyment players 36-hole complex in Sarasota and a Ladies Professional Golf Assoc iation course in Melbourne where she worked in association with LPGA tour players Beth Daniels and Sally Little

Despite the fact that the job involves

vy ing with rattlesnakes alligators and Iild

pigs when I have to tramp through forests and swamps in applying my design work to certain areas I love the outdoor work Lisa

said At the same time she doesnt have any

probleIl1s giving orders to hard-hatted heavy-machinery construction workers when she is the field supervisor for on-site

work think I may have raised a few eye shy

brows when I staned work at Rockway but I was accepted

Lisa isnt sure how long this pan of her life will last and she has no way of knowing whether any of her courses will eve r be known as Lisa Maki layouts But that doesnt

concern her They may be Links Design projects but Ill know they were basically my courses 0

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Klink Lecture Dr Doug Morrison 49 Department of Poultry Science was chosen to deliver the 1985 Klink Lecture

The Klink lecture is ~ponsored by the Agricultural Inst itute of Canada and named after the Institute s founding president Preshysented by an outstanding lecture r the lecture is delivered through a coast-to-coast tour and concerns a topic of current significance to the agricultural industry and the nation

Dr Morri son stated that there is a need for professionalization in an imal agriculshyture in order to give it an improved image and make it more acceptable to the conshysumer

Address ing members of the Ontario Inshystitute of Agrologists in London Ontario he told his audience that the agriculture inshydustry in Canada ranks among the best in the world and producers have to ensure thi s is shown and make sure that peer pressure prevents producers from doing things that we cant defend

He suggested some type of professhysiona l approach established by the farming organization whereby expertise would be required instead of merely encouraged

This is a mu ch beller ap proach th an some edict from society through governshyment legi slation I strong ly object to legislashytion designed to protect me from myself he said adding that there are currently enough regulations existent through legislation that dictate what farmers can and cannot do

If a farmer were a profess ional hi s reward wou Id be in profits - about as meanshyingful a reward as has ye t been devised

Benefits of a more professionalized approach would include an improved image of the farmer to the consumer an increase in communication a more efficient industry

which is essential for competition improved knowledge on the fa rmers part of health nutrition care markets etc and more awareness of soc ietys concerns

In turn it would also be necessary to provide beller information to the consumer through an educational process because if soc iety is to pay for increased inputs for the long- term good of the nat ion then it is essential society be adequately informed

Morrison remarked that he fee ls the maj ori ty of animal agriculturists are in fact professionals but there has to be a concerted e ffort to at tract as lew people as possible in to the business who do not understa nd farmshying or who are doing things that are unacshyceptable

Consumer concern over dietary value or the amount of drugs contained in animal product s is also reason for farmers to tak e a professional approach They should work to alleviate any misreprese ntations and misin shyformation the public is receiving the proshyfessor noted s tating that farm ers have never produced food as safe and as wholeshysome as it is today

By the turn of the century on a world basis meat consumption is predicted to in shy

crease by abou t 60 per cent while the intake of milk is expected to increase by almost 40 per cent

A major fac tor for this rise in intake result s from th e fact that developing nations will begin to consume animal products as soon as they can afford them China is an excellent exa mple of this said the professor who commented that nation is now movshying as rapidly as possible to increase animal production

With all these factors is mind Dr Morshyri son sa id he is optimistic for the future of the Canad ian animal agriculture industry

Weve got the opportunities and can take advantage of them he said 0

Mark Bernards 85 cenlre was the recipienl oftwo OAC Alumni Foundation awards the OAC Alumni Graduate Award and the Beth Duncan Gold Medal Left is Gord Nixon 37 Foundashytion chairman and director and right NR Rick Richards 38 treasurer

Entrepreneur in Residence

Dr Donald Shaver

Dean Freeman McEwen is pleased to be working with Dr Donald McQueen Shaver the Universitys first Agricultural Entreshypreneur-i n-Res idence

Dr Shaver a native of Cambt idge Onshytari o is found er chairman and chief exshyecutive officer of Shaver Poultry Breed ing Farms Limited The compan y distributes chicken breeding stock to 90 countries from its head office in Cambridge and three subshysid iaries in the United States Britain and France He retired from his executive reshysponsib ilities on August 30 but is conshytinuing as director and adv isor to the company

From 1940 to 1945 Dr Shaver served with the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps in Africa and Europe retiring as regimental commanding officer He is past president of the Canadian Hatchery Federation the Poulshytry Products Institute of Canada the Canashydian Lincoln Red Society and Maine-Anjou Association He is a member of the Order of Canada Honorary Life Member of the Worlds Poultry Science Association and the Ontario Institute of Agrologi sts He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Science by McGill University and the Centennial Medal by the OAC

The Entrepreneu r-in-Reside nce pro shygram was initiated and financially supshyported by OAC Class of 58 to champion -the role of private enterpri se within soc iety The appointment is for a two-year period during which time Dr Shaver will present lectures lead workshops and consult with faculty and students

The Agricultural Entrepreneur-in-Resishydence program at the University is believed to be a first in agr icultural education around the world 0

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University Of Guelph Involved in $68 Million Chinese Project The University of Guelph has embarked on a co-operative $68 million project that will ~ink five Canadian and Chinese universities and agricultural institutions

The four-year Black Dragon River Proshyjeo supported by the Canadian Internashytional Deve lopment Agency (C IDA) involves Guelph the University of Alberta Olds College in AlbeI1a and two Chinese institutions - Heilongjiang Land Reclamashytion University and Liu He Training College in northeastern Heilongjiang Province

Under th e term s of the agreement training will be provided at the three Canashydian institutions for personnel from the two Chinese university institutions

The Liu He Training College is respo nshysible for educating state farm employees Training will range from short courses to undergraduate and graduate level programs

Faculty from the Canadian universities and Olds College will travel to China during the summer months to give lectures and

short courses The area borderi ng on Russia has treshy

mendou s potential for agricultural deve lopshyment Professor Neal Stos~opf 57 direct or of OACs diploma courses is Guelphs co-ordinator for the Chinese projshyect He was part of the Canadian gove rnment planning miss ion and ex plains that although the climate combines the cold winters and hot summers of Alberta most of the moisshyture is rain that falls between Jul y and Sepshytember

Although latitude is the sa me as Edmontons at 52 degrees north the area grows soybeans and corn as well as wheat The land has two to four feet of black topsoil waiting to be drained and planted he says with potential for livestock proshyduction

The proj ec t centre is located at the Unishyversity of Alberta with administration in Guelph being carried out by the Centre for International Programs 0

Provincial apiarist retires after 19 years You might say Philip Burkes job brought sweet rewards

Until his retirement recently Philip was the provincial apiarist - sort of Onshytarios chief of bees - while working at the University of Guelphs Department of Environmental Biology

He joined the University as a lectu rer in 1943 and then became assistant professor and later associate professor

At the same time the Ontario Departshyment of Agriculture (as the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food was known then) made him the assistant provincial apiarist In 1966 he became provincial apiarist

Of course he advised beekee pers on ways they could make their colonies more productive and efficient and fielded many apiary management question s - including how to prevent bees from swarming

If they swarm one-third to one-half of th e colony takes off so you lose a big source of your honey crop Swarming is trigshygered when the hive becomes overcrowded so the beekeeper mu st stay ahead of them It involves a whole manipulation of the hive through the season visiting each colony at least once every ten to 14 days he says Philip also worked with farmers whose

crops depended on pollination by bees At one time bees were needed for

pollin ating greenhouse produce such as cucumbers But in the past 15 years the trend has been toward new types that are self fruiting he says

But the biggest change in the industry over the years was the trend towards Illakshying corn king in Ontario - a trend that is now being reversed he says

From 1949 and on a lot of bee coloshynies were moved to the western provinces tollowi ng th e reduction in alfalfa production in Ontario and the increased corn acreage he says

Now prospec ts for honey production in Ontario are better than in past years beshycause of the increased alfalfa acreage and other legumes and the trend towards more diversified cropping

Not surpris ingly prices have changed in the industry over the years too Back in the 1920s it cost about $10 to start a bee colony today start-up costs are about $100 to $125 per colony

Much of his work at the University looked at ways to prevent di seases in bees using selected antibiotics

He was secretary for the Ontario Beekeepers Association for 15 yea rs and now acts as a consu It ant for the group 0

Wins Crampton Award

Dr Stanley J Slinger 37 the most recent rec ipient of the Earl e W Crampton Award for distingui shed service in nutrition is ProshyFessor Emeritus of the Depal1ment of Nutrishytion College of Biolog ica l Science at Guelph

Born in Lowell Ontario Dr Slinger received his BSc from the Ontario Agrishycultural College hi s MSc fro111 the Univershysity of Toronto and a PhD from Cornell University From 1941 to 1965 he was in the Departillent of Poultry Science at the OAC and since 1965 has been in the Department of Nutrition at Guelph serving as chairJl1an from 1965 to 1974

Dr Slinger conducted re sea rch in sevshyeral areas of pou Itry nutrition for Jl10re than 30 years In 1972- 73 a fi sh nutrition laborashytory was set up and thi s laboratory has conshytinued to grow and iJl1prove s i nee One of the primary objectives in both poultry and fi sh nutrition research has been to develop feed to rmulas using feedstuffs of Canadian orishygin 111ese tannulas have been publi shed and continuall y revi sed and have been used extensively by teed manufacturers through shyout Canada Dr Slinger continues to be active in research

Dr Slinger taught poultry nutrition in Poultry Science for 27 years gave seminar courses in nutrition and physiology taught Fundamentals of Nutrition in the Depal1shyment of Nutrition and deve loped and taught courses in fi sh and wildlite nutrition

He has supervi sed the work of Jl1any graduates and it is interesting to note that the Department of Nutrition at Guelph is the only depailment in Canada - and there are very few in the United States - turning out graduates in Fish Nutrition at the PhD leve l

He has helped to establi sh modern poultry industries in Mexico and the areas of South East Asia Africa the Middle East Eastern and Western Europe and the United Kingdom Lectures conlerences and other consultative work have also taken hilll to Jl1any coul1tries over the years

The recipient of numerous honours and awards Dr S linger was made Professor Emeritus of the University in Ino and reshy -ceived the Earl e W Crampton award in 19B4 at Macdonald College Que Thi s award is given by the Faculty of Agriculture in recogshyniti on of significant co ntributions in the field of nutrition through research andlor service The award is named for Dr Earle W Crampton a renowned nutritionist whose career at Macd onald bega n in 1922 and lasted far 51 years 0

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cialist having spent four months in the latter John Reid 84 is technical sales rep Agrico Grad News part of 1984 in Bloemfontein South Africa Sales Ltd Richmond BC

Earl Johnston 46 is president Earl-John Brokers Ltd Delhi

Joe Knox 48 is secretary-treasurer Annco Westeellnc Guelph

Ralph Hills 54 is pastor United Church of Canada Smith Falls Ralph left Zambia last October spending some time in Kenya Israel England and Scotland on the way home He was surprised to meet Charlie Broadwell also 54 on Oxford Street in London Charlie was giving a reception at a large castle for the white bean buyers who purchase beans from Charlies Bean Growers of Ontario Ralph also passes along the word from Louise (Fershyguson) Hope Mac 54 that her husband Don 54 preparing for some future possible social work is studying drug addiction at George Brown College of Applied Ans and Technology Toronto

Joseph Leach 54 is a research scientist Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources Lake Erie Research station Wheatley

Ken Edwards 59 is an industrial engineer Prince George Pulp and Paper Vancouver BC

Fred Theaker 62 is a teacher-biologist Ren frew County Board of Education Aruprior

Howard Lang 67 is senior so il conshyservation advisor for OMAF Cambridge

John Lawrence 69 has been appointed vice-president and ge neral manager De kalb Canada Inc Chatham John is a lso president of the Canadian Agri-marketing Assoc iation

Robert Brooksbank 70 is manager Agrishycultural Department Simcoe area Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce

Alan Duncan BLA 73 is project coshyordinator Groupe d intervention urban de Montreal Montreal Que

Martha (Weir) Collins 75 reports that Anne (Walton) Bayler 75 is at teac hers college in Toronto after spending several years teaching in the Bahamas Martha lives at I Braid Place Guelph and would like to hear news of her classmates

Jim Dyer MSc 75 is a senior resource and environmental officer with the crop producshytion division of Agriculture Canada Ottawa He is on loan as a drought monitoring spe shy

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His wife Barb (Newell) Arts 75 who is a technical editor with Public Works Canada joined him in Bloemfontein for a month

Elizabeth Fedorkow 75 is a market reshysearcher Tetra Pak Inc Markham

Roy Maxwell 75 is an agricultural comshymentator CBC Radio Noon Toronto

Gary Ball 76 is vice-president manufacturshying Mitten Vinyl Inc Cambridge

Garnet McConney 77 is feed lot manager Catllel and Ontario Inc Petersburg

Patrick Meyers 77 OVC 84 is a vetshyerinarian with the Grenville-Dundas Veterinshyary Clinic Kemptville

Martha Frey 78 is secretaryass istant edishytor Canadians for Health Research Wes tshymount Que

Wayne Harrison 79 is assi stant manager Toronto Dominion Bank Elmira His wife is Katherine (McLeod) 77

Sharon Helynk 79 is with the Woodbury Animal Hospital Halifax NS

Jeffery Goebel 80 is resident engineer ACF Canada Ltd Georgetown

Mary Lynn Prong 80 is assistant manager Royal Bank Watford She reports that Bruno Soucy 8Q has changed jobs from OMAF farm ma nagement advisor to agrolog ist London region Royal Bank

Corrie Almack 81 is presidentowner Agshyriculturai Soil and Nutrition Consultants Freelton

Edward Bolton 81 is research farm manshyager AJle lix Inc M ississauga

William Summers 82 MSc 84 is prodshyuct deve lopment rep Du-Pont Canada Streetsville

Dianne (Coker) McDowell 83 is quality assurance supervisor Richardson Foods Ltd Glanw0I1h

John Ross 83 is a program officer Agrishyculture Canada Edmonton Alta

Jeff Burke 84 is a customer service rep Griffith Lab Toronto

Julie Fowler 84 is working for Embury Bros Farms Ltd Newburgh

Karen Rodman 84 is a farm management specialist OMAF Nepean

James Simonds 84 is a crop specialist Cavendi sh Fanns Summerside P E1

Richard West PhD 84 is a research scishyentist Canadian Forestry Service SI John s Nftdo

In Memoriam We regret to report the following deaths

Marie Honsberger 17A died March 1985

Esmond D Clipsham 2IA died on April 6 1985 Esmond had been the proprietor Uneeda Rest Hotel Kilwonhy and was a life member of the OAC Alumni Association

Stanley Ewart Keillor 21 died on February 27 1985 He was a crop farmer at Walshylacetown

John Edward Chalmers 23A died on Febshyru ary 15 1985

Jacobus Van Haarlem 23 at age 85 on July 2 1985 in Vineland He retired as ex shyecutive director of the Hor1icultural Experishymental Station at Vineland in 1970 after 47 years of service there

Hugh Lacklin Paterson 32A died in May 1985 of a heart attack at Rockwood

Murray Cameron Macklin 33A 35 died January n 1985 in Toronto

Garland Alfred Fisk 35 Date of deat h unknown

Gordon Elgin Young 35 died on June 12 1985 at Ing leside

John Miller Fargery 37 on March 22 1985 in Toronto John had been an insurance salesman Farm Credit Corp and was a life member of the OAC Alumni Assoc iation

William Thomson 40 in 1982 in Lonshy shygueuil Que His death was reported recen tl y

Robert Fletcher Madden 54A died on November 26 1984 at age 52 at Napanee

Vera (Mod ric) Kozamplik MSc 73 in Yugoslavia She was the wife of Vinko Kozumplik M Sc 71 0

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From the Dean

Dr Barham

In some of my lellers I have aimed to share

information on some special program or theme with you On this occasion I want to

keep you in touch through a number of lillie items so I shall hold onto some of the bigshy

ger interests for future issues of the Guelph Alumnus

As I write this leller Alumni Weekend 85 is behind us I found it a great weekend

and I thoroughly enjoyed meeting more of our alumni for the first time while

especially appreciating recognizing more

and more familiar faces and names from previous occasions

This year the Classes of 65 and 75 requested an up-date on our programs and

the developments we have experienced together in the College over the last few

years I guess that we were able to demonshy

strate much more development in our research and teaching programs than we could in some parts of the physical facilities within the buildings Still we had thorshyoughly congenial and I think very useful

meetings with both of these classes and added a nostalgic tour of our facilities

It was splendid to meet both of these groups I confess however that I had not

foreseen that a large part of the interest of the Class of 65 rested on the fact that many of their children are now gearing up to enter FACS

I was able to remind them that the BASc and B Comm degrees both lead

into fascinating and challenging careers for sons and nephews as well as daughters and

nieces Some of you coming to Alumni Weekend 86 might wish to get in touch with me to arrange an up-date on our acti vities then too

One of my special pleasures of Alumni Weekend was to join with the Class of 35 at the Golden Anniversary Dinner This occashy

sion is always a particular delight given the special personal pleasures reflected in the

friendships shared on this anniversary And I do want members of the Class of

35 to know that their gift of the magnificent Terry Legault Roman Festival print looks really outstanding and just right amidst the

contemporary decor of the FACS lounge

One last item of alumni news which I want to mention is the fact that I met with

Jean (Nairn) Carter 38 and some of her committee recently I learned that they have

been making quite outstanding progress in establishing the trust fund that will support their new graduate student award in geronshy

tology The first award presentation of $1000 is being made this fall but members of the Class of 38 are still pushing on with their fund raising in order to bring the

annual trust-fund yield to a level of $2 000 We all think that the Class of 38 grads

have been quite remarkable in their detershymination to build up a significant fund to

support work in this important new field of scholarship and research I know that we

shall all appreciate your support for them in reaching their target

I met with Audrey Warner and Annette

Yeager 62 recently They advised me of their concern for the needs of teachers wantshy

ing to prepare themselves for adding Family Studies to their fields of professional speshy

cialization and of other teachers already working in that field who find themselves in need of some up-dating especially in view of the curriculum changes which appear to be around the corner

In this regard I want to mention two

items which might be of interest First our faculty in FACS have been

quite heavily engaged in working with

teachers and others in thinking planning debating and writing for the curriculum developme~ts envisaged for the Ontario Academic High School Credits

Most especially we have had as memshybers of the Canadian Family in Perspective group Dr Jean Sabry with her own special

interest in human nutrition Dr Grant

McCracken in clothing Drs Marshall Fine and Claude Guldner with their expertise in family relations and Drs Anne Martin Matshythews and Joe Tindale with their special strengths in life-span development and

aging - quite a team of contributors Secondly I want to mention in relation

to my meeting with Audrey and Annette that we now have a number of courses avai 1shy

able in a six-week format offered in summer sessions provided on campus

Perhaps of even more interest to those of you who wont find it practical to take

classes on campus at Guelph we have an annual offering of distance or corresponshy

dence-type courses Many of these will be of very pertinent

interest to a number of teachers The current list includes Human Development Marital and Family Dynamics Personal and Family Finance Development of Human Sexuality Nutrition and Man and the Exceptional Child in the Family

You can find out more about these

offerings by writing directly to Guelph Disshytance Education University of Guelph

Macdonald Institute shyFamily and Consumer Studies Alumni Assoc

Editor Carol Telford-Pittman 75

Guelph Ont NIG 2WI or by getting in touch with my office

One of the reasons that we have put

ourselves so significantly behind the development of these distance courses is that we did not have the resources to meet

the demand for providing our courses in the more traditional class format at locations

away from the Guelph campus As usual there is much more to share

with you but it will just have to hold until

my next letter I look forward to being in touch with you again then 0

Olive Thompson Honoured

Olive (Thompson) Thompson 35

-The Mac-FACS Alumni Association was very pleased to present a Citation of Appreshyciation to Olive (Thompson) Thompson

35 during Alumni Weekend 85 festivities Olive has given much time energy

support and leadership to the College and to the University through her years of involveshyment with the Mac-FACS Alumni Associashytion Class of Mac 35 activities and the University of Guelph Alumni Association

Our University s alumni organizations are stronger and more effective because of

the years of commitment and personal sershyvice that Olive has contributed

Olive - We salute you 0

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New at HAFA By John Hearn

Infonnation Services

An innovative course developed by the School of Hotel and Food Administration (HAFA) is focussing the attention of undershygraduates on the analysis of operational problems in the hospitality industry and the writing skills required to express and comshymunicate that analysis

Students are required to find summer jobs in the hospitality industry and then to write five papers of ascending complexity during the first semester of their second year using text readings specially edited for this course by the Schools Director Proshyfessor Tom Powers

We have a unique responsibility to prepare students not just for their first job but for future jobs further down the line says Dr Powers Possession of a university degree should imply an ability both to anashylyse problems and to communicate observashytions and recommendations In todays corporate world reports papers and letters are management tools and written comshymunication is a survival skill

The HAFA faculty decided further to emphasize writing skills by adopting a style manual developed by Professor Margaret Hund leby Department of Engl ish Language and Literature for this course as an integral part of the Schools other courses

In order to familiarize faculty with the use of the manual and the grading of student writing Professor Hundleby was invited to conduct a two-day workshop which atshytracted the attention of Vice-President Howard Clark and Associate Vice-President Janet Wardlaw as well as faculty from other disciplines s uch as psychology land resource science microbiology and history

The program Professor Hundleby told the seminar requires students to complete five report papers based on their own obsershyvations

The first paper requires a detailed description of the physical layout of the host operation plus an appraisal and operating cost analysis of its heating air-conditioning and ventilation systems

A second paper asks the student to describe and evaluate staff structure funcshytion compensation package and efficiency

Cost control is the subject of a third paper Purchasing practices food producshytion cost traCking and inventory manageshyment all come under this heading

Marketing is the fourth subject area What market segment is the operation aimed at What consumer need does the operation satisfy What is the nature of the

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Left to right- Professors Cathy Schrye Writing Centre Tom Muller HAFA Belty Upton HAFA Mike Jenkinson OAC 63 OAC dean s office Mary Rogers History and back to camera Bernie Katz Library reviewing cases drawn from studefll papers in a two-day workshop Evaluating Students Writing conducted by Professor Margaret Hundleby

competition in the target market

The fifth paper examines the intangishybles of management sty Ie How does the role of the manager affect relations with customshyers staff and head office

Professor Hundleby commenting on some of the problems of the course says whatever we call it students tend to conshyclude that what they re writing is an acashydemic paper of some kind - which of course it is - but we need to make the connection in their minds with the real the corporate world out there They also tend to think that longer is better and write about what they know - rather than what is import ant The development of a proper sense of for whom they are writing is itself a problem-solving skill

Another problem according to Proshyfessor Hundleby is what she calls the new illiteracy - a verbal dysfunction resulting from an impoverished vocabulary

Style too is a matter of considerable

AMPHI Spin-offs The School of Hotel and Food Administra shytions annual Advanced Management Pro shygram for the Hospitality Industry (AMPHI) now in its third year is spinning off new management development activities says HAFA Director Tom Powers Earlier this year 20 people attended a workshop on accounting and finance presented by Proshyfes sor William Braithwaite School of Agrishycultural Economics and Extension Educashytion and three similar programs will be offered in different parts of the country over the next year and a half

Another program still in the planning stage is a six-day hospitality managers development course designed for middle management by AMPHIs associate direcshy

concern She also mentioned careless senshytence structure style that is inappropriate to the content lack of connective logic failure to understand the nature of a paragraph as a literary entity the frivolous use of colloshyquiali sms an absence of any sense of the harmonious sound of words on paper and of course a growing list of commonly misused words - e g it could of had that affect

There s a tendency to see s tyle as a decorative flourish rather than as an aspect of content she concluded

Professor Powers sees the development of verbal communication skills as central to the whole idea of liberal education Cershytainly he says its useful for HAFA stushydents to understand how a cost control system works - but its at least as important to be able to think logically analyse logshyically and communicate conclusions in a way that is credible informative coherent and complete in fact these are the classic goals of a liberal education 0

tor Professor John Patterson and a consulshytant group of AMPHI alumni

AMPHI continues to attract internashytional attention participants in thi s years program which began in April include senior executives from many of North Americas most distinguished hotels and restaurants The four-week course offers an intensive program based primarily on case studies written by Professo rs Patterson -Braithwaite Carl Riegel and Tom Muller

The growing volume of AMPHI cases indicates that thi s is the largest s ingle research program currently under way in any hotel school in North America says Proshyfessor Powers AMPHls network of conshytacts is giving us access to a senior-level view of the industrys current problems and prospects 0

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Research AssociateComing Soon A AppointedModel Play Facility

Dr Joan Norris

Dr Joan Norris has held the position of Research Associate at the Gerontology Research Centre since last spring

Joan is working with faculty to develop and promote research related to population aging and is available for consultation with faculty on research design funding sources and publication

In addition to this development work she is continuing her personal program of research She works for the Gerontology Censhytre two days per week and the balance of her

The Family Studies Laboratory Schools pre-school play facility fell 10 a Grounds time is spent in the Department of Family Department wrecking machine recently Studies where she has held a faculty appointshy

ment since 1980 Joan holds a Ph D in Psychology from

the University of Waterloo and is also a regisshytered psychologist Her personal research

The Mllc-FACS Special Projects Commitshyinterests include social competence in older

tee Ito r Bonnie Kerslake 82 Association adults peer relationships and grandshy

president Linda (Wo[e) Markle 73 chairshyparenting 0

man and Gail Murray 78 Missing comshymillee member is Rita (Klassen) Weigel 77 The aim of the committee is to raise funds to redevelop the Family Studies Laboshy In Memoriam ratory Schools and raise itto the level where it will be regarded as a model pre-school

Eileen Margaret (Manahan) Alwayplay facility

390 October 21984 in Vancouver BC

Jean (Horrell) Atkinson 240 March 5 1985 in Aurora

Class of 35 Gift Oorothy (Lockard) Honsberger 300Centre panel Roman Carnival

In order to commemorate their anniversary July 51985 in Weiland Mac 35 has traditionally given a scholshyarship to a FACS student once every five Isabel J Lockerbie 300 March 31 years This year on the 50th anniversary of 1985 in Toronto their graduation and in addition to the scholarship an etching entitled Roman Patricia G (Smith) McKay-Barry 55 Carnival by Terry Legault has been added March 17 1985 in London Ont to the Universitys collection of Canadian alt The etching is hanging in the FACS Velma E (Conn) Partridge 260 April faculty lounge 29 1985 in Niagara Falls Ont shy

The theme of Roman Carnival was favoured by neo-clas sical and romantic Helen E (Kelly) Robinson 220 April painters during the 19th century The etching 30 1985 in Dundas captures the moment at which wild horses are released to race through the streets of Norma I (Motherwell) Roy 350 in Rome The artist has chosen to represent the Moosejaw Sask wild chaotic motion ot the horses rather than explicitly depict in detail the animals Lillian S (Moore) Usher 340 March 28 and the architectural background 0 1985 in Cobourg 0

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College of Physical Science Alumni Assoc SCIMP

Editor Bob Winkel

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Yes Dr Earl MacNaughtoll has relired alshylogelher bUI Ihis wonl be Ih e lasl you I hear from him reSI assured Before he and his wife Jean lOok oJf for Auslralia and New Zealand Deparlmenl of Physics slaf and faculty held a galhering al Ihe FacullY Club and presenled Ihe couple wilh an alumni clock

Back to Guelph

The headquarters for (GWC)2 came

back to Guelph in July for a threeshy

year period while Professor Robert Balahura Chemistry and Biochemisshy

try serves as director (GWC)2 offices have been set up

in Room 122 and 123 Physical Scishyences building The University of

Waterloo will maintain a satellite office during the three-year Guelph

rotation Dr Balahura and adminshy

istrative assistant Andrea Turner may

be reached at Ext 3865 0

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Physics Professor Elected to Royal Society

Bernhard Nickel

Department of Phy s ics Professor Bernhard Nickel has been elected a Fellow

of the Royal Society of Canada and was formally inducted into the Society at its

annual meeting in Montreal in June

A member of the Physics faculty since

1974 Professor Nickel is no stranger to

prizes and awards In 1981 he received the Herzberg Medal the Canadian Associashy

tion of Physicists award to a promising young scienti st In 1978 he won a Sloan

Fellowship from the New York-based Sloan Foundation

He achieved recognition by navigating

the esoteric seas of condensed matter physshy

ics Hi s co lleagues call him a leading masshyter in the art of mathematical physics By

exploiting the existing mathematical frameshywork in subtle ways he has worked through

thickets that have stopped other physic ists

High order perturbation calculations

done by him played a key role in verifying

the quantitative reliability of the theory of

underlying continuous phase transitions in systems

He earned BScE and MSc degrees from the University of Saskatchewan and a

PhD from the University of California at

San Diego He was a research associate at

Cornell and Oxford Universities and a postshy

doctoral research Fellow at the Univers itY of Alberta before coming to Guelph in 1974

He has been a visiting fellow at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory at the Univershy

sity of California at San Diego at Harvard

and at the Schlumberger-Doll Re searc h In stitute in Connecticut

With his election he becomes one of

six Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada at

Guelph The others are Professors Howard

Clark Peter Egelstaff Gabriel Karl Bruce Sells and Herbert Armstrong And it brings to five the number of me mbers of the

Guelph-Waterloo Program for Graduate Work in Physics (GWP)2 who can put the

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Halleys Comet and the Babylonians By Professors Nigel Bunce and Jim Hunt

The winter of 1985 and the spring of 1986 will lon g be remembered as the year of

Comet Halley No comet in history has so

stirred the imagination of man or been the

object of suc h intensive investigation Its easy to understand this interest when its

appreciated that Halleys Comet is the only recurring comet that is bright enough to be

seen with the naked eye ft was the g reat astronomer Edmund

Halley who in 1705 recognized the s imilarshy

ity of the appearances of the great comets of 1456 1531 1607 and 1682 He speculated that these were in fact one and the sa me

comet with a period of 75 or 76 years

He predicted that the comet would reshyturn in 175 8 a return he could not live to see With thi s Halley discovered the phenomeshy

non of periodic comets and thus showed

that they were members of our solar system

The comet dutifully returned in 1835

and spectacularly so in 1910 In the latter

year circumstances were such that after its

perhelion passage (the point closest to the

Sun) the Earth and the comet approached

each other very closely The comet was so close that at one time its tail spread from

horizon to horizon The return in 1985-86 will be considshy

erably less spectacular In fact for Canadishyans it will not be easy to observe s ince the

time of perhelion is in Febnlary when the

Sun is very low in the sky The view will be -much better from more southerl y latitudes Over the years historica l records have

been found which record every passage of the comet back to 12 BC M any of these obshy

servations come from Chinese records first published in 1846 A well-authenticated

passage was that of 1066 which was reshy

corded on the Bayeux tapestry by the mother

of William of Nonnand y and taken as an cOllld on righl

Grad News Paul Ferguson BSc 67 of Ede n Mill s is president of EIS Systems Ltd and travelled in New Zealand this summer

Walter Lock BSc 67 of Denfield is practising medicine in Lucan

Tjeerd Homan BSc 69 of Calgary Alta is manager research and development services for Petro-Can He is enjoying his family Carla Sarah and John Menno and his hobbies of golf curling and skiing

(GWP)2 Poster Session a First

Earlier this year the Guelph- Waterloo Proshygram for Graduate Work in Physics (GWP)2 staged its first annual poster session for graduate s tudents Poster sessions which are becoming increasingly popular in scienshytific circles allow interaction between researchers and delegates without the time pressures encountered when presenting con shyventional papers at meetings says (GWP)2 Director lain Campbell

The first annual (GWP)2 poste r sesshysion which was followed by a soc ial hour and banquet was highly successful in genershyating interaction says Campbell By the end of the session there were still clusters of people arguing the finer points of scientific interpretation on many of the posters These exchanges continued right through the soshycial hour and into dinner Interaction is what science is all about

Encouraging interaction between stushydents and faculty is one of Campbells prishyorities as Director It is too easy for students to tuck themselves into a corner and work away in isolation They need to get out and ex plain their work both to experts and to

omen of his victory over the Saxons Based on this long record various

mathematical analyses of the orbit of the comet have been produced These account very accurately for the known passages of the comet However when these various anshyalyses are pushed back beyond 12 BC they predict widely varying dates for the previous appearances Before 12 B c there are ani y two vague Chinese records in 87 BC and 240 B c which mayor may not have been Halleys comet

In a recent issue of Nature a team of

Ernest Campbell BSc 69 lives in Campbell ville and teaches science for the Halton Board in Burlington

Richard Davis BSc 77 having comshypleted his MD University of Toronto 83 and his internship at Womens College Hosshypital will be setting up his practice in family medicine in his home town of Guelph

Larry Meek BSc 77 of Ottawa is pashytient administrator and computing officer for the National Defence Medical Centre His hobbies include sailing and skiing

Andre Brunet BA 81 is working for Amdahl Ltd as fieldsystems engineer and lives in Sudbury with his wife Monique (Puellette) FACS 80

Cathy Deakin BSc 81 is presently articshyling with the law firm of Little Reeves Mahoney Jarrett amp Hart of London

Andrew Dubrawski BSc 82 and his wife Alicia (Wodecka) BSc 81 live in Toronto where he works as a communicashytions systems analyst for CNCP Telecomshymunications 0

10hn Root 81 a (GWP)2 PhD s tudent left aflracts an audience

non-experts It takes a deliberate effort on our part to generate and maintain this intershychange

The poster session was the largest scishyentific or social event yet staged by (GWP)2 Some 18 students presented posters and about 90 students faculty and prospective students attended

The posters are on display in the two departments of physics to give others an opportunity to view them At Gue lph they are in the second floor corridor of the Physshyical Science Building near the Department

scholars from England and Vienna reported the finding of two fragments of Babylonian tablets in the British Museum that clearly report the appearance of the comet in 87 BC and 164 B C The records are so clear that by calculation not only the year but the time of year for the perhelion passage can be determined

For example the 164 BC apparition has been narrowed down to a date someshywhere between November 5 and 25 of that year The 87 BC record is not as accurate nevertheless its perhelion passage can be

of Physics office Encouraged by the s uccess of the

poster sess ion lain Campbell is planning another high-profile event for (GWP)2 to recognize award-winning faculty He plans a fall symposium at which three (GWP)2 members who received major honours durshying 1985 will give short lectures to be folshylowed by a sherry reception The three honoured faculty are Gicinto Scoles Killam Fellowship winner Bernhard Nickel Felshylow of the Royal Society of Canada and John Simpson Rutherford medalist 0

narrowed down to July 25 to August 15 These observations while inaccurate

to the extent of 20 days are still accurate enough to eliminate three of the four leading -calculations of the motion of Comet Halley This is a striking example of how archaeoshylogical investigations may have a strong effect on many diverse subjects in this case com~tary astronomy 0

We welcome questions and ideas for future articles Write to the authors clo the Deans Office Cole fe ofPhysical Science Univershysity of Guelph Guelph Ontario NIG 2WI

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A Designing Grad The need for a summer job six years ago has ended in a Guelph grad des igning golf courses

When in 1979 Lisa Maki now

BLA 84 was searching for a job that would assist her in her studies at the Univershysity she applied to the city of Kitchener

She could have wound up in any

number of areas in the parks and recreation department but Rockway and Doon Valley

course superintendent Ed Ortlieb gave her the chance to join the work crew at Rockway fltor the first couple of years it was just a job that got her outdoors in the summer then by chance she got interested in the game itself

And now shes embarked on a career in golf course design

Lisa the 24-year-old oldest daughter of Ted Maki a former general manager of the

Lisa Maki BLA 84 Kitchener Rangers left last July for Lakeshyland Florida where she Joined Links Deshysign which de sig ns and oversees golf course construction throughout the United 1983 and a friend of the family who knew States The company is considered the sec shy was interested in golf course work arranged ond-largest of its type behind the one run by a meeting with Ronald Garl said Lisa I US golf legend Jack Nicklaus who deshy had an official job interview in April of 84 signed the Glen Abbey course in Oakville and then went to Florida in August of the

How does a young Kitchener woman same year to familiarize myself with the

end up working for Ronald Garl a 40-yearshy firms projects

old graduate of the University of Florida Because I had focused much of my who apprenticed under such well-known deshy University work on such things as turf man shy

signers as Roben Trent Jones and Joseph agement and had done pan of my bachelor Lee Again it was just a chance opportunity of landscape architecture thes is on what

We were in Florida in December of makes British golf courses great and the

Sisters of Accident Victims Receive Diplomas

A tragic accident just prior to Spring Convocation resulted in the deaths oftwo graduands of the Associate Diploma in Agriculture Program Jeff Bikus 85A of West Lome and Nick Davidson 85Afrom Zimbabwe Joy Davidson sister ofNick came from Zimbabwefor the Convocation She was sponsored by the OAC Alumni Association Classes of85A alld 86A Norm McCollulIl 66A honorary class president 85A Don and MiidredMcCollum Jenny Ballentine and her parents Dr Steve Bowley 78 and80 honorary class president 86A and the University Centre Administration Our sympathy is extended to the families and friends of these two popular studel1ls Pictured are Ito r Jenny Ballantine friend ofJeff Bikus Lealln Bikus sister of Jeff Joy Davidson sister of Nick and Klaus Kristiansen a studellt from Zimbabwe

other on golf course residential design he was impressed

In order to learn what made British

courses great Lisa spent a semester in Engshyland and Scotland visiting researching sketching photographing and playing 16 historic courses including the famous links courses which by tradition are the

only clubs to host the British Open Links layouts are courses that border the sea and have been built or developed over sand

bases

Approximately 15 students a year take

advantage of the School of Land scape Arshychitectures Semester Abroad Program fi shynancing the trips themselves However the program is supported by an annual $5000 grant from the Alma Mater Fund so alumni can claim a cenain amount of credit for Lisas success She was a recipient in 1983

of part of that years AMF grant Im not sure my mother and father

were very keen about my trave lling around England and Scot lane all alone but it was a truly great experience she said middot1 not only met many wonderful and helpful peoshyple got to play the great courses like St

Andrew s Royal Troon Turnberry and my favorite of all Royal Dornoch

After a complicated and lengthy US immigration process which took nearly a year she was granted her permanent work

visa She was in regular contact with her new

boss after returning to Kitchen er - she re turned to work at Rockway and Doon while awaiting the vi sa approval - and then last July plunged immediately into

projects including work at a mens tournashyment players 36-hole complex in Sarasota and a Ladies Professional Golf Assoc iation course in Melbourne where she worked in association with LPGA tour players Beth Daniels and Sally Little

Despite the fact that the job involves

vy ing with rattlesnakes alligators and Iild

pigs when I have to tramp through forests and swamps in applying my design work to certain areas I love the outdoor work Lisa

said At the same time she doesnt have any

probleIl1s giving orders to hard-hatted heavy-machinery construction workers when she is the field supervisor for on-site

work think I may have raised a few eye shy

brows when I staned work at Rockway but I was accepted

Lisa isnt sure how long this pan of her life will last and she has no way of knowing whether any of her courses will eve r be known as Lisa Maki layouts But that doesnt

concern her They may be Links Design projects but Ill know they were basically my courses 0

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Klink Lecture Dr Doug Morrison 49 Department of Poultry Science was chosen to deliver the 1985 Klink Lecture

The Klink lecture is ~ponsored by the Agricultural Inst itute of Canada and named after the Institute s founding president Preshysented by an outstanding lecture r the lecture is delivered through a coast-to-coast tour and concerns a topic of current significance to the agricultural industry and the nation

Dr Morri son stated that there is a need for professionalization in an imal agriculshyture in order to give it an improved image and make it more acceptable to the conshysumer

Address ing members of the Ontario Inshystitute of Agrologists in London Ontario he told his audience that the agriculture inshydustry in Canada ranks among the best in the world and producers have to ensure thi s is shown and make sure that peer pressure prevents producers from doing things that we cant defend

He suggested some type of professhysiona l approach established by the farming organization whereby expertise would be required instead of merely encouraged

This is a mu ch beller ap proach th an some edict from society through governshyment legi slation I strong ly object to legislashytion designed to protect me from myself he said adding that there are currently enough regulations existent through legislation that dictate what farmers can and cannot do

If a farmer were a profess ional hi s reward wou Id be in profits - about as meanshyingful a reward as has ye t been devised

Benefits of a more professionalized approach would include an improved image of the farmer to the consumer an increase in communication a more efficient industry

which is essential for competition improved knowledge on the fa rmers part of health nutrition care markets etc and more awareness of soc ietys concerns

In turn it would also be necessary to provide beller information to the consumer through an educational process because if soc iety is to pay for increased inputs for the long- term good of the nat ion then it is essential society be adequately informed

Morrison remarked that he fee ls the maj ori ty of animal agriculturists are in fact professionals but there has to be a concerted e ffort to at tract as lew people as possible in to the business who do not understa nd farmshying or who are doing things that are unacshyceptable

Consumer concern over dietary value or the amount of drugs contained in animal product s is also reason for farmers to tak e a professional approach They should work to alleviate any misreprese ntations and misin shyformation the public is receiving the proshyfessor noted s tating that farm ers have never produced food as safe and as wholeshysome as it is today

By the turn of the century on a world basis meat consumption is predicted to in shy

crease by abou t 60 per cent while the intake of milk is expected to increase by almost 40 per cent

A major fac tor for this rise in intake result s from th e fact that developing nations will begin to consume animal products as soon as they can afford them China is an excellent exa mple of this said the professor who commented that nation is now movshying as rapidly as possible to increase animal production

With all these factors is mind Dr Morshyri son sa id he is optimistic for the future of the Canad ian animal agriculture industry

Weve got the opportunities and can take advantage of them he said 0

Mark Bernards 85 cenlre was the recipienl oftwo OAC Alumni Foundation awards the OAC Alumni Graduate Award and the Beth Duncan Gold Medal Left is Gord Nixon 37 Foundashytion chairman and director and right NR Rick Richards 38 treasurer

Entrepreneur in Residence

Dr Donald Shaver

Dean Freeman McEwen is pleased to be working with Dr Donald McQueen Shaver the Universitys first Agricultural Entreshypreneur-i n-Res idence

Dr Shaver a native of Cambt idge Onshytari o is found er chairman and chief exshyecutive officer of Shaver Poultry Breed ing Farms Limited The compan y distributes chicken breeding stock to 90 countries from its head office in Cambridge and three subshysid iaries in the United States Britain and France He retired from his executive reshysponsib ilities on August 30 but is conshytinuing as director and adv isor to the company

From 1940 to 1945 Dr Shaver served with the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps in Africa and Europe retiring as regimental commanding officer He is past president of the Canadian Hatchery Federation the Poulshytry Products Institute of Canada the Canashydian Lincoln Red Society and Maine-Anjou Association He is a member of the Order of Canada Honorary Life Member of the Worlds Poultry Science Association and the Ontario Institute of Agrologi sts He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Science by McGill University and the Centennial Medal by the OAC

The Entrepreneu r-in-Reside nce pro shygram was initiated and financially supshyported by OAC Class of 58 to champion -the role of private enterpri se within soc iety The appointment is for a two-year period during which time Dr Shaver will present lectures lead workshops and consult with faculty and students

The Agricultural Entrepreneur-in-Resishydence program at the University is believed to be a first in agr icultural education around the world 0

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University Of Guelph Involved in $68 Million Chinese Project The University of Guelph has embarked on a co-operative $68 million project that will ~ink five Canadian and Chinese universities and agricultural institutions

The four-year Black Dragon River Proshyjeo supported by the Canadian Internashytional Deve lopment Agency (C IDA) involves Guelph the University of Alberta Olds College in AlbeI1a and two Chinese institutions - Heilongjiang Land Reclamashytion University and Liu He Training College in northeastern Heilongjiang Province

Under th e term s of the agreement training will be provided at the three Canashydian institutions for personnel from the two Chinese university institutions

The Liu He Training College is respo nshysible for educating state farm employees Training will range from short courses to undergraduate and graduate level programs

Faculty from the Canadian universities and Olds College will travel to China during the summer months to give lectures and

short courses The area borderi ng on Russia has treshy

mendou s potential for agricultural deve lopshyment Professor Neal Stos~opf 57 direct or of OACs diploma courses is Guelphs co-ordinator for the Chinese projshyect He was part of the Canadian gove rnment planning miss ion and ex plains that although the climate combines the cold winters and hot summers of Alberta most of the moisshyture is rain that falls between Jul y and Sepshytember

Although latitude is the sa me as Edmontons at 52 degrees north the area grows soybeans and corn as well as wheat The land has two to four feet of black topsoil waiting to be drained and planted he says with potential for livestock proshyduction

The proj ec t centre is located at the Unishyversity of Alberta with administration in Guelph being carried out by the Centre for International Programs 0

Provincial apiarist retires after 19 years You might say Philip Burkes job brought sweet rewards

Until his retirement recently Philip was the provincial apiarist - sort of Onshytarios chief of bees - while working at the University of Guelphs Department of Environmental Biology

He joined the University as a lectu rer in 1943 and then became assistant professor and later associate professor

At the same time the Ontario Departshyment of Agriculture (as the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food was known then) made him the assistant provincial apiarist In 1966 he became provincial apiarist

Of course he advised beekee pers on ways they could make their colonies more productive and efficient and fielded many apiary management question s - including how to prevent bees from swarming

If they swarm one-third to one-half of th e colony takes off so you lose a big source of your honey crop Swarming is trigshygered when the hive becomes overcrowded so the beekeeper mu st stay ahead of them It involves a whole manipulation of the hive through the season visiting each colony at least once every ten to 14 days he says Philip also worked with farmers whose

crops depended on pollination by bees At one time bees were needed for

pollin ating greenhouse produce such as cucumbers But in the past 15 years the trend has been toward new types that are self fruiting he says

But the biggest change in the industry over the years was the trend towards Illakshying corn king in Ontario - a trend that is now being reversed he says

From 1949 and on a lot of bee coloshynies were moved to the western provinces tollowi ng th e reduction in alfalfa production in Ontario and the increased corn acreage he says

Now prospec ts for honey production in Ontario are better than in past years beshycause of the increased alfalfa acreage and other legumes and the trend towards more diversified cropping

Not surpris ingly prices have changed in the industry over the years too Back in the 1920s it cost about $10 to start a bee colony today start-up costs are about $100 to $125 per colony

Much of his work at the University looked at ways to prevent di seases in bees using selected antibiotics

He was secretary for the Ontario Beekeepers Association for 15 yea rs and now acts as a consu It ant for the group 0

Wins Crampton Award

Dr Stanley J Slinger 37 the most recent rec ipient of the Earl e W Crampton Award for distingui shed service in nutrition is ProshyFessor Emeritus of the Depal1ment of Nutrishytion College of Biolog ica l Science at Guelph

Born in Lowell Ontario Dr Slinger received his BSc from the Ontario Agrishycultural College hi s MSc fro111 the Univershysity of Toronto and a PhD from Cornell University From 1941 to 1965 he was in the Departillent of Poultry Science at the OAC and since 1965 has been in the Department of Nutrition at Guelph serving as chairJl1an from 1965 to 1974

Dr Slinger conducted re sea rch in sevshyeral areas of pou Itry nutrition for Jl10re than 30 years In 1972- 73 a fi sh nutrition laborashytory was set up and thi s laboratory has conshytinued to grow and iJl1prove s i nee One of the primary objectives in both poultry and fi sh nutrition research has been to develop feed to rmulas using feedstuffs of Canadian orishygin 111ese tannulas have been publi shed and continuall y revi sed and have been used extensively by teed manufacturers through shyout Canada Dr Slinger continues to be active in research

Dr Slinger taught poultry nutrition in Poultry Science for 27 years gave seminar courses in nutrition and physiology taught Fundamentals of Nutrition in the Depal1shyment of Nutrition and deve loped and taught courses in fi sh and wildlite nutrition

He has supervi sed the work of Jl1any graduates and it is interesting to note that the Department of Nutrition at Guelph is the only depailment in Canada - and there are very few in the United States - turning out graduates in Fish Nutrition at the PhD leve l

He has helped to establi sh modern poultry industries in Mexico and the areas of South East Asia Africa the Middle East Eastern and Western Europe and the United Kingdom Lectures conlerences and other consultative work have also taken hilll to Jl1any coul1tries over the years

The recipient of numerous honours and awards Dr S linger was made Professor Emeritus of the University in Ino and reshy -ceived the Earl e W Crampton award in 19B4 at Macdonald College Que Thi s award is given by the Faculty of Agriculture in recogshyniti on of significant co ntributions in the field of nutrition through research andlor service The award is named for Dr Earle W Crampton a renowned nutritionist whose career at Macd onald bega n in 1922 and lasted far 51 years 0

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cialist having spent four months in the latter John Reid 84 is technical sales rep Agrico Grad News part of 1984 in Bloemfontein South Africa Sales Ltd Richmond BC

Earl Johnston 46 is president Earl-John Brokers Ltd Delhi

Joe Knox 48 is secretary-treasurer Annco Westeellnc Guelph

Ralph Hills 54 is pastor United Church of Canada Smith Falls Ralph left Zambia last October spending some time in Kenya Israel England and Scotland on the way home He was surprised to meet Charlie Broadwell also 54 on Oxford Street in London Charlie was giving a reception at a large castle for the white bean buyers who purchase beans from Charlies Bean Growers of Ontario Ralph also passes along the word from Louise (Fershyguson) Hope Mac 54 that her husband Don 54 preparing for some future possible social work is studying drug addiction at George Brown College of Applied Ans and Technology Toronto

Joseph Leach 54 is a research scientist Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources Lake Erie Research station Wheatley

Ken Edwards 59 is an industrial engineer Prince George Pulp and Paper Vancouver BC

Fred Theaker 62 is a teacher-biologist Ren frew County Board of Education Aruprior

Howard Lang 67 is senior so il conshyservation advisor for OMAF Cambridge

John Lawrence 69 has been appointed vice-president and ge neral manager De kalb Canada Inc Chatham John is a lso president of the Canadian Agri-marketing Assoc iation

Robert Brooksbank 70 is manager Agrishycultural Department Simcoe area Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce

Alan Duncan BLA 73 is project coshyordinator Groupe d intervention urban de Montreal Montreal Que

Martha (Weir) Collins 75 reports that Anne (Walton) Bayler 75 is at teac hers college in Toronto after spending several years teaching in the Bahamas Martha lives at I Braid Place Guelph and would like to hear news of her classmates

Jim Dyer MSc 75 is a senior resource and environmental officer with the crop producshytion division of Agriculture Canada Ottawa He is on loan as a drought monitoring spe shy

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His wife Barb (Newell) Arts 75 who is a technical editor with Public Works Canada joined him in Bloemfontein for a month

Elizabeth Fedorkow 75 is a market reshysearcher Tetra Pak Inc Markham

Roy Maxwell 75 is an agricultural comshymentator CBC Radio Noon Toronto

Gary Ball 76 is vice-president manufacturshying Mitten Vinyl Inc Cambridge

Garnet McConney 77 is feed lot manager Catllel and Ontario Inc Petersburg

Patrick Meyers 77 OVC 84 is a vetshyerinarian with the Grenville-Dundas Veterinshyary Clinic Kemptville

Martha Frey 78 is secretaryass istant edishytor Canadians for Health Research Wes tshymount Que

Wayne Harrison 79 is assi stant manager Toronto Dominion Bank Elmira His wife is Katherine (McLeod) 77

Sharon Helynk 79 is with the Woodbury Animal Hospital Halifax NS

Jeffery Goebel 80 is resident engineer ACF Canada Ltd Georgetown

Mary Lynn Prong 80 is assistant manager Royal Bank Watford She reports that Bruno Soucy 8Q has changed jobs from OMAF farm ma nagement advisor to agrolog ist London region Royal Bank

Corrie Almack 81 is presidentowner Agshyriculturai Soil and Nutrition Consultants Freelton

Edward Bolton 81 is research farm manshyager AJle lix Inc M ississauga

William Summers 82 MSc 84 is prodshyuct deve lopment rep Du-Pont Canada Streetsville

Dianne (Coker) McDowell 83 is quality assurance supervisor Richardson Foods Ltd Glanw0I1h

John Ross 83 is a program officer Agrishyculture Canada Edmonton Alta

Jeff Burke 84 is a customer service rep Griffith Lab Toronto

Julie Fowler 84 is working for Embury Bros Farms Ltd Newburgh

Karen Rodman 84 is a farm management specialist OMAF Nepean

James Simonds 84 is a crop specialist Cavendi sh Fanns Summerside P E1

Richard West PhD 84 is a research scishyentist Canadian Forestry Service SI John s Nftdo

In Memoriam We regret to report the following deaths

Marie Honsberger 17A died March 1985

Esmond D Clipsham 2IA died on April 6 1985 Esmond had been the proprietor Uneeda Rest Hotel Kilwonhy and was a life member of the OAC Alumni Association

Stanley Ewart Keillor 21 died on February 27 1985 He was a crop farmer at Walshylacetown

John Edward Chalmers 23A died on Febshyru ary 15 1985

Jacobus Van Haarlem 23 at age 85 on July 2 1985 in Vineland He retired as ex shyecutive director of the Hor1icultural Experishymental Station at Vineland in 1970 after 47 years of service there

Hugh Lacklin Paterson 32A died in May 1985 of a heart attack at Rockwood

Murray Cameron Macklin 33A 35 died January n 1985 in Toronto

Garland Alfred Fisk 35 Date of deat h unknown

Gordon Elgin Young 35 died on June 12 1985 at Ing leside

John Miller Fargery 37 on March 22 1985 in Toronto John had been an insurance salesman Farm Credit Corp and was a life member of the OAC Alumni Assoc iation

William Thomson 40 in 1982 in Lonshy shygueuil Que His death was reported recen tl y

Robert Fletcher Madden 54A died on November 26 1984 at age 52 at Napanee

Vera (Mod ric) Kozamplik MSc 73 in Yugoslavia She was the wife of Vinko Kozumplik M Sc 71 0

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From the Dean

Dr Barham

In some of my lellers I have aimed to share

information on some special program or theme with you On this occasion I want to

keep you in touch through a number of lillie items so I shall hold onto some of the bigshy

ger interests for future issues of the Guelph Alumnus

As I write this leller Alumni Weekend 85 is behind us I found it a great weekend

and I thoroughly enjoyed meeting more of our alumni for the first time while

especially appreciating recognizing more

and more familiar faces and names from previous occasions

This year the Classes of 65 and 75 requested an up-date on our programs and

the developments we have experienced together in the College over the last few

years I guess that we were able to demonshy

strate much more development in our research and teaching programs than we could in some parts of the physical facilities within the buildings Still we had thorshyoughly congenial and I think very useful

meetings with both of these classes and added a nostalgic tour of our facilities

It was splendid to meet both of these groups I confess however that I had not

foreseen that a large part of the interest of the Class of 65 rested on the fact that many of their children are now gearing up to enter FACS

I was able to remind them that the BASc and B Comm degrees both lead

into fascinating and challenging careers for sons and nephews as well as daughters and

nieces Some of you coming to Alumni Weekend 86 might wish to get in touch with me to arrange an up-date on our acti vities then too

One of my special pleasures of Alumni Weekend was to join with the Class of 35 at the Golden Anniversary Dinner This occashy

sion is always a particular delight given the special personal pleasures reflected in the

friendships shared on this anniversary And I do want members of the Class of

35 to know that their gift of the magnificent Terry Legault Roman Festival print looks really outstanding and just right amidst the

contemporary decor of the FACS lounge

One last item of alumni news which I want to mention is the fact that I met with

Jean (Nairn) Carter 38 and some of her committee recently I learned that they have

been making quite outstanding progress in establishing the trust fund that will support their new graduate student award in geronshy

tology The first award presentation of $1000 is being made this fall but members of the Class of 38 are still pushing on with their fund raising in order to bring the

annual trust-fund yield to a level of $2 000 We all think that the Class of 38 grads

have been quite remarkable in their detershymination to build up a significant fund to

support work in this important new field of scholarship and research I know that we

shall all appreciate your support for them in reaching their target

I met with Audrey Warner and Annette

Yeager 62 recently They advised me of their concern for the needs of teachers wantshy

ing to prepare themselves for adding Family Studies to their fields of professional speshy

cialization and of other teachers already working in that field who find themselves in need of some up-dating especially in view of the curriculum changes which appear to be around the corner

In this regard I want to mention two

items which might be of interest First our faculty in FACS have been

quite heavily engaged in working with

teachers and others in thinking planning debating and writing for the curriculum developme~ts envisaged for the Ontario Academic High School Credits

Most especially we have had as memshybers of the Canadian Family in Perspective group Dr Jean Sabry with her own special

interest in human nutrition Dr Grant

McCracken in clothing Drs Marshall Fine and Claude Guldner with their expertise in family relations and Drs Anne Martin Matshythews and Joe Tindale with their special strengths in life-span development and

aging - quite a team of contributors Secondly I want to mention in relation

to my meeting with Audrey and Annette that we now have a number of courses avai 1shy

able in a six-week format offered in summer sessions provided on campus

Perhaps of even more interest to those of you who wont find it practical to take

classes on campus at Guelph we have an annual offering of distance or corresponshy

dence-type courses Many of these will be of very pertinent

interest to a number of teachers The current list includes Human Development Marital and Family Dynamics Personal and Family Finance Development of Human Sexuality Nutrition and Man and the Exceptional Child in the Family

You can find out more about these

offerings by writing directly to Guelph Disshytance Education University of Guelph

Macdonald Institute shyFamily and Consumer Studies Alumni Assoc

Editor Carol Telford-Pittman 75

Guelph Ont NIG 2WI or by getting in touch with my office

One of the reasons that we have put

ourselves so significantly behind the development of these distance courses is that we did not have the resources to meet

the demand for providing our courses in the more traditional class format at locations

away from the Guelph campus As usual there is much more to share

with you but it will just have to hold until

my next letter I look forward to being in touch with you again then 0

Olive Thompson Honoured

Olive (Thompson) Thompson 35

-The Mac-FACS Alumni Association was very pleased to present a Citation of Appreshyciation to Olive (Thompson) Thompson

35 during Alumni Weekend 85 festivities Olive has given much time energy

support and leadership to the College and to the University through her years of involveshyment with the Mac-FACS Alumni Associashytion Class of Mac 35 activities and the University of Guelph Alumni Association

Our University s alumni organizations are stronger and more effective because of

the years of commitment and personal sershyvice that Olive has contributed

Olive - We salute you 0

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New at HAFA By John Hearn

Infonnation Services

An innovative course developed by the School of Hotel and Food Administration (HAFA) is focussing the attention of undershygraduates on the analysis of operational problems in the hospitality industry and the writing skills required to express and comshymunicate that analysis

Students are required to find summer jobs in the hospitality industry and then to write five papers of ascending complexity during the first semester of their second year using text readings specially edited for this course by the Schools Director Proshyfessor Tom Powers

We have a unique responsibility to prepare students not just for their first job but for future jobs further down the line says Dr Powers Possession of a university degree should imply an ability both to anashylyse problems and to communicate observashytions and recommendations In todays corporate world reports papers and letters are management tools and written comshymunication is a survival skill

The HAFA faculty decided further to emphasize writing skills by adopting a style manual developed by Professor Margaret Hund leby Department of Engl ish Language and Literature for this course as an integral part of the Schools other courses

In order to familiarize faculty with the use of the manual and the grading of student writing Professor Hundleby was invited to conduct a two-day workshop which atshytracted the attention of Vice-President Howard Clark and Associate Vice-President Janet Wardlaw as well as faculty from other disciplines s uch as psychology land resource science microbiology and history

The program Professor Hundleby told the seminar requires students to complete five report papers based on their own obsershyvations

The first paper requires a detailed description of the physical layout of the host operation plus an appraisal and operating cost analysis of its heating air-conditioning and ventilation systems

A second paper asks the student to describe and evaluate staff structure funcshytion compensation package and efficiency

Cost control is the subject of a third paper Purchasing practices food producshytion cost traCking and inventory manageshyment all come under this heading

Marketing is the fourth subject area What market segment is the operation aimed at What consumer need does the operation satisfy What is the nature of the

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Left to right- Professors Cathy Schrye Writing Centre Tom Muller HAFA Belty Upton HAFA Mike Jenkinson OAC 63 OAC dean s office Mary Rogers History and back to camera Bernie Katz Library reviewing cases drawn from studefll papers in a two-day workshop Evaluating Students Writing conducted by Professor Margaret Hundleby

competition in the target market

The fifth paper examines the intangishybles of management sty Ie How does the role of the manager affect relations with customshyers staff and head office

Professor Hundleby commenting on some of the problems of the course says whatever we call it students tend to conshyclude that what they re writing is an acashydemic paper of some kind - which of course it is - but we need to make the connection in their minds with the real the corporate world out there They also tend to think that longer is better and write about what they know - rather than what is import ant The development of a proper sense of for whom they are writing is itself a problem-solving skill

Another problem according to Proshyfessor Hundleby is what she calls the new illiteracy - a verbal dysfunction resulting from an impoverished vocabulary

Style too is a matter of considerable

AMPHI Spin-offs The School of Hotel and Food Administra shytions annual Advanced Management Pro shygram for the Hospitality Industry (AMPHI) now in its third year is spinning off new management development activities says HAFA Director Tom Powers Earlier this year 20 people attended a workshop on accounting and finance presented by Proshyfes sor William Braithwaite School of Agrishycultural Economics and Extension Educashytion and three similar programs will be offered in different parts of the country over the next year and a half

Another program still in the planning stage is a six-day hospitality managers development course designed for middle management by AMPHIs associate direcshy

concern She also mentioned careless senshytence structure style that is inappropriate to the content lack of connective logic failure to understand the nature of a paragraph as a literary entity the frivolous use of colloshyquiali sms an absence of any sense of the harmonious sound of words on paper and of course a growing list of commonly misused words - e g it could of had that affect

There s a tendency to see s tyle as a decorative flourish rather than as an aspect of content she concluded

Professor Powers sees the development of verbal communication skills as central to the whole idea of liberal education Cershytainly he says its useful for HAFA stushydents to understand how a cost control system works - but its at least as important to be able to think logically analyse logshyically and communicate conclusions in a way that is credible informative coherent and complete in fact these are the classic goals of a liberal education 0

tor Professor John Patterson and a consulshytant group of AMPHI alumni

AMPHI continues to attract internashytional attention participants in thi s years program which began in April include senior executives from many of North Americas most distinguished hotels and restaurants The four-week course offers an intensive program based primarily on case studies written by Professo rs Patterson -Braithwaite Carl Riegel and Tom Muller

The growing volume of AMPHI cases indicates that thi s is the largest s ingle research program currently under way in any hotel school in North America says Proshyfessor Powers AMPHls network of conshytacts is giving us access to a senior-level view of the industrys current problems and prospects 0

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Research AssociateComing Soon A AppointedModel Play Facility

Dr Joan Norris

Dr Joan Norris has held the position of Research Associate at the Gerontology Research Centre since last spring

Joan is working with faculty to develop and promote research related to population aging and is available for consultation with faculty on research design funding sources and publication

In addition to this development work she is continuing her personal program of research She works for the Gerontology Censhytre two days per week and the balance of her

The Family Studies Laboratory Schools pre-school play facility fell 10 a Grounds time is spent in the Department of Family Department wrecking machine recently Studies where she has held a faculty appointshy

ment since 1980 Joan holds a Ph D in Psychology from

the University of Waterloo and is also a regisshytered psychologist Her personal research

The Mllc-FACS Special Projects Commitshyinterests include social competence in older

tee Ito r Bonnie Kerslake 82 Association adults peer relationships and grandshy

president Linda (Wo[e) Markle 73 chairshyparenting 0

man and Gail Murray 78 Missing comshymillee member is Rita (Klassen) Weigel 77 The aim of the committee is to raise funds to redevelop the Family Studies Laboshy In Memoriam ratory Schools and raise itto the level where it will be regarded as a model pre-school

Eileen Margaret (Manahan) Alwayplay facility

390 October 21984 in Vancouver BC

Jean (Horrell) Atkinson 240 March 5 1985 in Aurora

Class of 35 Gift Oorothy (Lockard) Honsberger 300Centre panel Roman Carnival

In order to commemorate their anniversary July 51985 in Weiland Mac 35 has traditionally given a scholshyarship to a FACS student once every five Isabel J Lockerbie 300 March 31 years This year on the 50th anniversary of 1985 in Toronto their graduation and in addition to the scholarship an etching entitled Roman Patricia G (Smith) McKay-Barry 55 Carnival by Terry Legault has been added March 17 1985 in London Ont to the Universitys collection of Canadian alt The etching is hanging in the FACS Velma E (Conn) Partridge 260 April faculty lounge 29 1985 in Niagara Falls Ont shy

The theme of Roman Carnival was favoured by neo-clas sical and romantic Helen E (Kelly) Robinson 220 April painters during the 19th century The etching 30 1985 in Dundas captures the moment at which wild horses are released to race through the streets of Norma I (Motherwell) Roy 350 in Rome The artist has chosen to represent the Moosejaw Sask wild chaotic motion ot the horses rather than explicitly depict in detail the animals Lillian S (Moore) Usher 340 March 28 and the architectural background 0 1985 in Cobourg 0

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College of Physical Science Alumni Assoc SCIMP

Editor Bob Winkel

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Yes Dr Earl MacNaughtoll has relired alshylogelher bUI Ihis wonl be Ih e lasl you I hear from him reSI assured Before he and his wife Jean lOok oJf for Auslralia and New Zealand Deparlmenl of Physics slaf and faculty held a galhering al Ihe FacullY Club and presenled Ihe couple wilh an alumni clock

Back to Guelph

The headquarters for (GWC)2 came

back to Guelph in July for a threeshy

year period while Professor Robert Balahura Chemistry and Biochemisshy

try serves as director (GWC)2 offices have been set up

in Room 122 and 123 Physical Scishyences building The University of

Waterloo will maintain a satellite office during the three-year Guelph

rotation Dr Balahura and adminshy

istrative assistant Andrea Turner may

be reached at Ext 3865 0

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Physics Professor Elected to Royal Society

Bernhard Nickel

Department of Phy s ics Professor Bernhard Nickel has been elected a Fellow

of the Royal Society of Canada and was formally inducted into the Society at its

annual meeting in Montreal in June

A member of the Physics faculty since

1974 Professor Nickel is no stranger to

prizes and awards In 1981 he received the Herzberg Medal the Canadian Associashy

tion of Physicists award to a promising young scienti st In 1978 he won a Sloan

Fellowship from the New York-based Sloan Foundation

He achieved recognition by navigating

the esoteric seas of condensed matter physshy

ics Hi s co lleagues call him a leading masshyter in the art of mathematical physics By

exploiting the existing mathematical frameshywork in subtle ways he has worked through

thickets that have stopped other physic ists

High order perturbation calculations

done by him played a key role in verifying

the quantitative reliability of the theory of

underlying continuous phase transitions in systems

He earned BScE and MSc degrees from the University of Saskatchewan and a

PhD from the University of California at

San Diego He was a research associate at

Cornell and Oxford Universities and a postshy

doctoral research Fellow at the Univers itY of Alberta before coming to Guelph in 1974

He has been a visiting fellow at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory at the Univershy

sity of California at San Diego at Harvard

and at the Schlumberger-Doll Re searc h In stitute in Connecticut

With his election he becomes one of

six Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada at

Guelph The others are Professors Howard

Clark Peter Egelstaff Gabriel Karl Bruce Sells and Herbert Armstrong And it brings to five the number of me mbers of the

Guelph-Waterloo Program for Graduate Work in Physics (GWP)2 who can put the

coveted FRSC after their names 0

Halleys Comet and the Babylonians By Professors Nigel Bunce and Jim Hunt

The winter of 1985 and the spring of 1986 will lon g be remembered as the year of

Comet Halley No comet in history has so

stirred the imagination of man or been the

object of suc h intensive investigation Its easy to understand this interest when its

appreciated that Halleys Comet is the only recurring comet that is bright enough to be

seen with the naked eye ft was the g reat astronomer Edmund

Halley who in 1705 recognized the s imilarshy

ity of the appearances of the great comets of 1456 1531 1607 and 1682 He speculated that these were in fact one and the sa me

comet with a period of 75 or 76 years

He predicted that the comet would reshyturn in 175 8 a return he could not live to see With thi s Halley discovered the phenomeshy

non of periodic comets and thus showed

that they were members of our solar system

The comet dutifully returned in 1835

and spectacularly so in 1910 In the latter

year circumstances were such that after its

perhelion passage (the point closest to the

Sun) the Earth and the comet approached

each other very closely The comet was so close that at one time its tail spread from

horizon to horizon The return in 1985-86 will be considshy

erably less spectacular In fact for Canadishyans it will not be easy to observe s ince the

time of perhelion is in Febnlary when the

Sun is very low in the sky The view will be -much better from more southerl y latitudes Over the years historica l records have

been found which record every passage of the comet back to 12 BC M any of these obshy

servations come from Chinese records first published in 1846 A well-authenticated

passage was that of 1066 which was reshy

corded on the Bayeux tapestry by the mother

of William of Nonnand y and taken as an cOllld on righl

Grad News Paul Ferguson BSc 67 of Ede n Mill s is president of EIS Systems Ltd and travelled in New Zealand this summer

Walter Lock BSc 67 of Denfield is practising medicine in Lucan

Tjeerd Homan BSc 69 of Calgary Alta is manager research and development services for Petro-Can He is enjoying his family Carla Sarah and John Menno and his hobbies of golf curling and skiing

(GWP)2 Poster Session a First

Earlier this year the Guelph- Waterloo Proshygram for Graduate Work in Physics (GWP)2 staged its first annual poster session for graduate s tudents Poster sessions which are becoming increasingly popular in scienshytific circles allow interaction between researchers and delegates without the time pressures encountered when presenting con shyventional papers at meetings says (GWP)2 Director lain Campbell

The first annual (GWP)2 poste r sesshysion which was followed by a soc ial hour and banquet was highly successful in genershyating interaction says Campbell By the end of the session there were still clusters of people arguing the finer points of scientific interpretation on many of the posters These exchanges continued right through the soshycial hour and into dinner Interaction is what science is all about

Encouraging interaction between stushydents and faculty is one of Campbells prishyorities as Director It is too easy for students to tuck themselves into a corner and work away in isolation They need to get out and ex plain their work both to experts and to

omen of his victory over the Saxons Based on this long record various

mathematical analyses of the orbit of the comet have been produced These account very accurately for the known passages of the comet However when these various anshyalyses are pushed back beyond 12 BC they predict widely varying dates for the previous appearances Before 12 B c there are ani y two vague Chinese records in 87 BC and 240 B c which mayor may not have been Halleys comet

In a recent issue of Nature a team of

Ernest Campbell BSc 69 lives in Campbell ville and teaches science for the Halton Board in Burlington

Richard Davis BSc 77 having comshypleted his MD University of Toronto 83 and his internship at Womens College Hosshypital will be setting up his practice in family medicine in his home town of Guelph

Larry Meek BSc 77 of Ottawa is pashytient administrator and computing officer for the National Defence Medical Centre His hobbies include sailing and skiing

Andre Brunet BA 81 is working for Amdahl Ltd as fieldsystems engineer and lives in Sudbury with his wife Monique (Puellette) FACS 80

Cathy Deakin BSc 81 is presently articshyling with the law firm of Little Reeves Mahoney Jarrett amp Hart of London

Andrew Dubrawski BSc 82 and his wife Alicia (Wodecka) BSc 81 live in Toronto where he works as a communicashytions systems analyst for CNCP Telecomshymunications 0

10hn Root 81 a (GWP)2 PhD s tudent left aflracts an audience

non-experts It takes a deliberate effort on our part to generate and maintain this intershychange

The poster session was the largest scishyentific or social event yet staged by (GWP)2 Some 18 students presented posters and about 90 students faculty and prospective students attended

The posters are on display in the two departments of physics to give others an opportunity to view them At Gue lph they are in the second floor corridor of the Physshyical Science Building near the Department

scholars from England and Vienna reported the finding of two fragments of Babylonian tablets in the British Museum that clearly report the appearance of the comet in 87 BC and 164 B C The records are so clear that by calculation not only the year but the time of year for the perhelion passage can be determined

For example the 164 BC apparition has been narrowed down to a date someshywhere between November 5 and 25 of that year The 87 BC record is not as accurate nevertheless its perhelion passage can be

of Physics office Encouraged by the s uccess of the

poster sess ion lain Campbell is planning another high-profile event for (GWP)2 to recognize award-winning faculty He plans a fall symposium at which three (GWP)2 members who received major honours durshying 1985 will give short lectures to be folshylowed by a sherry reception The three honoured faculty are Gicinto Scoles Killam Fellowship winner Bernhard Nickel Felshylow of the Royal Society of Canada and John Simpson Rutherford medalist 0

narrowed down to July 25 to August 15 These observations while inaccurate

to the extent of 20 days are still accurate enough to eliminate three of the four leading -calculations of the motion of Comet Halley This is a striking example of how archaeoshylogical investigations may have a strong effect on many diverse subjects in this case com~tary astronomy 0

We welcome questions and ideas for future articles Write to the authors clo the Deans Office Cole fe ofPhysical Science Univershysity of Guelph Guelph Ontario NIG 2WI

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Klink Lecture Dr Doug Morrison 49 Department of Poultry Science was chosen to deliver the 1985 Klink Lecture

The Klink lecture is ~ponsored by the Agricultural Inst itute of Canada and named after the Institute s founding president Preshysented by an outstanding lecture r the lecture is delivered through a coast-to-coast tour and concerns a topic of current significance to the agricultural industry and the nation

Dr Morri son stated that there is a need for professionalization in an imal agriculshyture in order to give it an improved image and make it more acceptable to the conshysumer

Address ing members of the Ontario Inshystitute of Agrologists in London Ontario he told his audience that the agriculture inshydustry in Canada ranks among the best in the world and producers have to ensure thi s is shown and make sure that peer pressure prevents producers from doing things that we cant defend

He suggested some type of professhysiona l approach established by the farming organization whereby expertise would be required instead of merely encouraged

This is a mu ch beller ap proach th an some edict from society through governshyment legi slation I strong ly object to legislashytion designed to protect me from myself he said adding that there are currently enough regulations existent through legislation that dictate what farmers can and cannot do

If a farmer were a profess ional hi s reward wou Id be in profits - about as meanshyingful a reward as has ye t been devised

Benefits of a more professionalized approach would include an improved image of the farmer to the consumer an increase in communication a more efficient industry

which is essential for competition improved knowledge on the fa rmers part of health nutrition care markets etc and more awareness of soc ietys concerns

In turn it would also be necessary to provide beller information to the consumer through an educational process because if soc iety is to pay for increased inputs for the long- term good of the nat ion then it is essential society be adequately informed

Morrison remarked that he fee ls the maj ori ty of animal agriculturists are in fact professionals but there has to be a concerted e ffort to at tract as lew people as possible in to the business who do not understa nd farmshying or who are doing things that are unacshyceptable

Consumer concern over dietary value or the amount of drugs contained in animal product s is also reason for farmers to tak e a professional approach They should work to alleviate any misreprese ntations and misin shyformation the public is receiving the proshyfessor noted s tating that farm ers have never produced food as safe and as wholeshysome as it is today

By the turn of the century on a world basis meat consumption is predicted to in shy

crease by abou t 60 per cent while the intake of milk is expected to increase by almost 40 per cent

A major fac tor for this rise in intake result s from th e fact that developing nations will begin to consume animal products as soon as they can afford them China is an excellent exa mple of this said the professor who commented that nation is now movshying as rapidly as possible to increase animal production

With all these factors is mind Dr Morshyri son sa id he is optimistic for the future of the Canad ian animal agriculture industry

Weve got the opportunities and can take advantage of them he said 0

Mark Bernards 85 cenlre was the recipienl oftwo OAC Alumni Foundation awards the OAC Alumni Graduate Award and the Beth Duncan Gold Medal Left is Gord Nixon 37 Foundashytion chairman and director and right NR Rick Richards 38 treasurer

Entrepreneur in Residence

Dr Donald Shaver

Dean Freeman McEwen is pleased to be working with Dr Donald McQueen Shaver the Universitys first Agricultural Entreshypreneur-i n-Res idence

Dr Shaver a native of Cambt idge Onshytari o is found er chairman and chief exshyecutive officer of Shaver Poultry Breed ing Farms Limited The compan y distributes chicken breeding stock to 90 countries from its head office in Cambridge and three subshysid iaries in the United States Britain and France He retired from his executive reshysponsib ilities on August 30 but is conshytinuing as director and adv isor to the company

From 1940 to 1945 Dr Shaver served with the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps in Africa and Europe retiring as regimental commanding officer He is past president of the Canadian Hatchery Federation the Poulshytry Products Institute of Canada the Canashydian Lincoln Red Society and Maine-Anjou Association He is a member of the Order of Canada Honorary Life Member of the Worlds Poultry Science Association and the Ontario Institute of Agrologi sts He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Science by McGill University and the Centennial Medal by the OAC

The Entrepreneu r-in-Reside nce pro shygram was initiated and financially supshyported by OAC Class of 58 to champion -the role of private enterpri se within soc iety The appointment is for a two-year period during which time Dr Shaver will present lectures lead workshops and consult with faculty and students

The Agricultural Entrepreneur-in-Resishydence program at the University is believed to be a first in agr icultural education around the world 0

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University Of Guelph Involved in $68 Million Chinese Project The University of Guelph has embarked on a co-operative $68 million project that will ~ink five Canadian and Chinese universities and agricultural institutions

The four-year Black Dragon River Proshyjeo supported by the Canadian Internashytional Deve lopment Agency (C IDA) involves Guelph the University of Alberta Olds College in AlbeI1a and two Chinese institutions - Heilongjiang Land Reclamashytion University and Liu He Training College in northeastern Heilongjiang Province

Under th e term s of the agreement training will be provided at the three Canashydian institutions for personnel from the two Chinese university institutions

The Liu He Training College is respo nshysible for educating state farm employees Training will range from short courses to undergraduate and graduate level programs

Faculty from the Canadian universities and Olds College will travel to China during the summer months to give lectures and

short courses The area borderi ng on Russia has treshy

mendou s potential for agricultural deve lopshyment Professor Neal Stos~opf 57 direct or of OACs diploma courses is Guelphs co-ordinator for the Chinese projshyect He was part of the Canadian gove rnment planning miss ion and ex plains that although the climate combines the cold winters and hot summers of Alberta most of the moisshyture is rain that falls between Jul y and Sepshytember

Although latitude is the sa me as Edmontons at 52 degrees north the area grows soybeans and corn as well as wheat The land has two to four feet of black topsoil waiting to be drained and planted he says with potential for livestock proshyduction

The proj ec t centre is located at the Unishyversity of Alberta with administration in Guelph being carried out by the Centre for International Programs 0

Provincial apiarist retires after 19 years You might say Philip Burkes job brought sweet rewards

Until his retirement recently Philip was the provincial apiarist - sort of Onshytarios chief of bees - while working at the University of Guelphs Department of Environmental Biology

He joined the University as a lectu rer in 1943 and then became assistant professor and later associate professor

At the same time the Ontario Departshyment of Agriculture (as the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food was known then) made him the assistant provincial apiarist In 1966 he became provincial apiarist

Of course he advised beekee pers on ways they could make their colonies more productive and efficient and fielded many apiary management question s - including how to prevent bees from swarming

If they swarm one-third to one-half of th e colony takes off so you lose a big source of your honey crop Swarming is trigshygered when the hive becomes overcrowded so the beekeeper mu st stay ahead of them It involves a whole manipulation of the hive through the season visiting each colony at least once every ten to 14 days he says Philip also worked with farmers whose

crops depended on pollination by bees At one time bees were needed for

pollin ating greenhouse produce such as cucumbers But in the past 15 years the trend has been toward new types that are self fruiting he says

But the biggest change in the industry over the years was the trend towards Illakshying corn king in Ontario - a trend that is now being reversed he says

From 1949 and on a lot of bee coloshynies were moved to the western provinces tollowi ng th e reduction in alfalfa production in Ontario and the increased corn acreage he says

Now prospec ts for honey production in Ontario are better than in past years beshycause of the increased alfalfa acreage and other legumes and the trend towards more diversified cropping

Not surpris ingly prices have changed in the industry over the years too Back in the 1920s it cost about $10 to start a bee colony today start-up costs are about $100 to $125 per colony

Much of his work at the University looked at ways to prevent di seases in bees using selected antibiotics

He was secretary for the Ontario Beekeepers Association for 15 yea rs and now acts as a consu It ant for the group 0

Wins Crampton Award

Dr Stanley J Slinger 37 the most recent rec ipient of the Earl e W Crampton Award for distingui shed service in nutrition is ProshyFessor Emeritus of the Depal1ment of Nutrishytion College of Biolog ica l Science at Guelph

Born in Lowell Ontario Dr Slinger received his BSc from the Ontario Agrishycultural College hi s MSc fro111 the Univershysity of Toronto and a PhD from Cornell University From 1941 to 1965 he was in the Departillent of Poultry Science at the OAC and since 1965 has been in the Department of Nutrition at Guelph serving as chairJl1an from 1965 to 1974

Dr Slinger conducted re sea rch in sevshyeral areas of pou Itry nutrition for Jl10re than 30 years In 1972- 73 a fi sh nutrition laborashytory was set up and thi s laboratory has conshytinued to grow and iJl1prove s i nee One of the primary objectives in both poultry and fi sh nutrition research has been to develop feed to rmulas using feedstuffs of Canadian orishygin 111ese tannulas have been publi shed and continuall y revi sed and have been used extensively by teed manufacturers through shyout Canada Dr Slinger continues to be active in research

Dr Slinger taught poultry nutrition in Poultry Science for 27 years gave seminar courses in nutrition and physiology taught Fundamentals of Nutrition in the Depal1shyment of Nutrition and deve loped and taught courses in fi sh and wildlite nutrition

He has supervi sed the work of Jl1any graduates and it is interesting to note that the Department of Nutrition at Guelph is the only depailment in Canada - and there are very few in the United States - turning out graduates in Fish Nutrition at the PhD leve l

He has helped to establi sh modern poultry industries in Mexico and the areas of South East Asia Africa the Middle East Eastern and Western Europe and the United Kingdom Lectures conlerences and other consultative work have also taken hilll to Jl1any coul1tries over the years

The recipient of numerous honours and awards Dr S linger was made Professor Emeritus of the University in Ino and reshy -ceived the Earl e W Crampton award in 19B4 at Macdonald College Que Thi s award is given by the Faculty of Agriculture in recogshyniti on of significant co ntributions in the field of nutrition through research andlor service The award is named for Dr Earle W Crampton a renowned nutritionist whose career at Macd onald bega n in 1922 and lasted far 51 years 0

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cialist having spent four months in the latter John Reid 84 is technical sales rep Agrico Grad News part of 1984 in Bloemfontein South Africa Sales Ltd Richmond BC

Earl Johnston 46 is president Earl-John Brokers Ltd Delhi

Joe Knox 48 is secretary-treasurer Annco Westeellnc Guelph

Ralph Hills 54 is pastor United Church of Canada Smith Falls Ralph left Zambia last October spending some time in Kenya Israel England and Scotland on the way home He was surprised to meet Charlie Broadwell also 54 on Oxford Street in London Charlie was giving a reception at a large castle for the white bean buyers who purchase beans from Charlies Bean Growers of Ontario Ralph also passes along the word from Louise (Fershyguson) Hope Mac 54 that her husband Don 54 preparing for some future possible social work is studying drug addiction at George Brown College of Applied Ans and Technology Toronto

Joseph Leach 54 is a research scientist Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources Lake Erie Research station Wheatley

Ken Edwards 59 is an industrial engineer Prince George Pulp and Paper Vancouver BC

Fred Theaker 62 is a teacher-biologist Ren frew County Board of Education Aruprior

Howard Lang 67 is senior so il conshyservation advisor for OMAF Cambridge

John Lawrence 69 has been appointed vice-president and ge neral manager De kalb Canada Inc Chatham John is a lso president of the Canadian Agri-marketing Assoc iation

Robert Brooksbank 70 is manager Agrishycultural Department Simcoe area Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce

Alan Duncan BLA 73 is project coshyordinator Groupe d intervention urban de Montreal Montreal Que

Martha (Weir) Collins 75 reports that Anne (Walton) Bayler 75 is at teac hers college in Toronto after spending several years teaching in the Bahamas Martha lives at I Braid Place Guelph and would like to hear news of her classmates

Jim Dyer MSc 75 is a senior resource and environmental officer with the crop producshytion division of Agriculture Canada Ottawa He is on loan as a drought monitoring spe shy

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His wife Barb (Newell) Arts 75 who is a technical editor with Public Works Canada joined him in Bloemfontein for a month

Elizabeth Fedorkow 75 is a market reshysearcher Tetra Pak Inc Markham

Roy Maxwell 75 is an agricultural comshymentator CBC Radio Noon Toronto

Gary Ball 76 is vice-president manufacturshying Mitten Vinyl Inc Cambridge

Garnet McConney 77 is feed lot manager Catllel and Ontario Inc Petersburg

Patrick Meyers 77 OVC 84 is a vetshyerinarian with the Grenville-Dundas Veterinshyary Clinic Kemptville

Martha Frey 78 is secretaryass istant edishytor Canadians for Health Research Wes tshymount Que

Wayne Harrison 79 is assi stant manager Toronto Dominion Bank Elmira His wife is Katherine (McLeod) 77

Sharon Helynk 79 is with the Woodbury Animal Hospital Halifax NS

Jeffery Goebel 80 is resident engineer ACF Canada Ltd Georgetown

Mary Lynn Prong 80 is assistant manager Royal Bank Watford She reports that Bruno Soucy 8Q has changed jobs from OMAF farm ma nagement advisor to agrolog ist London region Royal Bank

Corrie Almack 81 is presidentowner Agshyriculturai Soil and Nutrition Consultants Freelton

Edward Bolton 81 is research farm manshyager AJle lix Inc M ississauga

William Summers 82 MSc 84 is prodshyuct deve lopment rep Du-Pont Canada Streetsville

Dianne (Coker) McDowell 83 is quality assurance supervisor Richardson Foods Ltd Glanw0I1h

John Ross 83 is a program officer Agrishyculture Canada Edmonton Alta

Jeff Burke 84 is a customer service rep Griffith Lab Toronto

Julie Fowler 84 is working for Embury Bros Farms Ltd Newburgh

Karen Rodman 84 is a farm management specialist OMAF Nepean

James Simonds 84 is a crop specialist Cavendi sh Fanns Summerside P E1

Richard West PhD 84 is a research scishyentist Canadian Forestry Service SI John s Nftdo

In Memoriam We regret to report the following deaths

Marie Honsberger 17A died March 1985

Esmond D Clipsham 2IA died on April 6 1985 Esmond had been the proprietor Uneeda Rest Hotel Kilwonhy and was a life member of the OAC Alumni Association

Stanley Ewart Keillor 21 died on February 27 1985 He was a crop farmer at Walshylacetown

John Edward Chalmers 23A died on Febshyru ary 15 1985

Jacobus Van Haarlem 23 at age 85 on July 2 1985 in Vineland He retired as ex shyecutive director of the Hor1icultural Experishymental Station at Vineland in 1970 after 47 years of service there

Hugh Lacklin Paterson 32A died in May 1985 of a heart attack at Rockwood

Murray Cameron Macklin 33A 35 died January n 1985 in Toronto

Garland Alfred Fisk 35 Date of deat h unknown

Gordon Elgin Young 35 died on June 12 1985 at Ing leside

John Miller Fargery 37 on March 22 1985 in Toronto John had been an insurance salesman Farm Credit Corp and was a life member of the OAC Alumni Assoc iation

William Thomson 40 in 1982 in Lonshy shygueuil Que His death was reported recen tl y

Robert Fletcher Madden 54A died on November 26 1984 at age 52 at Napanee

Vera (Mod ric) Kozamplik MSc 73 in Yugoslavia She was the wife of Vinko Kozumplik M Sc 71 0

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From the Dean

Dr Barham

In some of my lellers I have aimed to share

information on some special program or theme with you On this occasion I want to

keep you in touch through a number of lillie items so I shall hold onto some of the bigshy

ger interests for future issues of the Guelph Alumnus

As I write this leller Alumni Weekend 85 is behind us I found it a great weekend

and I thoroughly enjoyed meeting more of our alumni for the first time while

especially appreciating recognizing more

and more familiar faces and names from previous occasions

This year the Classes of 65 and 75 requested an up-date on our programs and

the developments we have experienced together in the College over the last few

years I guess that we were able to demonshy

strate much more development in our research and teaching programs than we could in some parts of the physical facilities within the buildings Still we had thorshyoughly congenial and I think very useful

meetings with both of these classes and added a nostalgic tour of our facilities

It was splendid to meet both of these groups I confess however that I had not

foreseen that a large part of the interest of the Class of 65 rested on the fact that many of their children are now gearing up to enter FACS

I was able to remind them that the BASc and B Comm degrees both lead

into fascinating and challenging careers for sons and nephews as well as daughters and

nieces Some of you coming to Alumni Weekend 86 might wish to get in touch with me to arrange an up-date on our acti vities then too

One of my special pleasures of Alumni Weekend was to join with the Class of 35 at the Golden Anniversary Dinner This occashy

sion is always a particular delight given the special personal pleasures reflected in the

friendships shared on this anniversary And I do want members of the Class of

35 to know that their gift of the magnificent Terry Legault Roman Festival print looks really outstanding and just right amidst the

contemporary decor of the FACS lounge

One last item of alumni news which I want to mention is the fact that I met with

Jean (Nairn) Carter 38 and some of her committee recently I learned that they have

been making quite outstanding progress in establishing the trust fund that will support their new graduate student award in geronshy

tology The first award presentation of $1000 is being made this fall but members of the Class of 38 are still pushing on with their fund raising in order to bring the

annual trust-fund yield to a level of $2 000 We all think that the Class of 38 grads

have been quite remarkable in their detershymination to build up a significant fund to

support work in this important new field of scholarship and research I know that we

shall all appreciate your support for them in reaching their target

I met with Audrey Warner and Annette

Yeager 62 recently They advised me of their concern for the needs of teachers wantshy

ing to prepare themselves for adding Family Studies to their fields of professional speshy

cialization and of other teachers already working in that field who find themselves in need of some up-dating especially in view of the curriculum changes which appear to be around the corner

In this regard I want to mention two

items which might be of interest First our faculty in FACS have been

quite heavily engaged in working with

teachers and others in thinking planning debating and writing for the curriculum developme~ts envisaged for the Ontario Academic High School Credits

Most especially we have had as memshybers of the Canadian Family in Perspective group Dr Jean Sabry with her own special

interest in human nutrition Dr Grant

McCracken in clothing Drs Marshall Fine and Claude Guldner with their expertise in family relations and Drs Anne Martin Matshythews and Joe Tindale with their special strengths in life-span development and

aging - quite a team of contributors Secondly I want to mention in relation

to my meeting with Audrey and Annette that we now have a number of courses avai 1shy

able in a six-week format offered in summer sessions provided on campus

Perhaps of even more interest to those of you who wont find it practical to take

classes on campus at Guelph we have an annual offering of distance or corresponshy

dence-type courses Many of these will be of very pertinent

interest to a number of teachers The current list includes Human Development Marital and Family Dynamics Personal and Family Finance Development of Human Sexuality Nutrition and Man and the Exceptional Child in the Family

You can find out more about these

offerings by writing directly to Guelph Disshytance Education University of Guelph

Macdonald Institute shyFamily and Consumer Studies Alumni Assoc

Editor Carol Telford-Pittman 75

Guelph Ont NIG 2WI or by getting in touch with my office

One of the reasons that we have put

ourselves so significantly behind the development of these distance courses is that we did not have the resources to meet

the demand for providing our courses in the more traditional class format at locations

away from the Guelph campus As usual there is much more to share

with you but it will just have to hold until

my next letter I look forward to being in touch with you again then 0

Olive Thompson Honoured

Olive (Thompson) Thompson 35

-The Mac-FACS Alumni Association was very pleased to present a Citation of Appreshyciation to Olive (Thompson) Thompson

35 during Alumni Weekend 85 festivities Olive has given much time energy

support and leadership to the College and to the University through her years of involveshyment with the Mac-FACS Alumni Associashytion Class of Mac 35 activities and the University of Guelph Alumni Association

Our University s alumni organizations are stronger and more effective because of

the years of commitment and personal sershyvice that Olive has contributed

Olive - We salute you 0

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New at HAFA By John Hearn

Infonnation Services

An innovative course developed by the School of Hotel and Food Administration (HAFA) is focussing the attention of undershygraduates on the analysis of operational problems in the hospitality industry and the writing skills required to express and comshymunicate that analysis

Students are required to find summer jobs in the hospitality industry and then to write five papers of ascending complexity during the first semester of their second year using text readings specially edited for this course by the Schools Director Proshyfessor Tom Powers

We have a unique responsibility to prepare students not just for their first job but for future jobs further down the line says Dr Powers Possession of a university degree should imply an ability both to anashylyse problems and to communicate observashytions and recommendations In todays corporate world reports papers and letters are management tools and written comshymunication is a survival skill

The HAFA faculty decided further to emphasize writing skills by adopting a style manual developed by Professor Margaret Hund leby Department of Engl ish Language and Literature for this course as an integral part of the Schools other courses

In order to familiarize faculty with the use of the manual and the grading of student writing Professor Hundleby was invited to conduct a two-day workshop which atshytracted the attention of Vice-President Howard Clark and Associate Vice-President Janet Wardlaw as well as faculty from other disciplines s uch as psychology land resource science microbiology and history

The program Professor Hundleby told the seminar requires students to complete five report papers based on their own obsershyvations

The first paper requires a detailed description of the physical layout of the host operation plus an appraisal and operating cost analysis of its heating air-conditioning and ventilation systems

A second paper asks the student to describe and evaluate staff structure funcshytion compensation package and efficiency

Cost control is the subject of a third paper Purchasing practices food producshytion cost traCking and inventory manageshyment all come under this heading

Marketing is the fourth subject area What market segment is the operation aimed at What consumer need does the operation satisfy What is the nature of the

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Left to right- Professors Cathy Schrye Writing Centre Tom Muller HAFA Belty Upton HAFA Mike Jenkinson OAC 63 OAC dean s office Mary Rogers History and back to camera Bernie Katz Library reviewing cases drawn from studefll papers in a two-day workshop Evaluating Students Writing conducted by Professor Margaret Hundleby

competition in the target market

The fifth paper examines the intangishybles of management sty Ie How does the role of the manager affect relations with customshyers staff and head office

Professor Hundleby commenting on some of the problems of the course says whatever we call it students tend to conshyclude that what they re writing is an acashydemic paper of some kind - which of course it is - but we need to make the connection in their minds with the real the corporate world out there They also tend to think that longer is better and write about what they know - rather than what is import ant The development of a proper sense of for whom they are writing is itself a problem-solving skill

Another problem according to Proshyfessor Hundleby is what she calls the new illiteracy - a verbal dysfunction resulting from an impoverished vocabulary

Style too is a matter of considerable

AMPHI Spin-offs The School of Hotel and Food Administra shytions annual Advanced Management Pro shygram for the Hospitality Industry (AMPHI) now in its third year is spinning off new management development activities says HAFA Director Tom Powers Earlier this year 20 people attended a workshop on accounting and finance presented by Proshyfes sor William Braithwaite School of Agrishycultural Economics and Extension Educashytion and three similar programs will be offered in different parts of the country over the next year and a half

Another program still in the planning stage is a six-day hospitality managers development course designed for middle management by AMPHIs associate direcshy

concern She also mentioned careless senshytence structure style that is inappropriate to the content lack of connective logic failure to understand the nature of a paragraph as a literary entity the frivolous use of colloshyquiali sms an absence of any sense of the harmonious sound of words on paper and of course a growing list of commonly misused words - e g it could of had that affect

There s a tendency to see s tyle as a decorative flourish rather than as an aspect of content she concluded

Professor Powers sees the development of verbal communication skills as central to the whole idea of liberal education Cershytainly he says its useful for HAFA stushydents to understand how a cost control system works - but its at least as important to be able to think logically analyse logshyically and communicate conclusions in a way that is credible informative coherent and complete in fact these are the classic goals of a liberal education 0

tor Professor John Patterson and a consulshytant group of AMPHI alumni

AMPHI continues to attract internashytional attention participants in thi s years program which began in April include senior executives from many of North Americas most distinguished hotels and restaurants The four-week course offers an intensive program based primarily on case studies written by Professo rs Patterson -Braithwaite Carl Riegel and Tom Muller

The growing volume of AMPHI cases indicates that thi s is the largest s ingle research program currently under way in any hotel school in North America says Proshyfessor Powers AMPHls network of conshytacts is giving us access to a senior-level view of the industrys current problems and prospects 0

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Research AssociateComing Soon A AppointedModel Play Facility

Dr Joan Norris

Dr Joan Norris has held the position of Research Associate at the Gerontology Research Centre since last spring

Joan is working with faculty to develop and promote research related to population aging and is available for consultation with faculty on research design funding sources and publication

In addition to this development work she is continuing her personal program of research She works for the Gerontology Censhytre two days per week and the balance of her

The Family Studies Laboratory Schools pre-school play facility fell 10 a Grounds time is spent in the Department of Family Department wrecking machine recently Studies where she has held a faculty appointshy

ment since 1980 Joan holds a Ph D in Psychology from

the University of Waterloo and is also a regisshytered psychologist Her personal research

The Mllc-FACS Special Projects Commitshyinterests include social competence in older

tee Ito r Bonnie Kerslake 82 Association adults peer relationships and grandshy

president Linda (Wo[e) Markle 73 chairshyparenting 0

man and Gail Murray 78 Missing comshymillee member is Rita (Klassen) Weigel 77 The aim of the committee is to raise funds to redevelop the Family Studies Laboshy In Memoriam ratory Schools and raise itto the level where it will be regarded as a model pre-school

Eileen Margaret (Manahan) Alwayplay facility

390 October 21984 in Vancouver BC

Jean (Horrell) Atkinson 240 March 5 1985 in Aurora

Class of 35 Gift Oorothy (Lockard) Honsberger 300Centre panel Roman Carnival

In order to commemorate their anniversary July 51985 in Weiland Mac 35 has traditionally given a scholshyarship to a FACS student once every five Isabel J Lockerbie 300 March 31 years This year on the 50th anniversary of 1985 in Toronto their graduation and in addition to the scholarship an etching entitled Roman Patricia G (Smith) McKay-Barry 55 Carnival by Terry Legault has been added March 17 1985 in London Ont to the Universitys collection of Canadian alt The etching is hanging in the FACS Velma E (Conn) Partridge 260 April faculty lounge 29 1985 in Niagara Falls Ont shy

The theme of Roman Carnival was favoured by neo-clas sical and romantic Helen E (Kelly) Robinson 220 April painters during the 19th century The etching 30 1985 in Dundas captures the moment at which wild horses are released to race through the streets of Norma I (Motherwell) Roy 350 in Rome The artist has chosen to represent the Moosejaw Sask wild chaotic motion ot the horses rather than explicitly depict in detail the animals Lillian S (Moore) Usher 340 March 28 and the architectural background 0 1985 in Cobourg 0

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College of Physical Science Alumni Assoc SCIMP

Editor Bob Winkel

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Yes Dr Earl MacNaughtoll has relired alshylogelher bUI Ihis wonl be Ih e lasl you I hear from him reSI assured Before he and his wife Jean lOok oJf for Auslralia and New Zealand Deparlmenl of Physics slaf and faculty held a galhering al Ihe FacullY Club and presenled Ihe couple wilh an alumni clock

Back to Guelph

The headquarters for (GWC)2 came

back to Guelph in July for a threeshy

year period while Professor Robert Balahura Chemistry and Biochemisshy

try serves as director (GWC)2 offices have been set up

in Room 122 and 123 Physical Scishyences building The University of

Waterloo will maintain a satellite office during the three-year Guelph

rotation Dr Balahura and adminshy

istrative assistant Andrea Turner may

be reached at Ext 3865 0

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Physics Professor Elected to Royal Society

Bernhard Nickel

Department of Phy s ics Professor Bernhard Nickel has been elected a Fellow

of the Royal Society of Canada and was formally inducted into the Society at its

annual meeting in Montreal in June

A member of the Physics faculty since

1974 Professor Nickel is no stranger to

prizes and awards In 1981 he received the Herzberg Medal the Canadian Associashy

tion of Physicists award to a promising young scienti st In 1978 he won a Sloan

Fellowship from the New York-based Sloan Foundation

He achieved recognition by navigating

the esoteric seas of condensed matter physshy

ics Hi s co lleagues call him a leading masshyter in the art of mathematical physics By

exploiting the existing mathematical frameshywork in subtle ways he has worked through

thickets that have stopped other physic ists

High order perturbation calculations

done by him played a key role in verifying

the quantitative reliability of the theory of

underlying continuous phase transitions in systems

He earned BScE and MSc degrees from the University of Saskatchewan and a

PhD from the University of California at

San Diego He was a research associate at

Cornell and Oxford Universities and a postshy

doctoral research Fellow at the Univers itY of Alberta before coming to Guelph in 1974

He has been a visiting fellow at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory at the Univershy

sity of California at San Diego at Harvard

and at the Schlumberger-Doll Re searc h In stitute in Connecticut

With his election he becomes one of

six Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada at

Guelph The others are Professors Howard

Clark Peter Egelstaff Gabriel Karl Bruce Sells and Herbert Armstrong And it brings to five the number of me mbers of the

Guelph-Waterloo Program for Graduate Work in Physics (GWP)2 who can put the

coveted FRSC after their names 0

Halleys Comet and the Babylonians By Professors Nigel Bunce and Jim Hunt

The winter of 1985 and the spring of 1986 will lon g be remembered as the year of

Comet Halley No comet in history has so

stirred the imagination of man or been the

object of suc h intensive investigation Its easy to understand this interest when its

appreciated that Halleys Comet is the only recurring comet that is bright enough to be

seen with the naked eye ft was the g reat astronomer Edmund

Halley who in 1705 recognized the s imilarshy

ity of the appearances of the great comets of 1456 1531 1607 and 1682 He speculated that these were in fact one and the sa me

comet with a period of 75 or 76 years

He predicted that the comet would reshyturn in 175 8 a return he could not live to see With thi s Halley discovered the phenomeshy

non of periodic comets and thus showed

that they were members of our solar system

The comet dutifully returned in 1835

and spectacularly so in 1910 In the latter

year circumstances were such that after its

perhelion passage (the point closest to the

Sun) the Earth and the comet approached

each other very closely The comet was so close that at one time its tail spread from

horizon to horizon The return in 1985-86 will be considshy

erably less spectacular In fact for Canadishyans it will not be easy to observe s ince the

time of perhelion is in Febnlary when the

Sun is very low in the sky The view will be -much better from more southerl y latitudes Over the years historica l records have

been found which record every passage of the comet back to 12 BC M any of these obshy

servations come from Chinese records first published in 1846 A well-authenticated

passage was that of 1066 which was reshy

corded on the Bayeux tapestry by the mother

of William of Nonnand y and taken as an cOllld on righl

Grad News Paul Ferguson BSc 67 of Ede n Mill s is president of EIS Systems Ltd and travelled in New Zealand this summer

Walter Lock BSc 67 of Denfield is practising medicine in Lucan

Tjeerd Homan BSc 69 of Calgary Alta is manager research and development services for Petro-Can He is enjoying his family Carla Sarah and John Menno and his hobbies of golf curling and skiing

(GWP)2 Poster Session a First

Earlier this year the Guelph- Waterloo Proshygram for Graduate Work in Physics (GWP)2 staged its first annual poster session for graduate s tudents Poster sessions which are becoming increasingly popular in scienshytific circles allow interaction between researchers and delegates without the time pressures encountered when presenting con shyventional papers at meetings says (GWP)2 Director lain Campbell

The first annual (GWP)2 poste r sesshysion which was followed by a soc ial hour and banquet was highly successful in genershyating interaction says Campbell By the end of the session there were still clusters of people arguing the finer points of scientific interpretation on many of the posters These exchanges continued right through the soshycial hour and into dinner Interaction is what science is all about

Encouraging interaction between stushydents and faculty is one of Campbells prishyorities as Director It is too easy for students to tuck themselves into a corner and work away in isolation They need to get out and ex plain their work both to experts and to

omen of his victory over the Saxons Based on this long record various

mathematical analyses of the orbit of the comet have been produced These account very accurately for the known passages of the comet However when these various anshyalyses are pushed back beyond 12 BC they predict widely varying dates for the previous appearances Before 12 B c there are ani y two vague Chinese records in 87 BC and 240 B c which mayor may not have been Halleys comet

In a recent issue of Nature a team of

Ernest Campbell BSc 69 lives in Campbell ville and teaches science for the Halton Board in Burlington

Richard Davis BSc 77 having comshypleted his MD University of Toronto 83 and his internship at Womens College Hosshypital will be setting up his practice in family medicine in his home town of Guelph

Larry Meek BSc 77 of Ottawa is pashytient administrator and computing officer for the National Defence Medical Centre His hobbies include sailing and skiing

Andre Brunet BA 81 is working for Amdahl Ltd as fieldsystems engineer and lives in Sudbury with his wife Monique (Puellette) FACS 80

Cathy Deakin BSc 81 is presently articshyling with the law firm of Little Reeves Mahoney Jarrett amp Hart of London

Andrew Dubrawski BSc 82 and his wife Alicia (Wodecka) BSc 81 live in Toronto where he works as a communicashytions systems analyst for CNCP Telecomshymunications 0

10hn Root 81 a (GWP)2 PhD s tudent left aflracts an audience

non-experts It takes a deliberate effort on our part to generate and maintain this intershychange

The poster session was the largest scishyentific or social event yet staged by (GWP)2 Some 18 students presented posters and about 90 students faculty and prospective students attended

The posters are on display in the two departments of physics to give others an opportunity to view them At Gue lph they are in the second floor corridor of the Physshyical Science Building near the Department

scholars from England and Vienna reported the finding of two fragments of Babylonian tablets in the British Museum that clearly report the appearance of the comet in 87 BC and 164 B C The records are so clear that by calculation not only the year but the time of year for the perhelion passage can be determined

For example the 164 BC apparition has been narrowed down to a date someshywhere between November 5 and 25 of that year The 87 BC record is not as accurate nevertheless its perhelion passage can be

of Physics office Encouraged by the s uccess of the

poster sess ion lain Campbell is planning another high-profile event for (GWP)2 to recognize award-winning faculty He plans a fall symposium at which three (GWP)2 members who received major honours durshying 1985 will give short lectures to be folshylowed by a sherry reception The three honoured faculty are Gicinto Scoles Killam Fellowship winner Bernhard Nickel Felshylow of the Royal Society of Canada and John Simpson Rutherford medalist 0

narrowed down to July 25 to August 15 These observations while inaccurate

to the extent of 20 days are still accurate enough to eliminate three of the four leading -calculations of the motion of Comet Halley This is a striking example of how archaeoshylogical investigations may have a strong effect on many diverse subjects in this case com~tary astronomy 0

We welcome questions and ideas for future articles Write to the authors clo the Deans Office Cole fe ofPhysical Science Univershysity of Guelph Guelph Ontario NIG 2WI

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University Of Guelph Involved in $68 Million Chinese Project The University of Guelph has embarked on a co-operative $68 million project that will ~ink five Canadian and Chinese universities and agricultural institutions

The four-year Black Dragon River Proshyjeo supported by the Canadian Internashytional Deve lopment Agency (C IDA) involves Guelph the University of Alberta Olds College in AlbeI1a and two Chinese institutions - Heilongjiang Land Reclamashytion University and Liu He Training College in northeastern Heilongjiang Province

Under th e term s of the agreement training will be provided at the three Canashydian institutions for personnel from the two Chinese university institutions

The Liu He Training College is respo nshysible for educating state farm employees Training will range from short courses to undergraduate and graduate level programs

Faculty from the Canadian universities and Olds College will travel to China during the summer months to give lectures and

short courses The area borderi ng on Russia has treshy

mendou s potential for agricultural deve lopshyment Professor Neal Stos~opf 57 direct or of OACs diploma courses is Guelphs co-ordinator for the Chinese projshyect He was part of the Canadian gove rnment planning miss ion and ex plains that although the climate combines the cold winters and hot summers of Alberta most of the moisshyture is rain that falls between Jul y and Sepshytember

Although latitude is the sa me as Edmontons at 52 degrees north the area grows soybeans and corn as well as wheat The land has two to four feet of black topsoil waiting to be drained and planted he says with potential for livestock proshyduction

The proj ec t centre is located at the Unishyversity of Alberta with administration in Guelph being carried out by the Centre for International Programs 0

Provincial apiarist retires after 19 years You might say Philip Burkes job brought sweet rewards

Until his retirement recently Philip was the provincial apiarist - sort of Onshytarios chief of bees - while working at the University of Guelphs Department of Environmental Biology

He joined the University as a lectu rer in 1943 and then became assistant professor and later associate professor

At the same time the Ontario Departshyment of Agriculture (as the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food was known then) made him the assistant provincial apiarist In 1966 he became provincial apiarist

Of course he advised beekee pers on ways they could make their colonies more productive and efficient and fielded many apiary management question s - including how to prevent bees from swarming

If they swarm one-third to one-half of th e colony takes off so you lose a big source of your honey crop Swarming is trigshygered when the hive becomes overcrowded so the beekeeper mu st stay ahead of them It involves a whole manipulation of the hive through the season visiting each colony at least once every ten to 14 days he says Philip also worked with farmers whose

crops depended on pollination by bees At one time bees were needed for

pollin ating greenhouse produce such as cucumbers But in the past 15 years the trend has been toward new types that are self fruiting he says

But the biggest change in the industry over the years was the trend towards Illakshying corn king in Ontario - a trend that is now being reversed he says

From 1949 and on a lot of bee coloshynies were moved to the western provinces tollowi ng th e reduction in alfalfa production in Ontario and the increased corn acreage he says

Now prospec ts for honey production in Ontario are better than in past years beshycause of the increased alfalfa acreage and other legumes and the trend towards more diversified cropping

Not surpris ingly prices have changed in the industry over the years too Back in the 1920s it cost about $10 to start a bee colony today start-up costs are about $100 to $125 per colony

Much of his work at the University looked at ways to prevent di seases in bees using selected antibiotics

He was secretary for the Ontario Beekeepers Association for 15 yea rs and now acts as a consu It ant for the group 0

Wins Crampton Award

Dr Stanley J Slinger 37 the most recent rec ipient of the Earl e W Crampton Award for distingui shed service in nutrition is ProshyFessor Emeritus of the Depal1ment of Nutrishytion College of Biolog ica l Science at Guelph

Born in Lowell Ontario Dr Slinger received his BSc from the Ontario Agrishycultural College hi s MSc fro111 the Univershysity of Toronto and a PhD from Cornell University From 1941 to 1965 he was in the Departillent of Poultry Science at the OAC and since 1965 has been in the Department of Nutrition at Guelph serving as chairJl1an from 1965 to 1974

Dr Slinger conducted re sea rch in sevshyeral areas of pou Itry nutrition for Jl10re than 30 years In 1972- 73 a fi sh nutrition laborashytory was set up and thi s laboratory has conshytinued to grow and iJl1prove s i nee One of the primary objectives in both poultry and fi sh nutrition research has been to develop feed to rmulas using feedstuffs of Canadian orishygin 111ese tannulas have been publi shed and continuall y revi sed and have been used extensively by teed manufacturers through shyout Canada Dr Slinger continues to be active in research

Dr Slinger taught poultry nutrition in Poultry Science for 27 years gave seminar courses in nutrition and physiology taught Fundamentals of Nutrition in the Depal1shyment of Nutrition and deve loped and taught courses in fi sh and wildlite nutrition

He has supervi sed the work of Jl1any graduates and it is interesting to note that the Department of Nutrition at Guelph is the only depailment in Canada - and there are very few in the United States - turning out graduates in Fish Nutrition at the PhD leve l

He has helped to establi sh modern poultry industries in Mexico and the areas of South East Asia Africa the Middle East Eastern and Western Europe and the United Kingdom Lectures conlerences and other consultative work have also taken hilll to Jl1any coul1tries over the years

The recipient of numerous honours and awards Dr S linger was made Professor Emeritus of the University in Ino and reshy -ceived the Earl e W Crampton award in 19B4 at Macdonald College Que Thi s award is given by the Faculty of Agriculture in recogshyniti on of significant co ntributions in the field of nutrition through research andlor service The award is named for Dr Earle W Crampton a renowned nutritionist whose career at Macd onald bega n in 1922 and lasted far 51 years 0

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cialist having spent four months in the latter John Reid 84 is technical sales rep Agrico Grad News part of 1984 in Bloemfontein South Africa Sales Ltd Richmond BC

Earl Johnston 46 is president Earl-John Brokers Ltd Delhi

Joe Knox 48 is secretary-treasurer Annco Westeellnc Guelph

Ralph Hills 54 is pastor United Church of Canada Smith Falls Ralph left Zambia last October spending some time in Kenya Israel England and Scotland on the way home He was surprised to meet Charlie Broadwell also 54 on Oxford Street in London Charlie was giving a reception at a large castle for the white bean buyers who purchase beans from Charlies Bean Growers of Ontario Ralph also passes along the word from Louise (Fershyguson) Hope Mac 54 that her husband Don 54 preparing for some future possible social work is studying drug addiction at George Brown College of Applied Ans and Technology Toronto

Joseph Leach 54 is a research scientist Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources Lake Erie Research station Wheatley

Ken Edwards 59 is an industrial engineer Prince George Pulp and Paper Vancouver BC

Fred Theaker 62 is a teacher-biologist Ren frew County Board of Education Aruprior

Howard Lang 67 is senior so il conshyservation advisor for OMAF Cambridge

John Lawrence 69 has been appointed vice-president and ge neral manager De kalb Canada Inc Chatham John is a lso president of the Canadian Agri-marketing Assoc iation

Robert Brooksbank 70 is manager Agrishycultural Department Simcoe area Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce

Alan Duncan BLA 73 is project coshyordinator Groupe d intervention urban de Montreal Montreal Que

Martha (Weir) Collins 75 reports that Anne (Walton) Bayler 75 is at teac hers college in Toronto after spending several years teaching in the Bahamas Martha lives at I Braid Place Guelph and would like to hear news of her classmates

Jim Dyer MSc 75 is a senior resource and environmental officer with the crop producshytion division of Agriculture Canada Ottawa He is on loan as a drought monitoring spe shy

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His wife Barb (Newell) Arts 75 who is a technical editor with Public Works Canada joined him in Bloemfontein for a month

Elizabeth Fedorkow 75 is a market reshysearcher Tetra Pak Inc Markham

Roy Maxwell 75 is an agricultural comshymentator CBC Radio Noon Toronto

Gary Ball 76 is vice-president manufacturshying Mitten Vinyl Inc Cambridge

Garnet McConney 77 is feed lot manager Catllel and Ontario Inc Petersburg

Patrick Meyers 77 OVC 84 is a vetshyerinarian with the Grenville-Dundas Veterinshyary Clinic Kemptville

Martha Frey 78 is secretaryass istant edishytor Canadians for Health Research Wes tshymount Que

Wayne Harrison 79 is assi stant manager Toronto Dominion Bank Elmira His wife is Katherine (McLeod) 77

Sharon Helynk 79 is with the Woodbury Animal Hospital Halifax NS

Jeffery Goebel 80 is resident engineer ACF Canada Ltd Georgetown

Mary Lynn Prong 80 is assistant manager Royal Bank Watford She reports that Bruno Soucy 8Q has changed jobs from OMAF farm ma nagement advisor to agrolog ist London region Royal Bank

Corrie Almack 81 is presidentowner Agshyriculturai Soil and Nutrition Consultants Freelton

Edward Bolton 81 is research farm manshyager AJle lix Inc M ississauga

William Summers 82 MSc 84 is prodshyuct deve lopment rep Du-Pont Canada Streetsville

Dianne (Coker) McDowell 83 is quality assurance supervisor Richardson Foods Ltd Glanw0I1h

John Ross 83 is a program officer Agrishyculture Canada Edmonton Alta

Jeff Burke 84 is a customer service rep Griffith Lab Toronto

Julie Fowler 84 is working for Embury Bros Farms Ltd Newburgh

Karen Rodman 84 is a farm management specialist OMAF Nepean

James Simonds 84 is a crop specialist Cavendi sh Fanns Summerside P E1

Richard West PhD 84 is a research scishyentist Canadian Forestry Service SI John s Nftdo

In Memoriam We regret to report the following deaths

Marie Honsberger 17A died March 1985

Esmond D Clipsham 2IA died on April 6 1985 Esmond had been the proprietor Uneeda Rest Hotel Kilwonhy and was a life member of the OAC Alumni Association

Stanley Ewart Keillor 21 died on February 27 1985 He was a crop farmer at Walshylacetown

John Edward Chalmers 23A died on Febshyru ary 15 1985

Jacobus Van Haarlem 23 at age 85 on July 2 1985 in Vineland He retired as ex shyecutive director of the Hor1icultural Experishymental Station at Vineland in 1970 after 47 years of service there

Hugh Lacklin Paterson 32A died in May 1985 of a heart attack at Rockwood

Murray Cameron Macklin 33A 35 died January n 1985 in Toronto

Garland Alfred Fisk 35 Date of deat h unknown

Gordon Elgin Young 35 died on June 12 1985 at Ing leside

John Miller Fargery 37 on March 22 1985 in Toronto John had been an insurance salesman Farm Credit Corp and was a life member of the OAC Alumni Assoc iation

William Thomson 40 in 1982 in Lonshy shygueuil Que His death was reported recen tl y

Robert Fletcher Madden 54A died on November 26 1984 at age 52 at Napanee

Vera (Mod ric) Kozamplik MSc 73 in Yugoslavia She was the wife of Vinko Kozumplik M Sc 71 0

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From the Dean

Dr Barham

In some of my lellers I have aimed to share

information on some special program or theme with you On this occasion I want to

keep you in touch through a number of lillie items so I shall hold onto some of the bigshy

ger interests for future issues of the Guelph Alumnus

As I write this leller Alumni Weekend 85 is behind us I found it a great weekend

and I thoroughly enjoyed meeting more of our alumni for the first time while

especially appreciating recognizing more

and more familiar faces and names from previous occasions

This year the Classes of 65 and 75 requested an up-date on our programs and

the developments we have experienced together in the College over the last few

years I guess that we were able to demonshy

strate much more development in our research and teaching programs than we could in some parts of the physical facilities within the buildings Still we had thorshyoughly congenial and I think very useful

meetings with both of these classes and added a nostalgic tour of our facilities

It was splendid to meet both of these groups I confess however that I had not

foreseen that a large part of the interest of the Class of 65 rested on the fact that many of their children are now gearing up to enter FACS

I was able to remind them that the BASc and B Comm degrees both lead

into fascinating and challenging careers for sons and nephews as well as daughters and

nieces Some of you coming to Alumni Weekend 86 might wish to get in touch with me to arrange an up-date on our acti vities then too

One of my special pleasures of Alumni Weekend was to join with the Class of 35 at the Golden Anniversary Dinner This occashy

sion is always a particular delight given the special personal pleasures reflected in the

friendships shared on this anniversary And I do want members of the Class of

35 to know that their gift of the magnificent Terry Legault Roman Festival print looks really outstanding and just right amidst the

contemporary decor of the FACS lounge

One last item of alumni news which I want to mention is the fact that I met with

Jean (Nairn) Carter 38 and some of her committee recently I learned that they have

been making quite outstanding progress in establishing the trust fund that will support their new graduate student award in geronshy

tology The first award presentation of $1000 is being made this fall but members of the Class of 38 are still pushing on with their fund raising in order to bring the

annual trust-fund yield to a level of $2 000 We all think that the Class of 38 grads

have been quite remarkable in their detershymination to build up a significant fund to

support work in this important new field of scholarship and research I know that we

shall all appreciate your support for them in reaching their target

I met with Audrey Warner and Annette

Yeager 62 recently They advised me of their concern for the needs of teachers wantshy

ing to prepare themselves for adding Family Studies to their fields of professional speshy

cialization and of other teachers already working in that field who find themselves in need of some up-dating especially in view of the curriculum changes which appear to be around the corner

In this regard I want to mention two

items which might be of interest First our faculty in FACS have been

quite heavily engaged in working with

teachers and others in thinking planning debating and writing for the curriculum developme~ts envisaged for the Ontario Academic High School Credits

Most especially we have had as memshybers of the Canadian Family in Perspective group Dr Jean Sabry with her own special

interest in human nutrition Dr Grant

McCracken in clothing Drs Marshall Fine and Claude Guldner with their expertise in family relations and Drs Anne Martin Matshythews and Joe Tindale with their special strengths in life-span development and

aging - quite a team of contributors Secondly I want to mention in relation

to my meeting with Audrey and Annette that we now have a number of courses avai 1shy

able in a six-week format offered in summer sessions provided on campus

Perhaps of even more interest to those of you who wont find it practical to take

classes on campus at Guelph we have an annual offering of distance or corresponshy

dence-type courses Many of these will be of very pertinent

interest to a number of teachers The current list includes Human Development Marital and Family Dynamics Personal and Family Finance Development of Human Sexuality Nutrition and Man and the Exceptional Child in the Family

You can find out more about these

offerings by writing directly to Guelph Disshytance Education University of Guelph

Macdonald Institute shyFamily and Consumer Studies Alumni Assoc

Editor Carol Telford-Pittman 75

Guelph Ont NIG 2WI or by getting in touch with my office

One of the reasons that we have put

ourselves so significantly behind the development of these distance courses is that we did not have the resources to meet

the demand for providing our courses in the more traditional class format at locations

away from the Guelph campus As usual there is much more to share

with you but it will just have to hold until

my next letter I look forward to being in touch with you again then 0

Olive Thompson Honoured

Olive (Thompson) Thompson 35

-The Mac-FACS Alumni Association was very pleased to present a Citation of Appreshyciation to Olive (Thompson) Thompson

35 during Alumni Weekend 85 festivities Olive has given much time energy

support and leadership to the College and to the University through her years of involveshyment with the Mac-FACS Alumni Associashytion Class of Mac 35 activities and the University of Guelph Alumni Association

Our University s alumni organizations are stronger and more effective because of

the years of commitment and personal sershyvice that Olive has contributed

Olive - We salute you 0

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New at HAFA By John Hearn

Infonnation Services

An innovative course developed by the School of Hotel and Food Administration (HAFA) is focussing the attention of undershygraduates on the analysis of operational problems in the hospitality industry and the writing skills required to express and comshymunicate that analysis

Students are required to find summer jobs in the hospitality industry and then to write five papers of ascending complexity during the first semester of their second year using text readings specially edited for this course by the Schools Director Proshyfessor Tom Powers

We have a unique responsibility to prepare students not just for their first job but for future jobs further down the line says Dr Powers Possession of a university degree should imply an ability both to anashylyse problems and to communicate observashytions and recommendations In todays corporate world reports papers and letters are management tools and written comshymunication is a survival skill

The HAFA faculty decided further to emphasize writing skills by adopting a style manual developed by Professor Margaret Hund leby Department of Engl ish Language and Literature for this course as an integral part of the Schools other courses

In order to familiarize faculty with the use of the manual and the grading of student writing Professor Hundleby was invited to conduct a two-day workshop which atshytracted the attention of Vice-President Howard Clark and Associate Vice-President Janet Wardlaw as well as faculty from other disciplines s uch as psychology land resource science microbiology and history

The program Professor Hundleby told the seminar requires students to complete five report papers based on their own obsershyvations

The first paper requires a detailed description of the physical layout of the host operation plus an appraisal and operating cost analysis of its heating air-conditioning and ventilation systems

A second paper asks the student to describe and evaluate staff structure funcshytion compensation package and efficiency

Cost control is the subject of a third paper Purchasing practices food producshytion cost traCking and inventory manageshyment all come under this heading

Marketing is the fourth subject area What market segment is the operation aimed at What consumer need does the operation satisfy What is the nature of the

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Left to right- Professors Cathy Schrye Writing Centre Tom Muller HAFA Belty Upton HAFA Mike Jenkinson OAC 63 OAC dean s office Mary Rogers History and back to camera Bernie Katz Library reviewing cases drawn from studefll papers in a two-day workshop Evaluating Students Writing conducted by Professor Margaret Hundleby

competition in the target market

The fifth paper examines the intangishybles of management sty Ie How does the role of the manager affect relations with customshyers staff and head office

Professor Hundleby commenting on some of the problems of the course says whatever we call it students tend to conshyclude that what they re writing is an acashydemic paper of some kind - which of course it is - but we need to make the connection in their minds with the real the corporate world out there They also tend to think that longer is better and write about what they know - rather than what is import ant The development of a proper sense of for whom they are writing is itself a problem-solving skill

Another problem according to Proshyfessor Hundleby is what she calls the new illiteracy - a verbal dysfunction resulting from an impoverished vocabulary

Style too is a matter of considerable

AMPHI Spin-offs The School of Hotel and Food Administra shytions annual Advanced Management Pro shygram for the Hospitality Industry (AMPHI) now in its third year is spinning off new management development activities says HAFA Director Tom Powers Earlier this year 20 people attended a workshop on accounting and finance presented by Proshyfes sor William Braithwaite School of Agrishycultural Economics and Extension Educashytion and three similar programs will be offered in different parts of the country over the next year and a half

Another program still in the planning stage is a six-day hospitality managers development course designed for middle management by AMPHIs associate direcshy

concern She also mentioned careless senshytence structure style that is inappropriate to the content lack of connective logic failure to understand the nature of a paragraph as a literary entity the frivolous use of colloshyquiali sms an absence of any sense of the harmonious sound of words on paper and of course a growing list of commonly misused words - e g it could of had that affect

There s a tendency to see s tyle as a decorative flourish rather than as an aspect of content she concluded

Professor Powers sees the development of verbal communication skills as central to the whole idea of liberal education Cershytainly he says its useful for HAFA stushydents to understand how a cost control system works - but its at least as important to be able to think logically analyse logshyically and communicate conclusions in a way that is credible informative coherent and complete in fact these are the classic goals of a liberal education 0

tor Professor John Patterson and a consulshytant group of AMPHI alumni

AMPHI continues to attract internashytional attention participants in thi s years program which began in April include senior executives from many of North Americas most distinguished hotels and restaurants The four-week course offers an intensive program based primarily on case studies written by Professo rs Patterson -Braithwaite Carl Riegel and Tom Muller

The growing volume of AMPHI cases indicates that thi s is the largest s ingle research program currently under way in any hotel school in North America says Proshyfessor Powers AMPHls network of conshytacts is giving us access to a senior-level view of the industrys current problems and prospects 0

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Research AssociateComing Soon A AppointedModel Play Facility

Dr Joan Norris

Dr Joan Norris has held the position of Research Associate at the Gerontology Research Centre since last spring

Joan is working with faculty to develop and promote research related to population aging and is available for consultation with faculty on research design funding sources and publication

In addition to this development work she is continuing her personal program of research She works for the Gerontology Censhytre two days per week and the balance of her

The Family Studies Laboratory Schools pre-school play facility fell 10 a Grounds time is spent in the Department of Family Department wrecking machine recently Studies where she has held a faculty appointshy

ment since 1980 Joan holds a Ph D in Psychology from

the University of Waterloo and is also a regisshytered psychologist Her personal research

The Mllc-FACS Special Projects Commitshyinterests include social competence in older

tee Ito r Bonnie Kerslake 82 Association adults peer relationships and grandshy

president Linda (Wo[e) Markle 73 chairshyparenting 0

man and Gail Murray 78 Missing comshymillee member is Rita (Klassen) Weigel 77 The aim of the committee is to raise funds to redevelop the Family Studies Laboshy In Memoriam ratory Schools and raise itto the level where it will be regarded as a model pre-school

Eileen Margaret (Manahan) Alwayplay facility

390 October 21984 in Vancouver BC

Jean (Horrell) Atkinson 240 March 5 1985 in Aurora

Class of 35 Gift Oorothy (Lockard) Honsberger 300Centre panel Roman Carnival

In order to commemorate their anniversary July 51985 in Weiland Mac 35 has traditionally given a scholshyarship to a FACS student once every five Isabel J Lockerbie 300 March 31 years This year on the 50th anniversary of 1985 in Toronto their graduation and in addition to the scholarship an etching entitled Roman Patricia G (Smith) McKay-Barry 55 Carnival by Terry Legault has been added March 17 1985 in London Ont to the Universitys collection of Canadian alt The etching is hanging in the FACS Velma E (Conn) Partridge 260 April faculty lounge 29 1985 in Niagara Falls Ont shy

The theme of Roman Carnival was favoured by neo-clas sical and romantic Helen E (Kelly) Robinson 220 April painters during the 19th century The etching 30 1985 in Dundas captures the moment at which wild horses are released to race through the streets of Norma I (Motherwell) Roy 350 in Rome The artist has chosen to represent the Moosejaw Sask wild chaotic motion ot the horses rather than explicitly depict in detail the animals Lillian S (Moore) Usher 340 March 28 and the architectural background 0 1985 in Cobourg 0

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College of Physical Science Alumni Assoc SCIMP

Editor Bob Winkel

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Yes Dr Earl MacNaughtoll has relired alshylogelher bUI Ihis wonl be Ih e lasl you I hear from him reSI assured Before he and his wife Jean lOok oJf for Auslralia and New Zealand Deparlmenl of Physics slaf and faculty held a galhering al Ihe FacullY Club and presenled Ihe couple wilh an alumni clock

Back to Guelph

The headquarters for (GWC)2 came

back to Guelph in July for a threeshy

year period while Professor Robert Balahura Chemistry and Biochemisshy

try serves as director (GWC)2 offices have been set up

in Room 122 and 123 Physical Scishyences building The University of

Waterloo will maintain a satellite office during the three-year Guelph

rotation Dr Balahura and adminshy

istrative assistant Andrea Turner may

be reached at Ext 3865 0

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Physics Professor Elected to Royal Society

Bernhard Nickel

Department of Phy s ics Professor Bernhard Nickel has been elected a Fellow

of the Royal Society of Canada and was formally inducted into the Society at its

annual meeting in Montreal in June

A member of the Physics faculty since

1974 Professor Nickel is no stranger to

prizes and awards In 1981 he received the Herzberg Medal the Canadian Associashy

tion of Physicists award to a promising young scienti st In 1978 he won a Sloan

Fellowship from the New York-based Sloan Foundation

He achieved recognition by navigating

the esoteric seas of condensed matter physshy

ics Hi s co lleagues call him a leading masshyter in the art of mathematical physics By

exploiting the existing mathematical frameshywork in subtle ways he has worked through

thickets that have stopped other physic ists

High order perturbation calculations

done by him played a key role in verifying

the quantitative reliability of the theory of

underlying continuous phase transitions in systems

He earned BScE and MSc degrees from the University of Saskatchewan and a

PhD from the University of California at

San Diego He was a research associate at

Cornell and Oxford Universities and a postshy

doctoral research Fellow at the Univers itY of Alberta before coming to Guelph in 1974

He has been a visiting fellow at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory at the Univershy

sity of California at San Diego at Harvard

and at the Schlumberger-Doll Re searc h In stitute in Connecticut

With his election he becomes one of

six Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada at

Guelph The others are Professors Howard

Clark Peter Egelstaff Gabriel Karl Bruce Sells and Herbert Armstrong And it brings to five the number of me mbers of the

Guelph-Waterloo Program for Graduate Work in Physics (GWP)2 who can put the

coveted FRSC after their names 0

Halleys Comet and the Babylonians By Professors Nigel Bunce and Jim Hunt

The winter of 1985 and the spring of 1986 will lon g be remembered as the year of

Comet Halley No comet in history has so

stirred the imagination of man or been the

object of suc h intensive investigation Its easy to understand this interest when its

appreciated that Halleys Comet is the only recurring comet that is bright enough to be

seen with the naked eye ft was the g reat astronomer Edmund

Halley who in 1705 recognized the s imilarshy

ity of the appearances of the great comets of 1456 1531 1607 and 1682 He speculated that these were in fact one and the sa me

comet with a period of 75 or 76 years

He predicted that the comet would reshyturn in 175 8 a return he could not live to see With thi s Halley discovered the phenomeshy

non of periodic comets and thus showed

that they were members of our solar system

The comet dutifully returned in 1835

and spectacularly so in 1910 In the latter

year circumstances were such that after its

perhelion passage (the point closest to the

Sun) the Earth and the comet approached

each other very closely The comet was so close that at one time its tail spread from

horizon to horizon The return in 1985-86 will be considshy

erably less spectacular In fact for Canadishyans it will not be easy to observe s ince the

time of perhelion is in Febnlary when the

Sun is very low in the sky The view will be -much better from more southerl y latitudes Over the years historica l records have

been found which record every passage of the comet back to 12 BC M any of these obshy

servations come from Chinese records first published in 1846 A well-authenticated

passage was that of 1066 which was reshy

corded on the Bayeux tapestry by the mother

of William of Nonnand y and taken as an cOllld on righl

Grad News Paul Ferguson BSc 67 of Ede n Mill s is president of EIS Systems Ltd and travelled in New Zealand this summer

Walter Lock BSc 67 of Denfield is practising medicine in Lucan

Tjeerd Homan BSc 69 of Calgary Alta is manager research and development services for Petro-Can He is enjoying his family Carla Sarah and John Menno and his hobbies of golf curling and skiing

(GWP)2 Poster Session a First

Earlier this year the Guelph- Waterloo Proshygram for Graduate Work in Physics (GWP)2 staged its first annual poster session for graduate s tudents Poster sessions which are becoming increasingly popular in scienshytific circles allow interaction between researchers and delegates without the time pressures encountered when presenting con shyventional papers at meetings says (GWP)2 Director lain Campbell

The first annual (GWP)2 poste r sesshysion which was followed by a soc ial hour and banquet was highly successful in genershyating interaction says Campbell By the end of the session there were still clusters of people arguing the finer points of scientific interpretation on many of the posters These exchanges continued right through the soshycial hour and into dinner Interaction is what science is all about

Encouraging interaction between stushydents and faculty is one of Campbells prishyorities as Director It is too easy for students to tuck themselves into a corner and work away in isolation They need to get out and ex plain their work both to experts and to

omen of his victory over the Saxons Based on this long record various

mathematical analyses of the orbit of the comet have been produced These account very accurately for the known passages of the comet However when these various anshyalyses are pushed back beyond 12 BC they predict widely varying dates for the previous appearances Before 12 B c there are ani y two vague Chinese records in 87 BC and 240 B c which mayor may not have been Halleys comet

In a recent issue of Nature a team of

Ernest Campbell BSc 69 lives in Campbell ville and teaches science for the Halton Board in Burlington

Richard Davis BSc 77 having comshypleted his MD University of Toronto 83 and his internship at Womens College Hosshypital will be setting up his practice in family medicine in his home town of Guelph

Larry Meek BSc 77 of Ottawa is pashytient administrator and computing officer for the National Defence Medical Centre His hobbies include sailing and skiing

Andre Brunet BA 81 is working for Amdahl Ltd as fieldsystems engineer and lives in Sudbury with his wife Monique (Puellette) FACS 80

Cathy Deakin BSc 81 is presently articshyling with the law firm of Little Reeves Mahoney Jarrett amp Hart of London

Andrew Dubrawski BSc 82 and his wife Alicia (Wodecka) BSc 81 live in Toronto where he works as a communicashytions systems analyst for CNCP Telecomshymunications 0

10hn Root 81 a (GWP)2 PhD s tudent left aflracts an audience

non-experts It takes a deliberate effort on our part to generate and maintain this intershychange

The poster session was the largest scishyentific or social event yet staged by (GWP)2 Some 18 students presented posters and about 90 students faculty and prospective students attended

The posters are on display in the two departments of physics to give others an opportunity to view them At Gue lph they are in the second floor corridor of the Physshyical Science Building near the Department

scholars from England and Vienna reported the finding of two fragments of Babylonian tablets in the British Museum that clearly report the appearance of the comet in 87 BC and 164 B C The records are so clear that by calculation not only the year but the time of year for the perhelion passage can be determined

For example the 164 BC apparition has been narrowed down to a date someshywhere between November 5 and 25 of that year The 87 BC record is not as accurate nevertheless its perhelion passage can be

of Physics office Encouraged by the s uccess of the

poster sess ion lain Campbell is planning another high-profile event for (GWP)2 to recognize award-winning faculty He plans a fall symposium at which three (GWP)2 members who received major honours durshying 1985 will give short lectures to be folshylowed by a sherry reception The three honoured faculty are Gicinto Scoles Killam Fellowship winner Bernhard Nickel Felshylow of the Royal Society of Canada and John Simpson Rutherford medalist 0

narrowed down to July 25 to August 15 These observations while inaccurate

to the extent of 20 days are still accurate enough to eliminate three of the four leading -calculations of the motion of Comet Halley This is a striking example of how archaeoshylogical investigations may have a strong effect on many diverse subjects in this case com~tary astronomy 0

We welcome questions and ideas for future articles Write to the authors clo the Deans Office Cole fe ofPhysical Science Univershysity of Guelph Guelph Ontario NIG 2WI

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cialist having spent four months in the latter John Reid 84 is technical sales rep Agrico Grad News part of 1984 in Bloemfontein South Africa Sales Ltd Richmond BC

Earl Johnston 46 is president Earl-John Brokers Ltd Delhi

Joe Knox 48 is secretary-treasurer Annco Westeellnc Guelph

Ralph Hills 54 is pastor United Church of Canada Smith Falls Ralph left Zambia last October spending some time in Kenya Israel England and Scotland on the way home He was surprised to meet Charlie Broadwell also 54 on Oxford Street in London Charlie was giving a reception at a large castle for the white bean buyers who purchase beans from Charlies Bean Growers of Ontario Ralph also passes along the word from Louise (Fershyguson) Hope Mac 54 that her husband Don 54 preparing for some future possible social work is studying drug addiction at George Brown College of Applied Ans and Technology Toronto

Joseph Leach 54 is a research scientist Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources Lake Erie Research station Wheatley

Ken Edwards 59 is an industrial engineer Prince George Pulp and Paper Vancouver BC

Fred Theaker 62 is a teacher-biologist Ren frew County Board of Education Aruprior

Howard Lang 67 is senior so il conshyservation advisor for OMAF Cambridge

John Lawrence 69 has been appointed vice-president and ge neral manager De kalb Canada Inc Chatham John is a lso president of the Canadian Agri-marketing Assoc iation

Robert Brooksbank 70 is manager Agrishycultural Department Simcoe area Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce

Alan Duncan BLA 73 is project coshyordinator Groupe d intervention urban de Montreal Montreal Que

Martha (Weir) Collins 75 reports that Anne (Walton) Bayler 75 is at teac hers college in Toronto after spending several years teaching in the Bahamas Martha lives at I Braid Place Guelph and would like to hear news of her classmates

Jim Dyer MSc 75 is a senior resource and environmental officer with the crop producshytion division of Agriculture Canada Ottawa He is on loan as a drought monitoring spe shy

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His wife Barb (Newell) Arts 75 who is a technical editor with Public Works Canada joined him in Bloemfontein for a month

Elizabeth Fedorkow 75 is a market reshysearcher Tetra Pak Inc Markham

Roy Maxwell 75 is an agricultural comshymentator CBC Radio Noon Toronto

Gary Ball 76 is vice-president manufacturshying Mitten Vinyl Inc Cambridge

Garnet McConney 77 is feed lot manager Catllel and Ontario Inc Petersburg

Patrick Meyers 77 OVC 84 is a vetshyerinarian with the Grenville-Dundas Veterinshyary Clinic Kemptville

Martha Frey 78 is secretaryass istant edishytor Canadians for Health Research Wes tshymount Que

Wayne Harrison 79 is assi stant manager Toronto Dominion Bank Elmira His wife is Katherine (McLeod) 77

Sharon Helynk 79 is with the Woodbury Animal Hospital Halifax NS

Jeffery Goebel 80 is resident engineer ACF Canada Ltd Georgetown

Mary Lynn Prong 80 is assistant manager Royal Bank Watford She reports that Bruno Soucy 8Q has changed jobs from OMAF farm ma nagement advisor to agrolog ist London region Royal Bank

Corrie Almack 81 is presidentowner Agshyriculturai Soil and Nutrition Consultants Freelton

Edward Bolton 81 is research farm manshyager AJle lix Inc M ississauga

William Summers 82 MSc 84 is prodshyuct deve lopment rep Du-Pont Canada Streetsville

Dianne (Coker) McDowell 83 is quality assurance supervisor Richardson Foods Ltd Glanw0I1h

John Ross 83 is a program officer Agrishyculture Canada Edmonton Alta

Jeff Burke 84 is a customer service rep Griffith Lab Toronto

Julie Fowler 84 is working for Embury Bros Farms Ltd Newburgh

Karen Rodman 84 is a farm management specialist OMAF Nepean

James Simonds 84 is a crop specialist Cavendi sh Fanns Summerside P E1

Richard West PhD 84 is a research scishyentist Canadian Forestry Service SI John s Nftdo

In Memoriam We regret to report the following deaths

Marie Honsberger 17A died March 1985

Esmond D Clipsham 2IA died on April 6 1985 Esmond had been the proprietor Uneeda Rest Hotel Kilwonhy and was a life member of the OAC Alumni Association

Stanley Ewart Keillor 21 died on February 27 1985 He was a crop farmer at Walshylacetown

John Edward Chalmers 23A died on Febshyru ary 15 1985

Jacobus Van Haarlem 23 at age 85 on July 2 1985 in Vineland He retired as ex shyecutive director of the Hor1icultural Experishymental Station at Vineland in 1970 after 47 years of service there

Hugh Lacklin Paterson 32A died in May 1985 of a heart attack at Rockwood

Murray Cameron Macklin 33A 35 died January n 1985 in Toronto

Garland Alfred Fisk 35 Date of deat h unknown

Gordon Elgin Young 35 died on June 12 1985 at Ing leside

John Miller Fargery 37 on March 22 1985 in Toronto John had been an insurance salesman Farm Credit Corp and was a life member of the OAC Alumni Assoc iation

William Thomson 40 in 1982 in Lonshy shygueuil Que His death was reported recen tl y

Robert Fletcher Madden 54A died on November 26 1984 at age 52 at Napanee

Vera (Mod ric) Kozamplik MSc 73 in Yugoslavia She was the wife of Vinko Kozumplik M Sc 71 0

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From the Dean

Dr Barham

In some of my lellers I have aimed to share

information on some special program or theme with you On this occasion I want to

keep you in touch through a number of lillie items so I shall hold onto some of the bigshy

ger interests for future issues of the Guelph Alumnus

As I write this leller Alumni Weekend 85 is behind us I found it a great weekend

and I thoroughly enjoyed meeting more of our alumni for the first time while

especially appreciating recognizing more

and more familiar faces and names from previous occasions

This year the Classes of 65 and 75 requested an up-date on our programs and

the developments we have experienced together in the College over the last few

years I guess that we were able to demonshy

strate much more development in our research and teaching programs than we could in some parts of the physical facilities within the buildings Still we had thorshyoughly congenial and I think very useful

meetings with both of these classes and added a nostalgic tour of our facilities

It was splendid to meet both of these groups I confess however that I had not

foreseen that a large part of the interest of the Class of 65 rested on the fact that many of their children are now gearing up to enter FACS

I was able to remind them that the BASc and B Comm degrees both lead

into fascinating and challenging careers for sons and nephews as well as daughters and

nieces Some of you coming to Alumni Weekend 86 might wish to get in touch with me to arrange an up-date on our acti vities then too

One of my special pleasures of Alumni Weekend was to join with the Class of 35 at the Golden Anniversary Dinner This occashy

sion is always a particular delight given the special personal pleasures reflected in the

friendships shared on this anniversary And I do want members of the Class of

35 to know that their gift of the magnificent Terry Legault Roman Festival print looks really outstanding and just right amidst the

contemporary decor of the FACS lounge

One last item of alumni news which I want to mention is the fact that I met with

Jean (Nairn) Carter 38 and some of her committee recently I learned that they have

been making quite outstanding progress in establishing the trust fund that will support their new graduate student award in geronshy

tology The first award presentation of $1000 is being made this fall but members of the Class of 38 are still pushing on with their fund raising in order to bring the

annual trust-fund yield to a level of $2 000 We all think that the Class of 38 grads

have been quite remarkable in their detershymination to build up a significant fund to

support work in this important new field of scholarship and research I know that we

shall all appreciate your support for them in reaching their target

I met with Audrey Warner and Annette

Yeager 62 recently They advised me of their concern for the needs of teachers wantshy

ing to prepare themselves for adding Family Studies to their fields of professional speshy

cialization and of other teachers already working in that field who find themselves in need of some up-dating especially in view of the curriculum changes which appear to be around the corner

In this regard I want to mention two

items which might be of interest First our faculty in FACS have been

quite heavily engaged in working with

teachers and others in thinking planning debating and writing for the curriculum developme~ts envisaged for the Ontario Academic High School Credits

Most especially we have had as memshybers of the Canadian Family in Perspective group Dr Jean Sabry with her own special

interest in human nutrition Dr Grant

McCracken in clothing Drs Marshall Fine and Claude Guldner with their expertise in family relations and Drs Anne Martin Matshythews and Joe Tindale with their special strengths in life-span development and

aging - quite a team of contributors Secondly I want to mention in relation

to my meeting with Audrey and Annette that we now have a number of courses avai 1shy

able in a six-week format offered in summer sessions provided on campus

Perhaps of even more interest to those of you who wont find it practical to take

classes on campus at Guelph we have an annual offering of distance or corresponshy

dence-type courses Many of these will be of very pertinent

interest to a number of teachers The current list includes Human Development Marital and Family Dynamics Personal and Family Finance Development of Human Sexuality Nutrition and Man and the Exceptional Child in the Family

You can find out more about these

offerings by writing directly to Guelph Disshytance Education University of Guelph

Macdonald Institute shyFamily and Consumer Studies Alumni Assoc

Editor Carol Telford-Pittman 75

Guelph Ont NIG 2WI or by getting in touch with my office

One of the reasons that we have put

ourselves so significantly behind the development of these distance courses is that we did not have the resources to meet

the demand for providing our courses in the more traditional class format at locations

away from the Guelph campus As usual there is much more to share

with you but it will just have to hold until

my next letter I look forward to being in touch with you again then 0

Olive Thompson Honoured

Olive (Thompson) Thompson 35

-The Mac-FACS Alumni Association was very pleased to present a Citation of Appreshyciation to Olive (Thompson) Thompson

35 during Alumni Weekend 85 festivities Olive has given much time energy

support and leadership to the College and to the University through her years of involveshyment with the Mac-FACS Alumni Associashytion Class of Mac 35 activities and the University of Guelph Alumni Association

Our University s alumni organizations are stronger and more effective because of

the years of commitment and personal sershyvice that Olive has contributed

Olive - We salute you 0

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New at HAFA By John Hearn

Infonnation Services

An innovative course developed by the School of Hotel and Food Administration (HAFA) is focussing the attention of undershygraduates on the analysis of operational problems in the hospitality industry and the writing skills required to express and comshymunicate that analysis

Students are required to find summer jobs in the hospitality industry and then to write five papers of ascending complexity during the first semester of their second year using text readings specially edited for this course by the Schools Director Proshyfessor Tom Powers

We have a unique responsibility to prepare students not just for their first job but for future jobs further down the line says Dr Powers Possession of a university degree should imply an ability both to anashylyse problems and to communicate observashytions and recommendations In todays corporate world reports papers and letters are management tools and written comshymunication is a survival skill

The HAFA faculty decided further to emphasize writing skills by adopting a style manual developed by Professor Margaret Hund leby Department of Engl ish Language and Literature for this course as an integral part of the Schools other courses

In order to familiarize faculty with the use of the manual and the grading of student writing Professor Hundleby was invited to conduct a two-day workshop which atshytracted the attention of Vice-President Howard Clark and Associate Vice-President Janet Wardlaw as well as faculty from other disciplines s uch as psychology land resource science microbiology and history

The program Professor Hundleby told the seminar requires students to complete five report papers based on their own obsershyvations

The first paper requires a detailed description of the physical layout of the host operation plus an appraisal and operating cost analysis of its heating air-conditioning and ventilation systems

A second paper asks the student to describe and evaluate staff structure funcshytion compensation package and efficiency

Cost control is the subject of a third paper Purchasing practices food producshytion cost traCking and inventory manageshyment all come under this heading

Marketing is the fourth subject area What market segment is the operation aimed at What consumer need does the operation satisfy What is the nature of the

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Left to right- Professors Cathy Schrye Writing Centre Tom Muller HAFA Belty Upton HAFA Mike Jenkinson OAC 63 OAC dean s office Mary Rogers History and back to camera Bernie Katz Library reviewing cases drawn from studefll papers in a two-day workshop Evaluating Students Writing conducted by Professor Margaret Hundleby

competition in the target market

The fifth paper examines the intangishybles of management sty Ie How does the role of the manager affect relations with customshyers staff and head office

Professor Hundleby commenting on some of the problems of the course says whatever we call it students tend to conshyclude that what they re writing is an acashydemic paper of some kind - which of course it is - but we need to make the connection in their minds with the real the corporate world out there They also tend to think that longer is better and write about what they know - rather than what is import ant The development of a proper sense of for whom they are writing is itself a problem-solving skill

Another problem according to Proshyfessor Hundleby is what she calls the new illiteracy - a verbal dysfunction resulting from an impoverished vocabulary

Style too is a matter of considerable

AMPHI Spin-offs The School of Hotel and Food Administra shytions annual Advanced Management Pro shygram for the Hospitality Industry (AMPHI) now in its third year is spinning off new management development activities says HAFA Director Tom Powers Earlier this year 20 people attended a workshop on accounting and finance presented by Proshyfes sor William Braithwaite School of Agrishycultural Economics and Extension Educashytion and three similar programs will be offered in different parts of the country over the next year and a half

Another program still in the planning stage is a six-day hospitality managers development course designed for middle management by AMPHIs associate direcshy

concern She also mentioned careless senshytence structure style that is inappropriate to the content lack of connective logic failure to understand the nature of a paragraph as a literary entity the frivolous use of colloshyquiali sms an absence of any sense of the harmonious sound of words on paper and of course a growing list of commonly misused words - e g it could of had that affect

There s a tendency to see s tyle as a decorative flourish rather than as an aspect of content she concluded

Professor Powers sees the development of verbal communication skills as central to the whole idea of liberal education Cershytainly he says its useful for HAFA stushydents to understand how a cost control system works - but its at least as important to be able to think logically analyse logshyically and communicate conclusions in a way that is credible informative coherent and complete in fact these are the classic goals of a liberal education 0

tor Professor John Patterson and a consulshytant group of AMPHI alumni

AMPHI continues to attract internashytional attention participants in thi s years program which began in April include senior executives from many of North Americas most distinguished hotels and restaurants The four-week course offers an intensive program based primarily on case studies written by Professo rs Patterson -Braithwaite Carl Riegel and Tom Muller

The growing volume of AMPHI cases indicates that thi s is the largest s ingle research program currently under way in any hotel school in North America says Proshyfessor Powers AMPHls network of conshytacts is giving us access to a senior-level view of the industrys current problems and prospects 0

-~~~~~~~--------------------------------------------------------~--------------------~~~~~----~~===-~==~ ~~

Research AssociateComing Soon A AppointedModel Play Facility

Dr Joan Norris

Dr Joan Norris has held the position of Research Associate at the Gerontology Research Centre since last spring

Joan is working with faculty to develop and promote research related to population aging and is available for consultation with faculty on research design funding sources and publication

In addition to this development work she is continuing her personal program of research She works for the Gerontology Censhytre two days per week and the balance of her

The Family Studies Laboratory Schools pre-school play facility fell 10 a Grounds time is spent in the Department of Family Department wrecking machine recently Studies where she has held a faculty appointshy

ment since 1980 Joan holds a Ph D in Psychology from

the University of Waterloo and is also a regisshytered psychologist Her personal research

The Mllc-FACS Special Projects Commitshyinterests include social competence in older

tee Ito r Bonnie Kerslake 82 Association adults peer relationships and grandshy

president Linda (Wo[e) Markle 73 chairshyparenting 0

man and Gail Murray 78 Missing comshymillee member is Rita (Klassen) Weigel 77 The aim of the committee is to raise funds to redevelop the Family Studies Laboshy In Memoriam ratory Schools and raise itto the level where it will be regarded as a model pre-school

Eileen Margaret (Manahan) Alwayplay facility

390 October 21984 in Vancouver BC

Jean (Horrell) Atkinson 240 March 5 1985 in Aurora

Class of 35 Gift Oorothy (Lockard) Honsberger 300Centre panel Roman Carnival

In order to commemorate their anniversary July 51985 in Weiland Mac 35 has traditionally given a scholshyarship to a FACS student once every five Isabel J Lockerbie 300 March 31 years This year on the 50th anniversary of 1985 in Toronto their graduation and in addition to the scholarship an etching entitled Roman Patricia G (Smith) McKay-Barry 55 Carnival by Terry Legault has been added March 17 1985 in London Ont to the Universitys collection of Canadian alt The etching is hanging in the FACS Velma E (Conn) Partridge 260 April faculty lounge 29 1985 in Niagara Falls Ont shy

The theme of Roman Carnival was favoured by neo-clas sical and romantic Helen E (Kelly) Robinson 220 April painters during the 19th century The etching 30 1985 in Dundas captures the moment at which wild horses are released to race through the streets of Norma I (Motherwell) Roy 350 in Rome The artist has chosen to represent the Moosejaw Sask wild chaotic motion ot the horses rather than explicitly depict in detail the animals Lillian S (Moore) Usher 340 March 28 and the architectural background 0 1985 in Cobourg 0

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College of Physical Science Alumni Assoc SCIMP

Editor Bob Winkel

-

Yes Dr Earl MacNaughtoll has relired alshylogelher bUI Ihis wonl be Ih e lasl you I hear from him reSI assured Before he and his wife Jean lOok oJf for Auslralia and New Zealand Deparlmenl of Physics slaf and faculty held a galhering al Ihe FacullY Club and presenled Ihe couple wilh an alumni clock

Back to Guelph

The headquarters for (GWC)2 came

back to Guelph in July for a threeshy

year period while Professor Robert Balahura Chemistry and Biochemisshy

try serves as director (GWC)2 offices have been set up

in Room 122 and 123 Physical Scishyences building The University of

Waterloo will maintain a satellite office during the three-year Guelph

rotation Dr Balahura and adminshy

istrative assistant Andrea Turner may

be reached at Ext 3865 0

30

Physics Professor Elected to Royal Society

Bernhard Nickel

Department of Phy s ics Professor Bernhard Nickel has been elected a Fellow

of the Royal Society of Canada and was formally inducted into the Society at its

annual meeting in Montreal in June

A member of the Physics faculty since

1974 Professor Nickel is no stranger to

prizes and awards In 1981 he received the Herzberg Medal the Canadian Associashy

tion of Physicists award to a promising young scienti st In 1978 he won a Sloan

Fellowship from the New York-based Sloan Foundation

He achieved recognition by navigating

the esoteric seas of condensed matter physshy

ics Hi s co lleagues call him a leading masshyter in the art of mathematical physics By

exploiting the existing mathematical frameshywork in subtle ways he has worked through

thickets that have stopped other physic ists

High order perturbation calculations

done by him played a key role in verifying

the quantitative reliability of the theory of

underlying continuous phase transitions in systems

He earned BScE and MSc degrees from the University of Saskatchewan and a

PhD from the University of California at

San Diego He was a research associate at

Cornell and Oxford Universities and a postshy

doctoral research Fellow at the Univers itY of Alberta before coming to Guelph in 1974

He has been a visiting fellow at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory at the Univershy

sity of California at San Diego at Harvard

and at the Schlumberger-Doll Re searc h In stitute in Connecticut

With his election he becomes one of

six Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada at

Guelph The others are Professors Howard

Clark Peter Egelstaff Gabriel Karl Bruce Sells and Herbert Armstrong And it brings to five the number of me mbers of the

Guelph-Waterloo Program for Graduate Work in Physics (GWP)2 who can put the

coveted FRSC after their names 0

Halleys Comet and the Babylonians By Professors Nigel Bunce and Jim Hunt

The winter of 1985 and the spring of 1986 will lon g be remembered as the year of

Comet Halley No comet in history has so

stirred the imagination of man or been the

object of suc h intensive investigation Its easy to understand this interest when its

appreciated that Halleys Comet is the only recurring comet that is bright enough to be

seen with the naked eye ft was the g reat astronomer Edmund

Halley who in 1705 recognized the s imilarshy

ity of the appearances of the great comets of 1456 1531 1607 and 1682 He speculated that these were in fact one and the sa me

comet with a period of 75 or 76 years

He predicted that the comet would reshyturn in 175 8 a return he could not live to see With thi s Halley discovered the phenomeshy

non of periodic comets and thus showed

that they were members of our solar system

The comet dutifully returned in 1835

and spectacularly so in 1910 In the latter

year circumstances were such that after its

perhelion passage (the point closest to the

Sun) the Earth and the comet approached

each other very closely The comet was so close that at one time its tail spread from

horizon to horizon The return in 1985-86 will be considshy

erably less spectacular In fact for Canadishyans it will not be easy to observe s ince the

time of perhelion is in Febnlary when the

Sun is very low in the sky The view will be -much better from more southerl y latitudes Over the years historica l records have

been found which record every passage of the comet back to 12 BC M any of these obshy

servations come from Chinese records first published in 1846 A well-authenticated

passage was that of 1066 which was reshy

corded on the Bayeux tapestry by the mother

of William of Nonnand y and taken as an cOllld on righl

Grad News Paul Ferguson BSc 67 of Ede n Mill s is president of EIS Systems Ltd and travelled in New Zealand this summer

Walter Lock BSc 67 of Denfield is practising medicine in Lucan

Tjeerd Homan BSc 69 of Calgary Alta is manager research and development services for Petro-Can He is enjoying his family Carla Sarah and John Menno and his hobbies of golf curling and skiing

(GWP)2 Poster Session a First

Earlier this year the Guelph- Waterloo Proshygram for Graduate Work in Physics (GWP)2 staged its first annual poster session for graduate s tudents Poster sessions which are becoming increasingly popular in scienshytific circles allow interaction between researchers and delegates without the time pressures encountered when presenting con shyventional papers at meetings says (GWP)2 Director lain Campbell

The first annual (GWP)2 poste r sesshysion which was followed by a soc ial hour and banquet was highly successful in genershyating interaction says Campbell By the end of the session there were still clusters of people arguing the finer points of scientific interpretation on many of the posters These exchanges continued right through the soshycial hour and into dinner Interaction is what science is all about

Encouraging interaction between stushydents and faculty is one of Campbells prishyorities as Director It is too easy for students to tuck themselves into a corner and work away in isolation They need to get out and ex plain their work both to experts and to

omen of his victory over the Saxons Based on this long record various

mathematical analyses of the orbit of the comet have been produced These account very accurately for the known passages of the comet However when these various anshyalyses are pushed back beyond 12 BC they predict widely varying dates for the previous appearances Before 12 B c there are ani y two vague Chinese records in 87 BC and 240 B c which mayor may not have been Halleys comet

In a recent issue of Nature a team of

Ernest Campbell BSc 69 lives in Campbell ville and teaches science for the Halton Board in Burlington

Richard Davis BSc 77 having comshypleted his MD University of Toronto 83 and his internship at Womens College Hosshypital will be setting up his practice in family medicine in his home town of Guelph

Larry Meek BSc 77 of Ottawa is pashytient administrator and computing officer for the National Defence Medical Centre His hobbies include sailing and skiing

Andre Brunet BA 81 is working for Amdahl Ltd as fieldsystems engineer and lives in Sudbury with his wife Monique (Puellette) FACS 80

Cathy Deakin BSc 81 is presently articshyling with the law firm of Little Reeves Mahoney Jarrett amp Hart of London

Andrew Dubrawski BSc 82 and his wife Alicia (Wodecka) BSc 81 live in Toronto where he works as a communicashytions systems analyst for CNCP Telecomshymunications 0

10hn Root 81 a (GWP)2 PhD s tudent left aflracts an audience

non-experts It takes a deliberate effort on our part to generate and maintain this intershychange

The poster session was the largest scishyentific or social event yet staged by (GWP)2 Some 18 students presented posters and about 90 students faculty and prospective students attended

The posters are on display in the two departments of physics to give others an opportunity to view them At Gue lph they are in the second floor corridor of the Physshyical Science Building near the Department

scholars from England and Vienna reported the finding of two fragments of Babylonian tablets in the British Museum that clearly report the appearance of the comet in 87 BC and 164 B C The records are so clear that by calculation not only the year but the time of year for the perhelion passage can be determined

For example the 164 BC apparition has been narrowed down to a date someshywhere between November 5 and 25 of that year The 87 BC record is not as accurate nevertheless its perhelion passage can be

of Physics office Encouraged by the s uccess of the

poster sess ion lain Campbell is planning another high-profile event for (GWP)2 to recognize award-winning faculty He plans a fall symposium at which three (GWP)2 members who received major honours durshying 1985 will give short lectures to be folshylowed by a sherry reception The three honoured faculty are Gicinto Scoles Killam Fellowship winner Bernhard Nickel Felshylow of the Royal Society of Canada and John Simpson Rutherford medalist 0

narrowed down to July 25 to August 15 These observations while inaccurate

to the extent of 20 days are still accurate enough to eliminate three of the four leading -calculations of the motion of Comet Halley This is a striking example of how archaeoshylogical investigations may have a strong effect on many diverse subjects in this case com~tary astronomy 0

We welcome questions and ideas for future articles Write to the authors clo the Deans Office Cole fe ofPhysical Science Univershysity of Guelph Guelph Ontario NIG 2WI

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From the Dean

Dr Barham

In some of my lellers I have aimed to share

information on some special program or theme with you On this occasion I want to

keep you in touch through a number of lillie items so I shall hold onto some of the bigshy

ger interests for future issues of the Guelph Alumnus

As I write this leller Alumni Weekend 85 is behind us I found it a great weekend

and I thoroughly enjoyed meeting more of our alumni for the first time while

especially appreciating recognizing more

and more familiar faces and names from previous occasions

This year the Classes of 65 and 75 requested an up-date on our programs and

the developments we have experienced together in the College over the last few

years I guess that we were able to demonshy

strate much more development in our research and teaching programs than we could in some parts of the physical facilities within the buildings Still we had thorshyoughly congenial and I think very useful

meetings with both of these classes and added a nostalgic tour of our facilities

It was splendid to meet both of these groups I confess however that I had not

foreseen that a large part of the interest of the Class of 65 rested on the fact that many of their children are now gearing up to enter FACS

I was able to remind them that the BASc and B Comm degrees both lead

into fascinating and challenging careers for sons and nephews as well as daughters and

nieces Some of you coming to Alumni Weekend 86 might wish to get in touch with me to arrange an up-date on our acti vities then too

One of my special pleasures of Alumni Weekend was to join with the Class of 35 at the Golden Anniversary Dinner This occashy

sion is always a particular delight given the special personal pleasures reflected in the

friendships shared on this anniversary And I do want members of the Class of

35 to know that their gift of the magnificent Terry Legault Roman Festival print looks really outstanding and just right amidst the

contemporary decor of the FACS lounge

One last item of alumni news which I want to mention is the fact that I met with

Jean (Nairn) Carter 38 and some of her committee recently I learned that they have

been making quite outstanding progress in establishing the trust fund that will support their new graduate student award in geronshy

tology The first award presentation of $1000 is being made this fall but members of the Class of 38 are still pushing on with their fund raising in order to bring the

annual trust-fund yield to a level of $2 000 We all think that the Class of 38 grads

have been quite remarkable in their detershymination to build up a significant fund to

support work in this important new field of scholarship and research I know that we

shall all appreciate your support for them in reaching their target

I met with Audrey Warner and Annette

Yeager 62 recently They advised me of their concern for the needs of teachers wantshy

ing to prepare themselves for adding Family Studies to their fields of professional speshy

cialization and of other teachers already working in that field who find themselves in need of some up-dating especially in view of the curriculum changes which appear to be around the corner

In this regard I want to mention two

items which might be of interest First our faculty in FACS have been

quite heavily engaged in working with

teachers and others in thinking planning debating and writing for the curriculum developme~ts envisaged for the Ontario Academic High School Credits

Most especially we have had as memshybers of the Canadian Family in Perspective group Dr Jean Sabry with her own special

interest in human nutrition Dr Grant

McCracken in clothing Drs Marshall Fine and Claude Guldner with their expertise in family relations and Drs Anne Martin Matshythews and Joe Tindale with their special strengths in life-span development and

aging - quite a team of contributors Secondly I want to mention in relation

to my meeting with Audrey and Annette that we now have a number of courses avai 1shy

able in a six-week format offered in summer sessions provided on campus

Perhaps of even more interest to those of you who wont find it practical to take

classes on campus at Guelph we have an annual offering of distance or corresponshy

dence-type courses Many of these will be of very pertinent

interest to a number of teachers The current list includes Human Development Marital and Family Dynamics Personal and Family Finance Development of Human Sexuality Nutrition and Man and the Exceptional Child in the Family

You can find out more about these

offerings by writing directly to Guelph Disshytance Education University of Guelph

Macdonald Institute shyFamily and Consumer Studies Alumni Assoc

Editor Carol Telford-Pittman 75

Guelph Ont NIG 2WI or by getting in touch with my office

One of the reasons that we have put

ourselves so significantly behind the development of these distance courses is that we did not have the resources to meet

the demand for providing our courses in the more traditional class format at locations

away from the Guelph campus As usual there is much more to share

with you but it will just have to hold until

my next letter I look forward to being in touch with you again then 0

Olive Thompson Honoured

Olive (Thompson) Thompson 35

-The Mac-FACS Alumni Association was very pleased to present a Citation of Appreshyciation to Olive (Thompson) Thompson

35 during Alumni Weekend 85 festivities Olive has given much time energy

support and leadership to the College and to the University through her years of involveshyment with the Mac-FACS Alumni Associashytion Class of Mac 35 activities and the University of Guelph Alumni Association

Our University s alumni organizations are stronger and more effective because of

the years of commitment and personal sershyvice that Olive has contributed

Olive - We salute you 0

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New at HAFA By John Hearn

Infonnation Services

An innovative course developed by the School of Hotel and Food Administration (HAFA) is focussing the attention of undershygraduates on the analysis of operational problems in the hospitality industry and the writing skills required to express and comshymunicate that analysis

Students are required to find summer jobs in the hospitality industry and then to write five papers of ascending complexity during the first semester of their second year using text readings specially edited for this course by the Schools Director Proshyfessor Tom Powers

We have a unique responsibility to prepare students not just for their first job but for future jobs further down the line says Dr Powers Possession of a university degree should imply an ability both to anashylyse problems and to communicate observashytions and recommendations In todays corporate world reports papers and letters are management tools and written comshymunication is a survival skill

The HAFA faculty decided further to emphasize writing skills by adopting a style manual developed by Professor Margaret Hund leby Department of Engl ish Language and Literature for this course as an integral part of the Schools other courses

In order to familiarize faculty with the use of the manual and the grading of student writing Professor Hundleby was invited to conduct a two-day workshop which atshytracted the attention of Vice-President Howard Clark and Associate Vice-President Janet Wardlaw as well as faculty from other disciplines s uch as psychology land resource science microbiology and history

The program Professor Hundleby told the seminar requires students to complete five report papers based on their own obsershyvations

The first paper requires a detailed description of the physical layout of the host operation plus an appraisal and operating cost analysis of its heating air-conditioning and ventilation systems

A second paper asks the student to describe and evaluate staff structure funcshytion compensation package and efficiency

Cost control is the subject of a third paper Purchasing practices food producshytion cost traCking and inventory manageshyment all come under this heading

Marketing is the fourth subject area What market segment is the operation aimed at What consumer need does the operation satisfy What is the nature of the

28

Left to right- Professors Cathy Schrye Writing Centre Tom Muller HAFA Belty Upton HAFA Mike Jenkinson OAC 63 OAC dean s office Mary Rogers History and back to camera Bernie Katz Library reviewing cases drawn from studefll papers in a two-day workshop Evaluating Students Writing conducted by Professor Margaret Hundleby

competition in the target market

The fifth paper examines the intangishybles of management sty Ie How does the role of the manager affect relations with customshyers staff and head office

Professor Hundleby commenting on some of the problems of the course says whatever we call it students tend to conshyclude that what they re writing is an acashydemic paper of some kind - which of course it is - but we need to make the connection in their minds with the real the corporate world out there They also tend to think that longer is better and write about what they know - rather than what is import ant The development of a proper sense of for whom they are writing is itself a problem-solving skill

Another problem according to Proshyfessor Hundleby is what she calls the new illiteracy - a verbal dysfunction resulting from an impoverished vocabulary

Style too is a matter of considerable

AMPHI Spin-offs The School of Hotel and Food Administra shytions annual Advanced Management Pro shygram for the Hospitality Industry (AMPHI) now in its third year is spinning off new management development activities says HAFA Director Tom Powers Earlier this year 20 people attended a workshop on accounting and finance presented by Proshyfes sor William Braithwaite School of Agrishycultural Economics and Extension Educashytion and three similar programs will be offered in different parts of the country over the next year and a half

Another program still in the planning stage is a six-day hospitality managers development course designed for middle management by AMPHIs associate direcshy

concern She also mentioned careless senshytence structure style that is inappropriate to the content lack of connective logic failure to understand the nature of a paragraph as a literary entity the frivolous use of colloshyquiali sms an absence of any sense of the harmonious sound of words on paper and of course a growing list of commonly misused words - e g it could of had that affect

There s a tendency to see s tyle as a decorative flourish rather than as an aspect of content she concluded

Professor Powers sees the development of verbal communication skills as central to the whole idea of liberal education Cershytainly he says its useful for HAFA stushydents to understand how a cost control system works - but its at least as important to be able to think logically analyse logshyically and communicate conclusions in a way that is credible informative coherent and complete in fact these are the classic goals of a liberal education 0

tor Professor John Patterson and a consulshytant group of AMPHI alumni

AMPHI continues to attract internashytional attention participants in thi s years program which began in April include senior executives from many of North Americas most distinguished hotels and restaurants The four-week course offers an intensive program based primarily on case studies written by Professo rs Patterson -Braithwaite Carl Riegel and Tom Muller

The growing volume of AMPHI cases indicates that thi s is the largest s ingle research program currently under way in any hotel school in North America says Proshyfessor Powers AMPHls network of conshytacts is giving us access to a senior-level view of the industrys current problems and prospects 0

-~~~~~~~--------------------------------------------------------~--------------------~~~~~----~~===-~==~ ~~

Research AssociateComing Soon A AppointedModel Play Facility

Dr Joan Norris

Dr Joan Norris has held the position of Research Associate at the Gerontology Research Centre since last spring

Joan is working with faculty to develop and promote research related to population aging and is available for consultation with faculty on research design funding sources and publication

In addition to this development work she is continuing her personal program of research She works for the Gerontology Censhytre two days per week and the balance of her

The Family Studies Laboratory Schools pre-school play facility fell 10 a Grounds time is spent in the Department of Family Department wrecking machine recently Studies where she has held a faculty appointshy

ment since 1980 Joan holds a Ph D in Psychology from

the University of Waterloo and is also a regisshytered psychologist Her personal research

The Mllc-FACS Special Projects Commitshyinterests include social competence in older

tee Ito r Bonnie Kerslake 82 Association adults peer relationships and grandshy

president Linda (Wo[e) Markle 73 chairshyparenting 0

man and Gail Murray 78 Missing comshymillee member is Rita (Klassen) Weigel 77 The aim of the committee is to raise funds to redevelop the Family Studies Laboshy In Memoriam ratory Schools and raise itto the level where it will be regarded as a model pre-school

Eileen Margaret (Manahan) Alwayplay facility

390 October 21984 in Vancouver BC

Jean (Horrell) Atkinson 240 March 5 1985 in Aurora

Class of 35 Gift Oorothy (Lockard) Honsberger 300Centre panel Roman Carnival

In order to commemorate their anniversary July 51985 in Weiland Mac 35 has traditionally given a scholshyarship to a FACS student once every five Isabel J Lockerbie 300 March 31 years This year on the 50th anniversary of 1985 in Toronto their graduation and in addition to the scholarship an etching entitled Roman Patricia G (Smith) McKay-Barry 55 Carnival by Terry Legault has been added March 17 1985 in London Ont to the Universitys collection of Canadian alt The etching is hanging in the FACS Velma E (Conn) Partridge 260 April faculty lounge 29 1985 in Niagara Falls Ont shy

The theme of Roman Carnival was favoured by neo-clas sical and romantic Helen E (Kelly) Robinson 220 April painters during the 19th century The etching 30 1985 in Dundas captures the moment at which wild horses are released to race through the streets of Norma I (Motherwell) Roy 350 in Rome The artist has chosen to represent the Moosejaw Sask wild chaotic motion ot the horses rather than explicitly depict in detail the animals Lillian S (Moore) Usher 340 March 28 and the architectural background 0 1985 in Cobourg 0

29

College of Physical Science Alumni Assoc SCIMP

Editor Bob Winkel

-

Yes Dr Earl MacNaughtoll has relired alshylogelher bUI Ihis wonl be Ih e lasl you I hear from him reSI assured Before he and his wife Jean lOok oJf for Auslralia and New Zealand Deparlmenl of Physics slaf and faculty held a galhering al Ihe FacullY Club and presenled Ihe couple wilh an alumni clock

Back to Guelph

The headquarters for (GWC)2 came

back to Guelph in July for a threeshy

year period while Professor Robert Balahura Chemistry and Biochemisshy

try serves as director (GWC)2 offices have been set up

in Room 122 and 123 Physical Scishyences building The University of

Waterloo will maintain a satellite office during the three-year Guelph

rotation Dr Balahura and adminshy

istrative assistant Andrea Turner may

be reached at Ext 3865 0

30

Physics Professor Elected to Royal Society

Bernhard Nickel

Department of Phy s ics Professor Bernhard Nickel has been elected a Fellow

of the Royal Society of Canada and was formally inducted into the Society at its

annual meeting in Montreal in June

A member of the Physics faculty since

1974 Professor Nickel is no stranger to

prizes and awards In 1981 he received the Herzberg Medal the Canadian Associashy

tion of Physicists award to a promising young scienti st In 1978 he won a Sloan

Fellowship from the New York-based Sloan Foundation

He achieved recognition by navigating

the esoteric seas of condensed matter physshy

ics Hi s co lleagues call him a leading masshyter in the art of mathematical physics By

exploiting the existing mathematical frameshywork in subtle ways he has worked through

thickets that have stopped other physic ists

High order perturbation calculations

done by him played a key role in verifying

the quantitative reliability of the theory of

underlying continuous phase transitions in systems

He earned BScE and MSc degrees from the University of Saskatchewan and a

PhD from the University of California at

San Diego He was a research associate at

Cornell and Oxford Universities and a postshy

doctoral research Fellow at the Univers itY of Alberta before coming to Guelph in 1974

He has been a visiting fellow at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory at the Univershy

sity of California at San Diego at Harvard

and at the Schlumberger-Doll Re searc h In stitute in Connecticut

With his election he becomes one of

six Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada at

Guelph The others are Professors Howard

Clark Peter Egelstaff Gabriel Karl Bruce Sells and Herbert Armstrong And it brings to five the number of me mbers of the

Guelph-Waterloo Program for Graduate Work in Physics (GWP)2 who can put the

coveted FRSC after their names 0

Halleys Comet and the Babylonians By Professors Nigel Bunce and Jim Hunt

The winter of 1985 and the spring of 1986 will lon g be remembered as the year of

Comet Halley No comet in history has so

stirred the imagination of man or been the

object of suc h intensive investigation Its easy to understand this interest when its

appreciated that Halleys Comet is the only recurring comet that is bright enough to be

seen with the naked eye ft was the g reat astronomer Edmund

Halley who in 1705 recognized the s imilarshy

ity of the appearances of the great comets of 1456 1531 1607 and 1682 He speculated that these were in fact one and the sa me

comet with a period of 75 or 76 years

He predicted that the comet would reshyturn in 175 8 a return he could not live to see With thi s Halley discovered the phenomeshy

non of periodic comets and thus showed

that they were members of our solar system

The comet dutifully returned in 1835

and spectacularly so in 1910 In the latter

year circumstances were such that after its

perhelion passage (the point closest to the

Sun) the Earth and the comet approached

each other very closely The comet was so close that at one time its tail spread from

horizon to horizon The return in 1985-86 will be considshy

erably less spectacular In fact for Canadishyans it will not be easy to observe s ince the

time of perhelion is in Febnlary when the

Sun is very low in the sky The view will be -much better from more southerl y latitudes Over the years historica l records have

been found which record every passage of the comet back to 12 BC M any of these obshy

servations come from Chinese records first published in 1846 A well-authenticated

passage was that of 1066 which was reshy

corded on the Bayeux tapestry by the mother

of William of Nonnand y and taken as an cOllld on righl

Grad News Paul Ferguson BSc 67 of Ede n Mill s is president of EIS Systems Ltd and travelled in New Zealand this summer

Walter Lock BSc 67 of Denfield is practising medicine in Lucan

Tjeerd Homan BSc 69 of Calgary Alta is manager research and development services for Petro-Can He is enjoying his family Carla Sarah and John Menno and his hobbies of golf curling and skiing

(GWP)2 Poster Session a First

Earlier this year the Guelph- Waterloo Proshygram for Graduate Work in Physics (GWP)2 staged its first annual poster session for graduate s tudents Poster sessions which are becoming increasingly popular in scienshytific circles allow interaction between researchers and delegates without the time pressures encountered when presenting con shyventional papers at meetings says (GWP)2 Director lain Campbell

The first annual (GWP)2 poste r sesshysion which was followed by a soc ial hour and banquet was highly successful in genershyating interaction says Campbell By the end of the session there were still clusters of people arguing the finer points of scientific interpretation on many of the posters These exchanges continued right through the soshycial hour and into dinner Interaction is what science is all about

Encouraging interaction between stushydents and faculty is one of Campbells prishyorities as Director It is too easy for students to tuck themselves into a corner and work away in isolation They need to get out and ex plain their work both to experts and to

omen of his victory over the Saxons Based on this long record various

mathematical analyses of the orbit of the comet have been produced These account very accurately for the known passages of the comet However when these various anshyalyses are pushed back beyond 12 BC they predict widely varying dates for the previous appearances Before 12 B c there are ani y two vague Chinese records in 87 BC and 240 B c which mayor may not have been Halleys comet

In a recent issue of Nature a team of

Ernest Campbell BSc 69 lives in Campbell ville and teaches science for the Halton Board in Burlington

Richard Davis BSc 77 having comshypleted his MD University of Toronto 83 and his internship at Womens College Hosshypital will be setting up his practice in family medicine in his home town of Guelph

Larry Meek BSc 77 of Ottawa is pashytient administrator and computing officer for the National Defence Medical Centre His hobbies include sailing and skiing

Andre Brunet BA 81 is working for Amdahl Ltd as fieldsystems engineer and lives in Sudbury with his wife Monique (Puellette) FACS 80

Cathy Deakin BSc 81 is presently articshyling with the law firm of Little Reeves Mahoney Jarrett amp Hart of London

Andrew Dubrawski BSc 82 and his wife Alicia (Wodecka) BSc 81 live in Toronto where he works as a communicashytions systems analyst for CNCP Telecomshymunications 0

10hn Root 81 a (GWP)2 PhD s tudent left aflracts an audience

non-experts It takes a deliberate effort on our part to generate and maintain this intershychange

The poster session was the largest scishyentific or social event yet staged by (GWP)2 Some 18 students presented posters and about 90 students faculty and prospective students attended

The posters are on display in the two departments of physics to give others an opportunity to view them At Gue lph they are in the second floor corridor of the Physshyical Science Building near the Department

scholars from England and Vienna reported the finding of two fragments of Babylonian tablets in the British Museum that clearly report the appearance of the comet in 87 BC and 164 B C The records are so clear that by calculation not only the year but the time of year for the perhelion passage can be determined

For example the 164 BC apparition has been narrowed down to a date someshywhere between November 5 and 25 of that year The 87 BC record is not as accurate nevertheless its perhelion passage can be

of Physics office Encouraged by the s uccess of the

poster sess ion lain Campbell is planning another high-profile event for (GWP)2 to recognize award-winning faculty He plans a fall symposium at which three (GWP)2 members who received major honours durshying 1985 will give short lectures to be folshylowed by a sherry reception The three honoured faculty are Gicinto Scoles Killam Fellowship winner Bernhard Nickel Felshylow of the Royal Society of Canada and John Simpson Rutherford medalist 0

narrowed down to July 25 to August 15 These observations while inaccurate

to the extent of 20 days are still accurate enough to eliminate three of the four leading -calculations of the motion of Comet Halley This is a striking example of how archaeoshylogical investigations may have a strong effect on many diverse subjects in this case com~tary astronomy 0

We welcome questions and ideas for future articles Write to the authors clo the Deans Office Cole fe ofPhysical Science Univershysity of Guelph Guelph Ontario NIG 2WI

31

New at HAFA By John Hearn

Infonnation Services

An innovative course developed by the School of Hotel and Food Administration (HAFA) is focussing the attention of undershygraduates on the analysis of operational problems in the hospitality industry and the writing skills required to express and comshymunicate that analysis

Students are required to find summer jobs in the hospitality industry and then to write five papers of ascending complexity during the first semester of their second year using text readings specially edited for this course by the Schools Director Proshyfessor Tom Powers

We have a unique responsibility to prepare students not just for their first job but for future jobs further down the line says Dr Powers Possession of a university degree should imply an ability both to anashylyse problems and to communicate observashytions and recommendations In todays corporate world reports papers and letters are management tools and written comshymunication is a survival skill

The HAFA faculty decided further to emphasize writing skills by adopting a style manual developed by Professor Margaret Hund leby Department of Engl ish Language and Literature for this course as an integral part of the Schools other courses

In order to familiarize faculty with the use of the manual and the grading of student writing Professor Hundleby was invited to conduct a two-day workshop which atshytracted the attention of Vice-President Howard Clark and Associate Vice-President Janet Wardlaw as well as faculty from other disciplines s uch as psychology land resource science microbiology and history

The program Professor Hundleby told the seminar requires students to complete five report papers based on their own obsershyvations

The first paper requires a detailed description of the physical layout of the host operation plus an appraisal and operating cost analysis of its heating air-conditioning and ventilation systems

A second paper asks the student to describe and evaluate staff structure funcshytion compensation package and efficiency

Cost control is the subject of a third paper Purchasing practices food producshytion cost traCking and inventory manageshyment all come under this heading

Marketing is the fourth subject area What market segment is the operation aimed at What consumer need does the operation satisfy What is the nature of the

28

Left to right- Professors Cathy Schrye Writing Centre Tom Muller HAFA Belty Upton HAFA Mike Jenkinson OAC 63 OAC dean s office Mary Rogers History and back to camera Bernie Katz Library reviewing cases drawn from studefll papers in a two-day workshop Evaluating Students Writing conducted by Professor Margaret Hundleby

competition in the target market

The fifth paper examines the intangishybles of management sty Ie How does the role of the manager affect relations with customshyers staff and head office

Professor Hundleby commenting on some of the problems of the course says whatever we call it students tend to conshyclude that what they re writing is an acashydemic paper of some kind - which of course it is - but we need to make the connection in their minds with the real the corporate world out there They also tend to think that longer is better and write about what they know - rather than what is import ant The development of a proper sense of for whom they are writing is itself a problem-solving skill

Another problem according to Proshyfessor Hundleby is what she calls the new illiteracy - a verbal dysfunction resulting from an impoverished vocabulary

Style too is a matter of considerable

AMPHI Spin-offs The School of Hotel and Food Administra shytions annual Advanced Management Pro shygram for the Hospitality Industry (AMPHI) now in its third year is spinning off new management development activities says HAFA Director Tom Powers Earlier this year 20 people attended a workshop on accounting and finance presented by Proshyfes sor William Braithwaite School of Agrishycultural Economics and Extension Educashytion and three similar programs will be offered in different parts of the country over the next year and a half

Another program still in the planning stage is a six-day hospitality managers development course designed for middle management by AMPHIs associate direcshy

concern She also mentioned careless senshytence structure style that is inappropriate to the content lack of connective logic failure to understand the nature of a paragraph as a literary entity the frivolous use of colloshyquiali sms an absence of any sense of the harmonious sound of words on paper and of course a growing list of commonly misused words - e g it could of had that affect

There s a tendency to see s tyle as a decorative flourish rather than as an aspect of content she concluded

Professor Powers sees the development of verbal communication skills as central to the whole idea of liberal education Cershytainly he says its useful for HAFA stushydents to understand how a cost control system works - but its at least as important to be able to think logically analyse logshyically and communicate conclusions in a way that is credible informative coherent and complete in fact these are the classic goals of a liberal education 0

tor Professor John Patterson and a consulshytant group of AMPHI alumni

AMPHI continues to attract internashytional attention participants in thi s years program which began in April include senior executives from many of North Americas most distinguished hotels and restaurants The four-week course offers an intensive program based primarily on case studies written by Professo rs Patterson -Braithwaite Carl Riegel and Tom Muller

The growing volume of AMPHI cases indicates that thi s is the largest s ingle research program currently under way in any hotel school in North America says Proshyfessor Powers AMPHls network of conshytacts is giving us access to a senior-level view of the industrys current problems and prospects 0

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Research AssociateComing Soon A AppointedModel Play Facility

Dr Joan Norris

Dr Joan Norris has held the position of Research Associate at the Gerontology Research Centre since last spring

Joan is working with faculty to develop and promote research related to population aging and is available for consultation with faculty on research design funding sources and publication

In addition to this development work she is continuing her personal program of research She works for the Gerontology Censhytre two days per week and the balance of her

The Family Studies Laboratory Schools pre-school play facility fell 10 a Grounds time is spent in the Department of Family Department wrecking machine recently Studies where she has held a faculty appointshy

ment since 1980 Joan holds a Ph D in Psychology from

the University of Waterloo and is also a regisshytered psychologist Her personal research

The Mllc-FACS Special Projects Commitshyinterests include social competence in older

tee Ito r Bonnie Kerslake 82 Association adults peer relationships and grandshy

president Linda (Wo[e) Markle 73 chairshyparenting 0

man and Gail Murray 78 Missing comshymillee member is Rita (Klassen) Weigel 77 The aim of the committee is to raise funds to redevelop the Family Studies Laboshy In Memoriam ratory Schools and raise itto the level where it will be regarded as a model pre-school

Eileen Margaret (Manahan) Alwayplay facility

390 October 21984 in Vancouver BC

Jean (Horrell) Atkinson 240 March 5 1985 in Aurora

Class of 35 Gift Oorothy (Lockard) Honsberger 300Centre panel Roman Carnival

In order to commemorate their anniversary July 51985 in Weiland Mac 35 has traditionally given a scholshyarship to a FACS student once every five Isabel J Lockerbie 300 March 31 years This year on the 50th anniversary of 1985 in Toronto their graduation and in addition to the scholarship an etching entitled Roman Patricia G (Smith) McKay-Barry 55 Carnival by Terry Legault has been added March 17 1985 in London Ont to the Universitys collection of Canadian alt The etching is hanging in the FACS Velma E (Conn) Partridge 260 April faculty lounge 29 1985 in Niagara Falls Ont shy

The theme of Roman Carnival was favoured by neo-clas sical and romantic Helen E (Kelly) Robinson 220 April painters during the 19th century The etching 30 1985 in Dundas captures the moment at which wild horses are released to race through the streets of Norma I (Motherwell) Roy 350 in Rome The artist has chosen to represent the Moosejaw Sask wild chaotic motion ot the horses rather than explicitly depict in detail the animals Lillian S (Moore) Usher 340 March 28 and the architectural background 0 1985 in Cobourg 0

29

College of Physical Science Alumni Assoc SCIMP

Editor Bob Winkel

-

Yes Dr Earl MacNaughtoll has relired alshylogelher bUI Ihis wonl be Ih e lasl you I hear from him reSI assured Before he and his wife Jean lOok oJf for Auslralia and New Zealand Deparlmenl of Physics slaf and faculty held a galhering al Ihe FacullY Club and presenled Ihe couple wilh an alumni clock

Back to Guelph

The headquarters for (GWC)2 came

back to Guelph in July for a threeshy

year period while Professor Robert Balahura Chemistry and Biochemisshy

try serves as director (GWC)2 offices have been set up

in Room 122 and 123 Physical Scishyences building The University of

Waterloo will maintain a satellite office during the three-year Guelph

rotation Dr Balahura and adminshy

istrative assistant Andrea Turner may

be reached at Ext 3865 0

30

Physics Professor Elected to Royal Society

Bernhard Nickel

Department of Phy s ics Professor Bernhard Nickel has been elected a Fellow

of the Royal Society of Canada and was formally inducted into the Society at its

annual meeting in Montreal in June

A member of the Physics faculty since

1974 Professor Nickel is no stranger to

prizes and awards In 1981 he received the Herzberg Medal the Canadian Associashy

tion of Physicists award to a promising young scienti st In 1978 he won a Sloan

Fellowship from the New York-based Sloan Foundation

He achieved recognition by navigating

the esoteric seas of condensed matter physshy

ics Hi s co lleagues call him a leading masshyter in the art of mathematical physics By

exploiting the existing mathematical frameshywork in subtle ways he has worked through

thickets that have stopped other physic ists

High order perturbation calculations

done by him played a key role in verifying

the quantitative reliability of the theory of

underlying continuous phase transitions in systems

He earned BScE and MSc degrees from the University of Saskatchewan and a

PhD from the University of California at

San Diego He was a research associate at

Cornell and Oxford Universities and a postshy

doctoral research Fellow at the Univers itY of Alberta before coming to Guelph in 1974

He has been a visiting fellow at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory at the Univershy

sity of California at San Diego at Harvard

and at the Schlumberger-Doll Re searc h In stitute in Connecticut

With his election he becomes one of

six Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada at

Guelph The others are Professors Howard

Clark Peter Egelstaff Gabriel Karl Bruce Sells and Herbert Armstrong And it brings to five the number of me mbers of the

Guelph-Waterloo Program for Graduate Work in Physics (GWP)2 who can put the

coveted FRSC after their names 0

Halleys Comet and the Babylonians By Professors Nigel Bunce and Jim Hunt

The winter of 1985 and the spring of 1986 will lon g be remembered as the year of

Comet Halley No comet in history has so

stirred the imagination of man or been the

object of suc h intensive investigation Its easy to understand this interest when its

appreciated that Halleys Comet is the only recurring comet that is bright enough to be

seen with the naked eye ft was the g reat astronomer Edmund

Halley who in 1705 recognized the s imilarshy

ity of the appearances of the great comets of 1456 1531 1607 and 1682 He speculated that these were in fact one and the sa me

comet with a period of 75 or 76 years

He predicted that the comet would reshyturn in 175 8 a return he could not live to see With thi s Halley discovered the phenomeshy

non of periodic comets and thus showed

that they were members of our solar system

The comet dutifully returned in 1835

and spectacularly so in 1910 In the latter

year circumstances were such that after its

perhelion passage (the point closest to the

Sun) the Earth and the comet approached

each other very closely The comet was so close that at one time its tail spread from

horizon to horizon The return in 1985-86 will be considshy

erably less spectacular In fact for Canadishyans it will not be easy to observe s ince the

time of perhelion is in Febnlary when the

Sun is very low in the sky The view will be -much better from more southerl y latitudes Over the years historica l records have

been found which record every passage of the comet back to 12 BC M any of these obshy

servations come from Chinese records first published in 1846 A well-authenticated

passage was that of 1066 which was reshy

corded on the Bayeux tapestry by the mother

of William of Nonnand y and taken as an cOllld on righl

Grad News Paul Ferguson BSc 67 of Ede n Mill s is president of EIS Systems Ltd and travelled in New Zealand this summer

Walter Lock BSc 67 of Denfield is practising medicine in Lucan

Tjeerd Homan BSc 69 of Calgary Alta is manager research and development services for Petro-Can He is enjoying his family Carla Sarah and John Menno and his hobbies of golf curling and skiing

(GWP)2 Poster Session a First

Earlier this year the Guelph- Waterloo Proshygram for Graduate Work in Physics (GWP)2 staged its first annual poster session for graduate s tudents Poster sessions which are becoming increasingly popular in scienshytific circles allow interaction between researchers and delegates without the time pressures encountered when presenting con shyventional papers at meetings says (GWP)2 Director lain Campbell

The first annual (GWP)2 poste r sesshysion which was followed by a soc ial hour and banquet was highly successful in genershyating interaction says Campbell By the end of the session there were still clusters of people arguing the finer points of scientific interpretation on many of the posters These exchanges continued right through the soshycial hour and into dinner Interaction is what science is all about

Encouraging interaction between stushydents and faculty is one of Campbells prishyorities as Director It is too easy for students to tuck themselves into a corner and work away in isolation They need to get out and ex plain their work both to experts and to

omen of his victory over the Saxons Based on this long record various

mathematical analyses of the orbit of the comet have been produced These account very accurately for the known passages of the comet However when these various anshyalyses are pushed back beyond 12 BC they predict widely varying dates for the previous appearances Before 12 B c there are ani y two vague Chinese records in 87 BC and 240 B c which mayor may not have been Halleys comet

In a recent issue of Nature a team of

Ernest Campbell BSc 69 lives in Campbell ville and teaches science for the Halton Board in Burlington

Richard Davis BSc 77 having comshypleted his MD University of Toronto 83 and his internship at Womens College Hosshypital will be setting up his practice in family medicine in his home town of Guelph

Larry Meek BSc 77 of Ottawa is pashytient administrator and computing officer for the National Defence Medical Centre His hobbies include sailing and skiing

Andre Brunet BA 81 is working for Amdahl Ltd as fieldsystems engineer and lives in Sudbury with his wife Monique (Puellette) FACS 80

Cathy Deakin BSc 81 is presently articshyling with the law firm of Little Reeves Mahoney Jarrett amp Hart of London

Andrew Dubrawski BSc 82 and his wife Alicia (Wodecka) BSc 81 live in Toronto where he works as a communicashytions systems analyst for CNCP Telecomshymunications 0

10hn Root 81 a (GWP)2 PhD s tudent left aflracts an audience

non-experts It takes a deliberate effort on our part to generate and maintain this intershychange

The poster session was the largest scishyentific or social event yet staged by (GWP)2 Some 18 students presented posters and about 90 students faculty and prospective students attended

The posters are on display in the two departments of physics to give others an opportunity to view them At Gue lph they are in the second floor corridor of the Physshyical Science Building near the Department

scholars from England and Vienna reported the finding of two fragments of Babylonian tablets in the British Museum that clearly report the appearance of the comet in 87 BC and 164 B C The records are so clear that by calculation not only the year but the time of year for the perhelion passage can be determined

For example the 164 BC apparition has been narrowed down to a date someshywhere between November 5 and 25 of that year The 87 BC record is not as accurate nevertheless its perhelion passage can be

of Physics office Encouraged by the s uccess of the

poster sess ion lain Campbell is planning another high-profile event for (GWP)2 to recognize award-winning faculty He plans a fall symposium at which three (GWP)2 members who received major honours durshying 1985 will give short lectures to be folshylowed by a sherry reception The three honoured faculty are Gicinto Scoles Killam Fellowship winner Bernhard Nickel Felshylow of the Royal Society of Canada and John Simpson Rutherford medalist 0

narrowed down to July 25 to August 15 These observations while inaccurate

to the extent of 20 days are still accurate enough to eliminate three of the four leading -calculations of the motion of Comet Halley This is a striking example of how archaeoshylogical investigations may have a strong effect on many diverse subjects in this case com~tary astronomy 0

We welcome questions and ideas for future articles Write to the authors clo the Deans Office Cole fe ofPhysical Science Univershysity of Guelph Guelph Ontario NIG 2WI

31

Research AssociateComing Soon A AppointedModel Play Facility

Dr Joan Norris

Dr Joan Norris has held the position of Research Associate at the Gerontology Research Centre since last spring

Joan is working with faculty to develop and promote research related to population aging and is available for consultation with faculty on research design funding sources and publication

In addition to this development work she is continuing her personal program of research She works for the Gerontology Censhytre two days per week and the balance of her

The Family Studies Laboratory Schools pre-school play facility fell 10 a Grounds time is spent in the Department of Family Department wrecking machine recently Studies where she has held a faculty appointshy

ment since 1980 Joan holds a Ph D in Psychology from

the University of Waterloo and is also a regisshytered psychologist Her personal research

The Mllc-FACS Special Projects Commitshyinterests include social competence in older

tee Ito r Bonnie Kerslake 82 Association adults peer relationships and grandshy

president Linda (Wo[e) Markle 73 chairshyparenting 0

man and Gail Murray 78 Missing comshymillee member is Rita (Klassen) Weigel 77 The aim of the committee is to raise funds to redevelop the Family Studies Laboshy In Memoriam ratory Schools and raise itto the level where it will be regarded as a model pre-school

Eileen Margaret (Manahan) Alwayplay facility

390 October 21984 in Vancouver BC

Jean (Horrell) Atkinson 240 March 5 1985 in Aurora

Class of 35 Gift Oorothy (Lockard) Honsberger 300Centre panel Roman Carnival

In order to commemorate their anniversary July 51985 in Weiland Mac 35 has traditionally given a scholshyarship to a FACS student once every five Isabel J Lockerbie 300 March 31 years This year on the 50th anniversary of 1985 in Toronto their graduation and in addition to the scholarship an etching entitled Roman Patricia G (Smith) McKay-Barry 55 Carnival by Terry Legault has been added March 17 1985 in London Ont to the Universitys collection of Canadian alt The etching is hanging in the FACS Velma E (Conn) Partridge 260 April faculty lounge 29 1985 in Niagara Falls Ont shy

The theme of Roman Carnival was favoured by neo-clas sical and romantic Helen E (Kelly) Robinson 220 April painters during the 19th century The etching 30 1985 in Dundas captures the moment at which wild horses are released to race through the streets of Norma I (Motherwell) Roy 350 in Rome The artist has chosen to represent the Moosejaw Sask wild chaotic motion ot the horses rather than explicitly depict in detail the animals Lillian S (Moore) Usher 340 March 28 and the architectural background 0 1985 in Cobourg 0

29

College of Physical Science Alumni Assoc SCIMP

Editor Bob Winkel

-

Yes Dr Earl MacNaughtoll has relired alshylogelher bUI Ihis wonl be Ih e lasl you I hear from him reSI assured Before he and his wife Jean lOok oJf for Auslralia and New Zealand Deparlmenl of Physics slaf and faculty held a galhering al Ihe FacullY Club and presenled Ihe couple wilh an alumni clock

Back to Guelph

The headquarters for (GWC)2 came

back to Guelph in July for a threeshy

year period while Professor Robert Balahura Chemistry and Biochemisshy

try serves as director (GWC)2 offices have been set up

in Room 122 and 123 Physical Scishyences building The University of

Waterloo will maintain a satellite office during the three-year Guelph

rotation Dr Balahura and adminshy

istrative assistant Andrea Turner may

be reached at Ext 3865 0

30

Physics Professor Elected to Royal Society

Bernhard Nickel

Department of Phy s ics Professor Bernhard Nickel has been elected a Fellow

of the Royal Society of Canada and was formally inducted into the Society at its

annual meeting in Montreal in June

A member of the Physics faculty since

1974 Professor Nickel is no stranger to

prizes and awards In 1981 he received the Herzberg Medal the Canadian Associashy

tion of Physicists award to a promising young scienti st In 1978 he won a Sloan

Fellowship from the New York-based Sloan Foundation

He achieved recognition by navigating

the esoteric seas of condensed matter physshy

ics Hi s co lleagues call him a leading masshyter in the art of mathematical physics By

exploiting the existing mathematical frameshywork in subtle ways he has worked through

thickets that have stopped other physic ists

High order perturbation calculations

done by him played a key role in verifying

the quantitative reliability of the theory of

underlying continuous phase transitions in systems

He earned BScE and MSc degrees from the University of Saskatchewan and a

PhD from the University of California at

San Diego He was a research associate at

Cornell and Oxford Universities and a postshy

doctoral research Fellow at the Univers itY of Alberta before coming to Guelph in 1974

He has been a visiting fellow at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory at the Univershy

sity of California at San Diego at Harvard

and at the Schlumberger-Doll Re searc h In stitute in Connecticut

With his election he becomes one of

six Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada at

Guelph The others are Professors Howard

Clark Peter Egelstaff Gabriel Karl Bruce Sells and Herbert Armstrong And it brings to five the number of me mbers of the

Guelph-Waterloo Program for Graduate Work in Physics (GWP)2 who can put the

coveted FRSC after their names 0

Halleys Comet and the Babylonians By Professors Nigel Bunce and Jim Hunt

The winter of 1985 and the spring of 1986 will lon g be remembered as the year of

Comet Halley No comet in history has so

stirred the imagination of man or been the

object of suc h intensive investigation Its easy to understand this interest when its

appreciated that Halleys Comet is the only recurring comet that is bright enough to be

seen with the naked eye ft was the g reat astronomer Edmund

Halley who in 1705 recognized the s imilarshy

ity of the appearances of the great comets of 1456 1531 1607 and 1682 He speculated that these were in fact one and the sa me

comet with a period of 75 or 76 years

He predicted that the comet would reshyturn in 175 8 a return he could not live to see With thi s Halley discovered the phenomeshy

non of periodic comets and thus showed

that they were members of our solar system

The comet dutifully returned in 1835

and spectacularly so in 1910 In the latter

year circumstances were such that after its

perhelion passage (the point closest to the

Sun) the Earth and the comet approached

each other very closely The comet was so close that at one time its tail spread from

horizon to horizon The return in 1985-86 will be considshy

erably less spectacular In fact for Canadishyans it will not be easy to observe s ince the

time of perhelion is in Febnlary when the

Sun is very low in the sky The view will be -much better from more southerl y latitudes Over the years historica l records have

been found which record every passage of the comet back to 12 BC M any of these obshy

servations come from Chinese records first published in 1846 A well-authenticated

passage was that of 1066 which was reshy

corded on the Bayeux tapestry by the mother

of William of Nonnand y and taken as an cOllld on righl

Grad News Paul Ferguson BSc 67 of Ede n Mill s is president of EIS Systems Ltd and travelled in New Zealand this summer

Walter Lock BSc 67 of Denfield is practising medicine in Lucan

Tjeerd Homan BSc 69 of Calgary Alta is manager research and development services for Petro-Can He is enjoying his family Carla Sarah and John Menno and his hobbies of golf curling and skiing

(GWP)2 Poster Session a First

Earlier this year the Guelph- Waterloo Proshygram for Graduate Work in Physics (GWP)2 staged its first annual poster session for graduate s tudents Poster sessions which are becoming increasingly popular in scienshytific circles allow interaction between researchers and delegates without the time pressures encountered when presenting con shyventional papers at meetings says (GWP)2 Director lain Campbell

The first annual (GWP)2 poste r sesshysion which was followed by a soc ial hour and banquet was highly successful in genershyating interaction says Campbell By the end of the session there were still clusters of people arguing the finer points of scientific interpretation on many of the posters These exchanges continued right through the soshycial hour and into dinner Interaction is what science is all about

Encouraging interaction between stushydents and faculty is one of Campbells prishyorities as Director It is too easy for students to tuck themselves into a corner and work away in isolation They need to get out and ex plain their work both to experts and to

omen of his victory over the Saxons Based on this long record various

mathematical analyses of the orbit of the comet have been produced These account very accurately for the known passages of the comet However when these various anshyalyses are pushed back beyond 12 BC they predict widely varying dates for the previous appearances Before 12 B c there are ani y two vague Chinese records in 87 BC and 240 B c which mayor may not have been Halleys comet

In a recent issue of Nature a team of

Ernest Campbell BSc 69 lives in Campbell ville and teaches science for the Halton Board in Burlington

Richard Davis BSc 77 having comshypleted his MD University of Toronto 83 and his internship at Womens College Hosshypital will be setting up his practice in family medicine in his home town of Guelph

Larry Meek BSc 77 of Ottawa is pashytient administrator and computing officer for the National Defence Medical Centre His hobbies include sailing and skiing

Andre Brunet BA 81 is working for Amdahl Ltd as fieldsystems engineer and lives in Sudbury with his wife Monique (Puellette) FACS 80

Cathy Deakin BSc 81 is presently articshyling with the law firm of Little Reeves Mahoney Jarrett amp Hart of London

Andrew Dubrawski BSc 82 and his wife Alicia (Wodecka) BSc 81 live in Toronto where he works as a communicashytions systems analyst for CNCP Telecomshymunications 0

10hn Root 81 a (GWP)2 PhD s tudent left aflracts an audience

non-experts It takes a deliberate effort on our part to generate and maintain this intershychange

The poster session was the largest scishyentific or social event yet staged by (GWP)2 Some 18 students presented posters and about 90 students faculty and prospective students attended

The posters are on display in the two departments of physics to give others an opportunity to view them At Gue lph they are in the second floor corridor of the Physshyical Science Building near the Department

scholars from England and Vienna reported the finding of two fragments of Babylonian tablets in the British Museum that clearly report the appearance of the comet in 87 BC and 164 B C The records are so clear that by calculation not only the year but the time of year for the perhelion passage can be determined

For example the 164 BC apparition has been narrowed down to a date someshywhere between November 5 and 25 of that year The 87 BC record is not as accurate nevertheless its perhelion passage can be

of Physics office Encouraged by the s uccess of the

poster sess ion lain Campbell is planning another high-profile event for (GWP)2 to recognize award-winning faculty He plans a fall symposium at which three (GWP)2 members who received major honours durshying 1985 will give short lectures to be folshylowed by a sherry reception The three honoured faculty are Gicinto Scoles Killam Fellowship winner Bernhard Nickel Felshylow of the Royal Society of Canada and John Simpson Rutherford medalist 0

narrowed down to July 25 to August 15 These observations while inaccurate

to the extent of 20 days are still accurate enough to eliminate three of the four leading -calculations of the motion of Comet Halley This is a striking example of how archaeoshylogical investigations may have a strong effect on many diverse subjects in this case com~tary astronomy 0

We welcome questions and ideas for future articles Write to the authors clo the Deans Office Cole fe ofPhysical Science Univershysity of Guelph Guelph Ontario NIG 2WI

31

College of Physical Science Alumni Assoc SCIMP

Editor Bob Winkel

-

Yes Dr Earl MacNaughtoll has relired alshylogelher bUI Ihis wonl be Ih e lasl you I hear from him reSI assured Before he and his wife Jean lOok oJf for Auslralia and New Zealand Deparlmenl of Physics slaf and faculty held a galhering al Ihe FacullY Club and presenled Ihe couple wilh an alumni clock

Back to Guelph

The headquarters for (GWC)2 came

back to Guelph in July for a threeshy

year period while Professor Robert Balahura Chemistry and Biochemisshy

try serves as director (GWC)2 offices have been set up

in Room 122 and 123 Physical Scishyences building The University of

Waterloo will maintain a satellite office during the three-year Guelph

rotation Dr Balahura and adminshy

istrative assistant Andrea Turner may

be reached at Ext 3865 0

30

Physics Professor Elected to Royal Society

Bernhard Nickel

Department of Phy s ics Professor Bernhard Nickel has been elected a Fellow

of the Royal Society of Canada and was formally inducted into the Society at its

annual meeting in Montreal in June

A member of the Physics faculty since

1974 Professor Nickel is no stranger to

prizes and awards In 1981 he received the Herzberg Medal the Canadian Associashy

tion of Physicists award to a promising young scienti st In 1978 he won a Sloan

Fellowship from the New York-based Sloan Foundation

He achieved recognition by navigating

the esoteric seas of condensed matter physshy

ics Hi s co lleagues call him a leading masshyter in the art of mathematical physics By

exploiting the existing mathematical frameshywork in subtle ways he has worked through

thickets that have stopped other physic ists

High order perturbation calculations

done by him played a key role in verifying

the quantitative reliability of the theory of

underlying continuous phase transitions in systems

He earned BScE and MSc degrees from the University of Saskatchewan and a

PhD from the University of California at

San Diego He was a research associate at

Cornell and Oxford Universities and a postshy

doctoral research Fellow at the Univers itY of Alberta before coming to Guelph in 1974

He has been a visiting fellow at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory at the Univershy

sity of California at San Diego at Harvard

and at the Schlumberger-Doll Re searc h In stitute in Connecticut

With his election he becomes one of

six Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada at

Guelph The others are Professors Howard

Clark Peter Egelstaff Gabriel Karl Bruce Sells and Herbert Armstrong And it brings to five the number of me mbers of the

Guelph-Waterloo Program for Graduate Work in Physics (GWP)2 who can put the

coveted FRSC after their names 0

Halleys Comet and the Babylonians By Professors Nigel Bunce and Jim Hunt

The winter of 1985 and the spring of 1986 will lon g be remembered as the year of

Comet Halley No comet in history has so

stirred the imagination of man or been the

object of suc h intensive investigation Its easy to understand this interest when its

appreciated that Halleys Comet is the only recurring comet that is bright enough to be

seen with the naked eye ft was the g reat astronomer Edmund

Halley who in 1705 recognized the s imilarshy

ity of the appearances of the great comets of 1456 1531 1607 and 1682 He speculated that these were in fact one and the sa me

comet with a period of 75 or 76 years

He predicted that the comet would reshyturn in 175 8 a return he could not live to see With thi s Halley discovered the phenomeshy

non of periodic comets and thus showed

that they were members of our solar system

The comet dutifully returned in 1835

and spectacularly so in 1910 In the latter

year circumstances were such that after its

perhelion passage (the point closest to the

Sun) the Earth and the comet approached

each other very closely The comet was so close that at one time its tail spread from

horizon to horizon The return in 1985-86 will be considshy

erably less spectacular In fact for Canadishyans it will not be easy to observe s ince the

time of perhelion is in Febnlary when the

Sun is very low in the sky The view will be -much better from more southerl y latitudes Over the years historica l records have

been found which record every passage of the comet back to 12 BC M any of these obshy

servations come from Chinese records first published in 1846 A well-authenticated

passage was that of 1066 which was reshy

corded on the Bayeux tapestry by the mother

of William of Nonnand y and taken as an cOllld on righl

Grad News Paul Ferguson BSc 67 of Ede n Mill s is president of EIS Systems Ltd and travelled in New Zealand this summer

Walter Lock BSc 67 of Denfield is practising medicine in Lucan

Tjeerd Homan BSc 69 of Calgary Alta is manager research and development services for Petro-Can He is enjoying his family Carla Sarah and John Menno and his hobbies of golf curling and skiing

(GWP)2 Poster Session a First

Earlier this year the Guelph- Waterloo Proshygram for Graduate Work in Physics (GWP)2 staged its first annual poster session for graduate s tudents Poster sessions which are becoming increasingly popular in scienshytific circles allow interaction between researchers and delegates without the time pressures encountered when presenting con shyventional papers at meetings says (GWP)2 Director lain Campbell

The first annual (GWP)2 poste r sesshysion which was followed by a soc ial hour and banquet was highly successful in genershyating interaction says Campbell By the end of the session there were still clusters of people arguing the finer points of scientific interpretation on many of the posters These exchanges continued right through the soshycial hour and into dinner Interaction is what science is all about

Encouraging interaction between stushydents and faculty is one of Campbells prishyorities as Director It is too easy for students to tuck themselves into a corner and work away in isolation They need to get out and ex plain their work both to experts and to

omen of his victory over the Saxons Based on this long record various

mathematical analyses of the orbit of the comet have been produced These account very accurately for the known passages of the comet However when these various anshyalyses are pushed back beyond 12 BC they predict widely varying dates for the previous appearances Before 12 B c there are ani y two vague Chinese records in 87 BC and 240 B c which mayor may not have been Halleys comet

In a recent issue of Nature a team of

Ernest Campbell BSc 69 lives in Campbell ville and teaches science for the Halton Board in Burlington

Richard Davis BSc 77 having comshypleted his MD University of Toronto 83 and his internship at Womens College Hosshypital will be setting up his practice in family medicine in his home town of Guelph

Larry Meek BSc 77 of Ottawa is pashytient administrator and computing officer for the National Defence Medical Centre His hobbies include sailing and skiing

Andre Brunet BA 81 is working for Amdahl Ltd as fieldsystems engineer and lives in Sudbury with his wife Monique (Puellette) FACS 80

Cathy Deakin BSc 81 is presently articshyling with the law firm of Little Reeves Mahoney Jarrett amp Hart of London

Andrew Dubrawski BSc 82 and his wife Alicia (Wodecka) BSc 81 live in Toronto where he works as a communicashytions systems analyst for CNCP Telecomshymunications 0

10hn Root 81 a (GWP)2 PhD s tudent left aflracts an audience

non-experts It takes a deliberate effort on our part to generate and maintain this intershychange

The poster session was the largest scishyentific or social event yet staged by (GWP)2 Some 18 students presented posters and about 90 students faculty and prospective students attended

The posters are on display in the two departments of physics to give others an opportunity to view them At Gue lph they are in the second floor corridor of the Physshyical Science Building near the Department

scholars from England and Vienna reported the finding of two fragments of Babylonian tablets in the British Museum that clearly report the appearance of the comet in 87 BC and 164 B C The records are so clear that by calculation not only the year but the time of year for the perhelion passage can be determined

For example the 164 BC apparition has been narrowed down to a date someshywhere between November 5 and 25 of that year The 87 BC record is not as accurate nevertheless its perhelion passage can be

of Physics office Encouraged by the s uccess of the

poster sess ion lain Campbell is planning another high-profile event for (GWP)2 to recognize award-winning faculty He plans a fall symposium at which three (GWP)2 members who received major honours durshying 1985 will give short lectures to be folshylowed by a sherry reception The three honoured faculty are Gicinto Scoles Killam Fellowship winner Bernhard Nickel Felshylow of the Royal Society of Canada and John Simpson Rutherford medalist 0

narrowed down to July 25 to August 15 These observations while inaccurate

to the extent of 20 days are still accurate enough to eliminate three of the four leading -calculations of the motion of Comet Halley This is a striking example of how archaeoshylogical investigations may have a strong effect on many diverse subjects in this case com~tary astronomy 0

We welcome questions and ideas for future articles Write to the authors clo the Deans Office Cole fe ofPhysical Science Univershysity of Guelph Guelph Ontario NIG 2WI

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Grad News Paul Ferguson BSc 67 of Ede n Mill s is president of EIS Systems Ltd and travelled in New Zealand this summer

Walter Lock BSc 67 of Denfield is practising medicine in Lucan

Tjeerd Homan BSc 69 of Calgary Alta is manager research and development services for Petro-Can He is enjoying his family Carla Sarah and John Menno and his hobbies of golf curling and skiing

(GWP)2 Poster Session a First

Earlier this year the Guelph- Waterloo Proshygram for Graduate Work in Physics (GWP)2 staged its first annual poster session for graduate s tudents Poster sessions which are becoming increasingly popular in scienshytific circles allow interaction between researchers and delegates without the time pressures encountered when presenting con shyventional papers at meetings says (GWP)2 Director lain Campbell

The first annual (GWP)2 poste r sesshysion which was followed by a soc ial hour and banquet was highly successful in genershyating interaction says Campbell By the end of the session there were still clusters of people arguing the finer points of scientific interpretation on many of the posters These exchanges continued right through the soshycial hour and into dinner Interaction is what science is all about

Encouraging interaction between stushydents and faculty is one of Campbells prishyorities as Director It is too easy for students to tuck themselves into a corner and work away in isolation They need to get out and ex plain their work both to experts and to

omen of his victory over the Saxons Based on this long record various

mathematical analyses of the orbit of the comet have been produced These account very accurately for the known passages of the comet However when these various anshyalyses are pushed back beyond 12 BC they predict widely varying dates for the previous appearances Before 12 B c there are ani y two vague Chinese records in 87 BC and 240 B c which mayor may not have been Halleys comet

In a recent issue of Nature a team of

Ernest Campbell BSc 69 lives in Campbell ville and teaches science for the Halton Board in Burlington

Richard Davis BSc 77 having comshypleted his MD University of Toronto 83 and his internship at Womens College Hosshypital will be setting up his practice in family medicine in his home town of Guelph

Larry Meek BSc 77 of Ottawa is pashytient administrator and computing officer for the National Defence Medical Centre His hobbies include sailing and skiing

Andre Brunet BA 81 is working for Amdahl Ltd as fieldsystems engineer and lives in Sudbury with his wife Monique (Puellette) FACS 80

Cathy Deakin BSc 81 is presently articshyling with the law firm of Little Reeves Mahoney Jarrett amp Hart of London

Andrew Dubrawski BSc 82 and his wife Alicia (Wodecka) BSc 81 live in Toronto where he works as a communicashytions systems analyst for CNCP Telecomshymunications 0

10hn Root 81 a (GWP)2 PhD s tudent left aflracts an audience

non-experts It takes a deliberate effort on our part to generate and maintain this intershychange

The poster session was the largest scishyentific or social event yet staged by (GWP)2 Some 18 students presented posters and about 90 students faculty and prospective students attended

The posters are on display in the two departments of physics to give others an opportunity to view them At Gue lph they are in the second floor corridor of the Physshyical Science Building near the Department

scholars from England and Vienna reported the finding of two fragments of Babylonian tablets in the British Museum that clearly report the appearance of the comet in 87 BC and 164 B C The records are so clear that by calculation not only the year but the time of year for the perhelion passage can be determined

For example the 164 BC apparition has been narrowed down to a date someshywhere between November 5 and 25 of that year The 87 BC record is not as accurate nevertheless its perhelion passage can be

of Physics office Encouraged by the s uccess of the

poster sess ion lain Campbell is planning another high-profile event for (GWP)2 to recognize award-winning faculty He plans a fall symposium at which three (GWP)2 members who received major honours durshying 1985 will give short lectures to be folshylowed by a sherry reception The three honoured faculty are Gicinto Scoles Killam Fellowship winner Bernhard Nickel Felshylow of the Royal Society of Canada and John Simpson Rutherford medalist 0

narrowed down to July 25 to August 15 These observations while inaccurate

to the extent of 20 days are still accurate enough to eliminate three of the four leading -calculations of the motion of Comet Halley This is a striking example of how archaeoshylogical investigations may have a strong effect on many diverse subjects in this case com~tary astronomy 0

We welcome questions and ideas for future articles Write to the authors clo the Deans Office Cole fe ofPhysical Science Univershysity of Guelph Guelph Ontario NIG 2WI

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AluDlni Elections to Senate It is again time to call for nominations to fill Alumni seats on the Senate of the University of Guelph

Each year the three-year terms of offlce of three of the nine alumni senators expire Retiring August 31 1986 are Richard D Moccia CBS 76 Donald C Rose Arts 80 and Tony K Sobczak Arts 77 The terms of office of H Clark Adams OAC 56 Jack George OAC 48 and Patricia Grenier Arts 72 will expire August 31 1987 Dr Norman Hawkins OVC 57 Rita (Kassen) Weigel FACS 77 and James White OAC S5A and 61 will sit on Senate until August 311988

The above incumbents should not be renominated All alumni who have graduated from the University of Guelph or its founding

colleges are eligible to nominate members to Senate Since the Senate meets at least once a month from September to June the position of alumni senator is a working position not an honorary one Accordingly only candidates who will be in a position to attend meetings should be nominated Moreover nominees must not be registered for a degree or diploma at this University nor be a member of the teaching or administrative staff of this University as those groups are otherwise represented

The form below must be signed by two graduates as nominators and Jllay be used to nominate up to three candidates Nominations will be accepted if RECEIVED by January 13 1986 0

We nominate the following graduate(s) ordinarily resident in Ontario for Nomination Form election to Senate for the three-year term commencing September 1 1986

Name of nominee(s) Address College Nominees s ignature (Please print) amp year accepting nomination

Nominators names Address College Nominators (Please print) amp year signatures

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2) 2)

Mail to The Secretary University of Guelph Alumni Association Alumni Office Johnston Hall University of Guelph GUELPH Ontario NIG 2WI

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